[AlAhram] Egyptian security forces have arrested a 60-year-old man who reportedly stabbed a Coptic archpriest to death in the city of Alexandria on Thursday evening.
Arsanios Wadid, the Priest of the Church of the Virgin Mary and Mar Boulos in the Karmouz neighbourhood of the Meharam Bek district, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria said on its Facebook page.
Wadid, 56, was transported to Mostafa Kamel Military Hospital in Sidi Gaber neighbourhood, but he departed this vale of tears, the church said.
Investigations are underway to disclose the stabber’s identity and motives, the church added.
"The church eulogises this blessed father who committed his life to God, and gave his life today to him in an honest martyrdom," it said.
The victim was stabbed with a knife while walking along the Mediterranean Corniche in the Sidi Bishr district, according to statement by the Ministry of Interior.
Wadid, born in 1966, was ordained to the priesthood in 1995 by the late Pope Shenouda III, the former head of the Coptic Orthodox Church.
Haider Sher-Ali, 36, and Arian Taherzadeh, 40, were arrested Wednesday for impersonating federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security
The duo claimed to be involved in an investigation into the Jan. 6 Capitol attack
Agents with the FBI, NCIS and USPIS swarmed several floors and units of luxury apartment building Crossing DC in southeast Washington, D.C.
A former representative of Crossing DC who worked at the building since the start of Taherzadeh's lease confirmed that none of the units were being paid for
When asked why they were not paying rent on the units, the individual responded with one word: 'Government'
According to sources, the Tishman Speyer-owned building cooperated with Taherzadeh and Ali believing the guise that they were federal agents
Building management, the sources allege, provided the duo with access to surveillance cameras and codes to access all doors in the building
A member of building management sent an email to tenants 11:30 on Thursday claiming: 'FBI concluded its search overnight and is no longer on the premises'
Both Pakistani and Iranian visas were mentioned, and prosecutors say there will likely be a conspiracy charge
Potential crimes, according to a Magistrate judge, involves possession and use of a firearm and the destruction of potential evidence after learning an investigation was underway
Among the firearms being kept in the unit occupied by Taherzadeh, sources claim, were a Glock 19 .9mm with high capacity magazines, a fully automatic suppressed M4-style rifle, an AR pistol and a Sig Sauer handgun.
Courtesy of 3dc:
#NEW 40yo Arian Taherzadeh will be held until a 3:30P detention hearing FRI. Prosecutor said there will likely be conspiracy charge based on evidence found/connected to 35yo Haider Ali. Alleged tie to Pakistani Intelligence Service w/ Pakistani & Iranian visas mentioned. @fox5dc
#UPDATE 35yo suspect Haider Ali appeared virtually. Both men being held at least until a 3:30p detention hearing FRI Prosecutor clarified the Pakistani Intelligence Service allegation saying Ali claimed to others he has ties. Gov’t repeated older visas found.
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#7
I have to wonder if this is related to the Iranian claim of a month or two ago that "they had operatives in the heart of the Great Satan" (or words to that effect)?
#8
^ I thought that referred to Jahn F'n Karry, ValJar, Oblahblah, and Biden?
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They will quietly be deported so as to avoid any "black eyes" or "bad PR" for the various agencies that were asleep at the switch for so long in this peculiar matter.
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I wonder if the priority was to target Jill's detail since she is more directly connected to the cabal around the Kalorama Kompound, while Jojo's detail is focused on all the Baskin-Robbins locations.
A group of militants affiliated with the terrorist organization of ISIS reportedly abducted five shepherds from a village located in southern Kirkuk earlier today, Thursday.
A source told Shafaq News Agency that the abductees were tending a flock of sheep in a pasture near the village of al-Tamour when they were attacked by the terrorist group.
The source said that the terrorists drove the five shepherds to a mountainous area known as al-Zarga, near Hemrin, along with 250 sheep that belong to the headman of the Sunni village located between Saladin and Kirkuk.
One of the abductees was released later, according to the source.
The chief of Tuz Khurmato's police department, Hussein Ali Rachid, said that the abducted shepherds are residents of al-Hleiwa village, a Tuz Khurmato village, but the abduction took place in an area that falls under the Jurisdiction of the Daquq district.
A blast from a roadside bomb reportedly hit a convoy of the US-led Global coalition in Dhi Qar on Thursday.
A source told Shafaq News agency that the explosion targeted a supply convoy of the Coalition inside the territory of the Dhi Qar governorate.
The attack resulted in no human casualties and the convoy resumed its march toward its destination, according to the source.
Observers believe that Iran-backed Iraqi factions orchestrate these nearly daily attacks against the convoys of the US-led Coalition in Iraq. The frequency of the attacks increased drastically since the assassination of the Commander of Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani, and the Deputy Head of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces-PMF) Commission, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, in Baghdad in January 2020.
