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Trump's Busy Christmas Eve: Calls To Troops, Talk Of Santa - Duration: 2:00.

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Breaking NEWS ALERT , FBI's Andrew McCabe in spotlight amid Trump text controversy - Duration: 15:25.

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POTUS Trump's Heartfelt Christmas Greeting To Overseas Troops "We're Asking God To Watch Over You"! - Duration: 6:00.

POTUS Trump's Heartfelt Christmas Greeting To Overseas Troops

I just wanted to wish everybody a very very Merry Christmas we say Christmas

again very proudly very very Merry Christmas but have a great year

it's gonna be an incredible year I'm thrilled to bring season's greetings on

behalf of the First Lady and our entire family and most importantly on behalf of

the American people today and every day we're incredibly thankful for you and

for your families your families have been tremendous always under appreciated

the military families the greatest people on earth we have five deployed

units joining us today one from each branch of our armed forces I want to

welcome Colonel Chuck Lombardo and all of the soldiers of iron Brigade deployed

in Kuwait to support the operation Spartan shield an inherent resolve the

iron Brigade is currently serving as an active partner in the Iraqi Kuwaiti

Saudi and Jordanian armies and doing an incredible job you also provide force

protection and security cooperation in Syria and in Iraq it is a vital mission

and we want to thank you very much great job colonel Chris Gideon and the special

purpose marine air force and their ground test force joins us from Kuwait

as well the task force is central command's Crisis Response Force and a

powerful force it is Colonel I understand that among your many other

missions the Task Force has provided more than 4,000 flight hours of close

air support to the campaign against Isis everybody's talking about it you've done

an incredible job so colonel Gideon's we want to thank you very much where's the

colonel out here where

great Thank You Carly great job great job thank you very much

merry Christmas to all of the sailors aboard the USS sampson commander tim

Leben's i want to thank you and the entire crew for your outstanding work in

defending high-value assets in the straits of hormuz you also provide air

defence coverage in the Arabian Gulf and the Red Sea I know the USS Sampson

recently set a new standard and readiness and it really has always been

ready but we're all ready and that is a tremendous credit to all of those aboard

so congratulations on the new standard we're all talking about it it's a high

standard you've set thank you very much the 69th expeditionary Bomb Squadron

joins us from Qatar Colonel Goosen welcome to you again and all of the

Nighthawks the 69th has engaged more than 700 Isis and Taliban targets in

five separate countries and was recently awarded both the linebacker and LeMay

trophies an amazing achievement and a very unusual one to get both thank you

very much from the United States Coast Guard who have done such an incredible

job in Texas and Florida and Puerto Rico they've had plenty of work right here we

want to welcome captain Matthew Wadley and port security unit 309 station down

in Guantanamo Bay this unit does outstanding work in

providing expeditionary anti-terrorism and force protection around the globe in

fact we saw your tireless efforts in action at the 200 as you know at our

great Republic National Convention and

many Republicans are very happy but I have to tell you the people of Florida

Texas Puerto Rico or lots of other state or even more happy what a job you've

done the Coast Guard saved thousands and thousands of lives almost it's

unbelievable when I looked at the charts that I saw that number of lives you've

saved so I want to congratulate the Coast Guard for having done an

incredible job as we celebrate this most precious holiday we're grateful for each

of you who spend this Christmas away from your families and defend all of our

families our freedoms and our flag every American heart is thankful to you and

we're asking God to watch over you and to watch over your families as we open

up the discussion I know that some of the men and women under your command are

able to join us and perhaps ask some of the questions so we're going to be

speaking with these wonderful people of the media and asking them to leave enjoy

yourselves well we appreciate it have a great Christmas and we're gonna

do some very personal questions between these great people and myself we want to

thank you very much for being here and if I don't see you during the day have a

great holiday and a great Christmas thank you very much thank you thank you

thank you god bless you and God bless america

you

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BOMBSHELL!!! The FBI's FAILED Plan To Take Out TRUMP!!! - Duration: 5:26.

