[Ynet] The one-time deputy leader of Somali Islamist militants al Shabaab called on Tuesday for others to quit the group following his defection to the government side in Mogadishu.
Mukhtar Robow Abu Mansur, who was also al Shabaab's spokesman, said the group did not represent the interests of those it claimed to.
"I left al Shabaab because of misunderstanding, and I disagreed with their creed which does not serve Islamic religion, people and the country," he said.
Robow fell out with al Shabaab in 2013, keeping a low profile in the jungles with his forces until defecting last week. The Islamists have launched multiple attacks to try kill or capture him.
"I urge the militants to leave al Shabaab," Robow told reporters at a heavily guarded hotel in Mogadishu. He took no questions.
[RADIOSHABELLE] Former Al shabaab deputy leader and front man Sheikh Mukhtar Robow Ali known as "Abu Mansur" has fir the first time faced the media in Mogadishu, to renounce violence.
Speaking at a presser at Royal Palace in the capital, Robow has announced that he has defected from Al shabaab just five years and 5 years, and 7 months ago.
Continuing, Sheikh Mukhtar said he has deserted the bully boy group after a fall out with the top leader over an ideology that doesn’t serve the interest for Islam, people and country.
Finally, Robow has thanked Somali Federal government, international partners and the people for welcoming him in Mogadishu.
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[Breitbart] Members of Wilyat Sinai, the Egyptian branch 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.... , have been seeking to increase their recruitment of Gazook jihadists to IS in Sinai, a senior jihadist in Gazoo has told Breitbart Jerusalem.
"The actions of the Egyptian army in Sinai cause losses to our brothers in Sinai and the leadership of Wilyat Sinai wants to increase the pace of recruitment of mujahedeen from among the youth in the Gazoo Strip. The numbers coming from the Strip, our brothers explain, are unable to make up the losses caused to the mujahedeen in the Sinai," said jihadist Abou Baker al-Maqdesi.
According to the Egyptian air force, Arclight airstrikes have been increasing over the past few weeks. Without citing any evidence, Maqdisi claimed Egypt is being aided by the Israeli Air Force.
"The air force of the Jewish enemy explains the rise in losses among our brothers, the mujahedeen, since the pilots of the infidel Egyptian army were inaccurate, but now the strikes are much more precise and so our brothers in Sinai need additional power from the Gazoo Strip."
Al-Maqdesi said that Wilyat Sinai is recruiting jihadists from the Strip because many are or were members of Paleostinian jihadist organizations, meaning they are better trained than the young men who join the group from the Bedouin tribes in Sinai.
Ouch. And yet the Israeli Bedouin do just fine in the Israeli army, for some reason.
[Al Jazeera] The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for a senior Libyan military commander allied with Khalifa Haftar ... served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... suspected of involvement in the deaths of 33 people in the eastern city of Benghazi.
Haftar is the controversial chief of the self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA), which now controls key Libyan oil ports.
Libya descended into chaos following the 2011 civil war that toppled and killed longtime ruler Muammar Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland and was then murdered by his indignant subjects 42 years later... , and the country is now split between rival governments and militias.
The ICC document, seen by Al Jazeera on Tuesday, says: "Mahmoud Mustafa Busayf al-Werfalli [is] allegedly responsible for murder as a war crime in the context of the non-international armed conflict in Libya."
The murders were committed "in seven incidents, taking place from on or before 3 June 2016 until on or about 17 July 2017, in Benghazi or surrounding areas", the warrant says.
Werfalli allegedly personally shot or ordered the execution of people who were either civilians or injured fighters, according to the document.
"There is no information in the evidence to show that they have been afforded a trial by a legitimate court, whether military or otherwise, that would comport to any recognised standard of due process," the ICC's judges say.
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[Ynet] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and Iraq plan to open the Arar border crossing for trade for the first time since 1990, when it was closed after the countries cut ties following Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, Saudi local media reported on Tuesday.
Saudi and Iraqi officials toured the site on Monday and spoke with Iraqi religious pilgrims, who for the past 27 years had access to the crossing only once annually during the haj season, the Mecca newspaper reported.
The governor of Iraq's southwestern Anbar province, whose staff was on hand for the ceremonies, said the Iraqi government had deployed troops to protect the desert route leading to Arar and called its opening a "significant move" to boost ties.
"This is a great start for further future cooperation between Iraq and Saudia Arabia," said Sohaib al-Rawi.
The announcement follows a decision by the Saudi cabinet on Monday to establish a joint trade commission with Iraq.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Indian National Investigation Agency (NIA) has announced that a large sum of money granted by Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... to Malabar region in the southern state of Kerala, under the label of charity, has been distributed to agencies with links to terrorist groups.
