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[YouTube] On October 26th, 2024 a Jewish man, 39, was shot while walking to synagogue on Sabbath in West Rogers Park.
Related: West Rogers Park: 2024-12-02 Terrorist who shot Jewish man walking to Chicago synagogue is found dead in his jail cell West Rogers Park: 2024-10-29 Muslim gunman 22-year-old Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi accused of shooting a Jewish man and first responders while shouting, ''Allahu akbar.'' West Rogers Park: 2024-10-28 39 yo Jewish man was shot and critically injured in BROAD DAYLIGHT while on his way to synagogue in a Jewish suburb of Chicago | |
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| Terrorist who shot Jewish man walking to Chicago synagogue is found dead in his jail cell | ||
| 2024-12-02 | ||
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] An terrorist who allegedly shot a Jewish man walking to a synagogue in Chicago has been found dead in his jail cell. Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, 22,
Cook County Sheriff's officials said jail staff were conducting a routine security check at around 3.30pm in the medical facility of the jail - where Abdallahi has been held since he was critically injured in a shootout with police - when they saw him in the cell. Staffers initiated life saving measures and first responders transported Abdallahi to Mt. Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to the Chicago Tribune. Authorities say there is no evidence of foul play, but the cause and manner of his death will be determined by an autopsy conducted by the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office. The Illinois State Police Public Integrity Task Force will also be conducting an independent investigation under protocol. Abdallahi was arrested on October 26 after he allegedly shot a 39-year-old Orthodox Jewish man wearing traditional attire. The victim was walking to a local synagogue, and police say Abdallahi approached him from behind. Neighbors then rushed to help the injured man as police and paramedics raced to the scene. As officers then searched for the gunman, they said, Abdallahi emerged from an alley and started firing on the cops - hitting a Chicago Fire Department ambulance. He reportedly screamed 'Allahu Akbar' as he fired at the officers, who then fired back and shot the suspect multiple times. No officers were injured in the exchange. Footage later showed the 22-year-old being wheeled away from the scene in a stretcher after being shot multiple times. He was hospitalized in the aftermath, and was transferred to the jail's medical facility on November 15. The victim, meanwhile, was hospitalized, but was later released. An ensuing investigation found that Abdallahi's phone contained evidence that 'indicated he planned the shooting and specifically targeted people of Jewish faith, Chicago police Superintendent Larry Snelling said. Prosecutors also alleged that Abdallahi mapped the locations of several Chicago synagogues and Jewish day schools in the days leading up to the attack. The attack then occurred in the West Rogers Park neighborhood, the home to the highest concentration of Jewish citizens in the city. 'This was not anything but a planned attack... an attempted assassination of these people,' Assistant State's Attorney Anne McCord Rodgers said at a hearing on November 22, the Sun-Times reports. 'This was a calculated plan on a public street, and an attempted slaughter of that person and law enforcement officers. She added that his phone also contained more than 100 'antisemitic and pro-Hamas' photos and videos. It was also determined that Abdallahi was an illegal immigrant who came from West Africa in March 2023. He crossed southern border illegally last year, but authorities did not find any criminal or terrorist ties at the time, sources told the New York Post. Abdallahi told agents he was going to live with a friend in Indiana, and although he initially said he didn't fear being returned to Mauritania, he later filed for asylum, the outlet said. At the hearing on November 22, Assistant Public Defender Josh Thigpen noted that Abdallahi had lived in the US for 'at least two years' and worked at an Amazon warehouse. Still, Judge Susana Ortiz ordered him detained.
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… screaming “Allahu Akbar” (See 1:12 mark) while engaging in a 2 1/2 minute SHOOTOUT with police. This is what they mean when they say “Globalize the Intifada.” WAKE UP! Suspect critically injured after shootout with police in West Rogers Park: CPD [Fox32Chicago] A 39-year-old man was shot in the shoulder by an armed suspect Saturday morning in Chicago's West Rogers Park neighborhood.
The incident took place around 9:35 a.m. Saturday on the 2600 block of North Washtenaw Avenue, a neighborhood home to many Orthodox Jewish families. A 39-year-old man was walking in the area when an armed suspect approached him from behind and fired multiple shots, striking him in the shoulder, CPD said. Neighbors said the man was going to his synagogue prior to the shooting. Officers responded to the scene and at around 9:55 a.m., the suspect re-emerged from an alley and started firing shots at police and first responders, CPD said. An ambulance was also struck by gunfire. The suspect continued shooting at officers from various locations over about two and a half minutes, according to police. After reaching the 6800 block of North Washtenaw Avenue, officers shot the suspect multiple times. Police rendered aid to the suspect and recovered the gun that was used in the shooting. The suspect was taken to St. Francis Hospital and is in critical condition. Authorities said the 39-year-old victim was treated at a hospital and has since been released.
