[Rudaw] Fourteen people charged as accomplices to jihadists who carried out deadly bomb and gun attacks in Gay Paree in 2015 will go on trial in Belgium from Tuesday.
Proceedings will take place under high security in NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... 's former headquarters and are expected to last until May 20, with a verdict likely to take several more weeks.
They are happening in parallel with a trial in Gay Paree of 20 suspects charged in La Belle France, which opened in September and is expected to run until the end of June.
The November 2015 Gay Paree attacks saw 130 people killed, with 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 claiming responsibility.
Assailants set off suicide belts outside the Stade de La Belle France stadium, as a group of button men in a car cut down people outside restaurants and bars. Three jihadists then killed 90 people attending a performance at the popular Bataclan music venue.
Part of the attack was planned in Belgium, according to prosecutors.
The 14 accused in the Belgian trial -- 13 men and one woman -- are suspected of transporting, housing or financially helping some of the perpetrators of the attacks.
Charges include driving an alleged attacker to the airport for a trip to Syria.
Some of the suspects are close to Salah Abdeslam, a 32-year-old French national who is the only surviving suspected assailant after failing to set off his bomb belt. Abdeslam is on trial in Gay Paree.
Prosecutors allege they had knowledge of the jihadist group's intentions, or helped Abdeslam -- who was living in the Brussels neighborhood of Molenbeek -- go to ground in the four months following the attacks that he was a runaway.
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One of the suspects is Abid Aberkane, Abdeslam's cousin who lived nearby him in Molenbeek. He is charged with hiding Abdeslam at his mother's house in the days before his March 2016 arrest.
Others are friends of the attacks' criminal mastermind, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, or of two brothers who were jacket wallahs during later attacks in Brussels on March 22, 2016 that killed 32 people.
Another is Ibrahim Abrini, brother of Mohammed Abrini, an alleged assailant who decided not blow himself up during the part of the 2016 attack in Brussels' airport.
Ibrahim Abrini is suspected of helping his brother get to Syria in June 2015, by buying him a phone.
Two of the 14 suspects charged will be tried in absentia. The two, both Belgians, are thought to have died in Syria.
They are Sammy Djedou, whose death was announced by the Pentagon in December 2016, and Youssef Bazarouj, linked to the Islamic State group's external operations cell and who is believed to have been killed in combat.
Djedou, born to an Ivorian father, went to fight in Syria in October 2012. He is the only one in the trial to be described by prosecutors as a leader of a "terrorist group".
Most of the suspects are charged with "participating in the activities of a terrorist group", which carries punishment of up to five years in prison.
Two are to be tried on linked charges: one for allegedly violating laws on guns and explosives, and the other -- the only woman on trial -- for allegedly providing false identity documents to the assailants in Gay Paree and Brussels.
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[Dawn] Pakistain on Saturday strongly condemned Indian occupation forces’ relentless killing spree resulting in death of four more Kashmiri youth during this week in a staged cordon and search operation in Shopian district of the India-held Jammu and 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.... More than 576 innocent Kashmiris had been killed so far by the Indian occupation forces since India’s illegal and unilateral actions of Aug 5, 2019, the Foreign Office spokesperson said in a blurb.
The ongoing atrocities in the occupied valley have been intensified during the holy month of Ramazan and reflect India’s despicable policy of terrorising the population in a bid to perpetuate its systemic persecution of Kashmiris. The valiant Kashmiri youth are, however, resolutely committed to their just cause and no amount of brutalities can dampen their unbreakable resolve, it added.
The spokesperson said Pakistain reiterated its call for an investigation into extra-judicial killings in India-held Kashmir by the Commission of Inquiry as recommended by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in its Kashmir reports of 2018 and 2019.
[OneIndia] The banned outfit Sikhs for Justice has called for the merger of Haryana and Punjab.
Its proscribed chief, Gurpatwant Singh Pannu
...a lawyer who lives safely and comfortably in America, far from the ructions he incites and funds...
said that soon Haryana will be in the hands of the Khalistan's.
...the idea of an independent Sikh homeland in the Indian (and Pak, but they don't dwell on that) Punjab. The local troublemakers are financed by the Sikh diaspora, who love the idea of the folks they left behind murdering their neighbours before dying romantically for a hopeless idea, with training and additional funding from Pakistain’s ISI via Lashkar-e-Taiba as yet another arrow in their quiver aimed at the Indian throat since the 1980s....
Once he posted the video, it went viral on the social media. Penny threatened that Haryana will soon become part of Khalistan and will be merged with Punjab. He also said that in order to achieve this goal, Khalistan flags will be hoisted atop offices of the Deputy Commissioner of Gurgaon and Ambala on April 29.
