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Official: Drone kills 4 Qaida Suspects in Yemen
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Afghanistan
Fighting Continues in Jalrez as Taliban Seize Several Check Points
[Tolo News] Jalrez provincial council painted a bleak picture on Friday on the Wardak province situation when they announced that the Jalrez district has virtually fallen into the hands of the Taliban.

Addressing a presser Friday morning, provincial council members said that armed Death Eaters have taken control of almost the entire district, with the exception of the district governor's building and some other government offices.

They said a number of coppers have been killed by the armed Death Eaters and heavy festivities are ongoing between security forces and the bad boys.

One council member blamed the central government for the situation, claiming that between 30 and 40 percent of security force members deployed to the area are not on duty.

The council members said however, that reinforcement troops have been sent in to push back the bad boys.

According to them at least 50 percent of check points in Chak district in Wardak province have also fallen into the Taliban's hands.

But the Ministry of Interior Affairs (MoI) officials strongly rejected fall of the district into the Taliban hands.

"I can assure you that the Taliban do not have that much power to seize control of districts in Wardak," deputy MoI front man Najibullah Danish told TOLOnews. "We have enough forces in Wardak to defend it."

This latest development comes after Wardak's deputy governor on Thursday said that Death Eaters had seized control of six police checkpoints in Jalrez district in Wardak province.

He said the armed confrontation between security forces and the Death Eaters started Wednesday night at around 11:00 pm and that by late Thursday afternoon fighting continued.

According to him, five Afghan Local Police (ALP) officers had been killed by Thursday night and a number of vehicles seized.
Posted by: Fred || 07/04/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa Horn
Turkish workers survived an attack in Mogadishu
MOGADISHU -- Turkish staff members have reportedly survived an assassination attempts on their lives after gunmen launched an ambush attack on their vehicle in Mogadishu.

Three gunmen have opened fire on bus carrying at least six Turkish nationals who were heading to mosque near Liido beach. No Turkish staff member has been killed or injured in the drive by shooting.

Somalia’s Abdiaziz deputy DC, Mohamud Abdullahi Ahmed told Shabelle Media based in Mogadishu security guards repulsed the ambush attack launched by the unknown gunmen who were with minivan. Mr. Ahmed said that the guards had shot and injured one of the three attackers before escaped from shooting scene near Liid beach in Mogadishu.

Somalia police and security units arrived at the spot and launched an investigation relates to the ambush attack which was intended to shoot Turkish employees dead on Friday.

No group has so far claimed responsibility for Friday’s attack but Al Shabab carried out similar suicide attacks against foreign nationals and Somalia soldiers along with AMISOM forces in Mogadishu.
Posted by: Steve White || 07/04/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


AU, gummint forces leave Shabelle despite lingering fears
QORYOOLEY, Somalia -- Somali government forces alongside African Union peacekeepers have vacated new areas in Lower Shabelle region of southern Somalia despite threats of takeover by Al Shabaab militants, Garowe Online reports.

Security sources disclose that fears of imminent clashes gripped residents of Awdhegle and Qoryoley, with the latter’s residents fleeing homes.

In Awdhegle where Al Shabaab briefly overran last month, allied forces began withdrawing late on Wednesday night. On the other hand, Lower Shabelle region town of Qoryoley witnessed similar pullout.

As of Thursday morning, people were fleeing homes over possible confrontations for the control of the strategic town.

A week ago, militants killed over a dozen African Union peacekeepers in deadliest raid in Lego.

Pro-Al Shabaab media reported that militants are heading towards the vacated areas.
Posted by: Steve White || 07/04/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Africa North
NY Times: Top Tunisian 'Jihadist' Killed by US Strike in Libya
[ALMANAR.LB] A top Tunisian terrorist and associate of late Al-Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden
... who is now beyond all cares and woe...
was killed by a US Arclight airstrike in Libya last month, the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
reported.

