Monday, November 10, 2014
Young woman killed in West Bank stabbing attack
A young woman was killed and two people were injured in a stabbing attack at the West Bank settlement of Alon Shvut Monday afternoon, in the second terrorist attack of its kind in a day.Man stabbed in Tel Aviv in possible terror attack
Police said the attack occurred at a bus stop at the entrance to the settlement, in the Etzion bloc south of Jerusalem.
The victim was stabbed in her neck, and declared dead at the site. Media gave conflicting reports about her age, ranging from 14 to 25 years old.
A 26-year-old man suffered light-moderate injuries, and a man in his 50s was lightly hurt.
An IDF soldier, about 20 years of age, was critically wounded after being stabbed multiple times in a terror attack at Tel Aviv’s Hahagana train station on Monday afternoon.Israeli group sues Abbas at ICC for Fatah rocket fire
Police confirmed the attack was a politically motivated terrorist attack.
A 50-year-old man who confronted the terrorist was lightly injured in the scuffle, and received medical treatment at the scene, Channel 2 reported.
The attacker was in police custody, Israel Radio reported. Initial reports identified the suspect as an 18-year-old Palestinian man from Nablus who had illegally entered Israeli territory. Channel 2 named the stabber as Nur al-Din Abu Hashiyeh.
Police were interrogating the man and had forwarded his identity to the Shin Bet security agency.
An Israeli legal group filed suit against Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the International Criminal Court on Monday, arguing that the Fatah head was responsible for rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip on Israeli cities during the summer conflict which were claimed by members of his faction.
While neither Israel nor the PA are members of the international body and therefore do not fall under its jurisdiction, the Shurat HaDin – Israel Law Center maintained that “Abbas is a Jordanian citizen and Jordan is a current member of the ICC. The ICC is empowered to exercise its jurisdiction over all acts committed by the citizen of a member, wherever those acts are committed.”
The lawsuit maintains that Abbas should be tried for the various rocket attacks on Israel claimed by Fatah during the 50-day conflict in Gaza — on July 10, 25 and 27, and August 8 — as “he is their responsible superior exercising effective command and control of them.” Rocket fire on civilians is a war crime under international law, it notes.
“Abbas should be immediately investigated and prosecuted for these rocket attacks against Israel,” Shurat HaDin chairwoman Nitsana Darshan-Leitner said in a statement.
“Shurat HaDin will not allow Fatah to carry out rocket attacks on Israeli population centers, while hypocritically advocating Palestinian membership in the ICC. Abbas falsely believes that alleged crimes against Arabs are the only ones that should be prosecuted,” she wrote.
Netanyahu says Arab rioters are welcome to go to PA or Gaza
Netanyahu’s remarks came as unrest continued in Jerusalem and northern Israel for a third straight day, following the police’s shooting of a knife-wielding Kafr Kanna man caught on tape early Saturday.Khamenei: Eliminate Israel by Referendum of 'Palestinians'
“To all those who are shouting against Israel and demonstrating against it — you are welcome to move to the Palestinian Authority or to Gaza, Israel won’t stand in the way,” Netanyahu said at the beginning of the weekly Likud faction meeting.
“But whoever stays here must know — we will stand in the way of terrorists and attackers. I have given instructions to use all of the means at our disposal, including passing new laws, including destroying terrorists’ homes, and other measures.”
Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei at @kahamenei_ir tweeted a “9 Questions About Elimination of Israel” infographic Sunday, explaining “Why should and how can #Israel be eliminated?”PM Netanyahu's Statement in Response to the Iranian Leader's Plan to Eliminate Israel
The graphic explains Iran’s conflict with Israel isn’t over the "West Bank" (Judea and Samaria). According to Khamenei, “During 66 years of life so far, the fake Zionist regime” has committed “infanticide, homicide, violence & iron fist while boasts about it blatantly.” And, he adds, “The only means of confronting a regime which commits crimes beyond one’s thought and imagination is resolute and armed conflict.”
And yet, Khamenei says that “of course, the elimination of Israel does not mean the massacre of Jewish people in the region.”
