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Africa Horn

Trump announces US airstrikes on terrorist locations in Somalia

2025-02-02

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] On February 1, US President Donald Trump announced that he had ordered airstrikes on targets in Somalia where one of the commanders of the terrorist group Islamic State (IS, a terrorist organization banned in Russia) was located.

“This morning, I ordered precision military airstrikes against a senior ISIS attack planner and other terrorists he recruited and led in Somalia,” the American leader wrote on the social media site Truth Social.

The head of the White House added that the terrorists posed a threat to the United States. According to him, the airstrikes destroyed the caves in which the terrorists were hiding. At the same time, as Trump noted, this happened without causing harm to civilians.

Earlier, NBC, citing the US Africa Command, said that the US military had struck the leader of the ISIS terrorist group in Somalia. The US government publicly named the target of the strike as the head of the group's branch in Somalia, Abdulkadir Mumin, who had secretly become the world leader of the terrorist organization.

ISIS world leader? Impressive.
Garowe adds:

American President Donald Trump
...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania...
confirmed multiple ~~Arclight~~ airstrikes
...KABOOM!...

s against the ISIS gunnies in the Bari region of Somalia, noting that the bombardments targeted a senior 'planner' who has been on the run in deep caves within the mountainous areas of Puntland
...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion...
Without disclosing the identity of the planner, Trump said the airstrikes destroyed several caves killing 'many terrorists' in the process. No non-combatants were killed or armed during the operations on Saturday, he said in a tweet.

"This morning I ordered precision Military air strikes on the Senior ISIS Attack Planner and other snuffies he recruited and led in Somalia. These killers, who we found hiding in caves, threatened the United States and our Allies," Trump said in a shocking statement.

"The strikes destroyed the caves they live in, and killed many snuffies without, in any way, harming civilians," he added.

Traditionally, such announcement comes from the US Africa Command, which has bases in Djibouti and trains the Danab Special Forces of the Somali National Army (SNA). Trump blames his predecessor — Joe The Big Guy Biden
Joe <q>The Big Guy</q> Biden

...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family...
, for failing to take action against ISIS gunnies in Somalia.

"Our military has targeted this ISIS Attack Planner for years, but Biden and his cronies wouldn’t act quickly enough to get the job done. I did! The message to ISIS and all others who would attack Americans is that "WE WILL FIND YOU, AND WE WILL KILL YOU," he said.

Pete Hegseth, the Defence Secretary, said the airstrikes were undertaken by the US Africa Command following the order by President Trump, but the government of Somalia was in charge of coordination.

In its assessment, the Pentagon said multiple operatives were killed, adding that no civilians were maimed. The statement corroborated Trump’s assessment.

Multiple sources confirmed to Garowe Online that approximately six airstrikes hit various locations in the al-Miskaad mountains, causing significant impact, particularly in the Qurac, Buqo, Wangable, and Dhasaan areas. The strikes have been part of ongoing military operations targeting ISIS bases in the Bari region, officials said.

For the last one month, Puntland security forces, bolstered by support from local communities, have escalated their campaign against 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....
, launching what they describe as an all-out offensive against the IS-Somalia murderous Moslems.

The operations aim to dismantle ISIS positions nestled in the rugged terrain, and authorities report significant territorial gains in their fight against the murderous Moslems. Last year, the State Department raised concerns about the capabilities of the ISIS murderous Moslems, terming them 'dangerous'.

While cautioning Somalia, the State Department warned that if actions are not taken, the group could expand territories in Somalia, consequently, affecting the fight against terrorism. In southern regions, Somalia is battling al-Shabaab
... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them...
murderous Moslems.

In an interview with the Washington Post, Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud asked Trump to assist the country in the fight against terrorism, noting that 'we need your support in this war as we endeavour to stabilise Somalia'.

Trump’s direct involvement in Saturday's airstrikes showcases his commitment to assist the Horn of Africa nation in effectively fighting both al-Shabaab and ISIS.

…or his determination to push this thing to closure by winning the war. It remains to be seen whether he is actually interested in supporting either Somalia or Puntland beyond the short term.

America has close to 500 soldiers in Somalia whose primary duty is to train and equip local troops.

