Category Archives: Islam in Africa

UN compound in Somali capital targeted in attack

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Before I post the link to this article, I just want to thank the jihadi community and their leftist apologists and comrades in arms for killing my site for a while. To be honest, I was exhausted as I tend to work really hard at this day and night and usually without enough rest or general contact with the non-tard world. So I had a great nights sleep and enjoyed some sunlight and warmth and now, well invigorated, I am ready to go again. Maybe in another few years these people can give me another night off.

Eeyore.

France24:

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Islamist militants attacked a United Nations compound in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Wednesday, blasting their way into the site before opening fire on security guards.

By News Wires (text)

Islamist militants carried out their first major assault for years on a U.N. compound in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, dealing a blow to fragile security gains that have allowed a slow return of foreign aid workers and diplomats.

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Mali manual suggests al-Qaida has feared weapon

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Yahoo News:

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In this March 29, 2013 photo provided by the French Army’s images division, ECPAD, a French soldier holds the launch tube of an SA-7 surface-to-air missile before its destruction in Timbuktu, northern Mali. The knowledge that the terrorists have the weapon has already changed the way the French are carrying out their five-month-old offensive in Mali. They are using more fighter jets rather than helicopters to fly above its range of 1.4 miles (2.3 kilometers) from the ground, even though that makes it harder to attack the jihadists. They are also making cargo planes land and take off more steeply to limit how long they are exposed, in line with similar practices in Iraq after an SA-14 hit the wing of a DHL cargo plane in 2003. (AP Photo/ECPAD, Olivier Debes)AP
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TIMBUKTU, Mali (AP) — The photocopies of the manual lay in heaps on the floor, in stacks that scaled one wall, like Xeroxed, stapled handouts for a class.

Except that the students in this case were al-Qaida fighters in Mali. And the manual was a detailed guide, with diagrams and photographs, on how to use a weapon that particularly concerns the United States: A surface-to-air missile capable of taking down a commercial airplane.

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Here is the published part of the manual 

Suspected Islamist militants attack Niger prison

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BBC:

Nigerien soldiers outside the prison in Niamey attacked by gunmen (1 June 2013) Nigerien security forces surrounded the prison in Niamey after the attack

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Gunmen have attacked the main prison in Niger’s capital, Niamey, killing at least two people, officials say.

They are thought to be members of the Islamist militant group, Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (Mujao).

Some of them are reported to have entered the prison, which has been surrounded by security forces.

The attack comes days after Mujao said it was behind suicide bombings at a military base and a French-operated uranium mine which killed 25 people.

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Nigeria: Hezbollah armoury discovered in Kano city

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BBC:

Soldiers stand around a cache of weapons display on 30 May 2013 in the Bompai area of the northern Nigerian city of Kano

The military said the weapons carefully stored in sawdust

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An armoury belonging to the Lebanese group Hezbollah has been discovered in northern Nigeria, the West African nation’s army and spy agency has said.

Three Lebanese nationals have been arrested, an army spokesman, Brig Gen Ilyasu Isa Abba, said.

The cache, including rifles, anti-tank weapons and an RPG, were found in a warehouse in the city of Kano, he said.

Nigeria’s State Security Service said they were intended for use against “Israeli and Western interests”.

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Kenya police kill ‘terror couple’ after five officers wounded

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A police official in Nairobi says police shot dead a couple suspected to be terrorists after they threw four grenades, wounding five officers.

Augustine Nthumbi, the officer in charge of the Githurai Kimbo area on the city’s outskirts, said Sunday investigators raided the flat where the couple were staying following a tip and ordered them out of their house.

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Egypt: Over 20,000 Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar” attack Christian church with birdshot and bricks

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More fruit of the glorious Obama-endorsed “Arab Spring.” And look at how the Associated Press covered this atrocity.

“Two Christian Churches in Egypt Attacked By Muslims This Week,” by Mary Abdelmassih for AINA, May 18:

(AINA) — The escalation of Muslim attacks on Christian churches in Egypt continues unabated. This week two attacks were carried out, one in Alexandria and one in Menbal in Upper Egypt — both allegedly prompted by harassment of Muslim women. Yesterday the church of St. Mary, in the Dakhela district, west of Alexandria, was attacked by Molotov cocktails and bricks, causing the gate to burn and the breaking of most of the stained glass window

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As many as 10 killed in car bomb explosion outside hospital in Benghazi, Libya

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Can’t you just smell all the peace? Yep. That’s why we import so much Islam. Al that peace. Can’t wait for more peace.

