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South Africa: Islamic State planned to kill British couple in order to “put fear into the heart of the kuffar”

Mar 9, 2018 8:11 am By Robert Spencer

“And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may strike terror in the enemy of Allah…” (Qur’an 8:60)

Not that this has anything to do with…

“‘ISIS kidnappers planned to kill ‘infidel’ British couple who went missing in South Africa,'” by Jane Flanagan, MailOnline, March 6, 2018:

Two British botanists kidnapped by a violent gang with links to terror group ISIS were ‘hunted’ as ‘good targets’ in a remote forest to ‘strike fear into the heart’ of those opposed to an Islamic caliphate, text messages from their attackers reveal.

Rod and Rachel Saunders were stalked as they searched for rare plants and seeds in a remote South African beauty spot, unaware of the chilling plan to snatch them.

Messages retrieved from the phones of two of three suspects arrested in the wake of the couple’s disappearance reveal the innocent pair were victims of a terror plot targeting the ‘kuffar’ –non-believers in Islam – whose bodies are ‘never found’.

New police documents presented in court today, opposing the suspects’ applications for bail, set out details of the gang’s plot to target victims whose plight would cause maximum outrage in the West.

Mr and Mrs Saunders, who live in Cape Town, were last seen hiking in the Drakensberg mountains almost a month ago after guiding a crew from a BBC gardening programme. Their Land Cruiser was found 150 miles from their final sighting, some days later, with its boot heavily stained with blood.

Hopes that the popular pair may still be found alive faded further as detective warrant officer Anuresh Lutchman, from South Africa’s anti-terror unit, revealed the chilling text messages which were exchanged between the couple’s alleged kidnappers.

There were discussions to prepare to kill the kuffar and abduct their allies, to destroy infrastructure and to put fear into the heart of the kuffar,’ his statement to the court in Durban revealed.

In one exchange, suspect Sayfydeen Aslam Del Vecchio texted his wife and co-accused Fatima Patel on 10 February to announce he had found an ideal target for their terror plan – ‘an elderly couple in the forest’. To which she responded that ‘the target’ offered the gang a ‘good hunt’.

In another phone message to an unknown contact, Del Vecchio urged the importance of the victims’ bodies never being found.

‘When the brothers in Kenya go out and do this work, it is very important that the body of the victim is never found and it remains a missing person case,’ he texted….

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), South Africa Tagged With: Rachel Saunders, Rod Saunders


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  1. Mac-101 says

    Mar 9, 2018 at 8:29 am

    Slightly off subject, but applicable. The Elites have the same plan for Western Civilization as THEY have for Rhodesia and South Africa. The future of Europe looks especially bleak in 10 years!

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 9, 2018 at 8:35 pm

      We don’t need to kidnap and murder Muslims, if this is what you are implying–what utter rot.

      We need to keep Muslims out of our nations.

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 9, 2018 at 8:38 pm

        Sorry, Mac–this was a reply to esther, below. Not sure how my post ended up here.

        • Mac-101 says

          Mar 9, 2018 at 9:57 pm

          No Sweat.

  2. esther says

    Mar 9, 2018 at 8:32 am

    I support reciprocation. The kaffirin have MUCH to learn from the Koran
    in how to deal with adversaries

    • Mac-101 says

      Mar 9, 2018 at 8:39 am

      Unfortunately you may be correct. We will lose what makes us great as a society based on Western Civilization, but will survive. Evil Must be meet with even greater strength and violence or Evil will triumph. Our forefathers would never have tolerated this.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 9, 2018 at 8:42 pm

      esther, my reply above at Mar 9, 2018 at 8:35 pm was to you.

      I do not believe that we have to embrace barbarism in order to fight against Muslim savagery.

      After all, we did not have to set up death camps in order to defend against Fascism

      Most of us who oppose the horrors of Islam do so because we want to defend our own civilized values–not because we want to be just like these brutal Muslim barbarians.

  3. mortimer says

    Mar 9, 2018 at 8:55 am

    KORAN 8.60 says “TURHIBUNNA” (terrorise them). Can there be greater proof that ISLAM TEACHES TERRORISM?

    The delusional DENIALISM regarding the TERRORIST DOCTRINE in Islam must come to a halt.

    Law enforcement and the legal profession SHOULD IMMEDIATELY EDUCATE THEIR PERSONNEL to PUT THE JIHADISTS OUT OF BUSINESS.

  4. mortimer says

    Mar 9, 2018 at 9:37 am

    MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD is a TERRORIST ORGANIZATION as its history shows…

    – On December 28, 1948 Egypt’s prime minister, Mahmoud an-Nukrashi Pasha, was assassinated by a Brotherhood member.

    – In 1954, after the attempted assassination of then-president Gamal ‘Abd al-Nasser, a member of the secret apparatus was accused by the authorities of being the perpetrator of the attempt. Nasser then abolished the Brotherhood and imprisoned and punished thousands of its members.

    – October 6, 1981, Pres. Anwar Sadat was assassinate by an offshoot of Muslim Brotherhood. An investigation uncovered evidence that the killers had plotted the attack with Al Gamaa al-Islamiyya, a Muslim Brotherhood offshoot that had failed ambitions of launching an Islamic revolution in the mid-1980s. It is claimed by members of the group that they killed Sadat because he resisted implementing STRICT SHARIA LAW.

