Category: Terror War

Marlin Stivani Nivarlain, a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, left her foster home to marry a 19-year-old boyfriend last year. As they contemplated their future together, they decided to join ISIS. When they got to Syria, the terrorist organization sent her boyfriend off to fight and cloistered her with a group of women. Marlin became disillusioned with the new lifestyle, got a hold of a cell phone and called her foster parents. They contacted the government and begged them to rescue their child from her own bad choices. The Swedish government then asked the Kurds to help them recover the now-16-year-old.

According to the UK Metro, Nivarlain was rescued once back in October, but she fled the Kurd rescuers and returned to ISIS in Mosul. So the Kurds mounted yet another rescue, according to CNN;

According to the statement from Kurdish authorities, Nivarlain “was misled by an ISIL member in Sweden to travel to Syria and later to Mosul.” ISIL is another acronym for ISIS.

Members of her family, along with Swedish authorities, asked for Kurdish help in rescuing her, the statement said.

“She is currently in the Kurdistan Region and is provided the care afforded to her under international law,” the statement said. “She will be transferred to Swedish authorities to return home once necessary arrangements are put (in) place.”

Maybe this time the rescue will stick. There’s no mention of the fate her husband, who is probably still stuck fighting alongside ISIS.

I guess life in a “cradle-to-grave” government that makes right all of your own bad choices is a good thing. Well, for some people. Even if you make the same bad choice a couple of times like a fickle 16-year-old girl.

Stars & Stripes reports that an unnamed Guantanamo detainee who was released in 2004 after two years there, was arrested in Spain for planning terrorist activities in support of ISIS.

One of those detained in Ceuta was the former Guantanamo detainee who was not named by Spanish authorities but described as “a leader who was trained in handling weapons, explosives and in military tactics.” After being captured in 2002 and held in Guantanamo, he was returned to Spain in 2004, said Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz.

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The suspects had set up contacts to try to acquire weapons and bomb-making materials and were aiming “to carry out terrorist acts in Spanish territory,” the Spanish ministry statement said, without specifying possible targets.

By the process of elimination, I arrived at the name of Hamed Abderrahman Ahmad also known as Ahmad Abd al Rahman Ahmad (in the picture above, that’s him leaving Spanish prison in 2004), a Spanish national who was captured in Pakistan while he was trying to escape the American invasion in 2001 and transferred to US custody at Guantanamo in 2002. In 2004 he was released from Gitmo to stand trial for crimes against Spain. Spanish courts convicted him and sentenced him to six years in prison. The sentence was overturned because there was a possibility that the evidence against Ahmad was acquired by torture, so the Spanish released him. In 2006, two of his brothers were arrested in Spain for terrorist activities related to al Qaeda – they were recruiting and sending Spaniards to Iraq.

Fox News report that US F-15 aircraft struck a terrorist encampment in Libya in an attempt to take out Noureddine Chouchane, the mastermind of the attack on tourists in Tunisia last year;

Local reports initially suggested that more than 30 people had been killed. However, it was not immediately clear how many ISIS terrorists were among the dead.

Chouchane is thought to have directed the March 18 attack on the Bardo Museum in Tunis, in which 24 people were killed, many of them foreign tourists. He is also believed to have some connection to the June 26 attack on a resort hotel near the Tunisian city of Sousse, where an ISIS gunman killed 38 people.

President Barack Obama last week directed his national security team to bolster counterterrorism efforts in Libya while also pursuing diplomatic possibilities for solving its political crisis and forming a government of national unity.

The Guardian bumps up the number of casualties among the terrorists to 41. The New York Times says that US sources claimed that the fighters were mostly Tunisian and it appeared that they were planning new attacks.

Jamal Naji Zubia, the head of the foreign news media office in Tripoli, said the airstrikes targeted a farmhouse that had been seized by Islamic State militants. Most of those killed were Tunisian, he said, although one man, who died from his wounds at a hospital, appeared to be Jordanian.

Fighters had been arriving at the house for some time, Mr. Zubia said, although the exact affiliation of the group was a mystery to neighbors. “They came individually to the house from different places,” he said. Some officials in the area said they believed the Tunisians had gathered at the house to hear a speech by a Muslim religious leader, he said.

Te Times also reports that the poor ISIS fellows were mostly killed in their sleep. Too bad, so sad. It’s nice to see this administration actually do something deadly to terrorists for a change.

Fox News reports that the terrorist organization, the Islamic State, is experiencing a cash shortage, so they’re cutting pay and perks in the Levant.

The extremists who once bragged about minting their own currency are having a hard time meeting expenses, thanks to coalition airstrikes and other measures that have eroded millions from their finances since last fall. Having built up loyalty among militants with good salaries and honeymoon and baby bonuses, the group has stopped providing even the smaller perks: free energy drinks and Snickers bars.

The article says that they only except dollars for services and that they’ve reduced the cost of releasing kidnapping victims. Maybe they don’t need to be carpet-bombed, but this is certainly taking a long time. I’m thinking that cutting off free candy bars and energy drinks won’t put much of a dent in the beheadings, though.

The other day, Mohamed Barry walked into the Nazareth Restaurant and Deli in Columbus, Ohio, talked with an employee and then left the business. He came back about thirty minutes later swinging a machete. He injured four people before the clientele started defending themselves with whatever they could find – mostly they flung chairs at him. Finally, he left with the police in close pursuit. When Barry finally stopped, he exited his car with the machete and a knife. Police tried to control him with a taser, when that was not effective, they shot him a couple of times until he was dead.

ABC News says that Barry was known to the FBI;

The machete-wielding man who allegedly injured four people in an attack at an Ohio restaurant before he was shot and killed by police was known to the FBI, but not under full scale investigation, law enforcement sources tell ABC News.

Funny, but all of these stories lately are punctuated by the “we were watching him” statement from the government. I have to guess that there are thousands of these “watchees” out there, we don’t know who they are, or where they are, or the level of the government’s watching activities. Luckily, no one except Barry was killed this time. If this isn’t an advertisement for concealed carry, I don’t what could convince you.

Fox News reports that the police are looking for Barry’s motivation for committing the crime;

It was not clear if there was any political or racial motivation for the attack, but the Nazarath is known for its multiculturalism. The entrance is adorned with a small Israeli flag and the Arabic phrase, “Ahlan Wa Shalan” which translates to “You are my family, take it easy.”

Clearly, it was nothing but domestic disturbance.