News links March 19 2014 – 4

1. Egyptian court convicts four police officers over prisoner deaths

An Egyptian court has convicted four policemen over the deaths of 37 Islamists while in police custody. The incident occurred during a crackdown on supporters of toppled President Mohammed Morsi in 2013.

2. US closes Syrian embassy and kicks out all personnel. But why now?

3. Update on Tommy Robinson. 

4. Boko Haram have displaced hundreds of thousands

Nigerians living in the north east of their country live in constant fear of attacks by the militant Islamist sect Boko Haram. Many have therefore fled to neighboring countries or neighboring Nigerian states.

5. Shebab says latest suicide bomber was 60-year-old from Norway

Mogadishu — Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab rebels on Wednesday identified a suicide car bomber who struck a town recently captured by African Union troops as a 60-year-old Somali man who held Norwegian citizenship.

The attack in Buulo Burde in the south of the country on Tuesday targeted a hotel crowded with army officers and was followed by an assault by Shebab gunmen, leaving several dead, officials said.

“The attacker of Buulo Burde was a 60-year-old man who came from Norway to fight the enemies of Allah,” Shebab military spokesman Sheikh Abdul Aziz Abu Musab told AFP, naming the attacker as Abdullahi Ahmed Abdulle, a Norwegian national of Somali origin.

6. Alarmed by anti-Semitism, French Jews consider flight

“I am French, born in Paris, says Salome Roussel. “I’m thinking about moving to Israel, because French people are more and more against Jews. They say we are a lobby, that we are the masters of the world, and it’s not so!”

Roussel, 38, is not alone. Growing numbers of French Jews are not just thinking about starting a new life in Israel: Record numbers of them are taking action. Last year 3,120 French Jews moved to Israel, according to the Israeli Immigration Ministry, a jump of 63 percent on the previous year. They even outnumbered US immigrants to Israel.

 

Thank you Fjordman, M, Oz-Rita and all. Please dear readers. Inform others of today’s realities. The push back has to start or all hope of saving what we have without total upheaval is gone.

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Canadian artist and counter-jihad and freedom of speech activist as well as devout Schrödinger's catholic

13 Replies to “News links March 19 2014 – 4”

  1. US closes Syrian embassy and kicks out all personnel. But why now?

    Because maybe things are not going according to plan in Ukraine.

  2. #3 The British Government has maneuvered Tommy into the position where they can send him to a prison that they know he will be murdered in.

    #6 The rest of the Jewish population should pay attention to this group, although in some ways this is evolution breeding for smarter Jews, the smart ones flee and stay alive the dumber ones stay and die.

  3. Egypt army officers killed in gunfight with militants (BBC, March 19, 2014)
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-26643502

    “Two Egyptian army officers and five jihadist militants have been killed in a gunfight that erupted during a raid north of Cairo, officials say.

    The brigadier and colonel, both bomb disposal experts, took part in the raid on a warehouse in Qalyubiya province along with police and special forces.

    Bombs were detonated during the ensuing battle, which lasted several hours.

    Officials said the militants were from Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, which has claimed responsibility for a string of attacks.

    The al-Qaeda-linked group, which is based in the Sinai peninsula, is believed to have killed more than 200 security forces and government personnel since the military overthrew President Mohammed Morsi in July….”

  4. [ I think I posted this before?]

    Richard said, “The rest of the Jewish population should pay attention to this group, although in some ways this is evolution breeding for smarter Jews, the smart ones flee and stay alive the dumber ones stay and die.”

    Yeah, the elderly in nursing homes, relatives of same.

    The ones with adult children who are stupid and stubborn and won’t leave.

    Young adult, patriotic French Jews who don’t want to run from a country they grew up loving. Those want to fight for it, think others might join them.

    Poor things. Shocking, “dumber ones stay and die”.
    [ I think I posted this before?]

  5. It may be better not to look – at least until you can feel yourself in their skin.

    And you said not to give up on Europe!

  6. Recommended reading…

    What Pakistan Knew About Bin Laden (NYT, March 19, 2014, H/T Jihadwatch)
    http://nyti.ms/OB8ADL

    “… The Pakistani government, under President Pervez Musharraf and his intelligence chief, Lt. Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, was maintaining and protecting the Taliban, both to control the many groups of militants now lodged in the country and to use them as a proxy force to gain leverage over and eventually dominate Afghanistan. The dynamic has played out in ways that can be hard to grasp from the outside, but the strategy that has evolved in Pakistan has been to make a show of cooperation with the American fight against terrorism while covertly abetting and even coordinating Taliban, Kashmiri and foreign Qaeda-linked militants …”

  7. Yucki the main reason I am depressed is that I have just spent all day getting a virus off my computer and now have so many emails waiting that it will take me well into next week to check them out. Sorry if I offended you I didn’t mean to and enjoy our conversations.

  8. You sounded so different, anyone else I’d ignore.
    When you have time to read back, don’t worry, I know you’re still you.

  9. EGYPT – March 19 2014 – Cairo prosecutor orders inquiry into Al-Qaeda flag incident at Al-Azhar

    Egypt’s Prosecutor General Hesham Barakat has ordered an investigation into an incident at a student-led protest at Cairo’s Al-Azhar University, where the black jihadist flag used by groups like Al-Qaeda was raised on top of the university’s buildings.

    Around 300 students in favour of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi had gathered at the university on Tuesday, according to security forces, which said the students had “caused chaos” and were reported to have displayed the Al-Qaeda flag.

    Prosecutors from east Cairo, where the university is located, have been ordered to look into the incident and arrest those who raised the flag.

    Security forces stormed Al-Azhar University’s campus on Wednesday to disperse students who had gathered for another protest.

    Also on Wednesday, reports have emerged that students at Cairo University, in the western part of the city, also raised the Al-Qaeda flag during a protest in the afternoon.

    The black flag – inscribed with the Islamic creed, or shahada, professing that there is no god but Allah and that Prophet Mohamed is his messenger – dates back to the third Islamic caliphate of the Abbasids, which enjoyed a 500-year reign from 750 AD until the sacking of Baghdad in 1258 AD by Mongolian forces.

    However, starting from 2001, the flag has been appropriated by jihadist groups such as Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) in Syria and Iraq, Somalia’s Al-Shabaab and Egypt’s Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis, which has waged militant operations against security personnel and installations in the Sinai Peninsula and Nile Delta since the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi last year.

    http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/97076/Egypt/Politics-/Cairo-prosecutor-orders-inquiry-into-AlQaeda-flag-.aspx