[AlAhram] Two UN peacekeepers were killed and two others injured Friday after an improvised bomb went kaboom! in central Mali, a front man for the MINUSMA mission tweeted.
The soldiers were part of the Egyptian contingent of the UN peacekeeping mission, a security official said.
"The head of MINUSMA condemned the attack," front man Olivier Salgado posted.
He said the incident took place near the town of Douentza, on the road to Timbuktu.
On Wednesday, a Jordanian blue helmet died in an attack on his convoy in Kidal, in northern Mali.
With 13,000 members, the mission is one of the UN's biggest peacekeeping operations, and also one of its most dangerous.
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A holy man identified as Apostle Delight Uzo has been stabbed in the chest by assailants suspected to be Fulani ... a peculiarly brutal tribe of Moslem herdsmen infesting Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and probably other places that are light on law and order and heavy on tribal identity... herdsmen.
Uzo, according to reports, was attacked alongside some of his friends in Umuahia, Abia State.
He was said to have been stabbed in the chest and stomach and is currently receiving treatment at an undisclosed hospital.
A Facebook user, Bethel Nwakaku, on Friday, said another pastor, Uche Okoro and his wife were kidnapped by the attackers.
He wrote, "Can the South-East governors with the military and police force claim to be ignorant of the invasion of the Fulani bandidos in Igbo land?
"This is my brother and friend Apostle Delight Uzo who was butchered and stabbed at the heart and stomach by Fulani bandidos just close to Umuahia on Saturday night.
"He and one other escaped half dead while others were kidnapped Pastor Uche Okoro and his wife). Daily, Abia State University (ABSU) students are being kidnapped and some others killed. I can now vividly say that the so-called unknown button men are Fulani jihadists. The prelate of the Methodist Church also confirmed that his kidnapping was by Fulani.
"I beckon on the politicians, the Nigerian Army and the Nigeria Police Force to rise and flush them out because there's so much anger in the land already."
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy was furiously chewing her cud and thinking... Isaac Victor Akachukwu on his Facebook page noted that the kidnapped persons had been released after paying a ransom of N1million.
He wrote, "Let’s pray for Apostle Delight Uzochukwu, he and other three pastors were kidnapped by Fulani herdsmen on their way back from Umuahia, he was stabbed mercilessly. He escaped as Pastor Uche Okoro was kidnapped. He and his wife were later released after N1.1million ransom with deep wounds.
[JusticeGov] Defendant Sentenced for Conspiracy and Attempt to Provide Material Support
A citizen of Uzbekistan and resident of Brooklyn was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for conspiring to and attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, 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.... of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS).
Dilkhayot Kasimov, 34, was convicted of both counts following a one-week trial in September 2019. According to court documents, in 2015, Kasimov’s co-conspirators Abdurasul Juraboev and Akhror Saidakhmetov planned to travel to Syria to fight on behalf of ISIS. Kasimov provided money — his own and cash collected by others — to help fund Saidakhmetov’s travel and expenses. On the evening of Saidakhmetov’s scheduled departure in February 2015, Kasimov drove to John F. Kennedy International Airport, met Saidakhmetov at the terminal and handed him $1,600 in cash on behalf of himself, co-conspirator Abror Habibov and others.
"Kasimov is an ISIS supporter who collected and gave money to another individual to fund his travel to join the terrorist group. With this sentence, Kasimov is being held accountable for his crimes," said Assistant Attorney General for National Security Matthew G. Olsen. "The National Security Division is committed to identifying and holding accountable those who seek to provide material support to foreign terrorist organizations. I would like to thank all of the agents, analysts and prosecutors who are responsible for this case."
"Today’s sentence demonstrates the significant consequences for those who help terrorist groups, including by facilitating travel of others to join ISIS," said U.S. Attorney Breon Peace for the Eastern District of New York. "Kasimov was part of a group of individuals who sought to travel to Syria to join ISIS or to fund others who sought to become imported muscle for ISIS. The Department of Justice and our law enforcement partners will continue working relentlessly to protect our country from holy warriors and those who would provide support to them."
"Providing financial support to potential ISIS-inspired imported muscle comes with a stiff penalty," said Assistant Director in Charge Michael J. Driscoll of the FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... New York Field Office. "As Kasimov learned today, his actions will cost him 15 years behind bars. The FBI continues to make every effort to protect Americans at home and abroad and to bring other like-minded criminals to justice."
Co-defendants Juraboev and Saidakahmetov were each sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment, while co-defendant Azizjon Rakhmatov was sentenced to 12.5 years’ imprisonment. Habibov and co-defendant Akmal Zakirov are awaiting sentencing. A seventh co-conspirator, Dilshod Khusanov, who was charged in a separate indictment, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to provide material support to designated foreign terrorist organizations and is scheduled to be sentenced on July 5.
