IEDs and their impact - YouTube
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LzFwW8mot8
This is a video made from data from almost seven years worth of data from Action on Armed Violence’s explosive violence monitor. In this period, AOAV has recorded 136,324 casualties from improvised explosive devices (IEDs) - of these, 81% were civilians.
Palestinian shot dead by Israeli forces during East Jerusalem clashes
Dec. 22, 2016 10:43 A.M. (Updated : Dec. 22, 2016 11:02 A.M.)
▻http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?ID=774546
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian overnight Wednesday, after he allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at Israeli soldiers during clashes that erupted in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Kafr Aqab when Israeli troops raided the area to carry out a punitive home demolition.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health identified the slain Palestinian as 19-year-old Ahmad Kharoubi .
There were no injuries among Israeli forces, according to the Israeli army.
Kharoubi was critically injured after being shot with live ammunition in the neck, and died shortly after his arrival to the hospital.
An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an that after suspects threw improvised explosive devices at Israeli soldiers, Israeli forces opened fire on one of the suspects, which “resulted in his death.”
The clashes erupted in the wake of an Israeli army raid to partially demolish the house of Misbah Abu Sbeih who was shot dead by Israeli forces in October after carrying out a shooting attack in occupied East Jerusalem, killing one Israeli civilian and one Israeli police officer.
The Israeli Supreme Court ordered on Monday that the interior walls of the home be destroyed and its exterior entrances and windows be sealed, despite the fact that Abu Sbeih’s widow and five children — the youngest of them 10 and the oldest 18 — were still residing in the house.
#Palestine_assassinée
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Un Palestinien tué dans des heurts avec des soldats israéliens à Jérusalem-Est
AFP / 22 décembre 2016 07h51
▻http://www.romandie.com/news/Un-Palestinien-tue-dans-des-heurts-avec-des-soldats-israeliens-a-JerusalemEst/763875.rom
Jérusalem - Un Palestinien a été tué dans la nuit de mercredi à jeudi dans un quartier de Jérusalem-Est annexée lors de heurts avec des soldats israéliens venus détruire le domicile de l’auteur d’une attaque meurtrière contre des Israéliens, a indiqué l’armée.
Une porte-parole de l’armée a indiqué que des suspects avaient lancé des engins explosifs contre les soldats, qui avaient répondu par des tirs, provoquant la mort de l’un d’eux. Le ministère palestinien de la Santé l’a identifié comme Ahmad al-Kharoubi, 19 ans.
La porte-parole militaire a précisé que les soldats étaient venus détruire le domicile de Misbah Abou Sabaih, à Koufar Akab, un quartier de Jérusalem-Est, partie majoritairement palestinienne de Jérusalem annexée et occupée par Israël.
Musabah Abou Sabaih avait ouvert le feu le 9 octobre sur des Israéliens à Jérusalem-Est, tuant une retraitée de 60 ans et un policier de 29 ans. Il avait été abattu.
B’Tselem: Palestinian ’did not pose any danger’ when killed by sniper during clashes
Feb. 6, 2017 2:40 P.M. (Updated: Feb. 6, 2017 4:16 P.M.)
▻http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775311
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A Palestinian youth killed by Israeli forces in December did not represent a threat when he was shot dead by an Israeli army sniper, Israeli human rights group B’Tselem said in a report published on Sunday.
Ahmad al-Kharroubi, 19, was shot by Israeli with live ammunition during clashes in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Kafr Aqab on Dec. 22, as Israeli forces were carrying out a raid to partially demolish the house of Palestinian Misbah Abu Sbeih, who was shot dead by Israeli forces in October after carrying out a deadly shooting attack.
Al-Kharroubi was shot by a sniper in the neck, succumbing to his injuries shortly before arriving to the hospital.
First U.S. service member killed in Syria was a bomb disposal technician - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/11/24/first-u-s-service-member-killed-in-syria/?hpid=hp_local-news_checkpoint-745pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
A U.S. Navy bomb disposal technician was killed by an improvised explosive device in northern Syria on Thursday, the Pentagon announced in a statement.
Senior Chief Petty Officer Scott C. Dayton, 42, of Woodbridge, Va., was killed near Ain Issa, a town roughly 35 miles northwest of the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed capital of Raqqa. The death marks the first time a U.S. service member has been killed in the country since a contingent of Special Operations forces was deployed there in October 2015 to go after the extremist group.
“The entire counter-[Islamic State] coalition sends its condolences to this hero’s, family, friends and teammates,” said Lt. Gen Stephen Townsend, the commander of the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. “On this Thanksgiving please be thankful there are service members willing to take up the fight to protect our homeland from [the Islamic State’s] hateful and brutal ideology.”
