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ISIS 'Beatle' Alexanda Kotey to Change Plea Over Charges of Torturing Prisoners
Alexanda Kotey is allegedly one of the notorious IS Execution Squad dubbed 'The Beatles' and his actions are claimed to have led to the deaths of four Americans, as well as British and Japanese nationals BBC News 1 SEP 2021 https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...ris-Hughes.jpg https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...anda-Kotey.jpg Alexanda Kotey had pleaded not guilty (Image: Rowan Griffiths An alleged member of the Islamic State execution squad known as The Beatles is preparing to plead guilty, it has been reported. Self-confessed Islamic State thug Alexanda Kotey is facing charges that could land him a life sentence in America’s “hell on earth” supermax prison in Colorado, dubbed the Alcatraz of the Rockies. He is allegedly linked to the notorious IS execution squad The Beatles and his actions are claimed to have led to the deaths of four American citizens, as well as British and Japanese nationals. According to a court notice on Tuesday Kotey has announced a 'change of plea hearing' which has been set for Thursday at 5.30pm. Kotey is being held over the killings of British and US citizens which were among many filmed and beamed around the world in graphic detail by Islamic State. He had originally pleaded not guilty. The New York Times reports that Ali Soufan, an ex-FBI counterterrorism agent who has worked closely with families of ISIS victims, said the change of plea suggested that Kotey could be willing to give details about what happened. He said: "A plea agreement means he is likely cooperating. During our investigation, we found that Kotey was involved at every stage of the hostage taking. "He knows what happened to them and what they endured in ISIS custody. His cooperation should shed light on this.” He is accused of belonging to a cell of executioners in Syria, known as The Beatles because of their British accents, and is said to be responsible for killing a number of Western captives including Brits Alan Henning and David Haines. He was captured by the Syrian Democratic Forces in January 2018 and transferred to the custody of the US military in Iraq in October 2019, remaining in American custody ever since. |
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Biden Reveals Cowardly ISIS Leader is DEAD in US Commandos Raid
5 Feb 2022 Daily Mail https://wikifoxnews.com/wp-content/u...l-Qurayshi.jpg ISIS leader dead: President Joe Biden confirmed the leader of ISIS is dead in what he described as a cowardly move to blow up himself and his family instead of facing justice for his terrorists acts. Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi set off a bomb that killed himself as well as members of this family during a raid by U.S. commandos on a house in northwest Syria on Thursday. 'United States military forces successfully moved in major terrorist threat to the world,' Biden said in remarks at the White House on Thursday. Thirteen were reported killed, including six children and four women during the mission, which involved 24 Special Operations commandos backed by attack jets, Reaper drones and helicopter gunships. 'As a final act of desperate cowardness, [al-Qurayshi] with no regard to the lives of his own family or others in the building, he chose to blow himself up,' Biden said, adding the ISIS leader blew up 'that third floor rather than face justice for the crimes he has committed, taking several members of his family with him.' 'This horrible terrorist leader is no more,' he added. Biden, along with Vice President Kamala Harris and national security aides monitored a live-feed of the operation from the White House Situation Room, according to a photo released by the administration. |
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Rewind: When 60 Minutes Went Aboard the Moskva Warship
14 Apr 2022 60 Minutes The flagship of Russian’s Black Sea fleet, the Moskva has sunk. Ukraine claims a missile strike; Russia says it was a fire. In late 2015, 60 Minutes was invited aboard the warship as it began providing anti-aircraft defense for Syria. https://static.theprint.in/wp-conten...&w=800&dpr=1.0 NB: The Russian Cruiser Moskva had successfully completed surface trials and conducted underwater operations for its classification as a new type of submarine for special underwater missions |
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El Shafee Elsheikh: Guilty Verdict For Islamic State Jihadist
A US federal jury in Virginia has convicted an ex-British jihadist over his involvement with a notorious Islamic State terror cell. El Shafee Elsheikh, 33, was linked to the Abduction, Torture and Beheading of several IS hostages in Syria, including journalists and aid workers. El Shafee Elsheikh: IS jihadist stood out from the other fighters, court heard BBC News 15 APR 2022. https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cp...03791_comp.jpg Clockwise from top left: Aid workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig, and journalists Steven Sotloff and James Foley On Thursday, after an 11-day trial, he was found guilty of lethal hostage taking and conspiracy to commit murder. Elsheikh was the highest profile IS fighter to stand trial in the US. Hostages nicknamed the Sudanese-born Londoner and two other men the Beatles - after the rock band - because of their UK accents. The group's actions are said to have resulted in the deaths of four American hostages: journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and aid workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig. They are also blamed in the deaths of British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning, and Japanese journalists Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto. Some of the victims were beheaded, with their deaths filmed and broadcast on social media. The killings triggered outrage around the world. https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cp...i048308981.jpg Elsheikh was the only one of the three militants to go on trial in the US, after Alexanda Kotey pleaded guilty to his own charges last September and Mohammed Emwazi was killed in a 2015 drone strike in Syria. Aine Davis, an alleged fourth member, is currently imprisoned in Turkey. Four rows in the courtroom were permanently reserved for former hostages and their family members. A Long Road to Justice Nomia Iqbal, BBC News, Virginia It was tense inside the courtroom when everybody got news of a verdict. The jury had been deliberating for five-and-a-half hours. David Haines' daughter Bethany was shaking as she sat down. When the guilty verdict came through, the families quietly sobbed, as did the former hostages. They held each other's hands. Diane Foley closed her eyes and sighed with relief. Steven Sotloff's father Art smiled and said: "This is good." For them, it's been a long road to justice. Elsheikh showed little emotion - which he has always done in the trial - as his fate was sealed. Over the course of the trial, several of them took the stand for the government, depicting the Beatles as a cohesive unit that revelled in brutality. Witnesses recounted receiving random beatings, being given dog names and being forced to sing a parody of the Eagles' pop song "Hotel California" retitled "Hotel Osama". Families also detailed their painstaking negotiations with the group, with Marsha Mueller telling the court how she and her husband had "begged" for their daughter Kayla's life in emails. Lawyers for Elsheikh, meanwhile, claimed that he "a simple Isis fighter" who went to Syria alone on behalf of "suffering Muslims". Outside the courtroom, Diane Foley - whose son James was executed on camera, with the video widely distributed by IS - told the BBC she was feeling "relief and a tremendous sense of gratitude that mercy and justice has prevailed". "This is a big day for accountability," she said. "We will never stop hostage taking without accountability." Mike Haines, whose brother David also died in the group's captivity, said Thursday's result marked the end of "an eight-year chapter of pain" for his family. "This unanimous judgement is a triumph for society over ills like terrorism and helps differentiate us from the hateful, divisive ideologies that fuel these individuals," he said. "It must also act as a warning to anyone else seduced by the false glamour of extremism." Elsheikh's extradition to Virginia was part of a complex negotiation between the US and UK. As part of the agreement, he will not face the death penalty - but his conviction on all eight charges means he faces a maximum sentence of life in prison. He will be sentenced in August but must also appear in court on 29 April for victim impact statements read during Kotey's sentencing. https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cp...1239981913.jpg Carl Mueller, father of late US aid worker Kayla Mueller, hugs her friend after a jury convicted El Shafee Elsheikh on terrorism charges |
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Bereaved Parents Get Some Justice After 'Beatle' Found Guilty For Role in IS Killings
BBC News 21 APR 2022. https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cp...i048308981.jpg El Shafee Elsheikh, a member of the notorious "Beatles" cell, has been convicted for his involvement in the deaths of Western captives. Among them journalists and aid workers - volunteers like the American Kayla Mueller. She was captured in Syria in 2013 and killed while being held. For a year ITV News Global Security Editor Rohit Kachroo has been following her family's story. Now the trial is over, they've been speaking about finally getting some justice for their daughter, and their hopes for closure after so many years. |
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ISIS Beatles Victim's Daughter to Face Killer Who Beheaded Dad and Hand Him Note
