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Afghanistan
America's Longest-Serving Bomber Sets New Record For Most Smart Bombs Dropped On An Enemy
[Daily Caller] A U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress, America’s longest-serving bomber, set a new record when it unleashed hell against terrorists on a combat mission in Afghanistan last month, according to the Department of Defense.

During an expanded strike mission, B-52 bombers dropped 19 Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMs) on the Taliban in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, Air Forces Central Command spokeswoman Capt. AnnMarie Annicelli told Military.com. The strategic bombers were targeting opium and heroin facilities to cripple the revenue stream.

The Air Force "used B-52s with their new conventional rotary launcher," Air Force Brig. Gen. Lance Bunch, the director of NATO’s Resolute Support mission explained Tuesday. "Of note, it was the single most ‐ largest number of precision munitions ever dropped from a B-52."

Bunch revealed that the U.S. military now has the authority to take the fight to the enemy in a new way. Under the Trump administration, the military now has greater freedom and independence with regard to how it chooses to engage the enemy.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/16/2017 00:57 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  ...Miss Buffy sends her regards.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 12/16/2017 5:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Under the Trump administration, the military now has greater freedom and independence with regard to how it chooses to engage the enemy.

Win is a good strategy.
Posted by: P2kontheroad || 12/16/2017 7:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Rotary launcher sounds like one heckuva Gatling gun.
Posted by: AlanC || 12/16/2017 7:56 Comments || Top||

#4  SAY HELLO TO MY "LITTLE BUFF"
Posted by: ranture || 12/16/2017 9:59 Comments || Top||

#5  B-52 JDAM is the equivalent of:

Fuck you, and you, and you, and you, and you, and you, and you, and you over there, and you, especially you, and your dog, fuck you too, and you, and your goat, and you, and you, and all of you.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/16/2017 12:54 Comments || Top||

#6  Darth, that put a smile on my face.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/16/2017 13:44 Comments || Top||

#7  "used B-52s

I looked for one on eBay without success.
Posted by: SteveS || 12/16/2017 14:18 Comments || Top||

#8  As I recall, the ‘carousel’ was developed for deploying a suite of cruise nukies.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/16/2017 17:03 Comments || Top||

#9  Trump is warming the cockles of my Heart.
Posted by: newc || 12/16/2017 21:46 Comments || Top||


(Video) Watch US Forces Destroy Taliban Drug Labs


And...



$80 Million in Opium/Heroin Production, top producer in the world until now, in First 3 Weeks of Operation Jagged Knife.

Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 || 12/16/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  "Where's my money?!?"
Posted by: Frank G || 12/16/2017 7:44 Comments || Top||

#2  ~Does HIMARS actually have any explosives?

It looks like pure Kinetic energy weapon
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/16/2017 8:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Interesting. Those may have been ground launched small diameter bombs with a newer inert metal explosive.
Posted by: The peanut gallery || 12/16/2017 11:23 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Yemeni army liberates most of Bihan as Houthis flee from Shabwa
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The military operation against the 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 ...
militia is escalating in the Shabwa governorate amid significant progress by the national army and popular resistance, especially in the Asilan and Bihan districts.

The commander of Yemeni forces in Bihan told al-Hadath news hound on Friday that most of Bihan was liberated except for some small villages, as the Yemeni army was keen to preserve the lives of civilians.

He also announced that dozens of Houthi turbans were captured, and that the Arab coalition was a vital help in the operations in Bihan.

Military sources had stated earlier that violent confrontations took place between Yemeni forces and the Houthi militia, during which the army and resistance forces managed to control the areas of Jaabour, al-Khazan, al- Noqob, Jabal bin Saban, the West and East banks and the Saadi branch of the district of Asilan.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the entire 614th quadrant searched. The Green Lensman must be found!...
turbans retreated from festivities in Shabwa.

The sources also reported growing disagreements between the Houthis and Elite Republican Guard forces loyal to former Yemeni President former 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...
, in the rural part of Bihan, northwest of Shabwa.

This resulted in the withdrawal of some members of the Elite Republican Guard from battlefronts indicating increasing anger due to the latest incidents in Sanaa.

The sources pointed out that the militia lost many of their leaders and fighters in the Bihan battlefronts.

