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Recent Appearances...

Abu Hamza	Abu Hamza	Learned Elders of Islam	Europe				20040212
	Abu Hamza	Finsbury Park Mosque	Home Front: WoT				20050722
	Abu Hamza	Supporters of Shariah	Britain	Egyptian	Arrested	Supremo	20011119
		Lunatic preacher and recruiter for al-Qaeda, aka Captain Hook.
	Abu Hamza	al-Qaeda in Iraq	Iraq-Jordan				20050706
	Abu Hamza	Friends of Shariah	Britain			Supremo	20050612
	Abu Hamza	Islamic Army of Aden	Britain				20030407
	Abu Hamza	Muslim Defence Force	India-Pakistan				20030803
	Abu Hamza	Lashkar-e-Taiba	Afghanistan/South Asia				20020531
	Abu Hamza	Jaish-e-Mohammad	Afghanistan/South Asia				20011220
	Abu Hamza	Finsbury Park	Britain				20040418	Link
	Abu Hamza	al-Qaeda	Middle East				20050722
	Abu Hamza	Al Qaeda	India-Pakistan				20030111
Abu Hamza Al-Muhajer	Abu Hamza Al-Muhajer	al-Qaeda in Iraq	Iraq				20060930	Link
Abu Hamza Rabia	Abu Hamza Rabia	al-Qaeda	India-Pakistan				20051212	Link
Abu Hamza al Jazeeri	Abu Hamza al Jazeeri	al-Qaeda	Terror Networks				20030831
Abu Hamza al Masri	Abu Hamza al Masri	al-Qaeda	Terror Networks				20050725
Abu Hamza al-Baghdadi	Abu Hamza al-Baghdadi	al-Qaeda in Iraq	Iraq				20050922	Link
Abu Hamza al-Masri	Abu Hamza al-Masri	Finsbury Park mosque	Europe				20030117
	Abu Hamza al-Masri	Friends of Shariah	Britain				20030502
	Abu Hamza al-Masri	Jamaat-e-Islami	Afghanistan/South Asia				20050713
	Abu Hamza al-Masri	al-Qaeda USA	Home Front				20030606
	Abu-Hamza Al-Masri	al-Qaeda	Arabia				20040411
	Abu Hamza al-Masri	Supporters of Shariah	Home Front				20030606
	Abu Hamza al-Masri	al-Qaeda	Afghanistan/South Asia				20050808
	Abu Hamza al-Masri	Supreme Council of Global Jihad	Terror Networks				20030813
	Abu Hamza al-Masri	Islamic Army of Aden	Britain				20030606
	Abu Hamza al-Masri	Supporters of Sharia	Britain				20060209	Link
Abu Hamza al-Muhajer	Abu Hamza al-Muhajer	al-Qaeda in Iraq	Iraq	Egyptian	At Large		20060907
		took over leadership of the terror network and was endorsed by Osama bin Laden after Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed
	Abu Hamza al-Muhajer	al-Qaida in Iraq					20061008	Link
Abu Hamza al-Muhajir	Abu Hamza al-Muhajir	al-Qaeda in Iraq	Iraq		At Large		20060613	Link
Abu Hamzah Al-Mouhajer	Abu Hamzah Al-Mouhajer	Iraqi Insurgency	Iraq				20060703	Link
Sheikh Abu Hamza	Sheikh Abu Hamza	Supporters of Shariah	Britain				20020908
	Sheikh Abu Hamza	Friends of Shariah	Britain				20030405
	Sheikh Abu Hamza	Finsbury Park Mosque	Britain				20020908

India-Pakistan

Govt employee shot dead by terrorists in Rajouri, Rs 10 lakh reward for attacker whereabouts

2024-04-25

Govt employee shot dead by terrorists in Rajouri https://t.co/K9jWfsn6lj
— Greater Kashmir (@GreaterKashmir) April 23, 2024

Police says #Rajouri #attacker identified, announces Rs 10 lakh reward for his whereabouts @JmuKmrPolice https://t.co/1WYUp0F2uN
— Greater Kashmir (@GreaterKashmir) April 23, 2024

One India summarizes:

In a significant development from Jammu and Kashmir
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 Rajouri district, police have identified a foreign terrorist, known by the codename Abu Hamza, as being involved in the recent killing of a government employee. The dear departed, Mohammad Razaq, aged 40, was targeted in his village, Kunda Top, within the Thanamandi area. Razaq was an employee of the government's Social Welfare department. His brother, Mohammad Tahir Choudhary, serves in the Territorial Army but was unharmed during the attack. Following the incident, Razaq was laid to rest in his village on Tuesday.

