In my humble opinion, Erdogan is the Abomination of Desolation. His aggressive, jihadist position againt Israel fits in perfectly with him leading the prophetic attack on Israel by 10 Islamic states.
President Erdogan says Turkey firmly backs
Hamas leaders and speaks openly with them
Daily Mail, March 9, 2024:
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan today said that his nation ‘firmly backs’ the leaders of Hamas and that the country speaks openly with them.
He has refused to brand Hamas as a terrorist group, despite Western allies of NATO-member Turkey, including the UK, and some Arab nations, doing so.
‘No one can make us qualify Hamas as a terrorist organisation,’ Erdogan said in a speech in the city of Istanbul.
‘Turkey is a country that speaks openly with Hamas leaders and firmly backs them.’
Erdogan has been one of the most virulent critics of Israel since the start of the war in Gaza, which began after the October 7 attack Israel where Hamas killed at least 1,160 people, according to an AFP tally of official Israeli figures….
I honestly think that Turkey is trying to put itself on a war footing so it can enter the war against Israel. Erdogan is ambitiously aspiring to rebuild the Ottoman Empire with himself as Caliph. But he is getting on in age and has to be more aggressive in his pursuit.
Note that NATO will do nothing to rein in Erdogan, and America and Europe will not sanction him in any serious way.
France: Muslim couple found to have explosives
and a book of jihad propaganda
The family that slays together, stays together.
INFO EUROPE 1 – Lyon: the RAID discovers an explosive
and Salafist literature in Lyon apartment
translated from “INFO EUROPE 1 – Lyon : le RAID découvre un explosif et de la littérature salafiste dans un appartement,” by William Molinié, Europe 1, March 10, 2024:
The RAID and the deminers intervened this Sunday morning, shortly after 6 a.m. in an apartment in the 8th arrondissement of Lyon. During the search, investigators found at least one kilo of TATP, a very unstable homemade explosive, as well as Salafist literature. A man and a woman were taken into custody.
According to information from Europe 1, a man and a woman were arrested and taken into police custody in Lyon. The woman is suspected of having prepared explosives with a view to offering them for sale via social networks, in particular Snapchat. The RAID and the deminers intervened this Sunday morning, shortly after 6 a.m. in an apartment in the 8th arrondissement of the capital of the Gauls.
During the search, at least one kilo of TATP, a very unstable homemade explosive, was found and immediately destroyed by the deminers due to its dangerousness. Two mobile phones, a false identity card and a booklet of Salafist literature were also seized.
The suspect’s companion was wanted by the police, due to a 6-month prison sentence for drug violations. The judicial police were contacted.
How smart is that girl? Keeping a drug user in her apartment along with unstable explosives?
In the real world, piracy went out 3-400 years ago with Blackbeard, Anne Bonny, Sir Francis Drake, etc. But in medievil Islam, this is still a niche industry.
Somali pirates hijack Bangladeshi cargo ship,
take more than 20 hostage
March 12 (UPI) -- Somali pirates hijacked a Bangladeshi cargo ship on Tuesday and took more than 20 of the crew hostage.
The cargo ship "MV" Abdullah was hijacked while on its way to Al Hamriyah port in the United Arab Emirates.
According to reports, 23 crew members were taken hostage along with the ship, which was carrying 58 tons of coal from Mozambique.
An official with SR Shipping Lines, which own 23 vessels, confirmed to New Age Bangladesh that the company got a message at about 1:30 p.m. local time from the captain, who informed them of the hijacking.
The captain said in short message that the crew was safe.
A crew member said in an audio clip that the pirates attacked their ship using an Iranian fishing boat allegedly hijacked months prior.
"The pirates are threatening us. I am sending this voice message from the washroom. There are 7-8 of them. They intend to take us to their camp. They all have guns," the crew member, who's identity could not be ascertained, according to The Business Standard.
"We are waiting for their next message or call," commented Meherul Karim, SR Shipping's CEO.
Karim said a previous December 2010 hijacking that took 25 of the company's sailors hostage ended up with the workers being set free more than two months later.
The International Maritime Organization -- which is a United Nations body -- warned that attacks on commercial ships in the region in recent months by Houthi rebels gives room for Somali pirates to step up further attacks in shipping lanes, too.
The hijacking in that area -- known for such occurrences -- of the Indian Ocean came the same day the Biden administration announced sanctions against a international network of money launderers of the Somalia-based al-Shabaab terrorist organization, who are accused of compromising an expansive network that generates and launders millions for the al-Qaida affiliate in the Horn of Africa, the United Arab Emirates and Cyprus.
In 2017, Somali pirates hijacked an Indian ship with 11 on board while it was traveling from Dubai to Yemen. Two years later in 2019, maritime officials in India, China and Pakistan responded to a Somali pirate hijacking and freed 19 captured crew members in the close by Gulf of Aden.
Ships in that part of the world need to have security teams that are armed with bazookas and automatic weapons. It shouldn't be that easy to hijack a huge cargo ship.
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