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India-Pakistan

ISIS Module Case: NIA Searches House Of Accused Shamil Nachan In Maharashtra, Gets 'Incriminating Material'

2023-08-18

[OneIndia] The NIA on Thursday searched the house of Shamil Saquib Nachan, arrested last week in the Pune ISIS module case, near here and recovered "incriminating material" that reveals the terror organization's "conspiracy to disrupt peace and communal harmony in the country", officials said.

A team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) officials searched Nachan's residence at Padgha in Thane district, the agency said in a statement.

Nachan, a member of ISIS's sleeper cell, was arrested by the NIA on August 11 from his house in Padgha. He was found involved in the fabrication and testing of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and participating in IED assembly and training workshops for commission of terrorist acts, it said.

Nachan was the sixth person to be arrested in the Pune-based ISIS module case, it said.

The NIA officials searched Nachan's residence and recovered several mobile phones, hard disks and some hand-written documents that are being examined and analysed, the central probe agency added.

"A host of incriminating material exposing the terrorist organization's conspiracy to disrupt peace and communal harmony in the country was seized," it said.

Nachan had been working with the other accused persons arrested in the case - Zulfikar Ali Barodawala, Mohammed Imran Khan
...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree...
, Mohammed Yunus Saki, Simab Nasiruddin Kazi and Abdul Kadir Pathan - along with some other suspects, as part of a bigger conspiracy to trigger violence across various parts of the country by fabricating and exploding the IEDs, it added.

Khan and Saki were nabbed by the police in Kothrud area of Pune city last month while stealing a cycle of violence, but another suspect Shahnawaz Alam managed to escape.

Investigation revealed that the duo was wanted by the NIA in a March 2022 Rajasthan terror plot case, and they were the alleged members of the al-Sufa outfit who beat feet from Ratlam after NIA made some arrests in the case.

The NIA said in its statement that investigation in the Pune ISIS module case revealed that Nachan and other members of an ISIS sleeper cell had assembled IEDs at a house in Kondhwa in Pune, where they had also organised and participated in a bomb (IED) assembly and training workshop last year.

They had even carried out a controlled explosion at this location to test an IED fabricated by them, it added.

The conspiracy was aimed at committing terrorist acts with the aim to disturb the peace and communal harmony of the country, the agency said.

The accused had plans to wage a war against the Government of India in furtherance of the ISIS agenda to spread terror and violence.

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Africa Horn

Police arrest six Al-Shabaab foreign recruits in Kenya at Somalia border

2023-08-06

[Garowe] Multi-agency security forces arrested six al-Shabaab

...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
recruits on their way to neighboring Somalia, police confirmed on Friday, with the suspects caught seeking directions to the Horn of Africa nation, where the holy warriors are domiciled.

The six, officials said, were arrested in Garissa, one of the counties which have been struggling with insecurity for decades in Kenya. They were all set to join al-Shabaab fighters, police said after multiple interviews with them following their arrest by the authorities.

Police identified the six as Muhamed Jahad Farah, Saad Suleiman Saleh, Nadrik Mbwana Salum, Abdul Kadir Salum Seif, and Ali Issa Ali, all Tanzanian Nationals, and Hassan Tourabih Kintosa, a Ugandan National.

Already, police are processing them for prosecution, and upon successful conclusion of investigations, they will be arraigned in court to face terrorism-related charges under Kenyan law. Their arrest comes at the time Kenya has increased surveillance in the region.

The arrests come barely two weeks after another arrest of three Tanzanian nationals namely Abdul Saif Salimu, Zuberi Ngare Mtondoo, and Seif Abdalla Juma at Korakora, Garissa, after the public reported their presence in the area.

Officials said two other Tanzanians Abdirahman Shaffi Mkwatili, 25, and Sadam Jafari Kitia, 30, were nabbed on July 12 in the possession of a notebook scribbled in Swahili that they were using to guide their movement from Tanzania to Jilib, the Star reports.

"Members of the public are encouraged to continue sharing information with relevant security agencies," said regional commissioner John Otieno, while congratulating locals for opening up and sharing intelligence briefs.

The security agencies cautioned Public Service Vehicle operators to be alert and share any information on the movement of suspicious foreigners. Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki and his Defence counterpart Aden Duale have been camping in Northeastern as they look for a strategy to defeat al-Shabaab.

"The ongoing war against terrorism by the security agencies continues to frustrate the recruitment and facilitation of recruits destined to Somalia to join al-Shabaab," a police report said.

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Southeast Asia

Indonesia says no to establishing diplomatic ties with Israel

2021-06-23

Hokay. Your loss, Bub.

