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Posted by: Fred || 06/30/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Afghanistan
Taliban hold territory after Afghan offensive
[DAWN] The Taliban have established a foothold in southern Afghanistan in a ten-day battle against Afghan forces, locals said Sunday, as the army and police struggle to prove they can defeat the turbans without NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
help.

A coordinated assault by 800 Taliban fighters on police checkpoints and military posts began on June 19, with Afghan forces rushed in to recapture parts of Sangin district in Helmand
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Posted by: Fred || 06/30/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa Horn
Two traffic cops gunned down in Mogadishu
Armed gunmen shot dead two Somali traffic cops from the Somali Federal Government at the Dabka intersection in the Hodan district of Mogadishu.
In civilized countries the cops react poorly to this sort of thing...
Witnesses reported to Shabelle that the armed assailants were armed with pistols and they shot dead the cops in broad daylight. He also added that the murderers managed to escape by fleeing the crime scene immediately although other government troops reached the scene soon after.

There has been no comment from Somali Federal Government officials regarding the murder of the traffic cops.
As if they care...
Posted by: Steve White || 06/30/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Al Shabaab militants attack army base near Beledweyne
BELEDWEYNE, Somalia June 28, 2013 (Garowe Online)-Suspected Al Shabaab militants launched attack on Somali Government and Djibouti forces base in the outskirts of Hiraan regional capital of Beledweyne of central Somalia overnight on Friday, Garowe Online reports.

Beledweyne residents tell GO that heavy gunfire could be heard in Beledweyne neighborhoods. No casualty figures have so far been disclosed to the media but Somali army commanders said they have repelled militant attack on their base.

Gun battle triggered when the clock ticked towards high noon 12:00 PM in the night after militants targeted the base with pre-planned assault, sources noted.
This here town ain't big enough for both of us, ya stinking Æthiops!
Security forces commenced search operation in Beledweyne town in pursuit of assailants on Saturday morning.
Posted by: Steve White || 06/30/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab


Africa Subsaharan
Nigerian Islamists attack villages, churches, dozens killed
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 06/30/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram


Boko Haram: 100 feared killed as insurgents attack Chibok
Five churches, including COCIN, EYN and Deeper Life Bible Church, in Kwada village about 10 kilometres from Chibok town, were on Sunday attacked by Boko Haram insurgents. The attackers, according to report from locals in Chibok, targeted the time when worshipers were ready for the Sunday Service.

"They killed and burnt houses after attacking worshipers in five churches in Kwada; after that, they advanced to Kautikari, less than 8 kilometres to Chibok town, whey they equally killed people and destroyed properties.

"I'm not sure security agencies have gone to rescue the villagers, but I learnt that the insurgents are still in pursuit of the remaining villagers", Mallam Yahi told DailyPost.
I think the town needs killer bees...
It was gathered that residents of Chibok town have also fled their homes, following the news of the attacks in Kwada and Kautikari.

DailyPost recalls that few weeks ago, there was panic in Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State, following a letter purportedly written to them by the sect members. A top local government official in Chibok town, who did not want his name in print revealed this to newsmen in Maiduguri the Borno State capital on Sunday.

According to him, when they met the police with the letter, they were assured of maximum protection. He, however, said the police were also complaining of fuel for their vehicle. He said the local government had also assured the security operatives that they were going to buy fuel for them.

He said, "whenever Boko Haram members tell you that they are coming, they never fail to come. Our fears now is that we don't know when and how they are going to come.

"We are calling for prayers as well as on government to provide us with adequate security in Chibok".
I think it's time for the Christians of Nigeria to praise the Lord and pass the ammunition...
On the ongoing attacks in the area, it was gathered that a police officer, Peter Maina was called out during Sunday service in Church in Maiduguri, to be informed that his brother was killed at Kwada.

Meanwhile, the Chibok Community in Maiduguri broke into a session of prayer on Sunday after receiving the news of ongoing attacks on the two villages.
Posted by: Steve White || 06/30/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram


Killer bees and snakes latest weapons in fight against Boko Haram
Boko Haram insurgents believe the ghosts of their victims are coming back to murder them in the form of killer bees and snakes.
Snakes. Why does it always have to be snakes?
Nigerian newspaper Vanguard is reporting that several Boko Haram insurgents were arrested after fleeing a Nigerian forest because unremitting bee stings and snake bites had become too unbearable. The captured militants claimed they were "mystical bees" and "mysterious snakes" that had killed many of their fellow insurgents.

