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MUSLIM DICTATOR OF EARTHQUAKE DEVASTATED TURKEY ERDOGAN LOVES A GOOD HAMAS TERRORIST! - Turkey’s Erdogan: ‘Hamas Is Not a Terrorist Organization’

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Turkey’s Erdogan: ‘Hamas Is Not a Terrorist Organization’

Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers attends to a press conference with President of El Salvador at the Presidential Complex in Ankara, on January 20, 2022. (Photo by Adem ALTAN / AFP) (Photo by ADEM ALTAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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The radical Islamist president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, defended the genocidal terrorist organization Hamas in an incendiary address on Wednesday in which he abruptly canceled a planned visit to Israel in light of the horrific Hamas mass murder of over 1,400 people on October 7.

The terrorist onslaught, which Hamas has branded the “al-Aqsa flood,” was characterized by Hamas terrorists flooding Israeli residential communities, torturing, raping, abducting, and killing entire families. First responders to the communities targeted found children with knives left in their bodies, decapitated and charred babies, and unrecognizable body parts. At a music festival taking place in Israel that day, Hamas terrorists opened fire on attendees, leaving a pile of upwards of 250 bodies.

While much of the world has condemned the brutality of the Hamas attack, much of the Arab and Muslim world has sought to justify it as a legitimate response to the existence of Israel. The “supreme leader” of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei, proclaimed that even the infants slaughtered were “not civilians.” At a summit on Sunday in Cairo, Egypt, Arab leaders reportedly blocked the publication of a joint communique on the grounds that Western powers participating wanted to overtly condemn Hamas for the killings.

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Erdogan, speaking to lawmakers from his Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) on Wednesday, enthusiastically condemned Israel for self-defense operations against Hamas and categorically declared, “Hamas is not a terrorist organization.”

“Hamas is not a terrorist organization, it is a group of mujahideen defending their lands,” Erdogan proclaimedMujahideen is a term used for Muslims engaged in jihad, or holy war. The Times of Israel reported that his defense of Hamas earned Erdogan a standing ovation.

Translations in other news outlets of his remarks are consistent with the Times of Israel. In Turkish, the pro-Erdogan Islamist newspaper Yeni Safak published a more extensive excerpt of Erdogan’s remarks, which spanned beyond Israel to cover a large number of domestic issues and Turkey’s role in the world. On the Hamas mass murders, however, Erdogan focused his ire on Israel, announcing he would refuse to visit the country in solidarity.

“We have no problem with the state of Israel, but we have never or will not approve of the way Israel has committed its atrocities to act as a [terrorist] organization rather than as a state,” Erdogan said, according to Yeni Safak. The president claimed that targeted attacks on Hamas outposts in Gaza were “not self-defense, but rather savagery,” while defending Hamas terrorists beheading infants and butchering elderly women.

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“At their last meeting, they met again and the whole West sees Hamas as a terrorist organization,” Yeni Safak quoted Erdogan as saying. “Hamas is not a terrorist organization, but a group of liberation fighters who struggle to protect their land and citizens.”

Anadolu Agency, the Turkish state news outlet, only paraphrased Erdogan’s remarks in its English-language coverage of Wednesday’s speech and notably omitted the declaration that Hamas was not a terrorist organization. It did mention that Erdogan made the outlandish claim that “the Jewish people know well that Turkey is the only land that has been without antisemitism for centuries.” In reality, Turkey has a long history of antisemitism, including in modern times, and has experienced a surge in anti-Jewish hate speech and hostility under Erdogan, whose government has abused law enforcement to target non-Muslims generally. Polls show a majority of Turks harbor antisemitic beliefs, fueled in part by Erdogan himself making antisemitic comments in public.

Erdogan earned a mild condemnation from the Biden White House in 2021, for example, for stating that it was “in their nature,” referring to Jews, to engage in “terrorism.”

“They are murderers, to the point that they kill children who are five or six years old. They only are satisfied by sucking their blood,” he said at the time.

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Erdogan has repeatedly defended Hamas while running Turkey and most recently welcomed the terrorist organization’s leader, Ismail Haniyeh, to Ankara in July. In 2018, Erdogan made nearly the exact same comments on Hamas’s status as a terrorist group in remarks posted to Twitter.

“Hamas is not a terrorist organization … it is a resistance movement that defends the Palestinian homeland against an occupying power,” he wrote.

