ISIS targets Indians in Libya – four teachers returning to India kidnapped

ISIS have now targeted Indians - four Indian teachers who were returning to India from Tripoli and Tunis have been abducted in Libya. This has allegedly been done by the Islamic State (IS) terror group as reported in telegraphindia.com dated 31 July 2015.
Two of the Indians are from Hyderabad, one is from Raichur and one from Bengaluru. Three of them were faculty members at the University of Sirte and one was working at the Sirte University's branch in Jufra.

This has been informed by the Ministry of External Affairs MEA.
As per information, all of them were “detained” at a checkpoint about 50-Km from Sirte, an area that is under the control of the terror outfit.
It seems on 29 July the Indian mission in Tripoli learnt about the fact that four Indian nationals who were returning to India via Tripoli and Tunis, had been detained at a checkpoint approximately 50-Km from Sirte. Further details are awaited from the Head of Mission in Tripoli.
In this connection it may be noted that this incident came even when 39 Indians continue to be missing in Iraq. They had been taken hostage last year at the height of the fighting between Sunni militants and government forces and efforts by the Indians to get them released have yet to yield any result.
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#cecilthelion #walterpalmer #trophyhunters It is difficult to understand why there is such an outcry over the killing of a lion in Africa by an American dentist when American tourists are known to have killed more than 380 lions in Africa every year, as revealed by two conservation charities.
As per estimates of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), tourists in search of a trophy kill 600 of the big beasts annually. And, when this is added to a report by the International Fund for Animal Welfare it is found that that more than 380 lions are killed every year by American nationals. The figures are based on data of International Fund for Animal Welfare which found that between 1999 and 2008 Americans brought home lion trophies amounting to 64 per cent of kills they had made.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 30 July 2015.

There are nearly 30,000 lions left in Africa and around two per cent of their entire population is being killed legally by hunters every year. But, the slaughter of Zimbabwe's popular lion Cecil by Minnesota dentist Dr Walter Palmer has caused outrage all over the world.
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Gun battle in Multan – Pakistan police eliminate Sunni militant leader and 13 others

It turned out into a gun battle when police officers tried to transfer Ishaq from a prison in the city of Multan when gunmen ambushed the police convoy transporting him in an attempt to free the militant.
In the ensuing gun battle, Ishaq was killed along with at least 13 of his associates. They included two of his sons and his deputy. Shuja Khanzada, the provincial home minister in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province, where the alleged ambush took place, has clarified that six police officers suffered injuries in the shooting.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 29 July 2015.

Pakistani police gunned down Malik Ishaq, one of the most-feared Sunni militant leaders and 13 of his followers. It was a pre-dawn shootout to eliminate the man who is believed to be behind the slaughter of hundreds of the nation's minority Shiites.
He directed the operations of the Taliban- and Al Qaeda-linked Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group and was a man held in awe. It seems the judges were so frightened of him that they hid their faces from him and went to the extent of offering him tea and cookies in court.
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Human sacrifice in Nepal of a 10-year-old boy

A case of human sacrifice has surfaced in Nepal – this is because a 10-year-old boy has been found with his throat slit in Nepal and it is suspected to be a case of human sacrifice.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 27 July 2015.
The police have arrested eleven people in this regard following the discovery of the decomposed body of the child from a bush in the Kudiya village in Nawalparasi district. This borders with India. The boy had been reported missing for three days.

It seems the father of a sick man had admitted to the killing – he had done it "to chase away the evil spirits" from his ailing son and he did it after seeking advice from a village shaman.
As per his confession, he lured the boy with the help of neighbors to a secluded spot by offering him a pack of biscuits and the equivalent of 30p. Then he carried out the religious rites, killed the boy and dumped the body in a bush.
The man, his brother and the shaman are among those arrested.
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‘Jihadi John’ is afraid of his life and fears that he could die at the hands of ISIS. He is wanted for the beheading murders of Americans and others seen on video and, it seems he has left the terrorist group ISIS.
He is also afraid of being in the eyes of the U.S.-led coalition forces apart from jealous jihadists within the Islamic State who feel he has robbed them of the limelight. Experts feel ISIS would drop him once they feel he has outlived his purpose. He also knows he will end up suffering the same fate as his victims.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 26 July 2015.

