The jihadis in Mozambique have declared that they want to impose Sharia. If they get hold of these gas developments, they could have plenty of money to finance their jihad for years to come.
“Mozambique military launches offensive after ISIL attack,” Al Jazeera, March 25, 2021 (thanks to Henry):
Fighting around the strategic Mozambique town of Palma entered a second day on Thursday as ISIL-linked fighters occupied and ransacked it despite French energy giant Total claiming it was secure.
Mozambique’s government said the town – in its northernmost province of Cabo Delgado and about 10km (6.2 miles) from gas developments worth $60bn – came under a three-pronged attack on Wednesday and security forces moved in to establish order.
Bodies were visible in the streets, some of them beheaded, and helicopter gunships exchanged fire with the attackers, a security source told Reuters news agency.
The attack came shortly after French oil giant Total announced plans to resume construction at the nearby site of a $20bn offshore gas project….
Within a few hours of Total’s announcement, strategically important Palma, which hosts numerous international companies looking to cash in on one of the biggest gas finds in a decade, had been hit with its first major strike.
Mozambique’s forces had not repelled the attack as of Thursday morning and fighting was ongoing, according to sources in touch with the Mozambique government and military officials.
Joseph Hanlon, a researcher and author on Mozambique, said vast mineral wealth in the region had been exploited by an elite few with the majority of residents not reaping any profits, leading to the rebellion.
“It is really a serious threat. One of the reasons the Palma attack is so important is this is the closest they’ve come to the gas project in scale. There were more than 100 insurgents, it was well organised, well-coordinated,” Hanlon told Al Jazeera.
He said reports suggest the attackers pulled out of Palma, but not before robbing two banks and having “taken control of the town for a day”.
Palma is located more than 1,800km (1,120 miles) northeast of Maputo in gas-rich Cabo Delgado province, where authorities have grappled with a brutal rebellion since 2017.
Fighters affiliated with the armed group ISIL (ISIS) have raided villages and towns across the province for years, causing hundreds of thousands to flee their homes….
DavidR says
Islamist will cut off their head to spite their face.
DavidR says
An Islamist will cut off his head to spite his face.
gravenimage says
Mozambique: Islamic State jihadis ransack town near gas developments worth $60,000,000,000
…………
More of the hideous Jihad in Africa. And most of the rest of the world is completely ignorant of this savagery.
jule says
Armies from all countries will have to go into Africa in many spots. It will take world wide effort no matter how much we hate war, Africa is out of control and helpless,
gravenimage says
Unfortunately many Africans are Muslim, and support this Jihad savagery.
Screw U says
Gravenimage, Have you noticed how isis only seems interested in establishing their new caliphate in areas where there is a shitload of money from natural resources to be had, never in dirt poor countries with nothing?
gravenimage says
No real surprise there, Screw U.
ajj says
SHAME ON TOTAL SHAME ON TOTAL who refused to supply aviation fuel to the helicopters who could have evacuated many if not all of the foreigners who were subsequently murdered in their effort to escape.
Jerryy says
Please wake up.
Ever since the days of the self ordained fake prophet and 360th Kaaba Idol elevated by the fake prophet as Allah, as the fake cheif deity Islamic Jihad used their fake religion as an excuse for mayhem, plunder, murder, rape and the taking of sex and labour slaves.
Nothing have changed and the mayhem, plunder, murder, rape and the taking of sex and labour slaves continues.
Leftists and weak knees so called Christian’s are slow to condemn and or combat Islamic atrocities and are quick to condemn those who oppose it like Israelis, Serbians, Armenians and others.
Following the unsuccessful Jihadi genocidsl attack on the Israeli Jews there were about 650000 Muslims displaced, mainly through their own doing from the 18% of the original Palestine initially designated a national home for the Jews in the Mandate on Palestine, after 82% of it, sparsely populated, were disingenuously handed over by the British to the Muslims to create a previously non existent country to a non existent Muslim nation.
Those so called refugees were financed by the West and oil rich sponsors to remain Jihadi refugees for ever.
In contrast in Northern Mozambique there are already more than 700000 indigenous refugees and the Leftist West and the emasculated Christianity and the Pope are either in a denial or are playing down the significance of the problem.
Jihadi atrocities are clearly sanctioned by the fake religion of peace both in the Qur’an and the Hadith, and are advocated, promoted and incited for in every Mosque and Madrassa, yet pointing this out is denied, labeled and suppressed as Islamophobia.
What is the reality, however, is that most of us are victims of Islamic Humanophobia
john smith says
Good post Jerryy
Jerry says
Islamic Jihadi onslaught in Northern Mozambique has already resulted in more than 700000 indigenous Mozambicans being displaced from their towns villages and homes and rendered homeless by Islamic Jihadi invaders.
This number is already greater than the number of people displaced in the Middle East more than seventy years ago yet causes hypocritical society apparently lesser concerns.
Jerry says
An important question arises as to who finances the Jihadi incursion in Northern Mozambique.
Is it financed by wealthy co-teligionist states far away or by donations elicited from wealthy co-religionist individuals and corporations in neighbouring states such as Tanzania, Kenya and South Africa in or in conjunction with their places of worship, or possibly from all of the above?
gravenimage says
The main JIhad faction in the region is Ansar Al-Sunna, which has links to ISIS.
Members have reportedly received military training in Tanzania, Sudan, and Saudi Arabia.