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Eye on Extremism
April 6, 2016
CNN:
Top Military Official Warns Of ISIS Attacks
“The commander of U.S. Cyber Command warned Tuesday that it ‘would not
be difficult’ for ISIS to conduct cyberattacks on the U.S. Adm. Michael
Rogers, who oversees the military's cyberspace operations, told the
Senate Armed Services Committee that ISIS had ‘harnessed the power of the
information arena’ to propagate its ideology, recruit, move money and
coordinate activity.But he added that what concerns him the most is what
happens when ISIS ‘starts to view cyber as a weapon system’ to attack
critical infrastructure in the U.S. While Rogers acknowledged that ISIS
had yet to demonstrate the skills needed to conduct such attacks, he said
that ‘it would not be difficult’ to achieve that capability. ‘It's not
beyond their ability if they made that decision,’ he said. Rogers
referenced the December cyberattack on the Ukrainian power grid,
which left hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians without electricity, as an
example of the type of damage a cyberattack on critical infrastructure
can cause.”
Reuters:
Rebels Shoot Down Second Syrian Jet In A Month
“Rebels shot down a second Syrian warplane in less than a month on
Tuesday and a monitoring group said they captured its pilot in an area
near Aleppo where heavy fighting has erupted in recent days despite a
cessation of hostilities agreement. The Syrian army said the jet was shot
down with an anti-aircraft missile, which have been long demanded by
foreign-backed rebels against devastating aerial raids by Syrian and,
since September, Russian forces. Rebels said the plane was downed with
anti-aircraft guns. Their backers, which include Western and Sunni Muslim
regional states, have been wary of delivering weapons such as
anti-aircraft missiles that could fall into the hands of hardline
groups. Any confirmation the rebels now have the missile equipment
would be a major escalation in their weaponry. Syria says an
anti-aircraft missile was also used by rebels to shoot down a warplane in
western Syria in March.”
CBS
News: Iraqi Forces Face Heavy Resistance In ISIS-Held Town Of Hit
“Heavy resistance has slowed Iraqi forces Tuesday as they pushed
toward the center of a town held by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
(ISIS) militants in western Anbar province, commanders at the scene said.
Hundreds of roadside bombs, car bombs and heavy mortar fire slowed
advancing Iraqi troops to a near halt Tuesday after entering the small
town of Hit the previous day. Hit -- which lies along the Euphrates River
in a valley in Anbar's sprawling desert -- is strategically important as
it sits along an ISIS supply line that links territory controlled by the
extremist Sunni group in Iraq and in Syria. Through the line, ISIS
ferries fighters and supplies from Syria into Iraq.”
CNN:
First On CNN: U.S. Mulls Pulling Troops From Sinai Due To ISIS Threat
“The Obama administration is considering pulling troops out of a base
in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula in part due to the growing threat from ISIS
and other militants, CNN has learned. The U.S. is mulling moving some
U.S. and international troops into southern portions of Sinai. They are
discussing the possibility with Egypt and Israel, which signed a peace
treaty in 1979 that the Multinational Force and Observers mission
monitors compliance with. Some 700 U.S. troops are currently part of the
mission. So far, neither Egypt nor Israel has commented publicly on the
talks, and any significant changes would have to be approved by all signatories
to the peace accord.”
Algemeiner:
Study: Terror Deaths Have Increased 8-Fold Since 2010
“The deadly toll of terrorism around the globe has jumped nearly 800
percent in the past five years, according to an exhaustive new report
that blames the alarming expansion of Islamist groups across the Middle
East and Africa. The nonprofit Investigative Project on Terrorism found
that an average of nearly 30,000 people per year have been killed by
terrorists since 2010, when terrorism’s death toll was 3,284. The authors
of the study, which tabulated the numbers through the end of 2015, say
that the exponential increase shows two troubling trends: More attacks
are happening, and they tend to be deadlier than ever.”
