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THREE TERRORISTS AND FOUR HOSTAGES DEAD: Bloody End to French Sieges as Commandos Storm Kosher Deli and Printing Firm Where Magazine Assassins and Policewoman's Killer were Holed up - but FEMALE Accomplice is on The Run
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...14_964x430.jpg Three Islamic jihadists were dead tonight after special forces brought an end to more than two days of slaughter which have left at least 17 dead and spread terror across France. Said (bottom right) and Cherif (top right) Kouachi, the brothers who had assassinated 12 people at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, died in a blaze of gunfire (right) at a printworks near Paris where they had been holed up with one hostage, who survived. Moments later, dozens of commandos (left) stormed a Jewish grocery 25 miles away in east Paris where accomplice Amedey Coulibaly (top left) was threatening to kill a number of terrified people including women and children. The 32-year-old, responsible for the death of a woman police officer on Thursday, was also 'neutralised' in the assault. Tragically, four hostages were killed while another five were badly wounded. There were reports tonight that another gunman had escaped the scene and Coulibaly was said to be working with 'dangerous' girlfriend Hayat Boumeddiene (bottom left) whose whereabouts are unknown. Witnesses watched in horror as freed hostages fled the scene screaming, some carrying their children in their arms. It emerged tonight that four people had been killed while another five are critically wounded. As many as 30 had survived by hiding in a cold store where they kept silent for hours. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0828491654.jpg Going in: Special forces storm the Jewish grocery to the east of Paris where terrorist Amedey Coulibaly had taken at least seven people hostage http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0828604075.jpg Terrified: Hostages - who had been held for hours with Coulibaly threatening to kill them - flee from the shop, crying with relief The bloody climax to the terrorists' rampage began at around 4.30pm when the Kouachi brothers came out firing' Kalashnikovs as officers launched an assault on a building in Dammartin-en-Goele, north-east of Paris. Commandos were seen rappelling from a Puma helicopter on to the roof as flash bang grenades were hurled at the factory to disorientate the jihadists, who had been inside for nine hours. Explosions and automatic gunfire could be heard up to a mile away. Said, 34, and Cherif, 32, were both killed. They had earlier told police that they were 'ready to die as martyrs'. One officer from the elite GIGN commando unit is thought to have been injured, while hostage Michel Catalano – the manager of a design company – escaped unharmed.Shortly after her husband was freed, an emotional Veronique Catalano was waiting to speak to him. 'We very reassured and feel very relieved that it's all over', she said from her home in Othis.'We're still waiting for news. We're not all back together yet.' http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0811627988.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0811623383.jpg Dead: Amedey Coulibaly was shot dead after taking at least six hostages at a grocery store in east Paris. He is believed to be have been working with his girlfriend Hayat Boumeddiene (right) who was said to be 'armed and dangerous' http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0683198808.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0683207536.jpg Cherif Kouachi (top), 32, and his brother Said were killed in a firefight with French special forces at a industrial siteAround 15 minutes after special forces took down the Kouachi brothers, the Paris siege was also descending into a bloody fire fight. As dozens of officers poured into the shop close to Porte de Vincennes, eye-witnesses watched freed hostages screaming in panic as they fled the scene.Some carried children. "It's war!" screamed a mother as she dragged her daughter from the scene.Coulibay had warned he would kill all of his hostages if police launched an assault on the Kouachis, who were linked to the same terror cell. Scroll down for videos http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0820077137.jpg Bloody climax: A huge ball of fire erupts amid gunfire and explosions as French special forces shoot dead the two Charlie Hebdo gunmen http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0822036522.jpg Explosions were seen moments later at a second hostage siege in Paris where an accomplice was threatening to kill captives if police stormed the Kouachis More explosions followed and smoke could be seen rising from the building. Others reported seeing ambulances race to the scene.A short time later three French special forces officers could be seen on the roof of the building.Then, at around 5.30 pm, three large helicopters arrived at the scene and landed on the roof. The hostage was named as Michel Catalano.His family were gathered at their detached home in the nearby village of Othis as the siege came to a dramatic end in Dammartin-en-Goele. Police were last night stationed outside the property. One officer told MailOnline: 'The family are all here. They have come to support Mrs Catalano. They are all gathered together but they are too upset to speak.' Atlantis Farina, 17, who lives close to the scene was returning from high school shortly after 4pm when he heard explosions.'The ground here started shaking, that is what shocked me most,' he said. 'Then there was lots of what sounded like gunfire, it sounded like the suspects were firing back at the police. 'There was smoke too - like they had thrown a grenade. I am so glad it is over, it bought panic to the area. My mum was very worried, and I was quite scared too.' http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0823221764.jpg A man carrying a small child is seen fleeing from the ordeal moments after police stormed the kosher grocery store in eastern Paris http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0824024782.jpg The man is pictured in a second shot, carrying a small child in his arms while the kosher grocery remains illuminated behind himPhilippe Lapotre, 63, was at his home across a field from the factory when he heard the explosions followed by gun fire and came out to see. 'My friends and family have been calling me all day to see if I was ok,' he said. 'When I came out, three huge Puma helicopters came over.'Carole and Thierry Charpentier were at home when the siege ended. 'We have been at home, just watching the television all day,' said Mrs Charpentier. 'We are so very relieved it is over, and are glad the police have got the suspects and the hostage is free. 'We would like the thank and praise the police and the special forces. But we are angry too, that this had happened. We are angry at what horrible things they have done'. In Paris, police say Coulibaly, 32, was using the hostages as a bargaining chip to try to scupper the police response further north. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0803713198.jpg In their sights: Police train their weapons on a building where the Charlie Hebdo gunmen are holed up with a hostage in Dammartin-en-Goele http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0795581002.jpg Frantic: Police rush to the scene of the hostage-taking at an industrial estate in Dammartin-en-Goele around 25 miles from Paris http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0796147507.jpg Siege: The gunmen are surrounded by police commandos who have begun negotiations to try to secure the release of the hostage http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0796676196.jpg Trapped: The brothers were cornered in the premises of a printing firm after leading police on a dramatic car chase http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0814474723.jpg Scoping it out: Police and armed forces take up positions in Dammartin-en-Goele after landing by helicopter in fields near the hostage scene He was said to be working with a woman called Hayat Boumeddiene, 26, considered ‘armed and dangerous’, and is said to have yelled at police: 'You know who I am' when they responded to the shooting. MailOnline understands that police had earlier scrambled phone signals in the area after the gunmen contacted Coulibay while inside the building. Revelations that a call was made by the Kouachis suggests they may have instructed Coulibay to carry out today's atrocity to leverage their escape. There were reports of another alert near the Eiffel Tower, with police seen training their guns down the stairs of a Metro station, but it was a false alarm. Local media reports that the brothers met Coulibay while in prison. He is believed to be a fellow member of the Buttes Chaumont – a gang from the 19th arrondissement of Paris that sent jihadists to fight in Iraq. The Kouachis were cornered in Dammartin-en-Goele, around 25 miles from the capital, this morning after leading police on a dramatic car chase. After exchanging gunfire with officers, they fled on foot into printing works where they are holding a hostage, believed to be a 26-year-old male. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0814394004.jpg After a meeting with President Hollande when news of the siege broke, MP Nicolas Dupont-Aignan said: 'It's time to terrorise the terrorists' http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0803544956.jpg Hemmed in: Police officers create a ring of steel around the industrial estate where the Charlie Hebdo killers are holding a hostage http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0814743963.jpg MailOnline understands police scrambled phone signals in the area after the gunmen made contact with a fellow jihadist from the building http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0822282135.jpg How three days of terror unfolded after gunmen first stormed the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris on Wednesday A salesman called Didier later told how he was supposed to meet a client called Michel at the print works, but was instead met by one of the gunmen. He said he shook hands with the militant because he had identified himself as a police officer and was carrying a Kalashnikov rifle. He said: 'When I arrived, my client came out with an armed man who said he was from the police. 'My client told me to leave so I left,' Didier said, identifying the man he was to meet with as Michel.' He said the black-clad man who was wearing a bullet-proof vest told him: 'Leave, we don't kill civilians anyhow'. 'That really struck me,' Didier added. 'So I decided to call the police. I guess it was one of the terrorists. 'It could have been a policeman if he hadn't told me "we don't kill civilians". They were heavily armed like elite police.' 'I didn't know it was a hostage situation, or a robbery. I just knew something wasn't quite right. I think I am going to go and see my colleagues and play the lottery because I was very lucky this morning.' Meanwhile, a worker in a nearby building told how he barricaded the doors as the hostage crisis unfolded. He said: 'None of us feel safe. We can hear the helicopters. It is terrifying.' One of the pupils inside the Dammartin-en-Goele school said by phone from inside: 'We're scared. We've called our parents to make sure they're OK. 'We've been told we have to stay inside. All the lights have been switched off.' http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0803732837.jpg On guard: A police officer stands along a road near the industrial estate in Dammartin-en-Goele, some 25 miles north-east of Paris http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0805650223.jpg Police check vehicles near the industrial estate. Residents were warned to stay indoors and pupils were being kept inside school Quote:
Snipers had their weapons trained on the building and helicopters were hovering overhead as negotiations were underway with the Islamic fanatics. Runways have been closed at Charles de Gaulle airport, around five miles away over fears the gunmen have rocket launchers that can down planes. Police confirmed a hostage had been taken and that officers are 'trying to establish contact' with the suspects. The family of Michel Catalano, the director of the firm at the centre of the siege told Le Figaro newspaper that they had not spoken to him since this morning and feared he may be the hostage. Mr Catalano and his wife Veronique live in Othis, less than four miles from the scene. After a meeting with President Hollande when news of the siege broke, politician Nicolas Dupont-Aignan said: 'It's time to terrorise the terrorists.' Referring to Islam, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said: 'We are in a war against terrorists, we're not in a war with religion.' An Interior Ministry source confirmed that the men had said they were 'ready to die as martyrs'. Prior to the standoff, the suspects hijacked a Peugeot 206 from a woman in Ermenonville Forest, close to the village of Montagny-Sainte-Felicite, agyer abandoning their Renualt Clio. A teacher named Charlene Blondelle was driving to work in the morning when she saw two men with guns stop the vehicle in front of her. It was only when she got to work at the village school that she realised the two heavily-armed men were the Kouachi brothers. Jean Paul Douet, the mayor of the village, said Charlene saw the two men force the woman out of the car and sit in the back seat. It is thought that she was later let out of the car as the men continued their journey to Dammartin-en-Goele. Both women are with police officers in Nanteuil-le-Haudouin. It is not thought that the woman sustained any injuries. Mr Douet told MailOnline: 'The car was taken at around 8.10am. The village teacher arrived at her school to see a car being hijacked in front of her. 'She saw their weapons, and in particular their rocket-propelled grenade launcher.' French media reported the brothers were in a car when they came upon her and abandoned that to use hers instead. She recognised them as the wanted men, a police source said. A spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior said there was an exchange of gunfire with police who were manning a roadblock on the N2 motorway as the brother sped towards Paris. He told France Info radio that no-one was injured in the clash. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0802506025.jpg Holed up: The gunmen escaped on foot into a small printing business (above) called Creating Trend Discovery, just before 9am GMT http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0805718138.jpg Terror in the midst: Dammartin-en-Goele is in lockdown, with children in its three schools being kept inside for their own protection Dozens of police then pursued the brothers along the National 2 highway, ending in Dammartin-en-Goele, close to the area where the huge manhunt had been focused on a forest overnight. They escaped on foot with a hostage into a small printing business named Creating Trend Discovery, just before 10am (9am GMT). Residents were warned on the town's official website to stay indoors and pupils were being kept inside school. Natoly Ratsimbazasy, a hairdresser in Dammartan-en-Goele, said the town - of 6,000 inhabitants - was deserted. He told MailOnline: 'It is very quiet in the centre. We have all been told to stay indoors and away from the windows. They have sealed off the area. We are all very scared, especially for the children. We don't know how this is all going to end.' A restaurateur in the town said: 'It is insane what is happening, I can't believe it.' Universities and schools in the surroundings of the hostage crisis are shut for the day. Student Nishanth Selvakumer, 20, said: 'Every one is so shocked. There is not much work in Dammartain so most people work on the industrial estate. 'In the village, they have been told to stay in their homes and stay away from the windows. The schools are all shut and the universities too.' Rayane Bouallayuer, 18, said his 11-year-old sister and his father were barricaded into the school. 'My sister went to school at 8am but at 9am we saw on TV that the suspects came here so my father went to get her. Now they cannot leave.' 'The teachers have spoken to the kids and explained to them what happened in Paris. Yesterday they had a minutes silence at school but I think today they are very scared. Some of them were crying. 'My family is Muslim but these men are not real Muslims. They are not like me. They do not represent us. Now it is going to get much worse for us real Muslims in France. ' http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0803873787.jpg Stake out: Snipers train their weapons on the building as negotiations were underway with the Islamic fanatics http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0814916386.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0795728281.jpg A helicopter searching for Charlie Hebdo suspects hovers above Dammartin-en-Goele as the net closed in on the killers http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0814639376.jpg Universities and schools near the hostage scene have been shut as police set up a ring of steel around Dammartin-en-Goele http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0803942866.jpg Police vans are seen chasing the Charlie Hebdo killers amid fears they have taken hostages on a 'martyrdom mission' towards Paris Carole Morais, who works in the town hall, said: 'We're locked in and following events on the internet'. The hunt also affected flights at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, which closed two runways to arrivals to avoid interfering in the standoff or endangering planes. The dramatic development came after thousands of police and soldiers had focused their hunt for the gunmen in a nearby forest amid fears they were planning a final 'spectacular' before capture. The search for the gunmen last night focused on a cave in a vast forest in northern France, but had turned up nothing. The pair left behind their identity cards in the Citroen they used for the massacre – a move which appeared deliberate, intelligence specialists said. There was also no sign of the AK-47s and rocket launchers which they had earlier been seen with, suggesting they had taken them into the forest. Police now fear they could take hostages or are planning a final 'spectacular' before capture as the search enters its third day. Meanwhile, shots rang out close to the Porte de Vincennes in Paris as another hostage crisis unfolded. 'There is a hostage situation - shots have been fired,' said a Paris police spokesman, who said up to five people were originally being held in Vincennes and there were 'believed to be two fatalities'. French police have now named the suspected hostage taker as Amedy Coulibaly, 33, while his girlfriend, Hayat Boumeddiene, 26, is also believed to be involved. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0810445070.jpg Footage from a local broadcaster shows a team of heavily armed police officers swarming into the area, where a gunman linked to the Charlie Hebdo killers was holding up to five hostages in a Kosher store in eastern Paris http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0811442100.jpg Armed police face off against the gunman, suspected to the person responsible for shooting policewoman Clarissa Jean-Philippe yesterda Quote:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0811399548.jpg Pictured: Police officer Clarissa Jean-Philippe was gunned down as she attended a routine traffic accident in Montrouge at 8am yesterday Coulibay is believed to be the one responsible for shooting a policewoman dead in south Paris on Thursday. The revelation has led police to link it to the murder of 12 people around the offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine on Wednesday. Clarissa Jean-Philippe, 27, was unarmed and directing traffic in Montrouge, in south Paris, when she was gunned down by Coulibay, who was still wearing body armour and using an automatic assault rifle. The murderer has been identified by police who said he belonged to the Buttes Chaumont network, which sent Jihadi fighters to Iraq. 'He was in the same Buttes Chaumount cell as the Kouachi brothers,' said a source close to the investigation. 'He was friends of both of them.' Two of Coulibay relatives were arrested in nearby Grigny during a police raid this morning. Like the Kouachis, he is known to have been radicalised by an Islamic preacher in Paris, before expressing a wish to fight in Iraq or Syria. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0812873991.jpg Police officers stop two people on a scooter at gunpoint as they arrive near the scene of the hostage taking http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0814706847.jpg The pair are aggressively wrestled to the ground by police officers tasked with preventing anyone coming and going from the scene http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0813950560.jpg Police cordons (pictured) have been established to surround the kosher bakery, where it's thought a woman and children are held captive http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0737354369.jpg Unfolding terror: A graphic showing the developments since the shootings at the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris on Wednesday morning Quote:
It came as Prime Minister Manuel Valls admitted the Kouachi brothers were on the radar of the intelligence services and 'were likely' to have been under surveillance before the atrocity. Yesterday, the brothers abandoned their car near the village of Abbaye de Longpont shortly after robbing a petrol station yesterday. Anti-terror officers found a jihadi flag and a Molotov ****tail in the Renault Clio the gunmen hijacked to escape the French capital – and two men fitting their descriptions were seen running into the Foret de Retz, which covers an area larger than Paris. A petrol station attendant in Villers-Cotterets told police he had seen Kalashnikovs (AK-47s) and rocket launchers in the vehicle which had sped away after the men had stolen food and water. There are fewer than 300 residents in Longpont and armed officers were carrying out house-to-house searches as helicopters with thermal imagery equipment capable of identifying human bodies among the trees were called in. Last night, interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said a total of nine people were now in custody and more than 90 witnesses had been interviewed. When and why that surveillance was dropped were two of the many questions being asked yesterday as a senior American counter-terrorism official confirmed that the brothers were on the US no-fly list. But officials were tight-lipped about what else they know about them, including whether they fought in the Middle East with extremist groups. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0815970850.jpg Grief-stricken: Jeannette Bougrab, the partner of 'Charb' – Stephane Charbonnier, the editor of Charlie Hebdo – joins a rally outisde the Paris City Hall. In an emotional interview, she said she always knew he would be assassinated CNN reported that the US 'was given information from the French intelligence agency that Said Kouachi traveled to Yemen as late as 2011 on behalf of the Al Qaeda affiliate there'. The network said Said received a variety of weapons training from Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), including on how to fire weapons. It added: 'It is also possible Said was trained in bomb making.' In 2008, Cherif Kouachi was sentenced to three years in jail for his association with an underground organisation. 'While in jail, he came under the influence of the one-time British-based terrorist Djemal Beghal, who was sentenced to ten years in prison by the French courts for terrorist offenders. But despite the security services knowing the men were radicalised and suspected of having been trained in military tactics in east Yemen by Al Qaeda, they were not under surveillance on Wednesday. Last night there had already been several revenge attacks, with shots fired at a Muslim prayer room in the southern town of Port-la-Nouvelle. A Muslim family was shot at in their car in Caromb, in southern Vaucluse, while 'Death to Arabs' was daubed on a mosque in Poitiers, central France. Quote:
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re: VIDEOs/PhOtOs-Paris>Woman Terrorist Got into Syria via Turkey on 8 Jan
Daily Mail UK, 10 January 2015 http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...49_964x412.jpg The first pictures of two of the four hostages killed in yesterday's kosher supermarket siege in Paris have emerged. Yohan Cohen, 22, Yoav Hattab, 21, Philippe Braham, in his forties, and François-Michel Saada, believed to be in his sixties, were the four hostages killed in the attack, French Jewish organisation Crif confirmed. Pictures of Mr Hattab (inset left), a Tunisian, and Mr Cohen (left) can be revealed, 24 hours after the siege came to a climax as armed police raided the Jewish grocery. Meanwhile it was revealed that a heroic customer at the kosher supermarket in Paris snatched one of the terrorist's guns and turned it on the hostage taker - only to find it was jammed, leaving the extremist to execute him in cold blood, according to a survivor who fled the shoot-out as armed police officers and soldiers raided the store. Mickael B, as he wishes to be known, was held in the store with his three-year-old son when the fellow hostage suddenly grabbed the weapon which had been left on the counter. But, after discovering the gun had been left there because it was malfunctioning, terrorist Amedy Coulibaly shot and killed the hostage. Meanwhile footage has emerged of the moment French commandos launched flash grenades into the grocery store before hostage taker Amedy Coulibaly was gunned down last night. Scroll Down for Videos http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0904821847.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0904821850.jpg The first pictures of two of the hostages - Yohan Cohen (left), 22, Yoav Hattab (right), 21 - killed in yesterday's supermarket siege in Paris have emerged http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0909235478.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0909235481.jpg The family of Mr Cohen (both pictures) were said to be 'devastated' tonight as he was confirmed as one of the four hostages murdered http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0846142022.jpg This is the moment a man sprinted towards armed police as an officer aimed a hand gun at him amid a blaze of gunfire at the kosher supermarket http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0846144399.jpg Commandos launched flash grenades into the grocery and fired into the store before hostage taker Amedy Coulibaly was gunned down Giving a terrifying account, Mickael said: ‘I was heading for the check-out with the goods in my hand when I heard a bang – very loud. I thought it was a firecracker at first. But turning I saw a black man armed with two Kalashnikov rifles and I knew what was happening.’ ‘I grabbed my son by the collar and fled to the back of the store. There, with other customers, we ran down a spiral staircase into the basement. We all piled into one of two cold rooms – our door wouldn’t close. We were terrified. ‘Five minutes later a store employee was sent down by the killer. She said he said we were to go back up otherwise there’d be carnage. I refused to go up. ‘By now my son, understanding nothing, was panicking. Then minutes later the employee comes back down with the same message. This time I decided to follow her up the spiral staircase. ‘At the top a man was dying in a pool of his own blood. The terrorist introduced himself to us. He was strangely calm. "I am Amedi Coulibaly, Malian and Muslim. I belong to the Islamic State," he told us.' ‘Then he told us to put our phones on the ground. He walked around the store, armed, totally justifying himself, speaking of Palestine, French prisons, his brothers in Syria and many other things. ‘Suddenly one of the customers tried to grab one of his guns which he’d left on the counter. It wasn’t working. The terrorist had put it there because it had blocked after the first shots,' Mickael told Le Point. ‘He turned and shot at the customer who died on the spot.' http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0846439647.jpg Moments after police had stormed the grocery, terrified captives ran from the supermarket flanked by French commandos http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0854364672.jpg Images have emerged of Amedy Coulibaly's bloodied body lying on a pavement surroudnded by forenzic officers after the siege had come to a dramatic end http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0900637362.jpg A couple embrace beside a sea of flowers near the Hyper Cacher supermarket in Porte de Vincennes in eastern Paris http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0901025622.jpg More than 10 bullet holes are clearly visible in the window of the HyperCacher supermarket in Porte de Vincennes in eastern Paris http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0901264206.jpg Emotional scenes outside the kosher HyperCacher in eastern Paris, as people arrive to lay floral tributes to the dead http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0886322150.jpg Tributes: Flowers were this morning left tied to police fences erected outside the kosher supermarket in eastern Paris Mickael added: 'He then demanded that I call the media, which I did. From then on the phone in the store never stopped ringing. It was mainly journalists. I told them now was not the time. My son started to cry he wanted to go home. He said the terrorist was a bad man. ‘I managed to get my phone out discreetly and got in touch with the police outside while the terrorist was roaming the aisles. ‘A policeman told me that we should be ready to throw ourselves flat on the ground when the assault came, which would be soon. ‘It was obvious that the terrorist was preparing to die. He said it was his reward. He had a weapon in each hand and boxes of cartridges nearby. He suddenly began to pray. ‘My mobile was still on. The police had heard it all. Minutes later the shop grille was lifted. We knew it was the start of the assault. ‘We flung ourselves to the ground. The noise was deafening. He was dead. It was over.’ Sarcelles, the Parisian suburb Mr Cohen lived in, was in mourning this evening, with the town's deputy mayor Francois Pupponi saying his family were 'devastated'. Mr Pupponi added: ‘He was a nice boy – I knew him and his friends by sight. This tragedy affects all of the city and the Jewish community.’ The family are expected to receive the 22-year-old's body tomorrow or Monday. Meanwhile dramatic footage has emerged of the moment police stormed in to the Paris kosher supermarket last night before terrorist Amedy Coulibaly was shot dead. Commandos launched flash grenades into the grocery and fired into the shop before a man believed to be the hostage taker was gunned down. Moments later, terrified captives could be seen running to safety. It comes as it was revealed that the Isis fanatic had slaughtered four hostages before officers launched the raid. Last night, chilling images emerged of bodies lying on the floor of the bullet-ridden shop after several shoppers were taken hostage inside the grocery store - including women and children. Further images emerged of Coulibaly's bloodied body lying on a pavement after the siege had come to a dramatic end. It has also been revealed there were 500 calls made between the phone belonging to Coulibaly's wife Hayat Boumeddiene and a phone belonging to one of the wives of the Kouachi brothers. Boumeddiene, France's most wanted woman, is now in Syria after crossing the Turkish border earlier this month. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0886305323.jpg A distraught woman takes a moment to lay a bouquet of flowers outside the supermarket in Porte de Vincennes, less than 24 hours after commandos raided it to rescue hostages http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...19_636x358.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0836030458.jpg A victim of the siege in eastern Paris on Thursday is seen lying on the floor near the entrance to the supermarket after four hostages were killed http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0900490645.jpg Forensic officers begin their investigation at the scene of the assault at the CDT printing office in Dammartin-en-Golle A young Malian Muslim who was working in the supermarket when it was raided has hailed as a 'hero' after it was revealed that he led Jewish customers away from the terrorist to safety in the kosher store. Lassana Bathily, 24, helped up to 15 people to take shelter in the store's walk in freezer. ‘I opened the door and told a number of people to get in there. I turned off the light, turned off the freezer and closed the door,’ he said. ‘I told them, stay calm I am going out.’ Using a goods lift he escaped and was able to give the police valuable information about what was happening inside and where the hostages were hiding. Shy and reluctant to tell his story he admitted that after the shoot-out many of the customers came to shake his hand and thank him for what he did. Today his picture – labelled Malian Muslim – has been tweeted around the world as a symbol of the good of people united against terrorism. Questions were asked today of how the Charlie Hebdo shooters had been able to carry out the attacks. Both the Kouachi brothers are understood to have been on British and American terror watch lists. French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said: 'There was a failing, of course. That's why we have to analyse what happened. 'They wanted to attack tolerance, the Jews of France once again. Four died yesterday and without the professionalism of forces that figure would have been much higher. 'We must never lower our guard. I am telling you this with a great deal of strength. We must carry on. We are doing our best, our utmost in order to fight against terrorism but there is always ways for terrorism to slip in. 'We have to be really strong, really tough as far as the enemies of freedom are concerned.' Referring to a unity rally being held tomorrow, he said: 'It will be a rally which will be unbelievable and remain in the annals of history. It will shout and express its love and freedom and tolerance. Tomorrow's rally will be a cry for freedom.' Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said authorities are 'determined' to 'take the necessary measures to be able to protect the country'. He said agencies are working to 'obtain intelligence from the investigations with regard to those who were the origin of these criminal acts'. Mr Cazeneuve said: 'That's the case for terrorist acts but also for all the risks that the country is being confronted with, as for other countries in the European Union.' http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0896145121.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0896137255.jpg President Francois Hollande (pictured with French Justice Minister Christiane Taubira) met with fellow politicians at the Elysee Palace, including Nation Front leader Marine Le Pen http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0840281179.jpg Police officers look for clues while a body, partially seen to the right, lies inside the kosher market after the siege came to an end yesterday http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0840314802.jpg Forensics are examining the interior of the supermarket amid reports four captives were killed in the stand-off between police and the gunman http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0812813791.jpg French police named the hostage taker as Amedy Coulibaly (right). Police also named Hayat Boumeddiene (left) as helping him. However, it is no longer clear whether she was involved http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0836221007.jpg An armed police officer with a dog stands guard close to the entrance where a man's body lies on the floor after a raid on the kosher shop http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0829115938.jpg A woman runs from the Paris kosher grocery store in tears as she is led away by French police after officers stormed the building yesterday http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0828871802.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0828868772.jpg A man clutches a small boy close as they flee the Hyper Cacher store where they were held hostage yesterday (left) as a woman runs from the building in tears (right) Amedy Coulibaly, who was killed in the raid, threatened to kill his hostages if police attempted to storm the Charlie Hebdo terrorists who, at the time, were engaged in a similar standoff with police. In the hours after the dramatic raid on the store, an Israeli government official said 15 hostages were rescued while French president Francois Hollande confirmed that four people were killed. Coulibaly was also responsible for the fatal shooting of a policewoman on Thursday. It has now been suggested this attack may have been an aborted attempt to attack a Jewish school. Prosecutor Francois Molins also said that several people have been handed preliminary charges in the investigation following the three-day rampage that has terrified France. They include family members of the three suspects, who were killed by police Friday. He added that one of the two gunmen in the other standoff Friday was wounded in the throat in a shootout with police before being killed later in the day. One woman who visited the Kosher shop described its manager Michel Emsalem as a 'kind' and 'patient' man. Latifa Benjamaa, 37, said: 'He is kind, nice and polite. He is not someone who cares about religion. I often went to shop there and I'm a Muslim,' she said. While it remained unclear whether the manager was involved in the incident, she added: 'This has nothing to do with religion. You are not allowed to kill in my religion. These men had an objective. These people are not doing this for Allah.' Mrs Benjamaa said she feared people would begin rioting in the street. She said: 'Now they are going to be repercussions. There will be war on the streets. Everyone is going to fear everyone. Before, things were fine.' http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0829124397.jpg Police crowd one of the entrances to the supermarket before a burst of flames explodes, while officers hold up their riot shields as protection http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0830171656.jpg Running for the lives, the hostages holed up in the grocery store for most of yesterday included young families, women and children http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0830035911.jpg A mother can only express her relief as she clutches her young son as a partner puts up his thumb to signal that the young family are okay http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0829965139.jpg One of the injured hostages is carried from the supermarket on a stretcher as medics quickly attempt to treat them for their injuries http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0830114076.jpg Paramedics are on the scene to treat injured hostages following the raid where it is believed at least four hostages have been killed http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0830362791.jpg Police officers protect themselves with riot shields as a fiery blast explodes at the entrance to the supermarket in Porte de Vincennes http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0830900402.jpg It is reported that at least one of the police officers was injured in the blast and six explosions were heard at the Jewish supermarket yesterday http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0830509170.jpg Armed police swarm the entrances and exits to the Hyper Cache in eastern Paris after several shoppers were held hostage for several hours http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0831010850.jpg Officers stormed the supermarket minutes after two brothers responsible for the Charlie Hebdo magazine massacre were killed at a second siege on the outskirts of Paris http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0823221764.jpg A man carrying a small child is seen fleeing from the ordeal moments after police stormed the kosher grocery store in eastern Paris http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0826230974.jpg The hostages, pictured as they escape the building, were just two of many who were seen to have survived the ordeal http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0824024782.jpg The man is pictured in another shot carrying the small child in his arms, while the kosher grocery behind him remains illuminated http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0821659368.jpg Members of the French special forces escort a number of hostages from inside the store moments after a series of explosions were heard http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0823937571.jpg Hostages are pictured piling out of the building after terrorist Coulibaly was left dead in the dramatic confrontation http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...15_636x358.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0824751168.jpg Pictured is a person being taken away from the scene on a stretcher after four hostages were killed in the incident http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0823672348.jpg The streets surrounding the siege are filled with ambulances and police cars in the minutes following the dramatic raid http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0824929894.jpg Flash bangs and explosions explode inside the building, which is pictured moments before police (bottom right) charged inside Earlier yesterday, as news of the hostage situation broke, police ordered all shops in Paris' famed Jewish district to be immediately closed. The mayor's office in Paris announced the closures of shops along the Rosiers street in Paris' Marais neighbourhood, in the heart of the tourist district and about a kilometre away from the offices of newspaper Charlie Hebdo where 12 people were killed on Wednesday. A 20-year-old student was among the hostages taken at the kosher shop in Paris. The young woman, whose name remains unknown, called her uncle who works nearby from the basement of the building where she was being held. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0855223901.jpg Earlier reports that there was a serious incident developing near the Trocadero in central Paris were incorrect - it remains open and running after what was a false alarm. The siege at the grocery store occurred after the Charlie Hebdo killers in Dammartin-en-Goele found themselves holed up with a hostage at a business premises further north - and were believed to have made contact with an associate. Police immediately scrambled phone signals in the area – but not before the killers were able to make their call. It was feared that Said Kouachi and his brother Cherif contacted Amedy Coulibaly – and possibly ordered him to take hostages in a bid to force police to allow them to escape. Strong links between the Kouachi brothers and Coulibaly continue to emerge - including the phone calls between one of the Kouachi's wife and Coulibaly's wife Hayat Boumeddiene, revealed by Mr Molins on Friday. Police were today interrogating the wives of the Kouachi brothers in a bid to track down Hayat Boumeddiene - who is now France's most wanted woman. Boumeddiene, described as armed and dangerous, has been on the run since the slaying of rookie policewoman, Clarissa Jean-Phillipe, by Coulibaly. Hundreds of phone calls between Boumeddiene and Izzana Hamyd, wife of Cherif Kouachi, have shown up on mobile records. Five hundred in all were made last year. Also being held is the wife or girlfriend of the older Kouachi brother, Said. French Algerian Boumeddiene is now not thought to have been with Coulibaly at any time in the Kosher Supermarket and to have fled immediately after the killing. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0886180948.jpg Radicalised: Hayat Boumeddiene (left) pictured with her husband Amedy Coulibaly (right) who is one of the three terrorists who brought France to a halt in 48 hours of bloodshed http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0816457174.jpg A building is evacuated by members of the French special forces teams after at least six people were taken hostage by the gunman http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0813321576.jpg A police officer is dressed in body armour as the hostage-taker was believed to be armed with assault rifles http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0813613043.jpg A police officer takes aim upwards as he mans his position at the siege in eastern Paris http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0819243767.jpg Police officers take aim as they huddle behind a car after there were reports the gunman was armed with heavy weapons http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0819283064.jpg Police forces were stretched as they dealt with two hostage situations across Paris simultaneously http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0819378386.jpg Rows of police vans sit parked at the side of the road while a solitary officer stands guard at the outskirts of the cordon http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...66_636x358.jpg Cherif and Coulibaly were both part of the Buttes Chaumont gang - a group of extremists who came together in the early 2000s - and were both implicated in a plot to free jailed Islamist Smaïn Aït Ali Belkacem in 2010. As the two sieges by suspected Islamic terrorists yesterday played out at the same time, fears grew that the jihadis were looking to cause another bloodbath. Clarissa Jean-Philippe, 27, was unarmed and directing traffic in Montrouge, in south Paris, when she was gunned down by Coulibay on Thursday. Quote:
French police wearing body armour and carrying rifles stand guard at the cordoned off scene http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0812813827.jpg Reports first claimed Coulibaly took at least six people hostage in the kosher grocery store but it was nearer to 20 by the time police stormed it http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0815045868.jpg A hooded police officer armed with an assault rifle crosses a section of the ring road that circles Paris, near the hostage situation http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0814891470.jpg A police officer instructs residents of the Paris suburb after the area ground to a standstill when shooting broke out http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0817101854.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0817110145.jpg A special forces team member lead residents out of the area (left) while two others patrol the cordon (right) http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0857297429.jpg Solidarity: Lights project 'Paris est Charlie' (Paris is Charlie) on to the Arc de Triomphe in a sign a defiance against the terrorists Two of Coulibaly's relatives were arrested in nearby Grigny during a police raid this morning. Like the Kouachi brothers, he is known to have been radicalised by an Islamic preacher in Paris, before expressing a wish to fight in Iraq or Syria. Both Said Kouachi, 34, and his brother, Cherif Kouachi, 33, were first arrested in 2005. They were suspected members of the Buttes Chaumont – a group operating out of the 19th arrondissement of Paris and sending terrorist fighters to Iraq. Cherif was convicted in 2008 to three years in prison, with 18 months suspended, for his association with the underground organisation. He had wanted to fly to Iraq via Syria, and was found with a manual for a Kalashnikov – the automatic weapon used in Wednesday’s attack. Quote:
Dozens of police officers (pictured) surrounded the kosher bakery, where a gunman took many people hostage in a raid that ended in the deaths of four innocent people http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0813950560.jpg Police cordons (pictured) were established to surround the kosher bakery, where women and children were among those held captive http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0815487843.jpg Officers mobilise in the Port de Vincennes area after what is France's second hostage situation to break out in the same day http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0815485207.jpg A large shield and a pole used for breaking down doors are wheeled to the scene Said was freed after questioning by police, but – like his brother – was known to have been radicalised after the Iraq War of 2003, when Anglo-American forces deposed Saddam Hussein. Both brothers were said to be infuriated by the killing of Muslims by western soldiers and war planes. Vincent Olliviers, Cherif’s lawyer at the time, described him as initially being an ‘apprentice loser - a delivery boy in a cap who smoked hashish and delivered pizzas to buy his drugs. But Mr Ollivier said the ‘clueless kid who did not know what to do with his life met people who gave him the feeling of being important.’ After his short prison sentence, Cherif was in 2010 linked with a plot to free Smain Ait Ali Belkacem, the mastermind of the1995 bombing of the St Michel metro station in Paris that killed eight people and wounded more than 100 more. Belkacem was a leading members of the GIA, or Armed Islamic Army – an Algerian terror outfit responsible for numerous atrocities. The Kouachi brothers, who are orphans, were radicalised by an Iman operating in northern Paris. Quote:
They lived in the 19th arrondissement and were radicalised by Farid Benyettou, a janitor-turned-preacher who gave sermons calling for jihad in Iraq and suicide bombings. His Buttes-Chaumont recruitment group, named after a Paris park, sent at least a dozen young men to fight in Iraq. The Kouachis share similar backgrounds to Mohammed Merah, the 23-year-old French Algerian responsible for murdering seven people, including four Jews and three Muslim soldiers, in the Toulouse area in 2012. Merah, who was himself shot dead by police, had also been left to operate as a terrorist in France, despite the authorities knowing he had trained with Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. Last year Mehdi Nemmouche, a 29-year-old French Algerian, was arrested in Marseille in connection with an attack on the Jewish Museum in Brussels which left four people dead. He denies any crimes, and is currently on remand in Belgium. |
re: VIDEOs/PhOtOs-Paris>Woman Terrorist Got into Syria via Turkey on 8 Jan
BREAKING NEWS: France's Most Wanted Woman is in SYRIA
-After 'Crossing the Border to Spain and Flying from Madrid to Istanbul'
Hayat Boumeddiene, 26, is partner of Amedy Coulibaly, who killed a policewoman and then four hostages at a kosher bakery. A police source said she flew to Turkey via Madrid on January 2, despite alleged sightings of her in Paris on Thursday. Authorities in Istanbul then reported seeing a woman matching her description cross the Turkey- Syria border on Thursday, the day her husband killed policewoman Clarissa Jean-Phillipe. Sources say she had a return ticket from Istanbul to Madrid for yesterday but failed to show for the flight. Police were today interrogating the wives of the Kouachi brothers responsible for the Charlie Hebdo massacre in a bid to track down Boumeddiene. Hundreds of phone calls between Boumeddiene and Izzana Hamyd, wife of Cherif Kouachi, have shown up on mobile records. Five hundred in all were made last year. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0842346944.jpg 'Armed and dangerous': It is becoming clear that the one-time cashier was radicalised after meeting the man she would marry The wife or girlfriend of the older Kouachi brother, Said, is also being held. French Algerian Boumeddiene is now not thought to have been with Coulibaly at any time in the Kosher Supermarket and to have fled immediately after the killing. Photographs of the 'wife' of the Kosher supermarket hostage killer reveal how she was radicalised by the man she would go on to marry. Her husband Amedy Coulibaly is dead, one of the three terrorists who brought France to a halt in 48 hours of bloodshed. Now, 26-year-old Boumeddiene is on the run and is believed to be 'armed and dangerous'. Coulibaly died in a hail of bullets along with four hostages in the storming of the Jewish supermarket. The couple 'married' in a religious ceremony after Boumedienne, who was never seen without her veil, waited four years for him to come out of jail following his conviction for armed robbery. The couple were never married in a civil ceremony – the only form of marriage legally accepted in France. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0842801302.jpg Jihadi couple: Boumeddiene (right) walked away from a low-paid job as a cashier in 2009 and started wearing a veil. She ‘devoted herself’ to Coulibaly (left) http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0842353189.jpg 'Cool, composed and armed': Boumeddiene never wavered under police cross examination. When told they knew she and Coulibaly had visited Beghal at the same time as Cherif Kouachi and two other convicted terrorists, she replied: 'We went there for crossbow practice' http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0823042068.jpg Stunned: A 27-year-old Coulibaly (pictured) once 'gushed' with excitement when he was hand-picked to meet former French president, Nicolas Sarkozy While Coulibaly had a well documented track record, details of Boumeddiene's troubled childhood are only now emerging. Like her husband she was born into a large family, seven children, in 1988 but when she was just six years old, her mother died. The eldest children left home, according to reports in Le Parisien, and social workers took over. It is suggested that Boumeddiene may have been put into care. Estranged from her father, she met him briefly once more and introduced him to Coulibaly. But all may not have been as settled as the young woman, radicalised by her husband, thought. It is understood he had made it clear he wanted to take a second wife, according to other reports. Today, questioned by police at his home in Nanterre, a Paris suburb, Boumeddiene’s father is said to be shocked and unable to believe that his daughter was involved with the terrorist cell. But it is becoming clear that the one-time cashier was radicalised after meeting the man she would marry. She is from an Algerian background and altered her surname to ‘make it sound more French', according to an investigating source. She told police who interviewed her as part of their inquiries into Coulibaly’s murky dealings with Islamic extremists that she had walked away from a low-paid job as a cashier in the Juvisy suburb of Paris in 2009 and taken the veil. She ‘devoted herself’ to Coulibaly. Interrogated by police in 2010, Boumeddiene said she was inspired by her husband and the radicals she lived with to ‘read a lot of books on religion and because of this, I came to ask questions on religion’. ‘When I saw the massacre of the innocents in Palestine, in Iraq, in Chetchna, in Afghanistan or anywhere the Americans sent their bombers, all that… well, who are the terrorists?' She added that when Americans killed innocents, it was the right of men to defend their women and children. Always cool and composed, Boumeddiene never wavered under police cross examination. When told that they knew she and Coulibaly had visited Beghal at the same time as Cherif Kouachi and two other convicted terrorists, jihadi recruiter Ahmed Laidouni, and Farid Melouk of GIA, she replied: 'We went there for crossbow practice.’ The couple lived in nearby Bagneux, where they were known as a devoutly religious couple, despite Coulibaly’s regular run-ins with the law. To neighbours the pair were quiet, respectful and normal and had even gone on a holiday to Malaysia together. But a month ago they simply disappeared from their suburban house until flashed across the world’s screens today. Coulibaly murdered at least four hostages at the Kosher supermarket in Paris, according to Reuters news agency. He is believed to be part of an Al Qaeda terror cell linked to a British-based jihadi extremist, Djamel Beghal. The 50-year-old preacher, who recruited terrorists while worshipping at London's Finsbury Park mosque, met Cherif Kouachi while in prison in Paris. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0832353620.jpg Wanted: Police issued this picture describing the couple as suspects in the shooting dead of a female police officer at Montrouge |
re: VIDEOs/PhOtOs-Paris>Woman Terrorist Got into Syria via Turkey on 8 Jan
I'm afraid that this is only the beginning of what's to come......
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re: VIDEOs/PhOtOs-Paris>Woman Terrorist Got into Syria via Turkey on 8 Jan
Turkey Confirms Woman Terrorist -Wanted Over Paris Attack- Crossed into Syria Through Turkey on 8 January
The suspected female accomplice of Islamist militants behind attacks in Paris was in Turkey five days before the killings , and crossed into Syria on Jan. 8, Turkish officials said on Monday. France launched a search for 26-year-old Hayat Boumeddiene after police killed her partner Amedy Coulibaly while storming a Jewish supermarket where he had taken hostages. Authorities described her as armed and dangerous. Turkey had received no request from Paris to deny her access. By AFP, 12 January 2015 Turkey on Monday confirmed that Hayat Boumeddiene, the wanted partner of one of the gunmen behind the terror attacks in France, travelled through Turkey last week on her way to Syria. "She entered Turkey on January 2 from Madrid. There are images of her at the airport," Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was quoted as saying by state-run news agency Anatolia. Cavusoglu said the 26-year-old, who married gunman Amedy Coulibaly in an Islamic ceremony, stayed at a hotel in Kadikoy on the Asian side of Istanbul and was accompanied by another person. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...03_634x549.jpg Photo released on January 9, 2015 by the French police shows Hayat Boumeddiene, the partner of the Islamist gunmen Amedy Coulibaly who attacked a Jewish supermarket in Paris She then crossed into Syria on January 8, according to her phone records, Cavusoglu said, without making clear if she travelled to Syria on her own. A Turkish security source on Saturday had also told AFP that Boumeddiene had entered Turkey on January 2 and was believed to have moved on to the southeastern Turkish city of Sanliurfa and then to Syria. But Turkey did not arrest her because of a lack of timely intelligence from France, the source said. Cavusoglu's comments confirm that Boumeddiene was already outside France when the killing spree began, contrary to earlier speculation that she had been involved in the Paris killings in which 17 people died. Boumeddiene is suspected of having had a role in her partner attacks which culminated in a bloody hostage-taking in a kosher supermarket on Friday after he had shot dead a policewoman close to a synagogue the day before. But despite earlier describing her as "armed and dangerous", French police sources said she was likely already in Turkey at the time of the attacks. Western countries have long accused Turkey of not doing enough to stem the flow of jihadists seeking to join Islamic State (IS) group fighters in neighbouring Syria. But Ankara insists it has now stepped up frontier security and has repeatedly said the West also has a responsibility to share intelligence. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...17_634x785.jpg Profiles of the suspects in this week's murders and hostage-takings in and around Paris ©L. Saubadu/A. Bommenel (AFP/File) |
re: VIDEOs>ISIS Prep for Attack in Israel>Practise Decapitating Animals
ISIS Cell Members Caught Beheading Animals as They Practised How to Decapitate People for an Attack in Israel
ISIS cell members who used animals to practice how to behead people ahead of an imminent attack are the first to be discovered operating in Israel. The seven men were caught just before executing an attack and had brutally slaughtered live animals, Israel's Shin Bet intelligence agency said. All seven admitted to belonging to ISIS and were part of a plot to attack Druze Israelis - a branch of Shia Islam - as well as police officers and the security service. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...1660601195.jpg Members of the first ISIS cell in Israel were caught using animals to practice how to behead people ahead of an imminent attack (file picture) The defendants, who are the first ISIS members found in Israel, were arrested in Haifa and charged with joining and aiding the terrorist group, as well as attempting to contact terrorists abroad. It is believed that the men, all from the northern city of Sakhnin, were trying to set up a branch of the terrorist network in Israel. The men were named as Adnan Aladin, 40, a lawyer in Nazareth, Hasam Marisat, 30, Karim Abu-Tzalah, 22, Alaa Abu-Tzalah, 27, Halad Abu Tzahalh, 30, Sarif Khaled Abu-Tzalah, 29, and Muhammad Abu Tazalah, 27. The security service added that the men were planning to flee to Syria to fight for ISIS after carrying out their attack. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...93_634x421.jpg The seven men were caught by Israeli security services in the northern city of Haifa and were charged with joining terrorist network ISIS (file picture) The extremist group currently controls about a third of Iraq and Syria, where it has beheaded scores of captives. Victims include western journalists and aid workers such as Britons David Haines and Alan Henning and Americans James Foley and Steven Sotloff. Thousands of Muslims from Western countries are believed to have flocked to Syria to join ISIS, including an estimated 30 Israelis. Quote:
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re: VIDEOs-ISIS Threatens Japan>Pay $200mil or We Kill Hostages
ISIS Executioner 'Jihadi John' Threatens to Kill Japanese Hostages Unless They Receive $200m in 72-hour Ultimatum After Their Prime Minister Pledged the Same Amount to Countries Fighting ISIS
The Islamic State has released a video threatening to kill two Japanese hostages unless they receive $200 million within 72 hours. It comes two days after Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged $200million in non-military support for countries fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria. The video, identified as being made by the group's al-Furqan media arm and posted on militant websites associated with the extremist group, mirrored other hostage threats it has made. The clip, posted on militant websites associated with the extremist group, featured the British-accented militant widely known as 'Jihadi John' who appeared in the beheading videos of four Western hostages last year. It shows the two Japanese captives in orange jumpsuits that the militants identify as journalist Kenji Goto Jogo and military company operator Haruna Yukawa. Scroll down for video http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...1737817694.jpg Ransom: A video purportedly from ISIS shows Japanese hostages Kenji Goto Jogo and Haruna Yukawa in orange jumpsuits with a British-accented jihadi demanding $200 million in exchange for their lives http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...78_306x423.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...53_306x423.jpg Kenji Goto Jogo (top) is a Japanese journalist who went to report on Syria's civil war last year, while Haruna Yukawa, a private military company operator, is thought to have been captured in Syria in August http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...92_636x358.jpg The militant directly addresses Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, now on a six-day visit to the Middle East with more than 100 government officials and presidents of Japanese companies. Brandishing a knife and dressed all in black, the says: Quote:
Haruma Yukawa, a private military company operator in his early 40s, was kidnapped in Syria, but his reasons for going to the country remain unclear http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...27_634x452.jpg On the frontline: One video on Haruna Yukawa's Facebook page shows him test-firing a Kalashnikov assault rifle with the caption: 'Syria war in Aleppo 2014' http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...44_634x401.jpg Yukawa switches the AK-47 from single-shot to automatic. In his last blog post, Yukawa says: 'I cannot identify the destination. But the next one could be the most dangerous' http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...36_634x353.jpg Footage posted on YouTube in August purportedly shows Yukawa blooded and bruised after being captured by ISIS sympathisers in Syria Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe demanded that the two men be released unharmed. 'I am extremely indignant at such an act,' he told a news conference during a visit to Jerusalem. He insisted the aid would be disbursed as promised. 'This posture will not change at all,' he said, stressing that the money was to help the displaced and those made homeless by the conflict in Iraq and Syria. Asked whether Japan would pay ransom to secure their release, he replied: 'With regard to this case, we attach the utmost priority to saving lives and gathering information with the help of other countries. 'We'll make utmost efforts to save the lives (of the captives) from now on.' Japan's Foreign Ministry's anti-terrorism section has seen the video and analysts are assessing it, a ministry official said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of department rules. Speaking in Tokyo, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga declined to say whether Japan would pay the ransom. 'If true, the act of threat in exchange of people's lives is unforgivable and we feel strong indignation,' Suga told journalists. 'We will make our utmost effort to win their release as soon as possible.' http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...07_634x386.jpg In the line of fire: Footage on Kenji Goto Jogo's last Twitter post in October shows him talking in front of the Syrian city of Kobani (above), which has been under siege from ISIS fighters for months In August, a Japanese citizen believed to be Yukawa, a private military company operator in his early 40s, was kidnapped in Syria after going there to train with militants, according to a post on a blog he kept. Pictures on his Facebook page show him in Iraq and Syria in July. One video on his page showed him test-firing a Kalashnikov assault rifle with the caption: 'Syria war in Aleppo 2014.' 'I cannot identify the destination,' Yukawa wrote in his last blog post. 'But the next one could be the most dangerous.' He added: 'I hope to film my fighting scenes during an upcoming visit.' Yukawa, 43, travelled to Iraq and Syria last year after telling friends and family that he thought it represented a last chance to turn his life around. Over the previous decade, he had lost a business to bankruptcy, lost his wife to cancer and became homeless, according to his father and an online journal. He even considered cutting off his genitals because of his perceived failures, deciding that he would instead 'live as a woman and leave the rest to destiny'. It was these life-changing events that drove him to conflict zones, where he dreamed of providing security to Japanese companies in Syria and Somalia. He was initially captured by the Free Syrian Army in Aleppo before befriending them. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...97_634x355.jpg Revenge: The militant said the Japanese were targeted for supporting Western military efforts against the Islamic State group, which now holds a third of Iraq and Syria under its self-declared caliphate http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...31_634x474.jpg Speaking at a news conference during a visit to Jerusalem, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe demanded that the two men be released unharmed, adding: 'I am extremely indignant at such an act' Footage released in August last year purportedly shows Yukawa bloodied and bruised after being captured by ISIS sympathisers while travelling with the Free Syria Army in northern Aleppo. He was treated as a spy because he was carrying a gun In the video, he is asked: 'You thief? Why you have gun? You kill soldier?' To which, he replies: 'I am no soldier'. After his capture, it was discovered that he owned a firm simply called Private Military Company. The website makes it appear it had offices around the world and boasts that it specialises in 'international private military work, international bodyguard, armed shipping escort, logistical support and conflict zone escorts'. However, it transpired that he was the only employee - and the firm didn't even have an office. Yukawa's father, Shoichi Yukawa, declined to comment, saying he was overwhelmed by the news reports. Goto is a freelance reporter who was based in Tokyo. He met Yukawa last year and helped him travel to Iraq in June. He has written books on AIDS and children in war zones from Afghanistan to Africa and reported for news broadcasters in Japan. 'I'm in Syria for reporting,' he wrote in an email to an Associated Press journalist in October. 'I hope I can convey the atmosphere from where I am and share it.' http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...1737647541.jpg Threats: The same British-accented jihadi that appeared in James Foley's beheading made the threat to Abe Footage on his last Twitter post in October shows him talking in front of the Syrian city of Kobani, which has been under siege from ISIS fighters for several months. The Islamic State group has beheaded and shot dead hundreds of captives - mainly Syrian and Iraqi soldiers - during its sweep across the two countries and has celebrated its mass killings in extremely graphic videos. A British-accented jihadi also has appeared in the beheading videos of slain American hostages James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and with British hostages David Haines and Alan Henning. The group also holds British photojournalist John Cantlie, who has appeared in other extremist propaganda videos, and a 26-year-old American woman captured last year in Syria while working for aid groups. U.S. officials have asked that the woman not be identified out of fears for her safety. The British Foreign Office said it was also investigating the video. A spokeswoman said: 'We are aware of the video and we are studying the content.' Tuesday's video marks the first time the Islamic State group specifically has demanded cash for hostages. Though the militant in the video links it to the Japanese funding efforts to counter the Islamic State group, it comes amid recent losses for the extremists targeted in airstrikes by a U.S.-led coalition. Its militants also recently released some 200 mostly elderly Yazidi hostages in Iraq, fueling speculation by Iraqi officials that the group couldn't support them. This is Abe's second Mideast hostage crisis since becoming prime minister. Two years ago, Al Qaeda-affiliated militants attacked an Algerian natural gas plant and the ensuing four-day hostage crisis killed 29 insurgents and 37 foreigners, including 10 Japanese who were working for a Yokohama-based engineering company, JCG Corp. Seven Japanese survived. ISIS VIDEO WARNING - VERY GRAPHIC VIDEO Haruna Yukawa Prepares to Fire an AK47 in Vilitary video |
