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Africa Subsaharan
Boko Haram kills seven Christians in Borno state, Nigeria - Christian Daily International
2025-04-30
[CHRISTIANDAILY] Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
 murderous Moslems on Monday (April 28) attacked a predominantly Christian community in Borno state, northeast Nigeria
... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border...
, killing seven Christians and setting homes and church buildings ablaze, residents said.

The Death Eaters attacked Kwaple village in Chibok County, said area resident James Musa.

''Kwaple village in Chibok Local Government Area is under attack from Boko Haram terrorists. Please pray for God's intervention,'' Musa said, echoing text messages to Christian Daily International-Morning Star News from other residents.

Resident Ibrahim Adamu said seven Christian mourners at a wake were slain and several others severely injured by suspected Boko Haram Death Eaters. Modu Mustapha, chairman of the Chibok Local Government Council, confirmed the attack.
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Africa North
Chad warns could retaliate if Sudan attacks
2025-03-25
[EWN.CO.ZA] Chad on Monday warned its traditional foe 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...
 that it "reserves the legitimate right to respond" if attacked, following threats made by a senior Khartoum military official.

In a video broadcast Sunday on Al Jazeera, the deputy commander of the Sudanese forces, Yasser al-Atta, warned that the airport in the Chadian capital N'Djamena and at Amdjarras in northeastern Chad "are legitimate targets for the Sudanese armed forces".

The remarks "could be interpreted as a declaration of war if followed through," Chadian foreign ministry front man Ibrahim Adam Mahamat said.

"Such rhetoric could lead to a dangerous escalation for the entire sub-region," and "Chad reserves the legitimate right to respond vigorously to any attempted aggression," he added.

"Sudan has just declared war on Chad," declared former Chadian prime minister Saleh Kebzabo on his official Facebook page.

"We must take this very seriously, prepare for it militarily, and mobilise," he added.

Chad has accused the Sudanese government for over six decades of doing everything it can to destabilise its neighbour, notably by "orchestrating rebellions" and supporting the Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
 Islamist group.

Since April 2023, Sudan has been torn apart by a conflict pitting General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of the army and de facto ruler of the country since a 2021 coup, against his former deputy, Mohammed Hamdan Daglo, known as Hemedti, the chief of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

At the end of October 2024, N'Djamena denied any involvement in the Sudanese conflict but Khartoum's de facto rulers accused it of playing an active role in arms deliveries from the United Arab Emirates to the RSF.

The alleged support for the RSF has been highlighted in various reports -- including one from the United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
 in January 2024 -- but Chad and the UAE have consistently denied involvement.

The presence in El Fasher in Sudan's perennially restive Darfur region of a Zaghawa rebellion -— an ethnic group also present in Chad -— is N'Djamena's main concern.

It is led by Ousman Dillo, the younger brother of Chadian opposition leader Yaya Dillo Djerou who was killed by the Chadian army.

In February 2008, a Zaghawa rebellion based in Sudan launched a lightning offensive in Chad alongside other groups, forcing former president Idriss Deby Itno to take refuge in his presidential palace, before successfully repelling the rebels with decisive support from former ruler La Belle France.

The war in Sudan since April 2023 has left tens of thousands dead, displaced more than 11 million people and created the risk of widespread famine, in what the UN considers the worst humanitarian crisis in recent times.
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Africa Horn
Shebab Militants Seize Somali Port
2016-02-06
[ALMANAR.LB] Somalia's Shabaab faceless myrmidons retook their former stronghold of Merka on Friday from African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
 troops who pulled out of the port they had held for three-and-a-half years, the governor said.

The loss of Merka, the regional state capital of Lower Shabelle, is one of the biggest setbacks for the AU force in its nearly decade-long battle against the Shabaab.

"The AU troops pulled out of the town and Shabaab bandidos faceless myrmidons entered -- and have secured control without fighting," Ibrahim Adam, governor of the Lower Shabelle region told news hounds.

The historic port, some 100 kilometers (60 miles) south of the capital Mogadishu, was captured in August 2012 by African Union troops.

It is one of the first major towns the Shabaab have seized back and it gives them access to a sea port again.

There was no immediate response from AMISOM or government officials.

Residents confirmed the takeover, saying heavily armed Shabaab fighters swept into the town with holy warrior black flags, before addressing residents.