Home Minister of Haryana, Anil Vij that he has taken serious note of the matter and order the state police chief to take appropriate action in this regard.
[IsraelTimes] Ynet report says 15-year-old girl’s dad, who told authorities she planned attack, used to live in Paleostinian village but moved to Israel after his identity was exposed
The father of a teenage girl arrested over a suspected terror stabbing in Haifa is a former Paleostinian informant for the Shin Bet security agency and Israel Defense Forces, according to a report Saturday.
The 15-year-old is suspected of stabbing a 47-year-old man on Friday, wounding him. Police, who said the suspect is a Haifa resident, have described the stabbing as a likely nationalist-motivated attack.
The man, also a local, was released Saturday from the northern city’s Rambam Medical Center. The hospital said he suffered several surface wounds that did not require surgery.
According to the Ynet news site, the suspect’s father previously assisted the IDF and Shin Bet but moved with his family from a village near the West Bank city of Tularkem to Haifa after his identity was exposed several years ago.
He also reportedly has a son and is raising his children alone following the death of his wife.
Shortly after the stabbing, police said the father had informed law enforcement that his daughter told him she intended to carry out an attack.
The news site reported that the girl admitted to Sherlocks that she wanted to stab Jews and quoted relatives saying she was incensed by images from festivities between Paleostinians and police on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City that morning.
The report said the father was briefly detained after the stabbing but later released.
[IsraelTimes] Mansour Abbas says events at Temple Mount on Friday ’were very difficult,’ but adds that his party is working to ’bring people together’
The head of the coalition’s Ra’am party
...the political party of the Southern Branch of the Islamic Movement, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in Israel. The militant arm is cleverly called the Northern Branch, because it’s based in Umm al Fahm in the Galilee...
said Saturday he and his party want to see the coalition succeed, and sought to downplay the prospects of Ra’am bolting the government over Israeli-Paleostinian festivities in Jerusalem.
[IsraelTimes] With no major incidents reported, defense minister and top military officials agree to not extend restrictions on Paleostinians at border crossings for remainder of Jewish festival.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli TV says Israel agreed to release those detained during Friday’s riots; no rockets were fired, but many Paleostinians remain detained
Egypt talked down the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, terror group from potentially firing rockets at Israel following Friday’s violence at the Temple Mount, where hundreds of Paleostinians clashed with Israeli police, according to a Saturday report.
Channel 12 news reported, without citing a source, that indications from the Hamas-run 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 were that the festivities at the al-Aqsa Mosque could have escalated into a full-blown conflict.
The network claimed that Hamas would have likely fired rockets at Israel over the violent mostly peacefulfestivities in which over 158 Paleostinians were hurt and 470 were arrested.
Egyptian intelligence officials then stepped in to try to deescalate the tensions, the report said.
Citing unspecified Arab media reports, Channel 12 said Israel agreed to Egyptian proposals to release those detained during the festivities in exchange for Hamas not escalating the situation.
No rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip following the festivities, and at least 130 rioters remained detained as of Saturday night.
[IsraelTimes] No confirmation of assertion in state media by senior Russian military official, in comments made the same day Moscow lashed out at Israel over its statements on Ukraine invasion
A Russian military official claimed Syrian air defenses intercepted a missile that Israeli fighter jets allegedly fired at a target near Damascus Thursday night.
Rear Admiral Oleg Zhuravlev, one of Russia’s top commanders in Syria, said two Israeli F-16s flying over the Golan Heights each fired a precision-guided missile, according to state news agency TASS.
He added that the Syrian military shot down one of the missiles using a Russian-made Buk-2ME system, while the other struck a warehouse, causing damage but no injuries.
There was no independent confirmation of Zhuravlev’s claim. Damascus and Moscow, which is fighting on behalf of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Trampler of Homs... in the country’s civil war, regularly assert that Syria intercepts Israeli missiles, though military analysts doubt such claims.
Zhuravlev’s comments were reported by TASS on the same day that the Russian Foreign Ministry lashed out at Foreign Minister Yair Lapid after Israel joined other countries in voting to suspend Russia from the UN Human Rights Council, though it was not clear if they were linked.
Russia has previously publicly expressed "deep concern" over the Israeli strikes, which have continued despite the Russian criticism and Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... Russia — which intervened militarily on Assad’s behalf in 2015 — has also pledged coordination with Israel in order to continue to prevent their forces from clashing in Syria.
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...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 
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
[OneIndia] The banned outfit Sikhs for Justice has called for the merger of Haryana and Punjab.
[IsraelTimes] With no major incidents reported, defense minister and top military officials agree to not extend restrictions on Paleostinians at border crossings for remainder of Jewish festival.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli TV says Israel agreed to release those detained during Friday’s riots; no rockets were fired, but many Paleostinians remain detained
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
