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Afghanistan
Prominent Cleric Slain in Kabul is Buried in Nangarhar
Yesterday he suffered a classic Nangarhar Peer Review. This is the traditional follow up.
[ToloNews] The body of the famous holy man, Sheikh Sardar Wali Saqib, who according to relatives was killed by unknown gunnies in Kabul, was buried on Thursday in Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province.

Other holy mans who participated in the funeral ceremony of Saqib called on the Islamic Emirate to identify the killers of Saqib.

"When my friends were informed, we called him. His phones were off. When it was 9 pm we opened the room and he was martyred there," said Mohammad Wali, brother of Saqib.

"He has done good religious service here. His lessons will be published on the internet and Facebook," said Abdul Wadod, a teacher at a religious seminary.

The funeral ceremony was held in Jalalabad city.

"I call on the Islamic Emirate officials to immediately and effectively prevent the plots of the enemies of Islam," said Mawlawi Bayanullah Hameed, a holy man.

The Ministry of Interior in a statement confirmed the killing of Saqib in PD 5 of Kabul.

The head of the intelligence department of Nangarhar, Dr. Basheer, said that the issue is being investigated.

"This action has been taken by the enemies of the Islamic holy mans and they try to cause disunity among our people, they are the people outside of Islam," he said.

Mawlawi Sheikh Sardar Wali Saqib is from Khogiano district of eastern Nangarhar province.

He had recently worked as the head of the Naranjbagh Darol Ulom in Jalalabad.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/16/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA


Africa North
Libya lifts force majeure on oil production in end to blockade
Reducing the need for Russian oil, at least so long as the desire for the money flowing into Libya keeps them from fighting among themselves enough to damage the equipment or cause a temper tantrum that shuts it all down again.
[DW] Tribal groups have agreed to end a blockade of Libya's oil production facilities after Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
installed a new leader at the National Oil Company (NOC). The move comes amid high global demand for oil.


Libya's National Oil Company (NOC) on Friday announced it had lifted force majeure on the country's oil fields and ports. Force majeure allows a firm to get out of contractual obligations due to unforeseen circumstances.
add: Beyond their control
The announcement followed a decision by tribal groups to drop a monthslong blockade of facilities after the government in Tripoli appointed Farhat Bengdara as new head of the NOC Thursday.

The groups, which are aligned with military strongman Khalifa Hifter, leader of the eastern Libyan National Army (LNA), had reduced Libyan oil output by as much as 850,000 barrels per day (bpd), according to the NOC.

Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah of Libya's Government of National Unity (GNU) appointed Bengdara to replace Mustafa Sanalla, who had led the NOC since 2014.

Sanalla vehemently rejected the appointment, claiming Dbeibah did not have the authority to fire him and that the company still answered to him. The country's eastern parliament, too, has rejected the move.

Observers fear the situation could lead to a fracturing of the NOC, with the US warning the situation could lead to conflict.

DEAL ALLOWS PM DBEIBAH TO STAY IN POWER
Bengdara, an ally of Hifter, met with the tribal leaders behind the blockade and his appointment is largely seen as part of an agreement with Hifter to end the standoff.

On Thursday, Bengdara spoke at NOC headquarters in Tripoli, saying: "It's vitally important under the current conditions that Libya regains its oil and gas export capacity as quickly as possible. The oil sector has fallen prey to political struggles, but we will work to prevent political interference."

The tribal groups had reportedly been seeking the resignation of Prime Minister Dbeibah, who on Thursday appeared at NOC headquarters alongside armed forces, but decided to stop the blockade after Sanalla's firing.

Sanalla's replacement was reported to have been one of groups' demands, the other was that Dbeibah himself step down in favor of Fathi Bashaga, whom parliament had designated to replace him. Dbeibah, however, has refused to give way and Sanalla's firing is seen as a move that will enable him to remain in power.

The lifting of the export halt comes as countries around the world scramble to secure oil and gas supplies amid rising prices and limited availability due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Last year, Libyan oil production at times reached 1.2 billion bpd. The country possesses Africa's largest proven reserves of crude and has easy access to European markets.