"AMISOM forces moved out at midday and the local administration and all other Somali security forces left a few minutes later - and then heavily armed Shabaab bandidos faceless myrmidons entered the town," said Ibrahim Mumin, a local.

"They have been addressing residents at the district headquarters."

The Shabaab are fighting to overthrow the internationally-backed government in Mogadishu, which is protected by 22,000 AU troops.

The faceless myrmidons have lost ground since being routed from Mogadishu in 2011 but continue to stage regular shooting and suicide kabooms, and in recent months staged a series of brazen raids on AU bases.
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India-Pakistan
Two Britons 'killed in Pakistan drone strike'
2011-11-19
[One Pakistan] The government is looking into reports that two UK nationals accused of turban links were killed in a US drone strike in Pakistain's tribal region, the Foreign Office said Friday.

The men were named as Ibrahim Adam, 24, and Mohammed Azmir, 37, by their family and friends, the Press Association reported.

They were killed in the lawless Wazoo tribal region bordering Afghanistan at least three months ago, it reported.

"We're aware of reports and looking into them further," a Foreign Office front man told AFP.

A government source said that getting confirmation would take time because the area is remote.

Adam, from Barkingside, east London, was wanted by British authorities after absconding from a government "control order" used to limit the movements of suspected Islamic fascisti in May 2007.

Azmir, a father of three who lived in Ilford, Essex, was slapped with a Treasury order in February 2010 freezing his assets over concerns that he was involved in funding terrorism.
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Britain
Tube driver with al Qaeda links cleared of jihad charge
2010-11-09
A London Underground driver on the Bakerloo line was cleared of plotting terrorist attacks despite writing a goodbye note to his wife and admitting he knew an al Qaeda operative.

Amir Ali, 28, was accused of buying survival gear and had booked flights to Pakistan in order to commit "violent jihad" in Afghanistan. The married father of two wrote a letter to his wife and children declaring "Allah came first."

Ali admitted knowing Anthony Garcia, who was jailed over a plot to blow up the Bluewater shopping mall and other targets with massive fertiliser bombs. He was also said to be associated with Garcia's brothers, Lamine Adam and Ibrahim Adam, who are fugitives.

During the Bluewater trial it emerged that Lamine Adam, a former Tube driver, had been asked by terrorists in Pakistan to launch a suicide attack on the Tube.

Ali was today found not guilty of preparation for acts of terrorism between April 2006 and March last year. He claims that he was framed by the British security services after refusing to become a mole for the MI5.

When asked during the trial whether Muslims were obliged to carry out jihad Ali replied: "I think it's the obligation of a Muslim to follow the Koran."

Just 10 years ago Ali had been an aspiring amateur boxer who twice won the light welterweight division of the London ABA Championships. But Ali left the sport when officials demanded he shave.

The court heard he had studied at the University of North London. At the University's Islamic Society after 9/11, regularly attending talks with Lamine Adam.

Police found Ali's goodbye letter to Miriam and his young children in his rucksack. He told his wife not to be "upset or depressed" as he would always remember her and the children. He also asked for his "wife's forgiveness and that he would see her soon in this life or the thereafter."

Police also found terrorist related items at his home including recordings of imprisoned cleric Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal.

During the trial he distanced himself from al-Faisal, saying he was a victim of Islamophobia and compared his plight to that of the Irish living in the UK during the the IRA bombings and Nelson Mandela.
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Africa Horn
Obama Backs Down on Sudan
2010-04-22
Bambi has lost the NYT. Go figure ...
By Nicholas D. Kristof

Until he reached the White House, Barack Obama repeatedly insisted that the United States apply more pressure on Sudan so as to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe in Darfur and elsewhere.

Yet, as president, Mr. Obama and his aides have caved, leaving Sudan gloating at American weakness. Western monitors, Sudanese journalists and local civil society groups have all found this month's Sudanese elections to be deeply flawed — yet Mr. Obama's special envoy for Sudan, Maj. Gen. Scott Gration, pre-emptively defended the elections, saying they would be “as free and as fair as possible.' The White House showed only a hint more backbone with a hurried reference this week to “an essential step' with “serious irregularities.'

President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan — the man wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity in Darfur — has been celebrating. His regime calls itself the National Congress Party, or N.C.P., and he was quoted in Sudan as telling a rally in the Blue Nile region: “Even America is becoming an N.C.P. member. No one is against our will.'

