[Dawn] The man accused of murdering UK politician David Amess in a church last year said in court on Thursday that he was motivated by a grievance against politicians who voted to bomb Syria.
Ali Harbi Ali,
...Somali-Brit who first decided to kill a politician in the name of ISIS, then settled on Sir David....
26, is accused of stabbing Amess more than 20 times with a foot-long carving knife in Leigh-on-Sea, southeast England, in October 2021.
The university drop-out told London’s Old Bailey court that he "decided to do it because I felt that if I could kill someone who made decisions to kill Moslems, it could prevent further harm to those Moslems".
Frustrated that he could not get out to Syria and fight himself, Ali told jurors: "I decided if I couldn’t.... help the Moslems (in Syria), I would do something here". He targeted Amess because he had voted in favour of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s against the fighters of the krazed killerIslamic 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 in Syria in 2015.
Asked what he hoped the killing would achieve, Ali said: "For one, he can’t vote again...and perhaps send a message to his colleagues." Ali’s other targets included Cabinet minister Michael Gove, according to a note found on his phone.
"That was plans I had to attack and hopefully kill Michael Gove at the time. "I believe he was someone who was a harm to Moslems," he added.
LONG-SERVING MP
Ali, from north London, arranged an appointment with Amess, 69, by telling the politician’s office that he was a healthcare worker and wished to talk about local issues. Amess, a father-of-five, was a long-serving member of parliament for Prime Minister Boris Johnson ...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies.... ’s ruling Conservative party. Prosecutor Tom Little earlier told court that Ali had been determined to carry out a terror attack "for a number of years", and had bought the knife allegedly used to kill the politician in 2016.
Ali was spotted outside other MPs’ constituency offices while mobile phone data placed him near parliament seven times between July and September 2021, Little has noted.
The killing of Amess, the second of a British MP within five years, shocked the country and led to calls for better security for elected representatives. In 2016, a right-wing bad boy who shouted "Britannia first" shot and stabbed Labour politician Jo Cox to death in the febrile run-up to the Brexit referendum.
A post-mortem examination showed Amess suffered 21 stab wounds to his face, arms, legs and torso, as well as injuries to both hands that were consistent with defending himself, the court heard.
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NN2N1, that would probably be reported as Islamophobia.
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what if we started using the Religious/Racist logic used by Ali Harbi Ali?
It's what we do in India, China, Thailand, Myanmar, Srilanka, Phillipines. Mauritius and Japan are a bit humane about it. Heck, even the UAE have a systemized way of keeping the wild ones constantly scavenging for mere sustenance. And you have to snoop on the bastards all the time, try and find ways to screw 'em out of their 'rights'. And deep six them on trumped up charges, any way possible, just to keep the populations within a certain ratio. It is an emotional drain as well to stoop to the level of inhumanity needed for this. But you do it, because you are the lesser evil.
Diyala has completed the first phase of the plan devised to secure the villages of al-Abbara, northeast Baqubah, Diyala's capital city, al-Abbara administrator Shaker Mazen al-Tamimi said on Thursday.
In a statement to Shafaq News Agency, al-Tamimi said, "the security authorities installed thermographic surveillance cameras in twelve villages on the outskirts of the sub-district to detect the movements of ISIS militants and help abort their attacks."
"The first phase of the comprehensive security plan has been completed. This phase covers 15 kilometers. Further phases are underway to deter their hit-and-run attacks," he continued, "blitz and hit-and-run attacks have become their last desperate weapon."
A Yazidi teenager returned to his family in Sinjar two months after being kidnapped by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
A local source told Shafaq News Agency that "the Kurdistan Workers' Party had kidnapped the young man and moved him to the Qandil Mountains to train him to become a fighter in its ranks."
"Idel Khalil Khalaf, 17, from north of Sinjar, returned to his home after his family demanded from the Iraqi army to pressure the Kurdistan Workers Party to release him." He added.
Sinjar is the historic homeland of the Yazidi ethnoreligious minority group and is located in northwestern Iraq near the Syrian border.
The PKK has been designated a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States, and the European Union.
[AlAhram] Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... on Wednesday said it has sent documents on its undeclared nuclear facilities to the UN atomic watchdog, bringing it a step closer to reviving its 2015 nuclear accord.
Iran has restricted some inspections by the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which had previously called on Tehran to resolve questions surrounding the previous presence of nuclear material at undeclared sites.
"We provided on March 20 the documents that we had to send to the IAEA," said Mohammad Eslami, the head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran.
He added in a news conference that "most likely, the agency's representatives will come to Iran to review the responses and then prepare their final report".
An agreement that was reached between Iran and the IAEA in March "seeks to resolve the issues regarding four sites", Eslami said.
"The ambiguity over one of the locations has been resolved so far, and we are hopeful that (outstanding issues concerning) the other three sites will be closed" by June 21, he added.
On March 5, IAEA chief Rafael Grossi visited Iran and said the agency and Tehran had agreed on an approach for resolving issues crucial to reviving the country's nuclear accord with world powers.
Eslami's remarks come as talks in Vienna to restore the 2015 deal, known formally as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), have been on pause for nearly a month.
The deal gave Iran sanctions relief in exchange for curbs on its nuclear programme to guarantee that Tehran could not develop a nuclear weapon -- something it has always denied wanting to do.
But the US unilaterally withdrew from the accord in 2018 and reimposed biting economic sanctions, prompting Iran to begin rolling back on its own commitments the following year.
The negotiations that started about a year ago involve Iran as well as La Belle France, Germany, Britannia, Russia and China directly, and the United States indirectly.
But talks were halted on March 11 after Russia demanded guarantees that Western sanctions imposed following its invasion of Ukraine would not damage its trade with Iran.
Days later, Moscow said it had received the necessary guarantees, but the impasse has continued as Tehran and Washington have traded accusations over the causes of the delay.
[Dawn] A French journalist held by the bad boyIslamic 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 in Syria has testified that he and other hostages were forced by their captors to sing a depraved parody of the Eagles song "Hotel Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party," called "Hotel Osama".
"It was terrifying for us, a joke for them," Nicolas Henin said at the trial of El Shafee Elsheikh, a 33-year-old former British national, on Wednesday.
Elsheikh is accused of involvement in the murders of American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and aid workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig. Henin is one of several former hostages who have testified at the trial in federal court of the alleged member of the notorious IS kidnap-and-murder cell known as the "Beatles".
Henin said the words to "Hotel Osama" included the original lyrics from "Hotel California" about checking in but never leaving, but with a twist.
"If you try, you’ll die Mr Bigley style," the lyrics went, a reference to British engineer Kenneth Bigley, who was beheaded in 2004 by Jordanian Abu Musab Zarqawi, head of the Al Qaeda terror network in Iraq.
Henin said he was captured in June 2013 on his fifth reporting trip to Syria. He was held alone for two days in a bathroom but managed to escape by breaking bars on the windows with a broom.
After running the whole night, he arrived at a village at dawn and spoke to two men in pyjamas.
"Unfortunately, they were IS fighters," he said. Returned to captivity, he was beaten and taken outside and "hung in the air for a couple of hours" with his hands and feet chained together.
Henin was later placed with other hostages, including Frenchie Pierre Torres and Danish photographer Daniel Rye Ottenson. British aid worker David Haines and Italian relief worker Federico Motka arrived later.
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Jokes like that won’t seem as funny in hell. I’m sure there will be a soundtrack there. My goal is not to discover whether the Pina Colada Song made the playlist.
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