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Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Is an Afghan districtistrict run by an Office of Redundancy Office?

Posted by: Frank G || 05/25/2014 10:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Must be a quirk in Afghan translations, Afghan poll bodies sack people, and Afghan people are often put into body sacks if they try to go to the polls.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 05/25/2014 11:26 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Afghan Forces Retake Key Badakhshan District from Taliban
[Tolo News] Afghan forces recaptured Yamgan district in the north-eastern province of Badakhshan on Friday evening, freeing the district from the Taliban control after a week, local officials said on Saturday.

Hundreds of Talibs raided the district last week and inflicted casualties to the Afghan forces and took control of the central Badakhshan district.

"Last night at 9pm, we launched our operation and the district is completely cleared now," Gen Fazluddin Ayyar, the provincial Police Chief told TOLOnews on Saturday morning.

"The Taliban lost a significant number of fighters and their exact number of casualties is still to be determined."

Gen. Ayyar said his forces were establishing several check-posts in the district to prevent another Taliban raid.

Yamgan district connects the scenic provincial capital Faizabad to several other remote districts, including some insecure ones where the Taliban have established safe havens.

The Police Chief asked the Afghan army to launch its operations in Yamgan's neighbouring districts, particularly in Khostak, to target the Taliban hideouts.

The Taliban denied the claims.

An increasing insecurity ahead of June 14 presidential runoff poll has caused concerns about the turnout.

Major attacks by the Taliban have been reported from various regions in Badakhshan over the last year. About six months ago, the Taliban ambushed Afghan forces in Wardoj district, taking 15 coppers hostage.

Yamgan is neighbours Wardoj and Jorm districts.

MPs representing Badakhshan have said that foreign gunnies were in the ranks of the Taliban fighting in the province.
Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa Horn
Peacekeeper Killed, Three Wounded in Sudan's Darfur
[An Nahar] A Rwandan peacekeeper has been killed and three others maimed in a shootout after trying to mediate a tribal dispute in Sudan's Darfur region, the African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
-U.N. mission said on Saturday.

"As a result of the ensuing fighting, four Rwandan peacekeepers were maimed and, unfortunately, one of them died from his wounds," UNAMID said in a statement.

One of the maimed peacekeepers is in a critical condition, it said.

The incident occurred on Saturday morning in Kebkabiya, about 140 kilometers (87 miles) west of El Fasher, the North Darfur state capital.

After altercations between non-Arab Fur people from one village and an Arab militia from another community, a UNAMID team attended a mediation session in an effort to ease tensions.

"The Arab militia elements, nevertheless, became hostile towards UNAMID peacekeepers and started shooting at them, at which point the peacekeepers returned fire," the mission said.

"The fighting left an unconfirmed number of casualties among the assailants."

UNAMID chief Mohammed Ibn Chambas condemned the "heinous criminal act in the strongest possible terms."
Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan

#1  Obviously UNAMID was in serious need of a community organizer.
Posted by: Pappy || 05/25/2014 12:54 Comments || Top||


Somalia parliament attack: At least 10 dead as Islamist militants launch deadly assault
[INDEPENDENT.CO.UK] Al-Shabaab
... the personification of Somali state failure...
bully boyz stormed Somalia's parliament building yesterday in a deadly and prolonged assault involving a jacket wallah, a boom-mobile and gunnies on foot and killing at least 10.

The attack by the Islamist group, which grabbed credit for the siege at a Kenyan shopping mall that killed 67 people last year, started with a boom-mobile at a gate to the heavily fortified parliament compound. It was followed by a suicide kaboom and then a shootout that continued for some hours.

After what was described by the UN as "an attack against the people", a police officer confirmed that four of his colleagues had been killed. Hours after the initial kaboom, gunfire and smaller blasts could still be heard around the building.

One soldier was killed when he tried to stopped a suicide bomber from entering the building, said police captain Mohammed Hussein. Six attackers were confirmed dead.

"We are behind the suicide kaboom, kabooms and the fighting inside the so-called Somali parliament, and still heavy fighting is going on inside," said al-Shabaab's front man, Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab.

The attack on the parliament building, about 300 metres from the presidential palace, has shown that the al Qa'ida-linked group remains capable of hitting the centre of Mogadishu, despite being pushed out of the capital two years ago.
Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab


Africa North
Stray projectiles injure three in Benghazi
[Libya Herald] Two young children and an elderly woman were maimed in kabooms believed to be the result of mortar fire in Benghazi last night.

