[PJMedia] A district court judge in Texas has dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed on his own behalf and on behalf of his 15-year-old son, Ahmed Mohamed
...a very common name in our archives, but this one is a.k.a. Clock Boy...
They had sued Fox News, Glenn Beck, and the mayor of Irving -- among others -- for defamation in September of 2016.
A year earlier, Ahmed, then a 14-year-old freshman at an Irving, Texas, high school, was arrested, briefly detained by police, and suspended for three days after bringing to school a "cool clock" that looked like a briefcase bomb. Ahmed claimed to have "invented" the easily assembled clock, and that he had brought it to school to show it to his shop teacher.
The incident led many to question the Mohamed family's motives. Newly appointed District Court Judge Maricela Moore dismissed the lawsuit following a nearly three-hour hearing on Monday, according to the American Freedom Law Center:
The motion to dismiss was filed by lawyers from the American Freedom Law Center (“AFLC”) and local counsel Pete Rowe on behalf of the Center for Security Policy (“CSP”) and Jim Hanson, two of the defendants in the defamation case, which also named as defendants the local Fox affiliate, Glenn Beck, and Beck’s production company.
Mohamed had sued Hanson and CSP for statements Hanson had made on Beck’s program about the connection between the Clock Boy hoax bomb affair, the attendant media frenzy created in large part by his father Mohamed, civilization jihad, and the Counsel on American-Islamic Relations (“CAIR”), the Muslim Brotherhood-Hamas front group in the United States that promotes civilization jihad.
During the hearing, AFLC co-founder and senior counsel David Yerushalmi explained to Judge Moore that the purpose of the lawfare-driven lawsuit was to intimidate into silence those who might comment publicly on the connection between jihad, terrorism, sharia, and Islam. As such, Yerushalmi argued, "this case is a classic Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation or ‘SLAPP’ case and should be dismissed.”
During the lengthy hearing, Judge Moore pressed Mohamed’s lawyer, Fort Worth attorney Susan Hutchison, to provide any facts that would suggest that Hanson and the other defendants had said anything false or defamatory about Mohamed or his son during the television broadcasts. After spending a painfully embarrassing 15 minutes flipping through reams of paper, Mohamed’s lawyer was unable to provide any such evidence.
At the conclusion of the hearing, Judge Moore said that she would rule by the end of the day. On Tuesday, the court published Judge Moore’s ruling dismissing the lawsuit against Hanson and CSP with prejudice.
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A senior Al-Shabaab commander Mohamed Abdullahi Hashi Iiro gave himself up to Somali government authorities in Garbaharey district in Gedo region on Monday, sources said. The commander who was in charge of Al shabaab’s taxation activities in Tulo-Barqawo area near Garabaharey had earlier contacted local Govt officials in the town, asking to surrender.
It was highest-ranking al-Shabaab leader abandoned his life in the group and turned himself in since 2016. Al shabaab did not comment on the claim of the commander’s surrender. Last December, an Al shabaab commander in charge of zakat surrendered to Jubbaland state forces Lower Jubba region after defecting from the militants controlling parts of Somalia.
The Somali government announced an amnesty offer late l2014 to members of the ‘al-Shabaab’, as it goes on with military offensive alongside Africa Union-backed force AMISOM.
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[Libya Herald] The Derna Mujahidine Shura Council (DMSC) condemned Presidency Council /Government of National Accord head Faiez Serraj and Khalifa Hafter, and declared their full support for the Grand Mufti Saddek Ghariani. They condemned ISIS.
In a statement released Monday, the DMSC called on the thuwar (rebels during the 17 Feb Revolution) to unite together in the face of ’’suspect operations supported from abroad’’ which Derna deterred through the will of god.
It invited all those of like creed to its city calling on them not to feel the sadness of a heartache of leaving their city ‐ a reference believed to be to the recent escape from Benghazi by the Benghazi Defence Brigades (BDB).