Seifallah Ben Hassine, Tunisia's most wanted Jihadist, who criminal masterminded a campaign of liquidations and terrorist attacks, including one against the United States Embassy in Tunis, was killed mid-June in an Arclight airstrike that targeted a top Al Qaeda-linked terrorist, the paper said.

Ben Hassine, also known as Abu Ayadh, is believed to have coordinated a string of liquidations, including the killing of famed Afghan anti-Taliban fighter Ahmad Shah Masood in 2001.

He was one of Osama bin Laden's top lieutenants and the leader of the outlawed group Ansar al-Sharia
...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet...
h in Tunisia. He had been based in Libya since 2013, according to reports, and ran training camps and a network of bad boy cells across the region.

Tunisian officials also accused Ben Hassine of directing the killings of two secular Tunisian politicians in 2013, the paper reported.

"His death, if confirmed, would be an important victory for Tunisia in its struggle to contain a persistent insurgency in its western border region and a growing threat to its urban centers," New York Times said.

Moreover, Tunisian station Radio Mosaique first reported Ben Hassine's death, which the US paper said it had confirmed with an official in Washington.

The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a confidential military assessment, said Ben Hassine died in a strike that targeted Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a top Al Qaeda-linked bad boy believed to have criminal masterminded a deadly attack on an Algerian gas plant in 2013.

Libya's government reported at the time that Belmokhtar was killed in the attack but Al Qaeda's North Africa branch denied it.

Hassine had been on a United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
blacklist since 2002 over his links to al-Qaeda. He was imprisoned in Tunisia in 2003 but released under an amnesty after the ouster of ex-President-for-Life Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
...who departed by popular demand in January, 2011, precipitating the Arab Spring...
in 2011.

He fought alongside Bin Laden in Afghanistan in 2001 before travelling to Pakistain and then The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
where he was tossed in the clink
You have the right to remain silent...
and extradited, the newspaper reported.
Posted by: Fred || 07/04/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda


Rockets land in Israel, Egypt's IS affiliate claims responsibility
[REUTERS] Militants in Egypt's Sinai peninsula fired rockets into southern Israel on Friday in an incident that caused no casualties but appeared to be linked to fighting between Islamist bandidos bad boys and Egyptian security forces.

Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
's Egypt affiliate, Sinai Province, said in a statement posted on Twitter by supporters that it had launched three Grad rockets
...Soviet-developed 122-mm rockets, usually launched from trucks. Newer versions are reported to have a range of up to 30 km....
toward "occupied Paleostine". Rooters could not immediately verify the authenticity of the statement.

An Israeli military source earlier said the rockets had been fired from Sinai, which borders Israel, the Gazoo Strip and the Suez Canal.

Israeli police said they had so far found remnants of two rockets in an open area. No damage or casualties were reported.

It was possible the launch was linked to the fighting in Sinai, the military source said, where faceless myrmidons of the Sinai Province group launched their biggest assault in years against Egyptian security forces on Wednesday.

Dozens of people have been killed in the past few days of festivities and air strikes in the desert region.
Posted by: Fred || 07/04/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis


Africa Subsaharan
Man accused in Boko Haram abduction of Chibok girls arrested
[AyPee] Nigerian troops have enjugged
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
a businessman accused of "participating actively" in Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
's mass abduction of nearly 300 schoolgirls from the northeastern town of Chibok last year, Nigeria's Defense Ministry said Tuesday.

Spokesman Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade said Babuji Ya'ari headed a "terrorists' intelligence cell" for the Islamic Lions of Islam while masquerading as a member of the self-defense Youth Vigilante Group. That confirms suspicions that the vigilantes have been infiltrated by Boko Haram. Soldiers have told the AP that some of their comrades also belong to Nigeria's homegrown Islamic Lion of Islam group.

"The arrest of the businessman ... has also yielded some vital information and facilitated the arrest of other members of the terrorists' intelligence cell who are women," Olukolade said in a statement Tuesday night. He did not say when the arrests were made or how many people were arrested.

He alleged that Ya'ari has since 2011 coordinated several deadly attacks on the northeastern city of Maiduguri, the birthplace of Boko Haram, and spearheaded the May 2014 liquidation of the emir of Gwoza, a religious and traditional ruler who was targeted for speaking out against Boko Haram's extremism.

