ISIS released a video showing a Jordanian pilot being burned alive””and the murder may have happened weeks before they tried to ransom him for a would-be suicide bomber.
The so-called Islamic State has released a video of a man, almost certainly Jordanian pilot Muadh al Kasasbeh, being burned alive in a cage. Jordanian officials are saying that despite cynical efforts by the group widely known as ISIS to bargain for the man’s life in recent negotiations, he probably was killed as early as January 3. His F-16 had crashed and he was captured in ISIS-controlled territory in Syria on December 24.
Jordan vowed an "earth-shattering" response, and hours after the video was released the government said it executed two prisoners: Sajida al Rishawi, a female would-be al Qaeda suicide bomber, and Ziad al Karbouli, also reported to have been an al Qaeda operative. Last week, Jordan had said it would release al Rishawi, who was on death row pending an appeal, in exchange for the pilot, but wanted proof he was still alive. Unconfirmed reports had been circulating for some time that he might already have been killed.
2 arrested for plot do public beheading. I'll post link tonight.
Islam, religion of peace hey?
It seems as though Martin Place is somewhere to steer clear of.
Two men have been charged with planning to undertake a terrorist attack and will appear in a Sydney court.
The 24-year-old man and 25-year-old man, both from Fairfield, were charged with undertaking acts in preparation and planning for a terrorist attack, after police conducted anti-terror raids overnight.
Deputy NSW Police Commissioner Catherine Burn said the men were plotting an attack which was imminent.
Police seized several items including a machete, hunting knife, a homemade flag representing Islamic State and a video which depicted a man talking about carrying out an attack.
The Deputy Commissioner says the prosecution will allege the attack was consistent with IS.
'The attack, we allege, was going to be taken is consistent with the messaging coming out of IS. We would like to reassure the community that there is no imminent attack relating to these two men,' Ms Burn said.
She said the men appeared to be planning to harm or kill someone, 'potentially using one of the items recovered (in the raids), potentially a knife'.
Two men charged over imminent terror plot
“We are a free and fair nation. But that doesn’t mean we should let bad people play us for mugs, and all too often they have: Well, that’s going to stop.”
About bloody time.
The terrorists of the Islamic State (ISIS, for its acronym in English) released today a video showing the beheading of about 21 men, who identified as Egyptian Coptic Christians (Orthodox Christians) captured in Libya .
In the recording released by internet, looks at least ten men, with orange dress, kneeling with his hands cuffed behind his back , beheaded by his kidnappers, dressed in black. According to jihadist forums, a total of 21 hostages.
POLICE are investigating a poison pen letter claiming that terrorists plan to behead Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie unless she helps introduce Sharia law in Australia.
The letter warns that “you are the enemy of Islamic State, therefore, I will take the honour in beheading you”.
It includes graphic images of a man having his head sliced off by a knife.
Her office conceded the letter could be a fake threat, linked to opponents of a new mosque in Adelaide, but that they were taking the threat seriously and had referred the matter to the Australian Federal Police.
Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte courted controversy in a TV debate last night by saying it would be better if jihadis who leave to fight in Syria died there rather than return to the country. But today a spokesperson for his party went even further, saying that it would be better for the Dutch armed forces, who are participating the the fight against ISIS, to kill their fellow citizens rather than allow them to return home where they might commit acts of terror.
Speaking at a televised leaders’ debate, Rutte, who leads the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) drew criticism from his opponents for saying he agreed with the statement that it would be better if jihadis died in Syria instead of coming home.
Rutte defended his position, saying that those who go to Syria to fight know what they are getting into. “The only aim is to kill as many people as possible”, he said.
Nigerian militant group Boko Haram has pledged allegiance to Islamic State (IS), according to an audio statement.
The message, which has not been verified, was posted on Boko Haram's Twitter account and is believed to be by the group's leader, Abubakar Shekau.
Boko Haram began a military campaign to impose Islamic rule in northern Nigeria in 2009. The conflict has since spread to neighbouring states.
