Monday, October 17, 2016

The BRICS Block of Nations




The prime minister of India (middle) and the presidents of Brazil, Russia, China and
South Africa (left to right) on the summit of BRICS nations, 15th Oct. 2016. Xin Hua


At a summit this weekend in Goa, India, the BRICS nations - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - were looking for ways to boost trade between their developing economies, representing nearly half of the world's population.

As all BRICS nations are facing similar challenges in lifting large populations of poor and protecting their environments, national economies have been slowing.

Brazil is Latin America's largest economy ($1.35 trillion) and which is predicted to contract about 3 percent this year after a similar development in 2015. Unemployment and inflation are both hovering around 10 percent. Some states including Rio de Janeiro are so broke they haven't paid public workers in months.

Brazil's recovery is crucial to South America's economic future. But the country of 206 million people relies heavily on prices of oil, soy and other commodities, which have plunged.

A disastrous political development and unpopular reforms announced by the new government of Brazil have added to create a difficult situation.

As tensions with the U.S.A. have escalated over the bombing of civilians in Aleppo, Syria, Russia is strengthening its links with China and officially supports Beijing's South China Sea policy.

Western sanctions and an oil price slump have hit Russia's $1.13 trillion economy hard. Shrinking of Russia's GDP in 2015, a weak recovery in 2016 and predictions of only modest growth in 2017 are describing the current situation.

Putin is due to meet with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the BRICS summit on Saturday, where they are expected to discuss Syria and Afghanistan. The two also aim to expand nuclear ties, with Russia building several reactors in India. After decades of close Cold War-era relations between New Delhi and Moscow, Russia has been annoyed by Modi's effort to build closer economic and defense ties with Washington.

Bilateral trade between Russia and India fell more than 14 percent from $10 billion in 2014, a decline Russia has blamed on the global oil market turmoil.

India's prime minister Narendra Modi chose climate change, infrastructure and sustainable development as the BRICS summit's main goals. India's $2.38 trillion economy is growing 7.5 percent annually, fastest of the five countries. But it also has the world's highest number of people in poverty, with more than half of its 1.3 billion population living on less than $3.10 a day.

China's economy is growing at its slowest pace in 25 years, but it is still the world's second largest after the U.S.A. and amounting to $11.4 trillion.

In a speech just held at the BRICS summit, China's president Xi Jin Ping already warned of a further economic slow-down.

That's why Xi Jinping is looking to expand access for Chinese goods to foreign markets. Last week, Chinese state media argued strongly for the BRICS to adopt a free-trade agreement. While the Chinese government has made no such proposal formally, its Commerce Ministry has said it is keen on the idea.

The other BRICS nations, already burdened by cheap Chinese imports and huge trade deficits with Beijing, are likely to oppose.

China, a nation of 1.38 billion people, will also likely be seeking support in Goa for a proposed trade route through Central Asia and Russia to Europe, and for a sea route traversing the Indian Ocean. Chinese Foreign Minister Li Baodong this week called that "One Belt, One Road" initiative a national priority.

South Africa's economy, the smallest of all BRICS nations, was estimated at $327 billion in 2015. With an unemployment of 23% among its 55 million population and a credit ranking near junk status, that country is no real match for other major developing nations like China and India.

Furthermore, the country's finance minister is facing corruption charges which makes South Africa's economic situation even more difficult.

South Africa, however, remains an interesting partner when it comes to its vast mineral wealth that could meet the increasing needs of China and India.

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The Last Caliph


Monday, October 10, 2016

The Donald Trump Story





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In a heated climate following two days of revelations about both presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump faced off in the 2nd U.S. presidential debate held at Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri, on October 9, 2016.

One question directed to both candidates came from a Muslim woman of Palestinian origin who was born in the U.S.A. and is now working there as a franchisee. The question of Ghurba Hamid targeted the candidates' position regarding the subject of how to reassure the 3.3 million Muslims living in the U.S.A. as soon as the elections are over.

