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Sunday, September 20, 2026

For something completely unexpected > School kidnappers go on trial in Nigeria

 

Nigeria opens trial over mass school abduction

The defendants face terrorism charges over the kidnapping of 39 pupils and seven teachers in Oyo State

Published 18 Sep, 2026 11:10 | Updated 18 Sep, 2026 12:15

Nigeria opens trial over mass school abduction










Five alleged members of the Islamist group Ansaru have gone on trial in Nigeria in connection with the kidnapping of 46 students and teachers in the state of Oyo. 

All five denied seven terrorism-related charges against them, local news agency Punch reported on Thursday, citing the country’s state security service.

Mahmud Muhammad, Abubakar Abbas, Abdulrazak Umar, Yunusa Musa, and Shamsu Sani appeared before Federal High Court Judge Salim Ibrahim in Abuja, according to Reuters. The defendants face prison terms ranging from 20 years to life if convicted, while they could face the death penalty if prosecutors prove that deaths resulted from the kidnappings under Nigeria’s 2022 anti-terrorism law.

An anonymous prosecution witness said the attack took place on May 15, when armed men targeted three schools in Oyo State’s Oriire district. The witness, identified in court only as “AAA” for security reasons, said: “School activities had just started when we heard gunshots,” according to Premium Times. She told the court that 39 pupils and seven teachers were abducted and remained in captivity for 56 days.

The witness said the captives were moved between six locations and forced to sleep on grass in rain and hot weather, Punch reported. She also said they suffered from severe shortages of food and water during their captivity. “We had to drink the dirty water just to survive,” the witness stated.

Nigerian security forces rescued 39 pupils and six teachers in July and arrested eight suspected kidnappers, the presidency said at the time. One teacher had been killed in captivity, while security personnel were wounded by explosives during an earlier rescue attempt.

Ansaru emerged as an armed splinter group of Boko Haram and publicly announced its existence in January 2012. The group maintains close ties with Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).

The region has been at the center of a longstanding Islamist insurgency, with mass abductions, including the 2014 kidnapping of more than 270 Chibok schoolgirls. In June, the Nigerian Army said it had rescued 360 hostages, including women and children, from a Boko Haram enclave in the state of Borno.

RT

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Thursday, January 9, 2025

This Week's Islamic Massacres > Boko Haram lose 18 men in attack on Chad President; Genocide in Sudan, again

 

Attack on Chad's presidential complex

in N'Djamena leaves 19 dead

Africa

At least 19 people were killed when gunmen attacked Chad's presidential complex in the capital N'Djamena on Wednesday, according to the government. Shortly afterward, Infrastructure Minister Aziz Mahamat Saleh said the situation was "under control."

Chadian President Mahamat Deby Itno participates in his inauguration ceremony in N'djamena, Chad, May 23, 2024.
Chadian President Mahamat Deby Itno participates in his inauguration ceremony in N'djamena, Chad, May 23, 2024. © Mouta Ali, AP

Gunmen attempted to storm the presidential complex in Chad's capital N'Djamena on Wednesday, sparking a battle that left 18 attackers and one security personnel member dead, the government said.

AFP reporters heard gunfire erupt near the site and saw tanks on the street, while security sources reported that armed men had tried to overrun the complex.

The government later said 19 people were killed in the fighting, of which 18 were members of the 24-strong commando unit that launched the assault.

"There were 18 dead and six injured" among the attackers "and we suffered one death and three injured, one of them seriously", government spokesman and Foreign Minister Abderaman Koulamallah told AFP.

Hours after the shooting, Koulamallah appeared in a video posted to Facebook, surrounded by soldiers and with a gun on his belt, saying "the situation is completely under control... the destabilisation attempt was put down".

A security source said the attackers were members of the Boko Haram jihadist group, which Chadian forces are fighting in the western Lake Chad region that borders Cameroon, Nigeria and Niger.

Landlocked Chad is under military rule and faces regular attacks by Boko Haram. 

It recently ended a military accord with former colonial power France and has been accused of interfering in the conflict ravaging neighbouring Sudan.

Several security sources said that an armed commando unit opened fire inside the presidency on Wednesday evening around 7:45 pm (1845 GMT), before being overpowered by the presidential guard.

All roads leading to the presidency were blocked and tanks could be seen on the streets, according to an AFP reporter at the scene.

As civilians rushed out of the city centre in cars and motorcycles, armed police were seen at several points in the district.

Hours before the fighting broke out, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno and other senior officials.