[NATION.PK] Indonesia said it has not yet considered establishing diplomatic relations with the new Israeli government, according to an official in Jakarta on Monday.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to Israeli Ambassador to Singapore Sagi Karni's statement that Tel Aviv is willing to work with Southeast Asia's Moslem majority nations to establish ties.

"(Peace is) Indonesia's main focus at this time, and we hope for the revival of the grinding of the peace processor," said Abdul Kadir Jailani, the ministry's Director General of Asia Pacific and Africa.

Karni’s statement, which claimed that the true nature of the conflict is between Israel and Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, and not the Paleostinian people, is an attempt to distort the facts, he commented.

Jailani stressed that the root of the Israeli-Paleostinian problem is the occupation and expropriation of Paleostinian rights and land.

"This is very clear. These facts have been well established since decades ago," he said. "As the root of the problem is colonialism, Indonesia believes that the only way (to resolve it) is to respect the rights of the Paleostinian people according to international parameters."

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Southeast Asia

Singapore hands down first conviction for terror financing

2019-10-19

[DAWN] A Singaporean man became the first of the country's citizens to be tossed in the clink
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
for financing terrorism after he was convicted of sending money to a radical Moslem preacher.

There have been a steady stream of arrests in Singapore related to support for extremism, and the affluent city-state's leaders have warned it is a prime target for an attack.

Ahmed Hussein Abdul Kadir Sheik Uduman was tossed in the clink
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
for two and a half years for donating Sg$1,146 ($840) to Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal,

... Abdullah Ibrahim al-Faisal, whose mother named him Trevor William Forrest, is also in our archives as Abdullah el-Faisal. After converting to Islam and training in Saudi Arabia, our miscreant preached murder and mayhem across England to a laundry list of bad guys for eleven years, until the Brits jailed him for it in 2003. They deported him to Jamaica four years later. After he spent 2009 touring Africa, Kenya deported him back to Jamaica. In between and since, he apparently has been active online guiding eager young minds toward the jihadi life...

a Moslem preacher living in Jamaica, according to court documents seen by AFP Friday.

Hussein reached out to Faisal after watching videos on his website and YouTube channels in which he preached support for the turban 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....
(IS) group.

In the old days it was Al Qaeda, with much the same effect.

Faisal was tossed in the clink
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
for nine years in Britannia in 2003 after calling for the murders of non-Moslems and was deported to his native Jamaica after serving four years of his sentence.

Hussein, who was handed a prison term on Thursday, was arrested in July 2018 under Singapore's Internal Security Act, which allows for detention without trial for up to two years.

He had been radicalised and "wanted to undertake armed violence in Syria in support of the IS group in Iraq and Syria," court documents said.

The prosecution recommended jail time to send "a strong message to other like-minded individuals that supporting terrorist propaganda through financial means will attract uncompromising punishment", they said.

In September, authorities detained three Indonesian maids without trial over allegations they donated funds to support the IS group. And in July, two Singaporeans accused of intending to join the Death Eaters were arrested.

The IS group lost the last scrap of its self-declared "caliphate" this year but remains influential. There are fears that imported muscle returning from the Middle East could rejuvenate terror networks elsewhere, including in Southeast Asia.

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Africa Horn

Somalia military court executes two Al-Shabaab assassins

2019-01-08

[AFRICANEWS] Authorities in Somalia have executed two assassins associated with holy warrior group, al-Shabaab
...

Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
. The duo were convicted by a military court of murdering a traditional chief.

Hassan Ali Hassan, 25, and Abdirahman Isse Ali, 22, were executed in the capital Mogadishu, the military confirmed on Monday.

They were captured by the police in early November 2016 when they tried fleeing the scene of the murder of the traditional chief, Hilowle Heefow Hussein.

The latest execution comes two weeks after a military court executed via firing squad a serial al-Shabaab bomber, Abdul Kadir Shaa’ir. The 41-year-old had been convicted of a series of bombings in 2017.

Somalia remains one of a handful of African countries that still apply the death penalty

despite a hard fightback by activists.

Most African countries have the measure on their law books but they are hardly enforced. Most death penalties are commuted to life imprisonment.

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Africa Horn

African Horn Org. chief: Qatar using extremist group to sabotage Eritrea

2018-03-28

[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A top Eritrea
...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age...
n diplomat has told Al Arabiya English that the statement of the Eritrean Foreign Ministry on the Qatar

...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
i threat to Asmara came after "patiently waiting for a period of time for the Qatari brothers who have been trying in recent years to add Eritrea to the list of candidate countries for sabotage."

In statements given to Al Arabiya English, Abdul Kadir Bekri Hamdan, president of the African Horn Organisation and the representative of Eretria to international organizations in the Austrian capital Vienna, added that Qatar’s attempts to destabilize his country have been ongoing for a while.