The exact formulation of the question is as follows:
" There are 3.3 million Muslims in the United States and I’m one of them. You mentioned working with Muslim nations but with this Islamophobia on the rise, how will you help people like me deal with the consequences of being labeled as a threat to the country after the election is over? "

وأكدت غربة حامد الأم لطفلين في لقائها مع العربية.نت القسم الإنجليزي أن ترامب لم يجب عن سؤالها، وعوضاً عن توضيح ما سيقدمه لطمأنة المسلمين في أميركا، اتهم كل مسلمي أميركا بإخفاء معلومات عن الأشخاص الذين يمثلون تهديداً للبلاد.ـ

Ghurba Hamid, the mother of two children, confirmed in her [talk] with the English service of Al-Arabiya network that Trump did not [meet with / properly answer] her question. Instead of a clarification what he would [do] to reassure the Muslims in America, he accused all American Muslims of hiding informations regarding people who represent a threat to the country.





[Al-Arabiya, Arabic Service on Oct. 11, 2016]


History: Internment camps for U.S. citizens of Japanese extraction
after Japan attacked the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbour (1942).



History Link: Japanese-American Relocation




Obama Breaks Down How Republicans Ended Up With Donald Trump.

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Monday, October 03, 2016

Israeli President Stopped Netanyahu Bombing Iran




ما سر منع بيريز هجوما إسرائيليا على إيران؟

What is the secret of the prevention of an Israeli attack
on Iran by [former president] Peres ?


[Source: Al-Arabiya العربية on 3rd October 2016]


If not for Shimon Peres’s intervention, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defense minister Ehud Barak were planning to bomb Iran's nuclear sites, the former Israeli president revealed confidentially to high-ranking staff members of the Jerusalem Post in August 2014, one month after Peres had resigned from his post. When asked by the editor-in-chief who had established a close relationship with Peres whether he was allowed to publish that remark, Peres reportedly replied with a wry smile: Only after my death.

Shimon Peres who is considered as the architect of Israel’s nuclear program died only two weeks ago.

[Source: Jerusalem Post on September 30, 2016]

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Deutschland - Alles Banane ?


Der 26. deutsche Nationalfeiertag im Spiegel der Weltpresse.


Am 3. Oktober 2016, an dem der Nationalfeiertag zum 26. Mal an die Wiedervereinigung Deutschlands erinnert, geht es schon lange nicht mehr um die Problematik der Zusammen-führung zweier Gebiete, die über Jahrhunderte hinweg kulturell miteinander verbunden waren.

Heute geht es um den deutschen Identitätsverlust, der sich gerade da besonders auffällig zeigt, wo eine vermeintlich heile bayrische Welt mit Bier und Weißwurst, mit Dirndl und Lederhose, das Klischee von deutscher Regionalkultur zu vermitteln versucht. Das Ganze dann ins Bild gesetzt von amerikanischen Touristen, die in ihrer eigenen Sprache die Begriffe "pretzel", "biergarten" und "lederhose" längst als Fremdwörter integriert haben.

Die Zeit - Fremd im eigenen Land.

Das Hamburger Wochenblatt Die Zeit beschreibt das Münchner Oktoberfest als ein "Zerrbild unserer Zeit" und damit unter dem Aspekt einer sich verändernden Gesellschaft, nicht nur was die ethnische Zusammensetzung der Bevölkerung und die daraus resultierenden Probleme betrifft, sondern auch die Gültigkeit überkommener Sitten und Traditionen.

Das Münchner Oktoberfest, das am 3. Oktober endet, repräsentiert dabei lediglich eine in Szene gesetzten deutschen Regionalkultur mit ihren längst überlebten Traditionen, die durch die realen Verhältnisse kontrastiert wird.

Kulturelle Konfrontation durch gefühlt ungebremste Zuwanderung aus der Türkei und den Balkanstaaten, sowie die immer noch anhaltende Flüchtlingswelle in der Folge regionaler Konflikte im Nahen Osten und Teilen Afrikas haben Deutschland zu einem Pulverfass fremdenfeindlicher und anti-islamischer Ressentiments werden lassen, wie es die letzten Anschläge in Dresden beweisen.

Tragisch dabei ist, dass die Stadt Dresden gerade am diesjährigen Nationalfeiertag ein Zeichen für die Toleranz in ihrer Region setzen und damit ihr fremdenfeindliches Image aufpolieren wollte.