Despite his clear bias in favor of Islamic terrorists, Erdogan has attempted to insert himself as a mediator between Israel and Hamas since the October 7 attacks. Days after the mass killings, anonymous sources from within Erdogan’s government began spreading rumors that he was playing a protagonist role in helping convince Hamas to release the hundreds of hostages it is believed to have taken from Israel.

“Turkey is carrying out negotiations regarding the civilian prisoners held by Hamas. Upon President Tayyip Erdogan’s orders, the relevant institutions are carrying out a process regarding the civilians held by Hamas,” an anonymous alleged Turkish official told the Sydney Morning Herald.

Erdogan himself has not confirmed the reports, nor has anyone working under him on the record. Following the release of four hostages this week, Turkey received no credit publicly for playing any role. Countries involved in the negotiations instead credited Qatar, an Islamist theocracy that houses Hamas’s elite leadership, for its role in helping secure freedom for the hostages.

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Hamas Terrorists Found with Instructions to Decapitate Jews and Remove Hearts, Livers

Men parade with Palestinian and Hamas flags during a demonstration called by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in the southern Lebanese city of Saida late on May 11, 2021. (Photo by Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP) (Photo by MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP via Getty Images)
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Hamas terrorists were urged to decapitate and remove the hearts and livers of their Jewish victims during their raid on Israel, as detailed in a handwritten note found at the scene of the horrific attack.

The note contains words of encouragement from Hamas commanders declaring the religious importance of massacring Jews wherever they are found.

It further draws lessons from historical Muslim leaders who massacred men, sold women and children into slavery and decimated cities across the Judeo Christian world.

Iran Hamas - Tamar, Yonatan and their children Shachar (6), Arbel (6), Omer (4) were brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Nir Oz. (@EladStr Twitter/X)

Tamar, Yonatan, and their children — Shachar (6), Arbel (6), and Omer (4) — were brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Nir Oz. (@EladStr Twitter/X)

The government of Israel confirmed on Wednesday the discovery of the bodies of 16-year-old Ruth Peretz and father Erick at the site of the Supernova music festival, which was interrupted on October 7 by murderous hordes of Hamas terrorists, who killed hundreds of people at the event.

Sixteen-year-old Ruth Peretz and father Erick at the site of the Supernova music festival before they were murdered on October 7 by hordes of Hamas terrorists, who killed hundreds more at the event. (Supplied)

Israel’s Government Press Office set out the contents of the note in a statement, saying:

Note found on Hamas terrorist: “Know that this enemy of yours is a disease that has no cure, other than beheading and extracting the hearts and livers!”

On October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists invaded Israel and carried out a massacre in communities in southern Israel. A handwritten note was found on one of the terrorists which was given to him before the invasion.

The words from Hamas commanders consist of an order to kill Jews and encouragement to decapitate their victims and tear out their hearts and livers.

Please find attached a copy of the note in the original Arabic.

As Breitbart News reported, over 1,000 Hamas terrorists infiltrated Israel on the morning of October 7, infiltrating Israeli towns near the Gaza border and IDF bases.

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More than 1,400 Israelis have been killed since the first attack began, with some 220 people also kidnapped and held hostage by Hamas terrorists and their allies in the Gaza Strip.

Forensic evidence of the victims’ bodies and video footage captured by terrorists have shown that Israeli women and children were raped and beheaded while others were dismembered.

The war between Israel and Hamas, which began with the Oct. 7 attack, is now in its third week.

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All-Out Victory’: Hezbollah Chief Holds Terror Summit with Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad Leaders

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Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Shiite terrorist organization Hezbollah, convened a summit featuring top leaders from Sunni terrorist organizations Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) on Wednesday, allegedly meant to plan future violence following Hamas’s mass murder of over 1,400 Israelis on October 7.

The Hezbollah-owned Al-Manar propaganda outlet named Nasrallah’s guests as Islamic Jihad Secretary General Ziad Nakhale and Hamas deputy chief Saleh Al-Arouri and called the meeting “highly anticipated” and “monumental” in the jihadist community, as it was the first summit of its kind since October 7.

On that day, Hamas launched what it calls the “al-Aqsa flood,” an expansive terrorist invasion of Israel in which Hamas thugs tortured, raped, and butchered civilian families in their homes. Terrorists went door-to-door massacring Israelis; evidence compiled by Israeli authorities included gruesome scenes of people, including infants, burned alive, stabbed to death, and decapitated.

