Securing the Sanctuary-Christian Warrior Training

Keith Graves
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  1. 6d ago

    They Tried to Cancel Christian Warrior Training Over What I Teach: Right to Bear Saved Us.

    Paid subscribers make this possible. Please consider upgrading your subscription to help us protect all churches. An insurance underwriter put it in writing this summer: “It is a hard no, even if just in classroom. We do not intend to cover being told it is ok to use any weapon or how to use one.” Not live fire. Not force on force. Not putting a gun in anyone’s hand. Being told. A church security instructor standing in a classroom, explaining when the law allows a man to defend his congregation, is conduct that carrier will not touch. That sentence came from RSUI’s underwriter, relayed to me in writing by my broker on July 10, after I asked whether the weapons exclusion on their quote could be amended. I have the email. I will show it to you in the video that goes with this article. That quote is the end of the story. Here is the beginning. Five clean years, then one honest answer Graves and Associates has carried professional liability and general liability since July of 2021. Five years, zero claims, premiums paid on time. This spring the renewal quote came in at $3,621 and I did what I teach every one of you to do with any contract: I read the whole policy before signing. I found a terrorism exclusion that appeared to apply across every insuring clause, no cyber coverage at all, and a business activities description that did not clearly include the instructor training courses I plan to launch. So I asked six questions in writing before binding. Would a negligence claim be covered if a church I trained were attacked. What does the terrorism endorsement actually restore. Does the policy cover instructor certification. The carrier’s answer was to pull the renewal entirely. Their stated reason, word for word: “Given the significant changes to the risk profile, including hands-on training, potential safety and evasion guidance, general security advisory services, and product sales, together with our review of the additional website, the account unfortunately now falls outside of our underwriting appetite.” Safety and evasion guidance. Teaching people how to not die put me outside their appetite. They offered me an extension to August 1 for another $157 so I could go find somebody else. Everybody said no My broker marketed the account to the standard carriers: Liberty Mutual, The Hartford, Nationwide, Guard, Travelers. Every one declined. The nature of the business was outside their appetite. She went to the surplus lines markets, the specialty carriers that exist specifically for hard risks. Higher premiums, declines, or blocked submissions. A firearms industry program I applied to directly denied the application. By July 15 my broker told me plainly that she had reached the end of the companies she could approach. The one general liability quote she could secure came from RSUI, and it carried the weapons exclusion you read at the top of this article. When I asked if the exclusion could be removed for classroom instruction with inert training aids, laser trainers and blue plastic guns, nothing that fires anything, the answer was the hard no. Some of you are thinking there must be more to it. A claim, a lawsuit, something in the file. There is not. Five years, zero losses, and the loss runs to prove it. What changed was that I told the truth on a renewal application about where this ministry is headed. Honesty is what triggered all of it, and I would do it again, because a policy bound on an incomplete application is worse than no policy at all. Buried in the conditions of that same policy was an application warranty stating that any misrepresentation or non-disclosure renders the policy null and void and relieves the carrier of all liability. Plenty of trainers in this industry are paying premiums right now on policies their carriers would void the day a claim arrived, because the application never mentioned what they actually teach. The part that should make you angry The insurance industry does not treat church violence as a fringe concern. Carriers that serve churches publish active shooter preparedness guidance. They distribute security checklists. They recommend congregations assess their vulnerabilities and train their people. The industry’s own risk materials tell churches to prepare for exactly the attack my courses address. Then the trainer shows up to buy coverage and the same industry says no. They will insure the church that receives the training. They will publish the checklist telling the church to get it. They will not cover the man who provides it, and one of them will not even cover him for talking about it in a classroom. I spent almost thirty years in law enforcement and I have sat across the table from people doing things they knew were indefensible. They at least had the decency to look uncomfortable. This industry put its position on letterhead. How it got solved, and the disclosure that goes with it What cold submissions could not do, a relationship did. Most of you know I work with Right To Bear, and I will say plainly what I say every time: I am an affiliate, they sponsor this ministry, and there is a link below. Weigh that however you want. The facts are the facts either way. When I told them what was happening, their owner connected me with his brokerage, Moultrie Insurance, a firm that lives in the self defense world and was not scared of the words church security. Within weeks Moultrie placed what six months of shopping could not: general liability through Kinsale, an A rated carrier, and professional liability through Lloyd’s of London, written for a company whose application says in plain language that it teaches active shooter response and instructor courses. Classroom based, laser trainers and blue guns, no live fire, no simunition, all of it disclosed and all of it on the record. The price of being insured honestly is about $9,000 a year, roughly two and a half times what the old policy cost. That is the market telling you what this work is worth to insure when the carrier actually knows what you do. I will take accurate and expensive over cheap and void every day of the week. Two questions to send your broker this week If you train church security teams, or you are the safety director who brings trainers in, do not assume your coverage works. Claims made policies plus application warranties mean the policy you are paying for is only as good as what your application disclosed. So send your broker two questions in writing and keep the answers. Does my policy contain a weapons exclusion, and does it apply to instruction? Not range work, instruction. You now know at least one carrier reads that exclusion to bar being told how to use a weapon in a classroom. Does my carrier know exactly what I teach? Active shooter response, defensive tactics, firearms content, all of it, in writing, on the application. If the answer is no, fix it before you teach another class, because you will not find out what that omission costs until the worst day of your career, and by then the answer is already written into Condition 4. I got my answers the hard way so you can get yours with an email. Send it this week. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.christianwarriortraining.com/subscribe