Bethany Haines' dad David was killed by Alexanda Kotey and the so-called ISIS Beatles – four Londoners who turned jihadists and wreaked devastation in Syria. Justice caught up with Kotey in 2018 Daily Mirror 19 JUN 2022 https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...hany_13JPG.jpg Bethany Haines, daughter of beheaded David Haines https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...1014045JPG.jpg David Haines poses with his daughter Bethany in 2011 in Millport Grieving Bethany Haines will sit down with a member of the terror cell that beheaded her father and hand him an extraordinary letter. In the note, she will remind torturer Alexanda Kotey how both of them will be missing loved ones this Father’s Day. Bethany was robbed of her aid worker father David by Kotey and the so-called ISIS Beatles – four Londoners who turned jihadists and wreaked devastation in Syria. Justice caught up with Kotey in 2018 so he and his daughter, too, will never again experience the joy Father’s Day brings. And Bethany will ram home that point when she meets Kotey for up to four hours in a US prison in eight days’ time. The mum of one is scared about the meeting – but knows it is necessary. She tells the Sunday Mirror: “I have an opportunity to write him a letter and I’ll hand it to him when I sit down with him in the jail. “I want to make him realise the devastating effects his actions have had on others, including his own 17-year-old daughter. "It will say, ‘Just like my dad, you did not get to celebrate Father’s Day. "I did not see my dad and you did not get to see your daughter. But for you that is by choice. "You have the rest of the life to come to terms with that’.” Kotey, 38, was sentenced to life in April after pleading guilty to terror charges against hostages in Syria – including Brit David in 2014. In court, 24-year-old Bethany read a moving victim impact statement as she looked him straight in the eyes. She has also written a heartfelt note to her dad and will bury it under a special tree, which her family use in lieu of a grave, to mark Father’s Day. Bethany writes of her fears about meeting Kotey, how she still feels David could call at any moment to say he’s on his way home – and celebrates the fact that two of his tormentors have now been found guilty of his death. It reads: “I guess we can now say we won! We got them! The monsters are gone and will never be free again.” https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...-PRISONERS.jpg El Shafee el-Sheikh (L) and Alexanda Kotey (R) And vowing to find David’s remains in the hills in Syria and bring them back to the UK, she wrote: “I promise I won’t stop until I bring you home.” Bethany also hopes to talk to security services and finally get to Syria to give David a proper burial. He was abducted while at a refugee camp in 2013 and held for 18 months by El Shafee Elsheikh, Kotey, Mohammed Emwazi and Aine Davis – all from West London. In 2014, a video of gaunt and pale David, 44, kneeling next to knife-brandishing Emwazi – dubbed Jihadi John – horrified the world. It ended with his beheading – one of 27 the group is believed to have carried out. Emwazi died in a drone strike in Syria in 2015 while Davis, 38, was held in Turkey in 2017 and sentenced to seven-and-a-half years for being a member of a terror organisation. Earlier this year, Elsheikh was found guilty of hostage taking and conspiring to murder. He will be sentenced in August. https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...ihadi-John.jpg Mohammed Emwazi, Jihadi John Kotey was given life sentences for each of eight charges he admitted. Bethany, from Perthshire, says: “I’ve been putting together notes and have 200 pages which helped piece together my dad’s days in captivity. “I learned about tough things in the trial – like how he was water-boarded. “Kotey was the one who held a towel over my dad’s head. It was hard to listen to. When he was sentenced I walked across the court and told him to ‘go to hell’. "I know my dad would want me to speak my mind and that’s what I did. Since then I feel like I am edging closer to getting closure. “It feels like this year we achieved something for my dad by jailing Kotey and Elsheikh.” Despite facing her dad’s tormentors in court, Bethany says meeting Kotey face-to-face is her biggest challenge yet. He is being held in Virginia and meeting victims’ loved ones is a condition of his sentence. Bethany goes on: “I have mixed feelings about the meeting. I know it’s now or never. “I want to coolly and calmly interrogate him, but know I’ll have to try hard not to get angry and go for him. “I’m preparing a list of questions and will practise them with the police. I’ll rehearse scenarios of what I want to say to him. I have a letter from him that is 25 pages that we all got after sentencing. “I will be picking that apart in detail. I don’t want an apology or him begging for forgiveness. Anything like that will be fake, I know it. He has had meetings with other families over the past weeks and he’s cried in one. “I’ve also heard he’s admitted guilt to a small degree but hasn’t expressed any true remorse. If it was up to me he would’ve had the death penalty. I just want answers, I need to add them to my notes of what happened to Dad. “My ultimate aim is to find Dad’s remains and get him home as soon as possible. I’ve been doing enough research that I like to think I’ll know how to press Kotey’s buttons. “I want him to feel as uncomfortable as possible.” Bethany says the court cases have allowed her to regain some positivity. She adds: “Father’s Days are often difficult. For the past few years, I have taken a letter down to a tree in the woods my dad used to take me all the time as a kid to ride my bike. "Without a grave, the tree feels like the best place to connect to him. I’ve got in the tradition of burying the letter under the tree. Often the letters are quite downbeat in tone. “But this year I feel there is more I can share that is positive for Dad.” The letter starts: “Daddy, It’s another Father’s Day without you. It still feels like you’re on an endless trip in some far-off country and that any day I’ll receive a text or a call to say that you’re on your way home.” Of his tormentors, it goes on: “I stood up in court, looked them in the eye and told them what they’ve done to our family. I hope I made you proud and you would have rolled your eyes when I asked him to ‘go to hell’. “I’m scared to face him in a room but I know it’s the right thing to do and the right thing isn’t always the easiest thing to do. He will regret the day he dared hurt our family.” And the letter ends: “I see your face every time I look at the stars and know that you’re up there encouraging me to keep going. Till we see each other again. Your loving daughter, Bethany”. |
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Ayman al-Zawahiri: Al-Qaeda Leader Killed in US Drone Strike
The US has killed the leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in a drone strike in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden has confirmed. BBC News 2 AUG 2022 https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cp...d847524bfe.jpg Bin Laden (left) and Zawahiri together declared war on the US and organised the 9/11 attacks He was killed in a counter-terrorism operation carried out by the CIA in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Sunday. He and Osama Bin Laden plotted the 9/11 attacks together, and he was one of America's "most wanted terrorists". Mr Biden said Zawahiri had "carved a trail of murder and violence against American citizens". "Since the United States delivered justice to bin Laden 11 years ago, Zawahiri has been a leader of al-Qaeda," Mr Biden said. "From hiding, he co-ordinated al-Qaeda's branches and all around the world, including setting priorities for providing operational guidance and calling for and inspired attacks against US targets." "Now justice has been delivered and this terrorist leader is no more," he added. Zawahiri took over al-Qaeda after the death of Bin Laden in 2011. Officials said Zawahiri was on the balcony of a safe house when the drone fired two missiles at him. Other family members were present, but they were unharmed and only Zawahiri was killed in the attack, they added. Mr Biden said he had given the final approval for the "precision strike" on the 71-year-old Egyptian after months of planning. His killing will bring closure to families of the nearly 3,000 victims of the 2001 attacks, Mr Biden added. "No matter how long it takes, no matter where you hide, if you are a threat to our people, the United States will find you and take you out," said Mr Biden, adding that "we shall never waver from defending our nation and its people". Mr Biden said Zawahiri had also masterminded other acts of violence, including the suicide bombing of the USS Cole naval destroyer in Aden in October 2000 which killed 17 US sailors, and the 1998 attacks on the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, in which 223 people died. He insisted that Afghanistan would never again become a safe haven for terrorists. A Taliban spokesman described the US operation as a clear violation of international principles - but did not mention Zawahiri. "Such actions are a repetition of the failed experiences of the past 20 years and are against the interests of the United States of America, Afghanistan and the region," the spokesman added. However, US officials maintained that the operation had had a legal basis. The killing of Zawahiri comes nearly a year after US troops completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan on the orders of Mr Biden, bringing an end to a 20-year military presence there. The alleged location of the US strike https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cp...ijxoaeke5c.jpg The BBC's Afghanistan Correspondent, Secunder Kermani, visited the suspected location of the strike in Kabul Under a 2020 peace deal with the US, the Taliban agreed not to allow al-Qaeda or any other extremist group to operate in areas under their control. However, the Taliban and al-Qaeda are long-time allies and US officials said the Taliban were aware of Zawahiri's presence in Kabul. In background briefings, US intelligence officers said Taliban affiliates had visited the safe house after the strike in an attempt to cover up evidence of his presence there. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that by hosting and sheltering Zawahiri in Kabul, the Taliban had "grossly violated" the peace agreement. Analysis by Gordon Corera, Security Correspondent Ayman al-Zawahiri was the ideological brains behind al-Qaeda. An Egyptian doctor who was imprisoned in the 1980s for involvement in militant Islam, he left the country after his release and became involved in violent international jihadist movements. Eventually he settled in Afghanistan and joined forces with a rich Saudi, Osama Bin Laden. Together they declared war on the US and organised the 11 September 2001 attacks. It took a decade for Bin Laden to be tracked down and killed by the US. After that, Zawahiri assumed leadership of al-Qaeda, but he became a remote and marginal figure, only occasionally issuing messages. The US will herald his death as a victory, particularly after the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan last year, but Zawahiri held relatively little sway as new groups and movements such as Islamic State have become increasingly influential. A new al-Qaeda leader will no doubt emerge, but he will likely have even less influence than his predecessor. The drone strike is the first known US intervention inside Afghanistan since the military pullout last August and, despite the withdrawal, the decades-old "war on terror" grinds on, the BBC's North America Correspondent John Sudworth observes. Days before the withdrawal, a miscalculated US drone strike killed 10 innocent people in Kabul, including an aid worker and seven children. The US said it had been a "tragic mistake" and had been aiming to target a local branch of the Islamic State group. |