One of the largest single death tolls in the day occurred at a music festival, where Hamas terrorists opened fire on crowds of attendees and abducted civilians via motorcycle.

Hamas terrorists also desecrated corpses and filmed themselves doing so in an apparently drug-fueled frenzy.

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PIJ has served as a junior partner in terror attacks on Israel, attempting to shoot rockets at Israeli targets. Last week, a misfired rocket identified as originating with PIJ hit the Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, killing dozens (estimates range between 50 and 500 people). Pro-Palestinian groups initially blamed the attack on the Israeli government.

The Hezbollah terror summit was meant as a display of solidarity across Islamic lines for the common goal of destroying Israel and committing genocide against Jewish people.

All three groups support the eradication of Israel and have orchestrated attacks to kill Jews regardless of their affiliation with Israel.

“The leaders tackled latest developments since the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood and the events that followed on all fronts including the confrontations across the border between Lebanon and the occupied Palestine,” the Hezbollah “media relations office” said in its statement on the meeting. Al-Manar said that the groups also discussed “subsequent ramifications” of the Hamas killings, without elaborating.

“Sayyed Nasrallah assessed with Nakhale and Al-Arouri the international and regional stances as well as steps to be taken by the Axis of Resistance in this critical phase,” Hezbollah explained, “in order to achieve an all-out victory and to stop the brutal attack on the oppressed people of Gaza and the West Bank.”

Islamic theology disagreements aside, Hezbollah has supported Hamas following the October 7 massacre with attacks from Lebanon, where it is established as a political party and influential hub of power. According to the Qatari outlet al-Jazeera, which is sympathetic to anti-Israel groups, Hezbollah “has had near-daily exchanges of fire with Israeli forces along the Israeli-Lebanese border.”

Iran’s PressTV state propaganda outlet reported on Wednesday that, in addition to Nasrallah’s meeting, the terrorist organization’s “Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem” issued statements threatening a full-scale Hezbollah assault on Israel.

A United Nations vehicle drives past a poster of the head of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah, with the phrase “we shall pray in Jerusalem”, in the southern Lebanese border village of Adaisseh on October 7, 2022. (MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP via Getty)

“Sheikh Qassem said in a post published on social media that Hezbollah has its ‘finger on the trigger’ to whatever extent it deems necessary to defend Gaza and to face off the occupiers of Palestine,” PressTV relayed.

“Hezbollah has warned that it will join the Palestinian resistance in the fight against Israel if the occupying regime escalates its aggression on Gaza and in case foreign military forces intervene to help the Israeli regime in the battle.”

Israel has for years warned that is a direct proxy of the Iranian government and intends to destroy the country.

“Iran has proxies. One of them is Hezbollah. Hezbollah just joined the government of Lebanon. That’s a misnomer; they actually control the government of Lebanon,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned the United Nations in 2019. “It means that Iran controls the government of Lebanon.”

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Hezbollah, PIJ, and Hamas all enjoy lavish financial support from Iran, the world’s premier state sponsor of terrorism. According to a 2020 report by the U.S. State Department, Iran funnels about $100 million a year to Hamas and PIJ. Estimates suggest that Hezbollah receives a much more formidable $700 million a year from the Iranian Islamist regime.

A spokesman for Hamas told the BBC on October 7 that Iran offered “direct backing” for the massacre.

Despite its prominent role in the conflict already, Iran has threatened repeatedly to become directly involved in attacks on Israel.

“The continuation of the Zionist regime’s crimes (in Gaza) and the direct support and backing from certain countries would further complicate the situation and could make other actors intervene in this arena,” the head of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri, said last week, leaving open the possibility that Iran would be one of those “other actors.”

“Our strategy towards the Zionist entity never changes: the removal of the Zionist entity. Israel must be eliminated,” Iranian Armed Forces Spokesman Brigadier-General Abolfazl Shekarchi said in 2021.

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THE ISSUE IS NOT LIMITED TO HAMAS. HAMAS IS MERELY ONE FRONT FOR ISLAM. IT IS A GLOBAL TERRORISM WE ARE, AND HAVE BEEN DEALING WITH. REMEMBER SEPT 11 AND THE SAUDIS TAKE DOWN OF THE TWIN TOWERS IN NYC.