    They Tried to Cancel Christian Warrior Training Over What I Teach: Right to Bear Saved Us.

  2. Aug 17

    Was There Another Shooting at an LDS Church Today? Request For Information

    Paid subscribers make this possible. Please consider upgrading your subscription to help us protect all churches. Please watch the video. I am looking for info from followers on the shooting at a church in Kearns, UT today. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.christianwarriortraining.com/subscribe

    Was There Another Shooting at an LDS Church Today? Request For Information

  3. Aug 16

    What I Carried at Church Today; Is Your EDC Adequate for Your Job?

    Paid subscribers make this possible. Please consider upgrading your subscription to help us protect all churches. In this video, I walk through what I carry to church and why I have chosen each piece of equipment. If you carry a firearm as part of a church safety team or simply as a concealed carrier attending church, I think you need to look seriously at whether your equipment matches the threat you believe you may have to face. I cover my normal handgun setup, a smaller concealed carry option, communications, less lethal options, body armor, medical gear, and the equipment I keep available if an incident requires me to move from a handgun to a rifle. You can carry capable equipment without walking into church looking like you are headed to a SWAT callout. The goal is to blend in during normal church activities while having the equipment, training, and options necessary to protect the congregation if something happens. Gear Mentioned in the Video Firearms and Firearm Equipment * Glock 45, 9mm * Glock 20, 10mm, my normal church carry handgun * Glock 43X, discussed as a smaller concealed carry option * .300 Blackout rifle/carbine * Speer Gold Dot 9mm ammunition * Trijicon SRO red dot optic * Aimpoint COA red dot optic, on the Glock 43X * Radian barrel and compensator * Radian Magwell * Streamlight TLR 1 HP X weapon light * Palmetto State Armory Dagger magazines, 15 round magazines used with my Glock 43X Holsters and Load Carrying Equipment * T.REX Arms inside the waistband holster GET 15% off with code CWT * T.REX Arms Bailout Bag / Active Shooter Bag GET 15% off with code CWT T.REX Arms discount: Use code CWT for 15% off eligible equipment. Body Armor * Premier Body Armor GT plates * Premier Body Armor soft body armor * T.REX Arms concealable hard armor / covert plate carrier * Security identification placards Communications * PocLink radio Less Lethal * POM MK 3 pepper spray Medical and Support Equipment * T Rex Arms Med Pouch (use code CWT for a 15% discount) Clothing and Footwear * Poncho button down shirt * KÜHL hiking pants * Altama shoes The specific clothing is less important than the concept behind it. I want clothing that allows me to blend in with the congregation while still being able to move, run, access my firearm, and carry the equipment I need without advertising everything I have on me. The video goes into considerably more detail about how these pieces work together and why I have different options available depending on what happens. My basic approach is simple: armor, bag, and carbine. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.christianwarriortraining.com/subscribe

  4. Aug 14

    Planned Church Hostage Attack and Family Shot At After Service: Weekly Roll Call Briefing