The attack was carried out by two individuals linked to the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
(LeT) group. They forcefully entered the compound of Choudhary's residence. Despite the grave situation, Choudhary managed to escape without any injuries. In response to this act of violence, local authorities have initiated a thorough investigation, filing a case at the Thanamandi cop shoppe. The police have gathered credible evidence pointing to Abu Hamza's involvement in this heinous act.

Efforts are underway by the police and security forces across the Rajouri-Poonch districts to apprehend this group and bring them to justice. In an attempt to gather vital information that could lead to Abu Hamza's capture, authorities have announced a reward of Rs 10 lakh. They have also released a poster depicting the terrorist, who is believed to be 32 years old and was last seen wearing a Pathani suit with a brown shawl and carrying an orange bag. Abu Hamza is known to operate in the Shadra Sharief and Der ki Gali areas and has been implicated in numerous terrorist activities.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Palestinian Islamic Jihad calls for Ramadan to be 'month of terror'

2024-03-05

[JPOST] Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
is calling for Ramadan to be a "month of terror" and seeks to escalate attacks in the West Bank and 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 Hamas with 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...
. In a recent speech, Abu Hamza, the front man for PIJ’s al-Quds Brigades, said he wants Arab countries in the region and pro-Iranian groups to continue to "unify" various arenas and fronts against Israel.

This is the latest indication that terrorist groups plan to seek an escalation in hostilities over the next month. Hamza’s remarks were published by Beirut-based Al Mayadeen news channel, which is pro-Iranian and frequently highlights Hamas
Hamas

...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
and Hezbollah attacks.

This comes amid some hope for a hostage, prisoner, and ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. The US is pushing for such a deal. But Hamas has continued to make it difficult by refusing to hand over a list of names of the living hostages.

In other words, there won’t be a hudna any time soon.

Paleostinian Islamic Jihad is a proxy of Iran. It has gunnies in Gaza and the West Bank, and its leaders often reside in Damascus, where they sometimes leave to meet with their Iranian handlers in Tehran or to coordinate with Hamas and Hezbollah.
'Unity of the battlefields'

The terminology used by PIJ ahead of Ramadan is part of the terminology Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate ~~Jews~~ ~~Zionists~~ Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
has used over the years to describe its strategy against Israel. This includes references to "unity of the battlefields," which is a term for "unity of the arenas" or "unity of the fronts."

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Al-Quds Brigades attack Zionist supply lines in Jabalia

2024-02-01

[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The spokesperson for the al-Quds Brigades, Abu Hamza, stated that the brigade’s fighters have targeted the occupation army’s supply routes in eastern Jabalia and the central region.

In a broadcast on the al-Quds Brigades’ Telegram channel, he asserted that "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 Hamas with 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...
’s sands wouldn’t yield its captives unless decided by the resistance," expressing gratitude for the people’s patience and confirming their ongoing resistance against Israeli oppression.

"We continue to confront the Israeli aggression machinery on all battlefronts, and we have executed a series of operations," Abu Hamza stressed.

"What we declare in terms of operations is not to boost morale but to relay a military message that has reached the occupier," he added.

He emphasised that "the resistance’s operations hold strategic military significance against the occupation" and dismissed Netanyahu’s war threats as futile.

IDF raids Palestinian Islamic Jihad weapons manufacturing plant in Khan Younis

[IsraelTimes] The IDF says the troops of the 7th Armored Brigade raided a Palestinian Islamic Jihad weapons manufacturing plant in West Khan Younis.

At the site, troops destroyed a lathe used to manufacture projectiles, several long-range rockets, anti-tank missiles, and mines, as well as explosive devices stored in bags bearing the UNRWA logo, according to the IDF.