French President Macron Calls for International ‘Coalition’ to Combat Hamas

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) greets French President Emmanuel Macron before a meeting in Jerusalem on October 24, 2023. Macron's visit comes more than two weeks after Hamas militants stormed into Israel from the Gaza Strip and killed at least 1,400 people, according to Israeli officials while Israel continues …
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French President Emmanuel Macron travelled to Jerusalem on Tuesday to reaffirm his country’s support for Israel and called for an international “coalition” of nations to combat the scourge of Islamist terrorist groups such as Hamas.

Appearing alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mr Macron said in a speech that the world must remember that Israel has a “legitimate right to defend itself,” adding: “This cause is just, period.”

The French leader, who expressed solidarity with Israel as the leader of a country that has also faced deadly Islamist attacks, said that the priority of Western democracies should be to defeat terrorism, saying per Le Figaro: “I propose to our international partners that we can build a regional and international coalition to fight against these terrorist groups which threaten us all.”

It is not precisely clear what form of a “coalition” Macron envisages for the future, however, with the French military largely retreating from its presence in Africa, the French leader could be eying the Middle East as another venue to exert military power.

While there are growing calls from within the European Union to pressure Jerusalem into a ceasefire — before the expected ground invasion of Gaza has even begun — Macron seemed to reject such notions, saying that Israel’s fight against Hamas should be “merciless”.

He did caveat, however, that the war should still be fought along the rules of combat and that humanitarian aid should be allowed to reach civilians in Gaza.

Macron also doubled down on his call to Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon, the Islamist regime in Iran, and the Houthis in Yemen to refrain from taking “reckless risk of opening new fronts” in the war and risk destabilising the entire region.

Finally, the French president called for a restart of political negotiations to finally come to a settlement between Israel and Palestine on a two-state basis.

“Israel’s security cannot be sustainable without a decisive relaunch of the political process with the Palestinians,” he said, adding that Israel will have to accept “ the legitimate right of the Palestinians to have a territory and a state in peace and security alongside Israel.”

For his part, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that terror groups like Hamas and Hezbollah want to bring the world back to the “Middle Ages” and therefore the war in Israel represents a civilisation battle between the West and radical Islam.

“The test for the West and for civilisation is Hamas,” he said. “If Hamas emerges victorious, we will all lose, Europe will be endangered, everyone will be endangered, civilisation will be endangered.”

“That is why this battle is not merely our own, it’s Europe’s battle, it’s America’s battle, it’s civilisation’s battle. It’s a battle for the heart and soul of the Middle East and the Arab world.”

Netanyahu also issued a threat to Hezbollah, warning that Israel would be forced into an “unimaginable” response against Lebanon if the Islamist terror group enters the fighting in a “significant way”.

“If Hezbollah makes the mistake of joining this war, they will regret it, they will long for the Second Lebanon War,” he warned.

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More Arrests Made Over ‘Allah hu Akbar’ Brussels Terror Attack

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French police have arrested two Paris-area residents over links to the October 16th terrorist attack in Brussels which saw two people killed and a third critically injured.

Two people have been arrested on suspicion of criminal terrorist association over alleged links to the October 16th terrorist attack in Brussels, Belgium. The two unnamed individuals are said by French specialist counter-terror prosecutors, Paris newspaper Le Figaro reports, to have complicity in terrorist “assassination”.

The pair are being held in pre-trial detention. Six people have been arrested in France over the Belgium attack so far, and four continue to be held.

It is believed that failed Tunisian asylum seeker Abdesalem Lassoued was behind the deaths of two Swedish football fans in Brussels last Monday. It is claimed he rode around the city on a moped while carrying an assault rifle-type long arm and shot at members of the public while shouting the infamous Arabic war cry “Allah hu Akbar”.

Those killed and injured appear to have been targeted because they were wearing the colours of the Swedish football team, which was playing a match in the city that night. Swedish football fans have been now warned not to wear their national strip while abroad, and this attack follows earlier warnings from the Swedish government that their citizens are at a heightened risk of attack while abroad.

The increased risk specifically to Swedes has been blamed on a violent reaction by Muslims worldwide to a series of freedom and expression and freedom of speech demonstrations and rallies in the form of Qur’an burnings held in Swedish cities, which Muslim hardliners see as unacceptable.

As revealed after the attack, alleged attacker Lassoued not only had been denied asylum in Europe but was also the subject of an extradition request by his native Tunisia because he had escaped from prison there. He had been serving 26 years for attempted murder and other crimes.