Jihadi John has already been identified as 26-year-old Mohammed Emwazi. He was born in Kuwait and raised in Britain and is the infamous covered face seen in numerous ISIS videos that showed the beheadings of British and American hostages.
His first ISIS video appearance was in August 2014 and is usually dressed with a black wrap covering his entire face, with only his eyes peeking through. But, once his true identity was revealed, he decided to flee.
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Saudi-led airstrike in residential area of Yemen have killed at least 120

A Saudi-led coalition airstrike in a residential area in a quiet Red Sea town in Yemen, has left at least 120 dead – it is believed to be the deadliest strike against civilians since the beginning of offensive in March. The airstrikes hit workers' housing for a power plant in Mokha and flattened some of the buildings to the ground. There was also a fire in the area and many of the corpses were charred beyond recognition. Most of them were of children, women and elderly people.
This has been reported in zeenews.india.com dated 26 July 2015.

Subsequent to the airstrike, the coalition announced that it would start a five-day humanitarian pause.
Many of the workers had with them families who had come to visit for the Eid al-Fitr holiday at the end of the holy month of Ramadan. The population of Mokha is mostly fisherman and it had a reputation as one of the safest places in the country embroiled in war.
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Based on intelligence provided by MI6, dozens of Islamic State safe houses in Istanbul have been raided and almost 300 suspects have been arrested in the crackdown in the Turkish city. This city has become the gateway for UK citizens who want to join the terror group.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 25 July 2015.

As per information, MI6 had made available intelligence that had been used to conduct raids at 140 addresses by some 5,000 police. It seems telephone intercepts were resorted to in order to pinpoint the support network for Britons travelling to Syria and Iraq.
It was a joint action and documents and laptops that have been seized have linked IS recruiters of European jihadis to some of the addresses where men and women were housed in the course of their transit to join the group.
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Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has remarked that the US and Turkey’s air strikes have completely destroyed ISIS targets.
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This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 23 July 2015.

Mick has yet to beat the record of German Jack but, has already notched up an impressive tally of crocodiles himself. One of his latest trophies was a 4.9m long beast in a billabong with two gun shots to the back of the neck. He had spent four weeks staking it out in the dead of the night.
The crocodile had to be killed because it was killing the cattle from a nearby station and the owners did not know what to do as it was preying on up to two animals each day.
The biggest crocodile he has ever caught was 4.9 metres, but even a couple of inches bigger can lead to an increase of 80-Kg to the size of the animal.
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This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 22 July 2015.

The man is 31-year-old and a computer programmer and he had, allegedly paid $500 for five vials of the poison. He had asked that it be shipped to his home in Liverpool disguised as 'special batteries' for a toy car.
The product ricin was 'the poisoner's perfect poison' - its symptoms are non-specific and it does not show up in a post-mortem examination.
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It is said that a 100mg dose is enough to kill up to 280 people within three to five days, while 500mg can kill between 700 and 1,400.
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#bokoharam #cameroon #nigeria #islamicstate A gang of more than 80 assailants stormed the village of Kamouna, located near Lake Chad in the northern strip of Cameroon that lies between Nigeria and Chad and killed 23 – most of the dead are children.
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The roof of a double decker bus in London was ripped off when it struck a 12ft-high railway bridge on Portland Road in South Norwood. Seven people are believed to have been injured in the accident as reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 20 July 2015.

Fortunately, no one was seriously hurt in the smash that happened in the evening. Out of the seven injured persons, four were shifted to Croydon University Hospital including three patients who had minor injuries.
The Route 197 bus was going to Peckham and it does not usually pass the bridge on its route, obviously, it had taken a diversion at the time and the driver may not have been aware of the risks involved.
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#WhiteHouse #ISIS #suicidebomber #Baghdad It has been reported that more than 100 people have been killed in a suicide car bombing carried out by ISIS at a busy market in an Iraqi town last Friday. It was one of the deadliest attacks carried out by the militants ever since they overran large parts of the country.
The power of the blast demolished several buildings in Khan Bani Saad located about 30-Km northeast of Baghdad. The victims were people who were celebrating the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. The body pats are scattered all over the place and there are fears that the toll could rise.
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White House has condemned this attack and has said that it remains steadfast in its commitment to work with Prime Minister (Haider) al-Abadi and other partners in Iraq and the international community to put an end to the depravity of ISIL.
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Ohura is certainly a ghost town. It boasts of a population of just 120, it does not have enough power, or internet, or jobs and is a place where time has almost stands still. The town is on the banks of the Mangaroa River in the North Island of New Zealand, more than 40-Km from civilization and is accessible only by a dirt path.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 18 July 2015.

