[KhaamaPress] An explosion near the police headquarters in Faizabad, the capital of northeastern Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province, injured two civilians on Wednesday morning, according to the officials.
The Taliban ...Arabic for students... police command in Badakhshan said the blast was caused by explosives concealed inside a flowerpot and targeted a Toyota Corolla near Project Intersection. The police command said two civilians sustained minor injuries in the earth-shattering kaboom.
Local sources, however, said the blast occurred in an area where workers usually gather in the morning. They said Taliban forces had gun sex after the earth-shattering kaboom to disperse people and prevent residents from approaching the scene.
The Taliban police command said four suspects had been arrested in connection with the incident. Local sources separately claimed that Taliban forces had detained more than 40 people following the earth-shattering kaboom.
No group has so far grabbed credit for Wednesday’s explosion, and the police command has not released further details about the suspects or a possible motive. The reported casualties and the extent of the arrests could not be independently verified.
[ShabelleMedia] Somalia’s intelligence agency said a former head of al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... ’s Amniyat security wing was killed in a planned operation carried out with international partners in the southern town of Jilib.
The National Intelligence and Security Agency, or NISA, identified the man as Bashir Ahmed Haji Nunow and said he was killed during the operation on Oct. 1, 2026.
NISA said Nunow led the murderous Moslem group’s Amniyat unit between 2016 and 2024. The agency said he operated under several aliases, including Geescadde, Fanax, Gardhuub and Ali Dheere.
The agency accused Nunow of playing a senior role in planning and carrying out attacks against Somali civilians. It specifically linked him to several major attacks in Mogadishu, including the Oct. 14, 2017, bombing at the Soobe intersection.
NISA also attributed the Ex-Control Afgooye attack and the attack known as Soobe 2 to Nunow, along with assaults targeting hotels and other locations around Mogadishu’s Lido Beach.
The agency said the operation formed part of a wider campaign to pursue senior al-Shabaab figures accused of directing attacks and maintaining the networks used to organise murderous Moslem operations.
NISA said the killing could disrupt al-Shabaab’s leadership and the networks responsible for planning and executing attacks. It did not provide details on how Nunow was killed or whether other people were killed or maimed in the operation.
Al-Shabaab, an al-Qaeda-linked murderous Moslem group, has waged an insurgency in Somalia for more than a decade and continues to carry out attacks despite military operations by Somali forces and their international partners.
The Somali government has increasingly focused on targeting the group’s big shotship and disrupting its command, intelligence and financial networks as part of efforts to weaken the insurgency.
[LibyaReview] Authorities in Libya’s Benghazi deported 100 Ethiopian migrants on October 6, 2026, after completing the required legal procedures, according to the Greater Benghazi branch of the Directorate for Combating Illegal Migration.
The operation was carried out under instructions from Major General Salah Mahmoud Al-Khafeefi, head of the directorate, as authorities continue security campaigns targeting irregular migration and attempted departures from Libya’s coastline.
SECURITY CAMPAIGNS CONTINUE IN BENGHAZI
The directorate said its branches have continued operations aimed at identifying and detaining migrants without valid legal documentation.
Some of those detained in recent campaigns were intercepted while attempting to leave Libya irregularly by sea, according to the agency.
Authorities said legal measures were taken against those detained in accordance with existing procedures before deportation or transfer to designated facilities.
The Greater Benghazi branch did not specify the route used to deport the 100 Ethiopian nationals or provide details about their final destination.
The latest operation comes shortly after security forces detained 258 undocumented migrants of various nationalities during a campaign in several areas of Benghazi, including the Egyptian Market and Sidi Younes districts. Those detained were transferred to the Greater Benghazi Shelter and Detention Centre for further procedures.
الخبير العسكري أحمدو مبارك الإمام 🇲🇷 في مقابلة مع قناة صحراء 24:
لعنة الجغرافيا بالنسبة لجبهة تحرير أزواد، والتصاق ولاية كيدال بشكل عام بالجزائر 🇩🇿، يجعلانها مُكرهة على تلبية هذه الضغوط، وهو ما يفسّر انسحاب الجبهة من كيدال.
تاريخيًا، المغرب 🇲🇦 والجزائر 🇩🇿 سلّما قادة الثوار الأزواديين إلى مالي سنة 1963.
الحاكم الفعلي لمالي 🇲🇱 اليوم هو روسيا 🇷🇺، وليس غويتا أو غيره.
موريتانيا 🇲🇷 تقف على الحياد، فهي غير متورطة لا مع مالي ولا مع جبهة تحرير أزواد.
