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The Plateau State Governor-elect, Caleb Mutfwang, has blamed foreign mercenaries for the incident of killings and the incessant attacks in the state.
The governor made this known while speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today, on Tuesday, noting that the mercenaries were being sponsored but he did not know those behind it.
The governor-elect also promised to work for the people, maintaining he would not loot the state’s resources.
He said; "I am not in the best position to speak about the crisis since I am yet to be sworn in. But I can assure you that these people are brought in from outside those communities.
"I don’t have exact details to give you at the moment whether they are Nigerians. But all the years down the line, a lot of their identities have been revealed that these are not Nigerians and they have been brought in as foreign mercenaries.
"The purpose of those who perpetrate the attack may just be because they are hirelings. I want to ask: who is the person that is sponsoring them? Who is instigating them? What is his aim?
"Sometimes, it is difficult to disabuse your mind that this is not about land grabbing. The communities that have been displaced by now, it is not as if they are vacant. Some people are occupying them.
"We think it has a lot to do with land grabbing. It has a lot to do with demarketing of the state because I can tell you that the security situation in the Plateau is not the worst in the north," the newly-elected governor said. "But there has been a lot of demarketing of the Plateau.
"My appetite for greed has been trimmed and I can assure you that I am not going there for stealing," Mutfwang added. "I am only going there to make sure that Plateau works."
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] A military commander in the UAE-affiliated Southern Transitional Council (STC) factions has defected upon his arrival in the city of Ma’rib, which is controlled by the Islah Party.
The military commander in the ranks of the STC factions in Shabwah province, Ali Hadi al-Masabi, appeared in a meeting with the commander of the "third region" affiliated with Islah, Mansour Thawaba, to discuss the so-called "unification of the armed factions in Ma’rib, Shabwah, and Hadhramaut."
Observers see that Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... is seeking to push the Islah factions towards the oil-rich Shabwa during the next stage in response to the movements of the UAE-backed factions in Hadhramaut and Mahrah provinces in eastern 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... Last Monday, the Saudi commander of the "support and back brigades", Sultan al-Baqami, accompanied by the Chief of Defense Staff in the government loyal to the Saudi-led coalition, visited "Arin" camp in the Armaa area.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Violent armed tribal festivities erupted on Wednesday in the Tor al-Baha district of the southern province of restive Lahj ... a Yemeni governate located in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It is the stomping grounds on the southern secessionist al-Harak movement and resulted in deaths and injuries, including civilians.
Local media sources said that violent mostly peacefulfestivities broke out between button men from the "Al-Atwin and al-Zifitah" tribes in the center of the Tor al-Baha market against the background of tribal vendetta cases.
The festivities resulted in the killing of three people and the injuring of six others, including civilians, who were transferred to Tor al-Baha Hospital for treatment.
It is worth noting that the Tor al-Baha district is living in a state of chaos and insecurity due to the spread of armed gangs that practice the crimes of banditry, looting, and killing against travelers and truck drivers, behind which are officers and recruits in the ranks of the UAE-backed militias.
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[Kavkaz] Employees of the State Security Service of Georgia have detained six citizens associated with the Islamic State terrorist organization. According to the security forces, they planned terrorist attacks in various countries.
The counter-terrorist operation took place simultaneously in four places in Georgia. Six people were detained who had connections with one of the influential leaders of the terrorist organization and planned various types of terrorist activities under his leadership, the State Security Service (SSS) said.
During the searches, symbols of a terrorist organization, electronic information carriers, ammunition, explosives and other evidence were confiscated from the detainees, Novosti-Georgia writes with reference to the department.
According to the State Security Service, the case is being investigated under articles 328 and 236 of the Criminal Code of Georgia (joining a terrorist organization of a foreign state, assisting terrorist activities, illegal acquisition and possession of firearms, ammunition and explosives). As part of the investigation, a criminal case was also initiated against one citizen of a foreign state, reports Georgia Online.
The foreigner was placed in the temporary accommodation center of the Migration Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The intelligence service clarified that information about terrorist activities was transferred to the competent authorities of the partner countries, TASS reports.
The "Caucasian Knot" has previously written that on May 6, the Georgian security forces reported about the detention of a member of the IS. According to them, there is evidence that a group of people planned terrorist attacks in the US and Europe.
On April 22, the State Security Service of Georgia announced the detention of Malkhaz Paksashvili, whom the security forces believe is the head of one of the Islamic State* units that took part in the hostilities in Syria. On the same day, a court in Tbilisi placed Paksashvili under arrest. The arrested person did not admit his guilt.
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... ’s foreign ministry on Wednesday condemned the arrest of two journalists working for a Ottoman Turkish pro-government newspaper by Frankfurt police, summoning Germany’s ambassador to Ankara over the issue.
