ISIS terrorists execute 30 civilians in Nineveh

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A local source in Nineveh province said on Monday, that the so-called ISIS has executed 30 civilians, including media figure, in the province of Nineveh on charges of cooperation with the government.

The source said that “ISIS elements have executed today 30 civilians in central Nineveh, including media figures and activists, on charges of spying for the government.”

The source, who asked anonymity, added: “The execution operation was carried out by firing squad in Ghazlani Camp in the center of the province,” pointing out that, “The bodies were handed over to the forensic medicine department.”

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Ansarullah dissatisfied with UN draft proposal to solve Yemen crisis

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The spokesman of Yemen’s Ansarullah movement says a draft proposal put forth by the United Nations (UN) to end the crisis in the country is flawed.

Mohammed Abdulsalam said Monday that the UN proposal for a fresh round of negotiations between Yemeni groups only includes the mechanism of the talks and does not address the main crisis in the Arab country and the chief reasons behind it.

Earlier this month, the United Nations special envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said that the talks between members of the Yemeni Ansarullah Houthi movement and the government of Yemen’s fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi would begin by mid-November. However, the negotiations have yet not been held.

The UN special envoy added that he was working with a team to “reach an agreement on the date… and the subjects that will be discussed within the context of the UN Security Council Resolution 2216.”

Abdulsalam said that the draft proposal does not include political solutions to end the conflict in Yemen. It also does not include the issue of elections or the fight against Daesh Takfiri terrorists.

Furthermore, he said the UN draft proposal does not cover a seven-point plan put forth by Ansarullah and Yemen’s General People’s Congress in the Omani capital, Muscat, in July.

Yemen has been witnessing airstrikes by Saudi Arabia since March 26, in line with Riyadh’s alleged goal of undermining the Houthi movement and bringing Hadi back to power.

The Saudi aggression has claimed the lives of more than 7,100 people so far, while a total of nearly 14,000 people have also been injured.

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Irish Shia cleric blames Saudi government for spreading ISIS’s ideology

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The leader of the Shia Muslim community in Ireland said it is shocked, saddened and horrified by last night’s terrorist attacks in Paris.

Dr Ali Al Saleh extended his sympathy to the people of France and blamed the government of Saudi Arabia for funding ISIS and spreading the ideology underpinning it.

Imam Al Saleh, who is the founder of the Hussaini Mosque at Milltown in Dublin, also extended condolences to the relatives of 43 people killed by ISIS in a Shia area of Beirut on Thursday.

He said the double suicide-bomb attack in the busy residential and commercial district of Borj al-Barajneh exposed the second face of the terrorist movement, namely sectarianism.

He said such sectarian attacks were a daily occurrence in the Baghdad and that 20 people had died yesterday alone in two separate explosions in a Shia district of the Iraqi capital.

Dr Al Saleh said the sectarian attacks inside predominantly Muslim societies and the international terrorist attacks on the west would continue unless pressure is put on the Saudi government to end its support for Daesh, as ISIS is known in Arabic.

“Saudi Arabia has been sponsoring this Wahhabi ideology since 1979 when resistance to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan began,” the Imam said.

Wahhabi refers to the variation of Islam practiced by the Saudi royal family and their followers.

“Some people who fought against the Soviets in Afghanistan are now fighting in Syria as well as waging war on the internet. You can read their praise for the Paris attacks and for the killing of Shia Muslims on social media,” he said.

Dr Al Saleh says that the Shias are a 4,500-stong minority in the Republic of Ireland’s Muslim community.

The 2011 census registered 49,204 Muslims, constituting 1.1% of the total population. In 1991, just 0.1 % of the state’s population was belonged to the Muslim faith.

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Iran’s humanoid robot ‘Surena III’ to be unveiled tomorrow

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The ceremony will be attended by Iran’s Vice President for Science and Technology and the President of Iran’s National Elites Foundation Sorena Sattari.

The humanoid robots Surena I and Surena II have been designed and developed by researchers and engineers at University of Tehran.

Surena I is Iran’s first humanoid robot, introduced in 13 December 2008. It is 165cm tall and weighs 60km. It is able to speak according to predefined text, and has remote control and tracking ability.

Surena II was introduced two years later on July 3. It is 145 centimeters tall and weighs 45 kilograms. Surena II is able to walk, but slowly with a combination movements of hands, head and legs. It is also able to stand on one leg and keep its balance, and to dance. Surena II has 22 degrees of freedom, including 12 at its legs, 8 at its hands and 2 at its head.

Surena III is said to be able to walk faster – 10 times faster than its prevous model – and also recognize faces, objects, words and sentences with appropriate reactions. It can also pass over obstacles, walk on stairs and sloping surfaces, move backwards and interact with humans.

According to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Iran’s manufacture of Surena makes it one of five countries in the world with the technology to make humanoid robots.

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Iraq: 3 mass graves containing remains of 148 Yazidis found in Sinjar district

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Ahlul Bayt News Agency – Patriotic Union of Kurdistan announced on Sunday finding three mass graves in the district of Sinjar northwest of Mosul (405 km north of Baghdad), stressing that half of the victims were women and young girls.

