[Tolo News] A group of unknown gunnies on Monday night killed nine aid agency workers from the Czech Republic's People in Need organization - among them a woman - in northern Balkh province, local officials said.
Meanwhile in a statement, President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. strongly condemned killing of aid workers and called the perpetrators "enemies of progress and development in Afghanistan."
Calling it a "coward act," Ghani has ordered the interior ministry to launch investigations and arrest the perpetrators.
The incident took place in Zare district after a number of Lions of Islam attacked the aid agency's compound, a front man for Provincial Governor, Ahmad Muneer Farhad said.
"First they rubbed out two security guards of the aid agency. After that they rubbed out nine employees among them a woman," he said.
According to officials, the Czech agency works with farmers in the province and helps provide them with seed.
The charity - People in Need (PIN) - said the victims were "killed in their beds while they were sleeping".
PIN said it had suspended all of its work in Afghanistan and was adopting measures to strengthen the security of its employees in the country. The charity has been working in Afghanistan since 2002, delivering aid to remote communities in the east and north of the country.
Tuesday's attack comes just weeks after 14 people were killed in a Taliban attack on a guesthouse popular with international aid workers in the capital, Kabul.
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[Tolo News] At least 27 gunnies have been killed and eight others injured in a series of coordinated operations over the past 24 hours by the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said in a statement on Tuesday.
In addition, nine others were locked away Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! during the operations.
The operations were conducted in Laghman, Parwan, Kunduz, Badakhshan, Balkh, Uruzgan, Maidan Wardak, Khost and Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... provinces, the statement said.
"During the same 24 hour period, Afghan National Police discovered and defused six different types of IEDs placed by enemies of Afghanistan for destructive activities in the Gilan district of Ghazni province," it said.
The MoI, however, did not comment on whether any security force members were maimed during the operations.
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[Tolo News] A fierce shootout that broke out Tuesday morning is still underway between security forces and holy warriors in Pul-e-Khumri, historic provincial capital of northern Baghlan province, officials said.
At least four security force members and three civilians have been killed so far in the fighting, local officials told TOLOnews.
The incident occurred when a number of armed bandidos bad boys attacked several police posts in the city, leaving three police and two other civilians injured.
Deputy Director of Baghlan health department, Haleem Ghafoori, said some of the injured were at death's door.
The Taliban have grabbed credit of the attack.
Located in the north, Baghlan has long experienced constant Taliban attacks.
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[Libya Herald] Staff working with Mellitah Oil and Gas have protested outside the National Oil Corporation in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... at the kidnapping of Yusuf Al-Shamani, a member of Mellitah's administrative committee, who was seized by a gang while travelling between Tripoli and Sabratha on Sunday.
Condemning the abduction and holding the government responsible for the kidnapping, the protestors demanded yesterday it take action to ensure Shamani was freed. They also demanded better protection for oil workers saying that they were being caught between the country's warring factions.
In a statement, Mellitah said that at the moment it did not know who was behind the kidnapping but was hoping that the kidnappers would make contact.
Kidnappings continue to plague Tripoli. Most are for financial ransom although some are political. On Sunday the body of former Ciongress member body Salem Ali Hamali, who was kidnapped ten days earlier, was found south of Tripoli.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] An Egyptian security official says authorities tossed in the calaboose Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! two top leaders of the outlawed Moslem Brüderbund - once the country's most influential political group - after two years on the run.
The official says Abdel-Rahman al-Bar, the group's top religious holy man, and Mahmoud Ghozlan, the Brotherhood's former front man and a member of its top decision-making body, were hiding in a Giza suburb when they were arrested Monday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press.
Egyptian authorities launched a massive crackdown on the 87-year-old Brotherhood after the ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi by the military in July 2013. Morsi, who hails from the Brotherhood, was tossed after millions staged demonstrations demanding he step down.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] 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... attacked the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Tuesday with deafening kabooms from the west and a suicide kaboom near the center that witnesses said killed as many as 20 people.
The attack began in the early hours of the morning when residents were wakened by booming kabooms, heavy gunfire and the screech of a fighter jet scrambled to protect the town.
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The group also released a new video -- its first since February and first using the logo "Islamic State in West Africa" -- disputing military claims that it had been routed.
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Armed rustics killed 18 Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... fighters in an ambush in Yemen's central province of Ibb Tuesday, residents said, in one of the deadliest ground attacks in over two months of war.
The attack hit a convoy of snuffies and allied army troops in the town of Qaeda while they were en route to the city of Taiz, a flashpoint of festivities between Yemen's dominant Houthis and armed backers of exiled President Abed Rabbou Mansour Hadi.