The English edition of Sabah reported on Wednesday that the newspaper’s German representative Ismail Erel and European edition’s chief editor Cemil Albay were briefly arrested by Frankfurt police earlier in the day.
"Police also searched the Sabah offices in Frankfurt and seized Erel and Albay’s computers and mobile phones," added the news outlet.
The Ottoman Turkish foreign ministry said in a statement that it "strongly" condemns the "heinous act."
"We consider the outright detention of these press members by the German authorities without even requesting their statements as a deliberate act right after the successfully held first round of the Presidential Elections and the 28th Term Parliamentary Elections," read the statement, referring to Sunday’s vote in which the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its nationalist allies secured a parliamentary majority but President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... failed to win over 50 percent of the votes. The second round of the presidential polls will take place on May 28.
German Ambassador to Ankara Jurgen Schulz was summoned by Turkey’s foreign ministry before the journalists were released, according to state media.
Sabah claimed that the journalists were arrested after two alleged members of the Fethullah Gülen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world. Gülen and Erdogan used to be really good friends, but only one of them could be sultan, and Gülen lost... Movement, which is accused by Ankara of orchestrating the 2016 failed coup attempt against Erdogan, filed a lawsuit against them.
Sabah is affiliated to the pro-Erdogan Turkuvaz Media Group which includes dozens of TV channels, radios and newspapers.
Berlin has yet to comment on the arrests.
"German authorities could have invited journalists and directed their questions about this complaint. Instead of this, they arrested them and seized their mobile phones and laptops," Fatih Zingal, a lawyer representing Sabah, told Ottoman Turkish state media on Wednesday.
Diplomatic tensions between Ankara and Berlin over freedom of speech are not new. Ottoman Turkish authorities detained the German-Ottoman Turkish journalist Deniz Yuce in 2017 for terror-related charges for about one year.
Germany in 2019 slammed Turkey for rejecting to issue accreditations to two German journalists.
Turkey has been widely criticized for crackdowns on Kurdish journalist at home, accusing them of having ties to the Kurdish rebels.
Turkey is among the Committee to Protect Journalists’ (CPJ) list of top five jailers of journalists for the year 2022.
[GreaterKashmir] Special Investigation Unit of Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... Police conducted raids at three locations in Tral area of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district in connection with militancy funding case.
Quoting a police brass hat, GNS reported that this morning SIU team raided three places in Reshipore Tral in connection with militancy funding case with FIR No.10 of 2023 registered at Police Station Tral.
There was no details regarding recovery or any arrests when this story was being filed.
[GreaterKashmir] The Special Investigation Unit of police on Wednesday conducted raids at the houses of five persons allegedly involved in terror activities in Kishtwar district, officials said.
They said that the sleuths of SIU Kishtwar were holding multiple raids at various houses of five persons involved in terror activities.
"These faceless myrmidons affiliated with different terror outfits from Kishtwar presently live in parts of Pakistain and they are held responsible for reviving terrorism in Chenab Valley, " they said.
[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 National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday conducted searches at more than 100 locations in six states of Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh in terror-narcotics smugglers-gangsters nexus cases.
The anti-terror agency in close coordination with state police forces conducted these raids since early Wednesday at the premises and other places linked to suspects. The raids are still going on. The raids are being conducted in connection with three separate cases lodged by the NIA last year-- RC 37, 38, 39/2022/NIA/DLI.
The agency on January 25 this year arrested one Deepak Ranga, the main shooter in the RPG attack on Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Police Intelligence Headquarters in Mohali in May 2022 in its case RC-37/2022/NIA/DLI, from Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur as he was a close associate of Canada based gangster-turned-terrorist Lakhbir Singh Sandhu alias Landa and Pakistain based gangster-turned-terrorist Harvinder Singh Sandhu alias Rinda.
Apart from his involvement in the May RPG attack, Deepak has been involved in a number of other violent mostly peaceful terrorist and criminal offences, including violent mostly peaceful killings. He has been actively receiving terror funds and logistical support from Rinda and Landa.
The NIA had registered the case suo moto on September 20, 2022, after it emerged that terrorist outfits and terror elements based abroad were operating in tandem with leaders and members of organized criminal gangs operating in northern states of the country to commit assassinations and violent mostly peaceful criminal acts. It had also emerged that the terror-gangster-drug smuggler network was also engaged in smuggling terrorist hardware, such as arms, ammunition explosives, IEDs etc across borders through a widespread inter-state network of gun runners, illegal arms and ammunition manufacturers and suppliers and explosive traffickers.
