Islam - Current Day - Palestinian Molotovs; Calais Camp Cleared Again; Iranian Terror Cell in S.A.; Civilian Casualties in Nagorno-Karabakh

Alert IDF troops nab 4 Palestinians with firebombs

September 29, 2020

Alert IDF troops nab 4 Palestinians with firebombs. Palestinians prepare molotov cocktails

in the city of Hebron, March 29, 2019. (Flash90/Wisam Hashlamoun)

 

IDF observers spot suspicious movement near settlement,

troops intercept terrorist squad armed with firebombs.

By Paul Shindman, World Israel News

A group of four Palestinian terrorists armed with molotov cocktails was intercepted moving towards a Jewish community in Samaria, the IDF announced Monday.

The four were spotted Monday evening just after the end of Yom Kippur by army observers near the town of Elon Moreh, some 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of Jerusalem, using remote video cameras. A squad of soldiers sent to intercept the Palestinians apprehended the four after firing into the air, the IDF Spokesperson’s office said in a statement.

 

The suspects were arrested with prepared gasoline firebombs in their possession.

Last month the General Security Service, Israel’s equivalent of the FBI, reported an increase in terrorist incidents in Judea and Samaria over the previous month, including 85 firebomb attacks by Palestinians using molotov cocktails – glass bottles filled with gasoline into which a rag is stuffed as a wick. The bottle is then thrown and explodes in a fireball when it hits.

Over the years, scores of people have been killed or seriously injured with horrific burns by firebomb attacks on vehicles.

In August, the GSS reported one Israeli was killed and three injured in three different stabbing attacks by Palestinians. Rabbi Shai Ohayon, 39 and a father of four young children, was stabbed to death August 27 by a Palestinian while walking home in the city of Kfar Saba.

 

Three Israelis were wounded in stone throwing attacks in Judea and Samaria. In addition to 85 firebomb attacks and the stabbings, there were six incidents of pipe-bombs, seven incidents involving small arms fire by Palestinians, and eight incidents of arson.

In the same month, Palestinian terrorists in Gaza fired 25 rockets at Israel. The GSS numbers do not include hundreds of incendiary balloons launched from Gaza that are triggered to land in Israel, where they caused scores of brush and forest fires.

The numbers also do not include hundreds of rock-throwing incidents on the roads and highways of Judea and Samaria.

French police clear Calais migrant camp in biggest op since ‘jungle’ dismantling

29 Sep 2020

French police evacuate some 800 migrants after they dismantled their camp located near the hospital in Calais, northern France, on September 29, 2020. ©  AFP/Bernard BARRON

Police on Tuesday dismantled a camp of at least 700 migrants in the French port city of Calais, the biggest such operation since the ‘jungle’ shantytown was broken up four years ago.

Police officers began the operation before sunrise on Tuesday, and some 200 people had been removed in the first two hours. Some 21 migrants were arrested, according to local authorities.

“We want to avoid a concentration and a new gathering point in Calais,” Louis Le Franc, the government’s top official for the northern Pas-de-Calais department, told reporters at the scene. It was the biggest dismantling of a Calais camp since the ‘jungle’ was cleared of some 9,000 migrants between 2015 and 2016, according to the official.

The majority of the migrants and would-be asylum seekers in the camp are men, mainly from the Middle East and Africa. Authorities plan to send about 150 of the evacuated people to reception centers in Pas-de-Calais. Also, 150 migrants will be brought to other departments in northern France, and the remainder to other regions in the country.

Le Franc claimed that the operation was above all to give people a safe haven before the winter period because the migrants “are living in this forested area in extremely difficult conditions.”

Migrants see the Calais camp as a launch point to cross the English Channel for Britain. People traffickers help them to get to the UK in small rubber boats or in trucks and cars that travel between the two countries on ferries and trains.

London has repeatedly demanded that the French government take more steps to prevent the migrants leaving France, calling the high numbers who made the illegal crossing this summer unacceptable.

French authorities say they have intercepted at least 1,317 migrants since January 1, as they tried to reach Britain’s shores.

Covering up ’their own failed efforts’: Tehran debunks Saudi claims

of busting Iranian-trained terrorist cell

FILE PHOTO: Saudi special forces practice and anti-terror raid during training in Darma, Saudi Arabia, March 26, 2014

© Reuters / Faisal Al Nasser

29 Sep 2020

Saudi Arabia claims to have uncovered an Iranian-trained terrorist cell, arresting 10 people and seizing a stash of weapons and explosives in a farmhouse. However, Tehran has dismissed the report as “complete fabrication.”

The alleged terror cell was discovered last week, Saudi security officials told the state-run SPA news agency on Monday. The identities of those arrested are being kept secret, but officials said they had seized a large amount of weapons, explosives, chemicals, and electronic devices from a farmhouse within the kingdom.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry hit back at Riyadh on Tuesday, calling the news a “complete fabrication,” and a new twist on Saudi Arabia’s “non-credible and repetitive” stance.

“Saudi rulers have chosen false frame-ups against Iran as a weapon to deflect public opinion and a method to cover up their own failed efforts,” exclaimed Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh. The diplomat said such behavior will put Saudi Arabia in harm’s way unless it chooses “the path of honesty and wisdom.”

 The Saudi authorities shared pictures of an array of seized weapons with the media.

Cell members “received military and field training” in Iran, including in “how to make explosives” by the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in 2017, a Saudi spokesman alleged.

Arguably the two most powerful states in the Gulf region, Saudi Arabia and Iran have long competed for influence in the Middle East. The Sunni Muslim Saudi kingdom is currently embroiled in a five-year war in Yemen against Houthi rebels aligned with Shi’ite Iran.

Riyadh has also blamed Iran for a series of attacks against its oil facilities, including a massive missile and drone strike last year. Iran denies responsibility.