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Ayman al-Zawahiri: US WARNS of Possible Retaliation Over al-Qaeda Death
The US has urged its citizens to be vigilant against possible anti-American violence abroad following the killing of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. BBC News 3 AUG 2022. https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cp...89237dad5e.jpg Zawahiri has been al-Qaeda's most prominent spokesman and ideologue His death could prompt al-Qaeda supporters or other linked terror groups to target US facilities and personnel, said the state department. Zawahiri was killed by a US drone in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Sunday. He had helped mastermind the 9/11 attacks on the US in which nearly 3,000 people lost their lives. The 71-year-old Egyptian doctor took over al-Qaeda after the death of Osama Bin Laden in 2011. The killing was confirmed on Monday by US President Joe Biden, who said Zawahiri had carved "a trail of murder and violence" against American citizens. Mr Biden said Zawahiri's death would bring closure to families of the victims of the 2001 attacks, in which hijackers crashed passenger jets into landmark buildings in New York and Washington - including two skyscrapers in Manhattan. He added that Zawahiri had also masterminded other acts of violence, including the suicide bombing of the USS Cole naval destroyer in Aden in October 2000, which killed 17 US sailors, and the 1998 attacks on the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, in which 223 people died. "The Department of State believes there is a higher potential for anti-American violence given the death of Ayman al-Zawahiri on 31 July 2022," the department said in a worldwide caution update. "Current information suggests that terrorist organisations continue to plan terrorist attacks against US interests in multiple regions across the globe," it added. "These attacks may employ a wide variety of tactics including suicide operations, assassinations, kidnappings, hijackings and bombings." US citizens are strongly encouraged to maintain a "high level of vigilance and practice good situational awareness" when travelling abroad, the alert added. What Now For al-Qaeda? Analysis by Frank Gardner, Security Correspondent Where once al-Qaeda was a geographically small, centralised, tight-knit organisation, today it has become a global franchise with pockets of followers dotted around the world, mostly in ungoverned or poorly governed spaces. In Somalia, for example, the al-Qaeda affiliate "al-Shabab" remains the foremost jihadist group. Africa has emerged as the new battleground for jihadist groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS, notably in the area around the Sahel in northwest Africa. They are not just fighting to bring down what they see as "apostate" governments, they are fighting each other, leaving civilians caught in the crossfire. Al-Qaeda remains at heart a Middle Eastern terror group. Bin Laden was a Saudi, al-Zawahiri was Egyptian, the senior leadership - such as it remains - is nearly all Arab. It retains a significant presence in northwest Syria, where US drone strikes and special forces raids periodically hit its suspected hideouts. With the death of al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda may now decide to revive its flagging fortunes with a new leader and a new strategy. It would be a foolish intelligence agency that concludes that the threat from this group has died with its leader. More |
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ISIS Beatle Arrested For Terrorism Offences at Luton UK Airport After Arriving From Turkey
Aine Davis: Alleged Fourth IS Beatle Arrested in UK on TERROR Charges Aine Davis, 38, was reportedly arrested by counter terrorism officers from Met Police when the flight landed at Luton Airport after he was released from a Turkish Prison BBC News 11 AUG 2022. https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cp...af9f206c13.jpg Aine Davis has previously said he posed in this photo as a "joke" A man accused of being part of a notorious Islamic State group cell which murdered hostages, has been arrested on terror charges in the UK. Aine Davis, of west London, flew into Luton airport after his release from a Turkish jail where he was serving a seven-and-a-half-year sentence for membership of the terror group. During his trial, Davis denied being part of the cell, nicknamed the Beatles because of members' British accents. Davis is being held in police custody. The 38-year-old was arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command and taken to a police station in south London. He was arrested in relation to offences under the Terrorism Act, 2000, including fundraising and possession of articles for terrorist purposes. The 'Beatles' cell is believed to have been made up of four members - all thought to have grown up in west London - who volunteered to fight for IS in Syria and ended up guarding Western hostages. They were nicknamed the Beatles, after the Liverpudlian band, by hostages due to their English accents. US authorities have said the group killed 27 hostages, beheading several of them. Videos of the murders were sent around the world, causing outrage. Before being radicalised Davis was convicted on drugs offences and was jailed in 2006 for possessing a firearm. After converting to Islam, he changed his name to Hamza and met Mohammed Emwazi, nicknamed Jihadi John by the media. The two were part of a group that radicalised Muslims living in London. Davis left the UK to join IS in 2013. Davis was arrested near Istanbul in 2015 and was convicted by a Turkish court two years later of being a senior member of a terrorist organisation. At his trial, Davis admitted knowing Emwazi from praying in the same mosque in west London, but denied being his friend, or a member of the "IS Beatles" group. The group's actions are said to have resulted in the deaths of four US hostages - journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and aid workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig - British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning and Japanese journalists Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto. Emwazi was killed in Syria in 2015. The two other group members are in custody in the US after being captured by Kurdish forces in Syria in 2018. Alexanda Kotey is serving a life sentence and El Shafee Elsheikh is due to be sentenced this month in the US after being convicted in April. Kotey pleaded guilty to eight offences, including lethal hostage-taking and conspiracy to support terrorists, while Elsheikh was found guilty of charges which included lethal hostage taking and conspiracy to commit murder after a trial. Both men were stripped of their British citizenship in 2018. |
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Eight People Found GUILTY For Role in 2016 France Attack
Seven men and one woman found guilty and sentenced by a French court for their roles in 2016 Nice terror attack BBC News 14 DEC 2022. https://www.eastcoastdaily.in/wp-con...2/12/04-11.jpg A French court has found eight people guilty for their role in a 2016 truck rampage in Nice, France which killed 86 people. The attacker drove into a crowd of 30,000 people celebrating Bastille Day before he was shot dead by police. Three of the group were convicted of association with a terrorist while five others were found guilty of supplying weapons. |
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ISIS Terrorist Caught Hiding in a Field by a Drone as Birds'-Eye Footage Shows Capture
Newly released combat footage from Syria shows the moment a fleeing suspected ISIS member puts his hands in the air after being chased down by a drone. Video released by the Syrian Defence Force (SDF) shows a man running from a property in North East Syria to hide in a field as security forces conducted raids on ISIS cells. BBC News 30 DEC 2022 The suspect finds no hiding place in the wheat field and is suddenly illuminated by a bright spotlight from a drone hovering above. Moments later the man can be seen putting his hands up in the air. Further footage in the video shows members of the US-backed coalition and SDF forces surrounding a compound. Heavily armed troops can be seen rounding up a ground of suspected ISIS cell members before being pictured with the arrested prisoners against a wall. An SDF statement said the operation, codenamed al-Jazeera Thunderbolt, was launched alongside the International Coalition to eliminate ISIS cells carrying out attacks on prison camps holding terrorists and their families. The SDF said: “On December 29, at 1:00am, our forces, with the participation of the Internal Security Forces of NE Syria and the International Coalition against ISIS, launched Operation al-Jazeera Thunderbolt to eliminate ISIS terrorist cells and clear the terrorist hotbeds from areas that were the source of the recent terrorist attacks against the al-Hol camp, al-Hasaka and south of Qamishli and that could be source for possible attacks, specifically the al-Hol area and Tal Hamis.” The SDF statement continued that operations against ISIS had been ramped up against a backdrop of “continuous Turkish threats and attacks on the regions of NE Syria”. It said: “ISIS has escalated its terrorist attacks against the region’s population, especially communities that challenge ISIS’ extremist ideology, including our societies governed by tribal measures. “Therefore, over the past period in which our forces were preoccupied with confronting the Turkish occupation attacks, ISIS terrorist cells resorted to propagating their brutality again by increasing their criminal activity, practicing takfir (the excommunication of one Muslim from the religion by another), and publishing posters and leaflets