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Section. Terror Global
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“A primary task of counter-terrorist activity (though not confined to this) is the detection, prevention and suppression of any activities conducted by individuals and organizations with a view to preparing and perpetrating terrorist attacks and other terrorism-related crimes”
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Americans and Russians; what might be the difference in negotiating with terrorists?
On April 18, 1983 Muslim Shahid drove a truck laden with explosives into the building of the US Embassy in Beirut, killing 60 people, including 17 Americans. Six months later, another Muslim Shahid attacked the barracks of US Marines at Beirut airport, killing 241 American servicemen.
January 18, 1984 an Islamist sniper shot Malcolm Kerr, president of the American University in Beirut. A few months later Muslim fundamentalists kidnapped William Buckley, the CIA base commander in Beirut – they tortured him and eventually killed him.
This was followed by another explosion, kidnapping and murder. American politicians angrily condemned terrorism, but then and arguably, did not come to a consensus on counter-terrorism measures.
However, the Soviet Union had no such problems. Its leaders were not restrained by any moral standards, were not forced to report to the free media and independent judiciary, because of the absence of those bodies – so they took strict measures that were not restricted by any ethical considerations.
Hezbollah staged a small attack on the Soviet personnel in Lebanon. After, their Iranian ‘godfathers’ severely cursed out the infidel communists as being the satanic West. But the persecution of the Soviets led to an unexpected and abrupt ending. In his book, ‘Hijab’ Bob Woodward explained why.
In the autumn of 1985, the Hezbollah kidnapped 4 Soviet diplomats in Beirut. One of them they killed immediately. Others they held captive.
In response, the Committee for State Security (KGB) seized a relative of the Hezbollah leader. As one of the measures adopted by the anti-terrorism plan, the KGB castrated him, having cut off the sex glands they pushed them into his mouth, shot him in the head – and with his corpse that subsequently was sent to the terrorist organization Hezbollah was an accompanying text explaining that other members of the ‘Party of God’ would finish their lives in the very same way, if the three Soviet diplomats were not released.
Shortly thereafter, Hezbollah freed the remaining three. Soviet interests in Lebanon were not threatened thereafter.
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How bad can bad become ?
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The Islamic State is trying to sell the remains of the US journalist they beheaded, – James Foley, for $1 million. The IS is poised to offer requisite DNA sample for analysis. They are prepared to make the exchange with those in Turkey and who have shown interest but on a precondition that the money will be transferred before the transaction takes place.
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The Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram
01/11/2014 The leader of the Nigerian Islamic terrorist rebel group Boko Haram has announced that the 219 schoolgirls, who were abducted during summer this year 2014, have been married off and have converted to Islam.
“Don’t you know that over 200 Chibok schoolgirls have converted to Islam? They have now memorized two chapters of the Koran,” the group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau has stated, (cited by France 24). “We have married them all off. They are in their marital homes, where they belong and where they will remain” he added.
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Boko Haram terrorists murdered about fifty fish merchants in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno State, the scene of countless attacks by the Islamist organization
“Scores of Boko Haram fighters blocked a route linking Nigeria with Chad, close bythe fishing village of Doron Baga, on the shores of Lake Chad on Thursday and murdering a group of 50 fish traders on their way to Chad to buy fish.
Some had their throats ferociously cut, for entertainment others were tied up and thrown into the lake to drown. “The terroris killed their victims silently without the use of the gun to avoid attracting attention from the Multi-National Joint Task Force (MNJTF), – comprising troops from Nigeria, Chad and Niger. Formed in 1998, the MNJTF is tasked with fighting transnational crime, but its mandate has been expanded to combat Boko Haram terrorists in the restive region.
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Boko Haram is copying the Islamic State – the tactics, the rhetoric and the online media presence
Recall that Boko Haram, is an African Islamic terrorist group which has been demonizing Nigeria and its neighbors since 2002.
Outside observers are seeing the Islamic State’s influence in the tactics, rhetoric and online media presence of the Boko Haram rebels of northeast Nigeria and neighboring border areas.
The Islamic State has already displaced al-Qaeda as a source of inspiration and it is likely that IS’s rapid rise is winning much more support throughout the African continent.