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BBC, 22 January 2015
Islamic State Conflict: London, UK, Hosts Coalition Talks Foreign ministers from 21 countries are meeting in London to discuss ways to co-ordinate their efforts to combat the jihadist group Islamic State (IS). IS controls large swathes of Syria and Iraq and the US-led coalition has been carrying out air strikes since August. But UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond insisted much more needed to be done. He told the BBC that the countries wanted to find ways to halt the flow of recruits to IS, cut off its funding and "tackle the underlying narrative". They will also look at providing more military assistance to those fighting IS on the ground, and more humanitarian aid to its victims. BBC diplomatic correspondent James Robbins says the recent attacks by Islamist militants in France have put even greater political pressure on governments to show decisive results. 'Greater Resolve' At the start of Thursday's conference at Lancaster House, which he is co-hosting with Mr Hammond, US Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters: "We still have a lot of work to do." "The purpose of coming here is to bring everybody's best advice, everybody's thoughts about where there may be weaknesses, everybody's thoughts about things we can do better, put that together and lay down the strategy for the days ahead." http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/image..._024846750.jpg Coalition air strikes have targeted IS positions in Syria and in Iraq Quote:
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/image..._025519853.jpg But fighters on the ground, including members of the Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga, say they need more support A senior US state department official said foreign fighters would be the "real focus" of the London conference, and that an expert working group would be formed to discuss sharing information to stop them travelling. The European police agency, Europol, estimates that up to 5,000 EU citizens have travelled to Syria and Iraq to fight. Thousands of others have travelled from Arab and Muslim states. http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/image...22_01_15v2.gif Looking back at the past five months, Mr Hammond said the coalition's strategy had arrested the momentum of Islamic State, whose advance across Iraq began in June when it routed several army divisions and captured the northern city of Mosul. "The engagement of the coalition and the beginning of air strikes against [IS] positions halted that advance and in some cases it has begun to turn it back," he told the BBC. The state department official said IS had "gone from a force that was very much capable militarily to conduct fairly large-scale offensive operations to a force that is now digging in for defensive operations". http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/image...15_line976.jpg http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/image...7_80436069.jpg http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/image...15_line976.jpg IS still controls many cities and major towns in northern and western Iraq. However, Iranian-backed Shia militia have begun advancing northwards from Baghdad, and Kurdish Peshmerga forces in the north-east have retaken the Mosul dam and the town of Sinjar. In Syria, air strikes have failed to dislodge IS from its stronghold of Raqqa or stop the group from expanding its control in neighbouring areas. However, it has been unable to capture the town of Kobane after facing fierce resistance from Kurdish fighters backed by coalition aircraft. Mr Hammond warned that there was "a big job ahead" in Iraq. "We are building the Iraqi security forces from a state of disarray and poor training and poor leadership... for what will need to be a sustained offensive against [IS] forces on the ground." "It will be months yet before they are ready to start significant combat operations." http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/image..._01_15_624.gif Speaking in Iraq before flying to London, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said the international community needed to do more to train and equip ground forces. In Syria, the US and its Western allies are relying on "moderate" rebels to take the fight to IS, and are reluctant to co-operate with President Bashar al-Assad, who they want out of power. The countries taking part in the conference along with the UK and US are Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Iraq, Italy,Jordan, Kuwait, the Netherlands, Norway, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. Quote:
Coalition Needs 2 Years to Expel Islamic State From Iraq, says UK LONDON, Jan 22 (Reuters) - The Anti-IS Coalition could take up to two years to expel Islamic State from Iraq, and Baghdad's own forces will be incapable of proper combat operations for months, Britain's foreign minister warned on Thursday. Speaking before he hosted a meeting of 21 coalition members in London, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said the task of pushing the Islamist militants back would be slow. "This isn't going to be done in three months or six months. It's going to take a year, two years to push ISIL (IS) back out of Iraq but we are doing the things that need to be done in order to turn the tide," Hammond told Sky News. Thursday's meeting, attended by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, will examine ways of intensifying the campaign against IS in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere by doing more militarily, more to cut off the group's finances and more to stem the flow of foreign fighters. Kerry said before the meeting it was a vital opportunity to adjust the coalition's strategy. "The purpose of coming here is to bring everybody's best advice, everybody's thoughts about where there may be weaknesses, everybody's thoughts about things we can do better, put that together, improve our own performance and operations, and lay down the strategy for the days ahead," he said. Iraq's Abadi, who will tell delegates how his government's fight against IS is progressing, met British Prime Minister David Cameron beforehand and asked for more military training and ammunition. KURDS CLAIM VICTORIES Britain has taken part in air strikes against IS forces, trained Iraqi troops, and provided some equipment already. Cameron told Abadi that Britain was ready to help, but stopped short of making any new commitments. "The threat from extremist terror you face in Iraq is also a threat we face here in the United Kingdom," he said. "We will do everything we can to help stop foreign fighters coming to your country and creating the mayhem we see today." The meeting is taking place a day after Kurdish forces in northern Iraq said they had cleared IS insurgents from nearly 500 sq km of territory and broken a key IS supply line between the city of Mosul and strongholds to the west. Hammond said Thursday's meeting would take stock of coalition progress in the last five months and hear an update from U.S. General John Allen. He praised Iraqi forces, saying the coalition was helping rebuild them so they could launch a sustained ground offensive against IS. But he warned it was a long process. "It will be months yet before they are ready to start significant combat operations," Hammond told BBC Radio. |
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Japan Attempts to Verify Video Claiming ISIS Have Beheaded one Japanese Prisoner and Demanding Release of Female Suicide Bomber in Exchange for Life of the Second
Daily Mail UK, 24 January 2015 http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...40_964x406.jpg The Japanese government has branded a new audio recording purporting to be from one of the hostages pictured with Jihadi John 'outrageous and disgusting', but cannot confirm if it is genuine. In the recording, a voice claiming to be that of Kenji Goto,(center), 47, one of the Japanese men who appeared in the latest Jihadi John video, says his fellow captive Haruna Yukawa (left) has been killed. He blames the death on Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and says he will be killed as well if ISIS's new demand to release a failed female suicide bomber Sajida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi, (right) is not met. Quote:
The Japanese government has condemned the message, but say they cannot verify its authenticity after allegations that the Jihadi John video was also stitched together from several recordings. Japanese chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga said cabinet ministers were holding an emergency meeting about the new message. In a televised statement he added: 'We strongly demand the prompt release of the remaining captive Mr. Kenji Goto, without harm.' Prime Minister Shinzo Abe added 'I have a strong sense of anger,' before reiterating that Japan 'will not give in to terrorism.' The post comes four days after ISIS released a video demanding the Japanese government pay $200million within 72 hours for the hostages' release. The new recording claims the terrorists no longer want the money. The audio recording is accompanied by a still image showing Mr Goto apparently holding a picture of Mr Yukawa's beheaded body. However, the arms holding the paper appear to have been doctored on to the body, leading to speculation that the whole recording is an elaborate hoax. Patrick Ventrell, a spokesman for the White House National Security Council, said U.S. intelligence officials were working also to confirm whether it was authentic. 'We stand in solidarity with Japan and are coordinating closely,' he said, and called for the immediate release of people held by the Islamic State group. Kyodo News agency reported that the video has been emailed to the wife of one of the hostages. If the video does turn out to be genuine, then it would be a radical departure from the Islamic State's usual method of operations. ISIS typically uses high-definition video recordings to make its threats, usually recorded somewhere in the desert, though to be located in the area around Raqqa in Syria. The latest clip is accompanied by Arabic subtitles, as is standard for ISIS videos, but is missing the black and white jihadi flag that appears on all other ISIS propaganda. In most recordings it is only usually Jihadi John, the masked executioner, who speaks. The hostages typically only recite a short, scripted message before they are killed. However in this case, the man claiming to be Mr Goto narrates a two-minute message in which he issues a heartfelt plea to his wife. Twitter users have also suggested that Mr Goto sounds different in this video compared to previous footage before he was kidnapped. In the latest recording he says in English: 'You have seen the photo of my cellmate, slaughtered in the land of the Islamic Caliphate. 'You were warned, you were given a deadline and so my captives acted upon their words. (Prime Miniseter) Abe you killed Haruna, you did not take the threat of my captors seriously and you did not act within the 72 hours.' He then speaks directly to his wife, who he names as Rinco, asking her to listen to the captors new demands. He continues: 'Their demand is easy. They are being fair. They no longer want money so you do not need to worry about funding terrorists. 'They are just demanding the release of their imprisoned sister Sajida al-Rishawi. It is simple, you give them Sajida, and I will be released. 'At the moment it actually looks possible and our government are indeed a stone's throw away. 'Our government representatives are ironically in Jordan where their sister Sajida is held by the Jordanian regime.' The video, which lasts nearly three minutes, was quickly deleted on Saturday after it was posted. Jihadis on a website affiliated with the regime also disagreed about the message's authenticity. One militant on the website warned that the new message was fake, while another said that the message was intended only to go to the Japanese journalist's family. A third militant noted that the video was not issued by al-Furqan, one of the media arms of the Islamic State and the message did not bear al-Furqan's logo. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...2116167393.jpg In the audio clip the man claiming to be Mr Goto says ISIS are demanding the release of Sajida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi, an attempted suicide bomber who is currently being held by the regime http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...2116190943.jpg Mr Goto, pictured, is a war correspondent with experience in Middle East hot spots. He went to Syria in late October to try to help Mr Yukawa, who was described as a friend, after he was captured in Aleppo in August Suspicion is running high over the latest tape after the video footage of Mr Goto and Mr Yukawa kneeling in the desert beside Jihadi John was also branded a fake. Experts said the footage was likely stitched together from several recordings as the shadows cast on the ground and on the captive's faces are all falling in different directions. Another giveaway is their shirts, which do not blow in the breeze at the same time, but instead move at different points in the video. Tsuyoshi Moriyama, an associate professor at Tokyo Polytechnic University and image technology expert, said: 'It's possible that video images taken at different times were combined. 'A very high level of knowledge and skill would be necessary to make such a composite video.' Shiego Mori-shima, a Waseda University Professor on information-communication engineering, agreed, noting the jumpsuits were different shades of orange. Yukawa, aged around 42 and who dreamed of becoming a military contractor, was captured in August outside the Syrian city of Aleppo. Goto, 47, a war correspondent with experience in Middle East hot spots, went to Syria in late October to try to help Yukawa. Just yesterday Junko Ishido, Mr Goto's mother, issued a tearful appeal for her son to be released. Speaking at a press conference, she said: 'I say to you people of the Islamic State, Kenji is not your enemy. Please release him. 'Kenji was always saying 'I hope to save lives of children on battlefields'. He was reporting war from a neutral position.' If Mr Yukawa is confirmed killed, he will join growing list of Jihadi John's victims, that includes British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning. Also killed by the masked murderer were American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and aid worker Peter Kassig. Quote:
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Japan Seeks Jordan's Help in Gaining Hostage's Release
By AP, 26 January 2015 TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese diplomat emerged from talks in Jordan on Monday with no signs of progress in securing the release of a freelance journalist held hostage by the extremist Islamic State group. Japanese officials refused direct comment on the contents of the talks in Jordan, where Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister Yasuhide Nakayama is coordinating regional efforts to save hostage Kenji Goto. The Islamic State group said in an online video on Jan. 20 that it had two Japanese hostages and would kill them within 72 hours unless Japan paid it $200 million — the same amount Tokyo recently pledged in aid to nations fighting the militants. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...32_634x724.jpg Japan's government spokesman Yoshihide Suga speaks at a press conference in Tokyo Monday, Jan. 26, 2015. Suga told reporters that the government was still analyzing a video posted online that purported to show Haruna Yukawa, one of the two hostages held by the extremist Islamic State group, had been killed. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) Over the weekend, a new, unverified video showed a still photo of Goto, a 47-year-old journalist, holding a picture of what appears to be the body of fellow hostage Haruna Yukawa. It included a recording of a voice claiming to be Goto, saying his captors now want the release of a prisoner held in Jordan instead of a ransom. Asked if the latest demand makes the situation more complex, chief Japanese government spokesman Yoshihide Suga avoided a straight answer. But he said, "Naturally, Jordan has its own thoughts." "The government is doing its utmost as the situation is still developing," he told reporters. "We are seeking cooperation from every possible party toward a release (of the remaining hostage)." Japanese officials have indicated they are treating the video released over the weekend as authentic and thus accepting the likelihood that Yukawa, a 42-year-old adventurer captured in Syria last summer, was killed. "It was an extremely dastardly act," Suga said. In Amman, Jordan, Deputy Foreign Minister Nakayama emerged from meetings with no fresh progress to report. "Due to the nature of this problem, please understand why I cannot disclose information such as with whom I had meetings," he said. Nakayama vowed to "absolutely not give up until the end." U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appealed for Goto's unconditional release. "The Japanese hostage Mr. Goto needs to be released unconditionally," U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said. "That's what we call for and we call for the release of all other people who are being held against their will by extremist groups in the region." The Associated Press could not verify the contents of the weekend video message, which differed from earlier videos released by the Islamic State group, which now holds a third of both Syria and Iraq. News of the likely killing of Yukawa drew international condemnation, and outrage in Japan. Goto is thought to have been seized in late October after going there to try to rescue him. Some in Japan are critical of the two men for taking such risks. Some Japanese also are criticizing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for pursuing a more assertive foreign policy, saying it may have contributed to the crisis. Abe has pushed to expand the role for Japan's troops — one that has remained strictly confined to self-defense under the pacifist constitution adopted after the nation's defeat in World War II. While on a visit to the Middle East earlier this month, Abe announced $200 million in humanitarian aid to the nations fighting the militants. |
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Jordan Launches 56 Revenge Airstrikes Against ISIS After Terror Group Released Video Showing Jordanian Pilot Being Burned Alive
Jordan says it has carried out 56 airstrikes on Islamic State targets in revenge for the murder of Jordanian pilot Moaz al Kasasbeh. The country's air force chief said the three consecutive days of attacks were 'just the beginning' of campaigns planned in a bid to avenge the 26-year-old's death. Last week, ISIS released a video purporting to show Kasasbeh being burnt alive in a cage as masked militants in camouflage uniforms looked on. Scroll down for videos http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...3170543378.jpg Airstrike: Jordan has carried out 56 aerial bombings on Islamic State targets in revenge for the murder of Jordanian pilot Moaz al Kasasbeh. Pictured: Aerial strike from video released last week by officials http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...3167731442.jpg Tribute: A plane belonging to the Jordanian Royal Air Force made a deliberate diversion over over the home town of the pilot brutally murdered by ISIS after carrying out airstrikes against the terror group in Syria http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...3426633242.jpg Major General Mansour al-Jabour (pictured) said: 'We achieved what we were looking for: revenge for Muath' The act has been widely condemned as among the most sickening ever committed to film and sent waves of revulsion across the Middle East. Today, Major General Mansour al-Jabour said: 'We achieved what we were looking for: revenge for Muath. And this is not the end. This is the beginning.' According to Major General, the strikes - dubbed Operation Martyr Moaz in the pilot's memory - targeted ISIS's weapon depots, training centres, warehouses and military barracks. Jordanian military experts say the kingdom could soon struggle to sustain the intensity of the past few days of air strikes, given the air force only has 40 mid-life F16 jets at its disposal. A squadron of F16 jet fighters from the United Arab Emirates arrived in Jordan on Sunday a day after the Gulf state announced it was being sent to bolster the coalition's military effort. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...3419498315.jpg A squadron of United Arab Emirates F-16 fighters has arrived in one of Jordan's air bases to support it in strikes against the Islamic State group http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...49_636x358.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...3167731606.jpg Brutal: ISIS released footage purportedly showing the 26-year-old pilot being burned to death in a cage http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...3167731701.jpg Major General Mansour al-Jabour said the strike had 'achieved what we were looking for: revenge for Muath' http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...3414221837.jpg Looking for revenge: King Abdullah (pictured today with Prince Charles) had vowed to wage a 'harsh' war against ISIS militants who control parts of neighboring Syria and Iraq It will conduct joint air strikes with Jordanian colleagues against the Islamic militants, Jordanian officials said on Saturday. The focus of Jordan's airstrikes are reported to be Raqqa, the ISIS stronghold in Syria. The intensified air assaults come almost one week after the extremists released the chilling footage, which sparked protests throughout Jordan. Entitled 'Healing the Believers' Chests', the 22-minute film showed the captured airman wearing an orange jumpsuit and being seemingly doused in fuel, as a trail of petrol leading up to the iron bars of the cage is set alight. Officials believe Kasasbeh had been killed almost one month earlier, despite ISIS attempting to carry out a prisoner exchange in return for the stricken pilot. After the footage was released, Jordanian officials promised to retaliate harshly and quickly executed two Iraqi militants connected with ISIS. This included Sajida al-Rishawi, the female would-be suicide bomber whose freedom ISIS had originally demanded in exchange for releasing Kasasbeh. King Abdullah II later said Jordan's response would 'be harsh because this terrorist organisation is not only fighting us, but also fighting Islam and its pure values.' In a statement, he pledged to hit the militants 'hard in the very centre of their strongholds'. Days later, the country released a slickly-edited video showing its war planes being prepared for bombing strikes against ISIS jihadists in Syria. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...3170383680.jpg Jordan released a video last week showing its war planes being prepared for bombing strikes against ISIS http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...3174436412.jpg The video also featured a pilot holding up a sign that reads: 'And do not think that God is unaware of what the evildoers are doing' - an apparent warning to ISIS militants The footage, believed to have been broadcast on state TV, was understood to have been recorded at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base and showed troops on plane-mounted missiles before the fleet of fighter jets are launched. The clip shows uniformed people, believed to be members of the Jordanian military, writing messages in Arabic across plane-mounted missiles. One reads 'for you, the enemy of Islam'. ISIS seized control of large areas of Iraq and Syria last year, prompting hundreds of raids by coalition war planes. The United States and several Arab allies, including Jordan, have been striking ISIS in Syria since September 23. Warplanes from the U.S. and other countries have been waging an air campaign against the extremists in Iraq for even longer. The campaign aims to push back the jihadi organisation after it took large parts of Iraq and Syria and declared a 'caliphate.' Al-Jabour said coalition planes have flown 5,500 sorties since the beginning of the air campaign, including 2,000 reconnaissance flights. He did not say whether this included flights over both Syria and Iraq. He said Jordan's air force participated in 946 sorties. The general said about 7,000 Islamic State group militants have been killed since the beginning of the coalition airstrikes. |
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Family of Isis Hostage Kayla Mueller Confirms Aid Worker Has Been Killed
Family ‘heartbroken’ after receiving confirmation that 26-year-old aid worker held hostage since August 2013 has been killed The Guardian UK, 11 Feb 2015 The family of Kayla Mueller, the 26-year-old aid worker held hostage by Isis since August 2013, has confirmed in a statement that she has been killed. “We are heartbroken to share that we’ve received confirmation that Kayla Jean Mueller, has lost her life,” her parents and brother said on Tuesday. Supporters of Islamic State had claimed on Friday that she was killed in a Jordanian air strike intended to avenge the burning to death of a captured Jordanian pilot. US officials could not determine her cause of death. The National Security Council spokeswoman, Bernadette Meehan, said that over the weekend, the family received a private message from Mueller’s captors containing “additional information”. “Once this information was authenticated by the intelligence community, they concluded that Kayla was deceased,” Meehan said. http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-220/h--...c-300x180.jpeg 'Even in prison, one can be free' – Kayla Mueller's letter to her family Barack Obama sent his “deepest condolences” to the Mueller family, and vowed to bring those responsible for Kayla’s death to justice. “Kayla represents what is best about America, and expressed her deep pride in the freedoms that we Americans enjoy, and that so many others strive for around the world,” he said in a statement released by the White House. “In how she lived her life, she epitomized all that is good in our world.” Mueller’s parents, Carl and Marsha Mueller, and her brother Eric, said in their statement: “Our hearts are breaking for our only daughter, but we will continue on in peace, dignity, and love for her.” The family also released a note written by Mueller during her 18-month captivity. “I have been shown in darkness, light + have learned that even in prison, one can be free. I am grateful. I have come to see that there is good in every situation, sometimes we just have to look for it,” it says. http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-620/h--...-827x1020.jpeg The family has released a letter written by Mueller during her 18-month captivity. -Photograph: Guardian- Several hours after the confirmation of Mueller’s death, friends and family paid tribute to the aid worker by sharing memories and personal stories in the Prescott Town Square. Kathleen Day, the Head of United Christian Ministry at Northern Arizona University where Mueller had been a student, recounted how family and friends were told that while in captivity, she tried to teach her guards crafts, including origami. “She did ordinary things in extraordinary measure,” Day said. “Kayla has done more at her age than many people can imagine doing in their lifetime,” said Lori Lyon, one of Kayla’s maternal aunts who read a statement on behalf of Mueller’s extended family. “At a young age, she knew her calling.” “Kayla touched the heart of the world. The world grieves with us. The world mourns with us,” Lyon said. In a statement distributed widely by Isis supporters on Friday, the group had claimed that Mueller was killed when “missiles” targeted the building she was being held in in Raqqa, Syria. The statement included pictures of the badly shelled building but no photographic evidence of her death was shown. Mueller is the fourth American to die in Isis captivity. Journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff were beheaded by the group in August and September 2014. Aid worker Peter Kassig was killed by the group in November 2014. Mueller was seized by Isis fighters in August 2013, as she left a hospital run by the Spanish branch of Médecins Sans Frontières in Aleppo. In her letter, which her family said was written in the spring of 2014, Mueller says she had been “treated with the utmost respect + kindness”, adding that she was being kept in a safe location, “completely unharmed + healthy”. The letter was brought to Mueller’s family at her request by her cell mates, who she says had been released “starting from 11/2/2014”. In the letter, Mueller asks that her parents not take on the “burden” of negotiating for her release. “I DO NOT want the negotiations for my release to be your duty, if there is any other option take it, even if it takes more time. This should never have become your burden. I have asked these women to support you; please seek their advice.” Of her family, she states that the only suffering she has endured throughout her time in captivity, is “knowing how much suffering I have put you all through forgive me as I do not deserve forgiveness”. Mueller, originally from Prescott, Arizona, had traveled to the Turkish-Syrian border in December 2012 to work with groups providing support to Syrian refugees, her family said. Kayla Mueller expresses solidarity with people of Syria in 2011 YouTube clip In a 2013 profile in Mueller’s hometown paper which highlighted her humanitarian work abroad, Mueller said she felt drawn to help after learning more about the situation in war-torn Syria. When asked what kept her going in her mission, Mueller said “I find God in the suffering eyes reflected in mine, if this is how you are revealed to me, this is how I will forever seek you.” Mueller said that during her captivity, she drew comfort from her deep Christian faith, writing: “I remember mom always telling me that all in all in the end the only one you really have is God. I have come to a place in experience where, in every sense of the word, I have surrendered myself to our creator b/c literally there was no else ... + by God + by your prayers I have felt tenderly cradled in freefall.” She had spent the previous four years working for various aid groups in northern India, Israel and the Palestinian territories. “We are so proud of the person Kayla was and the work that she did while she was here with us,” her family said. “She lived with purpose, and we will work every day to honor her legacy.” “We remain heartbroken, also, for the families of the other captives who did not make it home safely and who remain in our thoughts and prayers. We pray for a peaceful resolution of the conflict in Syria.” Secretary of state John Kerry said the US was “unshaken” in its resolve to defeat the Islamic State, a group he called an “ugly insult to the civilized world.” Arizona senator John McCain, who represents Mueller’s home state, said, “The thoughts and prayers of the people of Arizona, America, and the civilized world are with the Mueller family at this terrible hour.” In his statement, Obama said: “Isil is a hateful and abhorrent terrorist group whose actions stand in stark contrast the spirit of people like Kayla.” He said: “No matter how long it takes, the United States will find and bring to justice the terrorists who are responsible for Kayla’s captivity and death.” |
