TROUBLE IN PARADISE ISIS terror attack in Brit holiday paradise Maldives as fanatics use incendiary bombs to blow up boats
By Matt Acton and Debbie White, The Sun, 17 Apr 2020:
ISIS fanatics claim to have carried out a terror attack in Brit holiday paradise Maldives by using incendiary bombs to blow up boats.
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Site Intelligence Group reports the extremists have taken responsibility for explosions which tore apart five boats at Mahibadhoo harbour on Wednesday.
A sea ambulance, four speedboats, and two dinghies docked next to each other were destroyed in the blaze, reported The Edition.
The stunning Maldives are a favourite destination for Brits.
But the UK Foreign Office has been warning of a heightened risk from extremists in the Islamic nation in the last few months.
ISIS’s propaganda wing was quick to release news of the attack in its al-Naba publication.
It claimed fighters had destroyed boats belonged to the “Apostate Maldivian Government and its loyalists” and they were hit with “incendiary bombs.”
The terror publication carried photographs of the burning wreckage.
She added that, “stating a special source… Islamic State fighters carried out the arson attack that destroyed five boats, including a police and ambulance unit, in Mahibadhoo town, central Maldives.”
Rita said ISIS’s “claim doesn’t come as a surprise. As I’ve discussed before, ISIS supporters carried out a stabbing attack on foreigners in Feb., claiming through an ISIS-style video & it was only a matter of time before these supporters connected with ISIS directly.
“Most remarkable is the speed of the claim. With the attack having happened late Wednesday the line of communication is clearly open.”
Maldives Police Service confirmed at a press conference that the harbour explosion in Alifu Dhaalu Atoll was arson.
Commissioner of Police (CP) Mohamed Hameed said the attack took place at 5.22am on Wednesday, and was “clearly a deliberate act”.
He said that two of the burnt speedboats belonged to a private company.
One vessel belonged to the cops, and another was owned by the Alifu Dhaalu Atoll council.
CP Hameed said officers were investigating claims that the attack was carried out by ISIS fanatics.
They’re also probing whether it was done to retaliate against authorities for recent investigations into drug trafficking and religious extremism, reported The Edition.
One of the boats destroyed in the explosions belonged to Maldives’ police force (stock image)
A similar attack occurred on March 22, when a police launch was set alight at the harbour of Gan in Laamu Atoll as payback for a police sting on drug gang members.
The commissioner said other recent crimes committed against Maldives’ bosses were carried out by extremists.
But he warned ISIS fanatics against launching such attacks during the current coronavirus pandemic lockdown.
The UK Foreign Office has updated travel advice for British tourists after two residents from China and one tourist from Australia were stabbed on an island off the coast of Male.
It warned: “In February 2020, the Maldives police confirmed the arrest of seven people in relation to knife attacks, which injured three foreign nationals; two resident employees and one tourist in Hulhumale.
“The attack was claimed by an extremist group. You should remain vigilant.”
ISIS in the Maldives
A Maldivian radical group affiliated with ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack in an unverified video posted online at the time.
Terror attacks are “likely” in the country, particularly against British tourists, according to the Foreign Office.
The Maldives is known to have contributed the largest number of fighters per capita to the ISIS cause in Syria.
Last year, a 35-year-old man identified as a leader for ISIS in the Maldives by the U.S. authorities was arrested for allegedly leading ISIS recruitment in the mainly Sunni Muslim nation.
The Maldives parliament has given sweeping investigative powers to counter-terrorism agencies, and authorities have stepped up operations against hardline Islamist groups.
ISIS is feared to be returning to the world stage after being driven underground as the caliphate collapsed in Iraq and Syria. It claimed responsibility for deadly bombings in Sri Lanka in April last year.
The group also recently confirmed a new hardline leader, Amir Mohammed Abdul Rahman al-Mawli al-Salbi, AKA “The Professor” and “The Destroyer”, following the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a US raid last October.
Chinese and Australian embassy officials were not immediately available to comment.
Maldives police have arrested three men in connection with the attack
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allie
4 years ago
There is literally nowhere on earth safe from the murderers of Islam unless we start to fight back and dig them into the dirt where they belong.
my family is Mauritius and they had to move towns because muzlums took over. these murderous followers of Satan leave no stone or country unturned they just have to move there and suddenly drug /prostitution problems follow. what the hell us happening and why is this allowed????
so unusual because running over people on purpose is manslaughter yet all “terrorist” activities done by covered extreme islamists with no attachment any group(?) is considered mental madness and that is the plot these muzlums use
Yes, you’re absolutely right. Dims will make the accusation regardless.
elchapo
4 years ago
so they attack maldives a bankrupt corrupt islamic sharia dictatorship who’s beaches are filled with garbage except for the tourist spots … the pattern of islamic extremist violence is 97% soft “easy targets” cowards
too much sociopathic calculations to facilitate such a thing for socialists who’ve been doing that since socialism got its insidious grasp on the centers of power in human life … what a fascinating world it must have been before the rise of socialist ideology which reduces the answer to anything fundamental of human life and the natural order we operate in to a mockery and minimalist asinine dogma that has nothing to do with empirical reality.