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The man shot and killed Tuesday by Boston police was plotting with another suspect to behead a cop, a law enforcement source told FoxNews.com
Just another gentle giant...
The dead suspect, 26-year-old Usaama Rahim, was under surveillance by the Joint Terrorism Task Force when he was shot at about 7 a.m. near a CVS in the city's Roslindale neighborhood, when he brandished the blade at police. Later Tuesday, authorities arrested another suspect, David Wright, in connection with the case, police said.
Clearly a "suicide by cop"...
"We believe the intent was to behead a police officer," one official told The Boston Globe. "We knew the plot had to be stopped. They were planning to take action Tuesday."
Rahim was shot outside a CVS Pharmacy in Roslindale, Mass. at approximately 7 a.m. Tuesday.
Boston Police Commissioner William Evans told reporters that members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force approached Rahim to question him about "terrorist-related information" they had received when he moved toward officers with the knife.
Evans said officers repeatedly ordered Rahim to drop the knife but he continued to advance. He said task force members fired their guns, hitting Rahim once in the torso and once in the abdomen. Rahim was taken to Brigham and Women's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Later, the FBI and local police arrested a man at a home in Everett, Mass., in an action authorities said was related to the Roslindale shooting. Christina Diorio-Sterling, a spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz, said Wright was taken into custody from his home in suburban Everett. She said Wright will face federal charges and is expected to appear in U.S. District Court on Wednesday.
WFXT reported that three different Joint Terrorism Task Force teams had been carrying out 24-hour surveillance on at least three different people in the Boston area, though it was unclear how long that had been going on.The plot may have been inspired by the terror group ISIS, who have repeatedly called on followers in the United States to attack law enforcement officials or military installations.
Evans did not comment on the report that Rahim had been radicalized by ISIS, but said "Obviously, there was enough information there where we thought it was appropriate to question him about his doings ... He was someone we were watching for quite a time."
He didn't need to be radicalized by ISIS. There's plenty of other sources to radicalize him...
Evans said the officers didn't have their guns drawn when they approached Rahim. He said police have video showing Rahim "coming at officers" while they are backing away. That account differs from one given by Rahim's brother Ibrahim Rahim, who said in a Facebook posting that his youngest brother was killed while waiting at a bus stop to go to his job.
Who you going to believe, the brother or your own lying eyes?
"He was confronted by three Boston Police officers and subsequently shot in the back three times," he wrote. "He was on his cellphone with my dear father during the confrontation needing a witness."
There is surveillance video from the scene which will be released after Rahim's family and civil rights advocates view the footage.
Why would "civil rights advocates" get to see the footage before I do?
WFXT reported that Rahim worked in loss prevention at several CVS stores in the Boston area. However, it was not clear that the store where he was killed was among them. Boston voter registration records seen by the Associated Press list Rahim as a student. Other records indicate that as recently as two years ago he was licensed as a security officer in Miami, but don't specify in what capacity.
The Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center said its security firm hired Rahim as a security guard for a month in mid-2013. Executive director Yusufi Vali said Rahim didn't regularly pray at the center and didn't volunteer there or serve in any leadership positions.
The FBI and Rhode Island State Police also searched a property in Warwick, R.I. in relation to the Roslindale shooting. Police sealed off a street, requiring anyone who lived there to show identification to pass the police cordon, but it was not clear if they had anyone in custody.
A 17-year-old told the Boston Globe that police had asked him about a neighbor in his mid-20s named Nick. The teen told the paper Nick often wears long robes and prays in his front yard.
"Nick"?
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Executive director Yusufi Vali said Rahim didn't regularly pray at the center and didn't volunteer there or serve in any leadership positions
Quiet fellow, kept to himself, showed up for the odd "Bingo Night"...
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Was "Nick... Nick Charles," private detective,
Receptive to Muslim invective?
"The boy," said his pastor,
"Spurned Myrna and Asta...
We think he was kinda defective."
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An Nahar answers the question why civil rights advocates and others got to view the surveillance footage before it was released:
A Muslim community leader, who was shown a video of the incident by police and the FBI, said the footage was inconclusive but expressed doubts over the family's account.
"It was not at a bus stop. He was not shot in the back," said imam Abdullah Faaruuq.
It was not clear what happened and the knife was not visible but "he was approaching them. They did back up," Faaruuq said.
Evans said the video showed five law enforcement officers retreating with their hands up, and that witness and officer accounts had detailed commands on the suspect to drop his weapon.
"You see them go a good 15 yards with a threat coming at them. We can all agree. The weaponry is not clear, but with five officers coming at them, there was no doubt in the video," said Boston Police Commissioner William Evans.