The kingdom severed diplomatic ties with Tehran following the 2016 attacks on its missions in Iran, amid local demonstrations against the execution of the revered Shia leader Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr by the Saudi authorities.

Ten Azerbaijani civilians killed in Nagorno-Karabakh clashes as death toll rises & fighting intensifies – President Aliyev

29 Sep 2020 

FILE PHOTO: An ambulance in Baku, Azerbaijan © RIA Novosti / Murad Orudzhev

Civilian casualties among Azerbaijanis are rising as intense hostilities continue over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, Baku claimed on Tuesday, reporting that several adults and some children have perished in the fighting.

Fierce battles in the ethnic-Armenian-controlled mountainous region continued for the third day in a row, with numerous deaths reported in clashes between Armenian and Azeri forces. But, in Azerbaijan itself, civilians have borne the brunt of border violence, President Ilkham Aliyev has insisted.

"We have had casualties during these two days, including among the civilian population," he said upon receiving credentials from a newly-appointed Pakistani ambassador on Tuesday.

"Unfortunately, the number of civilian deaths in our country is growing," Azerbaijan's president alleged. A total of 10 civilians have been killed, including "five members of the same family, [and] two children," he outlined.

Baku and Yerevan have both reported civilian casualties since the outbreak of hostilities along the border of Nagorno-Karabakh on Sunday. Both sides – which quickly resorted to heavy weaponry during the initial fighting – have likewise accused each other of indiscriminately targeting non-combatants.

Earlier on Tuesday, officials in Yerevan said at least one person was killed in an Azeri bombardment of the Armenian border town of Vardenis. A drone strike also hit a passenger bus which burnt out completely, but no one was hurt in the incident.

The rising death toll among civilians has caused concern outside the conflict-ridden South Caucasus. The Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has urged the warring parties "to take all necessary measures to guarantee the protection and respect of civilian infrastructure and civilian lives," the aid agency said in a statement obtained by Russian media.

UN chief Antonio Guterres also condemned the use of force and regretted "the loss of life and the toll on the civilian population." Echoing calls from other world leaders, he demanded that Baku and Yerevan cease fire and resort to dialogue without delay. The Security Council is poised to discuss the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict later today.

From another story, it appears that a Turkish F-16 shot down an Armenian SU25. Ankara denies it. F-16s are American made and SU25s are Russian made. 

Vardenis is not even in Nagorno-Karabakh. (See second story in post immediately below for map).

Islam - Current Day - Rocket Blows-Up Children in Home; Islam Restarting Armenian Genocide; Links to Muslim Horror Stories

Three children among five civilians killed in rocket attack

outside Baghdad airport

28 Sep 2020

Baghdad International Airport. © Reuters / Thaier al-Sudani

Two women and three children were killed when two Katyusha rockets struck a residential area near Baghdad airport on Monday, Iraq’s military has said, in what were the first civilian casualties in months from attacks in the city.

The rockets apparently targeted the airport but ended up hitting a nearby home, which was completely destroyed. Besides the five fatalities, two children were also severely wounded in the attack.

The strike came from the Iraqi capital's al-Jihad neighborhood, the military said in a statement. It described the incident as a “cowardly crime” by “gangs” looking to sow chaos and to terrorize the population.

Iraqi PM Mustafa al-Kadhimi has ordered that those who fired the rockets be brought to justice, the statement read.

Rocket attacks have intensified in Iraq in recent weeks, targeting the US embassy in Baghdad, American troops and the airport.

Washington has blamed Shia militias with links to Iran, who have intensified their activities after Tehran’s top military commander, Qassem Soleimani, was assassinated in a US drone strike outside Baghdad airport in January.

The deteriorating security situation has prompted the US to threaten to shut down its Baghdad embassy altogether if Iraqi authorities won’t deal with the militias.

Preparations for the withdrawal of diplomatic staff were being made at the US mission in Baghdad over the weekend, American and Iraqi sources told Reuters.

Armenia braced for LONG WAR in Nagorno-Karabakh, PM Pashinyan's adviser warns saying Turkey behaves like ‘regional terminator’

28 Sep 2020 

FILE PHOTO © RIA Novosti / Ilya Pitalev

The ongoing fighting over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region is unlikely to end quickly, a top Armenian official has warned. He said Yerevan is preparing for a protracted conflict, not least because of Turkey’s role in events.

“We are preparing for a long-term war. Why? Because, I say it again, the main player here is not Azerbaijan but Turkey,” Vagarshak Harutyunyan, a senior adviser to Armenia’s Prime minister Nikol Pashinyan told a Latvian YouTube channel on Monday. 

Turkey, a close partner for Baku but a historical foe for Yerevan, is “directly involved” in the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, an ethnic Armenian-populated landlocked enclave within Azerbaijan. Fierce fighting erupted on the disputed region’s borders on Sunday, with both Armenian and Azeri troops using heavy weaponry, large-caliber artillery, and combat aircraft in the clashes.

Harutyunyan, formerly Armenia’s Defense Minister, spoke of the universal conscription call-up recently issued in his own country as well as Nagorno-Karabakh, indicating that he wasn’t convinced the conflict will end any time soon.

The duration of the war will depend on many factors: on how the hostilities will proceed, [and] on the reactions of the international community.

The PM’s aide has further criticized Turkey, suggesting it is using Azerbaijan and “push[ing] it towards war in order to achieve its geopolitical goals in this region.” Ankara “behaves like a regional terminator, and is practically at war with all of its neighbors,” Harutyunyan opined.

Earlier, Baku denounced allegations of Turkish involvement in the crisis. “There is no foreign interference,” Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov told Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency.

Turkey has vocally supported Baku since the border fighting started, with top officials pulling no punches when it came to blaming Armenia for escalating the conflict. Earlier on Monday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the Armenian “occupation” of Nagorno-Karabakh – which he described as “Azerbaijani land” – must end to secure peace in the region.