A tunnel network under the site was also demolished, the IDF says.

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Britain

Man throws acid on 9 people including children in London

2024-02-01

[GEO.TV] Authorities in London started to search for a man Wednesday after at least eight people including children were maimed in an incident of throwing acid on Clapham’s Lessar Avenue, London, according to media reports in the UK.

Officers who responded to the scene were also among the injured however, their condition is termed non-life-threatening.

Rescue officials at the scene reported that those who were provided immediate medical attention were three children and a woman at around 7.25pm.

London Ambulance Service also confirmed about treating nine people, with five of them taken to a major trauma centre.

"Three patients were taken to a local hospital and the other was discharged at the scene," it added.

Marina Ahmad, a member of the London Assembly for Lambeth and Southwark, described the incident as a traffic collision involving a man assaulting occupants in a car and throwing acid.

"We are drawing on resources from across the Met to apprehend this individual and work is ongoing to determine what has led to this awful incident," said Detective Superintendent Alexander Castle.

"While tests are ongoing to determine what the substance is, at this stage we believe it to be a corrosive substance.

"A man was seen fleeing the scene. We are drawing on resources from across the Met to apprehend this individual and work is ongoing to determine what has led to this awful incident.

"The National Police Air Service are assisting us. Any members of the public who can help us with information or material should call 999 immediately ref CAD 7790/31 Jan."

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Britain

Bank apologises to Nigel Farage over account closure

2023-07-23

In which the Dawn editorialist whines because a free-thinking English politician in the end is not quite treated like a bunch of convicted, jihad-supporting Moslem organizations by English banks.

[Dawn] British politician and former Brexit party leader Nigel Farage on Thursday received an apology from a private bank over the closure of his account, but the entire episode left some raising questions about the silence and lack of support surrounding bank account closures linked to British Moslems. Mr Farage made headlines in the United Kingdom this week after Coutts, a private wealth management company catering to royals and the ultra rich, had shut his accounts with no explanation. It prompted Tory MPs and even the prime minister to criticise the move as "wrong".

This week, the Brexit campaigner released documents obtained from the bank, which stated it was concerned about Mr Farage’s "xenophobic, chauvinistic and racist views" and believed maintaining his accounts posed a risk to the bank’s reputation. The Chief Executive of the Natwest Group, of which Coutts is a part, apologised for the "deeply inappropriate comments" made about Mr Farage in an internal report.

NatWest Group plc is a British banking and insurance holding company, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

But the scandal has prompted some to draw parallels between Mr Farage’s bank account closure scandal to the close of scores of accounts linked to Moslem individuals and Moslem charities in the UK.

Several news reports in the last decade covered how British NGOs such as the Finsbury Park mosque in north London,

...former pulpit of Abu Hamza al-Masri (Mustafa Kamel Mustafa to his mother, and possibly his wife), the one-eyed, hook-handed, Al Qaeda-linked preacher extradited to America to stand trial for everything evil except mopery and dopery on the spaceways. He makes his home in the Florence, Colorado supermax prison now, which must be an illuminating experience...

international development charity the Ummah Welfare Trust (UWT)

...also called the Amanat Charity Trust. Opened in 2001, it’s based in the UK but operates schools and masjids in sixteen countries of the Ummah ...

and the Cordoba Foundation thinktank

...an Islamist pressure group that offered a platform to the international jihad feeder group Hizb ut-Tahrir...

had their HSBC bank accounts closed because banks said their accounts fell "outside of our risk appetite". Though Moslems called this out at Islamophobia

...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
at the time, the bank denied the accusations and defended its decisions.

Writing for Middle Eastern Eye, prominent British journalist and broadcaster Peter Oborne compared Mr Farage’s banking conundrum with that of British Moslems, saying "Welcome to the world of British Moslems."

He drew attention to the articles he had written about the closing down of Moslem charities accounts, and how little space they got in newspapers as compared to Mr Farage’s case.

"Contrast the Westminster reaction when a Moslem loses her or his account — total lack of any interest, let alone concern, but when Farage supposedly loses his, Fleet Street has an attack of the vapours."

