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| ISIS to target Shia visitors in Baghdad |
| 2022-02-26 |
Shafaq News/ On Friday, a security source revealed that ISIS intends to carry out attacks against visitors participating in the visit of Musa ibn Jaafar al-Kadhim (the seventh Imam in Twelver Shia Islam.) In a condition of anonymity, the source told Shafaq News Agency, "according to Intelligence, an ISIS member, from the Mada'in district, (the state of the south in ISIS terms) handed over four suicide vests to another terrorist in Al-Nahda Garage area. Our source said that ISIS plans to use these vests in targeting visitors of Imam Musa Al-Kadhim in Al-Kadhimiya, Baghdad, within the next 48 hours. In 2017, Iraq declared final victory over ISIS after Iraqi forces drove its last remnants from the country, three years after the militant group captured about a third of Iraq's territory. Yet, ISIS still has sleeper cells in several Iraqi Governorates. Its fighters are making a comeback with kidnap and killing; the latest massive reactivation incident was when two ISIS men blew themselves up in a crowded Baghdad market on January 2021, killing at least 32 people in Iraq's first extensive suicide bombing for three years. |
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| IS, armed men clash near Libyan capital, four dead |
| 2016-02-24 |
| [GLOBALPOST] Four people were killed in festivities near the Libyan capital on Tuesday between the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group and fighters loyal to the Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... -based government, a local official said. The four dead men were members of the Sabratha military council which backs the Fajr Libya militia alliance in control of the capital, said Hussein al-Dawadi, mayor of Sabratha, west of Tripoli. Fajr Libya is a coalition of Islamist militias that backs the non-recognised parliament in Tripoli and which is battling IS jihadists who have spread their influence across Libya. Last week a US air strike targeted an IS training camp in Sabratha, killing dozens of people. The Pentagon said a senior IS operative behind attacks in Tunisia was probably among the dead, while Serbia said that two diplomats kidnapped in Libya were among those killed in the air strike. Dawadi said that fighters from the Sabratha military council launched raids in the suburbs of the city on Tuesday searching for IS Lion of Islams. During one assault on a farm in the Al-Nahda area festivities erupted in which four Sabratha military council fighters were killed, he added. The Sabratha military council meanwhile posted a message on its Facebook page urging civilians and medical staff to mobilise and help them battle IS. |
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| Soddy war birds hit Sanaa |
| 2015-12-03 |
| Arab coalition warplanes raided positions controlled by the Iranian-backed coup rebels in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Tuesday, a news network reported on Wednesday. The raids came as the national army and resistance fighters announced they have completed preparations to attack the Houthis and their allies in the Southern Shabwa governorate expel them from Bihan town. The raids by the coalition jets targeted the Presidential Palace area and Jebel Al Nahdayn, where the Houthis and their allies are deployed, Mareb Press said. It quoted residents in Sanaa as saying several jets struck targets in those areas at around 2.00 pm local time and that large palls of smoke were seen billowing. “The planes also attacked a rebel missile brigade in Attan area in Western Sanaa,” the report said without giving details of losses. In Shabwa, the national army and the resistance announced that they have completed military preparations to attack the rebel-controlled Bihan. Mareb Press quoted a military spokesman as saying the imminent offensive is intended to seize the town and eject the Houthis and forces loyal to deposed President Ali Abdullah Saleh. It noted that Bihan is the last rebel base in Shabwa after the insurgents were thrown out of all other areas. |
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| Yemeni forces make gains in central city of Maarib |
| 2015-09-29 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Yemeni army and resistance backed by the coalition forces took over Hammat Al-Masariyah and they are now on the outskirts of Ma'rib Dam. They also succeeded in controlling Tallat Al-Masariyah. Our envoy reported that Houthi ...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 Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. 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... and Saleh militias withdrew from Al-Balaq Al-Awsat Mountain in Ma'rib, and before that the coalition forces and the Yemeni army took control over Tallat Al-Suhayli, and Tallat Al-Mutaridah in Ma'rib and secured them completely. The joint forces also managed to block the supply route in Al-Jafinah. The coalition warplanes launched heavy raids on Jabal Al-Nahdain, and the presidential palace, and the camps of special security forces, and Al-Hafa in Naqam Mountain and Al-Najdah in Taiz. Huge kabooms broke out in Sanaa, and smoke columns were seen coming heavily from the north of the capital. |
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| Clashes between pro-Morsi students, security forces outside Cairo University | |||
| 2014-01-13 | |||
| [Al Ahram] Violent festivities erupted Sunday afternoon between pro-Morsi students and security forces outside Cairo University with several students injured. The festivities began when 10 pro-Morsi students
The students rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud against this week's constitutional referendum, describing it as a scandal and demanding the reinstatement of ousted president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Timeprinciple, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... . The students also chanted against the interior ministry. SAC has been calling for a boycott of the referendum.
