[Khaama] The Afghan cops have foiled a deadly bombing plot to target the worshippers in a shrine in Kabul city, the security officials said late on Monday.
The Criminal Investigation Department officials confirmed that the security forces discovered an improvised bomb from a shrine in the first police district of the city in Shudai Saleehin.
The officials further added that the forces of Evil had placed the explosives and were looking to detonate the bomb with a remote control among the worshippers.
According to the officials, the explosives were discovered during an operation conducted based on a tip-off in Sufi Ashqari shrine.
The anti-government armed Lion of Islam groups have not commented regarding the report so far.
This comes as the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) today released a special report documenting a sharp increase in attacks against places of worship, religious leaders and worshippers, including attacks against Shi’a Moslem places of worship and congregations.
According to the report, since 1 January 2016, UNAMA has recorded 833 civilian casualties (261 killed and 572 injured) in 42 attacks targeting places of worship, religious leaders and worshippers. Civilian casualties from these types of attacks since the beginning of 2016 represent nearly double the cumulative total documented between 2009 and 2015.
[Khaama] At least four US soldiers sustained injuries in a suicide car kaboom in southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan.
The incident took place on Monday afternoon in the vicinity of Dand district of Kandahar province after a jacket wallah detonated a vehicle packed with explosives near the convoy of the foreign forces.
"Four U.S. soldiers were maimed in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, from a vehicle-borne improvised bomb, according to Army Lt. Col. Koné Faulkner, a front man for the Resolute Support mission.
"We can confirm reports that a vehicle-born improvised bomb detonated in Kandahar province at approximately 2 p.m. today," Faulkner told Military Times. "There were a total of four U.S. service members injured and all are in stable, pH balanced condition in U.S. medical treatment facilities.
He said there were no coalition fatalities as a result of the attack, he added
The Talibs group in Afghanistan has grabbed credit behind the attack.
This comes as the security situation in Kandahar had proven during the recent months although the anti-government armed bad boy groups are attempting to destabilize the key southern provinces.
According to the security officials, the anti-government armed bad boy groups are attempting to carry out suicide kabooms and indirect attacks as their insurgency was suppressed during the offensive counter-terrorism operations in the summer time.
At least 16 Taliban fighters were killed and nine security force members killed in separate attacks on security installations in Farah province on Monday night.
Officials said 16 Taliban fighters and 21 others were wounded in a battle against the Afghan security forces in Khatiban area of Farah province late Monday night. Four ANA and Afghan National Police (ANP) officers were also killed in this attack.
The encounter happened when dozens of militants tried to storm Afghan security forces' check posts.
The battle continued until late night and Afghan National Army (ANA) choppers inflicted a heavy casualty toll on the militant group, said Mohammad Iqbal Baher, spokesman for Farah police headquarters.
Taliban's shadow-governor for Farah was also among those wounded in the battle, he said.
Meanwhile in a separate incident Taliban operatives launched a coordinated attack on ANA check posts in Farah's Balabolok district killing at least five ANA servicemen.
[RADIOSHABELLE] At least one person was confirmed dead, and several maimed after a boom-mobile blast struck a military convoy transporting African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... forces near Mogadishu, the Somali capital.
A witness said a Toyota Noah packed with explosives exploded at AMISOM armored vehicles while passing through Garasabaley village, on Mogadishu-Afgoye road.
A passer-by civilian died in the blast and several sustained injuries, according to an eyewitness who spoke to Radio Shabelle by phone from the area.
No group has yet grabbed credit for the suicide kaboom on AU forces, but, local authorities blamed Al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... for being behind the carnage.
AMISOM, however, has yet released any statement regarding the attack.
[IsraelTimes] The Pentagon said Monday that U.S. forces had killed 40 Shabaab and Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... fighters in a series of strikes on Somalia that began late last week.
The U.S. military has launched five strikes since Thursday on jihadist positions in the Horn of Africa country, killing 36 members of the al-Qaeda-affiliated Shabaab group and four from the Islamic State group, said Colonel Rob Manning, a front man.
