[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] ISIS (so-called ISIS) group had recruited 12 Saudi brothers to carry out five terrorist operations of which four were in 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 the fifth was against a famous mosque in Kuwait.
According to a statement by the Interior Ministry, four brothers were involved in the kaboom that took place at the mosque of the emergency forces in Asir on Aug. 6, 2015, killing 15 military staff and injuring 33 others.
The criminals were the brothers: Majed Zaid Al-Bakri Al-Shihri and Abdullah Zaid Al-Bakri Al-Shihri -- both in their early 20s. The other two brothers involved in the same crime were Taie Salim Yaslam Al-Saiari and Mutie Salim Yaslam Al-Saiari.
The security forces were able to nab two brothers on Sept. 16, 2015 who belonged to ISIS and were hiding in a villa in Al-Munsiyah district in the east of Riyadh.
They had turned the villa into a hide-out for Lions of Islam but were caught by the security forces following a heavy exchange of fire. They were Ahmed Saeed Jabir Al-Zahrani (21 years old) and Mohammed Saeed Jabir Al-Zahrani, who was only 19.
The security forces found in the villa cash amounting to more than SR500,000, a machine gun, a pistol, five hand grenades and a large quantity of live ammunition.
Khaled and Saleh Al-Owaini, 19 year-old twins, who belonged to ISIS, killed their own mother and stabbed their father and brother on Jan. 21, 2016, using daggers and knives. The heinous crime against the mother and father shook the Saudi society where obedience to parents is still held sacred.
The twins admitted to the crime, which they committed in cold blood, and said they both belonged to ISIS, which had asked them to kill their mother, father and brothers.
Abdul Rahman and Ibrahim Saleh Al-Omar, two brothers, killed themselves when they went kaboom! their booby-trapped belt at Faraj Al-Omran mosque in Qatif on Monday, July 4.
Majed and Mohammed Abdullah Al-Zahrani, two Saudi brothers, were involved in the terrorist kaboom of the Imam Saddiq Mosque in Kuwait. Close coordination between the security forces in the Kingdom and Kuwait led to the arrest of the brothers.
ISIS is targeting young Saudis, usually in their early 20s, to commit terror acts and to kill their own relatives and close kin. Most of the terrorist operations in the Kingdom were carried out by Saudi Lions of Islam who were between 20-26 years of age.
According to the Interior Ministry, only a single terrorist operation was carried out by a Saudi terrorist, who was about 35 years old.
The terrorist who went kaboom! a body vest at the security check point near the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah on Monday, Nair Moslem Hammad Al-Junaidi and the three other Lions of Islam who were killed in Qaif were all under 20 years of age.
The series of kabooms which targeted eight mosques in six different cities and towns in the Kingdom on Monday, Nov. 3, 2014, were carried out by six Saudis, who were between 20-30 years of age.
Khaled Ayed Al-Shammari who went kaboom! a bomb at the Al-Anoud mosque in Dammam, killing four worshipers, was only 20 years old. ISIS has made it a point to recruit the teenagers to become Lions of Islam making them dummies in its hands.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/12/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[9 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
North Korea is showing "high-level activity" at its nuclear test site, the 38 North website monitoring the communist nation said Monday.
Commercial satellite imagery taken on July 7 of the North's Punggye-ri nuclear test site shows what appears to be supplies and/or equipment stacked on the ground at the site's North Portal, where the North conducted its fourth nuclear test in January, 38 North said.
In addition, a small vehicle is present at the support building immediately to the south of the portal and several mine ore carts may also be present southeast of the portal, suggesting the tunnel is being actively worked, 38 North said.
"Recent commercial satellite imagery indicates a high-level of activity at North Korea's Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site, specifically at the North Portal area where the DPRK conducted its 2013 and 2016 nuclear tests," 38 North said in a report.
"Based on imagery alone, it is not possible to determine whether this activity is for maintenance, excavation or preparation for a fifth nuclear test. Nevertheless, it is clear that North Korea is ensuring that the facility is in a state of readiness that would allow the conduct of future nuclear tests should the order come from Pyongyang," it said.
Concerns have flared anew recently that Pyongyang might undertake additional provocations after the U.S. imposed unprecedented sanctions on North Korean leader Kim Jong-un last week for his role in the country's human rights violations.
Posted by: Steve White ||
07/12/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[2 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
The busier the ants get,
the more likely safety protocols will slip.