Cairo University in Giza and Al-Azhar University in Cairo, along with Ain Shams University, also in the capital, have witnessed frequent violent festivities between security forces and pro-Morsi students since the start of the academic year.
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| Tunisia will not follow Egypt in listing Brotherhood as terrorist group |
| 2014-01-12 |
| [Al Ahram] Tunisia's presidential chief of staff, Adnan Nasr, said Saturday that his country will not follow Egypt's decision to list the Moslem Brüderbund as a terrorist group. "Tunisia has great reservations over how the crisis in Egypt is being managed. We know that in all political crises need peaceful solutions. However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... there doesn't seem to be any ... and for that we expect difficulties in exiting the crisis," said Nasr in interview with Algerian Al-Shorouk newspaper. Nasr further added that his country is not "obliged or concerned" by the recent memo issued by the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... informing its members of Cairo's desision to tag the Islamist group as terrorist. On 25 December, the interim government declared Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Timeprinciple, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... 's Moslem Brüderbund a terrorist group, accusing it of links with recent attacks on state institutions and on churches since Morsi's ouster. The Islamist group denies the accusations. Rached El-Ghancouchi, the head of Tunisia's defacto ruling Al-Nahda Islamist party, which is ideologiclly affaliated with the Moslem Brüderbund, also critcised Egypt's decision to ban the Moslem Brüderbund. In a statement on 27 December said that the Egyptian government's move aimed to target the gains of the January 25 revolution, freedom and democracy, and was singling out a political group that is committed to democracy and peaceful activism. Last Week, Qatar a firm backer to the Moslem Brüderbund, said designating the Moslem Brüderbund a terrorist group was "a prelude to a shoot-to-kill policy" against demonstrators. In response, Egypt summoned Qatar's envoy in Cairo to protest what it described Doha's interference in Egyptian internal affairs. The decision to designate the Brotherhood a terrorist group also raised the concern of the US State Department, which feared it might hinder the transitional roadmap announced since Morsi's ouster 3 July 2013. US officials have added that the administration of President Barack Obama If you like your coverage you can keep it... is not considering, or even discussing, designating the Moslem Brüderbund a terrorist organization. |
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| Pro-Morsi coalition calls for Friday protests 'in defence of women' |
| 2013-11-09 |
| [Al Ahram] A coalition led by Egypt's Moslem Brüderbund has called for mass protests on Friday under the rallying slogan "Egypt's women are a red line," decrying recent arrests of women protesting in support of ousted president Mohammed Morsi. ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Timeprinciple, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... In a statement, the National Coalition in Support of Legitimacy accused security forces of beating, torturing and detaining women in the latest security crackdown against Morsi's supporters. Last week, 21 Moslem Brüderbund women were locked away You have the right to remain silent... during a demonstration in Egypt's second city Alexandria. Video footage circulating on social media networks showed security forces manhandling some of the women arrested. "Such practices didn't stop at killing men, women and kiddies in massacres as had happened in Rabaa El-Adawiya and Al-Nahda Square; instead there is an unprecedented targeted attack on women," the statement read. The sit-ins at Rabaa El-Adawiya and Al-Nahda Square in Cairo were violently dispersed by police in August, leaving hundreds of protesters dead. The coalition said that "increasing violence" by security forces is a sign of the "failure of the coup." |
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| Mosque-site of August bloody clashes to re-open next week |