The DMSC announced its support for the victories in Misrata, Sabratha and Benghazi and called for unity against the ’’criminal ISIS’’ used by local, regional and international ’’evil powers’’ to bring down the Arab Spring revolutions.
It called for unity with the Grand Mufti stating that they ’’are his soldiers’’ fully supporting him in his rejection of any foreign protectorate-ship on Libya.
Furthermore, it accused Serraj and Hafter of being treacherous to the Libyan people and of selling the country, adding that they are destined to the ’’rubbish heap of history’’ together with anyone who supported them ’’even with a word’’.
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[Libya Herald] The Grand Mufti of Libya said that drugs, alcohol and pork are better for Libya than the actions of Rada, the Special Deterrence Force that is fighting crime in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... . They were also better than attacks on holy mans and the choices the people of Libya had made.
Sadiq al-Ghariani ...Libyan Moslem Brüderhood Grand Mufti since 2012. Issued a fatwa forbidding Libyan women from marrying foreign men. Issued a "fatwa against a UN Commission on the Status of Women's report because it urged governments to protect women and girls against violence" Aligned with the GNC govt... was speaking on his own satellite TV station al-Tanasah yesterday.
He criticised Presidency Council/Government of National Accord (PC/GNA) head Faiez Serraj for his statement in support of Rada, adding that Serraj had failed to make statements on other attacks. Ghariani was referring to Serraj’s failure to condemn attacks by Hafter against bully boy Islamists in Benghazi, including the Benghazi Defence Brigades (BDB), Ghariani’s followers.
Ghariani called upon Libyan thuwar ("revolutionary") fighters to unite around a Libyan-Libyan dialogue without foreign interference, criticising the Skhirat Libyan Political Agreement (LPA) and its PC/GNA which, he said, would lead Libya to its downfall.
He called on the thuwar to unite under one command as was the case during the Bunyan Marsous ...(al-Bunyan al-Marsous, Solid Base) An operation carried out by Misratan forces loyal to the Libyan Goverenment of National Accord to dislodge ISIS forces from Sirte. 2,500 turbans were reported killed in the operation, which lasted from May through December.GNA's Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj officially announced the end of military operations on 18 December 2016... operation in Sirte against ISIS. In their fight they should prioritize their support for the BDB enabling it to defend Benghazi’s residents against Hafter.
He accused Hafter and some Tripoli-based brigades of fighting the entire Libyan people under the pretext of fighting terrorism. Ghariani said Hafter was not fighting ISIS in Benghazi and that after the defeat of its in Sirte Hafter had given it safe passage out of Benghazi to the south so that it could reform its state elsewhere.
The statement by Ghariani also coincided by a statement released yesterday by the Derna Mujahidin Shura Council in which they also condemned Hafter, Serraj and ISIS, and declared their support for the Grand Mufti.
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...which, he said, would lead Libya to its downfall...
[Libya Observer] A private letter sent by the Head of the House of Representatives Office in Tobruk, Awad al-Fituri, to the HoR showed that the HoR’s Speaker, Aqilah Saleh, agreed on a request to distribute the proposal of changing the Libyan national anthem and flag to the HoR members so that it could be discussed officially in upcoming sessions.
The proposal was put forth by a number of HoR members, who said that despite the fact that the anthem and "independence" flag have their undisputed influential roles in the changes that happened in Libya over the past five years, they have become an obstacle that is impeding the efforts of achieving real national reconciliation in Libya.
According to the HoR members, they suggested the changing of the anthem and flag because they saw them as a threat to the unity of the country as the majority of Libyans have refused to partake in any reconciliation initiatives unless the flag and anthem have been reconsidered.
"Despite the fact that the changing of the flag and anthem should be proposed to the Constitution Drafting Assembly, we have suggested it on the HoR’s table due to the obstacles that the CDA is facing currently and the crises that are sweeping through the country. Thus, we preferred to put the CDA aside and use the HoR to pass the proposal." The HoR members, who proposed the change indicated.