According to the former CIA officer Michael Shurkin, “The Islamic State is capable of inspiring and motivating to a greater extent than al-Qaeda, which has never motivated people. Al-Qaeda is negative, about smashing things; IS is also smashing things, but is building something. IS has effaced the colonial boundaries, in a very substantive way.”
We do agree and in addition add that although Boko Haram does not necessary receive orders from the Islamic State’s leadership, they are obviously copying the infamous extremist terror organization. Boko Haram has more recently begun to model its ideological and military doctrine upon that of the Islamic State and, in turn, has begun receiving recognition from the Islamic State.
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中国人民共和国
In the People’s Republic of China, eight terrorists were sentenced to death
Eight people were sentenced to death in China for organizing terrorist attacks in the city of Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), reported Agence France-Presse. Another five were sentenced “death with reprieve.” In China, this usually means a life sentence – provided that the convicted person will demonstrate exemplary behavior.
The first attack occurred on April 30 at the railway station. As a result, three people were killed and another 79 injured.
May 22 at 8 am local time two cars drove into a crowd of people at the town market near Renmin Park. After this, the attackers threw the car into a crowd of several explosive devices. At the scene of the fire started. The victims of the attack were 39 people, 94 more were injured.
Since the late 1990s in Xinjiang acts radical group “East Turkistan Islamic Movement”, whose activists regularly organize attacks. Uighur Muslims make up almost half the population, are fighting for independence from China.
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New interrogation techniques being forced on the British Army are hampering the business of getting vital intelligence out of terrorist suspects, army chiefs warn.
The astonishing new rules outlined in court papers prevent military intelligence officers from shouting at a terrorist suspect for more than a few seconds, banging their fists on tables or walls and using insulting words, and that “there must be no intimidation of any kind.”
The previous ‘harsh’ policy gave soldiers the right to “shout as loud as possible [with] uncontrolled fury,” as well as aim personal abuse, taunt and goad a captive, and if necessary resort to “psychotic tendencies.”
But the methods had to be scrapped because of a few legal challenges and the death of an innocent Iraqi civilian, Baha Mousa, who had been in the custody of the British Army in Basra.
Army chiefs say the new rules make interrogation almost pointless. It will also be impossible to stick to them and therefore will leave soldiers open to numerous legal challenges and disciplinary action.
Colonel Tim Collins who served in the Iraq war said lawyers have effectively stopped the military from doing their job.
“We have arrived at the point where we have lost our operational capability to do tactical questioning,” he told a daily tabloid.
“These insurgents are not nice people. These are criminals. They mutilate and behead people; they keep sex slaves. They are not normal people.”
Lord West, the former First Sea Lord and national security adviser echoed his words: “While these insurgents are chopping people’s heads off and raping women, the idea they can take us to court because somebody shouted at them is ridiculous.”
Michael Fallon, the defense secretary, in a recent interview said that British troops are under extraordinary legal scrutiny, and that many of the legal claims they are facing are often “completely spurious.”
According to one unnamed source, “This ruling shows just what a nightmare it is now for interrogation teams. Interrogators have been left wondering if it’s just worth the bother.”
The concerns of British military chiefs come just days after a ‘damning US Senate report’ disclosed how the CIA systematically tortured detainees following the September 11 attacks.
The Home Secretary Theresa May held 24 meetings in all with the US officials who were writing the CIA report. All references to the UK were redacted, leading to obvious accusations that important facts regarding British involvement and complicity in torture were being covered up in order to save face, something the government denies.
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14 / 12/2014 12.00 GMT The Research and Fatwa Department of the Islamic State has released guidelines on interaction with non-Muslim female slaves, equating them to disposable property, permitting them to be severely beaten but however placing certain restrictions on their use – pamphlet
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The supposed ‘Research and Fatwa Department’ of the Islamic State has released what it names a Pamphlet on Female Slaves.
The manual is written in the form of a Q&A format.
Amongst other revelations, the Pamphlet equates female captives to disposable property and allowing them to be put up for sale.
“It is permissible to buy, sell, or give as a gift female captives and slaves, for they are merely property, which can be disposed of [as long as that doesn’t cause [the Muslim ummah] any harm or damage,” it says.
If the owner dies, the manual says, his captives are to be distributed as part of his estate.
