[RADIOSHABELLE] The Head of Dubai based P&O ports, a port operator owned by the UAE’s DP world in Bassaso town, Paul Anthony Fermosa has been killed on Monday morning.
The initial report indicates that the officer was attacked by a man disguising as a fisherman who was later killed by his security guards, according to police.
Al Shabaab has claimed responsibility for the assassination.
Puntland administration has not yet commented on the attack.
Paul Anthony Formosa is a Maltese national who was the manager of the port of Bosaso in semi-autonomous Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... state. P&O Ports acknowledged that one of its employees was killed and three others injured in an "incident" Monday at its operations in Bosaso Port.
P&O Ports signed a 30-year, $336 million deal in 2017 to develop the Bosaso Port.
The al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab ... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia... krazed killer group has taken claim for the attack.
"We are behind the operation ... we had warned him but he turned a deaf ear. He was illegally in Somalia," said front man for al-Shabaab's military operations, Abdiasis Abu Musab.
P&O Ports has sparked friction with Mogadishu over its development of ports in Berbera in breakaway Somaliland ‐ whose independence is not recognized ‐ as well as Puntaland.
Many of Somalia's federal states have aligned with the United Arab Emirates, while the central government is perceived as pro-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... , in the Gulf crisis pitting Arab powers against each other.
Puntland is a region of northeast Somalia on the Gulf of Aden.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] The al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... has grabbed credit for a deadly car kaboom in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu on Monday morning.
In a statement, the Death Eater group said it targeted a key meeting near Mogadishu mall with a boom-mobile killing at least 8 people. It did not say whether officials were among the dead.
Dozens of people were reported to have been maimed in the kaboom, which comes amidst tight security measures in the country’s capital.
The Somali government is yet to comment on the attack, the latest in a series of boom-mobiles in Mogadishu by al-Shabaab.
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[Libya Observer] Seven Tabu tribe members were killed and more than 20 others maimed in an Arclight airstrike conducted by Dignity Operation air force on the southern town of Murzuk on Sunday.
Sources from the town said the airstrike targeted a group of civilians who were protesting the presence of warlord Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... ’s gangs in their town.
The airstrike came as ground fighters of Dignity Operation prepare for a massive offensive on the town.
Tabu tribe accuses the warlord of ethnic cleansing and discrimination against its members in the south.
A Tabu activist said Haftar’s gangs are backed by Sudanese rebel fighters in their offensive in the south.
Tabu tribe has demanded the Presidential Council and the UN mission in Libya to intervene to stop what it described the systematic ethnic cleansing of the Tabu community.
Warlord Khalifa Haftar launched a military operation in mid-January to control the southern Libyan towns and cities under the slogan of "fighting terrorism and securing borders." However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... politicians and analysts following the Libyan file considered his operation an attempt to extend his influence and put his hands on the country's oil resources in that region.
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The Tabu (usually Toubou or Tubu) are an ethnic minority out of Chad's mountainous Bourkou-Ennedi-Tibesti (BET)region who seem born to fight. They were the bodyguard of King Idris who was overthrown by Qadafi. Qadafi hated the Toubou and tried to incorporate Chad's BET. In a long war the Toubou held their own. Now the Toubou have infiltrated Libya's south and southeast and show no inclination of leaving any time soon.
[Libya Observer] La Belle France's warplanes have carried out Arclight airstrikes on targets in northern Chad on Sunday in support of local troops trying to repel a convoy of unidentified fighters that had crossed the border from Libya, a statement by the French military said.
French armed forces said on Monday that a Mirage 2000 patrol intervened jointly with the Chadian army in northern Chad to strike a column of 40 pickups of an gang from Libya infiltrating deep into Chadian territory.
"This intervention at the request of Chadian authorities helped hinder this hostile advance and disperse the column." The statement adds.
The statement did not specify who was behind the incursion, but it was the first time French forces have hit targets in support of Chadian troops since a fledgling rebel movement based in southern Libya increased its activities last year.
Press sources reported that the convoy could be from the rebel movement, the Military Command Council for the Salvation of the Republic (CCMSR), which was founded in 2016 and has fought Chadian forces several times near the Libyan border since August.
Libya itself is suffering from infiltrating Chadian rebels who work as mercenary fighters for different gangs, especially those under the command of the self-styled army of Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... , and have been carrying out operations in different areas in southern Libya.
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[AlAhram] Seven snuffies have been killed by Egyptian security forces in a shootout in the North Sinai city of El-Arish, an official source said on Monday.
Security forces conducted a raid on the terrorists’ hideout based on information obtained by intelligence officials.