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.christianwarriortraining.com Paid subscribers make this possible. Please consider upgrading your subscription to help us protect all churches. This week’s Roll Call Briefing examines a planned hostage attack against a Florida church and the warning signs investigators uncovered before the suspect could act. We also cover the shooting of a family returning home from church, several developing terrorism concerns, violent incidents affecting churches, and how safety teams should respond when an armed suspect takes hostages. * A Florida suspect who allegedly cased a church and planned to take hostages * A family’s vehicle struck by gunfire while they were returning home from church * ISIS claims involving the deaths of Christians in the Congo * Pro ISIS requests for explosives, poison, and drone instructions * Iranian cyberattacks against American water systems * A bomb threat, suspicious death, and sex offender case involving churches * Recognizing leakage and pre-attack reconnaissance * Understanding hostage and barricaded incidents * Psalm 144:1 and the responsibility to prepare DOWNLOAD THE ROLL CALL BRIEFING HANDOUT 👇

    Planned Church Hostage Attack and Family Shot At After Service: Weekly Roll Call Briefing

  5. Aug 7

    Weekly Roll Call Briefing: WRCB-26-32

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.christianwarriortraining.com Paid subscribers make this possible. Please consider upgrading your subscription to help us protect all churches. What Is In This Week’s Briefing ✅ Current threat level determination and the reasoning behind holding at Orange ✅ Alert posture for the week, including staffing and protocol guidance ✅ 3 intelligence items covering a mass shooting stopped by armed citizens, a foreign paid-attacker network now operating in North America, and juvenile self-radicalization targeting schools ✅ 4 church incidents from the past 3 weeks, each with the security lesson attached ✅ Training focus with 5 leader prompts you can read straight off the page at roll call ✅ Briefing intent with this week’s Scripture for your team ✅ Personnel assignment grid and the daily checklist Why The Paywall Is Back The Roll Call Briefing has always been a for those that are gracious enough to support CWT. If it weren’t for them, we could not do any of this. I opened it up in April because the threat picture at that time involved specific dangers I wanted in front of every church in the country, whether they paid or not. Those threats have passed. New ones have taken their place, but the picture is more settled, and the reason I opened the gate no longer applies. So the paywall returns. Understand what you are and are not losing. The underlying information is still free. Every incident in this briefing appears in the Saturday Church Crime Newsletter at no cost to you. What the paid briefing gives you is the format: a finished, printable sheet you can put in your team leader’s hand before he steps in front of his people to brief a shift. That work takes hours every week, and it is what the subscription pays for. It helps pay for the analysis and personnel who help me put this all together. The Training Stays Free The free training at christianwarriortraining.com is not moving behind a paywall and never will. Every intelligence analysis we publish carries a training element you can take straight to your team, and every year we release a training matrix you can use to schedule your people out for the full year. If your budget is tight, use those. They are there for you. If your church is getting value out of these briefings, forward this to your pastor or your team leader. Then drop a comment below and tell me what your team is working on this month. DOWNLOAD THE ROLL CALL BRIEFING SHEET BELOW👇

  6. Jul 31

    Roll Call Briefing July 31, 2026: ISIS Claims 80 Christian Victims as Violence Hits U.S. Churches

    Paid subscribers make this possible. Please consider upgrading your subscription to help us protect all churches. Download the Briefing Here ↓ This week, ISIS claims more than 100 people killed or wounded, including 80 Christians, while eight separate incidents were reported at American churches. We also look at new attack material aimed at lone actors, four threats against U.S. churches, two shootings on or near church property, and how church safety teams can protect outdoor gatherings from vehicle attacks. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.christianwarriortraining.com/subscribe

    Roll Call Briefing July 31, 2026: ISIS Claims 80 Christian Victims as Violence Hits U.S. Churches