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| 19 Killed in Failed French Raid to Free Somalia Hostage | |
| 2013-01-13 | |
 [An Nahar] Two French soldiers died and 17 "terrorists" were killed in a failed bid to free a French hostage in southern Somalia from Islamists holding him since 2009, the French defense minister said Saturday.
But the Shabaab bully boyz denied Le Drian's assertion that they had killed the hostage, a secret agent whose alias is Denis Allex, adding that they would decide his fate in two days and issuing a stern warning to Gay Paree. Two French soldiers "bit the dust (and) 17 bad boyz were potted" in the battle, Le Drian said, offering the "most sincere condolences" to the dead soldiers' families and praising the men for their "courage and remarkable work". He said the families of the dead soldiers had been informed. A Shabaab statement said "in the end, it will be the French citizens who will inevitably taste the bitter consequences of their government's devil-may-care attitude towards hostages." Sheikh Mohamed Abdallah, a local-Shabaab  ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... military commander, told AFP: "Mujahedeen fighters defeated the so-called commandos of the French government who tried to rescue a hostage, and they (the commandos) left the bodies of several of their own at the site of the attack." Abdallah is the commander of Bulomarer, where the raid allegedly took place. The Shabaab statement said the French carried away "several" of their dead. "The helicopters attacked a house ... upon the assumption that Denis Allex was being held at that location, but owing to a fatal intelligence blunder, the rescue mission turned disastrously wrong. "Several French soldiers were killed in the battle and many more were maimed before they fled from the scene of battle, leaving behind some military paraphernalia and even one of their comrades on the ground. "The injured French soldier is now in the custody of the mujahedeen and Allex still remains safe and far from the location of the battle." A Bulomarer resident, Idris Youssouf, told AFP: "We don't know exactly what happened because the attack took place at night, but this morning we saw several corpses including that of a white man. "Three civilians were also killed in the shootout," he said. The French secret agent was kidnapped in Somalia in July 2009 along with a colleague who was freed the following month. Four military helicopters were used in the raid in Shabaab-controlled Bulomarer, some 110 kilometers (70 miles) south of the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses said. The Al-Qaeda linked Shabaab lost their main strongholds in the south and center of the country following an offensive launched in mid-2011 by an 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... force, but they still control some rural areas. Allex is among nine kidnapped Frenchies in Africa of whom at least six are held by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). He appeared in a video in June 2010 appealing to Gay Paree to drop its support for the hapless Somali government. He last appeared in another video in October looking gaunt and calling on French President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, and a fine job he's doing of it... to work for his release. Somalia has not had an effective central government since 1991. However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... a new administration took office last year, ending eight years of transitional rule by a corruption-riddled government. | |
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| Mauritania: Death sentence upheld for Qaeda assassin |
| 2012-05-17 |
[Daily Nation (Kenya)]  A Mauritanian court has upheld a death sentence handed to an Al-Qaeda assassin found guilty of gunning down an American in 2009.Mohamed Abdallahi Ould Hmednah, sentenced to death in March 2011 for killing Christopher Legget in Nouakchott, had appealed the sentence. "The court upheld the verdict as well as the death sentence against main accused Mohamed Abdellahi Ould Hmednah and prison sentences for his two accomplices," said the judicial source on condition of anonymity. Two men charged alongside Hmednah received 12 and three year prison terms respectively. On June 23, 2011, Legget was shot three times in the head in central Nouakchott by gunnies as he got out of his car in front of his office. Witnesses said the attackers tried to kidnap him, but he strongly resisted and they killed him. AQIM, the regional branch of the late the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now among the dear departed, though not among the dearest... 's terrorist network, grabbed credit for the killing. |
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| AQIM suspects stand trial for American NGO worker slaying |
| 2011-03-17 |
| [Maghrebia] Three terror suspects went on trial in Nouakchott Monday (March 13th) for the 2009 slaying of American NGO worker Christopher Leggett, AP reported. Alleged al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb members Mohamed Abdallahi Ould Ahmednah, Didi Ould Bezeid and Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Khouna could face the death penalty. |