The two children were hurt when a family apartment in the Bouatni area was hit. They were taken to a local hospital, local residents told the Libya Herald. It is believed that the intended target of the projectile was the nearby base of Saiqa Special Forces
...Libya's elite army unit, insofar as they have one, formed from a mixture of paratroopers and commandos. The group emerged from a militia with the same name in 2010. It now numbers a few thousand and reports to the Ministry of Defence. It deployed in Benghazi in an attempt to control the carnage. As a result, it has been attacked and several of its officers murdered. The force is popular in Benghazi for its stance against Ansar al-Sharia group...
21 Battalion.

The elderly woman was injured in a residential property on Nahr Saini Street.

Local residents said it was not clear who had launched either attack.
Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Imam assassinated in Benghazi
[Libya Herald] A Salafi Imam was killed by unknown gunmen in the Zawaw district of Benghazi last night as he left work.

Sheikh Salah Mohammed Ahraka was pronounced dead on arrival at Al-Jalaa Hospital, a hospital spokesperson told the Libya Herald. Ahraka, who was 37, had been shot twice.
Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  A puritanical preacher bumped off? Not holy enough, I wonder, or perhaps the moderates are fighting back?
Posted by: Bobby || 05/25/2014 8:40 Comments || Top||

#2  A Salafi Imam was killed by unknown gunmen in the Zawaw district of Benghazi last night as he left work.

Define "Work".

Posted by: Redneck Jim || 05/25/2014 12:54 Comments || Top||

#3  James - maybe you ought to ask a Salafist imam?
Posted by: Pappy || 05/25/2014 12:56 Comments || Top||

#4  Probably a fight over money.
Posted by: Squinty || 05/25/2014 13:37 Comments || Top||

#5  If he was a Salafi Iman, I say, "good work" do it again.

Posted by: Bill Clinton || 05/25/2014 18:47 Comments || Top||


Mali government, rebels sign ceasefire deal
[The Peninsula] The Mali government signed a ceasefire deal with three rebel groups in the northern desert Friday, the African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
's negotiator announced, after the Tuareg and Arab turbans captured the flashpoint town of Kidal.

The town is the cradle of Mali's separatist movement, which wants independence for a vast swathe of northern desert it calls "Azawad" and which has launched several rebellions since the 1960s.
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Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Subsaharan
Nigeria's Boko Haram Kills 28 In Three Village Attacks
[Ynet] Suspected Islamist 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...
gunnies rampaged through three villages in northern Nigeria, killing 28 people and burning houses to the ground in a pattern of violence that has become almost a daily occurrence, according to police and witnesses.

All three attacks happened on Thursday in remote parts of Borno state, the epicentre of Boko Haram's increasingly bloody struggle for an Islamic kingdom in religiously mixed Nigeria.

One took place right next to Chibok, by the Cameroon border, from where more than 200 school girls were kidnapped last month.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/25/2014 00:18 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram

#1  All this without unleashing a single hashtag...
Posted by: abu do you love || 05/25/2014 5:20 Comments || Top||

#2  the Borno state already has a form of sharia law in place and the sharia law was augmented last month

it still isn't sharia enough
Posted by: lord garth || 05/25/2014 11:19 Comments || Top||

#3  most of these nutjobs have never read the Quran and really have no idea what Sharia really is. All they have to go on is the delusional ravings of their psychopath leader who obviously has never read the Quran either.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 05/25/2014 18:46 Comments || Top||


French troops battle with Muslim fighters in CAR
[Iran Press TV] Fierce battles have reportedly broken out between French forces operating in the Central African Republic (CAR) and the Moslem fighters loyal to the Seleka group.

According to witnesses, the French troops, who were supported by helicopter gunships, engaged in a heavy firefight with the Moslem fighters in the central town of Bambari on Saturday.

Reports further said a French military helicopter fired at least one rocket into the fighters' position in Bambari.

The Central African Republic descended into chaos last December, when Christian gangs launched coordinated attacks against the mostly Moslem Seleka group that toppled the government in March 2013.

In recent months, Christian snuffies have been raging violence against the Moslem minority in the CAR, killing thousands of them and displacing many more.
Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Seleka


Bokobooms hits Jos
[BBC] A kaboom in the central Nigerian city of Jos has killed at least three people in a suicide kaboom, police say.

Police said the blast happened near an open-air TV viewing centre where people were watching the Champions League football final.

No group has said it carried out the attack.

However it comes days after a twin car kaboom blamed on 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...
forces of Evil killed 118 people in Jos.