"In coordination with the federal government of Somalia, U.S. forces conducted five Arclight airstrikes in Somalia against al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... and ISIS, from November 9 to the 12th, removing more than 40 Death Eaters from the battlefield," Manning said.
The strikes were carried out by the U.S. Africa Command, and followed two devastating attacks attributed to Islamic gunnies in Mogadishu that left about 385 people dead last month.
The surge in U.S. operations came after President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... in March loosened the constraints on the U.S. military to take actions against alleged Death Eaters when they judge it is needed, without seeking specific White House approval.
A pair of U.S. dronezaps that killed several gunnies on November 3 marked the first time American forces hit Islamic State group fighters in Somalia.
The Saudi warplanes raided on Tuesday Sanaa airport, destroying the radar systems and consequently disrupting the landing of the planes carrying aids to the Yemenis.
In details, the Saudi warplanes launched two raids on Sanaa International Airport in northern the capital, destroying the radar systems and disrupting the aid flights.
The group affiliated to Daesh in Yemen claimed responsibility for a suicide car bombing early Tuesday that targeted security forces in the southern port city of Aden, killing at least six people and injuring scores.
Two suicide bombers detonated a car packed with explosives in Yemen’s southern city of Aden on Tuesday, killing at least six people, witnesses said.
Dozens of other people, including civilians, were wounded in the attack, which occurred outside a camp used by a local security force organized by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s Houthi terrorist militia.
Witnesses described a huge explosion that shook the Al-Mansoura district in northern Aden, destroying at least one building and shattering windows in others.
The attack caused panic in this densely populated area, which is busy with schools, markets and street vendors.
Ambulances rushed to the scene to evacuate the wounded. Pictures circulating on social media showed several young men in military uniform being carried away.
Extremist militants have exploited the fighting in Yemen to try to recruit more followers and expand their influence in the country, which sits near main shipping lanes.
The camp attacked on Tuesday was occupied by a local force called the Security Belt, in Al-Mansoura.
The Security Belt was set up by the United Arab Emirates to help restore security to the port city, the temporary capital of Hadi’s government after the Saudi-led coalition helped local fighters drive the Houthis terrorist militia out of Aden in 2015.
The Daesh affiliate in Yemen claimed responsibility in an online statement, hours after the attack. It named the suicide bomber as Abu Hagar Al-Adani, which indicates the attacker hailed from Aden.
This attack was the second by Daesh in Aden in less than two weeks. On Nov. 5, militants attacked the security headquarters in Aden, killing 18 and injuring many more, taking over the building, and seizing hostages.
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[IsraelTimes] 22-year-old convert to Islam receives 2-year prison sentence for traveling to Syria to join terror group with her partner, children.
A Dutch court sentenced a young woman to two years in prison Monday for traveling to Syria to join the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... terror group in one of the first such cases in the Netherlands.
"The court considers it proven that she planned to prepare and promote terrorist activities," the Rotterdam District Court said.
"Therefore she is sentenced to two years in jail of which 13 months are suspended for three years," the court said in a statement.
Because the woman, Laura Hansen, already spent another year in detention, she will effectively not go back to jail, the judges added.
She was also acquitted of belonging to the IS terror group, the Dutch news agency ANP said.
The 22-year-old convert to Islam was incarcerated Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! when she flew back to Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport in July 2016 after apparently fleeing the jihadists.
Hansen, her partner and two young children left The Netherlands in September 2015 to join the IS group where her husband wanted to join jihadist fighters.
"Judging from her statements, the accused knew even before her departure that her husband harbored sympathy for IS and that he wanted to travel to Syria," the judges said.
Originally from the town of Leidschendam, Hansen told judges she was forced to travel to Raqqa, in Syria, in September 2015 by her violent partner.
Months later though she fled with her children to a Kurdish-controlled area in Iraq with the help of her father in The Netherlands.
Prosecutors asked for a 35-month jail term with 24 months suspended under strict conditions.
