Three Islamic terror attacks were carried out almost simultaneously today after call for “Ramadan calamity.”
In Lyon, France, a terrorist named Yassin Salih rammed a car through the gate of an American-owned chemical factory. He attempted to blow up the complex but failed. He then decapitated the manager of the complex and posted his head on a fence by the factory. Salih also posted Islamist flags to the fence.
Salih, which French officials confirmed they had under surveillance as a possible terrorist sympathizer, was wounded in the explosion and taken into custody. His wife and one other accomplice have also been taken into custody.
French President Francois Hollande confirmed it was an Islamist terror attack.
In Tunisia, at least two terrorists stormed a beach popular with tourists and gunned down 27 people. An attack on a Shiite mosque in Kuwait has left at least 25 dead. Hundreds were wounded in both attacks.
On Tuesday, the spokesman for the terrorist group ISIS issued a call for “calamity” for “infidels, crusaders, Shiites and apostates”.
“Be keen to conquer in this holy month and to become exposed to martyrdom,” Abu Mohamed al-Adnani said.
Islamic terrorist group ISIS has released a video showing a series of brutal executions in what they say is an instructional video on dealing with spies.
The video, filmed in the ISIS stronghold of Mosul, shows the brutal killing of a dozen condemned men. In the first segment, men are placed into a car and then a terrorist blows up the car with a rocket propelled grenade. The screams of the men in the car can be clearly heard on the recording.
In the second section, they lower men in a cage into a swimming pool to drown and use an underwater camera to show the men dying. In the third, they line kneeling men up and wrap an explosive cord around their necks which is then detonated.
The film is intercut with footage of the condemned men allegedly confessing to their “crimes.”
The video comes on the heels of a major ISIS operative being killed in an air strike outside of Mosul. A Pentagon spokesman revealed Wednesday that Ali Awni al-Harzi of Tunisia, a person of interest in the 2012 Benghazi attack, died in a June 15th strike.
“His death degrades ISIL’s ability to integrate North African jihadists into the Syrian and Iraqi fight and removes a jihadist with long ties to international terrorism,” Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said.
Islamic terrorist group ISIS has crucified two children because they ate food before sunset during Ramadan.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported the murders Monday. Muslims are prohibited from taking food or water between sunrise and sunset during Ramadan.
It is the latest in a long string of abuses against children by the Islamic extremists.
“We have had reports of children, especially children who are mentally challenged, who have been used as suicide bombers, most probably without them even understanding,” United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child expert Renate Winter said in February about ISIS. “There was a video placed [online] that showed children at a very young age, approximately 8 years of age and younger, being trained to become child soldiers.”
ISIS has also been reported to have kidnapped over a thousand children to be forced into jihadi training camps.
Iraq’s al-Sumaria TV network aired a Kurdish Democratic Party spokesman in Mosul that said ISIS kidnapped 1,227 from various Mosul neighborhoods. The children have been labeled “Cubs of the Caliphate” and are being educated in the extremist ISIS ideology.
A North Carolina teenager is behind bars, accused of being part of a plan to kill Americans for ISIS.
19-year-old Justin Sullivan is accused of engaging in discussions with an undercover FBI agent over the last month about making a series of “minor assassinations” as training for major attack. Sullivan said that he was a “mujahid” and that he was a recent Muslim convert.
He said that when he made the attacks, he would send the videos to ISIS.
The teen said that he would pay the agent to kill his parents, that he would be using bombs and chemical weapons in his major attack and he had planned to buy a semi-automatic weapon and an upcoming gun show.
“As alleged in the complaint, the defendant was planning assassinations and violent attacks in the United States and is charged with attempting to provide material support to [ISIS] and federal firearms violations,” Assistant Attorney General John Carlin said in a statement. “The National Security Division’s highest priority is counterterrorism and we will continue to pursue justice against those who seek to provide material support to designated foreign terrorist organizations,” the Justice Department said in their statement.
The charge of conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign organization carries a maximum potential penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Sullivan’s own parents tipped off authorities about his behavior.
“I don’t know if it is ISIS or what, but he is destroying Buddhas and figurines and stuff,” his father Rich Sullivan said in a 911 call. “I mean, we are scared to leave the house.”
Almost 30 Americans in 2015 have been charged in some way with attempting to support ISIS.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Monday that the U.S. will send weapons, aircraft and troops as needed to NATO’s new rapid reaction force. The force will defend Europe in the event of an aggressive move by Russia or ISIS.
President Obama made the commitment last year during a NATO summit but Carter is revealing the details of the plan.
“We do not seek a cold, let alone a hot war with Russia,” Carter said at Atlantik Brucke, a Berlin think tank that focuses on the German-U.S. relationship. “We do not seek to make Russia an enemy. But make no mistake: we will defend our allies, the rules-based international order, and the positive future it affords us. We will stand up to Russia’s actions and their attempts to re-establish a Soviet-era sphere of influence.”
The U.S. will provide intelligence and surveillance capabilities, special operations forces, transport aircraft and a range of weapons from bombers and fighters to ship-based missiles. A large ground force is not part of the U.S. commitment.
Carter is attending his first NATO meeting as Defense Secretary and plans to bring a two-pronged approach to NATO’s needs: the first is a strong defense against Russia in an attempt to stop them from establishing a Soviet-era influence on the region while partnering with Russia to fight Islamic terrorism.