"It is no different from its ready-made recipe to other countries that have been revealed, starting with polarizing people and then opening the door to them in their media in Qatar and abroad," Hamdan said.

He pointed out that it was interesting that during the late months of last year, there was a focus on some Eritrean figures who are connected with the Moslem Brüderbund organization and who are known for their criticism of Asmara and its policies and also their close relations with Doha-based hardline holy man Yusuf al-Qaradawi
...crackpot Egyptian Islamist theologian. He is best known for his program Shariah and Life on Al Jazeera, with an estimated audience of 60 million kindred souls worldwide. He is also well-known for IslamOnline, which occasionally advocates things like slavery and thumping the old lady with a rod no thicker than an inch, and has published more than 120 books, including Islam: The Future Civilization. Joe has long had a prominent role within the intellectual leadership of the Moslem Brüderbund. Some of his views have been controversial in the West, though less so among the rubes of the Mysterious East, and he was refused entry to the United Kingdom in 2008. In 2004, 2,500 Muslim academics from Saudi Arabia, Iraq and from the Palestinian territories condemned Qaradawi, and accused him of giving Islam a bad name.....
He said that the campaign intensified against the backdrop of a government decision to close a school suspected of encouraging holy warrior ideology. "Now it seems that Doha has decided to go to the second stage of its plan by making false reports through its media to find an excuse to justify the formation of an anti-Eritrean group led by the same people who have clear and established relations with Qatar and al-Qaradawi."

The Eritrean government released a statement accusing Qatar of sending Sudan three fighter planes to thwart a purported attack from Eritrea, and of secretly funding an Eritrean Islamist opposition office in an isolated area in Sudan.

In the statement, the Eritrean government said that Qatar is funding supporters of the radical Islamist holy man, Mohammed Jumma, who opened an office in an unknown area in Sudan.

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Southeast Asia

Bush, Blair guilty in Malaysia 'war crimes trial'

2011-11-23

[Daily Nation (Kenya)]

Former US president George W Bush and British ex-prime minister Tony Blair were Tuesday found guilty at a mock tribunal in Malaysia for committing "crimes against peace" during the Iraq war.

The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal, part of an initiative by former Malaysian premier Mahathir Mohamad -- a fierce critic of the Iraq war -- found the former leaders guilty after a four-day hearing.

"The Tribunal deliberated over the case and decided unanimously that the first accused George Bush and second accused Blair have been found guilty of crimes against peace," the tribunal said in a statement.

"Unlawful use of force threatens the world to return to a state of lawlessness. The acts of the accused were unlawful."

Mahathir, who stepped down in 2003 after 22 years in power, unveiled plans for the tribunal in 2007 just before he condemned Bush and Blair as "child killers" and "war criminals" at the launch of an annual anti-war conference.

A seven-member panel chaired by former Malaysian Federal Court judge Abdul Kadir Sulaiman presided over the trial, which began last Saturday, and both Bush and Blair were tried in absentia.

"The evidence showed that the drums of wars were being beaten long before the invasion. The accused in their own memoirs have admitted their own intention to invade Iraq regardless of international law," it said.

The verdict is purely symbolic as the tribunal has no enforcement powers.

One can hope they had fun, then, since it was otherwise utterly pointless.

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Bangladesh

Habiganj suicide: 9 summoned for explanation

2011-08-17

[Bangla Daily Star] The High Court on Tuesday summoned nine people including a union parishad chairman and an officer-in charge of Habiganj to explain their role over the suicide of a housewife and her two children by jumping under a train.

They will have to appear before the court on August 23 to place their statements on whether they insisted the woman to commit suicide.

Ferdausi Akhter, 35, and her two children died as she jumped under the train with her four kids in Madhabpur upazila of Habiganj Monday morning. The two others sustained severe injuries.

It was alleged that village arbitrators brought allegation against Ferdausi, wife of a Saudi expatriate,

A man of no name who appears nowhere else in this little morality play, functioning only to pique our curiosity over what lies behind the scenes.

that she had an illicit relation with one Abdul Kadir.

The arbitrators at an arbitration on Sunday rebuked Ferdausi and asked her to leave the village. Later, she along with her four children jumped under the train.

The HC bench on Tuesday passed the suo moto order following a report published on a Bangla national daily on Tuesday stating that a woman along with her four children jumped under the train as she could not bear the insult.

The court also issued a rule upon the local administration to explain why it should not be directed to prosecute the persons involved in insisting Ferdausi to commit suicide.

