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Category Archives: ISIS – ISIL – Caliphate
American contractor evacuated from post in Iraq due to viral YT video.
A couple of days ago, An American contractor in Iraq, posted a video, weighing in on Trump’s new travel regulations.
Apparently it has enjoyed eight million views. Which is probably a gross underestimate as tons of people likely uploaded the video to their own servers as Express and the DailyMail do as policy, and therefore very possibly double that number in reality.
He has made a follow up video:
I suspect we are all looking forward to what comes next.
CNN gets straightened out on Syria by Rep Gabbard (R)
Twelve year old Islamic State agent tried to nail-bomb German Christmas market
An original translation by Egri Nok with much thanks …
From German news site, Focus.De
Security Authorities announce 12-year-old planned nail bomb attack on Christmas market
BREAKING News
Friday, December 16, 2016, 06:01 AM (CET)
A 12-year-old boy may have been sent by the Islamic State when he planned an attack on the Christmas market in Ludwigshafen. The State Attorney and the State Prosecutor have already begun investigations.
A 12-year-old German-Iraqi apparently tried to carry out a nail bomb attack on the Christmas market in Ludwigshafen at the Rhine. Focus reports this in its latest edition, referring to legal and security authorities. According to the investigators, the “highly religiously radicalized” boy might have been “incited or instructed” by an “unknown member” of the terror militia Islamic State (IS). Only because the charger did not ignite was there no detonation.
According to Focus Information, the Federal Attorney in Karlsruhe is investigating on the grounds of a suspicion of a “severe subversive act of violence”. Parallel to that, the State Prosecutor in Frankenthal is leading the investigation of the boy, who was born in 2004 in Ludwigshafen. It is expected that the investigation will soon be closed, because the alleged perpetrator is under the age of criminal responsibility.
Boy wanted to join ISIS in Syria
According to Focus, the boy placed a backpack with a self-made charger in a bush near the town hall. A few days previously, on November 26, he had, according to Focus, attempted to ignite the bomb at the Christmas market. In the backpack was a can with a hole drilled in it, and a wire leading through the hole. It was filled with explosive material. The outside was sealed with tape and packed with nails.
After an alert passer-by informed the police about the backpack, specialists detonated part of the volatile compound. According to Focus Information, back in the summer of 2016 the boy entertained the idea of going to Syria to join ISIS. After his arrest in Ludwigshafen, the 12-year-old was placed in a juvenile shelter.
Two large scale terrorist attacks in two days, likely all Islamic: Egypt and Turkey
Today in Egypt, a large bomb went off near a Coptic cathedral. Surprisingly, the Washington Post, normally not prone to report Islamic discrimination against everyone else, actually gives a brief background on how they treat the Copts historically, with the report of the explosion. The Trump effect? An analysis would tell.
Tundra Tabloids has some content on the attack.
25 dead:
Major bomb blast outside soccer stadium in Turkey:
Bloodbath in Istanbul: Terrorists kill at least 38 and wound another 166 in machine gun and twin bomb attack on Turkish riot police outside major Istanbul soccer match
Twin blasts rocked Istanbul this evening, with a car bomb detonating at a football stadium as a suicide attacker struck at a nearby park, killing 38 people and injuring 166 more.
‘Two bombings may have taken place according to our understanding: one outside the stadium… the other at Macka Park,’ Turkey’s Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said.
‘The explosion at Macka Park is believed to have been carried out by a suicide bomber,’ he added.
The Turkish government imposed a media ban in the wake of the blasts, citing ‘national security’ concerns.
Turkish site, Hurriyetdaily covers this attack, likely from the Islamic State, here.
(Apparently Kurds have taken responsibility for this attack)
More videos are available in the Reader’s daily links post for yesterday.
Islamic State plot foiled, to attack Israeli soccer team in Kosovo
H/T Wrath of Khan
Hillary Clinton KNEW the Saudis fund the IS, took thier money too!
The tale of the tape. two opposing views of Alepo
Here is the American presser on its actions in terms of fighting the unnamable Islamic State
Here is the Russian presser:
Our Russian translator explains the following:
“There is essentially one sentence which is relevant
Lavrov said that in his talks with Kerry he raised multiple times his concerns but us led coalition in Syria still acts with constraint against ISIS and it doesn’t even try to do something against al-Nusra”
Which may also go some distance to explain the last 40 seconds of this video:
Examining a captured VBIED from the IS
Confirmed: IS Terrorists get free drivers license and housing in Sweden
An original translation by Tania Groth with much thanks!
From this Swedish news service:
Those Muslims returning to Sweden after fighting for the terrorist organization, Islamic state, in the Middle East, are offered taxpayer financed drivers education, free housing and even debt sanitation.
Swedens Radio (SR) spoke to Christoffer Carlsson, report author at the National coordination against violent extremism, who comes up with examples of how the terrorists can be “reintegrated” into Swedish society with the help of state funding.