Memo to Mr. Obama: When a man who has been charged with crimes against humanity tells the world that America is in his pocket, it's time to review your policy.

Perhaps the Obama administration caved because it considers a flawed election better than no election. That's a reasonable view, one I share. It's conceivable that Mr. Bashir could have won a quasi-fair election — oil revenues have manifestly raised the standard of living in parts of Sudan — and the campaigning did create space for sharp criticism of the government.

It's also true that Sudan has been behaving better in some respects. The death toll in Darfur is hugely reduced, and the government is negotiating with rebel groups there. The Sudanese government gave me a visa and travel permits to Darfur, allowing me to travel legally and freely.

The real game isn't, in fact, Darfur or the elections but the maneuvering for a possible new civil war. The last north-south civil war in Sudan ended with a fragile peace in 2005, after some two million deaths. The peace agreement provided for a referendum, scheduled to take place in January, in which southern Sudanese will decide whether to secede. They are expected to vote overwhelmingly to form a separate country.

Then the question becomes: will the north allow South Sudan to separate? The south holds the great majority of the country's oil, and it's difficult to see President Bashir allowing oil fields to walk away.

“If the result of the referendum is independence, there is going to be war — complete war,' predicts Mudawi Ibrahim Adam, one of Sudan's most outspoken human rights advocates. He cautions that America's willingness to turn a blind eye to election-rigging here increases the risk that Mr. Bashir will feel that he can get away with war.

“They're very naïve in Washington,' Mr. Mudawi said. “They don't understand what is going on.'

On the other hand, a senior Sudanese government official, Ghazi Salahuddin, told me unequivocally in Khartoum, the nation's capital, that Sudan will honor the referendum results. And it's certainly plausible that north and south will muddle through and avoid war, for both sides are exhausted by years of fighting.

Here in Juba, the South Sudan capital, I met Winnie Wol, 26, who fled the civil war in 1994 after a militia from the north attacked her village to kill, loot, rape and burn. Her father and many relatives were killed, but she escaped and made her way to Kenya — and eventually resettled as a refugee in California. She now lives in Olathe, Kan., and she had returned for the first time to Sudan to visit a mother and sisters she had last seen when she was a little girl.

Ms. Wol, every bit the well-dressed American, let me tag along for her journey back to her village of Nyamlell, 400 miles northwest of Juba. The trip ended by a thatch-roof hut that belonged to her mother, who didn't know she was coming — so no one was home. Ms. Wol was crushed.

Then there was a scream and a woman came running. It was Ms. Wol's mother, somehow recognizing her, and they flew into each other's arms. To me, it felt like a peace dividend.

Yet that peace is fragile, and Ms. Wol knows that the northern forces may come back to pillage again. “I don't want war,' she said, “but I don't think they will allow us to separate.'

My own hunch is that the north hasn't entirely decided what to do, and that strong international pressure can reduce the risk of another savage war. If President Obama is ever going to find his voice on Sudan, it had better be soon.
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Britain
Did al-Qaeda leader pass on his plans from inside prison?
2007-07-04
A senior al-Qaeda terrorist who plotted a wave of car bomb attacks in Britain is feared to have passed on his plans to other militants from prison.

Dhiren Barot, who is serving 30 years for conspiracy to murder, wielded huge influence over other imprisoned terror suspects and tried to convert non-Muslim inmates to his brand of radical Islam. The Times has learnt that the authorities were so concerned about his ability to radicalise other prisoners that he was moved out of Belmarsh jail in southeast London. Growing numbers of inmates were attending Friday prayers in the high-security prison, and it was believed that terrorists from different wings were using the facility to exchange messages and indoctrinate other prisoners.

Barot was transferred to Frankland jail, Durham, where he demanded to be given the right to lead Friday prayers. His demands were rejected.
"I'll go, but I get to lead the prayers!"
"You ain't leadin' no damn prayers!"
"Then I ain't goin'!"
"Smith!"
"Sir!"
"Hit him!"
"Yessir! [WHACK!]"
"Oooowwww!"
"This is jug, knucklehad. You're not in charge here."
Barot was the author of the Gas Limos Project, a plan to blow up hotels and London landmarks with stretch limousines packed with gas cylinders, petrol and nails. It was thwarted by a series of raids in August 2004. A British Hindu who converted to Islam, Barot trained in Afghanistan under Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of 9/11. He wrote a book about the need for Muslims to wage a terrorist campaign against the West. It was published in Britain under his nom de guerre, Essa al-Hindi.