Ultimately, he says, Israel's fate should be decided by a referendum among the Palestinians, including descendants of refugees. “Naturally,” Jews who emigrated into “Palestine” will not be allowed to participate. The referendum will decide if the “non-Palestinian emigrants” may remain or if they must return to their “home countries.”
Liberman calls for stripping some Arab Israelis’ citizenship
Amid violent protests following a police killing of an Arab man in northern Israel, Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said Monday that Arab residents of northern Israel should not remain citizens of Israel if an agreement is reached on a Palestinian state.Liberman: 'Attack With A Knife at Your Own Peril'
“The people in the Triangle must understand that if there is an agreement, they will not be citizens of the State of Israel,” he said, referring to the cluster of Arab towns in northern Israel abutting the Green Line. “You can’t benefit from the National Insurance Institute, convalescence and unemployment pay while raving and inciting against the state. I think that today this is clear — they must be on the other side of the border.”
Liberman clarified that he did not mean that residents should be forcibly “transferred,” but that a future Palestinian state should include the approximately 300,000 Israeli Arabs living in the Triangle.
“They will stay in their homes, on their land, [but] we will move the border, and the Palestinian Authority will take control of the Triangle.”
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) on Monday responded to the rioting and calls for investigation over the shooting of an Arab terrorist in Kafr Kanna in the Galilee, who attacked officers with a knife on Saturday night.Arabic Billboard in Nazareth Calls for Running Over Israelis (VIDEO)
"Someone who goes crazy with a knife on a police car is being portrayed almost like an innocent child, a saint that was killed," Liberman said.
The foreign minister continued "we saw the pictures, and we saw incidents in the past in which officers did not act firmly and paid with their lives. Whoever attacks with a knife has to understand he is endangering his life - that must be the message."
In the incident, the terrorist Hir Hamdan was captured on video attacking a police car repeatedly with a knife, and stabbing at an officer who tried to exit the vehicle. When the officer finally managed to make his way out, he shot the knife-wielding terrorist dead.
A large billboard in Israel’s largest Arab city, Nazareth, is using a play on words in Arabic between ISIS – “Daesh,” and running down with a vehicle – “daes,” to promote vehicular terror attacks against Israelis, Israel’s Walla News reported Sunday.Jewish victim of mob attack in Taibe: An Arab man saved my life
The billboard – not some private poster hanging on a porch, but rather a professional billboard erected, amazingly enough, close to the city’s police station – can be understood as saying “ISIS/Overrunning Nazareth.”
Spokesmen for the Israel Police Northern District said “the issue was as yet unknown and would be investigated,” and Nazareth municipality officials have not yet offered a response to the unprecedented incitement to murder.
The billboard comes in the wake of several such lethal attacks in the last weeks, which have killed an infant, a young woman, a young man, border policemen, and wounded scores of others.
The Israeli driver whose vehicle was attacked by masked assailants at the entrance to Taibe on Route 444 on Sunday night recounted the incident which came among heightened tensions between Arabs and Jews after police shot and killed a Kafr Kana man over the weekend.Firebomb on Car in Samaria, No One Hurt
"I came back from work in Netanya. When I came to the stoplight, they stopped me and tried to talk to me, but I didn't understand a word because I don't speak Arabic. So, they started throwing stones on my car and then set it on fire. A few Arabs helped me get out of the car, from the passenger side," the driver said in an interview with Army Radio on Monday.
The Netanya resident described how he was rescued from the situation. "I was afraid I was going to die and the car was about to go up in flames any second. Suddenly, someone pulled me out of the car and put me into his car that had his children in it. He saved my life."
The driver, who identified himself as 'Moshe,' said that he intends to continue to travel to work normally everyday despite the incident. "I'm not sure I'll continue to visit Arab towns. What happened to me was really on the level of a miracle. I got out with just a few scratches. I didn't even have to go to the hospital. An ambulance came, but I only had to wash my face. I just wanted to give many thanks to the people who helped me."
Arabs rioted and attacked Jews Sunday as the security situation in Israel, which has been deteriorating for years, reached new lows.Jerusalem Light Rail Attacked in Beit Hanina
A firebomb and rocks were thrown in the evening at a car that was driven by Ruth Shapira, a mother of five, between Maaleh Shomron and El-Matan in Samaria. The firebomb smashed to bits on the car's hood but no one was hurt.