More from Garowe:

ISIS is based in Puntland, where it was established in 2015 by former Al-Shabaab leader Abdulkadir Mumin,

…that’s Somali-British ex-Al-Shabaab preacher Sheikh Abdulkadir Mumin or sometimes Abdul Qadir Mumin to you, bub. Show some respect! Born in Puntland in the early 1950s, he spent his forties in Sweden before moving to England in 2005. He preached to eager audiences (including Michael Adebolajo, involved in the murder of British soldier Lee Rigby) at Masjid Quba in Leicester and the Greenwich Islamic Centre in London, but it was in 2010 when he joined a press conference with Guantanamo Bay prisoner Moazzam Begg for the charity CAGE that MI-5 took an interest, driving his return to Puntland, where he joined Al Shabaab. Then in 2015 he and a mere two dozen followers pledged to Al Baghdadi and ISIS, growing tenfold within a year thanks to the romantic viciousness demonstrated by the Iraq/Syria caliphate and material support and training from ISIS in Yemen across the way…

and the group has now been under an offensive for two months by the troops of Somali Federal State, which saw the capture of dozens of its bases and murder of many fighters, including foreigners, according to local authorities.

And from Shabelle Media:

The Pentagon’s counterterrorism strategy in Africa has been strained as two key partners, Chad and Niger, ousted U.S. forces last year and took over key bases that the U.S. military had used to train and conduct missions against terrorist groups across the Sahel, the vast arid expanse south of the Sahara Desert.

U.S. military officials have warned that IS cells have received increasing direction from the group’s leadership that relocated to northern Somalia. That has included how to kidnap Westerners for ransom, how to learn better military tactics, how to hide from drones and how to build their own small quadcopters.

A U.S. military airstrike in Somalia last May targeted IS militants and killed three, according to U.S. Africa Command.

The number of IS militants in the country are estimated to be in the hundreds, mostly scattered in the Cal Miskaat mountains in Puntland’s Bari region, according to the International Crisis Group.

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Britain

Psychologist behind Britain’s terrorist deradicalisation scheme says there is NO guarantee offenders can ever be ‘CURED’ or pose no threat to society

2020-01-04

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]

Christopher Dean said we must be 'careful' about saying extremism is 'cured'

Mr Dean is the psychologist behind the Healthy Identity Intervention scheme

He said some offenders who take part regress afterwards due who they mix with

London Bridge killer Usman Khan attended a deradicalisation programme while on licence

Lee Rigby's killer Michael Adebolajo is now reportedly an unofficial mentor in such a programme

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Britain

ISIS Killer’s Wife Sues British Spies For £1million

2019-02-05

[RADIOSHABELLE] The wife of a jihadi who fought with ISIS is seeking up to £1million in compensation over claims she was shackled, whipped and interrogated by British intelligence officials.

Muna Abdule says MI6 operatives mistreated her and quizzed her over husband Abdelqadir Mumin.

Her accusations include that a mystery man called ’The British interrogator’ interrogated her in Somalia in 2013 with information she claims must have come from the UK.

She also claims she was hit with metal cables, and humiliated, the Daily Mirror revealed.

If proven she could receive up to £1million in compensation.

Court papers say: ’She says she was hooded in a manner which made it painful for her to breathe. She was threatened with being killed... She was frightened and slept little.’

Mrs Abdule lives in Berkshire while her husband who is linked with Mohammed Emwazi ‐ known as executioner Jihadi John ‐ is banned from the country.

Abdelqadir Mumin used to be a key recruiter and controller for the al-Qaeda affiliated al-Shabaab
...

the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
in Somalia after fleeing his home in South London.

He became one of the few high profile al-Shabaab figures to switch his allegiance to ISIS and has since fled with a small band of jihadis to the remote mountains in Puntland
...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion...
Mumin used to preach at Greenwich mosque, which is believed to have been where Mohammed Emwazi and Michael Adebolajo occasionally attended prayers.

Mumin was visited by his wife in 2013 who says she was tortured afterwards by British intelligence officers

Upon fleeing to Somalia in 2010, Mumin burnt his passport and declared he would spend the rest of his life fighting jihad.

Mrs Abdule’s lawyer Shubhaa Srinivasan told the Mirror: ’Despite the Government’s insistence it eschews torture, my client’s case... tells a different story.’

Sensitive parts of the case will be heard in private at the agreement of a High Court judge.

Previously after being accused of involvement in torture outside of the UK, Britannia has paid £20million in compensation to up to 20 claimants.

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Britain

Hate preacher Anjem Choudary to be freed from jail despite remaining 'genuinely dangerous'

2018-09-16

Yes, this piece of shit will be in the news again, smiling at terror. Britain deserves what they encourage
[Telegraph] Anjem Choudary, the notorious Islamist hate preacher, will be released from jail next month despite a chilling warning from the justice minister that he remained "genuinely dangerous".

Choudary, 51, is due to be freed within weeks after serving half of a five-and-a-half-year prison sentence for encouraging Muslims to join Islamic State.

The Government admitted on Tuesday it was powerless to prevent Choudary from being released on licence. Rory Stewart, the prisons minister, said that the preacher was "a deeply pernicious, destabilising influence".