“Female captives are distributed as part of his estate, just as all [other parts] of his estate [are distributed]. However, they may only provide services, not intercourse, if a father or [one of the] sons has already had intercourse with them, or if several [people] inherit them in partnership.”
It also allows the beating of a slave, apparently, it forbids punching them in the face.
“It is permissible to beat the female slave as a form of darb ta’deeb – disciplinary beating, but it is forbidden to use darb al-takseer [literally, breaking beating], [darb] al-tashaffi [beating for the purpose of achieving gratification], or [darb] al-ta’dheeb [torture beating]. Further, it is forbidden to punch the face.”
The manual also puts restrictions on having sexual intercourse with a captive woman, forbidding sex with the slave if she is not owned exclusively.
“It is forbidden to have intercourse with a female captive if the master does not own her exclusively. One who owns a captive in partnership with others may not have sexual intercourse with her until the other owners sell or give him their share.”
The Pamphlet also states that running away from the master is “among the most gravest of all the sins.”
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Syria. The Islamic State in Syria beheaded four men for blasphemy
According to human rights activists, they were killed in one of the villages in the east of the city of Homs.
A similar murder was reported on Tuesday – a man was beheaded with a short knife on the square in the city center.
Furthermore, in northern Syria after Friday prayers during the evening proponents of the Islamic State stoned a man and a woman to death, having accused them of adultery.
Local residents and activists say that incidents are not isolated occurrences, moreover militants cut off heads and hammer with stones many people in many areas controlled by the Islamist group both in Syria and in Iraq.
The reason for the violence – a violation of Sharia law being; adultery, homosexuality, theft and blasphemy.
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Iraq. Militant Islamic State has achieved another success in Iraq. They managed to capture the city of Al-Wafa in Anbar province, west of Baghdad.
13/12/2014 Terrorists – Islamic State seized the town, located 20 kilometers from Ramadi, capital of Anbar province. They also hold the city and Hit Qubaisi in the same area.
During the attack, terrorists killed 19 policemen in all. Eyewitnesses reported that at the decisive moment of the battle the Islamic State recruited locals who began to shoot any police officer they saw in the back.
The Mayor of Hussein Casar said that the defenders of the city actually ran out of ammunition, and they were forced to retreat to the location on the outskirts of Al-Wafa base.
He stressed that the terrorists blocked the base, and refuge long there will not last. Casar begged the government as soon as possible to send reinforcements.
It also became known that the Islamic State shot 21 captive warrior clan militia who were defending the city of Al-Baghdadi (west of Ramadi), which is precipitated by terrorists in October.
At a checkpoint in the town of Haditha, also in Anbar province, terrorists detonated two car bomb. As a result, 12 people were blasted to bits, another 17 were injured of varying severity.
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Syria. Attack by militants on an air base in Deir ez-Zor in Syria.- Jihad failed
As a result of the ongoing fighting in Deir ez-Zor army units completely stripped from the vicinity of military air base the militants, who for several days been engaging in massive attack groups – Islamic State.
Sources have reported large losses gangs in manpower and weaponry. According to some estimates, hundreds of the attackers were killed. Rebels committed to another attempt with the help of a car bomb under the control of a suicide bomber so to break through the defensive line, at parts of aircraft were fired tactical missiles “Scud” from the territory of the province of Damascus.
Military sources have officially informed that the military facility is secure and return control of the army lost all previously strongholds in the territory of the village of Al-Huveydzhet Mreiyya.
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Video. The explosion in Odessa 12/10/2014
The terrorists – scumbags – operate surgical techniques, and most importantly this time, no one was hurt. Observe this one.
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15/12/14 12.00 GMT Sydney hostage taking
It is apparent that during the hostage-taking in Sydney, the flag does not belong to the Islamic State, but refers to Islam, said terrorism expert, speaking on Australian TV.
The flag is completely different from the flag of Islamic State design, text and font, he told Australian television broadcast 7News, RIA Novosti.
On the black flag in the window of the cafe, the expert said, it is possible to read the so-called “martyrdom” – testimony of faith in God and the prophet hood of Muhammad. On the flag of the Islamic State the other two inscriptions, one of them – in a white circle.
In addition, it is reported that the hostage of extremists at least two of them, they have backpacks and belts, similar to the suicide belt. Police did not confirm this information. What exactly is in the backpacks and belts is unknown.