Shapira told Channel 2 news that it was “a miracle” she was not hurt but lamented: “It is clear to me that the people who tried to murder me tonight will not pay the price.”
A rock was thrown at the Light Rail in Jerusalem's Shuafat neighborhood. Light damage was caused to the passenger car. No one was hurt. A 16-year-old Arab was arrested after a short chase.
At Kafr Kana, riots continued throughout the day and about 30 people were arrested. In Taibeh, too, there was rioting, and the main road there, Highway 444, was blocked. Two youths were arrested.
The Jerusalem Light Rail was again targeted by Arab terrorists tonight (Sunday, Nov. 9), this time in the northern neighborhood of Beit Hanina, next to the usually-rioting northern Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat.Together We Will Guard the Jerusalem Light Rail [photos]
Arabs in Beit Hanina were hurling rocks at the Light Rail as it passed through the neighborhood, despite the fact that the train serves commuters and students there as well.
During the past several months of intense Arab violence aimed at the Light Rail in Shuafat, residents in nearby Beit Hanina have mostly refrained from adding more fuel to the fire. However, as the situation escalates, it appears that Arabs in Beit Hanina may be losing their ability to remain neutral in what has become a Jerusalem intifada.
Tonight, one of the targeted passenger cars was damaged and people on the train were traumatized but no physical injuries were reported. Each time a car is damaged, the train’s CityPass company owner is forced to reduce service in order to carry out repairs, which cost a minimum of four to five thousand shekels to start. Hundreds of thousands of shekels have been wasted since the beginning of the summer due to damage from Arab terror attacks aimed at the Light Rail.
With the Arabs rioting, breaking windows on the Jerusalem Light Rail, throwing firebombs, and running people over on the train platforms, riding the train can be a bit of a scary and even depressing experience for Jerusalem’s citizens.
A group of Bnei Akiva youth group girls decided they needed to change that.
Every night, from 6 PM to 8 PM, this spirited group of girls from Bnei Akiva’s “Chevraya Bet” are riding the train from beginning to end, and during that time will be raising up the spirits of their fellow passengers.
Their slogan is “Together we will will guard Jerusalem.”
They’re also taking pictures with passengers holding up the sign with them and posting the photos to Facebook.
Roadside Explosive Found North of Jerusalem
In a sign of the continually flagging security situation, an explosive was found on the side of the road Tzir Hazevel just north of Jerusalem in Samaria, which leads between Psagot and Beit El.Israel reportedly set to take 3,000 acres of Palestinian village land near Jerusalem
The bomb was located by IDF forces who were conducting a brigade drill in the area.
The road was closed to traffic for roughly half-an-hour as bomb crews worked to neutralize the explosive.
Security forces are currently sweeping the area and searching along the border of Psagot.
IDF soldiers gave out orders Saturday informing Palestinians of Israel’s plans to confiscate 3,176 acres (12,852 dunams) around the West Bank village of Beit Iksa for military purposes, Palestinian media reported.Bill aims to ban MKs who support terror against Israel
Beit Iksa residents said to Ma’an news agency that soldiers at a checkpoint distributed the orders, signed by head of the IDF Central Command Gen. Nitzan Alon.
The orders gave the residents until the end of 2017 to leave the land in question. They also said that soldiers informed the Beit Iksa residents that an IDF liaison would come on Monday to explain which parcels of land would be confiscated.
Beit Iksa village council head Saada al-Khatib told Ma’an that Israeli officials said that a confiscation order was originally given in 2012, and the current orders reiterate the previous one.
The Ministerial Committee for Legislation will consider on Sunday a bill that would strip an MK’s parliamentary seat if the lawmaker expressed support for an armed campaign of an enemy state or terror group against Israel during a war or military action.IDF Apprehends Two Weapons-Smuggling Boats on Gaza Coast
Under the proposed amendment to the Basic Law: The Knesset, terminating the MK’s tenure will require the recommendation of the Knesset House Committee and a majority vote of Knesset members, Israel Radio reported.