The group was planning terrorist attacks targeting state institutions, the source explained, adding that they were found in possession of large amounts of ammunition, firearms, and improvised bombs.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Arab Coalition succeeded in intercepting a Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... drone days ago, Coalition spokesperson Colonel Turki al-Maliki said on Monday.
The spokesperson displayed pictures of the drone that he said indicated that it is Iranian made.
The pictures of the intercepted and destroyed drone were released in the presser that Maliki held in Riyadh on Monday.
The Coalition also said that it’s targeting drone experts and storage sites near the capital Sanaa, while "constantly avoiding civilian casualties" in attacks on Houthis.
According to the Coalition, Houthis set military camps east of Hodeidah in a breach to the Sweden deal.
On the 23rd of January the Coalition targeted Houthi military camps in al-Mahwit governorate, killing 181 Houthis, the Coalition confirmed, while ensuring through intelligence that no recruited children were present at the military camp.
The Coalition also renewed accusations of Houthis recruiting children in the ongoing conflict.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his other shoulder...... the Coalition said it’s working on facilitating ship entrance to the ports of al-Salif and Ras Issa, but that Houthis are hindering their movement.
So far, 448 ship permits were issued for aid to enter Yemeni ports, according to the Coalition.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] The wife of a jihadi who fought with ISIS is seeking up to £1million in compensation over claims she was shackled, whipped and interrogated by British intelligence officials.
Muna Abdule says MI6 operatives mistreated her and quizzed her over husband Abdelqadir Mumin.
Her accusations include that a mystery man called ’The British interrogator’ interrogated her in Somalia in 2013 with information she claims must have come from the UK.
She also claims she was hit with metal cables, and humiliated, the Daily Mirror revealed.
If proven she could receive up to £1million in compensation.
Court papers say: ’She says she was hooded in a manner which made it painful for her to breathe. She was threatened with being killed... She was frightened and slept little.’
Mrs Abdule lives in Berkshire while her husband who is linked with Mohammed Emwazi ‐ known as executioner Jihadi John ‐ is banned from the country.
Abdelqadir Mumin used to be a key recruiter and controller for the al-Qaeda affiliated al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... in Somalia after fleeing his home in South London.
He became one of the few high profile al-Shabaab figures to switch his allegiance to ISIS and has since fled with a small band of jihadis to the remote mountains in Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... Mumin used to preach at Greenwich mosque, which is believed to have been where Mohammed Emwazi and Michael Adebolajo occasionally attended prayers.
Mumin was visited by his wife in 2013 who says she was tortured afterwards by British intelligence officers
Upon fleeing to Somalia in 2010, Mumin burnt his passport and declared he would spend the rest of his life fighting jihad.
Mrs Abdule’s lawyer Shubhaa Srinivasan told the Mirror: ’Despite the Government’s insistence it eschews torture, my client’s case... tells a different story.’
Sensitive parts of the case will be heard in private at the agreement of a High Court judge.
Previously after being accused of involvement in torture outside of the UK, Britannia has paid £20million in compensation to up to 20 claimants.
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give her a plane ticket to somalia
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[AnNahar] Police and medical officials say seven Iranian Shiite pilgrims traveling in central Iraq were maimed when their bus came under attack by unidentified button men.
The officials said late Sunday that the bus carrying 10 pilgrims was north of the capital of Baghdad when button men opened fire.
They say the maimed passengers were taken to a hospital, including a woman who was at death's door. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity in line with briefing regulations.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Iraqi-led Hashd al-Shaabi forces fended off a powerful attack by 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.... (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) on Sunday after the latter attempted to storm their points along the Syrian border.
According to the official media wing of Hashd al-Shaabi, their forces confronted a small Islamic State group that was attempting to capture some of their points near the border city of al-Qa’im in the western part of the al-Anbar Governorate.
Hashd al-Shaabi managed to foil the terrorist attack along the Syrian border, killing and wounding all of the members of the Islamic State.
This latest attack by the Islamic State comes just hours after they lost more territory to the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the eastern Euphrates region.
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Diyala (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi security forces killed on Monday a dangerous member of the terrorist 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 during a security operation in Diyala, a security source was quoted as saying.
Speaking to the Arabic-language Baghdad Today news website, the source said that a joint security force raided an agricultural land in Buhriz, 20km south of Baqubah, targeting a dangerous IS terrorist.
"The troops killed the terrorist and destroyed his hideout," added the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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[Rudaw] KALAR, Kurdistan Region ‐ Security forces in the Garmiyan region announced on Monday that they have incarcerated Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! three ISIS members in the area, one of them holding the rank of an emir or local commander.
"Two of them are 35 years old and one is 43," the Garmiyan region security forces said in a blurb.
