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Somalia: At Least 20 Al-Shabaab Members Killed in Army Ops - SNA Chief
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Africa Horn
Somalia: Forces Foil Al-Shabaab Attack in Bosaso
[AllAfrica] Security forces in Puntland
...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion...
state have foiled an al-Shabaab
...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa...
attack in Bosaso in an operation.

In a statement, the security forces said that had seized explosives fixed by al-Shabaab Lions of Islam in al-Madow mountains.

"Puntland security forces in Bossaso has succeeded in thwarting Al-Shabaab improvised bombs in Bossaso," the statement read in part.

The forces captured naked wires metals, cable reel, powder in a container according to the statement.

Al-Shabaab fighters and ISIS operate in Galgala mountain ranges to topple UN-backed central government.

Puntland security forces have often thwarted attacks from both groups.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Somalia: At Least 20 Al-Shabaab Members Killed in Army Ops - SNA Chief
[AllAfrica] At least 20 al-Shabaab
...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
bandidos turbans were killed in a military operation in Somalia's southern Lower Shabelle region, the army said on Thursday.

Gen. Odawa Yusuf Rageh, the chief of Somalia's army, told a military-run radio service that senior commanders of the group, which is affiliated with al-Qaeda, were among the dead.

A military official in the region said the operation was launched after intelligence was received that al-Shabaab terrorist were hiding out in villages close to Qoryoley and Janale towns.

He said several soldiers were also maimed in the operation.

Janale, a strategically important agricultural town some 95 kilometers (59 miles) southwest of the capital Mogadishu, was liberated from al-Shabaab following a military offensive in 2020.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Africa North
8 die in terrorist bus attack in Burkina Faso
[DefensePost] At least eight people were killed on Thursday near Burkina Faso’s northern border with Niger, an area notorious for jihadist attacks, a security source and local official said.

“Armed men this morning stopped a bus going from Markoye to Dorbel in Niger. At least eight people were killed and the same number were wounded,” the security source said, an account confirmed by the local official.

The attack occurred at around 8 am near Tokabangou, about 10 kilometers (six miles) from Markoye in Oudalan province.
Attacks in Oudalan province are usually attributed to Ansarul Islam and other groups affiliated with Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
More at the link
Posted by: badanov || 02/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa


IS Claims Killing of 4 Tunisia Soldiers, Beheading
[AnNahar] The Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group has grabbed credit for the February 3 killing of four soldiers in a rugged region of central Tunisia, SITE Intelligence Group reported.

The US monitor of jihadist groups said late Thursday that the soldiers were killed in three blasts ignited by its fighters near Mount Mghila and that a "spy" was beheaded separately by IS.

The defence ministry announced the losses the same day, saying the soldiers in "a military unit tasked with carrying out a combing operation of Mount Mghila looking for terrorist elements were killed by a mine" explosion.

Mount Mghila, near the border with Algeria, is adjacent to Mount Chaambi, which is considered a hideout for jihadists.

Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi said the incident "will not stop us from pursuing our efforts to fight and defeat terrorism".

IS also said in its al-Naba digital newspaper that jihadists executed a spy for the army on December 20 near Mount Selloum in the Kasserine region, also central Tunisia.

Authorities said at the time that the victim was a 20-year-old man named Oqba al-Dhibi, identified on local radio as a shepherd tending his flock when he was attacked.

Tunisia has seen a surge in radical Islam since veteran president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was ousted in the country's 2011 revolution.

Dozens of members of the security forces have since been killed in jihadist attacks.

The army has been battling murderous Moslems in the Kasserine area since 2012.

Tunisia's central mountains are also a hideout for a local branch of jihadist group al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Africa Subsaharan
Mozambique: Terrorists Driven Back From Position in Mocimboa da Praia
[AllAfrica] A terrorist group on Tuesday attacked a position of the Mozambican defence and security forces at the village of Roma, in Mocimboa da Praia district,
...the “capitol” of Islamic State West Africa Province (ISCAP), or more colloquially Al Shabaab. It’s not connected in any way to Somalia’s Al Shabaab, which looks to Al Qaeda, and may or may not be retreating in disarray...
in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, but were driven back by the defenders, according to a report in Friday's issue of the independent newssheet "Mediafax".