The Houthis were then forced to recruit some of their supporters in Bihan who had no fighting experience and negatively affected their internal strategies.

Posted by: Fred || 12/16/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Saudi warplanes kill more than 50 people in Yemen
[PRESSTV] More than 50 Yemeni people have been killed in Arclight airstrikes by Saudi warplanes on the impoverished country of Yemen, reports said Friday.

Yemen’s al-Masirah television network said the Saudi warplanes bombed a market in the Mawza district in the west of Ta’izz province on Friday. According to a preliminary count, the airstrike left eight people dead and 15 others injured.

At least 15 people also bit the dust in Saudi air raids on the northern province of Sa’ada. According to al-Masirah, 12 of the victims were killed in two airstrikes that hit a market and a car in the Munabbih district. The three other victims, including two women, were killed in earlier air raids on the districts of al-Dhaher and Shada. The aerial attacks also left five people injured in the northern province.

Medics and security sources also reported on Friday that Saudi air raids claimed the lives of 28 people around Yemen's west coast.

Posted by: Fred || 12/16/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Strikes kill 28 Yemen rebels: security sources
[DAWN] Saudi-led air strikes have killed 28 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 ...
rebels south of the port of Hodeida on Yemen's west coast, medics and security sources close to the faceless myrmidons said on Friday.

The reports came as the Uited Nations refugee agency UNHCR warned of a new displacement of civilians in the area.

The security sources said the air strikes on Thursday and Friday hit five towns controlled by the Houthis around 70 kilometres south of Hodeida.

Medical sources said 28 Houthis were killed and 17 others maimed in the strikes.

There has been no let-up in the air campaign against the rebels that a Saudi-led coalition has been waging since March 2015.

The air strikes have intensified since the December 4 killing of ex-president former 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...
at the hands of the Houthis after his alliance with the rebels collapsed.

At the same time forces of the Yemeni government have stepped up attacks on the rebels and last week retook the Red Sea town of Khokha from the Houthis.

The security sources said new festivities broke out on Friday as government forces tried to push towards Hodeida.

UNHCR said it was "bracing for further displacement and a spike in humanitarian needs as hostilities intensify in frontline areas on Yemen's west coast".

Hodeida is the main conduit for UN-supervised deliveries of food and medicine but the rebel-held port is controlled by the Houthis and remains closed, forcing the UN to divert aid supplies to other areas.

"To date we have deployed emergency relief items for 2,000 families in Hodeida, and a further 2,000 aid kits are on their way along with 2,000 emergency shelter kits," the UNHCR said in a statement.

Posted by: Fred || 12/16/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Bangladesh
CTTC: Samad recruited at least 50 youths into militancy
[Dhaka Tribune] Abdus Samad is known as "Mamu", or "uncle", by everyone in Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (New JMB), the group responsible for the July 2016 terrorist attack on the Holey Artisan bakery in Gulshan.

At a young age Samad earned the Dawra-e-Hadith degree, the highest degree offered by a Qawmi Madrasa. An expert in Arabic language, Samad has the gift of persuasion and could sway people to his Jihadi cause simply by speaking to them.

Samad played an important role in New JMB, personally recruiting over 50 youths into the krazed killer organization.

In October 2013 he introduced Bangladeshi-origin Canadian citizen Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury to Bangladeshi krazed killer leaders. Tamim went on to become the leader of New JMB, criminal masterminding the Gulshan attack before he was killed in a police raid in Narayanganj in late August 2016.

Samad also played a vital role in formation of Junud Al Tawhid Al Khalifa.

The details of Samad’s illicit activities fell under the spotlight after his arrest last Wednesday. The 29-year-old suspected krazed killer divulged critical information related to krazed killer operations in Bangladesh during his initial interrogation.

On Thursday, a court granted the Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of police a five-day remand of Samad for further questioning.

"When Tamim formed Junud Al Tawhid Al Khalifa in Dhaka, he made Samad his second in command," CTTC chief Monirul Islam said.

Samad served the New JMB in a variety of ways, most importantly as a policy maker, recruiter, fund raiser and bomb maker. He also trained new recruits in firearm use and explosives.