Hansen is now not allowed to come close to the Dutch borders or any airports and was ordered not to make contact with any current or former jihadists.
She met her partner, known as Ibrahim I., via the internet in 2013, when she was just 17 but had already converted to Islam, the public broadcaster NOS has said.
He was put to work making bombs for IS in Syria and his fate is unknown.
At least 280 people, a third of whom are women, are believed to have left The Netherlands to fight in Iraq and Syria for jihadist groups, according to Dutch counter-terrorism officials.
About 45 have been killed, 45 have returned home and another 190 are thought to still be in the region, although their exact fate remains unknown.
Experts told Dutch media Monday that Laura H.’s case was one of the first involving a woman traveling to Syria.
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[PJ] Police have named the man accused of stabbing two people in the dressing room area of Macy's at the Mall of America on Sunday.
Officials identified the 20-year-old suspect as Mahad Abdiaziz Abdirahaman of Minneapolis. Police are calling this incident a botched theft attempt.
According to Bloomington Police Chief Jeff Potts, Abdirahaman went into a dressing room in the men's department and attempted to steal some property.
The victim was stabbed after finding the suspect pawing through his belongings in the dressing room. When family members rushed in to help, a second victim was slashed. Potts said family members were able to disarm the suspect, and judging by his mug shot, they managed to rough him up a bit too.
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Check out the local Star Tribune comment section on this story. Minnesotans are pissed. Our turd for brains Gov. Mark Dayton's take on anti Jihad welfarests is worth noting.
Gov. Mark Dayton has told residents of the state that if they are not comfortable living among the refugees they “should find another state.”…
Why should the residents feel uncomfortable? Just a quick perusal of recent news…
“Over the past two years (2015) more than 20 {Somali} Americans {sic} from the Minneapolis area have traveled overseas to fight alongside terrorists under the Islamic State banner, according to the FBI.”
“Six young Somalis in Minnesota: “Abdullahi Yusuf, Zacharia Abdurahman, Hanad Musse, Abdirizak Warsame, Adnan Farah and Hamza Ahmed — have pleaded guilty to conspiring to travel to Syria to join ISIS,” Minnesota Public Radio reported in May.
“U.S. District Court Judge Michael Davis didn’t sugarcoat his words … as he sentenced three Minnesota men on terrorism charges,” KSTP reported in November:
“This was a jihadi cell,” Davis said firmly to the entire courtroom. “Everyone talks about Brussels or Paris having a cell; we have a cell in Minneapolis.”
“At least two of the 22 Minnesotan Somalis who joined al-Shabab have committed suicide bombings…
“Mohamoud Hassan {was} a chemical engineering student at the University of Minnesota voted “most friendly” by his high school classmates. Two years later, Hassan was dead in Mogadishu…”
“Amina Farah Ali, a woman from Rochester, Minnesota’s third-largest city, has been sentenced to 20 years on 13 terror-related counts. Her accomplice, Hawo Mohamed Hassan, was sentenced to ten years. Ali and Hassan went door-to-door in Rochester and the Twin Cities soliciting charity for Somalia’s poor. The money was then diverted to al-Shabab. On a wiretap used as evidence in the trial, Ali is heard saying, “let the civilians die,” to an al-Shabab operative in Somalia. After her conviction, Ali told the court, “I am very happy. I’m going to the heaven no matter [what] …. Also, you guys go to the hell…. We know God. We know justice. And also I’m very sorry for the one who doesn’t know God and who puts the injustice [on the people].” Nine others were sentenced on the same day as Ali and Hassan, while 18 more were charged with related crimes.”
“Somali refugee Dahir Adan attacked nine Americans with a knife at a mall in St. Cloud, Minn. before an off-duty police officer shot and killed him on Sept. 17, 2016.
Two months later Somali refugee Abdul Razak Ali Artan attacked 11 Americans with a knife and then a car on the campus of Ohio State University in Columbus before a campus police officer shot and killed him on Nov. 28, 2016.”