Associated
Press: As Afghan War Escalates, Schools Forced To Close
“One of Afghanistan's proudest achievements has been getting millions
of children, especially girls, back into school since the toppling of the
Taliban. But that success is crumbling across the south and in other
battleground areas of the country, where hundreds of schools have been
forced to shut down. Sometimes the cause is fighting, sometimes it's
intimidation from the Taliban. Sometimes it's both, as in the case of the
Loy Manda high school in southern Helmand province, part of the Taliban
heartland. When the Taliban waged an offensive last winter, the school in
the Nad Ali district was caught in the fighting between the militants and
Afghan government forces.”
BBC:
Libya: One Of Two Rival Governments To Step Down
“One of two rival governments in Libya has announced that it is
stepping down, a justice ministry statement has said. The announcement
comes less than a week after the arrival in Tripoli of a UN-backed
national unity government. The Tripoli-based Islamist administration said
it was standing down to prevent further bloodshed. Since 2014 Libya has
had two competing administrations, the one in Tripoli backed by powerful
militias and the other in the port city of Tobruk. The Tobruk-based
administration still opposes the UN-backed body.”
Associated
Press: Cameroon Says Multinational Forces Arrest 300 Boko Haram Fighters,
Free At Least 2,000 People
“Cameroon says multinational forces fighting Boko Haram have arrested
over 300 Islamic extremists and freed at least 2,000 people from their
strongholds along Cameroon, Nigeria and Chad borders. Cameroon's
commander of the joint forces, Bouba Dobekreo, said Tuesday that during
the three-day operation, forces also destroyed a Boko Haram training and
logistic base about 35 kilometers (22 miles) north of the Nigerian town
of Kumshe. The governor of Cameroon's Far North province, Midjiyawa
Bakari, has asked that all displaced people be directed by the military
to the Minawao refugee camp in northern Cameroon to be better tracked.
Cameroon, Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Benin have contributed about 9,000
troops to fight the six-year insurgency launched by the Nigeria-based
militants. More than 1,000 humanitarian workers have also been deployed.”
Daily
Mail: Whatsapp Joins Terrorism Row By Switching Encryption On For Its
Billion Users
“WhatsApp has announced a major plan to keep your conversations
protected. The global messaging service is now equipped with ‘end-to-end’
encryption for every user with the latest version of the app. The update
arrives amid a heightened international debate over how much access law
enforcement should have to digital communications and follows a
high-profile showdown between Apple and the FBI over an encrypted iPhone
linked to one of the San Bernardino shooters. It means all phone
calls, texts, and even media files are visible only to people included in
the thread. According to a recent WhatsApp Blog post, end-to-end
encryption will lock out cybercriminals, hackers, ‘oppressive regimes,’
and even WhatsApp officials to keep your data private.”
The
Wall Street Journal: FBI Analyzing Data From San Bernardino iPhone for
Leads
“The Federal Bureau of Investigation is still analyzing data on the
iPhone used by a San Bernardino, Calif., terrorist and won’t decide
whether to talk about what it has found until after that examination is
complete, a senior FBI official said Tuesday. James Baker, the FBI’s
general counsel, was peppered with questions about the contentious iPhone
case at a conference of the International Association of Privacy
Professionals. The discussion came a week after the FBI announced it had
cracked the iPhone used by Syed Rizwan Farook, cutting short a
high-stakes legal battle over whether Apple Inc. could be forced by a
judge to help agents recover data from the phone. The end of that case
doesn’t mean the end of the fight between Washington and Silicon Valley
over privacy and security of digital data. Legal experts on both sides
expect future conflicts on the same issue, particularly as more companies
encrypt data.”
United
States
U.S.
News & World Report: Lawmakers: U.S. Should Take The Lead In Fighting
Terrorism In Europe
“It's in the interest of the United States to take a leadership role
in combating terrorism in Europe so that the violence doesn't spread to
America or jeopardize Americans abroad, senators and experts said at a
Homeland Security Committee hearing Tuesday. ‘The most dangerous result,
really, of this situation is that every success that the Islamic State
has in Europe breeds more success here at home,’ said Clinton Watts, a
fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. ‘A successful attack in
Paris, Istanbul, Brussels, inspires [a radicalized American] here in the
states who maybe has no connection to the Islamic State or al-Qaida to
start to move forward.’ He pointed to the San Bernardino, California,
killings and the shooting of a Philadelphia police officer by a man who
said he was acting in the name of the Islamic State group. Terrorist
operatives have been able to take advantage of the weaknesses in
communication and coordination between European Union nations, according
to Juan Zarate, a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and
International Studies, and have managed to infiltrate refugee flows into
Europe.”
