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National Resistance Front. Personally, I sllok askance of any political organization with the word "Front" in its name.
Frente. Fuck off...
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The National Resistance Front is the current generation of the old Northern Alliance that fought off the Taliban back in the 1990s, ie. the non-Pashtun tribes, jpal. The old leaders ended up being governors of their provinces and key members of the post-Talib government, while their sons were sent off for proper training from military academies and then finance and governance at university on the assumption that those skills would be needed again. And so they are.
[DW] According to local reports, the attackers entered a Catholic church in Ondo state and opened fire on worshippers.
Gunmen have killed several worshippers in a Catholic church in southwestern Nigeria, the state governor said on Sunday.
Anakunrin Akeredolu, the governor of the Ondo state, condemned the "vile and satanic" attack on the St. Francis Church, vowing to capture the assailants and achieve justice.
"I urge our people to remain calm and vigilant. Do not take laws into your hands. I have spoken to the heads of the security agencies. I have equally been assured that security operatives would be deployed to monitor and restore normality to Owo kingdom," Akeredolu tweeted.
Adelegbe Timileyin, representative of Ondo’s Owo area in the country’s lower legislative chamber, said the church’s presiding priest was kidnapped during the attack. The politician also put the corpse count at over 50 people.
President Muhammadu Buhari condemned the attack, calling it "heinous."
WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE ATTACK?
The assailants stormed the church in the midst of the Sunday service, opening fire at the worshippers, local media reported. Some explosives were also used, but initial reports suggest the majority of injuries were due to gunshots.
The victims reportedly included members of the congregation, as well as children.
The identities of the perpetrators, who expeditiously departed at a goodly pace shortly after the attack, have yet to be confirmed. Local reports have pointed the finger at Fulani ... a peculiarly brutal tribe of Moslem herdsmen infesting Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and probably other places that are light on law and order and heavy on tribal identity... Herdsmen, suggesting members of the nomadic group carried out the attack to send a message to the governor.
Akeredolu’s recent policies have been seen as restrictive to the herdsmen’s activities in the state of Ondo.
Although Nigeria has witnessed acts of violence in recent years, such incidents have mostly centred in the northwest of Africa’s most populous country. The southwest — and Ondo state in particular — is regarded as a place of relative peace and calm.
The violence at St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo town, in Ondo State, happened during the morning service on Pentecost Sunday in a rare attack in the southwest of the African country.
A witness, who gave his name as Abayomi, said at least 20 worshippers had died in the attack.
'I was passing through the area when I heard a loud explosion and gunshots inside the church,' he continued.
He said he saw at least five gunmen on the church premises before he ran away for safety.
Gun and bomb attacks are rare in Ondo state, but Nigeria's military is battling a 12-year-old jihadist insurgency in the northeast, kidnapping gangs in the northwest and separatist agitation in the southeast.
Nigeria's security forces did not immediately respond to enquiries as to how the attack occurred or if there are any leads about suspects. Owo is about 215 miles east of Lagos.
#1
When is the UN going to start investigating Christophobia like they are doing with Islamophobia? This is just one of dozens attacks on Christians that have killed hundres or even thousands in the last decade or so. Yet, aftera relativelyminor attack on a mosque, the UN sets up a commission to prevent Islamophobia.
By definition, a phobia is an IRRATIONAL fear of something. The person who suffers from the phobia is aware that it is irrational.
My fear and mistrust of Islam is definitely rational.
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[RFERL] Kyrgyz security services say the banned Yakyn Inkar religious group
...also spelt Yaqyn Inkar, because Radio Free Europe does not have a stylebook entry for the group...
remains active in the country, running underground schools and promoting its ideology despite being outlawed as an holy warrior organization five years ago.
At least two suspected cell leaders of Yakyn Inkar were arrested in separate raids in the southern Osh Province and the northern Chui region in late March and May, respectively.
We had the story of their arrest here. The men were identified as Azizjon B., Farhodshoh K., Muhammadali G., Sunatulloh Karimov, and Ravshan Boqiev, the ringleader. All arrived in Germany as asylum seekers.
[RFERL] A court in Germany has sentenced five Tajik men to lengthy prison terms after finding them guilty of being members of 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.... (IS) terrorist organization’s cell that planned terrorist attacks in Germany and elsewhere.
A court in Dusseldorf said on May 31 that the Tajik men, aged 25 to 34, were sentenced to prison terms between three years and eight months to nine years and six months.
According to the court, the five men were in contact with groups involved in the Stockholm truck attack of April 2017 and those involved in the killing of four people in Vienna in November 2020.
Investigators said at the trial that in 2020, the group planned to murder a critic of Islam, but police thwarted the attack.
Before their arrest, the five Tajiks lived in different cities in Germany’s western North Rhine Westphalia region.
Tajik authorities say that since 2013, some 2,000 Tajik citizens have joined IS and other terrorist groups led by Islamist gunnies in Syria and Iraq.