| 2013-11-07 |
| [Al Ahram] Rabaa Al-Adawiya mosque, the site of a six-week pro-Morsi protest camp earlier this year, will re-open in a week, after months of renovations, announced Cairo Governor Gala Said on Wednesday. The mosque, which was named after legendary Moslem Sufi saint Rabaa Al-Adawiya, was ruined during the violent dispersal of the sit-in on 14 August by security forces, which left hundreds dead. The sit-in at Rabaa was one of two camps established on 28 June by supporters of Morsi -- largely comprising Moslem Brüderbund members - to counter mass demonstrations calling for the ouster of the former Islamist president. The other sit-in was located at Giza's Al-Nahda square. The choice of Rabaa Al-Adawiya mosque in Nasr City in eastern Cairo as a location for the sit-in was believed to be due to the large number of Moslem Brüderbund members who live in the residential neighbourhood. Since the dispersal and following the arrest and detention of hundreds of Brotherhood members, Morsi loyalists have attempted to march to Rabaa Al-Adawiya more than once, but have been barred by security forces. On 11 October, a 19 year-old pro-Morsi protester, Belal Gaber, was killed after security forces shot at a demonstration in support of the ousted president as it approached Rabaa Al-Adawiya, where security has been permanently stationed to prevent another sit-in from taking place. Islamist supporters of the ousted president have adopted the Rabaa sign - 4 fingers referring to the Arabic meaning of the name - as a symbol of defiance to the interim government. |
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| Egypt's interior ministry issues ultimatum over protest 'excesses' |
| 2013-09-16 |
| [Al Ahram] Egypt's Ministry of Interior says security forces observed infringements and excesses that fall beyond the realm of peacefulness in Friday's protests, which were held by supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi and critics of the armed forces. "Many crimes were committed ... blocking roads, disturbing traffic, assaulting several mosque preachers, abducting correspondents and stealing their equipment, and threatening the security of citizens," the ministry said in a statement published on its official Facebook page. The interior ministry stressed that the police would "strictly face such practices" in the future in order to maintain security. Security forces tossed in the calaboose Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! Friday a number of Moslem Brüderbund supporters in several Egyptian cities following festivities between the Islamist group's supporters and opponents, state news agency MENA reported. The confrontations left two dead in Alexandria and Beni Suef. In Alexandria, Egypt's second largest city, army vehicles were deployed in several districts after Brotherhood supporters were chased by local residents near Al-Qaed Ibrahim Mosque, which has been a flashpoint for demonstrations since the 2011 January uprising. Clashes also erupted in Alexandria's Corniche seafront road, prompting police to fire tear gas. MENA said a number of "rioters" were arrested in the city shortly afterwards. The agency also said "a large number" of Brotherhood supporters were apprehended in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura after festivities broke out between protestors and locals, which left several injured. There were similar skirmishes in the northern province of Sharqiya, where ousted president Mohamed Morsi was born. Protest marches were called by the Moslem Brüderbund for Friday and Saturday in Cairo and other cities to mark the one-month anniversary of the violent dispersal by the police of two pro-Morsi sit-ins at Rabaa Al-Adawiya and Al-Nahda squares that left 600 dead and more than 40 officers killed. |
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| The Brotherhood: From imagined moderation to vile terrorism | |
| 2013-09-12 | |