The Guardian - Dresden mosque and congress centre hit by two bomb blasts.

Bliebe noch hinzuzufügen, was wohl passieren würde, wenn die nach Sachsen verfrachteten arabischen Flüchtlinge durch die in Bayern einquartierten dunkelhäutigen Afrikaner ausgetauscht würden. Also uns sind die, mittlerweile in jedem Dorf nördlich von München anzutreffenden Container-Flüchtlinge aus Somalia, Eritrea und dem Kongo bereits ans Herz gewachsen.

Als Krönung der Tagesnachrichten erscheint an diesem 3. Oktober ein Artikel auf der Website eines arabischen Fernsehsenders, der sich mit dem Versuch deutscher Behörden beschäftigt, asylsuchende Kriegsflüchtlinge in ihr EU-Eintrittsland Griechenland abzuschieben:

Al-Arabiya - Germany wants asylum seekers sent back to Greece.

Alles in allem ist der 26. deutsche Nationalfeiertag also kein Anlass zum Frohlocken, wenn man bedenkt, dass wichtige interne Probleme Deutschlands in diesem Zusammenhang noch nicht einmal angesprochen wurden wie die Gefahr einer künftigen Altersarmut durch die derzeitigen Verwerfungen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt. Hierzu nur die wichtigsten Stichworte: Eine Überalterung des deutschstämmigen Bevölkerungsanteils, der daraus folgende Mangel an Arbeitskräften, ein deutlich späterer Einstieg vieler junger Menschen in versicherungspflichtige Jobs und die Zunahme prekärer Arbeitsverhältnisse.

Anders gesagt: Anspruchsvolle Nesthocker, die erst im Alter von 20 Jahren allmählich den Arsch hochkriegen, werden im Proletariat einer veränderten Gesellschaft untergehen, in der soziale Leistungen auf ein Minimum reduziert sein werden und eine auskömmliche Altersrente den heutigen "Strebern" vorbehalten sein wird. Dagegen wird einzelnen Asylanten, die nach einer abenteuerlichen Flucht vor dem Bombenhagel in ihrer Heimat, mit dem Mut der Verzweiflung auch der soziale Aufstieg gelingen, und sie werden diese Gesellschaft, vielleicht unbewusst, weiter verändern.

Man erinnere sich, wer das deutsche Wirtschaftswunder in den 1950er Jahren geschaffen hat. Das waren die unterernährten und gesundheitlich angeschlagenen Überlebenden aus Krieg und Gefangenschaft.

In diesem Sinne sei mir noch ein lockeres aber trotzdem zutreffendes Schlusswort zum Tag der deutschen Einheit gestattet:

Bananen sind eben nicht alles !



Und es ist schon lange nicht mehr alles Banane in Deutschland.
Manches ist auch nur saure Gurke, in die wir beißen müssen ...

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Sunday, September 25, 2016

The Emirates and Iran - Rising Tensions


On Saturday evening, the United Arab Emirates' foreign minister, Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed, announced from the general assembly of the United Nations that Iran did not waste time to undermine the security of the region since the conclusion of a nuclear agreement with the world powers last year. Flagrant violation of the principles of sovereignty and intervention in the affairs of its neighbors played a greater role in the continuation of tension and instability in the region.

The minister said that Tehran undermines the security of the region through its rudeness of speech, its volatile and rude intervention and the arming of militias apart from its development of a missile program. He mentioned that many "rude" statements from Iran, only recently issued, confirmed Tehran's abandonment to its intervention in many Arab countries, including Yemen, Lebanon and Syria.




الإمارات: إيران تقوض أمن المنطقة عبر تسليح الميليشيات

The Emirates: Iran undermines the security of the region by arming militias.


[Source: AL-ARABIYA العربية on September 25, 2016]


An earlier report by Al-Arabiya from September 29, 2014, referred to a territorial conflict between UAE and Iran that led to the Emirates' urging Iran to remove its flag from the island of Abu Musa in the Persian Gulf. Abu Musa is actually administered by the Islamic Republic of Iran but claimed by the emirate of Sharjah.



إيران ترفض طلب الإمارات إزالة علمها من "أبي موسى"ـ

Iran rejects the Emirates' request to remove its flag from 'Abu Mousa'.