Posted by: trailing wife || 07/16/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:


Great White North
Man acquitted in 1985 Air India plane bombing shot dead in Canada
Khalistani nonsense or related Sikh gangster stuff?
[GreaterKashmir] Ripudaman Singh Malik, who was acquitted on charges of bombing an Air India plane killing 329 people on board, has been rubbed out in British Columbia, according to media reports.

Malik was killed as he sat inside his car in the Vancouver suburb of Surrey on Thursday, the Vancouver Sun reported.

Malik and a Babbar Khalsa
...more fully Babbar Khalsa International, one of the Khalistan independence groups who hope to somehow create a Sikh homeland in the Indian Punjab through anti-Indian terror and lawfare, funded by the Sikh diaspora and trained and guided as a project of Pakistan’s ISI...
associate, Ajaib Singh Bagri, were acquitted by a British Columbia Supreme Court
...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
judge of murder and conspiracy charges in the terrorist kaboom that brought down Air India's Kanishka, a Boeing 747 aircraft, over the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland in 1985.

Bombs had been planted in the luggage on that plane.

The explosives in the second plane went off at Tokyo airport killing two baggage handlers rather than mid flight.

The terrorist attack on Air India, the worst in aviation history but for the 9/11 attacks, is a shameful taint on Canada's record because it could not bring the perpetrators fully to justice.

Only one person, the bomb-maker Inderjit Singh Reyat was convicted in connection with the attack after he pleaded guilty to manslaughter in 2003 but got off lightly.

He was sentenced to nine years in prison and was released in 2016.

Reyat was also convicted of perjury for lying when he testified in the trial of Malik and Bagri.

The Sun site quoted Integrated Homicide Investigation Team Sergeant Timothy Pierotti as saying, "We are aware of Mr. Malik's background, though at this time we are still working to determine the motive".

He said that the police were confident that there were witnesses who could help with the investigation.

Retired Royal Canadian Mounted Police Deputy Commissioner Gary Bass, who had overseen the investigation into the terrorist attack, indicated to the Sun that Malik had many enemies.

"I'm not privy to the ongoing investigations on Malik right now, but I can say that from years when I was (investigating) that he was involved in a number of activities that might bring him into conflict with other people," the former official of Canada's federal police told the Sun.

CTV News reported that a vehicle was found engulfed in flames near the site of the shooting and that it was believed to be associated with Malik's killing.

The Canada Broadcasting Corporation reported that a witness said he heard three shots and pulled Malik from his red Tesla bleeding from a neck wound.

Malik "was acquitted because there were some mistakes during the investigation, the agencies made some mistakes and the courts couldn't find him guilty," Rob Alexander, whose father, Mathew Alexander, died in the terrorist attack told CTV News.

Alexander, who is a member of the Air India Victims' Family Association, added, "Do we get closure from what happened today? Not really. In the end, your loved one's not coming back".

The Sun said that after his acquittal Malik ran a banking outfit, Khalsa Credit Union, and the Satnam Education Society which runs several "Khalsa schools".

He also ran a clothing company, Papillon Eastern Imports, in whose parking lot he was killed.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/16/2022 01:03 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1  OK, 3 things here.

1. Canada has much stricter gun laws than the United States. Therefore, we see another example of how stricter gun controls, only disarm Honest citizens, allowing the criminal element to have greater safety in its operations against citizens.

2. Without a swiftly and judiciously applied Death Penalty, Mass Murders get free Room and Board at the expense of Taxpayers and yes even the families of the victims help pay for their up keep.

Karma is sometimes slow, but will tap the earner on the shoulder better and harder than any Politically Correct handed out social justice ever will.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/16/2022 8:17 Comments || Top||

#2  I thought they had tight gun control in Canada? Or, just on law abiding citizens like here (Chicago, NYC, et al)?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/16/2022 8:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Malik was one of the old guard of the Babbar Khalsa. For years, Malik tried to ingratiate himself with the conservative party, playing in leagues too big for him. Only an independent and fair investigation can expose how much the khalistanis, who are in a way proxies of the Pakistain ISI, are embedded and symbiotically entwined with Canadian politics today. I'm guessing, a lot. Simply put, there's too many sikhs and pakis in Canada. Anyway.

This article tries to delve into the rot.