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Islamic State Militants 'Burn 45 People to Death in Iraq'
Jihadist militants from Islamic State (IS) have burned to death 45 people in the western Iraqi town of al-Baghdadi, the local police chief says. BBC 18 Feb 2015 http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/image...adi4640215.png Exactly who these people were and why they were killed is not clear, but Col Qasim al-Obeidi said he believed some were members of the security forces. IS fighters captured much of the town, near Ain al-Asad air base, last week. Col Obeidi said a compound that houses the families of security personnel and local officials was now under attack. He pleaded for help from the government and the international community. The fighting and poor communications in the area make it difficult to confirm such reports. Earlier this month, IS published a video showing militants burning alive a Jordanian air force pilot, whose plane crashed in Syria in December. Siege Al-Baghdadi had been besieged for months by Islamic State fighters before its fall on Thursday. It had been one of the few towns to still be controlled by the Iraqi government in Anbar province, where IS and allied Sunni Arab tribesmen launched an offensive in January 2014. Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm John Kirby told reporters on Friday that al-Baghdadi's capture needed to be put in perspective. He said it was the first time in the last couple of months that the jihadist group had taken new ground. However, Ain al-Asad air base, where about 320 US Marines are training members of the Iraqi army's 7th Division, is only 8km (5 miles) away. The base was itself attacked by IS militants, among them several suicide bombers, on Friday. The militants were eventually repelled by Iraqi troops backed by US-led coalition aircraft. In a separate development on Tuesday, the influential Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr announced he was withdrawing his forces from an umbrella group of Shia militia fighting IS alongside the Iraqi army. He cited what he called the bad behaviour of other militia within the Popular Mobilisation Forces, whom he accused of "wreaking havoc through murdering, kidnapping and violating sanctuaries". Shia militia have been accused of kidnapping and killing scores of Sunni civilians since Islamic State launched an offensive in northern Iraq last June that saw it seize large swathes of the country. MORE UN Urged to Investigate ISIS's Bloody Trade in Human Organs After Iraqi Ambassador Reveals Doctors are Being Executed For Not Harvesting Body Parts
Daily Mail UK, 18 Feb 2015 Iraq has urged the United Nations to investigate Islamic State terrorists' bloody trade in human organs after the Iraqi ambassador said doctors are being executed for not harvesting body parts. Mohamed Alhakim claimed that dozens of bodies with surgical incisions and missing body parts have been found in shallow mass graves near ISIS stronghold Mosul over the past few weeks. ISIS' horrifying trade in human organs, which was revealed by MailOnline last December, is just the latest way for the terrorist organisation to finance its activities, with other major sources of the group's $2 million-a-day income being the sale of oil, ransom payments, and smuggled antiques. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...4249885055.jpg Lucrative: ISIS has set up a specialist organ-smuggling division whose sole responsibility is to sell human hearts, livers and kidneys on the lucrative international black market Speaking of ISIS' organ harvesting operations, Mr Alhakim said: 'We have bodies. Come and examine them. It is clear they are missing certain parts.' He also said a dozen doctors have been 'executed' in Mosul for refusing to participate in organ harvesting. Mr Alhakim briefed the UN Security Council on the overall situation in Iraq and accused ISIS of 'crimes of genocide' in targeting certain ethnic groups. The outgoing UN envoy to Iraq, Nikolay Mladenov, also told the council that last month alone, 790 people were killed by terrorism and armed conflict in the country. He also noted the increasing number of reports and allegations that IS is using organ harvesting as a financing method, but he said only that 'it's very clear that the tactics ISIL is using expand by the day'. He used an acronym for the group. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...4189446116.jpg Making them rich: Mohamed Alhakim claimed that dozens of bodies with surgical incisions and missing body parts have been found in shallow mass graves near ISIS stronghold Mosul (pictured) over the past few weeks Mr Mladenov said Iraq's most pressing goal is to win back the vast territory that ISIS has seized over the past year. The Sunni militants currently controls around a third of both Iraq and neighbouring Syria and imposed its strict interpretation of Sharia law in its self-declared caliphate - subjecting a population of around four million people to a brutal campaign of rape and massacre. 'Especially worrying is the increasing number of reports of revenge attacks committed particularly against members of the Sunni community in areas liberated from ISIL control,' Mr Mladenov said, using an alternative acronym for the group known as ISIS in the West and Daesh in Arab nations. The shocking news of ISIS trade in human organs was first revealed in a report by al-Monitor news website in December, citing an Iraqi ear, nose and throat doctor named Siruwan al-Mosuli. He told the site that ISIS commanders hired foreign doctors to run an extensive organ trafficking system from a hospital in Mosul that is already beginning to generate huge profits. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...4165623908.jpg Militants: Each of the letters is signed with a purple stamp, indicating the province from which it was sent. They are understood to have been handed to ISIS' network of messengers and fighters The al-Monitor report also claims the terror organisation has even set up a specialist organ-smuggling division whose sole responsibility is to sell human hearts, livers and kidneys on the lucrative international black market. '[Al-Mosuli] said that lately he noticed unusual movement within medical facilities in Mosul Arab and foreign surgeons were hired, but prohibited from mixing with local doctors,' the report's author wrote. 'Information then leaked about organ selling.' The report went on: 'Surgeries take place within a hospital and organs are quickly transported through networks specialized in trafficking human organs. Mosuli said that the organs come from fallen fighters who were quickly transported to the hospital, injured people who were abandoned or individuals who were kidnapped.' Most of the organs are then smuggled out of Syria and Iraq into neighboring countries like Saudi Arabia or Turkey where criminal gangs sell them on to shady buyers across the globe, the Assyrian International News Agency reported. While organ harvesting may be the most shocking of IS' revenue streams, the report highlights a string of others that contribute to the group's $2million annual income. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...4189418819.jpg Security: ISIS' horrifying trade in human organs, which was revealed by MailOnline last December, is just the latest way for the terrorist organisation to finance its activities, with other major sources of the group's $2 million-a-day income being the sale of oil, ransom payments, and smuggled antiques Quote:
One tactic is smuggling families and individuals into other countries. The report highlights one instance when a family paid ISIS over $8,000 per individual to sneak them into Turkey. Drug smuggling is another. Al Monitor's report claims that IS traffics Afghan heroin into Europe from the city of Nineveh, which the Russian Federal Drug Control Service (RFDCS) says is generating 'significant revenues.' Its drug business has become so successful in recent months that the RFDCS claims that IS now supplies half of Europe's entire heroin market. Yesterday it was revealed that militants fighting for ISIS in Syria are making millions of pounds selling ancient statues and mosaics to wealthy Westerners using a complex system of smugglers and middle men. Looted from ancient buildings in ISIS strongholds, such as the group's de facto capital city Raqqa, the antiquities are up to 10,000-years-old and can exchange hands for more than $1 million each. The most expensive items are covertly smuggled overseas - usually on the orders of wealthy Europeans - but there is also a lucrative trade in less historically important objects, which often find their way into tourist shops and markets in neighbouring Lebanon and Turkey. The trade in antiquities is one of ISIS' primary sources of funding, along with oil and ransom payments, and is estimated to fills the terrorists coffers with tens of millions of pounds every year. The finer points of ISIS trade in antiquities was uncovered in an investigation by the BBC. It revealed that ISIS militants charge smugglers 20 per cent on the sale of ancient items found or looted in territory under its control. If the smugglers decide not to buy the items, they are promptly smashed to pieces as examples of idolatry, regardless of their historic significance. |
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Isil Abducts at Least 90 from Christian Villages in Syria
Two Syria-based activist groups confirm Assyrian hostages seized ancient Christian villages from northeastern Syria by Islamic State jihadists The Telegraph UK, 24 Feb 2015 http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/...h_3209926b.jpg Isil fighters are believed to be holding between 70 and 100 hostages captive, -most of them from the Christian Assyrian village of Tal Shamiram Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) militants have abducted at least 90 people from Assyrian Christian villages in northeastern Syria, two monitor groups that track violence in Syria said on Tuesday. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the abductions took place after dawn raids in villages inhabited by the ancient Christian minority near the town of Tel Hmar, a mainly Assyrian town, in the western countryside of the city of Hasaka, a city mainly held by the Kurds. http://s.telegraph.co.uk/graphics/Mo...4700376418.svg The latest offensive coincides with a push by Syrian Kurds in northeastern Syria near the Iraqi border since Sunday that had compounded losses for the militant group in Syria. Nuri Kino, the head of a separate activist group A Demand For Action that focuses on religious minorities in the Middle East, said Isil fighters are holding between 70 and 100 captive, most of them from the Christian Assyrian village of Tal Shamiram. Kino said on Tuesday his group based its information on conversations with villagers who fled the onslaught and their relatives. Tal Shamiram is located some 50 miles southwest of the Hassakeh provincial capital of Qamishli. Isil overran Tal Shamiram and other nearby Assyrian villages on Monday. On Monday night, Christian groups had said they were checking a report that up to 200 civilians had been kidnapped by Isil jihadists in the fighting and were being held as hostages. A number of fighters from a Christian militia, the Syriac Military Council, were also said to be missing. The council, known by the initials MFS from its title in Aramaic, the ancient language of the Christian church, was founded in 2013 as jihadists began to dominate more of northern Syria. It is allied to the YPG, the Syrian Kurdish militia involved in the defence of the town of Kobane, and on Sunday joined it in a drive against Isil in the north-eastern province of Hassakeh. On Sunday night, it claimed to have driven the jihadists out of 22 villages, including a string of settlements occupied by the Assyrian Catholic minority between Hassakeh town and the Turkish border. However, on Monday morning, Isil struck back, fighting its way into Tel Hormizd, nearby Tel Shamiran and Tel Tawil, and several other villages, according to a statement. According to one report, the Isil fighters were led by the infamous Chechen jihadist Omar al-Shishani. A separate statement issued on the Facebook page of a group set up to campaign for Christians under threat from Isil said a large number of Christians had been seized by the group in yesterday morning’s attack. “The men were later brought to a mountain called Abd al Aziz to be held as hostages,” it said. “The women and children were left in the village with Isil guards controlling them. The Rise of Islamic State |
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Jihadi John Named as Mohammed Emwazi from West London UK
>The Jihadi John Apologists: Outrage as Human Rights Group Describes ISIS Executioner as a 'Beautiful, Extremely Kind and Gentle Young Man' - Then Blames BRITAIN for Radicalising Him Asim Qureshi helped name his friend Mohammed Emwazi as Jihadi John Mr Qureshi said that MI5 had harassed Emwazi and help radicalise himCampaigner was tearful as he described him as 'extremely kind and gentle' He added that 'the man I knew would never hurt a single person ''When are we going to finally learn that when we treat people as if they're outsiders they will look for belonging elsewhere' Comments caused fury from people who believe MI5 were doing their job CAGE broadcast was on Sky News for 58 minutes without interruption and the BBC showed it for 52 minutes Daily Mail UK, 26 Feb 2015 The group who helped name Mohammed Emwazi as ISIS executioner Jihadi John caused outrage today after blaming MI5 for pushing him towards his killing spree in Syria. Asim Qureshi, research director at the rights group CAGE, described the world's most wanted man as 'extremely kind, extremely gentle and the most humble young person that I ever knew'. At a press conference today Mr Qureshi was close to tears as he said Emwazi, who is linked to a string of executions of ISIS prisoners, 'was such a beautiful man'.Mr Qureshi said he was radicalised after the security services harassed him and alienated him because 'the man I knew would never hurt a single person.'He said: 'When are we going to finally learn that when we treat people as if they're outsiders, they are going to feel like outsiders and they will look for belonging elsewhere.' http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...4966102489.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...4966096628.jpg Defence: Asim Qureshi, research director at the rights group CAGE, described Mohammed Emwazi, who is believed to be Jihadi John, as 'extremely kind' and blamed MI5 for his radicalisation http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...4970631794.jpg Unmasked: ISIS executioner 'Jihadi John' has been identified as Mohammed Emwazi from west London Mr Qureshi was asked if he had failed to report him to the authorities if had suspicions that Emwazi was Jihadi John, but he said he had no idea until approached by journalists. Quote:
The assertion that MI5 'alienated' Emwazi caused fury online, accusing CAGE of being apologists for 'barbarism'. Bev Hateley said she was 'enraged and disgusted' by 'excuses' that 'Jihadi John was radicalised by MI5 harassment'. Anthony Shaw wrote: 'So it's all the fault of MI5 that 'Jihadi John' takes great delight in cutting innocents' heads off. Dean from Liverpool tweeted: 'How can MI5 in ANY way, even if they did harass him, create a man who cuts people heads off their shoulders'. Another said: 'You don't go from innocent to executioner because your being harassed. Maybe MI5 had reason to suspect, and he's proved them right'. Emails releases by CAGE today revealed how MI5 repeatedly tried to recruit Mohammed Emwazi as an informant and put him on a terror watchlist to stop him leaving Britain. Emwazi is believed to have become known to the security services in 2009 when he was accused of trying to fight with Somali terror group Al-Shabaab in east Africa. The British citizen, who was born in Kuwait and moved to the UK aged six, flew to Tanzania with two friends after he graduated from the University of Westminster claiming he was going on safari. But he was arrested as soon as he touched down in capital Dar es Salaam and deported by Tanzanian's officials. He flew back to Britain via Amsterdam and told a friend MI5 were waiting for him at Schiphol Airport and tried to recruit him to share information on extremists, Emwazi told a confidant. Emwazi claimed that an MI5 agent called Nick accused him of trying to go to Somalia to fight for Al Shabaab and said: 'Listen Mohammed: You've got the whole world in front of you; you're 21 years old; you just finished Uni – why don't you work for us?'. The Jihadi John suspect turned down the offer and claims he was told: 'You're going to have a lot of trouble ...you're going to be known...you're going to be followed...life will be harder for you.' Emwazi claimed in emails to Qureshi that he was repeatedly approached by the security services over the course of the following year but he said he refused to co-operate and denied he had any links to terrorism. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...4967792325.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...4967805932.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...4967798481.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...4967822512.jpg Hostages who have survived being held by ISIS in Syria and Iraq have said that Jihadi John is a man 'obsessed' with Somalia and would make them watch Al-Shabaab videos while in captivity. Hostages who have survived being held by ISIS in Syria and Iraq have said that Jihadi John is a man 'obsessed' with Somalia and would make them watch Al-Shabaab videos while in captivity. Quote:
In June 2010 counter-terrorism officers, linked to the security services and Scotland Yard, allegedly arrested him as he tried to fly to Kuwait. He was fingerprinted and searched, it was said, and put on a terror watchlist preventing him from leaving Britain. In an email to Mr Qureshi he said: 'I feel like a prisoner, only not in a cage, in London. A person imprisoned & controlled by security service men, stopping me from living my new life in my birthplace & country, Kuwait'. Another friend said that Emwazi later tried to travel to Saudi Arabia to teach English in 2012 but again stopped from leaving. He was 'desperate' to leave Britain and 'was ready to exhaust every single kind of avenue within the machinery of the state to bring a change for his personal situation', Mr Qureshi said. Mr Qureshi said he last heard from him that year and said the Jihadi John suspect believed 'actions were taken to criminalize him and he had no way to do something against these actions'. Soon afterwards he vanished and is believed to have travelled to Syria, where he may now be ISIS' figurehead. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...4962999723.jpg On the scene: Police officers near the property where Emwazi once lived in Queen's Park, west London If Emwazi's account of his contact with MI5 is accurate, his case has a parallels with that of Lee Rigby's murderer Michael Adebolajo, who was jailed for life in 2013. His trial heard that just three months before the appalling murder in Woolwich, MI5 was trying to recruit Michael Adebolajo as an informant. He had been on their radar for ten years and in 2010 was even arrested with fellow Al Qaeda followers in Kenya. Adebolajo complained of being 'harassed' by MI5 agents before the killing and it later it emerged that they had failed to watch him carefully enough before he murdered Drummer Rigby with the help of his friend Michael Adebowale. RELATED: Jihadi John's Old University was a 'Hotbed of Radicalism Where Students Celebrated 9/11', Claims Ex-Pupil - and Hate Preacher was Even Due to Speak There TONIGHT
Jihadi John's former university was a 'hotbed of radicalism' where students 'celebrated 9/11', it has been claimed. A former student two years older than the Islamic State executioner has lifted the lid on his time at the university - as it's also revealed a talk by a Muslim hate preacher has been postponed due to 'security concerns'. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...4962177480.jpg Hate preacher: Haitham al-Haddad's speech has been posponed Haitham al-Haddad was set to speak tonight, but the event will not go ahead as planned after it was revealed 'Jihadi John' studied computer programming at the university. Today, the terrorist was named as a university graduate from London who was able to flee to Syria despite being on an MI5 terror watch list. Mohammed Emwazi, 27, of Queen’s Park, west London is said to have travelled to the Middle East three years ago and later joined ISIS. Jihadi John has featured in the execution videos of British aid workers Alan Henning and David Haines, U.S. journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, Japanese reporter Kenji Goto and Syrian soldiers. Former University of Westminster pupil Raheem Kassam, who campaigns against extremism at British universities, said the conditions at the university are right for the radicalisation of someone like Emwazi. Speaking today, he said: ‘I once walked into a meeting of the Islamic Society where they were clapping and cheering the events of 9/11. ‘I did not know him, he would have been two years behind me, but I am utterly unsurprised.' Scroll Down for Video http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...4961774495.jpg Petition: Haitham al-Haddad was set to speak tonight, but the event will not go ahead as planned after it was revealed 'Jihadi John' studied computer programming at the university http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...14_636x358.jpg ‘The university was nothing less than a hotbed of radicalism when I was there. ‘Universities across the country, the University of Westminster in particular, are being targeted by radical recruiters.' A spokesperson from the University of Westminster said: 'We take these allegations very seriously. We condemn any behaviour that promotes terrorism and violence on any of our campuses. 'We have strict policies to promote tolerance among our 20,000 student community, who come to study from over 150 nations. 'Any student found to be engaging in radicalised activity would be referred to disciplinary procedures. 'As a London-based university operating in a diverse multi-cultural city, we are fully aware of all the influences within this international city. With other universities in London, we are working together to implement the Government’s Prevent strategy to tackle extremism. 'We strongly encourage anyone who is concerned about radicalisation to speak out and contact the Student Support and Well-being team. The safety and security of our students is our foremost concern.' http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...4964537273.jpg Former pupil Raheem Kassam, who campaigns against extremism at British universities, said the conditions at the university are right for the radicalisation of someone like Emwazi Dr Al-Haddad's planned visit to the university sparked anger and a petition launched by the university’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) society opposing his visit was signed by more than 3,000 people. He has advocated that gays should be outlawed and has also praised terror boss Osama bin Laden. He has also spoken out in favour of female genital mutilation. He has claimed Jewish people are descended from 'apes and pigs' and says people who leave Islam should be executed, although he has claimed in the past his comments have been misinterpreted. This afternoon, a spokesperson for the university said: ‘Tonight’s event has been postponed due to increased sensitivity and security concerns.’ The University of Westminster has been criticised for segregating male and female students during talks by Islamic scholars. It was one of 21 university institutions which were found to promote gender segregation. Research by Student Rights, a group which aims to prevent extremism at universities, said that from September to March 2013, 46 events at 21 separate institutions were found to have been segregated. At the University of Westminster, at least two events were found to have been advertised as ‘women only’. The research found that on March 21, 2013 a debate entitled ‘Secularism vs. Islam’ was held by the Women’s Take on Current Affairs Society (WTCA), a Hizb ut-Tahrir front group, and featured Shohana Khan as a speaker. When challenged by students as to why the WTCA was able to hold events segregated by gender, the Student Union Interfaith Officer allegedly claimed that the society’s events were ‘faith-based’, which exempted it from equal opportunities policy. In addition to this, an event the following day was held by the Islamic Society called ‘The Concept of Love in Islam’ which was also advertised as ‘Sisters only’. It was logged by Student Rights for this reason. Student Rights said that when a male student from the society complained about not being able to attend, the Islamic Society highlighted that segregated events were common on campus stating ‘we’ve had many brothers only events too...the information discussed in the only women talks/or notes can be put to the public after the talk...the topics at hand do not only concern women.’ The University of Westminster’s ‘Dignity and Diversity at Work and Study Policy’ states that: ‘The University of Westminster is committed to creating a stimulating, supportive, inclusive and accessible learning and working environment... The University has a legal responsibility to provide a healthy and safe working environment that is free from unlawful discrimination and harassment.’ http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...4965625831.jpg Dr Al-Hadda has claimed Jewish people are descended from 'apes and pigs' and says people who leave Islam should be executed Quote:
Shaykh Haitham Al Haddad on Men Beating Their Wives Asim Qureshi Discusses the Man Behind the Mask of Jihadi John |
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Pumped Full of Drugs as His Arm is Tightly Bandaged to Reduce Blood Flow
-Another 'Thief' is Maimed by ISIS in Photographs Revealing how Criminals are Medically Prepared Before Sickening Amputation
Militants fighting for the Islamic State in Iraq have released gruesome new images of alleged thieves having their hands hacked off in front of crowds bloodthirsty onlookers. The photographs were taken in ISIS stronghold Mosul and show in gruesome detail how the terrorists pump their victims full of drugs before using a massive meat cleaver to cut off the hands. Hundreds of people are seen lining the streets of the oil-rich city to get a better view of the barbaric act, which is carried out by several masked militants led by a white-bearded elderly man named Abu Ansar al-Ansari, who appears to be orchestrating proceedings. :banghead: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5640141771.jpg Depraved: One elderly militant known as Abu Ansar al-Ansari does not cover his thick white beard as he oversees the alleged thief's hand being hacked off from his arm http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5640162917.jpg Preparation: The photographs were taken in ISIS stronghold Mosul and show in gruesome detail how the terrorists pump their victims full of drugs before using a massive meat cleaver to cut off the hands http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5640136503.jpg Hundreds of people are seen lining the streets of the oil-rich city to get a better view of the barbaric act Photographs of the horrific punishments are being shared by pro-ISIS social media users, who use the Arabic file sharing website Nasher to exchange images of the terror group's latest atrocities. The images begin by showing charge sheets carrying ISIS' chilling black and white logo which accuse the prisoners of stealing. Crowds of men are then shown lining the streets to witness the savage punishments, with young boys clambering on to their father's shoulders in order to get a better view. Keeping the baying crowd in line are dozens of heavily armed militants, who wear military fatigues as they stand facing the onlookers in an intimidating fashion. The next shots showing in gruesome detail the medical preparation for the sickening amputations. The men's arms are pumped full of drugs and wrapped in tight bandages both to lessen the agony of the sickening act and to reduce the amount of blood flowing from the open wound. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5640155820.jpg Getting ready: The men's arms are pumped full of drugs and wrapped in tight bandages both to lessen the agony of the sickening act and to reduce the amount of blood flowing from the open wound http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5640131768.jpg Grim: The photographs of the horrific punishments are being shared by pro-ISIS social media users, who use the Arabic file sharing website Nasher to exchange images of the terror group's latest atrocities http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5640193216.jpg Sick: Images of the actual amputation itself show militants crowding around the victim, while ropes are used to pull his arm taut and allow the cleaver-wielding jihads and clean strike http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5640197311.jpg Bloodthristy: Crowds of men are shown lining the streets to witness the savage punishments, with young boys clambering on to their father's shoulders in order to get a better view Images of the actual amputation itself show militants crowding around the victim, while ropes are used to pull his arm taut and allow the cleaver-wielding jihads and clean strike. While most of those involved cover their faces, one elderly militant known as Abu Ansar al-Ansari does not cover his thick white beard as he oversees the entire atrocity. The distinctive fighter has become notorious in recent months after appearing in numerous videos released by ISIS showing their barbaric acts. After having his hand hacked off, the victim is seen receiving medical treatment to ensure the wound does not become infected. His arm is wrapped in thick bandages and more anaesthetising drugs are seen being pumped into his body to numb the pain before he is driven away from the crowds in the back of a van. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5640203475.jpg Agony: After having his hand hacked off, the victim is seen receiving medical treatment to ensure the wound does not become infected http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5640208508.jpg The photographs show in gruesome detail the medical preparation for the sickening amputations http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5640226582.jpg A man is seen recuperating after having his right arm hacked off by militants from the Islamic State http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5640215674.jpg Taken away: The man's arm is wrapped in thick bandages and more anaesthetising drugs are seen being pumped into his body to numb the pain before he is driven away from the crowds in the back of a van The images emerged just days after similar photographs taken in the terror group's de facto capital Raqqa showed a terrified young man being dragged into a public square to have his hand cut off. The blindfolded victim was forced to sit in a chair in the centre of the square, where he was held in place by one of the jihadis, while two others use a cleaver to brutally sever his hand from his arm. The horrific images were shared on the Twitter page of the local activist group Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently, who work undercover in the city to expose the atrocities committed by ISIS. The four photographs are high quality shots and carry the distinctive yellow branding of ISIS' Al-Hayat Media Center, suggesting they may be stills from an as-yet unreleased propaganda video. Quote:
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19+ Tourists Shot Dead-89 Injured Terrorist Attack in Tunisia
Daily Mail UK, 18 March 2015 Nineteen tourists are reported to have died, and many injured after an attack in a Tunisian museum. The Tunisian prime minister announced that the victims were Polish, Spanish, German, Italian and Tunisian, according to the BBC. British tour operators confirmed that thousands of customers are believed to be in the country, but "very few" are in the capital. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...11_634x356.jpg A UK Foreign Office spokesman said: "We are urgently looking into the serious situation in Tunisia." A spokesman for the Association of British Travel Agents (Abta) said: "We are currently liaising with our members and the Foreign Office to assess the impact and understand if any British nationals have been caught up in the attack on the Bardo Museum in Tunis. "Tunisia attracts over 400,000 UK visitors each year, with the vast majority travelling to resorts on the coast. "Abta members have reported that they have currently approximately 6,500 customers in Tunisia, though very few of these are staying in Tunis. As a precaution many Abta tour operators have cancelled local excursions to Tunis due to depart over the next few days." The National Bardo Museum is near the national parliament building, which was evacuated after the shooting. The museum is a leading tourist attraction that chronicles Tunisia's history and houses one of the world's largest collections of Roman mosaics. People running to safety amid chaos of Tunisia attack: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...22_636x358.jpg . EU's Mogherini Blames Islamic State for Tunisia Attack BRUSSELS, March 18 (Reuters) - European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini blamed Islamic State on Wednesday for an attack on tourists in Tunisia that killed 19 people, including 17 foreign tourists. "With the attack that has struck Tunis today, the Daesh terrorist organisation is once again targeting the countries and peoples of the Mediterranean region," she said in a statement, using the Arabic acronym for Islamic State. "This strengthens our determination to cooperate more closely with our partners to confront the terrorist threat," she said. "The EU is determined to mobilise all the tools it has to fully support Tunisia in the fight against terrorism and reforming the security sector." (Reporting by Adrian Croft; editing by Philip Blenkinsop) |
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Girls as Young as Nine Dragged Away From Their Families by Their Hair...