One arrested woman, Hafsat Bako, confessed to coordinating the payroll for operatives paid a minimum of 10,000 naira (about $50) a job, the defense ministry statement said.

Boko Haram was responsible for the April 2014 kidnapping of 273 girls from a boarding school in Chibok. Dozens escaped but 219 schoolgirls remain missing. The mass abduction sparked international outrage and demands for the girls' release under the Twitter hashtag #BringBackOurGirls.
About as utterly useless an effort as has ever been done, rivalling the inane internet petition in 200 or 2001 demanding the Taliban be nicer to Afghan women.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/04/2015 10:19 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram


Female Suicide Bomber Storms Nigeria Mosque, Dozens Killed in Terrorist Attacks
[ALMANAR.LB] A youngjacket wallah'> exploding trollop female suicide bomber killed 12 worshippers when she blew herself up in a mosque in northeastern Nigeria, a witness and a vigilante assisting the military in the fight against Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
group said Friday.

"While the people were inside the mosque for the prayers she ran from a distance into the mosque and blew herself up," vigilante Danlami Ajaokuta said of Thursday's attack in Malari village, adding 12 had died and seven were maimed.

In similar development, dozens of civilians, some fear as high as 100, were killed in a massacre carried out by gunnies affiliated with Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria on Wednesday night, military and local sources said Thursday.

According to preliminary reports, gunnies went on a rampage in Borno state's Kukawa town and specifically targeted mosques in the area.

"Close to 100 people were murdered, especially those killed inside different mosques in the town. Women and children too were not spared," a military source in the Nigerian army in Maiduguri, a city in Borno state, told Anadolu Agency on Thursday evening.

He said the attack occurred around sunset time as Moslems offered the Maghrib prayer just shortly after opening the day's Ramadan fast Wednesday night.

Abba Kyari, one of the hundreds of locals who fled to Maiduguri, capital city of Borno state, said that the attack took place when Moslems were praying.

"Very few of us got away with slight injuries as we made away. But we cannot account for our family members now. The mosques are littered with corpses and our houses have been burnt," Kyari, who spoke in the local Hausa news outlet, said.

Kyari said that he knew only five out of the over 50 people who attended the Maghrib prayer at the mosque who survived and were now in Maiduguri.
More attacks on a busy day:
Two suicide bombings kill 13 in northeastern Nigeria

[IsraelTimes] Two jacket wallah exploding trollop female suicide bombers killed 13 people at a crowded market and a military checkpoint outside the biggest city in northeast Nigeria
... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border...
, witnesses said Friday.

The latest attacks took place at Malari village, just outside Maiduguri, and began with an kaboom from a teenage girl at the market that killed at least 10 people, said security guard Abba Shehu. Minutes later a woman in a taxi blew up at a military checkpoint and killed a soldier and two passengers.

There are fears Boko Haram is using some of its thousands of captives as weapons.
And:
Boko Haram Kill 11 in Nigeria who 'Escaped Forced Conscription'

[AnNahar] Suspected Boko Haram holy warriors killed 11 men overnight Friday in northeastern Nigeria, dragging them from their homes and shooting them for escaping forced conscription by their group, residents said.

"Boko Haram fighters killed 11 people in our village (Miringa) this morning. The men had fled Gwargware village in (neighboring) Yobe state to seek refuge in our village after Boko Haram tried to force them to join their ranks," said resident Isa Mshelia.

Baballe Mohammed, another resident, said the gunnies came to the village around 1.30am on Friday. They "picked 13 men from selected homes and took them to the Eid prayer ground outside the village where they opened fire on them," he said, adding two managed to escape. "The victims were well targeted because they were all residents of Gwargware village... who fled to Miringa some months ago to escape forced conscription by Boko Haram."
Posted by: Fred || 07/04/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram

#1  Happy Ramadan! Allen is pleased
Posted by: Frank G || 07/04/2015 12:23 Comments || Top||

#2  I thought it was very Islamic to kill infidels. Obviously the holy month means you get extra points to kill fellow Moslems in the most gruesome way possible.

