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Saudi Arabia Arrests 93 in ISIS Crackdown

Saudi Arabian officials announced the arrests of 93 people who are connected to the Islamic terrorist group ISIS.

The Saudi Press Agency reported the arrests took place between December and April with all but five of those arrested Saudi nationals.  The group had set up training sites and planned suicide bombings.

One of the reported targets was the U.S Embassy in Riyadh.

Intelligence officials say that two Syrians and one Saudi national had planned to drive a car loaded with explosives into the embassy.  The revelation explains why the State Department mysteriously shut down Saudi embassies in mid-March citing security concerns.

The largest cell consisted of 65 Saudi nationals who plotted an attack “on residential areas, and operations to incite sectarian sedition.”  Another 15 member cell was focused on bombing security headquarters and soldiers.

Security officials said they arrested Nawaf al-Enezi for the killing of two police officers in Riyadh earlier this month.  The ISIS operative was detained after a shootout with police about 60 miles east of the capital city.

ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi stated in November that ISIS should focus efforts on attacking Saudi Arabia and the ruling Saudi family.

Italian Authorities Arrest Terrorists Who Plotted Vatican Attack

A massive anti-terrorism operation in Italy has arrested several terrorists including one cell that had plans for an attack on the Vatican.

Authorities say that some of the cell members had contact with Osama bin Laden before his 2011 death and that they had recordings of the exchanges from wiretaps.

Prosecutor Mauro Mura said that intelligence showed the group had planned attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan along with domestic attacks.  The plot against the Vatican first came up among the terrorists in 2010 discussions.

Police say some of the suspects arrested Friday had been under surveillance for a decade.

The group was also smuggling currency to other terror networks.  One of the suspects arrested today was captured on a flight from Italy to Pakistan with 55,000 euros.

Investigators say the group tried to grow by smuggling migrants into Italy.  They would attempt to recruit the migrants to be a part of the al-Qaeda network.

The raids, which police called a “first-of-its-kind operation”also took out the terrorist’s headquarters on the island of Sardinia.

France Arrests Islamic Terror Suspect After He Shoots Himself In Leg

An Islamic terrorist who had been planning to carry out attacks on French churches has been arrested after he accidentally shot himself in the leg.

The 24-year-old terrorist, whose name is being withheld by authorities, was found with guns, bulletproof vests and notes about intended targets after he called an ambulance for his self-inflicted wound.

French police say the man is a computer science student who had been under observation as a security risk since last year.

AFP news agency reported the suspect was wounded in the leg after a dispute.

In addition to the weapons, police found in the suspect’s car blue lights and orange police armbands that led investigators to believe the terrorist would pose as a police officer to gain entry to churches for attacks.

Police also said that a woman found murdered Sunday morning in what they thought was a random attack was killed by the terrorist suspect in what could have been a practice run.

Attacks on churches would be new for France as previous attacks took place on synagogues.

Six Arrested In Plot To Join ISIS

Six men have been arrested in connection with a plot to travel to Syria to become members of the terrorist group ISIS.

While all six men are residents of Minnesota, two were arrested in San Diego.  The other four were arrested in Minneapolis.  The men are Somalis in their late teens or early 20s.

Federal officials identified the six men as Zacharia Abdurahman, 19, Adnan Farah, 19, Hanad Musse, 19, Guled Omar, 20, Abdirahman Daud, 21, and Mohamed Abdihamid Farah, 21.

“These were not confused young men,”Minnesota U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger stated during a press conference on Monday. “These are focused young men who were intent on joining a terrorist organization by any means possible.”

The men had connections to another Minnesota man who was indicted in February on terror charges after he tried to head to Syria.

“This is a very serious issue,”Somali activist Omar Jamal told the International Business Times. “We as a community are concerned about losing our kids to ISIS.”

FBI director James Comey said that every state has people like the ones arrested in Minnesota.

“Those people exist in every state,”he outlined. “I have homegrown violent extremist investigations in every single state. Until a few weeks ago there was 49 states. Alaska had none, which I couldn’t quite figure out. But Alaska has now joined the group, so we have investigations of people in various stages of radicalizing in all 50 states.”

Five Australian Teens Arrested For ISIS Style Plot

Australian officials say that five teenagers were arrested Saturday accused of plotting a terrorist attack on a Veterans’ Day ceremony.

The aim of the attack was police officers.

Australian Federal Police Acting Deputy Commissioner Neil Gaughan told reporters that two of the 18 year olds were plotting an attack on the ANZAC Day ceremony in Melbourne.  Two other 18 year olds and a 19 year old were arrested.  All of the arrests took place in Melbourne.

“At this stage, we have no information that it was a planned beheading. But there was reference to an attack on police,” Gaughan said. “Some evidence that we have collected at a couple of the scenes, and some other information we have, leads us to believe that this particular matter was ISIS-inspired.”

