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Uganda's Kampala bombings: Muslim cleric accused of jihadist links shot dead
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Afghanistan
Abducted Psychiatrist Killed Despite Paid Ransom
[ToloNews] Mohammad Nader Alemi, a psychiatrist and head of the mental health department of Mazar-e-Sharif hospital, was killed after being kidnapped and held for two months.

Alemi’s son, Ahmad Royen, said security officials called them on Friday morning saying that Alemi’s body has been found.

According to Royen, his father was kidnapped by unknown gunnies two months ago from Mazar-e-Sharif.

Royen said the kidnappers had asked for $800,000 as ransom, but finally they agreed to release him in exchange for $350,000. Royen said they had paid the money, but his father was still killed.

"He was old and was suffering from some health problems. There are signs of beating on his body too," he said.

A number of doctors in Balkh province said they are worried about their security.

Ghawsuddin Anwari, a doctor, said: "This is worrying for doctors who work in Balkh province."

Shiekh Mir Sadam, head of Balkh’s health department, said security forces are working to identify the killers. "Some people have been arrested in relation to this incident and an investigation is ongoing," he said.

Balkh doctors said Alemi had worked as a psychiatrist for 40 years and was the founder of the first private psychiatric hospital in Balkh.

Alemi’s relatives urged the Islamic Emirate to identify his killers and bring them to justice.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch started the buffalo stampeding......
the Interior Ministry said eight kidnappers had been arrested in connection with the kidnapping of Alemi and two other people.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA

#1  "Doctor Alemi has been shot. Round up the usual suspects."
Posted by: Too Old To Work || 11/20/2021 10:27 Comments || Top||

#2  He up and died on them is what happened. No wonder they dropped their price.
Posted by: Shomp Ebbeans2472 || 11/20/2021 12:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Killed him on general principles.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/20/2021 17:22 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Uganda's Kampala bombings: Muslim cleric accused of jihadist links shot dead
[Garowe] Security forces in Uganda have rubbed out a Moslem holy man accused of working with an gang linked to suicide kabooms in the capital Kampala.

Officials said Sheikh Muhammad Abas Kirevu had recruited for cells run by the Allied Democratic Forces
...the ADF is one of several murderous Moslem groups in NE Congo. In 2019 the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on them for the usual reasons. They don't appear to be affiliated with al-Qaeda or Islamic State, though ISIS claims their work from time to time — they just like killing infidels....
(ADF) - rebels who have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group.

He was killed just outside Kampala.

At least four people were killed by attackers on cycle of violences who blew themselves up in the city on Tuesday.

More than 30 others were maimed in the attack, which IS said was behind and officials have blamed on the ADF.

The Islamist bad boy ADF was formed in Uganda in the 1990s but is now based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material...
. Since pledging allegiance to IS in 2019, it has increasingly carried out attacks in the group's name.

Twenty-one people have been arrested since Tuesday's attack, in what police have described as the dismantling of ADF terrorist cells in Kampala and across the country.

Police spokesperson Fred Enanga said 13 suspects, including several children, were intercepted while trying to cross the border into DR Congo.

On Wednesday, four suspected ADF operatives were killed near the border.

A manhunt is also underway for another holy man, Sheikh Suleiman Nsubuga, who is accused of training terrorists, radicalising potential recruits, and providing materials to make improvised bombs.

Tuesday's attack was the latest in a number of recent bomb explosions in Kampala.

Last month, a 20-year-old waitress was killed after a device, left in a shopping bag, detonated in a bar in the city. Days later several people were maimed when a jacket wallah went kaboom! in a bus near Kampala. Police say both were linked to the ADF.

The bombings on Tuesday marked the biggest attack the ADF has been linked to in Uganda since establishing relations with IS.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Allied Democratic Forces


Britain
35 female Afghan footballers along with families land in London
[KhaamaPress] A flight that boarded 35 Afghan female football players along with their family members amounted to 130 people in total landed in Stansted Airport of London on Thursday, November.

The flight was funded by American celebrity, TV media personality, socialist, and businesswoman Kim Kardashian.

The Afghan evacuees will be spending a 10-day quarantine before starting new lives in the UK.

Before going to the UK, all the maiden of tender yearss were waiting in Pakistain for any humanitarian flight to take them out.

They all had escaped Afghanistan after the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
takeover.