  7. Jul 29

    Your Odds of a Church Shooting: What the Data Actually Shows

    CWT publications and videos like this only happen because of paid subscribers. Without them, this all disappears. You Are a Ministry First: Church Security Without Fear Fear is a terrible commander. When fear leads, it distorts everything. It turns every stranger into a suspect. It slowly and quietly transforms the people of God into a team of threat assessors rather than ambassadors of the Gospel. And if we are not careful, fear can reframe the entire mission of the church away from what Christ called us to do and toward what we are terrified might happen. This article is a pushback against that fear. Not a dismissal of it. Not an excuse to be careless. A pushback grounded in data, in Scripture, and in a story that happened just this week at one of our campuses that reminded me exactly why we do what we do. What the Numbers Actually Say There are approximately 350,000 to 370,000 churches in the United States. Every single week, millions of believers gather across those congregations for worship services, many of them holding multiple services on a single Sunday. If we assume each congregation meets at least once per week, that is a minimum of 19,656,000 church services every year in the United States. Now let’s look at the threat against that backdrop. Between 2000 and 2025, researchers tracking violence at religious institutions recorded 246 shooting events across churches, synagogues, mosques, and temples combined, with 402 victims total. From 2000 to 2024, a separate dataset recorded 379 incidents and 487 deaths at religious congregations, most of them involving a single victim. Let that sink in. Nearly twenty million church gatherings every year, and across a quarter century, fewer than 500 deaths total across every type of religious institution in the country. When you narrow the lens to Christian churches specifically and compare the number of incidents against the number of services held, your odds of being in a church service where a shooting occurs are roughly 1 in 6,552,000. That number is not designed to make you feel invincible. It is designed to put reality back in its proper place. One of the enemy’s most effective weapons is not a firearm. It is intimidation. It is making the threat feel so large and so inevitable that the church begins to operate out of dread instead of faith. Prepared, Not Paralyzed Hear this clearly, because this is not an argument against training. The odds are absolutely in your favor that your congregation will never face a serious threat. But if your congregation does face one, the odds will not matter much in that moment. That is why we train. That is why we build teams, run drills, study behavior, and take this work seriously. The people sitting in those pews trust us with their lives, and we owe them our very best preparation. So yes, train hard. Be vigilant. Know your exits, know your sight lines, know your people. Build a team that can respond with speed and decisiveness if the moment ever demands it. But do not let the training become the mission. Do not let preparedness become paranoia. There is a critical difference between a church that is ready and a church that is afraid, and that difference shows up in how your team treats every person who walks through the door. The Story That Started This Article This past Sunday, something happened at one of our campuses that I have not been able to stop thinking about. A young man walked in and caught the attention of our security team. Something felt off about his demeanor and the way he was carrying himself. The team noticed and made contact. But instead of leading with suspicion, one of our guys looked at this young man and said simply: “You look like a man who needs a hug.” That is church security done right. That single approach, calm and compassionate and confident, accomplished two things at once. It made contact with someone who had been flagged as a potential concern, and it opened a door. It turns out this young man is not a threat at all. He is a young father with an infant at home and a marriage that is falling apart. He came to church because something drew him there, and I believe that something was the Holy Spirit. He did not know where else to go. Our team surrounded him with love and connected him with our men’s group. We welcomed him into the community. That is not a security failure. That is a ministry success, and it only happened because our team understood that their job is bigger than threat response. You Can Do Both One of the lies that creeps into security culture is the idea that you have to choose between being a security team and being a ministry. Either you are watchful or you are welcoming. Either you protect the congregation or you love the stranger at the door. That is a false choice, and experienced teams know it. The same awareness that allows a trained team member to identify a behavioral anomaly also allows them to recognize someone who is hurting. The same calm that keeps a person steady under pressure is the same calm that communicates safety to a broken young man who walked into your building desperate for help. Security team members are not bouncers. They are not law enforcement officers on loan to the church. They are members of the body of Christ carrying a responsibility that is both physical and spiritual. Sometimes that responsibility looks like stopping a threat. More often than we might expect, it looks like being the first person who made a desperate human being feel seen. Your team needs to understand both, and your training program should reflect both. What the Word Says God anticipated our fear. He did not ignore it or dismiss it. He addressed it directly. “Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” — Isaiah 41:10 (ESV) That verse is not a promise that nothing bad will ever happen. It is a declaration about who holds us when it does. Our security ultimately rests not in a team, a protocol, or a statistic, but in the sovereignty of the God we serve. We prepare because we are stewards. We train because lives matter. But we do not live in fear, because a church that operates out of dread has already lost something essential before a single shot is ever fired. The congregation is not a fortress to be defended. It is a place where broken people come looking for hope, and your security team is often the first face they see. The Charge Stay trained. Stay alert. Stay ready. But stay ministry-minded. Remember that the person walking through your door who looks different, acts nervous, or sets off your radar may not be a threat at all. They may be exactly who the church was built for. You can protect your congregation and still be the hands and feet of Jesus. You can run a serious, capable security operation and still be the person who looks a struggling young father in the eyes and says, “You look like a man who needs a hug.” That is not weakness. That is the Gospel lived out in real time by people who took their calling seriously enough to show up, get trained, and stay ready for whatever walks through the door. Train like a warrior. Love like a shepherd. Never let fear define what your church is supposed to be. Did this article challenge the way you think about your role on your security team? Leave a comment below and share it with your pastor or team leader. This is a conversation the whole church needs to have. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.christianwarriortraining.com/subscribe