"We were told that the aggrieved people who had suffered from our deadly mission, including the ghosts of some of those we killed, are the ones turning into the snake and bees," one militant told Vanguard. "Our leaders fled, too."
I see .. opportunity!
The bees and snakes are apparently feared not only for their lethal poisons but their ability to make people disappear.

"We decided to flee when almost all our comrades are leaving the Sambisa [Forest] because of constant attacks by snakes and bees, which we were told was as a result of Chibok abducted schoolgirls," another added.

While the bees and snakes may be doing their job to clear a few out of the forests, it still hasn't stopped the militant group's violence in Nigeria. Just this week, a shopping mall was bombed in the country's capital, killing at least 21 people.
Posted by: Steve White || 06/30/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram

#1  The wise insurgent avoids the bee with the RPG.
Word on the street has Southern-American Dolichovespula maculata mobilizing. If that's the case it's all over for Boko.
Posted by: Shipman || 06/30/2014 1:47 Comments || Top||


Britain
Abu Waleed preaches hate and receives benefits
A radical hate preacher linked to the ‘brainwashing’ of three Welsh young jihadis fighting in Iraq and Syria has outlined his chilling vision of a Nazi-style, Islamic state in Britain on video, describing how non-Muslims will be forced to shave their heads and wear a red sash, in a land where the ringing of church bells is banned.
It's more of the usual nonsense in Britain: a Muslim 'radical preacher' puts his entire family on the dole while he calls for the destruction of the nation. He's not a loonie, he's just plain dangerous, but that doesn't seem to motivate anyone in Britain to do anything about him.
Abu Waleed, 35, a leading preacher for a group banned last week for incitement to terrorism, was seen earlier this month at a barbecue in the Welsh capital where the banner of the Isis terror group – the Al Qaeda splinter group which the trio are fighting for – was flying.

According to friends, former students Reyaad Khan, Nasser Muthana, both 20, and Muthana’s 17-year-old brother Aseel were seen handing out leaflets for a group closely linked to Waleed outside a Cardiff mosque seven months ago. Khan and Nasser appeared on an Isis recruitment video this month.

Jobless Waleed – whose real name is Shahid Janjua – lives in a council house in Hounslow, West London, and claims benefits for himself, his wife and three disabled children. His group Need4khilafah, whose leader is Anjem Choudary, the firebrand who once led the Al-Muhajiroun group – banned after the deadly July 7 terror attacks in London in 2005 – dreams of the flag of Islam flying over Big Ben.

In the films, he calls for the Queen to wear a burka and brands the Duchess of Cambridge ‘a whore’.

In the most recent film, made last January, Waleed rants: ‘The kaffir [non-believer], when he walks down the street, he has to wear a red belt around his neck, and he has to have his forehead shaved, and he has to wear two shoes that are different from one another.

‘He [the non-believer] is not allowed to walk on the pavement, he has to walk in the middle of the road, and he has to ride a mule.’

He adds that Christians can have their churches, but not ring the bells. ‘The kuffar [kaffir, plural] can have their churches, but they are not allowed to ring the bell   .  . that is, my dear brothers, the Islamic state.’

The preacher adds that when Britain becomes Muslim, a Christian must open his house and accommodate a Muslim at all times, giving up his bed and sleeping on the floor.

In an earlier video, of a lecture that was delivered in April 2011, Waleed is far more inflammatory. He tells the male audience: ‘What is the nightmare on Downing Street? The nightmare on Downing Street, my dear brothers, is when the door of 10 Downing Street is kicked down by one muwahid [Muslim], and the Caliph [Islamic ruler] he walks in, and establishes the sharia.

‘The nightmare on Downing Street, my dear brothers, is when one muwahid pulls a rope, and he raises the banner of “there is no god but Allah” above Big Ben. The nightmare on Downing Street is when one muwahid flies a helicopter all the way to the top of Big Ben, and he removes those numbers and he replaces them with Arabic numbers.

‘That is the nightmare of Downing Street, my dear brothers.’

He says that under a British sharia state, non-Muslims will pay a tax called jiziya for protection. He continues: ‘We are the ones who want to work for the sake of Allah, to establish the manifestation of Islam, and make sure David Cameron comes on his hands and knees, and gives us the jiziya.’

‘Yeah, that’s right, and we cover up all the women and put a niqab on their faces, including Queen Elizabeth and Kate Middleton as well, the whore, the fornicator,’ Waleed says.

