[TOLO] Mohammad Dawood Musa, senior adviser to the Chamber of Commerce and Investment (ACCI), was killed by unknown individuals in Kabul yesterday.
Mohammad Dawood Musa was wounded by a gunman near his home at 8:30 am on Monday and died after being taken to hospital.
Dawood's relatives claim that a gunman first took him out of his car and then shot him in the heart.
"A man shot him in the heart about a meter away and then got in the car and fled," said Zayed Siddiq, a friend of Mohammad Dawood Musa.
According to his friends, Mr. Musa was considered a prominent businessperson in the country since the time of Zahir Shah.
Meanwhile, the Chamber of Commerce and Investment (ACCI) said that Musa played a key role in drafting the Afghanistan-Pakistan Investment Law, tax law and transit agreements.
ACCI added that Mohammad Dawood Musa represented Mercedes-Benz in Afghanistan and played a key role in the growth of the country's private sector.
"I ask the Islamic Emirate to find the killer of Dawood Musa and bring him to justice," said Khanjan Alokozai, member of the board of the ACCI
"In the private sector, this is a huge loss. In the future, the Islamic Emirate must pay attention to protecting the lives and property of traders," said Naqibullah Safi, chairman of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Joint Chamber of Commerce.
Although the Kabul Police Command confirmed Mr. Dawood's assassination, it declined to discuss the matter.
In the meantime, Zabulyar Gharanai, another businessman in the construction sector, was injured by kidnappers on Sunday. His relatives are asking the authorities to arrest the perpetrators of this incident.
"Zabulyar's family still has no information about this case, and this is the third day that my uncle is in the hospital and is unconscious," said Shaheryar Gharni, nephew of Zabulyar Gharanai.
The Chamber of Commerce and Investment says that the increase in killings and kidnappings of businessmen has raised serious concerns among the country's businessmen and that the Islamic Emirate should pay serious attention to this.
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[Khaama] Sources have confirmed to Afghan media that armed clashes erupted between border guards of Iran and Afghanistan in the Keng district of Nimrouz province on Monday.
Those Afghans are just tetchy folk. Why, if they don’t kill a furriner fer lookin’ at ‘em sideways, they’ll shoot up a houseful of their own kinfolk because the bowl o’pebbles run out in the outhouse and they had to use leaves.
As per sources, four Iranian forces have been reported killed and their vehicle has been destroyed but the Iranian and Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has not commented on the killing yet.
Local residents of the Keng district said that the one-hour armed clashes erupted after Afghan people tried to dig a local channel called Sikhsar.
People say that Iranian border guards opened fire in a bid to stop people digging the channel.
The Iranian and Afghan forces have for a long time been at loggerhead over the channel.
Earlier, armed clashes were reported between the border guards of the two countries.
It’s not like the Egyptian army is needed at nome to protect the Motherland for an Israeli invasion, so they might as well send off a few units to earn some money for the government.
[AlAhram] Two members of the Egyptian peacekeeping forces in Mali were killed and four others were maimed on Monday in an IED explosion while carrying out a mission, the Egyptian Armed Forces announced on Tuesday.
According to the Egyptian army, all necessary measures are being taken in coordination with the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... "The Egyptian Armed Forces affirm that their role in maintaining international peace and security comes from its full belief in the importance of peace, coexistence and the elimination of terrorism," the Armed Forces statement said.
Libya's east-based army rounded up at least 50 people in a coastal city following a prison escape earlier this year, a rights group said Tuesday.
Human Rights Watch said in a statement that an armed group affiliated with the self-styled Libyan Arab Armed Forces
...Marshal Khalifa Haftar’s outfit, based in Tripoli. He’s definitely an American-style self-starter after all the years he lived and worked there, which can be disconcerting for those accustomed to other ways...
launched the crackdown after five prisoners escaped from a prison in the city of Derna on Jan. 16.
It said the five prisoners were arrested again four days later. But the armed group, Tarek Bin Ziyad Battalion, continued detain others in the city, including relatives of the five and former detainees and their families.
"Once again, unaccountable LAAF forces resort to brutal tactics to instill fear and terror among Derna residents," said Eric Goldstein, deputy regional director at HRW.
Goldstein called fort the release of those arbitrarily detained and reveal the whereabouts of anyone still in detention. Read the rest at the link
Green on green is good — they leave fewer for the civilians to deal with.
No fewer than 30 terrorists have been killed in the North-East, during a fierce gun duel between fighters of Boko Haram and the Islamic State of West African Province, ISWAP, extremist sects, PRNigeria reports.
The incident took place at Dikwa Local Government Area of Borno State.
