[Dawn] Taliban ...Arabic for students... forces have arrested a suspected IS bully boy who allegedly had planned a kaboom that killed at least 12 worshippers at a Shia mosque on Thursday, police said.
Balkh province’s police front man said Abdul Hamid Sangaryar was a key operative of the IS.
This comes as a front man for the Balkh security department, Mohammad Asif Waziri, said that they have arrested the suspected planner of the attack on the mosque in Chahar Bulok district of Balkh province.
[KhaamaPress] A kaboom that targeted worshipers in a mosque in the northern Kunduz province has killed 33 and maimed 43 more so far.
The Chief spokesperson of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in a Twitter post condemned that incident and confirmed the casualties.
"An explosion in a mosque in Imam Sahib district of Kunduz province martyred 33 and maimed 43 civilians among them, children. We condemn the incident, ask for the maimed speedy recovery, the martyred Janna, and deliver condolences to the families of the victims." Reads the Twitter post.
The explosion took place on Friday afternoon at a time when religious students of the nearby religious schools (madrasa) and local residents were busy praying.
The mosque belongs to Sunni Moslems.
Based on unconfirmed reports, the number of maimed has been 50.
No group has grabbed credit for the blast nor the nature of the blast disclosed.
It comes a day after a bomb explosion in a mosque in the northern Mazar-e-Sharif city killed 34 and maimed more than 80 more worshipers. IS grabbed credit for the blast in Mazar-e-sharif city.
The district security chief, Hafiz Omar, said the blast occurred at 3:30 pm after explosives placed in the Mawlawi Sekandar mosque detonated while many people were there to worship. The mosque is also used as a religious seminary.
No one has yet claimed responsibility.
Also on Friday a blast occurred near Dunya University in PD7 of Kabul.
The commander of PD7 in Kabul said the explosion was caused by a landmine, and so far there has been one reported injury.
An AFP correspondent saw large holes blown through the walls of the Sunni Mawlavi Sikandar mosque, popular with Sufis in Imam Sahib district, north of Kunduz city. One side of the mosque was completely destroyed by the explosion.
A nurse told AFP over the phone that between 30 and 40 people had been admitted for treatment of wounds from the blast. About a dozen ambulances ferried the seriously wounded to the main provincial hospital in Kunduz city. “The shrapnel injuries on the bodies of the wounded show they were caused by a bomb explosion,” a doctor at the provincial hospital told AFP.
Friday’s blast was one of the biggest attacks since the Taliban seized power on August 15 last year.
The regional IS branch in Sunni-majority Afghanistan has repeatedly targeted Shias and minorities like Sufis,
Ooooohhhhh. Now we know...
who follow a mystical branch of Islam. IS a Sunni group like the Taliban, but the two are bitter rivals.
[DW] The French military says it has filmed Russian mercenaries burying bodies near an army base in northern Mali. La Belle France says it suspects the operation was part of a disinformation campaign against its troops.
La Belle France's military has released footage that appears to show soldiers burying bodies in northern Mali, which it says is part of a smear campaign by Russia's mercenary Wagner Group.
The French say the move to discredit their forces is part of a coordinated campaign of multiple information attacks over recent months.
WHAT IS LA BELLE FRANCE SAYING?
The French army says it filmed the video near the Gossi base in northern Mali, which it has now handed over to Malian troops.
It says the aim appears to be to falsely accuse La Belle France's departing forces of leaving behind mass graves. The video, filmed by a "sensor" drone and seen by both the AFP and News Agency that Dare Not be Named news agencies, shows what appear to be Caucasian soldiers covering bodies with sand. It was filmed some 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) from the base immediately after the handover.
Several tweets posted on accounts that support Russia, or fake accounts allegedly created by Wagner, blame the French for the killings.
La Belle France says the drone images allow them to "draw a direct line" between Wagner's activities and the actions attributed to its soldiers.