So far, there has been no proof presented of any material support provided by Turkey. However, Yerevan claims Turkey had transported some 4,000 Syrian militants to Azerbaijan to help it gain the upper hand in Nagorno-Karabakh. Baku brushed aside these allegations, accusing its arch-enemy of funneling Syria-based “ethnic Armenian militants” into the region.

It's been a century since the Turkish Ottomans murdered, or drove 1.5 million Armenians from their homeland. It seems Erdogan thinks that is long enough - time to resume. He probably hates that there are Christians living in the midst of what was once the Ottoman Empire. I believe he has ideas on restoring that Islamic empire with himself as Caliph. However, he is not getting any younger and may be in a mood to rush things. 

Armenia was the first nation to adopt Christianity as a state religion, an event traditionally dated to AD 301.

The predominant religion in Armenia is Christianity. Its roots go back to the 1st century AD, when it was founded by two of Jesus' twelve apostles – Thaddaeus and Bartholomew – who preached Christianity in Armenia between AD 40–60. Wikipedia

I don't suppose they could just trade Nagorno-Karabakh for the Nakhchivan Region?

Also see 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 7th and 8th posts on Today's Global Pervs and Paedos List for more stories of Islamic Insanity. 

#Ozzone - 3:2 > Has the Lord’s questioning ever hurt you to the core?

Can you imagine what Peter felt like when the resurrected Lord questioned his love? 

Islam - Current Day - Orban Standing Firm Against EU Multiculturism; Paris Terror During Hebdo Trial; 2nd Canadian Terrorist Charged; RX9 - Flying Ginsu

Orban says mix of Muslim & Catholic cultures in Hungary would ‘not be peaceful or secure’

Hungary's PM Viktor Orban leaves after the first face-to-face EU summit since the coronavirus disease outbreak,

in Brussels, Belgium, July 19, 2020. © Reuters / John Thys / Pool

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Friday rejected the European Union’s new migration plan, and reiterated his opposition to his country having a multicultural society.

“In Hungary, we are very strict that we would not like to have a parallel society, or open society or a mixed-up culture,” he told Reuters. “We don’t think a mixture of Muslim and Christian society could be a peaceful one and could provide security and good life for the people.”

Migration in Hungary is a “national security issue,” said Orban, who previously claimed that “multiculturalism has failed in Europe.”

No one can enter Hungary “without having a legally completed procedure and getting a clear permission to do so,” he said in Friday’s interview. 

Orban’s comments came a day after discussing migration with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels. The bloc’s new migration plan would force Hungary to welcome asylum seekers, the PM said, but he welcomed that “some taboos have disappeared.” He cited, in particular, the strengthened focus on sending people who don’t qualify for asylum in the EU back to their countries of origin.

Orban still believes that asylum applications should be managed in “hotspots” beyond EU borders, and that those who do approach the border would otherwise be detained. Rights groups say that detaining asylum-seekers, or pushing them back over the border, runs against the right to claim asylum as enshrined under international humanitarian law. Since Hungary adopted its hardline policies following a 2015 rise in Mediterranean arrivals, it has already lost a number of legal cases on migration at the EU’s top court.

Although it is “too early to consider a Hungarian veto,” Orban made it clear that Budapest would not agree to anything that could lead to Hungary being obliged to take in people coming from the Middle East or Africa.

Attack outside former Charlie Hebdo office in Paris 'clearly act of Islamist terrorism' – French interior minister

A meat cleaver attack that seriously injured two people outside the former offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris is being treated as an act of Islamist terrorism by French authorities.

Two employees of the Premieres Lignes news production agency were outside their office in the 11th arrondissement on Friday when they were attacked by a knife-wielding man. They were “very badly wounded,” Premieres Lignes founder Paul Moreira told AFP.

The attack took place near the former address of Charlie Hebdo, a weekly satirical newspaper whose staff was massacred in a 2015 attack by Islamist militants. The 14 alleged accomplices in that attack are currently on trial in Paris.

Charlie Hebdo eventually reopened at a different address in Paris, which is being kept secret for security reasons.

AFP reports that five men have been detained, including the suspected attacker. The PNAT anti-terrorism prosecution office said it has opened an investigation, with charges of “attempted murder related to a terrorist enterprise” and “conspiracy with terrorists.”

PNAT head Jean-Francois Ricard said the main suspect is an 18-year-old man, reportedly born in Pakistan.

Pakistan, quelle surprise!

RCMP lay terrorism charges against 2nd Calgary man

in ongoing investigation

Demi Knight GlobalNews.ca

September 25, 2020

A second Calgary man has been charged in relation to an ongoing terrorism investigation.

The RCMP’s Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INET) charged 30-year-old Jamal Taan Borhot with three counts of participation in activity of a terrorist group.

RCMP said between May 9, 2013 and April 8, 2014, Borhot travelled to Syria where he committed terrorist activities that benefitted ISIS.

Borhot remains in custody and is scheduled to appear in Calgary Provincial Court on Sept. 28.

Borhot is the second Calgarian to be charged in the investigation over the last two months.

In July, alleged ISIS member, 34-year-old Hussein Sobhe Borhot, was also arrested and is facing four counts of terrorism-related charges.

RCMP said Hussein was first identified as a possible ISIS fighter in files smuggled out of Syria that showed a Calgary man with the same name and birth date had joined the terrorist group in 2013.

The charges against Hussein allege the suspect participated in a kidnapping on behalf of ISIS.

The two arrests follow what police described as an “extensive and complex” national security investigation that spanned seven years.

“Terrorist investigations by their very nature are extremely lengthy, complex and require the support of both domestic and international partners,” the officer-in-charge of “K” Division INSET, Supt. Stacey Talbot, said in a news release Friday.

“It is through an integrated law enforcement approach, that the RCMP and its partners are in a better position to prevent, detect, deny and respond to threats to Canada’s national security.”

