Al Qaeda killed at least 33 people on Monday during an attack on a city in central Yemen.
The terrorists seized a central Yemeni city as they’ve launched an offensive against the Shi’ite Muslim Houthis that are in control of the Yemeni capital. The country is considered a prize for the terrorist group because it shares a border with Saudi Arabia.
Al Qaeda marched into al-Odayn, a city of 200,000, and raised their flag over the city’s local government offices. Witnesses say the invasion took only a few minutes and that local officials gave no resistance to the terrorist group.
“They came in at midday, invaded the town, chanting Allahu Akbar (God is Greater) and seized the government compound unopposed,” the witness said.
The Houthi forces have used the capital as a base to spread out across the nation in an attempt to drive the terrorists out of the city.
Avalanches have hampered rescue efforts after a massive storm that rocked Nepal.
Over 600 people have been rescued so far from a hiking trail on Annapurna, the world’s 10th highest mountain peak. A massive snowstorm hit the mountain because of a cyclone that struck nearby India.
Rescue workers say today will be their last day to try and save anyone trapped because of avalanches and the storm.
“After this we can only hope that those who are missing will establish contact with us or their families,” said Kesa Paned of the Trekking Agencies’ Association of Nepal. “We don’t think that any tourist is missing now. I am getting reports that some local porters and tour guides who were on the trek have not been traced so far.”
The confirmed death toll is at 40. Officials said the dead tourist was an Israeli.
The death toll includes tourists from around the world including Canada, India, Israel, Japan and Poland.
Typhoon Vongfong has roared into Japan leaving a trail of flooding, damage and death.
The storm struck the Kyushu, Shikoku and Honshu prefects on Monday. At least one person is missing and presumed dead and 61 people were injured in the initial waves of the storm.
The storm struck on the last day of a three-day holiday weekend. The city of Shizuoka ordered 212,000 households making up over 506,000 people to leave ahead of the storm.
Railway service across the nation was suspended in preparation for the storm.
The storm is weakening rapidly as it moves across the nation; it had been downgraded to Tropical Storm status around noon eastern time.
The United Nations is saying that unless action is taken to stop the Islamic terrorist group ISIS from overtaking the city of Kobani, “thousands will most likely be massacred.”
UN envoy Staffan de Mistura says that Kobani is on the verge of suffering the fate of the Bosnian town of Srebrenica where 8,000 were killed by Serbs in 1995.
“If this falls, the 700, plus perhaps the 12,000 people, apart from the fighters, will be most likely massacred,” de Mistura said. The United Nations believes 700 mainly elderly civilians are trapped in the town itself and 12,000 have left the center but not made it across the border into Turkey.”
“Do you remember Srebrenica? We do. We never forgot and probably we never forgave ourselves. When there is an imminent threat to civilians, we cannot, we should not, be silent.”
The threat of the massacres of Kurds in the city is causing problem in Turkey, where Turkish Kurds are rising up against the government for their not stepping in to help stop the killing of their kin.
The Liberian man who fell ill with Ebola while in the Dallas area is dead.
Thomas Eric Duncan died Wednesday morning at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. He had been in critical condition for days and rumors had been rampant for days that Duncan was on the verge of death.
Duncan’s family is still in isolation and is being monitored by health officials for any Ebola symptoms. Several others who had close contact with Duncan have been taken to a secret secured location. The Centers for Disease Control says no one has shown signs of Ebola.
The family confirmed that they had received confirmation of Duncan’s death.
CNN is reporting that airports within the United States are now going to take temperatures of passengers arriving from countries with Ebola infections.
The director of the CDC says that new travel guidelines are being developed for Americans.
Survivors of an Islamist attack in Kaduna State, Nigeria say that at least 46 people have been killed including two pastors.
Church leaders say the Islamists stated their goal was to “cleanse” the area of any Christians.
The two pastors were killed along with 31 other Christian s in Karshin Daji. The attack left 15 injured and at least 15 homes of Christians burned to the ground. The slain pastors were Pastor Ezra Ibrahim of the Evangelical Church Winning All and Pastor Julius Jako of ECWA who was butchered beside his wife and daughter.
Danjuma Awe, 60, was one of the survivors of the assault.
