“Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi announced on Monday the capture of one
of the top leaders of ISIS. Al-Kadhimi said in a Twitter post that Sam

 

 


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CBS News: Iraq Captures ISIS Finance Chief And Former Deputy Leader Sami Jasim
Al-Jaburi
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“Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi announced on Monday the capture of
one of the top leaders of ISIS. Al-Kadhimi said in a Twitter post that Sami
Jasim al-Jaburi, the former deputy of the terror group and its head of finance,
was detained in a third country, which he declined to name, by Iraqi
intelligence forces in a “complex external operation.” Al-Jaburi, born in Iraq
in 1973, was a deputy to slain ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and is believe
to have remained close to the group's current commander Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi
al-Qurashi. Al-Jaburi was designated as a terrorist by the U.S. government and
there was a $5 million reward on offer from the State Department for
information leading to his arrest. The Iraqi government considers al-Jaburi a
key figure within the terrorist organization. After joining ISIS in the early
days following its split from al Qaeda, he played a central role in building
ISIS' de-facto state as it seized a huge swathe of territory spanning the
Iraq-Syria border between 2014 and 2018. Iraqi political analyst and security
expert Fadhil Abu Ragheef told CBS News that al-Jaburi was a trusted deputy to
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the former ISIS leader who was killed in a U.S. raid in
Syria in 2019.”

 

The National: Saudi Arabia Calls On UN To Hold Houthis Accountable
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“Saudi Arabia has called for the UN to hold Houthi militia accountable for
their continuing attacks on civilians in the kingdom. It sent a letter to the
UN and UN Security Council on Sunday, the second time in a week that the
country has demanded action against the Houthis “in accordance with
international law”. “The kingdom will spare no effort in taking all necessary
measures to protect its lands and preserve the safety of its citizens and
residents, according to its obligations under international law,” said Abdallah
Al Mouallimi, the Permanent Representative of Saudi Arabia to the UN.
Ambassador Al Mouallimi said the Houthi attack on October 8 at Jazan airport
caused injuries to 10 civilians and employees, and damage to the airport. He
said attacking civilian infrastructure and threatening innocent people could
amount to a war crime, for which the Houthi militia must be held accountable in
accordance with international law. “As I indicated in my previous messages, it
is clear that the continued absence of adequate and strict measures by the
international community, especially the Security Council, has sent the wrong
message to the Houthis to continue their terrorist acts in the region,” he
added.”

 

Syria

 

AFP: Car Bomb Kills Six In Northern Syria's Afrin: Monitor
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“A car bombing in the northern Syrian city of Afrin on Monday killed six
people, including at least one Turkey-backed rebel fighter, a war monitor said.
An AFP video journalist saw civil defence members douse the charred remains of
a car with water, as rescue workers carried away what appeared to be a victim's
remains under a blanket on a stretcher. Afrin, like all Syrian areas held by
pro-Turkish rebels, is the scene of regular targeted killings, bombings and
shootings that largely remain unclaimed. On Monday, an explosives-laden vehicle
detonated in “an area crowded with civilians” in the centre of the city, said
the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The explosion hit near a
market and military outpost for the hardline Jaysh al-Islam rebel group,
according to the monitor which relies on a network of sources inside Syria. At
least two civilians and one Jaysh fighter were among those killed, while 12
other people were wounded, the Observatory said. “Hospitals in Afrin received
charred corpses of unidentified persons,” it added. According to the
Observatory, a local police force in Afrin arrested two young men suspected of
involvement. Last month, Afrin was hit by four separate attacks using explosive
devices, including one targeting the vehicle of a rebel commander.”

 

Turkey

 

Reuters: Erdogan Says Latest Kurdish YPG Attack On Turkish Police Is 'Final
Straw'
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“President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that Turkey was determined to
eliminate threats originating in northern Syria, adding an attack by Kurdish
YPG militants that killed two Turkish police was “the final straw.” “We have no
patience left regarding some regions in Syria which have the quality of being
the source of attacks on our country,” Erdogan said in a news conference
following a cabinet meeting. “We are determined to eliminate the threats
originating from here either with the active forces there or by our own means,”
he added. Two Turkish police were killed on Sunday in a guided missile attack
in northern Syria's Azaz region, which Turkey said was launched by the YPG,
according to the Interior Ministry. The attack was launched from the Tal Rifaat
region, it said. Separately, ammunition that landed in two separate areas
caused explosions in the southern Gaziantep province's Karkamis district,
across the border from Syria's Jarablus, the governor's office said. A third
piece of ammunition landed within Jarablus, it said, adding that it was
believed to be launched from a region controlled by the YPG, the U.S.-backed
Kurdish militants which Ankara considers a terrorist organisation. “The latest
attack on our police and the harassment that targets our soil are the final
straw,” Erdogan said.”

