ISIS-linked stabbing suspect monitored on day of Dresden attack
right after he left prison, police chief reveals
22 Oct 2020 17:48
File photo © REUTERS/Matthias Rietschel
A man suspected of killing one person and seriously injuring another in Dresden this month was under observation by German intelligence at the time of the attack, says the region’s head of police.
Law enforcement agents arrested a 20-year-old Syrian man on Tuesday in connection with the double stabbing on October 4, with prosecutors saying he has an Islamist background.
The suspect was being monitored by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency on the very day of the attack, following his release from prison just days before, the state of Saxony’s head of police, Petric Kleine, confirmed on Thursday.
He added that the man was on security officials’ radar as early as 2017. Police said that some 600 suspected Islamists in Germany are classed as posing a threat to the public.
The suspect, who arrived in Germany in 2015, is being held over the stabbing of a 55-year-old tourist from Krefeld, who died in hospital from his injuries, and the serious wounding of a 53-year-old from Cologne.
The man was released from prison in late September, after serving a two-year sentence for promoting the Islamic State terrorist group, according to local reports. In 2019, his refugee status was revoked, due to his criminal record.
Why was he not deported? A known jihadist! Was he supposed to change in prison with all those other jihadis? Is there a program in German prisons to turn insane Islamists away from violence?
Here's an idea! Remove the right for Islamists to practice their religion in prison. Outlaw it! Every time they are caught practicing their religion, add another 6 months to their sentence.
Kleine said the authorities had flagged up that the man was likely to commit further offences on his release. The head of the Saxony branch of the domestic intelligence agency, Dirk-Martin Christian, stated that round-the-clock surveillance had not been in place, but did not comment further.
Chief cleric of Damascus murdered in bomb attack
– Syrian state media
22 Oct 2020 20:09
FILE PHOTO: A street scene from the town of Qudsaya, Syria, July 24, 2017 © Reuters / Omar Sanadiki
Sheikh Muhammad Adnan Al-Afyouni, the Mufti of Damascus, has been killed in a “terrorist explosion” near the Syrian capital, the SANA news agency reported. Al-Afyouni was one of the region’s most prominent Islamic scholars.
Sheikh Al-Afyouni died in the town of Qudsaya, near Damascus, on Thursday evening. Government sources told SANA that an “explosive device” had been planted on his car.
No terrorist group has as yet been blamed for or taken responsibility for the bombing.
As one of the country’s most senior Islamic scholars, Sheikh Al-Afyouni attended religious ceremonies alongside President Bashar Assad. At a celebration marking the Prophet Mohammed’s birthday last November, Sheikh Al-Afyouni denounced terrorism and prayed for the Syrian government and army.
Though Syria has been torn asunder by war and insurgency for nearly a decade, the killing of the Sunni cleric is the most high-profile assassination of a government-allied religious leader since a suicide bomber killed more than two dozen people in a mosque in 2013.
Terrorist attack reportedly thwarted in Moscow region
as FSB arrests suspect & seizes ISIS flag
22 Oct 2020 16:41
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) says it has prevented a terrorist attack in the Moscow area. It reported that special forces apprehended a would-be bomber who planned to blow up a government facility.
The suspect, caught on Thursday, was under the command of an international terrorist organization, Russian news agencies reported, citing the FSB. The man in question was planning to detonate an improvised explosive device (IED) “inside a government building.”
After that, the unnamed young man, a native of Central Asia, was allegedly planning to join a terrorist faction in the Middle East, according to law enforcement.
In his hiding spot, authorities seized IED parts and manuals on making explosives, and found a history of messages with known terrorists along with a video of him swearing allegiance to them.
Footage from the special operation also shows multiple cellphones, a revolver and the flag of the Islamic State terrorist group.
The agency withheld the specifics of where exactly the attack was going to take place as the investigation is still ongoing.
Estonia Designates Hezbollah a Terrorist Organization
"Hezbollah poses a considerable threat to international – and thereby Estonian – security," said Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu, with whom AJC has met three times since September 2019.
"With this step, Estonia stands by the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany and Lithuania as well as other countries who have concluded that Hezbollah uses terrorist means and constitutes a threat to the security of many states."
Estonia becomes the fourth EU member, after the Netherlands, Germany, and Lithuania, to do so.
Others who have taken action include Argentina, Canada, Colombia, Honduras, Israel, Kosovo, Paraguay, Serbia, United Kingdom, and United States, as well as the Arab League and Gulf Cooperation Council.
"Thankfully, there is today a growing trend to shed any illusions and confront the stark reality that Hezbollah is one indivisible organization, and that organization is terrorist through and through," said AJC CEO David Harris. "Other European nations, we earnestly hope, not to mention the European Union (EU) itself, will soon get on board and also designate Hezbollah as a terrorist group in its entirety."
In 2013, following a deadly Hezbollah attack in Bulgaria and another incident in Cyprus, the EU made a decision to bifurcate the Iranian proxy. Due mostly to French opposition to designate all of Hezbollah, Brussels listed only its so-called "military" wing as a terror group, but not its "political" wing. It is an artificial distinction that Hezbollah itself rejects and, in any case, has no basis in fact.
2nd French mayor threatened with BEHEADING in the wake of teacher’s brutal murder by ‘Islamic terrorist’
24 Oct, 2020 21:00
© Twitter / Thomas Faurobert
A second French mayor has apparently been threatened with “beheading” just days after the gruesome murder of a schoolteacher over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. The ominous threat was sprayed on the walls of a school in Lyon.
“The mayor of the 8th, we’ll behead your head [sic],” the graffiti read, referring to the eighth district of Lyon and its elected official, Olivier Berzane. Unambiguous threats were also made to cut off the heads of teachers and students.
Mayor Berzane said he has already filed a criminal complaint over the offensive messages, vowing to pursue those who wrote them, as “no one takes these threats lightly.”
“It is out of the question to let such an act go unpunished. It is necessary to find the perpetrators,” Berzane told local media.
These words are disconcertingly stupid and unspeakable. It’s pure hatred. Is it an isolated act of someone not knowing what to do with their evening, or a serious threat? Anyway, it’s a case of extreme violence.
While the threats might have been, as Berzane suggested, an “isolated act,” they came only a day after the mayor of Bron, near Lyon, received a similar warning. The graffiti in that case also threatened the town’s elected official with beheading. Mayor Jérémie Bréaud denounced the “violent writing,” and France’s Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin directed the police to “take legal action and provide protection.”
This series of threats against local politicians comes a week after Samuel Paty, a schoolteacher in the Parisian suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, was beheaded in the middle of a street. He was slain by a hardline Islamist suspect of Chechen origin, supposedly as a punishment for showing “offensive” cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed during a lesson on free speech. The teenage attacker was apparently born in Moscow, as the media was quick to point out, but his family emigrated to France in the 2000s, and the young man applied for asylum and effectively grew up there.
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