[IsraelTimes] Homeland Security holds conference call to brief community heads as roster of targets is disseminated online
US Department of Homeland Security officials briefed Jewish leaders on the inclusion of American Jews in an 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.... "kill list."
Some 200 Jewish leaders joined the conference call on Friday organized by the Secure Community Network, the security arm of the national Jewish community, in the wake of the July 3 release of the Islamic State list that included members of synagogues and churches among 1,700 individuals. The names of the synagogue members were pulled from the synagogue websites, among other sources, according to SCN.
The SITE group, which tracks terrorist activity, spotted the list.
"The lists appear to be directed toward ’lone wolf’ ISIS supporters who may be inspired to carry out attacks," SCN said in a statement, using one of the acronyms for the terrorist group. "However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... there have been no reported incidents to date in which an ISIS-inspired individual has carried out an attack on any individual appearing on these lists."
The lists are released through online forums. Host websites often remove the lists soon after they appear, but they often crop up again.
Previous lists have targeted business leaders and military personnel. The lists appear culled from the internet. Homeland Security officials are contacting those named on the lists.
SCN is affiliated with the Jewish Federations of North America and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
Posted by: trailing wife ||
07/12/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[7 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
[DAWN] A little-known political party of Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... put up banners in 13 cities across the country on Monday with its leaders urging Chief of Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif ..Pak chief of army staff, meaning he pulls the strings on the Nawaz Sharif puppet to make it dance and sing and not do much at all.... to impose martial law and form a government of technocrats.
The banners have been put up in Lahore, 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... , Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), 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. , Quetta, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad ...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... , Sargodha, Hyderabad, etc, by the Move on Pakistain party and unlike its earlier campaign requesting the army chief to reconsider his retirement plan due in November the message is quite ominous this time around.
A banner hanging at a traffic intersection on the thoroughfare between Chief Minister House and the Rangers headquaters in Karachi reads: Janay ki baatain hui puraani, Khuda k liye ab ajao (Talks of leaving are now old; for God’s sake now come).
Ali Hashmi, the central chief organiser of the party, told Dawn that the goal of their campaign was to suggest to the army chief that after imposing martial law a government of technocrats should be made in Pakistain and Gen Raheel should himself supervise it.
While the official mouthpiece of the army -- the Inter-Services Public Relations -- remained silent, analyst Amir Rana believed that the latest move strengthened the view that something was cooking up.
Interestingly, the banners sprang up overnight on all major thoroughfares in the 13 cities, even in cantonment areas, despite the presence of several checkpoints and extra security.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/12/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[2 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan
[Gateway Pundit] The Obama administration defended the UN program that sends anti-Semitic books to Palestinians.
The Daily Signal reported:
U.S. taxpayers provide nearly $400 million a year to a United Nations program that critics say sends anti-Semitic, anti-Israel textbooks to schools for Palestinian refugees.
Elementary school textbooks call the 1948 establishment of Israel a "disaster," and a high school text tells of the "End of Days" when "Muslims fight the Jews," among other examples in a report from the Center for Near East Policy, a pro-Israel research institute based in Jerusalem.
The agency--the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or UNRWA--has come under scrutiny for years for supplying Palestinian schools with textbooks containing violent, anti-Israel references.
The Obama administration, however, defends the textbook program. A State Department spokesman told The Daily Signal that the books are part of "an education that instills respect for and appreciation of universal human rights and dignity of all persons."
The program serves nearly 500,000 students in about 700 schools in the Palestinian territories, using the Palestinian Authority’s curriculum, according to the State Department.
[IsraelTimes] As Egyptian foreign minister visits Jerusalem, Bloomberg quotes former Israeli official on bombing runs against Islamists
Israel has carried out drone strikes against faceless myrmidons operating in the Sinai Peninsula in recent years, according to a Bloomberg news report Monday that quoted an unnamed former bigwig.
The Arclight airstrikes were conducted with Egypt’s knowledge and blessing, according to the ex-official, who spoke to the US-based news site on condition of anonymity.
While it has become a well-known secret that Jerusalem and Cairo cooperate closely on security measures in the Sinai and Gazoo, many of the details of that relationship have been kept a closely guarded secret.
This report, published during Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry’s visit to Jerusalem, sheds additional light on covert security cooperation, which has come along with increasingly close ties on the political front.