 

Afghanistan

 

AFP: Under-Pressure Taliban To Meet EU In Bid For 'Positive' Ties
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“The Taliban will hold face-to-face talks with European Union officials, the
acting foreign minister said on Monday, in a diplomatic push by the hardline
Islamists groping for international support. The Taliban are seeking
recognition, as well as assistance to avoid a humanitarian disaster, after they
returned to power in August following the withdrawal of US troops after 20
years of war. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday urged the world
to donate more money to Afghanistan to head off its economic collapse, and he
slammed the Taliban's “broken” promises to Afghan women and girls. The
Taliban's Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said the meeting with the
EU would take place on Tuesday, days after he led the Taliban's first in-person
talks with United States officials since the American pullout. The Taliban
badly need allies as Afghanistan's economy is in a parlous state with
international aid cut off, food prices rising and unemployment spiking. The
regime, still yet to be recognised as a legitimate government by any other
country, is also facing a threat from the Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K), who
have launched a series of deadly attacks. “Tomorrow we are meeting the EU
representatives.”

 

CNN: Taliban's Religious Police Instructed To Be More Moderate, But Vulnerable
Afghans Say Brutal Justice Is Still Being Meted Out
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“The blood-stained bodies of the four accused kidnappers were hung off
construction cranes with heavy chains, one with a warning sign strung around
his neck, “Abductors will be punished like this.” In the public spaces in the
western Afghan city of Herat, the crowds squinted into the sun, peering up at
the lifeless figures. Adults took video and pictures with their cellphones,
while small children climbed up on the edge of the fountain, directly
underneath one of the bodies, to get a better view. “People are really happy
about this decision,” one of the bystanders, Mohammed Mansour, told CNN.
“Because people believe that by doing this, kidnapping can be removed from this
province.” Under the previous government, corruption was rampant and crime
rates were high. Since ousting the US-backed administration and storming to
power in August, the Taliban have gained favor with many for meting out swift,
albeit brutal, justice under the group's strict interpretation of Sharia law.
In another incident, just after the group seized control of the city, two
alleged criminals were paraded before a jeering crowd, their faces painted -- a
punishment the Taliban favor for petty thieves.”

 

Pakistan

 

Associated Press: Police: TV Reporter Killed In Bomb Attack In Pakistan
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“A local Pakistani journalist was killed in an overnight attack when a
roadside bomb went off near his car in the country's southwest, police said
Monday. Shahid Zehri, 35, was traveling in his car when the bomb exploded in
the town of Hub in the Baluchistan province on Sunday, according to Shafiq
Mengal, a local police officer. Mengal said the attack apparently targeted
Zehri, but officers are still investigating. Zehri worked for a regional Metro
1 News TV news channel. Hours after the blast, the Baluch Liberation Army
separatist group claimed responsibility. Baluchistan is the scene of a
long-running insurgency by Baluch secessionist groups, such as the Baluchistan
Liberation Front and the Baluchistan Liberation Army, which for decades have
staged attacks mainly on security forces to press their demands for
independence. However, separatists have also threatened and attacked
journalists in recent years. Pakistan has long been a deadly country for
journalists. In 2020, it ranked ninth on the Committee to Protect Journalists'
annual Global Impunity Index, which assesses countries where journalists are
murdered regularly and their killers go free, with 15 unsolved murders.”

