This Week's Islamic Massacres > Jihadists kill 7 in Jammu & Kashmir; Fulani Herdsmen kill 4 more Christians in Nigeria; Attack on Turkish Aerospace company kills 5 wounds 22

 

India: Seven killed in jihad attack at

construction site in Jammu and Kashmir

Oct 21, 2024 8:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Jammu and Kashmir area is India’s only Muslim-majority region. There has been an uptick in jihad terror in the region, which can be attributed to the activities of an exhaustive list of terrorist groups in Pakistan. This most recent attack was by the Resistance Front, an offshoot of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, which is one of the largest and most powerful jihadist groups in Pakistan. Like the others, it seeks to see Jammu and Kashmir under Pakistani control.

See HERE for an extensive list of jihad groups in Pakistan.

The Jammu and Kashmir area is considered to be “disputed territory” (sometimes compared to Judea and Samaria in Israel). And as in Israel, jihadists will never stop their killing of their own accord.

Seven people killed, few injured in terrorist attack at construction site in India’s Jammu and Kashmir

WION, October 21, 2024:

Seven people, including locals, non-locals, and a doctor, working at the construction site of a key infrastructure project, were killed and a few others were injured in a terrorist attack at Gagangir in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday evening (Oct 20), just days after an elected government led by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah came to power in the Union Territory. Some of those who died in the attack were reportedly migrant workers.

The firing incident happened close to a campsite of the Z-mode tunnel at Gagangeer in the Sonamarg area of Ganderbal district.

The local police and security personnel from the Central Reserve Police Forces (CRPF) rushed to the spot and cordoned off the area.

According to media reports, the attack was carried out by the terrorist group The Resistance Front (TRF), which is an offshoot of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)….

Nigeria: Muslims murder four Christians

in Benue state

Oct 19, 2024 1:00 pm By Robert Spencer

“Make ready for them all that you can of force and of warhorses, so that by them you may strike terror in the enemy of Allah and your enemy…” (Qur’an 8:60)

Four Christians Killed in Benue State, Central Nigeria

Morning Star News, October 11, 2024:

ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen killed two Christians in central Nigeria’s Benue state on Wednesday (Oct. 9) and two others in another part of the state on Oct. 3, local sources said.

In northeastern Benue state’s Logo County, herdsmen on Wednesday attacked the village of Ayilamo, killing university student Solomon Kwanta and another Christian, area residents said.

“Apart from the two Christians killed during the attack, many other Christians were injured,” said Benard Chia in a message to Christian Daily International-Morning Star News. “Armed Fulani herdsmen attacked Ayilamo community in Logo Local Government Area of Benue state at about midnight on Wednesday.”

Kwanta was a final-year student at the University of Calabar who was back in the village on break, Chia said….

Tyongi Emmanuel, another village resident, said the situation was dire. “Everyone here is on the run, as we have all been displaced,” he said, while villager Tsavsar Msughaondo told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News, “Fulani herdsmen have taken over our ancestral lands; we are therefore calling on the Nigerian government to quickly intervene here in the Ayilamo area of Benue state in order to end these unprovoked attacks on us.”

In Kwande County in the southeastern part of the state, herdsmen on Oct. 3 killed two Christians in Tse Wende, villagers said.

Fabian Terseer identified the slain Christians as Terwse Azege and Orseer Kende.

“Attacks by armed Fulani herders have become a common occurrence here,” Terseer said. “Unfortunately, media organizations have not given these incidents adequate coverage. The sad thing too is that the Nigerian government has not deemed it necessary to take steps towards ending these attacks on our communities. For how long are we expected to endure these killing epidemics?”

Numbering in the millions across Nigeria and the Sahel, predominantly Muslim Fulani comprise hundreds of clans of many different lineages who do not hold extremist views, but some Fulani do adhere to radical Islamist ideology, the United Kingdom’s All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom or Belief (APPG) noted in a 2020 report….

And when it comes to murdering farmers to steal their land, I wonder what percentage of Fulanis think that is a fine idea? Notice in the map below, how far south jihadis have progressed in Nigeria.

It's interesting that the first murdered human was Abel, a herder, who was killed by his brother, Cain, a farmer. Cain was then cast out of the family and away from God.

Benue State, Nigeria

Five people killed in attack at Turkish aerospace company

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Five people were killed and 22 others wounded in an attack on the headquarters of Turkish defence firm TUSAS, located near the capital Ankara, Turkish officials said Wednesday, pointing the finger at Kurdish separatists who have carried out attacks in the past.

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Assailants set off explosives and opened fire in an attack Wednesday on the premises of the Turkish state-run aerospace and defence company TUSAS, killing five people and wounding several more, Turkish officials said. At least two of the attackers died.

“I condemn this heinous terrorist attack and wish mercy on our martyrs,” Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said during a meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of a BRICS meeting in Kazan, Russia.

