Intel Update — May 17 — Eyes in the Mountains

Hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground. This is the Intel update for May 11th through the 17th, 2025. It's been a busy week as usual. However, today I'm going to move rather quickly through this because I've been working on some time inensive tasks that have eaten up a lot of my time this week and uh unfortunately I don't have too much to show for it just yet. But hopefully we'll have uh something to talk about on that front in the next few days or weeks. So, starting off with global strategic concerns, most of my week has been spent trying to track and log and catalog a lot of the cartel operations that have been going on along the southern US border. Either way, it's been a rather busy week on that front. So, we'll get to some of that in a minute. Over in Europe, there has been really no progress with the Russian or Ukraine peace talks. There was a little bit of a diplomatic spat in Turkey where Zalinsky thought he was going to be meeting with President Putin and maybe hash out a deal in Turkey. That did not happen. Uh Putin kind of snubbed Zillinsky a little bit and did not decide to show up. It wasn't really a commitment thing. He didn't ever say he would, but there was some, you know, insinuation that maybe President Trump could arrive uh while he was on his Middle East trip and Putin could show up and maybe something could be worked out, but that did not happen. So Zillinsky is a little bit upset this week and President Trump has largely been continuing his Middle East trade deal trip. Again, not a whole lot uh to report on that front. There have been a lot of trade deals uh signed. However, it's going to take a long time to figure out exactly what has been agreed on. I haven't had time to look over the text of some of these deals just yet. For me, the bottom line for this Middle East trip is Syria. What is Syria's deal? What is Syria going to uh look like a few months from now? Or is this going to be a uh another proxy uh situation now that the Syrian civil war is technically over and uh Syria has a new leader? I don't know. We're going to have to see. And I think that this uh Middle East troop is going to be very illuminating on that front. Finally, over on the subcontinent, the India Pakistan uh war, if you want to call it that, is over. Largely, it's fizzled out over the past few days and there hasn't really been any crossber fires that I could see, at least not from locals reporting it on social media. And India has opened up most of the sllegates uh with regards to the water supply flowing into Pakistan. So tensions are still pretty high. I mean, it's India Pakistan, so tensions are going to be high. They've been high for a very long time, but for right now, the the risk of nuclear annihilation is fairly minimal at this point. Moving over to strategic movement, there have been a few movements of American resources around the region, but uh most notably, I wanted to mention, I saw before I had a chance to make a uh slide on this this morning, but plane watchers are reporting that at least one squadron of F-15s has been transferred to Diego Garcia from Kadina. So, if that is the case, uh hopefully we'll be able to get a good satellite shot of him in a few days. It's been a week since we've had any good satellite imagery at all of Diego Garcia. So, I'm hoping we can catch those F-15s on the ground and and see if they actually did go there. But either way, if F-15s are going to be deployed to this island, even temporarily, that's kind of an interesting development. I'm not sure if you can make much of it, uh unless we see them for a while. But clearly, the F-15s uh would be more in a security role at this base. providing a little bit of u defense capability for the island. So, that's kind of an interesting development, but I guess we'll have to see. So, hopefully I'll have more information on that later. Moving to the kinetic activity tracker for this week. Uh, most of the events that I've logged have occurred on the East Coast. I'm just one person, right? I'm trying to plot as much as I possibly can, but a lot of things slip through. And this week, most of the things I've been able to plot have been on the East Coast. And just as an overall view, this is how the map is looking. Uh, the whole database with everything, all the layers turned on. So, uh, it's looking like a pretty full map now, unfortunately, cuz most of these are rather unfortunate events. But getting down into the regions themselves, let's start with the Northeast region as usual. And fortunately, we have a good news story to start off with for once. And this was a school shooting that was averted by an observant student. So, a student at Bford High School saw Muhammad Hussein Kamaludin loading a rifle in the parking lot and proceeded to call police. Local police responded very quickly and apprehended him at the scene uh with the rifle. So yeah, looks like a potential school shooting was averted. Once again, I wanted to cover it because it's a, you know, good job uh on the part of that student who saw that and the authorities for responding so quickly in such a small town. You know, uh that's a very good thing to see. Similar situation. A vehicle ramming incident was reported in Laurel, Maryland, a small suburb of DC during the Main Street Festival. This situation is probably not a case of