Mr Stewart, in an interview, added: "He is... somebody who is a genuinely dangerous person. We will be watching him very carefully."

Choudary was leader of the proscribed terrorist group al-Muhajiroun, whose followers included Khuram Butt, part of the London Bridge terror cell who murdered eight innocent bystanders in June last year.

Other disciples include Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, the killers of Fusilier Lee Rigby, murdered outside his barracks in south London in 2013.

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Europe

Europe ~~migrant~~ colonist briefs

2017-07-09

Cyprus Police: 85 Syrian Migrants Took Boat from Turkey
8 July
[AnNahar] A Cyprus police spokesman says 85 Syrian migrants who arrived by boat to the island's northwestern coast have now been taken to a reception center. Police spokesman Michalis Ioannou said Saturday the boat that brought the 64 men, nine women and 12 children to Cyprus set sail from Antalya, Turkey. He said it had been sailing for three days and was spotted eight miles (13 kilometers) off the coast before landing near the village of Pomos on Friday. Ioannou said that seven men have been taken into custody because they had been deported from Cyprus in the past.

Here come the mob: How the mafia are moving in on aid money being poured in to deal with Europe's migrant crisis
8 July
Not everyone, it seems, is troubled by the migrant crisis engulfing Sicily. It now [DailyMail] emerges the Mafia are attracted by the hundreds of millions in EU cash that has been given to Rome.

Muslim imams "march" against terrorism in Europe
8 July
[DW] Around 60 imams from several European countries are on a bus tour of cities hit by Islamic terrorism in order to condemn extremism committed in the name of religion. Their message is that Islam is a religion of peace.

The "March of Muslims against Terrorism" kicked off on Saturday in Paris with a prayer at the site on the Champs-Elysees where a policeman was murdered by an Islamist militant in April. The imams will then travel by bus to other cities hit by major terror attacks over the past several years, including Brussels, Toulouse and Nice. The action will end in Paris on July 14 to mark Bastille Day.

The organizers of the peace march are Imam Hassen Chalghoumi of the Parisian suburb of Drancy and the French Jewish writer Marek Halter. Chalghoumi told French broadcaster France Inter on Sunday that violent groups like "Islamic State" are trying to take Islam "hostage."

"It is important that Muslims can express themselves to say that my religion has nothing to do with these barbarians," Chalghoumi said.

Norway asylum agency posts marked drop in arrivals
7 July
[TheLocal.no] The Norwegian Directorate of Immigration says it is downsizing operations after 2,380 asylum seekers came to the country in the first half of 2017 – the lowest number since the 1990s.

French policeman suspected of being Isis follower is charged
7 July
[TheLocal.fr] A French police officer who works in the Paris area who is suspected of having expressed support for terror group Isis has been charged for allegedly helping his brother aid jihadists travelling to the Middle East. The policeman, who works in the Paris region was charged on Saturday for criminal conspiracy and fraud in connection with a terrorist group, according to various reports in French media. The brother is already serving time in prison.

He was arrested in front of shocked colleagues when he turned up to work at the police station in the suburb of Kremlin-Bicêtre on June 27th.

Stockholm terror suspect subject of racial agitation investigation
6 July

Idiotic.

[TheLocal.se] Rakhmat Akilov is currently being detained while a public prosecutor looks into the suspected terrorist crime in the Swedish capital, in which five people were killed and several injured after a truck ploughed into a crowd on Stockholm's busy Drottninggatan. He admitted to carrying out a "terrorist crime" during a remand hearing on April 11th.

Aftonbladet now reports that the Uzbek national has been reported to the police for a number of incidents during his detention, including being racist towards prison officers, shouting "sieg heil" and "heil Hitler" and making Nazi salutes. Sweden's Prosecution Authority (Åklagarmyndigheten) confirmed to The Local that Akilov is now the subject of a preliminary investigation into racial agitation (hets mot folkgrupp).

EU countries decline to help Italy with Mediterranean refugee crisis
6 July
[DW] Overwhelmed by refugees, Italy has threatened to bar boats carrying migrants from its ports. EU interior ministers have agreed to develop a code of conduct for rescue ships. They are refusing to show any more solidarity.

Lee Rigby's killer and hate preacher Anjem Choudary will be among first inmates of jihadi jail within a prison to stop spread of extremism behind bars
5 July
[DailyMail] Lee Rigby's killer Michael Adebolajo and hate preacher Anjem Choudary will be among the first inmates in three special 'jihadi jails' set up within prisons.

Moroccan failed asylum seeker is jailed for brutally raping three women at knifepoint in Amsterdam
5 July
[DailyMail] The man, named only as Mustafa A., 35, was sentenced to 14 years in jail after he raped three women multiple times at knifepoint while they walked home late at night in Amsterdam.