Islamic terrorist group ISIS has planted land mines around some of the world’s most ancient sites according to the monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
The group told Sky News they had evidence the mines were places around the ancient ruins in the city of Palmyra on Saturday.
The ancient site was overtaken by the Islamic extremists last month and many major world leaders feared they would destroy the ancient parts of the city in the same manner they destroyed ancient tombs and churches in other captured villages. However, the terrorists have not destroyed the buildings and even used an amphitheater to force residents to watch executions.
“It is not known if the purpose is to blow up the ruins or to prevent regime forces from advancing into the town,” Rami Abdul Rahan, SOHR Director, told Sky News.
A Syrian antiquities official confirmed the report.
“We have preliminary information from residents saying that this is correct, they have laid mines at the temple site,” Maamoun Abdulkarim said. “I hope that these reports are not correct, but we are worried.”
Palmyra is a UNESCO World Heritage site and was the destination of hundreds of thousands of visitors a year before the Syrian civil war.
A 21-year-old New York City man is jailed after attempting to stab an FBI agent during a terrorist investigation raid.
Fareed Mumuni is accused of being a supporter of ISIS. The FBI raided his home in Staten Island Wednesday and during the raid he tried multiple times to stab an FBI agent.
“As the officers attempted to restrain (him), Mumuni repeatedly attempted to plunge the knife into the torso of an FBI special agent and reached out with his hand in the vicinity of a rifle used by another member of law enforcement,” read the criminal complaint.
The agent with the Joint Terrorism Task Force wasn’t injured as the knife was never able to penetrate his body armor.
Mumuni is believed to have been working with two other men to place pressure cooker bombs similar to those used in the Boston Marathon attacks around New York City.
Mumuni has confessed to discussing how to build a pressure cooker bomb with one of the other suspected terrorists and that he planned to join ISIS in the Middle East. He is being held without bail.
His relatives insist that Mumuni is innocent.
“It’s not true he pulled a knife on cops,” uncle Mohammed Alfonga said. “You think he’d be alive if he did that? They would have shot him in the living room.”
“He may have been caught with the wrong crowd,” Alfonga added. “The other guys said he’s involved, they have to arrest him. But they took everything, his computers. They didn’t find anything.”
There have been arrests of suspected ISIS sympathizers in 19 states in the last two years.
The FBI is currently conducting an operation to disrupt potential domestic terrorists who are being radicalized by ISIS.
ABC News confirmed that the operation is taking place and that the latest arrest happened in New York on Saturday. A college student thought al-Qaeda was “getting soft” and was “making efforts to prepare an explosive device for detonation.”
Fareed Mumuni, 21, has been charged with attempting to murder a federal employee after attacking a FBI agent with a knife during his arrest.
The arrest was part of an operation to take down Munther Omar Saleh, a 20-year-old American citizen now facing charges of conspiring to to provide material support to ISIS.
The papers filed by prosecutors claim Salah endorsed the ISIS attack on Charlie Hebdo in France and the attempted assault on the Draw Muhammad contest in Texas. He also endorsed several terrorists beheadings by ISIS.
Authorities said that investigations were underway in all 50 states and have already led to five arrests of suspected terrorist sympathizers.
Islamic terrorists have burned down an ancient Iraqi church so they can build a mosque on the site.
Christian symbols and relics were destroyed in the church. Terrorists posted fliers throughout Mosul saying the Syrian Orthodox Church of St. Ephraim is going to be reopened as “mosque of the mujahideen.”
“They (ISIS) take everything from us, but they cannot take the God from our hearts, they cannot,” said Nicodemus Sharaf, archbishop of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Mosul, who’s now a refugee.
The homes and businesses of Christians in Mosul are now marked for destruction according to a report in the BBC.
The terrorists have become so extreme that Muslims in Mosul say they’ve stopped attending mosques.
“The group has even replaced the imams in the mosques with pro-IS people,” a Mosul resident named Hisham told the BBC. “Many of us have stopped going to the mosques because those attending are asked to give an oath of allegiance and we hate that.”
Hisham reported that restrictions on women are so severe that a man was beaten because his wife’s gloves did not completely cover her hands.
A Virginia teenager is planning for life in prison rather than his high school graduation after pleading guilty to helping ISIS.
Ali Shukri Amin, 17, admitted to authorities that he had used his computer to contact ISIS members and helped arrange for an 18-year-old classmate to travel to Syria to join the terrorists.
Amin pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to provide material support to ISIS.
The teen said he ran the twitter handle @Amreekiwitness to “provide advice and encouragement to ISIL and its supporters.” He also taught followers of the terrorist group how to convert currency to Bitcoin so they could fund the terror group.
“Around the nation, we are seeing ISIL use social media to reach out from the other side of the world,” Assistant Attorney General Carlin said. “Their messages are reaching America in an attempt to radicalize, recruit and incite our youth and others to support ISIL’s violent causes.”
The FBI had been keeping the teenager under surveillance for over a month before they took him into custody.
“Today’s guilty plea demonstrates that those who use social media as a tool to provide support and resources to ISIL will be identified and prosecuted with no less vigilance than those who travel to take up arms with ISIL,” said U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.