Rivals of the HoR have time and time again accused it of being controlled by Qadaffy’s regime henchmen, backing up their accusation by the HoR’s controversial decrees, including an amnesty for Qadaffy’s henchmen, who fled outside Libya and were received in Tobruk like heroes.
They also referred to the HoR’s gasping for releasing Saif Qadaffy by trying to include him in the amnesty, which they said was an attempt to reestablish grounds with Qadaffy’s regime henchmen.
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[Libya Observer] The coastal road that leads to Sirte is going to be reopened soon so that cars from eastern, western and southern Libya can pass through Abu Hadi roundabout in preparation for the return of the city’s displaced residents that is expected to kick off on next Saturday, a source from Bunyan Marsous ...(al-Bunyan al-Marsous, Solid Base) An operation carried out by Misratan forces loyal to the Libyan Goverenment of National Accord to dislodge ISIS forces from Sirte. 2,500 turbans were reported killed in the operation, which lasted from May through December.GNA's Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj officially announced the end of military operations on 18 December 2016... reported on Tuesday.
"The road is safe and there are no obstacles after the military engineers, who are tasked with removing the war remnants from the areas, cleared it." The source added.
It added that the cars movement has become normal as people are driving on the roads of Jaref, Buhadi, al-Arbaeen, Soltan and other areas in Sirte’s suburbs.
Sirte IDPs are expected to return to their houses in 700 Buildings Neighborhood and al-Zaafaran on next Satruday under organized procedures that will see the IDPs registered in security records so that the wanted IS-linked persons can be identified.
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Morocco has banned the production and sale of burqa full-face Moslem veils for security reasons, media reports said Tuesday. While there was no official announcement by authorities in the North African nation, the reports said the interior ministry order would take effect this week. The ban has been imposed due to reports felons have been using the garment to help carry out their crimes.
'We have taken the step of completely banning the import, manufacture and marketing of this garment in all the cities and towns of the kingdom,' the Le360 news site quoted a high-ranking interior ministry official as saying.
It said the measure appeared to be motivated by security concerns, 'since bandidos have repeatedly used this garment to perpetrate their crimes.'
Most women in Morocco, whose King Mohammed VI favours a moderate version of Islam, prefer the hijab headscarf that does not cover the face.
The niqab, which leaves the area around the eyes uncovered, is also worn in Salafist circles and in more conservative regions in the north, from where thousands of jihadists have gone to fight in Syria and Iraq.
In some commercial districts of Casablanca, the country's economic capital, interior ministry officials on Monday conducted 'awareness-raising campaigns with traders to inform them of this new decision,' the Media 24 website said.
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Most women in Morocco, whose King Mohammed VI favours a moderate version of Islam, prefer the hijab headscarf that does not cover the face.
I favor equal rights for women, which includes the right to be allowed to wear whatever they want without the automatic assumption that they're fair game for rape if what they choose ins't "Islamic".
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Hijab/headscarf was perhaps to reduce the spread of head lice?
Rewearing without sterilization would cause reinfection, Glenmore. But in a dusty environment with limited soap and water, a scarf over the hair would keep it cleaner.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] How did Tayea Salem Yaslam al-Sayari go from being a former engineering scholarship student, to become a terrorist fighting in Syria and later one of the most dangerous ISIS members in Soddy Arabia? ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... Many have tried to study characters like al-Sayari and examine how they go from having a promising future as a student to becoming an expert in making kaboom and training future jacket wallahs.
How was he able to return to Saudi Arabia?
Sayari, in his 30s, who failed his studies in engineering in New Zealand, went straight to Syria in 2014 to join the fighting. He then left Syria and headed to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and then on to Sudan using a fake passport. While in Sudan, he met with Oqab al-Otaibi, one of the most desperados who was recently killed in Saudi. From Sudan, he headed to Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... and then entered Saudi illegally.
Tayea al-Sayari’s name first surfaced when Saudi authorities investigated the attack on a mosque used by the Special Emergency Force in Asir in August 2015. The suicide kaboom in the mosque claimed by ISIS killed 15 force employees and recruits.