Lord Carlile, the Government’s former watchdog on counter-terrorism legislation and a QC, said Waleed’s words border on an incitement to religious hatred, a crime punishable by up to five years in jail. The Lib Dem peer said: ‘The words used are inflammatory, discriminatory, offensive and ludicrous.

The suggestion that a Christian should have his hair shaved and wear a red belt around his neck reminds me of the very worst views and actions of Adolf Hitler.’

Waleed was condemned by moderate Muslim leaders. Inayat Bunglawala, of the Islamic group Muslims4UK, said: ‘These discriminatory and frankly reprehensible views should have no place in modern Islamic political thought.

'Those espousing such bigoted views clearly have no understanding or appreciation for the notions of equality, tolerance and respect for others. These small extremist groups are a disgrace and are rightly shunned by the overwhelming majority of British Muslims.’
Posted by: Steve White || 06/30/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's more of the usual nonsense in Britain: a Muslim 'radical preacher' puts his entire family on the dole while he calls for the destruction of the nation.

We call them Democrats here.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/30/2014 3:40 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Sixteen killed in fresh North Waziristan strikes
[DAWN] Fresh air strikes in North Wazoo Agency on Sunday have killed 16 hard boyz and destroyed a number of hideouts on the outskirts of Mirali.

The military front man told Dawn.com the air strikes also destroyed a large ammunition dump belonging to the krazed killers.

Few civilians remain in areas of North Waziristan which is being evacuated. Announcements are also being made for the people who have not left the area.

Security forces are also planning for a ground movement, which will only take place after major hideouts are destroyed.

Mirali and Miranshah
... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas...
are still under siege by security forces in order to prevent Death Eaters from fleeing.
Posted by: Fred || 06/30/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan


Iraq
ISIS claims it's the 'caliphate'
Snip, duplicate.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 06/30/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  the new caliph gets the power to supervise all imans and muftis. The caliph might call (with a decree) for the overthrow of any one of the heads of state in the Islamic world and with this call, he would tell people who disobey him that they are sinners, heretics or apostates

it will be interesting to see how the various Islamic institutes react when this happens
Posted by: lord garth || 06/30/2014 0:58 Comments || Top||

#2  As good Madonna fans know, 'tis the base for the future "Hidden Imam/Islamic Mahdi", aka "The Boy", + Al-Qaeda 5.0.

Personally I blame Milwaukee + Katy Perry's bosom.

But I digress ... ...
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 06/30/2014 2:55 Comments || Top||

#3  It seeks to re-create a medieval-style caliphate

Shouldn't take long, it's a short walk.

Posted by: Besoeker || 06/30/2014 4:26 Comments || Top||

#4  Yawn. Another new bunch of barbarians in the desert.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 06/30/2014 11:28 Comments || Top||

#5  Personally I blame Milwaukee + Katy Perry's bosom.

Katy Perry's bosom is enough to incite any 18 year old male.
Posted by: frozen al || 06/30/2014 12:32 Comments || Top||

#6  * WORLD NEWS > [Khaama Press = Afghan News Agency]ISIS REVEALS FIVE-YEAR PLAN FOR GLOBAL DOMINATION.

In the year NOY-Year-2525 Year 2020 ... ...

AND

* GLOBAL TIMES > IRAQI JIHADISTS DECLARE CALIPHATE IN CHALLENGE FOR GLOBAL AUTHORITY.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 06/30/2014 22:56 Comments || Top||


Iraq military takes back Tikrit, prepares for Mosul
[Iraq Sun] In a major counter offensive aimed at taking back territory captured by ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) myrmidons, Iraq's army took control of Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit over the weekend, killing 60 snuffies in the process.

State television reported the governor's office had been recaptured, with plans now being made to move north and re-take djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, Iraq's second-largest city.

A spokesperson for ISIS, however, has told the BBC that although there is heavy fighting in the city, it has not yet been re-captured. Iraq's military has denied these claims. The counter offensive was launched over the weekend and included thousands of Iraqi troops backed by tanks and air power attacking the city from four directions, according to state TV.

The Iraqi military is reportedly being supported by allied Sunni rustics and Shia militias. The counter offensive comes following weeks of recruitment in Iraq of Shia men to fight the predominantly Sunni myrmidons.

Following the capture of Tikrit, Army front man Lieutenant-General Sabah Fatlawi warned ISIS fighters they "now have two choices - flee or be killed".