| [Al Ahram] At milestones, feelings of distrust mingle with optimism, and developments that seem highly contradictory in form but are in fact compatible in substance become apparent. In such instances, it is important that people and institutions work in close harmony, coherence and have a clear vision. As the saying goes, perhaps there is a silver lining. Egypt has come to recognise those who are with it and those against, and now we have a very clear political and media roadmap that reveals true brothers and friends as well as enemy and villains. It has also discovered who can take charge at critical moments and who will flee and abandon ship for selfish reasons. Egypt suffered greatly over the past two months, reaching a zenith on 14 August; namely, the chapter before the end of the Moslem Brüderbund saga which had dreamt of conquering Egypt for 80 years. But when it reached power at a farcical moment that will never be repeated, it could not restrain itself and imagined it was capable of consuming 90 million people who have a historic and civil heritage stretching back thousands of years. Once the Moslem Brüderbund realised it would never achieve its goals, it threw caution to the wind and continued to be obstinate in the belief it had special powers that would enable it to punish the entire population and all institutions. It thought it could create parallel institutions and take up arms against everyone, with the aid of a transnational global organization and some governments under its control, along with a large number of mercenaries and hard boyz of various nationalities. Despite the powerful blow against the Moslem Brüderbund as a result of unprecedented solidarity among the sweeping majority of Egyptians, government and key institutions, as well as rare harmony between popular action and institutional action as we saw on 30 June and since, the Brotherhood is still living in the past and has delusions of conquering Egypt once again with NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... -backed Turkish spears, accompanied by negative publicity in some Arab media that have forever etched their name in the dustbin of history. It is very clear that the Moslem Brüderbund and its global organization can only see its own hallucinations and turns a blind eye to the revolution of a free people writing their destiny with confidence and competence. The outcome is that the Brotherhood has lost both sight and foresight, perhaps for at least another 100 years, which is explains its horrific indulgence in terrorism and all its destructive dimensions and hateful mechanisms. It is flagrant terrorism that Egyptians will never forget and history will never forgive, despite efforts by frauds, hired hands, liars and hypocrites to alter or blur the facts. This became crystal clear during the six-week armed sit-in at Rabaa Al-Adawiya and Al-Nahda squares, and peaked in the three days that followed dispersing the protest in a very professional manner by the Egyptian police. Also, through Moslem Brüderbund terrorism as they marched on the streets to terrorise Egyptians, banditry, despicable attacks on churches including the burning of 62 churches in several cities and villages. They even marked the property of Copts in villages and towns in Upper Egypt to target them in attacks. They also burned Rabaa Al-Adawiya Mosque in an attempt to destroy evidence of the criminal armed sit-in there, and launched armed attacks on 32 cop shoppes, killing officers and soldiers. They even desecrated their corpses in front of terrified crowds as they chanted "Islamic, Islamic." This happened at Kerdasa cop shoppe, one of the most horrific terrorist attacks by the Moslem Brüderbund and its alleged supporters. They also torched public buildings such as governorate headquarters in Giza, the Ministry of Finance, and the Faculty of Engineering at Cairo University. They also pillaged and burned down the headquarters of major corporations and took refuge in various mosques, and stockpiled automatic weapons in them. They also threatened to assassinate some public and media figures. Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie sadly admitted that he was a better peeping Tom than he was a comedian... Sinai is suffering from mobilised hard boyz and mercenaries in confrontations with the army and police, as well as terrorising the local population.
