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Al-Qaeda's Yemen branch announces death of leader Khalid Batarfi

Khalid Batarfi, a Saudi with a $5m US bounty on his head, had been leader of the branch since 2020.
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Yeah!

"The group's fighters have a strong presence in Shabwa and Abyan, where they have been use hit-and-run tactics to attack Yemeni government forces and militias affiliated to the separatist Southern Transitional Council."

...not government in exile nor the separatist 'rebels'. This place is a mess.
 
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2024 Global Terrorism Index Released​


ByAtlas
April 22, 2024

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The 2024 Global Terrorism Index has finally been released, giving in depth analysis on terrorism and its trends from 2023. You can access the full report here, but I am going to summarize some key points below much like last year.
Key Trends
  • Deaths from terrorism rose to 8,352 in 2023, a 22 percent increase from the 6,701 deaths in 2022.
  • The number of terrorist attacks decreased to 3,350 in 2023, a 23 percent decrease from the 4,321 attacks in 2022.
  • Burkina Faso became the country with the highest impact from terrorism for the first time, with deaths from terrorism increasing by 68 percent to 1,907. A quarter of all terrorism deaths occurring globally were in Burkina Faso.
  • The Sahel is the most affected region in the world, accounting for almost half of all deaths from terrorism and 26 percent of attacks globally in 2023.
  • The Islamic State and its affiliates remained the world’s deadliest terrorist group in 2023, despite deaths from attacks declining by 17 percent from 1,963 to 1,636.
  • Terrorism against the West has decreased 55 percent since 2022 with only 23 recorded attacks, marking the lowest level since 2017.
  • Only 50 countries reported at least one terror attack in 2023, down from 60 in 2022.
  • Deaths caused by terrorism in Afghanistan down 81 percent since 2022.
Deadliest Terror Groups
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  1. Islamic State (ISIS) and its affiliated groups
    • 1,636 attributed deaths (down 17 percent from 2022)
  2. Hamas
    • 1,200 attributed deaths (up 119,900 percent from 2022)
  3. Jamaat Nusrat Al-Islam wal Muslimeen (JNIM)
    • 1,099 attributed deaths (up 293 percent from 2022)
  4. Al-Shabaab
    • 499 attributed deaths (down 36 percent from 2022)
Note: These groups account for over 75 percent of attacks deaths in 2023.
Deadliest Attacks
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  1. (10/7/2023) Hamas-led attacks against Israel left 1,200 dead.
  2. (11/16/2023) JNIM attack against Nigerien military convoys in the Tillaberi region kill at least 200 soldiers and wound dozens more.
  3. (10/5/2023) Unknown explosive drone attack against a military academy graduation in Homs, Syria, kills at least 89 people and wounds 240 others.
  4. Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) suicide bombing at a mosque inside a police compound in Peshawar, Pakistan, kills 84 and wounds 200 others.
  5. (2/17/2023) Islamic State gunmen kill at least 71 Burkinabe soldiers during an ambush in the Oudalan province.
  6. (2/26/2023) Suspected JNIM gunmen kill 70 civilians during an attack against the town of Partiaga, Burkina Faso.
  7. (11/5/2023) Unknown gunmen kill 70 civilians during an attack against the town of Zaongo, Burkina Faso.
  8. (3/1/2023) At least 60 Islamic State militants killed in clashes with JNIM in Mali’s Gao region.
  9. (8/19/2023) At least 60 Boko Haram militants killed in clashes with Islamic State West Africa (ISWA) militants.
  10. (12/24/2023) JNIM militants kill at least 60 Burkinabe soldier during an attack against a barracks in Souli.
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2024 Global Terrorism Index Released

The 2024 Global Terrorism Index has finally been released, giving in depth analysis on terrorism and its trends from 2023. You can access the full report here,
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ISIS-K behind foiled Election Day terrorism plot, U.S. officials say

Charging documents said the suspect told the FBI that he was communicating with a person named “Malik” and that he knew “Malik” was affiliated with the Afghan branch of the Islamic State.
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"Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, was arrested by the FBI last week in Oklahoma and is accused of planning to purchase two AK-47 rifles, 10 magazines and ammunition, and carry out a mass shooting attack on Election Day targeting large groups of people, according to court documents and Tawhedi’s alleged statements to the FBI after his arrest."

Who let this motherf*cker into the country?

"Tawhedi had passed two rounds of vetting — as every Afghan resettled in the U.S. undergoes a rigorous screening and vetting process regardless of which agency they previously worked with — and no derogatory information was detected, a senior administration official familiar with the details previously told NBC News.

Tawhedi’s mother, who lives in Afghanistan, is believed to be an ISIS sympathizer, two U.S. officials said. "

..Oops.
 
My bet was Syrian but I guess all Syrians are euphoric now.
 
German media is reporting that he was an atheist, anti-Muslim and showed support for the AfD and Musk on his social media 🤷
 
Dropbear said:
German media is reporting that he was an atheist, anti-Muslim and showed support for the AfD and Musk on his social media 🤷
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Black people and white supremacist showed up at Mar a Lago to Trump. Stranger things have happened.

Although returning Germany to its German roots for a Saudi transplant seems like a self defeating prophecy.
 
Fwiffo said:
Black people and white supremacist showed up at Mar a Lago to Trump. Stranger things have happened.

Although returning Germany to its German roots for a Saudi transplant seems like a self defeating prophecy.
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Yeh, I don’t buy it. Looks more like a lone-wolf Islamist to me.
 
BBC apparently interviewed the Magdeburg attacker Taleb Al-Abdulmohsen back in 2019.

BBC described him as a "Saudi exile helping other former Muslims to flee persecution in their Gulf homelands."
 
Dropbear said:
BBC apparently interviewed the Magdeburg attacker Taleb Al-Abdulmohsen back in 2019.

BBC described him as a "Saudi exile helping other former Muslims to flee persecution in their Gulf homelands."
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.. self-identified as Islamophobic and anti-immigrationist

But you're an immigrant. This is about as logical as a recent Indian rally here where other Indians told them to go home [back to India]
 
I have some friends working New Orleans response this morning. It sounds like a mess.

Looks like ISIS 2.0 is expanding. And if Trump fucks over the SDF it will get much worse.
 
Dropbear said:
I have some friends working New Orleans response this morning. It sounds like a mess.

Looks like ISIS 2.0 is expanding. And if Trump fucks over the SDF it will get much worse.
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The terror suspect is a Houston resident.
 
... They've been fortifying New York ever since that Saudi crashed into that German Christmas market. Can't fortify everything...
 
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Deadly Tesla Cybertruck blast outside Trump hotel in Las Vegas was intentional, officials say

The suspicious blast is being investigated as a possible terrorist attack, three senior law enforcement members briefed on the matter told NBC News.
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Not a vehicle malfunction. A body was found. Jihad returns to American soil.

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New Orleans terror suspect made videos just days before attack

Follow live coverage from New Orleans where a SUV has ploughed into pedestrians in Bourbon Street in a 'mass casualty incident'.
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"Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said she is certain 'multiple people' were involved in the attack."
 
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