Anyone who believes to have witnessed or are aware of any criminal extremism or suspicious activity that could pose a threat to national safety and security is encouraged to report it to 1-800-420-5805.

The US military is quietly killing terrorist leaders in Syria

with its secret missile packed with swords

rpickrell@businessinsider.com (Ryan Pickrell)  

An MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted drone aircraft performs aerial maneuvers over Creech Air Force Base

U.S. Air Force/Senior Airman Cory D. Payne/Handout via REUTERS

The US military has been quietly eliminating terrorist leaders in Syria with the Hellfire AGM-114R9X, a non-explosive Hellfire missile that kills its enemies by crushing them with 100 pounds of metal or by cutting them apart with the swords stored inside.

The most recent strike, according to The New York Times, was about two weeks ago and eliminated a senior attack planner for al Qaeda.

The R9X, a weapon designed to reduce civilian casualties, first became public knowledge when The Wall Street Journal reported its existence in May 2019, but its development began years earlier.

The US military has been quietly taking out terrorist leaders in Syria with a modified Hellfire missile packed full of swords, The New York Times reported Friday.

Testifying before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee Thursday, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Christopher Miller revealed that in Syria, "Hurras al-Din — a group made up of several al Qaeda veterans — has suffered successive losses of key leaders and operatives." 

And, the secretive Hellfire AGM-114R9X missile, a US weapon typically referred to as the R9X, reportedly played a role in some of those losses.

On Sept. 14, a US Reaper drone operated by special operations forces killed Sayyaf al-Tunsi, a senior attack planner for al Qaeda and its affiliates, with an R9X, The New York Times reported, citing US military and counterterrorism officials, who said that the hit would disrupt Hurras al-Din operations.

Following an R9X strike in June believed to have killed two Hurras al-Din members, the most recent strike marks at least the second time in three months the weapon has been used.

The R9X, The Times reports, has proven useful for targeting terrorist leaders in urban areas, where they assume the US is more hesistant to engage due to the heightened risk of civilian casualties.

The so-called "Ninja Bomb" or "Flying Ginsu," a modified Hellfire equipped with a non-explosive warhead that kills enemies with 100 pounds of metal, sheer force, and six blades, first became public knowledge when The Wall Street Journal reported its existence in May 2019.

The weapon's development began during the Obama administration as an airstrike armament less likely to kill civilians than other battlefield options. At the time of The Wall Street Journal report, it was believed that the US had used the weapon only about half a dozen times.

It is suspected to have been used to kill Ahmad Hasan Abu Khayr al-Masri, a top al Qaeda leader, in Syria in February 2017 and Jamel Ahmed Mohammed Ali al-Badawi, the al Qaeda operative who masterminded the deadly bombing of the USS Cole, in Yemen in February 2019.

There have been several other suspected R9X strikes since then.

The New York Times reports that while explosive Hellfire missiles are preferred for groups of terrorist targets, the non-explosive R9X is the "weapon of choice" for eliminating leaders and other high-value targets who are traveling alone.

Islam and Child Sexual Abuse:

Diary written by teenage victim of sexual abuse Victoria Agoglia

recovered by UK police - 17 years after her death  (7th, or 2nd last story on link).

Islam - Current Day - Parents Train 9 y/o to Murder His Aunt in 'Honour Killing'; French Girl Beaten for Wearing a Skirt

For the past several weeks I have been astonished at the hardly-believable evil that exists in Pakistan, the world's most devout Islamic country. After each story, I think it will be impossible to top this one, and then, within a day or two, I'm blown away by a new horror. Here is today's piece of madness:

Pakistan: Nine-year-old allegedly kills aunt for being in a ‘love marriage’,

police claim family trained him to do it

The deceased had married a man of her choice a decade ago in Sargodha

Published:  September 23, 2020 

Falah Gulzar, Social Media Reporter, Gulf News

A nine-year-old boy allegedly shot dead his paternal aunt for being in a “love marriage” in Pakistan’s Sargodha city as part of an honour killing. The case has sparked a conversation about violence against women in the country on social media.

The incident occurred in the city's 104 North village area.

According to local media reports, police claim the minor boy's family trained him to use a gun and told him to kill his paternal aunt, who had married by choice a decade ago — before he was even born.

The boy's family involved in training and motivating him, need to be charged with murder as well as several child abuse charges. They need to spend many years in prison in order to prevent this method of 'murder by 9 y/o' from becoming very popular.

Kanwal Parveen’s marriage had upset her family who did not accept her spouse, and following the wedding, her relatives did not have good relations with her, police told media outlets.

On September 14, Parveen’s family invited her to celebrate the birth of her nephew at their home where her other nephew, a nine-year-old boy, shot her to death.

Local media reported that police said the woman was killed in a pre-planned manner and that a First Information Report (FIR) was registered against the boy and the two suspects who had allegedly trained him to carry out the killing.

The Saddar police Station House Officer (SHO), Zafar Shah, was quoted as saying: “It is very likely that his [suspected killer’s] family informed him about his aunt and how she opted to marry by her choice that's why, the boy shot his aunt dead.”

Talking about the incident, 

tweep @Xadeejournalist posted: “Can't get worse than this. Nine-year-old kid shot and killed his aunt for marrying of her own choice in Sargodha. Was trained by family members for one year how to kill his aunt.”

User @SumairaRabbani tweeted: “Killing two birds with one stone. Get the person killed, and not face punishment. The kid might serve a few a years in juvenile detention and that's it. He should be tried as an adult, or else this will be the new way to execute honour killings unaccounted.”

Twitter account @timesofpak123 posted: “[…] There have been several cases in which women were killed by their relatives in #Pakistan during past two weeks over ‘honour’.”

On September 11, a similar case had emerged from Sargodha city.

Police arrested a 22-year-old man for allegedly murdering his sister (4th story on link), as part of an honour killing, after she married for the sixth time.

