“Ivory Coast shooting: ’12 dead including four Europeans’ in gun attack on Grand-Bassam beach resort popular with Western tourists,” by Samuel Osborne, Independent, March 13, 2016 (thanks to Steve): Several people are feared dead after at least four heavily armed gunmen attacked a beach resort in the Ivory Coast. At least 12 people are reported…
Tag: Al-Shabaab
Crusader Corner: Al Shabaab 101
Islamist Groups Currently in Somalia: Al Shabaab Hizbul Islam Islamic Courts Union The recent U.S. airstrike targeting al Shabaab is the latest in a series of fights that seem to be growing in intensity. Below is a brief timeline of al Shabaab: History: Al-Shabaab is an al-Qaida associated militant group that seeks to establish an…
Crusader Corner: Boko Haram Training in Somalia
I see a “Two Birds with One Stone” Type Scenario here. By Hitting these camps with coordinated air and ground attacks we have the opportunity to both kill a large number of combatants from both terror groups and possibly wipe out a large portion of Al-Shabaabs infrastructure. Anybody up for a other trip into Bakarra…
Crusader Corner: The Inside Terror Threat
Bottom Line Up Front: • The February 2, 2016 suicide bombing onboard a Daallo Airlines flight from Mogadishu to Djibouti appears to have been an inside job • An employee is also suspected to be responsible for the October 31, 2015 bombing of a Russian MetroJet flight from Sharm al-Sheikh, Egypt to St. Petersburg • The threat…
Jihad Alert: The Laptop Bomber?
These damn goat humping, pederast, raping jihadist..I am getting sick and tired of them ruining everything associated with air travel. First because of the underwear bomber it was all these restrictions on liquids. And now because of this screw-up who can’t even detonate a bomb right it will be no laptops!? WTF!! Enough is Enough….
Defeating Al-Qaeda’s Nodes
Al Qaeda and the Islamic State thrive in lawless and ungoverned spaces where there is no rule of law to keep them in check. Al Qaeda’s home base in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) is the epitome of such a place, but the tide there has been turning against them over the last decade,…
These are the Wars that will Rage in Africa in 2016
By Peter Dorrie With the exception of Syria, African countries currently get the worst rep when it comes to violence and conflict. Virtually every story coming out of the continent seems to showcase one atrocity or another. This narrative is both true and false. In 2014, Africa experienced more than half of worldwide conflict…
Al-Shabaab Attack on African Hotel was for Profit
It appears the attack yesterday on an African Hotel by the African ISIS affiliate Al-Shabaab terror group which killed 15 people and wounded scores more was a paid job. Somalia is a failed state beyond repair and rife with corruption and while Al-Shabaab is a legitimate terror group, they are also not above being opportunistic…
Al Shabaab pledges Loyalty to ISIS
With ISIS gaining the support of both Boko Haram and now Al Shabaab in Africa, it has solidified its position in that politically fractured country and at the same time secured its Southern Flank in its campaign to conquer Europe.-SF The Islamic State has already won the loyalty of Boko Haram in Nigeria and many…
Learning from Terrorist Tactics: Becoming Anonymous
In a recent article in Jihad Watch Robert Spencer talks about how the 24 year old jihadist who committed the Tunisian Resort Massacre last week where 39 people were killed and at least 39 others were wounded, managed, before the attack, to go completely un-noticed by the public. As Spencer points out, this is clearly due…