threatening all those participating in removing the ISIS effects and restoring life to their communities. “Over the past period, ISIS cells have increased the arming and financing activity by imposing zakat (collecting money) and carrying out terrorist attacks.” On Wednesday Moscow announced Turkish, Syrian Assad regime and Russian defense ministers have held previously unannounced talks in Moscow. It was the first ministerial level meeting between rivals Turkey and Syria since the start of the Syrian conflict 11 years ago. A Turkish defense ministry statement said the Turkish, Syrian and Russian intelligence chiefs also attended the talks in Moscow which, it said, took place in a “positive atmosphere.” The discussion focused on “the Syrian crisis, the refugee problem and efforts for a joint struggle against terror organizations present on Syrian territory,” the ministry said. It added that the sides would continue to hold trilateral meetings. President Bashar al-Assad's Syrian forces do not control all of the country, with the north and east falling under different authorities. The Syrian Defence Force (SDF), which mostly consists of Kurds, covers much of northeastern Syria and has been under attack from Turkish forces. The talks in Moscow follow repeated warnings by Turkey of a new land incursion into Syria after a deadly bombing in Istanbul last month. Turkish authorities blamed the attack on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, and on the Syria-based People’s Protection Units, or YPG. Both groups denied involvement. Russia has opposed a new Turkish military offensive. |
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Suspected Jihadists Abduct 50 Women in Northern Burkina Faso
Some 50 women have been abducted by suspected jihadists in northern Burkina Faso, local officials say. BBC 16 JAN 2023 https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cp...m128149540.jpg Residents in Arbinda said two groups of women were taken as they were out gathering leaves and wild fruits because of a severe food shortage. A small number managed to escape and raise the alarm. The abductions happened on Thursday and Friday, but news has just emerged, as much of the area has been blockaded by Islamist militants. "The women got together to go and gather leaves and wild fruits in the bush because there is nothing left to eat," one resident told the AFP news agency, adding that they had left with their carts on Thursday. "On Thursday evening, when they didn't come back, we thought that their carts had had a problem. But three survivors came back to tell us what happened," said another resident. Arbinda in the Sahel region has been hit hard by the jihadist insurgency. Roads in and out have been blocked by the jihadists, there is severe hunger as food supplies are limited, and the humanitarian situation is desperate. Last month, protesters in Arbinda broke into warehouses to get food and supplies. Burkina Faso as a whole has been hit by a decade-long insurgency that has displaced nearly two million people. The military seized power last January, promising an end to attacks, but the violence still rages. Map of Burkina Faso showing Ouagadougou and Arbinda https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cp...m110301939.jpg |
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Iraq to Hang 14 People For Brutal ISIS Massacre Which Saw Close to 2,000 Killed...:clapper::clapper:
The men set to be executed had been found guilty of killing thousands of military recruits in Iraq in 2014, as terror group ISIS carried out what was one of the worst massacre's in the country's history BBC 27 JAN 2023 https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...0_ISISjpeg.jpg Iraq has sentenced 14 people to death by hanging for their role in the brutal ISIS massacre which saw close to 2,000 people killed. https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin.../s615b/0_1.jpg The despicable vid was taken during the infamous Speicher massacre The massacre was one of the worst committed by the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and saw the extremists abduct mainly Shiite cadets from the Speicher military base, who were receiving a military course, and execute them. While there is still no official number of casualties, ISIS itself put the number of men it killed there at 1,700 and others say it could have been up to 3,000. The Al-Rusafa Criminal Court in the capital Baghdad "issued death sentences against 14 criminal terrorists for their participation in the Camp Speicher massacre in 2014", the judicial authority said in a statement, without specifying their nationalities. The gruesome details of the massacre were filmed and released in various ISIS propaganda videos, with many gut-wrenching clips showing teenage boys pleading for their lives. Photos posted following the massacre showed militants loading captives in civilian clothes onto trucks and forcing them to lie in three shallow trenches with their hands bound. One of the only survivors, Ali, 23 at the time, told Human Rights Watch that he was captured with thousands of other men as they sought to flee along the main road from Speicher military base. The IS fighters stripped the men of their mobile phones and money and drove them into what Ali described as a palace compound. He said he was crammed into a shipping container for six hours with over 100 other detainees before they were taken to a different location. \ https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...ER-FUNERAL.jpg Iraqi soldiers carry coffins containing the remains of ten of their comrades who were killed in the Speicher massacre The men were lined up and shot with a pistol, one after another. A small gap in his blindfold meant he saw the man next to him fall to the ground covered in blood, but that somehow he was not hit himself. He feigned death until nightfall when he managed to escape to the banks of the river and spent three days there surviving off weeds. The 14 men have 30 days to appeal the sentence, and the decrees authorising executions must also be signed by the president. In 2016, 36 men were hanged for their participation in the massacre. https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...ikrit-Iraq.jpg Iraqi militiaman visiting a mass grave, believed to contain the bodies of Iraqi soldiers killed by Islamic State at Camp Speicher military base The United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Daesh/ISIS (UNITAD) said on June 2021 that there was “clear and convincing evidence” that the massacre “constituted a number of war crimes under international law.” However, the trials that have led to Iraq’s death sentences have been severely criticised by rights groups as failing to meet basic standards. Amnesty International condemned Iraq’s systematic resort to the death penalty after previous executions, saying its use is "deplorable in all circumstances, and it is particularly horrendous when applied after grossly unfair trials marred by allegations of confessions extracted under torture as is frequently the case in Iraq"" |
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US Captures ISIS Bombmaker in Dawn Helicopter Raid -
4 days after another bloody mission In the second raid this week, US forces captured an ISIS official involved in "manufacturing improvised explosive devices". BBC 19 FEB 2023 https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img...=1676804655363 n early morning helicopter raid resulted in the capture of a high ranking ISIS official named "Batar" in eastern Syria. The mission follows a similar raid last week which resulted in four US soldiers and a military dog being injured. |
Re: ISIS/Al-Qaeda/Syria-TERRORISM: Taliban Kill Kabul Airport Bombing IS Leader
Taliban Kill IS Leader Behind Kabul Airport Bombing
The Islamic State group mastermind thought to have planned the devastating 2021 bombing at Kabul airport has been killed by Afghanistan's ruling Taliban, US officials say. The bombing that August killed 170 civilians and 13 US soldiers as people were trying to flee the country as the Taliban took control. BBC News 27 APR 2023 https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cp...001000x667.jpg The IS figure was killed weeks ago but it took time to confirm his death, US officials told BBC news partner CBS. His name has not been released. US officials said they had determined through intelligence gathering and monitoring of the region that the leader had died, though they did not provide further details on how they had learned that he was responsible for the bombing. "Experts in the government are at high confidence that this individual… was indeed the key individual responsible," a senior US official told CBS. According to a report in the New York Times, the US learned of the leader's death in early April. It is unclear whether he was targeted by the Taliban or if he was killed during ongoing fighting between IS and the Taliban, the newspaper reported. On Monday, the US began notifying families of the soldiers killed about the death of the IS leader. Darin Hoover, father of Marine Staff Sergeant Taylor Hoover who died in the blast, confirmed to CBS that he had been notified of the news by the Marine Corps. "They could not tell me any details of the operation, but they did state that their sources are highly trusted, and they've got it from several different sources that this individual was indeed killed," Mr Hoover said in an interview on Tuesday. ---White House blames chaotic Afghan pull-out on Trump The blast came hours after Western governments warned their citizens to stay away from Kabul International Airport, because of an imminent threat of an attack by IS-K, the Afghanistan branch of the Islamic State group. It happened around 18:00 local time on 26 August 2021 at the Abbey Gate to the airport, when a suicide bomber walked into the middle of families waiting outside the gate. Huge crowds had been gathering in the area, hoping to be accepted on to an evacuation flight as US troops pulled out of Afghanistan. Among the casualties were two British nationals and the child of a British national, the UK government said at the time. The US carried out a drone strike in Kabul days later, saying it had targeted a suicide bomber, only to admit that the missile had killed 10 civilians, including seven children. They later offered a $10m (£8m) reward to anyone with information leading to the arrest or conviction in any country of those responsible for the attack, or for the capture of ISIS-K leader Sanaullah Ghafari. The August 2021 pull-out of US troops from Afghanistan marked the end of America's longest war. It led to the collapse of the Afghan government and military, which the US government had supported for two decades. It also led to the return of power to the Taliban. The Biden administration was criticised both at home and abroad in the aftermath of the pull-out. Many had expressed anger over the abandonment of Afghans and of US weaponry, and one US Marine injured in the blast described the pull-out as a "catastrophe" during Republican-led hearings examining the withdrawal. Michael McCaul, a Republican House representative, said the IS leader's death was welcome news but did not deliver full justice for the families of the US soldiers who died. "If these reports are true, any time a terrorist is taken off the board is a good day," Mr McCaul said. "But this doesn't diminish the Biden administration's culpability for the failures that led to the attack at Abbey Gate." President Joe Biden had directed a broad review examining the pull-out, which was released earlier this month. The review laid the blame on President Donald Trump for the deadly withdrawal, saying the Biden administration had been "severely constrained" by Mr Trump's decisions, including a 2020 deal with the Taliban to end the war. |
