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ISIS executioner hid in Essen, Germany for several years
Translated from “ISIS-Henker versteckte sich seit mehreren Jahren in Essen,”
by Frank Schneider,
Bild, March 22, 2023
A Syrian has been arrested in Essen who is said to have belonged to a killer commando of the jihadist militia Islamic State. The arrested IS terrorist is Asmael K. (32), an asylum seeker from Syria, who, according to BILD information, has lived with his brothers in Essen Frohnhausen for several years without being molested.
The combat unit kidnapped and executed opposing fighters and other people, the federal prosecutor said on Wednesday in Karlsruhe. Asmael K. is said to have joined ISIS in Syria at the end of 2013 and swore allegiance to the terrorist organization.
The ISIS executioner was arrested by officers from the Federal Criminal Police Office on Monday and brought before the investigating judge on Tuesday, who ordered the prison officer to be held in custody. As the Federal Prosecutor’s Office further announced, K. is “strongly suspected” of membership in a terrorist organization abroad.
Before he was arrested, he had been under surveillance for a few days by special units from the Federal Criminal Police Office. It is about membership in a terrorist organization, i.e. the Islamic State.
According to BILD information, Asmael K. belonged to a particularly brutal IS combat unit in Syria, but has so far not been conspicuous in Germany for Islamism or state security offenses, but only for minor drug offenses.
In 2014, in the midst of the Syrian civil war, ISIS took control of large parts of Syria and Iraq, but gradually lost these areas again. After a US-led coalition drove the terrorist militia out of Syria’s last bastions in March 2019, most of the remaining ISIS Islamists retreated to the Syrian desert.
The US-led coalition was in Syria for several years and accomplished nothing until Assad invited Russian forces to come and fight ISIS.
From there they keep attacking Kurdish fighters and soldiers from the Syrian government army. The US forces, in turn, target the jihadists and their leaders during operations.
Islamic State Group Kills 15 Truffle Hunters In Syria: Monitor
The Islamic State group killed 15 people foraging for desert truffles in conflict-ravaged central Syria by cutting their throats, while 40 others are missing, a war monitor said Friday.
Since February, at least 150 people — most of them civilians — have been killed by IS attacks targeting truffle hunters or by landmines left by the extremists, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Syria’s desert truffles fetch high prices in a country battered by 12 years of war and a crushing economic crisis.
“At least 15 people, including seven civilians and eight local pro-regime fighters, were killed by IS fighters who slit their throats while they were collecting truffles on Thursday,” said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman.
Forty others are missing following the attack in Hama province, he added….
Between February and April each year, hundreds of impoverished Syrians search for truffles in the vast Syrian Desert, or Badia — a known hideout for jihadists that is also littered with landmines.
The monitor said that IS was taking advantage of the annual harvest of the desert fungus delicacy to carry out attacks in remote locations.
Foragers risk their lives to collect the delicacies, despite repeated warnings about landmines and IS fighters.
The Syrian Desert is renowned for producing some of the best quality truffles in the world.
The prized fungus can sell for up to $25 per kilo ($11 per pound) depending on size and grade — in a country where the average monthly wage is around $18….
Syrian migrant requested to be detained for serious war crimes in Syria
Translated from “Syrisk migrant begärs häktad för grova krigsbrott i Syrien,”
by Mattias Albinsson, Samnytt, March 23, 2023:
A 49-year-old Syrian is wanted in custody for serious war crimes committed in Syria. This is evident from a detention petition from Blekinge district court.
The man was born in Palmyra in Syria and came to Sweden together with his then wife in connection with the migrant crisis. He received a residence permit in December 2016.
According to the Swedish Tax Agency’s population register, the man is now remarried to one or two other women from his home country. The case officer at the authority does not know how many, because two different dates of birth have been registered on the wife or wives.
Now the 49-year-old Syrian has been requested to be detained for two serious war crimes which, according to the prosecutor’s arrest petition, he committed in his home country before he came to Sweden. The timing of both crimes is stated to be from May 15, 2015 to June 30 of the same year.
According to the arrest warrant, the penalty for the crime the 49-year-old committed is at least two years in prison. The custody hearing will be held on Friday morning. The suspect is not a Swedish citizen.
He turned himself in? His marriage, or marriages, must have been something less than 72 virgins in Paradise.
In January of this year, the Blekinge district court sentenced a 45-year-old man for international human rights violations in Syria. According to his own statement, that man was helped by the Security Police to get to Sweden.
Two dead women and several heroes in a knife attack
in a Muslim center in Lisbon
Translated from “Dos mujeres muertas y varios heridos en un ataque con cuchillo en un centro musulmán de Lisboa,”
El Mundo, March 28, 2023
One of the fatal victims of the attack on the Ismaili center in Lisbon perpetrated today was a teacher of the attacker and the other a colleague of the attacker of Afghan origin, announced local media.
The attacker, a 40-year-old Afghan, has lived in Odivelas — in the Lisbon metropolitan area — since a year ago, he is a father of three children and his wife died in a refugee camp in Greece, according to the Correio da Manhá.
The man, who knew the Ismaili center well because he received classes at the institution, showed up today in the armed enclosure with a large knife, killed the women and left several serious injuries.
Is it an armed enclosure because of fear of anti-Islamists? Yet, the danger came from Islam itself.
The two victims are the attacker’s English teacher, 40 years old, and a partner of the aggressor, also of Afghan origin and 20 years old, according to CNN Portugal.
Omed Taeni, a member of the Afghan Community Association in Lisbon, pointed out to the media that the attacker did not associate with Afghan residents and that it “seems that he had psychological problems” after the death of his wife in Greece.
He's a Muslim, of course he has psychological problems.
The Portuguese police disclosed that they received the first warning of the aggression minutes before 11:00 local time, when classes and other activities were taught in the center.
The agents found a man armed with a large knife.
“Orders were given to the attacker to stop the attack; he disobeyed and advanced with the knife in his hand in the direction of the police,” who “resorted to the firearm, reaching and neutralizing the attacker,” said an official statement.
The attacker was injured in the legs and was admitted to a hospital under police custody.
The Portuguese Prime Minister, António Costa, announced that “everything indicates that it was an isolated act, but,” he qualified, “we are not going to assume that.”
The Lisbon Ismaili Center was built by the Aga Khan Foundation and opened in 1998.
The police have cordoned off the area with a strong security device in which the counter-terrorist unit of the Judicial Police participates, although the Portuguese government has not confirmed whether the attack can be classified as a terrorist attack.
Whatever it was, the victim's families and the man's three children will pay the price for his madness.
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