[AlAhram] Explosives planted at a bar in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... injured 11 people, police said Saturday, the second attack in days targeting drinking spots in Taraba state and claimed by affiliates 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.... group.
The blast went off at a moonshine bar in Nukkai, outside state capital Jalingo around 1900 GMT on Friday, police front man Usman Abdullahi, told AFP.
"The explosive concealed in a polythene bag was left at the bar by an unknown person during a power outage," he said.
"Eleven people were maimed in the blast, including 10 men and a woman."
On Saturday, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) grabbed credit.
"The soldiers of the caliphate detonated an bomb... inside a bar in Nukkai," the group said on Telegram, claiming the attack maimed 10 people.
On Tuesday, a kaboom at a bar in the nearby town of Iware killed six people and injured 16 others, police said.
ISWAP claimed that blast in a statement posted on IS propaganda channels monitored by SITE Intelligence.
That was the first indication that ISWAP is operating in Taraba, outside its habitual area of operations in the Lake Chad region.
Taraba is one of several northern states where criminal gangs, branded bandidos, raid villages, kill residents, loot and burn homes and kidnap for ransom.
There have been increasing concerns about growing ties between jihadists and bandidos who are motivated by financial motives with no ideological leaning.
ISWAP and rival Boko Haram ...Nigeerian Islamist group, formerly paying homage to al-Qaeda, then, when the money ran out, to the Islamic State, and headed by nutcase Abu Bakr Shekau. Once he exploded in a gunfight with ISWAP, many in the group surrendered to the govt and others went with their new overlords. The remainder are a shell of their former selves, stmbling glassy-eyed and lonely through the Sambisa Forest and the soothing waters of Lake Chad, asking themselves What is truth?, or maybe just I wonder what's for dinner? I hope it's not rhinocerous again! ... are known to step up attacks during the Moslem holy month of Ramadan.
On Wednesday, ISWAP killed 11 people, including nine, at a bar in northeast Nigeria's Yobe state.
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. has assured Hausas and other non-indigenes residing in the South-East of their safety.
Emma Powerful, Media and Publicity Secretary of IPOB, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday.
Powerful assured that members of the group would never harm Hausas residing across the South-East region.
He said IPOB and its militia arm, the Eastern Security Network, would protect Hausas against the Jihadists attacking the people of the South-East.
The statement reads, "Following the incessant abduction, killing and burning down of properties belonging to Biafrans and Igbos, we the global movement and family of the Indigenous People of Biafra under the command and leadership of our great leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu wish to state unequivocally that those behind these atrocities are not IPOB member nor are they Eastern Security Network operatives.
"The perpetrators are criminals recruited by our enemies to demonise us. No member of IPOB will engage in acts inimical to the people we are struggling to liberate. We are not turbans and we cannot suddenly resort to terrorism.
"These agents of darkness behind these senseless and barbaric acts are the ones who don't want our detained leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to be released. Their intension is to create the false impression that his followers are violent mostly peaceful but they are wrong.
"We want to make it categorically clear to all and sundry that anybody committing any atrocity in Biafraland in the name of IPOB or ESN operative doesn't want Biafra to come. Those behind this madness are working with the Nigeria security to criminalise IPOB. They must also be prepared to pay for their sins because we will not allow anyone who inflicts pains and sorrow on our people to go free.
"We want to also very strongly condemn any attack on non-Biafran nationals living in our land. These agents of sorrow may be targeting them to further rope us into genocidal attacks which we have always stood against. Our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu had predicted what is happening during his numerous prophetic radio broadcasts. During those broadcasts, he had also spoken against attacks on non indigenes.
"Mazi Nnamdi Kanu made holistic announcement during those days that Hausas are facing the same predicaments Igbo people are facing in Nigeria and should be allowed to do business anywhere they like in Biafraland. Biafrans shall never try to harm any Hausa man or woman in Biafra land for any reason. IPOB will ensure the protection of all persons living in Biafra land including non indigenes. We will continue to protect them against our common enemy —the jihadists and their sponsors."
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One thing I noticed -- refugees from the Ukraine tend to be women, children, and the elderly. While those from Muslim nations tend to be military-age males.
They're not men, because clearly if they are actually fleeing danger, they've left the women, children, and elderly to suffer.
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Many of those young men consider themselves "too pretty for prison, too good to work."
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Migrants: woman with child and reference admit. male, no admittance.
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refugees from the Ukraine tend to be women, children, and the elderly
The fighting age men are being stopped at the border, issued a rifle, and sent to the front lines. The rest are being sent off to safety. Thus far about five million have been sent out of country, with about a million returning in recent days.