Israeli military officials believe that despite ideological differences, Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, in Gazoo is cooperating with bandidosLions of Islam affiliated with 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.... or other gangs in Egypt’s neighboring Sinai region.
They praise Egypt’s crackdown on Hamas’s cross-border smuggling tunnels, which had been a main conduit for weapons into Gazoo, and say the Egyptian military is doing an admirable job in a fierce battle against IS murderous Moslems in Sinai.
Israel has allowed Egypt to move heavy weapons like tanks, artillery and attack helicopters into the Sinai to fight holy warriors, overlooking provisions in the landmark 1979 peace treaty between the two countries.
The two sides also are considered to have close intelligence ties.
The two countries have entered something of a golden age in their relationship since Sissi assumed the country’s leadership in 2013.
“This is one of the best times we’ve ever had" in terms of cooperation between governments, Israeli ambassador to Cairo Haim Koren said recently. "There’s good cooperation between the armies, we have understandings about the Sinai Peninsula, and basically, we see (eye-to-eye) on development of the region."
After decades of wars followed by years of an uneasy peace, Israel has emerged as an increasingly public ally to Sissi, along with powerhouse 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 smaller, wealthy Gulf Arab countries.
Israel often praises Sissi for his tough stance on terrorism, and considers him a key ally in what it sees as a shared battled against Islamic Lion of Islams.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Sissi often speak on the phone. In May, Netanyahu welcomed what he described as Sissi’s "willingness" to help advance the grinding of the peace processor with the Paleostinians, after Sissi said that Egypt’s relations with Israel could be warmer if it made peace with the Paleostinians.
“We have common enemies in the sense of terrorism, or if you like, radical Islamic terrorism, emerged from the same root no matter if it happens to be Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, or the Moslem Brüderbund, ISIS, Jabhat al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... or al-Qaeda," Koren said. Sissi "understood quickly that we are all in the same boat," he added.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... will make his latest trip to Moscow this week to seek common ground on how to deal with the ongoing bloodshed in Syria.
The State Department said Kerry would speak to his Russian counterpart about Syria and Ukraine and tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorny-Karabakh region.
Spokesman John Kirby played down reports that Washington and Moscow may agree on coordinated US-Russian military action against bad boy groups Al-Nusra and the ISIS in Syria.
"But, as we've said before, we continue to explore options, alternatives and proposals with respect to the fight against Nusra and ISIS in Syria," he said.
"And... to the degree to which the Russian military is willing to be committed to the fight against those two groups, and exclusively those two groups, that's a conversation that we're willing to have," Kirby added. "But there's no military coordination going on now."
There was no word as to who Kerry will meet in Moscow on Thursday and Friday, but on previous such trips, he has met with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov before heading to the Kremlin to see President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... .
Posted by: Fred ||
07/12/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[6 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Syria
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A special UN court set up to prosecute the killers of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri overturned Monday an earlier decision to try in absentia a Hezbollah military chief who is thought to have died in May.
The Hague-based Special Tribunal for Leb's (STL) appeals chamber found by a majority "that sufficient evidence had been presented... to establish the death of Mustafa Badreddine," it said in a statement.
The court's judges last month insisted they would continue with the trial of Badreddine and four others, despite thousands attending Badreddine's funeral in Beirut.
The tribunal's appeals judges however had a different opinion and "ordered the Trial Chamber to terminate proceedings against the accused" -- but said the case could be reopened should new evidence come to light proving Badreddine is still alive.
Hezbollah said Badreddine, who was on a US terror sanctions blacklist and wanted by Israel, was killed in an kaboom on May 12 near Damascus international airport, in circumstances that are still shrouded in mystery.
The Shiite holy warrior group has deployed thousands of fighters in Syria where Badreddine had led its intervention in support of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Trampler of Homs... 's forces, which are also backed by Russia and Iran.
Hezbollah has accused Islamist faceless myrmidons of killing Badreddine, but it has given little information about his death.
The STL launched proceedings against Badreddine and four other Hezbollah suspects in January 2014. They have never appeared in court.
Badreddine stood accused of criminal masterminding the 2005 bombing that killed Leb's ex-prime minister Hariri, who was killed along with more than 20 others in a massive suicide boom-mobileing on Beirut's waterfront.
The STL was set up in 2007 and is the only international ad-hoc tribunal with the jurisdiction to try an act of terror.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/12/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[6 views]
Top|| File under: Hezbollah
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.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] US Secretary of State 
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