It would be the latest in a series of groups to swear allegiance to IS.
In the past Boko Haram is thought to have had links with al-Qaeda.
IS took control of large swathes of territory in eastern Syria and across northern and western Iraq last year.
The group aims to establish a "caliphate", a state ruled by a single political and religious leader according to Islamic law, or Sharia. Its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is known to his followers as Caliph Ibrahim.
Nigeria's Boko Haram pledges allegiance to Islamic State
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-31784538
How so?I think you're a bit behind on your readings.
Go on...There's also this Vlad the KGB Putin and his Russian hordes.
How so?
Go on...
Maybe this lady is onto the right stuff?
TORONTO ”” After landing at Toronto’s Pearson airport on April 3, 2013, Jahanzeb Malik told the border officer who questioned him he had been teaching in Libya. He told the Canadian Security Intelligence Service the same story.
But they apparently didn’t buy it because the RCMP’s national security unit in Toronto soon launched an undercover investigation that found he had been up to something far more sinister in the North African desert: attending a training camp.
At an immigration hearing on Wednesday, the Canada Border Services Agency also alleged that Mr. Malik, who first came to Canada in 2004 as a student, was an ISIS supporter and had plotted to bomb the U.S. consulate and financial buildings in Toronto.
“The planning was elaborate,” CBSA officer Jessica Lourenco told the Immigration and Refugee Board, “including discussing with the undercover officer the video message they would leave behind in order to inspire others.”
Noting that Mr. Malik had allegedly planned a “terrorist attack on facilities here in Toronto,” IRB member Marilou Funston ordered him detained in the Lindsay, Ont., jail, while the CBSA continues its investigation.
A young Australian Islamic State fighter, Jake Bilardi, has been identified by ISIS as having died in a coordinated suicide bombing attack in the Iraqi city of Ramadi on Wednesday.
In the capital of Iraq's embattled Anbar province, 13 suicide car bombs exploded almost simultaneously, according to the Associated Press. At least 10 people were killed and 30 wounded in the attack. ISIS said in an online statement that it used foreign fighters from Australia, Belgium, Syria and Uzbekistan to undertake the attack.
On Tuesday, Abu Abdullah al-Australi, who was prominent on Twitter, was identified as 18-year-old Melbourne teenager Bilardi, who converted to Islam at the age of 13 after his mother died. He left Australia last year after dropping out of school and buying a one-way ticket to Turkey.
Billardi tweeted on Tuesday that the Australian news media had outed him, before his last known account was suspended by Twitter. Two days later, social media users on the ground in Iraq announced the teen was one of the suicide bombers in Wednesday's attack. The accounts posted photographs of Bilardi sitting in a van, with a description of him as "martyrdom-seeker".
Sydney Jewish leaders are demanding the head of controversial Islamic group Hizb ut-Tahrir be prosecuted under anti-discrimination laws for inciting hatred against Jewish people in a fiery speech last year.
Vic Alhadeff, chief executive of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, wrote to the NSW Anti-Discrimination Board on Monday, urging them to take legal action against radical Islamic leader Ismail al-Wahwah.
On July 25, after a public rally in Sydney against Israel's bombing of the Gaza Strip, Mr al-Wahwah called for jihad against Jews to a large gathering in Lakemba, saying in Arabic: "The entire world suffers from the children of Israel today and complains about them."
The Muslim cleric continued: "Who will set the world free from the children of Israel so that the world will be able to say that it has rid itself of that hidden evil?"
Standing in front of a young boy holding a black and white flag, he then said: "This mission will be accomplished by none but you, O Muslims … The ember of jihad against the Jews will continue to burn. The struggle and the jihad will continue until the words of Allah come true."
A video with English subtitles of Mr al-Wahwah's inflammatory speech, which was posted on YouTube, also records the unseen crowd chanting, "Khaybar, Khaybar" throughout – part of an anti-Semitic "war cry" that emerged during the historic battle of Khaybar in which Jews were massacred.
Australia's teen ISIS fighter leaves manifesto and reportedly blows himself up
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