Barot pleaded guilty to planning a bombing campaign in November last year. Even as his defence team attempted to mitigate for him, he insisted that his plans could and would have worked. A security source told The Times: “Nothing would delight him more than to see his plans reach fruition, even if he is behind bars.”

Counter-terrorist agencies have also been concerned that two men who absconded while under terrorist control orders have been visiting high-security inmates in Belmarsh. Lamine and Ibrahim Adam have been on the run for six weeks and the public have been told not to approach them. Their brother, Anthony Garcia, was convicted in April for his part in a fertiliser bomb plot to attack London. Zeeshan Siddiqui, another associate of the fertiliser bomb cell, is another control order absconder whose whereabouts are unknown. Siddiqui had terror training in Pakistan with members of the gang and Mohammed Sidique Khan, the leader of the 7/7 bombers. “We thought they would all go to Peshawar overseas, but it is not inconceivable that, given their contacts with terrorists here, they might attempt to do something in this country,” the source said.

After sentencing Barot to life last November, Mr Justice Butterfield said that he would have to serve at least 40 years in jail. The judge said that Barot’s plans would have caused carnage on a “colossal and unprecedented scale” if successful. He told Barot, who had worked as an airline ticketing clerk in Piccadilly: “Your intention was not simply to cause damage, panic or fear. Your intention was to murder, but it went further. It was designed to strike at the very heart of democracy and the security of the State, and, if successful, would have affected thousands personally, millions indirectly and ultimately the whole nation of the US and the UK.” The judge added: “You have devoted most of your adult life to seeking means to bring death and destruction to the Western world.”
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Britain
Voted "Most Likely to be a Terrorist"
2007-05-30
A TERROR suspect on the run for a week after breaking his Home Office curfew appeared in his school yearbook as the kid most likely to be . . . a TERRORIST. Ibrahim Adam, 20, was given the mock accolade by classmates, who also branded him the “rudest” boy in their year. The 2003 book — compiled by pupils when Adam was 16 — sees one ex-pal sum him up with the chilling phrase: “Known by many, understood by few.”

The fugitive’s form teacher at Seven Kings High School in Ilford, Essex, brands him “Mr Argumentative”. Another jokey award given to him and a girl he is pictured with dubs them the “most gorgeous couple”. The yearbook pictures Adam in his school uniform at age 11 and 16 — and includes a retort from him slamming classmates as “sados”. He blasts in badly-written English: “Its me the one who terrorized our form teacher! Hope you all remember me.” Adam — whose entry contrasts with other pupils tipped to be future Prime Minister or superstar — signs off by declaring: “Good luck in the future. IBZ.”

Cops fear Adam may be heading to Iraq to wage war on British troops — along with his brother Lamine, 26, and a third man. All three are terror suspects who scarpered last Monday after breaking Home Office control orders. Adam is the younger brother of Anthony Garcia, 25 — jailed for life as one of the Bluewater bomb plotters. Adam and third brother Lamine were made the subject of control orders over alleged plots to blow up troops abroad. They vanished after failing to call a private monitoring firm from their home in Barkingside, East London. Two days later Home Secretary John Reid released their names and that of fellow fugitive Cerie Bullivant, 24.

Adam, who was born in Algeria, left school in 2005. Yesterday a former classmate insisted the terror suspect was always “popular” with teachers. The ex-pal said: “No one can believe what’s happened.”

Police have distributed posters featuring a new picture of missing Bullivant. The CCTV snap shows him with his long hair shaven. It was taken a week ago when he last reported to Dagenham Police Station in East London. Cops are warning the public not to approach any of the three but to dial 999.

The disappearance of the trio has fuelled fresh controversy over control orders — which are used to keep tabs on terror suspects. Three others have also done a runner. On Friday one was named as Iraqi Bestun Salim. He is accused of links with Iraq’s slain al-Qaeda mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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Britain
New security shambles as three terror suspects go on the run
2007-05-24
Three terror suspects, including two brothers of an Islamic fanatic jailed for plotting mass murder, are on the run tonight. They had all been under control orders requiring them to report to the authorities every day.

Two of the men are Lamine Adam, 26, and Ibrahim Adam, 20, whose brother Anthony Garcia, 24, was jailed for life last month for his part in the fertiliser bomb plot. The third man is their associate Cerie Bullivant, 24.