"This maneuver to discredit the Barkhane force seems coordinated. It is representative of multiple information attacks French soldiers have faced for several months," it said.
WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING IN MALI?
Relations between Gay Paree and Bamako have deteriorated sharply since a military junta seized power in 2020.
Deepening ties between the Malian regime and Moscow have hastened the end of Barkhane, La Belle France's decade-long military operation in the West African country.
La Belle France and the United States say Wagner mercenaries have deployed in Mali. However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... the military-dominated government in Mali denies the accusations and says the Russians in the country are military instructors.
French President Emmanuel Macron announced the pullout in February. The French army said it had transferred control of the Gossi base to Malian soldiers on Tuesday, in a safe, orderly and transparent manner.
There has been growing anti-French sentiment in West Africa, where French forces have operated since 2013 to counter jihadi insurgencies. Social media campaigns have targeted French troops.
On Wednesday, the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... said it was "extremely concerned" that Mali had stopped Sherlocks from visiting the scene of an alleged atrocity in late March. It is believed that at least 300 men were summarily executed during a March 27-31 raid on Moura. The group Human Rights Watch this month accused unnamed Russian mercenaries of involvement in the killings.
Germany has warned that its forces will not cooperate with Mali's military while it maintains links to Russia. The EU has decided to halt its military training mission there citing insufficient guarantees from Mali over Wagner.
An unconfirmed number of farmers has been reportedly killed by suspected herdsmen in the Kwande Local Government Area of Benue State. It was learnt that the attack took place on Thursday night in Waya, Jato-Aka, Turan.
As many as ten corpses of victims of the attack have been recovered so far while many more are still missing, a member of the community told The Nation.
Their corpses were said to have been deposited at the Jato-Aka mortuary.
The resident, Lawrence Akerigba, said many people were still missing.
Confirming the incident, the chairperson of Kwande Local Government Area, Mrs. Tartor Chianson, said eight bodies had been recovered which have been deposited at the mortuary. She noted that it was difficult to determine the exact number of casualties as the area was under siege.
She added that men of Operation Whilestroke and Civil Defence were assisting in securing the community.
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I guess they haven't figured out that if they kill all the farmers there will be less to eat.
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Food there comes in UN boxes.
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Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends,
Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends.
One man likes to push a plough,
The other likes to chase a cow,
But that's no reason why they cain't be friends.
#4
I suggest you read the The Fate of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence by Martin Meredith.
A summary of this event. I am a herdsman who feeds my family as I move my animals from waterhole to waterhole. Since the Europeans have left, the biggest tribe gives all the land to its people. They put up fences and surround the water supply…..just one story of many. Oligarchs rule!
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but when it occurs in Zimbabwe/South Africa nary a peep?
We aren’t keeping as close an eye on the southern end of Africa, DooDah Man. We see occasional reports of Al Qaeda down there, but there are so many other non-Muslim kinds of viciousness that they seem to keep one another busy in mostly other directions. We watched Zimbabwe here in the early years, but that situation is more in the nature of hamsters doing their vicious best to disembowel one another, unconnected to the outside world.
Are you seeing indications that the Muslim jihad is heating up down there?
Another deadly explosion has rocked Jalingo, the Taraba State capital in Northeast Nigeria, days after six persons were killed in a similar explosion.
A resident of Jalingo, who simply identified himself as Ishaku told SaharaReporters that a loud bang was heard around Nukkai in the capital city around 8:00pm on Friday.
It is not known whether there were fatalities, but nine persons were said to have been rushed to a hospital.
The Taraba State Police command has confirmed the incident through its spokesperson, DSP Usman Abdullahi.
He said, "Yes, there was a kaboom around Nukkai awhile ago. I'm on my way to the scene, we learnt about nine people injured in the earth-shattering kaboom have been taken to the hospital."
The hideouts of bandidos around Kambari village in the Karim Lamido Local Government Area of Taraba State have been bombed and many enclaves destroyed by the Nigerian Air Force.