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President Donald Trump's Christmas wish: 'We've got prosperity. Now we want peace' - Duration: 3:30.

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BREAKING NEWS!!! BOMB SQUAD Called To Trump's Treasury Secretary - Duration: 8:46.

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Trump's Wish for Peace Follows a Weekend of Twitter Needling - Duration: 10:40.

Trump's Wish for Peace Follows a Weekend of Twitter Needling

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Trump destroi a ONU que esta a serviço do globalismo e comunismo - Duration: 1:31.

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CloseUp: Edwards in 'Lockstep' with Trump in CD1 - Duration: 10:42.

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MAGA MAKEOVER! Trump's Signature All Over Presidential Challenge Coins! IT'S HUGE!! - Duration: 2:03.

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Putin: Trump's New Security Strategy is Definitely Offensive - Duration: 6:31.

We must closely monitor changes in the global balance of power and the military-political situation, primarily near Russia's borders,

as well as in strategically important regions that have key significance for our security.

This also concerns the Middle East, the Korean Peninsula, where a high potential for conflicts persists,

as well as Europe, where NATO and the United States continue to rapidly build up their infrastructure.

As you know, NATO and the United States have recently outlined their defence strategy.

It is an offensive strategy, to put it in diplomatic language, and in military language it would be called aggressive.

We need to take this into account during our practical work.

Let's be clear: this is offensive infrastructure that is being created in Europe.

This is about violations of provisions of the 1987 INF Treaty by the United States, unfortunately.

Many in this audience are well aware of what I am talking about.

For example, multipurpose missile launchers have already been deployed in Romania, and are being deployed in Poland, as part of the missile defence system.

Formally, they are deployed for interceptor missiles, but the point is, and experts are well aware of this, they are multipurpose units.

They can be used to launch existing sea-based cruise missiles with a range of 2,500 kilometres and,

in that case, they cease to be sea-based missiles, and can easily be moved to land.

That is, anti-missile launchers can, at any time, become units for medium-range cruise missiles.

Another example: target missiles used by the United States for testing anti-ballistic missile systems are identical to medium- and shorter-range ballistic missiles.

They are already there and are operational.

Their production in the United States may indicate the development of technologies outlawed by the INF Treaty.

Also, the Pentagon received funds for creating a mobile ground-based missile system with a range of up to 5,500 kilometres in 2018.

Thus, the United States is, in fact, working towards violating the INF Treaty.

They never stop looking for some kind of violation on our part, while consistently engaging in violations themselves,

just like they consistently and persistently sought to pull out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which, eventually, as we know, they did in a unilateral manner.

Of course, this significantly reduces the level of security in Europe and the world in general.

We have the sovereign right and every capability to respond adequately and rapidly to such potential threats.

If necessary, please promptly prepare and submit substantiated proposals on adjusting military planning documents seeking to improve the level of our country's defence capabilities.

Second, our new State Armament Programme will get underway next year.

We discussed its key features in May and November at our meetings in Sochi and numerous meetings in Moscow.

A special emphasis must be made on equipping troops with high-precision air, land and sea weapons, unmanned airstrike complexes,

and individual equipment for servicemen, as well as advanced reconnaissance, communication and electronic warfare systems.

It is necessary to ensure efficient, smooth implementation of the plans from the very first months.

Obviously, we will continuously monitor this process as we did with the previous armament programme.

Third, as I noted we are detecting further attempts to upset strategic parity by deploying the global missile defence system

and conventional attack systems that are comparable to nuclear weapons.

In terms of strike power and accuracy, they are hardly inferior to nuclear arms.

What are they designed for?

I believe they serve only one purpose, blackmail, because they create the illusion of a potential unpunished strike.

Today our nuclear forces reliably ensure strategic deterrence but we must develop them further.

By the end of 2017 the share of modern weapons in Russia's nuclear triad reached 79 percent and by 2021 they should be equipped with modern arms by up to 90 percent.

I am referring to missile systems that are capable of confidently overcoming existing and even projected missile defence systems.