ANZAC Day is April 25th, the anniversary of the first major military action by Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during World War I.

Two of the teens had connections to Numan Haider, an 18 year old who stabbed two police officers before being shot and killed in September.

Federal Police Deputy Commissioner Michael Phelan told reporters the teens had been “on the radar” for months.

“This is a new paradigm for police,” Phelan said. “These types of attacks that are planned are very rudimentary and simple. … All you need these days is a knife, a flag and a camera and one can commit a terrorist act.”

ISIS Trafficker Charged With Forcing Girls Into Prostitution

A man engaged in human trafficking for ISIS forcing Syrian refugee children into prostitution has been arrested by Turkish authorities.

Ahmet Yumusak, 29, was captured by Turkish authorities who were investigating an attack on a soldier and police officer that took place last year.  During the investigation, they had Yumusak approach them to discuss paying for sex with underage Syrian refugee girls that were under control of ISIS.

After this arrest, authorities discovered he was sending young girls into Syria to be abused and married off to ISIS terrorists.

Authorities say they are unable to determine the total number of young girls that were forced into ISIS control by Yumusak but the number is well into the hundreds.

Police say that Yumusak also worked as a conduit for western girls and women that wanted to join the terrorist group.

India Detains Man For “Spreading Christianity”

A Christian man has been jailed in India because of “reasons of public order” despite the fact he has committed no crime.

Police arrested Arvind D’Souza on January 2nd after a group of radical Hindus in Uttar Pradesh began to riot, claiming that D’Souza had been “spreading Christianity.”

The group also said that D’Souza was committing the “forced conversion of women and children through the gift of Bibles.”

Superintendent of Police Amethi Hira Lal told Asia News that he had “found no evidence that D’Souza used force in converting anyone.  However, since the fact could undermine public order, they took him into custody in accordance with Article 151 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and placed him under preventive detention for 14 days.”

The president of the Global Council of Indian Christians called the action a serious violation of human rights.

“This is a trend that is spreading more and more in India,” Sajan George said.

Seven Arrested In Paris Terror Attack; Attackers Still At Large

French authorities have arrested seven people in connection with the terrorist attack on a French satirical newspaper Wednesday.

The two gunman, however, are still at large.

Two brothers, Cherif and Said Kouachi are believed to be the gunman who shot and killed 12 people inside the French publication Charlie Hebdo.  Cherif has a criminal record of serving 18 months in prison for criminal association with a terrorist organization in 2005.  He was part of an Islamist cell that called for French citizens to go to Iraq to fight Americans.

The man who drove the getaway car surrendered to authorities Wednesday night.  Hamyd Mourad, 18, is reportedly working with authorities to identify anyone who helped in the planning of the attack.

Authorities say that seven people connected to the brothers are under arrest.  They have not said what charges will be brought against them.

French president Francois Hollande has called for a national day of mourning.

“Nothing can divide us, nothing should separate us,” Hollande said in a statement. “Freedom will always be stronger than barbarity. France has always known how to defeat its enemies when it has known how to defend its values. Let us be united and we shall triumph.”

Hamas Mastermind Behind Kidnappings Sentenced To Life

A military court in Judea sentenced the mastermind of the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers to three life sentences.

Hussam Kawasameh was convicted last week for the planning and financing of the terrorist action.  He also received hundreds of thousands of dollars from Hamas for his work in gathering weapons.  He was also the one who hid the bodies and destroyed the evidence.

Prosecutors for the IDF said that Kawasameh did not see the boys as human beings and killed them simply because they were Jews.

The father of one of the victims said that his son was a good student who helped his siblings.  Avraham Fraenkel said that his son Naftali wasn’t just murdered…but that he was used as an unwilling tool for terror as Kawasameh hid his body for 18 days.

Kawasameh did not speak at the hearing.

“New Doctor Death” Loses Medical License

A man who has been called the “new Doctor Death” for following in the footsteps of Dr. Jack Kevorikian has been stripped of his medical license in Maryland.

Dr. Lawrence Egbert has been connected to the suicide deaths of six elderly Marylanders.

“It is undisputed that Dr. Egbert participated in six suicides in the state of Maryland as either a Senior Exit Guide or as a members only exit guide,” the Maryland Board of Physicians wrote in their revocation of Egbert’s license.

“Dr. Egbert reviewed their applications and medical records and recommended accepting them as members,” the board wrote. “Dr. Egbert attended their suicide rehearsals. He held each member’s hand and talked to him or her.”

Egbert, who law enforcement officials say is connected to over 300 deaths across the nation, is currently awaiting trial in Minnesota for helping residents there end their lives.  He had previously been arrested in Georgia but charges were not filed.

Egbert says he will appeal the decision and claims that assisted suicide is “in the Bible as legitimate.”

Assisted suicide is legal in Oregon, Washington, Montana, Vermont and New Mexico.