Reuters:
Pentagon Chief Wants Streamlined, More Nimble U.S. Military Structure
“U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Tuesday called for changes in
the U.S. military that would cut inefficiencies, streamline the
acquisition process and improve the ability to respond quickly to threats
such as Islamic State. The proposals by Carter, speaking to an audience
at Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank in
Washington, cut across all branches of the Defense Department because
they affect its top leadership and service chiefs. He said some of the
measures could be put in place ‘over the coming weeks’ under existing
authority while others will require legislative action. Some of the
proposals aim to overcome organizational inefficiencies within the vast
U.S. military that Carter believes do not allow it to best address
transregional threats like the one from the Islamic State militant group,
which stretches from Afghanistan to Africa. Carter's proposals, which did
not go into specifics, follow a review of the Goldwater-Nichols law of
1986, which made sweeping changes to the structure of the U.S. military
and has been criticized for being outdated.”
CNN:
Obama Looks To Scale Up ISIS Fight
“President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he was looking for ways to
scale up the battle against militants in Iraq and Syria ahead of a White
House meeting with top U.S. military brass. The planning session on
combating the terror group was not expected to yield major shifts of
strategy.’We continue to take on their leadership, their financial
networks, their infrastructure,’ Obama said before conferring with
combatant commanders and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The President cited
coalition efforts to block the highway between two cities where ISIS has
gained strongholds, Raqqa, Syria, and Mosul, Iraq: ‘We are going to
squeeze them and we will defeat them.’ Before of the meeting, U.S.
officials told CNN that one idea for ramping up the ISIS fight would be
to send additional U.S. Special Operations forces into Syria, though the
notion had not yet morphed into a full-blown option for consideration at
the White House. The U.S. has so far authorized up to 50 special
operators to work in Syria training moderate rebel forces battling ISIS.”
Syria
BBC:
Syria War: IS 'Used Mustard Gas' On Assad Troops
“State media in Syria have accused militants from so-called Islamic
State (IS) of using mustard gas against government forces in the
north-east. Troops came under fire at an air base which IS has been
trying to capture in Deir al-Zour, they say. Meanwhile, rebels have shot
down a Syrian fighter plane over the province of Aleppo. Unconfirmed
reports say militants from Nusra Front have captured one of the crew
alive. Reuters news agency cites monitoring and rebel sources as saying
the pilot was taken by the al-Qaeda-linked group after the plane crashed
in countryside.”
Iraq
CNN:
Advance On ISIS: The Road To Mosul
“Captain T's sniper rifle hangs out of the truck window as he hums
along to "The Warrior Song" blaring forth from his iPhone. It's
a tune that reminds him of one of his American trainers, back when the
U.S. military was first rebuilding Iraq's security forces, after the fall
of Saddam Hussein. It's been almost two years since Captain T saw his
family, when ISIS took over their village in Nineveh province. ‘Sometimes
I am just a ten minute drive away from them, but I can't see them,’ he
says. ‘With the help of God, I will get them free soon, very soon.’”
Turkey
BBC:
Turkish PM Wants To Strip 'Terror Supporters' Of Citizenship
“Turkey should consider stripping terrorism supporters of their
citizenship, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. The government had
‘nothing to discuss with terrorists’, he added, speaking to a group of
lawyers in Ankara. On Monday Mr Erdogan ruled out reviving peace talks
with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). A ceasefire between the
Turkish government and the PKK collapsed in July. ‘These people don't
deserve to be our citizens. We are not obliged to carry anyone engaged in
the betrayal of their state and their people,’ Mr Erdogan said. The
Turkish president also vowed to stamp out the conflict in Turkey's mainly
Kurdish southeast once and for all. The region has suffered its worst
violence in more than two decades after a truce agreed in 2013 collapsed
last summer. Mr Erdogan said last week that 355 members of the security
forces and more than 5,000 PKK members had been killed in fighting.”
