[ShabelleMedia] The Indian Navy said it had freed the 23-strong crew of an Iranian fishing vessel that was seized by armed pirates off Somalia.
The al-Kambar 786 was southwest of the Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i island of Socotra, in the Arabian Sea, on March 28 when it was reported to have been boarded by nine pirates, according to a naval statement on Friday.
The vessel was intercepted by the navy’s INS Sumedha and INS Trishul, leading to "over 12 hours of intense coercive tactical measures" forcing the pirates to surrender, the statement said.
The nine pirates are being brought to India under the domestic law against piracy on the high seas, the navy said in a separate statement on Saturday.
The fishing vessel’s crew of 23 Pak nationals were safe and received medical checks before being cleared to continue with fishing activities, the statement said.
Piracy incidents east of the Red Sea have resurfaced for the first time in nearly a decade.
Taking advantage of Western forces’ focus on protecting shipping from attacks in the Red Sea by Yemen’s Iranian-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... holy warriors, pirates have made or attempted more than 20 hijackings since November, driving up insurance and security costs and adding to a crisis for global shipping companies.
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[ShabelleMedia] On Saturday night, security officers in Baidoa, the Bay region’s capital, captured a suspect in a hand grenade attack on a mosque in the southern town.
According to a police officer, people helped apprehend the individual during a security operation, and he is now being held at the Baidoa cop shoppe.
The city is part of Somalia’s Southwest state, and its security is primarily provided by Æthiopian troops, some of whom are not part of the AU operation.
"Immediately following the incident, security forces detained the individual. I urge the people to work with security officials to prevent anything that could jeopardize the area’s security," the officer stated.
Located around 250 km southwest of Mogadishu, Baidoa’s security has lately improved as a result of enhanced army operations targeted at securing the town.
Officials say al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... has severely times attempted to seize the town, after launching attacks and imposing road blockades for the past years, but the group failed on its mission.
[IsraelTimes] FSB says it foiled additional plot by suspects in ISIS shooting at Crocus City Hall, which killed over 140 people
Russia’s FSB security service has said that four people arrested Sunday in a foiled "terror" plot had provided money and arms for the deadly attack on a Moscow concert hall last month.
More than 140 people were killed when button men stormed the Crocus City Hall venue on March 22 before setting the building on fire in the most fatal attack in Russia for two decades.
The FSB said in a statement on Monday that it had arrested a group of four a day earlier in the southern Dagestan ...a formerly inoffensive Caucasus republic currently bedevilled by low-level Islamic insurgency, occasional outbreaks of separatism, ethnic tensions and terrorism, primarily due to its proximity to Chechnya. There are several dozen ethnic groups, most of which speak either Caucasian, Turkic, or Iranian languages. Largest among these ethnic groups are the Avar, Dargin, Kumyk, Lezgin, and Laks. While Russers form less than five percent of the population, Russian remains the primary official language and the lingua franca... region who "were directly involved in the financing and supply of terrorist means to the perpetrators of the terrorist act carried out on 22 March in the Crocus City Hall in Moscow."
On Sunday, Russia’s national anti-terrorism committee said it had apprehended three people who were "planning to commit a series of terrorist crimes."
The FSB said Monday that four foreign citizens had been arrested in the operation in the regional capital Makhachkala and the nearby town of Kaspiysk.
The Interfax news agency cited an FSB video showing one of the detained men saying: "I took weapons to them, these guys who attacked Crocus City Hall. I took them weapons from Makhachkala."
Russian authorities had previously announced the arrests of 12 people they say are connected to the attack — including the four suspected button men, who have been identified as Tajik citizens.
The Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes, said separately on Monday that it was formally charging another suspect with carrying out a "terrorist attack." It said it would ask a judge to send him to pre-trial detention.
"At the moment, the investigation has charged 10 defendants," it said in a statement.
The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) has grabbed credit for the massacre, the most deadly it says it has ever carried out on European soil, though Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... has talked up a Ukrainian and Western connection.
[IsraelTimes] Suspect, an Israeli citizen who lives in the country, accused of ‘serious security offenses’; evidence reportedly shows support for terror group’s October 7 massacre
A sister of Hamas ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... leader Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... has been arrested on suspicion of contact with operatives from the terror group and supporting acts of terror, defense sources said Monday.
Israel Police said in a statement that it had arrested a 57-year-old woman who is "a relative of a senior member of Hamas" in a joint raid with the Shin Bet that was dubbed "Early Dawn."
The statement did not identify the suspect, saying only she was a resident of the southern town of Tel Sheva, where the raid took place.
However, the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything... defense sources, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , confirmed that the woman is one of Haniyeh’s sisters.
Police later identified the suspect as Sabah Avad al-Salam Haniyeh, Channel 12 reported.
Police said that during a raid on the suspect’s home, officers found documents, media, telephones, and other evidence linking her to "serious security offenses."
The statement noted she will appear at the Beersheba Magistrate’s Court later Monday for a hearing on her detention.
Among the evidence reportedly uncovered was material that showed support for the October 7 massacre and encouraged terror operatives in the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip to continue their activities.
Police also found hundreds of thousands of shekels in cash at the premises.
Haniyeh, the Hamas political leader, lives in exile in Doha, Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... . His three sisters live in Tel Sheva and were married to Arab Israelis. Two are now widowed and have fallen foul of Israeli authorities in the past by making illegal trips into Gaza in 2013 via Egypt. They were both given eight-month suspended sentences for the visits in 2015. Later that year, Israel denied Haniyeh’s request that his sisters be permitted to attend his son’s wedding in Gaza.
The three sisters all have Israeli citizenship and according to a 2006 report from the UK’s Daily Telegraph newspaper, some of their children have served in the Israeli Defense Forces.
For years, even at times of heightened tensions, Israel has taken in Gazook patients for medical care. Permits are granted based on security and health considerations and are usually given to cases in dire and life-threatening conditions.
This policy has meant that family members of Hamas leaders have also received medical treatments in the Jewish state. Haniyeh himself has seen his niece, mother-in-law, daughter, and granddaughter all treated in Israeli hospitals.
In 2014, Haniyeh’s daughter was hospitalized at Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital for "a number of days," according to a hospital front man at the time. The hospital did not disclose her medical condition, but Rooters reported that the treatment followed complications during a standard medical procedure she had undergone in Gaza.
In June 2014, Haniyeh’s 68-year-old mother-in-law was treated in Augusta Victoria Hospital, near Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives.
In November 2013, Haniyeh’s 1-year-old granddaughter received treatment in Israel for an infection in her digestive tract. She was taken to an Israeli hospital at death's door, but was returned to her family in Gaza after her condition was deemed incurable, an Israeli military front man said. The girl later died of her condition.
In February, Channel 13 reported that one of Haniyeh’s nieces gave birth at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba.
Deputies reported that the trailer had been dropped off in the middle of the intersection and 'intentionally set on fire' outside Global Vision Bible Church
Pastor Greg Locke had just gotten back from Israel was shocked when he learned what happened at his church on the Holy Day of Resurrection
The church's security cameras caught a man at 6:00 Easter morning dropping off a trailer filled with bibles before setting the trailer and bibles ablaze So he spent his own money to do this thing, rather than stealing someone else’s holy books?
The Wilson County Sheriff's Office is handling the investigation and the suspicious fire. No arrests have been made
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...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
... the personification of Somali state failure...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