أوكرانيا 🇺🇦 وفرنسا 🇫🇷 والناتو والغرب عامةً لن يتركوا الجزائر في حال ثبت أن هناك تحالفًا روسيًا–جزائريًا–ماليًا ضد جبهة تحرير أزواد .
Military expert Ahmedou Mubarak Al-Iman 🇲🇷 in an interview with Sahara 24 channel:
The curse of geography with regard to the Azawad Liberation Front,
… ALF, in French FLA, the current iteration (since 2024) of the Islamist Tuareg liberation movement in northern Mali, which has been known to team up with JNIM, the Saharan branch of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. Algeria, Mauritania, France, drone operators from the Ukrainian Main Directorate of Intelligence (HUR), and the Qatari royal family are said to be supporters…
and the general adjacency of the Kidal region to Algeria 🇩🇿, make it compelled to meet these pressures, which explains the Front's withdrawal from Kidal.
Historically, Morocco 🇲🇦 and Algeria 🇩🇿 handed over Azawadi rebel leaders to Mali in 1963.
The actual ruler of Mali 🇲🇱 today is Russia 🇷🇺, not Goïta or anyone else.
Mauritania 🇲🇷 stands neutral, as it is not involved with either Mali or the Azawad Liberation Front.
Ukraine 🇺🇦, France 🇫🇷, NATO, and the West in general will not leave Algeria alone if it is proven that there is a Russian–Algerian–Malian alliance against the Azawad Liberation Front.
Troops arrest high-profile terrorist after sneaking into Magumeri town
By Zagazola Makama
Troops of 109 Special Forces Battalion, in collaboration with members of the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF), have arrested a suspected high-profile terrorist in Magumeri Local Government Area of Borno State.
Security sources told Zagazola Makama that the suspect, identified as Madumaki Modugai, was tracked and apprehended at about 10:45 p.m. on Oct. 5, 2026, in Magumeri town following intelligence-led operations.
The suspect was said to have sneaked into the town, triggering panic and tension among residents who became apprehensive over his presence.
His arrest, however, helped to calm the situation and restore confidence among the locals.
Preliminary interrogation revealed that the suspect had allegedly been operating around the fringes of the Lake Chad region and Niger Republic.
Residents and local vigilantes also reportedly told security personnel that the suspect had been involved in terrorist-related activities for about four years.
The suspect remains in military custody for further interrogation and necessary action, while security agencies are expected to investigate his activities, movements and possible links with terrorist networks operating around the Lake Chad basin.
Troops arrest high-profile terrorist after sneaking into Magumeri town
By: Zagazola Makama
Troops of 109 Special Forces Battalion, in collaboration with members of the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF), have arrested a suspected high-profile terrorist in Magumeri Local Government Area of Borno State.
Security sources told Zagazola Makama that the suspect, identified as Madumaki Modugai, was tracked and apprehended at about 10:45 p.m. on Oct. 5, 2026, in Magumeri town following intelligence-led operations.
The suspect was said to have sneaked into the town, triggering panic and tension among residents who became apprehensive over his presence.
His arrest, however, helped to calm the situation and restore confidence among the locals.
[IsraelTimes] Saudi Arabia claims to intercept ballistic missile north of Riyadh, destroy launch platform in Sanaa, as it pledges support for Yemeni government’s offensive to eliminate rebels
Two attacks on airports in Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... claimed by Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels in neighboring 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... killed three people Wednesday, Saudi officials said, as the kingdom was pulled deeper into the latest front in the 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 JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... war.
The Saudi General Authority for Civil Aviation did not blame any party for the attacks at Abha and Riyadh’s King Khalid international airports, but Houthi rebels took credit earlier for the airport strikes.
The attack on Abha airport killed Moroccan and Algerian residents and maimed 28 other people, while the attack on King Khalid airport killed a Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... ese national and maimed eight other people, officials said.
As Riyadh has been targeted over the past week, new cage-like fences have been erected around fuel tanks and other equipment of the Saudi state-run Aramco oil company near the capital’s airport. The kingdom, the world’s top oil exporter, has seen oil and military assets targeted in recent days, posing a threat to crucial shipping alternatives to the Strait of Hormuz, where traffic has been curtailed due to the Iran war.
The spokesperson for the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis, Maj. Gen. Turki al-Malki, said forces intercepted a ballistic missile north of Riyadh and destroyed a platform in Yemen’s capital of Sanaa that had been used to launch attacks on the Saudi capital. The AP could not independently verify these claims.
Saudi Arabia and allied Yemeni forces launched a major ground and air offensive aimed at retaking territory that the rebels seized a month ago along Yemen’s western Red Sea coast and on the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
Those positions gave the Houthis better surveillance as they pursue a blockade of Saudi-linked shipping. On Monday, officials said forces of the Saudi-led coalition recaptured several key areas around the strait, through which about 12 percent of global trade transits.
