Libyan car bomb kills at least 30 in a gas station in Qubba

#CopticChristians #Egypt #ISIS #Qubba #Libya #carbomb #gasstation There are reports of a car bomb that struck a town in eastern Libya which is, at present, under control of the country's internationally recognized government. At least 30 people were killed in the attack and an army spokesman has put the blame on Islamic militants. This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 20 February 2015.
The bombing has taken place after a video had surfaced that showed the beheading of 21 abducted Egyptian Coptic Christians at the hands of Libya's branch of the Islamic State group. This has resulted in Egypt carrying airstrikes on IS positions in Libya. It also raised fears that the extremist group has spread its tentacles beyond the battlefields of Iraq and Syria and had set up a major strategic foothold closer to European shores.
In the latest attack, the suspected Islamic militants had bombed a gas station that was packed with motorists in the town of Qubba which is located approximately 19 miles from the city of Darna. This is believed to be a stronghold of Libya's Islamic State offshoot.
It seems the motorists had lined up to fill their tanks at the station, which is located next to the town's security headquarters, when the attack took place and scores of people were also wounded in the attack.

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London police carries out preventive arrests of ISIS beheading team

The London police have arrested four men from different locations in the city in an ongoing investigation into Islamist-related terrorism foxnews.com.

As per information released by the Scotland Yard, the men, who are in their early 20s, have been arrested after warrants were executed at various addresses. One of the men was tasered, but did not require medical attention.
Sources have indicated that the men were involved in an ISIS plot for British jihadist – the plan was to behead people in the streets of London within the next few days.

The men have been arrested on the charge of Preparation or Instigation of acts of Terrorism, which falls under the Terrorism Act.
Incidentally, there were no shots were fired during the arrests.

Pair of Yazadi teenage girls escape from ISIS and narrate horrors of their captivity

It appears to be the height of sadism that the ISIS is following and this has been brought out through information furnished by a couple of teenage girls who managed to give them the slip and escape dailymail.co.uk.
These are a pair of Yazidi teenage girls who succeeded in escaping from the clutches of ISIS militants and have narrated the gory details about their capture and captivity. They have revealed the full horror of how they were raped and tortured and forced to watch videos of men from their community being beheaded.
The girls have revealed that some of the girls were traumatized to such an extent by their experiences that they tried to commit suicide but, these girls faced punishment when caught – the ISIS fighters beat them mercilessly when caught.
As narrated by one of the girls – her ordeal began in the Sinjar village of Tal Azir on August 3 when ISIS fighters advanced towards them. She fled along with her mother, her brother and his pregnant wife towards the mountains, but ISIS caught up with them at a remote farmhouse. They then separated the women from the men, mowed down the men by machine gun fire and then bundled the girl onto a pick-up truck and taken to Mosul.
There she was held with hundreds of others prior to being sold off.
The other girl is 19-years-old and the ISIS shot dead her husband and took her captive.

Taliban militants storms Ghazni in Afghanistan – behead 15, kill nearly 100

Beheading seems to have become a fashion and, in a fresh round of offensive, hundreds of Taliban militants have launched a violent offensive in Afghanistan news.sky.com – they have beheaded 15 people and killing scores more. As per reports, the Taliban fighters have stormed Ghazni and are believed to be on the brink of capturing the province.
The Taliban fighters far outnumber security forces and local officials are urging the new, power-sharing government to extend help to the embattled security forces in the region so that they can put up a resistance of sorts.
Deputy Governor Ahmadullah Ahmadi has apparently requested for helicopters to evacuate the wounded, but nothing appears to have been done.
In the opinion of the leader of the Hazara minority, Haji Mohammad Mohaqiq, in order to maintain peace with the Taliban, a strong government is required.
Incidentally, the Gazni province has lost contact with police officers in the district of Ajrestan, after a suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint in the region.
This battle is symbolic of the uphill struggle that Ashraf Ghani, the president-elect of Afghanistan, would be faced with as foreign troops prepare to leave the country in the coming months.

Bad news for America – beheading enters its backyard in Oklahoma

This is bad news for America because the culture of beheading has now entered its backyard nzherald.co.nz – it appears that a worker who had recently tried to convert colleagues to Islam beheaded one of them in a frenzied knife rampage after being fired from his job.
The suspect, identified as 30-year-old Alton Nolen, attacked another colleague with the knife before being shot by the Oklahoma food distribution firm's boss.
The suspect Nolen survived and was in hospital in a stable condition and he had chosen his victims at random. The police have ruled out any immediate indication of a link with terrorism.
From the sequence of events Nolen went to the parking lot, then drove his vehicle to the front of the business and entered the main entrance where he encountered and killed Colleen Hufford with a knife. During the attack, Nolen severed the victim's head.
In view of the nature of the crime local police have called in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
A spokesman for the Islamic Council of Oklahoma said Muslims were "shocked, horrified and saddened." It seems Nolen had recently converted to Islam but spokeswoman Sheryl Siddiqui has revealed that he was not known to any of the leadership in Oklahoma mosques. The Washington DC-based Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) also said it was "horrified."