American Is Killed in First Casualty for U.S. Forces in Syria Combat - The New York Times
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/24/world/middleeast/syria-warplanes-turkey.html
The United States military suffered its first combat death in Syria on Thursday when a service member was killed in the northern part of the country, an area where the Americans are helping to organize an offensive against the Islamic State.
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The Special Operations Forces member who died Thursday was killed by an improvised explosive device in the vicinity of Ayn Issa in northern Syria, United States military officials said.
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The area where the service member was killed Thursday, Ayn Issa, is halfway between Raqqa and the Turkish border, and several factions have been active there, including the Syrian Kurds, the Islamic State and most recently local tribal fighters who oppose the Kurds, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors extremist websites.
Companies from 20 countries involved in Islamic State bomb supply chain - Yahoo Finance UK
▻https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/islamic-state-bomb-supply-chain-includes-firms-20-000359241.html
Companies from 20 countries are involved in the supply chain of components that end up in Islamic State explosives, a study found on Thursday, suggesting governments and firms need to do more to track the flow of cables, chemicals and other equipment.
The European Union-mandated study showed that 51 companies from countries including Turkey, Brazil, and the United States produced, sold or received the more than 700 components used by Islamic State to build improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
IEDs are now being produced on a “quasi-industrial scale” by the militant group, which uses both industrial components that are regulated and widely available equipment such as fertiliser chemicals and mobile phones, according to Conflict Armament Research (CAR), which undertook the 20-month study.
Islamic State controls large swathes of Iraq and Syria. NATO member Turkey shares borders with both countries and has stepped up security to prevent the flow of weapons and insurgents to the hardline Sunni group.
A total of 13 Turkish firms were found to be involved in the supply chain, the most in any one country. That was followed by India with seven.
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Bevan said the Turkish government refused to cooperate with CAR’s investigation so the group was not able to determine the efficacy of Ankara’s regulations regarding the tracking of components.
Turkish government officials did not reply to requests for comment.
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Seven Indian companies manufactured most of the detonators, detonating cord, and safety fuses documented by CAR. Those were all legally exported under government-issued licences from India to entities in Lebanon and Turkey, CAR found.
Companies from Brazil, Romania, Russia, the Netherlands, China, Switzerland, Austria and Czech Republic were also involved, the report found.
An NAACP Office Was Bombed on Tuesday — And Nobody Seems to Care - Mic
▻http://mic.com/articles/107884/an-naacp-office-was-bombed-on-tuesday-so-why-did-it-take-so-long-for-anyone-to-
Ces actes terroristes qui n’intéressent pas les #médias dits de référence
According to reports, an improvised explosive device was detonated on the side of the NAACP’s building, and the FBI confirmed that it was a deliberate attack. Officials are seeking a “person of interest,” described as a balding, white male in his 40s driving an older-model pick-up truck. A container of gasoline was left near the bomb, apparently with the intent to cause an even bigger explosion, but that part of the plot failed. The result was minor damage and no casualties.
In the current context of national protests about police brutality and racial justice, the effect of such an attack can’t be understated. But only after #NAACPBombing became a worldwide trending topic on Twitter did the incident start to become a national news story late Tuesday night.
Archive : avril 2012, un leader du Fatah al Islam libanais meurt à Qusayr : In Syria, Lebanon’s Most Wanted Sunni Terrorist Blows Himself Up
▻http://world.time.com/2012/04/23/in-syria-lebanons-most-wanted-sunni-terrorist-blows-himself-up
According to Abu Ali and another fellow fighter, Jawhar arrived in Qsair two weeks ago with a group of 30 Lebanese fighters. While many were members of Fatah al-Islam, they were not traveling under the terror group’s banner. Instead they called themselves mujahideen, holy warriors seeking to help fellow Muslims under attack by the Syrian regime. Jawhar, an explosives expert and a charismatic commander, sought to train fellow fighters how make bombs. In the short time he had been in Qsair, says Abu Ali, he was able to set up dozens of improvised explosive devices destined for members of the Syrian security forces. “His aim was to make a tour in all the districts of Syria to teach the fighters on how to fight a guerrilla war.”
Ainsi les sympathiques combattants de la liberté de l’ASL vantés par Vanessa Burggraf sur France 24 le 16 mars 2012 sont-ils directement liés (si ce n’est carrément eux) au Fatah al Islam :
►http://seenthis.net/messages/225755
Haytham Manna évoquant, dans cette émission, le danger d’Al Qaeda, est donc pile poil au courant.