The violent “fight”, which occurred last Saturday, between the slain Abubakar Shekau-led Boko Haram and their ISWAP rival, PRNigeria learnt, left many insurgents injured.
It was gathered that the ISWAP elements seized nine motorcycles from their rival fighters, in the aftermath of the bloody gun battle.
The latest confrontation was in reprisal to the killing of Abou Sadiquo Burubouru, who was ambushed and killed by Boko Haram around Gabara/Galta Hideouts, close to Mandara Mountains on February 26, 2022.
Recall that on February 9, 2022, a deadly fight ensued between ISWAP terrorists and the Bakura Buduma-led Boko Haram faction in Lake Chad, forcing Buduma to fled with serious injuries, after many of his fighters were killed.
ISWAP also declared one Mohammed Ari, a notorious “Spiritual Warfare Commander” of Boko Haram wanted, for spearheading most of the attacks against ISWAP.
Ari has led many attacks against ISWAP in Kaduna Ruwa, Tumbum Ali, Kirta, Sabon Tumbu, Kwatalo and Mardas General Area of Lake Chad basin.
Several infightings between the two factions of insurgents have led to the loss of several fighters on both sides, since the death of Abubakar Shekau.
This latest feud has triggered the migration of hundreds of Boko Haram terrorists with their families to safe heavens in neighbouring Cameroon, while a significant number of others were forced to surrender and lay down their arms to Military troops in Magumeri, Banki and Gwoza towns of Borno.
At least, eight military officers deployed to the Zuru district of Kebbi State have been killed by gunmen suspected to be bandits, multiple sources told SaharaReporters.
The soldiers were deployed to the area following the killing of 68 vigilantes otherwise known as Yan-Sa-Kai by gunmen fleeing from Niger State.
Local residents often form informal vigilante units to protect themselves from bandit raids.
A source from Sakaba Local Government Area of the state told SaharaReporters on Tuesday night that eight of the soldiers deployed to the emirate have been killed by gunmen.
"Initially we have our local security outfit that has been checkmating these monsters but last year the governor disarmed them by saying the security outfit was engaging in unlawful killings but he did not provide an alternative.
"Immediately after banning our local security outfit, bandits then moved in and have been killing mercilessly since then.
"Some hours ago, some soldiers were deployed but unfortunately, the bandits have just killed eight of the soldiers. So sad, we are no longer safe."
Speaking on the killing of the vigilantes, another source told SaharaReporters that the deceased persons were ambushed after being fed wrong information regarding the location of the bandits.
The source said, "Yesterday, after killing many people and rustling cows, the youths from Dabai, Magajiya, Ribah, Diri and Danrnagi villages confronted the bandits with their locally made guns.
"They killed many of the Bandits; along the line, someone called them and gave them wrong information about the location of the bandits, so that was how they fell into the ambush of the bandits.
"The location is Sakaba Local Government Area, Zuru Emirate, Kebbi state. It's a border town between Kebbi South and Niger. The town has produced many Generals.
"Right now, they are still operating in Zuru villages. The soldiers and the police are more afraid than the civilians."
Earlier on Tuesday, President Muhammadu Buhari condemned the incident.
The President expressed sadness over what he described as “the brutal murder of tens of vigilantes”. Buhari in a statement by his spokesperson, Garba Shehu, also expressed his condolences to the family members of the deceased.
"This egregious level of criminality is shocking and I want to assure Nigerians that I will do all it takes to tackle this monster decisively," the President was quoted as saying.
"My greatest preoccupation is the threat to life posed by these murderous gangs and remorseless outlaws who have no slightest regard for the sanctity of life.
"While extending my sympathy to the families of the victims of this savagery, let me use this opportunity to also call on our security forces to be more proactive and redouble their efforts in order to frustrate the operational plans of the terrorists before they even launch attacks."
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The body of a UAE-backed Security Belt mercenary named Yasser Mohammed al-Raymi was found in Sheikh Othman district on Tuesday, local sources said.The body of another citizen, named Ayman Ahmed Mohammed al-Amiri, was found in his car, which was parked in front of the Abdulrahman bin Auf mosque in al-Mualla district, according to the sources.
The sources did not mention any other details about the two incidents nor about the party behind the two crimes.
The city of Aden has been witnessing a state of great security chaos as a result of conflicts between factions loyal to the Saudi-led coalition and the UAE.
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Shafaq News / Al-Salam brigades announced today killing two suicide attackers who held civilians as hostages in Samarra.
The Brigades, which are affiliated with the Sadrist movement, said in a statement that after receiving intelligence information from the Samarra operations command about terrorists roaming the area, they took immediate action and tried to pursue the terrorists before they took a civilian's house as a shelter and with 15 civilians as hostages.