The regional Malayalam language Mathrubhumi newspaper website reported that the perpetrators of the attacks in Hyderabad and Bangalore had received financial assistance from an association in Kerala.
Most of the non-governmental organizations that received the funds exist only on paper, and most of the staff of these organizations are being monitored for suspected involvement in recruitment of elements for ISIS group in Kashmire.
The newspaper website pointed out that the main association has been active in the field of social services forn the past five years, and it was mainly used by the office owners to cover up for receiving these funds from Qatar.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Saiful Islam, the bad boy who was killed, possibly by his own bombs, during a raid on Hotel Olio International in Panthapath, Dhaka on Tuesday morning, came to Dhaka only a week ago, telling his family that he was coming to the capital city to look for employment.
The 21-year-old was a native of Noakati village in Shahosh union under Dumuria upazila, Khulna. His father, Abul Khayer, is the treasurer of Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... Shahosh unit, confirmed Habil Hossain, OC of Dumuria cop shoppe.
Nazrul Islam, Saiful’s neighbour in Noakati, said his father had been terminated from his post as imam at Mollapara Jame Mosque in the village because of his involvement with Jamaat. He later became imam at Matherhat Jame Mosque.
Eldest among three siblings, Saiful was a madrasa student who passed his Dakhil exam in 2011 from Ula Madrasa and Alim exam in 2013 from Khulna Alia Madrasa, said sources close to his family.
After passing his Alim exams, he enrolled in the honour’s programme in political science at Government BL College in Khulna.
Saiful was an activist of Islami Chhatra Shibir ... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh... , the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, and later joined New JMB. It is not clear when and how he got involved with the bad boy group, said Monirul Islam, chief of Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crimes (CTTC) unit of police, during a press briefing after the raid on Tuesday.
Sources close to Saiful’s family said his family had been facing financial difficulties, and he told his family he was travelling to Dhaka to find a job.
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Hungary has offered asylum to Christian convert Aideen Strandsson because the Swedish government plans to deport her to Iran where she could face prison or even the death penalty for apostasy.
In 2014, Iranian actress Aideen Strandsson came to Sweden on a work visa and applied for asylum after she had converted from Islam to Christianity. The Swedish Migration Board recently denied Strandsson asylum and began the process of deporting her but now the Hungarian government has offered to take her in instead, Nyheter Idag reports.
[Ynet] Ottoman Turkish police have launched operations to track down 33 former staff of a national scientific research agency who are alleged to have been involved in last year's failed coup attempt, the state-run Anadolu news agency said on Tuesday.
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[IsraelTimes] IDF prosecutors file pre-indictment notice against 5 relatives of Omar al-Abed on suspicion of not telling authorities of his intentions
Police on Tuesday said that a pre-indictment notice had been filed against five family members of a Paleostinian terrorist on suspicion of having failed to prevent him from carrying out a deadly attack in which he stabbed to death three members of a family at their home in the West Bank settlement of Halamish.
Since last month’s attack, Israeli security forces have placed in durance vile Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! the father, mother, two brothers and cousin of Omar al-Abed, who police say knew beforehand of Abed’s intention to carry out the stabbing yet took no actions to stop him or inform Israeli or Paleostinian authorities.
Police said the case has been handed over to Israel Defense Forces’ prosecutors, whose filing of the pre-indictment notice at the Ofer military court in the West Bank will allow authorities to continue to hold the family members in jug until they are indicted.
Hours after the attack, the IDF raided Abed’s home in Kobar, mapped it for demolition and arrested another one of his brothers, whom officials suspect aided him in carrying out the attack.
In the ensuing days, the army also arrested Abed’s mother, Ibtisam, for "aggravated incitement," after she appeared in a widely shared video praising her son’s actions.
Abed’s father, Abd al-Jalil, who was arrested in the initial raid, told the Haaretz daily last month that his son’s actions were understandable.
Security forces also arrested another of Abed’s brothers and his cousin overnight Saturday.
On the eve of July 21, 19-year-old Abed left his village, climbed over the Halamish fence, and knocked on the door of the Salomon family home. The family had been celebrating the birth of a new grandson and thought that Abed was the first guest to arrive. Shortly after walking in, the young Paleostinian took out his knife and stabbed to death Yosef Salomon, 70, and his two children, Chaya, 46, and Elad, 36. Yosef’s wife, Tova, sustained several stab wounds to her back but survived.