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ISIS Terrorists Plotting BIG Attack on UK Soil as Spies Uncover Chilling Plans
Elite Iraqi forces, who are still launching special operations against Islamic State, discovered terrifying plans for an international plot against the UK just days ago. BBC NEWS 29 JUNE 2023 https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img...=1687981928082 https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img...=1687981928030 General Abdul Wahab el-Saadi, 60, told The Mirror: "We know ISIS has been talking to UK-based terrorists and we know what they are planning. It is a big attack." His special forces, known as the Golden Division, learned of the plot just days ago after killing dozens of militants in a desert hideout. General el-Saadi said: "We discovered that the UK is the next target outside Iraq. British Islamic State terrorists are conspiring to launch a deadly attack at a public gathering, spies have revealed. Iraq's most senior counter-terrorism officer, whose men discovered the international plot, issued the warning to British journalists who joined the Iraqi Counter-Terror Service in Baghdad. They shared that ISIS commanders in Iraq want to target a specific type of plot so they can maximise the horror brought to the British public. In the past few weeks we launched major operations against Daesh or Islamic State and killed large numbers of terrorists, in one raid there were about five of them, all quite senior. "I can tell you that from the information we found at the site of one of our recent raids the next intended terror attack will be in the United Kingdom." Responding to questions about the UK cell involved in the terror plot, the general said: "These terrorists are British nationals". Specifics have been left out of reports surrounding the terror plot for security reasons. It is understood Western intelligence agencies have been given the specifics by Iraqi intelligence and are planning to shatter the plot and keep the public safe. However, the general added: "I cannot tell what form the attack they want to launch would take as it can be a car, a knife, a gun, a bomb. "I do not have those details for you except that it will, if it happens, be in a public place of the type I have described to you. |
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Flight Attendant Who Thwarted Shoe Bomber Helps Block Move to Cushy UK Jail
On December 22, 2001—just months after the 9/11 attacks—Richard Reid boarded American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami with homemade bombs hidden in his shoes - but his attack was thwarted BBC NEWS 23 JUL 2023 https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...-In-Prison.jpg Shoe bomber Richard Reid https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...tland-Yard.jpg The shoe he used to try and kill passengers onboard the plane https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...8-Sep-2011.jpg The heroine who stopped shoe bomber Richard Reid from blowing up a packed jetliner has helped thwart his attempt to move to a cushy UK jail. Cristina Jones blocked his move. Former flight attendant Cristina Jones was left concerned after being informed that the Brit was attempting to transfer from his supermax cell in the States. The 61-year-old, whose quick-thinking actions in 2001 saved the lives of 198 people on board, told the Mirror she previously added her voice to oppose his move, ultimately seeing his bid denied. The former American Airlines hostess said: “I was contacted as they were notifying me he had made a petition to be transferred back to the UK. Shoe-bomber Richard Reid: 'My plot to attack plane failed because God decided it wasn't my time to die' https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...ed-in-jail.jpg Shoe bomber Richard Reid pictured in jail “It was my understanding that they would always contact me with updates of which they previously did. “They sought my opinion over his petition, which was, of course, negative. I opposed his move back to Britain.” The former American Airlines hostess was one of many voices that expressed concern the convicted terrorist wanted to return to the UK. His bid for a transfer was ultimately blocked by the US Government. Ms Jones was recently left disturbed after Reid disappeared from his cell at Florence ADX in Colorado, sparking fears he could have left the States. Reid was no longer listed in the custody of America’s Bureau of Prisons (BoP), with officials refusing to explain his disappearance and only returned after two weeks missing. https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...-488572511.jpg The passport of failed shoe bomber Richard Reid Ms Jones added: “His disappearance from the prison system was shocking to me. “I was under the understanding that any new developments of his custody would be relayed to me. “I would like to know why he was not in custody and where he was.” In a statement to the Mirror, officials confirmed Reid was not in the prison system. Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesman Benjamin O’Cone said: “There are several reasons why an inmate may be referenced as ‘not in BOP custody’. “Inmates who were previously in BOP custody and who have not completed their sentence may be outside BOP custody for a period of time for court hearings, medical treatment or for other reasons. “We do not provide specific information on the status of inmates who are not in the custody of the BOP for safety, security, or privacy reasons.” At the beginning of June, London-born Reid, 49, was not detained in Florence ADX, where he is held alongside some of the world’s most dangerous men. Prison officials refused to reveal his whereabouts or why he had been taken from the bureau’s system when approached by the Mirror. He has since been returned. Reid’s crime is why, to this day, passengers worldwide are forced to remove their shoes for scanning by airport security before boarding a flight. Ms Jones, 61, had worked as an attendant for almost 20 years when she came in contact with the would-be shoe bomber. It was three days before Christmas 2001 and only three months after the September 11 terrorist attacks. While walking down the aisle, Ms Jones smelled smoke and saw Reid fumbling with his shoe. She said at the time: “I walked up and said, “Stop’ and grabbed him,” ---ISIS Beatle tried to avoid Alcatraz-style prison by claiming he has poor mental health “It’s a situation where you have to do something. At that moment, there wasn’t a lot of time to make a choice.” Reid bit down on her thumb so hard he scared her for life. She banged into a tray table before eight passengers came to her aid. They strapped him to a chair with their own belts and safety belts. Two doctors sedated Reid, and the flight was diverted to Boston. Her quirking thinking actions, along with colleague Hermis Moutardier, saved all 184 passengers and 14 crew onboard the *Boeing* 767-300. Experts found Reid’s device contained 10 ounces of explosives, enough to bring down the jet as it made its way from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, France, to Miami, Florida. On October 4, 2002, Reid pleaded guilty to eight terrorism-related charges. He was sentenced to life in prison and fined $2 million. The Brit, who prosecutors believe received training in Afghanistan from al Qaeda, was taken to Florence ADX, known as the Alcatraz of the Rockies. ---ISIS 'Beatle' was moved to supermax prison after mental health appeal fails He was held in solidarity confinement among the world’s most dangerous criminals, including drug lord El Chapo, hate preacher Abu Hamza and 9/11 terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui. After several years inside a concrete cell, he was successful in being moved into a more open area of the prison. https://d1n0c1ufntxbvh.cloudfront.ne...c/14136/1140x/ Travis Dusenbury 53, one of the only men ever to be freed from Florence, told the Mirror how he recalled meeting Reid in the “stepped-down unit”. At the time, the American Muslim was a trusted inmate and given the job of an orderly, mopping floors, wiping walls and general cleaning duties. He was allowed out of his cell without handcuffs allowing him to talk with those in their cells. One of them was Reid, who he knew as Abdel Rahim. He said: “I never agreed with any of what the terrorists did. They knew that. I made no secret of it. “I thought it was cowardice what they had done. “I’m glad Rahim didn’t manage what he set out to do. We never talked about his crime, but I found him to be a very softly-spoken man who only wished for peace after I met him. “He is exceptionally knowledgeable in Islam and often offers guidance. “He was a world away from what the world knows him as.” |
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ISIS Targets CHILDREN With Explosives Placed in Fake PlayStation Controllers