H/T M

FOX:

Published May 13, 2013

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    May 13, 2013: Nine people were killed and 17 injured when a car bomb exploded hear a hospital in Benghazi, Libya. (FoxNews.com)

TRIPOLI, Libya –  A car bomb exploded Monday near a hospital in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, killing at least 10 people, AP reported, in one of the biggest attacks since the end of the civil war that ousted former dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

The Tripoli-based Interior Minister Ashour Shwayel said in an interview with Libya’s al-Ahrar TV network that there were only two or three deaths from the deadly blast. Meanwhile, Benghazi police chief Tarek al-Kharaz said at least 13 people were killed and 41 wounded.

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3 Arrested in Plot to Bomb Egyptian Cities and Embassy

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What this article fails to acknowledge is that the Muslim Brotherhood IS Al-Qaeda. Knowing that makes this story a lot less confusing.
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New York Times:

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Published: May 11, 2013

CAIRO — Egyptian security forces have arrested three militants with ties to Al Qaeda who were planning terrorist attacks in Egyptian cities and against a foreign embassy, the interior minister said Saturday.

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A Western official said the Egyptians had privately identified the embassy as the United States Embassy in Cairo.

Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim said at a news conference that the suspects had been arrested with 22 pounds of explosive materials and instructions on how to make bombs and build rockets and model airplanes to use in the attacks.

He said the suspects were “on the verge” of attacking an embassy when they were arrested.

He did not identify the embassy, but Egyptian officials have told their American counterparts that the United States Embassy was a target, a Western diplomat said.

The State Department would not comment on the Egyptian allegations. “We don’t discuss the specifics of our operations nor the exchanges we have with foreign officials,” said Jennifer R. Psaki, a department spokeswoman.

Mr. Ibrahim denied that Al Qaeda was active in Egypt, but said the three men had communicated online with a Qaeda figure in Pakistan and that one of them had traveled to Iran and Pakistan to receive military training.

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Egypt ‘al-Qaeda linked plot on Western embassy’ foiled

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tory_continues_1″>Egyptian police have arrested three al-Qaeda militants planning a suicide attack on a Western embassy, the country’s interior minister says.

Mohammed Ibrahim did not specify which embassy had been targeted, but said a quantity of chemicals had been found.

Mr Ibrahim gave the names of three men and said they were planning attacks in both Cairo and Alexandria.

The plot was said to be in its final stages, he said.

A lawyer for the three men told al-Ahram website they denied all the accusations and he condemned the case as “fabricated”.

At a news conference, the minister gave details of the discovery of 10kg (22lbs) of ammonium nitrate – which can be used in improvised explosives – a computer with files containing information on bomb-making and a flash memory with instructions on how to build rockets.

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Libya Gunmen Withdwaw Armoured Vehicles

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FOX News:

US military units put on alert as security situation deteriorates in Libyan capital

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Published May 10, 2013

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    April 23, 2013: Security officers and officials inspect the site of a car bomb that targeted the French embassy wounding two French guards and causing extensive material damage in Tripoli, Libya. (AP)

The U.S. military has alerted two elite military units in Europe to be on standby if needed to respond to a deteriorating security situation in Tripoli, Fox News has learned.

In recent days both the U.S. embassy and British embassy in Libya have removed non-essential staff from their embassies.

A specialized Marine unit based in Moron, Spain, is in the process of being repositioned closer to Libya; and in Stuttgart, Germany, a special operations force assigned to AFRICOM has been placed on heightened alert.

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In Sfax Tunisia, children’s play structures are turned into jihadi training camps

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Sfax Tunisia:

members of Ansar Al Sharia has created a public gardens in Sfax to turn it into a training camp for jihad for children.

Article at Tuniscope in French

Translation by Bear:

Sfax: A public park transformed into a training camp for jihad for children.

Published on the 7th May 2013 N. J.

With a play area, usually a public park is a framework in which we can profit from fun moments of relaxation. At Sfax, the public parks can be used for other types of activities. A public park, has in fact been transformed into a training camp for jihad…

In a video [below] circulating on the web, the members of ‘Ansar Al Sharia’ have redesigned a public park in Sfax in order to transform it into a training camp for jihad for children.

Each approximately 10 year old, the children in training clothes and wearing kimonos, follow courses of initiation in marshall arts and yelling ‘allah hu ackbar’ and [yelling] ‘attack’ in full view of everyone.

Who says that a public park can only be used for friendly picnics?

Below, a video of jihadis in Sfax uploaded in Feb. this year. Notice ‘Stabbie the jihadi’ circled in red.