France Identifies 100 Registered Gun Owners on Terror Watchlist
5 July
[AnNahar] Authorities in France have identified some 100 people believed to legally own firearms despite being an anti-terror watchlist, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said on Wednesday.

The announcement comes two weeks after a known gun enthusiast rammed a car laden with weapons and gas canisters into a police van on Paris' Champs-Elysees avenue, the latest in a string of jihadist attacks to hit France since 2015. The attacker, Adam Djaziri, was the only person killed, but the attack raised questions over how the 31-year-old was able to legally possess several guns despite having been flagged as a potential radical Islamist two years ago.

Head of ‘Liberal’ Berlin Mosque Under 24-Hour Police Guard After Multiple Death Threats
4 July
[Breitbart] The female founder of a new “liberal” mosque in Berlin has found herself under 24-hour police protection after receiving over a hundred death threats.

From Breitbart - Europe migrant crisis:

Coastguard: 35 Migrants Feared Drowned After Boat Sinks in Mediterranean
8 July
Thirty-five migrants, including seven children, were feared drowned after their inflatable boat sank on Saturday off the Libyan coast, the coastguard said. Eighty-five migrants, including 18 women, were rescued with the help of fishermen who alerted the coastguard, said Issa

Major German Parties Ignore Migrant Crisis During Election Campaign
8 July
The two largest parties in Germany, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Social Democrats (SPD), have largely refused to acknowledge migrant issues in their campaign ahead of September’s national election.

EU Expects UK to Take Migrants from Africa in New Relocation Scheme
8 July
The first vice president of the European Commission has said he expects the UK to take in migrants from North Africa as part of a new European Union (EU) programme.

Spain Warned to ‘Prepare’ as Migrant Sea Landings Via ‘Safer’ Route Double
8 July
The UN’s refugee agency has warned Spain to prepare for an increase in migrants arriving from North Africa as landings double since last year, with more asylum seekers preferring the “safer” route to Europe from Morocco.

Economists Propose ‘Economic Zones’ in Africa to Halt Migration
7 July
President of the Institute for the World Economy (IfW) Dennis Snower and his colleagues say the best way to stop migration from African countries is to develop “economic zones” funded by European Union subsidies.
IMF and World Bank funding, it's worked so bloodly well in the past.
Majority of Poles Would Rather Leave EU than Be Forced to Take Muslim Migrants
5 July
Most Poles would rather leave the European Union (EU) than have Brussels force migrants from third world nations on their country, a poll has shown.

Spain Brings 3 Migrants to Europe, Searches for 49
5 July
Spain’s maritime rescue service says it has rescued three migrants from a deflated rubber boat that is believed to have set sail from Morocco with 52 people aboard.

UN Study: Libyan Migration to Europe is Up, Mainly Young Men and Economic Migrants
5 July
Migration from Libya to Europe has increased in the last year, is expected to increase further, and consists overwhelmingly of young men, who are mostly economic migrants, a new United Nations study has found.

‘Escalating Violence’ in Calais After Clashes Between 100 African Migrants
2 July
Authorities have described “escalating violence” in the transit city of Calais, France, following two days of fighting when over 100 Eritrean and Ethiopian migrants clashed, attacking one another with stones and sticks leaving over a dozen hospitalised.

Romania: Police Detain 21 Iraqis Trying to Reach EU Schengen Zone
2 July
Romanian border police have detained 21 Iraqi migrants hiding in a corn field near the Hungarian border who say they were trying to reach the visa-free Schengen travel zone.

From Breitbart - immigration:

France Prosecutes Hundreds for FGM, Zero in the UK
6 July
Hundreds of people have been convicted of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) offences in France, yet none in the UK have, despite the practice being illegal for 31 years.

Special Investigator: Berlin Police Did Manipulate Files, Could Have Arrested Berlin Terrorist Before Attack
5 July
A special investigator into the case of the Berlin Christmas Market terrorist Anis Amri claims police manipulated files and could have captured Amri before the attack took place. Former Federal Prosecutor Bruno Jost gave his interim report to the Berlin

95 Per Cent of Gang Criminals in Stockholm Have a Foreign Background
4 July
Amidst a wave of bloody, gang-related murders in Stockholm, and police warnings that the situation is likely to get worse, a report has found 94.5 per cent of people identified as being involved in the Swedish capital’s violent, organised crime scene have a migration background.