 

India

 

AFP: Suspected Militants Kill Five Soldiers In Indian Kashmir: Army
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“Militants shot dead five soldiers in Indian-administered Kashmir on Monday,
the army said, stoking tensions in the restive territory following a string of
civilian murders. Separately two suspected rebels were shot dead in different
incidents, authorities said. Colonel Devendar Anand told AFP that one officer
and four soldiers “were killed during a search operation probably by
infiltrators” in a mountain pass near the Line of Control (LoC) dividing the
area from Pakistan-administered Kashmir. “The operation is ongoing,” he added.
The shootings were the deadliest attack on military forces in the area since a
ceasefire along the LoC announced in February. Kashmir has been split between
India and Pakistan since their independence in 1947, with both claiming the
Himalayan region in full. For over three decades, rebel groups have been
fighting Indian soldiers and demanding independence for Kashmir or its merger
with Pakistan. Tens of thousands of civilians, soldiers and rebels have died in
the fighting. India accuses Pakistan of supporting the militants. Prime
Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government angered many Kashmiris in
2019 by scrapping the Muslim-majority region’s semi-autonomous status.”

 

United Kingdom

 

The National: UK Trustees 'Recklessly Sent Cash To Charity Linked To Al Qaeda'
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“Five trustees of Syria and Gaza relief group Human Aid mismanaged cash sent
abroad to a charity linked to Al Qaeda, a UK watchdog has found. The Charity
Commission has described the trustees as “reckless” after the aid group sent
more than £250,000 to a Turkish non-profit organisation, which UK police say
had links to Al Qaeda. In its report, the Commission laid out its concerns
about the group it referred to as “NPO”. “The Commission’s concerns in relation
to the NPO followed a disclosure to the Commission, from the police, which
stated in its assessment the NPO was being used to provide support to Al-Qaeda
aligned individuals in Syria,” it said. However the body upgraded its
investigation to a statutory inquiry after UK counterterrorism police seized
$9,774 and £9,200 in cash from Human Aid officials at Heathrow Airport in July
2019, money that was allegedly destined for a different foreign recipient.
Police stopped the charity’s UK Director of Operations and two volunteers who
said they were delivering aid to Gaza, but were unable to provide evidence of
where the funds were due to go. “The individuals told the police that the funds
belonged to the charity and were intended for use in Gaza,” the Charity
Commission said.”

 

Europe

 

Balkan Insight: Kosovo Arrests Five Suspects For Plotting Terrorist Attacks
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“Kosovo’s Special Prosecution on Sunday said police had arrested five persons
suspected of planning terrorist actions against country’s constitutional order
and security. Explosive devices, fire arms, drones and anti-tank weapons were
seized during the operation, which was conducted after several months of covert
investigation and surveillance, the prosecution said. “Within the due time,
Special Prosecution will file a request for detention of the five suspects,”
the press release added. BIRN has learned that the five were part of a radical
Islamist group, and that all of them have also been arrested before for being
part of such groups. Sources told BIRN that Ardian Gjuraj from Peje/Pec is one
of the five arrested. In February 2018, he was sentenced to one year and five
months in prison for terrorism but was released after five months by the Court
of Appeals. The indictment against him specified that while living in Germany
during 2014-2015, Gjuraj had become a supporter of the terrorist organization
ISIS. His own father, Kujtim Cerkini, reported Gjuraj to the police and the
German authorities extradited him to Kosovo in April 2015. According to the
same indictment, in December 2015 Gjuraj was part of a group who travelled to
Turkey and, after becoming separated from the group, entered Syria to join the
group of Kosovo fighters within ISIS.”

 

Technology

 

Los Angeles Blade: TikTok’s Algorithm Leads Users From Transphobic To
Far-Right Rabbit Holes
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“…The publisher of the books, the American Futurist, describes itself as
seeking “to spread the message and ideas of James Mason” through “the promotion
of books, articles and all other forms of media.” Mason, a neo-Nazi writer
whose work is cited in The Movementarian Menace, is also a major influence
behind Atomwaffen Division, a violent white nationalist terrorist group. As
noted by the Counter Extremism Project, the American Futurist is associated
with Atomwaffen Division (also known as the National Socialist Order) and
multiple ex-members of the group have contributed content to American Futurist.
One such contributor is the author of The Movementarian Menace, Vincent Snyder,
whose real name, the American Futurist notes, is John Cameron Denton. Denton,
himself the former leader of Atomwaffen Division, was sentenced to 41 months in
prison in May for taking part in a conspiracy that involved hate crimes
targeting a historic African American.”



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