Putin offered him condolences over the attack. 

Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya pointed the finger at the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has waged a decades-long insurgency against the government.

"The identification process and the search for fingerprints are continuing and we will say which terrorist organisation was behind the attack... The way in which this action was carried out is very probably linked to the PKK," Yerlikaya said.

Kurdish militants, the Islamic State (IS) group and leftist extremists have all carried out attacks in the country in the past.

NATO chief Mark Rutte offered the alliance's backing in a call with Erdogan. 

"I just spoke with (President) Erdogan about the terror attack in Ankara. My message was clear: NATO stands with Turkiye," Rutte wrote on X, using the country's official Turkish name.  

Security camera images from the attack, aired on television, showed a man in plainclothes carrying a backpack and holding an assault rifle.

Turkish media said three assailants, including a woman, arrived at an entry to the complex inside a taxi. The assailants, who were carrying assault weapons, then detonated an explosive device next to the taxi, causing panic and allowing them to enter the complex.

Multiple gunshots were heard after Turkish security forces entered the site, the DHA news agency and other media reported. Helicopters were seen flying above the premises.

TUSAS designs, manufactures and assembles both civilian and military aircrafts, unmanned aerial vehicles and other defense industry and space systems. The UAVs have been instrumental in Turkey gaining an upper hand in its fight against Kurdish militants in Turkey and across the border in Iraq.

Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz said the target of the attack was Turkey's “success in the defense industry”.

“It should be known that these attacks will not be able to deter the heroic employees of defense industry,” he wrote on X.

(FRANCE 24 with AP)

This Week's Global Terrorist Stories > Episode 20-13 - Netherlands, Afghanistan, Mozambique, Russia, Norway, Chad

'I have coronavirus and now you do, too':

Dutchman gets 10 weeks in jail after 'coughing on cops'

Is there any hope for the world when there are so many idiots like this?

FILE PHOTO: Dutch police ©  REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw

A man suspected of drunk driving in the Netherlands has received 10 weeks in the slammer, after intentionally coughing on police who pulled him over. He claimed to be infected with Covid-19, but later tested negative.

The culprit, identified by local media as a 23-year-old male from Leiden, was allegedly speeding and snaking through lanes before being stopped by police. According to reports, he refused to be tested for alcohol. Instead of cooperating with authorities, the young Dutchman reportedly coughed in the faces of the two officers, telling them: "I have the coronavirus and now you do, too."

A district court found the suspect guilty of assault and making death threats, and sentenced him to 10 weeks in prison on Friday. A post-arrest test revealed that he was not in fact infected with Covid-19.

During sentencing, the judge described the man's behavior as "reprehensible" and said that the prison term serves as a warning to those who might want to do harm to the country's emergency services.

The Dutch government shut down all schools and daycare centers last week in a bid to stop the spread of Covid-19. Cafes and restaurants have also been shuttered until at least April 6.

The Netherlands has around 3,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus resulting in 106 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.

25 Sikh worshipers killed in attack on temple in Afghanistan

By Clyde Hughes

Bodies of victims killed in the Sikh temple attack are burned during a ceremony Thursday in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Photo by Jawad Jalali/EPA-EFE

March 27 (UPI) -- The families of multiple Sikh worshipers killed this week in an attack at a temple in Afghanistan's capital are demanding a government investigation.

Authorities say militants attacked the temple Wednesday and killed 25 people before police ended the siege. Afghanistan's Interior Ministry said eight were injured.

"The Sikh community of Afghanistan are among the most resilient, peaceful and country-loving citizens," Afghan activist Samira Hamidi said. "There are so many of them who have preferred living in Afghanistan despite all the threats against them."

The Islamic State terror group claimed responsibility for the attack but some Afghan government officials believe the Haqqani Network may have been involved in retaliation for violence against Muslims in India recently, tied to its controversial law that establishes citizenship for non-Muslim refugees..

"The Taliban and other terrorist groups sponsored by the governments in our region have in the past also attacked our society and tried create divisions among people," Javid Faisal, spokesman for the Afghan National Security Council, said. "Such past events instill fear and insecurity within the community and can affect the unity of the nation, too."

Wednesday's attack led to calls for solidarity within Afghanistan's Sikh community, whose numbers have dwindled drastically over nearly two decades of war.

"[The Organization of Islamic Cooperation] strongly condemned suicide attacks on a Sikh place of worship in Kabul," Huseyin Avni Botsali, an ambassador of the OIC in Kabul, said.

The families of some of the victims want the government to do more. "We want investigations," relative Dip Singh said. "Our 25 people have been killed."

Some say the attackers took their violent crusade too far by attacking a place of worship.

"In which book do you come to attack a mosque and attack a [temple]?" asked relative Andar Singh. "In what religion does that happen?"