HOUTHIS PUSH FOR STRATEGIC AREAS IN YEMEN
"The Houthis believe that they can maximize Saudi economic costs and compel Saudi Arabia to surrender to Houthi demands by striking civilian infrastructure, such as oil facilities and airports," the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank, wrote in an analysis.
Inside Yemen, fighting has centered in and around the crucial town of Dhubab, some 54 kilometers (33.5 miles) south of the port city of Mokha that the rebels seized last month, according to both the Houthis and Yemen’s internationally recognized government.
Two Houthi officials said Wednesday that the rebels had regained control of key areas of Yemen’s southwestern coast, including Dhubab and the nearby village of al-Jadid, as well as the Bab el-Mandeb strait, after intensified fighting with Saudi-backed coalition forces.
A government official denied the claims, which The News Agency that Dare Not be Named could not independently verify.
The Houthis also claimed that Saudi forces had targeted "civilian assets" over the past 24 hours in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, as well as Taiz, Jawf and other active fronts, including Saada and Marib.
Houthi military front man Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree said, without providing evidence, that fighter jets used in the attacks had taken off from Khamis Mushait and Taif in Saudi Arabia, while missiles had been launched from Najran a city in southwestern Saudi Arabia near the border with Yemen. It is the capital of the province of the same name, a favored target of Houthi rocket forces because they can see it, so there's no math involved.... and Jizan. The rebels have repeatedly claimed attacks on those Saudi cities in recent weeks.
SAUDI-LED COALITION VOWS FULL SUPPORT TO YEMEN GOVERNMENT
Al-Malki has vowed "full operational support" to Yemeni government forces until the Houthis are "eliminated." The coalition has said 100 fighter jets are providing support. Another aim is to liberate Sanaa, Yemen’s rebel-controlled capital.
Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi criticized Saudi Arabia over support for Yemen’s government forces in the latest escalation with the Houthis, which has shattered a truce reached four years ago.
Rebels are ready to support Paleostinians in every way they can in case of "any new round of escalation" with Israel, al-Houthi said in a speech Wednesday expressing solidarity with 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 a rusty 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... on the third anniversary of Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... ’ October 7, 2023, massacre in southern Israel.
The offensive began after the rebels seized Turbah town on a main road linking the historic provincial capital of Taiz, Yemen’s third-largest city, with Aden, the seat of the internationally recognized government. Officials have said US support has included intelligence sharing, target identification and planning.
The escalation has revived Yemen’s civil war after a four-year ceasefire. Almost 1,000 people have been killed in the latest fighting, with over 200,000 displaced, according to the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... . Cholera and malnutrition cases are increasing, access to trauma care is more difficult, and some hospitals have shortages of surgical and other supplies, the World Health Organization said this week.
HOUTHI MISSILES TARGET ADEN’S AIRPORT
The Houthis also said they launched a missile strike early Wednesday against Aden. Explosions were heard by an AP journalist around 2 a.m.
The rebels hit a military camp close to the city’s airport with ballistic missiles, Saree said. Security authorities in Aden said the Houthis targeted the airport with two missiles, with no casualties. The airport is close to the seat of government.
One missile hit close to the runway just before the scheduled landing of a flight from Cairo, the Human Rights Ministry said. Flight 603, operated by Yemen’s flagship airline, landed safely in Aden at 3:30 a.m., according to the flight tracking platform FlightAware.
The ministry said the missile hit as other passengers were waiting to board their flight to the Saudi coastal city of Jeddah.
#Yemen / #SaudiArabia 🇾🇪🇸🇦: Ansar Allah (#Houthis) captured PLC positions in #Taiz, including house of the Saudi-backed “Rashad Al-Alimi” (President of PLC).
Ansar Allah fighters armed with Iranian DIO 'Sageg' RPG Launchers with Bulgarian RHEAT-7MA rocket, Type 85 Designated Marksman Rifle, W-85 heavy machine guns, PKM / Type 80 machine guns and AKM / Type 56-1 assault rifles.
Taiz City | Day Three of the Siege | Besieged Taiz continues to fight back, but the pressure on the city and its civilian population is growing.
We are receiving reports of fuel shortages, dwindling supplies of baby formula and sharp increases in food prices, with some goods reportedly doubling or tripling in price. Houthi forces now control the main road linking Taiz with Al-Turbah and Aden, effectively severing the city’s primary southern supply route, while Houthi positions surround Taiz from all sides.
One resident today reported paying 10,000 Yemeni rials [$6.37] for a small bottle of gasoline.