Daily Trust reports that many bandidos were killed in the operation, which started three days ago.
According to the report, ground forces involved in the operation reportedly captured many bandidos and their informants around Gassol and Karim Lamido axis on both sides of River Benue.
Three persons were said to have also been killed around Kwatan Nanido in Gassol Local Government Area.
The bandidos have been in Kambari axis for the past two months, and responsible for most of kidnapping and killings in many villages across Bali, Gassol and Karim Lamido local government areas of Taraba, sources revealed.
However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... spokesperson of the Taraba Police Command, DSP Usman Abdullahi, confirmed the development, but said it was purely an Air force operation.
"We are aware of the operation but it is purely a Nigerian Air force operation and we cannot comment on that," he said.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] A 19-year-old resident of the Tarumovsky district is suspected of using the Internet to study the rules for handling weapons and making explosive devices to participate in terrorist activities, investigators reported today.
According to investigators, in October 2020, the suspect was trained in handling firearms, explosive devices and explosives. The investigation suggested that he studied videos on the Internet and social networks that showed various types of firearms and the rules for handling them, as well as methods for making improvised explosive devices, the Dagestan Sledkom Department said today.
The young man is also being investigated for illegal trafficking in an improvised explosive device. "The issue of choosing a measure of restraint is being decided," the ministry's website said in a statement.
Article 205.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation provides for from 15 to 20 years in prison, article 222.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (illicit trafficking in explosive devices) - from six to eight years in prison. There were no comments from the detainee or his official representatives regarding the version of the investigation.
The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that on April 19, the FSB reported on the detention of suspects in the underground modernization of weapons and their sale in 33 regions, including Dagestan, Ingushetia, North Ossetia, the Astrakhan region and the Kuban.
They seized 21 machine guns, 55 submachine guns, 230 pistols and revolvers, 224 rifles and carbines, more than 50 kilograms of explosives, 279 detonators, 67 hand grenades, 30 artillery shells, more than 38,000 rounds of ammunition, 100 devices for silent shooting, as well as components of firearms, the FSB said.
[Rudaw] Ottoman Turkish interior minister claimed on Friday that recent bombings in Istanbul and Bursa provinces were carried out by two far-leftists groups linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
An explosion in Bursa on Wednesday killed a prison guard and injured a number of theirs. The incident took place as a bus was transporting prison guards. The next day, a kaboom targeted a Ottoman Turkish youth association in Istanbul but did not cause any casualties, according to Hurriyet Daily News.
"We identified the perpetrators of the incidents in Bursa and Istanbul. They are affiliated with two organizations subcontracting to the PKK," Suleyman Soylu told NTV on Friday, adding that the Bursa explosion was carried out by the Marxist—Leninist Communist Party (MLKP), an underground party which is active in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... and northeast Syria (Rojava), while the Istanbul one was done by the Revolutionary Communard Party (DKP).
PKK has not confirmed the alleged link with both groups.
Soylu’s comment comes as Ankara is carrying out a military campaign against the PKK in the Kurdistan Region which began on Monday. The PKK has warned that if attacks continue they will move the fight to Ottoman Turkish cities like Istanbul.
"The war will ... spread to Turkey," Duran Kalkan, a top PKK commander, said one day before the operation. "Consequently, we will witness a much more effective kind of war in the cities of Turkey."
The PKK has stated that it only targets security forces and officials.
[Dawn] A Pakistain Army major embraced martyrdom during an exchange of fire with bandidosholy warriors in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... 's Awaran area, the military's media affairs wing said on Friday.
According to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), a group of bandidosholy warriors "fire raided" a security forces' checkpost in the area of Kahan, near Awaran. However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... the forces repulsed the attack and went after the bandidosholy warriors in the nearby mountains.
"At one of the cordons established to block the passage of fleeing terrorists, a heavy exchange of fire took place between bandidosholy warriors and security forces," the ISPR added.