Swedish Intelligence: Country Now Has 2,000 Radical Violent Islamists
4 July
The Swedish security agency Sapo revealed there are 2,000 violent Islamic extremists in the country – skyrocketing from 200 in 2010.
The other 450,000 to 500,000 thousand are simply Radical Violent Islamist auxiliary.
Poland: EU Will Not ‘Impose a Social Catastrophe’ with Migrant Quotas
3 July
The chairman of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) delivered a message of defiance to the European Union at his party’s annual conference.

From the Daily Mail - Europe migrant and refugee crisis:

Europe is 'underestimating' scale of migrant crisis and could be flooded by millions of Africans in 'biblical exodus' unless urgent action is taken says top official
08/07/17
President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani said there would be an exodus ‘of biblical proportions that would be impossible to stop if we don’t confront the problem now’.

UN admits 7 out of ten migrants crossing the Mediterranean from Libya are NOT refugees as crisis sparks hostility and violence in Italy
03/07/17
UNHCR says 84,830 migrants and refugees reached Italy this year from Libya, a 19-percent increase from last year, so wider Europe may face increased migrants and refugees soon.

Italy begs other European countries to take migrant ships as the nation struggles to deal with record numbers and threatens to close its ports… while 69 more die off of Costa del Sol
03/07/17
Refugee arrivals in Italy are up nearly 19 per cent over the same period last year and Rome has threatened to close its ports to privately-funded aid boats.

Italy plans to seize aid agency boats in new crackdown on migrants - and push for new processing centres in Libya and voluntary repatriation
02/07/17
Italy are to seize aid agency boats in a new crackdown on migrants as it pushes to shift asylum application centres to Libya in a radical shakeup. Marco Minniti, Italy's interior minister, called for other European nations to pitch in with the immigration crisis and said Rome would be pushing for a way to move the process of registering migrants away from the country. Many asylum seekers who reach the Italian shores do so through privately-run aid boats, and unsourced Italian media reports said Rome was likely to call for a European code of conduct to be drawn up for the boats to give officials the right to seize those that do not comply.

Revealed: Tragic existence of desperate migrants who hide in the Calais woods as they try to avoid police who destroy their refuge and pepper-spray teenage girls in their sleep
02/07/17
As the holiday season approaches, hundreds of desperate refugees and determined migrants are hiding in forests around Calais in the hope of outwitting police and reaching Britain.

Aid agencies encourage migrants in the Med, says Italian senator: Official accuses relief organisations of providing a 'public transport' service which 'enriches' people traffickers
01/07/17
Lucio Malan said aid agencies and charities running rescue ships should stop bringing them to his country and take them to the nearest coast instead.

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Britain

Timeline of major terror attacks in Britain

2017-06-05

In case you lost track...
[DAWN] Manchester Arena bombing
May, 2017: A suicide bomber blows himself outside a pop concert by teen idol Ariana Grande in Manchester in northwest England, killing 22 people and injuring 116.

Seven of the victims were under the age of 18.

The attack was carried out by 22-year-old Salman Abedi, a Manchester-born university drop-out of Libyan origin. The attack was claimed by the militant Islamic State (IS) group.

Westminster Bridge attack
March 22, 2017: Five people are killed and more than 50 wounded when a man rams his car into pedestrians on Westminster bridge in London before crashing into the barriers surrounding parliament and then stabbing a police officer to death.

The attacker, 52-year-old British Muslim convert Khalid Mahmood, is shot dead by police at the scene. Investigators describe the lone-wolf attack as “Islamist related terrorism”.

Lawmaker murdered
June 16, 2016: British Labour lawmaker Jo Cox is shot and stabbed to death by a pro-Nazi sympathiser just days before the historic vote to leave the EU.

Far-right white nationalist Thomas Mair is later sentenced to life in prison for her murder.

London underground stabbing
December 5, 2015: A paranoid schizophrenic stabs two people at London's Leytonstone Underground station, two days after Britain's first air strikes on IS in Syria.

The knifeman, Somali-born Muhaydin Mire, 30, is sentenced to life behind bars. The police say the incident is a “terrorist” attack.

British soldier slain
May 22, 2013: British soldier Lee Rigby, 25, is hacked to death by two Britons of Nigerian descent near an army barracks in London.

Witnesses say the attackers encouraged them to film the scene and yelled religious slogans before being injured and arrested by police.

In February 2014, Michael Adebolajo, 29, is sentenced to life in prison for the murder while Michael Adebowale, 22, receives a minimum of 45 years behind bars.

Northern Ireland shootings
March 2009: The month saw a sudden resurgence of political violence in Northern Ireland with two soldiers shot dead outside their barracks by republican militants as they went to collect a pizza delivery, the first such slaying since 1997.

Two days later a police officer is shot dead by a different paramilitary republican faction.

