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MARCH 17, 2016 | The Jewish Home
including two people who were killed in airstrikes in Syria, Junaid Hussain and Reyaad Khan. One file refers to a German recruit who used to be “in sales” and now “wants to be a suicide bomber,” while another would-be suicide bomber formerly worked as a “tobacconist in a restaurant.” The documents seem to have come from a man called Abu Hamed, an ISIS fighter who said he had become disillusioned with the group’s leadership and stole a memory stick from the head of the ISIS internal security force before handing it over in Turkey.
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Jewish Man Murdered in Uruguay
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In 2012, the National Jewish Committee of Uruguay expressed concern over neo-Nazi groups in the country. Seven years previously, local police exposed two neo-Nazi groups composed of active duty military servicemen. The Anti-Defamation League expressed “horror” over the murder of Fremd and called on Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez to condemn the attack and make sure the suspect is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. “President Vázquez must ensure the security and well-being of the Jewish community of Uruguay, as many may feel highly vulnerable in the wake of such a horror,” ADL’s CEO Jonathan A. Greenblatt said in a statement. “We express strong solidarity with the Uruguayan Jewish community in the aftermath of this horrific attack.”
North and South Korea Trade Blows
A suspect is in custody this week after 54-year-old merchant David Fremd, a Jewish man in Uruguay, was killed with a knife in the town of Paysandu. Reportedly, he was crossing the street with his son when he was stabbed in the back. His son was also stabbed, though his wounds are thankfully not considered serious. While the police would only say that anti-Semitism is suspected as a motive in the attack, the Israeli Central Committee of Uruguay issued a strong condemnation, describing the incident as anti-Semitic. Approximately 20,000 Jews live in Uruguay, mostly concentrated in Montevideo, the capital, according to the World Jewish Congress. According to an ADL poll conducted in 2014 in 100 different countries, 33 percent of those surveyed in Uruguay – some 810,000 people –harbor anti-Semitic attitudes. Nearly half of respondents agreed that Jews are more loyal to Israel than Uruguay, and 64 percent asserted that Jews have too much power in the business world.
After South Korea imposed new sanctions on their northern neighbors, North Korea responded by firing short-range ballistic missiles into the sea. Included along with the show of defiance came a vow to “liquidate” all remaining South Korean assets at former cooperative projects in the North. This back and forth is the latest in an escalating standoff between the Koreas that began in January when North Korea detonated what it said was an “H-bomb of justice,” its fourth nuclear test. Since then, the North has launched a long-range rocket and the South has shuttered a jointly run factory park, slapped sanctions on the North, and began large-scale war games with the United States. North Korea responded by threatening nuclear strikes on South Korea and the U.S. mainland. North Korea also said it will impose “lethal” military, political and economic blows on the South Korean government to accelerate