He continued, "I can’t help comparing the alacrity with which the government has gone into battle on behalf of Farage to its total indifference to the fate of British Moslems and others over many years. This shows two things: first and foremost, the structural Islamophobia which has long poisoned British media and politics. When Moslems have their bank accounts closed, nobody cares. When the same thing allegedly happens to Nigel Farage it’s close to a national scandal."

Not everyone agrees with the comparison. Wasiq Wasiq, an academic and counter-terrorism commentator, told Dawn. "’The closure of Nigel Farage’s bank account, based on his political views, sets a dangerous precedent — that if your views do not align with those of the organization, then you are not welcome to bank with us. This can have an impact on not only prominent political figures, but also the general public.

"However,
a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth...
the closure of accounts is something banks are entitled to do. Nearly a decade ago, it was widely reported by the BBC, Guardian and the Independent that HSBC closed the bank accounts of prominent Moslems and Islamic NGOs. At the time, the accusation levied against HSBC was that the decision was based on ’Islamophobia’. But the decision to close the accounts was because they fell ’outside of our risk appetite’.

"It is important to note, because of the regions these organizations were working in, they were vulnerable to exploitation by money launderers and forces of Evil seeking to use them for financing purposes. This risk is not the same as the potential risk of Nigel Farage having an account with Coutts. To conflate the two, makes a mockery of when banks act in a way that could affect the average Brit, as opposed to organizations being vulnerable to exploitation by money launderers and terrorists."

UK banks are free to deny services to customers for a number of reasons, including suspicions over financial crime. Banks can also choose to close or refuse an account if they believe customers pose a risk to their reputation — one of the key reasons Coutts cited for shutting Nigel Farage’s account.

Mr Farage has had the support and sympathy of several key people in government who criticised Coutts and asked for an explanation, with some ministers saying a new law could be drawn up to prevent banks closing accounts of people because of their political views.

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India-Pakistan

4 Kashmiris among 5 with links to Islamic State arrested: DGP Gujarat

2023-06-11

[GreaterKashmir
...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....
] The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of the Gujarat
...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime...
Police have arrested five persons including a woman from Porbandar with alleged links to proscribed international terror outfit 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....
- Khorasan Province (ISKP) an affiliate of the Islamic State.

Gujarat Police said on Saturday that the arrests were made as part of a special operation and raids were still underway.

Addressing a news conference here, Director General of Police (DGP) Gujarat Vikas Sahay said that the officials of the ATS of the Gujarat Police had received information that three of the forces of Evil linked to the ISKP were planning to leave India via Gujarat.

"It is a banned terrorist organization, Islamic State - Khorasan Province. Three forces of Evil affiliated with this organization were planning to leave from Porbandar via the waterway," the DGP said.

"This information was received by the ATS of Gujarat Police. The information was properly processed and further developed," the Police official said.

"Acting on the tip-off, a team of Gujarat ATS early morning of June 9, set up a watch at Porbandar railway station and identified the three youth and held them and questioned them," the DGP said. "The three arrested from Porbandar were identified as Ubaid Nasir Mir, Hanan Hayat Shawl, and Muhammad Hajim Shah, all natives of Srinagar."

Srinagar is the summer capitol of Kashmir, and just chock full of jihadi groups sponsored, controlled by, or otherwise connected to Pakistan’s ISI. Though ISIS-K is supposed to be independent of all that.

He said that based on questioning the detained trio, two more people also linked to the ISK were held.

They have been identified as Zubair Ahmed Munshi from Srinagar and one woman, Sumerabanu Mohammad Hanif Malek, who is a resident of Surat city.

Gujarat Home Minister Harsh Sanghvi said that five suspected forces of Evil were arrested and congratulated the Gujarat Police ATS and Surat Crime Branch for the arrests.

"Gujarat Police have been thwarting terror plots and it will continue to do so in the coming days. Gujarat Police will take forward the zero tolerance policy of the Centre as put forth by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah. Five suspected persons have been arrested, one is from Surat," Sanghvi said.

One India adds:

"The three men were planning to use a fishing boat from Porbandar to cross the International Maritime Boundary Line and reach Afghanistan via Iran
Iran

...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate ~~Jews~~ ~~Zionists~~ Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and join ISKP," Sahay told news hounds.