“It’s simply a social, economic and material question. It you have to reintegrate back into the job market, you may need to have a driving license, debt sanitation and housing. When people leave (IS?), they want to start something else, and if they don’t have the resources to do it, it will be difficult to make it a reality”, says Christoffer Carlsson.
Without that kind of help at the Swedish taxpayers’ expense, there is a risk that terrorists “won’t manage” to leave the Muslim extremist environment, stresses Carlsson.
Anna Sjöstrand, municipal coordinator against violent extremism in Lund also participates in SR’s reports. She points out that one cannot deny the terrorists tax benefits merely because they made a “wrong choice”.
“We cannot just say that because you made a wrong choice, you have no right to come back and live in our society, says Anna Sjöstrand to SR.”
Recruits of the ISIS, more educated than expected
An original translation by Ava Lon with much thanks!
From this Swiss website:
Study: This is the finding of the World Bank, that conducted a study from internal data of the terrorist group.
Foreign recruits Islamic State group have a higher educational level than expected, says a study from the World Bank, published Wednesday and made from internal data of the jihadist organization.
“We found that the Islamic State group is not collected his foreign recruits among the poor and less well formed, but rather the opposite,” says the World Bank in these works based on the leak of internal data of the ISIS on 3803 recruits.
This is information on the country of residence, nationality, educational level or previous experience in jihadism and knowledge of Sharia, said the authors of the study devoted more broadly to the economic situation MENA (Middle East and North Africa).
“One of the most important discoveries is that these people are far from being illiterate,” says the World Bank, which believes that these data provide “insights” on the profile of the ISIS fighters.
Most have a secondary education
Most recruits for the period from 2013 to 2014, “claimed to have a secondary education. An important part was educated up to university level”, say the researchers from the international institution, which determine the average age of foreign staff of the IS as being 27.4 years.
According to the data, 43.3% have completed secondary education, 25.4% went to college. Only 13.5% did not go beyond primary school and 1.3% expressed illiterate, the rest (16.3%) did not provide information on their training.
“The Islamic State group recruits coming from Africa, South and East Asia and the Middle East are significantly more educated than their fellow countrymen. The vast majority claimed to have had a job before joining the organization,” says the World Bank.
Various objectives
According to the study, the recruits visited Syria with “various” objectives. “Some wanted to provide assistance to the administration of the organization, others arrived with the desire to end their lives by joining their ranks, and others just wanted to fight,” the study points out.
“The proportion of those wishing to participate in administrative tasks but also that of candidates for suicide increases with the level of education,” says the study.
The study concludes that marginalization “appears to be a risk of radicalization,” pointing to “unemployment” as one of the causes of commitment from IS.
September 17th. A day of unusual and significant geopolitical events
Lets begin with the US bombing of Syrian targets “by accident” after signing a deal with Russia that presumably said they were not going to do exactly that.
How interesting that the Islamic State seemed prepared to grab all the territory the US made safe for them pretty much instantly after the bombing run.
US jets attack Syrian Army as ISIS captures strategic mountain in Deir Ezzor
DEIR EZZOR (8:25 P.M.) – Al-Masdar News was just told by a senior officer in Deir Ezzor that the U.S. Anti-ISIS Coalition attacked the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in the Thardeh Mountains.
The U.S.’ airstrikes on the Syrian Arab Army’s positions allowed the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) to capture the strategic Thardeh Mountains that were originally under government control.
According to local activists, the U.S. attacked the Syrian Arab Army’s positions with phosphorous bombs, killing several soldiers and paving the way for the Islamic State to capture the whole area.
Interesting choice of weapon. Almost as if the US wanted to provide tactical cover for an invading ground force.
Syria’s army general command said in a statement that the air strike was “conclusive evidence” of U.S. support for Islamic State, noting that the strike was “dangerous and blatant aggression”.
The Russians had an emergency meeting about this move. THere is a video of a Russian military senior officer making a statement I have sent out for translation but we are all volunteers here so no idea when it will come back, or if it will. If any people reading are fluent in Russian and English and would be willing to help with timed translations of videos, please leave a comment under this post and I’ll contact you.
Meanwhile, this appears to be an official statement by the Russian government, and one that conveys a great deal of gravitas. Here is the Wiki on the speaker, Vitaly Churkin.
US-Russia cease fire deal in question thanks to US actions in Syria:
The Obama admin issued a press conference about the high level meeting the Russians held in the wake of the surreal and serious actions the US took in Syria, the severity of which should probably be measured on the Richter scale.
In this presser, the US admits they did the bombing, but blames Russia for having a meeting about it, calling it a “stunt.”
How odd that in the US there was also THREE terrorist attacks on that same day.
Obama arranges a set of attacks that profoundly advantage the Islamic State and also upsets the Russians. I wonder what the advantage of that might be? If the Russians started to look like an enemy again, would it hurt Trump’s chances as he has been painted as an ally of Putin’s?