Reuters:
Turkey To Readmit More Migrants From Greece As EU Deal Faces Protests
“Turkey is ready to take in another 200 migrants deported from the
Greek islands this week, a senior government official said, as it presses
ahead with a disputed EU deal aimed at shutting down the main route for
illegal migration into Europe. A first group of 202 migrants, mostly
Pakistani and Afghan, were shipped back to Turkey on Monday under an
agreement which will see Ankara take back all migrants and refugees who
cross the Aegean to enter Greece illegally. In return, the European Union
will take in thousands of Syrian refugees directly from Turkey and reward
it with money, visa-free travel and progress in its EU membership
negotiations. ‘This arrangement will prevent the Aegean Sea being turned
into a cemetery for migrants,’ Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
said in parliament of a deal meant to dissuade migrants from attempting
perilous illegal sea crossings. Turkey was initially expecting a second
group of 200 migrants to be sent back on Wednesday, but the government
official said Greek authorities had informed their Turkish counterparts
that the move would be delayed until Friday.”
Reuters:
Turkey Bombs Militants In Iraq, Declares Curfew In Southeast As Clashes
Erupt
“Turkey bombed Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq on Tuesday and
declared a curfew in a southeastern town after a rocket attack, as Prime
Minister Ahmet Davutoglu vowed Ankara would not step back in its
crackdown on the rebels. Gunfire rang out through the night in Silopi,
near the Iraqi border, where the curfew was imposed after one police
officer was killed and four were wounded when a rocket hit their armoured
vehicle, security sources said. In Iraq, Turkish F-16 and F-4 warplanes
destroyed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) ammunition stores and shelters
overnight in the mountainous Qandil area, where the group is based, the
army said. It also said 15 PKK militants had been killed in southeast
Turkey on Monday.”
Afghanistan
Voice
Of America: Suicide Bomber Kills 6 In Afghanistan
“Officials in Afghanistan say that a suicide blast in the central
Parwan province Tuesday killed at least six people and wounded at least
22 others. Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Seddiqi confirmed the attack
in the Siah Gerd district, saying almost all the victims were civilians,
including women. He told a news conference in the capital Kabul that
police identified the attacker and tried to stop him at a security
checkpoint when he detonated the bomb. There were no immediate claims of
responsibility, but Afghan officials blame the Taliban-led insurgents for
being behind such attacks.”
Yemen
Reuters:
Uprooted By Civil War In Yemen, Families Struggle In Barren Camp
“They live in scruffy tents or mud huts on dry, stony ground. Children
play with what they have - a rubber tire will do. Medical treatment is
hard to come by for young and old alike. In northwest Yemen, one of the
poorest countries in the Middle East, families uprooted by the war have
been stuck in camps for the past year. Around 400 of them now reside in the
Shawqaba camp in Hajjah province, which borders Saudi Arabia. When
fighting between Saudi forces and Houthi rebels began in March 2015,
these refugees were forced to leave their villages in al-Dhahir and Shada
districts in neighboring Saada province as Saudi-led warplanes targeted
Houthi positions. Residents and human rights groups say some of the
strikes destroyed homes and damaged farmlands. The coalition has
acknowledged mistakes in air operations in Yemen but denies Houthi
allegations that its forces strike civilian targets.”
Middle
East
The
Times Of Israel: Palestinian Donations Buy A Villa For Terrorist’s Family
“The family of Muhannad Shafeq Halabi, a terrorist who killed two
Israelis in a stabbing attack that marked the start of the latest wave of
violence, on Tuesday acquired a new villa with the help of funds raised
from the Palestinian public. The new house was purchased with public
donations via a campaign called ‘Building Houses for Free Men,’ which
seeks to rebuild the homes of Palestinian attackers that were demolished
by Israel. The campaign places glass collection boxes along the main
streets of Palestinian villages, and cities and the public fills them
with banknotes over a week or two. Over several weeks, the campaign
collected millions of shekels’ worth of donations, funding, among other
things, the purchase of the house. Halabi, 19, a student at Jerusalem’s
Al Quds University and a member of Islamic Jihad, killed Nehemia
Lavi and Aharon Banita in Jerusalem’s Old City in October. They were the
first Israelis killed in a knife attack in an ongoing, six-month wave of
Palestinian stabbing, car-ramming, and shooting attacks. Since then,
Halabi has enjoyed the status of a hero in Palestinian society, mainly in
Ramallah.”