Three Army soldiers and a civilian have been injured in an ongoing shootout at Rishipora area of south Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... ’s Anantnag district on Friday.
A police front man said the soldiers and the civilian received gunshot injuries during the initial exchange of fire and have been shifted to nearby hospital for treatment.
The exchange of fire was going on when this report was filed.
The encounter broke out this evening after security forces cordoned the area following a tip off about the presence of holy warriors.
Police on Friday said that two migrant workers were maimed in a grenade blast in the Zainapora area of south Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... ’s Shopian district.
A police front man said that two labourers suffered minor injuries in the blast which took place in the Aglar area.
[Dawn] The Federal Investigation Agency’s cyber crime wing has arrested two Pak illegal immigrants colonists allegedly involved in human smuggling and secretly filming women in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... Both the suspects had been arrested by Ottoman Turkish police and deported to Pakistain.
A FIA front man said the suspects were involved in human trafficking and secretly making films of women in Turkey and uploading those on social media. Both were deported to Pakistain by the Ottoman Turkish authority which led to the registration of a case against them by the cyber crime wing and launching of an investigation to track down their accomplices.
The arrests of the suspects — Mohammad Junaid and Ameer Khan - came about in separate operations after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, currently on an official visit to Turkey, took notice and directed the FIA to take action against them.
The front man said the suspects were involved in transportation of illegal immigrants colonists from Pakistain to Turkey.
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Until the hudna is signed, all is fair. After the hudna is signed, of course, all must sit quietly until the TTP start up again.
[Dawn] A Pakistain Army soldier was martyred during an exchange of fire with holy warriors who attacked a military post in the Datta Khel area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's North Wazoo district on the night between June 1 and June 2, the military's media affairs wing said.
According to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) late Thursday night, Pakistain Army troops "initiated a prompt response and effectively engaged the holy warriors location" after the attack on the military post.
During an "intense exchange of fire" with the terrorist, 28-year-old Sepoy Hamid Ali, a resident of Sargodha, embraced martyrdom after fighting "gallantly", the ISPR said.
It added that the sanitisation of the area was being carried out to eliminate any holy warriors found there.
"[The] Pakistain Army is determined to eliminate the menace of terrorism and such sacrifices of our brave soldiers will not go unpunished," the ISPR statement said.
The incident comes merely days after two security personnel and as many children were maimed when a jacket wallah struck a vehicle of the security forces parked at a checkpost in the Razmak subdivision of North Waziristan district on May 30.
According to officials, the suicide bomber riding a cycle of violence had rammed his two-wheeler into the security forces' vehicle. As a result, two security personnel were maimed and two children playing nearby had also suffered injuries.
[OneIndia] Two men linked to gangster Lawrence Bishnoi were arrested in Haryana amid a probe over killing, according to Hindustan Times report.
The 30-year-old Lawrence Bishnoi, ringleader of the 700-member gang of criminals, has come under the police radar with Canada-based gangster Goldy Brar claiming responsibility for singer Sidhu Moosewala's murder.
Born on February 12, 1993, Bishnoi, referred to as "Don" by gang members, is a graduate and a resident of Dhattaranwali village near Abohar. Bishnoi's father joined the Haryana Police as a constable in 1992, but left job after five years and started farming.
On May 29, Moosewala was rubbed out by person or persons unknown in Punjab's Mansa district, a day after the state government curtailed his security cover.
The murder:
Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala shot dead day after security withdrawn
May 29
[OneIndia] Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala was rubbed out by person or persons unknown in Jawaharke village of Mansa district on Sunday. The incident took place a day after the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... government withdrew his security cover.
"Congress leader and Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala was brought dead," said Dr Ranjeet Rai, Civil Surgeon, Mansa Hospital.
"Three people were brought to the hospital, out of which Sidhu Moose Wala was dead. After giving primary treatment, the two injured have been referred to a higher institute for further treatment," he added.
Deputy Superintendent of Police (Mansa) Gobinder Singh told PTI that several bullets hit Moosewala, 27, who was in his jeep at village Jawahar Ke when he was attacked.
The singer had joined the Congress party in December last year. He had fought on the Congress ticket from Mansa assembly seat in the recent assembly election and was defeated by AAP's Dr Vijay Singla.
Sidhu Moose Wala, an Indian singer, rapper, songwriter and actor associated with Punjabi music and Punjabi cinema. He started his career as a songwriter for the song "License" by Ninja, and began his singing career on a duet song titled "G Wagon". Following his debut, he collaborated with Brown Boyz for various tracks which were released by Humble Music.
