1. Mosque in Australia burned down for the second time this year
It is worth going over to the Youtube page for more on this. The uploader suspects its retaliation for the four churches burned down before Easter in Australia. I feel its more likely ToT attack, likely Shiia Vs. Sunni or an insurance thing as nearly every mosque arson turns out to be.
She was in bed when the soldiers came in the middle of the night and dragged her father out of the family home in Diyarbakir, a city in eastern Turkey.
The last thing little Aghavni (her name means ‘dove’ in her native Armenian) heard as she cowered in her room was his shout of defiance: ‘I was born a Christian and I will die a Christian.’
Not until first light did Aghavni dare to creep downstairs on that morning 100 years ago. ‘I saw an object sticking through the front door,’ she later remembered. ‘I pushed it open and there lay two horseshoes nailed to two feet.
the ruling Turks had turned their hatred on the 2 million men, women and children of Armenian extraction who lived within their borders
‘My eyes followed up to the blood-covered ankles, the disjointed knees, the mound of blood where the genitals had been, to a long laceration through the abdomen to the chest.
‘I came to the hands, which were nailed horizontally on a board with big spikes of iron, like a cross. The shoulders were remarkably clean and white, but there was no head.
‘This was lying on the steps, propped up by the nose. I recognised the neatly trimmed beard along the cheekbones. It was my father.’
3. Ramadi Fighting Heats Up as Iraqi PM Visits US
Is that a zebiba or just brain damage
According to court documents, Mohamud left the US a year ago with the intent to go to Syria and train with a terrorist group linked to al Qaeda in Iraq.
In April 2014, he purchased a one-way ticket to Greece, but during a layover in Istanbul he failed to board a connecting flight to Athens and instead made his way to Syria.
Once he reached his destination, Mohamud stated that he received training in shooting weapons, breaking into houses, explosives and hand-to-hand combat.
5. Iranian ship convoy moves toward Yemen, alarming US officials
U.S. military officials are concerned that Iran’s support for Houthi rebels in Yemen could spark a confrontation with Saudi Arabia and plunge the region into sectarian war.
Iran is sending an armada of seven to nine ships — some with weapons — toward Yemen in a potential attempt to resupply the Shia Houthi rebels, according to two U.S. defense officials.Officials fear the move could lead to a showdown with the U.S. or other members of a Saudi-led coalition, which is enforcing a naval blockade of Yemen and is conducting its fourth week of airstrikes against the Houthis.
Iran sent a destroyer and another vessel to waters near Yemen last week but said it was part of a routine counter-piracy mission.
What’s unusual about the new deployment, which set out this week, is that the Iranians are not trying to conceal it, officials said. Instead, they appear to be trying to “communicate it” to the U.S. and its allies in the Gulf.
6. USA: Thousands are plotting to kill Americans – Marco Rubio
7. Two Australian terror busts:
7a.. BBC: Many arrested in plot to attack WW1 memorial ceremony
Police in Australia say they have foiled an Islamic State-inspired plot to carry out an attack at a World War One centenary event.
Police arrested five teenage suspects, charging one 18-year-old with conspiring to commit a terrorist act.
The men were planning to target police at an Anzac memorial event in Melbourne next week, police said.
About 200 police officers took part in the counter-terrorism operation in the city early on Saturday.
7b. Australia: Muslims discussed killing Jews and Muhammad cartoonists
This isn’t really any surprise. Anyone who has been paying attention knows that Islamic jihadists want to kill Jews and Muhammad cartoonists. The only problem is that all too many Western authorities aren’t paying attention.
“Hoax fools wannabe jihadis,” by Grant Taylor, The West Australian, April 18, 2015:
An internet impostor has fooled dozens of followers of radical hate preacher Junaid Thorne into revealing their thirst for violence against Australian-based targets including newspaper cartoonists, Jewish groups and other innocent civilians
Thank you M., Wrath of Khan, Richard, Yucki and to be honest, a lot of wonderful people I lost track of as I sometimes do on posts that are built overnight. But your contributions are appreciated even if my cerebral retentive abilities are not. More to come.
I don’t know who burned it but until there are more violent confrontations your idea fits best.
3 – The willingness of Iran to confront Saudi and their allies shows a growing confidence in Iran, they think they can achieve their goal of bringing back the Mahdi who will then lead them to conquer the world.
6 – The reports from several years ago say there are close to 10,000 Hezbollah fighters in the US, now there are reports of ISIS camps within 8 miles of the border, this makes his statement a certainty.