Local sources told "Mediafax" that the main goal of the terrorist raid was to steal food, since the terrorist bases are running short of supplies.

The terrorist attack began at about 05.00, and lasted until about midday. There is so far no information about any casualties on either side. Hearing the shooting, people living in the neighbouring village of Nanil took refuge in the bush.

Nanil is some 31 kilometres from the town of Mueda which is where the defence and security forces coordinate their anti-terrorist activities.

A second newssheet, "Carta de Mocambique", reported a terrorist attack also on Tuesday, against a position of the Mozambican forces at Xitaxi, in Muidumbe district. One of the Mozambican defenders was maimed, but there were no reports of fatalities on either side.

The raiders looted an unspecified amount of food and of military equipment.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (IS-Mozambique)


Arabia
UAE-affiliated elements attack Hadi forces in southern Yemen
[AlMasdar] Armed elements affiliated with the UAE in southern Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
attacked forces of the ousted president Hadi.

Armed elements affiliated with the UAE in southern Yemen attacked forces of the ousted president Hadi who were going towards the eastern Yemeni province of Marib.

According to sources familiar with the matter armed elements affiliated with the so-called "Southern Transitional Council"
...the STC is the UAE-backed faction based in Aden. It includes the governors of five southern governorates and several former government ministers, and wants to revert to the two-Yemens situation that existed until the 1990 unification under President Ali Abdullah Saleh. There is also a Saudi-backed faction, headed by Saleh’s successor Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi and allied with Yemen’s Islah party (the Muslim Brotherhood in Yemen), to which the STC used to be allied, but that ended in 2019. In traditional Arab fashion, they seem to spend as much time fighting each other as they do fighting the Houthis...
attacked a convoy of military vehicles belonging to ousted president Hadi government forces in the al-Mahfadh region in Abin province.

According to the sources, Hadi troops were moving towards Marib province, where they are fighting the advancing Yemeni Army forces and popular committees.
...ie. the Houthis, supported by Iran...
In the attack, three members of the Hadi forces were maimed and taken to Ataq Hospital in the center of Shabwa, and the rest of the forces continued their way towards Mairib.

The advances of the Yemeni army and popular committees towards the strategic city of Marib in eastern Yemen in recent days have caused fear among the ousted government and the Saudi-American coalition.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Bangladesh
5 JMB men get 15 years in jail in Jamalpur
[DhakaTribune] A Jamalpur court has sentenced five active members of the banned Death Eater outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh
The JMB is said to be the youth front of Al Mujahideen, the parent organization that began working toward establishing Bangladesh as an Islamic state in the mid 1990s, which remains obscure and probably defunct today. Other organizations, such as Jama'atul Jihad, JMB, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), Hizbut Tawhid, Tawhidi Janata, Islami Jubo Shangha, Islami Shangha, Al Falah A'am Unnayan Shanstha and Shahadat-e al Hiqma are believed to be part of the Al Mujahideen network. The JMB at its peak was reported to contain at least 100,000 members, and an alleged 2,000-man suicide brigade, few of whom actually exploded. JMB allegedly received financial assistance from individual donors in Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Libya. Reports have claimed that funding of JMB by international NGOs like Kuwait based Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage (RIHS) and Doulatul Kuwait, Saudi Arabia based Al Haramaine Islamic Institute and Rabita Al Alam Al Islami, Qatar Charitable Society and UAE-based Al Fuzaira and Khairul Ansar Al Khairia. The top leadership of JMB was captured in 2005 and hung in 2007, which pretty much shot their bolt.
(JMB) to 15 years in prison.
Fifteen years? Got it.
District and Sessions Judge Mohammad Zahirul Kabir passed the order on Wednesday.

They were also slapped with a Tk15,000 fine each and would have to be in jail for 18 more months if they failed to pay it.

The convicts are: Kari Saidur Rahman, 40, Akkas Ali, 38, Saidul Miah, 48, Md Rokonuzzaman, 31, and Azizul Haque, 50. All the Death Eaters, except Md Rokonuzzaman who is currently on the run, were present during the pronouncement of the verdict.

