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US charges Chicago man with online recruiting for Islamic State
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Afghanistan
Barmak Confirms 192 Security Incidents On Election Day, Worst Jacket Wallah Kaboomed 15 in Kabul
[ToloNews] Minister of Interior Wais Barmak told TOLOnews on Saturday evening that 192 security incidents had been reported countrywide during the day - as people cast their votes in the long-awaited parliamentary elections.

He said these included a number of different types of incidents including grenade and IED kabooms.

Barmak said at least 17 non-combatants were killed and 83 civilians maimed in these incident and there had been 1,700 threats issued.

The minister also said 10 coppers were killed and one Afghan National Army soldier was killed. Seventeen security forces were maimed throughout the day, he added.

Officials from the interior ministry said earlier in the day although a number of incidents were recorded nationwide, the enemy did not manage achieve its goal of disrupting elections.

>Gen. Akhtar Mohammad Ibrahimi, deputy minister of interior for security said the deadliest attack on Saturday had been a suicide kaboom in Kabul’s PD17 that claimed the lives of 10 civilians and five coppers.

Officials said despite the attacks, people still went to the polling centers.
An Nahar adds:
The Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
warned voters on Saturday to boycott the "sham and theatrical process to protect their lives".

Around 70,000 security forces have been deployed to protect polling centres across the war-torn country.
Another Tolo News article adds:
Government announced late Saturday that Sunday would also be a public holiday ‐ in order to accommodate the IEC and the people who were not able to vote.

Deadly suicide bomber strikes polling station in Afghan capital

[Al Jazeera] A jacket wallah went kaboom! in the Afghan capital on Saturday, killing at least 15 people as voting concluded in parliamentary elections that were overshadowed by the threat of attacks and serious organizational problems.

Voting should have been concluded by the time the attacker struck in an area to the north of Kabul, but polling stations were kept open longer than normal to cope with large numbers of people who had been unable to vote.

Ten civilians and five coppers were killed when the bomber tried to enter a polling station and more than 25 were maimed, a security bigshot said.

The attack appeared to have been the most serious of a day marked by a series of smaller-scale incidents that caused dozens of casualties across the country.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/21/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Taliban’s shadow governor for Maidan Wardak killed in ANDSF operations
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The shadow governor of the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
group for Maidan Wardak province has been killed during the operations of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF), the Afghan Military in the Southeast said.

According to a statement released by 203rd Thunder Corps of the Afghan Military, the Taliban shadow governor for Maidan Wardak was killed with his three comrades in Chak district.

The statement further added that the Afghan forces conducted operations using artillery fire to target the hideouts of the Taliban in Baksari area of Chak district, leaving four Talibs dead, including the shadow governor of the group.

In the meantime, the 203rd Thunder Corps said at least 12 murderous Moslems were killed and 14 others sustained injuries during the operations "Sultan" in Bakawal area located in the outskirts of the picturesque provincial capital of Ghazni city.

Another Death Eater was killed during a separate clash in Hassan village of Warmam district in Paktika
...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo...
province, the 203rd Thunder Corps said, adding that an Ak-47 rifle and a cycle of violence were also confiscated.

The Afghan forces also killed five murderous Moslems during a separate clash in Khoshi district of Pashtun-infested Logar and Nadir Shah Kot district of Khost province
... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name...
, the 203rd Thunder Corps added.

Posted by: Fred || 10/21/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Fresh skirmish reported among the Afghan, Pak forces in Spin Boldak
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan and Pak forces have briefly exchanged fire along the Drand Line in Spin Boldak district of southern Kandahar province.

A source in 205th Maiwand Corps of the Afghan Military confirmed the incident and said the brief exchange of fire by the two sides.

The source further added that the skirmish is not intense but both the Afghan and Pak forces are sporadically exchanging fire.

According to the Afghan Military source, the latest skirmish took place due to the fencing of the controversial areas of the Durand Line by the Pak forces.

The source also added that the incident has taken place in Saro Sahan area of Spin Boldak district.

This comes as a similar skirmish took place between the Afghan and Pak forces in the same area last week.