Ohura is an enclave of low-cost truck homes and ancient shops that rarely open and, it has been practically abandoned by the government. The dwindling town and its people have to fend for themselves.
Many of the houses have no power, only a few have internet, and government benefits are unavailable because there are no jobs to look for- even the prison has closed down.
The town once was a thriving epicenter built around a strong mining industry and has now been reduced to a veritable 'ghost town'. The main industry was coal mines since the 1930's and gradually developed into a major township over the next 40 years. But, with the closure of state-owned mines in the early 1970's, it was goodbye to a large proportion of the town's businesses and services. The last mine shut shop in 1990.
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Extremists loyal to ISIS in Egypt have attacked a naval patrol ship in off the coast of Sinai causing it to burst into flames. As a result, British tourists have been warned that there is a ‘high threat’ from terrorism in Egypt.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 17 July 2015.

The attack took place in a region that is popular with tourists, including the beach resort of Sharm el Sheikh. The authorities have intensified security in and around the holiday destination. Egypt sees nearly 900,000 Britons traveling there every year and, the country has so far been considered as a safe destination.
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IS has carried out a number of attacks in the northern part of the peninsula whereas Sharm el Sheikh is in the southern part of the peninsula. But, militants have killed dozens of soldiers as it attacked multiple military checkpoints and attempted for the first time to control a small pocket of territory in the Sinai desert.
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Russia appears to be intent upon keeping tensions alive on its borders with its neighbors – the latest in this land grab mission appears to be a section of Georgia's de facto border with South Ossetia. Russia has redrawn this border and the EU has warned of increased tensions amidst these claims.
This has been reported in bbc.com dated 16 July 2015.

It seems Russian troops have put up signs marking the "state border" of the breakaway region of South Ossetia further inside Georgian territory. As a result, a small portion of the Baku-Supsa oil pipeline has gone under Russia's effective control. Russia has, of course, brushed off the accusations about its role.
Its troops have been patrolling the administrative border since the 2008 Russian-Georgian war over South Ossetia and an EU foreign policy spokesperson has revealed that the installation of new signposts had given rise to tension in the area. This is having negative effects on the local population, their livelihood and also freedom of movement.
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Masked police officers in plain clothes took into custody a man who was suspected to be plotting a domestic Al Qaeda-inspired terror strike. The arrest happened at medical supplies distributor Alliance Healthcare in Letchworth, Hertfordshire. The man is believed to have worked there as a driver.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 15 July 2015.

Two other men, aged in their 20s and 30s, and believed to be his associates were arrested in simultaneous operations at separate homes in Luton, which is 13 miles away.
Incidentally, an ex-officer worker turned senior ISIS recruiter Abu Rahin Aziz, who was from Luton, was killed in Syria by a drone on July 4 – this has given rise to fears that his supporters may launch a revenge attack on British soil.
As revealed by security sources, police were forced to act because of a ‘fairly advanced’ suspected Islamist conspiracy that was targeting an unknown British target.
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Terrorism knows no boundaries and this was proven when police in the north-eastern Chinese city of Shenyang shot dead three "knife-wielding" men who are believed to be Xinjiang terrorists. A woman was also injured in the raid.
This has been reported in bbc.com dated 14 July 2015.

Xinjiang province is home to a significant Muslim Uighur population and there have been several clashes and public attacks in recent years. The police have attributed these to terrorists. The latest incident was one of the few such clashes outside of Xinjiang.
China has a tight leash on information on attacks and alleged terrorist incidents, hence it is difficult to verify such reports. In March 2014 there was a stabbing spree in Kunming city in which 29 people were killed – it was blamed on Xinjiang separatists.
Similarly, for an incident of October 2013 when a car ploughed into a crowd and burst into flames in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
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A group of gunmen raided a shopping mall near France and took 18 hostages. The police believes that the gunmen were hiding in the mall because the CCTV showed them entering but there is no evidence to sow that they had left. Police are treating this as an attempted robbery.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 13 July 2015.