During the skirmish, the military said, a valiant son of the soil, Major Shahid Basheer, lost his life while another soldier sustained injuries.
The ISPR said the forces caused heavy losses to the terrorists.
"Security forces, in step with the nation, remain determined to thwart attempts at sabotaging peace, stability, and progress of Balochistan."
[Rudaw] A civilian car hit a roadside kaboom in Khanaqin on Friday, resulting in the death of two people and injury of two others, a Peshmerga commander told Rudaw.
A pickup vehicle hit a roadside kaboom in Sayid Jarrad village in Diyala province’s Khanaqin district on Friday, killing two passengers and injuiring two others, Jamhur Haji Rustam, a commander of Peshmerga forces near the area, told Rudaw’s Soran Hussein.
He added that the bomb was "most likely" planted by 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.... (ISIS) which has previsouly carried out similar attacks in the area.
ISIS has not grabbed credit for the attack but it said on its Telegram propaganda channel on Friday that it targeted a military convoy of Sunni members of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF, or Hashd al-Shaabi) in Khanaqin late Thursday, killing two and injuring three others.
[IsraelTimes] Police drone drops tear gas as rioters march on police post, but calm eventually restored; unrest comes hours after previous rioting; some 150,000 pray at Jerusalem holy site
Clashes and unrest broke out Friday afternoon at the Temple Mount following afternoon Ramadan prayers at al-Aqsa Mosque. Calm was eventually restored at the holy site.
The rioting came hours after Paleostinians skirmished with Israeli police at the flashpoint site in Jerusalem’s Old City. "It's how we celebrate our religion of peace™, don't judge us, haterz!" Continued on Page 49
[IsraelTimes] Ahmad A-Sa’ad reportedly nabbed near Jenin; military has been searching for family members of killer, who are suspected of being accomplices
Israel Defense Force troops have arrested the cousin of the terrorist who carried out the deadly attack in Tel Aviv earlier this month, Paleostinian media reports said late Friday.
The raid was carried out in the village on the outskirts of Jenin in the northern West Bank, the reports said, identifying the man as Ahmad A-Sa’ad, a cousin of Ra’ad Hazem who killed three people when he opened fire on a busy Tel Aviv bar.
There was no immediate confirmation from the IDF, which has made several attempts to arrest Hazem’s family members, including opening fire on a car in which his brothers were traveling.
Israeli security forces have sought to arrest the father and brother of Hazem for their alleged involvement in the attack. Hazem’s father, Fathi, is a former security prisoner who previously served as an officer in the Paleostinian Authority’s security services in Jenin. He has praised his son for the killings and refused an Israeli summons for questioning.
Hazem killed three people and maimed several others when he opened fire on a Tel Aviv bar on April 7.
He was killed hours later in an exchange of fire with security forces in nearby Jaffa after a massive all-night manhunt.
[IsraelTimes] No sirens sound as one rocket falls in Strip and the other 2 hit open fields; Paleostinian said maimed after failed launch strikes residential area of Beit Hanoun
Two rockets were launched from the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip at southern Israel on Friday night, the Israel Defense Forces said. Several hours later a third rocket was fired.
According to the military, from the first salvo, one rocket landed in an open field in the Sha’ar Hanegev regional council, while the second fell short in the Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,-run coastal enclave.
Some Paleostinian media reports said the failed launch landed near a residential area of Beit Hanoun in the northern part of the Strip, injuring one person. There was no immediate statement from Gaza medical authorities on the matter.
Early Saturday, a third rocket was fired from the southern Gaza Strip, landing in an open area near a town close to the border, the IDF said.
Incoming rocket sirens did not sound in Israel as the rockets hit uninhabited areas, but an alert was activated near one border town on the Home Front Command mobile application.
[IsraelTimes] Demonstrators reportedly approach man with flag during Manhattan rally, punch him in the face; police say they’re investigating case as a possible bias incident
Pro-Paleostinian protesters allegedly assaulted a man holding an Israeli flag during an anti-Israel demonstration in New York City on Wednesday. Police were investigating the case as a possible bias incident.