Separately, Iraq's most influential Shia holy man, Grand Ayatollah Sistani, called for a new prime minister to be appointed by Tuesday to try to defuse the country's political crisis and create a government more inclusive of Iraq's minorities.

Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki
... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014...
is under building pressure to form a unity government, he is seen by many as having precipitated the crisis through sectarian policies that have pushed Iraq's Sunni minority into the hands of ISIS Death Eaters.

Meanwhile,
...back at the precinct house, Sergeant Maloney wasn't buying it. It was just too pat. The whole thing smelled phony, kind of like a dead mackeral but without the scales...
the Archbishop of Irbil, in northern Iraq, has told the BBC that more than 40,000 Christians have fled villages near Mosul in recent days after ISIS snuffies attacked the two large Christian settlements of Karakosh and Karamlaish.

The refugees are reportedly fleeing into the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq, which closed its border with Iraq on Sunday citing the need to protect its own stability.
Posted by: Fred || 06/30/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State of Iraq & the Levant

#1  No info available on ROE, detainee, or prisoner count eh? I thought not. Please carry on.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/30/2014 4:38 Comments || Top||

#2  FOB Speicher back in Iraqi hands.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/30/2014 9:05 Comments || Top||

#3  I suspect ISIS left the cannon fodder and the Baathists behind and moved the hardcore elements further back.
Posted by: Pappy || 06/30/2014 10:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Son #1 spent some time at Speicher. Not a favorite place
Posted by: Frank G || 06/30/2014 10:48 Comments || Top||


ISIL declares Islamic State, Baghdadi declared leader
The Al Qaeda breakaway group that has seized much of northern Syria and huge tracks of neighbouring Iraq formally declared the creation of an Islamic state on Sunday in the territory under its control.

In a sign of the group’s confidence, it has now expanded its claim of leadership to encompass all the world’s Muslims.
They did that well before they were 'confident'...
The spokesman for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Abu Mohammed Al Adnani, made the announcement in an audio statement posted online. The extremists have long dreamed of recreating the Islamic state, or caliphate, that ruled over the Middle East for hundreds of years.

Abu Mohammed Al Adnani said the group’s chief, Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, is the new leader, or caliph, of the Islamic state. He called on those living in the areas under the organisation’s control to swear allegiance to Al Baghdadi and support him.
And only him. He's a jealous god, you see...
“The legality of all emirates, groups, states and organisations becomes null by the expansion of the caliph’s authority and the arrival of its troops to their areas,” Al Adnani said.

He said that with the creation of the caliphate, the group was changing its name to just the Islamic State, dropping the mention of Iraq and the Levant.

It was unclear what immediate practical impact the declaration would have on the ground in Syria and Iraq, or among the wider global community.
It'll stop Champ cold...
The group gained international attention this month, when its fighters and those from other militant groups swept through the northern city of Mosul, then overran major areas of five provinces north and west of Baghdad.

“The Shura (council) of the Islamic State met and discussed this issue (of the caliphate)... The Islamic State decided to establish an Islamic caliphate and to designate a caliph for the state of the Muslims,” Adnani said.

Isil has also sought to appeal to non-Arabs, publishing English-language magazines, after having already released videos in English, or with English subtitles. The group claims to have had fighters from the Britain, France, Germany and other European countries, as well as the United States, and from the Arab world and the Caucasus.
Posted by: Steve White || 06/30/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'd think that the Soddies would have a problem with that. ISIL(S) moving to Mecca any time soon?
Posted by: AlanC || 06/30/2014 9:39 Comments || Top||

#2  and speaking of the soddies, some reports have ISIL (or ISIS or the Caliphate) declaring that the Kaaba stone creates idolatry and needs to be destroyed.

This should get the dialogue off to a good start
Posted by: lord garth || 06/30/2014 18:22 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Bodies of Kidnapped Teens Found Near Hevron
Eyal Yifrah 19, from Elad; Gilad Sha'ar, 16, from Talmon; and Naftali Frenkel, also 16, from Nof Ayalon, went missing on June 12th, and officials soon identified Hamas as the culprits. Their bodies were found near between the Arab village of Halhul and the Jewish village of Carmei Tzur, near the city of Hevron, where the search operation for them - dubbed Operation Brother's Keeper - had been focused.

The bodies were apparently found together, bound and buried in a shallow grave in a field at approximately 5 p.m. The families of the boys have been informed of their tragic loss.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/30/2014 14:37 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Send in the Drones!