Another news report by Al-Arabiya from April 5, 2016, mentioned that four spies from Hezbollah and Iran, i.e. three Arab and one Canadian citizen acting on behalf of the Lebanese Hezbollah, had been sentenced to six months and a following exilation from the UAE for the formation and managing of a subversive group, i.e. without permission of the government.

الإمارات.. السجن والإبعاد بحق 4 جواسيس لحزب الله وإيران

The Emirates: Four spies from Hezbollah and Iran sentenced to prison and exile.


Tuesday, September 20, 2016

ISIL Activities in Saudi Arabia



According to EMIRATES 24/7 news for Tuesday September 20, 2016, Saudi Arabian authorities uncovered an ISIL-linked terrorist network that was involved in past attacks in the kingdom and was planning future attacks against civilians, security personnel and government sites, the Saudi Interior Ministry said on Monday, September 19.

The terror network was comprised of three cells. Seventeen suspects, among them one Saudi woman, were arrested in the months-long operation. Eleven are Saudi citizens, in addition to three Yemenis, two Egyptians and one Palestinian, Interior Ministry spokesman Major General Mansour Al Turki said in a press conference.

Among other crimes, the group is held responsible for a failed attempt to bomb an oil pipeline in the governorate of ad-Dawadimi. That attempt is mentioned as a main subject in today's online news of AL-ARABIYA TV:




هكذا خطط داعش لاستهداف أهم أنبوب نفط سعودي

This is how ISIL planned to target the most important oil pipeline in Saudi Arabia.


[AL-ARABIYA العربية on September 20, 2016]





Visitor from ARAMCO (Saudi Arabian Oil Company)


Tuesday, August 16, 2016

China - Quantum Physics in Space


This morning at 01:40 local time, China successfully launched a "Long March - 2D" rocket from its XiYuan launching site that was carrying a satellite for scientific research, named Micius after an ancient Chinese philosopher and scientist (Chinese: Mozi 墨子) whose direction of thought was dedicated to the well-being of the people.

The satellite is operating on a sun-synchronous orbit (inclination 97,37°) at some 500 km distance from Earth where Micius is expected to remain active for two years. Its goal is testing a new technology that could one day offer "hack-proof" digital communications.




中国成功发射全球首颗量子科学实验卫星

China successfully launched first satellite
globally for quantum science experiments.


The new technology tested is based on the entangled particle theory of quantum physics dating back to the 1930ies when Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrödinger published relevant papers. That theory predicts the existence of pairs of similar elementary particles whose physical states (position, momentum, spin, polarization) are interrelated or entangled, no matter how far both particles are away from each other. Modern physicists have already gained experimental evidence for that theory while observing pairs of photons, neutrinos, electrons and even molecules.

The satellite will then create pairs of so-called entangled photons - tiny sub-atomic particles of light whose properties are dependent on each other - beaming one half of each pair down to base stations in China and Austria.



Spontaneous parametric down-conversion process can split photons
into type II photon pairs with mutually perpendicular polarization.


The experiment is using a special kind of laser that has several curious properties, one of which is known as "the observer effect" - i.e. the quantum state of any photon cannot be observed without changing it.

So, if the satellite were to encode an encryption key in that quantum state, any interception would be obvious. It would also change the key, making it useless.

If that mechanism works in technical practice, it will solve the central problem of encrypted communications - how to distribute keys without interception - promising hack-proof communications. The encrypted message itself can be transmitted normally after the key exchange.

其过程如下:事先构建一对具有纠缠态的光量子,将这对光量子分别放在通信双方,把具有未知量子态的光量子与发送方的光量子进行联合测量,则接收方的光量子瞬间变化为某种状态,这个状态与发送方的光量子变化后的状态是对称的,然后把联合测量的信息通过经典信道传送给接收方,接收方根据接收到的信息对变化的光量子进行幺正变换(相当于逆转变换),就可得到与发送方完全相同的未知量子态。

The proceedings are as follows: After the generation of one pair of photons that are in an entangled state, both photons are separately sent to two places communicating with each other. Take one of the photons bearing unknown quantum state [and participating as] the transmitted photon [and make it subject of] joint measuring, [when] the received photon instantaneously changes into a certain kind of state that is symmetrical to the state of the transmitted photon after [being subject to] change. Thereafter, a [trustworthy] script of information transport [is] jointly passed to the receiving site [obtained by joint measurement]. The received photon on the basis of received information change, undergoes one change (corresponding to a deteriorating change). Such it is possible to obtain at the transmitting side a completely identical, yet unknown quantum state.