Last month Malik began feeling so safe in Trudeau's la la land, he tried to praise Modi, the Indian PM, for some freebies and sops he'd given to sikhs, just for being sikhs. Don't ask... man's as big a socialist wuss as any.

Now, Malik has made a lot of money in Canada and has investments in local businesses from transport to real estate. He was in a happy place. But the cab drivers and plumbers and random mustachioed roustabouts, the have-nots who are led on these 'revolutions'? What of them? They see this rich old fcuker, tweeting and talking nice about the enemy on teevee. What do they do? He's a pariah isn't he? Besides, the movement needs new blood and complacent sikhs a fresh taste of terror.

As the larger sikh clans in Canada give way to nuclear families in an unforgiving economy, and each successive generation of canadian sikhs learns to put their individual interests ahead of this garibaldi bearded tomfoolery for the elders, interest for khalistan has waned. Progress, economic, social, psychological, will do that to you.

The khalsa terrorists in Canada are just trying to police their community, spread fear and drum up unquestioned loyalty with these actions. They want all sikhs in canada to live in absolute fealty to them, vote as per their commands, be ready to boycott, riot, rally around, whatever... on command. Kind of like the muzz.

If the canadians are smart they'll crack down on them, and by that I mean kill a few. Just for the fcuk of it. Let there be a small Sikh lives matter thingy, then kill some more, and they'll be okay. But of course, no body listens...
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/16/2022 9:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Shot dead? That's inconceivable!
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/16/2022 10:12 Comments || Top||

#5 
Posted by: Frank G || 07/16/2022 10:38 Comments || Top||

#6  The Indian government intelligence agencies can play the long game
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 07/16/2022 11:54 Comments || Top||

#7  Many thanks for the leg up, Frank G.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/16/2022 16:09 Comments || Top||

#8  Karma. Beem expecting this ever since the 747 went KABLOOIE!!!
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 07/16/2022 23:46 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Ghazwa-e-Hind to Hinduphobia: The larger goal Islamists want to achieve
[OneIndia]The destruction of India has always been on the agenda of Jihadi elements and there have often been call for Ghazwa-e-Hind. Now a report confirms that hate speeches against the Hindu community has also risen sharply on social media

Ghazwa-e-Hind, which Pakistani terrorists have used against India for several decades came back in a big way into the narrative following the decision by the Narendra Modi government to abrogate Article 370.

The destruction of India has always been on the agenda of Jihadi elements and clarion call for Ghazwa-e-Hind has been given several times. Amidst this, Bihar police read out an excerpt from an eight-page document titled 'India Vision 2047' on Wednesday. Reading out the excerpt attributed to the PFI, the police said, "Even if 10 per cent Muslim population rally behind the vision, then they could subjugate the coward majority community and bring back the glory."

This revelation came at a time when the Rutgers University said in its latest report that hate speech directed towards the Hindu community has increased significantly across social media.

The report titled: 'Anti-Hindu Disinformation: A Case Study of Hinduphobia on Social Media' discusses about the patterns in which hate against the Hindu community is being spread. The members of the Network Contagion Lab at Rutgers University-New Brunswick (NC Lab) said that there was evidence of a sharp rise in hate speech directed towards the Hindu community across numerous social media platforms.

An Intelligence Bureau official tells OneIndia that there has been a systematic attempt for several years now to subjugate the Hindu community in India. We saw what happened in Kashmir and the manner in which the Kashmiri Pandits were treated, the officer said while adding that this was also part of the Ghazwa-e-Hind plan.

The issue was also discussed by Ilyas Kashmiri the head of the Al-Qaeda's 313 Brigade ahead of the Mumbai 26/11 attacks. Following the attacks, the ISI had tasked Kashmiri to oversee the Karachi Project in order to achieve the larger goal of Ghazwa-e-Hind. He trained several terrorists at the Mangala dam near Islamabad. Several operative were sent to Gujarat and Kashmir with the instruction to carry out blasts across the country and instil fear among the Hindus.

Some instances of achieving the larger goals both in a conventional as well as unconventional manner are the targeted killing of Hindus, the anti Hindu and the propaganda around Hinduphobia, anti- CAA protests, the recent riots just to name a few.

