SA comes under alleged increased terror threat

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It’s emerged South Africa could be under increased threat of a terrorist attack after an alleged Isis member was arrested while en route to Johannesburg from Turkey.

The Sunday Times is reporting the suspect, who's an Iraqi national, is believed to have planned a trip to the country last month to scout for a possible terror attack target.

Days earlier, immigration officials in Johannesburg flagged another possible terrorist travelling from the US through Turkey at OR Tambo International Airport.
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http://ewn.co.za/2017/01/15/report-sa-under-increased-terror-threat
 
what happened to the story about the training camps in south africa?
 
ah yes, alledged, so it must be true because it fits in with the narrative
 
I really hope we don't her these religioun of peace militants in SA.

I like this country without US freedom
 
access said:
what happened to the story about the training camps in south africa?
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What happened is that they continue to function. At least one in the Northern Cape, one large one in the Eastern Cape and a few others sprung around the country. The govt continues to monitor, probably working under the basis of rather knowing where they are than driving them elsewhere.
 
Well the wife of one of the London bombers managed to live and work here undetected. She had a fake SA passport and played a role in the Westgate bombi v in Kenya.


"Following renewed publicity about Lewthwaite's activities in 2013, Naledi Pandor, the South African Minister of Home Affairs, issued a statement saying that the passport had been "fraudulently acquired" using birth registration documents in the name of Natalie Faye Webb, and had been issued by the passport agency in Durban.[56] Pandor said that they had determined that Lewthwaite first entered South Africa in July 2008 and "travelled in and out of the country on several occasions." The passport had been cancelled and added to a "stop list" in 2011.[57]

Further investigations revealed that Lewthwaite, using the Natalie Webb identity, had worked as an IT specialist at a halal meat factory in Lenasia, Johannesburg, and had lived in rented properties in the Mayfair and Bromhof suburbs of Johannesburg. Credit records showed that Lewthwaite ran up a number of unpaid debts from bank loans, credit cards and clothing store charge accounts in South Africa, including R28,000 owed to First Rand Bank and R30,000 to Standard Bank.[56][58]"

Lewthwaite gave birth to her fourth child, a daughter, at a private birthing centre in Johannesburg in July 2010. The Daily Telegraph reports that she registered with the clinic late into her pregnancy, and under the name Asmaa Shahidah Bint-Andrews. She gave birth after attending four prenatal appointments.[59] Anti-terrorism investigators told the newspaper the child's father is believed to be Abdi Wahid, a former Kenyan naval officer who defected to al-Shabaab.[45]


Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Lewthwaite
 
A bomb maker working for the Islamic State terrorist group was arrested at a Turkish airport last month as he was about to board a flight to Johannesburg.

The suspect, an Iraqi named Abu Osama, was allegedly planning an attack in South Africa.

"Our intelligence officials believe Abu wasn't coming to South Africa to recruit for IS, but to identify a specific target that would later be attacked," Iraqi ambassador Saad Kindeel told the Sunday Times.

Osama's arrest took place shortly after immigration officials at OR Tambo flagged another suspected terrorist entering South Africa from Turkey. He was originally from the US.

The two incidents have sparked concern that South Africa might be facing an increased risk of terror attacks, specifically on US-based businesses and buildings.
Speaking on behalf of acting police commissioner Khomotso Phahlane yesterday, Hangwani Mulaudzi said: "We are aware of the two incidents. One was dealt with by immigration officials at OR Tambo, where a person coming from the US via Turkey was flagged and sent back to Turkey."
Mulaudzi said the incident happened on December 16.

"We are also aware of the later incident in Turkey where a person was arrested as he was about to take a flight to South Africa. Interpol confirmed the incident and we are still waiting for their full briefing," Mulaudzi said.
The incident in Turkey was confirmed this week by Kindeel.

He said Iraq had more information on the planned attack in South Africa by Osama, but he could not share this with the South African government until it had signed a memorandum of understanding with Iraq in which both countries agreed to share security information.
"I am surprised the South African government is taking its time to sign this memorandum. We are providing the information for free, which can be used to protect its citizens," the ambassador said.

State Security Minister David Mahlobo confirmed the incident at OR Tambo airport and said Kindeel had notified him about the arrest in Turkey.
"I am not delaying the signing of this memorandum of understanding. We take any terror threat very seriously. I am in the process of setting up a task team that will deal with these terror threats and interrogate the information from the Iraqi ambassador."
Mahlobo said his men had always been on high alert.
He said the man who was identified at OR Tambo airport had flown in from a country in the Middle East.
"He wasn't arrested as he didn't commit any crime in South Africa and was not wanted for any criminal activities elsewhere."
Mahlobo said extremist groups were recruiting people with clean records so they were not easily identified.
"They are clean with no dodgy past," he said.

In an interview with Sunday Times this week, Kindeel said Osama had been arrested at Ataturk airport in Turkey as he was about to board a flight to South Africa. The arrest took place late last month and Osama is being held by Iraqi officials in Baghdad.
A source in the South African security services with direct access to anti-terror investigations said: "South Africa will not be the victim of any attack, but I believe there is a risk against foreign assets in South Africa."
He said there were many IS-linked foreigners receiving training in South Africa and recruiting here for the organisation.


Osama's arrest was widely reported in Middle Eastern newspapers, which quoted the Iraqi federal judiciary authority.
Kindeel said Iraqi intelligence officials had told him that during interrogation, Osama had confessed to planning an attack on the US air base at Incirlik in Turkey.
He had recruited a suicide bomber for the mission. He said his next target would be in South Africa.
The Incirlik air base is also used by Nato forces and the Turkish air force. Nato has used the base for airstrikes against IS.
"Our intelligence officials believe Abu wasn't coming to South Africa to recruit for IS, but to identify a specific target that would later be attacked," Kindeel said.
He said Osama, who is an engineer, had been planning to flee Turkey after being tipped off that his cover was blown.

According to Middle Eastern news sites quoting the Iraqi federal judiciary authority, Osama told his captors that he had attended Mosul University, graduating as a civil engineer and worked with a German company that built roads and bridges in the northern Iraqi city.
He moved to Germany for a short time to continue his studies.
Following his return to Mosul, he was unemployed for a year and a half.
"Most of the companies left Mosul because they were concerned that IS extremists would occupy the city," he reportedly said in his confession.
"After IS occupied Mosul, I heard that [IS leader] Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had called for people with expertise to join the Islamic State and I decided to join the group in one of the famous mosques in Mosul. Then we were divided to different groups."

The Arabic news site almasalah.com quoted the federal judiciary authority as saying that Osama told officials: "I had orders to move to South Africa through Khartoum in Sudan.

"I was then arrested at Ataturk airport at the end of last year."
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http://www.timeslive.co.za/sundaytimes/stnews/2017/01/15/Top-terror-bomber-bust-on-his-way-to-SA
 
biometrics said:
Who cares?
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When you start picking up pieces of your friends, family etc get back to us. Just because it does not influence your life right now does not mean it's not an issue. Just look around the world and what these fsckers do to innocent people and tell me it's not an issue.
 
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