  5. D J says

    Mar 9, 2018 at 10:30 am

    As the BBC were filming them one would expect to find something on the news website about this, so I looked and found nothing.
    Sometimes they hide stories in regional news so I went to the Africa tab, but still nothing…silence.
    You are gone and we don’t care.
    Thankyou AlJabeeba!

    • Infidel says

      Mar 9, 2018 at 12:06 pm

      What more can U expect from these dhimmi donkeys?? The less said the better.

  6. CRUSADER says

    Mar 9, 2018 at 2:48 pm

    Are we at “Zulu” dawning?

    South Afrika is experiencing epic drought, and post-apartheid communism, and land expropriation, ….
    ….and now Islamist incursion?

    Time for the Bushmen to question: “The Gods Must Be Crazy!”

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 9, 2018 at 8:46 pm

      Muslims are only about 1.9% of the population in South Africa–but this is enough for them to waging violent Jihad against innocent people. *Ugh*.

      • Ray Jarman says

        Mar 10, 2018 at 2:23 am

        Graven, You are correct about the 1.9 percent but I don’t understand why they would wish to only wish for three white people to just go missing. After all, the public would blame members of the one of the townships in and near Cape Town or simply killed in an accident. I am not sure about the exact location but I have seen congresses of baboons making their way along highways throughout the areas south of Durban and George which might have been a given reason for someone missing as baboons have been know to attack humans. Also ISIS normally tries to publicize their horrific crimes. I am sure that these jihadists were acting for ISIS but it seems they were really stupid.

        • LeftisruiningCanada says

          Mar 11, 2018 at 11:03 pm

          ” these jihadists were acting for ISIS but it seems they were really stupid.”

          This makes a lot of sense.

  7. Mockingjay says

    Mar 9, 2018 at 7:38 pm

    Good God. These poor people.

    We probably won’t ever find out what gruesome fate they suffered. Their family will never have answers, nor a grave to go to.

    Everything that once was normal in the world – that a scientist could go out into the field for research – is rapidly becoming a hazardous enterprise in any country that has some substantial amount of muslims. And it will only get worse.

    Islam is trying to take over the planet and it won’t stop ’till it culminates into a great world war.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 9, 2018 at 8:56 pm

      Just horrifying.

  8. gravenimage says

    Mar 9, 2018 at 8:13 pm

    South Africa: Islamic State planned to kill British couple in order to “put fear into the heart of the kuffar”
    …………………….

    Jihad *against botanists*. This poor couple.

    God, I hate Islam.

  9. sakovkt says

    Mar 9, 2018 at 9:03 pm

    I’m Hip to all this.

    But I’d also suggest South Africa’s History from the Boar Wars to WW2.

    The Boars were Calvinists, and slavers, and lost to the British Empire.
    Afrikaners complied with every demand of their new masters straight through WW2.

    ANd then, it was “apartheid”, Hannah Arendt, and all of that.

    Look at South Africa, now.

    No, Hannah, the Boars were not “shiftless and lazy” (“Origins of Totalitarianism”) Hannah never worked a farm, apparently.

    Just read, and think about it all.

  10. dsinc says

    Mar 10, 2018 at 1:35 am

    In South Africa white people calling blacks kuffar, or the singular kaffir, is against the law and will earn one jail time. The two Muslims arrested for killing the white British couple did it to put fear into the heart of the kuffar, which is, all the black people in South Africa? I just don’t understand it. Blacks are killing white people in South Africa daily and the killing of two whites by ISIS would certainly not put fear into any black heart.

  11. Peter A says

    Mar 10, 2018 at 5:11 am

    Can you imagine the outrage if it was the other way round and christians did the same to a muslim couple? It would be headline news all around the world, but when the perps are muslims it is rarely picked up by the MSM. I only hope that this couple had a quick end to their lives at the hands of these savages but I suspect not. May they rest in peace.

  12. utis says

    Mar 10, 2018 at 11:42 am

    Oh the brave warriors of Islam! Killing an elderly pair of botanists. I hope the noble jihadi didn’t get hurt by pottery shards or garden trowels — it just takes so much courage to fight the evil infidel!

    Islamists may succeed in frightening the European “elites” into submission (look at Merkel and Canada’s Trudeau), but in cases like this, with fear comes loathing and revulsion. Even terrorized people feel hate for such repulsive acts.

  13. Gjallarhornet says

    Mar 10, 2018 at 4:51 pm

    My own own visit to South Africa just led me to conclude that South Africa is bad news. Trouble is comin down the pike. Big time. So intensely tribal, and ready to burst at the seems.

    They didn’t have much islam tough. Some of the indians are muslim and there is a group of colored people in Cape Town, the Cape Malays, which are muslim. This group have had their islam to themselves for centuries though, and seemed in no way connected to lunacy of the rest of the muslim world when I was there. But from what i gather there is a growing ‘international’ jihadi sentiment within that community.

    If you add *islam*-problems to the volatile South Africa, and it’s being added now, I do believe the powder keg will explode.

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Mar 11, 2018 at 11:02 pm

      Ahmed Deedat was based in South Africa. Though dead now, he is still the muslim dawa guy that most muslims will have been influenced by. He was also perhaps the most dishonest, most arrogant and least informed critic of Christianity that has ever prostrated himself towards a rock in mecca.

      Those two facts are related and not surprising.

  14. dsinc says

    Mar 12, 2018 at 8:52 am

    Agreed. Islamic Propagation Centre International

    http://www.ipci.co.za/

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