Falling in love appears to be a great evil in Pakistan. Women are supposed to marry their parent's choice, which usually involves some dowry. A woman who marries for love is a criminal within the family. It seems girls are not meant to be happy in Pakistan, but simply a commodity to be sold.

Such honour murders are common in predominantly Muslim countries but are not restricted to them. India, predominantly Hindu, though a large minority of Muslims, also has numerous honour killings, often involving India's caste system.

Outcry in France after woman says beaten for wearing skirt

While the article doesn't explicitly say that the trio of idiots who beat her were Muslim,

there is no other demographic in France that would object to French girls in skirts. 

Published:  September 23, 2020

AFP

  

Paris: French police have opened an investigation after a young woman said she was attacked by three men and beaten in broad daylight for wearing a skirt.

The government on Wednesday denounced the “very serious” incident as unacceptable.

The student, aged 22, identified only as Elisabeth, said she was punched in the face in the eastern city of Strasbourg on Friday afternoon, in an attack “by three individuals who complained about me wearing a skirt”. She was walking home when one of the three exclaimed “look at that [expletive] in a skirt”, Elisabeth told France Bleu Alsace radio. Two of them then held her while the third hit her in the face, leaving her with a black eye, she told France Bleu Alsace radio. The men then fled.

She said there were over a dozen witnesses but no one intervened or pursued the attackers. A picture of Elisabeth’s bruised face was posted on the Twitter account of France Bleu Alsace and went viral, provoking fury among social media users. “The facts as stated are very serious,” said government spokesman Gabriel Attal. “In France we must be able to go out dressed in the street as we want. We cannot accept that today in France, a woman feels in danger, either harassed, threatened or beaten because of how she dresses.”

Junior interior minister Marlene Schiappa, in charge of equality issues, visited Strasbourg on Wednesday to discuss the safety of women in public. “When we witness street harassment, sexist or sexual assault against women in a public space, we must react, and call the police or the gendarmerie,” she told the LCI television channel. President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist government has in recent weeks begun using increasingly tough rhetoric on domestic security issues in what analysts see as a shift to the right.

Ministers have particularly lashed out at Islamist extremism, arguing such values have no place in French society.

Will Elizabeth ever wear a skirt again?

Pentagon Diverts the Better Part of a Billion Dollars Meant for Covid19 Response to Military Industrial Complex

Pentagon slammed for turning $1 billion ‘coronavirus fund’ into more military-industrial pork – but what did Congress expect?

Pentagon police conduct a biowarfare preparedness drill © Reuters / Jim Young

The Pentagon has defended its decision to repurpose Covid-19 preparedness funds – meant for pandemic response – to prop up weapons contractors as House Democrats slammed its double-dipping.

While the Department of Defense received $1 billion in March's CARES Act stimulus bill specifically to "prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus," it ultimately diverted most of the windfall to defense contractors, the Washington Post revealed on Tuesday.

The pandemic response fund, created under the aegis of the Defense Production Act, was supposed to be used to produce N95 masks, gloves, and other PPE that was scarce at the time. Instead, it was doled out to mega-corporations like Rolls-Royce, GE Aviation, and ArcelorMittal, as well as to smaller firms making drone technology and a fabric manufacturer whose product is used to make army uniforms. The only thing most recipients had in common was that their work had no immediately apparent connection to coronavirus preparedness.

Department of Defense lawyers justified these acts of creative accounting with the logic that propping up the lucky contractors was an urgent priority to maintain US national security, referencing the fragile military supply chain that has seen single companies monopolize the production of vital proprietary hardware without which the nation's impressive war machine cannot function. Even as social media pondered whether the report described a case of embezzlement, the Pentagon seemed far from ashamed - it has demanded another $11 billion from any stimulus package that makes it out of Congress.

Worse, at least a third of the Pentagon contractors who benefited from the misappropriated pandemic response funds were essentially double-dipping, WaPo revealed, helping themselves to the critically-underfunded Paycheck Protection Program which so many American small businesses outside the defense sector have struggled to access.

House Democrats had already taken a dim view of what the House Committee on Appropriations called a direct violation of the spirit of the CARES Act back in July – though they stopped short of raising a finger to halt it. "The Committee's expectation was that the Department would address the need for PPE industrial capacity rather than execute the funding for the [defense industrial base]," they wrote in a hand-wringing evaluation of the appropriations.

House Armed Services Committee Chair Adam Smith (D-Washington) slammed President Donald Trump's administration for "continu[ing] to exploit the trust of the American people" and spending three times as much on defense contractors as on expanding the country's pandemic defenses in a Tuesday statement after the Post report emerged. However, he did not confirm any plans to actually pursue an investigation, even while acknowledging that the Pentagon's latest $5.3 billion funding request also lacked a "properly detailed" spending plan. 

Others were less circumspect in the wake of the damning expose. Democratic Reps Mark Pocan (Wisconsin) and Barbara Lee (California) have demanded a formal investigation, challenging the legality of the Pentagon's actions.

Missouri House candidate Cori Bush was even more direct: "Defund the Pentagon," she stated on Twitter – an idea that found warm reception among the progressive left.

Democratic Socialist Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who had previously proposed that the Pentagon's budget should be cut by 10 percent, stopped short of saying "I told you so," though some of his colleagues couldn't resist.

Meanwhile, plenty of opposition stalwarts have taken the opportunity to grandstand against Trump. While Massachusetts senator and erstwhile political candidate Elizabeth Warren denounced his "bungled pandemic response" in an emailed statement on the WaPo piece and Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar observed on Twitter that "their corruption knows no bounds," Democratic leaders have done nothing to stop the Pentagon from slurping up nearly two-thirds of every discretionary dollar in the US budget. The US spends more on its military than the next 10 countries combined. 

