Kenyan national Cholo Abdi Abdullah is expected to appear in a New York court this Wednesday and charged with concocting a 9/11-style terror plot involving flying a hijacked airliner into a skyscraper in a major US city.

 terror suspect is reported to be affiliated with al Shabaab, a Salafi Wahhabist jihadist group based in East Africa with direct links to al-Qaeda.

Kenyan national Cholo Abdi Abdullah is expected to appear in a New York court Wednesday and charged with concocting a 9/11-style terror plot involving flying a hijacked airliner into a skyscraper in a major US city.

Abdullah, 30, faces six counts of terrorism-related offenses, including conspiring to provide material support to a designated terrorist group, conspiring to commit aircraft piracy, conspiring to kill US nationals, conspiring to destroy aircraft, and conspiring to commit acts of terrorism across national boundaries. Each individual charge carries with it a penalty of between 20 years and life in prison.

In a statement released Wednesday, the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York indicated that Mr. Abdullah was arrested in the Philippines in July 2019, and transfered to US custody on December 15, 2020.

While in the Philippines, Abdullah was said to have obtained pilot training, and to have researched the means to hijack a commercial jetliner, as well as information about the tallest building in a major US city, and the procedure for obtaining a US visa.

Three ADF rebels killed

 

Three ADF rebels lost their lives on the night of Tuesday 15 to Wednesday 16 December 2020 in Beni territory in North Kivu. The announcement comes from the spokesperson of the FARDC in the operational sector Sokola 1.

Lieutenant Antony Mwalushayi explains that it was a military patrol team that came into contact with the enemy near the Semuliki and Taliya rivers, on the southern operational axis. The military spokesman also claims that 2 weapons that were recovered by the armed forces.

"3 terrorists fell on fire from the FARDC. During their combat patrol operations on the night of December 15 to 16, the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo neutralized 3 ADF / MTM terrorists and recovered 2 weapons of war type AK47, "he wrote.

Despite rebel reprisals, Antony Mwalushayi continues to reassure the determination of the FARDC to secure the region.

Last weekend, around ten civilians were killed in Nzenga, in the same territory of Beni.

To challenge the Congolese leaders and to sympathize with the families of the victims of these atrocities, the living forces decreed Tuesday December 15 and Wednesday December 16, days of mourning throughout the area of Rwenzori

three congolese soldier die in an ambush in virunga national park

 At least 3 soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) were killed in an ambush by unidentified rebels in the heart of Virunga National Park, near Kibumba in the territory of Nyiragongo on Monday, November 23, 2020 .

The information was confirmed  by Major Guillaume Ndjike Kaïko, spokesperson for the Sokola 2 North Kivu operational sector.

“It was a patrol of our elements. Attackers from Rugari looted 12 cows from the population. So our elements tried to pursue these rebels who fled into the Virunga Park and that is where they were ambushed. We lost 3 items, and still got a cow. As I speak to you, we are continuing the search to recover all the other cows, ”he said.

Local civil society is outraged by the persistence of rebel groups in this region despite ongoing military operations. She suspects the Hutu Rwandan rebels of the FDLR as perpetrators of this attack

  Eighteen (18) people died in a new attack attributed to rebels of Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) in the town of Baeti, nearly 20 kilometers west of Oïcha, capital of Beni -territoire (North Kivu), on the evening of Wednesday, October 28, 2020. Civil society in Mamove which delivers the information, explains however that this assessment is still provisional. It indicates that besides the dead, many houses including churches were set on fire by the attackers. “There was an attack around 7pm (Wednesday). Our sources speak of 18 people killed. We are waiting for the end of the research to have a final assessment, ”said Kinos Katuo, president of said civil society. This attack is the nth to be recorded in the entity. In eastern DRC, more than 3,000 people have already died in carnage attributed to the ADF since 2014, according to several reports from citizen organizations in the region.

Part of the mapping report

 During the attack, AFDL / APR soldiers indiscriminately fired at the FAZ, ex-FAR / Interahamwe and refugees. 22 Nov 1996, AFDL / APR killed several hundred refugees in Chimanga camp, Bukavu, after rounding up the victims. mapping report

 Kenya Air Force receives third and last Spartan cargo plane 29 10, 2020 The last Spartan cargo plane ordered by the Kenya Air Force from Leonardo has just been delivered to Kenya, after being requisitioned for long months in Italy. It will strengthen the airborne capabilities of the Kenyan forces engaged in the face of Al-Shabaab.

 Russian BRDM armored vehicles are already out of service 29 10, 2020 BRDM-2 armored vehicles have been armoured tanks delivered by Moscow to the Central African Armed Forces. © Presidency of the Central African Republic Two of the ten refurbished BRDM-2 armored vehicles delivered by Moscow to the Central African Armed Forces (FACA) on October 15 are already at a technical standstill.