The bill, which is sponsored by MK David Rotem of the Yisrael Beytenu party, has 28 sponsors from a wide spectrum of parties, including Yisrael Beytenu, Likud, Jewish Home, Shas, United Torah Judaism, Hatnua and Labor.
MK Faina Kirschenbaum (Yisrael Beytenu) explained that while the law is intended to apply generally, it is also directed at MK Hanin Zoabi (Balad) who has repeatedly raised hackles with provocative statements supporting Palestinian armed campaigns against Israel.
Gaza's "marine intifada" has escalated further, AFP reports Monday, after the Israeli navy apprehended six fishermen who were smuggling weapons into Gaza from Egypt.Israel gives Palestinians Ebola screening equipment
The Israeli navy fired on two boats off the coast, officials from the Hamas-run security services told the news agency, leaving two fishermen wounded and four missing. It was not immediately clear whether the four had been arrested, the officials added.
The Israeli military confirmed that naval fire had destroyed one boat it said had been involved in smuggling, but had no information about the four fishermen reported missing.
The two wounded fishermen were pulled out of the water off the southern port of Rafah after the Israeli fire destroyed both boats, a Hamas security official said.
Israel transferred Ebola screening tools on Sunday to Palestinian Authority in the hopes it will help PA officials in diagnosing the virus among those entering the West Bank from Jordan and the Gaza Strip through the Rafah Crossing. The transfer was made following a Palestinian request.Abbas: Arafat’s remains to be moved to Jerusalem
The aim behind the move, among other reasons, is to prevent the possible spread of the deadly virus not only in the Gaza Strip, but into Israel's territories as well. As part of the agreement, the Allenby border crossing with Jordan will also be supplied with the detection devices.
The medical equipment was transferred to the Health Ministry offices in the Gaza Strip, from where it was taken to the Rafah Crossing. Hamas is the sole party responsible for the transport of the equipment once it reaches Gaza.
The equipment includes a special thermometer that can measure a person's temperature with no bodily contact, which was transferred to Hamas security forces, who have exclusive control over the Rafah area. Also transferred were dozens of laboratory kits for diagnosing the virus through the use of a blood test, as well as protective suits.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Monday that former PLO leader Yasser Arafat’s remains would soon be transferred from Ramallah to Jerusalem, the Palestinian Ma’an News Agency reported.Hamas said to nab suspect in Fatah bombings
The PA leader did not specify the exact location of Arafat’s reburial, or when it would take place.
The announcement, which came a day before the tenth anniversary of the death of the late head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, was made in honor of the inauguration of the Arafat museum in Ramallah. The ex-Fatah leader is presently buried in the Muqata’a, the PA headquarters in Ramallah.
In his address Monday, Abbas said Arafat ought to “remain immortal in the hearts of our people,” according to the report.
At least 10 explosions hit houses and cars belonging to senior Fatah members but no casualties were reported.PA intercepted Israeli drone transmissions during Second Intifada
Following the string of attacks, a commemoration rally in Gaza for the late PLO and Fatah party leader Yasser Arafat was canceled. The event scheduled for Tuesday was nixed Sunday, two days after the homes and cars of Fatah leaders, as well as the stage where the ceremony was to take place, were blown up.
Hamas has denied responsibility for the attacks, but Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement said it held the Islamist group accountable.
“The Fatah central committee condemns the crimes which took place this morning against its leaders and lays the responsiblity for these crimes upon Hamas,” senior Fatah official Nasser al-Qidwa told a news conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Friday.
The Palestinian Authority managed to intercept Israeli drone transmissions a decade ago that helped Palestinian groups thwart several Israeli assassination attempts against Hamas leaders, a former head of the Palestinian Preventive Security Force in Gaza revealed in an investigative TV report to be aired on Israeli television.Egypt crackdown angers people in Sinai border town
The segment, set to air Monday evening, focuses on the search for shadowy Hamas commander Muhammad Deif.
