[DW] Vocal government critic Amina Mohammed is reported to have been killed in a kaboom in the Somali city of Beledweyne. Hours earlier, security forces battled armed attackers near Mogadishu's airport.
A young female politician was killed by a jacket wallah on Wednesday in the city of Beledweyne, around 300 kilometers (186 miles) north of Mogadishu, witnesses and relatives said.
Amina Mohammed, a vocal critic of the government known for her fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... speeches, was killed as she approached a building housing leaders of Somalia's Hirshabele state.
"I heard a huge blast, I went to the scene which is just at the entrance of the state house," local elder, Aden Farah, told the Rooters news agency by telephone. "May God rest her soul."
Two suicide bombers were behind the blast, which killed at least 10, among them other politicians and security officials, the local police spokesperson Hassan Dhi'isow told German news agency DPA.
Deutsche Welle was unable to independently verify the number of fatalities.
It comes just hours after Somali security services battled with armed attackers near Mogadishu's international airport.
Mohammed was running to be reelected in the next Somali elections and was reportedly in the city to defend her seat.
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Sadly, mixing democracy with warlord factions does not seem to be resulting in a prosperity and safety in Somalia. I would expect that achieving Hattian levels of stability might be an improvement for the country. Googling Haiti news might force me to reconsider my assessment.
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[DW] Somali security forces have reportedly killed two gunnies who tried to attack a military compound in the capital. The bully boy group al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... has grabbed credit for the attack.
The al-Qaeda-linked gang al-Shabaab grabbed credit for a deadly attack on Wednesday on the international airport complex outside the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
Two of the attackers were killed in a firefight with security forces, Somali Police Commissioner Gen. Abdi Hassan Hijar told the Somali National News Agency.
The Rooters news agency citing a diplomatic security memo, said two security guards, thought to be Kenyan nationals and a Somali policeman, were also killed in the incident, while four others were maimed.
ATTACKERS DID NOT GET INTO THE AIRPORT
The attack happened at the heavily fortified Halane base at the Aden Adde International Airport that hosts peacekeepers, the offices of UN organizations, and diplomatic missions.
Police said al-Shabaab murderous Moslems began shooting indiscriminately at one of the entrances to the site. Al-Shabaab said it had also fired mortars into the camp.
Somalia was already on edge because elections, already postponed several times, were underway.
There are fears that several mobile policemen might have been killed late on Tuesday evening after terrorists, otherwise known as bandits, attacked a security checkpoint in Katsina State.
Sahara Reporters gathered that the incident happened along Sheme- Kankara road in the Kankara Local Government Area of the state around 11pm.
Some residents were said to have been killed from stray bullets as the policemen engaged the terrorist numbering over 300 in a fierce battle.
The gunmen also abducted a yet-to-be ascertained number of people.
Katsina, despite being the home state of President Muhammadu Buhari, has witnessed sporadic attacks by bandits and kidnappers that have claimed the lives of many.
Over 700 people have been reportedly killed by the gunmen in Jibia, Kankara, Dutsinma, Musawa, Danmusa and Safana local government areas of the state in the last five months.
On December 11, 2020, some bandits kidnapped 344 students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara. They were released about a week later.
Also on December 19, 84 Islamiyya students of Hizburrahim Islamiyya in Mahuta village, Dandume Local Government Area of the state were abducted but rescued shortly after.
Asuspect, Etiene Malachy Akpan, who is facing trial for alleged terrorism has reportedly escaped from custody in Akwa Ibom State.
The police spokesperson in Akwa Ibom, Odiko MacDon, disclosed this on Tuesday in a statement on Tuesday, noting that the suspect escaped at the court premises in Akwa Ibom during the continuation of his trial.
The police who did not give details about the suspect’s escape, said the suspect was also standing trial for serial murder, kidnapping, and armed robbery.
“He is wanted by the police in connection with series of armed robberies, kidnapping, murders and terrorism in the (Akwa Ibom) state.
“The suspect who was on trial for the above offences escaped within the court premises when brought for the continuation of his trial,” said MacDon, a superintendent of police.