Never understood why the accelerated their blood lust during Ramadan...I guess the fasting and the low blood sugar makes them especially irritable.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 07/04/2015 12:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Speaking from experience, they do tend to be a bit more irritable than usual.
Posted by: Pappy || 07/04/2015 15:20 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Official: Drone kills 4 Qaida Suspects in Yemen
[AnNahar] A Saudi and a Kuwaiti are among four suspected al-Qaeda members killed by an American drone strike in southeastern Yemen, a local official said on Friday.

The dawn strike targeted their car as it left the base of the 27th Mechanized Brigade in the Hadramawt lovely provincial capital Mukalla, the official told Agence La Belle France Presse.

Fighters from the Sunni krazed killer group seized the camp from forces loyal to President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi in April, consolidating their grip on Mukalla. They have exploited months of fighting between Hadi loyalists and Iran-backed Shiite Houthis to consolidate their grip on Yemen's southeast.

The official identified the victims as Shuaib al-Maliki of Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
and the Kuwaiti Abdul Aziz al-Otaibi, along with two Yemenis.

Their deaths bring to 13 the number of suspected al-Qaeda snuffies killed by similar strikes in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
over the past 10 days, and follows the death of the second-in-command of al-Qaeda's global network. The group confirmed on June 16 the killing by an American drone strike of Nasir al-Wuhayshi, who headed al-Qaeda's Yemen branch.

Washington regards that branch, known as al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000...
(AQAP), as its most dangerous and has kept up a drone war despite the pullout of US troops from Yemen in March as the country's war worsened.

The U.S. still has drones and other aircraft at bases in Saudi Arabia and Djibouti.

Since the war in Yemen worsened in March and a Saudi-led coalition began bombing the Shiite Houthis, jihadists from the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
Sunni krazed killer group have also taken advantage of the chaos. They have claimed a series of attacks including a boom-mobile in Yemen's capital Sanaa which killed at least 28 people on Monday.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/04/2015 12:26 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia


Saudi-US Warplanes Strike Yemen Provinces, Kill 16
[ALMANAR.LB] The Yemeni army and the Popular Committees bombarded on Friday the Saudi al-Hothaira military post in Najran province, forcing all its soldiers to flee away with their military vehicles.

Warplanes from a Saudi-US aggression bombed civic targets in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
on Friday, residents said, and sources in the country reported at least 16 people were killed.

Local witnesses said six people including a woman and a child were killed and six maimed in a dawn air strike on the al Jaraf neighborhood of the capital Sanaa.

The state-run Saba news agency reported 10 people were killed by Saudi-led aerial attacks on a building in Bayt al-Faqih city in the southwestern province of al Hodeida.

Moreover, air strikes were also carried out on Faj Attan mountain overlooking Sanaa.

In the dawn attack, warplanes also hit the ministry of communications building, Saba added, setting it on fire and destroying nearby buildings.

The warplanes staged a further attack on the capital around noon, but there was no immediate word on casualties or damage.

In retaliation for the Saudi-US daily massacres in Yemen, the Yemeni army and the Popular Committees bombarded on Friday the Saudi al-Hothaira military post in Najran province, forcing all its soldiers to flee away with their military vehicles.

Earlier on Thursday, Saudi-led air strikes killed eight people in Sanaa, and launched 35 raids on the northern Saada province.

Explosions were heard throughout the city as the aerial bombardment concentrated on infrastructure and vital civic facilities in its south and west.

The attacks also targeted a house owned by the leader of former president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...
's General People's Congress party.