Even as some fiscal conservatives have finally come around to the notion, once unthinkable in right-wing circles, that the US spends too much money on its military – and others have pointed out that taxpayer-funded bailouts of private companies are literally corporate socialism - US military dominance remains tied in the minds of Washington's bipartisan power elite to sheer brute financial force.

And some people are amazed that Trump would criticize the Pentagon. Deep State is all about money!

#Ozzone 3-1 – Have You Been Pierced to the Division of Soul and Spirit?

 Ozzone 3-1 – Have You Been Pierced to the Division of Soul and Spirit? Have you truly examined how much you love Jesus?

End Times Notes - Another False Jesus Cult Growing in a Siberian Forest

Siberian cult leader 'Vissarion' who claims to be ‘re-incarnation of Jesus Christ’

arrested over psychological violence

By Jonny Tickle

Police in Siberia have arrested three leaders of the notorious ‘Church of the Last Testament’ religious sect on suspicion of using psychological violence to extract income, resulting in “serious harm” to their followers.

Founded in 1991, the movement forbids its adherents from smoking, drinking or exchanging money, and they live as vegetarian subsistence farmers. The sect's creator, Sergey Torop, believes he is the reincarnation of Jesus Christ and brands himself as 'Vissarion’.

Jesus of Siberia   25:47

According to Russia's Investigative Committee, Torop, along with other leaders Vadim Redkin and Vladimir Vedernikov, will be charged with “creating a religious association whose activities involve violence against citizens.” 

The three men were arrested in the Siberian region of Krasnoyarsk, about 4,500 km (2796 miles) east of Moscow. The area has several villages built by followers of Vissarion, including one called Tiberkul, commonly known as “the City of the Sun,” which was constructed in 1995.

A member of the religious organization, Alexander Staroverov, posted several videos on Facebook showing masked men walking around the village, some of whom were armed.

The sect came under legal scrutiny on two separate occasions in 2020. In February, members of the church were interrogated as part of an investigation into corruption and fraud in the Istoki School, attended by the children of Vissarion's followers. In August, a criminal case was opened after representatives of Vissarion prevented journalists from filming inside the community.

The Church of the Last Testament became well known in the West in 2012, when Vice News released a documentary on its Youtube channel called ‘Siberian Cult Leader Thinks He's Jesus’. In 2014, a similar documentary called ‘Siberian 'Messiah’ was filmed by RT.

There are many cults and non-cult people who desire to create Heaven on Earth. The Bible promises that Jesus will return to Earth and rule over it for 1000 years before creating a New Heaven and a New Earth. When He does return, everyone will know it. He will not return in the middle of a Siberian forest, or on the streets of New York City as a woman. He will return to Mount Zion.

The Bible also warns that there will be many who come in his name prior to that time. Vissarion and his followers, by their isolation, will probably not be prepared for the coming of the real Christ. They must first be tried and tested which they have little possibility of passing while believing in a false Christ.

Dan 11:35 And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.

Dan 12:10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.

Islam - Current Day - Terrorists - Some Jailed, Some Supported, Some New Laws; Plot Thwarted

Bahrain foils huge terrorist plot backed by Iran: Report

Terrorist Qassem Soleimani Brigade disbanded, planned to blow up public facilities

Published:  September 21, 2020 

Samir Salama, Associate Editor

Manama, Bahrain

  

Abu Dhabi: The Bahraini Ministry of Interior has thwarted a huge terrorist plot in the Kingdom that received support and funding from fugitives in Iran, and elements of the terrorist Revolutionary Guard, local media reported.

The Bahraini newspaper, Akhbar Al Khaleej, which reported the news on Sunday, said that search and investigation operations revealed that terrorist elements in Iran had begun forming a new terrorist organisation under the name of the Qassem Soleimani Brigade.

The newspaper pointed out that the terrorist organisation had drawn up a plan to blow up a number of public and security facilities in Bahrain, in addition to monitoring a number of private guards for important figures in the Kingdom with the aim of assassinating them, in response to the killing of Qassem Soleimani.

Ahead of FATF meet, Pakistan continues

to treat 21 dreaded terrorists as VIPs

Sources said that the international community is concerned about the hypocrisy of Pakistan which is pretending to take action against terrorists but is funding them

September 21, 2020 

Business Standard

 

In a big revelation exposing the double standards of Pakistan, the country, despite the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) sword hanging over its head, continues to harbour terrorists and is giving VIP treatment to many of them including underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and Pakistan-based Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF) terrorist Ranjeet Singh Neeta, according to ANI.

Sources said that the international community is concerned about the hypocrisy of Pakistan which is pretending to take action against terrorists but is funding them.

According to the sources, the Pakistan government is giving VIP security to 21 dreaded terrorists including those sanctioned last month.

The Financial Action Task Force, also known by its French name, Groupe d'action financière, is an intergovernmental organisation founded in 1989 on the initiative of the G7 to develop policies to combat money laundering. In 2001, its mandate was expanded to include terrorism financing. Wikipedia

Ethiopia charges prominent critic with terrorism-related offences

Jawar Mohammed was arrested in July during protests over killing of singer-activist

The Associated Press 

September 19

Ethiopia has charged its most prominent opposition figure, Jawar Mohammed, and 23 others with terrorism-related offences, telecom fraud and other crimes, the attorney general's office announced Saturday. They could face life in prison if convicted.

They are scheduled to appear in court on Monday. The charges relate to deadly violence that erupted in July in parts of the capital, Addis Ababa, and the Oromia region after the killing of singer Hachalu Hundessa, a prominent voice in anti-government protests that led to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed coming to power in 2018.

Authorities said more than 180 people were killed in July's unrest.

Jawar, a media mogul-turned-politician, has huge support among youth in the Oromia region and returned to Ethiopia after Abiy took office and urged exiles to come home amid sweeping political reforms that led to him receiving the Nobel Peace Prize last year.