According to the police spokesperson, Akpan has been declared wanted. He appealed to members of the public with useful information on the whereabouts of the suspect to contact the nearest police station or any security agency.
The suspect, also known as Anthony Malachy Akpan, is said to be 34 years and hails from Atan Midim in Abak Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. He is dark in complexion and 1.6 metres tall, according to the police.
No fewer than 7000 Boko Haram and Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists have turned themselves in since last week, the Nigerian Army has said.
This was made known by the Theatre Commander, Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK), Major General Christopher Musa while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Maiduguri on Wednesday.
According to the General, sustained operations against the ISWAP and Boko Haram have led to significant successes.
“Thousands of insurgents comprising of combatants, non-combatants, foot soldiers alongside their families, continued to lay down their arms in different parts of Borno,” he noted.
He added that the repentant terrorists and their families would be profiled by the army and other agencies before they undergo rehabilitation processes.
Musa assured that the military and other security agencies would continue to devise and implement strategies to end terrorism.
About 30,000 insurgents and their families have surrendered in the last nine months.
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Looks like ISWAP got smart. They will run for election after a quick rehabilitation. And form a legitimate Government where everybody else will be the terrorists. That seems to be the latest MO around the world.
[AlAhram] More than 200 homes were also destroyed in Sunday's attack on four villages in the Kaura local government district, Kaduna State security commissioner Samuel Aruwan said in a statement.
"Security agencies have reported to the Kaduna State Government that after search operations and detailed checks, 34 people have been confirmed dead following Sunday's attack in Kaura local government area," he said.
"Two military personnel were among the 34 killed."
Northwest and central Nigeria have long been terrorised by criminal gangs, known locally as bandidos, who raid villages, conduct mass kidnappings for ransom and steal cattle, but attacks and abductions have intensified.
Sunday's attack came on the same day as another raid that killed 16 people in a remote village in northwestern Zamfara State.
A week earlier, button men killed 11 security personnel, including seven coppers and four vigilantes, in attacks in central and northwestern Nigeria.
- TIT-FOR-TAT ATTACKS -
The gangs, who were officially declared forces of Evil by the government in January, operate from camps hidden in a vast forest across Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna and Niger states.
Bandit violence in Nigeria's northwest is just one challenge facing security forces, who are also battling against a 12-year jihadist insurgency in the northeast and separatist tensions in the southeast of Africa's most populous nation.
Earlier this month, button men killed at least 57 members of a local self-defence vigilante group in festivities in northwestern Kebbi State, prompting President Muhammadu Buhari to condemn their "brutal murder".
Local residents often form informal vigilante units, known as Yansakai, to protect villages from bandit raids, though some states banned them after they were accused of extrajudicial killings. But they are often involved in tit-for-tat festivities with bandidos.
Security experts have warned the gangs, who are driven by financial motives, are increasingly forging alliances with jihadists from the northeast of Nigeria.
Security forces say they have been bombarding and raiding the forest hideouts and authorities last year also cut telecommunications in some northwest states in an attempt to disrupt bandit communications.
Criminal gangs in Nigeria's northwest made international headlines last year when they raided a number of schools and kidnapped students in a bid to squeeze more ransom out of communities.
Nigeria's bandit violence has its origins in the festivities over land and resources between farmers and nomadic cattle herders
...the Fulani...
in the northwest where tit-for-tat attacks have spiralled into wider criminal activity.
A boom-mobileing killed a senior 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... i military leader and three of his entourage in the southern port city of Aden on Wednesday, three security sources said.
The defense ministry confirmed that Brigadier General Thabet Gawas was killed in a "cowardly attack carried out by several terrorist elements" but provided no further details.
Gawas was returning from a personal visit when his car was hit by the blast in a suburb of the city, the security sources said. Aden's AIC Television showed footage of a car in flames.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
Gawas had long been an enemy of the Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... militias, fighting them in their northern stronghold of Saada even before the 2014 coup against the legitimate government.
In 2004, he led the first military operation against the Houthi rebellion that ended with the killing of the founder of the militias, Hussein Badreddine al-Houthi. The operation earned him the name "Vanquisher of the Houthis" among several Yemenis.