Household items such as phones and TV remotes have been turned into weapons to target civilians and children. They have been discovered by the Mines Advisory Group charity BBC NEWS 24 JULY 2023 https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...ontrollers.jpg Evil jihadists booby-trapped household items, turning TV remotes, phones and fake PlayStation controllers into weapons to target civilians and children. The home-made devices were discovered by the Mines Advisory Group charity, who are clearing explosives left by IS in villages and towns before they withdrew from northern Iraq. Some of the devices, which were found in schools and hospitals as well as homes, feature in a grim gallery at MAG’s training base in Chamchamal, Kurdistan. Salaam Muhammed, who has been with MAG Iraq since 2014 and has disarmed more than 2,300 devices left by IS, showed me a small glass case containing some of the booby-traps: a water tap with wires protruding from its base; clothes pegs hooked up to batteries; rigged games controllers designed to kill. TV remotes, taps, and clothes pegs are among the sickening booby-trapped household items uncovered by one charity in northern Iraq Salaam said: “ISIS used different techniques to terrorise people. Some of their mines were laid in the ground, others were built into mosques, homes, schools, and so on.” Civilians who fled the IS “caliphate” found their homes transformed into death traps on return. Salaam said: “ISIS booby-trapped things like refrigerators and air conditioners. In an area ISIS occupied for eight months we found 25 booby-trapped houses.” MAG, based in Manchester, also finds landmines, cluster munitions and unexploded bombs and have been working in Iraq since 1992. The Iraqi government has declared their war with IS over. But hundreds of improvised explosive devices, IEDs, remain. Salaam has a collection he uses in “booby-trapped” training houses. In a bedroom, a wallet stuffed with cash is a trap, and touching it will cost a life. In the kitchen, a trip-switch under pots on the stove will trigger a blast. Salaam and his teams can work for months on a single house to make it safe. They use dogs to sniff out IEDs. Their work allows families to return to their homes and live without fear. And people are immensely grateful to Salaam and his teams. He said: “They treat me so well sometimes I feel a bit embarrassed.“They treat me with more than enough respect. It’s a lot.” |
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Brit Jihadist Long Believed to be One of The ISIS Beatles Found Dead in Prison Cell
UK Rapper Abdel Bary (Jihadi John), Suspect in Beheading of James Foley Found Dead in Prison Abdel-Majed Abdel Barry 32, had been tried earlier this month at a court in Madrid on suspicion of heading an itinerant jihadist cell he allegedly formed after leaving Syria, and was awaiting the verdict BBC 29 JULY 2023 https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...d-in-Syria.jpg https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...2-Jul-2023.jpg He covers his face as he sits in the dock during the first hearing of his trial earlier this month A former UK rapper once believed to be the ISIS killer ‘Jihadi’ John has been found dead in his prison cell in Spain....:clapper::clapper::clapper: Abdel-Majed Abdel Barr, 32, was tried earlier this month at a court in Madrid on suspicion of heading an itinerant jihadist cell he allegedly formed after leaving Syria, and was awaiting the verdict. Barr was arrested with two men described as aides less than a week after they were smuggled onto a beach on Spain’s south-east coastline in April 2020. London-schooled but Egyptian-born Barr was stripped of his British citizenship after allegedly joining ISIS, was charged after a long-running investigation sparked by his arrest at a hideaway rented flat in Almeria. Investigating judge Maria Tardon concluded in her written ruling outlining her decision to charge him that he had been smuggled into Spain by boat with two Algerian men less than a week before he was located and held. He was warned before his trial at Madrid’s Audiencia Nacional court, which finished on July 14, he could face nine years in prison if convicted. On the opening day of his trial he denied all terrorism charges against him, insisting he had never been in the Syrian city of Raqqa before claiming he went to the country for humanitarian reasons. Prosecutors said in a pre-trial indictment that the former British national, the son of Adel Abdel Bari who confessed to murdering more than 200 people in a series of Islamist bombings in Africa, used bitcoin to buy stolen or cloned bank cards on the Dark Web. His alleged accomplices, named before the trial as Abderrazak Seddiki, 30, and Kossaila Chollouah, 27 were accused in a pre-trial indictment of playing other key roles in the fraud including carding which is a type of credit card scam in which a criminal steals or fraudulently uses credit card details to buy prepaid gift cards. He is understood to have been found dead at a prison in El Puerto de Santa Maria in Cadiz, south west Spain. One unconfirmed local report said his body presented no obvious signs of any violence. An internal Spanish Prison service investigation will now take place and his family will be given the right to hold their own autopsy aside from the official post-mortem to establish the exact cause of death. HISTORY https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...st-fighter.jpg Jihadist Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary appeared in a number of freestyle rap videos on YouTube as late as 2012 under the L. Jinny. His lyrics speak of the difficulties he, his five siblings and mother experienced since his father's arrest on suspicion of terrorism. But that was then. Bary, now 24, had since quit music and joined Islamic State fighters in their violent quest to establish a Wahabist caliphate. Bary is believed to have left his five siblings and mother in their London council flat and flown to Syria last year, aged 23. There, calling himself Abu Kalashnikov, he appeared in a gruesome photograph holding a man's severed head. Elsewhere he remarked he had “left everything for the sake of Allah.” When he was 6, police came to his family’s home and arrested his father, Adel Abdul Bary. In 2012 the elder Abdul Bary was extradited to the U.S. for his alleged connections to Osama bin Laden and the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Africa. He is being held in New York awaiting trial. In recent years Bary became hostile toward the the U.S. and his own government. Friends say Western involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan helped radicalize him, as did his contact with young followers of extremist British preacher Anjem Choudary. Bary is one of around 500 homegrown jihadists the U.K.’s Foreign Office believes have travelled to Syria since the beginning of the war. |
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ISIS Bride Let Chained-Up Girl 5, DIE of Thirst Next to Crying Mother After She Wet The Bed
German IS Bride Guilty of Letting Enslaved Yazidi Girl Die of Thirst - She Had Been Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison - Now Increased to 14 Years Jennifer Wenisch, from Germany, joined ISIS in Iraq and allowed a young girl to die of thirst for wetting the bed, after exploiting the child and her mum as slaves BBC 30 AUG 2023 https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...8372358235.jpg Defendant Jennifer Wenisch arrives in a courtroom for her trial in Munich An ISIS bride who joined the Islamic State and chained up a five-year-old slave girl - leaving her to die of thirst - has been jailed for 10 years. Jennifer Wenisch, 32, and her then-husband, an ISIS fighter, had exploited the young Yazidi and her mum as household slaves. A court heard Wenisch moved from Germany to join ISIS and "acted out of contempt for fellow human beings," including the youngster. The girl was left chained up in the baking Iraq heat. After she died, Wenisch put a gun to the slave mother's head and threatened to shoot her in an attempt to stop her crying. The defendant was found guilty of enslavement, in one case resulting in death, being an accessory to attempted murder and membership in a terrorist organisation abroad in October 2021. Since then, Germany's Federal Court of Justice threw out her appeal. She was handed a HIGHER 14-year jail term at the Higher Regional Court in Munich. |
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ISIS ‘Beatle’ Admits Having a Gun For Terrorism Purposes
A suspected member of the ISIS ‘Beatles’ has pleaded guilty to having a firearm for terrorism purposes and two offences of funding terrorism. BBC 16 OCT 2023 https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploa...size=540%2C303 Aine Leslie Davis, 39, was jailed in Turkey for more than seven years and his lawyers were speaking ahead of the planned three-week trial Aine Leslie Davis, 39, who was once suspected of being part of the death squad appeared at the Old Bailey today. He was arrested last year when he arrived back in the UK after spending seven and half years in a Turkish jail for terrorism offences. It follows a failed attempt by the home secretary to have him sent to the US, it has been reported. Ahead of his planned Old Bailey trial, Davis’ legal team claimed the case should be thrown out because he could not be tried twice for the same offending. British authorities were also accused of ‘conniving’ with Turkish counterparts in his deportation in a failed bid by the then-Home Secretary Priti Patel to arrange his onward extradition to the US where two other IS Beatles were tried. In legal argument, defence lawyer Mark Summers KC noted ‘the spectre’ of suspicion around Davis’s involvement with the Beatles cell from 2014 onwards. Born in West London, Davis was a convicted criminal when he turned to radical Islamism It caused Davis to complain about mistreatment in his Turkish jail after he was interviewed about it by British intelligence officers, the court was told. Mr Summers said that in July last year, lawyers in the IS Beatles case in Virginia clarified they were not seeking to bring a prosecution against Davis ‘because the evidence was there were only three members and not four members of that cell.’ The barrister claimed Ms Patel veered into ‘Alice in Wonderland territory’ when she phoned authorities in the US begging them to take Davis’s case. Mr Summers said: ‘The irregular personal involvement of the Home Secretary trying to persuade a foreign country to prosecute a UK national is frankly extraordinary.’ Aine Davis Timeline Suspected ‘Isis Beatle’ Aine Davis became a trans-Atlantic hot potato as lawyers wrestled with the thorny legal issues around how and where he should face justice. 2006: London-born Davis, who has roots in Gambia, meets his wife Amal El-Wahabi at a London mosque and becomes increasingly interested in Islam. 