Earlier, another team of Afghan male and female footballers along with their families was evacuated to Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
The Taliban have restricted football for girls in Afghanistan saying the sport is neither appropriate nor necessary.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Were they checked for 'femaleness'?
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/20/2021 17:24 Comments || Top||


Europe
Belarusian border force says it has cleared a makeshift migrant camp at the border with Poland that had held around 2,000 people
[TWITTER]
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/20/2021 00:50 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  It's amazing what happens when the country you are trying to invade with invading hoards fights back. They are of no use to Belarus, so they'll be shipped back to their original sh*t hole countries.
Posted by: Too Old To Work || 11/20/2021 10:23 Comments || Top||

#2  yep, lessons could be learned here but they won't be.
Posted by: Chris || 11/20/2021 16:15 Comments || Top||

#3  "So, Idi i smotri 'twas not,
But in case those invaders forgot
Just what kind of a place --
Not to mention what race --
They had messed with, some oughtta been shot."

His Excellency has just referred to the Slavic people. Easy now. I [backwards "R"] one... partly. [shows gud pass, munches potato]
Posted by: Hupusoling Dingle2963 || 11/20/2021 18:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Нет проблем, Хупусолинг Дингль.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/20/2021 20:55 Comments || Top||


Two migrants have died trying to reach Spain’s Canary Islands on a boat transporting more than 30 people
[TWITTER]
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/20/2021 00:25 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  Shit, I'd like to visit the Canary Islands.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/20/2021 17:21 Comments || Top||


7 migrants have been killed in northern Greece after their car overturned as they tried to evade a police roadblock
[TWITTER]
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  happens several times a year on I-8 in east San Diego County
Posted by: Frank G || 11/20/2021 4:23 Comments || Top||


39 Palestinians seeking asylum stranded in Barcelona airport
If Nigerians pretending to be teenage Syrians can board the refugee gravy train, why not third generation Palestinian “refugees” “fleeing” the terrors of Egypt? Or if not granted, at least get half a dozen years of free room and board on the Spanish dime while they try their luck on the suckers in Germany, France, and England?
[IsraelTimes] Spanish authorities processing the group’s requests, after they refused to get back on a flight heading to South America

A group of 39 Paleostinian refugees were waiting in a restricted area of the Barcelona airport for a fifth day Friday after they used a stopover of their South America-bound flight from Cairo to request asylum in Spain, the country’s authorities said.

Police are investigating the charter flight that flew into Barcelona on Monday, a front man with Spain’s Interior Ministry told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.

The flight from Cairo had the Ecuadorean capital, Quito, as its final destination, with scheduled layovers in Spain’s second-largest city and Bogotá, in Colombia. A spokeswoman with the Spanish government’s delegation in Catalonia said that once they landed at El Prat airport on Monday, the group refused to get back on the aircraft to continue with their scheduled trip.

Since then, they have been taken care of with food and assistance in police facilities at the airport, the spokeswoman said. Press officials in Spain are not usually authorized to be identified by name in media reports.

Authorities are "processing" the group’s asylum request, the official said, adding that in the meantime the group hasn’t been arrested and that they are "free to continue with their trip."

Sophie Muller, the representative in Spain for the United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
refugee agency, or UNHCR, said that the passengers were carrying refugee documents issued by UNRWA, the UN’s agency that provides essential services to Paleostinian refugees. She also said that many in the group had previously submitted asylum applications in Egypt and Æthiopia.

The front man for the Interior Ministry, which oversees the office for asylum applications in Spain and the customs checkpoints at airports, said the individual applications of the refugees were being examined, a process that can take from days to weeks or even months.

Spain has received nearly 50,000 asylum requests in the first 10 months of 2021, with Venezuela
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south...
ns, Colombians, and Moroccans topping the charts of most applications.

The Interior Ministry, which has recently tried to clear a backlog of previous applications, said that over 15,000 people have been granted refugee status or other types of protection under international asylum laws this year. More than 41,000 requests were rejected.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  "refugees" are temporary. Once a person is determined to be a refugee, their status must mean they are never ever granted citizenship even if they marry a local, even if they have a kid - they and their offspring are NEVER to be deemed citizens or even permanent residents. They must never be granted the right to live and work in the host country. They must be kept in a camp as dependents and their case reviewed each year. As soon as there is no life-threatening violent situation or believable and imminent threat of persecution in their home country, back they go
Posted by: anon1 || 11/20/2021 3:31 Comments || Top||

#2  . As soon as there is no life-threatening violent situation

You mean like any citizen of Chicago or Baltimore?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/20/2021 7:23 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
NIA convicts one operative in ISIS Kasargod case
[OneIndia] A special court of the National Investigation Agency has convicted a key conspirator (Nashidul Hamzafar) in connection with the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
Kasargod (Kerala) case.