Fourth, we must substantially enhance the mobility of our Armed Forces.

This concerns organisation of their logistics and supplies, and an ability to be promptly deployed and operate wherever national security demands.

It is essential to consolidate the potential of our Special Operations Forces.

I also request a review of the issue of equipping, the qualitative and quantitative strengthening of the Airborne Forces.

During next year's Vostok 2018 military exercises,

the Armed Forces should practice transferring a large group of personnel with ground equipment and aviation over several thousand kilometres and deploying it in new areas.

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NEWS ALERT , President Trump Latest News Today 12/25/17 , White House news , USA Morning News - Duration: 14:27.

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Breaking News , President Trump Latest NewsToday 12/24/17 , Trey Gowdy , FBI , TAX, Jason Chaffetz - Duration: 10:53.

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BOMBSHELL!!! The FBI's FAILED Plan To Take Out TRUMP!!! - Duration: 5:15.

BOMBSHELL!!!

The FBI's FAILED Plan To Take Out TRUMP!!!

As most of us Trump supporters suspected all along the Republican Congressman Jim Jordan

from Ohio confirmed to conservative radio host Todd Starnes the fact that he is indeed

convinced the FBI was working against Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign.

The congressman went on to state that the whole pretext is wrong and that he is now

convinced the FBI actively sought with intent to try to stop then Candidate Donald Trump

from being president of the United States of America.

Jordan specifically highlighted the text messages sent by investigator Peter Strzok that referred

to an "insurance policy."Of course, he is referring to the now infamous text messages

which Strok send to his mistress, FBI Lawyer Lisa Page, where he states that there's

no way Trump will be elected but is afraid and they can't take that risk.

"It's like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you're 40,"

Strzok wrote.

The reference of course was meant to convey that the FBI needed to aggressively investigate

fake allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

And people within the FBI have confirmed this all to be true.

In those same text messages, Strzok belittled Trump by calling him an "idiot" and a

"loathsome human," showing his obvious bias against the candidate.The Daily Caller

Reports:

Report: DOJ Reviewing More Than 10,000 Text Messages Between Anti-Trump Mueller Investigators

The Justice Department is sifting through 10,000 text messages involving the FBI agent

who was kicked off of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation for making

anti-Trump comments.

Fox News reports that the bureau is reviewing "several months" worth of messages that

the agent, Peter Strzok, exchanged with Lisa Page, an FBI attorney with whom he was having

an affair.

The Justice Department is searching the texts before turning them over to the House Intelligence

Committee, a process which could take "weeks."

The Justice Department's inspector general discovered over the summer that Strzok and

Page exchanged anti-Trump and pro-Clinton text messages last year.

After the watchdog informed Mueller's office, Strzok was "immediately" removed from

the Russia investigation, a spokesman for Mueller said over the weekend.

Details of Strzok's removal were kept secret for months.

ABC News reported back in August that Strzok had been demoted from Mueller's team to

the FBI's human resources division.

Attempts to find out the rationale were met by "no comments" from Mueller's office.

Page left Mueller's team in July, before the DOJ inspector general notified the special

counsel's office of the text exchanges.

Strzok's political leanings are significant because of his central importance to FBI's

investigation of possible Trump campaign collusion as well as of Hillary Clinton's use of a

private email system.

As the FBI's No. 2 counterintelligence official, Strzok was tapped at the end of July 2016

to oversee the Russia investigation.

He was also a top investigator on the email probe.

He interviewed Hillary Clinton and several of her top aides last year about Clinton's

email server, which contained thousands of classified documents.

Strzok was also involved in developing then-FBI Director James Comey's talking points for

his July 5, 2016 statement clearing Clinton of any criminal charges.

As part of the Russia investigation, Strzok conducted the Jan. 24 interview with then-national

security adviser Michael Flynn.

The retired lieutenant general pleaded guilty last Friday to lying to the FBI during that

interview about his conversations with Russia's ambassador, Sergey Kislyak.