Despite the shortages, civilian support for the front lines continues. Video posted by Taiz resident Sanad Raweh shows a civilian convoy carrying food, water and other supplies from the city to troops at the Air Defense front on Jabal al-Sumoud wal-Tahaddi.
Raweh said he visited the front alongside Ali al-Maamari al-Ajar, director general of the Taiz branch of the Yemen Petroleum Company. He described morale among the troops as extremely high and said the civilian effort would continue across other fronts surrounding the city.
And they are still fighting.
The Yemen National Army’s Taiz Axis @axistaiz reports that government forces repelled a Houthi assault on the Al-Anin front in Bilad al-Wafi, Jabal Habashi district, west of the city. Government troops backed by local resistance fighters are also reporting intense fighting around Jabal Han.
Some of today’s heaviest clashes are being reported across Jabal Habashi and Al-Aqrud, while fighting has intensified across much of the Taiz Axis, particularly in the southern countryside and on the fronts surrounding the city.
On the Al-Silw front south of Taiz, government forces say they repelled another Houthi assault, killing 12 Houthi fighters and wounding others. Yemeni military aircraft also reportedly struck Jabal Matran in the Qadas area of Al-Mawasit district.
Against this backdrop, prominent Taiz-based anti-Houthi activist Taha Saleh issued a deeply personal message to the city’s residents and local resistance today.
His message was essentially this. Taiz should prepare to fight even without coalition air support. He argued that the city has been here before, has survived siege before and must now rely first on its own resistance.
Saleh acknowledged the scale of Houthi advances across rural Taiz, but drew a distinction between capturing sparsely defended countryside and breaking into the heavily defended urban core. He said the Houthis are throwing large numbers of reinforcements against Taiz from multiple directions but have so far failed to make meaningful gains against the city’s established defensive fronts.
He pointed specifically to the recent fighting on the eastern front, the Air Defense front, Jabal Han and other positions around the city, arguing that some of these battles have been among the heaviest Taiz has experienced since 2015.
His message to residents was one of defiance. Taiz has been surrounded before. It found alternative supply routes before. And, in his view, its defenders today are more numerous, better armed and more experienced than during the earlier siege.
“Now, everyone, this is our battle,” Saleh said. “We are used to fighting alone. We are used to holding out alone.”
Taiz City | Day Three of the Siege | Besieged Taiz continues to fight back, but the pressure on the city and its civilian population is growing.
We are receiving reports of fuel shortages, dwindling supplies of baby formula and sharp increases in food prices, with some goods reportedly doubling or tripling in price. Houthi forces now control the main road linking Taiz with Al-Turbah and Aden, effectively severing the city’s primary southern supply route, while Houthi positions surround Taiz from all sides.
One resident today reported paying 10,000 Yemeni rials [$6.37] for a small bottle of gasoline.
Despite the shortages, civilian support for the front lines continues. Video posted by Taiz resident Sanad Raweh shows a civilian convoy carrying food, water and other supplies from the city to troops at the Air Defense front on Jabal al-Sumoud wal-Tahaddi.
Raweh said he visited the front alongside Ali al-Maamari al-Ajar, director general of the Taiz branch of the Yemen Petroleum Company. He described morale among the troops as extremely high and said the civilian effort would continue across other fronts surrounding the city.
And they are still fighting.
The Yemen National Army’s Taiz Axis @axistaiz reports that government forces repelled a Houthi assault on the Al-Anin front in Bilad al-Wafi, Jabal Habashi district, west of the city. Government troops backed by local resistance fighters are also reporting intense fighting around Jabal Han.
Some of today’s heaviest clashes are being reported across Jabal Habashi and Al-Aqrud, while fighting has intensified across much of the Taiz Axis, particularly in the southern countryside and on the fronts surrounding the city.
[KhaamaPress] An Afghan man who fatally stabbed a 49-year-old dog walker in a random knife attack in west London has been ordered to remain indefinitely in a secure psychiatric hospital after a court found he was in a psychotic state at the time of the attack.
Dawood Safi, 28, was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court after pleading guilty to the manslaughter of Wayne Broadhurst on the grounds of diminished responsibility. The court heard that Safi attacked Broadhurst on October 27, 2025, in Midhurst Gardens in Uxbridge, shortly after attacking his landlord, Shahzad Farrukh.
Broadhurst, who worked as a street cleaner for Ealing Council, was walking his dog when Safi attacked him. Prosecutors said the two men had no previous relationship and that Broadhurst had the "terrible misfortune" of passing the scene during the attack. He was stabbed 14 times and died at the scene. A teenage boy was also injured.