“Somali refugees are the most difficult to deal with. They are easily manipulated towards criminal activities, making it difficult to negotiate with them at times,” according to a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees official working in Pakistan, who spoke with the Express Tribune in 2012.
Is there more for residents to worry about than Islamic-inspired terror attacks?
“In 2015, Minnesota authorities charged Somali man Ahmed Hersi Abdi with two first-degree sexual misconduct for allegedly raping a 10-year-old girl in her apartment.”
2016: “KSTP-TV reports that a female resident, who understandably remains anonymous for her protection, told the network that she and other locals were attacked by a mob of up to 30 Somali Muslim men on June 28. Police were called to the scene at around 9:30 a.m. after the mob of migrants showed up in front of citizens’ homes, yelling threatening comments and promising terrorist activity.
“They were screaming at the house that they were going to kidnap you and they were going to rape you,” one Minneapolis resident told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS. “It was a very traumatizing experience.”
According to the police report, between 20 and 30 young men descended upon a woman’s house threatening to kidnap and rape her. The migrants were reportedly driving their vehicles up over the curbs and onto the lawn while shooting off fireworks and screaming threats in the Lake Calhoun neighborhood.
The police report states that the men were yelling “jihad” and even told the female resident that the could kidnap, rape, and marry the already married woman because it was legal under “Shawra (Sharia) Law.” As expected, even the station that picked up the story somehow “missed” these references.”
But Minnesota residents, if you don’t like it, YOU can just leave. These Muslims are here to stay and are more wanted than you are. They don’t need to assimilate either, you do. So says Gov. Mark Dayton.
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What? The criminal isn't a white guy named John Smith?
I'm shocked!
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Our esteemed Governor is the recipient of shock treatments. That is usually given after all drugs have failed.
As for Somalis...They refuse to integrate into larger society or learn English. They continue their feuds from Somalia right on the streets of Minneapolis. If they can't find their target here in the Twin Cities, they'll kill one of the guy's friends or even classmates.
The scary thing is these Somalis are considered "the good Somalis." The Swedish government recently sent a fact finding tour to the twin cities to find out "why the American Somalis are so much better behaved than the Swedish Somalis."
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An article on Lucianne contained the info that he stabbed some folks with a pencil a while ago - I guess he learned not to bring a pencil to a knife fight.
[Khaama] The Pak soldiers suffered casualties in the latest attack by the holy warrior groups along the Durand Line, the security authorities said late on Monday.
The Inter Services Public Relations, media wing of the Pak military, in a statement confirmed the attack.
The statement further added that two soldiers were killed and four others were maimed in the attack carried out by the holy warriors from the other side of the line from Afghanistan.
According to ISPR, a group of holy warriors from across the border (Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... , Afghanistan) attacked a checkpost in Mamond tehsil of Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central ...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth... with heavy weapons.
The soldiers killed in the attack have been identified as Captain Junaid Hafeez and Sepoy Raham and injuring four soldiers.
The Pak military officials are saying that the security forces responded to the attack and killed at least 10 holy warriors.
The Tehrik-e-Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Pakistain grabbed credit behind the attack.
In a statement released to media, the group claimed that the attack was carried out as the Pak troops were busy erecting fences along the line.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com)Six persons were wounded as two bomb blasts took place in southeast and west of Baghdad, a security source said on Tuesday.
“A bomb, placed near a market at Bawi region in al-Mada’in district, southeast of Baghdad, exploded in the evening, leaving three civilians wounded,” the source told Alghad Press.
“Security troops cordoned off the blast spot and prevented people from approaching. Ambulances transferred the wounded to hospital for treatment, the source said.
In related news, Baghdad News website quoted another source as saying that “another bomb blast took place in west of Baghdad, leaving three others wounded.”
The injured were taken to hospital for treatment, the source, who asked to remain anonymous, added.
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Fourteen Islamic State militants and security personnel were killed as confrontations broke out in south of Kirkuk, a security source said on Tuesday.