In contrast, Clinton aides Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills appear to have given contradictory

statements about their knowledge of Clinton's server during their interviews with Strzok.

They faced no legal ramifications, though.

The House Intelligence Committee is particularly interested in finding out details about Strzok's

role in handling the infamous Steele dossier.

Republicans on the panel are trying to find out whether the FBI used the dossier to obtain

surveillance warrants against Trump campaign members.

Trump and his campaign associates have denied allegations made against them in the dossier,

which was financed by the Clinton campaign and DNC.

Can someone out there please explain to me how someone sends 10k text messages to one

person?

Or even multiple people?

No wonder the FBI is always late to the party, they are all too busy texting each other to

get any work done.

That being said, it's obvious by now that the FBI has turned into a rogue organization

working for the deep state.

And because of this, it either needs to be drained of its swamp creatures or disbanded.

Let's hope for the latter

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Famous Psychiatrist Calls Trump 'A GENIUS IN THE OVAL OFFICE'(VIDEO)!!! - Duration: 5:34.

Famous Psychiatrist Calls Trump 'A GENIUS IN THE OVAL OFFICE'

all right in disarray and chaos and well sort of dissolving from the top up that

is the way many and well many of the Washington's sort of punditry and beyond

that and then describing what's happening to President Trump right now

never mind his administration's not even a month old here they were already

saying the guy's crazy he's out of it he's had gays can't control agenda I

don't remember the same being said when Jimmy Carter was running into trouble or

Ronald Reagan was running into trouble or or Bill Clinton everyone starts out

as Martin Sorrell was telling me at wpp Fame on Fox Business was sort of regime

rockiness when things first get going for dr. Keith Ablow Fox News medical

a-team on what he makes of that I think what they're saying doctor is guys crazy

Donald Trump and it's coming back in spades to bite him what do you make of

that crazy like a fox maybe no listen Neil in fact I wrote a blog for the

opinion section today at foxnews.com saying exactly the opposite haven't

examined the man personally I haven't but listen you can't run a multinational

corporation enjoy the respect and love of your children and your wife and

recruit to your administration which by the way you happen to be occupying

because you defeated 16 Republican primary opponents and the heir apparent

to a democratic administration and then be called unbalanced

he's quite balanced he's achieving things no one else has achieved now that

doesn't mean he's usual he can be extraordinary and he can have a very

different approach but to call him crazy would be well crazy yeah you know what

happens a lot of times they they focus on the things that sidetrack him even

though by discussing that they're getting sidetracked discussing ending

side right but but leaving that aside that he started out the administration

talking about crowd sizes that is inauguration or the ratings of the

apprentice under Arnold Schwarzenegger are these the kind of things that of the

leader of the free world should be should be zeroing in on or do

they all do it to various degrees he's just more public about it and and just

do you know where's his emotions honestly you know number one I think he

may wear his emotions more on his sleeve number two I'm not sure that he doesn't

do some of these things precisely in order to disassemble and sort of to

distract after all the media falls all over themselves for a one-liner from

Donald Trump cover it incessantly while he goes about his business business

instituting policies that are transformational for America and they're

going to bring America back so some of it might be cat-and-mouse and there are

a lot of mice out there who are willing to fall for anything Donald Trump puts

out there that looks like a red herring they'll take any hook all right now one

of the things I noticed and it's on the left to the right but I think the media

is much more thin-skinned than any president idi and I by that I would just

say that you know we'll Winsett box when it was President Obama ignoring us and

treating us like you know what than any at let's say CNN get annoyed when they

get ignored and then all of a sudden they don't like the same treatment so I

can understand the frustration with that but I wonder if present from plays into

that too much and he he gets what's coming to him when he does this sort of

thing that he encourages the sort of tit-for-tat

in spades that he gets well look you know I think it's his game you know

Muhammad Ali's to do the rope-a-dope right he defeated boxers that way I

think there's a little of that going on and frankly you know when I trained in

medicine I part of my rotations were through surgery some of the best