Having escaped, Abdesalem Lassoued posed as a refugee and travelled to Europe on a small boat and evaded several deportation attempts, including one launched after authorities became suspicious that he was becoming a radicalised Muslim. Lassoued reportedly lived in Italy, Norway, Sweden and Belgium during his time in Europe.

The Belgian Justice Minister resigned last week over his failure to deport Lassoued, saying while the decision had not been personally taken by him he nevertheless bore ultimate responsibility for the activities of those inside his government department.

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‘For Palestine’ — Asylum Seeker Arrested in Britain over Alleged Terror Attack, Details Being Kept From Public: Report

RAMALLAH, WEST BANK - JANUARY 9: Supporters of Interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas cheer and wave flags after Abbas placed his vote in the ballot box at the polling station in his Muqaata Headquarters, January 9, 2005 in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Abbas is frontrunner amongst seven candidates …
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An asylum seeker in Britain has reportedly been arrested over an alleged terror attack to seek vengeance for Gaza, however, further information has reportedly been withheld from the public, according to the Daily Telegraph.

A man who arrived as an asylum seeker in the United Kingdom in 2020 has reportedly been arrested for an alleged terror attack. He is said to have told police that he was motivated to carry out the attack “for Palestine” and to avenge Palestinians killed in the wake of the October 7th Hamas terror attacks on Israel that left over 1,400 dead. The man is currently in police custody.

Further information on the alleged terror attack, which came amid concerns of violence stemming from anti-Israel protests being held throughout Britain, has been withheld from the public, London’s Daily Telegraph reports.

Some of the details of the alleged attack are being withheld for legal reasons, however, a security source speaking to the paper suggested that authorities “may be downplaying it so that they don’t have repeat attacks or copycat attacks.”

British lawmakers have called for the public to be informed about the alleged attack, with former Conservative Party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith saying: “I think the public does have a right to know that something has happened. If they are worried about reaction, people need to know whether their streets are safe.

“It would be helpful to know these things are happening. I understand the sensitivities. The issue is whether people have a right to know whether things are going on on their streets. It needs to be carefully done but we need a greater level of clarity about whether we have a problem about extremists on our streets.”

When questioned on if he believed the reluctance to publish information on the alleged terror attack came as a result of reticence to link terrorism to immigration, the former Tory leader said: “All these things are connected. I understand the sensitivities but the police need to be clear if this was an attack by an extremist. We need to know that.”

Speaking to the paper, a senior counter-terror official also stressed the dangers of Britain’s mass migration policies: “It just illustrates the risk when you get stressed individuals coming from all parts of the world, including places where they will have participated in or witnessed savagery.  It is linked to migration. As a result of full-scale migration, we are getting a lot of people.”

The alleged attack came amid suspected Islamist attacks in Belgium and France, with two Swedish men being shot to death in Brussels on Monday by an ISIS-inspired Tunisian migrant who had avoided multiple attempts from multiple countries to deport him back to his homeland in Africa. Just days prior, a French middle school teacher in the city of Arras was stabbed to death in another suspected Islamist attack by a migrant who had also successfully avoided deportation.

With countries throughout Europe on high alert amid the conflict in the Middle East between Hamas and Israel, national leaders have begun calling for reforms to the lax immigration systems in place in the EU. This week, the prime ministers of Belgium, France, Germany, and Sweden all called for stepped-up efforts to deport radicalised migrants.

On Saturday, the Times of Israel reported that an explosive device was set off outside the Israeli Embassy in the Cypriot capital of Nicosia. The attack, which was carried out with a homemade device, thankfully did not result in any injuries. Police in Cyprus have so far arrested four Syrian nationals on suspicion of involvement in the attack.

The director-general of MI5 Ken McCallum warned that terror attacks in Britain may occur due to the Gaza conflict, saying: “There is clearly the possibility that profound events in the Middle East will either generate more volume of UK threat and/or changes shape in terms of what is being targeted.”

A spokesman for the UK’s Counter Terrorism Policing force denied that the public has been “misled or that information has been deliberately withheld”, arguing that the alleged terror attack in Britain referred to by The Telegraph is “subject to active legal proceedings,” adding: “We have issued several public statements in relation to this matter previously.”