[Rudaw] Prominent Shiite holy manMoqtada Tater al-Sadr ...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He had his hereditary rival, al-Khoei, assassinated only a few hours after the holy rival's appearance out of exile in 2003. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, lately he's gagged over some of their more outlandish antics, then went back to catspawry... on Saturday said that his bloc intends to introduce a bill criminalizing the normalization of relations with Israel, following a series of Trump administration-brokered talks that saw numerous Moslem countries normalize ties with the Jewish state.
Sadr said that the "issue of normalization and Israeli ambitions to dominate our beloved Iraq" was one of the core reasons that got the Sadrist Movement involved with the electoral process again.
"The Sadrist bloc and its allies ... will soon announce a draft project to criminalize normalization and dealing with the Zionist entity at all," he said in a tweet.
The normalization of ties with Israel as part of the Abraham Accords is a US-led joint Middle East peace initiative. Four countries — the United Arab Emirates, Sudan, Bahrain, and Morocco — have announced normalization agreements with Israel, with America's support.
Sadr added that once his bloc proposes the bill, it will be passed to the parliament for voting. It is noteworthy that the holy man's bloc emerged as the largest party of the October elections, securing 73 parliamentary seats.
A conference advocating for Iraq to join the Abraham Accords was held in the Kurdistan Region's capital of Erbil in September and was attended by more than 300 Sunnis and Shiites from across the country.
Widespread condemnation from Baghdad and Erbil struck the conference, with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi calling it "illegal" and saying that the concept of normalization with Israel is illegal as per the Iraqi constitution.
Sadr also expressed staunch rejection of the conference. He said Erbil "must forbid such terrorist Zionist meetings" and called on the Iraqi government to arrest all who attended, otherwise threatening to take action himself.
"We shall take responsibility for what must be done according to Sharia," he tweeted at the time, referring to laws derived from Islamic teachings.
Days after, an Iraqi court issued arrest warrants for three people accused of participating in the conference.
A large population of Jews used to call Iraq home. In 1941, the Farhud, a violent mostly peaceful pogrom, marked the beginning of the end of one of Iraq's oldest communities. A decade after the anti-Semitic violence of the Farhud, more than 120,000 Jews were airlifted out of Iraq in Operation Ezra and Nehemiah.
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It's odd that recent photos of Tater don't show him with an open mouth for some reason.
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Tater was born in 1974
he has thin years and fat years
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[IsraelTimes] Gantz had vowed ’harsh response’ to continued rocket fire, but military doesn’t strike Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede, sites overnight; Erez Crossing to reopen following assessment on Sunday.
Israel announced the temporary closure of its sole pedestrian crossing with the 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... Strip on Saturday, after three rockets were fired from the Hamas-run coastal enclave at southern Israel late Friday and overnight.
According to the military’s liaison to the Paleostinians, the crossing will not reopen for Paleostinian workers on Sunday after it had been shuttered since Thursday afternoon due to the Passover holiday.
"Following the rockets that were fired toward Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip last night, it was decided that crossings into Israel for Gazook merchants and workers through the Erez Crossing will not be permitted this upcoming Sunday," the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, known by its acronym COGAT, said in a statement.
"The re-opening of the crossing will be decided in accordance with a security situational assessment," COGAT added.
The crossing — along with crossings with the West Bank — was already closed since Thursday at 5 p.m., and was to remain in effect until Saturday at an hour yet to be determined.
Exceptions are made for humanitarian and other outstanding cases but require the approval of COGAT.
The number of Paleostinians in the Gaza Strip who can work in Israel was raised to 12,000 last month, and the government said it would raise it by an additional 8,000, to a total of 20,000.
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...Nigeerian Islamist group, formerly paying homage to al-Qaeda, then, when the money ran out, to the Islamic State, and headed by nutcase Abu Bakr Shekau. Once he exploded in a gunfight with ISWAP, many in the group surrendered to the govt and others went with their new overlords. The remainder are a shell of their former selves, stmbling glassy-eyed and lonely through the Sambisa Forest and the soothing waters of Lake Chad, asking themselves 
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He had his hereditary rival, al-Khoei, assassinated only a few hours after the holy rival's appearance out of exile in 2003. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, lately he's gagged over some of their more outlandish antics, then went back to catspawry...
[IsraelTimes] Gantz had vowed ’harsh response’ to continued rocket fire, but military doesn’t strike 
[JPost] The administration made a similar announcement last year when the site was closed to Jews for about a week.
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