That sounds cool Eh? Send in the drones, hellfires for the lot of them!!
Posted by: 49 Pan || 06/30/2014 14:44 Comments || Top||

#2  D-9's (or larger) aren't quite as elegant as drones, but perhaps more effective for clearing a defensive perimeter to the south and east of Carmei Tzur.

About a 3.5 kilometer swath should be sufficient for this week. Next week, who knows?

Might need a couple D-11s.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/30/2014 15:05 Comments || Top||

#3  so we've established Gilad Shalit alive was worth 1,027 Paleo alive prisoners. I'd say 3 dead Israeli teens are worth 9,081 dead Paleo prisoners. Start the executions
Posted by: Frank G || 06/30/2014 15:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Level a Paleo city for every dead Israeli.

Then Napalm the rubble for good measure.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/30/2014 16:02 Comments || Top||

#5  Give them 24 hours to pack up and scram. Where they go is up to them.

Varoom, varoom, clank, clank clank.

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Posted by: Besoeker || 06/30/2014 16:05 Comments || Top||

#6  It's time.
Posted by: Shipman || 06/30/2014 16:21 Comments || Top||

#7  In AFG, the 110lb head statisticians were satisfied that about 75% of the IED emplacers lived within 7k's of the site of bomb emplacement. Just saying.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/30/2014 16:23 Comments || Top||

#8  When Ben says this, I believe him: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-finds-bodies-of-kidnapped-teens-officials-say/
Posted by: regular joe || 06/30/2014 16:27 Comments || Top||

#9  Arabs Throw Stones at Ambulance Carrying Bodies of Murdered Boys

Lovely people. Let's give them a state.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/30/2014 18:30 Comments || Top||

#10  F7: Paleos once again do not miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

F8: Obama urges Israelis to exercise restraint.
Posted by: Solomon Thiting9822 || 06/30/2014 20:05 Comments || Top||


Super Precise Anti-Terrorist Israeli Air Strike


The Jerusalem Post has reported an 'unverified' video which purports to show a super-precision Israeli airstrike somewhere in the Gaza Strip yesterday.

The footage, which appears to be piece together from a number of CCTV cameras, shows how accurate Israeli targeting is when the country's armed forces strikes at terrorists in Gaza – despite terrorists placing infrastructure and weaponry close to schools and in civilian buildings.

The website reports that "Security cameras near the Shati refugee camp in the Gaza Strip allegedly recorded the assassination of two terrorists by the Israel Air Force."

The car can be seen being struck with an almighty explosion following. A man walking just a few metres behind the car at first seems dazed, but unhurt.
Posted by: Thineng Angailet7166 || 06/30/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If this is legit, that car was hit by something even smaller than a Hellfire, maybe one of those proposed guided 2.5" Folding Fin Rockets. The IDF may have something even smaller than that, but I can't remember the name.
Posted by: Shipman || 06/30/2014 1:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Likely a car bomb filmed for propaganda purposes.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/30/2014 3:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Ima thinkin' workplace accident/self-kaboom. Not an airstrike IMNSHO.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 06/30/2014 5:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Yes, upon closer inspection it appears the floorboard of the car, undercarriage, tires, etc. were undamaged [note the post-blast rolling stop]. This might indicate a suicide vest or bomb cushioned by a seat [explosives not sitting on the floorboard or total penetration and roadway cratering]. Cams appear to be mounted on light poles.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/30/2014 7:12 Comments || Top||

#5  Suspect it was a cellie bomb with the caller observing from a seaside apartment with his finger on the speed dial. Just my guess.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/30/2014 7:16 Comments || Top||

#6  Hamas - "A vehicle driven by sixteen children and their fluffy bunnies...."
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/30/2014 7:55 Comments || Top||

#7  As far as I'm concerned, an Arclight is precise enough to be used on Palestinians.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 06/30/2014 8:55 Comments || Top||

#8  Whatever was used, it's smart of Mossad to claim that it was an air-to-ground weapon...
Posted by: Steve White || 06/30/2014 9:39 Comments || Top||

#9  Hamas and ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN/MSNBC/Ruthers/AP/UN/WH/etc... - "A vehicle driven by sixteen children and their fluffy bunnies...."

FIFY - no charge.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/30/2014 10:29 Comments || Top||

#10  Drink UP!
Posted by: Frank G || 06/30/2014 10:49 Comments || Top||

#11  I'd think you'd need that kind of precision to hit the handful Palestinians not engaged in terrorism
Posted by: regular joe || 06/30/2014 11:20 Comments || Top||

#12  Definately banana in the tailpipe.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/30/2014 17:25 Comments || Top||

#13  Regardless of how it happened (IDF said they did it) gotta love the Wile E. Coyote Super Genius rollout at the end.

