Headlines
  • False or misleading informations are spread by organizations posing as legitimate media outlets in an attempt to twist public opinion in favor of a certain ideology.
  • On social media,watch out for fake messages,pictures,Videos and news.
  • Always Check Independent Fact Checking Sites if You Have Some Doubts About the Authenticity of Any Information or Picture or video.
  • Check Google Images for AuthThe Google Reverse Images search can helps you.
  • It Would Be Better to Ignore Social Media Messages that are forwarded from Unknown or Little-Known Sources.
  • If a fake message asks you to share something, you can quickly recognize it as fake messege.
  • It is a heinous crime and punishable offence to post obscene, morphed images of women on social media networks, sometimes even in pornographic websites, as retaliation.
  • Deepfakes use artificial intelligence (AI)-driven deep learning software to manipulate preexisting photographs, videos, or audio recordings of a person to create new, fake images, videos, and audio recordings.
  • AI technology has the ability to manipulate media and swap out a genuine person's voice and likeness for similar counter parts.
  • Deepfake creators use this fake substance to spread misinformation and other illegal activities.Deepfakes are frequently used on social networking sites to elicit heated responses or defame opponents.
  • One can identify AI created fake videos by identifying abnormal eye movement, Unnatural facial expressions, a lack of feeling, awkward-looking hand,body or posture,unnatural physical movement or form, unnatural coloring, Unreal-looking hair,teeth that don't appear natural, Blurring, inconsistent audio or noise, images that appear unnatural when slowed down, differences between hashtags blockchain-based digital fingerprints, reverse image searches.
  • Look for details,like stange background,orientation of teeth,handsclothing,asymmetrical facial features,use reverse image search tools.

More Details

Suspected Suicide Bomber Injures 6 in Attack on Indonesian Police Station

Tia Asmara and Ahmad Syamsudin
Jakarta

A 24-year-old student blew himself up Wednesday in a suspected “lone-wolf” suicide bombing that injured at least six other people outside a police station in Medan, Indonesia’s fourth largest city, authorities said.

The suspect, identified as Rabbial Muslim Nasution, an Indonesian citizen, set off an explosive belt in the parking lot at the headquarters of the Medan city police after escaping a routine security check at the entrance, national police spokesman Dedi Prasetyo said.

“The perpetrator acted as a lone wolf,” Dedi told reporters, adding that police were investigating any link to a terrorist network.

Six people, including four police officers, were slightly injured in the explosion, he said.

“I was queuing when I heard a loud explosion and saw smoke coming from the scene,” a woman named Lila, who was at the police station, told Metro TV, an Indonesian channel. “I shouted, ‘Bomb! Bomb! Get out!’”

The suspect was a university student who was born in Medan, the capital of North Sumatra province, according to information released by police. But his neighbors told local news outlets that Rabbial was a high-school dropout.

The bombing took place a month after two suspected Islamic State-linked militants stabbed and wounded then-Security Minister Wiranto and two other people with a knife as he was visiting Banten province.

Police have arrested at least 40 people across the country since the Oct. 10 attack on Wiranto, including those allegedly planning attacks on police targets and houses of worship on Java island.

Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, has been hit by a string of terrorist attacks in the past two decades, with more recent strikes being blamed on Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), a local militant network affiliated with Islamic State.

Last year, two families blew themselves up at three churches and a police station in coordinated suicide attacks in the East Java city of Surabaya. Those bombings, which authorities tied to JAD, killed 24 people, including children as young as 9 who joined their parents in the attacks.

In a separate development, police spokesman Dedi said that a suspected JAD militant believed to have bomb-making skills was arrested in Bekasi, a town on the outskirts of Jakarta, on Tuesday.

The man, identified as Patria, received military training in the southern Philippines in 1999 and fought in Afghanistan, before travelling to Syria in 2012 and established links with the Free Syrian Army (FSA), a group seeking the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad, Dedi said.

The suspected bomber in Medan might have been an Islamic State sympathizer, Stanislaus Riyanta, a security analyst at the University of Indonesia, told BenarNews.

“The police are seen as ‘taghut’ (tyrants) by ISIS,” Stanislaus said, using another name for the Islamic State. “This could be the motive for the act of terrorism.”