The 28-year-old victim said he was walking down the street when men from the protest pointed out an Israeli flag he was holding. One of the protesters approached the victim and punched him, knocking him to the ground, then kicked him while he was down. The alleged attack took place at the corner of East 42nd street and Lexington avenue in Manhattan at around 6:15 p.m., a little over an hour after the start of the protest.
The victim was treated for swelling, bruising and redness to the face.
The suspect is a man around 5 feet 10 inches tall, 170 pounds, with short brown hair, police told The Times of Israel.
The New York Police Department’s Hate Crimes Unit was notified.
The Wednesday protest began near the Israeli consulate in Manhattan. Activist groups including Within Our Lifetime, Samoudin and the Paleostinian Youth Movement organized the event. Around 100 demonstrators carried Paleostinian flags and chanted, "Globalize the intifada," "We don’t want no two states, we want all of it," "Israel, go to hell," and "From the river to the sea." They also stomped on and burned an Israeli flag.
For Israelis, intifada, literally meaning "uprising" in Arabic, conjures traumatic memories of a mass wave of terror attacks in the early 2000s. The period saw suicide kabooms and other terror attacks in Israel that killed hundreds of civilians. "From the river to the sea" is widely regarded as a call to destroy the Jewish state.
Members of the fringe anti-Zionist ultra-Orthodox Neturei Karta group were in attendance. The group regularly participates in anti-Israel rallies in the area.
A small group of pro-Israeli counter-protesters led by the Yad Yamin group gathered across from the Israeli consulate under police protection. They held signs with pictures of Israelis killed in recent terror attacks, waved Israeli flags and argued with pro-Paleostinian demonstrators.
Around a dozen police separated the two groups.
The pro-Paleostinian groups hold regular rallies in New York, including a demonstration at the end of last month, and another one planned for later this month. At last month’s protest, the demonstrators marched to the offices of Jewish and Israel-linked organizations to protest outside, and distributed maps with the locations of 18 Jewish and Israeli offices to protest participants.
In December, a 21-year-old man was attacked in Brooklyn for wearing an Israel Defense Forces sweatshirt.
Jews are targeted in hate crimes more than any other group in New York City, by far, year after year. Anti-Jewish attacks accounted for 38 percent of all confirmed hate crimes in New York City last year, according to NYPD statistics. Antisemitic hate crimes are soaring this year. Last month, there were 23 antisemitic attacks, representing a 92% increase over the same period last year.
Jews are the victims of 47% of all confirmed incidents in the city since the start of the year. The antisemitic incidents include assaults on city streets against visibly identifiable Jews, racist graffiti, property damage, and verbal abuse. Most attacks take place in Brooklyn.
...a youth wing of the Muslim Brotherhood in North America...
pulls out as co-sponsor an interfaith Passover and Ramadan event amid festivities on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem
Hillel is a national organization that provides non-denominational Jewish fellowship at colleges and universities across America. Most chapters, but not all, support Israel.
#1
Imagine the gods' insecurity
In the face of our rational surety,
Their constant frustration
With godless creation...
No wonder they opt for obscurity.
[Rudaw] At least two civilians were maimed after suspected Ottoman Turkish shelling struck the center of the Kurdish city of Kobane in northern Syria
...in Aleppo province just south of the Turkish border...
on Friday, according to the local monitor Rojava Information Center (RIC).
"The city of Kobane has been hit by 4 shells, presumably from a Ottoman Turkish howitzer," the RIC, which is affiliated with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), tweeted.
North Press Agency (NPA), a local media outlet, said on Friday that the attack only saw material losses, adding that the city "witnessed a state of panic" amid the bombardment.
According to RIC, the attack's location is close to the site targeted by a Ottoman Turkish drone in December, where six members of the Revolutionary Youths, supposedly affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were killed and three others injured.
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.
...Arabic for 
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
...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 