Police succeeded to free the 18 staff members who were trapped inside the building. In the opinion of the police, one of the gunmen could have been an employee of Primark and could still be hiding in the Qwartz mall in Villeneuve-la-Garenne just north of Paris.
It seems the gunmen stormed the store soon after 6am when the employees arrived for work. The area in the vicinity of the mall was shut down, all traffic stopped and other stores in the vicinity closed as Special Forces rushed to the scene.
Officers at the scene indicated that they were initially treating the incident as a ‘suspected armed robbery attempt’ but they have not ruled out terrorism.
Paris continue to remain on high alert for terrorist activity after Islamic extremists had attacked a kosher supermarket and satirical newspaper offices in January in which 20 people, including the attackers, had died.
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#ISIS #Pakistan #Afghanistan There are reports that the top Islamic State leader in Afghanistan and Pakistan along with more than 30 other insurgents have been killed in a US drone strike in Nangarhar province of eastern Afghanistan.
This is as per information of the Afghan intelligence officials as reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 11 July 2015.

It seems Hafiz Saeed Khan, a former Taliban leader who defected to ISIS, was killed in the drone attack – this has been revealed by a spokesman for Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security. The Afghan intelligence officials had made available the necessary information to the US forces who launched the strike accordingly.
The US side has confirmed that an airstrike was carried out in Nangarhar's Achin District and targeted 'individuals threatening the force' - but there is no confirmation about the death.
A second U.S. airstrike is reported to have killed Gull Zaman, believed to be the second-highest official in the local Islamic State affiliate, and Shahidullah Shahid, who is believed to be the group's chief spokesman in Afghanistan.
None of the deaths have been confirmed.
A number of drone strikes have been reported in Nangarhar over the past two weeks due to a joint US-Afghan military operation but the exact toll of casualties has not been disclosed.
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#beheading #ISIS #BokoHaram #terrorists The Nigerian terror group Boko Haram appears to be going the way of ISIS with whom it had forged an alliance and had expressed allegiance to the Islamist State. The Boko Haram has released its first gruesome video of a beheading. The video follows many of the same style-points as the hundreds of barbaric videos that had been released by ISIS over the last year.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 11 July 2015.

The release of the 10-minute video coincided with the news of a Somali terror group's intentions to join ISIS – that way it would extend its so-called caliphate to east-Africa. Most likely, he Somali terror group Al-Shabaab could switch allegiance from Al-Qaeda to rivals ISIS instead.
Islamic State have already accepted a pledge of allegiance from Boko Haram. This terror group of Nigeria was responsible for the deaths of over 10,000 in Nigeria in 2014.
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Study reveals that vampires do exist – they look around for willing adults

Research carried out by the director of social work at Idaho State University, has revealed that vampires do exist. He has carried out a study on self-identified vampires for nearly a decade and have discovered that they can come from any walk of life or from any profession, including doctors, attorneys and candlestick makers.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 8 July 2015.

They are the “real” vampires who need blood of other humans to gain energy. However, they do not like to disclose their practices to even those who want to help them out for fear of being ridiculed, or being diagnosed with some sort of a mental illness.
These people do not have fangs and do not rise from their graves but are tired individuals who are always on the lookout for a consenting adult who was willing to accommodate them. They would allow the vampires to use a scalpel to make a tiny incision in the chest area so they can ingest a small amount of blood for energy.
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It was certainly not a major crime as such but the parents of the 14-year-old girl of South Carolina took the extreme step to punish her by forcing her to live in the woods – her crime was that he had eaten a Pop-Tart.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 7th July 2015.

The couple of Sumter County has been sent to jail after they were arrested for allegedly banishing their daughter to the woods as punishment for eating a Pop-Tart. Each of them have been charged with a single count of unlawful neglect of a child.
It seems their 14-year-old daughter was forced to live in a tent in the woods a quarter-mile from her home in Sumter. She was provided her with a roll of toilet paper, a flashlight, a whistle and a watch. When the girl wanted food, she was to meet someone at a fence on the family property at specific times during the day. Moreover, she was not allowed to enter the house between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.
When the police discovered her, the girl had been living in the tent for two days, and was expected to remain there for the remainder of the week. She had been forced to fend for herself during the severe thunderstorms.
The parents are being held at the Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center and the child is at present in the custody of the Department of Social Services.
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Boko Haram attack in Jos and Potiskum kills 60 Muslims and Christians in one day

#bokoharam #nigeria #mosque #potiskum #suicide There were two suicide attacks in a mosque and a posh Muslim restaurant in the central city of Jos and an evangelical Christian church in northeastern Potiskum in which militants from Boko Haram killed at least 60 persons. The dead in the mosque included worshippers who had arrived to listen to a cleric known for preaching peaceful coexistence of all faiths.
Not content with the deaths, the militants also set on fire dozens of churches and about 300 homes.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 6 July 2015.

