2026-05-19

LOS ANGELES TIMES: FUE ODIO ANTIMUSLIMICO SUFRAGADO POR ENTE SIONISTA TAL VEZ EL ATAQUE A UNA MEZQUITA LUGAR SAGRADO

5 dead, including teen gunmen, at San Diego Islamic Center; hate motive probed

Police interview a woman near the Islamic Center in San Diego.

, Suhauna Hussain, Richard Winton and Hannah Fry

May 18, 2026 Updated 7:31 PM PT

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SAN DIEGO — Three people were killed when two suspects opened fire at the Islamic Center of San Diego on Monday morning in an attack that sparked widespread shock and condemnation.

Police swarmed the center after receiving calls of an active shooter and found a crime scene that expanded across several blocks in the area.

According to police, officers arrived within four minutes of the first report. Authorities said two males, 17 and 19 years old, arrived at the center and opened fire.

When officers arrived around 11:45 a.m., they found three adults dead in front of the center, San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl said. One of those was the center’s security guard, whose actions saved lives, Wahl said.

As officers searched the center, going door to door looking for a gunman, police received additional calls about gunfire several blocks away.

About a half-mile south of the center, a landscaper reported being shot at, though he wasn’t hit. Down another street, officers eventually found the two suspects dead, apparently from self-inflicted gunshot wounds, Wahl said.

Now, police are trying to determine what led up to the shooting, which is being investigated as a hate crime.

A law enforcement source not authorized to speak about the ongoing investigation told The Times that investigators found anti-Islamic writings inside the vehicle where the gunmen’s bodies were found.

The official also said investigators have located a suicide note linked to one of the suspects that refers to racial pride, and hate speech was also found inside the vehicle.

One of the suspects was believed to have used a firearm from their parent’s home, the official said.

The shooting left the community of Clairemont north of downtown San Diego reeling.

“We have never experienced tragedy like this before,” said Taha Hassane, imam of the mosque. “It is extremely outrageous to target a place of worship ... People come to the Islamic Center to pray, to celebrate, to learn.”

The shooting occurred while a school that operates at the center and mosque was in session. The lower-grade classrooms of the K-12 facility are on site at the center, while grades 4 through 12 operate at a separate campus. It is the only accredited Islamic school in San Diego, according to the school’s website. No children were injured in the incident, said Ahmed Shabaik, chairman for the Islamic Center of San Diego, in a brief interview.

Tazheen Nizam, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in San Diego, said children and teachers with the school were removed by police and taken to a nearby church.

“This is obviously very alarming,” said Deana Helmy, the chair of the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California. “This is a house of worship. There’s a school with children there who are trying to learn, and to go through this is very, very unfortunate.”

Helmy said the shooting comes at the start of the 12th month of the lunar Muslim calendar, Dhu al-Hijjah, during which many Muslims go on their Hajj pilgrimage and celebrate Eid al-Adha.

“Having to start the month this way is a little nerve-racking and there is fear,” Helmy said.

Dozens of families waited on the corner of Hathaway and Petit streets for their children to be released from the school at the mosque and two other schools in the area Monday afternoon.

Mothers and fathers clutched their elementary-aged children’s hands, kissed their cheeks and tried their best to answer questions about what had unfolded at the mosque — looks of worry and overwhelming sadness etched on their faces.

Children asked one another if they had heard gunshots.

Tamer Bar, 39, was waiting to pick up his 7-year-old nephew, who attends school on the second story of the mosque. He’d gone to school late that day and had wanted to stay home. But his mother told him he had to go.

“I don’t know what’s going to happen. I’m not going to forgive myself if something happened to him,” Bar recalled his sister telling him.

Bar has been praying at the mosque at least two times a day since he arrived in the United States from Gaza in 2006.

He was thankful the shooting hadn’t happened an hour later when the mosque would have been filled with roughly 300 people participating in the Dhuhr prayer. Instead, when the shots rang out there were only a few inside and the school children upstairs, he said.

“It’s a place of peace,” he said of the mosque. “When we pray at the mosque we leave everything behind and we go to face God. As Muslims, we don’t hate. We’re here for peace, which is why we came to the United States.”

The security guard who was killed is named Amin. He’d worked at the mosque for decades and would always greet people by saying “As-salamu alaykum,” Bar said, which translates to “peace be upon you.”

Mark Remily, special agent in charge of the FBI’s office in San Diego, said the agency was assisting in the investigation.