“Al-Hashd al-Shaabi [Popular Mobilization Forces] invaded Kadamat village, south of Kirkuk, where confrontations occurred against IS militants,” the source told Baghdad Today. “Troops managed to kill 10 IS members.”
Moreover, the clashes “left four PMFs personnel killed,” according to the source.
“The operation was carried out to comb the regions between Kadamat and the borders of al-Rashad, southwest of Kirkuk, and follow the militant group’s pockets,” the source said.
Operations were launched in late September to liberate Hawija, southwest of Kirkuk, before Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi announced freeing the town in October.
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[Ynet] Security forces impounded Monday night tens of thousands of shekels paid by terrorist organizations to rebuild the homes of families of the bully boyz who murdered First Sergeant Major Hadas Malka.
Malka was murdered at a Damascus Gate terrorist attack this past June.
Two of the attackers were from the PFLP and one was from Hamas. ISIS also claimed it...
[Ynet] The Jerusalem Juvenile District Court gave a NIS 20,000 fine
That's $5,649 in old American dollars, a lot of money for a kid to pay off mowing lawns...
and a six-month suspended sentence to a 14-year-old east Jerusalem resident who participated in throwing stones and Molotov cocktails in east Jerusalem's Isawiya a year ago.
[IsraelTimes] Separately, 3 indicted for plan to transfer thousands of shekels to Gazoo Strip
The Supreme Court on Monday accepted an appeal by state prosecutors to increase the sentences of two Arab Israeli men who tried to join the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group.
They were both tossed in the slammer You have the right to remain silent... in 2016 and accused of planning to shoot IDF soldiers, the Shin Bet said at the time.
Bahaa Eldin Ziad Hasan Masarwa was convicted of contacting a foreign agent and supporting a terror organizations and originally sentenced last March to 46 months in prison with a 12-month suspended sentence. Ahmad Nabil Ahmad was convicted of conspiracy to commit a crime and given 22 months and a six-month suspended sentence.
After accepting the prosecutor’s appeal the court increased Masarwa’s sentence to 58 months in prison and that of Ahmad to 30 months.
Meanwhile Monday, three men, one of whom is already in prison for security offenses, were indicted on terror-related offenses including money laundering, the Justice Ministry said in a statement.
The Northern District prosecutor’s office filed indictments at the Nazareth District Court against Ahmed Hassan, 25, a Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", terror group operative who is already in prison for security offenses; Sa’ad Abu Varda, 26, a resident of the Gazoo Strip who had been residing in Israel without a permit since 2011; and Ayman Salhav, 42, from Jerusalem.
All were accused of security offenses including contacting with a foreign agent, membership in a terror organization and money laundering.
According to court papers Varda would send money from his wages to his family in Gazoo via various channels, even though he knew that transfers of upwards of NIS 12,000 ($3,400) from Israel to Gazoo require official permission.
During October 2017, Hassan, a convicted member of Hamas who in 2009 began a 17-year sentence for security offenses, telephoned Salhav and instructed him to go to a meeting with Varda in Nazareth where he was to receive sums of money destined for transfer to the Gazoo Strip.
Some of the money was intended to be paid as compensation to a former prisoner in Israel who was released as part of the 2011 prisoner exchange deal for IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.
Salhav attended the meeting and received NIS 48,500 ($13,690) from Varda. He was arrested shortly afterwards near Afula.
Prosecutors asked that Varda and Salhav be held until the end of proceedings.
[CBS] The BBC reports 250 ISIS fighters were permitted to leave Raqqa with 3,500 family members to ISIS-controlled territory. The U.S. and British-led coalition reportedly knew about the deal brokered by Syrian Democratic Forces and monitored the exodus. Quentin Sommerville of our partners at BBC reports.
From newc, the link to the very long BBC report is here.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
[IsraelTimes] 22-year-old convert to Islam receives 2-year prison sentence for traveling to Syria to join terror group with her partner, children.
[PJ] Police have named the man accused of stabbing two people in the dressing room area of Macy's at the Mall of America on Sunday.
...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth...