“We routinely share and publicise information about ongoing investigations, arrests and charges, through our online channels, and by updating the media direct. Communities defeat terrorism. Sharing information with the public and encouraging them to report anything that doesn’t feel right, is a vital part of our mission.”

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Belgian Police Shoot Dead Tunisian ‘Radical’ After ‘Allahu Akbar’ Terror Killings in Brussels

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - OCTOBER 17: Police take security measures as they shoot and capture the suspect who opened fire randomly in the city center, 5 kilometers away from the King Baudouin Stadium where the Euro 2024 qualifying football match between Belgium and Sweden took place, killing 2 Swedish people, in …
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The alleged Islamist perpetrator of Monday night’s terror attack who boasted of sacrificing “souls and blood” was shot dead Tuesday morning by Belgian police at a Cafe in Schaarbeek.

45-year-old Abdesalem Lassoued, a failed Tunisian asylum seeker with a serious criminal history and known to be radicalised was shot dead in the frequently terror-linked Brussels neighbourhood of Schaarbeek on Tuesday morning. Lassoued is the main suspect in what police say was a terrorist attack in central Brussels on Monday night where three Swedish citizens visiting the city for a football game were gunned down.

As reported, two people were killed and a third injured critically in the attack, in which a man riding on a scooter fired at pedestrians with a Kalashnikov-type rifle while shouting “Allahu akbar”.

Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws reports of the slain suspect that he applied for asylum in the country in 2019 but was rejected the following year. Yet he was never deported. Lassoued posted videos to social media after the attack in which he stated he believed himself to be a “warrior on ther way to Allah” who had lived and would die in “the way of our faith” before proclaiming: “I killed three Swedes, praise be to Allah”.

The cafe at the Eugene Verboekhovenplein/ Place Eugene Verboekhoven in Schaerbeek/ Schaarbeek, Brussels, where the suspected perpetrator of the attack in Brussels was probably shot during a police intervention, Tuesday 17 October 2023. (Photo by JAMES ARTHUR GEKIERE/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images)

Aftermath of a shooting incident in the Ieperlaan – Boulevard d’Ypres, Brussels, Tuesday 17 October 2023. (Photo by JAMES ARTHUR GEKIERE/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images)

The Belgian Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne said of the suspect this morning that as well as being known for being a threat to state security, the government had been sent a tip-off that he had become radicalised and wanted to travel to fight jihad. He also had a record for human smuggling.

The Minister said these reports came during a time of heightened terror concern and that the state receives “dozens of reports of this nature every day” and no evidence was found to place him on the extremism watchlist, but it was subsequently claimed he was convicted of terror or criminal offences in his native Tunisia.

Lassoued was reportedly shot in the chest at the Schaarbeek cafe by police and died on the way to hospital. The Belgian Interior Minister Annelies Verlinden said Tuesday morning, per Reuters, that “The weapon with which the attacks were committed has been found this morning where the man was apprehended in Schaerbeek… We are checking fingerprints to be 100% sure.”

Lassoued’s wife has also been arrested.

Reuters reports remarks by the Belgian Federal Prosecutor saying there was no link between this attack and the Hamas terror attack on Gaza last week, yet HLN reports Lassoued posted about the conflict and Swedish Koran burnings on his social media shortly before his allegedly launched his strike.

The Swedish government had warned its citizens they may be targets for terrorist strikes while travelling abroad in August because of the anger shown by Muslims about the freedom of expression demonstrations that took place in the country.

Belgium has increased the terrorism threat level to four in Brussels, the highest level. The government is to have emergency meetings today to decide further action.


Europe Let in Too Many Foreigners, Says Henry Kissinger in Wake of Pro-Hamas Demonstrations Across Continent

20 June 2023, Bavaria, Fürth: Henry Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State, sits on stage at the celebration of his 100th birthday. Fürth, the birthplace of ex-US Secretary of State Kissinger, is holding a celebration to mark the 100th birthday of its honorary citizen. Photo: Daniel Vogl/dpa (Photo by Daniel …
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Pro-Hamas demonstrations show European nations, including Germany, made a “grave mistake”, and the continent should be concerned about future hostage-taking raids against its own people if the idea isn’t defeated quickly, Henry Kissinger warns.

Europe is subject to internal pressure by groups of people “of totally different culture and religion” because of the “grave mistake” of admitting too many foreigners, Henry Kissinger said of the phenomenon of demonstrations across Europe in support of Hamas terrorists this week.