[Oneai dia] A grenade-throwing module of banned terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (LeT) was busted in Srinagar on Wednesday with the arrest of four terrorist-associates and recovery of four hand grenades, police said, according to news agency PTI.
According to a police spokesperson, an overground worker (OGW (Over Ground Worker) Over ground workers (OGWs) are people who help militants, or terrorists, with logistical support, cash, shelter, and other infrastructure with which armed groups and insurgency movements such as Hizbul Mujaheddin and Jaish-e-Muhammad in Jammu and Kashmir can operate.... ) of the LeT, identified as Zubair Sheikh, a resident of Elahi Bagh Soura, was intercepted by a police team during a naka checking at Bemina Chowk in the evening and a hand grenade was recovered from his possession.
Sheikh was put under arrest and a case under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) registered against him, the spokesperson said.
During questioning, the accused revealed that he had received the grenade from another OGW (also called a terrorist-associate), Shamim Ahmed Chilloo, a resident of the Tankipora area of Shaheed Gunj here, the spokesperson said.
Chilloo was also arrested and during questioning, he told the interrogators that he had received a consignment of four hand grenades and handed over a grenade each to Sheikh, Amir Rehman Dar, a resident of Tengpura Bypass, and Shahid Ahmed Mir, a resident of Dangerpora Nowgam, the spokesperson added.
Subsequently, raids were conducted and the two other OGWs -- Dar and Mir -- were also arrested.
On their instances, three more hand grenades were recovered, the police spokesperson said.
During the course of the investigation, it came to light that the accused were working on directions of the LeT. The first arrested accused was on his way to launch a grenade attack but his plan was thwarted, the spokesperson said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... a policeman was injured in a grenade attack by bully boyz in Rainawari area of Srinagar on Wednesday, an official said. Police constable Mohammad Amin received minor splinter injuries in the earth-shattering kaboom, he said.
Shafaq News / The Iraqi intelligence agency announced dismantling an ISIS network in Saladin today.
The agency said that it had received intelligence information about the four-members network, which had carried out many attacks against the civilians and the security forces, and was responsible for providing financial and logistical support for the terrorist organization's members.
The perpetrators confessed to their crimes and all the required legal measures were taken against them.
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[IsraelTimes] Mohammad Abu al-Qi’an’s two brothers, who were arrested overnight, are suspected of aiding him by providing "the means" to commit the deadly terror attack in Beersheba yesterday, according to Hebrew-language media reports.
The pair are also suspected of being members of a terror organization, the reports say. Abu al-Qi’an himself was tossed in the calaboose I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! in 2016 over his affiliation with 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.... The two are set to be brought before a court later today to extend their remand.
Police said earlier they were suspected of failing to prevent the attack.
Abu al-Qi’an was killed by passersby after murdering four people and injuring two in the southern city yesterday.
[IsraelTimes] Border Police officers arrested 17 Paleostinian suspects overnight in the West Bank town of Abu Dis for allegedly hurling stones, improvised explosives and Molotov cocktails at troops last month.
Police say they used "advanced technological means" to identify the suspects who attacked a military post near the town on the outskirts of Jerusalem.
The suspects have been taken to the Shin Bet security agency for further questioning, police say.
[IsraelTimes] A 15-year-old Paleostinian from the West Bank town of Kafr ’Aqab was detained yesterday morning at the entrance of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City with a knife, police say.
Along with the knife, the teen was also carrying brass knuckles, a mask and a Paleostinian flag in his bag.
He was brought to a court hearing earlier today, and his remand is extended until Sunday.
Police did not say if the suspect admitted to planning an attack.
[Rudaw] Kurdish security forces (Asayish) on Tuesday seized a record amount of narcotics, after a raid at a warehouse in Qamishli, northeast Syria (Rojava), led to the discovery of more than two million captagon pills.
A shipment containing huge quantities of captagon pills, with a total weight of 438 kilograms, was transported from rebel-held areas of Syria and carefully concealed at a warehouse in Qamishli, where it was subsequently seized by security forces, Hawar News Agency (ANHA) reported.