[Source: FengHuang 凤凰 on August 16, 2016]




我国预计2030年建成量子通信网 每户配一个“密钥机”

China estimates that by 2030 a quantum communications network
will be created where each site connection uses one secret key.


[Source: RenMin Wang 人民网 on August 17, 2016]


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London visitor to "blueprint news" and who is interested in quantum physics.


Sunday, August 14, 2016

Boko Haram - Exchange of Kidnapped Girls


The Nigerian jihadist organization Boko Haram has distributed another video dealing with the girls originally kidnapped from a school in Chibok, northern Nigeria.

Subject of that video is Boko Haram's demand that these girls should be exchanged against Boko Haram fighters detained by the government.

Therefore, the parents of more than 100 girls that remained from originally 200 after a forced marriage of 40 among them should apply to the Nigerian government to start talks with the islamist group of Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau.





بالصور.. "بوكو حرام" تنشر فيديو جديدا لفتيات اختطفتهن فى نيجيريا

With pictures ... "Boko Haram" propagates new video on the girls kidnapped in Nigeria.




Editor's warning: At the end of that video recorded in the Haussa language you will find some disturbing pictures on girls who perished while being under the control of Boko Haram. The pictures are suggesting they died in some bomb attack.



Nobody can ban all pictures !


[Source: Youm 7 اليوم السابع in their morning news on August 14, 2016]


As to the bloody traces left by Boko Haram in northern Nigeria, here another example dating back to 2014:



[Picture from the archives of Vetogate]


بوكو حرام تقتل أرامل وأطفال ضباط الأمن النيجيري

Boko Haram kills widows and children of Nigerian police officers.


[Source: Vetogate بوابة فيتو, Egyptian online news on January 4, 2014]

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Today's visitor from Nigeria showed interest in an earlier blogspot
on Boko Haram. Black lines indicate a transmitted sub-net address
that was deliberately erased by the editor of "blueprint news".


Saturday, August 13, 2016

CERN - Search for Magnetic Monopoles


On August 10, the CERN community of scientists at the particle accelerator facility in Geneva came up with another elementary subject of quantum physics which dates back to the 1930ies when Paul Dirac predicted the possible existence of magnetic monopoles in accordance with quantum theory.



Magnetic Monopoles and Dipoles (CERN)


As we already learned at school, the north- and south-pole of an elementary magnet cannot be separated by breaking the magnet apart in its middle. Instead, two different elementary magnets would appear that have, both, their own sets of north- and south-pole.

Quantum theory, however, should allow the existence of such isolated magnetic monopoles in a vacuum. Modern physics being unable to detect let alone generate such monopoles, therefore has to resort to an appropriate model which is far more easier to handle.

Here now scientists refer to the fact that some kind of magnetic anomaly can be generated in crystallized matter. It's the measurable magnetism of certain atoms that becomes the source of such anomaly and which might be related to a slight distortion of a regular crystal lattice, for instance due to a slight change in composition. As this arrangement resembles the "freezing of an anomaly" while the arrangement of atomic spins is similar to that of hydrogen atoms in frozen water, scientists have come to name such material a "spin ice".



Arrangement of hydrogen atoms (black circles) about oxygen atoms (open circles)
in frozen water. Two hydrogen atoms (bottom ones) are close to the central oxygen
atom while two of them (top ones) are far and closer to the two other (top left and
top right) oxygen atoms.


Two teams including Tom Fennell at the Institute Laue-Langevin (ILL) in France and Jonathan Morris at the Helmholtz Centre in Berlin, Germany, are already working on that subject. The Morris group studied crystalline Dy2Ti2O7, which has a tetrahedral unit cell with two Dy spins pointing into the centre of the tetrahedron and two pointing out, very similar to the above mentioned arrangement of H spins in frozen water.

