The brutal murder of a Jordanian pilot by Islamic extremist group ISIS has drawn an unusually sharp response from Jordan’s King Abdullah.
King Abdullah told security chiefs that the pilot’s death would not “be in vain” and that Jordan would strike quickly and harshly on the terrorists.
“The blood of martyr Moaz al-Kasasbeh will not be in vain and the response of Jordan and its army after what happened to our dear son will be severe,” King Abdullah reportedly said. “This evil can and should be defeated.”
The King cut short a visit to the United States after the posting of the video to return home to deal with the fallout of the murder.
Jordan immediately executed two ISIS terrorists held after a failed bombing.
The family of the slain pilot spoke with the King and with Jordan military officials and asked them to completely eliminate ISIS.
The Islamic extremist group Boko Haram reportedly is working on a new offensive campaign of terror using young children to bomb “soft targets”: markets, restaurants and worship centers.
Mike Omeri of the Nigeria National Information Center told reporters that intelligence reports finding credible plans from the group for attacks on citizens in places most people previously considered off limits by the terrorists.
Available intelligence reports indicate a plan by Boko Haram to use young suicide bombers disguised as cobblers to hide explosives in their tool boxes and detonate them on soft target areas such as markets, restaurants, ATM locations, political rallies, and worship centers,” Omeri said.
“Also, there is indication of a plan by this group to use livestock such as goats, cows, donkeys and camels laden with explosives to attack chosen targets,” Omeri added. “In view of these, people who rear goats and cows in the centre are advised in their own interest to restrict such movements because actions could be taken, and nobody should blame the police and other security agencies for taking the necessary steps.”
The announcement comes as Boko Haram released a video on social media showing a training camp for child soldiers.
The Islamic extremist group Taliban has claimed responsibility for a terror attack that left three American contractors dead.
The group release a statement Friday claiming one of their members had infiltrated the Afghanistan security forces and launched the attack Thursday night at Kabul International Airport.
“Yesterday in the evening he managed to get to a crowd of invading and infidel American military forces where he turned his gun towards them and opened fire,” Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Majahid said. “During the gun battle, Ehsanullah was also killed by the enemy.”
Majahid said the terrorist had been “waiting a long time” for a chance to strike a target like a group of Americans. The terrorist had been in an Afghan army uniform before his attack.
The attack was the first major violence in the country’s capital city in almost three weeks.
Survivors of the Boko Haram conducted massacre in northern Nigeria last week are starting to arrive in the southern part of the country and are sharing horrific stories.
Witnesses say that a pregnant woman who was in the middle of delivering a baby boy was killed by the terrorists. The survivors say that women and children were killed indiscriminately by the terrorists who never stopped to ask if the people were Muslim or of other faiths.
“They killed so many people. I saw maybe around 100 killed at that time in Baga. I ran to the bush. As we were running, they were shooting and killing,” one witness said.
Amnesty International has released satellite photos of the region showing the devastation left in the wake of the terrorists. Actual ground footage has been unavailable as the Islamists still control the area.
“These detailed images show devastation of catastrophic proportions in two towns, one of which was almost wiped off the map in the space of four days,” Daniel Eyre, Nigeria researcher for Amnesty International, told the Christian Post.
“Of all Boko Haram assaults analyzed by Amnesty International, this is the largest and most destructive yet. It represents a deliberate attack on civilians whose homes, clinics and schools are now burnt out ruins.”
“The numbers are adding up fast and it is becoming clearer and clearer that the Nigerian governments, both federal and states, are failing resoundingly in their responsibility to protect innocent lives and prevent this mass atrocities from going forward. These atrocities are increasingly becoming worse and worse as the times go by,” said Pastor Laolu Akande, the executive director of the Christian Association of Nigerian Americans.
The gunmen responsible for the Islamic terrorist attack on a French satirical magazine are dead after a raid by French police.
The raid ended a standoff where the two Islamic terrorists said they wanted to “die as martyrs” rather than surrender.
Cherif and Said Kouachi, 32 and 34, repeated their connections to Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Military experts who viewed unedited footage of the attack on the magazine Charlie Hebdo say it’s clear the men had military training.
U.S. intelligence sources confirmed that Cherif Kouachi went to Yemen in 2011 and was seen at an Al Qaeda training camp.
The raid that took out the Kouachis was 25 miles from Paris. At the same time, a raid in Paris took out a fellow terrorist who had taken hostages at a kosher market.
Amedy Coulibaly is reportedly the man who killed a Paris police officer on Thursday as she was working a routine traffic stop. Police say Coulibaly and his girlfriend Hayat Bourneddiene were the suspects of the police killing. She remains at large.
All the men involved in the attack were confirmed to be disciples of Djamel Beghal, a terrorist arrested in the United Arab Emirates after admitting he was conspiring to blow up the U.S. Embassy in Paris.