Speaking to The Times of Israel in the Jordanian capital of Amman along with Ilana Dayan of Israel’s “Uvda” TV program, Samir Masharawi of the Preventive Security Force said he observed one of the Israeli assassination attempts against Deif in September 2002 from a special control room he established in Gaza that was able to receive the transmissions of the Israeli drone used in the attack.
Rafah was split into two halves — one Palestinian and one Egyptian — after Egypt signed its peace agreement with Israel in 1978. While Egypt has sealed off its side of the city and barred journalists from entering, scenes of the operation are visible from the Gaza side of the border.Reactions on Egyptian TV to Sinai Terror Attacks: We Want to See Blood, Executions, Corpses!
The Egyptian side of the city is under curfew from dawn to dusk, and electricity and water are cut off during the day as homes are being demolished, residents reached by phone told The Associated Press.
Egyptian troops order people to leave with just a day’s notice, they said.
“The situation is hellish. We don’t know where we will go. We have put our belongings at a friend’s place until we know where we are going,” said one resident, who gave only his first name, Abu Mohammed, for fear he would be punished by the security forces or risk losing compensation.
“You can’t protest. They are strong and well armed,” he said of the troops, who, according to residents, are accompanied by dogs and occasionally fire into the air.
JPost Editorial: Don’t forget Hezbollah
Hezbollah’s Iranian missiles are substantially more deadly than Gaza’s rockets, and Hezbollah’s caches and launching pads are closer to our population centers, meaning shorter warning time.Iron Dome in Gaza Just a ‘Warm-Up’ Against Massive Hezbollah Threat: Experts
The bottom line is that while world opinion is mesmerized by the ghoulish high jinks of Islamic fanatics, it loses sight of Iran’s far reach, which in every respect surpasses the Islamic State’s potential for evil.
The sporadic bombings in Syria and Iraq, as well as America’s willingness to bend over backwards to engage Iran’s deception at the negotiating table, all point to the fact that the international community – perhaps a bit too expediently – has allowed itself to overlook fundamental perspectives. With Iran’s proxy Hezbollah at its doorstep, this is a luxury Israel cannot afford.
Israeli officials say Operation Protective Edge and other IDF measures using the Iron Dome defensive anti-missile system are only practice for the next conflict with Hezbollah in Lebanon, according to Defense News.Is Hezbollah smuggling weapons to Brazil?
The GPS and radar-linked Tamir interceptors, developed with American funding by arms manufacturer Rafael, hit some 90 percent of the Kassam, Grad, M-75 and similar rockets fired into populated areas by Palestinian terrorist groups in the coastal enclave during the 50-day conflict. That’s up from about an 84 percent success ratio in the previous round of fighting, according to the report.
“The Iron Dome system has inherent capabilities that were not fully tested either in Pillar of Defense or in Protective Edge where, with all due respect, we were dealing with Hamas,” according to Yosi Druker, Rafael’s general manager of the Air Superiority Systems Division.
Hezbollah is being investigated in Brazil for the illegal trade of firearms, Brazil's influential O Globo newspaper reported on Sunday.5 Nuclear Engineers Killed in Syria
According to the report in the Rio de Janeiro-based paper, Federal investigators in Brazil have been probing possible ties between Lebanon and criminal gangs in Brazil for the past eight years.
Hezbollah-linked groups allegedly began smuggling arms into Brazil back in 2006, according to federal documents obtained by O Globo, which suggest that Lebanon's lucrative drug trade played a key role in funding the illegal trade.
The intelligence community said they had a mountain of evidence to support these claims.
The Brazil-bound weapons ultimately reached jails, from which the criminal gangs operated, in exchange for "protection of any foreigners [already] detained in prisons," as well as a slice of the profit. Beyond smuggling arms, Hezbollah reportedly helped negotiate deals to attain explosive devices for terror schemes.
Unknown assailants killed five nuclear engineers on Sunday while they were on a bus just north of Damascus near the research center where they worked, AFP reported on Sunday.Report: Iran Building Hezbollah-Like Army in Syria to Help Assad
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of sources on the ground for its reports, later told AFP four of the engineers were Syrian, while one was Iranian.
"Unidentified attackers murdered five nuclear energy engineers who worked in the scientific research centre near the neighborhood of Barzeh, northern Damascus," said Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman, according to the report.