Posted by: Fred || 12/16/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (IS)


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russia busts Daesh cell in Saint Petersburg
[PRESSTV] Russia has dismantled a cell of the ISIS Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
terrorist group in Saint Petersburg that was planning to carry out imminent terror attacks in the northern city.

"The FSB identified and stopped the activities of a clandestine cell" of ISIS supporters, the Russian Federal Security Service
... the successor to the KGB...
(FSB) said in a statement on Friday, adding that they "planned to commit attacks on December 16."

The security service further said that the group planned "the killing of citizens" in crowded areas of Russia’s second city.

Russian forces placed in durance vile
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
seven members of the cell during raids that took place on Wednesday and Thursday.

According to the statement, a "large number of explosives used to make homemade bombs, automatic rifles, munitions and bully boy literature" were seized during the police operation.

FSB chief Alexander Bortnikov said on Tuesday that Russia was on alert for the possible return of Takfiri snuffies from Syria ahead of the FIFA World Cup and the presidential election in 2018.

Back in April, some 14 people were killed in an attack in Saint Petersburg.

Russia has been hit by a number of high-profile attacks by ISIS since the country became involved in the war on terror in Syria.

Posted by: Fred || 12/16/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Home Front: WoT
Judge Lori Walkley hands down death penalty to convicted Islamic murderer
[Daily Caller] On Sept. 24, 2014, ISIS inspired Islamic convert Alton Nolen entered a food processing plant in Moore, Oklahoma. He took out a butcher knife and beheaded Colleen Hufford and critically stabbed Tracy Johnson. Both were employees at the factory. Nolen, who had been recently suspended from the plant, was a practicing Muslim who was obsessed with gruesome Islamic State beheading videos going viral at the time.

Nolen was shot and apprehended after his rampage.

Nolen was facing either the death penalty or life in prison without parole after a jury trial in Oklahoma.

Friday, the judge handed down his sentence: Death.

Judge Lori Walkley took a jury recommendation for the death penalty after months of deliberation. Nolen’s defense argued that he was mentally ill and that his readings of the Quran affected his ability to discern right from wrong. However, recordings of Nolen taken from the hospital and played for the jury showed no remorse over the brutal attack.

Nolen’s beheading was particularly horrific for the country as it occurred during a time when Americans were being savagely beheaded on video by ISIS in Syria.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/16/2017 01:01 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nolen’s defense argued that he was mentally ill and that his readings of the Quran affected his ability to discern right from wrong fit right in.
Posted by: Frank G || 12/16/2017 6:22 Comments || Top||

#2  What's good for the goose.....
Posted by: Flilet Omeremble3846 || 12/16/2017 7:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Nolen’s defense argued that he was mentally ill

Not unless extremist Islam = mental illness
(Is the modifier of Islam necessary?)
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/16/2017 10:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Remember this crap stain? Obama Praises Mosque of Oklahoma Beheader.

Not to forget the chilling interview with a former member of the Greater Islamic Society of Oklahoma City. No surprise that the mosque was teaching the fundamentalist Islamic traditions of decapitating us humans. Plus this mosque was tide to the Boston bomber's mosque.

You can see the interview here. Frightening Details From Beheader's Oklahoma Mosque

Posted by: Woodrow || 12/16/2017 15:18 Comments || Top||

#5  Next is that human stain: Hasan.
Posted by: anymouse || 12/16/2017 15:35 Comments || Top||

#6  Electric chair, rasher of bacon in his lap...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/16/2017 17:13 Comments || Top||

#7  Wat a terrific opportunity to die for you allah and your mohammed!
Posted by: newc || 12/16/2017 19:52 Comments || Top||

#8  So after 10 years of appeals and handwringing, he might finally be killed.
Posted by: KBK || 12/16/2017 22:08 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
4 Palestinians, including attacker who stabbed officer, killed in clashes
Boys will be boys, so they came out of the mosques ready to party. But it's pretty pathetic for an intifada.
[IsraelTimes] A Paleostinian wearing an apparent suicide belt who knifed Border Policeman and was then shot, dies of his wounds; 2 killed along Gazoo border, one in West Bank protests