Glasgow airport attack
June 30, 2007: Two men in a burning vehicle ram into the main terminal of Glasgow Airport in Scotland.

An Indian driving the car suffers serious burns and later dies.

The passenger, Iraqi doctor Bilal Abdulla, 29, is jailed in December for at least 32 years for plotting to murder hundreds of people.

Suicide bombers hit London transport
July 7, 2005: Four British suicide bombers inspired by Al Qaeda attack London's Underground network and a bus during rush hour, killing 52 people, as well as themselves, and wounding 700.

It was the deadliest attack on British soil since a Pan Am airliner blew up over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing a total of 270 people including 11 on the ground, in 1988.

The London attack took place just a day after the city was awarded the 2012 Olympics.

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Africa Horn

About IS in Puntland

2017-05-25

[IsraelTimes] The semi-autonomous region of Puntland
...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion...
has often come under attack by Shabaab Death Eaters and is also home to a breakaway group of fighters who have declared allegiance to IS.

However the group has so far failed to gather much support while the Shabaab have taken pains to purge those expressing pro-IS sentiment from their ranks.

The Death Eaters are led by former Shabaab holy man Abdiqadir Mumin who switched allegiance from al-Qaeda to IS in October 2015 and was named a "global terrorist" by the US State Department in August.

Aside from issuing occasional promotional videos, the group seized the small fishing town of Qandala before being ousted by Puntland forces in December.

Then in February IS claimed an attack by gunnies on a hotel in Bosaso which left four security guards dead.

Rashid Abdi of the International Crisis Group said that while Mumin’s group was stepping up its activities, the Shabaab remained the biggest threat in the region.

Firebrand preacher
Mumin was born in Puntland and lived in Sweden before moving to the UK in the 2000s, where he was granted British citizenship.

In London and Leicester, he developed a reputation as a firebrand
...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments...
preacher at murderous Moslem mosques and in videos posted online.

Monitored by MI5, Britannia’s domestic intelligence agency, Mumin is thought to have known Mohammed Emwazi, the IS executioner nicknamed "Jihadi John," and Michael Adebolajo, one of two people convicted over the 2013 murder of British soldier Lee Rigby in London.

In 2010, Mumin traveled to Somalia to join the Shabaab -- which both Emwazi and Adebolajo had unsuccessfully tried to do.

He initially served as a holy man and propagandist before taking control of the Puntland faction of the Shabaab and later defecting to IS with a handful of fighters -- despite lacking battlefield experience.

Observers say his supporters are mostly made up of members of his own Majerteen clan, and the very existence of Mumin’s group is attributed to complex local clan rivalries.

The International Crisis Group estimated in November that his group counted some 200 members and warned the threat of IS could not be "dismissed as insignificant."

The group called for a "genuine political initiative to address local clan grievances."

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Britain

POTUS Advisor Gorka Links Manchester bombing to 2013 Killing of British soldier

2017-05-23

BLUF: [Daily Caller] As Gorka observed, the Manchester bombing happened on the fourth anniversary of the public killing of Fusilier Lee Rigby on May 22, 2013. Rigby was walking down a street in southeast London when two radical Islamists, Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, ran over him with a car before hacking him to death with knives and a cleaver. The killers, who also attempted to behead Rigby, told bystanders who shot video of the attack:

"The only reason we have killed this man today is because Muslims are dying daily by British soldiers. And this British soldier is one ... By Allah, we swear by the almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you until you leave us alone."

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-Land of the Free

Al-Shabaab Magazine: 'We'll Keep Marching Till We Reach the State of Maine'

2017-02-12

There are parts of Maine where that would be a really bad idea.
[PJMedia] A news issue of Al-Shabaab's magazine calls on jihadists to emulate the British converts who murdered a soldier on a Woolwich street in 2013, along with a poem warning that jihadists would be "marching" to Maine.
Do they have those floaty feet things to get across the Atlantic?
The issue of Gaidi Mtaani also features a lengthy story about late al-Qaeda recruiter and cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, whose lectures are cited by American terrorists to this day, playing paintball in San Diego in the 1990s.

The Somali terror group, allied with al-Qaeda, has previously urged Western jihadists to draw inspiration from the attack on 25-year-old Fusilier Lee Rigby, who was first struck by a car and then stabbed and hacked by Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale. London-born Adebolajo, 28, who was raised Christian before converting to Islam, filmed a statement before police arrived at the murder scene, vowing "you people will never be safe." Both are serving life in prison.
Should have danced a jig on the end of a rope.
Al-Shabaab's magazine dubs Adebolajo 2013's "Muslim of the Year," declaring "good men are hard to find."
No wonder the feminazis love them
"In an age stained with defeatism and cowardice, a room full of Mujahid Adebolajo is exactly what today's world needs," the article, bylined Abu Maryam, states. "...If a pictures speaks a thousand words, then blood in British streets speak a million words. Knowing that the British Government only understands the language of violence, instead of writing his letter on paper, Adebolajo decided to write his letter on the streets of Southeast London using the blood of a British soldier."