During preliminary interrogation, they revealed that they were trained and radicalised by a handler identified as Abu Hamza.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

HTS arrests 4 women on charge of ‘incitement’ in Syria’s Idlib

2023-05-24

[NPASyria] On Monday, Security Apparatus of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Thread connecting Newroz crime in Syria’s Jindires with ISIS

2023-03-30

[NPASyria] Since ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
and its affiliated armed opposition factions, also known as the Syrian National Army (SNA), took control over areas in Syria’s north, including Afrin in 2018, and Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain) and Tel Abyad in 2019, human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
violations against civilians have never ceased.

Both military operations against Afrin (Olive Branch) and against Sere Kaniye and Tel Abyad (Peace Spring) caused the total displacement of about 700,000 individuals.

The ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish-backed SNA factions in these areas have committed an endless series of violations mainly targeting the original inhabitants — Kurds, Yazidis, Christians, and Alawites — in addition to committing systematic violations that amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The factions have posted footage of holy warriors stealing, seizing civilians’ properties, and inciting the killing of the areas’ residents.

Although these factions have violated international and human rights laws and international norms since the date they occupied these areas, and though many documentations and human rights reports prove their involvement in arbitrary arrests, kidnappings, killings and many other crimes, they have never been held accountable.

JINDIRES CRIME
On the eve of Newroz, on March 20, the new year that is celebrated by Kurds all over the world, holy warriors of Jaish al-Sharqiya, a ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish-backed SNA faction, carried out a systematic crime in the town of Jindires of Afrin countryside, shooting to death five civilian Kurds, four from one family — Farah al-Din Othman, 43, Nazmi, 38, Muhammad Nazmi, and Muhammad — and wounding a child, for igniting the Newroz flame, which is a key ritual of celebrating the holiday, in front of their house.

According to the victims’ sister, the holy warriors shot at her brothers and nephew with more than five bullets. The sister said in a video that went viral on social media, "ten bullets were removed from the body of my brother."

She went further adding that the ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish-backed holy warriors were about to attack residents of Jindires when they gathered in front of a hospital, where the dead and maimed were brought to, while shouting the names of the victims, expressing their anger over the crime.

The victims’ another sister stressed that this is not the first time SNA holy warriors have attacked her brothers. In 2018, during the invasion of Afrin, they fled strikes by ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish aircrafts. When they returned after Afrin was occupied, they were shocked to see that the factions had seized the house of one of her brothers. When he demanded that his house be returned, he was arrested and tortured, before being released.

The Liberation and Construction Movement (LCM), a coalition of factions headed by Ahrar al-Sharqiya, denied that the perpetrators were affiliated to their faction. In a statement issued on March 21, they indicated that the perpetrators of the crime were two individuals, one of whom was arrested, while the whereabouts of the other is unknown.

In another statement, the LCM announced that three IDPs had been arrested as the perpetrators of the crime, and later it announced that a fourth person, who was also involved in the crime, had also been arrested.

Despite the contradicted statements of the First Legion within the Syrian opposition Interim Government’s Ministry of Defense, residents and eyewitnesses stressed that the perpetrators are affiliated with Jaish al-Sharqiya. One of them is called Hassan al-Dabaa, nicknamed ’Abu Hamza al-Khasham’. Another is Ali Khalaf, nicknamed ’Abu Habib al-Khasham’.

The North Press Monitoring and Documentation Department, based on eyewitnesses and the victims’ family members, reported that the criminals are from Jaish al-Sharqiya, which is affiliated with the ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish-backed SNA.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) also commented on the opposition factions and said that the ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish-backed opposition factions rarely hold their factions responsible for the series of human rights violations committed in the past five years. The HRW also emphasized in its report that Jaish al-Sharqiya is the mainly responsible for the crime.

The HRW called on Turkey, as an occupying power and as a backer of the local factions operating in areas under its control in northern Syria, to investigate these killings and ensure that those responsible are held accountable.

It also stressed that Turkey should cut all support to SNA factions implicated in recurring or systemic human rights abuses and international humanitarian law violations.