Followup from yesterday. This is from the brother of the newly departed on his Facebook page. Can't vouch for how long it will be there.
Your prayers are requested:
This morning while at the bus stop in Boston, my youngest brother Usaama Rahim was waiting for the bus to go to his job. He was confronted by three Boston Police officers and subsequently shot in the back three times. He was on his cell phone with my dear father during the confrontation needing a witness. His last words to my father who heard the shots were:
I can't breathe!
While at the hospital, Usaama Rahim died!
From Allah we come, and to Allah we return.
Imam Ibrahim Rahim
This part is from the Boston Herald and is in the usual link in the headline, from yesterday's edition:
An armed man in his 20s being surveilled by the FBI counterterrorism unit was shot and killed by an FBI agent and a Boston police officer in Roslindale this morning, according to Boston Police Commissioner William Evans.
"He was on foot, under surveillance," Evans said. "The officers have been surveilling him and again they wanted to speak to him ... and he turned and our officers gave several commands for him to drop the weapon and unfortunately he came at the officers and they did what they were trained to do and that's never an easy decision for any officer to make."
One FBI agent and one BPD officer fired, FBI Special Agent in Charge Vincent B. Lisi said.
Evans said the suspect was wielding a large military-style black knife that he could have "done a lot of damage" with.
"I think our officers tried their best with the FBI to try to convince him to put down the knife but he didn't leave us a choice," Evans said. "It's an active investigation with the joint terrorism task force ... It's very fluid it's ongoing, but we have one male shot and as you can see it is a very active scene."
The suspect was declared dead at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Evans said.
"All we know is the joint terrorism task force was on this guy and when they confronted him to speak with him he turned and came at the officers and unfortunately he was shot dead," Evans said.
Boston police Lt. Mike McCarthy said the suspect is of Middle Eastern descent and had been under surveillance "for weeks," including this morning.
An eyewitness who declined to give his name said the suspect was armed with a knife and had a "scabbard" when he lunged at police and was shot.
Dozens of police officers have swarmed the small shopping plaza and officers are seeking surveillance video from a nearby Dunkin' Donuts, employees said.
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my youngest brother Usaama Rahim was waiting for the bus to go to his job Just minding his own business--just eating a Halal candy bar, reading his Koran like a good Mooselimb.
Shot in the back? Beginning to read like Ferguson and the gentle giant.
Only took three shots? Good shooting. Time at the range was well spent.
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This morning while at the bus stop in Boston, my youngest brother Usaama Rahim was waiting for the bus to go to his job. He was confronted by three Boston Police officers and subsequently shot in the back three times. He was on his cell phone with my dear father during the confrontation needing a witness. His last words to my father who heard the shots were:
I can't breathe!
geez, you are supposed to rewrite the template a bit so it isn't so obvious.
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Ibrahim is now imam at the Lighthouse mosque in Oakland, which also houses the Lighthouse Masjid Social Justice Committee. hmmm there are those words again. They are very active in the local BDS movement comprised of Arab/Leftist protest/victim grievance organizations as well as some union locals. His outright lying about his now room temperature brother is exactly what I would expect from someone affiliated with that organization.
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REX, the anti-American, leftwing, "progressives" are joined at the hip with the anti-American, Islamist-jiohadies. It's the new Red/Brown coalition where the common denominator is a visceral hatred for America, Israel, and the west in general. Think of it as the 21st century version of the Hitler/Stalin Pact.
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FYI FREEREPUBLIC, TOPIX > PAUL KING: BOSTON PROVES ISLAMIC STATE THREAT TO US.
and
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > BRITISH LEFT-WING BECOMING AS EXTREME AS WIDE-EYED ISLAMISTS.
Again, BRITAIN = US = PHILIPPINES [resurgent Commie NPA]? = the priority of Amerika's mighty Unitarian establishment in Washington is US-WORLD SOCIALIST ORDER, NOT NATIONAL SECURITY.
Nor IMO as per even PERSONAL, LOCAL SECURITY.
THE MORE JIHAD = MORE ANARCHY-N-CHAOS = THE BETTER FOR US + GLOBAL SOCIALISM.
FUBAR/SNAFU = WHEN ALL IS SAID-N-DONE, IT I UNFORTUNATELYS NOT CLEAR THAT IT WILL BE WESTERN ANDOR SECUALARIST MARXISM-SOCIALISM + RELATED THAT WILL RULE OR DOMINATE, AS AGZ ISLAMIST = ISLAM-BASED/CENTRIC THEO-SOCIALISM.
[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: A senior member of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat ...which is the false nose and plastic mustache of the murderous banned extremist group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain, whatcha might call the political wing of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi... (ASWJ) was bumped off in the suburbs of Islamabad on Monday, police said.