An off-duty IDF soldier heard the screams, grabbed his gun and shot the terrorist through the Salomons’ kitchen window, wounding him.
The leader of the Islamic Movement's outlawed northern branch, Sheikh Raed Salah, was arrested early Tuesday morning on suspicion of inciting terrorism. The Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court extended Salah's remand by three days.
Salah was arrested for remarks delivered in a speech last month at the funeral of three Israeli Arab gunmen who killed two police officers at the Temple Mount. In the speech, he praised the attackers and exhorted others to follow their example.
Salah told reporters in the courtroom that his arrest was part of a political witch hunt against him.
"I told the investigators I teach at mosques, and I told them (my remarks) were Islamic insights we got from the Sunni Quran," Salah said during his court hearing.
"You are not prosecuting me, you are prosecuting the Quran.
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So is the public defender a brown grocery bag like the poor KIDZ have to use for book covers or was it one of them expensive store bought ones? If it was a brown bag did they get it from a left over fib setup I mean sting?
[AnNahar] 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 order that prompted Mahmud al-Ali to flee his town was simple: "All young men aged 20 to 30 years old must enlist to fight throughout Syria."
As the jihadist group loses territory across the country, it has begun to impose forced enlistment on men in Deir Ezzor, the last Syrian province that remains nearly completely under IS control.
The measure has prompted many residents of villages and towns in the eastern province, like 26-year-old Ali, to flee en masse.
Many of them have sought refuge in makeshift camps for the displaced in the neighbouring province of Hasakeh, including one seven kilometres from the town of Arisha.
In the middle of the desert, the camp is a sea of tents with the logo of the UN refugee agency UNHCR.
Here and there, women and kiddies sit on the ground under the blistering heat, but the camp is dominated by young men fleeing conscription.
"IS told us that jihad was now a duty," said Ali, who left his town of al-Eshara, southeast of Deir Ezzor city, along with his family.
"But the majority of the young men refused and thousands of us fled," added Ali, wearing a traditional robe and the long beard mandated by IS.
Residents and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group report that the jihadists announced via Friday sermons, loudspeakers and leaflets that residents had a week to register their names at recruitment offices.
"The situation became critical," said 28-year-old Salah.
"They carried out raids in houses searching for young men to conscript into their forces," added Salah, who fled Mayadeen, Deir Ezzor's second largest city.
He said the raids netted many.
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According to Ahmed al-Abed, also from Mayadeen, those forced by the jihadists to enlist "have to undergo a month of training and then they fight for them for four months."
Many have not been able to escape, and remain trapped in the oil-rich province which has been largely under the control of IS since 2014.
"There are people still trapped who can't get out. We paid (smugglers) two million Syrian pounds (nearly $4,000) for 15 members of our family," said Abed.
But even with the guidance of a smuggler, escaping the clutches of IS remains a dangerous affair, especially after the group boosted security to stem the flow of fleeing residents.
IS has suffered a slew of defeats in recent months. After being pushed out of Aleppo province in northern Syria, it has lost half its de facto Syrian capital Raqa city to US-backed fighters. It is on the verge of being completely expelled from Homs province by Russian-backed Syrian government forces, who are now advancing towards Deir Ezzor from several directions.
Under pressure, it appears to be mobilising all available resources to defend the eastern province. The recapture of Deir Ezzor "would largely -- if not completely -- mark the end of the fight against IS," Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Sunday.
The jihadists told young men "we want you to support us in the battle for Deir Ezzor," said Hazem al-Satem, also from al-Eshara.
"But nobody wanted to join them," the 25-year-old said.
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For those who have escaped, the relief at their freedom is tempered by the miserable conditions they now face in camps for the displaced, including shortages of food, water and medicine.
Arisha camp was established two months ago on the edge of a makeshift oil refinery.
It hosts more than 7,000 people, but has just 400 tents.
On Monday, the International Committee of the Red Thingy warned that displaced civilians faced "terrible, terrible conditions".
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[IsraelTimes] The BBC says an Iranian court order has frozen the local assets of over 150 people associated with its Farsi-language service.
A statement from the British broadcaster on Tuesday says those named in the court order, issued from Tehran’s Evin prison, include current and former staff, as well as contributors.
The BBC says the order bans those named from "selling or buying property, cars and other goods."
BBC World Service Director La Belle Francesca Unsworth says it’s "appalling that anyone should suffer legal or financial consequences because of their association with the BBC."
Iranian officials and state media did not immediately report on the order.
The BBC’s Farsi-language service is barred from working in Iran, though many Iranians listen to its radio shows and watch its satellite television broadcasts.
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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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