Criminal psychology expert Doctor Nasser al-Arifi said Sayari’s character reflected the case of a "stupid" man and noted that his ability to make boom belts did not mean he was smart. Instead Arifi said it showed Sayari had a "docile personality" who lacked the motivation to be positively "productive" in society.
He added that Sayari’s insufficient intelligence made him think that taking the path into terrorism meant satisfying his desires to be a "leader" in his subconscious mind.
Arifi said Sayari’s aggressive tendency to avenge society was due to emotional coldness, adding that this implied a "psychopathic tendency" which meant the person suffered from abnormal social behavior and broke conventional laws and ethics.
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How did Tayea Salem Yaslam al-Sayari go from being a former engineering scholarship student, to become a terrorist fighting in Syria and later one of the most dangerous ISIS members in Soddy Arabia?
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the case of a "stupid" man and noted that his ability to make boom belts did not mean he was smart. ....Sayari, in his 30s, who failed his studies in engineering in New Zealand
Okay, I can equate stupid with failing, what I can't equate is stupid with matriculating in the first place.
Turkey has invited Iraq’s Chief of General Staff Osman al-Ghanimi to Ankara for talks on both anti-terror fight and the status of the Bashiqa camp after Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım’s key visit to Baghdad over the weekend.
“I have sent him an official letter [of invitation] and told him ‘Let’s come and talk these issues both politically and militarily,’” Defense Minister Fikri Işık told reporters late Jan 9. Al-Ghanimi is also serving as the acting defense minister of Iraq. Işık said it was not certain when this visit will take place.
Yıldırım, accompanied with Işık and other Turkish ministers, paid a visit to Baghdad and Arbil on Jan. 7 and 8 to mend ties with the Iraqi government over the establishment of the military camp in Bashiqa. Turkey said it will resolve the problem in a friendly way while Iraq asked for an immediate beginning of the withdrawal of Turkish troops.
According to sources, Turkey’s withdrawal will be possible after Mosul is freed from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) but in the meantime Ankara and Baghdad will talk on the modalities of the process and the future status of the camp.
Işık said that he met with al-Ghanimi in London on the sidelines of a meeting on the fight against ISIL. “I first extended my invitation to him but he told me there needs to be an official one,” he stressed. The letter was sent to al-Ghanimi after Işık consulted with Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar and Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu.
Işık underlined again that the protection of Iraq’s territorial integrity is very important to Turkey.
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[IsraelTimes] It remains unclear whether a person or group was behind unprecedented simultaneous warnings.
Wasn't there something similar last year at a series of British schools? I seem to recall they eventually arrested a teenager for making terroristic threats, or something like that.
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security will be assisting local Jewish community centers in bolstering security after 16 Jewish community centers received bomb threats on the same day.
On Wednesday, officials from the FBI and Homeland Security will conduct a conference call with US Jewish communal leaders to discuss Monday’s incidents, what they stem from and how to craft protocols to handle such incidents in the future. Some communities already receive federal grants to provide for security.
The bomb threats, none of which appear credible, hit JCCs up and down the East Coast, in addition to two in the United Kingdom, prompting evacuations of buildings and campuses. According to Jewish communal security officials, the bomb threats came both from robocalls and from live telephone calls. It remains unclear whether one person or group was behind all the threats.
The FBI is investigating the bomb scares, according to Goldenberg.
Over the past two years, Jewish federations in major urban areas have hired coordinators -- mostly former federal law enforcement officials -- to ensure that all local Jewish institutions are secure and prepared to face threats. More than 20 such security coordinators have been hired.
Brenda Moxley, director of community security for the Greater Miami Jewish Federation, was hired last year after serving as assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s criminal branch in Miami. She ensures that more than 120 area Jewish institutions are prepared for incidents such as Monday’s, in addition to being in touch with law enforcement officials.
Moxley said the need for such procedure first arose following the 9/11 attacks in 2001, and that Jewish institutions are now beginning to be proactive in responding to threats.
"Every day, it’s important to be vigilant," she told JTA. "It’s not about being paranoid; it’s just about being prepared."