The court heard that Safi’s mental health had deteriorated sharply in the days before the attack. Evidence presented to the court described paranoid delusions and hearing voices, while the judge found that he had been in a psychotic state when the stabbings occurred. The Crown Prosecution Service accepted his manslaughter plea after considering psychiatric evidence.
Safi was also convicted of attempting to murder his landlord, Shahzad Farrukh, after a jury found him guilty of the charge. He had admitted causing actual bodily harm to the teenage boy and possessing an offensive weapon. Jurors were unable to reach a verdict on a separate attempted-murder charge involving the teenager, and prosecutors decided not to pursue a retrial.
The judge recommended that Safi be deported from the United Kingdom, saying his continued presence in the country was detrimental, but the final decision rests with the Home Secretary. Safi is to remain in secure psychiatric care indefinitely for treatment.
Court proceedings also heard that Safi entered Britannia in 2020 and initially claimed to be 17 years old. He was later granted asylum in 2022. His immigration history was discussed during the proceedings alongside evidence concerning his deteriorating mental health.
[FoxNews] Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud, 18, arrested after buying AK-47-style rifle from undercover FBI employee
An 18-year-old Minnesota man who allegedly pledged allegiance to ISIS and discussed carrying out a mass shooting at the Mall of America was arrested after buying an AK-47-style rifle, magazines and ammunition from an undercover FBI employee, according to newly filed federal court documents.
Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud had allegedly spent months discussing his desire to carry out an attack, telling an FBI confidential source in September, "I can’t wait until I kill kuffar man. October 24 is the day insha Allah," according to an affidavit filed in federal court in Minnesota.
Mohamud, who was born in the United States and is a U.S. citizen, is the son of Somali nationals who later became naturalized U.S. citizens, his mother in 2010 and his father in 2017.
When the source later asked why he had chosen Oct. 24, Mohamud allegedly pointed to a "Hmong Arts Celebration" at the Mall of America, saying it would have "a lot of people," the affidavit states.
"Mohamud met with someone he believed to be a loyal member of ISIS to attempt to purchase an AK-47 rifle, knowing it would be used in a felony or federal crime of terrorism," Special Agent in Charge, FBI Minneapolis Field Office, Christopher Dotson said at a press conference Wednesday. "Mohamud planned to use the gun he bought in a high-traffic public area just a few weeks' time in support of a designated foreign terrorist organization."
Mohamud is now charged with knowingly receiving a firearm and ammunition while knowing or having reasonable cause to believe they would be used to commit a felony and federal crime of terrorism.
Mohamud, who was born in the United States and is a U.S. citizen, is the son of Somali nationals who later became naturalized U.S. citizens, multiple federal law enforcement sources told Fox News Digital.
His parents arrived in the U.S. through a New York City airport in 2000, according to the sources, though it remains unclear whether they entered on visas or as refugees. His mother became a naturalized citizen in 2010 and his father in 2017.
To whom are his parents connected? Because all the Somalis seem to br connected to someone.
FBI Director Kash Patel told Fox News Digital in a statement that the suspect "allegedly obtained a weapon he hoped to use in a mass casualty attack in support of ISIS, but this FBI arrested him and put a stop to his plans."
"Once again, this FBI is moving more effectively than we ever have before at stopping terrorists before they can attack Americans – with over 1,100 individuals prevented from conducting attacks, over 4,000 foreign terrorist organization related disruptions and arrests, a 38% increase, and more," Patel said. "We will continue to use every resource we have to detect and prevent acts of terrorism and wipe out their networks all over the country. Thank you to FBI Minneapolis, who did an outstanding job in the investigation and likely saved lives."
Mohamud appeared before a federal judge in Minnesota on Wednesday for an eight-minute initial hearing, according to federal court records.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Cowan Wright ordered Mohamud temporarily detained. He is scheduled to return to court Monday, Oct. 19, at 11 a.m. ET for a preliminary and detention hearing.
In a criminal complaint and affidavit filed in the U.S. District of Minnesota, the FBI said agents had been investigating 18-year-old Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud since December 2024, during which time he allegedly spoke to a source online about traveling to Somalia to join a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) to then carry out an attack in Minnesota.
Mohamud was charged with one federal count of knowingly receiving a firearm and ammunition while knowing or having reasonable cause to believe they would be used to commit a felony and a federal crime of terrorism, after he allegedly accepted an AK-47-style rifle and about 200 rounds of ammunition on October 6, believing the weapons would be used in support of a terror attack connected to ISIS.
The affidavit filed Wednesday said Mohamud lived with his mother in Minnesota and attended school for part of the time the investigation was underway. At one point, he sent photos of himself to the FBI’s source as he outlined a plan to meet and purchase the firearm at the Mall of America.