Posted by: Fred || 10/21/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Africa Subsaharan
Fifty-five dead after market row in northern Nigeria
[JOURNALDUCAMEROUN] Fifty-five people were killed this week in festivities between young Christians and Moslems in northern Nigeria following a dispute in a market, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Saturday.

Sources told AFP fighting broke out between Hausa Moslem and Adara Christian youths in the town of Kasuwan Magani’s market following a dispute among wheelbarrow porters.

Two people were said to have been killed in the market fracas on Thursday. The violence was temporarily halted by police but Adara youth later mobilised and attacked Hausa residents, burning homes, the sources added.

"Most of the killings were done in the second attack which took the Hausa community off guard," said Muhammadu Bala, a Kasuwar Magani resident who lost his home.

In a statement the presidency said: "President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the latest communal violence in Kasuwan Magani in Kaduna State which claimed 55 lives."

The violence followed a dispute in a market on Thursday, the presidency added.

The president expressed concern that Nigerians were too frequently resorting to violence over misunderstandings that could be resolved peacefully.

"No culture and religion supports the disregard for the sanctity of life," he said, adding that "peaceful coexistence is necessary for the progress of any society and its wellbeing".

He said that without harmony between communities an environment conducive to "our everyday businesses would be impossible to achieve".

"Violence cannot be an alternative to peace. On the contrary, reliance on violence leads to ultimate self-destruction. Violence is an ill wind that blows nobody any good. Embracing peace is a necessity," he said.

He appealed to community leaders to take part in regular dialogue to prevent misunderstandings and foster a spirit of tolerance and patience.

Kaduna state police commissioner Ahmad Abdur-Rahman told news hounds on Friday 22 people had been jugged
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
in connection with the violence.

Posted by: Fred || 10/21/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Britain
Follow-up with fotos: 20 men jailed for sexual abuse of teenage girls in northern England
[DAWN] Twenty men have been jailed for raping and abusing more than a dozen girls in a northern England town, in what a judge called a "vile and wicked" campaign of exploitation.

The men in the town of Huddersfield were found guilty in three trials this year, but the verdicts could not be reported until a judge lifted reporting restrictions on Friday.

The cases are the latest in a series of prosecutions in northern English towns and cities for child sexual exploitation involving British Asian men of mostly Pakistani heritage.

The men were accused of being part of a gang that groomed vulnerable girls described in court as from "isolated" backgrounds and were convicted of more than 120 offences against 15 victims aged between 11 and 17.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/21/2018 11:26 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  20 out of thousands of muslim rapist throughout Britistan. Normally not even charges. What happened, Huddersfield police have balls?
Posted by: Woodrow || 10/21/2018 11:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Surprise, surprise!
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/21/2018 13:22 Comments || Top||

#3  I posted something about this in the hopper yesterday.

Must've got a bit lost.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/21/2018 14:04 Comments || Top||

#4  I added yours as an update to yesterday’s article on the subject, Bright Pebbles.. Heartbreaking infornation about each of the miscreants.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/21/2018 15:56 Comments || Top||

#5  But I’m glad the Dawn reporter also gives us the following:

In August, a UK appeals court had upheld a government decision to strip three men of citizenship who were convicted of grooming girls for sex. They now face deportation to Pakistan.

Anti-Muslim activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who uses the pseudonym Tommy Robinson, was jailed for contempt of court in May after broadcasting live on Facebook outside the trial of some of the Huddersfield gang, breaching reporting restrictions.

Police statistics in Britain show that most offenders in child exploitation cases are white men, and most of the abuse takes place online, at home or in institutions such as schools.

But former prosecutor Nazir Afzal, who has brought many abusers to trial, says Pakistani men are disproportionately involved in the sort of street grooming seen in recent high-profile cases.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/21/2018 16:02 Comments || Top||

#6  Yours was posted, hense the 'follow-up' with lovely photographs. Thanks for all you send our way here in the colonies.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/21/2018 16:24 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
100 ISIS Terrorists Caught in Guatemala as Central American Caravan Heads to U.S.
[Canada Free Press] In a startling revelation, Guatemala’s president announced in the country’s largest newspaper that nearly 100 ISIS terrorists have been apprehended in the impoverished Central American nation. Why should Americans care about this?