surgeons they had some quirks right an arrant word something yelled

out in the art you know he'd want doing your surgery those very guys they

weren't the polished ones they were the geniuses man and we've got a genius in

the Oval Office and if we think he's going to subscribe entirely to protocol

and be flawless and polished think again here I want that sir a doctor from some

market guides and again they could be wrong because talk about some you know

self-absorbed people the day they are condense that if he's not careful the

president these distractions are going to get in the way

and they're not going to get anything that they want nor what he says they're

gonna give him well you know what I would say is recent history being

something of a guide I would be loath to judge the man to have deficits that

don't pay off right so you know through all of this people have said no it's

it's impossible he can't possibly win the presidency look what he said on your

right well look he's president and my guess is that at a certain point we'll

come to embrace his idiosyncrasies because they will work for all of us and

we'll all have some successes to boast about

yeah well he's where he is and they are covering him where they are so all good

points all dr. Keith Ablow good seeing it thanks me I'll take care thank you

god bless you and God bless america

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BOMBSHELL!!! The FBI's FAILED Plan To Take Out TRUMP!!! - Duration: 5:04.

BOMBSHELL!!!

The FBI's FAILED Plan To Take Out TRUMP!!!

As most of us Trump supporters suspected all along the Republican Congressman Jim Jordan

from Ohio confirmed to conservative radio host Todd Starnes the fact that he is indeed

convinced the FBI was working against Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign.

The congressman went on to state that the whole pretext is wrong and that he is now

convinced the FBI actively sought with intent to try to stop then Candidate Donald Trump

from being president of the United States of America.

Jordan specifically highlighted the text messages sent by investigator Peter Strzok that referred

to an "insurance policy."

Of course, he is referring to the now infamous text messages which Strok send to his mistress,

FBI Lawyer Lisa Page, where he states that there's no way Trump will be elected but

is afraid and they can't take that risk.

"It's like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you're 40,"

Strzok wrote.

The reference of course was meant to convey that the FBI needed to aggressively investigate

fake allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

And people within the FBI have confirmed this all to be true.

In those same text messages, Strzok belittled Trump by calling him an "idiot" and a

"loathsome human," showing his obvious bias against the candidate.

The Daily Caller Reports:

Report: DOJ Reviewing More Than 10,000 Text Messages Between Anti-Trump Mueller Investigators

The Justice Department is sifting through 10,000 text messages involving the FBI agent

who was kicked off of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation for making

anti-Trump comments.

Fox News reports that the bureau is reviewing "several months" worth of messages that

the agent, Peter Strzok, exchanged with Lisa Page, an FBI attorney with whom he was having

an affair.

The Justice Department is searching the texts before turning them over to the House Intelligence

Committee, a process which could take "weeks."

The Justice Department's inspector general discovered over the summer that Strzok and

Page exchanged anti-Trump and pro-Clinton text messages last year.

After the watchdog informed Mueller's office, Strzok was "immediately" removed from

the Russia investigation, a spokesman for Mueller said over the weekend.

Details of Strzok's removal were kept secret for months.

ABC News reported back in August that Strzok had been demoted from Mueller's team to

the FBI's human resources division.

Attempts to find out the rationale were met by "no comments" from Mueller's office.

Page left Mueller's team in July, before the DOJ inspector general notified the special

counsel's office of the text exchanges.

Strzok's political leanings are significant because of his central importance to FBI's

investigation of possible Trump campaign collusion as well as of Hillary Clinton's use of a

private email system.

As the FBI's No. 2 counterintelligence official, Strzok was tapped at the end of July 2016

to oversee the Russia investigation.

He was also a top investigator on the email probe.

He interviewed Hillary Clinton and several of her top aides last year about Clinton's

email server, which contained thousands of classified documents.

Strzok was also involved in developing then-FBI Director James Comey's talking points for

his July 5, 2016 statement clearing Clinton of any criminal charges.

As part of the Russia investigation, Strzok conducted the Jan. 24 interview with then-national

security adviser Michael Flynn.

