This Week's Terrorism Stories > 20-14 - Iran-Turkey, Somalia, South Africa

Groblersdal man becomes 6th elderly person murdered in a week in South Africa

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Koos Dreyer (76) was found murdered in his house, corner of Tambotie and Ockert street, Groblersdal on Friday night 20 March at around 23:00. His body was found in the bathroom and there were signs of a violent struggle in the TV room, bathroom and garage.

The motive for the murder is unknown at the moment and Police was on the scene and investigating.

This latest murder follows the following murders that all happened in the past week: 

Alwyn van Zyl (79), whose family has farmed on the family farm at Bad se Loop, between Nylstroom and Naboomspruit for generations, was murdered by farm attackers who tied his hands and feet and then strangled him on his bed on Thursday night 19 March 2020. His wife was tied up and assaulted in another room during the attack.

Charles Hart (75) was found beaten to death in his farmhouse in the Henderson area, Toise, between Cathcart and Stutterheim, EC on Sunday 15 March 2020.

Colin Leslie Britz (65) was shot and killed by farm attackers in his farm house in the Elandskraal area, Dundee, KZN on Monday 16 March, 2020.

Neels Combrink (60) was attacked on his farm at Niekerkshoop, Northern Cape on Wednesday 18 March, 2020 and tortured when he was burned with a hot clothes iron on his stomach.

The bodies of a retired church minister and his wife, Dominee Hannes Beukes (70) and Ibel Beukes (67), were discovered locked in the boot of their car, which was found in a field near the Bethal dam. A passing motor cyclist discovered the vehicle late in the afternoon and alerted Police. A spokesman for the Police said the couple left their house to drop their domestic worker off at Emzinoni which is a small township outside of Bethal. They were never seen alive again and their bodies had visible and serious injuries .

Meanwhile the investigating officer in the Beukes murder case has informed the media that the Police is looking for Francois Pretorius in connection with the case.

He is considered armed and dangerous. He was last seen driving a silver VW Polo reg nr JMB980MP. Anyone with information can contact WO Nico Veldman of the Bethal Police at 079 396 3652.

Read about more farm attacks here

How the ANC brainwashed the world to accept slaughter of SA farmers

Farmer (77) tied up, wife brutally raped and tortured with blowtorch, Belfast, SA

It appears that black Africans are murdering Afrikaner farmers and taking over their lands. We have seen this happen in other parts of Africa many years ago and it is finally happening in South Africa. But the mood is so bad there now that, it seems, the killing has spread to more than just farmers. It certainly appears that South Africa is not a safe place to be a white person.

Suicide attack kills former governor in Somalia

By Clyde Hughes

Ambulance workers treat a victim at the scene of a suicide attack in Mogadishu, Somalia, on December 22, 2018.
Militant group al Shabab was suspected in the attack, as well as another on Sunday that killed a former regional governor.
File Photo by Yusuf Warsame/EPA-EFE

March 30 (UPI) -- The terrorist militant group al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing over the weekend that killed a former statesman in Somalia.

Authorities said the attack Sunday killed Abdisalan Hassan Hersi, the former governor of Nugaal region, in Garowe. He died about an hour after he arrived at the hospital.

Former Nugal region police chief Farah Galangoli was injured in the attack. Authorities said it's not known if Hersi or Galangoli was the intended target.

Garowe, nearly 600 miles from Mogadishu, is considered one of the more stable regions of Somalia and has a robust security force. While al-Shabab doesn't have much of a presence in Puntland, the group is active and central and southern Somali.

Al-Shabab also claimed responsibility for a suicide attack in Mogadishu last week that killed three people.

U.S. forces carried out an airstrike in Somalia last month that killed an al-Shabab leader for his involvement in an attack that killed Army Spc. Henry Mayfield, 23, in January.

Iran-Turkey gas pipeline stops functioning after 'terrorist' attack

A senior official with Iran's state gas company has alleged that terrorists were behind an explosion and massive fire on the pipeline transporting natural gas from the Islamic Republic to Turkey.

"This morning, terrorists attacked a natural gas pipeline inside Turkey near Iran's Bazargan border with Turkey," National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) Dispatching Director Mehdi Jamshidi Dana said on Tuesday, as cited by Reuters.