Member in the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Kabir Curran, said in an interview, “The Peshmerga forces found three mass graves containing the remains of 148 Yazidis,” adding that, “One of the graves contains the remains of 20 Yazidi men and the other one is containing the remains of 78 Yazidi girls and women, while the third cemetery included the remains of 50 Yazidis”, Iraq News reported.

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Jabhat al- Nusra cheers of killing the leader of ISIS-pledged Shohadaa al- Yarmouk Brigade

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Ahlul Bayt News Agency – The sound of firing are still being heard in Jabhat al- Nusra-held town of Sahem al- Golan in the western countryside of Daraa, where SOHR had been informed that the sound caused by firing by Jabhat al- Nusra fighters “cheering” of killing Abo Ali al- Baridi, who is known by “Al- Khal” and who is the leader of IS-pledged allegiance brigade of Shohadaa al- Yarmouk, and 2 other leading figures in the brigade, certain information about killing 2 other fighters from the same brigade.

Jabhat al- Nusra targeted them by an explosion in Jomlah area in the western countryside of Daraa at the border with the occupied Syrian Golan.

The western countryside of Daraa has witnessed violent clashes between Shohadaa al- Yarmouk Brigade against Jabhat al- Nusra and the Islamist factions since the day before yesterday, the clashes accompanied by intense shelling by the two parties and explosions carried out by the brigade and targeted headquarters of the Jabhat al- Nusra and the Islamist factions in Sahem al- Golan and Hit, as well as hit-and-run military operation ended by retaking Sahem al- Golan after hours of seizing it by Shohdaa al- Yarmouk.

The clashes also resulted in the death of at least 15 militants from the brigade, including non-Syrian militants, 2 of them executed by Jbahat al- Nusra, as well as the death of more than 13 fighters from Jabhat al- Nusra and the Islamist factions.

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Iraq: Sniper kill 2 Shiite civilians in Tuz Khurmatu district in eastern Salahuddin

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Ahlul Bayt News Agency – A security source in Salahuddin province said on Sunday, that two Shiite civilians were killed by a sniper in central Tuz Khurmatu District in eastern Salahuddin.

The source, who requested anonymity, reported that “Today, a sniper shot two civilians in central Tuz Khurmatu District (90 km east of Tikrit), resulting in their immediate death,” adding that, “The bodies of the dead were transferred to the forensic medicine authority.”

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Two policemen guarding Ismaili Shia community shot killed

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KARACHI, Pakistan – Ahlul Bayt News Agency –  Two policemen deployed for the security of the Ismaili Shia community’s residential complex were shot dead at a checkpoint in the Sachal area on Saturday noon, according to officials.

Police constables Ali Raza, 50, and Ghulam Jaffer, 46, were targeted at the checkpoint set up outside Jeewani Heights, off the Superhighway, by four armed motorcyclists, said Gadap SP Chaudhry Saifullah.

The attackers also took away their official weapons, the officer said. Both policemen were rushed to the nearby Dow varsity hospital where doctors declared constable Ali Raza dead on arrival, said Sohrab Goth.

The Sacchal police registered on Sunday an FIR No 435/15 under sections 302/34, 404 of the Pakistan Penal Code and section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act. The case was registered against unidentified persons on behalf of the state.

So far this year, 79 policemen have been killed in such targeted attacks in Karachi alone. Shortly after the incident, the responsibility of the attack was claimed by the banned militant outfit, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan. However, there was no major breakthrough in the investigations. Police officials investigating the case said that the empty shells of the pistols used in the incident have been sent to the forensic laboratory of the Sindh police for the purpose of ballistics matching and that the investigators were waiting for the report.

In several such attacks in the past, the assailants have been seen to take away the officials’ sub-machineguns (SMGs) with them after committing the crime. “We are also studying previous such cases, particularly in which the culprits took the officials’ weapons away with them after targeting the policemen,” said a police official of Sacchal police station, Shaukat Memon. Police officials were also getting help through geo-fencing and trying to find witnesses to help in drawing sketches.

Nearly 45 people belonging to the Ismaili Shiite community lost their lives while nearly half a dozen others were wounded when armed men barged into a bus and targeted them on May 13 this year. The key suspects involved in the deadly bus attack have already been arrested by the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD). Police officials said that the suspects arrested in the bus attack will also be questioned as it was possible that members of the same group were behind the incident. Further investigations are underway.

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Peterborough Mosque Deliberately Set Ablaze: Canadian Police

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Peterborough police are investigating a case of arson at the city’s only mosque, an act that the president of the local Muslim association says was a “clearly a hate crime.”

The fire broke out at the Kawartha Muslim Religious Association’s mosque around 11 p.m. Saturday, police said. No one was inside the Masjid Al-Salaam Mosque at the time.

But association president Kenzu Abdella said members of the congregation had been inside 784 Parkhill Rd. just an hour before the fire broke out there, celebrating the birth of a new baby.