Others point out that Jewish institutions began "hardening" their security after the 1999 attack on the North Valley Jewish Community Center near Los Angeles, when a white supremacist opened fire in the JCC lobby and maimed five people.
Judicial Watch. Many times right, occasionally wrong. Salt to taste.
The Ft. Lauderdale Airport shooter is a Muslim convert who years before joining the U.S. Army took on an Islamic name (Aashiq Hammad), downloaded terrorist propaganda and recorded Islamic religious music online, according to public records dug up by the investigative news site of an award-winning, California journalist. This is pertinent information that the Obama administration apparently wants to keep quiet, bringing up memories of the Benghazi cover up, in which the president and his cohorts knowingly lied to conceal that Islamic terrorists attacked the U.S. Special Mission in Libya.
Information is slowly trickling out that links the Ft. Lauderdale Airport shooter to radical Islam while the official story from authorities is that the gunman is a mentally ill, Hispanic Army veteran named Esteban Santiago that became unhinged after a tour in Iraq. Only one mainstream media outlet mentions the possibility of Santiago’s “jihadist identity,” burying it in a piece about New York possibly being his initial target. A paragraph deep in the story mentions that investigators recovered Santiago’s computer from a pawn shop and the FBI is examining it to determine whether he created a “jihadist identity for himself using the name Aashiq Hammad…” The reset of the traditional mainstream media coverage promotes the government rhetoric that omits any ties to terrorism even though early on a photo surfaced of Santiago making an ISIS salute while wearing a keffiyeh, a Palestinian Arab scarf.
The public records uncovered in the days after the massacre suggest Santiago (Hammad) is a radical Islamic terrorist that’s seriously committed to Islam. Besides taking on a Muslim name, he recorded three Islamic religious songs, including the Muslim declaration faith (“there is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger”) known as the Shahada. He also posted a thread about downloading propaganda videos from Islamic terrorists on a weapons and explosives forum. The investigative news site that unearthed this disturbing information connected the dots between Santiago, who is of Puerto Rican descent, and Hammad, an identity he created in 2007.
This week a prominent Ft. Lauderdale businessman and longtime resident addressed a letter to the city’s mayor and commissioners blasting county and federal officials for covering up that “Aashiq Hammad, not Esteban Santiago, attacked our city and county.” The businessman, respected Ft. Lauderdale real estate entrepreneur Jim Morlock, specifically names Broward County’s elected sheriff Scott Israel, Florida senator Bill Nelson, the first to identify Santiago as the shooter on national television, and congressman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, ousted last summer as Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair over a scandalous plot to damage Bernie Sanders during the primary.
“Since when does a US Senator (Bill Nelson), not law enforcement, be the one to so quickly release this terrorist’s Hispanic name but nothing about his more relevant Islamic background?” the letter asks. Obama must have told Sen. Nelson to keep this from looking like a Muslim Terrorist attack during the last 12 days of his watch. Bad for his legacy.” Morlock goes on to state that it’s “better to portray this atrocity as white Hispanic Alaskan mental Iraq war vet gun violence.” The real estate entrepreneur proceeds to reveal that Santiago lives in walking distance to the only mosque in Alaska, was radicalized before he entered the military and was knowingly allowed to serve despite his Islamic sympathies thanks to “Obama’s PC military.”
The letter poses interesting questions, including why this Muslim terrorist chose Ft. Lauderdale out of all the nation’s airports and who Santiago knows in Broward county, which has a large and growing Islamic community. In 2015 Judicial Watch obtained records from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) that show and Al Qaeda terrorist who helped plan several U.S. attacks lived in Broward County and graduated from the local community college with a degree in computer engineering. His name is Adnan G. El Shukrijumah, but he also had a Hispanic identity, Javier Robles, and for years he appeared on the FBI’s most wanted list. Back in 2012 Judicial Watch reported on a terrorist front group’s demands that Broward County public schools close twice a year to celebrate Islamic holy days, illustrating the influence that Muslims have in the region.