The Oromo make up Ethiopia's largest ethnic group but had never held the country's top post until they helped bring Abiy to power. Now ethnic tensions and intercommunal violence are posing a growing challenge to his reforms.

Jawar has become fiercely critical of the Ethiopian leader, most recently over the postponement of the general election once planned for August because of the coronavirus pandemic. The government's mandate expires late next month, and a new election date has not been set.

Jawar has been detained since he and several thousand people were arrested during the July violence. His lawyers have repeatedly asserted he was locked up because of his political views and have called for his release.

His lawyer, Tuli Bayissa, told The Associated Press that the charges astonished the legal team, and he couldn't comment on them because he found out only by reading the official announcement on social media.

"This is unethical. I haven't heard anything like this," he said. He expects to receive details at Monday's court appearance.

Human rights groups have warned that such arrests show that Abiy's political reforms are slipping.

Youth in Oromia have staged a number of recent protests calling for the release of political prisoners, including one in late August that left "scores" of people dead, according to the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission and witnesses who spoke to the AP.

Abiy, in an opinion piece published this week in The Economist, wrote that "individuals and groups, disaffected by the transformations taking place, are using everything at their disposal to derail them. They are harvesting the seeds of inter-ethnic and inter-religious division and hatred." He rejected "dangerous demagogues."

The prime minister also acknowledged alleged abuses by security forces during the bouts of unrest, saying that "given the institutions we have inherited, we realize that law-enforcement activities entail a risk of human-rights violations and abuse." Security reforms take time, he said.

Senior ISIS terrorist jailed for over 12 years in Turkey

SAKARYA, Turkey

A Turkish court on Sept. 18 sentenced a senior member of the ISIL terrorist group to over 12 years in prison.

The 2nd High Criminal Court in Turkey’s northwestern Sakarya province ordered 12-years-and-six-months jail term for the so-called high-ranking Daesh militant Halis Bayancuk, also known by his codename Abu Hanzala.

Bayancuk was charged with forming and managing an armed terrorist organization.

Turkey was one of the first countries to declare ISIL a terror group in 2013.

The country has since been attacked by ISIL terrorists multiple times. The terror group has carried out at least 10 suicide bombings, seven bomb attacks, and four armed attacks, killing 315 people and injuring hundreds more.

In response, Turkey launched anti-terror operations at home and abroad to prevent further attacks.

Switzerland: Draft anti-terrorism law sets ‘dangerous precedent’, rights experts warn

The Swiss parliament building in the capital, Bern.Unsplash/Claudio Schwarz

    

11 September 2020

Human Rights

A proposed new anti-terrorism law in Switzerland could set a dangerous precedent for the suppression of political dissent worldwide, a group of five independent UN human rights experts warned on Friday. 

The draft legislation, currently before the Swiss Parliament, expands the definition of terrorism and no longer requires the prospect of any crime at all, they said, in a plea for a last-minute reversal by legislators. 

‘Expansive’ definition of terrorism 

Citing international standards, the experts defined terrorism as the intimidation or coercion of populations or governments through violence that causes death or serious injury, or the taking of hostages. 

Under the bill, “terrorist activity” may encompass even lawful acts aimed at influencing or modifying the constitutional order, such as legitimate activities of journalists, civil society and political activists. 

“Expanding the definition of terrorism to any non-violent campaign involving the spreading of fear goes far beyond current Swiss domestic law and violates international standards”, said the experts, all of whom were appointed by the UN Human Rights Council. 

“This excessively expansive definition sets a dangerous precedent and risks serving as a model for authoritarian governments seeking to suppress political dissent including through torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” 

Other sections of the draft law have also raised concerns, such as those giving the federal police extensive authority to designate “potential terrorists” and to decide preventive measures against them.  

Expertise declined 

The rights experts had earlier written to the Swiss authorities, expressing their concerns about the incompatibility of the bill with human rights and international best practices in counter-terrorism.  However, no changes were implemented. 

 “While we recognize the serious security risks posed by terrorism, we very much regret that the Swiss authorities have declined this opportunity to benefit from our technical assistance and expertise on how to combine effective preventive measures with respect for human rights”, they said. 

 The experts called on Swiss parliamentarians to keep in mind their country’s traditionally strong commitment to human rights, urging them to reject a law which “is bound to become a serious stain on Switzerland’s otherwise strong human rights legacy.” 

Role of UN Special Rapporteurs 

The five experts are all UN Special Rapporteurs who are mandated to monitor specific country human rights situations or thematic issues in all parts of the world. 

They are not UN staff, nor are they paid by the Organization.  

Islam - Current Day - Sharia Court Sends 13 y/o Nigerian Boy to Prison for 10 yrs for Blasphemy; Terrorists in India and Pakistan

Unicef condemns jailing of Nigeria teen for 'blasphemy'

 

A team of Islamic Sharia enforcers called Hisbah is on patrol in the northern Nigerian city of Kano in an open pickup

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The UN children's agency Unicef has called on the Nigerian authorities to urgently review an Islamic court's decision to sentence a 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy.

The boy was convicted in August of making uncomplimentary remarks about God during an argument with a friend in northern Kano state.

Kano is one of 12 Nigerian states practising the Sharia legal system alongside the country's secular laws.

The 13-year-old's sentencing "negates all core underlying principles of child rights and child justice that Nigeria - and by implication, Kano state - has signed on to", said Peter Hawkins, Unicef's representative in the West African state.

On 9 September, the boy's lawyer, Kola Alapinni, said he had filed an appeal against the judgement.

"This is a violation of the African Charter of the Rights And Welfare of a Child. A violation of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria," he added.

He told the BBC that no date had been set for the appeal to be heard in court.

 

How Nigeria's Sharia courts work

By Mansur Abubakar, BBC News, Kano

Twelve states in Nigeria's Muslim-dominated north operate the Sharia system of justice, but only Muslims can be tried in its courts.