2007: Davis spends time living in Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates. According to El-Wahabi, he had a history of drug dealing and went abroad to get away from bad influences. July 2013: The Muslim convert leaves the UK to pursue a jihadist cause in Syria. November 26 2013: Davis sends El-Wahabi a picture of himself in Syrian woods posing with a man holding a Kalashnikov rifle. November 27 2013: Davis sends a group photograph with 13 other people holding guns aloft. January 2014: El-Wahabi’s friend Nawal Msaad is stopped at Heathrow airport before boarding a flight to Istanbul and found to be carrying 20,000 euro (£15,830) in rolled-up notes. Summer 2014: El-Wahabi goes on trial at the Old Bailey accused of attempting to send Davis the money to fund terrorism. She is found guilty and Msaad, who was “hoodwinked” by her friend to act as a courier, is acquitted. November 2014: Mother-of-two El-Wahabi is jailed for 28 months and seven days. Judge Nicholas Hilliard says it is clear that Davis went to Syria to fight under the black flag of Isis and El-Wahabi was “infatuated” with him. 2015: Mohammed Emwazi, aka Jihadi John, the ringleader of the murderous Beatles IS cell, is killed in a US drone strike. November 12 2015: Davis and others are arrested in Istanbul by the Turkish authorities on suspicion of being members of an armed terrorist group, namely the so-called Islamic State. Davis is using a forged travel document. May 9 2017: Davis is convicted in Turkey of membership of a proscribed organisation with firearms and sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison. 2018: Two IS Beatles cell members, Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, are captured in Syria. They are later handed eight life sentences in the United States. 2019: Suspected fourth cell member Davis is visited in his Turkish prison by a British intelligence officers who asked him about The Beatles. Afterwards, Davis claims he was mistreated in prison. May 2021: A draft extradition request for Davis is drawn up but allegedly rejected in favour of deportation by July. June 2022: British officials learned that prosecutors in New York are seeking to extradite Davis to the US. June 30 2022: A report is published in British media that Davis is to be deported and citing legal sources advising the British government – ahead of the official announcement in Turkey. July 2022: Prosecutors in Virginia clarify that they are not looking to put him on trial as a member of The Beatles cell, saying there were only three members. Then-home secretary Priti Patel allegedly appeals – unsuccessfully – to US authorities for Davis to be prosecuted there in an apparent plan to extradite him on following his deportation from Turkey. Davis is transferred to an immigration detention centre where he is visited by a consular official who repeatedly attempts to persuade him to return to Britain voluntarily – without success. August 2022: Davis is deported to Britain and detained by counter-terrorism police on his arrival at Luton airport. March 2023: Davis is due to stand trial at the Old Bailey accused of arranging terrorist funding from abroad and having a gun with terrorist intent. His lawyer Mark Summers KC argues he has effectively been convicted and served his time in Turkey for his activities in Syria. He accuses British authorities of having “ulterior” motives and “conniving” to get him back with a view to onward extradition to the US. October 2023: Davis pleads guilty to having a firearm for terrorist purposes and two terrorism funding charges after unsuccessfully applying to the Court of Appeal. The prosecution disputed the defence claims which were rejected by Judge Mark Lucraft and later by the Court of Appeal. On Monday, Davis returned to the Old Bailey and pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm contrary to Section 57 of the Terrorism Act 2000, and two charges of funding terrorism between 2013 and 2014. The defendant entered his pleas via video link from Belmarsh prison. |
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'ISIS Beatle Member' Jailed For Eight Years in Knicker-Smuggling and Guns TERROR Case
Former drug dealer Aine Davis pleaded guilty last month to funding terrorism by persuading his hairdresser wife Amal El-Wahabi to try and smuggle 20,000 euros to him in Syria BBC 14 NOV 2023 https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...court-case.jpg Aine Davis, front kneeling, is a London-born drug dealer who allegedly went to Syria to fight A West London man alleged to be the fourth ISIS 'Beatle' member has been sentenced to eight years in prison for carrying a weapon for terrorist purposes.... :arrrrrgh:...:dunno: The sentence was made up of six years for the firearms charge and two years for the fundraising charge - both of which are offences under the Terrorism Act. Former drug dealer Aine Davis pleaded guilty last month to funding terrorism by persuading his hairdresser wife Amal El-Wahabi to try and smuggle 20,000 euros to him in Syria, using a friend, Nawal Masaad, as a courier who hid the money in her knickers. He also pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm for terrorist purposes after posing with a Kalashnikov assault rifle alongside other fighters in a picture he sent to his wife in Britain. Davis was deported from Turkey last August after serving a seven-and-a-half-year sentence for membership in the so-called Islamic State. On his arrival at Luton airport, he was detained by British counter-terrorism police and charged with the three offences. After an Old Bailey trial in 2014, El-Wahabi became the first person to be found guilty of funding terrorism in Syria and jailed for 28 months, while Ms Masaad was cleared of wrongdoing. Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, were captured by US-backed Kurdish forces in 2018 and are imprisoned in the US. Kotey has been given a life sentence and Elsheikh is expected to get life when he is formally sentenced later this month. US prosecutors said Davis travelled to Syria with Kotey and he admitted in a Turkish court that he knew Emwazi from a mosque in West London. Kotey also told interrogators in the US that although Davis visited his house for lunch while in Syria, he had no direct involvement in the hostage-keeping operation. At one point Davis was suspected by the intelligence agencies in the UK and the US of himself being a member of the 'Beatles' but that is longer believed to be the case. Nick Price, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said: "Davis left the UK and travelled to Syria to involve himself with a proscribed terrorist organisation. While in Syria, he was able to call upon an associate or a network of like-minded individuals to arrange and deliver 20,000 euros to his wife, which was due to be taken to the country. It is only right he has been convicted and imprisoned in this country." Davis' barrister, Mark Summers KC, said that Davis wished to apologise to the people of Syria, his own family, and the court. He also said ahead of sentencing that Davis' "early life was difficult and challenging" and religion had been his way out. |
re: 2 ISIS Charged With Plotting Terror Attack on British Jews, Police & Military
ISIS Releases Sick Video Calling For Attacks on Jewish People in US and Europe
In a video, the so-called Islamic State called for followers to put on suicide jackets and to attack Jewish people in Europe, the us, and to bomb Israeli embassies BBC 17 NOV 2023 https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...k_26870JPG.jpg Terror group ISIS has released a sickening video in which they called for followers to attack Jewish people in Europe and the US and to bomb Israeli embassies across the globe. The twisted footage includes the extremists also calling for its members to put on suicide vests to carry out attacks against US forces stationed in the Persian Gulf. Throughout the ongoing conflict in Gaza, Israel has repeatedly compared Hamas to the Islamic State. Earlier, Israel's foreign minister said the head of the UN was not fit to lead the global body because he refused to condemn Hamas, who are "worse than ISIS". The animation-style video starts with a video game-style soldier firing shots and shows the Israeli flag being set alight and bursting into flames. The flags of a number of other Arabic states are also burned in the crude footage. It then includes stills of ISIS members committing atrocities, most likely in Iraq and Syria. ISIS made a similar announcement last month in issue 413 of al-Naba - a weekly newspaper produced by the terror mob. In the editorial, the group called for terrorists to take up arms and to attack Jewish neighbourhoods across the world. They urged jihadists to attack synagogues, nightclubs and businesses linked to Jewish people. The terror group wrote: "Target synagogues scattered everywhere. Attacking Jewish nightclubs and targeting their visitors with murder. Target the Jewish economic interests spread across the world. "Educate generations that the battle with the Jews is purely ideological, neither patriotic nor national. And that the battlefield includes all places of Jewish existence and is not limited to Palestine. We invite you to join the caliphate, who seek to remove the borders and dams that prevent them from the fight." |
re: 2 ISIS Charged With Plotting Terror Attack on British Jews, Police & Military
France on High Alert For New Years' Eve Terrorist Threat as ISIS Plots Foiled
French minister Gérald Darmanin has warned the country is facing a very high terrorist threat in the coming days as arrests were made across Europe in Spain, Austria and Germany Daily Mail 29 DEC 2023 https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...7442470356.jpg Security services in France have been put on 'high alert' days after a number of ISIS plots to target Europe were thwarted. Counter-terrorism experts say the group remains a “serious threat” and claim they are taking advantage of the ongoing conflict in Gaza to rally support for their cause. Police have made a number of arrests in France, Spain, Austria and Germany during the Christmas period. Five people were last week apprehended in northern France as part of an investigation into a criminal terrorist conspiracy. French minister Gérald Darmanin said the security system is in place for New Year's Eve across the country and he said they will leave nothing to chance on Sunday. He told reporters this morning: “I requested an extremely strong mobilisation of the police and gendarmerie services in a context of very high terrorist threat." |
2 ISIS Charged With Plotting Terror Attack on British Jews, Police & Military
Two Charged With Plotting Islamist Terror Attack on British Jews, Police & Military Targets.