Libya
Voice
Of America: Analysts: Libya’s New UN-Brokered Government Faces Daunting
Task
“Libya’s U.N.-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) is off to a
better than expected start in the few days since its six-strong
Presidency Council arrived in Tripoli on board a boat from neighboring
Tunisia ‘promising to turn the page’ and restore order to the country.
The leader of one of Libya’s two other rival governments has withdrawn
obligingly from the Libyan capital, but says he still disputes the GNA’s
legitimacy. And the leaders of the other rival government, the House of
Representatives (HoR) in Tobruk, are now making conciliatory statements.
GNA is meant to be sharing power with the two rivals under a political
deal brokered by the U.N. and Western powers.”
United
Kingdom
Daily
Mail: British Brothers Are Killed 'Fighting Jihad For ISIS In Syria After
Fleeing The UK Two Years Ago'
“Two British brothers are believed to have been killed fighting for
ISIS in Syria. Khalif Shariff, 21, and 18-year-old Abdulrahman are
understood to have left their home in Manchester and travelled to the
war-torn country in November 2014. Their parents Abdullahi, 50, and
Fatuma, 48, were informed of the news by ISIS militants. Mohammed Shafiq,
chairman of the Greater Manchester-based Ramadhan Foundation, said the
terror group had confirmed Abdulrahman had been killed and that his elder
brother is missing 'presumed dead'.”
Financial
Times: UK Hits At European Anti-Terror Red Tape And ‘Turf Wars’
“In an interview with the Financial Times, Philip Hammond said the UK
was unquestionably better off staying inside the EU to protect its
security interests. Nonetheless, the fact that European security
resources were weaker than British agencies meant the UK was having to
alter its entire outlook to try to better project its influence abroad.
The terrorist organisation Isis and its acolytes posed a greater and more
diffuse threat to Britons, particularly those travelling, than any had
ever done, he added.”
France
The
Washington Post: France’s Charlie Hebdo Blames Ordinary Muslims For
Terrorism
“Charlie Hebdo is back in the headlines — this time for a headline of
its own. Last week, the satirical publication — whose offices were
attacked by two jihadist gunmen in January 2015 — published an
editorial, in English and in French, titled ‘How Did We End Up Here?’ In
the aftermath of more attacks in Paris in November and in Brussels on
March 22, the editorial continues the magazine’s provocative criticism of
Islam as an affront to the vaunted French ideal of secularism. France
today is home to Europe’s largest Muslim population, and the Charlie
Hebdo editorial is perhaps the most recent expression of a collective
paranoia that has gained significant traction in recent years.”
Europe
Newsweek:
ISIS Identifies London, Berlin And Rome As Next Targets In New Video
“The Islamic State militant group (ISIS) has named London, Berlin and
Rome as the European cities that could possibly be targeted in its next
attack on the continent’s soil, in a propaganda video released on Monday.
An English-speaking militant talks of the deadly suicide bomb attacks in
both Paris and Brussels, which left a total of 161 people dead, before
moving on to other targets for the extremist group. He calls them a
‘cautionary message’ to Europe that sought to wipe out ‘kuffars,’ or
non-Muslims, and warned of more attacks.”
Deutsche
Welle: Terror Sparks Integration Debate In France, Belgium
“‘It's not a question of Muslims being integrated, it's that society
isn't integrating Muslims,’ says Alexandre Piettre, a sociologist at the
Societies, Religions and Secularism Group, a Paris-based think-tank. To
what extent such integration problems are linked to terrorism is a matter
of debate. Experts note that only a tiny percentage of Belgian and French
Muslims have tipped to radical Islam. Still others are converts who grew
up in Christian or secular families with home-grown roots stretching back
generations. And while both countries face similar problems, they have
different colonial legacies and systems of resettling their large
immigrant worker populations that began arriving in the 1950s and ‘60s.”