He later said, "Four of the engineers were Syrian, and one was Iranian. Their bus was ambushed while they were on their way to the research centre. Their assailants shot them dead."
In July last year, six people who worked at the same center were killed in a mortar attack carried out by rebels seeking President Bashar Al-Assad's ouster, noted AFP.
Iran is working to unite Shiite foreign militias fighting in Syria under one organization that could serve as a “parallel army” to that of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, pro-opposition news website Siraj Press reported on Wednesday.Syrian FM Says Russia to Deliver Advanced S300 Missiles
The new organization, described as similar to the highly organized and well-armed Lebanese Hezbollah group, would bring together Afghan and Iraqi mercenaries under one military command.
“This army would resemble Hezbollah in Lebanon… and will gradually work on recruiting Syrians,” Siraj Press quoted a source as saying.
Syria has asked Russia to bolster its supply of missiles. Speaking Wednesday, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem said that his country asked Russia to provide S300 missiles along with other high-quality systems.'Never Again': Jewish Leaders Cry Out for Endangered Yezidis
The weapons are needed, he said, to enable Syria to fight the rebel groups seeking to unseat President Bashar al-Assad, as well as the radical Islamist group ISIS, which has already taken over large parts of Syria.
Some reports suggest that this not the first time Russia has provided Syria with the advanced S300 missiles. The last transfer was in September 2013, according to Kuwaiti newspaper Al Rai, which said that the transfers took place despite statements by Russian officials, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, that Russia would not provide Syria with the advanced anti-aircraft system.
According to defense officials, the Russian-made S-300s can engage 12 targets simultaneously at distances of 200 kilometers and heights of up to 27 kilometers.
"Never Again" applies not only to Jews, Jewish leaders are beginning to declare, but also to the ISIS-besieged Yezidis in Iraq and northern Syria.PHOTOS: Kobani's Horror-Stricken Refugees
Rabbi Eliezer Melamed of Har Brachah and Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, are two public Jewish leaders who have come out in favor of "crying out" for the plight of the Yezidis.
Though 51 women and children were freed from ISIS captivity last week, the plight of many thousands of other Yezidis continues to be grim. They are essentially trapped atop a large mountain top, surrounded by ISIS fighters who have made it their goal to kill their males and enslave their women. Even the American bombing raids on ISIS in the region have tapered off of late, causing Yezidis and their supporters further hopelessness.
Mr. Hoenlein has raised the issue in various forums, including a radio program that he co-hosts with John Batchelor and in a guest appearance on Nachum Segal's JM in the AM radio program in New York. He told Segal that after he and others met with Yezidi leaders, "[we] walked out so shocked, so disturbed… We drew analogies [to the Holocaust] when these leaders plead with the U.S. to bomb the roads [used by ISIS]…'
The Tower Magazine’s photographer takes you to the Turkish-Syrian border, where more than 150,000 civilians fleeing ISIS have gathered to await the fate of what may be a final stand.Britain has sold its soul with the Qatari deal
For weeks, the eyes of the world have turned to the small Syrian border town of Kobani, where Kurdish fighters are making a desperate stand against the barbaric terrorist army of the Islamic State, known to the world as ISIS. Despite the well-known savagery of ISIS, its repeated attempts at breaking through the town’s defenses, and limited aid from Western powers, Kobani has not fallen. Fearing mass slaughter if they are defeated, Kurdish forces have kept up a relentless defense, and just last week Kurdish reinforcements were finally allowed across the nearby Turkish border to join the battle. Many believe that the tide is turning, and ISIS is slowly being pushed back from the beleaguered town.
But this has come at a terrible price. Casualties have been enormous, with Kurdish fighters and civilians killed in battle, slaughtered en masse by their murderous enemy, beheaded by barbaric captors, or forced into exile in order to escape the fighting.