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Islam is the problem. Islam has been the problem for some time now. I wonder when the media will get the memo?
The media is busy with really important issues: how many genders where are; Russian hacking, American Intelligence Community knows it's Russian hacking because they found a signature - x, y, and a third letter they are not familiar with; "middle east" (meaning Israeli - Palestinian) "peace process" (meaning death to the Jews); etc...
Mr. Kaliebe, who was arrested in 2013, is a follower. A certain Loretta Lynch prosecuted his buddy, Marcos Alonso Zea. Before her elevation, she got Mr. Zea sentenced to 25 years in the federal pen for trying to join Al Qaeda in Yemen and sending his friend down the same path.
Kaliebe's attorney says his client was a misguided autistic teenager who didn't understand what he was doing. Prosecutors say he proudly proclaimed his commitment to being radicalized.
Surveillance video recorded by undercover federal agents shows Kaliebe praising terrorists.
Prosecutors have asked for 24 years in prison. His attorney has asked for time served and strict monitoring after his client's release.
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[Ynet] Jordan's Religious Affairs Ministry says it has dismissed 15 mosque preachers and is disciplining seven for refusing to pray for the souls of Jordanian troops killed in recent shootouts with Islamic Lion of Islams.
Eleven members of the security forces were killed Dec. 18 and 20 in the Jordanian province of Karak. A Canadian tourist and two Jordanian civilians were also killed, along with five gunnies. The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group grabbed credit for the initial attack.
The ministry statement, published in Jordanian media Tuesday, did not say why the preachers refused to comply with a nationwide call to hold memorial prayers following the attacks.
Some mosque preachers in Jordan are followers of an ultraconservative stream of Islam that also serves as the ideological foundation of IS.
Salafists, perhaps.
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How about dismissing them from "life in Jordan"? Walk to Damascus or die
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[IsraelTimes] West Bank sees dramatic increase in stonings following Security Council resolution, Kerry speech and talk of moving US embassy to Jerusalem.
The West Bank has seen a sharp rise in the number of violent attacks, primarily rock-throwing incidents, since an anti-settlement resolution was passed on December 23, 2016 by the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Security Council, Israeli defense officials said.
The rise was recorded in the last week of December 2016 and the first week of January 2017, an increase security forces say is mostly due to exam season in Paleostinian high schools. They note, though, that it is a larger increase than in the same period in previous years.
In September 346 rock-throwing attacks were recorded, in October 375, in November 420, and in December 344. Most of the December attacks occurred in the final week of the month. In the first week of January there were 169 recorded attacks, a pace that, if maintained, would lead to almost 700 attacks by the end of the month.
The rock attacks were also linked to a series of anniversaries taking place around now, including that of Fatah’s founding and first terrorist attack on January 1, 1965, and of the liquidation of Yahya Ayyash, Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,’s chief bomb maker, on January 5, 1996.
Nevertheless, the political context cannot be dismissed. On December 23, 2016, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 2334 demanding an end to settlements in the West Bank. A few days later, on December 28, US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, unsuccessful presidential candidate, and utterly failed Secretary of State... gave a speech warning of the dangers of settlement expansion. Finally, Paleostinians have been agitated by ongoing discussion about the possibility the US embassy will be moved to Jerusalem after President-elect Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... takes office.
The past few months have also seen an uptick in shooting attacks by Paleostinians in the West Bank. In September there was one, October and November had four each, and in December there were six. Most of those attacks were local initiatives, unaffiliated with any serious terror organization.
Most strikingly, there have been a relatively large number of attempts to carry out organized terror attacks, mainly by Hamas. In 2016 Israeli security forces prevented some 100 serious terror attacks, not including the attacks prevented by the Paleostinian Authority. Those thwarted attacks were designed to ignite a full-blown intifada, so far without success.
The officials also noted continued unrest among the Paleostinian public against both Israel and the Paleostinian Authority, saying that the atmosphere remains as tense as ever.