Men accused of plot to attack Jews with machine guns in north-west England The Guardian 15 MAY 2024 https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3f7b3...0&dpr=1&s=none Walid Saadaoui and Amar Hussein appear in court charged with preparing acts of terrorism Two men have appeared in court accused of a machine gun terrorism plot to attack Jewish communities in north-west England, as well as police and military targets. Walid Saadaoui, 36, from Abram near Wigan, and Amar Hussein, 50, of no fixed address, are accused of planning the Islamic State-inspired plot and charged with preparing acts of terrorism. A third man, Bilel Saadaoui, 35, from Hindley near Wigan, brother of Walid, is accused of failing to disclose information about an act of terrorism. All three were arrested last Wednesday and appeared at Westminster magistrates court, which heard the plot involved attempts to obtain machine guns, a hand gun and ammunition, and identifying a safe house where these could be stored. Walid Saadaoui was detained as he went to collect what he believed were the weapons for the attack, the court heard. The prosecutor, Rebecca Waller, told the court: “Walid Saadaoui and Amar Hussein planned to conduct an Isil- or Daesh-inspired terrorist attack in the UK during which they intended causing multiple fatalities using automatic weapons. “The main targets of their attack plans were the Jewish community in the north-west of England and members of both law enforcement and military. “Both defendants took significant steps to prepare, and by May 2024, had reached the point at which, they believed, they were in a position to launch their attack.” In court Walid Saadaoui spoke only to confirm his name, date of birth and address and was remanded in custody. Amar Hussein was unrepresented by legal counsel and when asked if he wanted to apply for bail, refused to look at the judge and answered: “Do whatever you want to.” Bilal Saadaoui was also remanded in custody and sobbed as he was led from the dock. He pleaded not guilty to the charge facing him. The district judge, Louisa Ciecióra, said all three men would appear at the Old Bailey on 24 May. A counter-terrorism operation led to the arrests after raids in the Bolton, Abram, Hindley and Great Lever areas of Greater Manchester at about 7.30pm on 8 May. The charges say the alleged plot started no earlier than 13 December 2023 and ran until this month. The UK’s terrorism threat level remains at “substantial”. |
al-Muhajiroun Preacher Choudary Found Guilty of Directing Terrorist Organisation
Terrorist al-Muhajiroun Hate Preacher Anjem Choudary is Found Guilty of Directing a Terrorist Organisation
Director of banned terror network Al-Muhajiroun shouts ‘what are you doing’ when police smash down door during raid for terror offences Britain Charged Anjem Choudary With Aiding ISIS in 2015 - WHY Was He EVER Released ?? BBC 24 JUL 2024 https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/999/cp...483a802c97.jpg Anjem Choudary mugshot Radical preacher Anjem Choudary has been found guilty of directing a group banned under UK terror laws and encouraging support for it online. Choudary faces life in prison after he was convicted on Tuesday of taking a "caretaker role" in Islamist group al-Muhajiroun. He was also found guilty of membership of a proscribed organisation after a trial at Woolwich Crown Court. Prosecutors said Choudary directed the group for a significant period of time after 2014 and encouraged support for it by addressing online meetings. Choudary told his trial that he was one of the original three members of al-Muhajiroun. The prosecution said he was still acting as its leader as late as July 2023, making online speeches to a US-based offshoot called the Islamic Thinkers Society (ITS). That group was infiltrated by undercover law enforcement officers in the US, who were present at online lectures in 2022 and 2023. The court heard that Choudary said he viewed being called an extremist as a "medallion" during lectures. The conviction was the result of an investigation by British, American and Canadian authorities into Al-Muhajiroun. Officers investigating Choudary trawled hundreds of hours of audio and video content and assessed over 16,000 documents to prove the links between al-Muhajiroun, ITS and Choudary, investigators said. Commander Dominic Murphy, head of the Met's counter-terrorism command, said al-Muhajiroun's "tentacles have spread across the world and have had a massive impact on public safety and security". He added that people have "conducted terrorist attacks or travelled for terrorist purposes" as a result of Choudary's "radicalising impact". Seen as a radicalising network rather than a militant organisation, al-Muhajiroun was founded in the UK in 1996. It was first banned by the government in 2006 under the name Al Ghurabaa. In 2010, al-Muhajiroun was included in the ban as an alternate name. The group spent years recruiting others to its extremist interpretation of Islam and seeking the establishment of a caliphate ruled by Sharia. Police have said some 600 people have been linked to the organisation over the years. People associated with al-Muhajiroun have been linked to attacks that police said were terror-related. The three attackers that killed eight people at London Bridge in 2017 were led by a former member, and the murder of five people at Westminster Bridge earlier that year was by a man who had spent years associating with the group. Another member killed two people at London's Fishmongers Hall in 2019. The group also gained notoriety for its intentionally provocative demonstrations and publicity stunts, involving them praising the 9/11 attacks or heckling military funerals, which once featured regularly in the media. After being banned in 2010, al-Muhajiroun regularly changed its name. The group operated under more than 50 aliases during its existence, Choudary said in a covert audio recording heard during his trial. Choudary, 57, from Ilford, east London, was arrested on 17 July 2023. Footage from his arrest, released by Scotland Yard after his conviction, showed police officers breaking down his front door at 5:30am to take him into custody. Choudary was previously jailed in 2016 for encouraging support for the Islamic State group and released in 2018. He told the jury during his trial that after his release he had continued to do his best to propagate Islam. One of his supporters, Khaled Hussein, 29, from Edmonton, Canada, was also found guilty of being a member of al-Muhajiroun. He was detained at Heathrow Airport on the same day as Choudary. Commander Murphy said the charge used to prosecute Choudary was "very rare" in the UK and a "significant milestone". He added that the Met Police's counter-terrorism command was "seeing an increasingly larger number of young people in our case files". Bethan David, head of the Crown Prosecution Service counter terrorism division, said: "It is clear that both men were members of al-Muhajiroun and both men had a radical mindset. "This organisation has been banned in the UK since 2010 because of the danger it poses. Such extremist views are a threat to our society, and I am pleased the jury found them guilty of their crimes." Both men will be sentenced on 30 July. Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary found guilty of directing a terrorist organisation Moment vile hate preacher Anjem Choudary is arrested for masterminding outlawed terror ring |
IS TERROR Brides' Lawyer Takes Case to Euro Court After UK Supreme Courts' Denial
IS TERROR Bride Shamima Begums' Lawyer to Take Jihadi Case to European Court of Human Rights After Losing Bid to Restore Her British Citizenship at Londons' Supreme Court
British Tax Payers Are STILL Paying Her Legal Bills..:hissy: MailOnline 8 AUG 2024 https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/02...5839419597.jpg Shamima Begum, pictured in BBC programme The Shamima Begum Story in February 2023 Begum is planning to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights to challenge the removal of her British citizenship, her lawyers revealed today. The jihadi bride's legal team intend to go to Strasbourg after she lost her final bid in the UK when justices at London's Supreme Court ruled she could not appeal again. The 24-year-old lost an appeal last year against the decision to revoke her citizenship on national security grounds at the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC). Her citizenship was revoked after she was found in a Syrian refugee camp following travelling to the country as a 15-year-old to join the Islamic State group in 2015. Today, justices at the UK's highest court said Begum – who lived in Bethnal Green, East London - could not appeal again after she lost a Court of Appeal bid in February. The then 21-year-old spoke to ITV from the al-Roj prison camp in Syria in September 2021 https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/08...3033474524.jpg In a Syrian refugee camp, aged 19, being shown a copy of the Home Office letter which stripped her of her British citizenship, in a grab from an ITV broadcast in February 2019 |
IS -Five Jihadists Found GUILTY of Kidnapping & Torturing French Journalists
IS TERRORISTS Who KIDNAPPED & Held Journalists Hostage in Syria Found GUILTY in FRANCE- Sentenced to Life in Prison
Five Jihadists Were Found Guilty of Kidnapping and Torturing French Journalists During their imprisonment, the four journalists were forced to watch the executions of other captives and endure beatings while surrounded by the screams of fellow detainees. SKY NEWS 21 MAR 2025 https://e3.365dm.com/25/03/768x432/s...20250321160705 SAVAGE Mehdi Nemmouche during his trial - one of the most perverse EVIL and cruel jihadists of the past 10 years Prosecutors had called for a life sentence without parole for the Frenchman on trial for holding French journalists and aid workers hostage in Syria for the Islamic State armed group. Benjamin Chambre and the anti-terrorist prosecution team has demanded a life sentence for Mehdi Nemmouche, with a minimum 22 years without parole, during an eight-hour hearing in a Paris court. Calling Nemmouche a real sociopath devoid of all empathy Chambre said he deserves a sentence that definitively protects society Nemmouche, who has claimed he was an Islamic State fighter but not a jailer, is already serving life in prison for the deadly attack on the Jewish Museum in Brussels in May 2014. Four French journalists Didier Fran?ois, Edouard Elias, Nicolas H?nin and Pierre Torres identified Nemmouche as one of their captors when they were held in Syria from June 2013 to April 2014. Nemmouche is on trial alongside four other men, including Abdelmalek Tanem, for whom prosecutors have requested a 30-year prison sentence. Nemmouche was sentenced to life in prison, and will serve a minimum of 22 years behind bars. Abdelmalek Tanem was given 22 years and Kais Al Abdullah was sentenced to 20 years. Meanwhile, Oussama Atar and Salim Benghalem, who are both referred to as integral figures in the Islamic States operations and believed to be dead were sentenced to life in absentia. The trial in Paris heard that journalists Didier Francois, Edouard Elias, Nicolas Henin, and Pierre Torres were terrorised during their 10 months in captivity between June 2013 and April 2014. https://e3.365dm.com/25/03/768x432/s...20250321164111 Nicolas Henin was held captive in Syria for 10 months https://e3.365dm.com/25/03/768x432/s...20250318103353 Released French hostage Didier Francois, left, is welcomed by his family in 2014. The four spoke of relentless physical and psychological torture at the hands of ISIS. During their imprisonment, they were forced to watch the executions of other captives and endure beatings while surrounded by the screams of fellow detainees. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu0THKT42Do |
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