...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
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
militia group have burned at least 10 civilians to death in an attack on a southwestern town of Uganda, police said Tuesday.
The button men from the Allied Democratic Forces
...established in the early 1990s through an agreement between portions of Uganda’s Salaf Tabliq Islamic sect and the National Army for the Liberation of Uganda (NALU), who said they had been sidelined by Museveni’s policies. At the time, the rebels staged deadly attacks in Ugandan villages and the capital, including a 1998 attack in which 80 students were massacred. A Ugandan military operation later forced the ADF into eastern Congo. The ADF has since established ties with the Islamic State group. The ADF has received funding from the Government of Sudan, which has also provided supplies and training. The ADF may also have received funding from the illegal mining and logging industries of the DRC....(ADF), one of the deadliest militias in the strife-torn east of 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...
(DRC), crossed the border to attack a trading center in Kamwenge, police said.
"Preliminary findings reveal that 10 assailants armed with SMG rifles attacked and fatally burned to death 10 people," regional police front man Vincent Twesige said, referring to submachine guns.
The attackers also torched a cycle of violence and looted a store, he said.
Twesige said the Ugandan army had been deployed to pursue the holy warriors, which the Islamic State group has called its local offshoot.
The attack at around 2 am on Tuesday came days after Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni
...
President-for-Life of Uganda. He assumed office in 1985. His primary virtue is being prefereable to both his predecessors, Idi Amin and Milton Obote...said at least 200 ADF rebels had been killed in September by air strikes in DR Congo led by Uganda.
The ADF is historically a Ugandan rebel coalition whose biggest group comprises Moslems opposed to Museveni.
Established in Eastern DRC in 1995, the group became the deadliest of scores of outlawed forces in the deeply troubled region.
It has been blamed for massacres, kidnappings, and looting, with a corpse count estimated in the thousands.
In June, ADF militia members killed 42 people including 37 students in a high school in Western Uganda near the border with DRC.
It was one of the deadliest attacks in Uganda since 2010 when a double attack in Kampala killed 76 people in a raid claimed by the Somali-based Islamist group Al-Shabaab
... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
Since April 2019, some ADF attacks in Eastern DRC have been claimed by the Islamic State group (IS), which calls the group the Islamic State Central Africa Province.
In a report published in June, UN experts said the Islamic State group has provided financial support to the ADF since at least 2019.
The United States last year placed the ADF on its list of "terrorist" organizations linked to IS.