France's last Sahel bases 

The former French colony hosted France's last military bases in the region known as the Sahel, but at the end of November, Chad ended defence and security agreements with Paris, calling them "obsolete".

Around a thousand French military personnel were stationed in the country and are in the process of being withdrawn.

France was previously driven out of three Sahelian countries governed by juntas hostile to Paris -- Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger.

Senegal and Ivory Coast have also asked France to vacate military bases on their territory.

Like father, like son 

The gunfire erupted less than two weeks after Chad held a contested general election that the government hailed as a key step towards ending military rule, but that was marked by low turnout and opposition allegations of fraud.

A call by the opposition for voters to boycott the polls left the field open for candidates aligned with the president, who was brought to power by the military in 2021 and then legitimised in a May presidential election that opposition candidates denounced as fraudulent.

Deby took power after the death of his father, who had ruled the country with an iron fist for three decades.

The desert country is an oil producer but ranked fourth from bottom in the United Nations Human Development Index.

To consolidate his grip on power, Deby has reshuffled the army, historically dominated by the Zaghawas and Gorane, his mother's ethnic group.

On the diplomatic front, he has sought new strategic partnerships, including with Russia and Hungary. 

(AFP)



U.S. declares Sudan's paramilitary and

proxy forces are committing genocide

Sudanese people sit on a bus as they traverse the Nile River on a ferry after crossing the border from Sudan, in Abu Simbel, southern Egypt, 19 May 2023. Millions have been displaced in Sudan because of the war. File Photo by Khaled Elfiqi/EPA-EFE
Sudanese people sit on a bus as they traverse the Nile River on a ferry after crossing the border from Sudan, in Abu Simbel, southern Egypt, 19 May 2023. Millions have been displaced in Sudan because of the war. File Photo by Khaled Elfiqi/EPA-EFE

Jan. 8 (UPI) -- The United States has accused Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and proxy militias of committing genocide in the Northeast African nation's nearly 2-year-old civil war.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the genocide determination Tuesday. The United States has repeatedly declared that war crimes have been committed by both warring parties in Sudan's civil war, but Blinken alleged that the RSF's systematic murder and sexual violence targeting individuals based on their ethnicity now meets the high threshold of genocide.

"The RSF and allied militias have systematically murdered men and boys -- even infants -- on an ethnic basis, and deliberately targeted women and girls from certain ethnic groups for rape and other forms of brutal sexual violence. Those same militias have targeted fleeing civilians, murdering innocent people escaping conflict, and prevented remaining civilians from accessing life-saving supplies," Blinken said in a statement.

The breakaway RSF and the Sudan Defense Force have been locked in a deepening and bloody civil war since April 2023, resulting in the deaths of tens of thousands, the displacement of millions and the creation of the world's largest humanitarian catastrophe.

The genocide determination is largely symbolic, but the U.S. Treasury accompanied Blinken's announcement with sanctions targeting Gen. Mohammad Hamdan Daglo Mousa, leader of the RSF, as well as the paramilitary weapons supplier Abu Dharr Abdul Nabi Habiballa Ahmmed and seven related companies.

Allegations of ethnic violence have come predominantly from Sudan's Darfur province, where RSF and its aligned militias have killed thousands.

Blinken mentioned Darfur in his statement, directly implicating Mohammad Hamdan in gross human rights violations committed there, specifically the mass rape of civilians.

"The United States is committed to holding accountable those responsible for these atrocities," Blinken said.

The United States has repeatedly responded with sanctions to the civil war, which broke out following years of uncertainty in the country as it attempted to crawl toward stability after the fall of African nation's former three-decade dictator government of President Omar al-Bashir in a civilian-backed coup in 2019.

The genocide determination is the second made by the United States in Darfur this century. In September of 2004, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell declared a genocide was being committed in Darfur province by the government of Sudan and the Janjaweed militia, which would later evolve into the RSF.

Brian Adeba, senior advisor at The Sentry, an investigative and policy organization, said the genocide determination sends "a strong message" to victims that their suffering is recognized and that justice will be pursued.

"Most importantly, the determination signals that the world is waking up to the task of holding those who commit mass atrocities accountable. This determination must be accompanied by bold and concrete action to not only hold perpetrators accountable, but also protect civilians, and support the pursuit of justice and peace in Sudan," Adeba said in a statement.

Democratic Rep. Gregory Meeks, ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, similarly described Blinken's determination in a statement as an important step to identifying atrocities committed by the RSF.