ALLEGED PLAN TO ATTACK THE MALL OF AMERICA
The affidavit, filed by Special Agent Keegan Rupenthal, portrayed what was described as an evolution for Mohamud, a U.S. citizen, from wanting to travel overseas and join a terrorist group to allegedly carrying out a terrorist attack in Minnesota.
According to Rupenthal, Mohamud initially told a confidential source he wanted to travel to Somalia and fight for ISIS, but over time he repeatedly said that if he could not afford to do that, he would instead conduct an attack on U.S. soil.
The investigator alleged he discussed several possible attack scenarios, including a shooting targeting the Mall of America during the Christmas season. A mass-casualty shooting was described, with 30 to 60 fatalities the alleged goal.
Rupenthal outlined how Mohamud planned to switch tactics if the shooting was not possible, instead renting a truck to drive through a crowd.
Through multiple conversations with the source on various social media platforms and accounts, Mohamud repeatedly expressed his desire to carry out the attack, Rupenthal alleged, at one point saying he was 100 percent committed.
The agent also detailed a video sent by Mohamud to the source in September 2026, in which he allegedly pledged allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi. Underneath that video, the suspect said he made the video in order to show that if he carried out his planned attack, people would know that he gave his allegiance to the group.
THE FBI INVESTIGATION
Agents collected screenshots, recordings, and social media communications they say were from Mohamud to the confidential human source over 21 months on platforms including TikTok and Discord.
In May 2025, FBI agents attempted to interview the suspect at his home, but they were unable to speak to him. A woman believed to be Mohamud’s mother said he was not at the residence and put agents in contact with his father, who said he would pass details to his attorney.
The agents kept watch on the communications between the suspect and the source, and the source later put him in touch with who he believed was an ISIS-connected gun supplier, but who was actually an FBI undercover agent.
On October 6, that agent met with Mohamud in Minnesota and sold him the AK-47 rifle, four magazines, and approximately 200 rounds of ammunition for $600. During that meeting, prosecutors said, he outlined his plans for the shooting at an arts festival at the mall. After Mohamud took the weapon and ammunition, agents arrested him in a parking lot in Richfield, Minnesota.
[KhaamaPress] Pak security forces killed 18 snuffies in separate operations in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... , Pak state media reported Wednesday, as authorities continue operations against murderous Moslem groups across the country.
Thirteen snuffies were killed in an intelligence-based operation in North Wazoo, according to security sources cited by state media. Pak authorities identified the snuffies as members of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Pakistain (TTP), which the state refers to as "Fitna al-Khawarij."
In a separate operation in Mastung district of Balochistan, security forces killed five murderous Moslems, state broadcaster Radio Pakistain reported. Authorities said weapons and ammunition were recovered from the site, while clearance and search operations continued in the area.
Separately, police said they foiled an attack on a police checkpoint in Shadipur, in Kohat district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Seven police personnel were maimed when unidentified snuffies opened fire on the checkpoint, prompting a police response that forced the attackers to flee. A search operation was launched to locate the assailants.
The latest operations come amid a broader increase in murderous Moslem violence in Pakistain, particularly in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. Dawn, citing data from the Pakistain Institute for Conflict and Security Studies, reported that KP recorded 54 murderous Moslem attacks in August, up from 36 in July.
Pak security forces killed 18 snuffies in separate operations in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, state media reported, as counterterrorism operations continue across the country.
#عاجل | قوات الأمن في عمليات اعتقال واستجواب، وهدم منزل مخرب ونُصب تذكارية ولافتات تحريض على الإرهاب في يهودا والسامرة
⭕️قوات الأمن هدمت منزل المخرب الذي نفّذ العملية الإرهابية التي قُتل فيها نتنائيل شوكرون رحمه الله
⭕️عملت قوات جيش الدفاع من لواء بنيامين ووحدة “يهلوم”، إلى جانب مقاتلي حرس الحدود في يهودا والسامرة، خلال اليوم (الأربعاء) في منطقة قرية بدّو، وهدمت المنزل الذي كان يقيم فيه المخرب الذي نفّذ العملية الإرهابية قرب نفيه تسوف في 21 سبتمبر 2026، والتي قُتل فيها نتنائيل شوكرون رحمه الله.
⭕️وبالتزامن مع هدم منزل المخرب، بدأت قوات جيش الدفاع، وجهاز الأمن العام (الشاباك)، وحرس الحدود في يهودا والسامرة وشرطة لواء شاي، عمليات على مستوى الألوية في أنحاء يهودا والسامرة.