" The spins in a spin ice do not line up like those in a ferromagnet. Instead physicists believe that they join up to create magnetic flux lines within the material that resemble a knotted mess of strings. These are known as Dirac strings because they resemble the tubes of flux that should connect magnetic monopoles according to Dirac's calculations. " (physicsworld.com)

Here now comes the CERN facility with its technical abilities. The so-called MoEDAL experiment at the Large Hadron Collider LHC is designed specifically to look at the effects related with the appearance of monopoles. MoEDAL is composed of a largely passive detector, installed next to the LHCb experiment.

If monopoles exist, they are believed to be very massive. As the LHC produces collisions at unprecedented energy, physicists may be able to observe such particles if they are light enough to be in the LHC’s reach. For instance, high-energy photon–photon interactions could produce pairs of North and South monopoles. Monopoles could manifest their presence via their magnetic charge and through their very high ionizing power, estimated to be about 4700 times higher than that of the protons.


As to the marials to be used in spin ice research, here are some further facts:
The most prominent compounds with spin ice properties are dysprosium titanate (Dy2Ti2O7) and holmium titanate (Ho2Ti2O7). Both belong to the group of pyrochlores with its cubic crystal structure (Fd-3m) describing materials of the type A2B2O6 and A2B2O7 where the A and B species are generally rare-earth or transition metal species; e.g. Y2Ti2O7.The pyrochlore structure is a super structure derivative of the simple fluorite structure (AO2 = A4O8), where the A and B cations are ordered along the ⟨110⟩ direction (*). The additional anion vacancy resides in the tetrahedral interstice between adjacent B-site cations. These systems are known to be particularly susceptible to geometrical frustration and novel magnetic effects.

*= The ⟨110⟩ direction of one single cubic "building brick" (elementary cell) that continually adds to a cubic crystal lattice during its growth is the diagonal direction on one of its six square sides.

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Thursday, August 04, 2016

Egypt - Blow Against ISIL


Last Update included below !



Brigadier Mahmud Samir, spokesman of the Egyptian forces (above),
also named Ahmed Samir by other media.


الجيش المصري يعلن قتل "الأنصاري" زعيم داعش في سيناء

Egyptian forces announce they killed "Al-Ansari", leader of ISIL in Sinai.


This is referring to Abu [Dae] Al-Ansari (أبو دعاء الأنصاري), "nom de
guerre" for a prominent ISIL leader and therefore put into brackets.

[Source: Al-Arabiya العربية on August 4, 2016]


أول صور لعملية مقتل أبو دعاء الأنصاري زعيم بيت المقدس في سيناء

1st picture of the operation that killed Abu [Dae] Al-Ansari, leader
of the [Ansar al-Sunna group of the] "Sacred House" in Sinai.



left picture: direct blow on terrorist target
right picture: location of blow (above) and arms depot (below)


[Source: Al-Balad البلد, Egyptian online news on August 4, 2016]


On the same day, the Arabic news service Al-Hurra الحرة and which is connected with Asharq-Al-Awsad TV (شبكة تلفزيون الشرق الأوسط) confirmed that the Egyptian operation killed Al-Ansari and more than 45 of his fighters south of the Sinai town of Al-Arish.



Egyptian army unit in Sinai.



Al-Arish, the administrative center of Egypt's Sinai province.


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Syria - Chemical Warfare Again




قلق أممي من استخدام أسلحة كيمياوية بمعارك إدلب السورية

UN worried about use of chemical weapons in battles in Syria's Idlib [governorate]

المرصد السوري: أكثر من 30 حالة اختناق جراء استخدام الغازات السامة في سراقب

Syrian Observatory [for Human Rights]: More than 30 cases of suffocation
due to the use of poisonous gases in Sarakeb (سراقب)


[Source: Al-Arabiya العربية on August 4, 2016]



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Tuesday, July 26, 2016

France - Terrorist Attack on Church


Important Updates added on July 26 / 28
on the identification of both perpetrators.



فرنسا.. ذبح كاهن بعد احتجاز رهائن بكنيسة

France - Priest slaughtered after hostages were held in a church.

شخصان يحملان السلاح الأبيض احتجزا رهائن في كنيسة قرب روان في النورماندي

Two persons carrying blades took hostages in a church near Rouen, Normandy.