A caravan of Central American migrants is making its way north. Let’s not forget that Guatemala is one of the countries that bombarded the U.S. with illegal immigrant minors under Barack Obama’s open border free-for-all. They came in droves from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala through the Mexican border and for years Uncle Sam rolled out the welcome mat offering housing, food, medical treatment and a free education

Guatemala has long been known as a major smuggling corridor.

A terrorist could have easily slipped in considering the minors, coined Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC), were not properly vetted and some turned out to be violent gangbangers who went on to commit heinous crimes in their adopted land of opportunity. In fact, the nation’s most violent street gang, Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), was energized by the barrage of UACs.

The Texas Department of Public Safety even issued a report documenting how the MS-13 emerged as a top tier gang in the state thanks to the influx of illegal alien gang members that came with the UACs. At the time more than 60,000 UACs‐many with criminal histories‐had stormed into the U.S. in a matter of months. Tens of thousands more eventually made it north.

Guatemala has long been known as a major smuggling corridor for foreigners from African and Asian countries making their way into the U.S. Last year Guatemala’s largest paper, Prensa Libra, published an in-depth piece on the inner workings of an international human smuggling network that moves migrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bangladesh to the U.S. Individuals are sent to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates then flown to Brazil before heading to Colombia.

Once in South America, the migrants are transported to Panama before moving on to Costa Rica then a central point on Guatemala. One Spanish news report refers to Guatemala as a human smuggling paradise because it’s so easy to get fake passports. A few years ago, the head of Guatemala’s passport division got arrested for selling fake passports to a group of Colombians, according to a government announcement.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/21/2018 07:31 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  reported in the Canadian press

not in the major US venues so far, not even Fox news
Posted by: lord garth || 10/21/2018 8:35 Comments || Top||

#2  To Democrats, the important question is will the ISIS terrorists arrive in the US in time to registr to vote.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 10/21/2018 10:45 Comments || Top||

#3  So P.Trump is right again.
Posted by: Maggie Brown1364 || 10/21/2018 23:05 Comments || Top||


Europe
France charges three over supermarket terror attack
[IsraelTimes] Four people were killed in March when Redouane Lakdim went on a shooting spree and took hostages, including a police officer who traded himself for a hostage.

Three people have been charged in La Belle France on Saturday over an Islamic terrorist’s shooting rampage and supermarket hostage-taking earlier this year.

French regional media reported that the three are suspected of providing help to assailant Redouane Lakdim
...the Moroccan-French known wolf who shot up a Carcassonne grocery store in the name of ISIS. It seems the French cleverly granted him citizenship shortly before his eruption despite being on their ‘Fiche S’ terror watch list. He is also in our archive as Radouane Lakdim...
before his March attack in Carcassonne and the nearby town of Trebes. Four people were killed, including a police officer who traded himself for a hostage.

A judicial official said Saturday that the three were charged with criminal association with terrorists, and one was also accused of possessing arms in connection with a terrorist enterprise.
Golly. How many of them are also known wolves?
They were among six people nabbed
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
in raids this week. The other three were released. It was unclear why the arrests occurred so long after the attack.
Stop criticizing, O Reporter. The French security forces are overwhelmed by the sheer number of radicalized Moslem colonists they have to keep track of, which is why they are forever having to explain why the latest spree killer fell off their radar. If only France’s politicians would allow them to do the job as they are capable of doing it!
In March, three people were killed in a shooting spree and hostage siege in southern La Belle France when Lakdim carried out three separate attacks in the medieval town of Carcassonne and nearby Trebes.

The four-hour drama began when Lakdim hijacked a car near the town of Carcassonne, killing one person inside and wounding another. He then went to a supermarket in Trebes, shooting and killing two people in the market and taking hostages. He shouted "holy shit! Allahu akbar!" ‐ the Arabic phrase for "God is great" ‐ and said he was a "soldier of 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....
Special police units converged on the scene, and Lieutenant-Colonel Arnaud Beltrame was among a group of officers who rushed inside the supermarket. He offered to take the place of a woman being held as a final hostage by Lakdim.