A front man for Plateau state governor Jonah Jang said the latest blast happened on Bauchi Road at about 21:30 local time (20:30 GMT).

Police commissioner Chris Olakpe told AFP news agency that the bomber's improvised bomb detonated prematurely.

"He died in the wake of the heinous crime. It went kaboom! before the viewing centre because of pressure from local youths and the alertness of the local people," he added.

Last month suspected Boko Haram gunnies stormed a venue in Potiskum, north-east Yobe state, and rubbed out two people watching the two Champions League quarter-final matches.

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has previously described football and music as a Western ploy to distract Moslems from their religion.
Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram


Arabia
15 Dead in Qaida Assault on Yemen City
[An Nahar] Dozens of suspected Qaeda Death Eaters launched a night-time assault on one of southeastern Yemen's main cities sparking fierce fighting that killed at least 15 people, security sources said on Saturday.

They attacked army bases and public buildings in Seiyun, second city of Hadramawt province, with boom-mobiles, rocket-launchers and heavy machineguns, the sources said.

The regional military headquarters, the special forces base and the main cop shoppe were all targeted, along with local government offices and banks.

The assault in Hadramawt, a jihadist stronghold that has seen large-scale attacks on the army in the past, came as troops pressed a month-old ground offensive against al-Qaeda in Abyan
...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues...
and Shabwa provinces to the west.
Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia

#1  When old Moslem friends share a moment and get together.

that sort of thing.
Posted by: Big Thromoth3646 || 05/25/2014 6:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Six words too long, Hemingway.
Posted by: Pappy || 05/25/2014 8:34 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Seven terrorists killed in battle with Russian security forces
One of the seven insurgents killed in a security operation on Saturday in the Malgobek district of Ingushetia in Russia's North Caucasus was preliminarily identified as Artur Gatagazhev, nicknamed Abdullah, leader of Ingushetia's militant network, Russia's National Anti-Terrorism Center (NAK) said. Gatagazhev headed the network since June 2013.

The network is suspected of a whole series of attacks and crimes. The NAK statement said, "Among other things, it has been proved that [Gatagazhev] was directly involved in high-profile murders of state officials, Federal Security Service [FSB] and police officers and ordinary civilians, and in extortions of money from business people and local officials."

Gatagazhev and his group were also involved in the murder of Ingush Security Council Secretary Akhmed Kotiyev in September 2013 and FSB officer Magomed Korigov in Malgobek city in August 2011, according to the anti-terrorism committee.
Posted by: ryuge || 05/25/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
Shooting at Brussels Jewish Museum leaves three dead
[DAWN] Two women and a man were killed and one person seriously injured during a shooting at the Jewish Museum in central Brussels on Saturday, with Belgian officials saying anti-Semitic motives could not be ruled out.

A spokeswoman for Brussels prosecutors office said there was no clear information about the perpetrator, although a fire brigade official said earlier that the shooter had driven up to the museum, gone inside and fired shots.

"Regarding the motive, we have little information. Everything is possible," Ine Van Wymersch told a news conference.

"We know that the location, the Jewish Museum in Brussels, makes one think of it being an anti-Semitic attack, but we do not have enough to confirm this is the case."

Belgium's interior minister, Jolle Milquet, was quoted by the RTBF Belgian television station, saying: "It's a shooting ... at the Jewish Museum ... All of this can lead to suspicions of an act of anti-Semitism."

Police cordoned off the area around the museum in central Brussels, a busy tourist district packed with cafes, restaurants and antique furniture shops. An annual outdoor jazz concert due to be held in a popular square near the museum was called off.

A man seen by witnesses driving away from the scene was questioned in connection with the shooting, but officials were not certain if there had been one or more perpetrators, or whether the man had been involved.

"The link between this person and the incident is not clear. The person does admit being present," Van Wymersch said.

No information was released about the nationality of the victims or whether they were tourists or museum staff. They had been shot in the face and neck, and the injured person's condition was life-threatening, the spokeswoman said.

Officials said earlier the victims were two men and one woman.
Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Twin Bomb Blasts Hit Pakistan Capital
[Tolo News] Twin kabooms rocked Pakistain's capital Islamabad early Saturday, injuring two people, officials said.

The first blast took place around 2:00 am (2100 GMT) in an upmarket shopping area close to the city centre.

"It is not yet clear whether a jacket wallah was involved or not... both of the injured were watchmen," Chaudhry Hafiz Hussain, a senior police official, told AFP.

Local TV showed broken glass and branches strewn across the pavement.