At a July meeting of the Al Qaeda last year, the Ghazwa-e-Hind was the main topic of discussion. It was said that the first priority would be to take over Kashmir and once this was done the entire map of India would be changed. On the Kashmir issue the leaders of the outfit said that Kashmiris had been fighting the Hindus even before the birth of Pakistan. Islam and Kashmir and Islam and Pakistan are not separate, they said.

Last year when the Uttar Pradesh police busted a terror module and arrested two operatives. It was revealed that they belonged to the Al Qaeda's Ghazwa-e-Hind module. The two members of the group identified as Minhaz Ahmed and Maseeruddin revealed that they were told by their handlers to strike terror in India as part of the larger plan of Ghazwa-e-Hind. They even spoke about a resolution by the Al Qaeda that was passed in the Okara district of Pakistan in 2017. The outfit had decided that they would continue with their Ghazwa-e-Hind operation irrespective of how ties between India and Pakistan would be.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/16/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent

#1  subjugate the coward majority community and bring back the glory.

Seriously, if the civ leadership here was not paranoid about displeasing all the 'gora sahibs' out there? This country would reduce its moslem population to 1-2% in a year. And all by citizens.

Partly the reason why Asian governments are secretly looking forward to the LSDs and the globalists dragging the west down the spiral it's in. The US and EU are the primary protectors of moslems, they stand in our way of kill kill killing them. It's unfortunate. Really unfortunate. But the humanistic philosophies ingrained in the UDHR and other trite inanities like it have led the west into some kind of Aldous Huxley wonderland where secularism is sacrosanct and islam can be safely accommodated with humanity.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/16/2022 6:25 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
NSC chief Hulata confirms Israeli ops in Iran in 2022
[Jpost] The NSC chief made it clear that Israel would act independently against the Islamic Republic regardless of Washington's view on the issue.

National Security Adviser Eyal Hulata, head of the National Security Council, on Thursday night became the first senior Israeli official to publicly confirm Israeli operations within Iranian territory in 2022.

“We have acted not infrequently over the last year... in Iran,” he said in an interview with Channel 13 in response to a series of questions about whether Jerusalem would act against Tehran directly even in the face of pressure from the US not to rock the boat too much while nuclear negotiations are ongoing.

Israel would act independently against the Islamic Republic regardless of Washington’s view on the issue, Hulata said, adding that this would just be a continuation of what it has already done for the last year.

Although multiple top officials have previously confirmed Mossad operations in Iran in 2022, and the Iranians themselves and sometimes US sources have made such attributions, Hulata was the first to go public.

IRANIAN TARGETS
No fewer than seven top Iranian nuclear, aerospace, drone and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officials were killed from late April to early June in a stunning wave of assassinations attributed by Iran to the Mossad, rivaling a wave of operations also attributed by foreign sources to the agency against Tehran in 2020 under former Mossad director Yossi Cohen and in the 2000s under Meir Dagan.

The operations all came after the US announced it would not delist the IRGC from its Foreign Terrorist Organizations list and during a multi-month freeze in nuclear negotiations.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/16/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Turkey Seeks To Hit Efforts To Defeat Terrorism – Mazloum Abdi
Posted by: badanov || 07/16/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [21 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Iran unveils first drone carrier fleet
Traditional Iranian vapourware, cardboard cutouts, or real? Your guess is as good as mine, dear Reader.
[Rudaw] Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
unveiled its first fleet of naval vessels capable of carrying combat drones on Friday, as US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity, except maybe for abandoning Afghanistan...
continues his Middle East tour.

The Iranian navy unveiled their latest up-to-date technological achievements in the field of combat, consisting of ships, submarines, and drones, equipped to provide a response in case "a mistake is made by the enemies" of Iran, according to the Commander-in-chief of the Iranian army Abdolrahim Mousavi, who was present during the ceremony.

Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid signed a strategic declaration on Thursday, pledging to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

Prior to Biden’s visit to Tel Aviv, AFP reported that the Israeli army will introduce the American president to their newest technological invention, anti-drone lasers, which they deemed "essential to confronting Iran."

The US president will continue his four-day trip to the Middle East, as he is set to arrive in Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
on Friday and attend a summit with some of the region’s leaders the day after.

