[Breitbart] U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Arizona seized a large load of 110 pounds of fentanyl and 880 pounds of methamphetamine being smuggled into Arizona in a motor home.
Terrorists locally known as bandits have abducted the wives and four daughters of Mallam Ibrahim Tanko, the Ssrkin Hausawa of Anguwar Azara in Jere, along Abuja-Kaduna highway, Kaduna State.
The aggrieved traditional ruler who confirmed the incident to Daily Trust said his family members were taken by the bandits on Tuesday.
He gave the names of his kidnapped wives as Maimuna Ibrahim and Hauwawu Ibrahim.
According to him, the bandits later set free Hauwawu, who was his senior wife, when they discovered that she was suffering from high blood pressure.
He said the bandits, who wielded sophisticated weapons, invaded his house around 11:52pm on Tuesday.
He said he managed to escape using one of the exit doors. "I had to save the important person - myself"
“It was after they searched and couldn’t see me that they went into a room where my daughters were sleeping and whisked four of them away at gunpoint,” he said.
The Sarkin Hausawa gave the names of his abducted daughters as Aisha Ibrahim, Farida Ibrahim, Zainab Ibrahim and Hussaina Ibrahim.
He said the bandits proceeded to a neighbour’s house and whisked away four residents alongside a nursing mother identified as Laraba Umar.
“In fact, they macheted the woman’s husband until he became unconscious. He is currently receiving treatment at a private hospital at Katari,” he said.
The Sarkin Hausawa said soldiers arrived in the area an hour after the bandits had left with their victims.
Several bandidosforces of Evil of 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.... ’s West Africa Province (ISWAP), including a top commander, Mallam Buba Danfulani, on Sunday, met their waterloo during a military onslaught.
They were killed during Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s from A-29 Super Tucano along the fringes of Lake Chad in Borno State.
According to reports, Danfulani died alongside some of his lieutenants in an airstrike executed at the East of Madayi in Kukawa Local Government Area (LGA) in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno, close to Lake Chad, on Sunday, February 13.
Danfulani was an ISWAP Amir (leader) in charge of all the Fulani ... a peculiarly brutal tribe of Moslem herdsmen infesting Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and probably other places that are light on law and order and heavy on tribal identity... and herdsmen who joined the terrorists.
He also coordinated activities of the forces of Evil ranging from the deployment of spies to, the collection of taxes and levies, and also acted as an intermediary between the ISWAP leadership and newly inducted members from his extraction.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, a little lightbulb figuratively appeared over Bossy's head... experts have said his death has no doubt created a consequential vacuum in the ISWAP leadership, particularly in the coordination of its economic activities.
No fewer than five people have been reportedly killed by button men suspected to be bandidos in a fresh attack on Tse Udeghe village of Mbapa council ward of Gwer West Local Government Area of Benue State.
It was learnt that several people were maimed in the process when the button men in large number allegedly stormed the village at about 4:30pm on Thursday and opened fire on the inhabitants, killing four on the spot.
The button men at about 7pm on the same Thursday were said to have blocked the Naka — Makurdi road around Ahume village and opened fire on a vehicle on motion during which one of the occupants was killed, bringing the number of the deaths to five.
A former information officer of Gwer LGA, Francis Ugbede, said the victims of the first attack included a father and his son.
Confirming the incident was the chairman of Gwer West LGA, Mrs Grace Igbabon, who said that she had also donated 10 cycle of violences to the military to facilitate security movement in the area.
[OneIndia] On February 8 the special court had held 49 people guilty for the blast in which 56 people were killed and over 200 injured. 28 persons had been acquitted as the court did not find evidence against them.
The blast was the handiwork of the Indian Mujahideen A locally recruited auxilliary of Pakistain's Lashkar-e-Taiba, designed to give a domestic patina to Pakistain's terror war against its bigger neighbor... which had only a year before the blast announced its arrival in Uttar Pradesh following a blast at a court. The Indian Mujahideen comprised members of the Students Islamic Movement of India. It was decided to launch the IM as the SIMI had been banned under the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government.