Asayish officials revealed that the narcotics were "professionally concealed in construction materials such as granite, basalt, and ceramics."
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— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 23, 2022
DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – A clan notable was shot dead yesterday by unidentified gunmen on a motorbike in Deir ez-Zor western countryside, east Syria.
“Unidentified gunmen riding a motorbike shot dead Ahmad al-Jassem al-Ajjan, 58, one of the al-Dawagna clan notables near Jazrat Albo Shams town highway,” said Khaled al-Ajjan, the victim’s cousin
Five hours after the assault, ISIS adopted the operation through its social media platforms and indicated that “the liquidation took place on charges of dealing with the Syrian Democratic Forces(SDF)”.
ISIS-backed Amaq News Agency published a statement declaring that the Islamic State’s gunmen, using machine guns, targeted Ahmad al-Jassem on charges of dealing with the SDF.
Recently, Deir ez-Zor countryside has been witnessing a spike in assassinations which target SDF members, AANES employees, clan dignitaries and civilians.
Earlier On February 5, the ISIS adopted two operations against SDF, one of them targeted an SDF member’s house while the other targeted a military checkpoint in Deir ez-Zor eastern countryside.
Reporting by Omar Abdurrahman
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— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 23, 2022
ALEPPO NORTHERN COUNTRYSIDE, Syria (North Press) – The Turkish-backed Military Police faction arrested yesterday a person from Afrin region, northern Syria.
Members of the Military Police faction arrested Muhammad Mustafa, nicknamed Hamouda Mist Kinki, from his shop in the village of Shekhotka in the Maabatli district on the pretext that he previously served in the self-defense duty (military conscription in the era of the of the Autonomous Administration), local source told North Press.
Muhammad was transferred to an unknown destination without any information about his fate until now, the source added.
Muhammad was arrested three times previously and on the same charge, and he was released after his relatives paid huge sums of money to the factions.
Since March 2018, the city of Afrin and its countryside have been under the control of the Turkish-backed armed factions.
The factions continue to commit violations in the Afrin region, including kidnapping, arresting, killing, and seizing the property of the indigenous population and selling it to factions’ members and settlers.
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DARAA, Syria (North Press) – On Wednesday, unidentified gunmen shot dead a former member of the opposition factions in Daraa northern countryside, south Syria.
Local sources told North Press that the man named Muhammad Maamon al-Shehadat was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Da’el, a town in Daraa northern countryside.
The source added that al-Shehadat was a former member in the opposition factions who signed the Russian-sponsored 2018 settlement agreement but didn’t join the government forces.
On a similar subject, local sources told North Press that unidentified attackers, using an improvised explosive device (IED), had targeted on Wednesday a car belonging to a member of the government forces in Daraa, causing damage to his car.
The sources added that the car, which belonged to Hussein al-Mufaalani, a member of the government’s Military Security Branch, was targeted with an IED by unidentified attackers in al-Dahia neighborhood in Daraa.
Daraa governorate has witnessed regular assassinations that claimed hundreds of lives since the government seized it in July, 2018.
Turkey and opposition factions bombed #Syria’s Ain Issa countryside causing material damage to civilians’ propertyhttps://t.co/YPjTmCjZMh
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AIN ISSA, Syria (North Press) – On Wednesday, Turkish forces and the affiliated opposition factions bombed the western countryside of Ain Issa town, north of Raqqa, north Syria, with missiles and heavy weapons.
“Turkish forces and opposition factions targeted the village of Mu’laq and Ain Issa camp, one km away from the highway M4, with heavy weapons,” a local source told North Press.
several Turkish shells fell on the village of Mu’laq and Ain Issa camp, plus the Sayda town, the source added.
The bombing resulted in material damage to the property of the residents of those villages, and caused panic and fear among them, according to the source.
On Tuesday, two children were injured in the bombing of the Turkish forces on the village of Khirbet al-Bayda in the eastern countryside of Ain Issa town.
The town and other areas in northeastern Syria are often bombed by Turkish forces and the affiliated opposition factions.
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