[PJMedia] On Wednesday, federal agents arrested 36-year-old John Michael Rathbun for allegedly attempting to blow up a nursing home he thought was Jewish. Authorities claim they discovered his DNA on a failed explosive, NBC News reported. The attack came on April 3, as the coronavirus pandemic raged across America, acutely threatening the elderly and senior living homes.
Rathbun was charged with two counts of attempted arson after local police found a 5-gallon plastic gasoline container with a burned paper placed in the nozzle, left outside an assisted living home on April 2. The paper appears to have been a Christian pamphlet.
Investigators discovered a white supremacist organization on a social media platform in March attacking "the jew nursing home in longmeadow massachusetts," according to the complaint written by Special Agent Ryan McGonigle, assigned to the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force. The FBI did not identify Rathbun as the person who posted the threats.
The person who posted the threats also said April 3 would be "jew killing day." The FBI claims Rathbun placed the incendiary device on the evening of April 2.
The incendiary device was discovered outside of Ruth's House Assisted Living Residence on Converse Street in Longmeadow, Mass. Contrary to the white supremacists' claims, it is not a "jew nursing home," although it is operated by JGS Lifecare, which was founded by Jewish women in 1912. Hang him outside the home as a warning to others
[hindustantimes] A chance discovery of global terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed cadres in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province on Monday night has confirmed the assessment of Indian intelligence agencies that Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence had resumed training a select groups of terrorists for Kashmir in war-torn Afghanistan,
...hinterlands should be used for hinterlandish activities...
people familiar with the development told Hindustan Times. Tip from Indian Intel?
The Afghan forces had carried out a raid in Nangarhar’s Muhmand Dara
...alternately Mohmand Dara...
at what was presumed to be a Taliban camp that led to a bloody gunfight. At the end of the clash that cost the Afghan security forces four lives on April 13-14 night, the security personnel discovered that only 5 of the 15 men they had killed were from the Afghan Taliban. The other 10 were Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists being trained to fight in Jammu and Kashmir.
One Jaish terrorist survived the gunfight and was captured.
“Bring out the torture instruments, a barrel of mustache wax, a pot of tea and a plate of cookies, Mahmudullah. Somebody’s mustache is going to be thoroughly waxed tonight!”
Counter-terror operatives in Delhi and Kabul told HT that the Masood Azhar-founded Jaish-e-Mohammed, which shares the same Deobandi umbilical cord with Taliban, appeared to be running three camps (called Mustaquil) along with four Taliban camps in Nangarhar province. The camps have been identified as Khogyani I, Khogyani II and Dargah camp in Nangarhar province and were lent by the Taliban in lieu of Haqqani network’s cadre being trained in JeM’s camps in Pakistan.
Hindustan Times has accessed photographs and video footage of the clash. One of these photographs shows some of the weapons seized by the Afghan security forces from the camp: 2 mortar launchers, one rocket-propelled grenade and 2 AK series rifles.
Maulana Masood Azhar, who has been on India’s most wanted list for years, is incapacitated due to health issues and lives in the terror group’s headquarters, Markaz-e-Usman-o-Ali in Pakistan’s Bahawalpur.
His younger brother Mufti Rauf Asghar is the man running the Jaish ‘s terror show.
Intelligence reports indicate that the Jaish’s de facto chief Mufti Rauf Asghar’s son Wali Azhar is also being trained in these camps that are headed by former Afghan war and Harkat-ul-Mujahideen veteran Mufti Asghar Kashmiri. His second-in-command at these camps is the Jaish’s Kashmir infiltration specialist Abdullah aka Asadullah.
“We have photographic evidence that places Kashmiri and Abdullah at the terror launch pads in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir,” one official told HT.
According to information shared with India’s security planners, Pakistan-occupied Kashmir residents Yasin, Umar, Said and Mansoor along with Bahawalpur-based chief trainer Chacha Wagah, Junaid and Qari Sahab were present in the camp along with Kashmiri and Abdullah as late as March 29.
The total strength of Khogyani I camp is 23 cadres and seven instructors, while the number of cadres in Khogyani II and Dargah camps number 66 excluding trainers and logistics staff.
The radicalised cadre are being given a 15-day normal training after which they have to clear the six-month “Jundullah (commando)” training course before being launched into J&K. These cadres are also being given jungle survival training in Kunar reserve near Nuristan border.
Miniature replicas of the areas around their launch pads at Neelum, Sharda, Kel, Athmuqam, Leepa, Kotli and Forward Kahuta across the Line of Control (LOC) have been created for briefing them about infiltration into J&K.
Already, intelligence agencies have reported that the Pakistan terror groups had prepped to send about 230 terrorists across the Line of Control.
Indian national security planners are also watching with some anxiety the emerging big picture in Afghanistan with the US on the verge of withdrawal and Taliban all set to fight it out with the Ashraf Ghani regime for the seat in Kabul.
It is quite evident that once the Taliban gain control of Kabul, Pakistan would acquire strategic depth through Afghanistan and use the soil to launch terror strikes against India, a counter-terror operative in Delhi said.