Speaking to Politico in the wake of the Hamas terrorist attack against Israel on Saturday, longtime kingpin of the globalist movement Henry Kissinger walked back his previous position on the importance of keeping Western nations open to refugee flows and said the events of recent days showed nations had gone too far. He told the publication observing celebrations in German cities in support of Hamas is “painful” to watch.

Kissinger said: “It was a grave mistake to let in so many people of totally different culture and religion and concepts, because it creates a pressure group inside each country that does that”.

Europe should give “unconditional political support for Israeli action” now the terrorist attack has happened, Kissinger continued, and not least because in his view European states have a vested interest in making sure no precedent is set for raids and mass taking of hostages from Western nations is set. He concluded: “Israel must vindicate its sovereignty in that area, and that it cannot permit Gaza to return to a state where it could emerge, take thousands or a large number hostage, kill thousands, and then live in that condition side-by-side with Israel.

“I would say every European nation has the same interest because the same attitude might erupt in the direction of Europe.”

While hostage-taking raids on Europe may seem far-fetched, they are not without ample historical precedent and match other warnings about the very high-consequence risk of the tactic coming to Europe’s shores.

Kissinger’s comments on the “grave mistake” and danger presented by mass migration creating alien power structures within Western nations are a considerable shift from his previous positions, which he long acknowledged were influenced by his own experience as a refugee from Nazi Germany going to America in the 1930s.

In 2015 Kissinger was a co-signatory of a letter to Congress demanding the borders be kept open to Syrian and Iraqi migrants in the wake of the deadly Paris terror attacks. The letter said to do otherwise would “be contrary to our nation’s traditions of openness and inclusivity, and would undermine our core objective of combating terrorism”, because admitting Muslim migrants is a way to defeat ISIS.

It said: “Categorically refusing to take [Muslim migrants] only feeds the narrative of ISIS that there is a war between Islam and the West, that Muslims are not welcome in the United States and Europe, and that the ISIS caliphate is their true home. We must make clear that the United States rejects this worldview”.

Police made multiple arrests in Berlin this past week as protesters took to the streets to cheer the Hamas terrorist attack that is thought to have killed at least 1,300 Israelis on Saturday. Protesters chanted “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”, and despite arrests the groups have returned to celebrate on the streets in Berlin night after night, with a fresh gathering in the diverse, left-leaning neighbourhood of Neukölln on Wednesday night.

TAZ reports hundreds gathered in the district despite a ban on pro-Palestinian rallies ordered by police in Berlin and were met by several hundred police officers, who broke up the crowd leading to some scuffles.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) lists Kissinger as an “important mentor” to founder Klaus Schwab, according to a 2010 document.

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Taken from the document “A Partner in Shaping History: The First 40 Years.” (Screenshot / weforum.org)


Terror Arrest: Known Extremist Allegedly Wanted to Drive Truck Into Pro-Israel Rally

25 October 2023, North Rhine-Westphalia, Duisburg: The apartment building where the suspect was arrested yesterday. Following indications of a possible attack with a truck, police searched the apartment of a known Islamist. The man had been convicted in 2017 for membership in a terrorist organization. Photo: Christoph Reichwein/dpa (Photo by …
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German police arrested a known Islamist on Tuesday following intelligence he was planning to attack a pro-Israel rally to “kill as many people as possible”, reports claim.

A convicted Islamic fundamentalist who was previously jailed for traveling to Syria to fight for the Islamic State was arrested in a police raid Tuesday, as counter-terror police believed he presented an urgent risk to the public. According to German newspaper Bild, police received a tip-off from a foreign secret service that revealed a man identified as Tarik S., who has access to a truck, had researched pro-Israel rallies in his city.

They said the Egyptian-heritage German citizen wanted to “drive a truck into such a demonstration and injure and kill as many people as possible”.

The arrest took place in Duisburg in North Rhine-Westphalia and underlines, Welt reports, the nervousness of the German state security apparatus about the increased risk of terror attacks in the wake of the massive assault on Israel this month.

Tarik S. himself is already well known to authorities, having been arrested in 2016 upon his return from the Islamic State, where he traveled in 2013 to join their jihad. A German court heard how he had featured in Islamic State propaganda videos, posing with a decapitated corpse in one, and was known to his comrades in ISIS as “Osama the German”.

He was sentenced to five years in prison in 2017 and was subsequently released.

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