terrorism. The body cam footage has already been released, so you can go check it out if you want. But clearly, this is not a terrorism incident. This is just a situation of a narcissistic person who's more of a risk to public safety than anything else. Somebody who didn't want to uh drive around the parade, they decided to go around a police cruiser, go through the crime scene tape before uh being stopped by police. Something to think about, especially as more like uh summertime fairs and you know, street festivals get underway. You know, your local police department may do everything they can. They may do everything right. They may be using adequate barriers. They may have everything blocked off uh correctly. But even someone who's just a narcissist and not even a deliberate terrorist can get around it. You know, it just kind of shows you how hard counterterrorism is. Moving up to the New York region, just across the way in New Jersey, there have been a series of riots, I'll call them that, series of civil unrest incidents at the Delaney Detention Facility, uh, which is an immigrant processing facility for deportation. So, a lot of violent criminals are housed here. This mostly houses violent criminals. pretty much all of what ICE has been focusing on is the violent criminals because that's the lowhanging fruit really. People, you know, generally have a pretty extensive record, so it's easy to find out where they're at, uh, and grab them for deportation. But anyway, there have been a lot of politicians kind of making a big deal out of this site and, you know, a few cases of assault of ICE agents and things like that. So, this is kind of a political thing and I expect it to probably continue to be rather kinetic over the next few days. Moving down to the southeast region, something not even really worth mentioning, uh, but I'll mention it anyway because I I logged it this week. Series of crimes occurred on Mother's Day. A lot of general civil unrest and domestic is disputes uh broke out throughout the throughout the whole country really, but some of the more interesting ones or entertaining ones, I guess, occurred in uh the the Carolinas in Raleigh, Greensboro, and down in Columbia, South Carolina. So, again, not a whole lot of intel value here, but I did want to mention it cuz I put them on the map this week. Moving to the Midwestern region, uh there was an incident that I will mention, but I I need to do more investigation on. And this is the alleged terror attack that was foiled by the FBI. All of the information regarding this situation comes from the Department of Justice. So, this is single source reporting. This is what the DOJ says happened. So, that's something to to keep in mind. Usually, when these kinds of things happen, I normally have a few different uh questions that kind of pop up. So going by what the FBI says happened, this guy, Anmar Abdul Majid Muhammad Sahed was an ISIS sympathizer, domestic terrorist, he wanted to blow up a uh military installation. Allegedly, one of the places that he had served as a national guardsman at. So he wanted to commit a, you know, standard style insurgent style attack. Small arms followed up by explosives kind of thing. And of course, the FBI was involved the entire time in helping him plan and uh you know, make preparations for this attack. He was discharged from the National Guard apparently. I haven't gotten a hold of his records yet, but apparently he was discharged because in the DOJ's own press release, it states that he is 19 years old, but he is a former Michigan Army National Guard member. So, how is that possible if contracts are 4 years long and the youngest you can join the military is 17 years of age. So, I don't know. Clearly, he was discharged for something. It could have been he was discharged for being a terrorist. Who knows? I mean, that t that sometimes happens. A lot of times, well, I'm not going to say a lot of times, but it has happened before where a straight up, you know, very open terrorist will join the US military, go through basic training, go through a lot of these, uh, you know, training courses. They'll get to their first unit and their first unit says, "Uh, you're a terrorist. Why are you here?" And they'll start, you know, again, processing them out or prosecuting them in some way. And that's kind of the way things work. It's I'm not going to say it's very common, but it does happen. And this could, again, it's speculative, but this could be uh one of those situations here. I don't know. Either way, the FBI is the only source of information for this. Hard to say what's uh actually uh going on here. So hopefully we'll have more information as time goes on. Maybe from this guy's trial and uh as more court documents get released, we'll kind of understand what was going on here. But according to the FBI, if this guy really did do all of the things that he said, this guy was very bad at being a terrorist. So either way, very interesting case coming out of the Midwest. Moving down to the Southwest region, uh this is the more interesting region for this week. We have a case of two observation posts being destroyed by Customs and Border Patrol uh agents on the border in Arizona. So, doctrally speaking, we call these listening posts/observation posts or LPOPS. Uh, that's why you'll see me refer to them as LPOPS quite often because doctrally speaking, that's