Islamic State: delivers suicide bombers to Europe “via Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Georgia”

July 11, 2016 By administrator

islamic state terror The Islamic State militants have begun using a new route through Azerbaijan, Cyprus and Georgia to transfer their suicide bombers from Syria to Europe, Turkish daily Milliyet reported on July 11, citing intelligence officials, Hurriyet says.

According to the daily, Turkish intelligence officials, who cooperated with foreign intelligence services, determined that ISIL recently tasked its militants from Azerbaijan and the Northern Caucasus to carry out attacks in Turkey and Azerbaijan. ISIL planned attacks in Turkey and Europe after suffering defeats in the hands of U.S.-led coalition forces in Syria, the report also said.

The jihadist group planned to continue targeting Turkey, due to the latter apprehending the former’s members and carrying out operations against it, according to the intelligence officials.

In addition, it was determined that IS formed a group of 20 to 25 militants in Syria and tried to send them to Turkey a short while ago after the IDs of a number of its militants were exposed in operations carried out in the country. The General Directorate of Security sent a warning notice to provincial security directorates in April regarding these developments, according to reports.

The General Directorate of Security reportedly sent another warning concerning ISIL attackers from Azerbaijan and the Caucasus in June, saying the militants were planning suicide attacks in Turkey and Azerbaijan. The aforementioned militants planned to attack police officers and their families in Azerbaijan, the report said.

Meanwhile, another warning which was sent to provincial security directorates after ISIL’s attack on Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport on June 28, which left 45 people dead and scores wounded, reportedly informed the police on the jihadist group’s new targets in Turkey. The warning, which was sent on June 30, stressed that ISIL militants in Ankara and Istanbul were planning attacks on military and police buildings with bomb-laden cars.

IS wanted to assassinate Kurdish public officials, journalists and military and intelligence officials working in Ankara, Istanbul and the western province of İzmir, the warning also said.

Turkey has been on high alert, as the country has been rocked by a series of suicide and car bomb attacks which claimed many lives and wounded hundreds.

Hurriyet. ISIL transfers suicide bombers from Syria to Europe through Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Georgia: Report

Turkey Bursa: ‘Suicide bomber’ hits western Turkey

April 27, 2016 By administrator

A suicide bomber has blown herself up in the western Turkish city of Bursa, killing one person and injuring 10 others, local media say.

The attack took place near the city’s 14th century Grand Mosque, a symbol of the city, reports said.

Unnamed officials said photographic evidence showed the attacker was a woman, Reuters news agency reported.

Turkey has been hit by a wave of suicide bombings blamed on both Islamist and Kurdish militants.

Baghdad: 26 killed in suicide bomb attack in football field south of Iraq’s

March 25, 2016 By administrator

CeaptipWEAY6brh

BAGHDAD, March 25 (Xinhua) — Up to 26 people were killed and 90 others wounded on Friday in a suicide bomb attack at a football field in a town south of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, a local police source said.

“The latest reports said that 26 people were killed in the suicide bombing,” the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

The attack occurred in the evening when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest among a crowd of people during a football game at the pitch in the town of Iskandriyah, some 50 km south of Baghdad, the source said.

The mayor of the town, Ahmed al-Khafaji, was among the killed and Hassoun Hussein, the local leader of the Shiite militia Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq, was among the wounded, the source said.

Iskandriyah is part of the once restive area, dubbed Triangle of Death, which is a cluster of towns scattered north of Babil’s provincial capital city of Hilla, some 100 km south of Baghdad.

Earlier, an UN Assistance Mission for Iraq report estimated 7,515 were killed and 14,855 injured in the armed conflicts in Iraq last year.

TURKEY testing its own making Terrorism: Suicide attack in Istanbul: 4 dead, 20 injured (governor)

March 19, 2016 By administrator

arton123429-480x270 A suicide attack Saturday in the heart of Istanbul killed four people, including the bomber, and wounded 20 others, including three seriously, said the governor of the Turkish megapolis, Vasip Sahin, quoted by the media.

The attack occurred on the main pedestrian shopping street Istiklal the largest city in Turkey, attended by tens of thousands of people every day.

