Forces

It said the NCA would work with police forces to give victims whose cases were not progressed through the criminal justice system "long-awaited justice" and prevent more children from being hurt by such crimes.

"If we are attacked in any way, shape or form by Iran, the full strength and might of the U.S. Armed Forces will come down on you at levels never seen before," he warned.

He exploited that traumatic event to launch the invasion of Gaza, where Israeli forces have committed war crimes on a nearly indescribable scale, with the active if not enthusiastic support of two American presidents from opposing parties.

Foreign policy analysts routinely, and often wildly, exaggerate the threat level posed by anti-American or anti-Western forces, presenting them as shadowy hordes ready to overrun civilization at any moment.

Eyewitnesses recently reported Israeli forces firing on crowds heading to an aid site.