Showing posts with label Islamist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Islamist. Show all posts

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Qickie "Blowed-Up" Islam Headlines For Today


Somalia: Terrorist linked group of Shabab has on Sunday beheaded two young boys and placed their dead bodies in Afmadow district of lower Jubba region, southern, reports said.

Residents in Afmodaw district saw dead bodies of two young teenagers placed in the city this morning by militant group of Shabab, reports said.

It’s not known the reason of young boys’ killing but it is not something new to rebel group of Shabab of doing evil acts against human life.

ZAMBOANGA, Philippines:  At least two people were killed and more than 20 others wounded in an explosion in a small hotel in the troubled southern Philippines on Sunday, rescue workers said.
Philippine Red Cross personnel at the scene of the blast in the southern port city of Zamboanga said they had taken out at least two dead bodies and numerous severely injured people.
Police investigators searching through the wreckage said the blast appeared to be caused by a bomb, but would give no further details.
The explosion destroyed the two-storey Atilano Pension House and shattered glass windows of surrounding buildings, AFP journalists at the scene said.
The city of Zamboanga has been the target of frequent bomb attacks, often carried out by Islamic extremists from the surrounding areas or nearby islands.
In late-October, a bomb killed two people in a roadside eatery even as two other bombs were found and safely disposed of in Zamboanga City.
The lawless areas outside the city are haunts of various armed groups such as Muslim rebels, Al-Qaeda-linked extremists and extortion gangs that have used bombs in the past.

Kano, Nigeria:  Three policemen were shot and injured when suspected members of Islamist sect Boko Haram attacked a police station, a bank and a beer parlour in Yobe state, a security official said Sunday.
The gunmen threw explosives into a police station and an abandoned beer parlour in the town of Geidam, 160 kilometres (100 miles) from the state capital Damaturu, residents had said.
The attackers, armed with Kalashnikov rifles, also bombed a bank near the police station and carted away money from its vault.
Six churches, a shopping complex owned by a Christian and 11 cars parked therein were also destroyed by the assailants, he stated.
During the police station attack the assailants freed detained suspects and set the premises ablaze, making off with arms and ammunition,  a senior official of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in Geidam town said.



Mali: Al-Qaeda gunmen have kidnapped three foreign tourists and killed a fourth in Timbuktu in Mali.
The kidnappers burst into a restaurant and grabbed the tourists, believed to be German, Dutch, Swedish and South African, who were dining there. The German was killed when he resisted.
Two French citizens were also kidnapped from Hombori in Mali last week. The Foreign Office warned against travel to northern Mali because of the risk of attacks by a local al-Qa'ida group.


Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Bashir lashes out at 'anti-Islamic' nations



The firebrand Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir has lashed out at the United States and Australia after launching an appeal against a conviction for funding terrorism, for which he was jailed earlier this year.
The 73-year-old, who was jailed in June for funding a terrorist camp in Aceh, had his sentence cut last month from 15 years to nine after the High Court ruled he was guilty of a lesser offence and should also be shown leniency because of his age.

His legal team filed another appeal this week with the Supreme Court, to have his conviction quashed altogether.
The former spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiah, the group responsible for the 2002 Bali bombings, has now accused foreign powers such as the US and Australia of continuing to wage a campaign against Islam in Indonesia.
''Yesterday when we met him ... he said foreign powers were trying to damage Islam,'' his lawyer Achmad Michdan said yesterday.
''He said it was clear the US is not defending the interest of human rights and instead they're making it difficult. There's hostility in the US toward Islam.''
A spokesman for Jemaah Ansharut Tauhid, the group which the court claimed Bashir had used as a front to fund the Aceh cell, said the cleric remained defiant when he met him on Sunday before the latest appeal was filed on Tuesday.
The so-called spiritual leader of militant Islam in Indonesia served almost 26 months for conspiracy over the 2002 Bali bombings, which killed 202 people, including 88 Australians, before being freed in 2006 and subsequently cleared of any involvement.