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The Islamic State has beheaded four Christian children and cut them in half after they refused to convert to Islam, account from a British vicar based in Iraq.
Canon Andrew White, who works under the moniker ‘Vicar of Baghdad’, explained the plight of Christians living in IS controlled territory to the Orthodox Christian Network, calling their suffering “terrible” and “awful.”
White has been based in Baghdad since 1998 and is president of the Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East. He told the network that Christians in Iraq were “hounded” by IS troops and forced to leave their homes for fear of persecution and death.
Speaking about the regime of terror, White said, “They killed huge numbers, they chopped their children in half, they chopped their heads off. It was just so terrible.”
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Radicalization and the internet: Mother living in the UK sentenced to five years in prison after being convicted of promoting terrorism on Facebook
A British mother of six has been sentenced to five years in prison after being convicted of promoting terrorism on Facebook.
Runa Khan, from Luton, admitted to inciting terrorism in Syria and posting a picture of a suicide vest on her social media page. Additionally, she admitted to providing details of a route into Syria to an undercover officer posing as an aspiring Jihadi.
In September 2013, Khan also posted an article titled ‘Raising Mujahid children,’ and said by the court to be a manual designed to teach terrorism.
She also posted on an internet forum her insane hopes that her son would become a Jihadi, writing: “I pictured the future while I was zipping up his jacket, in sha Allah, I’ll be tying the shahada bandana round his forehead and hand him his rifle and send him out to play the big boys game.”
During her sentencing, the court heard evidence Khan had posted pictures of her sons actually holding guns and swords on her twitter account. According to Judge Peter Birts QC, the evidence indicated that she was very intent on ‘radicalizing’ others.
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09/12/2014 Uzbekistan urges Russian presence in Central Asia to counter the Islamic State onslaught
Uzbekistan urged Russia on Wednesday to help protect Central Asia against what it said would be a rising threat from militant Islam as U.S. forces draw down their numbers in Afghanistan.
President Islam Karimov said Central Asia, a resource-rich and mainly Muslim region nestled between Russia, China and Afghanistan, could face a fate similar to that of Iraq, swathes of which have been taken over by Islamic State insurgents.
“Various elements among the representatives of Islamic State are already slipping into Afghanistan from Iraq and Syria. All this requires the adoption of appropriate preventative measures,” Karimov said, without elaborating, at a news briefing with visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin alongside.
“The creeping expansion of militant extremism and religious radicalism, not only on the territory of the governments of Central Asia but also abroad, is most seriously concerning,” Karimov said. “Russia’s presence in Central Asia is undoubtedly an important factor to support peace and security.”
President Vladimir Putin said that Russia, which has a large number of immigrants from fellow ex-Soviet republics in Central Asia, shared Uzbek concerns over NATO’s looming pullout from Afghanistan, given its own conflict with Islamist militants in the North Caucasus.
The President’s visit was a show of support for Karimov at a time when Russia is increasingly worried about regional security. Russian officials said Moscow also planned to forgive $865 million in Uzbek debt.
Karimov, whose government has been accused of torturing political prisoners, has repeatedly justified his tough methods by saying he wants to prevent militant Islamism from gaining a foothold in Uzbekistan at all costs. The government has denied the torture accusations.
Uzbekistan, like other Central Asian states, has played its Soviet-era master Moscow off against the growing influence of China as well as that of the United States, which aims to draw down its troops in Afghanistan after more than a decade.
However, about 12,000 international troops are to remain at least into next year to train and support Afghan security forces facing a resilient Islamist Taliban insurgency.
Recall that the United States leased an air force base in Uzbekistan to help in military operations in Afghanistan after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. But the base was closed to U.S. forces after Washington criticized Tashkent’s human rights record.
Karimov, now aged 76, has ruled Central Asia’s most populous nation of 30 million people with an iron hand for more than two decades and is widely expected to seek re-election in March.
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Yemen
09/12/2014 The military shot several suspected militants of the grouping Al Qaeda, who in women’s clothes were trying to cross the border with Saudi Arabia, Yemen.
One suspected militant was wearing the burqa. One of them opened fire at a checkpoint near the Saudi border, and then they were all killed by return fire.
Yemeni authorities have stated that those killed were potential suicide bombers and intending to arrange an attack on border guards in Saudi Arabia.
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