Abdul Majeed, another police official, told AFP by telephone a separate bomb had gone off in another area of Islamabad around half an hour later, with no one hurt.

"The bomb disposal squad is examining the site to ascertain the nature of the second blast," he said.

The attacks were the first to strike the capital since an kaboom tore through a fruit and vegetable market in April, killing at least 22 people.

Saturday's incident came after three days of air strikes by the Pak military against Death Eater hideouts which killed at least 75 people, in apparent retaliation against bad boy strikes and against imported muscle, according to a security official.
Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Explosives seized in Charsadda
[DAWN] The Charsadda police seized huge cache of explosives, arms and other material meant for carrying out sabotage activities during a search operation here on Friday.

Addressing a presser here on Friday, district police officer Shafiullah Khan said that police on a tip-off conducted raids on three locations where huge quantity of explosives and arms were dumped for terrorist activities.

He said that during a successful raid on the house of an alleged terrorist at Shahbaz Korona in Shabqdar, the police recovered explosives, detonators, prim card, rockets, walkie-talkie sets, suicide jackets, shackles, a compass and a remote controlled receiver from there. He said the explosives and weapons were dumped in the yard of the house.

Mr Shafiullah said in Ghani Qilla and Miro Kalli areas of Khwajawas, the police recovered explosives, mortar shells, an LMG machine during the search operation.

Cases were registered against the suspects and investigation started. The DPO said that the accused would be placed in durance vile
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
soon. DSPs Saleem Riaz, Raza Mohammad, Abdur Rashid, Mohammad Izhar, and SHO Shabqadar Nasim Hayat were also present on the occasion.
Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Mohmand Agency blast kills six security officials, injures one
[DAWN] At least six security officials were killed and one injured on early hours of Saturday when an improvised explosive devise (IED) targeted a security forces' convoy in 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 official sources, In Mohmand Agency's Pindiali tehsil, a security forces' convoy was hit by a roadside kaboom.

The injured soldiers were later shifted to a hospital.

After the incident, security forces cordoned off the area and began a search operation.

According to Pakistain Army's Inter Service Public Relations (ISPR), the security forces were dispatched to Pindiali earlier for a search operation as the Death Eaters had blown up a school in Sher Malik village situated in the Utmanzai area of Pindiali.

In a separate incident, Death Eaters attacked the house of a member of a peace committee Alam Sher in Wacha Jawara area of Utmanzai in Pindiali.

This attack comes against the backdrop of military action ongoing in parts of the North Wazoo tribal region which has killed over 80, including 75 suspected bully boys.

Mohmand is one of Pakistain's seven tribal agencies near the Afghan border which are rife with homegrown turbans and are said to be strongholds of Taliban and al Qaeda operatives.
Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Clash leaves eight militants, two soldiers dead in Landikotal
[DAWN] At least eight snuffies including a commander and two security personnel were killed on Saturday evening in a clash in Landikotal Tehsil of Khyber Agency after a security vehicle was ambushed by the murderous Moslems.

"Two soldiers embraced shahadat (martyrdom) and three others injured this evening in an exchange of fire with forces of Evil in Landikotal, Khyber," said an ISPR statement issued to journalists.

"Eight forces of Evil including one of their commanders were killed in exchange of fire," it added.

Pak military sources told Dawn.com that the Frontier Corps (FC) vehicle was targeted near Hamza Baba Chowk by murderous Moslems, killing two personnel and injuring the third.

The security forces repulsed the attack killing eight attackers including a commander. A murderous Moslem was tossed in the slammer
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
in maimed condition also.

The clash took place the same day when at least six security officials were killed and one injured as an improvised bomb (IED) targeted a security forces' convoy in 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...
Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Two policemen among three gunned down in Hyderabad
[DAWN] HYDERABAD: Three persons including two police constables were killed as gunnies fired on them at the residence of a construction builder of the city on Saturday night within the jurisdiction of Hussainabad cop shoppe.

Reports said that three unidentified gunnies struck at the residence of the builder, Javed Sheikh and fired on indiscriminately. On duty policeman, Abdul Sattar Solangi, his friend Ramzan and gardener, Nadeem Masih received multiple bullet wounds.

They were immediately shifted to nearby Government Shah Bhittai Hospital, Latifabad. Sattar and Masih breathed their last in the hospital while Ramzan was shifted to Liaquat University Hospital city branch where he departed this vale of tears.
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Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Iraq
Attacks Kill 17 as Pilgrims Converge on Baghdad
[An Nahar] Violence in Storied Baghdad and north Iraq killed 17 people on Friday as throngs of Shiite pilgrims converged on the Iraqi capital for annual commemoration rituals amid heavy security.

