Tag: terrorist attack

  • Four killed in new terrorist attack in Niger community

    Four killed in new terrorist attack in Niger community

    Terrorists on Friday evening killed four villagers and injured several others in Damala Village in Borgu Local Government Area of Niger State.

     This is coming barely a week after terrorists invaded the Kasuwan-Daji Market and killed over 40 people. 

    The terrorists were said to have struck at about 8.30 pm killing four people while others got injured as they tried to escape the onslaught of the terrorists.

    READ ALSO; Obi’s defection sets teeth on edge

      Damala Village is located behind the Woko–Daba mining sector of Wawa community.

     It was learnt that the terrorists burnt a church and several houses as they attacked the community.

     The terrorists were said to have taken all the livestock belonging to the residents, forcing the animals into the surrounding forest.

  • Army neutralises girl with explosives device in Adamawa

    The Nigeria Army on Monday said it has neutralised a girl with person-borne explosives device at a check point in Adamawa.

    This was disclosed via a tweet by the Nigerian Army official handle.

    The tweet reads “Troops of 143 Battalion deployed at a check point in Gulak Adamawa State, neutralised a girl with Person-Borne Improvised Explosive Device who tried to Infiltrate DAR Village to detonate her explosive vest in the early hours of 26 November 2018.”

    Read Also: Metele Boko Haram Attack: Masari condoles Nigerian Army

    It added; “The gallant troops in conjunction with hunters and vigilantes immediately cordoned off the incident area and subsequently conducted perimeter patrol around the community to ensure the area is cleared and to also exploit the area for BHT activities.

    Pictures are shown below.

    Details later…

    Photo credit: @HQNigerianArmy

  • U.S. lists two IS leaders as terrorists

    U.S. lists two IS leaders as terrorists

    The alleged bomb-maker in a 2015 terrorist attack in Paris and another Islamic State (IS) security officer have been designated as global terrorists, the U.S. State Department said on Thursday.

    “The IS leaders namely Ahmad Alkhald and Abu Yahya al-Iraqi are “specially designated global terrorists” aimed at denying them resources needed to carry out further terrorist attacks.

    “The designation also means all of Alkhald’s and al-Iraqi’s property in the U.S. is blocked, and U.S. persons are generally prohibited from engaging in any transactions with them.

    “Alkhald is a bomb-maker responsible for the deaths of numerous civilians in Europe,’’ the State Department said.

    The Syrian national was the explosives specialist in the terrorist cell that carried out the November 2015 attacks in Paris and the March 2016 attacks in Brussels.

    Alkhald helped plan the Paris attacks and make the explosive belts used in that plot.

    He returned to Syria shortly before the Paris attack.

    The State Department said that from there, he guided IS operatives in Europe on making the bombs used in the March 2016 Brussels attacks.

    “Abu Yahya al-Iraqi, also known as Iyad Hamed Mahl al-Jumaily, is a senior IS figure who reports to I S leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

    “Al-Iraqi has reportedly played a key role in security for al-Baghdadi and oversees Islamic State security in Iraq and Syria.’’

     

  • How to combat terrorist attacks in Nigeria

    How to combat terrorist attacks in Nigeria

    Recently a string of terrorist attacks have occurred as Nigeria has struggled to build a functional and coherent response. Fortunately, there is a science-based approach to create societal coherence that can protect Nigeria from both internal and external threats. It is called Invincible Defense Technology (IDT) because it assures invincibility, peace, and even economic progress, to the nation and the military that employ it.

    Invincible Defense Technology (IDT), a Proven, State-of-the-Art, Non-violent Military Solution 

    The IDT approach to defense has its basis in a radically new preventive model that has been thoroughly field-tested in numerous world battlegrounds. This approach results in rapid reduction of individual, societal and national collective stress. IDT is validated by 23 peer-reviewed studies carried out in both developed and developing nations. Its coherence-creating effect has also been documented on a global scale in a study published in the Journal of Offender Rehabilitation. When large assemblies of civilian IDT experts gathered during the years 1983 – 1985, international conflict decreased 32%, terrorism-related casualties decreased 72%, and overall violence was reduced in nations without intrusion by other governments.

    IDT is totally unlike any other defense technology because it does not use violence in an attempt to quell violence. It is a more civilized approach, one especially worthy of nations that abhor violence as a means to power. IDT uniquely goes to the root cause of violence – the built-up stress in the individual and collective consciousness. Scientists have evidence that high levels of collective societal stress are the underlying cause of war, violence, crime and terrorism. When the IDT methodology is applied, stress levels throughout the population are rapidly reduced.

    In an environment of lowered stress even staunch adversaries find ways to cooperate and overcome long-standing differences.