"Today, we witnessed the accomplishment of new achievements in the field of defense industry by the expert and committed youth of our country, which this time was manifested in the very important field of drones," state media cited Shahram Irani, commander of Iran’s strategic naval forces as saying.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Friday tweeted that Iran will not compromise its rights in the negotiations with the US to revive the nuclear deal, adding that "the puppet show of the White House and Zionism [Israel] in the region makes us more determined."

Washington and Tehran have held talks for over a year aimed at reviving the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which former US President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
withdrew from in 2018, but have not yielded much result.

Iran insists that the US removes its sanctions on the country, including those on Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which Washington has listed as a terror group.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/16/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [22 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Your guess is as good as mine, dear Reader.

I would guess that Putin didn't travel to inspect mockups.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/16/2022 10:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Whenever I think of the Iranian naval forces, I think of the Monty Python sketch on camouflage techniques. This innovation will extend the length of the conflict with us by either 30 seconds or 5 minutes depending on whether they are stupid enough to put the controllers for the drones on the carriers. Note - my estimate does not include the time associated with humanitarian rescue operations. My message to Adorable Mouseketeer is to wear his floaters at all times.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/16/2022 12:17 Comments || Top||

#3  One B-21 out of Diego. Grand tour of Iran. Good bet that in 2026 the Russians will not be in a position to even "protest" at the UN about it.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/16/2022 12:28 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ ...I was thinking what would happen as one of our electronic warfare (EW) planes gets within range and starts Active Jamming. *Zorch* Drones falling out of the sky like snowflakes and if they have "return to launch point" that could be even more entertaining is a ship launched them.
Posted by: magpie || 07/16/2022 20:21 Comments || Top||


Kurdish commander says ISIS plans to attack key IDP camp in Rojava
[Rudaw] Mazloum Abdi, General Commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), warned on Friday that 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....
(ISIS) is planning to attack the notorious al-Hol camp in northeast Syria (Rojava) if The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
launches a new offensive against the SDF, based on intelligence shared by the global coalition against the group.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/16/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Terror Networks
‘Terrorism financing is something everyone needs to be aware of, money laundering especially’


French senator Nathalie Goulet's book outlines how holy warriors use bitcoin, chocolate and counterfeiting trades to launder money

From art and antiquities to cryptocurrency or crowdfunding, one of La Belle France’s leading security experts has written a book that calls for action against the financing tools exploited by terrorists.

Senator Nathalie Goulet has spent the past decade working on the terror threat in La Belle France, gaining insight into the extent of terrorist infiltration of lucrative markets.

"You have art, arms and drugs but you also have things that are not often known, like counterfeiting, crowdfunding and cryptocurrency," she told The National.

"Terrorism financing is something everyone needs to be aware of, money laundering especially. It opens the door to financing terrorism. It is a reality and we need to work on it.

Ms Goulet spent years studying the Moslem Brüderbund and its European links and has used her experience to write a book dedicated to the funding mechanisms used by terrorists.

The Alphabet of Terrorism Financing is an A-Z analysing the various strategies used by turbans.

"It’s a dictionary of the tools used by holy warriors to finance terrorism," she said. "It is from the work I have done over the years on terrorism. I wanted to write a book on the subject. I chose to shape it as a dictionary so it is clear and academic.

"It is a major subject for the international community. What’s important for me is for governments and heads of state to understand the links between money laundering and the financing of terrorism. It’s like a big sponge."

Six months after the shocking Charlie Hebdo
...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
attacks in La Belle France, Ms Goulet co-chaired an inquiry into turban networks and later wrote a report for NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
on the financing of terrorism.

HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CRYPTOCURRENCY HELPING TO FUND TERROR
The book covers 47 methods being used by turbans.

"The holy warriors are very creative," Ms Goulet said. "There is always someone running faster and it is never the politicians.

"The art trade, online money pots, counterfeiting, consumer credit and even the purchase of chocolate are all unsuspected channels through which terrorist organizations finance their projects.

"One of the lesser known revenues is counterfeiting. It may seem a small thing buying a fake pair of shoes or a bag but in fact counterfeiting creates a very, very big network of financing terrorism."