‘Help me, help me!’: Last words of the female suicide bomber before blowing herself up in Paris flat

November 19, 2015 By administrator

The first female suicide bomber ever to operate in Europe shouted ‘Help me, help me!’ to police before blowing herself up today, according to the Daily Mail.
The blonde haired woman, named as Hasna Aitboulahcen, is said to be the cousin of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the alleged ISIS mastermind of the bloodbath in Paris on Friday in which 132 died.

http://video.dailymail.co.uk/video/mol/2015/11/18/9185181436809294319/640x360_9185181436809294319.mp4
As police special forces accompanied by soldiers moved towards a flat in Saint-Denis, a northern suburb of the French capital where Abaaoud was said to be holed up, she appeared at a window shortly after 6am.
It is believed that Abaaoud was also killed in the raid this morning, however French authorities have yet to confirm the death.
Kalashnikovs were being used against the security forces, but after an an hour and a half of furious exchanges, there was a lull in the fighting.
It was then that the woman looked down from a third floor apartment window and shouted ‘Help me! Help me!’
An eyewitness identified only as Christian, 20, told Le Parisien: “During a 10 or 15 minute lull in the shooting I heard a woman shouting: “Help, help, help me!”
“The police asked her to identify herself, and to show herself. She held her hands up but she didn’t reveal her face.
“She withdrew her hands out of sight, and then put them up again several times.
“They police shouted at her: ‘Keep your hands in the air!’ They told her: “We’re going to shoot.”
The shooting resumed. The police were firing from the roof of the building opposite. Suddenly there was an enormous explosion. It was probably the woman who blew herself up.
“The windows shattered. Lots of objects from the apartment were thrown into the street, pieces of human flesh as well. They are still there. You can see a bit of the head, of skin, of ribs.”

The female suicide bomber cried out ‘God is great’ in Arabic before detonating her explosives and killing herself for ISIS, MailOnline has learned.

“The woman terrorist cried out before she set off her bomb,” eye witness Yasmine told MailOnline.

15-year-old witness says Azerbaijanis were among Ankara suicide bombers

October 14, 2015 By administrator

A 15-year-old witness of the October 10 terrorist attack in Ankara told the police that the alleged suicide bombers spoke with each other in Azerbaijani, Turkish newspaper Milliyet reports, according to the Azerbaijani information portal Modern.az.

The witness, a female whose name is not revealed, told the police that the terrorist attack suspects first went to the restroom by the mosque. Then two women in hijabs went out from it, while four people remained inside. The girl says there were Azerbaijanis among those terrorists because those four people spoke in Azerbaijani and Kurdish.

She says the terrorists wrapped the bomb in a black piece of cloth, and one of the women tied it to herself. They also had bags.

“When we saw them, me and my friend, we went out. I told the police about those people but they did not listen to me. Four people remained inside, and another four were in the street. They all went in the same direction. They were ‘living bombs.’ One of them blew up behind, another – in the pool, the third one blew up in the crowd among the activists of the Peoples’ Democratic Party. The rest of the terrorists picked up the pieces of the exploded human bodies and smeared their faces and hands with their blood. The terrorists threw a bomb on my friend. He was torn to pieces. His head fell at my feet,” the girl recalls.

After the October 10 terrorist attack in Turkey, the names of 21 members of the IS group, who were wanted for a long time, again appeared on the agenda. According to the outlet, there is an Azerbaijani woman, Ulker Mammadova, wanted in Turkey, in the list of the six women in the group, who could have become the “living bombs.”

Commenting on the information that there is an Azerbaijani citizen in the Turkey intelligence list of potential IS kamikazes, political scientist Tofig Abbasov told Sputnik Azerbaijan that the Azerbaijanis’ presence in the IS is not a secret any more.

Kamil Salimov, an Azerbaijani expert on fight against terrorism, told Oxu.az that the people taking part in the terrorist activities of the IS can come back to their country where they have connections and resources to carry out any terrorist attack, and expose the society and the whole country to a great danger. This is a matter of concern, the expert highlighted.

The relationship between international terrorist groups and Azerbaijan originated in the early 1990s. That time, the Azerbaijani army, having failed in the aggression against Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), retreated with losses. Trying to save the situation, the Azerbaijani leadership, headed by Heydar Aliyev attracted to the war against the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh international terrorists and members of radical groups from Afghanistan (groupings of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar), Turkey (“Grey Wolves”, etc.), Chechnya (groupings Basayev and Raduyev etc.) and some other regions.