On December 9, the Iraqi government announced that U.S. troops had ended their combat mission. In reality, U.S. troops in Iraq made the transition to a training mission in July 2020, and thousands of U.S. troops will remain in both Iraq and Syria in this advisory role into 2022. The announcement was meant to ease pressure on the Iraqi government by Iranian-backed groups.
[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Forces says troops shot at several Paleostinians who allegedly hurled stones at Israeli drivers on the Route 60 highway in the central West Bank.
The military says troops identified three suspects who were hurling stones near the town of Turmus Aya.
"A hit was identified," the IDF says.
According to the Rescuers Without Borders emergency service, two of the suspects were hurt and were treated by military medics.
#4
A key member of Naftali Bennett's coalition has stepped away, and may join Likud, so probably rearrangements are being negotiated. I figure I’ll wait until they figure things out over there to pay closer attention than that.
[IsraelTimes] At least 10 injured in shooting attack on crowded Dizengoff Street; police and military throng area and conduct door-to-door searches, tell people to stay inside
Two people were killed and several were maimed as a gunman opened fire on a bar in central Tel Aviv Thursday evening in a deadly terror attack, the latest eruption of violence to strike Israel in recent weeks.
The shooting took place on Dizengoff Street, turning an area crowded with people out for Thursday night at bars, restaurants and cafes lining the popular thoroughfare into a scene of chaos and panic.
As the street filled with ambulances and rescuers, police carried out searches for the gunman, who witnesses said expeditiously departed at a goodly pace and disappeared into nearby alleys, going door to door and telling people to stay inside and lock their doors.
The attack began when the gunman walked up to Ilka, a popular bar with a large outside seating section, and opened fire.
"We dove under the tables and people started crying, it was horrible," said Evelyn Gertz, 34, who was having dinner next door.
Ten people were rushed to the nearby Ichilov Hospital with gunshot wounds, two of whom were later declared dead, the hospital said. They were both reported to be civilians in their 20s.
Four others were listed as critical and were undergoing surgery, according to the hospital. Two were seriously injured, and two were mildly hurt.
Another four people with mild injuries were taken to Wolfson Hospital in Holon and Sheba Hospital at Tel Hashomer.
Police initially described the incident as a nationalistically motivated terror attack, though the identity of the attacker or attackers was not immediately known.
Later, Tel Aviv police chief Ami Eshed noted that other avenues were being investigated as well. "From what we know there are signs this was terror," he said.
A worker at Ilka told Channel 12 news that he saw at least two attackers, at least one of whom opened fire with a pistol. Police later said they believed there was only one terrorist; reports said he was a West Bank Paleostinian.
Taking part in the search were over 1,000 cops as well as officers from the Shin Bet, and military special forces, the spokesperson said. Public transportation in central Tel Aviv was shut down, and police set up checkpoints on highways leading from the city toward the West Bank and northern Israel.
Tel Aviv terrorist killed in shootout with police special forces
[IsraelTimes] The terrorist who carried out the deadly shooting attack in Tel Aviv is killed in a shootout with officers from the Yamam police counter-terrorism unit and the Shin Bet internal security service.
The man, who sparked a massive, hours-long manhunt after killing two and wounding more than 10 at a Tel Aviv bar, was found hiding near a closed mosque in Jaffa, the Shin Bet says.
The agency says he is a resident of the Jenin district of the northern West Bank.
The Shin Bet also says that Ra’ad Hazem, a 28-year-old from Jenin, had “no clear organizational affiliation, no security background and no previous arrests.”
“You will see the victory soon… God, liberate the Al-Aqsa Mosque from the occupiers,” he is quoted as saying by Hebrew media outside the family’s home in Jenin.
Reports say the father was a former officer in the Palestinian security services.
#1
For gawd's same, people. Don't go out unarmed like this. Even if you trust your leaders you don't want to give them the idea that 'the citizenry likely doesn't need weapons anymore'.
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Very little of this is making the American press, unfortunately. Only when the homes of innocent "gunmen" and "attackers" are leveled do we see the reports.
The Israel Times won't call them paleos.
[IsraelTimes] A suspected jihadist attack at a revered shrine in Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... has claimed the life of a second Shiite Moslemholy man, state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
says.
The work of Abdolatif Moradi, 21, an ethnic Uzbek who’d snuck into Iran from Pakistan. He liked to call himself things like Abdolatif al-Salafi on social media, where he ranted about Shiites. Yesterday we learnt the authorities picked up six of Mr. Moradi’s accomplices, including two of his brothers.
The death of Sadegh Darai is reported as thousands of mourners attend the funeral of another Shiite holy man, Mohammad Aslani, stabbed by the same suspected Sunni holy warrior.
A third holy man was maimed in Tuesday’s attack at the Imam Reza shrine in Iran’s second-largest city of Mashhad, during the Moslem holy month of Ramadan.
Darai, seriously maimed during the knifing, died in hospital, state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
says.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
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