⭕️واقتحمت القوات مواقع مرتبطة بالإرهاب، مع التركيز بشكل خاص على مطلوبين يحرضون على الإرهاب، حيث عبّر عشرات منهم عن تأييدهم لمجزرة السابع من أكتوبر. بالإضافة إلى ذلك، اعتقلت القوات مطلوبين محسوبين على حركة حماس الإرهابية، ونفذت عمليات تمشيط بحثًا عن وسائل قتالية.
⭕️كما هدمت القوات نُصبًا تذكارية ولافتات تحرض على الإرهاب وتمجّد المخربين في أنحاء يهودا والسامرة، وذلك بعد استكمال إجراء منظم وفي إطار الجهود لمكافحة التحريض على الإرهاب.
⭕️ستواصل قوات الأمن العمل بالمبادرة والهجومية لإحباط الإرهاب في أنحاء يهودا والسامرة، وستعمل على ملاحقة كل مخرب يعمل بهدف الاعتداء على مواطني دولة إسرائيل وقوات الأمن وتقديمه للعدالة.
— Lieutenant Colonel Ella Waweya | إيلا واوية (@CaptainElla1) October 7, 2026
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#BREAKING | Security forces conduct arrest and interrogation operations, demolish terrorist's home, commemorative monuments, and incitement posters in Judea and Samaria
⭕️Security forces demolished the home of the terrorist who carried out the attack in which Natanial Shukron, may God avenge his blood, was killed
⭕️IDF forces from the Binyamin Brigade and the “Yahalom” Unit, alongside Border Guard fighters in Judea and Samaria, operated today (Wednesday) in the Bedu village area, and demolished the house where the terrorist who carried out the attack near Neveh Tzuf on September 21, 2026, resided—a terrorist in whose attack Natanial Shukron, may God avenge his blood, was killed.
⭕️Simultaneously with the demolition of the terrorist's home, IDF forces, the General Security Service (Shin Bet), and the Border Guard in Judea and Samaria, along with the Shai Regional Police, conducted brigade-level operations across Judea and Samaria.
⭕️The forces raided terrorism-related sites, with a particular focus on wanted individuals inciting terrorism, dozens of whom have expressed support for the October 7 massacre. Additionally, the forces arrested wanted individuals affiliated with the terrorist Hamas organization and conducted combing operations in search of weaponry.
⭕️The forces also demolished commemorative monuments and posters inciting terrorism and glorifying terrorists across Judea and Samaria, following the completion of an organized procedure as part of efforts to combat terrorism incitement.
⭕️Security forces will continue to operate proactively and offensively to thwart terrorism across Judea and Samaria, and will pursue every terrorist working to harm the citizens of the State of Israel and security forces, bringing them to justice.
#عاجل | حركة حماس الإرهابية تواصل استغلال المستشفيات لأغراض إرهابية: جيش الدفاع قضى على مخرب زرع عبوات ناسفة نُقلت من مستشفى “كمال عدوان”
⭕️ كما تمت في الغارة تصفية مخرب إضافي من الجناح العسكري لحركة حماس الإرهابية، قُدِّم للعالم على أنه موظف في الدفاع المدني
⭕️ رصدت قوات جيش الدفاع خلال الليلة الماضية (الأربعاء) مخربين اثنين من حركة حماس الإرهابية خرجا من مستشفى “كمال عدوان” في شمال قطاع غزة. وقام أحد المخربين بزرع عبوات ناسفة نُقلت من داخل المستشفى في منطقة الخط الأصفر، بهدف استهداف قوات جيش الدفاع.
⭕️ وفور رصدهما، هاجم جيش الدفاع المخربين وقضى عليهما لإزالة التهديد.
⭕️ المخرب محمد طموس، وهو قناص في الجناح العسكري لحركة حماس الإرهابية تمت تصفيته في الغارة، عمل بالتوازي موظفًا في الدفاع المدني في قطاع غزة.
⭕️ خلال الفترة الأخيرة، عمل المخربان على دفع مخططات إرهابية انطلاقًا من المستشفى، وعلى إعادة بناء قدرات حماس، في خرق منهجي لاتفاق وقف إطلاق النار.
⭕️ ويؤكد جيش الدفاع مجددًا أن حركة حماس الإرهابية تواصل الاستغلال الساخر للمستشفيات والبنى التحتية الطبية في قطاع غزة لأغراض إرهابية، خلافًا للقانون الدولي، وتحول مناطق مخصصة لعلاج السكان المدنيين إلى مناطق تُستخدم لدفع الأنشطة الإرهابية وإعادة بناء قدراتها العسكرية. هذا النشاط يعرّض السكان المدنيين للخطر.
⭕️ قوات جيش الدفاع التابعة للقيادة الجنوبية منتشرة في المنطقة وفقًا للاتفاق، وستواصل العمل لإزالة التهديدات الفورية.