Additional PP Advocate Mohammad Khwaja Alam confirmed the matter to Dhaka Tribune.

According to case details, RAB 9 arrested the five faceless myrmidons on August 15, 2009, while they were preparing to carry out sabotage at Azizul Haque's house in Bandho Chithlia village of Jamalpur Sadar upazila.
2009 + 15 = 2024
Iron pipes, glass bottles and a large number of jihadi books were recovered at that time.

Later, RAB DAD M Jahangir Alam filed a case against them. They were sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment following the testimony of nine people in the case.

The case was heard on September 13 of the same year after the charge sheet was filed on August 27, 2009.

Then on March 3, 2013, the case was sent to the Special Judge’s Court.
...after which, apparently nothing happened, and now they’re starting the fifteen year count as of the date sentence was passed.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (IS)


Caribbean-Latin America
5 die in Chihuahua state drug and gang vilence
[ELHERALDODECHIHUAHUA] A total of five unidentified individuals were found shot to death in four incidents in Chihuahua state, according to Mexican news account.

Two unidentified men were shot to death in Aztecas colony in Juarez near the intersection of calles Otomies and Nahoas. A third man was wounded and taken to receive medical treatment

An unidentified woman was found dead in Juarez Friday in Rinconada Los Nogales neighborhood near the corner of calles Sierra Madre Occidental and Sierra del Puma.

Two unidentified men were found shot to death Thursday near kilometer 29 on the Juarez-Chihuahua highway.
Posted by: badanov || 02/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Narcos


Europe
France: Sudanese migrant kills immigration official after rejected asylum request
[DW] A Sudanese migrant has killed an immigration official in the southern French city of Pau after his asylum request was rejected. The 38-year-old assailant is now in police custody.

A 38-year-old Sudanese migrant stabbed and killed an immigration official in southern La Belle France on Friday after his asylum request was rejected, according to local authorities.
Unexpectedly.
He targeted the 46-year-old director of a center for asylum seekers in the city of Pau, stabbing him repeatedly in the throat.

The alleged assailant has been taken into custody by authorities, according to French media.

"This is a terrible drama, all the more so because the victim spent his entire professional life helping refugees and asylum seekers," Pau mayor Francois Bayrou told La Belle France Bleu radio about the incident.

REQUEST DENIED 'FOR GOOD REASONS'
Ya think?!
Bayrou said the suspect had previously spent time in jail. A police source told the news agency Rooters that his prior conviction was for knife crimes.

"The man's asylum request had been rejected, and for good reasons. He then turned against the head of the service, this is extreme and absurd violence," Bayrou said.

Police have not made clear whether the rejected asylum request was the suspect's main motive for the killing.

La Belle France's Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin traveled to the asylum center in Pau, where he met with local officials. He extended his "sincere condolences" to the victim's family and promised the national government's support.

During his address at the center, Darmanin said the suspect had originally arrived in 2015, but his refugee status was denied by the French Office for Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons. Nevertheless, he was given permission by an administrative court to stay in La Belle France, with his residence authorization ending in 2017 due to his knife crimes conviction.

FAR-RIGHT SAYS LA BELLE FRANCE SHOULD SUSPEND MIGRANT RECEPTION IN RESPONSE
Nicolas Meizonnet, a member of Marine Le Pen's far-right National Assembly party, said La Belle France should suspend the reception of migrants colonists in response to the Pau attack.

"The unlimited and indiscriminate reception of migrants colonists leads to unprecented violence," Meizonnet tweeted, adding "we must swiftly suspend the reception of all migrants colonists, this naivety has lasted far too long!"

Immigration will likely play a major role in the upcoming 2022 French presidential election. Le Pen, an immigration hardliner and critic of Islam, will likely be the top challenger to incumbent President Emmanuel Macron.