The persons who are asked to appear before the court are: Atikur Rahman, chairman of Andiura union in Madhabpur upazila of Habiganj, Mainul Chowdhury, officer-in-charge of Madhappur Police Station, sub inspectors Ehsanul Haque and Md Yasin, Monowar, in-charge of Shahapur Railway Police Box, Tapan Dey, a union parishad member, Malay Mia, a former union parishad member, and arbitrators Karim Khan and Abdur Rahman.

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Home Front: WoT

US airport attack plotter sentenced

2010-12-17

[Iran Press TV] A Guyanese national has been sentenced to life in prison for allegedly criminal masterminding an attempt to blow up the fuel system at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport.

Former Guyanamese politician Abdul Kadir, 58, was handed a life term on Wednesday for involvement in a 2007 plot to explode fuel tanks and the fuel pipeline under the airport, according to a statement from the US Eastern District Court of New York, CNN reported.

US District Judge Dora Irizarry said Kadir has been captured in surveillance video recordings while discussing plans with Russell Defreitas -- a US citizen born in Guyana.

She said the footage proved Abdul Kadir played a key role in the plot.

Defreitas, also convicted and jugged for co-plotting the attack, still awaits his sentencing.

During a four-week trial back in August, a federal jury had found Kadir guilty of conspiring to explode the fuel tanks and pipelines at the international New York airport.

Prosecutors alleged that Kadir and Defreitas planned to cause a massive kaboom by igniting the fuel tanks.

Defreitas allegedly provided information on the facilities and layout matters while Kadir, an engineer, contributed in technical aspects.

The two were jugged on charges of multiple counts of conspiracy back in 2007. Kadir has denied the charges.

Breitbart's article on the same story has a few additional details, including that Mr. Kadir was captured en route to Iran via Venezuela. But I s'pose it isn't fair to expect the Iran PressTV journalist to mention such things.

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Home Front: WoT

Jury Reaches Guilty Verdict in JFK Bomb Plot Case

2010-08-03

Two men charged with plotting to blow up New York's John F. Kennedy Airport were found guilty Monday.

A federal jury in Brooklyn found Russell Defreitas and Abdul Kadir both guilty of conspiracy charges in connection with the plot to destroy the airport.

The jury found Mr. Defreitas, a naturalized U.S. citizen and former cargo handler at the airport, guilty of all six charges against him. Mr. Kadir, a Guyanese citizen who once served as a Parliament member there, was found guilty on five of the six charges. He was acquitted of a charge of surveillance of a mass-transportation facility.

The men face the possibility of life in prison. Their sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 15.

The men were arrested in 2007 before they could move beyond the planning stage of the alleged plot, prosecutors said.

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Home Front: WoT

Two found guilty of JFK bomb plot

2010-08-03

Russell Defreitas, 67, a US citizen born in Guyana, and Abdul Kadir, 58, of Guyana conspired to blow up buildings, fuel tanks and pipelines at the airport in the New York City borough of Queens. The men, who were arrested in June 2007, face up to life in prison.

Defreitas, who had worked at the airport, provided knowledge of its facilities and layout, US prosecutors said, while Kadir, an engineer, helped with technical aspects such as how to blow up the buried fuel pipelines.

Officials have said the plot was nowhere near being operational when the men were arrested.

Two other men were arrested in the plot. Kareem Ibrahim of Trinidad and Tobago was deemed too ill to be tried but may face trial later. Guyanese Abdel Nur, 60, pleaded guilty in June to a separate charge of material support to terrorism and faces up to 15 years in prison.
Interesting: four jamokes, none named 'Fred' or 'Steve' or 'Joe' ...

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Southeast Asia

MŽsia lawmakers fight

2009-05-08

[Straits Times] Chaos reigned in the Perak State Assembly yesterday as assemblymen from opposing sides scuffled, wrestled and screamed at one another to wrest control of the legislature.

A raucous showdown paralysed the assembly for more than five hours as the Barisan Nasional (BN) and opposition Pakatan Rakyat (PR) tussled for control. The BN eventually prevailed when its candidate for Speaker was installed.

The State Assembly was the last institution still helmed by the PR after the alliance was toppled by the BN through defections in February. The BN had taken over the administration, with Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir sworn in as Menteri Besar.

But the PR refused to recognise this, and has taken the BN to court. The High Court will deliver its decision on the legitimacy of the takeover on Monday.

Yesterday's assembly sitting had to be convened because the state Constitution does not allow more than six months to lapse between meetings. The last sitting was in November.

The BN also wanted to remove PR-appointed Speaker V. Sivakumar, but this took five tense hours as the PR resisted the move.

When punches were thrown, the police intervened. Plainclothes policemen pulled Mr Sivakumar from his chair and dragged him out of the hall.

BN Speaker A. Ganesan then took over the chair and presided over the opening of the assembly.

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