A sniper member of brigades was able to shoot down one of the terrorists, while a security force surrounded the other and killed him, according to the statement.
Shafaq News/ On Tuesday, at least one member of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) was injured in an attack south of Kirkuk Governorate.
A security source told Shafaq News Agency that ISIS members launched an attack on PMF units in Al-Bashir village of Taza district, south of Kirkuk.
The preliminary results said that the attack caused a camera malfunction, and one PMF element was wounded.
In 2017, Iraq declared final victory over ISIS after Iraqi forces drove its last remnants from the country, the militant group captured about a third of Iraq's territory.
The war has had a devastating impact on the areas previously controlled by the militants. About 3.2 million people remain displaced.
Yet, ISIS still has sleeper cells in several Iraqi Governorates.
Recently, the terrorist organization has become more active, as sleeper cells target civilians and security forces, especially in the governorates of Kirkuk, Saladin, and Diyala, known
[IsraelTimes] Military says button men fired on troops during overnight operation in Silat al-Harithiya, the home village of the alleged faceless myrmidons in deadly December shooting
Israeli forces exchanged fire with Paleostinian button men overnight in the northern West Bank while demolishing the homes of two suspected terrorists, the military said Tuesday morning.
Muhammad Youssef Jaradat and Ghaith Ahmed Yassin Jaradat, both from the village of Silat al-Harithiya, are accused of being part of a Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... cell that shot and killed Yehuda Dimentman near the Homesh outpost in December. Two other Israelis were lightly maimed in the shooting.
The Israel Defense Forces said the military razed the former’s house and destroyed a floor of the home in which the latter lived.
According to the military, dozens of Paleostinians rioted during the demolitions and threw rocks, Molotov cocktails and improvised bombs at the soldiers, who responded with riot dispersal means and live fire.
The IDF said armed Paleostinians also fired upon troops. The soldiers "responded with fire and successfully completed their mission," a statement from the military said.
Some Paleostinian media reports claimed one person had been shot, but there was no official confirmation from authorities.
Earlier, two Border Police officers were lightly hurt in a suspected car-ramming attack amid the festivities.
The IDF demolished the home of a third suspect last month, during which Paleostinians said a teenager was killed in a firefight with Israeli troops, and has informed the family of a fourth suspect that his apartment will be destroyed. The two other two suspects, Mahmoud Ghaleb Jaradat and Omar Ahmed Yassin Jaradat, are also from Silat al-Harithiya.
Israel demolishes the homes of Paleostinians accused of carrying out deadly terror attacks as a matter of policy. The efficacy of the policy is controversial even within the Israeli security services and human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... activists have denounced it as unfair collective punishment.
Tuesday’s demolitions came after Israel’s High Court of Justice denied several appeals from both families.
Numerous suspects have been charged over the December shooting attack in which Dimentman was killed and two others lightly maimed. The three were fired on as they left a yeshiva at Homesh outpost where they studied. Homesh was evacuated in 2005 following Israel’s withdrawal from Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... and some West Bank settlements.
While Israeli law bans resettling at Homesh, the army has tolerated the presence of the yeshiva for over a decade and a half. The area has also been the site of repeated festivities between the outpost’s hard-right Jewish settlers and local Paleostinians.
PEACHY Kafiristan. The promised land.
[observing native tribes, forming] Must be their Halloween.
DANIEL Upsadaisy, lad. Brass band and all. Hail the conquering heroes. [to Peachy] Bloody cheek. Where's their gratitude? GURUNG appears, calls out: I say! I say there! Are you Englishmen, please?
DANIEL Stone the bleeding crows! Yes, mate. And who might you be?
GURUNG You just wait one jiffy.
DANIEL Peachy, it's a Gurkha!
GURUNG Rifleman Machendra Gurung.
Known to my regiment as Billy Fish.
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The Man Who Would Be King.
A favorite of mine. Recognized the name right away.
Two cases of killing and one injury in one day in #Syria’s #Daraa, which is witnessing security chaos despite the complete control of government forces over it.https://t.co/5kSfLhpL1A
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DARAA, Syria (North Press) – A former detainee in government forces prisons was deadly shot by unknown gunmen in Daraa, south of Syria.
“The young man, Muhammad Haitham Ghayyad, one of the former detainees in the government forces’ prisons, was killed by unidentified gunmen in Jassim city, north of Daraa,” a local source told North Press.
“Ghayaad Madani had never joined the opposition factions. He was arrested for seven months by the government forces after the settlement agreement in 2018,” the source added.