Describing terrorist financing as a multibillion-pound industry, the author said bully boyz could be highly creative and opportunistic.

"They are ready to fill the gap," she said. "Recently we saw examples of this in Covid when fake tests were being sold.

"Another issue is human trafficking — it is growing and growing — and organ trafficking. We have seen examples of all of this being used to fund terrorism. Other trends we are seeing are cryptocurrencies being used for money laundering and crowdfunding sites."

Last August, 23 tonnes of chocolate bars were seized by Israeli authorities, who believe the haul was intended to fund Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,.

LOW-COST TERRORISM MAKING FIGHT EVEN HARDER
Ms Goulet said a major issue for governments was the low cost of terrorism.

In recent years, atrocities across Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
have been committed by ploughing vehicles into crowds.

Despite the US September 11 attacks costing $500,000 to plan and execute, European terrorism tends to cost substantially less.

The London transport bombings in July 2005 were estimated to have cost $12,000, the Gay Paree terrorist attacks in November 2015 in which 130 people were killed cost $8,000 and the Charlie Hebdo killings $5,000.

"Terrorist activities in Europe do not require lots of expenses," Ms Goulet said. "To become a foreign terrorist fighter, it rarely takes more than a plane ticket for The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
"You can buy an automatic rifle AK-47 for less than €2,000 [$2,003] and a pistol costs even cheaper. The cost of buying a knife or renting a vehicle is negligible.

"Fighting the war on terror requires an enormous expenditure of money but conducting a terrorist operation can be surprisingly inexpensive, and inventive holy warriors use every means at their disposal to raise funds and move money, from petty crime to bitcoins to legitimate charities.

"Tracking such small amounts is akin to finding a needle in a haystack. But these small amounts add up and this is where we need to be concerned.

"Committing an attack costs less and less. Faced with this low-cost terrorism, only the monitoring of weak signals makes it possible to identify atypical operations and go back to organised networks.

"Stemming this shifting and opportunistic phenomenon requires a relentless fight against fraud, tax evasion and money laundering.

"This low-cost terrorism is becoming more and more difficult to fight."

MONEY LAUNDERING EXPECTED TO DOUBLE BY 2027
Ms Goulet is hoping her book will reinforce the importance of monitoring money launderers and their criminal operations.

"We have a really big issue regarding money laundering," she said.

"It is difficult to monitor and trace where the money is going. The UAE does a lot and has set up a special community to match international regulations for money laundering. As an international community we need to work together to tackle it."

In the first six months of 2022, the UAE's anti-money laundering task force imposed fines of more than $11m in the fight to rein in illicit financial activity.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/16/2022 02:11 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Does the book explore late-night planes dropping pallets of cash to the “Death to Americal” Iranian regime?
Posted by: Airandee || 07/16/2022 6:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Curious how after the Magic Kenyan, Holder et al began salting the federal government, and especially the Intel/LE portions of it, the whole focus on Muslim Hawala banking seemed to slowly fade into silence. In my era, the Paki's especially were practitioners for all sorts of criminal behavior, but these days, nary a whisper in public view. "They are Muslim and black you know" words from a DHS senior intel analyst over beers as a cautionary reminder when I was pressing about Hawala's and the Somali kleptocratic family colony in Hayward California, circa 2010.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/16/2022 11:10 Comments || Top||

#3  They’re only Black here. Back home they are white members of the Master Religion, just with a bit of a suntan.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/16/2022 16:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Beggar mafias in third world countries. India, Bangladesh, Srilanka, African nations, Pakistain... Generate about $10-12 billion a year. Almost all run by Moslems. They've cornered the trade in every country they can by now.

The vilest trade after forced prostitution and trafficking. Children are bred to beg. Children are abducted from orphanages, maternity wards schools, when the 'crop' falls short. Often they are tortured and mutilated, crippled or blinded by the gangs. The gangs pay off local law enforcement, health and women&child rights inspectors, even murder whistleblowers and activists trying to stop it. Everyone from bottom to top including commissioners and councillors get their cut.

And that's just one source.

Counterfeit currencies is another, the 'Stain specializes in this.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/16/2022 16:48 Comments || Top||



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