1. Islamic State Group Kills Iraqi TV Journalist
The governor of Iraq’s Salahuddin province says a journalist from a local television network has been killed by the Islamic State group.
Governor Raed Ibrahim says Raad al-Azzawi, who was a cameraman for Iraq’s Salahuddin Television, was killed by militants on Friday in the city of Tikrit. Ibrahim said he wasn’t able to provide any further details. (Click over for more)
A Muslim man from Uganda who went to terror training camps in England cannot be deported because it is against his human rights.
Lawyers argued that 30-year-old YM, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has weak ties to his homeland and his removal would breach his rights to a family life despite committing serious criminal offences.
The man, who has been convicted of aggravated burglary among other charges, won his appeal against immediate removal back to Uganda by three senior judges at The Court of Appeal today.
3. Leaders of Iraq’s Anbar province call for U.S. ground forces to stop ISIS
(That was faster than I expected it. Video at link)
The situation in the province, just to the west of Baghdad, is “very bad,” the president of Anbar Provincial Council told CNN by phone on Saturday.
Sabah Al-Karhout said the council has intelligence that ISIS has dispatched as many as 10,000 fighters to Anbar from Syria and Mosul in northern Iraq.
The council’s deputy head, Falleh al-Issawi, told CNN that it had asked the central government to intervene immediately to save the province from imminent collapse — and to request the deployment of U.S. ground forces there.
4. Security services monitoring ‘thousands’ of terrorism suspects in London, says Boris Johnson
Mayor of London discloses that threat from Isil and other terrorist groups is larger than previously known
Boris Johnson says ‘thousands’ of terrorism suspects are being monitored in London Photo: Oli Scarff/Getty Images
10:00PM BST 10 Oct 2014
The security services are monitoring “thousands” of terrorist suspects in London, Boris Johnson has disclosed, suggesting the threat from Islamist extremists may be far greater than has previously been admitted.
Until now, it was thought that the main danger came from around 500 jihadis who have travelled to Syria and Iraq from the UK to join Isil or al-Qaeda fighters, around half of whom have returned to Britain.
5. I think this is an Islamic State recruitment video.
It would probably be a good idea at this time to look at these with a great deal more concern than perhaps we did last week, given the nature of the news over the past number of hours. Specifically that Iraq is desperate for US soldiers to actively fight in Iraq against the Islamic State, several nations declaring that the local Islamic population contains hostile and potentially violent members at a crisis level and more. I think we have to admit at this juncture that the cancer which is Islam, has metastasized as it predictably would, if no measures were taken to prevent it, which of course they were not.
This might be a good time to read the Agenda And Views of this site written when I started blogging around 8 years ago. It has gotten considerably worse than I thought it would then, and I was thought of as a kook for how bad I thought it would be.
Eeyore for Vlad.
Thank you M., Richard, Yucki, GoV and all who sent in materials.
#5 That’s Riyadh at 3:45, the Kingdom Centre, in the silence following ‘The day of judgement is near! But the people don’t want to understand, blinded by this world.’
An image right before it is King Fahd’s Fountain in Jeddah, and before that what looks like a few brief shots from the other coast, possibly around Khobar/Dammam, with a family walking on the Corniche.
UK expects ‘handful’ of Ebola cases (BBC, Oct 11, 2014)
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-29584816
“The UK should expect a “handful” of Ebola cases in the coming months, the chief medical officer has said. Defending airport screening, Dame Sally Davies said it was a “blunt instrument” but would save lives.
She rejected criticism in a leaked email circulated to doctors that the screening was a “political gesture”. The UK held exercises earlier to test its response to an outbreak, as the US started screening some people arriving in the country.
Ebola has killed more than 4,000 people worldwide, and a UN expert has said the world will live with it “forever” unless global action stops the virus.
Dame Sally, England’s chief medical officer and chief medical adviser to the UK government, said cases in Britain would be “spill-over” from West Africa.