and Forced to Endure Beatings and Rapes at the Hands of ISIS Fighters: Yazidi Survivor Reveals Hell She Suffered Before Escaping
Daily Mail UK, 15 April 2015 A Yazidi teenager has told how Islamic State fighters stormed her town with shocking brutality, dragging girls as young as ten by their hair and carting them off like cattle to become sex slaves. Hanan, 19, was snatched from her family, suffered regular beatings and taken to a warehouse in Mosul, Iraq, where hundreds of women were lined up and hand picked by jihadist militants. She and six others were then taken to a house in a nearby village where they met a fellow Yazidi girl who had been incarcerated there for the last two months, she said. The girl told them she had been beaten, handcuffed and raped and their captors warned they would soon suffer the same fate. Scroll down for videos http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...8535802721.jpg Newly released members of the Yazidi minority, including one girl with an injured leg, wait for medical help after being set free by ISIS near Kirkuk, northern Iraq last week. One Yazidi survivor (not pictured) has told how girls as young as ten were dragged away from their families and raped at the hands of ISIS militants Hanan managed to escape that night with some of the other girls by jumping out of a bedroom window, but two of them were caught as they fled. Speaking of the moment ISIS attacked her village last August, she said: 'They separated all of us. They dragged us away by our hair. The youngest with us was just 10. We were all crying. They said we are going to marry you off, you will forget your family.' Hanan is now recovering at the Shariya refugee camp in Dohuk Iraqi Kurdistan, where hundreds of other Yazidis have fled, but says she shakes with fear every time she sees 'someone with a beard'. Tens of thousands of Yazidis were forced to flee for their lives - many of them into the nearby Sinjar mountains and then into Kurdish-held regions of northern Iraq during the ISIS offensive in August. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/...38_636x358.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...8535803257.jpg Relief: 216 prisoners, including 40 children, believed they were being led to their execution, but were instead piled onto minibuses for a handover southwest of Kirkuk. It is not known why they were released However many were captured by the militants, resulting in the massacre of hundreds of men and the selling into slavery of women and children, after they were first divided up between militants A magazine published by the terror group, Dabiq, last year attempted to justify the sickening treatment of the Yazidis. Explaining why Yazidis have been sold into sex slavery while those from other groups have not, the magazine claims Islamic Sharia law allows the enslavement of innocent 'polytheists and pagans' but not of those the militants regard as simply heretical. Last week, aid workers reported that a nine-year-old girl was pregnant after suffering horrific sexual abuse at the hands of ISIS militants in northern Iraq. She was among more than 200 Yazidi women, children and elderly who were released near Kirkuk, northern Iraq after being taken hostage last June. According to aid workers, she was 'sexually abused by no fewer than ten men', while in captivity inside the self-proclaimed caliphate. Yazidi Women Speak of Their Experiences with ISIS Fighters; One Girl Raped 30 Times Women & Children Enslaved/Sold by ISIS ISIS Sex-Slave Raping & Selling Girls (Full Documentary) |
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Mexican Authorities Say ISIS Camps Located a Few Miles from Texas and New Mexico
Terrorists Allegedly Smuggled into the U.S. With Illegal Drugs http://hw.infowars.com/wp-content/up...isis-flag8.jpg by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars.com | 15 April, 2015 The government watchdog group Judicial Watch cites Mexican government and military officials as saying the terror group ISIS, or Islamic State, has two camps in Mexico near the U.S. border. One of the camps is reportedly located in Anapra, an area just west of Ciudad Juárez, and the other is near Puerto Palomas, a few miles from Columbus, New Mexico. The Anapra area is dominated by the Vicente Carrillo Fuentes Cartel (Juárez Cartel), La Línea (the enforcement arm of the cartel) and the Barrio Azteca (a gang originally formed in the jails of El Paso), according to the Judicial Watch report. A Mexican Army field grade officer and a Mexican Federal Police Inspector told Judicial Watch human traffickers, known as coyotes, working for the Juárez Cartel are smuggling IS terrorists into the United States through the porous border between Acala and Fort Han****, Texas. Judicial Watch says this area was targeted because of understaffed municipal and county police forces and and large scale transit of illegal drugs from Mexico. Mexican Intelligence Sources Report Quote:
In 2014, Midland County, Texas Sheriff Gary Painter said ISIS would cross the border and strike the United States. In August, a former CIA officer, Mike Baker, told the Laura Ingraham Show ISIS works with the drug cartels. Judicial Watch said in August ISIS was using Juárez as a staging area and planned to launch a car bomb attack against Fort Bliss, a U.S. Army base about fifteen minutes from the border. “The US administration has also covered up, or at the very least downplayed, a serious epidemic of crime along the Mexican border even as heavily armed drug cartels have taken over portions of the region,” the group stated. “Judicial Watch has reported that the U.S. Border Patrol actually ordered officers to avoid the most crime-infested stretches because they’re ‘too dangerous’ and patrolling them could result in an ‘international incident’ of cross border shooting. In the meantime, who could forget the famous words of Obama’s first Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano; the southern border is ‘as secure as it has ever been.’” In September, Infowars reporter Joe Biggs. traveled to the area and crossed the Rio Grande dressed in an ISIS terrorist outfit. The stunt demonstrated how easy it would be for terrorists to enter the country: Man Crosses U.S. Border Dressed as ISIS Terrorist, Simulates Beheading FULL VIDEO |
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ANZAC Day Terror Plot:
Friends of Slain Militant Numan Haider Planned to Hack Police Officers to Death With Swords and Knives at Memorial Ceremonies for Australia's Fallen Soldiers
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/j...psb00a5a38.gif SYDNEY (AP) — Five Australian teenagers were arrested Saturday on suspicion of plotting an Islamic State group-inspired terrorist attack at a Veterans' Day ceremony that included targeting police officers, officials said. The suspects included two 18-year-olds who are alleged to have been preparing an attack at the ANZAC Day ceremony in Melbourne later this month, Australian Federal Police Acting Deputy Commissioner Neil Gaughan told reporters. Another 18-year-old was arrested on weapons charges, and other men, aged 18 and 19, were in custody and assisting police. All the arrests took place in Melbourne. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...41_634x386.jpg In this April 25, 2014 file photo, a pipe band marches on George Street during the ANZAC Day parade, in Sydney, commemorating the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) during the First World War. Five Australian teenagers were arrested Saturday, April 18, 2015 on suspicion of plotting an Islamic State-inspired terrorist attack at an ANZAC Day ceremony that included targeting police officers, officials said. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File) ANZAC Day is the annual April 25 commemoration of the 1915 Gallipoli landings — the first major military action fought by the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during World War I. Police said they believe the plot was inspired by the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, and was to have involved "edged weapons." "At this stage, we have no information that it was a planned beheading. But there was reference to an attack on police," Gaughan said. "Some evidence that we have collected at a couple of the scenes, and some other information we have, leads us to believe that this particular matter was ISIS-inspired." Australia's government has raised the country's terror warning level in response to the domestic threat posed by supporters of the Islamic State group. In September last year, the group's spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani issued a message urging attacks abroad, specifically mentioning Australia. Federal Police Deputy Commissioner Michael Phelan said at a separate news conference that the teens had links to Numan Haider, an 18-year-old who stabbed two Melbourne police officers and was subsequently shot dead in September. Haider had caught authorities' attention months earlier over what police considered troubling behavior, including waving what appeared to be an Islamic State group flag at a shopping mall. Phelan said the teens arrested Saturday were on officials' radar for months, but the investigation was ramped up when it appeared they were planning a specific attack. "This is a new paradigm for police," Phelan said. "These types of attacks that are planned are very rudimentary and simple. ... All you need these days is a knife, a flag and a camera and one can commit a terrorist act." One of the teens, Sevdet Besim, appeared briefly in court Saturday on a charge of preparing for, or planning, a terrorist act. He did not apply for bail and was ordered to reappear in court next week. Prime Minister Tony Abbott has warned that the terrorism threat in Australia has escalated, with one-third of all terrorism-related arrests since 2001 occurring in the last six months. At least 110 Australians have gone to Iraq and Syria to fight alongside extremists, and the nation's security agency is juggling more than 400 high-priority counterterrorism investigations — more than double the number a year ago. In September 2014, a man arrested during a series of counter terrorism raids was charged with conspiring with an Islamic State group leader in Syria to behead a random person in Sydney. In December 2014, Man Monis, an Iranian-born, self-styled cleric with a long criminal history, took 18 people hostage inside a Sydney cafe, forced them to hold up a flag bearing the Islamic declaration of faith and demanded he be delivered a flag of the Islamic State group. Monis and two hostages were killed. In February 2015, two men were charged with planning to launch an imminent, Islamic State group-inspired terrorist attack after authorities said they appeared on a video threatening to stab the kidneys and necks of their victims. Abbott said the latest alleged plot was at an advanced stage of planning, prompting police to swoop in. Still, he urged the public to participate in ANZAC Day events as usual. "The best sign of defiance we can give to those who would do us harm is to go about a normal, peaceful, free and fair Australian life," he said. "And I say to everyone who is thinking of going to an ANZAC Day event, please don't be deterred. Turn up in the largest possible numbers to support our country." http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...89_634x422.jpg Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott answers questions at a media conference before attending the parliament's question time in Canberra, in this 9 Feb., 2015 file photo. Abbott has warned that the terrorism threat in Australia has escalated with one-third of all terrorism-related arrests since 2001 occurring in the last six months. Abbott said the latest alleged plot Saturday 18 April, 2015 was at an advanced stage of planning, prompting police to swoop. (AP Photo/Andrew Taylor, File) http://resources0.news.com.au/images...08b9292b45.jpg Sevdet Besim, from Hallam in Melbourne's south-east, was charged with 'conspiracy to commit acts -done in preparation for, or planning, terrorist acts' at the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Saturday afternoon http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...9337568897.jpg Multiple photos of Mr Besim on his social media pages show him posing with one raised index finger, -a symbol that other ISIS supporters have also frequently used http://resources0.news.com.au/images...faa38a67b6.jpg An Instagram picture of Melbourne accused Sevdet Besim. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...9319156824.jpg He is one of five men police arrested for allegedly planning an 'ISIS inspired' attack on an Anzac Day ceremony. They were 'associates' of Abdul Numan Haider (pictured) Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner Shane Patton said the men, from Hallam and Hampton Park, were 'associates' of Abdul Numan Haider, the 18-year-old who was shot dead after stabbing two officers outside a Melbourne police station on 23 September 2014. Scroll down for videos http://resources0.news.com.au/images...faa38a67b6.jpg AFP Deputy Commissioner Michael Phelan and Prime Minister Tony Abbott. Picture: Carly Earl. Source: News Corp Australia Accused Teens Were on Police Radar Counter-terrorism investigators had been monitoring the teenagers arrested in Melbourne long before this weekend’s pre-dawn raids, officials say. “These people have been on our radar but particularly since late last month the investigation ramped up and it became very obvious to us that their plans were specific,” AFP Deputy Commissioner Phelan told reporters in Sydney. Authorities have refused to give specific details of the alleged planned attacks but say police at Anzac activities around Melbourne were the immediate target. Accused Terror Teens Were on Police Radar Alleged Anzac Terror Plots 'Evil' |
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Slaughter on the Beach:
ISIS Behead and Shoot Ethiopian Christians in Sickening New Propaganda Video
A shocking new video appearing to show at least 30 Christians being beheaded and shot by ISIS in Libya has been released. The 29-minute video, titled 'Until It Came To Them - Clear Evidence', shows dozens of militants holding two separate groups captive, thought to be in the south and the west of the country. At least 16 men, described by Islamic State as the 'followers of the cross from the enemy Ethiopian Church', are lined up and shot in a desert area while 12 others are filmed being forced to walk down a beach before being beheaded. This follows another video in February of the beheading of a group of 21 Coptic Christians on the beach in Libya, though that terrain was rockier than the one shown in the latest film. It raises fears that ISIS is consolidating its presence on the 'doorstep of Europe', as Libya is just a few hundred miles from the coast of Italy. Scroll down for video http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...20_964x484.jpg Thirty Ethiopian Christians appear to have been beheaded and shot by ISIS in a sickening new propaganda video. Above, at least 16 men are marched down a beach in Libya by militants before they are killed Ethiopia was unable to confirm its citizens were killed in the footage but condemned the 'atrocious act', a government official said. The video shows the men at the coast wearing Guantanamo-style orange jumpsuits and being held at the neck by fighters in combats with balaclavas covering their faces. The victims inland are forced to kneel as militants dressed in combats and green masks stand behind them holding rifles. It starts with what it called a 'history of Christian-Muslim relations', which includes scenes of militants destroying churches, graves and icons. A masked fighter in black then brandishes a pistol as he vows to kill Christians if they do not convert. In an apparent reference to Ethiopia's attacks on neighbouring Somalia, whose population is almost entirely Muslim, he says: 'Muslim blood shed under the hands of your religions is not cheap. To the nation of the cross we are now back again.' The footage, which was released on websites and social media accounts officially linked to ISIS, also cuts to Christians in Syria explaining how they were given the choice of converting to Islam or paying a 'special tax'. At the end it switches between the two sets of captives - thought to be mainly migrant workers - with one group shot dead at point-blank range and the others beheaded on the beach. The video has not yet been verified. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...9454332879.jpg The men - wearing Guantanamo-style orange jumpsuits - are held at the neck and forced to kneel by fighters in combats with balaclavas covering their faces http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...9453377175.jpg The men, thought to be migrant workers, are described by Islamic State in the video as the 'followers of the cross from the enemy Ethiopian Church' http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...9452682858.jpg The footage also shows around 12 men being shot in a desert area, believed to be in the south of the country, by militants wearing green balaclavas and combats http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...9455454053.jpg A masked fighter in black (right) brandishing a pistol vows to kill Christians if they do not convert, saying: 'Muslim blood shed under the hands of your religions is not cheap. To the nation of the cross we are now back again' http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...9454254658.jpg The victims are forced to kneel in front of the militants (above) before being shot at point-blank range simultaneously. The video bore the official logo of the IS media arm Al-Furqan and resembled previous footage released by the extremist group http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...9455574267.jpg The militant in black - who is completely covered apart from his eyes - remains flanked by two people holding guns throughout the clip Quote:
The video bore the official logo of the IS media arm Al-Furqan and resembled previous footage released by the extremist group. Redwan Hussein, an Ethiopian government spokesman, said: 'We have seen the video but our embassy in Cairo has not been able to confirm that the victims are Ethiopian nationals. Nonetheless, the Ethiopian government condemns the atrocious act.' He added that Ethiopia, which does not have an embassy in Libya, would help repatriate Ethiopians if they wanted to leave. Libyan officials were not immediately available for comment. It comes just two months after IS militants filmed themselves beheading 21 captured Egyptian Christians on a similar beach, which immediately drew Egyptian airstrikes on the group's suspected positions in Libya. Whether Ethiopia would - or could - respond with similar military force remains unclear. Islamic State has been able to gain a foothold amid chaos in Libya, where two governments backed by rival alliances of militias are battling each other as well as extremist groups. The group is also advancing in Iraq, where it has captured three villages near the city of Ramadi. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...9452682869.jpg It comes just two months after the extremist group in Libya beheaded 21 captured Egyptian Christians on a beach (above) http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...9452682865.jpg Islamic State fighters, pictured carrying flags and dressed in black, have been able to gain a foothold amid the chaos in Libya More than 90,000 people have fled the ISIS's advance in Anbar, a United Nations humanitarian agency said earlier this morning. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a statement that civilians are fleeing Ramadi as well as the three nearby villages captured by the IS group a few days ago. Lise Grande, the UN humanitarian coordinator for Iraq, said: 'Our top priority is delivering life-saving assistance to people who are fleeing - food, water and shelter are highest on the list of priorities.' Iraqi officials in Anbar have described Ramadi as a ghost town, with empty streets and closed shops. Iraqi troops backed by Shiite militias and U.S.-led airstrikes managed to dislodge ISIS, which controls large parts of Iraq and Syria and wants to redraw the map of the Middle East, from the northern city of Tikrit earlier this month. But the troops have struggled against the militants in Anbar, which saw some of the heaviest fighting of the eight-year U.S. military intervention that ended in 2011. ISIS Behead and Shoot 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya (-WARNING - DISTURBING CONTENT!! + FINAL PART OF VIDEO HAS BEEN REMOVED. DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINK OFFERED TO SEE THE ENDING > YOU ARE DIVERTED TO AN ARABIC ISIS SITE) . |
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Italy Terror Cell Prepared for Vatican Attack, Prosecutors Claim
Italian police make series of raids against 18 people suspected of links to al-Qaeda http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-620/h--...4-620x372.jpeg Vatican City and Rome. Photograph: Sylvain Sonnet/Getty Images Agencies in Milan and Rome, Friday 24 April 2015 Italian prosecutors said that terror suspects, including two purported bodyguards of Osama bin Laden, targeted in raids on Friday had made preparations for a 2010 attack against the Vatican. Prosecutor Mauro Mura told a press conference in Cagliari, Sardinia, on Friday that wiretaps indicated the suspected terrorists were planning a bomb attack at the Vatican and that a suicide bomber had arrived in Rome. Mura said the attack plans never went further and that the suicide bomber left Italy, though it wasn’t clear why. He said the wiretaps gave “signals of some preparation for a possible attack.” Police conducted raids across Italy on Friday, targeting 18 people suspected of links with al-Qaida. Some were arrested, including the group’s suspected spiritual leader, but others were believed to have left the country. “We don’t have proof, we have strong suspicion,” said Mario Carta, head of the police unit leading the investigation said when asked for more details on a possible attack against the seat of the Catholic Church. The suspects arrested on Friday had also sought to topple the Pakistani government, police said. Counter-terrorism police in Sardinia said some of the 18 suspects were responsible for “numerous bloody acts of terrorism in Pakistan”, including the October 2009 explosion in a market in Peshawar in which more than 100 people died. Telephone wiretaps also indicated that two of the suspects were part of a network of people who protected Bin Laden in Pakistan, a police statement said. Police said the aim of the network was to create an insurrection against the Pakistani government. Pasquale Errico, the police chief in the city of Sassari, said the warrants were being executed throughout Italy. The suspects were being sought also for financing terrorist movements in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Sardinian daily L’Unione Sarda reported that one of the suspects ran a construction business in Olbia. “There is the hypothesis that he was recruiting immigrants who arrived here by airplane with false documents and involved them in illegal activities,” the paper’s editor, Anthony Muroni, told Sky TG24. |
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ISIS Claims Responsibility for Texas Attack: Radio Station Issues Chilling Warning that US will 'See Soldiers of the Islamic State do Terrible Things'
The Islamic State terrorist group claimed its first attack on US soil, a shooting at an anti-Muslim event in Texas over the weekend showcasing cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammed. 'Two of the soldiers of the caliphate executed an attack on an art exhibit in Garland, Texas, and this exhibit was portraying negative pictures of the Prophet Mohammed,' the jihadist group said through its Al Bayan radio station. 'We tell America that what is coming will be even bigger and more bitter, and that you will see the soldiers of the Islamic State do terrible things,' the group announced. Scroll down for videos http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0817577689.jpg Debris of a car blown up by police as a precaution near the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas following the attack on an anti-Muslim event http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0818333000.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0818333012.jpg Shot dead: Elton Simpson, pictured top, and Nadir Soofi, opened fire outside an anti-Islam event on Sunday evening in Texas http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0818383784.jpg A man carries a broken door away from the Garland shooting suspects' bottom floor apartment at the Autumn Ridge complex in Phoenix, Arizona, after the FBI forcefully entered the apartment to perform a search http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0818445532.jpg Attack: The bodies of Simpson and Soofi are seen next to their vehicle as it is searched for explosives http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0818568820.jpg Investigation: Agents work on the scene near to where the men opened fire before they were shot dead by a traffic officer. Investigators destroyed some of the belongings found inside the back of the suspects' car, pictured, as a precaution Inside the Arizona Apartment Shared by Texas Terror Gunmen; http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...90_636x358.jpg It was unclear whether the group was opportunistically claiming the attack as its own. Police said two men drove up to the conference centre Sunday in Garland, Texas, where the right-wing American Freedom Defense Initiative was organising the controversial cartoon contest, and began shooting at a security guard. Garland police officers then shot and killed both men. According to US media reports, the two suspected jihadists were Elton Simpson, 31, and Nadir Soofi, 34, who shared an apartment in Phoenix, Arizona. Simpson was being investigated by the FBI over alleged plans to travel to Somalia to wage holy war, court records show. Many Muslims find drawings of the prophet to be disrespectful or outright blasphemous, and such cartoons have been cited by Islamists as motivation in several previous attacks. Resident Describes the Shooting as Sounding 'Like a Sledgehammer'; http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...67_638x358.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0819367389.jpg Killed: FBI crime scene investigators look at the bodies of the two killed gunmen outside the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas on Monday http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0818249858.jpg Members of the FBI Evidence Response Team investigate the crime scene outside of the Curtis Culwell Center http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...0818433108.jpg Controversial: On Sunday, two heavily armed police officers can be seen securing art work following the shooting Inside Texas Community Center Moment of Attack Inside the Arizona Apartment Shared by Texas Terror Gunmen RELATED: Texas Police Ignored Warnings: Texas police were warned about ISIS attack TWO DAYS days before... |
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Islamic State Group Radio Claims Saudi Mosque Suicide Attack
Carnage as ISIS Suicide Bomber 'Dressed as a Woman in a Burka' Blows up Car Outside Mosque in Saudi Arabia - Killing Four
Four people have been killed in Saudi Arabia after an ISIS suicide bomber, reportedly dressed in a burka, blew up a car outside a mosque during Friday prayers. The man is said to have tried to drive into the Shia Imam Hussein mosque in Dammam, but was stopped by security. As security tried to get to him, the jihadist detonated his bomb in the in the car park in front of the women's entrance, blowing up his car and killing four in the blast. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...2913630156.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...2913637294.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...2915536621.jpg The fighter, from the Sunni branch of Islam, launched his attack on the Shia Imam Hussein mosque as worshipers flocked to the site for Friday prayers (pictured, a wounded man is treated in the street) ISIS has since claimed responsibility for the attack, with a message posted on one of the group's Facebook pages saying a 'soldier of the caliphate,' blew himself up among 'an evil gathering of those filth in front of one of their shrines in Dammam.' The fighter was identified as Abu Jandal al-Jazrawi, with his surname indicating that he likely came from Saudi Arabia. The latest bombing comes just a week after another device was detonated by ISIS fighters in the nearby village of al-Qudeeh, killing 21 mostly Shia Muslims. IS fighters hail from the Sunni sect of Islam, and view Shias as devil-worshipers and blasphemers deserving of death. The pair of suicide bombings threaten to spark sectarian conflict in Saudi Arabia, which is a predominantly Sunni nation, but has a large Shia population in the oil-rich east. Video of the attack shows a thick pall of black smoke rising from cars burning in the parking lot outside, while pictures of the attack show men treating a badly wounded person on the ground. Another video apparently taken from inside the mosque captures the horror of the crowd from inside the Imam Hussein mosque, the only Shia mosque in the region, as the bomb goes off. The state-run Saudi Press Agency said security guards halted a car in the parking lot of the mosque and that the bomber detonated his payload as they approached. 'Thank God, security authorities managed to foil a terrorist crime targeting worshippers,' the agency said in a statement. It was unclear if the bomber was among the four dead. Onlookers witness the bomb blast outside Shiite mosque; http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...02_636x358.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...2917024284.jpg According to witnesses the man was trying to drive through the women's entrance to the mosque while wearing a burka when suspicious security guards stopped him, moments before the explosion http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...2910434881.jpg A pall of black smoke coming from burning cars was visible in the sky above Dammam today after the second suicide bombing carried out by ISIS against Shia Muslims in two weeks There have also been anonymous reports that the bomber had been dressed in the traditional female burka in an attempt to get past security. Witness Mohammed Idris said the suicide bomber attempted to enter the mosque but was chased by young men, who had set up checkpoints at the entrance. 'They chased the suicide bomber when he tried to enter the women's section of the mosque in the south entrance,' he said. He identified one of the dead as Abdul-Jalil Abrash, a 25-year-old graduate student from an American university. Mohammed al-Saeedi, who arrived half an hour after the blast, said four cars were damaged by the explosion, and body parts from the bomber were scattered around the site. 'Pieces of the body were everywhere at the main gate and in the roof of the mosque,' he said. He called on police to do a better job of sharing information with the local Shiite community to protect against future attacks. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was carried out by its 'Najd Province,' referring to a region in the central Arabian Peninsula. Last Friday, an Islamic State suicide bomber killed 21 people in the village of al-Qudeeh, in the oil-rich eastern Qatif region. It was the deadliest militant assault in the kingdom since a 2004 al-Qaida attack on foreign workers as Saudi Arabia's king vowed to punish those responsible for the 'heinous terrorist attack.' http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...2910026477.jpg A video reportedly taken from inside the mosque shows the Imam had already begun prayers when the explosion suddenly went off outside (pictured, firemen extinguish the blazing cars) http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...2910032920.jpg Several vehicles were destroyed in the blast, which also left shrapnel marks in the walls of the mosque, and scattered human remains around the cap park, according to witnesses Saudi Arabia's Shiite minority is a branch of Islam that both the Islamic State group and ultraconservatives in Saudi Arabia regularly denounce as heretical. Shiites in Saudi Arabia have long complained of discrimination and say their communities have benefited little form the country's vast oil riches, which are also concentrated in the east. In 2011, Shiites in the east inspired by the Arab Spring uprising in neighboring Bahrain took to the streets to demand greater rights. Police arrested hundreds of people and a counterterrorism court sentenced an outspoken cleric, Nimr al-Nimr, to death. Saudi Arabia views Shiite movements elsewhere in the Middle East as proxies of its main regional rival, Shiite-majority Iran. Riyadh is currently leading a coalition in bombing raids against Shiite rebels in neighboring Yemen, known as Houthis, who seized the capital, Sanaa, last year. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...2912981532.jpg The attack comes a week after 21 people were killed in al-Qudeeh in an ISIS suicide bombing carried out by a fighter going under the name of Abu Amer al-Najdi (pictured) |
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Staten Island Man, 21, Arrested in Alleged ISIS-Related Conspiracy >Knife Attack on FBI Agent: Court Papers
AP 17 June 2015 NBC 4 New York The FBI-NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested a 21-year-old Staten Island man who allegedly repeatedly tried to stab an FBI agent with a kitchen knife Wednesday as officers attempted to search his home in connection with an ongoing ISIS-related investigation involving a Queens college student arrested over the weekend, according to court documents. Fareed Mumini was charged Wednesday with attempting to murder an FBI agent, though no serious injuries were reported in the scuffle, conspiring to provide material support to ISIS and trying to assist the terror group in carrying out an attack in the New York area, according to the complaint. After his arrest, Mumini allegedly told investigators he had pledged his allegiance to ISIS and that he planned to travel overseas to join the group. If he wasn't able to join ISIS overseas, he allegedly planned to attack law enforcement officers at home, and was coordinating that plan with others. Mumini's alleged conspirators include Munther Omar Saleh, the 20-year-old college student from Queens arrested over the weekend for allegedly scouting possible targets for an ISIS-inspired attack. Court documents say Saleh also charged law enforcement officers with a knife when he saw them conducting surveillance of him and another alleged conspirator Saturday. No one was hurt Saleh allegedly named Mumini as a co-conspirator when he agreed to speak with investigators following his arrest, court documents indicate. Investigators began reviewing cellphone records between the duo, and found discussions about attacking law enforcement. In one conversation, Saleh allegedly told Mumini to use a bomb, then to fight, later clarifying he should detonate an explosive, then run over law enforcement officers with a vehicle, gather up their weapons and use them to shoot at other victims, court papers say. Court documents indicate Saleh allegedly emailed himself information about how to build a pressure cooker bomb like the ones used in the 2013 Boston Marathon attack; he and another man also allegedly searched for items like an LED light, lava lamp, chemistry model, propane and other components that authorities say could be used in the creation of explosive devices. While Saleh allegedly was running the "op," as he described it to a confidential informant, authorities allege Mumini helped him in his alleged efforts to carry out an attack on behalf of ISIS. The two were seen meeting on several occasions since May 2015; during one meeting, Saleh contacted Mumini to tell him he had money and wanted to meet, stating that he had money that "talks," possibly referring to funding for an illegal transaction, the complaint alleges. Saleh eluded surveillance teams on the way to a meeting with Mumini on Staten Island. Saleh and Mumini also met in lower Manhattan late last month. On June 1, Saleh and another alleged co-conspirator allegedly talked about how the meeting with Mumini went. Saleh allegedly said it was "awesome" and "motivating." When Saleh told Mumini 11 days later, "I decided to tell my parents 'i will be gone in much less than a year, in sha Allah, you have two choices, either you let me go to Darul Islam or you watch me kill nonMuslims here," Mumini replied, "May Allah make it easy for you," court documents say. Authorities went to Mumini's home Wednesday to execute a search warrant in the case when Mumini allegedly attacked them. Court papers say the suspect's mother and sister opened the door to let law enforcement officers in, and when they entered, Mumini walked down the main staircase. Officers ordered him to move to a couch in the living room and Mumini refused, then allegedly lunged at the agents with a kitchen knife. He repeatedly tried to stab one officer as others attempted to restrain him, court papers say. None of the stabs penetrated the agent's body armor. After Mumini's arrest, his mother allowed agents to search his car, where investigators found a bag containing another large kitchen knife, court papers say. After his arrest, he allegedly told FBI agents Wednesday's attack on the officers was premeditated and that he kept the knife used to attack the agent wrapped in a T-shirt in his bed for just such an occasion. He said he also stowed the knife found in his mother's car for a potential encounter with law enforcement, the complaint says. Court papers say Mumini also admitted to talking about building a pressure cooker bomb with Saleh. Mumini appeared briefly in federal court in Brooklyn; he was appointed an attorney, Anthony Ricco, who denied his client pledged allegiance to ISIS. Ricco said Mumini would plead not guilty at an appropriate time. He said Mumini is a religious man who had a job before Wednesday. The lawyer also said Mumini and Saleh know each other, but he declined to elaborate on their relationship. Ricco said Mumini's mother and cousins, who were in court Wednesday, were surprised by the charges. They did not comment as they left court. The young man's uncle, who was also in court, said he didn't believe the charges. He said Mumini attends the College of Staten Island and works as a home health aide on the weekends. The uncle described Mumini as a good kid. A neighbor who witnessed the arrest was Mumini was cooperative when he was arrested by authorities; he was led out of his home wearing a bathrobe and shackles. The neighbor reiterated the uncle's statements that Mumini is a good kid, saying he was always offering to shovel and carry groceries. The neighbor said he doesn't believe the allegations "for a minute." Mumini was held without bail. He faces 20 years in prison if convicted of the charge of attempting to murder a federal officer. Saleh appeared in court Saturday when the complaint against him was unsealed. The name of his attorney wasn't available, but his family denied the allegations Wednesday. |