It is a dirty war of terror by all measures, but it is not void of brazen paradoxes. There are sheikhs who had in the past incessantly issued edicts about what is allowed and forbidden, but were not moved by the burning, killing, torture, desecration and banditry -- although in genuine Islamic jurisprudence there is an entire chapter on banditry, stemming bloodshed, punishment of wrongdoers on Earth and in Heaven. There are countries that in the past incessantly talked about human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... , protecting minorities, the right to peaceful protest and the people's right for change, but ended up supporting a terrorist faction in confronting an entire nation. It is as if they were never told about burning of churches, armed sit-ins, killing people in cold blood; or maybe they were informed, but deliberately turned a blind eye. This is the greatest paradox of all: How can a group exercising abominable terrorism with such audacity gain the sympathy of the US and the West? There is no explanation other than there is an organic bond between these countries of colonial imperialist history and the Moslem Brüderbund. A bond based on a specific role for the Brotherhood within the framework of a global vision for the future of the region that serves Israel and the West. In return, the Moslem Brüderbund and its subsidiaries would be left to rule Egypt and a few other Arab countries. With that, forming a larger vessel for political Islam groups that would become domesticated to serve the West and its key interests -- with the help of a direct role for Turkey, which was promised a leading role similar to the one during the Ottoman Empire. Accordingly, a new Arab world would be formed under the auspices of the US and Europe, which reminds us of the Sykes-Picot Agreement that divided the Arab world among colonial powers at the beginning of the 20th century. But what these players forgot is that Egypt, with its cultural and civil heritage, and despite all the current economic hardships, will never be colonised again. It will fight wars, irrespective of how dirty, and win with the help of Almighty God and genuine cooperation with its Arab brothers who are loyal to tolerant Islam and true Arabism. | |
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| Pro-Morsi alliance criticises Egypt's authorities 60 days after ouster |
| 2013-09-04 |
| [Al Ahram] Egypt's National Coalition in Support of Legitimacy (NCSL), the Islamist alliance supporting deposed president Mohamed Morsi, said on Tuesday that Egypt has suffered a myriad of political and economic losses since the former elected president was ousted on 3 July. Marking 60 days since Morsi's overthrow by the armed forces, following mass popular protests, the NCSL issued a statement listing the losses they think Egypt has sustained under the "coup authorities," including: the closure of several factories, the incurring of more debts, and the renewed state of emergency, which is due to end in less than two weeks. "Sixty days have passed since the coup of the 3 July 2013 against the first elected civilian president for Egypt," the statement reads. "The Egyptian people have been subject to a forgery of history that might be the worst in the history of mankind." "The authorities of the coup have committed the worst crimes against humanity; They killed, burned, and tortured patriotic and Islamist figures, twisted facts ... and the Egyptian economy was dealt major blows from the first moment." The pro-Morsi Islamist forces have staged demos on Tuesday to mark the day, with a turnout of protesters estimated in the thousands. The interim authorities resorted to forcible eviction of the pro-Morsi sit-ins at Rabaa Al-Adawiya and Al-Nahda squares (in Cairo and Giza) on 14 August, leaving hundreds dead, predominantly from the Islamist camp. This was followed by a stream of arrests of prominent Brotherhood and Islamist leaders, who have been given an array of criminal charges. Two days after the deadly dispersals, Friday 16 August saw large heated rallies supporting Morsi, who hails from the Moslem Brüderbund, as the day was marked by exchanges in live fire and dozens of deaths. However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... the last two Fridays have been much calmer, with a lower turnout at planned pro-Morsi protests, fueling speculation the security clampdown on the Moslem Brüderbund has left them crippled. |
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| Hegazy slapped with fresh incitement charge |
| 2013-08-28 |
| [Al Ahram] On Tuesday, Egyptian prosecution levied a new charge for incitement of murder against Islamist preacher and Moslem Brüderbund supporter Safwat Hegazy. Hegazy, who was nabbed Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! on Wednesday pending an investigation that started on Saturday, was slapped with a fresh incitement charge regarding the 15 July festivities between supporters of ousted President Morsi and police forces in Ramsis Square, Downtown Cairo. Prosecutors extended Hegazy's detainment for 15 more days following Tuesday's accusations. He had already been given a 15-day extension on Monday. Hegazy was accused of inciting an attempt to storm Al-Azbakeya cop shoppe near Ramsis Square, as well as for targeting coppers with firearms. He currently faces several charges, including attempted murder and incitement of violence against opponents of deposed president Mohamed Morsi within pro-Morsi protest camps in Cairo's Rabaa Al-Adawiya Square and Giza's Al-Nahda Square, as well as for his role in earlier festivities between supporters and opponents of Morsi at the Presidential palace in December. |
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