155 Syrian organizations signed a statement condemning the crime committed on the eve of Newroz. They called on the UN to take all necessary measures to protect the civilians in Afrin and throughout Syria, and immediately cease the violations against them.

They also called on the UN to pressure Turkey as an occupying power to assume its legal responsibilities in ensuring public order and safety, and to stop the demographic changes in Afrin and all the ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish-occupied areas of Syria.

FACTION’S CONNECTION TO ISIS
On December 7, 2022, an unidentified drone targeted two members of Jaish al-Sharqiya riding a cycle of violence in the countryside of Jindires. Later, the Pentagon clarified that it was a US drone and that it had targeted one of the top five ISIS leaders, Maher al-Agal, along with one of his senior assistants. al-Agal was carrying an ID from the local council of Afrin under a pseudonym.

Al-Agal was responsible for the development of ISIS networks outside of Iraq and Syria and was in charge of a region in Raqqa under ISIS’ rule. He moved to Tel Abyad, which is under the control of SNA factions. Later the leader of Ahrar al-Sham
...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014...
, which was designated as a "terrorist" group, ordered his removal to Afrin.

According to sources from Afrin and publicly available information, the man responsible for the Jindires crime, Hassan al-Dabaa, has connections with ISIS and is closely connected with the leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else

...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
(HTS, formerly 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 .. ...
Front), Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, who in turn was a member in ISIS and worked with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. screeching muppets released photos of al-Dabaa accompanied by al-Jolani.

A military source confirmed to North Press that a great number of Jaish al-Sharqiya holy warriors are former ISIS and al-Nusra members that are designated as terrorist groups.

VIOLATIONS BY SNA FACTIONS
Jaish al-Sharqiya has a long history of violations, such as murder, kidnapping, torture, expropriation of property, cutting down trees, blackmail, in addition to hundreds of assaults since 2018, particularly in Jindires and its countryside.

In 2015, the faction slaughtered two defectors from the Syrian government forces after arresting and torturing them on the Azaz-Tel Rifaat road in the northern countryside of Aleppo.

Jaish al-Sharqiya committed many violations alongside other factions before detaching itself from Ahrar al-Sharqiya. They committed blackmail, arrests, abduction of civilians in return for a ransom, and robbed public and private property. They also executed and killed many civilians under the charge of working with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

According to human rights organizations, the group is responsible for kidnapping more than 200 civilians in Afrin in return for ransom. It is known they killed the civilians Sharaf al-Din Sido, Rashid Hamid Khalil, and his disabled son, Muhammad Khalil, in 2022 after subjecting them to physical torture, as their relatives were not able to pay the ransom for their release.

The faction participated in the execution of Hevrin Khalaf, secretary-general of the Future Syria Party, and several of her companions on the M4 Highway, between Tel Abyad and Sere Kaniye, on October 12, 2019.

The harassment and actions of the factions against the people of Afrin are inhumane and amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity. They have been ongoing for more than five years, and the perpetrators of these violations have not been punished or held accountable, which has exacerbated the situation in the region and increased the frequency of violations.

The deputy director of the Middle East and North Africa division at Human Rights Watch, Adam Coogle, said, "these killings come after over five years of unaddressed human rights abuses at the hands of ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish forces and the local Syrian factions they empower. Turkey has allowed these fighters to abuse people living in the areas under their control with impunity, risking making itself complicit in the violations."

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

US army says its forces captured three Islamic State members in Syria raid

2023-01-23

[IsraelTimes] CENTCOM describes bully boyz as controllers, a logistician and an "associate" of the jihadist group, says that a civilian sustained minor injuries and was being treated

US forces have captured three 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 members during a helicopter and ground raid in eastern Syria, the US military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) said Sunday.

CENTCOM described the bully boyz as controllers, a logistician, and an "associate" of the jihadist group and said they were captured a day earlier.

A civilian sustained "minor injuries" and was taken to a medical facility, CENTCOM said in a statement.

Washington leads an international coalition battling IS in Syria.

After the jihadists lost their last scraps of territory following a military onslaught backed by the coalition in March 2019, IS remnants in Syria mostly retreated into desert hideouts in the country’s east.