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Anthony Small, Former British Boxing Champion, Accused of Trying to Join ISIS
AP, 20 Jun , 2015 Anthony Small, a retired boxer who held light middleweight championships in Great Britain, was one of three London men accused by a court of attempting to join terror group ISIS. "The prosecution's case is they intended to travel to Syria to join and support what is called Islamic State of Iraq and Levant, known as Isil or Isis," prosecutor Richard Whittam said in his opening statement of the trial, per BBC. Small, Michael Coe and Simon Keeler were arrested last year on terror-related charges. Prosecutors allege that Small tried to smuggled jihadists out of the United Kingdom and into Syria, where they would then perform acts of terror in support of ISIS. Small, who converted to Islam at age 24 and is otherwise known as Abdul Haqq, has been an outspoken supporter of the Islamic State group. He released a video in September of last year excusing ISIS beheadings of American journalists, saying they "[weren't] unprovoked." Small had previously participated in rallies calling for Great Britain to not involve itself with the War in Afghanistan. British prosecutors also charged Small with disseminating terrorist publications, saying he published an article titled "Attacks By Muslims In Perspective" and recorded a speech titled "Another James Foley beheading." All three men have maintained their innocence. |
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Kalashnikov Raised, Tunisian Terrorist's Last Moments Revealed as He Roams the Streets Looking for More Victims After Slaughtering 37 Tourists in Hotel Massacre Before Police Shoot Him Dead
The final moments of a machine gun-wielding terrorist who caused havoc on a beach in Tunisia today have been captured on camera. AK47 in hand, the man prowls the streets of Sousse, the popular resort town where he killed at least 37 and injured another 36 having opened fire on a beach packed with holiday makers. It has emerged that a heroic British man, who was shot three times on the beach during the onslaught, bravely used his body as a human shield to protect his fiancee from being killed by the maniac gunman. The massacre took place at about the same time as the bombing of a Shi'ite mosque in Kuwait, where 25 worshippers were killed, and another attack on a United States-owned factory in France in which a man was beheaded. The violence comes just days after ISIS urged its fanatic followers to 'make Ramadan a month of calamities' and rise up against the 'non-believers'. Scroll down for videos http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5339529127.jpg Terrorist: New images show the final moments of a gunman (pictured) who caused havoc by opening fire on a beach packed with holidaymakers in Tunisia today, before police shot him dead http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5340053368.jpg Predator: Assault rifle in hand, he roams the streets of the popular holiday resort town Sousse where he and possible accomplices killed at least 37 people today http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5339628121.jpg Killer: Witnesses in Sousse said the terrorists used a jet ski and a boat to access the beach and hid their machine guns in parasols before indiscriminately opening fire on civilians http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5322212153.jpg An officer speaks on his phone as he walks past the dead body of one of the gunmen on the ground http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5330788129.jpg Bodies lie on a beach in Sousse after gunmen opened fire on tourists at two hotels, killing at least 37 http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5339437560.jpg Massacre: At least 37 people were killed on the beach when gunmen opened fire on innocent sunbathers http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5339460757.jpg Killed: A 16-year-old British boy saw his grandmother and parents gunned down by the men who killed 37 (one pictured) http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5339716928.jpg Deceased: Tunisian lifeguards stand next to a covered body in the resort town of Sousse, which has been brought to its knees following a merciless terrorist attack http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5325709378.jpg Armed police stand over the body of a victim shot dead on the beach by Islamist gunmen in Tunisia http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5340622980.jpg Hero: British man Matthew James (right), who was shot three times on the beach during the onslaught, used his body as a human shield to protect his fiancee Sarah Wilson (left) from being killed by the maniac gunman http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5339215437.jpg Onslaught: One of the survivors of the massacre on a beach in Tunisia sits inside the Imperial Marhaba Hotel, where a window was smashed by gunfire http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5339218830.jpg Attack: A broken glass window of the Imperiale Marhaba hotel is seen after a gunman opened fire at the beachside hotel in Sousse http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5332582522.jpg Medics help an injured man in Sousse after gunmen stormed beaches of two hotels in the town of Sousse Matthew James, 30, from Cardiff, is fighting for his life after being shot four times in the stomach, his father-in law William Wilson told MailOnline. The gas engineer was hit in the shoulder, chest and hip as the gunman opened fire on the sunbeds as he lay next to fiancee Sarah Wilson. Speaking from the hospital in Tunisia, Sarah, 26, said: 'He took a bullet for me. I owe him my life because he threw himself in front of me when the shooting started. He was covered in blood from the shots but he just told me to run away. 'He told me: "I love you babe. But just go - tell our children that their daddy loves them". 'It was the bravest thing I've ever known. But I just had to leave him under the sunbed because the shooting just kept on coming. 'I ran back, past bodies on the beach to reach our hotel. It was chaos - there was a body in the hotel pool and it was just full of blood. 'You just can't explain how terrible it was. It was chaos with screaming and gunshots. I'm just so glad Matthew is alive because so many other people are dead.' Engaged couple Sarah and Matthew, from Pontypridd, South Wales, left their two children Tegan, six, and Kaden, 14 months at home with their family when they jetted out to Sousse on June 21 for a two week break. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5333373872.jpg Emotions running high: A man launches a furious attack on a man apparently arrested over the shootings http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5330488444.jpg The suspect gunman was attacked after reportedly being captured by the entrance to the Sousse motorway http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5330492153.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5339010017.jpg Safety: Terrified tourists are holed up inside the Imperial hotel in the resort town of Sousse, a popular tourist destination 90 miles south of the Tunisian capital http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5340017428.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5340019015.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5340024121.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5340025481.jpg Ellie Makin, from Ripon, who was on holiday with her friend Debbie Horsfall from Huddersfield, said she saw a gunman pull a weapon from an umbrella right next to them on the beach while they were sunbathing. She told ITV News: 'He was to the right of me because we were on the last sun bed on the beach. All of a sudden I got up anyway and just happened to look right and all I saw was a gun and an umbrella being dropped. 'Then he started firing to the right hand side of us. If he had fired to the left I don't know what would have happened, but we were very lucky.' A 16-year-old British boy reportedly saw his parents and grandmother slaughtered by the gunman and possible accomplices. The boy is being treated for his injuries in hospital, according to a report by a Tunisian radio station. Staff at the Clinic Les Oliviers in Sousse where many of the injured have been taken said they were treating 13 British nationals. Other victims who died included an Irish woman, Tunisians, Germans and Belgians. Witnesses in Sousse said the terrorists used a jet ski and a boat to access the beach and hid their machine guns in parasols while dressed in Western clothing. The body of one gunman lay at the scene with a Kalashnikov after he was shot in an exchange of gunfire with police. A second suspect was later arrested near a motorway. Pictures showed him being punched in the face by a furious woman as he was marched through the town by armed police. Bodies of victims are covered up on the beach in Sousse; http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5330279023.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5321289633.jpg This picture shows the body of a western holidaymaker lying dead on the beach in Sousse - empty sun loungers can be seen behind him after people fled the area http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5321334608.jpg This picture shows dead bodies on the beach following the attack on the beach today A Tunisian student, previously unknown to the security services, is the prime suspect in the massacre, Tunisia's Secretary of State for Security, Rafik Chelly revealed. Mr Chelly told Tunisia's Mosaique FM radio station: 'He is Tunisian, from the Kairouan region [in the centre of Tunisia]. He is a student. He was not known [to the security services]. 'He went to the beach, dressed like someone who is going for a swim and he had a parasol [sun umbrella] inside which he had his weapon. After he arrived at the beach, he used his weapon.' The attack took place at the Al-Qantawi resort in the city of Sousse, around 140 kilometres south of the capital Tunis on the Mediterranean coast. The hotels attacked are understood to be the Imperial Marhaba and the Soviva. Ridha Jegham, director general of the Royal Kenz Hotel opposite the Imperial Marhaba Hotel, told a local radio station that the terrorists used a jet ski and boat to access the beach. He said he had passed the information to the country's Interior Minister. British tourist Gary Pine told Sky News said: 'We thought fire crackers were going off but you could see quite quickly what was going on. 'There was a mass exodus off the beach. My son was in the sea at the time and myself and my wife were shouting at him to get out and as he ran up he said I've just saw someone get shot. 'One attacker opened fire with a Kalashnikov on tourists and Tunisians on the beach of the hotel', said a hotel worker at the site. 'It was just one attacker. He was a young guy dressed in shorts like he was a tourist himself.' http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5330497061.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5322253760.jpg Police stand over one of the gunmen after the attack in the popular tourist destination today Elizabeth O'Brien, an Irish woman on holiday with her two sons in the resort, described how she grabbed her children and ran for their lives when they heard gunfire erupting from one of the hotels. She said: 'We were on the beach. My sons were in the sea and I just got out of the sea. 'It was about 12 o'clock and I just looked up about 500 metres from me and I saw a (hot air) balloon collapse down, then rapid firing, then I saw two of the people who were going to go up in the balloon start to run towards me - because I thought it was fireworks. 'So, I thought 'oh my God, it sounds like gunfire', so I just ran to the sea to my children and grabbed our things and as I was running towards the hotel. 'The waiters and the security on the beach started saying 'run, run run!' and we just ran to our room, which is like a little bungalow. So we are actually trapped in our room.' The British Government's emergency Cobra committee will meet this afternoon following the attack in Tunisia and another one in France where a man was decapitated at a gas factory by terrorists carrying Islamist banners. Prime Minister David offered 'our solidarity in fighting this evil of terrorism'. He added: 'Our hearts go out to the victims of appalling terrorist acts in France and Tunisia.' http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5325784173.jpg Tunisian troops stand guard outside the hotel in an armoured car after the terror attack http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5324645848.jpg Susan Rickett, who was staying at the Palm Marina Hotel near Sousse, said: 'My sister was talking to someone who had seen some people shooting and had shot someone on a sun bed but we don't know if that's true. 'It sounded like a machine gun going off... and there was a kind of explosion a little bit later. 'They're saying its going on in the hotel next to us. Police were chasing some men, that's all I know.' Rebecca Miles, a British tourist who was staying at the Royal Kenz hotel with her boyfriend Dean Anderson, 24, told MailOnline: 'We were told to go back to our rooms because there were reports of a bomb. 'It happened about half an hour ago – I heard a bang and I thought it was thunder but it was a clear sky so it obviously wasn't. 'I heard sirens going off about 20 minutes ago and everyone came running back from the private hotel beach which is about 400 metres from the hotel. Everyone is a bit clueless about what is happening. 'People are anxious because they don't really know what is happening and we are now stuck in our rooms. There have been deaths apparently.' http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5320541315.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5322161406.jpg A holidaymaker John Yeoman has barricaded himself inside his hotel room in Sousse (pictured) David Schofield said: 'We heard quite a large explosion...People are running around the hotel. No-one has really been told what to do.' The Foreign Office said it is aware of the reports and is looking into them. In a statement, Thomas Cook said: 'Thomas Cook has been advised of an incident that occurred earlier today in Sousse, Tunisia. 'At this time, details are not clear as to which properties have been affected, with conflicting news reports. 'We are currently gathering information and will provide an update as soon as possible. 'Our teams on the ground are offering every support to our customers and their families in the area. 'We will continue to monitor the situation, working closely with the FCO and local authorities.' Quote:
'That that are others with him is something we cannot confirm or deny.' While the country's president Mohamed Beji Caid Essebsi said: 'We have seen today that Tunisia is facing an international movement. 'It cannot respond alone. The proof is that at the same time and on the same day, France has been the target of an similar operation as well as Kuwait. 'This is the proof that a global strategy is needed and that every democratic country should unite its forces... I hope this time is the last time.' Holiday brands Thomson and First Choice said they were 'aware of a suspected terrorist incident in Tunisia'. They added: 'We are working closely with our teams in Tunisia and the relevant authorities to determine exactly what has happened and provide assistance to those affected. 'More information will be released as it becomes available.' This morning's news follows a similar attack in March, when three terrorists attacked the Bardo National Museum in the Tunisian capital city of Tunis, and took hostages. Twenty-one people, mostly European tourists, were killed at the scene, while an additional victim died ten days later. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5322261568.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5324100994.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5319960702.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5320601715.jpg It has been reported that the attack happened on the private beach of the Royal Kenz Hotel, which is situated 400 metres away ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack, the deadliest involving foreigners in Tunisia since a 2002 suicide bombing on the island of Djerba. The attack comes just hours after a man was decapitated and dozens more injured at a gas product factory in France by terrorists carrying Islamist banners. The attack took place at the headquarters of the American owned Air Products, in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, near the city of Lyon, in the south east of the country. The murder is believed to have been accompanied by several explosions on the site cause by a terrorist igniting small 'gas bombs' that injured dozens of factory workers. It is believed the explosions may have intended to blow up the entire factory site but failed. The murdered man's head is understood to have been found 30 feet away from his body, hanging on the factory's fence. The dead man's head was covered in Arabic 'inscriptions' before being placed on the fence, according to local journalists at the scene. A 30-year-old man - named by French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve as Yacine Sali who is understood to have been known to security services since at least 2006 - has already been arrested at the scene, telling police officers that he is a member of the Islamic State terror group. The man is believed not to have a criminal record but was considered to have 'possibly been radicalised'. Quote:
Sousse Terror Attack: Wounded Arrive at Private Clinic Tourist Describes Hearing Gunman Fire Shots Below Them Wounded are Taken into Hotel for Treatment in Sousse CONTINUED..... . |
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http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5330754777.jpg Police swooped on the apartment building in Saint-Priest (right), near the city of Lyon, just hours after the 30-year-old delivery driver was arrested on suspicion of decapitating his boss, writing Arabic slogans on the severed head and hanging it on a fence outside the nearby headquarters of Air Products (left). Salhi is accused of going on to crash his Ford Fusion delivery van through the factory's gates before crashing it into several large gas cannisters left in the car park, apparently in the hope they would explode and destroy the entire factory complex. Four people are in custody in connection to a beheading and explosion at a gas factory in south-eastern France - and police are still searching buildings for evidence. Heavily armed police investigating this morning's brutal terror attack in France have removed a woman and child from the home of Yassine Salhi - the suspected Islamist accused of beheading his boss and trying to blow up the American-owned gas factory. He was known to factory personnel because he came in regularly for deliveries, Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins said. Police swooped on the apartment building in Saint-Priest, in the suburbs of the city of Lyon, just hours after the 30-year-old delivery driver was arrested on suspicion of writing Arabic slogans on his employer's severed head and hanging it on a fence outside the nearby headquarters of Air Products. Salhi is accused of going on to crash his Ford Fusion delivery van through the factory's gates before ramming it into several large gas cannisters left in the car park - apparently in the hope they would explode and destroy the entire factory complex. The explosions were relatively small, however, leaving just two factory workers with non life-threatening injuries. The murdered man - who French media say owned the delivery company Salhi worked for - is believed to have been killed elsewhere before his corpse was dumped at the factory site in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier and his head impaled on a fence 30 feet away surrounded by homemade Islamist flags. Speaking before the raid on her home, Salhi's wife described her husband as a 'normal Muslim' who left for work as usual at 7am this morning. 'My heart stopped when I heard he was a suspect....I expected him this afternoon,' the unnamed woman told French radio station Europe 1. Salhi - who is understood to have been known to security services since at least 2006 - reportedly told arresting officers that he is a member of the Islamic State terror group. He is believed not to have a criminal record and an investigation into his 'possible radicalisation' was dropped in 2008. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5323316314.jpg Sickening: The victim's head (which MailOnline has chosen to disguise in this image) was found hanging on a fence near the factory's entrance. Two homemade Islamist flags - one white and one black, both with Arabic inscriptions - were found alongside it http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5327521691.jpg Terror raid: French special forces escort an unidentified woman and child as they leave Yassine Salhi's apartment building today http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5326918120.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5326946616.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5327019307.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5327024040.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5315429718.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5314084454.jpg Under cover: French police cordon off the area where the decapitated body was found at the Air Products headquarters http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5313714513.jpg Location: The attack took place in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, close to the city of Lyon in the south east of France -------------------------------------------- Suicide Bomb Rips Through Kuwaiti Mosque After Friday Prayers Killing at Least 27 Worshippers as ISIS Claims Responsibility
At least 27 worshippers have been killed today a further 227 were injured after an ISIS suicide bomber struck at a packed Kuwaiti mosque after Friday prayers. Shocking photos show dozens of dead and wounded Muslims who were all observing the holy month of Ramadan in the Al-Imam al-Sadeq Shiite mosque in Kuwait City. Witnesses said worshippers were standing shoulder-to-shoulder in group prayer when the bomb ripped through the building. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5339708088.jpg Carnage: Medics and security forces gather inside the Imam Sadiq Mosque attempt to secure the scene following the devastating blast http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5339731534.jpg Rushed to safety: Rescue workers carry out one seriously injured man from the mosque attack, where as many as 25 worshipers were killed http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5339728486.jpg The attacker has reportedly been named and is thought to be a 25-year-old Saudi national http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5339725879.jpg The ISIS-affiliated group in Saudi Arabia, calling itself Najd Province, said its militant Abu Suleiman al-Muwahhid carried out the suicide bombing. CCTV footage has emerged of the bomber arriving outside the mosque in a white car. He calmly gets out of the car, walks slowly up the steps and inside the mosque. Dressed in a white dishdasha and matching kheffiyah in order not to raise suspicion, the bomber heads towards the prayer room. His white thobe slightly bulging at the sides due to the explosive vest concealed underneath his clothes. He was seen walking in to the back of the mosque during prayers, before standing among his victims and blowing himself up. The group said the mosque was targeted because they believe it was spreading Shiite teachings among Sunni Muslims. ISIS, a radical Sunni Muslim group, considers Shiites to be heretics. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5345872426.jpg The final moments of footage show the bomber approaching the main prayer room. His robe can be seen slighty bulging at the sides from the deadly explosive vest concealed underneath http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5345876933.jpg The group said the mosque was targeted because they believe it was spreading Shiite teachings among Sunni Muslims. ISIS, a radical Sunni Muslim group, considers Shiites to be heretics. Kuwait's health minister said that 27 people had been killed and a further 227 worshippers were badly injured in the horrific attack. Kuwaiti Emir Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah has reportedly visited the Imam Sadiq Mosque following a suicide bombing in al-Sawaber. This week ISIS promised 'paradise' and 'rewards in heaven' for those who carry out Ramadan attacks. Najd Province claimed similar bombings against Shiite mosques in Saudi Arabia in recent weeks. Last month, the group claimed two deadly bombings against Shiite mosques in Saudi Arabia, both of which took place during the weekly Friday prayers. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5328257974.jpg Aftermath: Mourners climb through the rubble and dust in the search for bodies after a suicide bomber killed 25 in Kuwait http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5327926113.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5327920228.jpg Crime scene: Police and Kuwaiti officials survey the scene at the mosque, which was itself badly damaged by the blast http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5324251852.jpg ISIS has also claimed several such attacks against Shiites in Yemen, the last of which was just a week ago. On June 17, it claimed five simultaneous bombings at Shiite mosques and offices in Sanaa that killed at least 31 people and wounded dozens. But Friday's attack is the first of its kind in oil-rich Kuwait. One eyewitness said today that he saw at least 10 dead bodies lying close together. Police formed a cordon around the mosque's complex immediately after the explosion, banning people from entering or gathering near the area. Ambulances could be seen ferrying the wounded from the site. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5323368846.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5323700682.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5323360326.jpg Hassan al-Haddad, 21, said: 'We couldn't see anything, so we went straight to the wounded and tried to carry them out. We left the dead'. Abdullah al-Saffar, who was at the mosque, said the explosion took place just after midday Friday prayers. Friday midday prayers are typically the most crowded of the week, and attendance increases during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, which started last week. Another witness, Ahmad al-Shawaf, said worshippers were standing shoulder to shoulder in group prayer when the explosion struck near the door of the mosque, behind some of the worshippers. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5324279304.jpg Disbelief: An injured man is carried away by friends as other shock Kuwaitis discuss what they saw http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5324334968.jpg Al-Shawaf said the explosion took place near the end of a second prayer that is traditional to Shiites and that follows the main midday Friday prayer. He said witnesses standing behind him said they saw a man walk in, stand in the back with other congregants and detonate his device. Mohammed al-Faili, 32, said that his 70 year-old father was killed in the explosion and two of his brothers were also wounded. He said he was not at the mosque at the time of the explosion but was heading to the morgue to identify his father's body. Kuwaiti Justice, Religious Endowment and Islamic Affairs Minister Yacoub al-Sanna described the attack as a 'terrorist and cowardly action which threatens our nation and works at tearing apart the national unity.' Al-Sanna told the official state agency KUNA that, the government would take all necessary measure to ensure protection of houses of worship. 'Kuwait was and will remain the oasis of security and safety to all components of the Kuwaiti society and sects,' he said. |
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Body Parts, Bloody Battles and Being One of the Boys: Model who Went to Fight ISIS in Syria Reveals Horrors She Saw on the Frontline
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...19_964x417.jpg Former model Tiger Sun (pictured), who grew up in Canada and has asked for her real name not be published, has spoken exclusively to MailOnline about bloody battles and killing jihadis. Earlier this year she decided to leave the comforts of home and head to the Middle East. With no training, other than how to fire a weapon (inset), Tiger was soon on the front line. A former model who swapped her comfortable life to fight ISIS in Syria has told of the horrors of her time in battle on the frontline. Stunning Tiger Sun said she saw a little girl, who had been blown up by a landmine, die because the Kurds have no medical training. She also revealed how, on patrol, she trod on a charred finger and looked round - but couldn’t find the body it belonged to. The former model, 46, fought jihadist fighters from Islamic State for four months with the Kurdish YPJ (People's Protection Units), until her legs buckled under the weight of her kit and malnutrition forced her to return home to Canada. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6054465254.jpg Fierce fighter: Tiger Sun, 46, left Canada in March to fight with the Kurdish People's Protections Units in Syria http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6054471992.jpg Armed: With little training, Tiger began fighting on the front line alongside Kurdish troops and Westerners http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6054482859.jpg Biker chick: Motorcycle fan Tiger left her friends and family in Canada to fight ISIS in Syria earlier this year Tiger revealed that while women fight alongside male soldiers, sexual relationships do happen, although they are kept secret. But she said despite being a stunning ex-model she was treated as an equal during battle. In an exclusive interview with MailOnline, Tiger said: 'I witnessed things I never could have imagined. ‘I stepped on a finger once - it was charred black and bent at a weird angle. The body it came from was nowhere in sight. ‘I watched a little girl die from her injuries from a landmine explosion because the Kurds have no medical training or equipment.’ The mother-of-one, who was born in Zambia, left Vancouver, Canada, for the battlefields of the Middle East after a Lebanese man she was in a relationship with left her for an arranged marriage. She also saw an ISIS propaganda video featuring John McGuire, a white convert jihadist, from Ottawa, and it prompted her to go and fight. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5871666187.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6054496727.jpg Family: Tiger has a daughter but says she was most worried about telling her mother she was going to fight http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6054501884.jpg Lookout: Although she never killed a jihadi herself, Tiger says she was contributed to deaths of ISIS fighters On March 1 she left behind her grown up daughter from a previous relationship and flew to Iraq where she was smuggled through the country and into Syria. With no real training other than how to fire a gun, she was thrust straight into battle. 'Did I see violence? Did I see ISIS kill innocent people? Yes, I was in the fight. I saw them trying to kill us. We see Daesh (ISIS), we kill Daesh, and that's about it. It's actually quite simple. I had lunch by a pile of brains once. It was no big deal 'To be honest, the bodies don't haunt me. The friends I lost do make me sad though, and the unfairness of it all upsets me. 'When I saw friends killed I cried a little, but you just have to accept that this happens in war,' she explained. 'It's incredibly unfair but it's the reality in those circumstances. 'It still makes me cry when I think about it. 'Yazidis, Arabs, Kurds. Everyone has lost someone it seems. Many join the YPG or YPJ for revenge, or because they no longer have a family. 'They seem to hide their mourning though. I rarely ever saw anyone cry.' http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6054505155.jpg Modelling: Tiger Sun worked in fashion and corporate modelling until 2006 and now lives in Vancouver http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6054508107.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6054512010.jpg Life in Canada: As well as being a model, Tiger Sun says she's worked in sales, factories and the film industry http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6054526802.jpg Biker: Tiger Sun is now back home in Vancouver where she enjoys riding motorbikes and photography Tiger witnessed death and destruction every day while fighting ISIS. In June her group seized control of Tal Abyad – in the north of Syria, close to the border with Turkey – a key town used by ISIS to exports goods such as black market oil into eastern Syria. The person in the trench next to you could be a guy or a girl and it makes no difference. They're soldiers first. Not once did I feel harassed, objectified or in danger when I was around the men In battle Tiger fought with a woman who shot 28 jihadists dead – although she never killed anyone herself. ‘They were always just out of range,’ she said. ‘I brought my own pair of binoculars with me because they weren’t readily available, so I was doing a lot of the spotting, which led to kills. ‘I would go and look at the bodies afterwards, but it didn't and still doesn't bother me. I had lunch by a pile of brains once. It was no big deal. ‘However, I saw those who did kill someone go through a whole range of emotions, like elation, then guilt, and I realised if I did kill someone directly, I may obsess about it and ruin the rest of my life.’ Tiger said she wasn’t sexually harassed and didn’t feel objectified because she was treated ‘just like one of boys’ - as men and women are treated as equal on the front line. Quote:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6054539141.jpg YPJ fighters: Tiger took this picture of Heval Arjin searching for grenades in a trunk filled with weapons http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6054547672.jpg Deceptive: Tiger took this photo of Heval Saleen and Heval Arjin, but warns: 'Don't be fooled. These girls are killers' http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6054581334.jpg Strike a pose: Tiger took this picture of Heval Souzda with her weapon while she was in Syria fighting ISIS ‘The person in the trench next to you could be a guy or a girl and it makes no difference. They're soldiers first. Not once did I feel harassed, objectified or in danger when I was around the men. ‘When people join the YPJ/YPG, they commit completely to it. There's no time for anything else. I love the people and I'm worried about my friends. It also turns out that I really like the fighting ‘This was a problem for some of the western guys who wanted to get it on with the girls,’ she said. ‘An American kept complaining about how cold the girls were. I told him to stop disrespecting them with his flirting. ‘Flirting is a way of gaining control and that's not part of their (Kurdish) culture.' ‘A YPG soldier explained to me that in a society where the men elevate themselves, the women get left behind, but in their society where the women are elevated, the men get elevated with them,’ she said. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6054585421.jpg Weapons: Tiger Sun was taught how to fire a weapon, but received no other training before heading to the front line ‘It's very close to a matriarchal society. It was normal for a 17-year-old-girl to be in charge of an entire guard watch of men.’ Suffering from malnutrition, having lost nearly two and a half stone due to a vegetarian diet and no protein, Tiger left Syria a week ago. She said after three months fighting, most westerners 'hit a wall' – and have to take a break. 'We lose too much weight and strength and have to leave. Some go to Erbil in Iraq to regain strength, some go home. 'I had become too weak. When we were taking the bridge leading into Tal Abyad, I had to jump down a ledge and my legs gave out under the weight of my gear. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6054592602.jpg Front line: Tiger fought with both male YPG and fellow female YPJ fighters, who lived side-by-side in Syria http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6054600824.jpg Friends: Tiger pictured with Heval Berxodan, who's known to fellow fighters as the Dutch falcon of Rojava 'Another girl tried to help me up and that's when I realised I had become a detriment. I wouldn't want someone else to get hurt while trying to help me.' But Tiger is one of the lucky ones who survived long enough in Iraq or Syria to get home. Keith Broomfield, from Massachusetts, became the first American volunteer to die battling ISIS on June 3. Reece Harding, an Australian who was fighting with Kurdish forces in Syria, also died in June when he stepped on a mine. They died along with Ashley Johnston, from Australia, British fighter Konstantinos Scurfield, who died in March and 19-year-old German Ivana Hoffmann, who lost her life during battle in Tel Tamr. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6054610750.jpg Hobbies: Tiger Sun is back in Canada and is staying with a friend while she recovers from malnutrition http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6054622602.jpg Flying high: Tiger flying a plane in Canada before she left for Syria. She must now decide whether to return Tiger is now back home recovering while she considers a return to Syria. But she’s not scared of ISIS, whom she described as ‘a bunch of little men with crazy beards.’ 'All I saw were a bunch of social misfits pretending to be something bigger than they really were. They use fear tactics to scare people, but in reality they're not that intimidating.’ She added: ‘I love the YPJ and all the friends I made. I love the people and I'm worried about my friends. It also turns out that I really like the fighting.’ 'Did I see violence? Did I see ISIS kill innocent people? Yes, I was in the fight. I saw them trying to kill us,' she said before adding: 'I had lunch by a pile of brains once. It was no big deal' |