"O​sama Ha​s​sumi and Mohammad Fatzih, who were targeted in this assassination, were responsible for many of the recent rocket barrages and planned more (they did not belong to Hamas, rather the PRC).

Both the IDF spokesperson and Palestinian official sources confirmed that this was an airborne assassination of these 2 terrorists."
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 06/30/2014 18:10 Comments || Top||

#14  No matter how it happened, it got very good results!
Posted by: chris || 06/30/2014 19:14 Comments || Top||


IAF Strikes Gaza Rocket Launching Cell, 1 Dead, Several Wounded
[Ynet] Attack comes in response to 2 rockets fired earlier, both intercepted by Ion Dome; IDF soldiers exchange fire with gunnies over border fence.

One person was reported dead and several were maimed along the Israeli border with the Gazoo Strip Sunday evening as the the Israeli Air Force (IAF) launched a targeted attack against a rocket launching cell in the Gazoo Strip apparently belonging to Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,' military branch.

Muhammad Zaid Abid was confirmed as the terrorist killed by the IAF and at the same time, the IDF spokesperson confirmed over Twitter that gunnies in Gazoo opened fire on soldiers patrolling the border fence. Israeli forces returned fire at suspected enemy positions.

Paleostinian media addressed the same fire from soldiers, reporting that the IDF had attacked a Terrorist cell just East of Khan Yunis in the south of the Gazoo strip.

The military festivities marked Israel's retaliation to two rockets that were fired from Gazoo into Israel Sunday evening, both of which were shot down over Netivot by Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system. Two mortar shells also fell in Israeli territory causing no damage.

Sirens blared across southern Israel in Netivot, Ashkelon, Sderot, and several towns in the area of Sha'ar HaNegev. An kaboom was also heard in the area.

Sunday's attacks marked more than two weeks of increasing rocket fire from Gazoo since the beginning of Operation Brother's Keeper in the West Bank.

One rocket struck Sderot on Saturday, setting a fire in a factory that burned to the ground.

Meanwhile,
...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment...
Armored Corps brigades were instructed to prepare for the possibility of being transferred to the Gazoo Division as security officials considered all options in response to rocket fire.

Israel has been responding agressively to all rocket attacks, including an liquidation in Gazoo on Friday which killed two senior members of the Popular Resistance Committees, responsible for recent rocket attacks.
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Hamas Official To Abbas: Don't Make Us Take Over Gaza
[Ynet] Mousa Marzook addresses PA leader in Facebook post: 'You've abandoned the West Bank'; 'Even if we gave him Gazoo, he wouldn't take it.'

Deputy Head of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,' Political Bureau Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook sent a threatening message to Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
Sunday about the fragility of the Paleostinian reconciliation agreement.

Marzook addressed the difficult financial situation in Gazoo and warned Abbas of a situation in which Hamas would have to reclaim control of Gazoo, "in order to provide security to the people of our nation."

The letter for Paleostinian leader Abbas appeared on Marzook's Facebook page where he stressed that Hamas is not currently responsible for Gazoo. Sources from the Paleostinian Authority (PA) expressed outrage at the comments, calling them "dangerous".

Marzook's statements come as Hamas faces immense financial pressures due to tens of thousands of former government officials who have not been paid for several months. The government of Qatar volunteered to create a fund for the official's paychecks, but at the moment the money remains caught in the wheels of the bureaucracy.

Marzook hotly blamed the PA and the unity government for only governing in the West Bank as if they had no need for the Gazoo Strip. "The PA has imposed a blockade on Gazoo long before others (Israel) besieged the city."

According to him, Hamas agreed to sign a reconciliation agreement but, "Abu Mazen (Abbas) isn't interested in reconciliation and even if we gave him Gazoo, he wouldn't take it."

He stressed that after the unity agreement Abbas traveled to every place in Paleostinian control besides the Gazoo Strip and never took real responsibility for it. "Who's responsible for the officials in Gazoo at the moment?" asked Marzook.

"Who's responsible for opening the Rafah crossing? Who's responsible for concluding the siege against it (Gazoo), and who's responsible for its electricity?"