The Sharia system, which also has its own Court of Appeal, handles both civil and criminal matters involving Muslims and its judgments can also be challenged in Nigeria's secular Courts of Appeal and the Supreme Court.

The Sharia judges, known as "alkalis", are learned in both Islamic and secular laws.

If a case involves a Muslim and a non-Muslim, the non-Muslim has the option of choosing where they want the case to be tried. The Sharia court can only hear the case if the non-Muslim gives written consent.

Sentences handed down by the courts include floggings, amputations and the death penalty.

NIA arrests nine Al-Qaeda terrorists after raids in Kerala's Ernakulam, West Bengal

They were radicalised on social media by the Pakistan-based terrorist organisation and were motivated to undertake attacks at multiple places including the National Capital Region.

Published: 19th September 2020 

Four among the nine Al-Qaeda operatives arrested by the NIA from Kerala and West Bengal.

(Photos | EPS)By Express News Service

KOCHI: In a covert operation, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested three West Bengal natives, who were associated with a module of Al-Qaeda that planned terror strikes in New Delhi, from different parts of Ernakulam district early Saturday morning.

Mosaraf Hossen, Iyakub Biswas and Murshid Hasan were arrested during an hour-long operation which started at 2am.

In a simultaneous operation in Murshidabad, West Bengal, six other members of the Al-Qaeda-affiliated group were arrested. They are Najmus Sakib, Abu Sufiyan, Mainul Mondal, Leu Yean Ahmed, Al Mamun Kamal and Atitur Rehman, all residents of Murshidabad.

In Kerala, the NIA, with the support of the state police, raided three houses — two at Mudikal near Perumbavoor and one at Pathalam near Kalamassery. Mosaraf and Iyakub, who stayed at different rented facilities, were arrested from Mudikal. Murshid was arrested from a rented house near Pathalam. NIA also seized mobile phones, laptops and documents from the trio.

The entire operation had started a month ago after the agency’s New Delhi-based intelligence wing, which is monitoring cyber activities, found that an Al-Qaeda-affiliated group in Pakistan was in touch with some persons in India.

After monitoring and tracking down their identity and locations, the NIA registered an FIR on September 11 in New Delhi. However, no details were released about the registration of such a case.

NIA sleuths monitored suspects’ daily activities for a week before their arrest

Following a directive from NIA New Delhi, officers at the agency’s Kochi unit visited the places where the suspects stayed and monitored their daily activities over the past one week.

The time and date for the raids were fixed by NIA Delhi after sharing inputs with its units in Guwahati and Kochi. The NIA sought the assistance of the Kerala Police, but no information about its nature was provided.

At 1.30 am, around six NIA officials in two SUVs reached near Pathalam Junction and parked the vehicle a few distance away from the house where Murshid stayed. Police officials from the local police station also reached the place. Around 2.05 am, the NIA started the raid.

While one team was conducting the raid at Pathalam, the other two teams in four SUVs comprising 14 people carried out a simultaneous search at the rented houses in Mudikal. Police officers were also present during the search.

After the raid at two houses was completed by 2.45 am, arrested persons --- Mosaraf and Iyakub --- were brought to the NIA office in Kochi within an hour.

They were questioned there for nearly 10 hours. According to an NIA press release, the preliminary investigation revealed that these individuals were radicalised by Pakistan-based Al-Qaeda terrorists on social media and were motivated to undertake attacks at multiple places including the national capital region.

“For this purpose, the module was actively indulging in fundraising and a few members of the gang were planning to travel to New Delhi to procure arms and ammunition. These arrests have pre-empted possible terrorist attacks in various parts of the country,” the release said. Murshid arrived at Pathalam nearly two months ago after travel restrictions were partially lifted. He worked as a dailywage labourer and also worked at hotels.

He also worked in a hotel there. NIA also questioned the arrested persons’ friends and relatives, who have been working and staying with them at its office in Kochi. After the interrogation, the three were produced before a magistrate and a transit warrant was issued. The arrested were taken to New Delhi on a flight from here in the evening and are likely to be produced at a court before Tuesday.

State a safe haven for terror groups

Kochi: The arrest of members of an Al-Qaeda-affiliated group is not the first incident in which members of international terror groups were traced from the state. The state is turning out to be a safe haven for terrorist groups, especially JMB which has roots in West Bengal and Assam, reports Toby Antony. 

Kanakamala case: one more arrested

Kochi: The NIA on Saturday held one more person in connection with the case registered against Ansar-ul-Khilafah Kerala, which was busted by security agencies at Kanakamala in Kannur in 2016. The arrested is Mohammad Polakkani, of Kannur. 

Ernakulam, Kerala

Security forces kill four terrorists in Awaran, Pakistan action

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Daily Times

Security forces shot dead four terrorists during an operation in District Awaran of Balochistan, said a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) issued on Saturday.

According to the ISPR, the security forces conducted an intelligence-based operation in District Awaran and on confirmation of terrorists in central Makran range they took the action. The security forces during their operation completely destroyed the terrorists’ hideout including the logistic base while a large cache of arms, ammunition and communication equipment were seized from there. The security forces in their anti-terror campaign had recently destroyed multiple hideouts and administrative camps of terrorists.

 

On July 25 last, the security forces in Balochistan had averted a major terrorist attack in the province with timely action. FC Balochistan conducted an Intelligence Based Operation (IBO) on suspected terrorist hideout in Buleda area of Turbat district in Balochistan. During the operation, a key terrorist of the proscribed organization BLA was killed.

In May this year, as many as seven soldiers were martyred and many injured in two terrorist attacks in Balochistan. Six soldiers were martyred when their patrol vehicle hit a roadside mob (bomb?) in Machh. The IED attack in Pir Ghaib area of Machh on the Frontier Corps (FC) vehicle returning to base camp after routine patrolling duty left six personnel martyred including a junior commissioned officer (JCO) and a civilian driver.