The unrest comes as Iraq grapples with a protracted surge in bloodshed that has left more than 3,700 people dead so far this year and fulled fears the country is slipping back into all-out conflict.

Friday's deadly violence struck in the capital and the restive northern province of Nineveh, leaving 17 people dead and 25 others maimed, security and medical officials said.

Mortar fire in north Storied Baghdad killed three people, while two men were rubbed out in the west of the capital.

The mortar rounds slammed into the Zahra neighbourhood adjacent to Kadhimiyah, where tens of thousands of Shiite Mohammedans prepare to commemorate the death of a revered figure in Shiite Islam.

For days worshippers from across the country have been walking to Kadhimiyah, site of a shrine dedicated to Imam Musa Kadhim, the seventh of 12 revered imams in Shiite Islam, who died in 799 AD.

The commemoration rituals climax on Saturday and Sunday.
Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State of Iraq & the Levant

#1  Moslem Values. It has something to do with their religion, right?
I thought so.

Makes you want to share in the Peace, doesn't it? The deeper meaning of Islam.
And while you ponder on that I will be over here going through your things.
Posted by: Big Thromoth3646 || 05/25/2014 6:19 Comments || Top||

#2  And while you ponder on that I will be over here going through your things.

Ah, you're a registered Democrat, then.
Posted by: Pappy || 05/25/2014 12:57 Comments || Top||


Seven Killed Car Bomb at Iraq Liquor Store
[An Nahar] A boom-mobile outside an alcohol shop in an ethnically-mixed northern Iraqi city killed at least seven people on Saturday evening, security and medical officials said.

The blast, which also maimed 17, struck in the Wasati neighborhood in southern Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
a tinderbox city that is at the center of a long-running territorial dispute between the central government and Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region.

The evening kaboom came amid a protracted surge in bloodshed that has left more than 3,700 people dead so far this year, fueling fears Iraq is slipping back into the all-out conflict that plagued it in 2006 and 2007.

Attacks elsewhere in the country on Saturday killed 10 other people, including three farmers who were found beheaded, officials said.

Violence has surged in the past year to its highest level since 2008, while anti-government fighters also control an entire city a short drive from Storied Baghdad and parts of another.
Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State of Iraq & the Levant

#1  I've been bombed in a car outside a liquor store...
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/25/2014 0:59 Comments || Top||

#2  ... the difference being whether the store is still there the next day.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/25/2014 1:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Also an attack on Christians. Alcohol is considered "haram" (forbidden) however in Middle Eastrn countries Christian minorities have long been tolerated as the peddlers of pork and alcohol. When a resident Muslim wants a tot they're known to frequent the Christian districts. It's upsetting to some purist Islamists...
Posted by: Incredulous || 05/25/2014 7:25 Comments || Top||

#4  The old bacon and bier tour for the locals? Sounds like a thrill a minute. Islam needs NASCAR. Al Chevy versus Infidel Toyota, Team Ford Haram driving MoPar.

I can hear Ned Jarrett now...

He blowed 'ur up!
He blowed 'ur up!
Posted by: Shipman || 05/25/2014 13:23 Comments || Top||


Five Daash militants killed in south Baghdad
I first read that as 'Danish' and wondered if the Danes too had errant 'youts' who wondered off the reservation...
[The Peninsula] Storied Baghdad Operations Command announced that five gunnies belonging to Daash or the Islamic State of Syria and Levant (ISSL) have been killed in south of Storied Baghdad.

Spokesman of the Command Brigadier Saad Maan said a force from the 17th division managed to kill two forces of Evil from Daash, as they attempted to attack a security checkpoint in the village of Ahmad Sohail, south of Storied Baghdad.

While another force from the same division, acting on an intelligence tip-off, managed to kill three forces of Evil carrying arms and ammunition in Al Qarghoul area, south of the capital.

Meanwhile,
...back at the bunker, his Excellency called the chief of staff and complained that the artillery was keeping him awake...
the Iraqi Interior Ministry the arrest of the five desperados and the dismantling of seven bombs in various areas in Salah ad Din province.

In a statement, the Ministry said t police forces of Salah ad Din province, in collaboration with the army forces, dismantled a boom-mobile in Baiji, locked away
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
five desperados and seized their car, defused two Katyusha rockets in the Al Doar and Al Sharqat and dismantled seven bombs in different parts of the province.
Posted by: Fred || 05/25/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
2 Islamic Jihad Militants Killed In 'Training Accident' In Southern Gaza
[Ynet] Two Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
snuffies were killed Saturday morning in an kaboom at the organization's training base in the southern Gazoo Strip. Two or three others were reported maimed.