The official told IRNA that fighters from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a guerilla group active in eastern Turkey, have attacked the pipeline in the past. NIGC spokesperson Mohammad Asgari, meanwhile, described the blast as an "incident" without linking it to terrorism. According to the NIGC, at least one person was killed.

The explosion rocked the pipeline near the Gurbulak border gate with Iran in Turkey's eastern Agri Province around 6am local time. Turkish media reported that the loud blast sparked a massive fire that could be seen by residents in local villages, with flames rising up to 40 meters (131 feet).

The flow of gas in the pipeline has been cut off as Turkish officials are determining the cause of the explosion. Turkish media did not report any fatalities on the ground.

The NIGC said that gas exports to Turkey will resume several days after the pipeline is repaired.

In early March, the PKK fired a rocket near the Gurbulak border gate, killing one person.

Pegida Comes to Canada - Oh, Joy!

Sympathizers of a Europe-based anti-Islam, anti-immigration group called
PEGIDA have set up a local chapter in Quebec and are planning on
demonstrating in Montreal on Saturday

The self-described leader of the PEGIDA Québec chapter, Jean-François Asgard, told Radio-Canada his beliefs are closely aligned to those espoused by the National Front, a British political party exclusive to white people that advocates for repatriation of all non-white people to their countries of origin.

"Islam needs to reform itself or leave the West," Asgard said.

Anti-racist protesters, meanwhile, are also planning a counter-demonstration for the same place and time.

Jaggi Singh of the No One Is Illegal activist group said the intention of the counter-protest is to surround the PEGIDA marchers and prevent them from walking into Little Maghreb, a largely Muslim community in the Montreal neighbourhood of St-Michel.

"Neo-Nazis, Islamophobes, internet trolls — they all sort of congregate around this thing called PEGIDA," Singh said.

What is PEGIDA?

The organization is popular with neo-Nazis and other nationalists and is often spoken about favourably on white supremacist online forums such as Stormfront and National Front.

PEGIDA, which in German stands for Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West, first popped up in October 2014. The relatively new group began in Dresden, Germany and uses Facebook as a main organizing tool. 

PEGIDA Québec first began posting on Facebook in January, shortly after the Charlie Hebdo attack. Saturday afternoon's demonstration is referred to online as the local chapter's first action.

PEGIDA Québec leader Asgard told Radio-Canada that the itinerary planned for Saturday — which they submitted ahead of time to Montreal police — intentionally passes in front of several Muslim community centres and mosques.

Well-known Montreal activist Jaggi Singh, seen here holding a megaphone
in this file photo, is a main organizer of Saturday's
anti-PEGIDA demonstration. (CBC)

Singh said it's very worrisome that people who normally only espouse racist and xenophobic opinions online are moving into the physical world.

And the reason for that, Mr Singh, is that some of their concerns are resonating with people who are not xenophobes or racists or fascists, but have their eyes open to what Islam is all about - which is: one world - one religion - Islam! 

I know most North American Muslims are not the least bit interested in that. I also know that the Muslim Brotherhood, OIC, and other Muslim organizations operating in North American universities, mosques, and cultural centres, are very interested in propagating Islam globally as well as promoting the destruction of Israel and America. Many universities in the US and Canada are overtly anti-Israel thanks to their influence in student societies.

Pegida, unfortunately, will have only a negative influence on raising awareness of the Islamization of North America because of the involvement of racists and xenophobes and a decidedly liberal (read - blind and stupid) media. Simply reading the black print in this post will tell you where CBC stands without any question. 

Unfortunately, those of us with legitimate concerns about Islamization are simply flushed down the drain with the so-called 'fascists'. That's how liberals avoid addressing difficult questions, and why the rest of us are so very concerned. That's what happened in Germany, and that's what will happen here.

"Now we know there's racists out there, we know there's Islamophobes out there, we know there's fascists out there, but what's different today is that they're trying to march publicly in a working class, immigrant area that is predominantly North African," he said.


Antifa supporters counter-protest

Just over 100 people have RSVP'd to PEGIDA Québec's march, while nearly 900 members of Antifa (anti-fascism) and other anti-racist groups are expected to attend the counter-demonstration.

Singh said he doesn't expect the protest to become violent.

"There's no way that their demonstration will be able to go where they want to go. They won't be able to pass. The police have given them permission to march, but that doesn't mean people in the neighbourhood or anti-racist groups are giving them permission to march," he said.

Montreal police confirmed officers will be on the scene to keep an eye on any potential violence.