[IsraelTimes] An autopsy of the terrorist who drove his truck into a group of soldiers, killing four of them, was killed by bullets fired by soldiers at the scene and a civilian tour guide.
The examination found he was killed by bullets from an army issued M-16 rifle and from a 9mm pistol, Channel 2 says.
[IsraelTimes] Israel has summoned 12 family members of the East Jerusalem terrorist who drove his truck into a crowd of soldiers, killing four, to begin procedures for stripping them of their residency status.
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri says that “we have to use every measure at our disposal as a deterrence,” according to Hebrew language media. Deri thanks police and Interior Ministry workers for beginning the procedure so quickly.
[IsraelTimes] Message scrawled on Old City wall extols terrorist in Sunday’s deadly attack and implores Jews to leave capital.
Israeli police arrested four residents of the Old City in Jerusalem overnight Monday for spray-painting graffiti praising the terrorist who carried out a truck-ramming attack in the capital on Sunday, killing four soldiers and wounding 16.
The graffiti, which was found sprayed across shopfronts in the Muslim Quarter the night after the attack, praises attacker Fadi al-Qunbar, a resident of East Jerusalem, while also declaring that the truck-ramming was “resistance, not terror.”
The graffiti also mentions the name Mesbah Abu Sabih, who killed two Israelis in a shooting attack in October at Jerusalem’s Ammunition Hill light rail stop, with “We will not despair until you give up” and “There is no place for you [Jews] in Jerusalem” written in Hebrew under his name.
Also found written in Hebrew was the statement, “Yesterday’s attack is the beginning of 2017.”
The suspects, whose ages range from 13 to 20 years old, were arrested after police uncovered cans of spray paint during a search of their homes, a police spokeswoman said.
The 13-year-old has since been released to house arrest, while the rest of the suspects will remain in police custody until the completion of the investigation, after which they will be brought before a court, the spokeswoman added.
On Sunday, the security cabinet ordered the security services to detain and investigate anyone found praising or celebrating the attack, which likely led to Monday evening’s arrests.
Police also detained three minors ages 12-14 Monday night after security forces were targeted with rocks, a Molotov cocktail and firecrackers in Jabel Mukaber, the East Jerusalem neighborhood whence Qunbar hailed
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[ARA News] Al-Qaeda-linked Syrian jihadists in latest issue of the al-Risala magazine denied any link to the killing of the Russian ambassador Andrey Karlov in Ankara, who was killed last month while giving a speech at an art gallery.
Mevlut Mert Altintas, an off-duty police officer, killed the Russian ambassador on 19 December. However, it remain unclear which group was behind the murder, or if the assassination was an individual act.
The al-Risala magazine published by jihadists closed to al-Qaeda in Syria suggest it was an individual act of revenge for the killing of Muslims by the Russians in Aleppo.
“Thus, contrary to the claims of the disbelievers, it is clear that Mevlüt (may Allãh have mercy on him and accept him) was responding to the cries of the oppressed Muslims of Syria. He did not belong to ISIS or Jabhatu An-Nusra or any other group operating in the region,” the magazine said.
“Rather, what is apparent from his speech and actions (as no one but Allãh has access to his heart) is that he had renounced his former profession and turned to his Lord in repentance. He stood up, not for any particular group or sect, but on behalf of the Ummah that has been suffering at the hands of its enemies for decades,” the jihadist al-Risala magazine added.
“As the tragedy in Aleppo unfolded, Russia remained as committed as ever to aiding the Syrian regime and her allies as they continued their massacre of the innocent Muslims of Aleppo, while arrogantly denying any wrongdoing on their part,” it suggested.
Turkish state media blamed the assassination of Karlov on the Fethullah Gulen sect that follows Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who lives in exile in the United States. The Turkish authorities also blamed the Gulen movement for the failed military coup in July 2015.
Aymenn Jawad Al Tamimi, a research fellow at the Middle East Forum–a US think tank– told ARA News that it’s unlikely the killer had any links to militant groups. “He genuinely had no connection to them,” he said.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Unofficial reports suggest that a member of Iran’s infamous "death commission" will be the likely successor to the late Rafsajani’s position as the head of the Expediency Council, a body which is intended to resolve disputes between the parliament and the Guardian Council.