He also said that the attack could have been intended to avenge the death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakar al-Baghdadi, who was killed when he detonated a suicide vest during a raid by U.S. Special Forces in northwestern Syria late last month.

“Baghdadi’s death may have triggered ISIS sympathizers to take action in retaliation. This has been predicted,” he said.

But he said it appeared that that the bomb was of poor quality as it did not cause mass casualties.

But Rakyan Adibrata, a terrorism researcher at the International Association for Counter-Terrorism and Security Professionals (IACSP), said the attack was unlikely to have been motivated by al-Baghdadi’s death.

“It makes more sense that it was carried out to avenge the arrest of fellow militants since last month,” he told BenarNews.

Rakyan said the bomber might have been radicalized by JAD.

“The modus operandi is the same: a lone attacker targeting the police. Attacks carried out by one person are not necessarily lone-wolf attacks, unless they are self-radicalized, and plan, assemble the bomb and carry out the attack on their own,” he said.

Presidential spokesman Fadjroel Rachman condemned the attack, saying that terrorism would not be tolerated.

“The government will not allow acts of terrorism to disrupt security, peace and social and economic activity of the people,” he said in a statement.

He said President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo had ordered authorities to tackle the threat of terrorism by working together with the public.

The speaker of the national parliament, Puan Maharani, urged communities to remain vigilant.

“We must work together to prevent such an attack from happening again,” she told reporters.

“[Previous attacks had] happened in places we thought were safe,” she said. “All strains of society must anticipate them.”

Updated to add comments from security analysts and the presidential spokesman.

Copyright ©2015,BenarNews. Used with the permission of BenarNews https://www.benarnews.org/english/

Syrian Refugees in Lebanon Flee Bombs

Over half a million people, many of them were refugees who initially fled the Syrian conflict, have fled Lebanon into Syria in the last two months.According to those returning to Idlib, Syria’s last opposition stronghold, they are fleeing to a location that is marginally safer than Lebanon,without homes, jobs or humanitarian aid waiting for them.
Read More

If you want to contact us

For latest updates

[jetpack_subscription_form show_only_email_and_button=”true” custom_background_button_color=”#fcb900″ custom_text_button_color=”undefined” submit_button_text=”Subscribe” submit_button_classes=”wp-block-button__link has-text-color has-background has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-button-color” show_subscribers_total=”false” ]

From our Archive

Related Article

Indian President Election 2022

On July 18, India will elect a new president.4,800 MPs and MLAs will vote to choose India's 15th pre ...
July 18, 2022

Freedom of Speech is Not Absolute…

Though the freedom of speech and expression guaranteed by article 19(1)(a) of the Indian Constitutio ...
July 7, 2022

The Source of a Good Investigative…

My sources are my friends.They have a lot of trust in me and freely give me vital information. Since ...
August 9, 2021

Journalists,Opposition Leaders the Target of Government…

According to Freedom House,governments in various countries are rapidly investing in sophisticated t ...
July 20, 2021

India Needs More Innovative Methods to…

Despite the legislative focus on child marriage, implementation has been inadequate in addressing th ...
July 17, 2021

Shettihalli Rosary Church the Abondoned Floating…

Shettihalli Rosary Church, commonly known as floating church, was built in 1860. It is a fascinating ...
July 16, 2021

Other Article

News & Views

Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipina on…

Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipina who has spent 14 years on death row in Indonesia, will be coming home b ...
November 21, 2024
Video Report

Trapped in Lebanon, African Migrants Face…

Many of the estimated 176,000 migrants living in Lebanon are African women who are working menial jo ...
Pick of the Day

Permanent Representative of France Briefs Press…

Nicolas de Rivière,Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations, briefs reporters after ...
November 20, 2024
Video Report

The Impact on a Ukrainian Family…

This week marks 1,000 days of fighting in Ukraine.For millions of Ukrainians, including 32-year-old ...
Pick of the Day

UN Security Council Meets to Discuss…

James Kariuki,Deputy Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations and Presid ...
November 19, 2024
Video Report

Syrian Refugees in Lebanon Flee Bombs

Over half a million people, many of them were refugees who initially fled the Syrian conflict, have ...

[wp-rss-aggregator feeds="crime-more-world"]
Top