Maulana Ilyas Khan was targeted when he was travelling in his car after leading Isha prayer in Jamia Masjid Hasnain located in Soan Garden. Multiple gunshots caught the attention of the people, who rushed to the scene of the crime and found him dead in the car.
A police team reached the spot and shifted the body to the hospital. Police said the victim was reportedly affiliated with the ASWJ, but did not hold any position in the party.
The killer(s) targeted him with 9mm pistol(s) and later escaped.
"Circumstantial evidence suggested that the attackers were two who escaped on a cycle of violence," he added.
"Unfortunately there is no eyewitness in the incident available so far," he added.
An activist of the ASWJ told Dawn that Maulana Ilyas was a senior member of the party but did not hold any office in the party.
Two to three persons guarded him during his movement, but there was no information about them whether they were accompanying him at the time of the incident or not, he added.
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Daesh shut down Ramadi Dam on Tuesday and cut water flow to areas controlled by the Iraqi security forces east of the city in Anbar province, a senior military official said.
Dams are so tenth century...
Brigadier General Aziz Khalaf al-Tarmouz, an Anbar security advisor, told Anadolu Agency that Daesh seized control of Ramadi Dam, on the Euphrates River north of the city.
“Daesh cut water flow to al-Khalediya district and al-Habbaniya area, which are under the control of security forces and tribal fighters,” al-Tarmouz said. The security advisor said the incident may cause a wave of civilian displacement from the area.
On May 17, Daesh took control of Ramadi after overrunning government forces.
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I would think that if you wanted to keep a dam from working you would open it up, not shut it down....
[RUDAW.NET] Activists say Syrian forces of Evil are sending reinforcements to fight 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.... group in the northern province of Aleppo, where they say the rival factions are battling near the Turkish border.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Abu al-Hassan Marea, who is currently in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... near the Syrian border, said that the battles were raging Tuesday between the two rival sides on the northern edge of Aleppo province.
Islamic State fighters captured four villages and a town from al-Qaeda's branch in Syria, the Nusra Front, and its allies over the past days in battles in the area.
The fighting came a day after US State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said authorities heard reports forces loyal to Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now... launched Arclight airstrikes supporting the Islamic State group's advance.
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The trick is to get all the factions to fight down to the last man at the same time.
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] The Nusra Front claimed Tuesday that it had killed several Hezbollah Death Eaters and confiscated their weapons in an attack on two of the party's outposts near Arsal's outskirts.
The jihadi group announced on its Twitter account that its Death Eaters attacked two Hezbollah positions between the outskirts of the Lebanese villages of Nahleh and Arsal and posted several photos of weapons it had seized in the raid.
It did not specify the number of Hezbollah fighters killed, but said that all stationed at the two outposts were dead.
Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV also reported that Nusra's Death Eaters attacked two party positions in the area of Harf Mohsen, but said the attack was foiled and several jihadis we killed.
It did not mention any deaths among Hezbollah's fighters.
Hezbollah and the Syrian army launched an offensive in the Qalamoun region on May 4, capturing dozens of myrmidon bases and driving Syria-based jihadis north toward the outskirts of the northeastern Lebanese border town of Arsal.
The joint offensive has resulted in the capture of more than 310 square kilometers out of the 780 square kilometers of Lebanese and Syrian lands that the jihadis had controlled last month.
Nusra Front is the most prominent jihadi faction operating in Qalamoun, while ISIS is also present in some areas but in smaller numbers.
Tensions between the two jihadi groups have also risen dramatically recently, prompting the Nusra Front to promise the "eradication" of ISIS from the area.
Together, the two jihadi groups hold a total of 25 Lebanese servicemen hostage in hideouts in Arsal's outskirts that they kidnapped during deadly festivities with the Army in Arsal.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] ِAl Qaeda's Syria wing, the Nusra Front, has executed sons of a tribe leader over charges of cooperating with Syrian regime army in northern Idlib province, activists said Tuesday.
Nayef and Abdulhai, sons of Sheikh Nouri Nawaf al-Jerkh, head of al-Hadedeyin tribe, had their heads chopped off after being accused of smuggling food and aid to Bashir al-Assad forces in Abu Dhour military airport, which has been under Nusra's seige since months.
Al-Hadedeyin tribe has big influence in Hama, Homs and Idlib provinces and its considered as one of the most loyal tribes to Assad.
Syrian Defense Minister, Fahd Jasem al-Fraij is a member of al-Hadedeyin tribe as well as the commander of powerful Dumeir military airport, Jayez Mousa.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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