Ebrahim Raisi is a 56-year-old conservative holy man relatively unknown outside of Iran but has been emerging as a frontrunner to replace the late former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ... the fourth President of Iran. He was a member of the Assembly of Experts until he was eased out in 2011 He continues, for the moment, as Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council. In 2005 he ran for a third term as president, ultimately losing to rival Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was in Khamenei's graces back then. In 1980 Rafsanjani survived an assassination attempt, during which he was seriously injured. He has been described as a centrist and a pragmatic conservative without all that much reason. He is currently being eased out of any position of actual influence or power and may be dead by the end of 2012... , who died on Sunday after suffering a heart attack.
One of Raisi’s most controversial roles has been serving with the "Death Commission" that, in the summer of 1988, oversaw the massacre of thousands of political prisoners.
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Ebrahim Raisi is a 56-year-old conservative holy man relatively unknown outside of Iran but has been emerging as a frontrunner to replace the late former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
I look forward to him being dead. Is that "wrong"?
[AnNahar] The United States on Tuesday blacklisted a surviving British member of the notorious Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... kidnapping cell popularly known as "The Beatles" as a global terrorist threat.
The State Department identified 33-year-old British Ghanaian jihadist Alexanda Amon Kotey as a member of the Islamic State unit that beheaded two dozen hostages in Syria.
Among those murdered were three Americans -- journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and aid worker Peter Kassig -- and British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning.
Some of the group's hostages were released and later revealed their captors spoke with British accents and were nicknamed The Beatles after the 1960s rock group by their victims.
The group leader and most notorious executioner, Mohammed Emwazi or "Jihadi John," was killed last year in a dronezap by the US-led coalition fighting the IS group.
But, according to the State Department designation, London-born Kotey is still thought to be on the lam somewhere in or near the IS stronghold of Raqa, in eastern Syria.
"As a guard for the cell, Kotey likely engaged in the group's executions and exceptionally cruel torture methods, including electric shock and waterboarding," the statement said.
Kotey is also known by several aliases, including Abu Salih al-Britani. He was born in the Paddington district of London and holds British, Ghanaian and Greek Cypriot nationality.
As a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist," US citizens are forbidden from dealing with him and world law enforcement is informed that he "is actively engaged in terrorism."
[AnNahar] The Obama administration said overnight Monday that it has added two senior members of Hizbullah to its “terrorism” sanctions list.
The State Department said that Ali Damush and Mustafa Mughniyeh have been named “Specially Designated Global Terrorists.”
Mughniyeh is a Hizbullah commander with extensive family links to the group. He's the nephew of Hizbullah's previous military commander, Mustafa Badreddine, who was killed near the Syrian capital last year, and the son of military commander Imad Mughniyeh, who was killed in a 2008 car bombing in Damascus that Hizbullah blamed on Israel.
Damush is an aide to the group's leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. He heads the group's foreign relations department, which the State Department says "engages in covert terrorist operations around the world."
Also Tuesday, the department designated the Indonesia-based Jamaah Ansharut Daulah as a terrorist organization. The group has pledged allegiance to IS and was blamed for a January 2016 suicide kaboom in Jakarta that killed four people.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...Libyan Moslem Brüderhood Grand Mufti since 2012. Issued a fatwa forbidding Libyan women from marrying foreign men. Issued a "fatwa against a UN Commission on the Status of Women's report because it urged governments to protect women and girls against violence" Aligned with the GNC govt...
...(al-Bunyan al-Marsous, 
[Libya Observer] A private letter sent by the Head of the House of Representatives Office in Tobruk, Awad al-Fituri, to the HoR showed that the HoR’s Speaker, Aqilah Saleh, agreed on a request to distribute the proposal of changing the Libyan national anthem and flag to the HoR members so that it could be discussed officially in upcoming sessions.