“Suddenly we heard sounds of gunshots around our village,” Awe said. “The pastor was still in the pastorate when the Muslim Fulani gunmen forced their way onto the church premises. They cut him, his wife, and a daughter with a machete, and then tied the hands and feet of the three of them before setting the house on fire. The three of them were burned to ashes in the living room of the pastorate. We only found the charred remains of the three of them the following morning.”
Residents say the Nigerian authorities did nothing to stop the Islamists from their assault.
Islamic terrorist group ISIS has conducted another beheading of a westerner.
The terrorists released a video called “Another Message to America and Its Allies” where it showed news footage of the British Parliament voting to send troops against ISIS. Then the video cuts to UK citizen Alan Henning kneeling on the ground.
“I am Alan Henning,” he says. “Because of our parliament’s decision to attack the Islamic state, I, as a member of the British public, will now pay the price for that decision.”
The video cuts to black during the actual beheading and then shows the body of Henning on the ground after the murder.
“Obama, you have started your aerial bombardment of Shams (Syria), which keeps on striking our people,” the terrorist who committed the murder says, “so it is only right that we continue to strike the neck of your people.”
The group then threatens to kill U.S. Army veteran Peter Kassig.
British Prime Minster David Cameron said the video highlights the depravity of the killers.
“The brutal murder of Alan Henning by ISIL shows just how barbaric and repulsive these terrorists are,” Cameron remarked in a statement following the release of the video. “Alan had gone to Syria to help get aid to people of all faiths in their hour of need. The fact that he was taken hostage when trying to help others and now murdered demonstrates that there are no limits to the depravity of these ISIL terrorists.”
An Iranian “nuclear expert” is among two people killed after a major explosion at a nuclear plant.
Iran’s official news agency confirmed the blast, saying that it took place around 10 a.m. in an “explosive materials production unit.” Witnesses reported hearing the explosion several miles from the blast site.
The location is one that Iranian officials have refused to allow inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency to visit since 2005. It is thought to be one of the locations where Iran is continuing to work on development of a nuclear bomb.
Israeli Internal Security Minister Yuval Steinitz told journalists last month that Israel had obtained reliable information the plant was carrying out secret tests on technology that could only be used for the detonation of a nuclear weapon.
Iran has been stalling in nuclear talks with western powers over its illegal nuclear program. The deadline for a permanent deal is set to be November 24.
The Rev. Canon Andrew White is speaking out for the Christians still inside Iraq and saying that most of them are hoping to escape to other countries.
“To be honest, every single Christian wants to leave,” White, the vicar of St. George’s Church in Baghdad, told the London Daily Telegraph. “I used to say to my people: ‘Don’t you leave. I’m not going to leave you, don’t leave me.’ But now every one of them wants to leave and the ones who are left tend to be the poorer ones who couldn’t get away earlier.”
White told the newspaper that for the first time in 2,000 years Christans could not take community last week in the Nineveh province.
White posted to his Facebook page Monday about the horrible conditions in the country.
“Greetings from Baghdad. People are very fearful the nation looks as if it has collapsed. The usual hectic and crazy streets were this morning almost empty,” White wrote.”The news from our friends in areas surrounding Baghdad is equally worry [sic] the Islamic State. ISIS or DAASH, as they are known locally, are very close to Baghdad.”
White told the newspaper that ground troops will be the only way to stop ISIS.
They don’t believe the gunman acted alone.
The parents of New Jersey college student who was gunned down by a man who claims to be a homegrown jihadist spoke out to Fox News about the death of their son and the conditions under which he died.
Alison and Michael Tevlin’s son Brendan was shot eight times while sitting in his Jeep at a red light in West Orange, New Jersey on June 25th. The gunman, Ali Muhammed Brown, causally walked up to the vehicle and just started shooting.
Brown claims that he shot and killed Tevlin because of the U.S. military action in Iraq and Afghanistan. He said that he was a “jihadist” and that has led many to call it a case of domestic terror.
“I don’t think it makes that much of a difference at this time,” Allison Tevlin said on Fox News’ “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren.” “I think he murdered Brendan and he murdered several others and he is an American. He did what he did. And like I said, he didn’t act alone, so I don’t know if I — we have all the information or enough information to make that kind of judgment; it’s not really for us to make that judgment.”
Brown reportedly killed three other men in the Seattle area earlier in the summer before the murder of Tevlin. He’s currently held in the Essex County Jail on $5 million bail. If extradited to Washington