Unbeknownst to Lakdim, Beltrame left his cellphone on so police outside could hear what was happening in the store. They stormed the building when they heard gunshots, officials said. Beltrame was fatally maimed.

French President Emmanuel Macron had attended Beltrame’s funeral and said the officer had "died a hero" who deserved "the respect and admiration of the whole nation."
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/21/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Keep allowing islamists in, France. In 20 years they'll rename in Francistan, and you will be forced to submit, or flee.
Posted by: anymouse || 10/21/2018 1:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Some are already fleeing. To Hungary.
Posted by: Kojo Oppressor of the Heathen Rus8056 || 10/21/2018 12:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Will the land of Mahometan Franks
Still love its great Chevalier Hanks?
Will our Levis and Spanx
Still, as coq yields to sphinx,
Have their Maryams thanking us Yanks?
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 10/21/2018 17:18 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
US charges Chicago man with online recruiting for Islamic State
[IsraelTimes] Ashraf al-Safoo accused of disseminating ’online propaganda promoting violence’ in support of jihadi group.

A US citizen of Iraqi descent has been charged in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,...
with online coordination with 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....
jihadist group to recruit and encourage attacks, federal authorities said Friday.

Ashraf al-Safoo was tossed in the clink
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
Wednesday in the Midwestern city and charged with one count of conspiracy to provide material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organization.

The 34-year-old made an initial court appearance Friday and was ordered held in federal custody.

Safoo is accused of disseminating "online propaganda promoting violence in support of [IS]," Assistant Attorney General John Demers said in a statement.

The naturalized US citizen is allegedly a member of Khattab Media Foundation, an online group aligned with IS, authorities said.

He is accused of posting pro-IS "videos, articles, essays and infographics across multiple social media platforms, at the direction and in coordination with" the jihadist group, the Department of Justice said in a statement.

Much of the propaganda allegedly promoted violent jihad.

The government’s complaint made public Friday included posts Safoo is alleged to have written online calling on others to "roll up your sleeves" to create online content in support of IS.

"Participate in the war, and spread fear," Safoo is accused of writing.
The fifty-nine page crimnal complaint can be read here. The Chicago Tribune has a good deal more about the quiet immigrant family man with a masters degree in computer science who headed a full scale PR organization that employed the usual variety of specialists for the purpose of internet jihad.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/21/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  His mosque, his friends, his family?
Posted by: Woodrow || 10/21/2018 5:04 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Quetta train link cut off from rest of country after bomb attack
[DAWN] Train service remained suspended for sev­eral hours between Quetta and the rest of the country on Friday after twin bomb kabooms at the main railway track near the Hirak area of Bolan district.

The Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
-bound Jaffar Express narrowly escaped the kabooms, which were reportedly planned by unknown Lion of Islams, said a railway official.

Security officials said two bombs were planted at the main track between Mach and Hirak stations. The bombs were detonated with brief intervals, destroying the track in the process.

"The train was at some distance from the Hirak station when the bombs went off," Waseef Ali Mughal, divisional superintendent of Pakistain Railways, Quetta division, said, adding that the train operator hit the emergency brakes, stopping the train immediately. Despite the fierce attack, there were no casualties and the train itself remained safe. However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable...
a large portion of the track was destroyed.

Soon after the blast, personnel of the Frontier Corps
...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations....
and Levies rushed to the site and cordoned off the area. After the second kaboom, the bomb disposal squad was able to get pieces of evidence from the rubble. "A hand-grenade was recovered from the site as well," a security bigshot said.

"All railway traffic, to and from Quetta, was stopped following the attack and operators were asked to halt their trains at various train stations they were close to," said an official.

Posted by: Fred || 10/21/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Investigators find held ‘IS men’ sent funds to Afghanistan
[DAWN] KARACHI: Investigators grilling three men held for their alleged connection with the holy warrior 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 found that they had generated funds for the global holy warrior outfit by committing crimes and sent the money to Afghanistan through normal as well as informal banking channels.

Informed sources told Dawn on Friday that the law enforcers recently tossed in the clink
Please don't kill me!
Naeem, Mukhtiar and Roohullah in the city for their alleged involvement in kidnapping a resident of Gulistan-e-Jauhar.