Arabic
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Terrorist
Financing
Al
Wafd: (Egyptian) Interior Minister Recommends The Establishment Of Units
To Combat Money Laundering And Terrorist Financing
Major-General Magdy Abdel Ghaffar, Egyptian Interior Minister,
underscored the need for coordination with the Anti-Money Laundering and
Combating Terrorist Financing Unit to galvanize its pivotal role in
training employees, at the local and international levels, involved in
the fight against money laundering and prevent the money from falling
into the hands of terrorists. He suggested convening a monthly meeting of
officers in charge of fighting money-laundering crimes in all Ministry
agencies, where they can share views, develop effective mechanisms and
explore the problems in order to confront them. These recommendations
came at the culmination of a conference dealing with fighting money
laundering crimes within the larger anti-drug context. It was attended by
Major-General Khaled Tharwat, Director of the National Security
Department, Ahmed El Kholy, Director of the Anti-Narcotics General
Administration (ANGA) and several judicial officials.
ISIS
Gulf
Eyes: ISIS Interpreter Of Dreams Jailed For Seven Years And Fined 1000
(Kuwaiti) Dinars
A Kuwaiti court yesterday sentenced an interpreter of dreams who
joined ISIS to seven years in jail and a fine of 1000 dinars ($3,300). He
was convicted of joining and enlisting others in the banned "Islamic
State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)" organization, whose extremist
ideology opposes the government and promotes insurgence against state
authority, aimed at destroying the systems of the state by illegal means.
A home search found no weapons or ammunition. However, security forces
found posters bearing the ISIS logo. In addition, the convicted man was
managing a Twitter account through which he posted tweets supporting the
jihadist organization, and threatening those who oppose it with death by
beheading.
Muslim
Brotherhood
Veto:
(Egyptian State) Commissioners (Authority) Recommends Invalidating The
Seizure Of Funds Owned By Muslim Brotherhood Schools
The Egyptian Supreme Administrative Court's State Commissioners
Authority, headed by Judge Hassan Salama, recommended backing the ruling
of the Administrative Court to invalidate the seizure of funds owned by
"Elkholafaa Elrashedeen Private School." It also endorsed an
overturn of the seizure of funds owned by the Muslim
Brotherhood-affiliated private schools. The Authority claimed that the
linkage between the schools and the Brotherhood was not proven. The
report, drafted by Counselor Moataz Elsheshtawy, explained that the
seizure decision is not sufficiently well-founded because it restricts
and obstructs the right of ownership as a constitutional right. The
decision rests upon investigations not backed by evidence, which makes
this decision based only on unproven allegations.
Veto:
Brotherhood Leader Reveals The Truth About The Financing Of The
Brotherhood TV Channels, Al-Hiwar And Watan
Muslim Brotherhood leader, Ezz Eldeen Dwedar, an associate of Mohammed
Kamal, the main rival of acting General Guide Mahmoud Ezzat, unveiled
information on the capital being used to finance the Brotherhood TV
channels "Al-Hiwar" and "Watan." Dwedar claimed that
"Al-Hiwar" belongs to Ezzat's faction, comprised of its owner
Ibrahim Munir, Deputy-Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, and Muslim
Brotherhood activist Dr. Azzam al-Tamimi. On the other hand,
"Watan" is owned exclusively by Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood
Administrative Office Abroad and is supervised by the organization's
former Secretary-General, Mahmoud Hussein. Dwedar stressed that the
employees of these channels are well familiar with the parties standing
behind them.
Shorouk
News: Lawsuit To Invalidate The Seizure Of Abu Treika Funds Postponed To
May 17th
The Administrative Court, headed by Judge Abdul Majid Al-Mokten, Vice
President of Egypt's State Council, decided to postpone the lawsuit filed
by former soccer player Mohammed Abu Treika. In his lawsuit, the ex Al
Ahly star demanded the invalidation of the ruling by the Brotherhood
Asset Freeze Committee to seize his assets. The next hearing will be held
on May 17th. The State Commissioners Authority drafted a
report recommending the cancellation of the decision to seize Abu
Treika's funds. It claimed the decision was in violation of the
Constitution, was an assault on the private property principle and
undermined Abu Treika's constitutional rights, as there was no a special
court ruling against him. It added that the decision was not based on a
specific court sentences against Abu Treika, but rather on a ruling by
the Court of Urgent Matters which did not specify which individuals'
properties would be seized.
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