Since the registration of three criminal cases against the above terror-gangster-drug smuggler network, NIA has already arrested 19 leaders and members of various Organised criminal gangs, two Arms suppliers and one big financier connected with the network under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. Canada-based Arsh Dalla has been designated as an 'individual terrorist' by the Ministry of Home Affairs on January 9, this year.
[GEO.TV] Security forces killed two murderous Moslems during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in the Jani Khel area of district Bannu in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, the military’s media wing said on Wednesday.
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement that the IBO was conducted on the reported presence of murderous Moslems in the area.
"During the conduct of [the] operation, intense fire exchange took place between own troops and terrorists. Resultantly, 2 murderous Moslems were sent to hell," it added.
The military’s media wing said weapons and ammunition were also recovered from the slain terrorists.
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[The Nation (Pak)] An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Wednesday sent 149 Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) workers to jail on 7-day judicial remand for identification parade in different cases lodged against them for carrying out attacks on the Jinnah House (the corps commander house), public & private buildings, law enforcement agencies and their vehicles, after the arrest of Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five... .
ATC Judge Abher Gul Khan conducted the proceedings of the cases at different intervals of the day.
Earlier, the Sarwar Road police produced 94 PTI workers, including 2 female tiktokers, before the court.
The investigation officer submitted that a case had been registered against the accused on charges of attacking the Jinnah House (the corps commander house), looting valuables worth over Rs150 million and setting it on fire.
He pleaded with the court to send the accused to jail on judicial remand for identification parade.
At this, the court accepted the plea and sent the accused to jail on judicial remand for identification parade.
The court also directed police to produce the accused on expiry of the remand term.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his leg. Son of a Breech! he exclaimed with feeling...... the Gulberg police also produced 22 PTI workers before the court.
The investigation officer submitted that three cases had been registered against the accused over charges of setting Askari Tower on fire, damaging state property, terrorism and others.
He pleaded with the court to send the accused to jail for identification parade, which was accordingly accepted by the court.
The court sent the accused to jail on 7-day judicial remand for identification parade and ordered police to produce them on expiry of the remand term.
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[Rudaw] A suspected Ottoman Turkish warplane on Wednesday bombarded several areas in Duhok province, sparking fear among locals of nearby villages, according to locals.
The bombardment targeted the areas of Sheladze and Deralok in Duhok province and sparked locals among villagers who say that the sound of aircraft can be heard hovering in the sky.
Sherwan Sargale, a resident of Sargale village, told Rudaw’s Nasir Ali that the warplanes targeted several positions on the mountains surrounding the village and that the bombardment lasted for around 20 minutes.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... has intensified its bombardment campaign on Duhok province in recent months, claiming to target fighters of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
The PKK is an gang fighting for the increased rights of Kurds in Turkey but considered a terrorist organization by Ankara, who frequently targets its positions domestically as well as southward in the Kurdistan Region and Syria.
Turkey has yet to comment on the bombardment.
Earlier in May, Ottoman Turkish planes bombarded a mountain in northern Duhok province but the Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s caused no casualties.
Media close to the PKK has reported an increase in Ottoman Turkish military activity in the Kurdistan Region, accusing Ankara of trying to create propaganda for the parliamentary and presidential elections which were held on May 14 but advanced to a runoff on May 28, where opposition parties are hoping to end two decades of President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... ’s rule.
Baghdad has repeatedly condemned Turkey’s violations of its borders and called on gangs not to use Iraqi territory to attack neighbouring nations. Civilians are frequently caught in the crossfire between Ottoman Turkish forces and the PKK and hundreds of villages have been emptied with families moving in search of safety.
[Shafaq News] A senior commander of 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.... (ISIS) hard boy group has been captured in a joint security operation in the capital city of the Kurdistan region, Erbil, a blurb by Iraq's Counter-Terrorism Service revealed on Wednesday.
The blurb said the operation was carried out in collaboration with the security authorities in Erbil.
The arrestee, according to the blurb, formerly held a senior position in an air defense battalion in the Tigris province under ISIS rule.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Popular Mobilization Forces and the Iraqi security forces launched on Tuesday a large-scale security operation to pursue the remnants of the ISIS terrorist group north of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
The "Popular Mobilization" website said: "A force from the 12th Brigade in the Popular Mobilization, in coordination with the security forces, is launching a wide security operation in the areas west of Tarmiyah, in search of the wanted persons and the remnants of the criminal ISIS elements, with the aim of securing the north of the capital, Baghdad."
During searches and raids of areas west of the Tarmiyah district, a temporary guesthouse for the "ISIS" group was found, and areas that were a transit corridor for ISIS gangs during a recent period were secured, in addition to strategic land lines that were previously far from the reach of the security forces.
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