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Plateau Attacks: 106 People Buried, More Bodies Still Being Found, Says Council Chairman
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Africa Subsaharan
Gunmen Attack Anambra Police Divisional Headquarters, One Killed
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Posted by: Fred || 04/15/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Banditti


Electoral Body, INEC Suspends Voter Registration In Imo Community After Gunmen’s Attacks
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Posted by: Fred || 04/15/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Banditti


Plateau Attacks: 106 People Buried, More Bodies Still Being Found, Says Council Chairman
[SAHARAREPORTERS] At least 106 bodies were buried on Monday following the recent attacks on communities in Plateau State.

Chairman of Kanam Local Government Area of the state, Dayabu Garga, gave the update in an interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Thursday.

The fresh attacks were carried out on Sunday by button men on some communities in the adjoining Kanam and Wase local government areas of the state.

The affected communities are Kukawa, Gyambawu, Dungur, Kyaram, Yelwa, Dadda, Wanka, Shuwaka, Gwammadaji, and Dadin Kowa.

"I was present on Monday morning where we did mass burial of 106 killed and we are still picking more dead bodies in the farmlands because when they meet you on the farm, they will shoot you and move to another farm.

"And we are still picking more bodies. Even till today, we are still finding dead bodies on the farmlands. In the hospital we have more than 16 people hospitalised; someone right now has a bullet in the head, maybe they will do an operation either today or tomorrow to remove the bullet.

"I think the issue is so much devastating; until when you go there, you will almost shed tears. It happened on Sunday, on Monday, we moved in there to help them gather the dead bodies and bury (them).

"We buried 106 bodies that day but before leaving, they were still getting more bodies on the farmlands. These people require protection, we need to have security outfits, either army or MOPOL (Mobile police). We need food items, we have sent some food items but they are not enough."
Posted by: Fred || 04/15/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Fulani Herdsmen (Boko Haram)

#1  Might help if they quit digging in the cemetery!

Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 04/15/2022 8:07 Comments || Top||

#2  There was a time when one was described as to being in a 'plateau state' when they couldn't get any higher.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/15/2022 15:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Satori
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/15/2022 16:52 Comments || Top||

#4  being in a 'plateau state' when they couldn't get any higher.

As close to God as chemically possible.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/15/2022 17:25 Comments || Top||

#5  A mighty fortress is our guy,
Forsooth, the faith's foundation,
Who built this castle in the sky:
Allahallucination!
Posted by: Omineth Gray1397 || 04/15/2022 23:08 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Soldier martyred in exchange of fire with terrorists in North Waziristan: ISPR
[Dawn] A Pakistain Army soldier was martyred on Wednesday in an exchange of fire between troops and murderous Moslems in North Wazoo's Isham area, according to a statement issued by the military's media wing.

The statement from the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) identified the soldier as Sepoy Asmatullah Khan, 28, who was a resident of Mianwali. The statement said he fought "gallantly".

"Sanitisation of the area is being carried out to eliminate any murderous Moslems found in the area. Pakistain Army is determined to eliminate the menace of terrorism and such sacrifices of our brave soldiers further strengthen our resolve," the ISPR statement said.

On Tuesday, an army major and a soldier were martyred and two bad boyz were potted during an exchange of fire between members of security forces and a group of murderous Moslems in the Birmal area of South Waziristan tribal district.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/15/2022 01:49 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:


Eight soldiers martyred in North Waziristan attacks
[Dawn] Eight soldiers were martyred in two terrorist attacks in North Wazoo on Thursday, security sources said.

In one incident, seven soldiers were martyred when murderous Moslems ambushed a vehicle of security forces in Datakhel tehsil of North Waziristan tribal district. In the second incident, which took place in Isham area of the district, a solider was martyred in a clash between security forces and terrorists.

As for the first attack, officials said the murderous Moslems attacked a moving vehicle of the security forces in Datakhel near the Afghan border. Sources said the snuffies used a rocket-propelled grenade launcher and assault guns in the attack.

Seven soldiers embraced martyrdom in the attack, officials told the media in Miranshah
... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas...
, the district headquarters of North Waziristan.

The martyred soldiers have been identified as Havaldar Tariq, Sepoy Arshad, Sepoy Kashif, Sepoy Junaid, Sepoy Ijaz Ali, Sepoy Waqas and Sepoy Jawad Mir. Their bodies were shifted in a military helicopter to Miranshah.

Sources said that a search operation in the area was in progress. According to reports, security personnel also retaliated but casualties on the holy warrior side could not be ascertained.

The ISPR has yet to confirm the attack or issue a formal statement.

