[PULSE.NG] A South African businessman held in Mozambique on suspicion of being a jihadist leader has died in hospital under mysterious circumstances, his wife and a medical source told AFP on Wednesday.
Andre Mayer Hanekom, 61, was admitted to a hospital in the northern town of Palma on Saturday after having convulsions and bleeding under the skin, his wife Francis said.
His wife saw him on Sunday but said he was unable to speak. She said prison staff told her he had suffered a fall.
She said she had been informed of his death early on Wednesday.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, a medical source confirmed Hanekom had died late on Tuesday, saying he had "been in a coma since the weekend".
But he did not specify the cause of death, and there was no immediate word from South Africa's foreign ministry.
Hanekom, who ran a maritime business in Palma, was incarcerated ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... in August alongside two locals and two Tanzanians, with prosecutors accusing them of being part of a jihadist group.
All five were faced with a string of charges, including murder, crimes against the state and inciting civil disobedience.
His wife saw him on Sunday but said he was unable to speak. She said prison staff told her he had suffered a fall. "He fell down the stairs, repeatedly"
"But this is a single story building?"
"You heard me"
On the same day, the South African foreign ministry confirmed it had received word from Mozambique's high commissioner that Hanekom was "well".
Visiting him again on Tuesday, Francis Hanekom said he had shown signs of improvement.
"He was actually better, he was awake. He was able to move in his bed -- and this morning he is dead," she told AFP, saying she suspected foul play.
Hanekom was named by prosecutors as one of the leaders of a jihadist group operating in Mozambique's gas-rich north, alongside two Tanzanian nationals and two locals.
They accused him of managing the group's logistics among other charges rubbished by his wife as "nonsense".
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[PULSE.NG] German prosecutors Wednesday announced child rape and murder charges against a rejected Iraqi asylum-seeker in a case that fuelled a heated debate about immigrant crime.
The accused in the "Susanna case", 21-year-old Ali Bashar, had fled Germany after the crime for northern Iraq but was extradited in a mission joined personally by federal police chief Dieter Romann.
Bashar is accused of beating, raping and then strangling to death schoolgirl Susanna Maria Feldman, 14, in a wooded area near his refugee shelter in the city of Wiesbaden last May 23.
Earlier he had also allegedly twice raped an 11-year-old girl -- once in April 2018 after locking her in his room, and again near a supermarket carpark the following month.
Prosecutors also laid charges against an Afghan youth who was living in the same refugee shelter, Mansoor Q., who was believed to be aged at least 14 at the time, for also raping the 11-year-old girl.
Prosecutors said Ali Bashar's younger brother -- who is believed to be in Iraq, according to media reports -- had also taken part in a violent sexual assault against the younger girl.
Following a public outcry over Susanna's death, German federal police hauled Bashar back from Arbil, northern Iraq, where he had been locked away Book 'im, Mahmoud! by local Kurdish security forces.
Despite the absence of a formal extradition treaty between Iraq and Germany, Bashar was put on a flight to Germany, with pictures of him disembarking under heavy police guard making front pages.
Bashar had first arrived in Germany in 2015 along with his parents and five siblings.
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[DAWN] The house of a big shot of the Awami National Party founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986. Part of the PPP-led cabinet 2008-13. The ANP is considered left wing, advocating for secularism, democratic socialism, public sector government, and economic egalitarianism.... (ANP) came under attack in the Nawagai area of Bajaur in the early hours of Tuesday, residents and officials said.
They said a rocket was fired on the house of Sheikh Jan Zada near the Nawagai bazaar, some 32km west of Khar, the headquarters of Bajaur tribal district.
The incident took place when the ANP leader was present in his home.
They said the rocket fired from an unknown location hit a boundary wall of the house which was partially damaged.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Iraqi-led Hashd al-Sha’abi forces foiled a border infiltration attempt by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) terror organization this morning, the Iraqi News online publication reported.
Citing the commander of Hashd al-Sha’abi in western Anbar, Qassem Mosleh, Iraqi News reported that at least 43 members of the Islamic State were killed or maimed during their failed attempt Curses! Foiled again! to infiltrate into Iraq from the Syrian border.
"Iraqi artillery targeted a hotbed grouping IS turbans in the village of Baghuz on the Iraqi-Syrian border after receiving intelligence reports about a plot by those bandidosmurderous Moslems to attack security forces," Iraqi News reported, citing the Almaalomah news website which quoted Mosleh as saying.
"The artillery shelling left 43 IS turbans dead and maimed, and destroyed a significant amount of weapons and armored vehicles that were planned to be used in the attack on the security forces," he added.
Hashd al-Sha’abi has recently stepped up their border operations against the Islamic State in a bid to secure the region and put an end to the terrorist group’s presence in the area.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Two holy warrior groups of the terrorist organization Jabhat al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... (outlawed in Russia) with a total number of up to 400 people attacked Syria’s forces in the Idlib de-escalation zone, head of the Russian Reconciliation Center for the Opposing Sides in Syria (part of the Defense Ministry) Lieutenant General Sergei Solomatin told journalists on Wednesday.
"Jabhat al-Nusra holy warrior groups simultaneously attacked positions of the government forces in the areas of the communities of Abu al-Duhur and Abu Sharja. Criminal groups of 150-200 gunnies in 15-20 pick-up trucks with machine guns carried out attacks in each of the areas," he said, adding that the attack was launched in the evening of January 22.