[Source: Al-Arabiya العربية this morning, July 26, 2016]


According to the latest report from Reuters, French police "neutralized" two men armed with blades who had taken several people hostage in a church in northern France this morning.

One of the hostages had been killed with a blade in the attack which took place in the Normandy town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, south of Rouen. French media reported the attackers cut the throat of the 86 years old priest who was a clergyman since 1958.

Another report from the French paper Le Figaro, published only some minutes ago, says that both terrorists died during the intervention of French police.

Later that morning, French president Hollande made his appearance on the site of crime while the Islamic State IS confirmed that both perpetrators could be regarded as their soldiers.





Evening Update for July 26:

TV5 Monde - France:

L'un des deux assaillants a été formellement identifié comme étant Adel K., selon une source proche de l'enquête. Connu des services antiterroristes, ce Français, jeune majeur, avait tenté de rallier la Syrie par deux fois en 2015. Une première via l'Allemagne, alors qu'il était mineur, mais il avait été interpellé. Une seconde alors qu'il était majeur via la Suisse, puis la Turquie où il avait été arrêté.

Remis à la France, il avait été mis en examen pour association de malfaiteurs en lien avec une entreprise terroriste et placé en détention provisoire, puis libéré sous bracelet électronique.

According to a source near to the investigation, one of two attackers was formally identified as Adel K., a young adult of French nationality and who is already known to anti-terrorist services as he had tried to get into Syria twice in 2015. On his first trip taken as a minor via Germany he had been interrogated. On his second trip taken as an adult via Switzerland he had been arrested in Turkey.

Sent back to France, he had been accused of joining a criminal organisation related to terrorism and had become subject of provisional detention. Later, he was liberated, however, put under electronic surveillance by means of an electronic bracelet.


The attack has triggered off a parliamentary discussion between government and opposition, namely the Republican Party of former president Sarkozy, regarding the surveillance of potential terrorists. It was mentioned by TV5 Monde that up to now only 13 persons are under electronic surveillance for suspicion of terrorism, while that means is usually applied as an alternative for those serving a sentence of less than two years or persons waiting for their sentences.


Update for July 28, 2016:



فرنسا تعلن اسم المنفذ الثاني لذبح الكاهن في "روان"ـ

France announced the name of the 2nd perpetrator in the priest slaughtering of Rouen.


علنت فرنسا التعرف رسميا إلى المنفذ الثاني للاعتداء في الكنيسة بفرنسا، وقالت النيابة العامة إن اسمه عبدالمالك نبيل بوتيجان (19 عاما).ـ

France announced essential knowledge about the second perpetrator in the attack on a church in France. The public prosecutor's office told his name as being Abdulmalik Nabil Butijaan, a 19 years old [youth].


[Source: Al-Arabiya العربية on July 28, 2016]



Document used by Abdulmalik Nabil Butijaan under his assumed name of Maur Petitjean
as a driving license for light motor-cycles that can be operated by 14 years old minors.


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Thursday, July 21, 2016

Nice Massacre - Latest News


Update for July 22 added below !



منفذ هجوم نيس في فرنسا "حظي بدعم وتواطؤ"ـ

The person responsible for the attack of Nice
in France " enjoyed support and complicity "

[Source: Elaph إيلاف, an independent and liberal Arab news service
in London, quoting French AFP agency late news on July 21, 2016]



During the last hours, different European sources reported that the Nice massacre of July 14 should have been planned for several months in advance. Four suspects are reportedly under arrest.

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Related Update for July 22:



دول التحالف: أحرزنا تقدماً كبيراً في الحرب على داعش

Nations of the Alliance: We made significant progress in the war against ISIL (Daesh).

المجتمعون: على ميليشيات الحشد الشعبي أن تكون تحت السيطرة الحازمة للحكومة العراقية

Those united: By concentration of people's militias under the firm control of Iraq's government.


A meeting of defence and foreign affairs ministers of the Alliance against ISIL reported progress of Iraqi troops and Syrian opposition groups in the prevention of terrorist access to resources, supplies and sites in the region.

[Source: Al-Arabiya العربية on July 22, 2016]