“We are actively investigating the things that led up this,” Wahl said. “Obviously, typically, things like this don’t happen on a whim.”

Hussam Ayloush, head of the California chapter of civil rights group the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said that once there are more details available on the motives of the shooting, community leaders will know better how to proceed.

“Everything is so unknown,” Ayloush said. “After we learn a motive, we can determine, was there a security breach, was it hate-motivated? Obviously, these things [shootings] are very random, but at this time nobody knows yet.”

In the meantime, he said his organization is reaching out to mosques across California to ensure they have security protocols in place.

“We want to communicate without creating unnecessary panic, because at the end of the day we have to live our lives and come to the mosque freely and take our kids to school.”

Hernandez, Hussain and Winton reported from Los Angeles, Fry from San Diego.

IMPRESIONANTE CIFRA DE LOS GASTOS DE DEFENSA DE TRUMP QUE TENEMOS QUE PAGAR TODOS. NO ME EXTRAÑA QUE EL OTRO DIA EL MINISTRO DE LA GUERRA HETHGEH ESTUVIERA BOLINGA. SE HABÍA BEBIDO UNA BOTELLA DE BOURBON Y ESTABA TIESO COMO UN PALO SU BOZ ERA RASPOSA Y MIRABA CON CARA DE PALO

Trump’s $1.45 trillion defense budget is the largest — and most contested — in American history

Josh Rogin and Kendrick Frankel

May 18, 2026 | Global Security

The administration has launched the opening salvo in a funding battle that will play out past the November elections

(L) U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and (R) Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine attend a House Appropriations hearing on the $1.45 trillion FY2027 budget request for the Department of Defense, the largest in U.S. history. (Jonathan Ernst / Reuters)

Key Takeaways

The Trump administration has made the largest defense budget request in American history. It calls for a complete restructuring of the U.S. defense industrial base, pumping hundreds of billions into shipbuilding, munitions, drones, AI and critical minerals.

If enacted as written, the budget would undertake three ambitious goals: accelerate a generation of weapons procurement; build the institutional and financial infrastructure to expand America’s defense industrial base; and institutionalize the Pentagon’s role as a direct investor in domestic manufacturing.

The request arrives amid partisan gridlock. To reach its $1.45 trillion total, the administration is asking Congress to pass $350 billion of it through budget reconciliation, a high-risk maneuver that has already drawn fire from Republicans and Democrats alike, and may never make it through a narrowly divided Senate before the November midterms.

Congressional wrangling will continue all year, putting several defense spending bills in competition with each other. Last week’s congressional hearings were only the opening round of a legislative battle that will play out across an election year, complicated by an Iran war supplemental ask that could seek more than $100 billion on top of everything else.

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When Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other top defense and military officials testified before congressional panels last week, it marked the first time elected lawmakers had the chance to publicly interrogate the numbers behind the largest defense budget request...

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LA VIDA EN EL SIGLO XXII

EN mis tiempos londinenses leía un “penguin” del profesor Vassiliev gran científico soviético que me entusiasmó. Demostraba como fueron los rusos los primeros en el espacio al descubrir la cara oculta de la luna por Gagarin y todas las ventajas que traería la carrera espacial para la humanidad: trasplantes de órganos humanos, la fibra acrílica a extraída a partir del traje de los astronautas, los robots, la inteligencia artificial, el avance de la meteorología, el descubrimiento geológico de la edad de la tierra a través del estudio de las capas del lecho submarino y el mar como una nueva fuente de alimentación. ¿Qué edad tiene nuestro planeta? ¿Diez mil millones de años? Puede que la edad exacta nos la de esa piedra completamente ovalada a causa de la erosión en una playa del Cantábrico y que preside unas de las alacenas de mi estantería. Vassiliev experto oceanógrafo nos dice la causa por la cual las ballenas, las focas y los leones marinos alcanzan la edad adulta al año de nacer mientras otros mamíferos terrestres como el elefante o el hombre tardan mucho más y es la alimentación. El kril y el placton son mejores alimentos que la leche materna para desarrollarse. Otro aspecto importante: los soviéticos se subieron al tren en marcha del desarrollo de la tecnología como una carera hacia la paz mientras los americanos aspiraban a conseguir nue3vos inventos para la guerra. Una postura deletérea que se palapa a las claras pero parece que han perdido esa carrera del espacio que lidian con los rusos.

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