what these are. These are simply just observation posts up on the tops of uh mountains uh down there along the border. One of these cartel sites was located just west of Aaho and the other site was located in Ngalas. I'm still working uh rather painstakingly. I'm still working on geolocating exactly where these sites were. It's going to take me some more time, but I did want to show that these sites were destroyed along the border this week. Moving down further south of the border, we have a rather unfortunate case coming out of Guadalajara this week, and this is the discovery or rather the um attention focus on a an extermination camp essentially down in Mexico. So, this story is not new by any means, so please don't think that this is a a new development. It's just that a lot of bodies have been found at this site over the past uh few days. For those who have not been following uh local Mexican news, this is a rather controversial site because essentially this is one of those places where everyone knows exactly what it was used for and only recently have the authorities publicly confirmed what it was used for. So this is a very openly used site by the CJNG cartel and over the years it has been the center of various scandals. So, like I said, a few months ago, hostages were recovered from this site. It was used as a hostage uh staging area. Really, they kind of play the shell game and keep moving hostages around uh that were, you know, taken prisoner by the cartel. This was a site used for that. It was also more of a multi-roll compound. So, it was used to uh train the hitmen, the sakarios for the uh cartels down there. It was used for initiation rituals so that people knew members of the of the cartels were forced to kill people here. And over the years past few months it it really stopped being a training center and became more of an extermination site. So Mexico is a textbook narco state. So, in I don't know if it's most cases, but in a good chunk of cases, local authorities, prosecutors, justice figures, they're going to be in with the cartels themselves, or at minimum, they're going to be scared to go after, you know, cartels who set up an extermination site for the processing of hundreds of of victims, right? This site, despite it being very wellnown, has really been ignored by the local authorities. And now that third party groups have gotten access to the site to conduct digs, they found six mass graves. Uh, so this wasn't just an extermination site, but it was also the burial site as well. So, logistically speaking, that would make a lot of sense. It's a compound out in the middle of nowhere. Uh, it's got an airfield nearby, so you can fly in victims pretty easily. So, this appears to be what this site was used for, at least most recently. So, now that this third party group of concerned citizens has unearthed all of these uh victims, and they found hundreds and hundreds of sets of clothing items uh from burial pits. Uh I think they said they found six burial pits inside this compound. Local authorities are now trying to identify who might have been uh killed at this site. Yeah, rather grizzly. Sorry about that. But it's been kind of an interesting week down south of the border for just showing how serious uh the cartels really are. So for those who are kind of questioning as to why the United States considers these cartels to be terrorist organizations, you know, that's really the best label we have uh for this kind of thing. So, you know, if if anyone is any in any doubt as to the brutality of the cartels, this should confirm that. So, so that's pretty much all I have for today. I wish I had time to cover a lot more stuff, but uh I'm kind of again strapped for time today. So, I'll just roll things up with the intercepted ghost net report, and it was again a pretty good week for the ghost net. I've caught a lot of reports uh here and there throughout the week as well. Unfortunately, I missed most of the window this week. I got tied up and uh I was uh tuned tuning in a little bit later than normal. Uh so for those of you who tend to do the same sometimes, rest assured I am probably myself listing uh much later uh than the scheduled time window. So uh don't feel so bad about that. Somebody's probably always going to be listening a few hours before and after. But still pretty good reports for this week. So that's pretty much all I have for today. Thank you guys all for watching. Thank you for all of your support. Uh here are the sources as usual. And uh for those of you who want clickable links, of course, my Obsidian page uh has all of the links for each report for each day. If you're uh looking to verify or do your own research on something that I say or write, it's all there. So, uh make sure to check that out. And also, don't forget to check out the uh tracking maps. I have two separate maps. So, uh don't forget that there's the common intelligence picture map and there's also the border crisis tracking map as well. So, for more of the cartel kind of stuff, that's going to be on more of the border crisis map. I'm just keeping things separate because uh there's there tend to be rather different data sets with different tables and different layers and things like that. So that's kind of how I've organized it for now. But thank you guys again for watching and I will see you next time. And as always, fight in the shade.