Adebolajo was "practically teaching the British public and the world in general, the elementary principle of universalism" through the murder, the terror group argued, with eye-for-an-eye reasoning.

"World media and left wing conservatives can deceptively portray Mujahid as a psychopathic slayer if they please, but after watching the video and hearing his words, deep down inside everyone knew he was making perfect sense. Amidst the hustle and bustle of London streets, specifically targeting a British soldier once stationed in Afghanistan clearly expresses the political motives behind the killings and disproves the fallacy that the attack was a haphazard intent to randomly slay Britons," the article continues.

"It's quite ignorant and presumptuous of non-Muslims and Muslims alike to think that the driving force of Mujahid's actions were fueled by an inherent disdain for British culture or values," the terror group argues, noting that if Adebolajo just wanted to kill fellow Britons there were more people at the scene he could have attacked.

"Their message couldn't be any simpler, 'We swear by Allaah the All-Mighty we will never stop fighting you until you leave us alone.' These same axioms expressed by Mujahid in England, were reiterated by Nidal Hasan, Mohamed Mirah, and the same concepts that will continue to be personified through bloodshed in Western streets, unless taken seriously." Hasan killed 13 at Fort Hood in 2009, while Mohammed Merah killed French soldiers and Jewish children during a 2012 shooting spree in Toulouse and Montauban.
Oh... we'll leave you alone and you will stop fighting... when you are dead. Pretty hard to fight someone then
Merah was born in Toulouse while Hasan was born in Virginia, keeping with the article's theme of urging attacks at home by jihadists native to Western countries.

A poem bylined by the same author of the article says to "tell the West we're a roaring flame/That can't be doused that can't be tamed/And until you cease your bombs and planes/We'll keep marching till we reach the State of Maine."

A lengthy article in the magazine describes the experiences of a Western jihadist -- one "of the generation of young Muslims who grew up in the west during the 90s who were at a high risk of losing their Muslim identity" -- getting to know al-Awlaki and later reconnecting with him in Yemen.

The author says he was living in San Diego while al-Awlaki attended San Diego State University and became imam of the Masjid Ar-Ribat al-Islami mosque near campus. He described going to the nickel arcade and paintball ranges east of San Diego with the cleric as al-Awlaki "was particularly fond of paintball activities."

At this time, New Mexico-born al-Awlaki had already gone through training in Afghanistan and returned home.

"At the beginning of the first match, I remember seeing the Sheikh move forward and then he crouched down and started crawling on the ground slowly moving forward. After some time I was shot and moved to the sidelines to watch how the match would finish. I looked over to where I had last seen the Sheikh and couldn’t see any sign of him. I kept surveying the surrounding areas looking for any sign of movement when all of a sudden there was a firefight a good fifty feet in front of the area where I had been scanning and I was surprised to see the sheikh as he was taking cover," the author described of a paintball outing.
How cute. The US Sniper just killed you about 50 times while you were scanning.
"I remember thinking, 'How was it possible for him to move all that distance with- out being detected?' It was amazing as he is a tall brother. The brothers commented and all agreed that the Sheikh was very skilled in close quarter military tactics. I would not find out until many years later that the Sheikh had been to Afghanistan in the early 90s."
I still would bet on a platoon of rangers against his forces. Would be a short but entertaining fight

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Britain

Britain ~~migrant~~ colonist briefs

2017-01-24

From Breitbart:

Terrorist Who Killed Lee Rigby Will Pursue £20,000 Lawsuit for Teeth Broken in Prison
23 Jan 2017
Islamist terrorist Michael Adebolajo, who murdered Lee Rigby, has found a lawyer who will pursue a lawsuit after he lost two teeth after lashing out at prison guards.

Extremist Preacher Given £123,000 in Legal Aid to Fight Deportation
23 Jan 2017
Islamic preacher Hani al-Sibai has been given £123,000 over 20 years in legal aid to fight deportation from the UK despite alleged associations with a terrorist organisation, thanks to human rights laws.

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British Muslim charged with planning to behead soldier

2015-02-10

[Ynet] A British teen planned to behead a soldier after he was inspired by the Islamic gunnies who murdered soldier Lee Rigby in 2013, a prosecutor said Monday.

Prosecutor Annabel Darlow told the Old Bailey court that Brusthom Ziamani told his girlfriend he planned to "kill soldiers" shortly before he was placed in durance vile
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
in August carrying a 12-inch (30-centimeter) knife and a hammer in his backpack.