This major attack comes at the heels of a deadly attack in the southern district of Dera Ismail Khan
... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ...
three days ago which left five coppers dead and four maimed.

Unlike other areas of North Waziristan, Datakhel is considered a relatively safe sanctuary for terrorist groups. Security forces have yet to clear the area and hundreds of displaced families are still waiting to return to their homes.

In the second attack, a fire exchange took place between troops and murderous Moslems in the Isham area of North Waziristan district, in which 28-year-old Sepoy Asmatullah Khan of Mianwali embraced martyrdom, military media wing ISPR said.

Sanitisation of the area is being carried out to eliminate any murderous Moslems found in the area.

Pakistain Army is determined to eliminate the menace of terrorism and such sacrifices of our brave soldiers further strengthen our resolve, said the security sources.

The incidents on Thursday have raised the tally of terrorist attacks on security forces to three this week in the Waziristan region of erstwhile Fata.

On Monday, a check-post of security forces came under attack in the South Waziristan district, in which an army major and a soldier were martyred while two personnel were maimed. Two murderous Moslems were also killed during the exchange of fire with the security forces in that attack.

The DG ISPR told a presser on Thursday that 97 officers and soldiers had embraced martyrdom in the first three months of this year. With eight more embracing martyred on Thursday, the tally goes up to 105.

He said 128 turbans had been killed in the corresponding period, while 270 had been arrested.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/15/2022 01:45 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:


IED defused in J&K's Doda
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Posted by: Fred || 04/15/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies


Two more militants killed in Shopian gunfight, toll four
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Own goal?
Posted by: Fred || 04/15/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Jerusalem on edge: Palestinians, cops clash at Temple Mount on 2nd Friday of Ramadan
[IsraelTimes] Officers enter flashpoint holy site after morning prayers as Moslem worshipers throw stones at Western Wall; 59 reported injured

Clashes broke out between Paleostinians and Israeli police at the Temple Mount early Friday morning, as spiking tensions, threats of terror and the observance of major holidays all converge around the flashpoint holy site. Skirmishes between police and worshipers at the site were reported around 6:30 a.m., with officers entering the compound and clashing with people barricaded inside.

Police said in a statement that at around 4 a.m., dozens of young people began marching in the area, carrying flags of both the Paleostinian Liberation Organization and the Gazoo
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Posted by: trailing wife || 04/15/2022 01:25 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: PLO


#2  The Times of Israel adds that 400 were arrested this morning.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/15/2022 16:20 Comments || Top||


IDF to shutter West Bank, Gaza crossings for Palestinians on first day of Passover
[IsraelTimes] Military says officials will reconvene Saturday night to decide whether to maintain closure for entire holiday, following several recent deadly terror attacks
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/15/2022 00:51 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Two Palestinians killed and six injured by Zionists in Jenin
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] At least two Paleostinians were killed and six others were maimed during fierce festivities that broke out between the Paleostinians and the Zionist occupation forces on Thursday in Jenin, bringing the number of deaders to five in 24 hours.

The forces of occupation attacked the two districts al-Yamoun and Kafardan in Jenin this morning and clashed with Paleostinian youths in the area, killing two Paleostinians and injuring six others, local sources said.

Local sources reported that the Zionist forces also detained several Paleostinian citizens in Jenin.

Meanwhile,
...back at the comedy club, Boogie was cracking himself up, but nobody else seemed to be getting the non-stop jokes...
Paleostinian Resistance® in 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...
sent a message to Israel through mediators a few days ago, declaring that any attack on the Jenin camp in the West Bank is considered a red line and the Resistance® would enter the front line in case any attack is launched in there.

Posted by: Fred || 04/15/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
AANES handed over a new batch of ISIS children to Russia
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

The Department of Foreign Relations of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) handed over, on Thursday, 10 ISIS children of Russian nationality to an official delegation of Russia.

The Russian delegation was headed by Elena Alexandrov, assistant to the office of Maria Lvova Belova, the office of the Children’s Rights Commissioner for the President of the Russian Federation.

The Russian delegation was received by the front man of the AANES Department of Foreign Relations, Kamal Akef.

During a presser held in the Department of Foreign Relations, Akaf said, "today we hand over 10 Russian children of ISIS members’ families to their country."

The new batch brings total toll of the repatriated Russian children to 254, according to Akef.

Akef stressed the AANES’ continuity in cooperation with Russia and all other countries which have national children of ISIS families in northeast Syria.

For its part, the Russian delegation expressed gratefulness to AANES for the cooperation in the children repatriation process.

In regard to the repatriation of the Russian children in a collective way, Alexandrov said "this issue is difficult and needs measures. Therefore, Russia will repatriate their citizens on batches."