The resident was released by kidnappers after getting a ransom of over Rs10 million. When he safely reached home, the law enforcers started working on some leads and finally arrested the three suspects.

During investigations, the held suspects had confessed to their involvement in several cases of kidnapping for ransom.

Officials said they had kidnapped and murdered Abid Sohail in September 2017 and buried his body in Manghopir.

In January 2017, the same group had also kidnapped a member of the Ismailia community from Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
. They shifted him to Hub, Balochistan...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
, in the trunk of their vehicle. However,
Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried...
he managed to escape from their custody. Later, the police had raided their hideout in Hub area and recovered a suicide jacket and explosives.

Police sources said that this group was involved in at least five to six kidnapping-for-ransom cases in the city. They generated funds through this criminal activity and sent the money to the IS head in Afghanistan.

Suspects Roohullah and Mukhtiar were involved in sending money abroad through hundi and hawala. The third suspect, Naeem, was said to be the IS chief in Karachi.

During their interrogation, it transpired that several bank accounts had been opened through which they transferred funds to Afghanistan to carry out acts of terrorism in Pakistain. The sources said that members of this outfit had been involved in terror financing in the metropolis for the past many months.

They claimed that IS had been involved in major terrorism acts in Sindh and Balochistan including the deadly blasts at Sehwan Sharif and Shah Noorani. The sources said that a joint investigation team (JIT) comprising representatives of the State Bank of Pakistain, Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistain, law enforcement and intelligence agencies and others had been formed to further grill the suspects.

Posted by: Fred || 10/21/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Iraq
Iraqi police kill three terrorists, seize two explosive belts in Kirkuk
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi police forces killed on Saturday three snuffies and seized two boom belts in the oil-rich Iraqi province of Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
the Security Media Center said.

In a statement, received by Iraqi website Alghad Press, the center said that a police force set an ambush in Kirkuk as they managed to kill three snuffies and seized two boom belts.

"The troops also seized six grenades and two Kalashnikov assault rifles during a military operation in al-Rashad area in southwest Kirkuk," the center added.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/21/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF troops arrest suspected assistant of Barkan terrorist — report
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian media says Israeli forces operating in runaway Ashraf Na’alowa’s West Bank village surrounded a school under construction, broke down doors.

IDF troops operating in the northern West Bank village of Shuweika Saturday morning incarcerated
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
a man suspected of aiding the escaped terrorist who killed two Israelis at the Barkan Industrial Zone earlier this month, Hadashot TV news reported, citing Paleostinian media.

Earlier Paleostinian media reported forces had surrounded a school under construction in the village, broke down its doors and called on the runaway terrorist Ashraf Na’alowa to surrender.

Media reports also said soldiers fired tear gas canisters at Paleostinians in the area, possibly in response to rioting.

The IDF confirmed it had operated in the village but would not give more details.

The move comes after officials delivered a demolition order to Na’alowa’s family home on Monday. The order was served to his parents, the IDF said in a statement.

Na’alowa has been on the run since killing Kim Levengrond Yehezkel and Ziv Hajbi on October 7 at the factory in the Barkan Industrial Zone where he was employed. A third Israeli, Sara Vaturi, was maimed in the attack.

The day after the shooting, the shooter’s relatives publicly appealed to Na’alowa on Israel Radio to turn himself in to Israeli authorities.

A Paleostinian security official has confirmed to The Times of Israel that Paleostinian Authority security forces are assisting in the search for Na’alowa.

Last week, Na’alowa’s sister Fayrouz was arrested at her home in the West Bank city of Nablus in connection with the manhunt for her brother, the Shin Bet said. Fayrouz had previously been questioned by Israeli forces, but was released. Na’alowa’s brother was arrested the day after the attack.

The Shin Bet refused to say on what grounds Fayrouz had been arrested. Na’alowa’s mother and other sisters were also detained and brought in for questioning following the attack, but were later released.

Officials reportedly believe that Na’alowa, who is said to have left a suicide note before the attack, is preparing to engage troops when they close in on him in a firefight that could turn deadly.