Islamic terrorist group ISIS has launched their first attack against Saudi Arabia.
Four terrorists attacked a Saudi border patrol post on the Iraq/Saudi border that left three Saudi border patrol officers dead along with two others injured.
The attack is the first since the Islamists stated their desire in November to take over Saudi Arabia.
The Saudi Press Agency said the four terrorists were caught attempting to sneak over the border around 4:30 a.m. by a lone border patrol agent. The terrorists opened fire and killed the agent.
More agents were sent after the terrorists. One killed two agents when he detonated a suicide vest. All four terrorists were killed.
“It is the first attack by Islamic State itself against Saudi Arabia and is a clear message after Saudi Arabia entered the international coalition against it,” an Iraqi security analyst with close ties to the Saudi interior ministry, Mustafa Alani, told Reuters.
The Saudi government has built a 600-mile long fence along their border with Iraq. They have contributed to the U.S. led effort to destroy ISIS.
In a rare break among Islamic terrorist groups and countries that support them, the Pakistani Taliban has been roundly denounced for their attack on a school that left 132 children dead.
The Pakistani Taliban has been attempting to justify their attack by saying that the assault was revenge against the army for an offensive against the terrorist organization. The terrorists said their families had suffered losses, so it was right to kill the children of army members.
The spokesman for the Afghanistan branch of the Taliban condemned the attack as being against the basics of Islam.
“The intentional killing of innocent people, children and women is against the basics of Islam and this criteria has to be considered by every Islamic party and government,” Zabihullah Mujahid said in a statement, according to Reuters.
The Iranian government also released a statement strongly condemning the terrorist action.
“This is a totally un-Islamic and inhumane act. Terrorism, extremism and endangering the lives of innocent people, in any form and with any objective, is condemned,” Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham told reporters.
Pakistan’s prime minister Nawaz Sharif says the government had tried to negotiate with the terror group but the talks broke down, leading to a military offensive against the group.
Islamic terrorists have killed a pastor from South Africa who felt a passion to help the Afghani people after the United States removed the Taliban.
Three terrorists with explosives on their chest stormed into the compound where Pastor Werner Geoenewald and his family have been living. The explosion killed Werner and his two children Jean-Pierre and Rode. The fire also destroyed all the family’s belongings leaving the mother Hannelie alone.
The children were 17 and 15. Hannelie survived because she had been working a nearby clinic at the time of the attack.
“Their house was burned down,” Hannelie’s sister Riana Du Plessis said on Sunday from South Africa. “Hannelie went back there this morning to try to recover some of their goods, but there was nothing to recover. She lost everything – her children, her husband, her cats, her dogs.”
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the murders saying they were out to kill Christians.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has announced a mass change in security officials after the Islamic terrorist group al-Shabaab struck at a quarry in northeast Kenya.
The terrorists brutally executed any non-Muslim working at the quarry. At least 36 people were confirmed dead and several others are missing.
Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the terror attack and said they will keep executing non-Muslims in Kenya until the country pulls their troops out of Somalia, where they are working with African Union forces to eliminate the terrorists.
Kenyan security officials say the terrorists snuck up on the workers while they were sleeping and then separated the Muslims before shooting others at close range.
President Kenyatta said that police chief David Kimaiyo and Interior Minister Joseph old Lenku are out. He called on the parliament to quickly approve his proposed replacement because “our bickering only emboldens the enemy.”
The gunman behind a rampage in downtown Ottawa, Canada is dead along with a soldier shot during the gunman’s initial volley.
The soldier was a ceremonial sentry guarding the National War Memorial. Ottawa police confirmed the soldier died at the hospital from gunshot wounds.
The gunman, whose name is being withheld by police, died after engaging in a gun battle with Parliament Hill security and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police inside the Centre Block of Parliament Hill. The battle took place outside the doors where the Conservative and NDP caucuses were meeting.
The gunman was just outside the door where Canada’s Prime Minster, Stephen Harper, was meeting with officials. Security was able to rush Harper out of a back entrance away from the shooter.
“A series of gunshots rang out and we realized they were right on the other side of the door. And it isn’t a very strong door. We put up these flimsy little tables to get people behind and get them under chairs. We wanted to make sure that everyone was safe,” Member of Parliament Charlie Angus told the Ottawa Citizen.
Witnesses inside Centre Block say between 30 and 50 shots were heard during the gun battle. Witnesses at the initial shooting site said that the gunman just jumped from a car with a rifle.
“I heard a bunch of pops and I looked over at the War Memorial and I saw a man with a rifle shooting at innocent people,” construction worker Matthew Blais said. “We ducked for cover. Then we saw him jump into a green car and head up the street. He parked right in front of Parliament and ran into the building.”
The attack comes days after an Islamic extremist committed a hit and run attack on Canadian soldiers.
Canada is scheduled to begin bombing runs against ISIS with the United States this week.