Let me guess... is it  the Quran? 

Mozambique jihadists seize key town in Cabo Delgado

Islamist insurgents have seized control of a key town in northern Mozambique, close to where foreign companies are working on a $60bn (£52bn) natural gas project.

The militants staged an overnight attack on Mocimboa de Praia, taking a military base and raising their flag, police said. The army and police have launched a counter-offensive, police added.

This is the first time Mozambican jihadists have attacked a major town. They usually attack villages and farms.

Panicked residents said the fighters had blocked all exit routes, and they could not leave the town. "They are taking residents to the mosque and locking them there," the privately owned Moz24h website quoted a resident as saying.

Hundreds have been killed and thousands displaced during the three-year insurgency in Cabo Delgado.

The government has battled to curb the insurgency, despite support from a Russian military company.

The militants call themselves al-Shabab although it is unclear whether they are linked to the significantly larger Somali movement of the same name.

Cabo Delgado is one of Mozambique's poorest regions, but it is rich in untapped mineral resources.

In 2010, Mozambique discovered huge gas reserves in Rovuma Basin, off the Indian Ocean coast of Cabo Delgado.

Last October, ExxonMobil unveiled plans to invest more than $500m in the initial construction phase of its gas project in the region.

Cabo Delgado, Mozambique

In Krasnodar, Russia arrested man was preparing

a terrorist explosion

By Thomas Channeton
Law and Lawyer Journals, Poland

Probably translated by Google

The public relations Center of the FSB reported on the prevention of a terrorist attack in Krasnodar.

The statement said that investigators were able to detain the citizen of the Russian Federation 26-27 and prepared the explosion.

In the car of the detainee they discovered an improvised explosive device. At the same time the suspect continued correspondence with members of the banned terrorist organization “Islamic state”.

Norway handed over the terrorist plans of the

sentenced Mullah Krekar to Italy

By John Torrendo
Another apparent Google translation

The terrorist acts of designing (designed by?) a convicted preacher mullah Krekar has been handed over from Norway to Italy. The Norwegian minister of justice Monica Mæland told me this afternoon that according to Italy now was a good time.

Mælandin, according to Italy, is convinced that the country is safe to arrive at the corona virus epidemic, and that Krekar can get the help they need.

Norwegian broadcasting NRK: according to (another service) Krekar’s most recent remand decision states that he belongs to the corona virus, the risk to the group. 63-year-old Krekar’s lawyer says diabetes and high blood pressure.

The Italian broadcasting company RAI told (another service), that Krekar arrived Thursday morning to Rome airport, where he was transported to the outskirts of the city located in Rebibbian prison.

An Italian court sentenced last July Krekar to 12 years in prison. Norway decided earlier this year that Krekar can be on request, extradited to Italy. Krekar was opposed to extradition, because he was afraid the Italians would give him to in Iraq.

Krekar was arrested in Norway in November 2015 at the request of Italy, the terrorism plans on suspicion. Krekar has been on the UN terrorist list since 2003. Krekar is a native of the Northern Iraqi Kurdish evening(???). In Norway he became a refugee in 1991 from Iraq.

He is the suspect led to the jihadist group Rawta Shaxi (New direction), which is linked to the Isis organization and the aim of which is Northern Iraq to work kurdihallinnon (Kurdish administration) downfall. He has also served as an Islamic extremist Ansar al-Islam organization as a leader.

The Organization has had contacts also in Finland.

Nearly 100 Chadian Soldiers Killed in Boko Haram

attack on base

by Steve Balestrieri

Boko Haram has targeted a Chadian army base located on an island and inflicted the deadliest attack on Chad’s military forces yet.

At 05:00 on Saturday, the terrorist group attacked the isolated Chadian base. The base is located across the Bohoma peninsula in Lac Province amid the large, marshy area bordering Lake Chad. The seven-hour firefight left 98 Chadian soldiers dead, 47 wounded, and the morale of the army reeling.

“Bohoma will remain as a scar for the army,” said an anonymous Chadian officer. Boko Haram has been increasing its attacks around the borders of Chad, Nigeria, Cameroon, and Niger.

The jihadists, using their knowledge of the marshy areas and small islands in the region, were known to be conducting smaller raids and suicide attacks. But this one was a large coordinated assault. At least 24 vehicles, including armored ones, were destroyed in the assault and captured arms and equipment were taken by boat across Lake Chad.

The Chadian army had drawn down the strength of the army unit in the peninsula, something the Boko Haram terrorists undoubtedly knew about.

Chad had promised to send a battalion of 480 men to help fight the jihadists operating in the Sahel.

In response, the Chadian government has declared a state of emergency in the two departments that border Niger and Nigeria. This emergency decree will allow local and military officials to prohibit traffic and to search homes for terror suspects. President Deby vowed a “lightning response” to the attack.