She said 19-year-old Ziamani idolized Michael Adebolajo, one of two men who hacked Rigby to death near his barracks.

Officials said Ziamani had used an alias in Facebook posts in which he called for the implementation of Sharia law in Britannia and said he was willing to die for Islam. Ziamani is charged with preparing an act of terrorism. He denies the charge.

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Bombs Rock Kenya As More Brits Flee: 13 Killed Hours After Foreign Office Terror Alert

2014-05-18

[DailyMail]

Photos, videos, and a cute little map at the link.

o At least 13 people are feared to have died in twin kabooms in Nairobi
o Reports suggest around 70 people were maimed in the blasts
o UK and US authorities recently imposed warnings on travel to Kenya
o Kenya's National Disaster Operations Centre (NDOC) confirmed on Twitter that the first kaboom came from a 14-seater matatu (minibus), and the second came from within Gikomba Market
o Reports suggest that one suspect has been incarcerated
Please don't kill me!
Hundreds of British tourists were evacuated from Kenya last night as the capital Nairobi was rocked by bombings.

Holidaymakers had their trips cut short after the Foreign Office warned against travelling to beach resorts along the coast.

Travel firms chartered planes to bring people home early from Nairobi, the Indian Ocean resort of Mombasa and other parts of the country.

Yesterday, as anxious travellers arrived at Kenyan airports to check in for their flights to Britannia, two bombs went off in Nairobi, leaving at least 13 dead and 70 injured.

The kabooms follow a recent spate of terror attacks by the Islamist Al-Shabaab

... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
group, including an kaboom at a bus station that killed three and the discovery of a bomb at a hotel. These prompted the Foreign Office to alter its travel advice for Kenya, warning against all but essential travel to areas within 37 miles of the Kenya-Somali border and Nairobi.

It added: 'There has been a spate of small-scale grenade, bomb and armed attacks in Nairobi, Mombasa, and North Eastern Province.'

The US, La Belle France and Australia have also issued alerts.

Most travel insurance policies are invalid in areas the Foreign Office rules are unsafe, so tour operators have cancelled Kenyan holidays.

However,
a woman is only as old as she admits...
some tourists claimed the tour companies had overreacted to the Islamist terror threats, which are understood to include plans to bomb beach hotels and kidnap Western tourists.

More than 500 British tourists are expected to have been evacuated from the region by tomorrow night, with those expecting to visit Kenya in the next six months facing the cancellation of their holidays.

The unusual move follows intelligence warnings to the British Government of a high threat of attack in Mombasa and Nairobi by Al-Shabaab, which is based in Somalia and is linked to Al Qaeda and the Nigerian group 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...
The group includes British fighters such as Samantha Lewthwaite, the so-called White Widow' of 7/7 jacket wallah Jermaine Lindsay.

Al-Shabaab was behind the attack on Nairobi's Westgate shopping mall in September, when 67 people were killed after its fighters took it over.

Some 5,000 Britons are on holiday in Kenya, with an estimated 500 in the Mombasa area subject to the warning.

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CONCERNS HIGH IN KENYA OVER AL-QAEDA-LINKED GROUP AL-SHABAB

Islamic bully boy group Al-Shabaab, which means 'The Youth' in Arabic, was formed in 2006 as a radical offshoot of the Islamic justice system.
It is thought to have between 9,000 and 15,000 members and in 2012, it joined the bully boy Islamist organization al-Qaeda as a cell.
The group wants to overthrow the UN-backed government in Somalia, and is suspected of links to a string of attacks in neighbouring Kenya.
It has been pushed out of most of the main towns it once controlled, but it remains a potent threat.
As of 2013, pressure 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...
Mission In Somalia (AMISOM) and Æthiopian forces has largely degraded Al-Shabaab's control and conflict among big shots has exacerbated fractures within the group.
Following the death of British Army soldier Drummer Lee Rigby in May 2013, it emerged one of his murderers had travelled to Kenya to train with Al-Shabaab.
Michael Adebolajo, 29, was arrested in Kenya in 2010 with five others. At the time, the head of Kenya's anti-terrorism unit said he believed Adebolajo was planning to train with Al-Shabaab, yet he was released to British authorities in Kenya and deported.
Adebolajo and accomplice Michael Adebowale, 22, were convicted in December last year of murdering Fusilier Lee Rigby outside his barracks in Woolwich.
The British Moslem converts ran him over in a car, almost decapitated him and then dragged him into the middle of the road while ordering onlookers to film them.
Adebolajo was given a whole-life term and Adebowale was incarcerated
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
for a minimum of 45 years.

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