Four Paleostinians died on Friday afternoon after being shot in festivities with Israeli security forces during protests in the West Bank and Gazoo Strip, Paleostinian officials said, as thousands of Paleostinians demonstrated for a second week against Washington’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

A Paleostinian who stabbed an Israeli Border Police officer in the upper torso before being shot, died on Friday evening, the Paleostinian Authority health ministry said, naming him as Mohammed Aqal, 29.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 12/16/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ynet adds that the now-dead knifeman is from Hebron, Hamas Central in the West bank, and

In Nablus and Ramallah there were rallies organized by Hamas with the participation of hundreds of Palestinians. The rallies took place in city centers, with Palestinian security forces allowing them to proceed in set area.

So now we know.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/16/2017 21:47 Comments || Top||


Palestinians killed in protests against Jerusalem move
[Al Jazeera] The corpse count has risen to four as Israeli forces violently crack down on Paleostinian protesters in besieged Gazoo and the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Local media reported that an 18-year-old Paleostinian, Muhammad Amin Aqel al-Adam, died after being shot by the Israeli military during Friday protests near the West Bank city of Ramallah.

Adam allegedly attempted to attack Israeli forces.

Another Paleostinian in the occupied West Bank was killed under similar circumstances hours earlier. Two Paleostinians in the Gazoo Strip died after being shot by Israeli forces during border protests.

The protests are in response to US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
's recoginition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital on December 6.

One of the men killed, 29-year-old Ibrahim Abu Thurayya, had lost his legs in previous Israeli offensives on the blockaded strip.

Paleostinians have taken to social media to honour Abu Thurayya.

Posted by: Fred || 12/16/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Palestinian terrorist shot before he could detonate suicide belt
[NYPOST] A Paleostinian man was shot Friday after stabbing an Israeli border police officer in the West Bank ‐ the latest violent fallout of President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the Jewish state’s capital.

The assailant, Mahmoud Iman, 19, who stabbed the officer in his shoulder during festivities, was evacuated by the Red Islamic Thingy at death's door, according to The Jerusalem Post.

A picture of Iman in Ramalla showed him wearing what may have been an explosive vest.

Israeli police officials said they are investigating the possibility that the attacker infiltrated the area pretending to be a journalist before stabbing the officer.

"When the other officers saw the stabbing they opened fire that led to him being incapacitated. When the troops approached the terrorist, they identified an boom belt, which led to additional fire to prevent him from triggering it," police said in a statement.

Police said they were investigating whether Iman was carrying a real bomb or only a device meant to look like one, the Times of Israel reported.
Posted by: Fred || 12/16/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Allahu Ak-"

BANGBANGBANGBANG

"...al-Rose...bud..."

*Thud*

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 12/16/2017 6:30 Comments || Top||



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Sat 2017-12-16
  Judge Lori Walkley hands down death penalty to convicted Islamic murderer
Fri 2017-12-15
  Yemen Islah party sever ties with Muslim Brotherhood
Thu 2017-12-14
  Afghan forces foil deadly blast, US drone strike kill 3 IS militants in Nangarhar
Wed 2017-12-13
  Newspaper: Saudi members of Islamic State arrested in Iraq up to 50
Tue 2017-12-12
  Scores of Islamic State militants surrender to security forces in Mosul
Mon 2017-12-11
  Several injured after device explodes at New York City’s Port Authority, one arrest
Sun 2017-12-10
  Coptic pope cancels Pence meeting over Jerusalem
Sat 2017-12-09
  Ahrar al-Sham commander eliminated in Idlib
Fri 2017-12-08
  Egyptian grand mufti affirms death sentences for 13 Ajnad Misr terrorists
Thu 2017-12-07
  Houthis execute ‘thousands’ in two days: UN’s Yemen envoy
Wed 2017-12-06
  Islamist suicide plot to assassinate Prime Minister Theresa May foiled
Tue 2017-12-05
  Iranian Embassy In Sana’a Has Been Attacked
Mon 2017-12-04
  Rebels kill Yemen's ex-president Saleh
Sun 2017-12-03
  Yemen’s Saleh says ‘citizens have revolted against Houthi aggression’
Sat 2017-12-02
  Deadly Rebel Infighting Rocks Yemen Capital for Second Night

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