Friday, August 9, 2013

DailyGeez August 9, 2013

DailyGeez August 9, 2013

1. Assassination of Arizona Detention Officer
August 9, 2013: A detention officer with the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in Arizona died after he was shot in his driveway. No known motive, speculation whether he was targeted because of his job. No link to terrorism, but part of a pattern of attacks on law enforcement, and random shootings of people in driveways.

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http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/08/who-is-valerie-jarrett-is-she-the-one-that-gave-the-stand-down-order-in-benghazi/

3. Zanzibar Acid Attack on British Jewish Women and Priests
August 7, 2013 Wednesday night in Stone Town district of Zanzibar City on the Indian Ocean. Main headlines make no mention on the conflict between Muslims and Christians, and acid attacks on other Christian victims, or that the girls Jewish volunteers were working for a Christian school. before they were attacked. Two men on a motorbike threw acid on the British volunteer teachers Katie Gee and Kirstie Trup, both 18 years old, on Wednesday night as they walked to a restaurant in Stone Town. They had volunteered to teach for at least two weeks at The St Monica Nursary school in Stone Town. The London Jewish Chronicle reported that both were Federation for Zionist Youth members.

"No one has claimed responsibility for the attack but it comes against a backdrop of rising extremist Islamist sentiment in the area."
the population of Zanzibar is 99% Muslim

Two British women injured in Zanzibar acid attack - Yahoo! News

Yahoo! News1 day ago
Aug 08, 2013 · Two British women injured in Zanzibar acid attack. Like; Dislike; Edit ... but authorities have not linked the group with the attacks on Christian ...
The police described the attack as "an isolated incident", refusing to link it to rising religious tension on the island between majority Muslims and its Christian population."The attackers approached the girls as they were walking on a street at around 7:15 p.m. and threw acid at them,"
Zanzibar Muslim leader, Sheikh Fadhil Suleiman Soraga, was hospitalized with acid burns in a November attack. Two Christian leaders were killed early this year in separate attacks.
A separatist group in Zanzibar, Uamsho (Awakening), is pushing for the archipelago to exit from its 1964 union with mainland Tanzania, which is ruled as a secular country. Uamsho wants to introduce Islamic Sharia law in Zanzibar
http://blog.inkerman.com/index.php/2013/02/22/uamsho-zanzibars-growing-islamist-movement/

  • Zanzibar: Acid attack on two British women volunteer teachers
    CNN·1 day ago   
    Zanzibar, Tanzania (CNN)-- Two young British women were injured in an acid attack carried out by two men on a motorcycle on the east African island of…The women, who were in the final week of their trip when they were attacked, have been discharged from the hospital in Dar es Salaam.."The motive for the incident is as yet not known and we will await the report from the local authorities in Zanzibar before any comment can be made," a company statement said.ho had only gone to Zanzibar with good intention," relatives said in a joint statement.. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack but it comes against a backdrop of rising extremist Islamist sentiment in the area. .. a businessman of Arab origin who had built a mall close to the American Embassy in Dar es Salaam was also injured in an acid attack..Zanzibar is a semi-autonomous part of TanzaniaAccording to the CIA World Factbook, the population of Zanzibar is 99% Muslim, while the residents of mainland Tanzania are split roughly evenly among Christian, Muslim and indigenous beliefs.
    http://blog.inkerman.com/index.php/2013/02/22/uamsho-zanzibars-growing-islamist-movement/