The military launched an investigation of the attack to determine, among other things, how the gun was smuggled into the industrial park and whether the terrorist had intended to take Levengrond Yehezkel hostage, having used zip-ties to bind her hands before shooting her.

Levengrond Yehezkel was a secretary while Hajbi worked in accounting at the Alon Group’s factory in the industrial park. Na’alowa was employed there as an electrician.

The army has said Na’alowa had no history of terrorist activities and was not tied to any terror groups, though several of them applauded his actions.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/21/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Police: Palestinian arrested near Jerusalem, says he planned stabbing attack
[IsraelTimes] Police on Saturday morning locked away
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
a Paleostinian in a settlement near Jerusalem who said he had intended to carry out a stabbing attack in the area.

Units were called to Har Adar, off the main highway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, after security guards spotted a man acting suspiciously in the community.

The man, in his 20s, was detained and questioned, whereupon he admitted having earlier hidden a knife nearby, which he said he had intended to use in a stabbing attack. He led officers to the hiding place, where they found the knife.

The suspect was taken in for further questioning.
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PA Arrests Palestinian-American For Property Sale To Jews
[Jpost] One source told the 'Post' that the man was suspected of receiving $25,000 in commission for his role in the sale of the house.

Paleostinian Authority security forces have nabbed
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
a Paleostinian-American citizen on suspicion of involvement in a real estate transaction with Jews in east Jerusalem, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/21/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority


Israeli aircraft fires toward incendiary balloon-launching cell in Gaza
[IsraelTimess] Paleostinian media report cycle of violence destroyed in strike, which comes as incendiary devices launched from Strip spark 3 blazes in south.

A military aircraft fired toward a group of Paleostinians on Saturday flying incendiary balloons from the Gazoo Strip into Israel, the Israeli army said. There were no reports of injuries. Paleostine media outlets said the strike destroyed a cycle of violence in southern Gazoo.

The Arclight airstrike came as flaming balloons launched from the coastal enclave started two fires in southern Israel. Firefighters were working to extinguish the blazes, which broke out at the Be’eri and Shokeda forests. Another fire was later sparked in the Kissufim Forest by a burning balloon flown from Gazoo, the Ynet news site reported.

A front man for the Fire and Rescue Services said balloons launched from Gazoo started a total of four fires Saturday in the south.

However,
a hangover is the wrath of grapes...
Israeli officials believe Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, has changed its policies regarding the festivities and is working towards curbing violence at the rallies which have become a near-daily occurrence, Hadashot TV news reported Friday.

Jerusalem believes the terror group is moderating the demonstrations in order to allow Egyptian mediators a chance to strike a deal between Hamas and Israel for a long-term truce in Gazoo, the report said.

Meanwhile Haaretz reported that Israeli defense officials wish to respond to the more limited rallies in Gazoo on Friday by renewing fuel supplies to the Strip. The officials have said in closed deliberations that Hamas’s efforts to limit the violence should be taken advantage of to create positive momentum towards a calm.

Last Friday, Israel halted the transfer of fuel to Gazoo in response to heavy rioting and attacks at the border fence. According to the newspaper, security officials hope to renew supplies to Gazoo as early as Sunday, to send a positive message to Hamas.
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2 ISIS brits killed by coalition airstrike in Syria east of the Euphrates
(Syria News) Two Jihadi brits belonging to 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 were killed, on Saturday, by an air strike carried out by the international coalition warplanes on Jayb Hajin area, east of the Euphrates, the last stronghold of ISIS in Syria.

Pro-ISIS Twitter accounts mourned the two jihadists, Nasser Ahmed Muthanna, nicknamed "Abu Muthanna al-Yemeni" and Siddhartha Dhar, nicknamed "Abu Rumaysa al-Britany", while pointed out that they were killed by a coalition air strike on east of the Euphrates.

Meanwhile,
...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck reached for the green sauce...
the British researcher Charles Leister explained that the killing of the two jihadists will be an important event in the UK.