President Idriss Deby said in a statement on Chadi television that he traveled to the base to pay tribute to the dead soldiers, stating it was the first time so many troops had been lost. The president mentioned that 92 soldiers were killed, but other reports put that number at 98.

“We lost 92 of our soldiers, non-commissioned officers and officers,” in the attack in Boma, the president said. “It’s the first time we have lost so many men,” he added.

The reinforcements sent to relieve the troops became targets themselves and were stopped, military officers said to AFP. “The camp is on an island where the ways in were controlled by Boko Haram fighters, they were able to leave as they wanted and without being forced out by the army,” one army officer said.

Boko Haram’s terrorist campaign, which began in 2009 in Nigeria has killed over 36,000 people and displaced nearly two million in northeastern Nigeria, according to the United Nations.

Since 2015, the countries in the region have created the Multinational Joint Force, a regional coalition engaged around Lake Chad with the help of local residents formed into small militias. But it hasn’t been nearly enough to stop the jihadist violence.

On the other side of the border in Nigeria, another group from the Islamic State in West Africa (ISWAP) ambushed a large column of Nigerian soldiers, during an attack on the village of Gorgi, killing 70 of them. Using rocket-propelled grenades and heavy weapons, they decimated the Nigerian troops.

In 2019 in Cameroon, 275 people were killed by jihadist attacks, most of them civilians, according to a report published by Amnesty International in December.

And in Niger, the army is reeling from three attacks in December and January where 174 soldiers were killed.

It's my contention that there is so much corruption in central Africa that most of the money allotted for the military gets siphoned off by politicians, military officers, and suppliers, that little of it reaches the soldiers. They are poorly paid, and poorly equipped, and in poor morale. A recipe for Islamic takeover.

US Private Military Companies Plunder Syrian Oil Facilities — Russia’s General Staff

The US has been training up to 2,700 militants near al-Tanf base

in Syria, the Russian General Staff stated

Russian Ministry of Defence, Moscow

Does anyone have the nerve to ask the government,

or the US media, if this is factual?

MOSCOW  /TASS/. US private military companies numbering over 3,500 personnel are plundering Syrian oil facilities under the cover of the international anti-terror coalition’s aircraft, Head of the Russian General Staff’s Main Operational Department Colonel-General Sergei Rudskoi told a Defense Ministry press briefing on Monday.

"Aside from training militants, the US structures in Syria are involved in plundering oil facilities and deposits in the area across the Euphrates that belong to the legitimate Syrian government. Lately, US private military companies have been observed to actively beef up their personnel. Today, the mercenaries of the private military companies in Syria exceed 3,500 people," the Russian general stressed.

Specifically, the US military structures have organized the production and sale of Syrian oil from the Conaco, al-Omar and Tanak oilfields located east of the Euphrates River, the Russian general pointed out.

"A criminal scheme of Syrian crude cross-border deliveries is in effect. Actually, Syrian national wealth is being plundered," Rudskoi stated.

A considerable part of revenues from the hydrocarbon smuggling is spent on maintaining illegal armed formations, bribing sheikhs of tribal unions and instigating anti-government sentiments, according to the Russian general’s data.

"All this activity by US private military companies is conducted under the cover of the international anti-terror coalition’s aviation. In actual fact, this is smuggling business seized by the Americans from the IS [the former name of the Islamic State terrorist organization outlawed in Russia]," Rudskoi explained.

The US incessant deliveries of armament and military hardware to the area across the Euphrates also cause concern, the Russian general added.

"In exchange for assistance in oil smuggling, the United States is beefing up both Kurdish and Arab formations with arms and they subsequently use them against each other," Rudskoi said, adding that "all these factors are only exacerbating the situation in the war-torn region."

Training of militants

The US military are training up to 2,700 militants from different groups at the al-Tanf base in Syria, according to Rudskoi.

"Within the 55-km zone around al-Tanf, US instructors are training a large armed formation, Magavir al-Saura, and some small militant groups for the so-called Army of Arab Tribes. The militants’ total numerical strength is 2,700 men," the Russian general reported, providing footage obtained from drones.

A part of the militants trained at the al-Tanf base is being airlifted by US combat helicopters beyond the Euphrates, the Russian general added.

"The most trained saboteurs are being delivered to the territories controlled by the government troops to destabilize the situation and prevent the strengthening of the Syrian government’s positions there," Rudskoi commented.

The basic goals of the militants trained by the US military instructors are to carry out subversive operations, destroy Syrian oil and gas infrastructure facilities and conduct terrorist attacks against government troops, he pointed out.

"Such groups have been spotted in the areas of the communities of al-Suwayda, Palmyra and Abu Kamal," the Russian general specified.

The US military base near the settlement of al-Tanf is located at the junction of the borders of Syria, Iraq and Jordan. It also embraces the 55-km zone around the town.