"Keeping U.S. focus on holding the RSF and SAF accountable and ending this conflict must continue to be a priority as we seek to address the world's worst humanitarian crisis," he said.

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Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Islamic Insanity > Young UK Muslims more aggressive than parents; No ham sandwiches on Spanish bus; Repentent Boko Haram murders girlfriend; German teen terrorist troup

 

Majority of Young Muslims in UK

Want Islamic Law

Poll shows British Muslims want Islam as the national religion and an Islamic political party.

1 in 3 Muslims living in the UK want Islam to be declared the national religion and for everyone to live under the brutal system of Sharia law which calls for beheadings and amputations.

Less than 1 in 4 Muslims opposed the move while the majority were unwilling to commit.

Among younger Muslims 18-24, 1 in 5 believed that making Islam “our national religion” was “very desirable”, and a total of 43% supported redefining the UK as an Islamic state.

Only 16% opposed it.

This younger group who are the future of Muslims in the UK was also the one most likely to sympathize with Islamic terrorists.

1 in 4 British Muslim men expressed a positive view of Jihad. 46% of British Muslims sympathized with Hamas as did 58% of younger British Muslims. None effectively sympathize with Israel. Previously 1 in 4 Muslims had sympathized with the 7/7 suicide bombers in London.

52% of Muslims supported a ‘blasphemy’ ban on Mohammed cartoons. This Sharia ‘blasphemy code’ had already been used to justify violence and Islamic terrorist attacks against artists and magazines. Including the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris by heavily armed Muslim terrorists.

A previous poll reported on by The Telegraph in 2015 showed that 1 in 4 Muslims supported the Hebdo attacks.

Among younger Muslim settlers, 59% supported a blasphemy ban, with only 20% opposed.

57% of Muslim settlers in the UK were willing to call for the “compulsory use of Halal food in all schools and hospitals”. Among younger settlers, 67% were in favor of mandatory Halal.

Setting up conflicts with feminists and LGBTQ activists, 1 in 5 Muslims wanted to legalize polygamy and 1 in 4 wanted to ban homosexuality. While a majority of Muslim colonists would not commit to the move, both measures had similar levels of opposition and support.

Imposing Sharia law would be a ban on most of the social and lifestyle choices of the Left. That is a point that the British Left, like its Western counterparts, has not come to terms with, but may have to as Muslims in the UK move beyond supporting non-Muslim parties to forming their own.

39% of UK Muslims supported the formation of a Muslim political party potentially of the kind that had been set up by Muslim Brotherhood movements in middle eastern countries.

Only 16% were opposed.

Among younger Muslim colonists, 46% favored a Muslim political party to contend for power in Britain. Such a party could then be used to impose Islamic law on the rest of the country.

On most issues, with the exception of polygamy, the younger Muslims are more willing to support the imposition of Islam on the United Kingdom than their elders. The truly relevant poll numbers are not those that cover the entire population, but the next generation.

While most polls group together Muslims, this survey broke down different groups of Muslims showing significant differences among white Muslim converts, Arab Muslims, Pakistani Muslims and African Muslims. White converts have been depicted as the most “extreme” due to their “misunderstanding” of Islam and indeed have been involved in terrorism, but the survey shows that they are actually less likely to support the imposition of Islamic law through blasphemy bans on pictures of Mohammed, Halal, homosexuality, polygamy and other Sharia measures.

41% of Pakistani Muslim colonists in the UK want Sharia law and 37% want Islam to become the national religion. Pakistani settlers are the largest single Muslim group surveyed. 61% of Pakistan Muslim settlers supported compulsory Halal and 49% wanted an Islamic political party.

While Muslims women in the UK were distinctly unenthusiastic about bringing back polygamy (15% in favor, 38% against), and an abortion ban (19% for and 28% against) they were even more totalitarian about some elements of Islamic theocracy than the men including compulsory Halal (65% for and 7%) against, and even more likely to sympathize with Hamas than the men.

While the poll commissioned by the Henry Jackson Society and conducted by J.L. Partners which was published by The Telegraph found widespread support for Hamas, it also showed that the backing for the brutal Islamic terror theocracy in Israel also translated  into some support for establishing a similar system to the one Hamas is working toward in the UK.

A growing number of British Muslims not only want to see an end to Israel, but also to the UK with Islam as the national religion, the imposition of Islamic law and an Islamic political party.

The current poll does not show that the Muslim settler perspective in the UK is growing worse rather it shows that Muslims remained fairly consistent while the British have been in denial.