He also added that the Jihadi Siddhartha Dhar was a close aide to the ISIS leader Anjem Choudary
...Self-proclaimed holy man who used to work for Omar Mohammed Bakdri as spokesman for al-Muhajiroun. Anjem is a loathesome little attention prostitute who is to be heard cheering for the home team anytime anybody with a turban manages to slaughter a group of unarmed infidels. Anjem was born in the UK in 1967 and is, as you would expect, of Pakistaini descent. The Ghost of Dante is of the opinion that when he goes to hell his knees will be broken once a month. He is currently in jug for supporting the Islamic State..
, who fled the UK and joined the "Islamic State" group, and later was described as a global terrorist by the United States.
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#1  Jihadi Siddhartha Dhar was a close aide lover to the ISIS leader Anjem Choudary

Poor Anjem. He just can't get enough breaks
Posted by: Frank G || 10/21/2018 12:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Always with the phobias. Tut-tut.

Two Beverly Mussulmen, Trevor
And Viv, were the cleverest ever,
Though shoving their willies
In infidel fillies
Was never their favourite endeavour.
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Iranian forces shell Pak border villages
[DAWN] QUETTA: Iranian forces fired mortar shells into Taslap, a border town in Chagai district, and nearby areas on Friday, killing an unspecified number of cows and camels.

"They fired over two dozen mortar shells, causing panic in the villages," a security official told Dawn.

"Camels and cattle grazing in the fields were killed as mortar shells hit them," the official said.

Before the shelling, the Iranians warned people working in the fields on the Pakistain side to leave the area.

"People had no option but to leave their fields and take shelter in their houses," Khuda-e-Nazar, a villager, said.

The shelling stopped only after contingents of the Frontier Corps
...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations....
and Levies were dispatched to the town.

According to Sardarzada Umir Muhammad Hasni, a tribal elder, the border areas of Chagai and Makran districts had seen an alarming rise in mortar shelling and rocket fire over the past few months.

A large number of families have already left their villages for safe places.

Sardarzada Hasni called upon the federal government to take up the matter with the government of Iran.

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Coalition strikes kill 32 civilians in Syria
[DAWN] Air strikes by the US-led coalition fighting the myrmidon 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 in eastern Syria have killed at least 32 civilians in less than 24 hours, a monitor said on Friday.

Strikes on the village of Sousa killed 18 civilians including seven children late Thursday and 14 more civilians on Friday, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Dozens were maimed and many remained under the rubble in the village in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor near the Iraqi border, Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said. Nine IS fighters also bit the dust in the raids, he said.

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Syrian Army frees 6 civilians from ISIS terrorists in southern Syria
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army managed to free a half dozen civilians that were taken hostage by 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....
(ISIS) in the al-Sweida Governorate in late August.

According to a military report from the al-Sweida Governorate, the Syrian Army secured a deal with the Islamic State that would free six civilians in exchange for the wives of ten ISIS fighters.

Among the six people released from the Islamic State’s captivity were two women and four children.

Another two batches of kidnapped civilians from al-Sweida are expected to be released by the Islamic State in the next few days, a military source said on Saturday.

At least another 16 other civilians from al-Sweida are still being held by ISIS in an undisclosed location in southern Syria.
The Times of Israel adds:
The Islamic State jihadist group has released two women and four children among 27 surviving Druze hostages it seized during a deadly July attack on the minority community’s heartland in southern Syria.

State television broadcast footage of the six arriving in the city of Sweida on Saturday, joyful at being reunited with their families but haggard after their three-month ordeal.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based monitoring group, said their release was the first part of a deal that would see at least 60 IS prisoners released in exchange and a $27 million ransom paid.

"Nine IS women prisoners held by the regime have already been handed over to the group along with seven children," Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.
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Russian military says jihadists launched attacks in Aleppo, Latakia
[ALMASDARNEWS] Violations of the ceasefire regime were recorded in the Syrian province of Latakia and on the outskirts of Aleppo city over the past 24 hours, the Russian Center for Syrian Reconciliation said in a statement on Saturday.

"Over the past day, murderous Moslems attacked Rois-Usleyman in Latakia province and western outskirts of Aleppo city," the statement read.

The center once again called on snuffies operating in Idlib de-escalation zone to join the truce.

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