‘Uneasiness’

“The scare for people is that what if this had happened while we were in there?” he said Sunday. “So there’s a bit of uneasiness in the community.”

Abdella said the Muslim congregation was devastated by the arson as members have placed roots in the community and integrated into the surrounding neighbourhoods.

The mosque holds regular open houses that are attended by churchgoers and politicians. They also make regular donations to the local food bank, according to Abdella.

‘Out of nowhere’

“So to us, this is out of nowhere,” he said. “Even when we were hearing all the things that are happening around the world, it never occurred to us that this could happen in our community.”

The National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) issued a news release Sunday in response to the fire.

“This attack is very disturbing. The mosque is regularly attended by families with young children,” said NCCM executive director Ihsaan Gardee.

“We are relieved no one was injured as this incident could have been much worse,” he added.

“While deeply hurtful and offensive, Canadian Muslims know that such acts do not represent the views of the vast majority of their fellow Canadians or of the residents of Peterborough,” Gardee said in the statement.

The organization thanked local religious and political leaders for their words of support. Gardee also called on Canadians to remain vigilant against suspicious behaviour.

Mosque targeted before

There have been concerns that the terrorist attacks Friday in Paris could incite a rise of Islamophobia or retaliatory violence around the world.

Abdella said since the Kawartha Muslim Religious Association was founded in 1994, it has only been targeted by criminals once before.  After the 9/11 terror attacks, the previous building had its windows smashed out.

But Abdella noted local churches raised funds to replace them, something that was already happening again Sunday. A community group has also begun a crowdfunding campaign that had raised $1,440 by Sunday afternoon.

“So it’s very positive in that way,” he said.

Fire set intentionally

The community does not know where they will go for their prayers, which they observe fives times each day.

Initially, Abdella said they had hoped to open the building by the afternoon, but quickly realized that the $80,000 in smoke damage would make that impossible in the near future.

“It doesn’t look good at all, it’s all smoked out,” Abdella said after walking through the building Sunday morning.

The provincial fire marshal ruled that the blaze was set deliberately, according to a Peterborough police spokesman.

Sgt. Tim Millard said police will not be releasing more information until the fire marshal’s office finishes its probe.

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Fire set intentionally

The community does not know where they will go for their prayers, which they observe fives times each day.

Initially, Abdella said they had hoped to open the building by the afternoon, but quickly realized that the $80,000 in smoke damage would make that impossible in the near future.

“It doesn’t look good at all, it’s all smoked out,” Abdella said after walking through the building Sunday morning.

The provincial fire marshal ruled that the blaze was set deliberately, according to a Peterborough police spokesman.

Sgt. Tim Millard said police will not be releasing more information until the fire marshal’s office finishes its probe.

Grand Shia scholar denounces ISIS terrorist attacks in Lebanon, France

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Ahlul Bayt News Agency – During his advanced jurisprudence class at Qom’s Grand Mosque, Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem-Shirazi condemned the “painful” terrorist attacks which occurred this week in Beirut (Lebanon), Baghdad (Iraq), Zabul (Afghanistan) and more recently, in the French capital, Paris.

The revered source of emulation warned that the “magnitude of these incidents will spread to other parts of Europe as well,” it the Western officials continue their support of ISIS.

He noted that “those who are aware know that ISIL is not a large group but ultimately, this small terrorist organization has comprehensive support from somewhere. If that support did not exist, it wouldn’t be hard to eradicate them.”

Ayatollah Makarem-Shirazi condemned the hypocrisy of the West, especially the United States, in regard to the fight against terrorism, and stated that on the one hand, the US sends its agents to train terrorists, and on the other hand, Saudi Arabia and several other regional countries put money in the hands of terrorists.

“Israel supports these terrorists from all sides. Turkey buys oil from ISIL which they have stolen [from Syria] and funds various terrorist groups. If these countries did not support these terrorists, they would not have survived,” he said.

The teacher of the Islamic Seminary of Qom explained that one of the most absurd matters of our time is that the founders of these terrorist groups denounce the crimes committed by the terrorists – in reality, they condemn themselves.

“The snake that they have trained has come back to bite its trainers,” he noted.

Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi quoted the Zionist officials as saying that there is no reason to destroy ISIL. “However, the fire of war will not be limited to Islamic countries, but this regime will also be affected in a greater manner,” he warned.

The Iranian source of emulation said that we hope that the West and other regional countries, which have supported these terrorists and have equipped them and continue to equip them, come to their senses and discontinue their support. “These terrorists will be quickly destroyed if their sources of support are eliminated. Ultimately, when Western planes drop packages of weapons and food to these terrorists, they are able to gain more influence,” he said.

His Eminence stressed that the worldwide Islamic community should wake up and unite. If Muslims are united, they can eradicate these Takfiri terrorists and they will not create such severe problems for Muslims. “Unfortunately, some Islamic countries send weapons and comprehensive support to these terrorists,” he said.

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