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| Mauritanian authorities question suspect in Tourine troop beheadings, Leggett murder |
| 2009-10-30 |
| [Maghrebia] The primary suspect in the June 2009 murder of American teacher Christopher Leggett was taken to Mauritania's National Security (DGSN) headquarters for additional interrogation, ANI reported on Wednesday (October 28th). The transfer of accused terrorist Mohamed Abdallahi Ould Ahmednah from the Nouakchott Central Prison was reportedly prompted by the recent arrests of five presumed al-Qaeda members. Ould Ahmednah is also suspected of involvement in the kidnapping and subsequent beheading of 11 Mauritanian soldiers in Aklet Tourine in September 2008. |
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| Mauritania arraigns three alleged killers of American NGO worker |
| 2009-08-06 |
| [Maghrebia] A Mauritanian court on Tuesday (August 4th) arraigned three alleged terrorists for the murder of American NGO worker Christopher Leggett, Journal Tahalil reported. Mohamed Abdallahi Ould Hmedna, Didi Ould Bezeid and Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Khouna face the death penalty if convicted. Two days after Leggett was shot outside his Nouakchott IT school on June 23rd, al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility for the killing. |
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| Many Egyptians want to steer clear of Gaza trouble | ||
| 2009-01-02 | ||
| CAIRO - Ezzat Abdel-Rahman says Palestinians are suffering great injustice at the hands of Israel but they should have followed Egypts lead and long ago made peace with the Jewish state. He also says Egypt should not open its border with Gaza to let Palestinians flee the six-day Israeli assault, as demanded by Hamas militants and many Arabs. This could get Egypt into trouble with Israel, said the 42-year-old, who runs a shop selling shoes in central Cairo. Israel could accuse Egypt of smuggling weapons into Gaza and dump the problems of Gaza on Egypt.
Hamas is acting against the Palestinians, said Mohamed Kamal, also a central Cairo shopkeeper, and one of a dozen Cairo residents interviewed by Reuters this week. There is no reason for firing rockets. What are they hitting anyway? he said. Others said Hamas was acting with Iran and Syria, its main two supporters, to undermine Egypt and drag it into a conflict with Israel. Egypt, the most populous Arab country and once seen as the bastion of Arab nationalism, fought four wars with Israel between 1948 and 1973. In 1979, it became the first Arab country to make peace with the Jewish state. Hani el-Husseini, a veteran politician with the leftist Tagammu opposition party, said the Egyptian intelligentsia, many of whom favour tough measures such as breaking ties with Israel, are divorced from the reality of public priorities. The popular interest in regional issues has waned because people have surrendered to the notion that no Arab power can change the situation (with Israel), he said. The popular position is leaning toward peace, he said, despite the general hatred of Israel. The Egyptian government says that if it left the border with Gaza wide open Israel would wash its hands of responsibility for ensuring Gazans receive enough supplies to keep them alive. Officials also say the probable influx of Gazans would pose a security risk because militants could sneak in among them.
The other camp says that only civilians pay the price for what they call useless military adventures. The split was on display between two friends at a coffee shop in the centre of Cairo this week. We have reached a stage when (Israel) is slapping us on the back of our neck, said 33-year-old Mohamed Abdallah. He, praised Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah for calling on Egyptians to rise and support Gaza. He is a man of principle. No, he is not, said his friend Mohamed Latif, an Egyptian working in the United Arab Emirates. Our government is right. | ||
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| Commander of Sudan's rebel movement killed in fighting near N'djamena |
| 2008-02-12 |
 (Xinhua)-- A commander of a rebel movement in the conflict-torn western Sudanese region of Darfur has been killed in fighting near the Chadian capital N'djamena between the Chadian government troops and rebel forces, Sudan's official SUNA news agency reported on Monday. Mohamed Abdallah, commander of the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), was killed on Sunday as his force was moving to support the Chadian army which was fighting with the Chadian opposition forces near the capital. SUNA said the Chadian opposition forces were obliged to withdraw from the Chadian Adri town Monday after it had come under shelling by rockets to preserve the safety of the civilians. The report also said the Chadian opposition forces had managed to inflict heavy losses to a Chadian battalion coming from the border with Central Africa while it was moving to support the government forces. JEM is one of the main rebel movements in Darfur, where some ten thousand civilians have been killed since conflicts erupted in 2003, according to statistics of the Sudanese government, while western media claimed that more than 200,000 people have been killed there in the past five years. |
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