It is noteworthy that Daraa governorate witnessed today three operations targeting three people, killing two of them, and seriously wounding a member of the government forces.
Reporting by Mo’ayed al-Ashqar
The governorate of #Syria’s #Daraa often witnesses cases of killing of former members of the opposition who reconciled with the government forces.https://t.co/niRRM8tV0l
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DARAA, Syria (North Press) – A former opposition member was killed in the countryside of Daraa on Tuesday by unidentified gunmen, while another one was wounded in a separate incident.
“Trad Turki al-Shihadat, a former member of the opposition factions, was deadly shot dead by unknown gunmen in the city of Dael in the northern countryside of Daraa,” a local source told North Press.
“Al-Shihadat, according to the source, had reconciled with the government forces in Daraa, and he had not joined any group affiliated with the government forces.”
In a separate incident, “a member of the government forces, was wounded by unknown assailants, north of Daraa.”
“Ahmed Ismail al-Halqi, who had joined the security branches of the government forces, was seriously wounded by unknown assailants in the city of Jasim in the northern countryside of Daraa. He was subsequently transported to a hospital,” a local source told North Press.
“Al-Halqi was a former member of the opposition and has reconciled with the government and joined the State Security Branch of the government forces,” the source added.
Recently, Daraa governorate has witnessed many cases of killing of dozens of people, with no serious procedures taken by the security branches to reveal the perpetrators.
Reporting by Mo’ayed al-Ashqar
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— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 8, 2022
MANBIJ, Syria (North Press) – On Tuesday, the Internal Security Forces (Asayish) arrested two people on charges of drug trafficking in the city of Manbij, north Syria.
“Following following-up operations, the two people were arrested, ” the official website of the Asayish in Manbij said.
“When arresting, the two people had a quantity of narcotics, namely: H-Pose 15 grams, cannabis 31 grams, 38 Indetro pills, five Tramadol pills, and 486 Captagon tablets,” the website said.
No information about the identity of the two people was provided by the Asayish. However, they reiterated that the two people will be brought to justice in accordance with the laws and regulations in force.
On December 14, the Asayish in the city of Manbij arrested two people on charges of distributing narcotics.
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IDLIB, Syria (North Press) – Different areas within the de-escalation zones in northwest Syria witnessed on Tuesday military escalation and exchange of shelling between the Syrian government forces and Turkish-backed opposition factions.
The opposition factions’ sites in the towns of al-Fatira, Kansafra and al-Bara, south of Idlib, were hit with heavy artillery and missiles by the Syrian government forces, opposition military sources told North Press.
“The sites of the opposition factions near the towns of al-Enkawi and Sarmania, west of Hama, were also bombed by the government forces. No news on casualties was reported,” the sources said.
“Al-Fateh al-Mubin Operations Room bombed the government forces’ sites near the town of Malajah and the vicinity of the town of al-Ruwaiha, south of Idlib,” according to the sources.
The de-escalation zone in northwest Syria witnesses daily bombardment between the government forces and Turkish-backed opposition factions, without any change in the territorial control.
Reporting by Sa’eed Zeino
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Follow up to this report from two days ago, when Syria claimed the deaders were civilian Syrians. Fog of war, I guess — or perhaps it’s hard to identify the corpses when they’re a mix of red mist and an odd number of ears’n’eyebrows.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An Israeli missile strike killed two members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Syria earlier in the week, the IRGC announced on Tuesday, vowing Dire Revenge.
The Israeli attack targeted the outskirts of Damascus on Monday, killing IRGC colonels Ehsan Karbalaipour and Morteza Saeednejad, the IRGC said in a statement carried by state media.
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"Undoubtedly, the Zionist regime will pay for this crime," the statement said.
Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... rarely acknowledges deaths of its forces in Syria by Israel, which carries out Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s targeting Iranian and Iranian-backed forces in Syria regularly. Tehran typically attributes deaths of its forces in the war-torn country to fighting against krazed killer groups, such as ISIS.
Syrian state news agency SANA had reported on Monday that Israeli missile strikes killed at least two civilians near Damascus.
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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.
[TOLO] Mohammad Dawood Musa, senior adviser to the Chamber of Commerce and Investment (ACCI), was killed by unknown individuals in Kabul yesterday.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The body of a UAE-backed Security Belt mercenary named Yasser Mohammed al-Raymi was found in Sheikh Othman district on Tuesday, local sources said.The body of another citizen, named Ayman Ahmed Mohammed al-Amiri, was found in his car, which was parked in front of the Abdulrahman bin Auf mosque in al-Mualla district, according to the sources.
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