PhOtOs -Australia Concerned About 2 PRO-ISIS Pilots
A Leaked AFP Report Concludes Two Indonesian Pilots Radicalised by ISIS are Now a Major Security Threat
New.com au, 11 July 2015 http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/e...n47vz9c5xuj3mc Islamic State: The terror threat on Australian shores TWO Indonesian pilots believed to be lured by the Islamic State terror group risk posing a major global security threat, according to leaked AFP intelligence report. The radicalisation of Ridwan Agustin and Tommy Abu Alfatih — who flew to Australia as recently as last year — is detailed in a report dated March 18 compiled by the AFP and obtained by US website The Intercept. The document says there are fears the two men, who interacted on social media, could pose a terror threat after investigators examined their Facebook accounts. “Both appear to be influenced by pro-ISIS elements including extremist online propaganda by well-known radical Indonesia outlets and a suspected foreign terrorist fighter who is likely to be either in Syria or Iraq,” the report, titled ‘Identification of Indonesian pilots with possible extremist persuasions’ concludes. http://resources3.news.com.au/images...38771465f6.jpg Global travel ... Tommy Abu Alfatih is pictured in front of the Sydney Opera House in August last year. Source: Facebook While the current employment status of both men is unclear, the document says both Agustin and Abu Alfatih would still possess the skills to fly and have contacts in the aviation sector. It warns that aviation workers have been actively urged by powerful terror groups to arrange attacks. “Pilots, air crew and others with access to and within the aviation environment can pose obvious threats if these persons are radicalised,” the report says. “Their access and knowledge of security and safety regimes provides the ability to attempt attacks as witnessed by past global events. It is noted that a recent edition of the al-Qaeda magazine Inspire actively encouraged attacks within the aviation environment.” http://resources2.news.com.au/images...38771465f6.jpg Ridwan Agustin before his image changed. Source: Facebook http://resources2.news.com.au/images...38771465f6.jpg A more recent image of Ridwan Agustin. Source: Facebook The intelligence paper has reportedly been distributed among the AFP’s law enforcement counterparts including in Turkey, Jordan, London, the US and Europol. The AFP would not confirm or deny the authenticity of the report when approached by News Corp Australia. “The AFP does not comment on matters of intelligence,” a spokesperson said. “The AFP maintains strong relationships with its domestic and foreign law enforcement partners to ensure the ongoing safety of Australians both within Australia and abroad.” Agustin, a former AirAsia pilot, began showing signs of extremist influences in September last year by posting in support of IS on social media, interacting with foreign fighters including militant Heri Kustyanto and following pro-IS pages with graphic images of executions. The report also draws on a progressive change to Agustin’s image “towards more conservative Islamic dress and (the) growing of facial hair” http://resources0.news.com.au/images...38771465f6.jpg Under investigation ... Abu Alfatih pictured in the ****pit of a plane. Source: Facebook The report says he graduated from the AirAsia academy in 2010 and flew domestic and international routes. Agustin, who is now believed to be using a different name on Facebook, expressed interest in joining IS forces in conflict zones. On March 17, he posted his current location as Raqqa, Syria. The location of his wife Diah Suci Wulandari, who lists her last job as an air hostess at AirAsia, is unknown. Her Facebook page was removed this afternoon. The second pilot, Mr Abu Alfatih, whose Facebook profile says he was employed by airline Premiair until June 1 and is in Indonesia, began posting in support of IS in December and liked several of Agustin’s posts relating to the terror group. Prior to this, he posted many images of his worldwide travels “most likely as a pilot” including Australia. The report says he began using extremist phrases, describing police as “ansharu thagut”, a term often used by jihadists “to describe police as helpers of the oppressive government”. Agustin also uses the name Ridwan Ahmad Al Indonesia, while Abu Alfatih is also known as Tomi Hendratno. Sidney Jones, the director of the Jakarta-based Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict, told The Intercept “it makes a lot of sense that the Australians would be extremely nervous” amid the upsurge in people turning to religious extremism. She said the document suggested ISIS was now “recruiting skill sets, professional groups.” |
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The Heroes Risking Their Lives to Free ISIS Sex Slaves Subjected to Rapes, Stonings and Whippings:
> Undercover Footage Reveals Bravery of Undercover Network Dedicated to Saving Women and Children
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...46_964x400.jpg Women and young girls held as sex slaves by depraved Islamic State militants are fleeing their captors with the help of a heroic underground network of resistance fighters (pictured left). Risking certain death and torture in a bid to flee their brutal oppressors, many spend several days making their way through Syria and Iraq to the safety of government-controlled territory (bottom right). Their plight, and that of their brave rescuers operating with hidden cameras (top right) inside ISIS-controlled territory, has been detailed in a new documentary due to air on Wednesday. Many of them have been subjected to appalling violence, rape and sexual abuse at the hands of ISIS fighters and commanders. Scroll down for videos http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6785362165.jpg A resistance fighter in Syria carries a girl once held captive as a sex slave to safety across the Sinjar Mountain, in northern Iraq http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6785371607.jpg Hidden cameras record a group of women in the streets of the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa, Syria http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6785404230.jpg A young girl covered head to toe in a burqa in accordance with the bloodthirsty militants' strict laws http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6785376594.jpg Using a hidden camera, a young woman is filmed lifting her veil in order to see where she is walking http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6785380792.jpg The hidden cameras also captured this harrowing moment when an activist was questioned at an ISIS checkpoint Their plight has been documented in the harrowing new Channel 4 documentary Escape from ISIS, which is due to be broadcast this week. The film follows those responsible for helping the ISIS sex slave victims through a highly co-ordinated escape network. With little food or water, their escape is made possible with the help of Khaleel Al Dakhi, a lawyer-turned-activist. ISIS has carried out 'systematic sexual crimes' against girls from the Yazidi community since kidnapping more than 3,000 girls from their homes in northern Iraq last August. Unjustly regarded as ‘devil worshippers’ on account of their unusual beliefs, the Yazidi have for centuries been one of the most persecuted minorities of the Middle East. Islamic extremists regard them as infidels, worthy only of being killed. Those considered the 'most beautiful' by ISIS leaders are sent to horrendous auction houses where they are stripped naked and sold to the highest bidder. Edward Watts, the documentary director, told MailOnline the majority those being rescued were Yazidis who had been treated as 'subhuman' due to the ISIS belief they were 'devil worshippers'. He said: 'They're desperate to get their hands on a mobile phone and when they do they call their families and tell them "I'm alive".' Once the families of the women were notified, they contact the resistance network to arrange a rescue, he said. Escape From ISIS: The Heroes freeing ISIS sex slaves; http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...95_638x358.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6785392040.jpg Khaleel Al Dakhi (pictured) is a lawyer who co-ordinates the captive women's escape routes to Iraq http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6785395304.jpg A young girl who was abducted by ISIS is reunited with her family at a refugee camp in northern Iraq http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6785409653.jpg Two young girls who were captured by ISIS pose for a photo having made it the safety of a refugee camp in Dohuk, Iraq He added: 'They have all sorts of different ways of doing it, but they have a network of guys inside ISIS [territory]. 'They identify where the girls are being held, go in and grab the girls and take them across the frontline.' The journey to safe territory can be arduous - the film follows the fortunes of a group of women who spend days hiding in a field during downpours, while another young girl loses her shoes and makes the two-day trek barefoot. Mr Watts said the group claimed to have rescued up to 500 women in total but some rescuers had died in the process. Only recently two men were killed after ISIS militants set a trap for the rescuers. Mr Watts explained: 'They got a woman under duress to call up and say "I'm in this house can you come and rescue me, the guy holding me is away", when in fact it was a trap. 'These two guys turned up, ISIS caught them and they were stoned to death.' Quote:
TRAILER > Escape From ISIS: The Heroes Freeing ISIS Sex Slaves Freeing The Slave Women Of ISIS ISIS Sex Slaves Who Refuse to Perform Sex Acts Will be Burned at the Stake RELATED: A Documentary That Ought to Rank With the Footage of British Troops Liberating Belsen Channel 4's latest episode of Dispatches, Escape from Isis, which includes secret footage inside the terror state, is TV at its most unmissable, says James Delingpole, The Spectator UK. http://cdn.spectator.co.uk/wp-conten...07/tv-isis.jpg So you’ve just popped out of town for the day on an errand. And when you get back, everyone has gone. Your wife, your kids, your nephews and nieces, your friends, your customers: they’ve all been kidnapped and dragged off to a place so barbarically horrible that really they’d be better off dead. Your daughter, for example. If she’s nine or over then she’s considered fair game. She’ll be sold as a slave in the market to the highest bidder — as ever, there’s a premium for blonde hair or blue eyes— after which her new owner can use her as she wishes. The very least she can expect is to have to spend her every day in the most restrictive clothing anywhere in the Muslim world. Her hands must be hidden by black gloves, her eyes invisible behind three veils. On those rare occasions when she is allowed outside, she must stumble as if half blind. If she accidentally breaks these rules she’ll be beaten; if she raises her voice she’ll be beaten; if she disobeys an order she’ll be beaten — usually by the al-Khansaa Brigade, a special female police group of brutal enforcers, mostly foreign recruits determined to prove their loyalty by being extra zealous. Really, though, these may be the least of her worries. One 18-year-old escapee reports what happened when she was bought by a self-styled ‘sheikh’: first, her owner raped her; then his six bodyguards — through the night till morning (‘they were not raping me in a gentle way, but with force and fast movement, without care’); then, the driver gave her to 12 men. ‘They did everything to me. I’m still in pain.’ Even now that this (relatively) lucky girl is back safe with her family, the stink of those men is still with her and no matter how hard she tries she knows she’ll never get rid of it. She now cleans her teeth ten times a day (the first thing her owner did was dip his toe in honey and shove it in her mouth) but of course it makes no difference. Yes, of course, we most of us now have a rough idea of the terrible things that are happening in Isis-held territory in Syria and Iraq. But up until now it has been tempting to inure oneself to the full horror with the bromide that these are people a long way off about whom we know little. Not any more. Next Wednesday (15 July), Channel 4 airs a documentary in its Dispatches slot so important it ought to rank with John Pilger’s exposés of Cambodia’s Killing Fields or even the footage of British troops liberating Belsen. Escape From Isis uses secret footage — filmed by extremely brave people who would have been killed if discovered — to show you in unsparing detail what it’s like behind the Black Flag curtain: everything from the small talk of Islamic State fighters as they jauntily discuss what they’re going to do with their Yazidi captives to the dull thump heavy rocks make as they hit the flesh of a woman being stoned to death by a group of religious zealots led by her own father. It’s ugly, it’s almost unbearable to watch and it’s essential viewing. One of the questions most often asked about the Holocaust is: why didn’t the Allies do something to stop it sooner? I imagine the time will come when we give ourselves a similar beating-up over our inertia in dealing with Islamic State. (‘So the UK Prime Minister wrote to the BBC urging it to call them by a different name. And that was it?!’) I remember when the Prime Minister was trying, unsuccessfully, to co-ordinate military action against the Assad government, one of the things he urged MPs to do before they voted was to watch a film he’d seen showing the atrocities Assad’s supporters had committed. This, it struck me at the time, as it does even more so now, was an hysterical and irresponsible suggestion. Important decisions regarding military action should not be decided in a mood of heightened emotion. The same applies to this Dispatches documentary. It is not an argument for or against anything. It merely shows you what is. I’ve made it sound ghastly but what makes it bearable, uplifting even, is the extraordinary story it tells of the rescue operations that have brought at least some of these captured Yazidis back to the bosom of their tearful families. Watch and you will share their joy. This is TV at its most unmissable. This article first appeared in the print edition of The Spectator magazine, dated 11 July 2015 |
re: VIDEOs-Navy Vessel Erupts in Fireball > ISIS 1st Rocket Attack in the Med
Terror Hits the High Seas:
>>>Egyptian Navy Vessel Erupts in Fireball as ISIS Carries Out its First Rocket Strike on Patrol Ship in the Med
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7054747830.jpg The Egyptian military said the patrol ship burst into flames (left) after the coastguard vessel exchanged shots (top right) with ISIS militants just two miles off the coast of northern Sinai, an area bordering Israel and the Gaza Strip. There were no fatalities among the vessel's crew in the shootout with the terrorists, although several were treated for injuries caused by the flames and smoke (bottom right). Extremists loyal to ISIS in Egypt have attacked a naval patrol ship in the Mediterranean Sea, causing it to burst into flames. ISIS declared their presence on Sinai - a peninsula popular with British holidaymakers - last November when up to 2,000 members of the already established jihadi group Ansar Bait al-Maqdis swore allegiance to ISIS' leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7054384577.jpg Explosion: Extremists loyal to the Islamic State in Egypt have attacked a naval patrol ship in the Mediterranean Sea, causing it to burst into flames http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7054116287.jpg Attack: Eyewitnesses said a boat patrolling the Sinai coastline spotted a group of ISIS jihadis on the shore and engaged them. A rocket fired from the shore (circled) struck the vessel moments later http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7054135035.jpg Smoke: A witness, fisherman Abu Ibrahim Mohammed from the neighboring Gaza Strip, said the vessel was a gunboat that was about a nautical mile off the coast when it was struck by the rocket Eyewitnesses said a boat patrolling the Sinai coastline spotted a group of ISIS jihadis on the shore and engaged them. At some point during the fire fight the vessel was struck by a rocket, causing it to burst into flames and withdraw from the battle. The military said it suffered no casualties although it is understood several patrol workers suffered minor burn injuries. An AFP photographer and a witness in the Palestinian Gaza Strip, just across the border, said the boat was struck at least two miles from shore. 'We were sitting on the beach and suddenly there was an explosion,' said Ahmed Nofal. Other navy boats came to rescue the crew as their vessel spewed a plume of smoke. A witness, fisherman Abu Ibrahim Mohammed from the neighboring Gaza Strip, said the vessel was a gunboat that was about a nautical mile off the coast when it was struck by the rocket. He did not hear the explosion but saw two smaller boats later trying to put out the fire and that a third, larger one later arrived and towed the burned vessel away. Two speed boats were seen later combing the area as gunshots occasionally rang out, he added. Smoke billows from Egyptian Mediterranean patrol ship hit by ISIS; http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...52_636x358.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7054154456.jpg Location: The Egyptian military said earlier a coastguard vessel had exchanged shots with militants just two miles off the coast of northern Sinai, an area bordering Israel and the Gaza Strip http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7054680766.jpg Blast: The military said it suffered no casualties although it is understood several patrol workers suffered minor burn injuries http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7054176046.jpg A Palestinian boy watches smoke rising from the Egyptian patrol vessel off the coast of northern Sinai Authorities refused to officially confirm whether or not the vessel was hit by a rocket but said they are looking into both that possibility as well as theory that ISIS jihadis could have swam out to the patrol ship and placed explosives on it, which were later detonated by remote control. In his Facebook message Samir did not say how much damage the vessel suffered and gave no details on the type of ship or the size of its crew. The vessel, according to the security officials, routinely patrols Egyptian territorial waters and has frequently been used to transport army and police personnel to mainland Egypt. The sea route avoids the overland journey through Sinai, where ISIS targets government forces. Jihadis loyal to ISIS have killed scores of soldiers and policemen in the peninsula since the army's overthrow of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in 2013. The militants have also carried out attacks west of the Suez Canal, which separates the Sinai from the rest of Egypt. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7054649497.jpg Stricken: Authorities refused to officially confirm whether or not the vessel was hit by a rocket but confirmed that they are looking into the possibility http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7054250175.jpg Palestinian fishermen go about their business as an Egyptian naval vessel approaches the stricken patrol ship Yesterday, the military said it foiled an attempted attack on a military post on a highway linking Cairo with the Red Sea coast. The driver of a car that was carrying 1,100 pounds of dynamite refused to stop at a checkpoint, drawing fire from the troops, the military said. The car then swerved off the road and the driver was killed, the military said in a statement. Egypt faces threats from multiple insurgent factions, including the ISIS affiliate in Sinai, which the military says killed at least 17 soldiers in a July 1 assault there. Officials from several branches of Egypt's security forces previously said that that attack killed dozens more. In another attack claimed by ISIS, Egypt's state prosecutor, Hisham Barakat, was assassinated in Cairo by a car bomb in late June. |
PhOtOs -Irish Muslims March Against ISIS
Irish Muslims March Against ISIS – Saying “Not In Our Name”
James O'Shea Irish Central 27 July,2015 http://media.irishcentral.com/images...+my+name+2.jpg Irish Muslims have protested the “murderous campaign” of ISIS following the deadly attack in Tunisia last month, which killed three Irish citizens. Close to 300 Muslims took part in an anti-Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) rally on Dublin’s O’Connell Street, on Sunday. They denounced last month's killings in Tunisia, which included three innocent Irish victims. According to the Islamic Centre of Ireland, the “Not In My Name” march aimed to show that the “murderous campaign” by the Islamic State terrorist group is “absolutely against the teachings of Islam.” Imams from all over Ireland addressed the participants of the protest. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CK42S7KUkAAzyp6.jpg:large “Muslims marched against the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) in Dublin few years ago. The terrorists are damaging Islam and Muslims far more than the caricatures and Islamophobia is increasing rapidly due to the atrocities of terrorists,” said Shaykh Umar Al-Qadri, CEO of the Irish Muslim Peace and Integration Council. “If Muslims can march against caricatures that do not damage Islam, then why can Muslims not protest against ISIS that undermine Islamic teachings. Silence of Muslims may wrongfully be interpreted by some as silent approval of ISIS.” A two-minute silence was held in memory of the three Irish victims of last month’s attack on a Tunisian beach. Shaykh Dr Umar Al-Qadri said that all Muslims are offended by the acts of ISIS. "As Muslims we need a strategy to prevent radicalization. "The vast majority of Muslims are silent and need to find their voice and speak out against these atrocities. "Our jihad is a peaceful one, and its aim is to bring about awareness of the true teachings of the Koran which are not violent." The group launched a detailed 'Declaration of peace and guide to preventing radicalization' document. More events are planned, with the Shaykh saying "today is only the beginning of our campaign." The event was controversial among Irish Muslim groups with some major ones, including the largest Mosque in Dublin, refusing to take part. |
PhOtOs-Russia Offers $50 Mill Reward for Terrorists Who BOMBED Jet
Spotlight on IS After it Claims it Downed Russian Passenger Plane
By AP, 2 & 3 November 2015 Despite a lack of evidence for the claim, the Islamic State group has stepped into the spotlight by saying it downed a Russian airliner that crashed in Egypt killing 224 people. Experts say the jihadist group, whose local affiliate is waging an insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula, has managed to instil doubt about the cause of the crash in the rugged desert terrain. Both Cairo and Moscow have downplayed the suggestion that an attack brought down the Kogalymavia Airbus A-321,,,,, but did not rule out the possibility. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...52_634x421.jpg Debris belonging to the A321 Russian airliner at the site of the crash in Wadi al-Zolomat, a mountainous area in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on November 1, 2015 ©Khaled Desouki (AFP/File) Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has urged patience until the results of a "complicated" investigation into the cause of the tragedy. Experts say the fact that debris and bodies were strewn over such a wide area points to mid-air disintegration of the aircraft. On Saturday, the Airbus took off at dawn from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh bound for Saint Petersburg, but disappeared from radar screens over Sinai after just 23 minutes into the flight. Kogalymavia said on Monday that the crew "totally lost control" of the plane. Analysts have dismissed claims the jet could have been shot down by IS-affiliated groups if it was flying at its cruising height of 30,000 feet (9,000 metres). That left two possibilities -- a technical fault that caused the plane to disintegrate, or an explosion caused by a bomb smuggled on board. - Propaganda Victory - Kogalymavia that operated the charter flight insisted on Monday the disaster was caused by "external" factors, raising the possibility of a bomb. "What the Egyptian affiliate of IS has achieved is that it has shaped the narrative about what happened to the plane," said Professor Fawaz Gerges from the London School of Economics and Political Science. "That's what matters to IS -- to show its capability, its invincibility when it comes to convince its support base that it is powerful to get vengeance against its enemies, particularly Russia." The "Sinai Province" group, the Egyptian affiliate of IS, claimed that it brought down the jet in revenge for Russian air strikes against its jihadists in Syria. Analysts said the longer it takes for investigators to determine the cause of the crash, the more it helps IS propaganda. "In terms of perception, it's certainly a temporary win for ISIS, in that they managed to control the public discussion for a while," said HA Hellyer, Arab affairs specialist at the Royal United Services Institute in London. IS could not have shot down the plane, he said, but did not rule out a bomb on board. "The possibility that ISIS managed to get down the plane with an explosive device on board is theoretically possible, but that would raise other questions about security at Sharm el-Sheikh airport," Hellyer said. "But to bring down a plane at that altitude you need a physical support base and ISIS does not have such a base -– at least in that area where the plane came down." - IS Claim is 'Credible' - The arid peninsula bordering Israel and the Palestinian Gaza Strip has long been a breeding ground for militancy, which swelled into an insurgency led by IS after Egypt's army ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in 2013. The claim by Sinai Province "is credible", said Mathieu Guidere, a terrorism expert at the University of Toulouse in France. "The Twitter account and the other sites that have published the claim have never published anything false. The statement also carries the same style as other statements from the group." Whatever the cause of the crash, the hardest blow could be to Egypt's economy, which depends heavily on tourism revenues. Millions of tourists, including many Russians, flock to Sharm el-Sheikh, a major attraction famed for its pristine beaches and scuba diving. "It's here that the IS story has a direct impact on the tourism industry, which is already burdened from four years of complications and instability," said Gerges. Russian tour operators believe the impact of the tragedy will be not be long-term as Egypt remains their main destination. "If the version about a terrorist attack is confirmed, that will raise more concern," said Yury Barzykin, vice president of the Russian Tour Industry Union. "But even then, if security measures are taken and widely announced, then there won't be a critical drop." http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...84_634x600.jpg The loss of Russia's flight KGL 9268 over Egypt http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...16_634x422.jpg Director general of Kogalymavia airline company, also known as Metrojet, Alexander Snagovsky attends a press conference in Moscow on November 2, 2015 ©Kirill Kudryavtsev (AFP) http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...64_634x421.jpg Egyptian army soldiers stand guard next to debris and belongings of passengers of the A321 Russian airliner that crashed the previous day in Wadi al-Zolomat, a mountainous area in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, on November 1, 2015 ©Khaled Desouki (AFP/File) http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...12_634x435.jpg PM Sherif Ismail (3rd-R) and Egypt's Defence Minister Sedki Sobhi (4th-R) at the site of the wreckage of a crashed A321 Russian airliner in Wadi al-Zolomat in Hassana province, a mountainous area of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on October 31, 2015 ©Seliman al-Oteifi (Egyptian Prime Minister's Office/AFP) RELATED > Earlier Reports: Click; |
re: PhOtOs-IS Claims it Downed Jet >BOMB Evidence?
Egypt Tourism Dealt Body Blow by Russia Airliner Bomb Fears
By AP, 5 November 2015 Concerns raised by Britain that a bomb may have downed a Russian airliner in Egypt have cast a shadow over a once popular holiday destination already hit by years of political turmoil. The Egyptian affiliate of the jihadist Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the crash, and on Wednesday the United States and Britain said the mid-air disintegration of the Airbus A321 over the restive Sinai Peninsula -- an IS bastion -- could have been caused by a bomb. A string of major tour operators immediately suspended all packages to the beach resorts of the peninsula's south coast and analysts warned of a serious risk of lasting damage to a key sector of the Egyptian economy. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...15_634x439.jpg Tourists ride camels in Sharm El-Sheikh on November 4, 2015 "This really could represent a hard blow to the Egyptian tourism industry already burdened by years of political uncertainty," said Fawaz Gerges, professor at the London School of Economics. "Would you go to Sharm el-Sheikh is the question now?" On Wednesday, Britain and Ireland suspended flights to and from the South Sinai resort airport of Sharm el-Sheikh, from where the Saint Petersburg-bound airliner took off on Saturday before crashing 23 minutes later, killing all 224 people on board. Egypt has long promoted the Red Sea resorts of Sharm el-Sheikh and Hurgada as jewels of its tourism industry. Famed for their pristine beaches and scuba diving, they have attracted millions of holidaymakers, many of them Russians. Saturday's plane disaster was the latest in a series of blows to international confidence in tourist safety this year. In September, eight Mexican tourists were mistakenly killed by Egyptian security forces in the vast Western Desert. In August, Egypt's IS affiliate claimed the beheading of a Croatian expatriate worker abducted outside Cairo. The two incidents came just months after police foiled an attempted suicide bomb attack near the famed Karnak temple in Luxor -- one of Egypt's most popular heritage attractions. Tour operators say the latest disaster is the biggest blow so far. "Tourism in Egypt will simply die if it was a terrorist attack that brought the plane down," said Hamada Nagi, a tour operator from Hurgada. - Long-Term Impact - IS has so far not provided any details in its claim, but aviation experts say the fact that debris and bodies were strewn over a wide area points to a mid-air disintegration of the aircraft. "The damage is already done. Even if it was pilot error or accident, people believe it was a bomb," Jacques Peter, manager at the Savoy Group of luxury hotels in Sharm el-Sheikh, told AFP. "There are no cancellations at the moment, but we are concerned for the medium and long term -- the reservations curve, which usually begins to rise ahead of Christmas and New Year, is flat and that's unusual." Tourism used to account for about 12 percent of Egypt's gross domestic product and some 15 percent of its foreign exchange earnings. But the industry has faltered since early 2011, when a popular uprising toppled longtime strongman Hosni Mubarak after three decades in power. Years of instability and a rising tide of attacks claimed by jihadists have kept many would-be visitors away, damaging the economy and sending Egypt's foreign currency reserves plunging. Last year, just under 10 million tourists visited, sharply down on the 15 million who came in 2010, state media reported. On Saturday, tour operators in Russia reported a sales drop of 30 to 50 percent in a "shock reaction" to the crash, Russia's Interfax news agency reported, quoting a tourism official. "There have been cancellations in the first few days, but there aren't many of them," Yury Barzykin, vice president of the Russian Tour Industry Union, told AFP. But "if the version about a terrorist attack is confirmed, that will raise more concern." Every fifth Russian tourist going abroad goes to Egypt, he said, adding that even the political turmoil and unrest that followed the July 2013 ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi failed to prompt a serious drop. Sharm el-Sheikh was hit by bombings in July 2005 that killed nearly 90 people, in one of the deadliest attacks in Egypt. For many, Saturday's disaster was a reminder of such attacks. Russian tourists in Hurgada were "still shocked and worried" after the crash, said tour operator Nagi, although some said that heightened security measures can cushion any long-term blow. "If security measures are taken and widely announced, then there won't be a critical drop," said Barzykin. "Egypt is the main destination for Russians, it has no competitors in the winter period, due to its climate, the standard of service and prices." http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...60_634x430.jpg Tourists ride quad-bikes during a desert safari trip from Sharm El-Sheikh on November 4, 2015 http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...80_634x421.jpg Egypt has long promoted the Red Sea resorts of Sharm el-Sheikh and Hurgada as jewels of its tourism industry ©Mohamed el-Shahed (AFP/File) http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...71_634x471.jpg Graphic showing where the aircraft crashed after leaving Sharm El-Sheikh http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...07_634x436.jpg Last year, just under 10 million tourists visited Sharm El-Sheikh, sharply down on the 15 million who came in 2010 UPDATE: Just Get Us Home! Chaos as British Tourists Stranded in Sharm el-Sheikh Arrive at the Airport Only to be Sent Back to Hotels for the Night
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...65_964x375.jpg Downing Street said a bomb smuggled through Sharm El Sheikh airport was probably behind the downing of a Russian airliner (pictured left) at the weekend and grounded all flights in and out of the resort. The crash, which cost 224 lives, would be the first successful airline attack by terrorists since two Russian jets were hit by Islamist extremists in 2004. The terror alert has left 20,000 British tourists without a flight home. Bewildered and anxious passengers last night demanded to know when they would be brought back to the UK. One young couple, Andrew Weir, 25, from Northampton, flew out to Sharm to propose to his girlfriend Chloe Glanville, 24 (both pictured inset). They are due to fly back to Luton tomorrow with easyJet but now expect to be made to wait. 'EasyJet have told us nothing,' he said. Meanwhile it has been revealed two C17 aircraft, which are normally used to airlift troops or military equipment and are based at RAF Brize Norton, are on notice to deploy to the Middle East. They would be used to shuttle holiday makers to Cyprus where civilian carriers will be waiting. Stranded tourists among the 20,000 Britons now stuck in Sharm el-Sheikh for up to ten days have today described the chaos at the airport as they tried to get home. All British flights to and from Sharm el-Sheikh have been cancelled indefinitely after David Cameron said an ISIS bomb probably downed a Russian jet on Saturday killing 224 people. The ban means 20,000 British tourists in the Red Sea resort must return to the airport when their holiday ends and put on buses to hotels as they wait for a rescue flight home. Student Amy Bond, 17, and friend Naomi Eade, 19, were put on a bus back to the resort from the airport today and Miss Bond said: 'We have no idea when we will get home. It would be nice to know'. Joe Walker, 53, has been in Egypt for eight days with wife Veronica, 53, said after being told there was no flight they asked to go back to their hotel but were sent elsewhere because 'it's too expensive'. Empty planes are being sent from Britain and will start flying stranded tourists back to the UK tomorrow in a process likely to last up to ten days - with a flight ban likely to last until Christmas. But flights to Russia from the Egyptian holiday resort continued as normal today - despite apparently suffering the worst airline terror attack in its history and a British ban. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6734410008.jpg Stuck: British tourists stranded in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheik are taken from the airport to hotels to wait for news of when they can return home http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6734220696.jpg Cancelled: All British flights to and from the Red Sea resort have been called off indefinitely leaving holidaymakers expecting a wait of up to ten days to get back to Britain http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6735768139.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6735768167.jpg Desperate: Amy Bond, 17, and Naomi Eade, 19, from Yeovil admit they have np idea when they'll go hoime while Jorden Briggs and Gareth Millward from Middlesborough are desperate to get back to their eigh-month-old baby who is with family so they can have a break http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6734465148.jpg Help: Tourist company staff speak to tourists about their option but flights back to Britain will start again tomorrow at the earliest Holidaymakers due to fly home today were told at their hotels to go to the airport as normal in time for their flight an await instructions. Monarch is to operate three "rescue flights" and two scheduled flights from Sharm to the UK tomorrow. The company said it has 3,000 customers in the resort. All Monarch flights from the UK to Sharm up to November 12 have been cancelled while other operators including Thomson and easyJet have also grounded flights. But there were scenes of chaos and confusion when they arrived and the tourists were eventually told they would be put up for the night but then faced a long wait for transfers and shuttle buses to get to the accommodation. Britons caught up in the chaos criticised the lack of information available. The British embassy and tour operator Thomson had sent representatives to the airport, but holidaymakers said they could not give them any timescale as to when they might be able to go home and accused officials of keeping them in the dark. Many said they had no idea there had even been a plane crash until last night, when friends in the UK called and texted. They accused the Egyptians of ‘down playing’ the situation. They also criticised lax security when they arrived at the resort. But praised the British government’s decision to suspend flights amid safety concerns. |
re: PhOtOs-IS Claims it Downed Jet >BOMB Evidence?
