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‘Eyes gouged out, bodies hanging from hooks’

Commentary By:  Gordon King

The following article contains very graphic and violent content (no graphic photos) of the Kenyan Mall massacre.  The reason I am posting this article is to expose the evil in the world.  The truth about Islam.  We must not be ignorant regarding the times or what is actually happening in the world.  We must not be ignorant of this evil religion.  This is the so-called “peaceful” religion of Islam.  Muslims around the globe are committing these heinous crimes each and everyday that passes us by.  How can anyone in their right mind want to be part of such a religion?  It just doesn’t make any sense to me at all.  Yet, these Muslims who are committing such atrocities are only following what the Quran commands them to do.  They are being faithful to their religion.  If you ask me it is a religion of Satan himself!

Horrific claims of torture emerge in wake of Kenyan mall massacre

Soldiers told of the horrific torture meted out by terrorists in the Nairobi mall massacre yesterday with claims hostages were dismembered, had their eyes gouged out and were left hanging from hooks in the ceiling.

Men were said to have been castrated and had fingers removed with pliers before being blinded and hanged.

Children were found dead in the food court fridges with knives still embedded in their bodies, it was claimed.

Egypt announces full-scale assault on Sinai militants

Israel welcomes ‘impressive’ counter-terrorism campaign against insurgency that was sparked by Morsi’s overthrow

Egyptian soldiers stand guard on a minaret in the border town of Rafah in the Sinai peninsula where the army has launched a crackdown on militants. Photograph: Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images

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Egypt‘s army has announced a full-scale assault on militant areas in the restive northern Sinai desert, in what a senior Israeli official has approvingly called Egypt’s first-ever serious counter-terrorism campaign in the region.

Since July, militant Islamist groups in Sinai, the peninsular sandwiched between Egypt and Israel, have killed dozens of police and army officers in an insurgency sparked by anger at ex-president Mohamed Morsi‘s July overthrow. A Sinai-based cell also claimed responsibility for last week’s failed assassination attempt on Egypt’s interior minister, and the unrest has been used to justify a brutal state-led crackdown on more moderate and largely peaceful Morsi supporters in Cairo.

On Saturday, Egypt’s army said it killed 30 militants in an assault on 12 villages. Locals said the strikes involved six military helicopters and 50 soldiers going from house to house.

Nigerian Islamists accused of cutting throats of 44 villagers

Official says attackers gouged out eyes of some survivors of raid on Dumba village

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Islamist extremists have been accused of cutting the throats of 44 villagers in continuing attacks in an Islamic uprising in north-east Nigeria.

An official from the National Emergency Management Agency said on Saturday the attackers hit Dumba village in Borno state before dawn on Tuesday. He said the method of killing was to avoid gunfire which could attract security forces.

He said the attackers gouged out the eyes of some of the survivors.

Dumba is near the fishing village of Baga, where security forces gunned down 187 civilians in March in retaliation for an attack by extremists.

It is difficult to get information from the area, which is under a state of emergency with mobile phone and internet services cut.

Borno is one of three north-eastern states under a state of emergency declared on 14 May to crack down on the Boko Haram terrorist network.

Since 2010 more than 1,700 people have been killed in attacks by Islamist insurgents, according to an Associated Press count.

Islamic militants kill 44 at mosque in Nigeria

Muslim men belonging to a community of cattle merchants pray outside the Kara mosque, in the Ogun State of Nigeria, on October 26, 2012. (PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP/Getty Images)

By Associated Press, Updated: Monday, August 12, 3:48 PM

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Suspected Islamic militants wearing army fatigues gunned down 44 people praying at a mosque in northeast Nigeria, while another 12 civilians died in an apparently simultaneous attack, security agents said Monday.Sunday’s attacks were the latest in a slew of violence blamed on religious extremists in this West African oil producer, where the radical Boko Haram group, which wants to oust the government and impose Islamic law, poses the greatest security threat in years.

It was not immediately clear why the Islamic Boko Haram would have killed worshipping Muslims, but the group has in the past attacked mosques whose clerics have spoken out against religious extremism. Boko Haram also has attacked Christians outside churches and teachers and schoolchildren, as well as government and military targets.

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Sinai group says it was target of alleged Israeli drone attack

Al-Qaeda-linked organization claims four members were killed as they prepared for cross-border rocket strike into Israel

In this March 7, 2007, file photo, the Heron TP drone, also known locally as the Eitan, flies during a display at the Palmahim Air Force Base in Palmahim, Israel. Egyptian security officials said Friday, Aug. 9, 2013, an Israeli drone fired a missile in the northern Sinai peninsula, killing several suspected Islamic militants and destroying a rocket launcher. (Photo credit: AP/Ariel Schalit)

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CAIRO (AP) — An al-Qaeda-linked group active in the Sinai Peninsula said Saturday that its fighters were the target of a reported Israeli drone strike into Egyptian territory, a rare operation that could indicate increased Egyptian-Israeli security cooperation against militants in the lawless border zone.

Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, in a statement posted on a militant website, said that a drone that crossed into Egyptian airspace killed four fighters as they were preparing a cross-border rocket strike into Israel. It said the dead were from Egyptian Sinai tribes and that the rocket squad’s leader escaped.

 Egyptian security officials, speaking anonymously on Friday, said that a drone firing from the Israeli side of the border had killed five suspected militants.