Home Secretary John Reid, who faced fresh accusations that the Government's terror policy is a shambles, took the unprecedented step of naming the three after consultations with Scotland Yard. The fact that they were named - Ministers have resisted all attempts to identify three other control order suspects on the run - was seen as evidence of the urgent need to find them.

Opposition MPs said it was clear control orders could not protect the public.

Control orders were introduced as a compromise after the courts ruled that terror suspects could not be detained without trial. But successive home secretaries have suffered a series of human rights defeats which mean suspects can no longer be placed under virtual house arrest. Six in total have now gone on the run.

The Adam brothers, originally from Algeria, had been due to contact a monitoring company on Monday, but failed to do so. Bullivant failed to report to his local police station the following day.

Deputy assistant commissioner Peter Clarke, head of Terrorism Command for the Metropolitan Police, said: "They have breached the conditions of their control orders, which is a serious crime. We know that Lamine Adam, Ibrahim Adam and Cerie Bullivant are associates and may well be together. It is possible the public can help us trace them."

Mr Reid will make an emergency statement to Parliament tomorrow.

Security sources stressed that the men were under control orders because they were suspected of plotting atrocities overseas and said they were not an immediate danger to the public here. But their links to Garcia, who changed his name when he became a model, are certain to cause alarm. He was one of five men jailed for life last month for a bomb plot linked to Al Qaeda that could have killed hundreds of people.
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Africa Horn
Sudan detains rights delegates
2006-01-23
Sudanese authorities have detained around 50 delegates from local and international human rights groups as they met on the sidelines of an African Union summit in Khartoum. Rights activists, being detained in a building where the meeting was being held, said Sunday's crackdown called into question Sudan's right to host the AU summit. Osman Hummaida, from the Sudanese Organisation Against Torture (SOAT), said: "Towards the end of the meeting a group of security men came and demanded to see the agenda, the list of participants and our recommendations.

"Everyone is being detained and we have been asked not to talk on the phone. We have not been told why we are being held," he said. The meeting was to discuss closer co-operation with the AU on human rights issues. Representatives of Amnesty International, Anti-Slavery International and the International Bar Association were among those being held, Hummaida said. Mudawi Ibrahim Adam, a Sudanese human rights activist who has previously been arrested by the government, said: "They are harassing people and trying to get all the laptops from them. They cannot be hosting a summit while they have this kind of conflict and they cannot be the chairperson of the African Union."
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Africa: Horn
'Militias Burn Darfur Village as Warning'
2005-04-23
Arab militias burned down a village in West Darfur state as a warning to its non-Arab residents not to return to their homes, a man from the village said yesterday. Ibrahim Adam, 23, took a Reuters witness to the freshly burned village, southwest of El-Geneina, the capital of West Darfur state. All the about 200 homes had been razed, with blackened cooking pots and utensils lying around on the charred ground. No one was killed in Monday's attack, Adam said. The village was deserted, because all the residents had fled across the border to Chad after militias attacked about a year ago.

They did not burn the village then, he said, but came back again on Monday to warn those who had returned from Chad to nearby camps that they should not try to go home. "We saw the smoke and went there. We saw the whole village was burned," he said. Adam fled Sereaf last year with his heavily pregnant wife after the Arab militias, known as Janjaweed, first attacked. He returned recently to Sudan and lives in a camp about 12 km away called Masteri.
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Africa: Horn
Janjaweed massacres 56
2004-05-24
Arab militiamen killed at least 56 people in a raid in western Sudan, villagers said on Sunday, just days after the government declared the troubled region was stable. The militiamen, known as janjaweed, raided Abga Rajil village 50 km south of Nyala town on Saturday, witnesses said. Abdel-Rahman Rizk, 29, speaking from a Nyala hospital bed where he was recovering from a bullet wound to the thigh, said the militiamen arrived on horses, camels and a car and surrounded the village. "They were firing and people were scattering and they set fire to the houses and then they started picking off people as they ran out of their houses," he told Reuters.

Ibrahim Adam, also from the village, said: "The tally of those we buried was 56. Forty of them we buried in one grave." Others from the area gave the same figure, although an official from the Sudan Liberation army (SLA), one of the two main rebel groups in Darfur, said he had understood 46 were killed. Independent verification is hard to obtain in the remote Darfur region. The government said on Monday that Darfur was now stable and security would be maintained by police.
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