  8. Jul 24

    Roll Call Briefing/News & Intelligence for July 24, 2026

    It is free to you, but there is a real cost to put all of this together and it gets more expensive everyday. Upgrade your subscription, but only if you can afford it. TERRORISM AND INTELLIGENCE Islamic State Is Treating Churches as a Standing Target Set on Three Continents Indago’s Islamic State assessment for the week ending July 20 identifies attacks on religious sites as a coordinated strategy running across Nigeria, Syria, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The assessment states that detained Islamic State members in Syria gave confessions outlining plans to bomb Christian churches and Shia shrines to deepen societal divisions, and that affiliates in West and Central Africa are systematically targeting Christian villages and burning homes alongside military assets. The report places churches on its priority target watchlist for Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Nigeria, and the DRC, citing demonstrated planning and execution capability against Christian places of worship. It also assesses that Islamic State in Syria has shifted away from targeting armed opposition factions and toward religious minority sites in order to maximize sectarian friction in the post-Assad security vacuum. [Source: Indago Situation Report, Islamic State Weekly Update, 20 July 2026] 🛡️ My thoughts: this is something that I assessed long ago, but it’s nice to see another intelligence organization back it up. Many of you are running missions in these areas. You need to have a plan and you need to have safe houses that you can go to in the event of an emergency. I suggest that you get training in survival, evasion, resistance and escape before you go to one of these countries to help Christians. ISIS-K Poster Names the US Capitol and Ties the Call to the World Cup On July 14, the Islamic State Khorasan-linked al-Azaim Media Foundation released a poster depicting the United States Capitol and the Eiffel Tower as targets, carrying the message “Kill Them. Seize Them. Besiege Them” drawn from a Quranic verse. The release was timed to France’s Bastille Day and to the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Indago assesses the poster as direct incitement to attack soft targets in the United States and France during high-profile events, and notes Islamic State media has been calling for attacks on World Cup host cities and venues since June 18. The National Counterterrorism Center listed the same poster in its terrorist publications compendium for the week of July 16 through 22. Indago names lone-actor vehicle ramming, knife, and explosives attacks against crowd gatherings as the highest-probability threat vector. [Source: NCTC Counterterrorism Digest, 16 to 22 July 2026, and Indago Islamic State Weekly Update, citing MEMRI JTTM] 🛡️ My thoughts: this message is inciting lone actors within the United States. We saw that in New York City this week when a man did exactly what ISIS asked them to do. He poured gasoline and used fireworks as an IED to attack a federal building there. What if he decided to go after a church instead of the federal building? Would you be prepared for that? Some church security trainers are saying that I am over stating these threats. Ezekiel 33 tells us to sound the trumpet when we see danger. I am doing that now, and I think those trainers need to change their attitude and do the same. The chances of an attack at your church are very minimal, but it’s not zero. We know it will happen to somebody, I pray that they are prepared. Federal Data Shows Homegrown Islamic State Supporters Are Staying Home and Planning Here The NCTC spotlight this week summarizes research from the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center on American Islamic State supporters. The United States has federally charged 272 people with Islamic State-related crimes since 2014. Defendants ranged in age from 17 to 56 with an average age of 27, 83 percent held United States citizenship or permanent legal resident status, and 91 percent were male. Cases per year have been climbing since 2023. Roughly 35 percent of defendants in the post-caliphate period attempted to travel overseas, and no traveler has successfully reached a destination since 2019. The spotlight highlights the January 2026 indictment of Christian Sturdivant, 18, arrested in December 2025 after authorities determined he allegedly planned to use knives and hammers in a New Year’s Eve attack on a grocery store and a fast-food restaurant in North Carolina. [Source: NCTC Counterterrorism Digest, 16 to 22 July 2026, citing NCITE and the US Department of Justice] 🛡️ My thoughts: you should see a theme here. The danger to our church and synagogues is growing. Look at the information they put out and use that to help you in your threat assessments in your situational awareness while you’re working. Seven Federal Agencies Updated a Warning That Iranian Cyber Actors Are Inside US Utility Controls The