She said the screening, due to start next week, was “unlikely” to pick up many cases – “if any” – but she said the “great advantage” would be that people would be told what symptoms to look for and what to do if they fall ill.
In an email seen by the BBC, a senior consultant said he believed the screening was “purely a political gesture, unlikely to provide public health benefits”.
But Dame Sally said: “At this time, this is the right thing to do.”
Dame Sally said exercises held earlier on Saturday to test the UK’s Ebola response was “vitally important” and would strengthen protection plans….”
Worried Iraqi Capital Sees Militant Push Around It (abcnews, Oct 11, 2014)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/worried-iraqi-capital-sees-militant-push-26124311
“On the western edge of Iraq’s capital, Islamic State group militants battle government forces and exchange mortar fire, only adding to the sense of siege in Baghdad despite airstrikes by a U.S.-led coalition.
Yet military experts say the Sunni militants of the Islamic State group, who now control a large territory along the border that Iraq and Syria share, won’t be able to fight through both government forces and Shiite militias now massed around the capital.
It does, however, put them in a position to wreak havoc in Iraq’s biggest city, with its suicide attacks and other assaults further eroding confidence in Iraq’s nascent federal government and its troops, whose soldiers already fled the Islamic State group’s initial lightning advance in June.
“It’s not plausible at this point to envision ISIL taking control of Baghdad, but they can make Baghdad so miserable that it would threaten the legitimacy of the central government,” said Richard Brennan, an Iraq expert with RAND Corporation and former Department of Defense policymaker, using an acronym for the Islamic State group….”
Car bombs kill 38 in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad (miamiherald, Oct, 11, 2014)
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/article2677426.html
“A series of car bomb attacks in Iraq’s capital killed 38 people in Shiite areas Saturday, authorities said, after Islamic militants killed a journalist working for a local television network in a Sunni province.
The attacks come as Iraq faces its greatest challenge since the 2011 withdraw of U.S. troops, as militants from the Islamic State group now hold vast swaths of the country and neighboring Syria.
Police officials said the first bombing happened Saturday night when a suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into a security checkpoint in Baghdad’s northern district of Khazimiyah, killing 13 people, including three police officers, and wounding 28.
The second car bombing, targeting a commercial street in Shula district in northwestern Baghdad, killed seven people and wounded 18, police said. The blast damaged several shops and cars.
Also in Shula, police said a suicide car bomb attack on a security checkpoint killed 18 people and wounded dozens others.
Hospital officials confirmed the casualty figures for the attacks. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief journalists….”
Algeria Army Kills Suspected Militants in Raids (abcnews, Oct 11, 2014)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/algeria-army-kills-suspected-militants-raids-26126118
“The Algerian army has announced the death of five suspected Islamist militants, bringing the total killed in the last three days to nine.
The suspected extremists were killed Saturday in the mountainous Lakhdaria region, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) from where a French hiker was kidnapped and beheaded by militants last month.
Since a video surfaced of Herve Gourdel’s abduction and later murder, thousands of Algerian soldiers have been combing the mountainous Kabylie area, especially the Djurdjura mountain range where he was taken.
On Thursday, the military announced it had discovered the camp where Gourdel was held.
The kidnappers are a splinter from al-Qaida’s North African branch and have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group.”
# 5: This might be a good time to read the Agenda And Views of this site written when I started blogging around 8 years ago. It has gotten considerably worse than I thought it would then, and I was thought of as a kook for how bad I thought it would be.
You Eeyore, Yucki, M., GoV, Richard, Softly Bob, Don Laird and so many others here would be entitled to let go of many many “I-told-You-So”s, but, unfortunately there is no satisfaction in such entitlement, only frustrating disappointment (and impotent anger in my case).
Just have a look at even only the first few “comments” to Eeyore’s “Agenda and views”…. ARRRGGGHHHH
#4 I don’t see what the problem is. Surely this is the world the cultural relativist nutcases wanted? Well – it’s here now, finally, after decades of hard work…
Enjoy the future.
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