Paleostinian reports said the kaboom was a "training accident," and not a result of an IDF attack.
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#1  Ahhhhhhhh, a nice way to start a Sunday morning!
Posted by: Bobby || 05/25/2014 8:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Of course, the "training accident" was still the Juice's fault.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 05/25/2014 10:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Military training is dangerous in Gaza, as everywhere.
Posted by: Glenmore || 05/25/2014 13:19 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
3 dead, 55 wounded in attacks across southern Thailand
At least three people were killed and 55 wounded in a series of bombing attacks yesterday in southern Thailand. Attacks were reported in Pattani, Yala, and Narathiwat provinces. Reports said that gunfire was heard in at least one area.

Southern region military spokesman Colonel Piamote Prom-In said the attacks broke out in several places yesterday evening. He said, "The explosions occurred in busy areas as people were shopping ahead of curfew. Explosions killed three and injured 55 people. Of those, five people were seriously injured."

At least 13 attacks broke out in Pattani provice at about the same time at three convenience stores, the office of the Provincial Electricity Authority, an electricity facility and a gas station. Muang district was left without electricity after the attacks.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Air Strikes Hit near Damascus during Aid Distribution
[An Nahar] Syria's air force on Saturday struck a besieged, rebel-held town near Damascus where U.N. and Red Islamic Thingy workers distributed aid, a monitoring group and activists said.

"Two air strikes hit Douma during a visit of a delegation of the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
to the town's outskirts," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Activists said aid distribution went ahead even though one of the strikes hit an area near a warehouse being used to store relief supplies.

Douma is in the Eastern Ghouta area of Damascus province, where local residents suffer food and medical shortages.

Activist Hassan Takieddin said 400 aid parcels were distributed "to the whole of Eastern Ghouta. That is very little."

The U.N.'s visit to the town was the first since March, he said.

A U.N. Security Council resolution was passed in February demanding aid access to people in need across Syria.

Rights groups and the United Nations have both said aid was still not reaching millions of people in need, despite the resolution.

Meanwhile,
...back at the comedy club, Boogie sadly admitted that he was a better peeping Tom than he was a comedian...
state news agency SANA said four people were killed and nine maimed in a rebel kaboom in eastern Damascus.

Thirty kilograms (65 pounds) of explosives were used in the blast, a police source told SANA.

Meanwhile,
...back at the comedy club, Boogie sadly admitted that he was a better peeping Tom than he was a comedian...
the army and rebels were holding ceasefire talks in Qadam and Assali, both in southern Damascus, and the Waar district of the central city of Homs, the Observatory said.

In Aleppo, troops evacuated maimed comrades and detainees from the central prison that had been under rebel siege for more than a year, said the Observatory.

The army, backed by pro-regime faceless myrmidons and Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
, broke the rebels' siege of the prison on Thursday.

Elsewhere, the Observatory said the corpse count from a Thursday evening attack by rebels on an election rally in Daraa for Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Despoiler of Deraa...
had risen to 37.

"Among them were 19 civilians, including four children, 12 members of the popular defense committees (pro-regime militia) and six soldiers," Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman told Agence La Belle France Presse.

Activists on Saturday reported 13 barrel bomb strikes by regime aircraft on Nawa, a rebel bastion in Daraa province of southern Syria.
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Toll from Syria rebel attack on Daraa rally up to 37
[The Peninsula] The corpse count from an attack by Syrian rebels on a campaign rally for Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Terror of Aleppo ...
's re-election bid has risen to 37, a monitor said Saturday.

"The corpse count from the Daraa attack has risen to 37," said Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

"Among them were 19 civilians, including four children, 12 members of the popular defence committees (pro-regime militia) and six soldiers," Abdel Rahman told AFP.

Rebel mortar hit a tent where Assad supporters had gathered in the southern city late Thursday.

The attack also maimed dozens, said the Observatory, which had initially reported a corpse count of 21.

Assad faces two little known challengers in next month's vote and is widely expected to clinch a third seven-year term despite the civil war, which has killed more than 160,000 people.

State news agency SANA accused "armed terrorist groups" of the attack against "civilian citizens gathering in a patriotic tent in Daraa city."

The election will only be held in regime-controlled areas, and has been dismissed by the opposition and its Western backers as a "farce".
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