The Saba agency said two people were killed and 15 maimed in the latest air strikes on Saada.
Posted by: Fred || 07/04/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Houthis

#1  What US airstrikes? I though we only had CIA anti-AQ drones there.
Posted by: 3dc || 07/04/2015 1:17 Comments || Top||

#2  It sounds better?
Posted by: Pappy || 07/04/2015 12:10 Comments || Top||


Saudi Policeman Killed in Taif Raid, ISIL Flags Seized
[ALMANAR.LB] Saudi security forces found flags of the so-called 'Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
group during a raid on Friday in which an officer was shot
dead, the kingdom's interior ministry said.

The killing came with the Gulf region on alert against attacks by ISIL, which has been blamed for killing other Saudi coppers and has claimed three deadly mosque bombings in the kingdom and Kuwait.

"They tossed in the clink
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
three suspects, confiscated Daesh (Arabic acronym of ISIL) flags, silencers and personal laptops," the ministry said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.

Western media and intelligence agencies reports revealed that Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
and other regional countries, like Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates...
and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
, are the main sponsors of takfiri groups operating in Syria and Iraq.
Posted by: Fred || 07/04/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Saudi policeman killed during raid, suspect at large
DUBAI -- A Saudi policeman was killed on Friday in an exchange of gunfire during a raid to arrest a wanted person in the western city of Taif, the SPA state news agency quoted an interior ministry spokesman as saying. The agency said three suspects had been detained and flags of Daesh seized, along with gun silencers and computers.

Saudi Arabia last month announced a list of 16 people it said were involved in two deadly mosque bombings claimed by Daesh in May and offered a cash reward of 5 million riyals ($1.3 million) for information leading to their arrest.

SPA said security men had come under fire on Friday while investigating a house in Taif where the suspect was believed to be hiding and responded to the fire in kind. It said Sergent Awad Seraj Al Malki was killed in the clash.

The statement suggested that the militant, identified as Youssef Abdellatif Shabab Al Ghamdi, remained at large and it urged citizens to help capture him, warning against anyone giving him shelter.
Posted by: Steve White || 07/04/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Three arrested for printing IS pamphlets
[DAWN] Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
police have locked away
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
three persons for allegedly possessing and printing pamphlets supporting the self-styled Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
Police officials said on Thursday that the arrests were made from the Shamshatu Bazaar area in the limits of Urmur cop shoppe on the outskirts of the city. They said that two of those arrested were Afghan nationals and one belonged to Mohmand Agency
... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar...
According to the FIR, following a tip-off about printing of the pamphlets in Shamshtu Bazaar the police raided the shop and arrested three persons identified as Asmatullah, an Afghan currently residing in Shamshatu refugee camp; Abdur Rehman, another Afghan currently a resident of Naway Kallay, Bara Road; and Gul Khan of Mohmand Agency currently living near Budhni Pul, Charsadda Road, Peshawar.

The officials claimed to have recovered two laptops and two CPUs from the facility that contained pro-militant and anti-Pakistain material from the raided premises. Police have started the paperwork but haven't done much else under Section 124-A of Pakistain Panel Code and 11 ATA.

A senior police official requesting anonymity told Dawn that the arrests were made a day before by an intelligence agency. The Shamshatu refugee camp is located about 25 kilometres southeast of the quiet provincial capital.
Posted by: Fred || 07/04/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Iraq
Shiite militias hit back at ISIS east of Fallujah
[Rudaw] More than 15 Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
fighters were killed and seven of the group's military vehicles were destroyed Thursday by Shiite militias fighting for the Iraqi government in Anbar province, a commander with Iraqi forces told Rudaw.

Colonel Marzi Mahmud Jumaili, a commander with the Hashd al-Shaabi, or Popular Mobilization Units, said in a statement released Thursday that the Shiite fighters managed to launch a counterattack on the ISIS faceless myrmidons east of the city of Fallujah,
... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids...
killing the 15 faceless myrmidons and injuring 25 others.

Jumaili claimed the Hashd al-Shaabi, as the Shiite militias are known, seized seven vehicles from ISIS and four where rigged with explosives.

In January 2014, ISIS faceless myrmidons swept into Fallujah and parts of Ramadi in Iraq's Anbar province, which Iraqi security forces soon abandoned.