He gained wide attention with his track "So High". In fall 2018, he released his debut album PBX 1, which peaked at 66th on Billboard Canadian Albums chart.
He had faced legal challenges for promoting gun culture and using inflammatory and inciting lyrics in his songs.
[OneIndia] Born on 17 June 1993, Moosewala belongs to the Moosewala village which is situated in Punjab's Mansa district. His real name is Shubhdeep Singh. He an Indian singer, rapper, songwriter and actor associated with Punjabi music and Punjabi cinema.
Moosewala widely known for his 'gangster rap', hit the headlines for his controversial lyrical style, often promoting gun cultures, while also hurting religious sentiments.
Reportedly, Moose Wala has a rivalry with Karan Aujla; both have replied to each other through songs, social media handles and live performances.
AK-47 TRAINING
On 4 May 2020, Moose Wala's two videos went viral in which he was training to use an AK-47 with five police officers in one video, and a personal pistol in another.[54] Six police officials who assisted Moose Wala were suspended following the incident.
On 19 May, Moose Wala was booked under two sections of the arms act.
In July 2020, he released a single "Sanju", in which he compared his charges with Sanjay Dutt. Indian shooter Avneet Sidhu criticised Moose Wala for promoting gun culture. On the next day, case was registered on him for the song.
GLORIFICATION OF KHALISTANI MOVEMENT
In December 2020, Moose Wala released the single "Panjab: My Motherland", in which he glorified Khalistani separatist Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale. The song also includes visuals from a speech made by Khalistani supporter Bharpur Singh Balbir in the late 1980s.
"SCAPEGOAT" AND REOPENING OF 2020 ARMS ACT CASE
On 11 April 2022 Sidhu released a new song titled "Scapegoat" in which he laments his failure in the recent state assembly elections.Aam Aadmi Party alleged that the popular singer called the voters of Punjab "gaddar" (traitors) in the song for making AAP win.
He had fought on the Congress ticket from Mansa assembly seat in the recent assembly election and was defeated by AAP's Vijay Singla. Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, known as Sidhu Moosewala, was among the 424 people whose security was withdrawn by the Punjab Police on Saturday.
On Friday, Iraqi intelligence arrested a "dangerous terrorist" south of Baghdad.
The Iraqi Security Media Cell said that a joint force of intelligence and ground forces had arrested a prominent terrorist in the Radwaniyah area, south of Baghdad.
The detainee is nicknamed "Abu Miqdad" and "Abu Al-Sara." He held a position in the so-called Wilayat Al-Janoub (the South Sector), after which he was the commander of the divisions in the south of Baghdad.
He was handed over to the relevant authorities. The Cell said.
Yesterday, the Iraqi army arrested an ISIS leader on the outskirts of Baghdad. An official security source told Shafaq News Agency.
The 11th Division of the Army apprehended the so-called Emir Abu Qatar al-Iraqi while trying to reach the Iraqi capital.
The terrorist was handed over to the relevant authorities. The source said.
Earlier this week, the Iraqi Military Intelligence arrested an ISIS member west of Nineveh.
In a statement, the Agency said that the 15th Division, backed by the ground forces, raided the location of a terrorist in the village of Al-Sumoud in Zummar district, west of Nineveh, and arrested him.
The detainee is "an ISIS member working in the so-called Mutah Division – Wilayat Al-Jazira. His brother and son had worked with the terrorist organization, but the first was killed, and his son was arrested earlier.
On Saturday, the Iraqi forces apprehended four "terrorists" in the governorates of Kirkuk, Saladin, Maysan, and Nineveh.
Confirming that the original attack did, indeed, deserve to be posted on Page 1: War on Terror.
[BenarNews] BRN
...Barisan Revolusi Nasional, the largest group in the Thai insurgency in the southern Thai provinces that make up the old Patani sultanate...
separatists carried out a dramatic attack along the Malaysian border last week that shattered a nearly two-month pause in violence in Thailand’s Deep South, a pro-insurgent Facebook page and a Thai government peace negotiator claimed.
Three Thai government security personnel were maimed when more than 10 button men armed with assault rifles and grenades attacked a cop shoppe and a customs office in the Tak Bai district of Narathiwat province on May 25.
The lead negotiator representing Barisan Nasional Revolusi rebels in Malaysia-brokered peace talks with Thailand challenged Bangkok’s claim and questioned the validity of the social media post that his group was responsible for the raid.
"On the incident in Tak Bai, the BRN army launched attacks against the Siam military and destroyed cars. Thanks to God, with Allah’s grace, three Siam military personnel were maimed, and their spirits shaken," said a message posted on Facebook on Tuesday, referring to Thailand by its old name and the largest holy warrior group in the mainly Moslem and Malay southern border region.