Similar polls expressing high levels of support for sharia law have circulated as far back as 2006 when 40% of Muslims in the UK wanted Islamic law. 18 years later, 36% support Islamic law.

Across nearly twenty years, Muslims in the UK want what they wanted in their home countries, theocratic supremacy and an end to equal rights for non-Muslims. The support for Hamas is an expression of a larger supremacist tendency that killed thousands in Israel, but millions around the world from India to Afghanistan to the Middle East and to London, Paris and New York City.

A majority of young Muslims in the UK want sharia Islamic law and a political party to impose it.

If the current immigration rates and demographic transformation rates continue, the question is not if it will fall to Islamic rule, but, when Britain will fall.


It's a pity there is nothing here on how Muslims feel about child brides, or female genital mutilation.

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Spain: Muslim migrant tells woman on bus not to eat

ham sandwich near him because Islam forbids pork

The principle is always and everywhere the same: in Muslim countries, one must conform one’s behavior to Islamic sensibilities. And in non-Muslim countries, one must conform one’s behavior to Islamic sensibilities.

Well, at least he didn't pull out a knife and slit her throat. 




Repentant Boko Haram Member Enlisted Into Nigerian Army

Slits Woman’s Throat In Enugu Barracks, Hides Corpse

Sahara Reporters, April 13, 2024:



SaharaReporters had exclusively reported how the lifeless body of the woman wearing hijab was discovered on Friday by the daughter of an army lieutenant around the division’s officers quarters.

Private Mohammed Adamu with service number 21NA/80/0365 has been identified as the alleged killer of the woman who was stabbed inside the 82nd (Airborne and Amphibious) Division of the Nigerian Army, top sources on Saturday told SaharaReporters.

“A lifeless body of a lady who was stabbed by an unknown person was discovered yesterday in 82 division barracks,” a source had said.

“The body was discovered by the daughter of an Army lieutenant who was taking food to her dad who is working on their farm somewhere around the division officers quarters.

“And the knife used in killing the same lady was dropped off close to the body while the body was wrapped with the hijab she was wearing.”

While the army authorities have refused to comment on the incident, SaharaReporters learnt on Saturday evening that the killer has been identified as Pte Mohammed Adamu working with the division’s legal service.

Adamu and the deceased which was identified as Hauwa were said to be lovers.

According to two senior military officers who spoke to SaharaReporters, the suspect (soldier) was a repented Boko Haram member who after his repentance joined the Civilian Joint Task Force and was later enlisted into the Nigerian Army in the year 2021.

The Nigerian Army had between 2020 and 2021 absorbed 400 members of the civilian JTF into its fold to assist in prosecuting the war against Boko Haram terrorists….  At least, that's the theory. 


 

 

Germany: Muslim teens plotted jihad massacres

at churches, bars, synagogue and police station

Wir schaffen das!

Planned terrorist attacks: young Islamist cell dismantled

translated from “Geplante Terroranschläge: Jugendliche Islamisten-Zelle ausgehoben,” Junge Freiheit, April 12, 2024 (thanks to Medforth):

DUESSELDORF. In the middle of Germany, a group of underage IS supporters agreed to carry out terrorist attacks on Easter via a chat group. The now identified two boys and four girls between the ages of 13 and 16 are said to have planned attacks on churches, bars, a synagogue and a police station in North Rhine-Westphalia, the Bild newspaper reported. They are all in custody. Specifically, targets in Iserlohn were recently targeted.

First, the state security agency became aware of Albina H. from Iserlohn, who was in contact with three like-minded girls from Düsseldorf and Munich, including 15-year-old Wiam S. Her father Tijani S. is already known to the police as an IS sympathizer. Six years ago, authorities investigated the now 44-year-old on suspicion of financing terrorism. He is said to have collected donations for IS. A year later, they discovered an illegal firearm in his car.

Terror gang was led by 15 year old
A search of Wiam S.’s house, during which a machete and a dagger were seized, led investigators to further terror suspects. The police discovered the chat group on a confiscated cell phone, which led to the further identification of 15-year-old Julius S. from Lippstadt and 16-year-old Yusa P. from Baden-Württemberg. According to initial findings, Julius S., who had not previously appeared before the police, is said to have been the head of the gang.

The IS supporters wanted to kill as many “infidels” as possible with their attacks. The plan was to use knives and incendiary devices. Finally, the gang considered how they could obtain firearms. Those involved are currently in custody because of the preparation of a serious act of violence that endangers the state. (JF)