Solomatin noted that in the Abu al-Duhur area the gunnies used a suicide kaboomer in a car who was eliminated by an anti-tank guided missile near the front line of the government forces.
"The turbans managed to break as far as 1.5 km deep into the position of the Syrian army, after which they were stopped by fire and driven outside the contact line by the reserve forces that had approached," the general added. The holy warriors’ attack was derailed in the Abu Sharja area by the fire unleashed by the Syrian forces. The gunnies suffered losses and returned to their start line positions, Solomatin reported.
He noted that the Reconciliation Center for the Opposing Sides is cooperating with the Ottoman Turkish side, which immediately receives information on the situation in the Abu al-Duhur and Abu Sharja areas.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) carried out a new assault against the Ottoman Turkish-backed rebels that are currently active inside the designated demilitarized zone in the northern countryside of the Hama Governorate today.
According to a military communique from Hama, the Syrian Arab Army unleashed a large barrage of artillery shells and surface-to-surface missiles towards the defenses of Jaish al-Izza near the key town of Morek.
The communique said the Syrian Arab Army scored several direct hits on Jaish al-Izza’s defenses, killing and wounding several Salafist tough guys in the process.
Furthermore, the Syrian Arab Army carried out concentrated strikes on the Jaish al-Izza’s positions inside their northern Hama strongholds of Kafr Zita and al-Latamnah.
The Syrian military claimed their forces managed to kill a number of Jaish al-Izza’s field commanders that were positioned inside of Kafr Zita and al-Latamnah.
These attacks by the Syrian Arab Army on Wednesday were launched in retaliation for the overnight strikes by the Salafist tough guys in northern Hama.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) recently killed a high-ranking foreign jihadist commander in the southern countryside of the Idlib Governorate.
According to Sputnik Arabic, the Syrian Arab Army killed the leader of the terrorist group "Ajnad al-Kavkaz" (Soldiers of the Caucasus) during a fierce battle in southern Idlib.
The commander of Ajnad al-Kavkaz, Abu al-Bara al-Kavkazi, was said to have been killed when his forces stormed the Syrian Arab Army’s positions near the Abu Dhuhour Miilitary Airport in southern Idlib.
Local sources said that Abu al-Bara al-Kavkazi was first transferred to a medical center in Khan Sheikhoun after sustaining critical wounds.
He would later be pronounced dead after the doctors failed to revive him.
The jihadist ringleader had participated in several previous battles against the Syrian Arab Army, including the Jaish al-Fateh ...Army of Conquest coalition includes Ahrar al-Sham, Jabhat al-Nusra, Fath al-Sham, Ihyaa al-Jihad Brigade, Mujhedi Nawa, Asoud al-Tahid Brigade, Ansar al-Haqa Brigade and the Islamic brigade of al-Omarein, of which three are affialiated with al-Qaeda. It is or has been supported by Saudi Arabia and Turkey... offensive in the Idlib Governorate in the Spring of 2015.
Ajnad al-Kavkaz is a Chechen-led rebel group that is currently active in northern Syria, primarily in the mountainous, forested areas of the Latakia Governorate.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Fierce festivities broke out between members of the Abu Khamis tribe and U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) this afternoon following the death of a 40-year-old resident of al-Mansoura.
According to local reports, members of the Syrian Democratic Forces opened fire on Hamdan al-Zein after he refused conscription into their group.
Al-Zein reportedly succumbed to the wounds he sustained as a result of the gunshots; this sparked outrage amongst the Abu Khamis tribe and several residents of al-Mansoura.
Following the death of al-Zein, the enraged residents of al-Mansoura began burning the SDF’s checkpoints and attacking installations.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] According to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... ’s Defence Ministry, Ottoman Turkish troops have shot up the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) for the second time since 18 January, in response to the latter’s fire from the city of Tell Rifaat.
The members of the Ottoman Turkish Armed Forces, deployed in the Euphrates Shield Operation, have shot 5 howitzers in the districts of Tell Rifaat to the southeast of Afrin, according to CNN Turk.
The YPG/PKK reportedly organised two attacks targeting civilians on Afrin’s city centre on 20 January. As a result of the attacks, 10 civilians bit the dust, 18 people were maimed.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Russian Army and U.S.-backed Manbij Military Council conducted their third round of patrols in the Manbij countryside this month.
According to local reports, the Russian Army and Manbij Military Council patrolled much of the western countryside of Manbij, with most of their focus on the nearby town of al-Arima.
Al-Arima is where the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has been stationed at since they made an agreement with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to protect Manbij from the Ottoman Turkish-backed rebels.
Despite the agreement, the Syrian Arab Army is still outside the city and will not enter until further notice.
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[PULSE.NG] Heavy losses for jihadist and militant groups in Syria and Iraq fuelled a 33-percent drop in global terror attacks in 2018, with fatalities falling to a 10-year low, defence analyst Jane's said Wednesday.
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[PULSE.NG] A South African businessman held in Mozambique on suspicion of being a jihadist leader has died in hospital under mysterious circumstances, his wife and a medical source told AFP on Wednesday.
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...Army of Conquest coalition includes Ahrar al-Sham, Jabhat al-Nusra, Fath al-Sham, Ihyaa al-Jihad Brigade, Mujhedi Nawa, Asoud al-Tahid Brigade, Ansar al-Haqa Brigade and the Islamic brigade of al-Omarein, of which three are affialiated with al-Qaeda. It is or has been supported by Saudi Arabia and Turkey...