Marzook concluded his message with a venomous attack on the PA. "You gave respect to your enemy when three settlers were kidnapped. Haven't you noticed that more than 566 Paleostinians have been taken from you and five have been killed since then? You've abandoned the West Bank."
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#1  The government of Qatar volunteered to create a fund for the official's paychecks, but at the moment the money remains caught in the wheels of the bureaucracy.

:) It was there, then it got caught up in the wheels of the bureaucracy, now we have $14.78, 2 subway tokens for the Caracas Metro,, 4 stamps and 9,800 non-neogiable markers in amounts ranging from $47.32 to 194,000 the last stamped Suha.
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Israeli Air Raid Kills Paleo bad boy in Gaza
An Israeli drone strike Sunday killed a Palestinian militant in Gaza, Palestinian security officials said, in the latest air raid on the coastal enclave. An army spokesman said the raid targeted "terrorists" who had been preparing to fire rockets at Israel.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said earlier that Israel was ready to expand operations in Gaza in response to a surge in militant rocket fire, and after the air force struck a dozen targets overnight.
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Southeast Asia
Two Mindanao cities on "heightened alert"
Philippine security forces were placed on "heightened alert" particularly in two major cities in Mindanao over a potential terrorist threat from a bomb expert with connections to the Abu Sayyaf terrorists extremists.

Officials confirmed the alert was raised for the cities of Davao and Zamboanga where security operations have resulted in the arrest of long-wanted Abu Sayyaf leaders.

In Davao City, Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said that President Aquino personally called him up to warn him about the threat posed by Abdul Basit Usman who was believed to have orchestrated recent bombing attacks in Mindanao. Duterte said the warning prompted him to call an emergency command conference of all police and military units and agreed to set up checkpoints, as well as the deployment of lawmen in plainclothes.

Officials said the same security measures have been adopted in Zamboanga City to foil attacks following the recent arrest of three suspected Abu Sayyaf leaders linked to several abductions from a resort on the island state of Sabah in Malaysia.

Meanwhile, the country’s intelligence community said that Usman continued to pose a serious threat to Mindanao after he was confirmed to have been alive. Usman, who carries a $1 million bounty offered by the US government, had reportedly been killed during an American drone attack at the Afghan/Pakistan border in 2010. But the Philippine military now say that Usman is alive and that he was reportedly training Abu Sayyaf terrorists militants and members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) on the manufacture of improvised bombs used in a recent series of attacks in the area.
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Violence rocks southern Thailand for start of Ramadan
Hopes of celebrating the first day of Ramadan in peace in southern Thailand were quashed when Narathiwat's Tak Bai district was hit by violence. In a midnight shootout between six policemen from Takbai district and ten armed men for a half-hour, two policemen were killed and their rifles and pistols stolen. Two civilians were also wounded in the incident.

Takbai's police chief said the attack was launched when six policemen were on patrol on three motorcycles. He said the terrorists separatists spread out in three groups, with one attacking the police, the second keeping guard and the third scattering nails and others materials to block assistance from other nearby security forces. He said the group was believed to be terrorists separatists active on Satol Takbai Island.

Meanwhile, at 7:25 a.m., two bombs went off at two locations, a rubber wood sawmill and on an electric pole, but no casualties were reported. Witnesses said the bombs were placed by four to six men who had come on three motorcycles.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Leb security agencies roll up three suicide rings
Security agencies have busted three suicide rings that allegedly have no direct links to the recent bombings that targeted a police checkpoint and the entrance Beirut's southern suburbs.

A security source told al-Mustaqbal newspaper published on Sunday that the Army Intelligence is questioning the first network, the General Security Directorate the second and the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Branch the third ring.
This way no one will know what was said to the others...
The source said that one of the suspects detained in the northern Akkar region of Fnaideq, who is identified as Abou Oubaida al-Asli, is managing the three suicide rings.

The army announced on Saturday that detainees apprehended during raids in Fnaideq over the past week confessed to the existence of a cave in the region where they used to prepare explosives. The confessions were made by Alaa Kanaan and Mahmoud Khaled, members of a terrorist bombing who were recently arrested.
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ISIL Names 'Emir' for Lebanon, Sets Up 'Suicide Bombers Training Camp'
The extremist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has appointed an "emir", or leader, over Lebanon and has set up a camp to train would-be suicide bombers and send them to Lebanon, a media report said on Sunday.