    IDT reduces societal stress 

    IDT uniquely neutralizes the underlying power base of contending groups, which is the stress, frustration and civil dissatisfaction prevailing in the general population. By eliminating the root cause of insurgency, violent outbreaks are pre-empted and prevented. IDT is effective because it gets to the heart of the matter. Terrorism often thrives in nations in which decades or even centuries of under-employment, poverty, and hunger have created a huge societal weight of stress, frustration and endemic unhappiness. This inevitably finds expression in acts of terrorism, civil unrest, social violence, and a downward spiral of economic degradation.

    A specially trained military unit, an “IDT Prevention Wing of the Military,” uses IDT to reduce stress in the national collective consciousness. IDT could also be introduced into other large groups such as the police forces, or militias. As the stress and frustration ease, the population is more capable of finding orderly and constructive solutions to their problems.

    Experience with IDT in other war-torn nations demonstrated increases in economic incentive and growth. Entrepreneurship and individual creativity also increased. With increased civic calm, people’s aspirations are raised and a more productive and balanced society emerges. Such a society abhors violence as a means for change or as an expression of discontent. With this, the ground for terrorism is eliminated. What is more fascinating, this change takes place within a few days or a week after IDT is introduced. The changes are measurable from such statistics as crime rates, accidents, hospital admissions, infant mortality, etc.

    Rapid transformation through IDT

    The daily routine for the IDT military personnel includes the nonreligious practice of the Transcendental Meditation  program along with its advanced form, the TM-Sidhi program. As a societal coherence-creating military unit, they practice these programs twice a day, seven days a week, preferably in a secure location near the targeted population

    Such coherence-creating groups have achieved positive benefits in society, shown statistically, in a short time. Modern statistical methods used in this research show a low probability of any explanation other than a causal influence of the technology. The IDT approach has been used during wartime resulting in the reduction of fighting, a decreased number of deaths and casualties, and an improvement in progress toward resolving the conflict peacefully. The war in Lebanon in 1983 was dramatically impacted in a peaceful way by an IDT Intervention Group. A thoroughly documented study of this phenomenon was published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, and summaries of follow-up studies were published in the Journal of Social Behavior and Personality and the Journal of Scientific Exploration.

    Summary 

    IDT works by utilizing our natural human brain mechanics, the most powerful natural resource possessed by every nation on earth. The beneficial transformational effects of IDT have been statistically proven numerous times to decrease and prevent violence and terrorism, and boost the economy.

    Summary 

    IDT works by utilizing our natural human brain mechanics, the most powerful natural resource possessed by every nation on earth. The beneficial transformational effects of IDT have been statistically proven numerous times to decrease and prevent violence and terrorism, and boost the economy.

    IDT defense technology supersedes all other known defense technologies (which are based on electronic, chemical, and/or nuclear forces). These old, fear-based modalities are ultimately self-destructive for any nation, and for the human race as a whole, and must be replaced with IDT. So far, IDT is the only known, proven constructive approach.

    The military that deploys this powerful, human-resource-based technology disallows negative trends and prevents enemies from arising, and as a result, it has no enemies. No enemies mean no war, terrorism and no insurgency.

    Time to act is now

    IDT is the twenty-first century’s leading-edge defense system. If Nigeria establishes IDT Prevention Wings of the Military, they will ease high tensions, reverse mistrust, crush hatred, create stability and permanently prevent war and terrorism. Extensive scientific research objectively says, “Yes, the system works.” Why not use it in Nigeria? Time is running out. The best time to act is now, before Nigeria’s perilous situation worsens.

    About the author

    Dr. Leffler was a member of the US Air Force for nearly nine years. He served as an Associate of the Proteus Management Group at the Center for Strategic Leadership, US Army War College. Dr. Leffler now serves as the Executive Director at the Center for Advanced Military Science (CAMS) in Fairfield, Iowa and teaches IDT. He recently was a guest on the AIT Live | O&M Late Show where he spoke on the topic of Invincible Defense Technology.

    Contact athttp://www.davidleffler.com

     

     

  • APC condemns terrorist attack on Kenyan varsity

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday condemned Thursday’s terrorist attack that left 147 people dead at the Garissa University College in Kenya.

    The APC called the terror attack dastardly and unjustifiable.

    The APC National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed,  in a statement described the Somali terror group Al-Shabaab, which claimed responsibility for the killings, as a bunch of cowardly extremists who have no place in a decent society.

    The APC said: ‘’Nothing can justify such a deadly and senseless attack on innocent and defenceless citizens, and those who planned and executed the heinous killings in Kenya stand condemned globally.

    ‘’Terrorism has become a global scourge, and any terrorist attack anywhere is a terrorist attack everywhere. Therefore, terrorists will not find any hiding place.’’

    APC expressed its deepest condolences to the government and people of

    Kenya, and prayed that the families of the victims will find succour, while wishing those injured in the attacks a speedy recovery.