FBI, CISA, NSA, EPA, Department of Energy, US Cyber Command, and Treasury updated a joint cybersecurity advisory on July 22 covering Iranian-affiliated cyber actors exploiting internet-connected programmable logic controllers across United States critical infrastructure. The advisory names Government Services and Facilities, including local municipalities, Water and Wastewater Systems, and Energy as affected sectors. Investigators found that after the actors extracted device project files, they modified and deleted program logic and manipulated the data shown on operator displays, and that the changes disabled shutdown and alarm logic so systems could enter unsafe conditions without alerting operators. The July 22 update expanded the manufacturer scope beyond Rockwell Automation to include Schneider Electric and Siemens controllers. The agencies state the targeting escalated in response to hostilities between Iran and the United States and Israel. [Source: Joint Cybersecurity Advisory AA26-097A, updated 22 July 2026] 🛡️ My thoughts: you should be very concerned about this report. It is a signal that they can shut off our power and water. Are you prepared for this? What if your region suddenly has no electricity? Our societal contract will start breaking down. Food and water shortages will occur. Access to medicine and health will be declined. I suggest you have 90 days of food and water on hand in a team of people that know how to survive. The government has been warning us and we should be listening and not dismissing it. The Bible tells us this is coming. Be a good steward to your people. Three European Cases This Month Involve Minors Building Devices and Selecting Religious Targets Munich prosecutors charged a 15-year-old Islamic State sympathizer from Augsburg, Germany with plotting a terrorist attack on a synagogue and with illegal handling of explosives, and stated the teen had obtained a large quantity of explosive material. In October 2025 that same teen detonated a homemade device that blew off two of his fingers and injured an associate. In Italy, the Polizia di Stato announced on July 17 the arrest of a 17-year-old Italian girl in Pavia for participation in an association with the purpose of international terrorism, after a search of her home recovered detailed instructions for making an explosive belt along with conversations with presumed Islamic State associates. In the United Kingdom, Kingston Crown Court convicted 16-year-old Yusuf Shah on July 15 of collecting terrorist materials and providing instruction in the preparation of acts of terrorism, with authorities stating he had expressed support for al-Qa’ida and the Pakistani Taliban on social media beginning at age 13. [Source: NCTC Counterterrorism Digest, 16 to 22 July 2026, citing the Munich Public Prosecutor’s Office, Polizia di Stato, and the UK Metropolitan Police] Islamic State Fighters Hit a Girls’ School at 1:30 in the Morning With Inside Help On July 19, Islamic State West Africa Province fighters attempted a mass abduction of students at the Federal Government Girls College in Monguno, Borno State, Nigeria. The assault came at roughly 1:30 a.m. against a facility being used as a hostel. Nigerian troops foiled the attack and rescued 46 students, though reporting states some were fatally struck during the firefight. Indago assesses the operation involved suspected collaborator assistance and signals intent to run complex, multi-element operations against soft civilian infrastructure. Nigerian forces separately arrested a suspected Moroccan Islamic State operative embedded with ISWAP on July 14 following a failed attack at Cross Kauwa, and Operation Hadin Kai troops arrested a woman at a Borno checkpoint on July 13 who had concealed 17 flashlights and 19 batteries inside her clothing intended for Boko Haram and ISWAP. [Source: Indago Islamic State Weekly Update, citing Channels Television, and NCTC Counterterrorism Digest, citing The Sun Nigeria] The Islamic State’s Own Weekly Ledger Counts Christians as Two Thirds of Its Victims Issue 556 of the Islamic State’s Arabic weekly newspaper al-Naba, dated 2 Safar 1448 and covering roughly July 9 through July 15, opens with a full-page infographic tallying the group’s claimed results. It claims 21 operations and more than 34 killed and wounded for the week. It sorts those casualties into three categories of its own choosing: 23 it labels Crusaders, a term it applies both to Christians and to the armies of Christian-majority governments, 10 it labels infidels and apostates, and 1 it labels Shia. It also claims 3 officers killed, 12 vehicles burned or disabled, and 4 military positions burned. Operations break down as 13 in West Africa, 5 in Central Africa, 2 in Mozambique, and 1 in Iraq, with casualties concentrated at 19 in Central Africa and 13 in West Africa. By the organization’s own bookkeeping, Christians account for roughly two thirds of everyone it claims to have killed or w

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