Posted by: trailing wife || 02/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Devout Moslems

#1  It'll teach the other immigration officials their proper dhimmi place.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/20/2021 4:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Just kill him. No trial, no jail.
Posted by: Frank G || 02/20/2021 8:04 Comments || Top||

#3  That's one way to get asylum.
Posted by: Javiter Dark Lord of the Faith7963 || 02/20/2021 8:58 Comments || Top||

#4  jail in france would be better than going back to sudan
Posted by: Chris || 02/20/2021 9:53 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkish appeals court upholds sentence against pro-Kurdish MP
[AlAhram] Many of the party's prominent members have been investigated, tried and jugged
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
over terrorism charges. Selahattin Demirtas, the party's ex-leader, has been in jail for more than four years

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
's top appeals court approved a jail sentence against a politician from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
(HDP) on terrorism charges, state media said on Friday, potentially opening the way to him being barred from parliamentary membership.
Two other politicians from the HDP, the parliament's third largest, had their parliamentary status revoked last year, after convictions against them became final. Revocation of their status means they are no longer a member of the assembly.

President Tayyip Erdogan, his AKP Party and their allied Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) accuse the HDP of links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). HDP denies links to terrorism.

Many of the party's prominent members have been investigated, tried and jugged
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
over terrorism charges. Selahattin Demirtas, the party's former leader and one of Turkey's most prominent politicians, has been in jail for more than four years.

The HDP has came under renewed pressure this week after 13 captive Turks were found to have been killed by PKK gunnies in a cave in northern Iraq.

State-owned Anadolu news agency said on Friday the Court of Cassation approved a jail sentence of two years and six months against HDP politician Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu over spreading terrorism propaganda.

The ruling means the sentence is final, which could lead to his parliamentary status being revoked.

Another investigation was launched against Gergerlioglu this week after he said on Twitter that the Turks who were killed by the PKK could have survived if the government had made efforts to rescue them.

The PKK, designated a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
, has been waging an insurgency in the mainly Kurdish southeast Turkey since 1984 and more than 40,000 people have been killed in the conflict.

Turkey's recent fight against the PKK has increasingly focused on northern Iraq, where the group has its stronghold in the Qandil mountains.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Turkey: Anti-ISIS raid, eight Syrians and Iraqis arrested
[AlMasdar] A new anti-ISIS raid took place in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
on Thursday morning, in which anti-terrorist police in the southern province of Adana near the Syrian border arrested eight suspected foreign jihadists, with a ninth person still being sought.

The suspects are five Syrians and four Iraqis accused of spreading terrorist propaganda through social media, said Anadolu.

On Wednesday, security forces arrested various other foreigners suspected of having ties to the self-styled Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


India-Pakistan
Top logistic provider of Hizbul Mujahideen arrested by NIA
[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a person accused of harbouring murderous Moslems and also providing logistics to the Hizbul Mujahideen
...Party of Holy Warriors, founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar in September 1989. One of the Pak sock puppets waging jihad in Indian Kashmir. It was originally organized as the armed wing of Jamaat-e-Islami. In 1990, Dar declared Hizbul as the sword arm of Jamaat. Hizbul murdered many of the pro-independence intelligentsia in Kashmir. After the organization was taken over by Syed Salahuddin Dar and several other ex-Hizb leaders were assassinated between 2001 and 2003...
The arrested has been identified as Taraq Hussain, a resident of Kishtwar, Jammu and Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
The accused Taraq Hussain Giri was arrested for harbouring and providing logistical support to HM Terrorists namely Osama Bin Javed and Haroon Abbas Wani in the second week of March, 2019
...the NIA boys have been busy, but they finally got around to this one...
after the holy warriors snatched the service rifle from the escort incharge. This incident of weapon snatching was one of the four incidents of terror acts committed by HM murderous Moslems in the period from November 2018 to September 2019.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/20/2021 00:23 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies

#1  Tariq Hussain Giri is affiliated with a youth wing of a banned radicalized Jamat-e-Islami organization commonly referred as Jamiat-e-Talaba [translates 'group of students'].
Posted by: Dron66046 || 02/20/2021 5:33 Comments || Top||

#2  The Indian Taliban? How cute.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/20/2021 7:27 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ Just wannabe Pathans.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 02/20/2021 12:25 Comments || Top||


LeT terrorists killed in Shopian encounter; 1 cop martyred
[OneIndia] Three turbans of Laskhar-e-Taiba (LeT) were killed in a shootout between the security forces and holy warriors in Budgam district of Jammu and Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
on Friday. One policeman also lost his life and another maimed in an encounter.