The case pertains to the activities of 14 youth from Kasargod who had left India along with their families between May and July 2016 to join the Islamic State.In pursuance to the criminal conspiracy hatched with runaway ISIS/ Daish operative accused Abdul Rashid Abdulla besides Ashfak Majeed and others, accused Nashidul Hamzafar had exited India on 3rd October, 2017 and travelled to Muscat, Oman before travelling to Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
and had further reached Kabul, Afghanistan, where he was detained by Afghan Security Agencies during October, 2017 for illegally entering the country and attempting to join his associates, in ISIS/ Daish.

The NIA had arrested Hamzafar in 2018 after he was deported from Kabul. He later on pleaded guilty to all the charges against him following which he was convicted.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


NIA nets key ISIS conspirator in Quran Circle case
[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency arrested an operative of the Islamic Sate from Bengaluru Karnataka. The accused Zuhab Hameed was involved in an ISIS conspiracy case, the NIA said.

The probe revealed that Hameed along with the other accused had raised funds, radicalised gullible Moslem youth through Koran Circle group and recruited them and illegally sent them to Syria via The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
to Join ISIS.

Zuhaib Manna had used his contacts to motivate and radicalise many impressionable Moslem youth by showing them videos depicting atrocities on Moslems in Syria.

Earlier the NIA had started the paperwork but haven't done much else against Tauqir, Zuhab and Mohammad Shihab for their affiliation with the ISIS. Earlier the NIA had also arrested two accused persons namely Ahamad Abdul Cadar and Irgan Nasir.

The NIA learnt that Tauqir along with the other accused had raised funds, radicalised and recruited gullible Moslem. They had formed a group called as the Koran Circle and these recruits were sent to Syria to join the ISIS.

Earlier In 2013, Muhammad Tauqir Mahmood along with his associate had also visited Syria illegally to liaise with ISIS leadership and had offered support from Indian Moslems.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Iraq
Pro-Iran protesters vow to continue Baghdad demos until election results voided
[Rudaw] Hundreds of protesters affiliated with pro-Iran
...The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both...
militia groups demonstrated in Baghdad on Friday, reiterating their rejection of the results of last month’s parliamentary election in which their parties performed poorly and vowed to continue their protests until their demands are met.

Naming their demonstrations "Consistency Friday," the protest organization committee said in a statement that they "affirm our demands," which include a manual recount of all votes. The protest by supporters of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF, or Hashd al-Shaabi) began days after the preliminary results of the October 10 parliamentary elections were announced.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 11/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


Missiles fired at Turkey’s Bashiqa base, no casualties: Nineveh deputy governor
[Rudaw] Rockets were fired at a Ottoman Turkish base in Nineveh province on Friday morning, the deputy governor told Rudaw.

"Multiple rockets were fired at the Ottoman Turkish military base in Bashiqa town’s Zilkan, and according to our sources, one rocket landed near the village of Jubran and another near the village of Baybokh of the Shabaks, and the other two rockets were taken down by the Ottoman Turkish forces," Rafaat Smo told Rudaw’s Hemin Baban.

Smo added that no casualties were reported.

The base is home to Ottoman Turkish personnel in Zilkan, 10 kilometers from the town of Bashiqa in Nineveh province. It was targeted earlier this year in April when four rockets were fired, killing one Ottoman Turkish soldier and injuring two civilians, including a 12-year-old girl, in the attack.

Ottoman Turkish soldiers have been at the base for several years, despite calls from Iraqi officials for them to leave.

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
-Iraq relations were strained in the wake of the deployment of some 150 Ottoman Turkish soldiers to Iraq in December 2015. The troops are still present in the area.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Turkey says three civilians killed in Afrin rocket attack
[Rudaw] A rocket attack in Syrian northwestern city of Afrin killed three civilians and injured ten others late on Friday, according to a statement from a Ottoman Turkish governor’s office that blames Kurdish fighters.

The People’s Protection Units (YPG) "carried out a rocket attack against Afrin downtown, killing three civilians and injuring ten others," said the governor’s office of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
's Hatay province, which borders Afrin, state media reported.

The Ottoman Turkish defence ministry said six rockets were fired into the centre of Afrin.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that one civilian was killed and eight others were maimed.

First responders the White Helmets said that three were killed and 16 others were maimed.

Afrin is a Kurdish-majority region located in Syria’s northwest. It has seen many deadly bombings since Ottoman Turkish forces and their Syrian proxies invaded in 2018, expelling the YPG and forcefully displacing much of the local population, committing what the United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
has said are possible war crimes.

Turkey and its media usually blame the YPG for deadly attacks in Afrin, but the group has denied targeting civilians. The YPG has not immediately commented on Friday's attack.

At least four people were killed and several maimed in a boom-mobileing in a market in the centre of Afrin on October 11.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte



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