Thai military officials identified the poster as a BRN supporter.
On Wednesday, Lt. Gen. Thira Daehwa, who serves as the secretary for the panel representing Thailand in the peace talks, said he "could not believe that the BRN ignored the local people’s wish for peace and livelihood."
"It is possible that the attack was meant to [the] ruin peace talks atmosphere and Ramadan peace," Thira told BenarNews.
Anas Abdulrahman, the lead negotiator for the BRN panel, denied that the rebels were responsible.
"The Thai military has no evidence whatsoever to accuse BRN because no one declared that they are responsible for the Tak Bai incident," Anas Abdulrahman told BenarNews.
"So the Thai military assumes that those with the capability and capacity to launch such an attack would be BRN, so they accused us. And the attack in Tak Bai will not affect the peace negotiation process because it happened after the Ramadhan Peace Initiative expired."
Anas also noted the Facebook post was not on the BRN’s official page.
"Any official announcement will only be issued by the BRN central secretariat, BRN Information Bureau and BRN Negotiation Secretariat. BRN will not be responsible for any type of statements, media or announcements coming from any other medium or parties besides the ones mentioned here," he said.
During the coordinated attack, the rebels hurled explosives and opened fire with automatic rifles at a marine cop shoppe on the Kolok River that separates Thailand from Malaysia, police said. The rebels also targeted a customs office and a convenience store.
The raid marked the biggest eruption of violence since the two sides agreed in early April to a truce to last through Ramadan. The truce expired May 14.
Lt. Gen. Kriangkrai Srirak, the commander of the 4th Army Region which oversees the Deep South, released details about the ongoing investigation on Wednesday.
"Regarding the Tak Bai incident, we have compiled evidence and done a forensic examination, which showed that the weapons used and bombs and pipe bombs were linked to holy warriors. The spent shell forensics also showed the same links," he told BenarNews.
Kriangkrai said the attackers attacked the marine cop shoppe because it was involved in recent crackdowns on illegal cross-border activities. He alleged that the suspected holy warriors, who have not been identified, have ties to criminal syndicates involved in smuggling drugs and illegal goods across the frontier.
"We have to arrest the attackers. They — the affected trafficking syndicate and the forces of Evil — are linked. We have evidence, and we won’t let them go unpunished," he said.
Malaysia has served as a controller of peace talks between the government and southern Thai rebels — most recently BRN. Facilitator Rahim Noor said more talks were scheduled for July.
Kriangkrai, the Thai regional army commander, said the attack would not affect efforts to bring peace to the Deep South.
"Peace talks will continue to allow people to have a better quality of life and safety to live a normal life," he said.
The armed separatist movement in the Deep South against Buddhist-majority Thailand began in the 1960s. Since the insurgency reignited in January 2004, more than 7,000 people have been killed and 13,500 others in regional violence, according to Deep South Watch, a local think-tank.
In light of the ongoing Turkish threats to launch a military escalation on north #Syria, an IDP from #Afrin was wounded in Turkish shelling of villages north of Aleppo. #Turkey#SNAhttps://t.co/AwueFtyJ8j
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) June 3, 2022
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Heavy Ottoman Turkish bombardment targeted northern Syria’s Mabij city overnight, its military council said on Friday, days after The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... said it was clearing the area from "terrorists."
Dozens of shells targeted villages and district Manbij in an offensive that started on late Thursday evening and continued until the morning hours of Friday, according to Manbij Military Council.
The council stated that the number of shells reached 120 and counting, but it did not report any casualties.
The recent bombardments come after Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important... on Wednesday said Ankara was clearing Tel Rifaat and Manbij from "terrorists," as a part of its new military operation in northern Syria.
Last week he hinted at a new military operation into northern Syria to create a 30 kilometre "security zone" along its southern border. It is presumably aimed to push back Kurdish fighters from the area.
Farhad Shami, head of the Syrian Democratic Forces' media office on Friday said Ankara had bombarded Tinnab village south of Afrin in northwest Syria, injuring one child and killing dozens of livestock.
The United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... on Thursday urged all parties to "exercise maximum restraint" in Syria.
Turkey has launched two offensives against Kurdish fighters in Syria since 2018. It alleges that the fighters are allied with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), an gang fighting for the increased rights of Kurds in Turkey and is viewed as a terrorist organization by Ankara.
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.
... a peculiarly brutal tribe of Moslem herdsmen infesting Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and probably other places that are light on law and order and heavy on tribal identity...
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it .jpg "Kashmir")
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
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...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