They have since used such hideouts to ambush Kurdish-led forces and Syrian government troops while continuing to mount attacks in Iraq.

On Friday, CENTCOM said a drone attack hit a US-led coalition base in southern Syria, with a war monitor saying it was launched by Iran-backed groups.

Update from NPA Syria at 10:00 a.m. ET:

This came in a news release by the CENTCOM, in which it said in a joint raid with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) the two ISIS militants Abdallah Hamid Muslih al-Maddad AKA Abu Hamza al-Suri, an ISIS facilitator, Husam Hamid al-Muslih al-Maddad al-Khayr, ISIS facilitator and logistician, and an associate were captured.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

French jihadist killed in Syria clashes, his group says

2023-01-18

Good. More, please.

[AnNahar] A French jihadist has been killed fighting Syrian regime forces in northwestern Syria, his faction announced.

The bully boy used the pseudonym Abu Hamza, but his real name could not be verified.

Firqatul Ghuraba,

…since 2015 the Francophone jihadi group has fought under the Al Qaeda-linked Turkistan Islamic Party’s command structure in Syria…

a group of foreign jihadists in Syria's last main rebel-held region of Idlib, announced "the martyrdom of one of its heroes... from the French Muhajirin, our brother Abu Hamza".

The group is led by Omar Omsen, also known as Omar Diaby, a French national of Senegal
... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees...
ese descent suspected of funneling francophone fighters to Syria. He is wanted on a French arrest warrant.

He comes from the Nice region, as it turns out, and as of a few years ago his parents were willing to lie about his death so he could safely leave Syria for major surgery.

In a statement on WhatsApp, the group said Hamza died in the Jabal al-Zawiya area of Idlib during "a military advance of the Assad regime."

Along with the statement, the group published photos of men carrying what appeared to be a body which they put into the earth.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based war monitor, Hamza was killed on Sunday during combat with the army of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Terror of Aleppo ...
's regime, and was buried on Monday in the Jabal al-Zawiya area.

The French jihadists are mostly fighting alongside Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else

...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
, al-Qaeda's former Syrian affiliate which, with other rebel groups, controls parts of Idlib.

Over the past decade, thousands of holy warriors from Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
travelled to Syria to fight alongside jihadist groups, but with Russian and Iranian support Damascus has clawed back much of the territory it lost earlier in the conflict.

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Arabia

Al-Qaeda Emir Killed During Ma'rib Clashes with Sana'a Forces

2023-01-12

An al-Qaeda organization emir was killed on Wednesday in festivities with Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
i armed forces (Sana’a forces), south of the city of Ma’rib, northeastern Yemen.

Tribal sources in Ma’rib said "Naji Saleh Lamak al-Aqili," one of the emirs of al-Qaeda in al-Bayda province, was killed along with many Saudi-led coalition recruits. The coalition and the Al Qaeda emir were leading a joint military attack in "Learif" area, south of the city of Ma’rib.

Previously, the terrorist organization had issued many obituary statements for dozens of its leaders who were killed in Ma’rib while fighting in the ranks of the coalition. The latest obituary statement was issued on May 18, 2022, regarding the killing of "Abu Hamza al-Sanaani." al-Sanaani was a professor of al-Iman University,

...one imagines he specialized in a practical curriculum...

which is run by the Islah Party leader Abdul Majeed al-Zindani in Sana’a.

On March 11, 2022, al-Qaeda issued a statement on the killing of another one of its emirs, "Shaker Mansour Ahmed Sharhan." Sharhan was also a commander in the 156th Brigade of the coalition forces in the battles that took place in the "Bani Abd" area in al-Abdiya district of Ma’rib.

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Iraq

Security authorities capture senior terrorist ‘Abu Hamza’ in Kirkuk

2022-11-01

[Shafaq News] Iraq's Counter-Terrorism Agency has apprehended a senior ISIS commander in Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
a spokesperson to the Commander-in-Chief of the Iraqi Armed Forces, Major-General Yehya Rasool, said on Monday.

The arrestee, Abu Hamza al-Mitwity, is a security commander in the so-called Wilayat of Kirkuk and a commander of the Raid team of al-Furqan force in Nineveh.

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