Since then, Iraqi forces in corporation with the Hashd al-Shaabi and backed by US-led coalition Arclight airstrikes have fought to recapture areas from ISIS.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/04/2015 09:16 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Bombings in Baghdad, town south of Iraqi capital kill 8
[Rudaw] Iraqi officials say bombings in Baghdad and in a town south of the Iraqi capital have killed eight people.

Police officials say a bombing Friday near shops in the town of Madain, just south of Baghdad, left three people dead and maimed eight. Also in Madain, a bomb struck a checkpoint manned by pro-government Sunni militiamen, killing two fighters and wounding five.

The officials say a kaboom in a commercial street in eastern Baghdad killed three people. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to talk to news hounds.

Police said two bodies with gunshot wounds to the head and chest were found in eastern Baghdad. Dead bodies left in the street were a common occurrence during the sectarian violence that engulfed Iraq several years ago.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/04/2015 00:00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Molotov cocktails, ISIS grafitti in East Jerusalem
[Ynet] Paleostinians hurling Molotov cocktails at retreating police as graffiti of ISIS flag found in East Jerusalem on third Friday of Ramadan.

Security cameras captured a group of Paleostinians Thursday, throwing Molotov cocktails at two police squads in Ma'ale ha-Zeitim in East Jerusalem while the neighborhood of Beit Hanina also displayed a disturbing sign supportive of violence - graffiti of the flag championed by ISIS.

The video appears to show police temporarily retreating behind their vehicles without offering any response to the Paleostinian attackers. A member of the local neighborhood watch, Joshua Vander, told Ynet such incidents have become every-day occurrences and Thursday wasn't the first time he observed what he called a "weak" response by authorities.

According to Vander, security representatives told him that procedures during such incidents are more difficult during the month of Ramadan and that police are hesitant to respond with crowd control measures without an explicit order form their superiors.

The film was capture by a camera installed by a new organization called "Anti Terror T.V." who's goal is to document otherwise unseen or unverifiable security incidents. Several such cameras were recently placed in key points in East Jerusalem.

Police in Jerusalem responded to the incident saying that more than 400 had been jugged
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
for similar disturbances so far in 2015 including the throwing of rocks and Molotov cocktails.
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PA arrests 108 Hamas members in West Bank
[IsraelTimes] Terror group accuses Abbas forces of working for Israel, says it won't stop attacks against Israelis

Paleostinian Authority forces tossed in the clink
You have the right to remain silent...
108 Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, members in the West Bank in one of the biggest raids in years.

According to reports in Hamas-affiliated media, the raids began early Thursday morning and continued overnight Thursday-Friday. The arrests included senior Hamas officials, according to the reports.

The raids were conducted in Hebron, Nablus and Bethlehem, Walla News reported.

Hamas front man Husam Badran told the Palinfo news site that the "crazy" security measures undertaken by Paleostinian Authority forces against Hamas in the West Bank were meant to stop the recent spate of deadly Paleostinian attacks against Israelis.

He accused Paleostinian security forces of working for Israel and said the group holds Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
personally responsible for the "persecution and terror" applied by his forces. Hamas will continue attacks against Israelis in the West Bank, he said.

Badran also called on all factions to unite against PA measures, "which are tearing at the fabric of the Paleostinian people.

"It is our right to use all means to stop the crimes against our senior members in the West Bank," he was quoted as saying.

A front man for the Paleostinian Authority security services, Adnan Dameri, said "We will not let Hamas undermine our security and draw our country to bloodshed, we will not let Hamas carry out attacks in the West Bank."

The arrests were part of one of the biggest mass raids since 2007 when Hamas violently ousted forces loyal to Abbas from Gazoo, leaving him governing just parts of the West Bank.

There has been a sharp uptick in violent attacks against Israelis in recent weeks. At least one of the Paleostinian assailants in the spate of attacks was said to be affiliated with Hamas.

On Tuesday, 25-year-old Malachy Moshe Rosenfeld died of wounds sustained a day earlier in a shooting attack in the West Bank.