— Lieutenant Colonel Ella Waweya | إيلا واوية (@CaptainElla1) October 7, 2026
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#BREAKING | The Terrorist Hamas Movement Continues to Exploit Hospitals for Terrorist Purposes: The Defense Forces Eliminated a Terrorist Who Planted Explosive Devices Transferred from Kamal Adwan Hospital
⭕️ Additionally, during the raid, another terrorist from the military wing of the terrorist Hamas movement was eliminated; he was presented to the world as an employee in civil defense.
⭕️ Defense Forces troops spotted two terrorists from the terrorist Hamas movement exiting Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza Strip during the past night (Wednesday). One of the terrorists planted explosive devices that had been transferred from inside the hospital in the Yellow Line area, with the aim of targeting Defense Forces troops.
⭕️ Upon detecting them, the Defense Forces attacked the terrorists and eliminated them to remove the threat.
⭕️ The terrorist Muhammad Tamus, a sniper in the military wing of the terrorist Hamas movement who was eliminated in the raid, worked in parallel as an employee in civil defense in the Gaza Strip.
⭕️ In recent times, the two terrorists worked on advancing terrorist plans from the hospital and rebuilding Hamas's capabilities, in systematic violation of the ceasefire agreement.
⭕️ The Defense Forces reiterate that the terrorist Hamas movement continues the cynical exploitation of hospitals and medical infrastructure in the Gaza Strip for terrorist purposes, in violation of international law, and transforms areas designated for treating civilian populations into areas used to advance terrorist activities and rebuild its military capabilities. This activity endangers the civilian population.
⭕️ Defense Forces troops under the Southern Command are deployed in the area in accordance with the agreement and will continue to operate to remove immediate threats.
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[Regnum] Oil supply volumes through the Strait of Hormuz have virtually returned to pre-US-Iran conflict levels. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced this on October 7 at a joint press conference with Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis following a meeting in Athens.
"There's almost as much oil flowing through the strait now as there was before the conflict," Rubio said.
He also added that recent events surrounding Iran have demonstrated the need to diversify energy supply routes. Dependence on a single source provides leverage to individual countries, the Secretary of State noted.
On September 27, US President Donald Trump announced that a record volume of oil, exceeding pre-conflict levels with Iran, had been transported through the Strait of Hormuz the previous night. However, the White House chief did not specify the quantity transported.
That same day, the Iranian news agency Fars, run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), reported that the Iranian Armed Forces had struck 19 merchant ships attempting to illegally transit the Strait of Hormuz. Seven vessels were hit on the night of September 27, and another 12 the night before.
They were? Are you sure?
The agency did not specify which ships were attacked or which countries they belonged to. The agency noted that the American leader's claims that his forces have complete control over shipping in the Strait of Hormuz are false.
International Chamber of Commerce Secretary General John Denton said on October 5 that restrictions on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz threaten a global food crisis.
How much closer to does oil supply levels have to get, to see near pre-WAR pumps prices?
Because as we all have seen, the oil industry instantly increases pump prices weeks before the 1st drop of a reduced oil supply price fix, actually reaches a USA a gas pump.
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^ oil is a commodity whose price is established by a world market, the USA's oil production strength is good for the balance of trade but by itself does not control the market
^ the oil industry as a whole doesn't set retail prices; although the majors do set prices that they charge regional distributers, etc., that is done by the 150k gas service stations and the equivalent in suppliers of heating oil, etc.
^that's pretty much how other commodities work although most are more 'local' because products, like for example, eggs, are more difficult to transport than oil
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In my 20 mile range circle, diesel varies by $.50.
[$5.45-5.99] Buyers clubs and discount brands might be $.25 less.
[NorthPress] An oil pipeline near Tel Hamis village in Syria’s northeastern Hasakah Governorate was damaged in a sabotage attack on Wednesday, the Syrian Petroleum Company (SPC) said.
The company said its maintenance and emergency teams immediately went to the site, secured the area and isolated the damaged section before beginning repair work to restore the pipeline to service as soon as possible.
The company did not provide details on the extent of the damage or identify the nature of the attack.
It said authorities launched an investigation into the incident and identified and arrested those responsible. The suspects were handed over to the relevant authorities for legal proceedings and referral to the judiciary.
The affected pipeline is located near Tel Hamis, an area in Hasakah that contains important oil infrastructure and has been affected by disruptions to energy facilities in recent years.
The SPC said that repair and maintenance work remains underway, without specifying when the pipeline would resume operations.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...Arabic for 
... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
BREAKING: Israel says pilot tried to hijack flydubai flight to Tel Aviv that diverted, landed in Saudi Arabia