Article du 25 juillet 2012 : Christians Flee from Radical Rebels in Syria
►http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/christians-flee-from-radical-rebels-in-syria-a-846180.html
“There were always Christians in Qusayr — there were around 10,000 before the war,” says Leila, the matriarch of the Khouri clan. Currently, 11 members of the clan are sharing two rooms. They include the grandmother, grandfather, three daughters, one husband and five children. “Despite the fact that many of our husbands had jobs in the civil service, we still got along well with the rebels during the first months of the insurgency.” The rebels left the Christians alone. The Christians, meanwhile, were keen to preserve their neutrality in the escalating power struggle. But the situation began deteriorating last summer, Leila says, murmuring a bit more before going silent.
“We’re too frightened to talk,” her daughter Rim explained, before mustering the courage to continue. “Last summer Salafists came to Qusayr, foreigners. They stirred the local rebels against us,” she says. Soon, an outright campaign against the Christians in Qusayr took shape. “They sermonized on Fridays in the mosques that it was a sacred duty to drive us away,” she says. “We were constantly accused of working for the regime. And Christians had to pay bribes to the jihadists repeatedly in order to avoid getting killed.”
Grandmother Leila made the sign of the cross. “Anyone who believes in this cross suffers,” she says.
It is not possible to independently corroborate the Khouri’s version of events, but the basic information seems consistent with what is already known. On April 20, Abdel Ghani Jawhar involuntarily provided proof that foreign jihadists are engaged in combat in Qusayr. Jawhar, a Lebanese national and commander with the terrorist group Fatah al Islam, died that day in the Syrian city. An explosives expert, Jawhar had been in Qusayr to teach rebels how to build bombs and accidentally blew himself up while trying to assemble one. Until his death, Jawhar had been the most wanted man in Lebanon, where he is implicated in the deaths of 200 people. Lebanese authorities confirmed his death in Syria. The fact that the rebels had worked together with a man like Jawhar fomented fears after his death that the ranks of insurgents are increasingly becoming infiltrated by international terrorists.
Archive : août 2010. Après avoir été le principal vecteur des rumeurs du 14 Mars soutenant que c’était le régime syrien qui avait organisé le Fatah al-Islam à Nahr el Bared (suggérant même que Seymour Hersh avait été précédemment manipulé par Michel Samaha pour évoquer le Fatah al-Islam avant que les services syriens ne déclenchent les événements dramatiques contre l’armée libanaise), Now est forcé d’admettre le contraire en 2010. What’s next for Fatah al-Islam ?
▻https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/reportsfeatures/whats_next_for_fatah_al-islam
The report was denied in Beirut, where March 14 politicians countered that Saudi wasn’t funding Fatah al-Islam, but rather that the Syrians specifically let Absi out of jail to come wreak havoc in Lebanon as a pretext to re-occupy the country their troops had left less than two years prior following a nearly 30-year presence.
Haddad wrote in his paper that there is no evidence to prove the Syrian puppet theory, and told NOW Lebanon, when asked about the Saudi money theory – which was not addressed in the paper – that authorities curiously did not ask arrested militants how they were funded.
Despite Airstrikes, #ISIS Appears to Hold Its Ground in Iraq
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/23/world/middleeast/isis-iraq-airstrikes.html
... even with the backing of Western air power, the broad battle lines have remained roughly static, with the Sunni Arab-dominated areas in western Iraq still largely hostile territory for the government forces.
A week ago, for example, a force of about 800 soldiers found themselves stranded at Camp Saqlawiya in Anbar, cut off from the rest of the army behind Islamic State lines without food, water, fuel or, eventually, ammunition, according to soldiers who escaped. Finally, on Sunday, an army tank unit based in Ramadi, outside of Anbar, made its way through a road mined with improvised explosive devices to within 500 yards of the base, said a soldier in the group who gave his name as Abu Moussa.
Seeing the rescuers, the soldiers inside the base opened the gates and ran out, he said. But groups of Islamic State fighters suddenly poured out of neighboring buildings and surged forward in pick-up trucks with heavy-weapon mounts. At least two armed vehicles rigged with bombs made it into the base and exploded.
The tanks retreated, Abu Moussa said, crushing bodies of dead soldiers underneath them. “I have not seen such fire and blood for 10 years” in the military, he said. “It is a disaster.”
Isis an hour away from Baghdad - with no sign of Iraq army being able to make a successful counter-attack
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-an-hour-away-from-baghdad--with-no-sign-of-iraq-army-being-able-
#syria: A Cold War Deepens Between Jihadis
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/syria-cold-war-deepens-between-jihadis
A Syrian rebel carries an improvised explosive device (IED) in the northern city of Aleppo on November 9, 2013. (Photo: AFP - Karam al-Masri) A Syrian rebel carries an improvised explosive device (IED) in the northern city of Aleppo on November 9, 2013. (Photo: AFP - Karam al-Masri)
The tug of war between the Islamic militant leaders in Syria reached crisis levels as armed clashes between the“brothers in jihad” raged, despite (...)
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