Despite the involvement of thousands of foreign mercenaries and terrorists in the Azerbaijani army during the war, the Azerbaijani aggression against Nagorno-Karabakh Republic failed, and the Baku authorities were forced to sign an armistice with the NKR and Armenia. However, international terrorists established ties in Azerbaijan, and used them in the future. The Azerbaijanis were recruited and sent to Afghanistan and the North Caucasus, where they participated in the battles against the forces of the international coalition and Russian organizations. Over the recent years, the citizens of Azerbaijan have been actively engaged in terrorism and extremist activities in Russia, Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq.

Turkey: English-speaking suicide bomber kills policeman in attack near Istanbul’s touristic square

January 6, 2015 By administrator

ISTANBUL

The attack has targeted the tourism unit of the Istanbul Security Directorate, which is located near several touristic landmarks, including the Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque and the Basilica Cistern.

A policeman has been killed in a suicide attack by an English-speaking woman in central Istanbul, a week after another attack on Istanbul police by a far-left group.

A niqab-clad female suicide bomber targeted the building of the tourism police near the Sultanahmet Square, one of the most popular touristic places in Istanbul, on Jan. 6, NTV television reported. The assailant “exploded herself prematurely before going into the police building, as she was prevented by the guards at the entrance,” Cihan news agency reported.

Istanbul Governor Vasıf Şahin said that the suicide bomber presented herself as a tourist, telling the police in English that she had forgotten her wallet inside while attempting to enter the building moments before the attack. “One policeman is seriously wounded. The other policeman is better,” he added, while answering journalists’ questions at the crime scene.

While the body of the unidentified attacker was recovered and the injured people were hospitalized, police stopped the tram service as the area was cordoned off as a security measure. Kenan Kumaş, one of the injured policemen, died in the hospital.

Doğan News Agency footage shows the moments after the attack near the square:

Police suspect that the the outlawed Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C) might be behind the attack, according to NTV.

A far-left militant who served jail term for being a member of the DHKP/C had been detained in front of the Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul, which also houses a prime ministerial office, after throwing a bomb that failed to explode at police officers last week.

January/06/2015

Suicide kills one person worldwide every 40 seconds, WHO report finds

September 4, 2014 By administrator

Some of worst-affected countries have suicide rates 40 times higher than those where fewest people kill themselves

Suicide is the second leading cause of death among people aged 15-29, and is more common among men than women. Photograph: Alamy

One person in the world dies by suicide every 40 seconds, according to the first ever comprehensive report on the issue from the World Health Organisation, which talks of a massive toll of tragic and preventable deaths.

Suicide rates vary enormously from one country to another around the world – influenced by the cultural, social, religious and economic environments in which people live and sometimes want to stop living. Some of the worst affected countries have more than 40 times more suicides than the least affected areas. But the pressures that cause extreme emotional distress are similar everywhere and there are measures all governments can take to make suicide less likely, says the WHO.

Overall, the Geneva-based UN body estimates that there are at least 800,000 suicides a year. But many countries do not collect good data, there is huge stigma and in a handful of nations suicide is still illegal, so it is highly likely the numbers are an underestimate. Criminalising suicide does not prevent it – India, where it is illegal, has one of the higher suicide rates in the world at almost 21 deaths per 100,000 people against a global average of 11.

Suicide is the second leading cause of death among young people aged 15-29, but otherwise suicide rates increase in people older than 50. It is more common in men than in women, although the disparity is greater in rich countries than in poorer ones. Three-quarters of suicides occur in low- and middle-income countries, with higher numbers in central and eastern Europe and in Asia. North Korea has the very high suicide rate of 39.5 per 100,000 people, but South Korea’s is almost as high, at 36.6. Catholic countries and those with large numbers of Muslims tend to have lower rates because of the opposition to suicide of their religion. People experiencing conflict, abuse and isolation and those suffering discrimination, such as refugees, migrants and those suffering prejudice because of their sexuality are all at increased risk.

For every death, there are many more people who try to kill themselves. Having attempted suicide is the biggest risk factor for dying by suicide at some point in the future. It is a clear cry for help, which governments are urged to pick up on.

Whether it is a mental health crisis, financial desperation, the death of a child or the breakdown of a relationship that triggers the thought of suicide, there is still often an opportunity to stop it, says the WHO.