"One of them had entered the Kurdistan Region with forged identity documents."
Identified by the initials of his name as A. S. M. was born in 1984 and had the rank of an emir within ISIS, said the presser.
The other two alleged members of ISIS also identified by their initials as M. A. Kh. A, 43 years of age. The third is identified as Sh. Z. Kh and born in 1984.
According to the blurb the three had engaged in terror acts before their arrest.
"Those arrested had recently carried out terrorist acts in Hawija, Hamrin and djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and held important positions within ISIS."
The security forces believe that "after the defeat of ISIS bully boyz have secretly come into Kurdistan Region territories and settled in the Darbandikhan, Sarqalla and Sayda village."
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[IsraelTimes] Second assailant reportedly injured by Israeli fire as they throw explosive at soldiers at northern West Bank crossing.
Two Paleostinian teenagers were shot as they attacked a group of Israeli soldiers at an army post in the northern West Bank on Monday night, the military said.
One of the assailants, a 19-year-old, was killed, and the second, 15, was seriously maimed, according to Paleostinian health officials.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, the two threw an bomb at soldiers guarding the Jalameh Crossing, near Jenin.
In response, the servicemen shot up the assailants.
No IDF soldiers were maimed in the incident, the army said.
The Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy ambulance service said the attacker who was killed had been shot in the head. He was identified as Abed Allah Tawalbeh. The other was reportedly shot in the buttock and taken to a Jenin hospital for treatment.
Recent weeks have seen a number of attacks by Paleostinians against Israeli security forces in the West Bank.
Show me the way to go home,
I'm tired and I want to go to bed,
‘Cos I had a little drink about an hour ago,
And its gone right to me head.
No matter where I roam,
On land or sea or foam,
You will always hear me singing this song,
Show me the way to go home.
[ALMASDARNEWS] A captured 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.... (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) terrorist from Germany sat down for an interview with the German language news site Welt Spiegel recently to discuss his participation in the Syrian conflict.
During the interview, the ISIS fighter, Farid Saal, acknowledges that he starred in a mass execution video of Syrian soldiers in the eastern countryside of the Homs Governorate in July 2014.
The captured ISIS fighter said that he posed with the executed Syrian Army soldiers because it would help his smuggling business that he was running inside the country.
He said his main job in Syria was to smuggle imported muscle from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... to the Islamic State-held areas across the country.
Furthermore, he says that life in Raqqa city was pleasant, as he was able to relax by playing games, browsing the internet, and chatting with different fighters.
At the end of the interview, the Islamic State terrorist tells the news hound that he wants to go back to Germany, even if it means he will be imprisoned.
He concludes that he does not want to be imprisoned in Syria,
Well sure. German prisons have heat and hot and cold running water, even in the winter, and life sentences only last a decade or two, whereas a foreigner dying uncomfortably in Syrian prison is a realistic possibility.
but Germany has not agreed to any extradition terms, especially with non-state entities like the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
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On the bright side, his stay in a Syrian prison will be short.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) unleashed a major assault this morning on the military posts of the Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP) in the southwestern countryside of the Idlib Governorate.
According to a military source in the nearby lovely provincial capital of the Hama Governorate, the Syrian Arab Army launched several artillery shells and surface-to-surface missiles on the al-Ghaab Plain towns of Bidama and Najayah.
This attack was reportedly carried out by the Syrian Arab Army’s missile team that is equipped with the Urgan MLRS launcher, the military source told al-Masdar News this afternoon.
The source added that the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) attack was carried out in retaliation for the jihadist strikes on their positions near the town of al-Sirmaniyeh in the southern countryside of the Jisr al-Shughour District.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A senior commander of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) allegedly defected to the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in the eastern countryside of the Deir Ezzor Governorate, Fars News reported, citing local sources.
According to the report, the senior SDF commander was named ’Rikan’ and he defected in the al-Salihiyeh region of eastern Deir Ezzor.
The SDF commander reportedly defected to the SAA with his vehicle that was filled several weapons from the nearby encampment in al-Salihiyeh.
Following his defection, pro-Syrian Army social media accounts began to report that the al-Salihiyeh Crossing was closed by the SDF.
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does anyone really xpect any kind of loyalty from these anyone in this area of the world?
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an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia...
...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 Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
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[RADIOSHABELLE] The wife of a jihadi who fought with ISIS is seeking up to £1million in compensation over claims she was shackled, whipped and interrogated by British intelligence officials.
the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi security forces killed on Monday a dangerous member of the terrorist 
[IsraelTimes] Second assailant reportedly injured by Israeli fire as they throw explosive at soldiers at northern West Bank crossing.
