As ISIS defeat at the hands of Russia and the Syrian government seems imminent, operatives strike out against the civilian population in Europe as well as former financial backers.

The latest such strike is against the Mecca Grand Mosque, as a suicide bomber tries to liberate the world of some future Moslem migrants. In an event which would have made a truly grand finale to this year’s Ramadan Bomb-a-Thon, the attacker instead took down eleven targets at a different location.

Al Jazeera:

Authorities in Saudi Arabia have foiled a “terrorist action” targeting the Grand Mosque in Mecca, according to officials.

The Saudi interior ministry said in a statement on Friday that a man who planned to attack the mosque blew himself up when security forces surrounded a house in Mecca where he was hiding.

At least 11 people, including five policemen, were wounded in the collapse of a three-storey building where the suspect had barricaded himself, the ministry said.

Five other people, including one woman, were detained during the operation, it added.

Unsurprisingly, this is not the first time Saudis have been attacked, according to this delightful Wikipedia page, the last couple of years has been a pretty tumultuous time for the Wahhabist sandpeople, with numerous incidents of enrichment by the Religion of Peace. The most noteworthy of these is the death of four security officers in a 2016 suicide attack near the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina.

Gotta make sure you look real tough for when you get removed by a bomb

The black stone in the middle of Mecca, the Kaaba, is pre-Islamic in origin, having historically served as a sacred site for all Arabs. As such, the worship of it has more of an ethnic overture than a religious one, even though it is one of the “five pillars of Islam.” The reasoning behind the ISIS attack on this site is related to this, as they consider the pilgrimage a worship of the stone and not of Allah.

Well, you get what you pay for.

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An eight-year-old girl wearing an explosive suicide vest was stopped by Afghan police as she tried to carry out a deadly attack.

The Interior Ministry said police had apprehended the young girl who had intended to carry out a suicide attack against Afghan border police in southern Helmand province.

The girl, named as Spozhmay, by NDTV, is reported to be as young as eight and thought to be the sister of a prominent Taliban commander.

She was said to be in a state of shock and confusion.

In a statement, the Interior Ministry said the girl claimed her brother, a local Taliban commander, had sent her on the mission.

According to spokesman Sediq Sediqi, one of the Afghan soldiers spotted the girl wearing a suicide jacket.

But she was arrested before she could carry the attack as she struggled to operate the detonator.

The girl has now been transferred to the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah.

In 2011 an eight-year-old girl died after she was tricked into carrying a concealed bomb close to a police vehicle, where it was remotely detonated.

The incident occurred in a remote village called Uwshi, in the Charchino District, said Fazal Ahmad Shirzad, the police chief of Uruzguan Province.

In July it emerged that Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan are bribing starving children as young as eight years old to plant deadly roadside booby traps, be decoys in ambushes and even act as suicide bombers.

Despite the Islamic fundamentalists’ claim they have no children in their ranks, extremists have been actively recruiting orphaned and homeless young boys and training them to use guns, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and suicide vests.

In return, they ply the desperate youngsters with sweets and chocolate, an investigation for Channel 4’s Dispatches programme learned.

Afghan orphan Neaz told how he was just eight when he was promised a handful of coins by Taliban fighters to convert him to their cause.

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