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The Iraqi Security Media Cell revealed the identity of Wali al-Anbar’s assistant who was killed in an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... on Thursday.
The Military Intelligence Directorate confirmed that the terrorist is "Abu Zaid al-Mahlawi," who held the position of the so-called "commander of the Heet district divisions," and he is responsible for killing Brigadier General Ahmed Abdul Wahid al-Lami.
Today, the Security Media Cell reported that ISIS's "Wali" (ruler) of al-Anbar was killed in an airstrike in Rutba district.
The Cell said in a statement that Iraqi aircraft targeted a vehicle carrying the Wali of al-Anbar, Muthanna Khodor Kamel Shatran, nicknamed "Abu Maluka," in addition to one of his assistants.
The front man of the Commander in chief of the armed forces, Maj. Gen Yahya Rasool, announced that five turbans were arrested in Baghdad, Saladin, Nineveh, and Erbil.
Rasool said in a statement that the special operations unit launched the second military campaign north of Baghdad, in Tarmiyah district, where the first terrorist was caught.
Two turbans were arrested in Saladin and Nineveh, in cooperation with the Iraqi National Security agency.
The Iraqi Counter-Terrorism forces managed to arrest the last two turbans in cooperation with the counter-terrorism directorate in Erbil.
Iraqi military apprehended two persons with links to the terrorist organization of ISIS in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, earlier today, Friday.
A statement issued by the Baghdad Operations Command said that a person wanted in accordance with Article 4/1 Terrorism was captured by a force from the army's 42nd brigade near Husayniyat al-Maamel.
"A person wanted pursuant to Article 4/2 Terrorism was apprehended by a force from the same brigade in al-Sadr city, east of Baghdad, in cooperation with a force from the moral police," the statement said.
"A cache of kabooms from the remnants of ISIS terrorist groups was found by a force from the 22nd brigade near al-Sitta village, al-Moshahada sub-district," the statement added, "it included four anti-tank missiles, three Mortar shells, and other supplies."
[IsraelTimes] Israeli security forces thwarted a gun-smuggling attempt along the Israeli-Jordanian border on Thursday night, seizing some 50 weapons.
In a joint statement Friday, Israel Police and the Israel Defense Forces said troops in the Jordan Valley, with the assistance of soldiers operating surveillance cameras, located two bags with dozens of firearms along the border.
Law enforcement officials said they suspected the weapons were headed to be sold for both criminal and terror purposes.
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The guns were estimated to be worth some NIS 2 million ($625,000), according to police.
There were no immediate arrests in connection to the apparent smuggling attempt.
Unlike Israel’s other frontiers — with Egypt, Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The land area formerly occupied by the state of Lebanon, before that Phoenicia... and Syria — its border with Jordan is largely open, often without significant fencing, and is relatively unguarded, making it an easy location for large-scale smuggling.
The IDF has stepped up efforts to halt smuggling attempts along the Jordanian border in recent months, but officials have admitted that the military has failed to achieve much success thus far.
Police have increasingly sought to crack down on the until-now unmitigated spread of illegal weapons in the Arab Israeli community, which have been used to carry out record-breaking numbers of murders in recent years.
According to the Abraham Initiatives, a non-government group lobbying against violence in the Arab community, there were 125 Arabs — an all-time record — killed in Israel in 2021 as a result of violence and crime. Since the beginning of this year, another 12 have been killed in incidents of violent mostly peaceful crime.
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[AnNahar] Two Israeli warplanes overflew Beirut and its suburbs at a very low altitude in a mock raid on Friday, minutes after Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... grabbed credit for a drone that overflew northern Israel for 40 minutes.
The buzzing of the fighter jets jolted residents, rattled windows and set off some car alarms.
Hizbullah meanwhile issued a statement saying it had sent the "Hassan" drone inside Israel. It claimed the drone toured the targeted area for 40 minutes on a "reconnaissance mission that extended along seventy kilometers" inside the occupied territories.
"Despite the enemy's multiple and successive attempts to shoot it down, the 'Hassan' plane returned from the occupied territories safely after it successfully carried out the required mission," it said.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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