US, Britain and now it is France – Islamic militants behead a French hostage

After the merciless beheading of two American journalists and a British aid worker, a Frenchman has now fallen victim to the bloodthirsty Islamist militants and has been beheaded by them in Algeria nzherald.co.nz.
An Algerian splinter group from al-Qaida has beheaded a French hostage 55-year-old Herve Gourdel, a mountaineering guide from Nice. He was seized while he was hiking in the Djura Djura Mountains of northern Algeria. His captors released his Algerian companions.
This barbaric act is believed to be due to France's airstrikes on the Islamic State group and is indicative of the possible widening of the crisis in Iraq and Syria to the rest of the region. French President Francois Hollande has termed the killing as a "cowardly assassination," and has vowed to continue the military operation.
President Barack Obama has said that people around the world had been "horrified by another brutal murder … these terrorists believe our countries will be unable to stop them. The safety of our citizens demands that we do…"
The beheading has reportedly been carried out by a splinter group of the ISIS – this group identifies itself as Jund al-Khilafah, or "Soldiers of the Caliphate". It had split from al-Qaida and pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group two weeks ago and seized Gourdel in response to the call to kill the "spiteful and filthy French." It gave an ultimatum of 24 hours to France to end its air campaign.
Reports indicate that nearly 1,000 French radicals have joined or are trying to join the Islamic State group in Syria and in Iraq – this number is more than the number of fighters from any other Western country and the authorities are worried that they will return home and stage attacks on French soil.

Shock treatment of Islamic State – propaganda video on British hostage released

The Islamic State (IS) militants have released a new propaganda that depicts a British hostage. The video showing a British man, 47-year-old Alan Henning hailing from Salford, is believed to be held hostage by the IS militants bbc.com.
It may be recalled that the IS already has blood on its hands from three hostages namely US journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff apart from the UK aid worker David Haines – the threat is now on another British man Alan Henning next. This latest video does not show any beheading, but shows a man wearing orange clothing who says he is a prisoner and who asks why he and others have been abandoned by the US and UK governments.
There are no IS militants visible in the video entitled "Lend Me Your Ears" and addressed to the Western public, especially the British public, particularly Muslims.
It seems the hostage was speaking to the camera in a "kind of parody of a chat show" and went on to accuse the US and UK governments for having done things differently. Other European governments have, apparently, negotiated for the release of their hostages but not the UK or the US.
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British PM David Cameron unnerved by latest beheading video

The latest ISIS video showing the beheading of 44-year-old British aid worker David Haines has unnerved British PM David Cameron and he has taken a vow to work with allies to defeat the terrorist group Islamic State foxnews.com.
Describing the coldblooded murder of Haines as "an act of pure evil", he has also added that countries must “drain this poison from our society.”
The PM was attending a wedding and raced back to London overnight to chair a meeting of his security Cabinet, including his advisers, officials and intelligence chiefs. He has reiterated that Islam is a religion of peace, and the militants were not Muslims but were monsters.
President Obama has condemned the murder as "barbaric" and has strongly condemned the barbaric murder of UK citizen David Haines by the terrorist group ISIL.
David Haines had been abducted in Syria in 2013 while he was engaged in working for an international aid agency and the British government had managed to keep his kidnapping secret out of concern for his safety until another video recently released by Islamic State, also known as ISIS, identified him as a captive.
The Islamic State militants had earlier beheaded two American journalists, James Foley and Steven Sotloff, apart from Kurdish and Lebanese fighters, and posted the video evidence online. After the last video showing the beheading of American journalist Steven Sotloff, the ISIS had threatened to kill Haines next and briefly showed him on camera.
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IS extremists behead second US journalist Steven Sotloff – warns Obama of more such deaths

The Islamic State extremists have beheaded a second American journalist, Steven Sotloff, and released its video with a warning to President Barack Obama that such deaths will continue as long as US keeps up its airstrikes against the militant group nzherald.co.nz. The video is ‘A Second Message to America’ and the message is - "our knife will continue to strike the necks of your people." The video footage was posted two weeks after the release of an earlier video that revealed the brutal killing of James Foley and days after Sotloff's mother pleaded for his life. The Sotloff family has confirmed the death of the 31-year-old Steven who freelanced for Time and Foreign Policy magazines. He had vanished in Syria in August 2013 and was not seen again until he appeared in a video released online last month that showed Foley's beheading. It seems the IS has threatened to kill another hostage who has been identified as a British citizen named David Cawthorne Haines. In order to keep up its strangling of civilization, the IS extremist group has been publishing graphic photos and gruesome videos of everything from bombings and beheadings to mass killings – its aim is to keep terrorizing people from all walks of life.
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