Cars bearing the logos of Islamic State (Isil) drive around the streets. Within sight of the city centre lies the only official overseas mission of the Taliban. Jihadis sowing instability in perhaps 15 countries, from Algeria to Pakistan, direct their operations from pleasant villas in the suburbs – or, in the case of the terror group Hamas, from suites in the best hotels, where they can sometimes be seen relaxing by the pool.UK Jihadi Convicted of Gay Hate Crimes Blows Himself Up in Iraq
The mosques host some of the world’s most influential extremist ideologues, their words pinged round the globe via their personal television channels. Hundreds of millions of pounds flow to organisations defined by Britain as terrorist, much of it from the government itself.
An official of that government, Salim Hasan Khalifa Rashid al-Kuwari, channelled many such dollars to al-Qaeda while working for the interior ministry, according to the US Treasury department. The foreign minister’s cousin was detained in Lebanon, also for financing al-Qaeda; he was then convicted in his absence, after his government reportedly applied intense pressure on Lebanon to free him before trial.
This is Qatar, the country with which David Cameron has just signed a defence and security agreement. Did the deal, perhaps, include a promise by the Qataris to stop this sort of behaviour? Did it commit Qatar to end its support for the Islamist militias who have helped reduce Libya to anarchy, or to kick out the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood? It did not.
Kabir Ahmed, 30, a British jihadist who was convicted of anti-gay hate crimes in the United Kingdom, has blown himself up in an Islamic State (ISIS) suicide mission in Iraq, according to social media reports.Jihadists Using Cruise Ships to Reach Syria, Warns Interpol
Ahmed, a married father-of-one, who was known as Abu Sumayah al-Britani among his jihadist comrades, is believed to have murdered a Shia leader in the bomb blast that went off in the northern Iraqi city of Baiji, Saturday.
He came to the British public's attention as an ISIS terrorist after an interview with BBC, where he claimed "everyone's got their name on the (suicide bombing mission) list and everyone is asking the Emir (leader) to push their name up. Everyone wants to fight for the sake of Allah."
Ahmed also suggested that up to 500 British nationals were fighting for ISIS in Syria and Iraq, and claimed that if "the British commit terror against our people, are unjust towards our people, kill, murder and rape our people, then you can expect attacks on your soil."
Before radicalizing and joining ISIS, Ahmed worked with elderly people for the Asian Advisory Service in Normanton, Derby.
It was in Derby that he was convicted of anti-gay hate crimes in February 2012, becoming one of the first UK citizens to receive a 15-month prison sentence for distributing homophobic material.
Interpol's director of counterterrorism, Pierre St. Hilaire, told The Associated Press (AP) that this had led prospective fighters to make alternative travel arrangements in an effort to avoid detection.How Isil jihadists beat and brainwashed boy hostages
"Because they know the airports are monitored more closely now, there's a use of cruise ships to travel to those areas," he said.
Regular stops at ports in the region would allow prospective fighters to disembark undetected and make their onward journey to Syria or Iraq untracked by security agencies.
"There is evidence that the individuals, especially in Europe, are travelling mostly to [the Turkish coastal town of] Izmit and other places to engage in this type of activity," St. Hilaire told AP.
By the time the boys were returned to their parents, their jihadist kidnappers had already achieved their goal: loyalty to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.Shocking: ISIS Official 'Slave' Price List Shows Yazidi, Christian Girls Aged '1 to 9' Being Sold for $172
Sitting in the living room of the family home two days after his release, one fifteen-year-old looked sheepishly towards his aunt, and then mustered the courage to express his feelings about his ordeal.
"I must speak the truth. The Islamic State are right, and all the things they taught me are true," he said. "I am convinced they are right."
The boy, who gave himself the pseudonym Jan, was one of 148 Kurdish schoolboys who were held for five months by Isil extremists in Syria and subjected to a rigorous indoctrination programme designed to brainwash them.
In a rather shocking revelation, it has been found that Islamic State militants have been selling Yazidi and Christian girls as young as one to nine years of age for a price of $172 in Iraq.
Activists working 'secretly' out of Iraq have leaked a 'price list' of the ISIS slave markets, from where men can buy Yazidi and Christian women as 'sex slaves.'
According to a report published by Iraqi News, ISIS has imposed these 'price controls' over the sale of women and spoils of war, including cattle as the market lately has experienced a down-turn.
It also stated that those disobeying the diktat 'would be executed.'