I share your sentiment in a manner which you probably could not fathom as i have suffered immensely as a constant target for leftists physical and emotional dehumanization of me simply for being who i am.
so in short stalin has 12 loyal followers and because of them he managed to control 13 time zones and turned his population into public slaves while he pocketed billions and killed millions of his own people.
sadly people like you and me don’t share that kind of loyalty and dedication and that’s the problem. you are on here on Pamelas blog because you know it’s the only place where reality can be even remotely sanely discussed and explored.
and btw small
lesson for you regarding religious dogma and bad things in general … when you try ban them those dedicated to them and other stupid “neutral” only get emboldened to facilitate it and continue its spread
kinda like drugs and social degeneracy … try banning it only for it to show up 10x stronger and in places you don’t expect it (drag queens reading children’s books to innocent kindergarteners) … anyway the answer is to offer SOLUTIONS and help those stuck in those system loops of nihilism and chaos .. muslim multitudes get their hatred of the non muslim from
the day they’re born and in their mothers breast milk … the answer to that is complex and multifaceted… the draconian ones should be banned those who publicly and literally preach criminality (most mosques) should be shut down and investigated but the avg muslim is someone who has been manipulated … so those people can actually be persuaded it’s the elites that provide the majority of them with multifaceted incentives to not abandon islam are the root of the issue and of course the left within the west that facilitate and argue for the islamic supremacists … 2 heads of the pagan beast .. red/green alliance.
last point
i’m in no way suggesting that we should not strive to stop the leftist insanity but banning islam is like putting a bandaid on the forehead when the headache occurs … you got to assess and address the root of the problem.
“the answer to that is complex and multifaceted… the draconian ones should be banned those who publicly and literally preach criminality (most mosques) should be shut down “….
and every liberal/leftist/Democrat in, for example, the US, along with virtually every theocratic fundamentalist Evangelical here would rail against such ‘draconian’ intrusion into “religious freedoms.”
THAT kind of ‘thinking’ makes any ‘solution’ or attack on ‘root cause’ virtually impossible. I completely agree with the evil that the Islamicists foist on the world, but getting enough people to say “ENOUGH!” seems to be virtually impossible.
Obama imported enough alleged ‘refugees’ to specific areas in the US Midwest to get their vermin elected to Congress! Rooting out that kind of cancer may be downright impossible!
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
‘Commissioner of Police (CP) Mohamed Hameed’, because you dumb kafir can put your faith in muslum law enforcement entities to protect you from muslum terrorism.
maybe it was some dude practicing for starvathon-a-ding-dong and his bowel movement went fahrenheit 452
patd
4 years ago
The parasitic feral animal criminal muslims doing what they do by following their doctrine of hate!!!! The muslims only kill, destroy and rape as that is all their tiny brain cell can handle with that 14 IQ.
These ISIS idiots are only killing the tourist cash-cow that benefits the majority of Muslims who live on the Maldives islands.
But that’s Islam, once you allow that disease to spread you’re going to get the whole panoply of Muslims, from the ones who are ‘moderate’ to the loons who get a hardon for blowing everyone up including themselves. As that meme goes:
…you’ve reminded me of a similar situation in the Miami, FL, USA, many decades ago, when hispanics there were attacking tourists, and I asked the same question… WhyTF are you attacking the people who are SPENDING THEIR MONEY in your own neighborhoods?!??
You should be Welcoming Them!
But, alas, stupidity knows no boundaries or limits.
LeslieFish
4 years ago
Why suffer these continuous attacks? Learn where the ISIS b@stards came from, and shell it to rubble.
Oh, but that wouldn’t be “nice”… ask any Liberal/Democrat in the US… 🙁
plusaf
4 years ago
From my personal home page…
“Violence is an admission that one’s ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.”
— Edward M. Kennedy
ed
4 years ago
Just a warm-up for the annual Ramadan Bomb-a-thon…….
Gamal
4 years ago
Where are the old European empires that replaced Muslim jihadi indoctrination with Western education? Where are the British who for a time abolished Islamic slavery in the areas they controlled?.. Where are the men of Europe? Now the only men of Europe are the few like Tommy Robinson who are constantly harassed by their cowardly Muslim appeasing European governments. This is what happens when you don’t have men willing to fight for what is right. You get attacked even while the Corona virus is killing you.
scherado
4 years ago
Is it too much to state that no people were injured? I’m suspicious when I don’t get a “body-count”–even when it’s zero.
leonore35
4 years ago
Actually an alleged attack on the govt. rather than the tourist trade. There a lot of very expensive diving boats and resorts to attack there. I would hardly call the govt. ‘apostate’ but one can never expect sense out of the mouths of these lunatics. I have been there for a dive holiday and it is a beautiful country, but I will not go again as I do not wish to support an Islamic regime. They depend heavily on tourism and will be taking a heavy hit this year.
knightsstrength
4 years ago
It all still, Moslems can attack us under different names calling it a Jihad and we not allowed to touch a hair of them. Love to see a formation of underground to attack Moslems giving them the same fear we live under but many times horrific.
Should we connect dots from this incident to the recent shootings in Nov Scotia? The shooters name does not sound islamic but these days that means nothing. Why similar attacks on police associated facilities? Any news about those moslem police type cars in Brooklyn? In any case we still have the islamic disease raging.
reyol
4 years ago
I guess marriage jihad got boring. Remember when they used to offer tourists wedding services in the beautiful Maldive language which turned out to be vile insults?
DEPLORABLE ME
4 years ago
When all CIVILITY is finally gone from CIVILIZATION, CIVIL society, as we know it will end. The culling of the human HERD will commence; and genocide, mayhem and mass-murder will prevail. We are almost THERE folks.
Muzzies and Islam are the deeply-rooted reasons; this ISIS pandemic is the end result of Socialist Democrat’s NWO MISSION STATEMENT, their funding, support and their ‘Blind-Eyes’ to domestic and foreign terrorism.
Our immediate return to our Representative Constitutional Republic through the timely death and eradication of the Islamic Caliphate throughout the United States are the only vaccines/cures for this deadly malignant PLAGUE.
NO MORE MR/MS or MRS NICE GUYS! Fight fire with more fire; fight bullets with more bullets and fight their all-consuming hate with an equally blind hatred and massive violence of action!
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