It is all but established fact that Obama acted in collusion with the Islamic State on that attack yesterday. And in the US, there has been no attacks since the Pulse gaybar attack that got any press at least. Suddenly in one day there is three. And the Jersey one on the morning of the 17th, would have killed a lot of Marines had they been at the designated part of the fun run. Its only because they had a 15 minute delay that saved any from being victims of the bombs in Jersey. The roughly 30 victims of the Chelsea NY attack and the Minneapolis mall, not as lucky.
But three attacks in the US on the same day that Obama used US military assets to advantage the Islamic State in Syria, that is quite the coincidence.
What do we all think the media will be talking about all day today?
Chechens in Podlasie [region of Poland] connected to the IS, pretended to be refugees
An original translation by Ava Lon with much thanks.
From this Polish news site.
13 September 2016 4:39 pm
Two of the four detained Chechens suspected of collaborating with the Islamic State, were beneficiaries of subsidiary protection – reported the site poranny.pl. In practice, this means that they enjoyed the same rights as refugees.
Others were previously granted the so called “tolerated stay”, which allowed them to legally reside on the territory of the Polish state.
Chechens were active during the period from May to October 2014. Poranny.pl writes, that Muslim immigrants gathered almost 9000 euro, which had to be sent to the terrorists of the Islamic State. Additionally they were accumulating paramilitary equipment as well as weapons and ammunition.
Their most spectacular action seems to have been the organizing of a surgery in Bialystok hospital. One of the terrorists had a bullet removed from his chest. Later, he was provided medical care and a stay in Poland, as well as help in returning to the Middle East.
Investigators reported that the group acted in Bialystok, Lomza, Warsaw [in Poland] and in Turkey. The men were staying legally in Poland, and one of them was later captured in Germany. Defendants are pleading not guilty.
First comes Tard Trek….
The French recruiter for the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) that authorities believe is behind a spate of attacks and plots on the country’s soil in recent months has sent a chilling call to his followers to behead a civilian and send it to the country’s Presidential residence.
He made the morbid demand about Élysée Palace in an audio message posted on his private Telegram channel to some 300 followers on Tuesday, according to a report in Dutch-language Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws.
Kassim, a 29-year-old jihadi living in either Iraq or Syria, said: “Everything that needs to be said has been said. You know what to do. Don’t wait any longer.”
Thank you M., Xanthippa, Richard and many many more for the amazing links today. We are working on some labour intense items so posting is light but readers please do check the comments under the daily links post.
Australian police link jihad attack directly with Islam and the Islamic State
1, Man in Australia being charged with Islamic State inspired attack
A 22-year-old man charged with a terrorist attack in south-west Sydney was inspired by the so-called Islamic State group, NSW Police allege.
He is accused of stabbing a 59-year-old man a number of times at a reserve on Olhlfsen Road at Minto on Saturday afternoon.
The victim suffered injuries to his body and hands, and remains in hospital in a serious condition.
(Oz-Rita explains that in Australia, a reserve means something like a federal or territorial park, and not a lawless place with cheap cigarettes that taste like cat poo. Also that this is the first attack clearly being identified as an Islamic State attack with no attempts at deflection. Rita also explains that this breaking attack is also connected to this Islamic State shout-out for more Individual Jihad, as called for in Islamic scriptures.
This graphic is from the Islamic State magazine to encourage Muslims to murder people in individual Jihad
Please see this Stephen Coughlin video for an explanation of individual jihad, which is the real Islamic doctrine which Western leaders attempt to dismiss as “lone Wolf attacks”.
Here is the press conference from the NSW police:
Thank you Oz-Rita for the detailed explanation. More will be added as I sift through the information provided.
UPDATE:
The Australian, which has a subscriber paywall, explains that this attack was directly linked to an Islamic State publication which encourages individual jihad.
The Australian explains that the following quoted text is from the IS online magazine but does not link to it. I suspect a link will show up in the comments shortly. If it does, one may wish to view it as a necessary function of self defense to know what the enemy is advocating and planning rather than pretend it is being posted to support the enemy’s mission. Not showing the public is more dangerous than showing it and always has been. Only a post modern and culturally Marxist vision would suggest the public should not be made aware of a direct threat to them.
“Light the ground beneath (Australians) aflame and scorch them with terror,”
‘’Kill them on the streets of Brunswick, Broadmeadows, Bankstown, and Bondi,’’ Kill them at the MCG, the SCG, the Opera House, and even in their backyards. Stab them, shoot them, poison them, and run them down with your vehicles. Kill them wherever you find them until the hollowness of their arrogance is filled with terror and they find themselves on their knees with their backs broken under the weight of regret for having waged a war against the believers, and by Allah’s will, and then through your sacrifices, this Ummah will be victorious.’’
There is a second article quoted with more graphics and incitements to wage jihad. Best if this is updated with the original links.
UPDATE 2:
This Australian link is not behind a paywall and names the attacker.
Link to Islamic State magazine