According to information obtained by LBCI television, security agencies' investigations have revealed that "the ISIL has appointed Abdul Salam al-Ordoni as an emir over Lebanon."
They'll be needing some more number 3's...
The need for number 3s is infinite -- they're so easily killed, being as they are between those doing the work and those ordering it done.
Ordoni has been giving instructions to Al-Monzer al-Hasan, the Lebanese intermediary between the ISIL and the two suicide bombers who were busted at the Duroy Hotel in Raouche, LBCI said.

The interrogation of detained Saudi would-be suicide bomber Abdul Rahman al-Shenifi, who survived the Duroy blast, confirmed that the duo were sent to Lebanon by the ISIL, the TV network added.

"According to the plan devised for them by Al-Monzer al-Hasan, the attack on al-Saha Restaurant (in Hizbullah's stronghold Dahieh) required one of them to enter the restaurant and open fire from a machinegun at the biggest number of customers before blowing up his suicide vest," LBCI's report said.

"The second suicide bomber would blow himself up when medics and citizens gather for rescue operations," it added.

Investigations also revealed that the Saudi operatives had three suicide vests in their possession, one weighing three kilograms and the other two weighing 10 kilos each.

"Shenifi was the one who noticed the arrival of General Security forces to the hotel. When General Security members arrived at their room's door, (Ahmed Abdul Rahman) al-Thuwani armed the suicide vest and hurled it at the door where it exploded, which resulted in his death and the wounding of Shenifi and the General Security members," LBCI said.

On Saturday, the TV network said Shenifi told his interrogators that a Syrian man informed him and his partners in the Turkish city of Istanbul that their mission was to attack security forces and army troops in Lebanon.

But later, al-Monzer al-Hasan, the man who provided the Duroy bombers with explosives, asked the two Saudi militants to change their target and instead attack al-Saha Restaurant in the southern suburbs of Beirut.

On Wednesday, al-Thuwani detonated a suicide vest at the Duroy Hotel room during a raid by General Security officers.

LBCI reported on Friday that the suicide bomber and his accomplice had arrived in Lebanon from Istanbul where they had spent five days.

The TV network said investigations have highlighted a "key role" for al-Hasan in several suicide bombings. It said al-Hasan receives $50,000 for facilitating the mission of every suicide bomber.

Al-Hasan's picture was circulated by the General Security agency on Thursday.
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ISIL crucifies 8 rebels in Syria's Aleppo
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) militants publicly executed and crucified eight rebels fighting President Bashar Al Assad’s regime, a monitor said on Sunday.
It's how the caliphate rolls...
The report comes amid fierce clashes on the outskirts of Damascus between the Isil, which is spearheading a major offensive in Iraq, and rebels, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

“ISIL executed eight men in Deir Hafer in the east of Aleppo province on Saturday because they belonged to rebel groups that had fought against the group as well as Assad’s forces,” it said.

ISIL then “crucified them in the main square of the village, where their bodies will remain for three days”, the Britain-based monitor said.

Also in Aleppo province, a ninth man was crucified for eight hours as a form of punishment in Al Bab town near the border with Turkey. He survived the ordeal.
So they did it again...
ISIL first emerged in Syria’s war in late spring last year and was initially welcomed by some Syrian rebels who believed its combat experience would help topple Assad. But subsequent abuses
...like crucifying those who oppose them...
quickly turned the Syrian opposition, including Islamists, against the group.

Rebels launched a major anti-ISIL offensive in January 2014, and have pushed them out of large swathes of Aleppo province and all of Idlib in the northwest. However, ISIL remains firmly rooted in Raqa, its northern Syrian headquarters, and wields significant power in Deir Ezzor in the east near the border with Iraq.

Activists say the group’s Iraq offensive and capture of heavy weapons — some of them US-made — appears to have boosted its confidence in Syria.

Until recently, the regime had rarely targeted ISIL bastions, but ever since the group’s Iraq offensive, the air force has intensified its strikes against Isil areas.

“On Sunday, there were intense air raids on Raqa and Buseira” in Deir Ezzor, Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said. “It appears Assad’s regime wants to make the United States, which fears ISIL's advances, see it as a partner in the war on terror."

East of Damascus, “fierce clashes broke out early on Sunday between rebels from the Army of Islam and ISIL near the town of Hammuriyeh”, the Observatory said.

The Army of Islam is a major component of the Islamic Front, Syria’s largest rebel coalition which has been fighting Isil for months, but such fighting in Damascus province is unprecedented.

Regime soldiers and warplanes backed by Lebanon’s Hezbollah, meanwhile, pounded rebel positions near the capital, said the Local Coordination Committees activist network.
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