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.”
A terrorist bombing plot against Oprah Winfrey’s studios and the iconic “Sears Tower” in Chicago has been uncovered after two of the conspirators were arrested on other crimes.
The plot was first reported by Judicial Watch.
The bombing scheme was plotted in 2009 and allegedly was inspired by militant Islamist hatred of American soldiers being on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan. Winfrey was targeted because the plotters resented her popularity and power over social issues and debate. The tower because of its iconic status.
Two of the plotters are jailed on state charges. The first, Emad Karakrah, is in the Cook County, Illinois jail on charges of making a false car bomb threat. He led police on a high-speed chase through Chicago with an ISIS flag on his car.
The second, Hector Huerta, is an illegal alien in the El Paso County, Texas Jail. He was arrested on August 13th for DUI and has been charged with “reentry of a deported alien” for the third time in five years.
Sources told Judicial Watch that two of the FBI’s “most wanted terrorists”, Jaber Elbaneh and Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah were part of the planning of the aborted 2009 attack.
The Department of Justice and FBI have not commented on the report.
Security experts are raising the alarm over an Al-Qaeda plot to blow up at least five passenger airliners on Christmas in a 9/11 style coordinated attack.
The threat is so serious in the minds of British officials that they had considered a total ban on all carry on luggage as a way to thwart the plot.
“We’ve been told that five planes are being targeted in a high profile hit before Christmas. They’ve been waiting for the big one,” an airport security source told the London Express. “We have many scares but this one nearly got hand baggage pulled from all airlines. The threat is still alive and real.”
The source says the plot is aimed at European airports because U.S. security measures have increased significantly compared to their counterparts around the world.
The plot reportedly would include radicalized Britons who have returned to the country from being a part of the battles in Syria and the middle east. Some have received terrorist training in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
“Crime profiling shows that white, middle class women, who are better than averagely educated, are susceptible to the terrorist narrative,” terrorism expert Dr. Sally Leivesley told the Express. “They see themselves at the forefront of attempts to change the world and are represent a very dangerous tool for the terrorists. These sleepers will have been from ordinary and not very religious families and not only is the threat from them here but also when they return battle hardened from Syria and Iraq.”
The Taliban attacked a British convoy on Thursday killing five people.
The homicide bomb attack focused on a vehicle from the British embassy and killed two embassy workers, one British and one Afghani.
The attack wounded at least 30 bystanders.
“I am deeply saddened to confirm that a British national civilian security team member and an Afghan national working for the embassy were killed in the incident,” Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said in a statement.
The blast was the first of the day. A second blast a few hours later struck at a compound run by a contractor for the U.S. aid agency in the country. It shook buildings throughout the diplomatic section of Kabul and was the start of an hour long shootout between terrorists and Afghani security forces.
A foreign national and two terrorists died in the second explosion.
There have been five major terrorist attacks by the Taliban this week.
Two men have been arrested by St. Louis police in connection with a plot to bomb the Gateway Arch and assassinate two figures in the Michael Brown case.
Brandon Orlando Baldwin and Olajuwon Ali Davis were indicted on federal weapons charges and more charges are expected against the duo.
Police did not say in their indictment if the men had the capability to carry out their plans. They bought what they believed to be a pipe bomb from an undercover officer and made arrangements to buy more for the attack on the Arch.
The men said they had to delay the purchase of more bombs because money had not been transferred onto his girlfriend’s welfare card.
They also planned to kill St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch and also the Ferguson Police Chief for their roles in the Michael Brown situation.
“This particular case involves serious issues, especially in light of the Ferguson matter. My client is entitled to a patient analysis and due process like anybody else, and he looks forward to a vigorous defense,” Davis’ attorney John Lynch told the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
Israeli leaders said Thursday they had foiled a plot to bomb the largest soccer stadium in Jerusalem by the terrorist group Hamas.
Shin Bet security service said that 30 members of the terror group has been arrested and many had received weapons and explosives training in Jordan and the Gaza Strip.
The statement from Shin Bet also said that Hamas leaders in Turkey planned the plot against Teddy soccer stadium and also against the city’s light railway system.
“We have no information about these Israeli claims … It is clear Israel wanted to create a new story to divert the world’s attention away from the escalation in Jerusalem,” Hamas said in a statement.
Israeli intelligence services and Defense Forces have stopped a number of Hamas plots in the last few weeks. Eleven Israelis have been killed in the last month because of Hamas terrorist attacks.
Yazidi refugees are beginning to speak out about the horrific treatment they experienced at the hands of terrorist group ISIS.
“My older brother, my father, my mother, my wife and even my two kids were killed. All I have left of them is just one picture on my mobile phone,” a man identified as Tahysn to the London Daily Mail. He said that his sons were three and four when ISIS slit their throats.
Other refugees described watching other die from thirst and heat as they were trapped on a mountain awaiting help from western military groups.
“When we left Sinjar, the kids suffered a lot… Many men from our village died, many women have been captured. I saw some kids dying because of the heat,” a woman named Rezal said. “[ISIS]… even cut the throats of the babies.”
The refugees said that many of their kidnapped relatives have been trying to starve themselves to death because of the extreme brutality of their captors.
A top commander within the terrorist group ISIS has been killed during a U.S. airstrike in Mosul.
Radwan Taleb al-Hamdouni, who had overseen the terrorist organization’s operations in Mosul, died after the U.S. strike according to multiple local sources. He was inside a car and died along with his driver.
Hamdouni was given a funeral that was widely attended by members of the terrorist group according to Mosul residents.
The airstrike comes as government forces focus on recapturing the city from the terrorists. The terrorists, however, are attempting to overtake the city of Ramadi.
“Mosques are asking anyone who can carry weapons to confront the attackers,” provincial council member Hathal Fahdawi said regarding the resident’s attempts to stop the terrorist onslaught.
The terrorists are focusing on taking government buildings and police headquarters.
Christian families who were unable to flee Raqqa when the terrorist group ISIS overran the city and made it their base are being subjected to violence and excessive “protection taxes”.
Fides News Agency reports that the 23 families have been routinely harassed and beaten by the terrorists. They have been told that unless they pay “jizya”, or tax, they will be forced out of their homes on Sunday.
The tax amounts to $535 American dollars and Fides reports the families will be unable to pay because of the restrictions upon them by ISIS.
“In my opinion this is a very grave situation. No western leader is moving to stop such a tragedy but they offer only empty words with no actions,” Munir S. Kakish, chairman of the Council of Local Evangelical Churches in the Holy Land, told The Christian Post.
The churches within the city have been converted to offices for terrorist officials and Bibles and Christian materials are routinely burned by the terrorists.
A new report from the United Nations says that ISIS has stored enough weapons to continue their fight for at least two more years.
The report says that the supply estimate is taking U.S. airstrikes into account.
“According to different sources, the amounts of Iraqi small arms and ammunition captured by ISIL are sufficient to allow ISIL to continuing fighting at current levels for six months to two years,” the report states. “ISIL should have few problems maintaining state-of-the-art materials seized from the Iraqi Government, as most were unused.”
The terrorists have seized Iraqi and Syrian weapon caches from cities in the Anbar, Diyala and Salah al-Din provinces.
“Both ISIL and [Al Nursa Front] have seized military assets from conventional armies,” the report says. “The scale of these seizures can be grasped by noting that ISIL, in June of 2014, captured vehicles, weapons, and ammunition sufficient to arm and equip more than three Iraqi conventional army divisions.”
The report says that in addition to the weapons, ISIS makes about a million dollars a day from oil sales and over $45 million in the last year from kidnapping ransoms.