The explosion at the Yantaya Mosque came as cleric Sani Yahaya was addressing the worshippers. The cleric Yahaya is the national chairman of the Jama'atu Izalatul Bidia organization, which preaches that all religions should peacefully coexist. The gunmen had, also, opened fire on the mosque from three directions.
Cleric Sani Yahaya was unharmed in the attack.
Boko Haram extremists have killed about 300 people in the past week -- the self-proclaimed Islamic State group wanted to create more mayhem during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. It may be recalled that earlier this year, Boko Haram had become an affiliate of the Islamic State group.
President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the attacks on places of worship and has indicated that the government will defend Nigerians' right to worship freely.
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#ISIS #Syria #Palmyra #RomanAmphitheatre ISIS has groomed child executioners to kill people and have released a new execution video from the historic city of Palmyra, in the Syrian Desert. In the video, the child executioners are shown brutally slaughtering a group of more than 25 regime soldiers in full view of the public. They comprise a baying crowd of men and boys who had assembled in the restored ruin of the Palmyra Amphitheatre. Many in the crowd are seen wearing military uniforms and headscarves.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 4 July 2015.

In the video, the victims who are Syrian soldiers, can be seen lined up on their knees on the stage of the Roman Amphitheatre. This venue used to be where an annual festival in the city would be held.
The child executioners are wearing desert camouflage and brown bandanas, and many of them look to be not older than 12 or 13 years in age. These children are branded as ‘caliphate cubs’ and act as suicide bombers, soldiers and executioners. Their mission is to instill fear across Iraq and Syria.
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#nigeria #bokoharam #lakechad The militant group Boko Haram has unleashed another round of terror in the northeast state of Brno in Nigeria and 150 people have been killed - gunmen had stormed the village of Kukawa near Lake Chad killing 97 people, including women and children. The next day, they shot dead 48 men after they had finished prayers in two villages near the town of Monguno but the women are believed to have been spared.
This has been reported in bbc.com dated 2 July 2015.

It seems a gang of over 50 militants had stormed Kukawa – they first descended on Muslim worshippers in various mosques who were observing the Maghrib prayer shortly after they broke their fast. The victims were mostly men and young children.
Moreover, while some of the terrorists waited and set most of the corpses on fire, others went to the nearby houses and shot indiscriminately at women who were preparing food.
Incidentally, Monguno had recently been recaptured from Boko Haram. It may be recalled that 23 people died in the town last month after a confiscated Boko Haram bomb exploded during celebrations to mark the successful military operation against the Islamist group.
As per records of Amnesty International, at least 17,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed since 2009. That was the time when Boko Haram launched its violent uprising to try to impose militant Islamist rule.
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#davidcameron #ISIS #michaelfallon #syriaairstrikes Britain has woken up from its slumber after the death of 29 Britons in Tunisia at the hands of ISIS militants. Accordingly, MPs are set to debate on whether airstrikes are to be launched on ISIS targets in Syria and elsewhere.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 2 July 2015.

Defense Secretary Michael Fallon is expected to make a case for allowing RAF bombers to attack Islamic State targets while insisting that no military action will be taken without a vote in the Commons.
It may be recalled that the Commons had last year given the go-ahead to bombing of militant positions in Iraq last year. However, at the time, MPs were not asked to approve wider action. At that time the situation was different because it was the chemical weapon attack by Syrian president Bashar al Assad that had sparked the previous proposal for airstrikes.
Prime Minister David Cameron is of the opinion that there is a need to crush the ISIL in both Iraq and Syria. There should be a 'full spectrum' response which would mean focusing not just one particular area where the ISIS are, but looking at a whole range of areas and how they are operating.
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