The retired lieutenant general pleaded guilty last Friday to lying to the FBI during that

interview about his conversations with Russia's ambassador, Sergey Kislyak.

In contrast, Clinton aides Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills appear to have given contradictory

statements about their knowledge of Clinton's server during their interviews with Strzok.

They faced no legal ramifications, though.

The House Intelligence Committee is particularly interested in finding out details about Strzok's

role in handling the infamous Steele dossier.

Republicans on the panel are trying to find out whether the FBI used the dossier to obtain

surveillance warrants against Trump campaign members.

Trump and his campaign associates have denied allegations made against them in the dossier,

which was financed by the Clinton campaign and DNC.

Can someone out there please explain to me how someone sends 10k text messages to one

person?

Or even multiple people?

No wonder the FBI is always late to the party, they are all too busy texting each other to

get any work done.

That being said, it's obvious by now that the FBI has turned into a rogue organization

working for the deep state.

And because of this, it either needs to be drained of its swamp creatures or disbanded.

Let's hope for the latter.

What do you think about this?

Please share this news if you agree the FBI needs to be disbanded immediately.

Scroll down to Comment below and don't forget to subscribe Top Stories Today.

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HILARIOUS!! Trump Just Got Off Air Force One And Holds Up A HUGE SIGN!!! - Duration: 9:28.

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BREAKING : Trump Signs Executive Order To Seize Assets Of Clinton & Obama - Duration: 3:40.

Trump Signs Executive Order To Seize Assets Of Clinton & Obama

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order allowing federal agents to seize the

assets of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

In the Dec. 21 executive order, Trump has declared that severe human rights abuses and

corruption "have reached such scope and gravity that they threaten the stability of

international political and economic systems.""I hereby declare a national emergency to deal

with that threat," Trump said.

The executive order allows for the freezing of assets of U.S. nationals and foreigners

who have committed severe human rights abuses, or corruption, inside or outside of the United

States.Theepochtimes.com reports: The executive order also targets foreigners and U.S. nationals

who have assisted, sponsored, or provided financial or material aid to the foreign nationals

who committed the crimes.

Offending individuals will be identified by the Treasury Department in consultation with

the Secretary of State and Attorney General.

The executive order targets individuals, entities, and government officials.

In effect, the executive order allows for the United States to crack down on international

criminal networks who engage in human rights abuses, such as child traffickers.

It also allows the United States to target individuals within regimes who have committed

human rights abuses, such as in China or North Korea.

"Human rights abuse and corruption undermine the values that form an essential foundation

of stable, secure, and functioning societies; have devastating impacts on individuals; weaken

democratic institutions; degraded the rule of law; perpetuate violent conflicts; facilitate

the activities of dangerous persons; and undermine economic markets," Trump wrote in the executive

order.

While it is unclear what the scope of the national emergency will be, 13 individuals

have already been identified as serious human rights abusers and corrupt actors.

In addition, the Treasury Department said that it has identified 39 affiliated individuals

and entities under the new order.

Among those initially targeted by the sanctions is Gao Yan, who was the director of the Beijing

Public Security Bureau Chaoyang Branch.

During Gao's tenure, human rights activist Cao Shunli died in detention in March 2014.

"Cao fell into a coma and died from organ failure, her body showing signs of emaciation

and neglect," said the Treasury Department in a statement.

China has seen widespread human rights abuses over the years.

Among them is the persecution of practitioners of the spiritual discipline, Falun Gong.

In June 2016, the House passed a resolution expressing concern about the "persistent

and credible reports of systematic, state-sanctioned organ harvesting from non-consenting prisoners

of conscience in the People's Republic of China, including from large numbers of Falun

Gong practitioners and members of other religious and ethnic minority groups."

Officials involved in these abuses could now be targeted under the national emergency.

It also includes Mukhtar Hamid Shah, a Pakistani surgeon specializing in kidney transplants

who Pakistani police believe to be involved in kidnapping, and the removal of and trafficking

in human organs.