Is This Proof Russian Jet WAS Bombed? Photographs of Wreckage Show Holes That Appear to be The Result of Shrapnel Punching its Way Out from Inside the Plane
By Daily Mail, 5 November 2015 Photographs have emerged of the jet that went down over Egypt's Sinai peninsula last weekend, which appear to prove that it was brought down by a bomb. Images show holes in the wreckage of the Airbus A321 which bear the evidence of having been caused by something from inside the plane. This follows news of further evidence suggesting that the crash was the result of a bomb planted by Isis militants, U.S. and European security sources said on Wednesday. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6729823971.jpg Possible proof: A picture of one of the crashed Airbus A321's doors reveals 'pockmarks' on the inside, which could be evidence of shrapnel from a bomb that has gone off inside the plane The Airbus A321 crashed on Saturday in the Sinai Peninsula shortly after taking off from the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on its way to the Russian city of St Petersburg, killing all 224 people on board. Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda has highlighted pictures of the Airbus A321 wreckage in Egypt showing pockmarks in the fuselage. The holes 'look like marks made by shrapnel', and in addition there are 'holes in the plane parts with the edges curved inside-out. 'We may suppose that these are the holes made by the destructive parts of the bomb,' said the newspaper, which credited bloggers with highlighting the 'evidence'. One image shows 'small holes at the inner door of the emergency exit at the back part of the plane. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6729823975.jpg 'Bomb evidence': Images show holes in the wreckage of the Airbus A321 that crashed on the Sinai peninsula Saturday, killing all 224 onboard, which appears to have been caused by something from inside the plane http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6729823934.jpg Further proof: Russian media has noted that there are 'holes in the plane parts with the edges curved inside-out', as Islamic State militants repeated their claims that they are responsible http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6729823878.jpg Clearer picture: Drone footage of the crash site shows the parts of the plane and the debris zone 'Such holes could have been made by metal balls, which are often used by terrorists as the destructive parts of the bombs.' Russian experts say no signs of explosives have been found on the bodies of the victims of the plane crash, but a Russian aviation official said Thursday the investigation was looking into the possibility of an object stowed on board causing the disaster. 'There are two versions now under consideration: something stowed inside (the plane) and a technical fault. But the airplane could not just break apart in the air - there should be some action. A rocket is unlikely as there are no signs of that,' the Russian official said. The paper points to a three-second video sequence found by bloggers from a Russian TV report which shows 'several holes in the plane'. Russian Deputy Emergencies Minister Leonid Belyaev said the bodies of 19 passengers had been released for burial today or tomorrow. So far the remains of 58 victims have been identified. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6729823906.jpg A US intelligence source has claimed a bomb planted by ISIS or an ISIS affiliate is the most likely reason behind the Russian jet crash in Egypt last Saturday (wreckage pictured) http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6729823888.jpg Intelligence agencies have preliminary evidence suggesting a bomb brought down the plane, killing all 244 people on board, a US official said http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6729823978.jpg No photographs have been released yet of the aircraft's rudder which broke off from the tail, pictured http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6729824034.jpg Mourners continue to lay flowers and candles in memory of the victims of the Russian MetroJet Airbus crash at Pulkovo airport in St Petersburg, Russia Rescuers have completed a search of a 33 square kilometre area around the crash site, said Alexei Smirnov, head of Russia's National Crisis Management Centre. 'Search effort continues at the crash site. The search zone has been expanded to 40 square kilometres.' Meanwhile, ISIS representatives have repeated its claims that the militant jihadist organisation was responsible for the crash, adding it would eventually tell the world how it carried out the attack. Security experts and investigators have said the plane is unlikely to have been struck from the outside and Sinai-based militants are not believed to possess the technology to shoot down a jet from a cruising altitude above 30,000 feet. Any evidence that a bomb knocked the plane out of the sky would deal a heavy blow to tourism in Egypt, a pillar of the economy that is struggling to recover after years of political turmoil, and would also undermine Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's assertions that Cairo has brought under control Sinai Province's insurgency. Sinai Province has killed hundreds of Egyptian soldiers and police since President Sisi, as army chief, toppled Islamist President Mohamed Mursi in 2013 after mass protests against his rule. Sisi was elected president last year on promises he would stabilise Egypt and rebuild its shattered economy. Critics say his tough crackdown on Islamists will only create more radicals in Egypt, which has fought militants for decades. Quote:
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re: PhOtOs-Russia Offers $50 Mill Reward for Terrorists Who BOMBED Jet
Egypt Crisis to Drive up Holiday Costs... and You'll Queue Longer:
> Tourists Warned 'Higher Levels of Security' Will be Needed for Parts of the Middle East and North Africa if Bomb is Confirmed
British holidaymakers will face longer queues and higher charges if it is confirmed an Islamic State bomb caused the Russian air disaster, the Government warned yesterday. Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said ‘higher levels of security’ would be required across large swathes of the Middle East and North Africa. He also warned there are people in the UK ‘who would love to smuggle an explosive device’ on to a plane here. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6991940434.jpg UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond on the Andrew Marr Show this morning. He said travellers could face extra security checks and delays at airports could be made permanent Mr Hammond insisted that, despite complaints of chaos at Egypt’s Sharm El Sheikh airport, most British tourists will only ‘experience a delay of two or three days’ getting home if they wish to leave early. He said some 5,000 British holiday-makers would be back in the UK by late last night, leaving approximately 14,000 in the Red Sea resort. But Mr Hammond warned that, in future, tourists might have to get used to delays and increased ticket prices to keep them safe from IS, also known as Isil. Egyptian investigators have yet to confirm whether a noise picked up by the ****pit voice recorder in the final seconds of last Saturday’s doomed flight, from Sharm El Sheikh to Russia, was the sound of the explosion. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6992089656.jpg Egyptian soldiers stand guard outside the entrance to Sharm airport. U.S. and British officials have reportedly said that they are 99.9 per cent sure that a noise picked up by the ****pit voice recorder in the final seconds of the Metrojet flight en route from Sharm el Sheikh to St Petersburg, Russia was the sound of a explosion But the Foreign Secretary reiterated the view of British intelligence officials that it was ‘more likely than not’ that the crash was the result of a terrorist bomb. He added that there would have to be a major re-think of airport security in countries where IS is active if it turned out the group or its affiliates were behind the attack. The areas which could potentially be affected – some of them popular with large numbers of UK tourists – include Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Tunisia. Mr Hammond told the BBC’s Andrew Marr show: ‘If this turns out to be a device planted by an Isil operative or by somebody inspired by Isil then clearly we will have to look again at the level of security we expect to see in airports in areas where Isil is active. ‘What we have got to do is ensure that airport security everywhere is at the level of the best and that airport security reflects the local conditions – and where there is a higher local threat level, that will mean higher levels of security are required. ‘That may mean additional costs, it may mean additional delays at airports as people check in. The air disaster last weekend raised serious questions about the security regime at Sharm El Sheikh airport. Staff revealed that a CCTV monitoring station, including cameras overlooking baggage handlers, was not monitored half the time – and that camera networks throughout the airport are broken. Workers speaking to the Independent on Sunday said it was ‘50-50’ whether somebody was in place at the camera station, where a security official was supposed to be staying alert for suspicious activity. On Friday, Russia banned all flights to Egypt, two days after Britain imposed strict controls on flights leaving Sharm El Sheikh, and began evacuating its citizens. The Russian authorities yesterday said some 11,000 of its tourists had been brought home – twice the number of Britons, in half the time. Britons are being allowed to travel home with hand baggage only. Hold luggage is to be flown back separately in the next week. They are being urged to stay in their resorts until they are told they have a confirmed place on a flight. One British official quoted by Reuters news agency said it could take up to ten days to get all Britons out. Easyjet said it could take between three and four days to get all its customers back to the UK http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6992080241.jpg British tourists queue as they wait for flights back to the UK. They are only allowed to take hand luggage on the aircraft with them As the fallout from the disaster continued, General Sir Nicholas Houghton, Chief of the Defence Staff, claimed Britain was ‘letting down’ its allies by not bombing IS in Syria. The head of the Armed Forces said it ‘makes no sense’ that RAF air strikes in neighbouring Iraq had to stop at the border when IS based its stronghold in Syria. He told Sky’s Murnaghan programme: ‘To an extent, yes, we are letting our allies down by not being a full player. ‘But my view on this is a far more fundamental and simple one in a way and it’s the point you make about going up to a border and having to stop there. In the most simplistic way it’s like being asked to win a football match but not being able to go into the opponents’ half.’ Last week Defence Secretary Michael Fallon seized on the apparent involvement of IS in the downing of the Russian plane to once again make the case for bombing raids against the terror group in Syria. He claimed not doing so was ‘morally indefensible’. On the prospect of holding a vote to approve military action, Mr Hammond said yesterday that ‘we’re in exactly the same place that we’ve been for months’. He added: ‘When we think that it’s right to do so and when we’re confident that there’s a consensus in the House of Commons, we will go to the House of Commons and hold a debate and vote.’ http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6992641757.jpg British embassy staff try to help tourists in Sharm. The president of Emirates airline Tim Clark said he expected the tragedy would result in demands for stringent aviation security worldwide http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...6992225441.jpg Russian emergency services work at the crash site. Sources at Sharm airport told how a baggage scanner was broken and security was lax at a gate used to put food and fuel onto the planes |
re: PhOTOs--Confirmed>Jihadi John Killed is Dead +IS Use Missiles for 1st Time
Jihadi John is 'Evaporated' at ISIS' 'Crucifixion' Clocktower:
US Drone Strike Takes out British Executioner at Site of Fanatics' Worst Crimes - But Victims' Families Say They Wanted 'Coward to Suffer'
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...30_964x382.jpg The depraved ISIS militant (left and inset), whose real name is Mohammed Emwazi, has been hunted for more than a year after appearing in a string of sickening beheading videos of Western hostages including two British aid workers. The 27-year-old from London is believed to have been wiped out by a drone missile while getting into a car near a symbolic clock tower (circled, centre, and pictured, bottom right) in the heart of Raqqa where ISIS has staged a number of horrific public executions (top right) since capturing the city two years ago. Bethany Haines, the daughter of one of his British victims, David Haines, today told how she felt 'an instant sense of relief' after hearing reports of his death. Pentagon officials say they are '99 per cent' sure they had killed the executioner. However, ISIS sources in Raqqa are claiming that he survived the attack and was taken badly injured to a hospital which has been placed in lockdown by the Sunni militant group. The 27-year-old from London, who appeared in sickening beheading videos of Western hostages including two British aid workers, was 'evaporated' by a missile as he climbed into a car. He is believed to have been hit near a symbolic clock tower where the group carries out barbaric killings, including crucifixions, after capturing the city two years ago, activists said. Scroll down for videos http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7416493590.jpg This annotated image posted online by anti-ISIS activists Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently claims to show where Emwazi is believed to have been killed (circled), just yards from the group's headquarters in Raqqa http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7424363928.jpg Mohammed Emwazi was blitzed by a missile fired from a drone which is thought to have been controlled by U.S. air force pilots sitting in a control centre thousands of miles away. A senior U.S. official said the ISIS executioner was pinpointed in the centre of the terror group's capital Raqqa after 'persistent surveillance' U.S. military spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said they are 'reasonably certain' that they had killed Emwazi, who was the only 'high value' target in the mission but a driver may also have been killed. He said formal confirmation would take time but they had 'great confidence that this individual was Jihadi John'. Colonel Warren added: 'We know for a fact that the weapons system hit its intended target, and that the personnel who were on the receiving end of that weapons system were in fact killed. 'This guy was a human animal, and killing him is probably making the world a little bit better place.' 'There were no other high value individuals. Jihadi John did have a worst best friend with him who is also now dead,' he said. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7415232705.jpg Symbolic: Anti-ISIS activist group Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently said Emwazi was thought to have been hit near a clock tower (above) in the city centre where ISIS has carried a number of public executions ISIS fanatics are claiming he survived the attack, with eyewitnesses telling Sky News he was taken badly injured to hospital which has been placed in lockdown by the Sunni fanatics. Emwazi has been the subject of an international manhunt for more than a year after he first appeared in a chilling execution video in August last year. He topped the UK Government's 'kill list' of up to a dozen radicals who they wanted dead and David Cameron today said Britain had been working 'hand in glove' with the U.S. to track him down. The British Prime Minister welcomed reports of the killing which he called an 'act of self defence'. He stopped short of confirming that Emwazi - who he branded a 'barbaric murderer' - was dead but said the targeted attack was 'the right thing to do'. There is a high possibility British spies were operating on the ground in Raqqa to help identify Emwazi before the strike and may now be trying to collect DNA evidence to prove his death. A senior U.S. official, said the drone strike came after 'persistent surveillance' and claimed the authorities were certain it was Emwazi when they fired the missile. The drone is believed to have been tracking Emwazi for most of the day yesterday and he was 'ID'd and engaged' when he came out of a building and got into a vehicle in Raqqa. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7421459220.jpg A video released by the terror group shows a man being crucified near the clock tower in the centre of Raqqa http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7387671377.jpg Pentagon Press secretary Peter Cook said: 'US forces conducted an air strike in Raqqa, Syria, on November 12, 2015 targeting Mohamed Emwazi, also known as 'Jihadi John' (file photo) Another senior military source told the BBC there is a 'high degree of certainty' he had been killed. Anti-ISIS activist group Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently (RIBSS), which operates in the Syrian city, reported that Emwazi was killed at around 11.40pm last night and said it counted a further 14 air strikes in just nine minutes between 11.51pm and midnight. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group, said a car carrying four foreign Islamic State leaders, including one British Jihadi, was hit near the municipality building in the city. Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said: 'All the sources there are saying that the body of an important British Jihadi is lying in the hospital of Raqqa. All the sources are saying it is of Jihadi John but I cannot confirm it personally.' RIBSS said Emwazi was thought to have been hit near a symbolic clock tower in the city centre where ISIS has carried a number of public executions. The strike is also understood to have hit another member of 'The Beatles' – a nickname given to three or four British-sounding ISIS captors who guarded Western hostages, with Jihadi John being a reference to John Lennon. A second member of the cell – nicknamed 'Jihadi George' after George Harrison – is believed to be London rapper Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary who fled to Syria in 2013. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7387028467.jpg Officials in the US are still trying to determine whether he has been killed, following the drone attacks in Raqqa, Islamic State's capital The former rap star, whose father was a key lieutenant of Osama bin Laden, was among the first foreign fighters to take up arms in the war zone two years ago. However, it was reported in July he had fled to Turkey after becoming disillusioned with jihadi life. Another one of Emwazi's associates, Ayne Lesley Davis, has been arrested by Turkish authorities, two officials said today. The former tube driver from Hammersmith, London, who travelled to Syria in 2013, was said to be one of the British extremists who were assigned to guard foreign prisoners in Syria. Turkish authorities declined to give further details because investigations by police and intelligence agencies were ongoing. Confirming the drone strike which killed Emwazi, Pentagon Press secretary Peter Cook said: 'US forces conducted an airstrike in Raqqa, Syria, on November 12, 2015 targeting Mohamed Emwazi, also known as Jihadi John. 'We are assessing the results of tonight's operation and will provide additional information as and where appropriate.' Quote:
They were followed by Japanese journalist Kenji Goto and Japanese businessman Haruna Yukawa, who were killed in January. Mr Haines, an aid worker from Scotland, was executed in September last year, having been held captive for 18 months. His daughter, Bethany, told ITV News: 'After seeing the news that Jihadi John was killed I felt an instant sense of relief' But she added: 'As much as I wanted him dead, I also wanted answers as to why he did it, why my dad, how did it make a difference.' Previously she said she felt families of Emwazi's victims would only feel closure 'once there's a bullet between (his) eyes'. A video released a month later showed 47-year-old Salford taxi driver Mr Henning appearing to be beheaded. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7405012336.jpg An aerial view of explosions at a fortified position in what Russia says was an ISIS ammunition depot in Syria. ISIS executioner Jihadi John is believed to have been killed in a similar strike by a U.S. drone His daughter Lucy said she found out he had been killed when she saw an image posted on social media site Instagram. Meanwhile, writing on Twitter, Mr Henning's nephew, Stuart, said: 'Mixed feelings today wanted the coward behind the mask to suffer the way Alan and his friends did but also glad (he's) been destroyed.' Mr Henning's brother, Reg Henning, told ITV News that he hoped it was 'the end of it' but 'would have preferred him to face justice'. He added: 'I think things will quieten down. If they had arrested him and gone to court, it would have dragged on for months and months.' A British campaign group which sparked controversy after it described Jihadi John as a 'beautiful young man' has said the terrorist should have been tried as a war criminal and not killed. In a statement today, Cage said the Briton's reported killing 'presents more questions than it does answers', adding: 'State-sponsored targeted assassinations undercut the judicial processes that provide the lessons by which spirals of violence can be stopped.' Quote:
'It's more a symbolic strike, he said. 'Tactically it's not really going to change anything for the group.' But Charlie Winter, a British academic from the Quilliam Foundation which focuses on ISIS activities, said it could be a 'big blow'. 'Symbolically it's really important. Jihadi John... was someone who was a source of hubris, a sort of an aspirational figure for fighters in Islamic State,' he said. 'He was a key figure of defiance in the face of the international coalition, so if in fact he has been killed, this is going to be a big blow.' However, one of Emwazi's former neighbours in London today said he should have been captured, interrogated and made to face trial rather than being killed. James Beker, 47, who lives above the Emwazi family in West Kilburn, west London, said the ISIS killer would have had vital information that could have kept Britain safe from attack. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7399780840.jpg Emwazi hunted for over a year after he first appeared in a beheading video in August 2014 Quote:
'They might have got information that we need for the safety of our country and find out why did he do that. 'They said he was intelligent so how did he turn evil? He turned into not really a beast but a monster.' Emwazi appeared in the videos dressed in black with only his eves visible, and spoke with a British accent as he went on anti-western rants to the camera while wielding a knife. It was not until February this year that the jihadist was unmasked as Kuwaiti-born Emwazi, who lived in the UK since the age of six. It emerged that Emwazi had been known to British intelligence services, but managed to travel to Syria in 2013. In the videos, the tall masked figure was clad in black and speaking in a British accent. He began one of the gruesome videos with a political rant and a kneeling hostage before him, then ended it holding a large knife in his hand with the headless victim lying before him in the sand. Journalist Sotloff's mother, Shirley Sotloff was unaware of the air strikes, but said Emwazi's death would not bring closure. She said: 'If they got him great. But it doesn't bring my son back.' Diane Foley, the mother of James Foley, who previously said she had forgiven Emwazi, told ABC News: 'This huge effort to go after this deranged man filled with hate when they can't make half that effort to save the hostages while these young Americans were still alive.' Quote:
In September the MailOnline revealed that Emwazi had a crippling fear of being killed in a drone attack and shielded himself behind civilians in the hope it will stop him being targeted. Two visitors to ISIS territory described how he and his depraved cohorts fled onto a football pitch packed with civilians in a desperate attempt to dodge a drone attack. Emwazi emigrated with his family to London in 1994, aged six. He attended Qunitin Kynaston Academy and then went on to study computer programming at the University of Westminster, graduating in 2009. He was reported missing in August 2013 and it was confirmed in December that year that he had travelled to Syria. He had been known to MI5 and was detained a number of times in 2009, but never charged. It was believed that he had been a member terrorist supporters and was in contact with one of the men involved in the London 7/7 bombings in 2005, two weeks after the attacks which killed 52 people. 'He didn't deserve to die so easily': Wife of murdered hostage David Haines says she wishes Jihadi John had been taken alive so he could look her in the eyes in court By JENNY STANTON The widow of beheaded hostage David Haines today said her husband's executioner 'didn't deserve to die so easily' amid reports Jihadi John has been killed in a U.S. drone strike. The British aid worker's wife Dragana, 45, said Mohammed Emwazi's unconfirmed killing brought her no relief - as she wanted to 'look him in the eyes' and see him brought to justice in court. Speaking from her home in Croatia, where she lives with the couple's daughter, five, Mrs Haines told MailOnline: 'I was hoping he would be caught alive.' http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7431886493.jpg No relief: Beheaded Brit aid worker David Haines' widow Dragana (left) told MailOnline that her husband's killer, the ISIS executioner Mohammed Emwazi died 'too easily' if reports he was killed in U.S. strike are true 'I really wish it was handled a different way - I would like to have seen if he could have looked us in the eyes,' she added. 'I was always wondering what's in his head. The perfect way for all of us would have been to see him in a courtroom. 'He didn't deserve to die so easily - this is way too easy for him.' Mr Haines, 44, was a former RAF aircraft engineer from Perth, Scotland, who turned to humanitarian aid in 1999. He was kidnapped in March 2013 and was the subject of a failed rescue mission by American forces in July 2014. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7431886661.jpg Family: Dragana (right), pictured with her late husband and their daughter, now five, told how reports of Jihadi John's killing in Raqqa, Syria, had brought her no relief or joy A video of the lead up and aftermath of Mr Haines' beheading, entitled 'A Message to the Allies of America', was released by ISIS in September last year. Mr Haines was the first British hostage to be killed on screen by the ISIS killer. Mrs Haines added: 'If it's true he (Emwazi) has been killed, in a way it's a relief because that way he won't be able to hurt anyone anymore. 'But it doesn't bring any relief - it wouldn't undo what has been done. He has killed my husband and his death doesn't change anything for us.' She said she wishes the same effort put into locating her husband's killer had been put into rescuing him. Mr Haines's daughter by his first marriage, Bethany Haines, 18, today said she felt 'an instant sense of relief' after hearing reports of Emwazi's death, having previously said she would only have closure 'once there's a bullet between his eyes'. |
Paris ATTACKs-Cops/K9 Shot in Raid +New Suicide Bomber
The Latest: Paris Attack
By AP, 13 November 2015 PARIS (AP) — The latest on shootings and explosions in Paris. (all times local in Paris): 10:40 p.m. Officials say Prime Minister David Cameron & President Obama have been briefed http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...57_634x418.jpg RETRANSMISSION FOR ALTERNATIVE CROP - Medics attend the scene as victims lay on the pavement outside a Paris restaurant, Friday, Nov. 13, 2015. Police officials in France on Friday report multiple terror incidents, including shootings, explosions and hostage taking, leaving many dead. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus) 10:35 p.m. Hundreds of people spilled onto the field of the Stade de France stadium after explosions were heard nearby during a friendly match between the French and German national soccer teams. A stadium announcer made an announcement over the loudspeaker after the match, telling fans to avoid certain exits "due to events outside," without elaborating. At first that prompted some panic, but then the crowds just walked dazed, hugging each other and looking at their phones for the latest news of the violence. Many appeared hesitant to leave amid the uncertainty after France's deadliest attacks in decades. ___ 10:22 p.m. Social media posts from purported ISIS supporters could indicate that "there was a group waiting for this, but it could be a group watching," "I don't think we can say this proves anything, but again it supports the idea that it's terrorism," John Cohen, a former Homeland Security Department counterterrorism coordinator, say the presence of multiple attack scenes at the same time suggested a coordinated effort to "send a message" and raises immediate terror concerns, including for other cities in Europe and potentially the United States as well. He said both Al Qaida and ISIS have relied on the strategy of coordinated attacks in the past. ___ 10:14 p.m. A Paris police official said there were at least 100 hostages in a Paris theater following shooting and explosions at two cites in the city. Multiple officials, including one medical official, put the number of dead at between 35 to 40 people. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to be publicly named according to police policy. ___ 10:10 p.m. DHS officials are in contact with their foreign counterparts amid reports of multiple shootings and explosions in Paris. Police officials in France say at least 40 people have been killed and a hostage-taking situation is underway at a theater. ___ 10:00 p.m. Two police officials say that people have been killed in shootings and explosions around Paris, in the deadliest violence in France in decades. One of the police officials said 11 people were killed in a Paris restaurant in the 10th arrondissement and about 15 killed in the Bataclan theater, where a hostage-taking is under way. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...82_634x422.jpg Police officers secure a street outside the Stade de France stadium after the international friendly soccer France against Germany, Friday, 13 Nov. , 2015 in Saint Denis, outside Paris. People have been killed in shootings and explosions around Paris, in the deadliest violence in France in decades. (AP Photo/Michel Euler) |
re: Paris BLOODBATH-BOMBs/Gunfire >100 Hostages/60 Dead
UPDATE:
Dozens Dead in Series of Terror Attacks in France as Kalashnikov-Wielding Gunman Opens Fire in Restaurant, 100 Hostages are Taken at Theatre and 5 Blasts are Heard Near the Stade de France
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...36_964x419.jpg Several coordinated terror attacks in the heart of Paris have left dozens of people dead and injured. Dead bodies (main and top right) littered the streets of the French capital after at least 11 were killed in a shootout in a Korean restaurant on the Rue Bichat. Another 15 in the Paris Bataclan concert hall where terrorists are said to be holding more than 100 people hostage. The gunmen shouted 'Allah Akbar' and opened fire when they burst into the theatre, one witness said. There were also two explosions outside the Stade de France sports stadium where the French football team are playing a friendly match against Germany tonight. The restaurant shootout took place close to the Charlie Hebdo massacre in January. Anti-terrorist police, soldiers and emergency personnel could be seen flooding into the area after the attacks began at around 9pm. A series of coordinated terror attacks in the heart of Paris have left at least 60 dead and paralysed the French capital with fear. Terrorists launched a total of six coordinated attacks at high profile sites including the Louvre art gallery, the Pompidou Centre and Les Halles shopping centre tonight - all of which have been threatened by extremist groups in recent months. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7454685720.jpg At least 26 people have been killed and at least seven wounded in terror attacks in central Paris tonight, it has been reported http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7454685806.jpg Bodies litter the streets of a Paris alley after a string of terror attacks in the French capital tonight http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7454685402.jpg Victims lay on the pavement outside Paris restaurant following a terror attack in the French capital tonight http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7454685404.jpg Two police officials said at least 11 people were killed in the restaurant shootout in Paris tonight http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7454685407.jpg People run after hearing what is believed to be explosions or gun shots near Place de la Republique square in Paris http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7455928589.jpg French fire brigade members help an injured individual near the Bataclan concert hall following fatal shootings in Paris, France http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7455748434.jpg There was a shootout at a restaurant on the Rue Bichat, two explosions near the Stade de France sports stadium and another shooting at the Paris Bataclan concert hall tonight http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7454685992.jpg Machine gun fire and screams were heard from inside a restaurant on Rue Bichat, close to where the Charlie Hebdo shootings occurred in January http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7454685427.jpg At least 11 people were killed in the restaurant, close to where the Charlie Hebdo shootings occurred in January, and another 15 killed in the theatre http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7456321061.jpg A gunman who yelled 'Allah Akbar' is believed to have taken at least 100 people hostage at the Bataclan theatre (pictured) in Paris A man who was inside the theatre when the gunmen entered told a French radio station that the men shouted 'Allah Akbar' as they opened fire. He added: 'The men came in and started shooting. Everyone fell to the ground. It was hell. I took my mum, and we hid. Someone near us said they have gone, so we ran out. 'I was only thinking of escaping. We're out now. I think people are still inside. It's a nightmare - a nightmare.' They also shouted, 'this is for Syria', another witness inside the theatre claimed. 'We are all terrified, and have been told to get away as soon as possible,' said Gilles Avel, a 19-year-old student who was enjoying a night out with friends close to the Bataclan, where a band called the Eagles of Death Metal was playing. 'There were shots and then lots of people running. We knew there was a rock concert going on in the Bataclan.' Anti-terrorist police and soldiers could be seen flooding into the area. There have been unconfirmed reports that the attacker near the stadium was a suicide bomber. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7454685398.jpg A police officer stands guard on a street near the scene of a shooting in Paris, France http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7454685621.jpg Police and other emergency services are at the scene, which is close to where the Charlie Hebdo attack happened in January. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7454685400.jpg Witnesses have told of how they saw bodies littering the streets of Paris after a machine gun wielding attacker went on a rampage in central Paris http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7454685785.jpg Machine gun fire and screams were heard from inside a restaurant close to the Rue Bichat at around 9pm http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7454685405.jpg There have been unconfirmed reports that the attacker near the Stade de France stadium was a suicide bomber http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7455803832.jpg Spectators invade the pitch of the Stade de France stadium after two explosions were heard during the international friendly soccer France against Germany http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7454685549.jpg Police officers secure the Stade de France stadium during the international friendly soccer France against Germany An eyewitness said the two explosions were loud enough to be heard over the sound of cheering fans. Sirens were heard immediately and a helicopter was seen circling overhead. Players briefly stopped in their tracks when they heard the twin blasts. Following news of the attack, thousands of fans - too scared to leave the stadium - poured onto the pitch.Machine gun fire and screams were heard from inside a restaurant on Rue Bichat at around 9pm An AK47 gunman attacked a Korean restaurant in the Bastille area of the city, while grenade blasts were also heard. Police and other emergency services are at the scene, which is close to where the Charlie Hebdo attack happened in January. Images posted online showed the cracked windows of what appeared to be the restaurant under attack. Dozens of people were standing outside their cars on the junction opposite and the lights of police cars could be seen above them. Eyewitness Ben Grant, who was in a nearby bar with his wife at the time, said he saw six or seven bodies on the ground. He told the BBC: 'I was told people in cars had opened fire on the bar. There are lots of dead people. It's pretty horrific to be honest. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7454685424.jpg Images posted online showed the cracked windows of what appeared to be the restaurant under attack http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7454685394.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7456297400.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7456307611.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...7454685429.jpg Police and other emergency services are at the scene, which is close to where the Charlie Hebdo attack happened in January 'I was at the back of the bar. I couldn't see anything. I heard gunshots. People dropped to the ground. We put a table over our heads to protect us. We were held up in the bar because there was a pile of bodies in front of us.' Emilioi Macchio from Italy was at a bar close to where the restaurant shooting took place, and said it 'sounded like fireworks'. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to be publicly named. President Hollande said: 'France needs to be strong. Terrorists want us to be scared. In the face of terror we must be united.' Paris' deputy mayor said the attacks were a horrific reminder of the Charlie Hebdo massacre in January, adding: 'It's a heavy recollection of what happened in January (C. Hebdo). Now we are struck again. This is harder. I am shaken.' U.S. President Barrack Obama tonight branded the carnage in Paris an 'attack on humanity' and claimed it was an 'outrageous attempt to terrorise innocent civilians'. David Cameron said that he was 'shocked by events in Paris' and pledged to do 'whatever we can to help', adding: 'Our thoughts and prayers are with the French people.' The restaurant targeted Friday, Le Carillon, is in the same general neighborhood as the Charlie Hebdo offices. France has been on edge since ISIS extremists launched a bloody attack on the satirical newspaper and a kosher grocery that left 20 people - including the three attackers - dead. The attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo left 13 dead when two Paris born terrorists slaughtered its cartoonists and general staff members. Four Jewish shoppers were also murdered in the same set of attacks inside a Kosher supermarket in nearby Vincennes. The French capital has been on a high state of alert ever since, with security services warning that another attack was always likely. ISIS's online supporters have already started to celebrate the devastating attack in Paris, using the hashtag 'Paris in fire' on social media, but it has not been confirmed whether the terror group is behind the attacks. |
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