Hundreds of them were killed and maimed there, while some managed to return to Tajikistan. Many of those who came back were amnestied, but some were handed lengthy prison terms on terrorism and mercenary charges.
Police on Sunday arrested a Hizb turban in J&K's Kishtwar district.
That’s Hizb-ul-Mujahideen. For some reason Greater Kashmir feels a need to shorten it.
A police front man said the turban Talib Hussain son of Late Noor Mohd Gujjar a resident of Rashgwari Tehsil Nagseni District Kishtwar was arrested by Kishtwar Police and 17 RR.
As per police, Talib was active since 2016 and his arrest is a "major blow to the Hizb".
"In a major blow to #HM outfit, #Kishtwar #Police & #SecurityForces (17 RR) arrested one terrorist of HM outfit active since 2016 identified as Talib Hussain S/o Late Noor Mohd Gujjar R/o Rashgwari Tehsil Nagseni District Kishtwar, " police said.
[Dawn] Security forces killed seven gunnies in two intelligence-based operations (IBOs) in Bannu and North Wazoo District, the military's media affairs wing said in a statement on Sunday.
According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), forces conducted IBOs in Jani Khel, Bannu District and Hassan Khel, North Waziristan District on the reported presence of gunnies in the area.
The statement said an intense exchange of fire ensued when the forces conducted operations in the areas. As a result, five bad boyz were potted in Jani Khel and two were shot full of holes in the North Waziristan District.
Weapons and ammunition were also recovered from the slain terrorists, the ISPR added.
The military said the gunnies killed during the operations were actively involved in terror activities against security forces.
"Locals of the area appreciated the operations and expressed their full support to eliminate the menace of terrorism from the area," the ISPR statement added.
Two weeks ago, security forces had killed two "important and most wanted" gunnies of the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain (TTP) in North Waziristan district's Boya area.
The slain gunnies were identified as commander Rasheed alias Jabir and Abdul Salam alias Chamtoo, the ISPR had said.
Also last month, three Pakistain Army soldiers and at least three children were martyred in a suicide kaboom in the vicinity of Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... , North Waziristan.
In a brief statement, the military had said the intelligence agencies were investigating to find out about [the] jacket wallah and his handlers/controllers.
[IsraelTimes] Rioters barricade themselves in al-Aqsa Mosque, throw stones at officers as Jewish groups tour flashpoint compound; no injuries or arrests reported
Police scuffled with Paleostinians on Jerusalem’s flashpoint Temple Mount holy site on Sunday morning as Jews toured the compound during the Shavuot holiday.
Paleostinians barricaded themselves inside the compound’s al-Aqsa Mosque and threw stones at police in response to the visits. There were no reports of injuries or arrests in the incident.
Footage from the scene showed officers outside the mosque doors, while Paleostinians barricaded inside threw stones out of windows and chanted "holy shit! Allahu akbar," or "God is great."
Other videos showed a small group of Jews walking through the plaza surrounded by police, with Paleostinians trailing the Jewish group holding Paleostinian flags and shouting.
The visits by Jewish groups continued as usual under police protection, Hebrew media reported.
[IsraelTimes] Man detained in joint operation by IDF, Border Police and Shin Bet in Bethlehem
Israeli security forces arrested a terror suspect in the West Bank city of Bethlehem during an overnight raid, the military said on Sunday morning.
No Israeli troops were maimed during the operation and the suspect was transferred to Sherlocks for questioning.
The Israel Defense Forces, together with Border Police and the Shin Bet security service conducted overnight operations across the West Bank as part of Operation Breakwater, the army said.
The military launched the operation in the West Bank following a series of terror attacks beginning in March that claimed the lives of 19 people. The ensuing raids sparked festivities that left at least 30 Paleostinians dead since mid-March.
Security forces clashed with Paleostinians over the weekend while carrying out a raid to arrest a man suspected of illegally driving Paleostinians across the "seam zone" area along the security barrier. Several Paleostinian attackers in the recent terror wave entered Israel illegally from the West Bank.
According to the IDF, rioters in the northern West Bank village of Jaba’ threw stones and Molotov cocktails at soldiers during the raid. No Israeli troops were hurt in the festivities.
The IDF said soldiers also arrested a terror suspect in Bethlehem during that operation and confiscated several weapons.
Two Jordanian pilots were killed on Sunday in a plane crash in northern Jordan during training exercises, the Jordanian army said, citing a technical error.
The training plane crashed in empty land in the Ramtha area near the border with Syria, the army added in a statement.
Government forces and Turkish-backed opposition forces (SNA) exchanged shelling in northwest Syria, with no reports of casualties. #SNA#HTShttps://t.co/tWPG7yOlvU
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) June 5, 2022
Turkish forces and their affiliated opposition factions (SNA) bombed a village in Ain Issa town, north #Raqqa, north #Syria, wounding three civilians. #SNAhttps://t.co/YcmNTFAvXy
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) June 5, 2022
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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.
[DW] According to local reports, the attackers entered a Catholic church in 
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