Last Sunday a Paleostinian man stabbed and seriously injured a female Israeli Border Police officer outside Jerusalem's Damascus Gate. The assailant, said to be a Hamas member or sympathizer, was shot and captured.

Last Friday a Paleostinian assailant was shot and killed by IDF soldiers after he opened fire on Israeli troops at a checkpoint in the West Bank. No soldiers were maimed in the attack.

On June 19, a 25-year-old Israeli man, Danny Gonen, died after being shot near the settlement of Dolev, northwest of Jerusalem.
An Nahar adds:
The people, jugged
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
overnight, "intended to carry out attacks against the Paleostinian Authority (PA)," the official said, without elaborating.
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Terrorist Blast Kills Grand Mosque Imam in Damascus
[ALMANAR.LB] A terrorist bomb planted inside the Grand Mosque in Syria's Damascus went off on Friday, killing the Imam Sheikh Salman al-Afandi, state-run TV reported.

Local sources told SANA news agency that a terrorist group planted the IED under the platform of the mosque and detonated it during the Imam's speech.

Sheikh Afandi was martyred at once, and five other worshippers were maimed.

The kaboom caused much destruction inside the mosque.

In a statement issued afternoon, the Ministry of Awqaf announced the martyrdom of Sheikh Afandi, stressing that the blood of the deaders "will only increase our determination to defeat the takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
terrorism and forces of darkness and evil anytime, anywhere."
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#1  Secondaries?
Posted by: Frank G || 07/04/2015 12:36 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm twisted. I feel good when a mosque is blown-up.
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Syrian army launches most intense attack in years on rebels trying to seize Aleppo
[ABC.NET.AU] Syrian government forces have carried out heavy air strikes on rebel positions in and around the northern city of Aleppo, aiming to repel a major Islamist-led offensive on areas controlled by president Bashir al-Assad.

The attack, the most intense bad boy offensive in Aleppo in three years, aimed to build on recent advances against Mr Assad by an array of groups fighting on separate fronts, including Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
and rebels backed by his regional foes.

Later, state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
showed scores of bodies of armed combatants, saying the army had killed at least 100 Lions of Islam in the counter-offensive.

Aleppo, 50 km south of the Turkish border, was Syria's most populous city before the country's descent into civil war.

It has been partitioned into zones of government and bad boy control since 2012.

Aleppo is of vital importance to Mr Assad, and losing it would further entrench a de facto partition of Syria between western areas still governed from Damascus and the rest of the country run by a patchwork of militias.

Fighting between the Lions of Islam and government forces in Aleppo raged into the early hours of Friday.

Syrian air and army strikes on rebel emplacements were continuous, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a group monitoring the war, said.

A Syrian military source said the attack had been repulsed and heavy casualties had been inflicted on the bad boys.

He added that the air force and artillery had been used to target the rebels, who he said had used heavy weapons in their attack.

Rami Abdulrahman from the Syrian Observatory said rebel forces had seized some buildings from government control on the northwestern city outskirts of Jamiyat al-Zahra.

He later said the Lions of Islam were making headway in a part of western Aleppo that would get them closer to the heart of the city.

At least 35 Lions of Islam were killed in that area, including a dozen Syrians and many others of central Asian origin, Mr Abdulrahman said.
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Cleric kaboomed in Damascus mosque
BEIRUT -- A bomb exploded inside a mosque in an opposition-held suburb of Damascus on Friday killing a Muslim cleric, Syria’s state TV reported. The TV said the bomb was placed under the pulpit, or minbar, at the Grand Mosque in the Tal area and went off shortly after the Friday prayers ended. The report said Shaikh Suleiman Afandi was instantly killed.

It was not immediately clear who was behind the killing. Tal has witnessed reconciliation between the government and rebels but is mostly opposition-controlled.

Bombings targeting mosques have not been uncommon during Syria’s civil war. In 2013, preacher Shaikh Mohammad Said Ramadan Al Buti — an outspoken supporter of President Bashar Assad — was killed along with at least 41 others when a suicide bomber struck a Damascus mosque.
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