"All three turbans of LeT killed in Shopian encounter," said Vijay Kumar, IGP Kashmir.

Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Zanigam village in the Beerwah area of the district following information about the presence of holy warriors there, the officials said. They said the search operation turned into an encounter after holy warriors opened fire towards security forces positions.

Two coppers were maimed in the gunbattle. They were rushed to a hospital here for treatment but one of them succumbed, the officials said.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/20/2021 00:23 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Lashkar e-Taiba


Two cops martyred in terror attack at Bagat Barzulla area of Srinagar
[OneIndia] A fresh terror attack took place in Bagat Barzulla area of Srinagar. Two coppers of the Jammu and Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
police force have been martyred in the attack.

In an unprovoked attack turbans attacked coppers deployed at Baghat town in the outskirts of Srinagar. The area was immediately cordoned off.

Both the injured #coppers namely SgCT Mohammad Yousuf of Zurhama Kupwara and Ct Suhail Ahmad of Logripora Aishmuqam attained #martyrdom. We pay our rich tributes to the #deaders and standby their families at this crucial juncture, the Kashmir Zone police said in a tweet.

Minutes after the attack The Resistance® Front grabbed credit for the attack. This group is a proxy of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba and formed last year.

In a separate incident, three unidentified bad boyz were potted in an encounter in south Kashmir's Shopian on Friday.

Earlier this week, a hotel worker of the Krishna Dhaba in Srinagar was injured in a terror attack. A group called the Moslem Janbaaz Force grabbed credit for the attack. The group also warned of more attacks.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Lashkar e-Taiba


Five FC soldiers martyred in two attacks in Balochistan
[Dawn] Five members 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 anti-smuggling operations....
were martyred and two others injured in two attacks in different areas of the province.

In one incident, which took place in the western bypass area of the bustling provincial capital
...that’s Quetta...
on Thursday, an FC soldier was martyred and two others were maimed when a remote-controlled bomb fixed to a cycle of violence parked at the roadside went kaboom!, as an FC vehicle was passing by.

"The kaboom took place near the official vehicle of the Frontier Corps in which one FC soldier was martyred on the spot and two other soldiers were maimed," senior police officer Shaukat Mohmand told Dawn, adding that the blast badly damaged the vehicle.

"An improvised bomb strapped to a cycle of violence parked at the roadside exploded with a remote control," the police officer said.

Personnel of FC and police rushed to the area after the blast and took victims of the blast to a hospital.

In the second incident, four soldiers of Frontier Corps were martyred in an attack by gunnies on their check-post in Kahan area of Kohlu district.

Sources said the gunnies opened fire on Zaman Khan check-post the other day which resulted in the martyrdom of four FC soldiers while another was injured.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Baloch Liberation Army


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Three Arrested for Smuggling Migrants to Cyprus
[AnNahar] The Internal Security Forces arrested three suspects involved in smuggling people through Tripoli’s al-Abdeh shore area to Cyprus, the ISF said in a statement on Friday.

The statement said two of the suspects are Lebanese nationals while the third is Syrian.

Two of the suspects, one of whom had a gun in his possession, were arrested in the Dinnieh town, while the third was arrested in Akkar’s Bebnine, said the ISF.

All three have admitted to being involved in smuggling around 60 individuals, majority were Syrians, through al-Abdeh shore in return for 2000 dollars per person.

Recently, numerous boatloads of migrants have sailed to Cyprus -- approximately 172 kilometers from Tripoli, Lebanon -- alarming Cypriot authorities that say the island can't handle any more migrants seeking asylum for economic reasons.

Cyprus has come under fire by Human Rights Watch last year for allegedly pushing back migrants and refugees arriving from Lebanon aboard boats without heeding their claims for asylum while in some instances using violence and coercive tactics.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking



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1Narcos
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1Human Trafficking
1al-Shabaab (IS-Mozambique)
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1Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (IS)
1al-Qaeda in North Africa

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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.
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