Today Afghan intelligence (NDS) claimed arrest of Islamic State Khorasan (ISKP) emir Aslam Faruqi aka Abdullah Orakzai. He once used to be a member of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) until he defected to ISKP. #Afghanistanpic.twitter.com/bnUXYXgUk7
[ToloNews] Gunmen attacked local workers from Bagram airbase, close to the base, around 10 pm, killing 5 and wounding 4 others, said Esmat Mohmmadi, a member of Parwan Provincial Council,
The workers were in a vehicle, the button men are unidentified, no group has grabbed credit for the attack yet.
Waheeda Shahkar, a spokesperson for the provincial government, said a group of gunnies, believed to be affiliated with the Taliban ...Arabic for students... group, opened fire on a group of civilian workers of the U.S.-run Bagram airfield.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan forces arrested a maimed Pak bully boy during an operation in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan, the local authorities said.
According to a statement released by the provincial government, the Afghan forces arrested Zrar Hafeez, a Pak national who had sustained injuries in Momand Dara district.
The statement further added that the security forces arrested the suspect in Ghorakai area of the district.
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory the smoke and fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight... a Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... bully boy, who was attempting to plant two roadside kabooms in Barikaab area of Batikot district, was killed after the explosives went off prematurely.
The provincial government also added that the security forces discovered and defused a roadside kaboom in Surkh Rod district of Nangarhar province.
The Taliban group has not commented regarding the reports so far.
[PUNCHNG] Tunisia said Thursday that two men, including a suspected member of a jihadist network, had been arrested over an alleged "terrorist" plot to infect security force personnel with coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... The suspected jihadist is accused of having used his influence over supporters displaying symptoms of the virus, the interior ministry said in a statement.
The other accused, who was already under surveillance and required to report regularly to a cop shoppe, said that he was told to deliberately cough everywhere to contaminate officers during his visit, the ministry said.
Hands cuffed behind his back and a facemask covering mouth and nose during his visits should put paid to that little ambition.
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The terrorist state of the #GNA refuses to hand over 12 bodies of murder civilians, police officers, and solider , due to them being beheaded by #ISIS in sorman and Subrata.#Libyapic.twitter.com/Djc63L4lE5
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Shaykh Sadiq al-Ghariani: A Profile of Libya's Grand Mufti [www.aberfoylesecurity.com/?p=1004] https://www.aberfoylesecurity.com/?p=1004
This has never happened in history. This Mr. Sadiq al-Ghariani preaches fatwas in public and even those who do not know anything of religion cannot accept and do not believe in them and, therefore, these rulings are rejected by the Libyan people, who know right from wrong" (Libya Herald, October 18, 2014).
VIDEO | After his #fatwa allowing suicide attacks, and the statement by the #GNA Justice Minister on an alleged rebellion, Ghariani welcomes release of criminals from #Sabratha/#Surman prisons and demands same from RADA's prison in #Tripoli. #Libyahttps://t.co/NCw5zoCNwh
The Libyan Air Force #LNA targets a convoy of #GNA Benghazi defense forces militias led by Ibrahim Jadran, west of the town of Ghadwa, in southern #Libya, which was heading to launch an attack on the Sharara oil field in Ubari. pic.twitter.com/R90SYx2zi4
8 Turks just arrived at the #Tripoli medical center in dangerous conditions after a dangerous confrontation with your special forces,#Abu_slim defenders in #Ain_zara! They tried to attack us and miserably failed The aggressor will never win against the protectors of the homeland!
[SABA.YE] The Saudi-led aggression coalition and its mercenaries have committed 82 breaches against the UN-sponsored ceasefire agreement in Hodeidah province over the 24 hours.
An official in the room of liaison and coordination officers' operations to monitor the violations in Hodeidah said in a statement on Thursday, that the violations included the flying a spy plane, an artillery shelling and firing various bullets.
The official affirmed that the breaches were committed in al-Durayhimi district.
The UN-brokered truce went into effect on Dec 18, 2018.
Army repulses aggression coalition attack in Jizan
[SABA.YE] A number of the Saudi-led aggression coalition mercenaries were killed and maimed on Thursday when the army and popular forces repelled an attack in Jizan province, a military official told Saba.
The official affirmed that the army waged 11 hours-lasted counter-attack against the mercenaries in Qanbor mountain in the province.
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Pro-Assad media: An "unknown aircraft" rumored to possibly be a "Russian suicide drone" has executed an airstrike targeting a "pick-up truck carrying some jihadist rebels" in the northern Al-Ghaab Plain in rebel-held northwestern Syria, allegedly killing 2.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) arrested a senior 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/ISIS/IS/ISIS) in the northeastern region of Syria this week.
According to the SDF’s statement, their forces captured the Islamic State official during a special operation in the southern countryside of the al-Hasakah Governorate.
The statement pointed out that the Syrian Democratic Forces’ operation was backed by the U.S. Coalition’s warplanes.
They added that the Islamic State official was responsible "for financing and equipping sleeper cells in the region."
The Syrian Democratic Forces is conducting field operations against the Islamic State in northeastern and eastern Syria, as they attempt to eliminate the last remnants of the terrorist group in the eastern region of the Euphrates River Valley.
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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.