The number of Russian children in Roj camp alone is about 100, according to the camp management.

There are more than 7,000 foreign children of ISIS orphans, with more than 50 nationalities, in addition to approximately 18,000 Iraqi children in the camps of northeastern Syria.

In July 2021, the AANES handed over 20 ISIS children to Russia, and in April 2021, it repatriated 34.
Posted by: Fred || 04/15/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  More bombing photo OPs?
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/15/2022 22:28 Comments || Top||


Turkish forces and their affiliated SNA still pound the town of Ain Issa, north of Raqqa,
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Posted by: Fred || 04/15/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Alleged Israeli airstrike targets sites near Damascus - report
[JPost] The strike on Thursday night was the second alleged Israeli airstrike to hit Syria in the past week.

An alleged Israeli airstrike targeted sites near Damascus on Thursday night, in the second Israeli strike in Syria in a week, according to Syrian reports.

Syrian air defenses responded to the strike, with only material damage being caused by the strike, according to Syrian state news agency SANA. The strike was carried out from over the Golan Heights.

The strike targeted sites near the towns of Rakhlah and Qatana, southwest of Damascus, according to the Lebanese Al-Mayadeen TV. The Scientific Studies and Research Center in Jamraya was also targeted, according to the Step News Agency.

The Scientific Studies and Research Center in Jamraya was last targeted by an alleged Israeli airstrike in February, according to the Syrian Capital Voice news site. A Syrian soldier and five civilians were killed in that strike.

The strike on Thursday night was the second alleged Israeli airstrike to hit Syria in the past week.
Update from Rudaw at 4:20 p.m. ET:
Israel has fired several missiles toward Syrian military positions near Damascus, causing material damage, Syria’s military said Friday.

State media quoted an unnamed military official as saying that the attack occurred shortly before midnight Thursday, adding that some of the Israeli missiles were shot down by Syrian air defenses.

The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said the missiles struck positions of Iran-backed fighters southwest of the capital, near the suburb of Qatana.

There was no comment from the Israeli military.
Posted by: Frank G || 04/15/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [23 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


Terror Networks
Savage ISIS 'Beatle' Terrorist Convicted on All Counts, but Won't Face Death Penalty
[REDSTATE] A jury in Alexandria, Virginia, Thursday convicted a member of the brutal ISIS terror cell known as "The Beatles." The group was particularly savage, even by terrorists’ standards, and reportedly beheaded three hostages while subjecting a fourth to unimaginable cruelty.

The group was dubbed "The Beatles" because of their British accents. The charges included lethal hostage-taking and conspiracy to commit murder.

According to Rooters, the convicted terrorist, whose name I don’t care enough to type, could have faced a possible death sentence
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
. Prosecutors, however, have indicated they will only seek life in prison. Why?!

RedState’s Bonchie in a 2019 article described how the two surviving members of the group angled to get extradited to the United States instead of facing a judge in Iraq, where they doubtless would have been treated more harshly. (A third member, known as "Jihadi John," was blown away in a Hellfire missile dronezap in Syria in 2015. Another was caught by Ottoman Turkish security and sent to prison.)

The remaining pair refused to accept responsibility for their crimes. CNN
...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for...
interviewed them in 2018:

Confronted by CNN with the fact several of their former hostages and alleged victims had said they recognized their faces and voices from previous interviews, Elsheikh declined to comment on what he said would be a legal matter. "It’s just an accusation, legally speaking. You know, if Britannia said ’we are going to deal with you by barbaric law, or with law from the medieval ages,’ then hang, draw and quarter me. But that’s not the case. I’m just merely pointing that out." Kotey offered a similarly veiled denial and refused to be drawn on specific allegations.
Posted by: Fred || 04/15/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Hopefully, he'll get shanked in prison
Posted by: Frank G || 04/15/2022 6:29 Comments || Top||


#3  El Shafee Elsheikh is set to rot away in Colorado's Supermax jail

I can live with that.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/15/2022 15:16 Comments || Top||

#4  Re #1: Frank G, IIRC, I don't think prisoners in a supermax prison have much contact with other inmates, so chances of him getting shanked should be low.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 04/15/2022 18:15 Comments || Top||

#5  WTF
Posted by: Woodrow || 04/15/2022 18:27 Comments || Top||

#6  #4 - he's not there yet
Posted by: Frank G || 04/15/2022 19:34 Comments || Top||



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  Plateau Attacks: 106 People Buried, More Bodies Still Being Found, Says Council Chairman
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  ShehbazSharif elected as new Prime Minister of Pakistan
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