    UAMSHO: ZANZIBAR’S GROWING ISLAMIST MOVEMENT


    Posted by  on 22 Feb 2013 in Africa, Political Risk
    UAMSHO: ZANZIBAR’S GROWING ISLAMIST MOVEMENT
    The Zanzibar Archipelago is one of the most beloved tourist destinations in all of East Africa. Filled with luxurious hotels, pristine beaches, and historic sites, Zanzibar’s tourist offering attract over 100,000 tourists each year. Yet the political situation in the island has been growing more and more tense in recent years, allowing for the worrying emergence of the Islamist separatist group, the Association for Islamic Mobilisation and Propagation, better known as Uamsho (Awakening) .
    Uamsho was first founded as a charitable organisation in 2001 but began to take a more active role in Zanzibari politics in 2011. It is widely believed that Uamsho’s support greatly increased following the decision of the Civic United Front (CUF) to join the leading Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) Party in a national unity government in October 2010. This move by the CUF, which has long had the support of the majority of Zanzibaris and dominated islands politics, was seen as betrayal by many Zanzibaris who remain economically behind those living in the mainland. Uamsho’s message that Zanzibar was being left behind developmentally and not being allowed to embrace its Islamic identity (combined with speeches rallying populist anger against the wealth on display in Tanzania’s tourist resorts) seems to have touched at the core of many Zanzibaris’ concerns. Throughout 2011 and 2012, Uamsho’s rallies become better attended and the popularity of its YouTube videos and other internet postings greatly increased. The leader of Uamsho, Sheikh Farid Hadi Ahmed, began calling for a dress code for foreigners, restrictions on the consumption of alcohol and the establishment of an independent Zanzibari state, with a constitution based on Sharia law.
    The summer of 2012 saw the first violent clashes supposedly led by Uamsho as hundreds of protesters set fire to two churches and clashed with police between 26-27 May 2012. The protests came after Mussa Juma was arrested at his mosque on 26 May 2012. By 29 May 2012, Tanzanian authorities reported that they had arrested more than thirty residents of Zanzibar Town for their roles in the riots. The following day, local authorities in Zanzibar announced that they were banning religion-related demonstrations and protests. On 16 October 2012, it was reported that Sheikh Ahmed had disappeared, which led to a new round of protests throughout Zanzibar Town. The three-day long protests resulted in a heavy handed police reaction using vast amounts of rubber bullets and teargas. On 21 October 2012, Zanzibar Police Commissioner Musa Ali Musa announced Sheikh Ahmed and four others were being held for questioning. Three more Uamsho leaders were arrested and Uamsho’s social media postings fell silent (and have remained so since). On 25 October 2012, eight Uamsho leaders were formally charged with accusations of sabotage, inciting violence and conspiracy to commit a felony. By January, 2013, two more Uamsho leaders were included in the charges and the ten were remanded without bail as per the orders from Tanzania’s Director of Public Prosecution.
    Despite the arrest of Uamsho’s most renowned leaders and its silence on the internet, its activities continued throughout 2012. Leaflets were found throughout Tanzania calling for violence against Christians and continued protest against ruling Tanzanian authorities. On Christmas Day 2012, assailants shot and gravely wounded a Roman Catholic priest returning to his home outside Zanzibar Town. Another Catholic priest was shot dead outside of his church in Mitoni on Sunday 17 February 2013. Three men were arrested later in the day, announced Zanzibari Inspector General Said Mwema on 18 February 2013. Mwema also made the shocking statement that, “We cannot rule out al Qaeda”. Though it is unlikely that al Qaeda was involved, the growing willingness of Uamsho to use terrorist tactics, along with Uamsho’s increasing popularity, leads to an increased risk for all travellers to the island as well as a significant de-stabilising factor for Tanzania.
    Though Mwema’s statement about al Qaeda may be pre-mature, Uamsho has been linked in the Tanzanian press to al Qaeda before and the ability to establish contacts is certainly there. Zanzibar’s islands are nowhere nearly as well patrolled as the Somali coast. Should Uamsho reach out to al Qaeda’s affiliate al Shabab in Somalia, there would likely be little difficulty in sharing intelligence and tactics. There are alreadyclose cultural ties between Muslims throughout living on the coasts of Somalia, Kenya and Tanzania. Zanzibar’s status as a tourist destination is the key to its economy and even Sheikh Ahmed has been hesitant to all for all tourists being banned from the area perhaps mitigating the likelihood that Uamsho will attempt to morph into an al Shabab-type insurgency, for now. However, among Uamsho’s support base of Zanzibar’s impoverished youth, resentment of foreign tourists continues to grow. It also cannot be ruled out that given its defeat in Mali, al Qaeda could look to Uamsho to help it establish a new base using the cover of Zanzibar’s smaller islands or look to use its connections to mount an attack on the multitude of relatively unguarded tourist attractions and hotels in Zanzibar.
    While religious rioting and violent protests have also occurred in mainland Tanzania over the last year, no single organisation there is as well supported as Uamsho in Tanzania, nor do any of them have the same mixture of Islamic radicalism and separatism that has proved so dangerous in recent years. According to the Pew Forum, 86% of Tanzanian Muslims believing the Koran should be taken literally, word for word, and 95% saying Islam is very important to their daily lives, the potential for Uamsho to expand throughout Zanzibar is immense, where 98% of residents are Muslims compared to 35% nationwide. Uamsho’s recent terrorist actions, local appeal and cultural connections to regional terror groups make it a strong possibility that small-scale terror attacks will increase in the coming year. It may also make it a possible new base for Islamic radicals, placing them worryingly close to international tourist hotels and resorts.

  • British teens in hospital after Zanzibar acid attack
    Yahoo!7 News·13 minutes ago
  • Acid attack in western Zanzibar on 2 volunteers investigated
    Abc Local Web·1 hour ago
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