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Africa Horn
Somali police officers killed in Bay
As confirmed to Shabelle, alost 10 Somali police officers were killed after an assault by al Shabaab terrorists on the outskirts of Bardaale, Bay region.

Local residents have claimed that after the attack police officers halted all forms of movement in the area and have begun search operations.

There has been no official statement from Al Shababa nor the Somali Federal Government regarding the assault in Bay region.
Posted by: Steve White || 07/20/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab


Multiple IED blasts rock Mogadishu
After the blasts, Somali police officers opened gunfire in the area although the precise numbers of casualties are still unknown. Deputy Chief of Dharkeynley police station told Shabelle that no casualties or losses were sustained from the attack. He described that district officers are pursuing the suspects.

Furthermore, gunmen attacked various police bases in the Suuqa Xoolaha neighborhood, Heliwa district in Mogadishu. At last, the casualties borne by the attacks last night are yet to be confirmed
Posted by: Steve White || 07/20/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Africa North
Attack leaves 15 Egyptian troops dead at checkpoint
[ARABNEWS] At least 15 Egyptian border guard troops were killed in an attack Saturday by gunnies using rocket-propelled grenades in the country's western desert, security officials said.

An Interior Ministry official and a military official said the gunnies shot up a checkpoint in the western desert governorate of Wadi el-Gedid, on the Farafra Oasis Road, about 500 kilometers (310 miles) from Cairo. Farafra is the country's western most oasis, near the border with Libya.

The officials said three attackers were killed in ensuing festivities. A medical official said five troops, including officers, were maimed.The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to journalists.

Egypt's state news agency MENA said this is the second time this border patrol company has come under attack from gunnies in the last few months. An earlier attack killed five troops, the agency said.
Posted by: Fred || 07/20/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Ansar al-Sharia


More kabooms in Tripoli
A grenade attack on a central Tripoli police station is the most recent in a string of bombings in the capital.

Last night unidentified men destroyed a car in front of a Tripoli police station when they threw a grenade from their car as they drove by, eye witnesses have said. No one was injured as a result of the blast.

The night before in the early hours of the morning a huge car bomb exploded on a roundabout by Bab Al-Aziziya which connects to the Airport Road. The explosion could be heard from many miles around. There are unconfirmed reports that the bomb was being prepared at the time of its explosion, killing the man who was working on it. It has been suggested that the bomb was intended to be used on the Airport Road.

Five days ago Tripoli's Counter Criminal Agency defused six massive car bombs. Investigators said the bombs which weighed 200 kilos each would have caused significant human and material losses had they been detonated. They were found by Qaaqaa's border patrol guards near their base in Salaheddin district.

Two car bombs more exploded not far from the same headquarters in the early hours of Sunday morning, just before the first clashes began at Tripoli International Airport.
Posted by: Steve White || 07/20/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Egypt border guards killed in western desert
Armed men have killed 21 Egyptian military border guards near the frontier with Libya, highlighting a growing threat from an area that authorities say has become a haven for fighters seeking to topple the Cairo government.
Don't the border guards know how to shoot back?
Security officials said on Saturday the assailants were smugglers. But the army spokesman said on his Facebook page that "terrorists" - the term authorities use to describe armed fighters - were behind the attack. He said a weapons storage facility was blown up by a rocket-propelled grenade in an exchange of fire, killing the soldiers and wounding four others.

The attack took place in Wadi al-Gadid governorate, which borders both Sudan and Libya. Two smugglers were killed in clashes with the guards, security officials said.

Five Egyptian border guards were killed in a similar attack in the same area a few months ago.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has repeatedly expressed concerns about fighters who have capitalised on the chaos in Libya and set up operations along the border.

Security officials say those fighters pay smugglers to transport weapons, including machineguns and rocket-propelled grenades, to comrades in Egypt, which is already facing an insurgency based in the Sinai Peninsula near Israel.

Sinai fighters have stepped up attacks against policemen and soldiers since then-army chief Sisi toppled President Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood last summer and launched a fierce attacks on Islamists. Hundreds have been killed in shootings and bombings.

Security officials say fighters operating from Libya are trying to forge ties with others in the Sinai, an alliance that could prolong Egypt's instability and scare away investors that are badly needed to help fix the economy.

Tribal smugglers told Reuters news agency they charge up to one million Egyptian pounds ($140,000) to move weapons in 4x4 vehicles along desert routes.

Egypt considered launching a cross-border offensive several months ago in a bid to crush the fighters, according to two Egyptian national security officials.

Security officials say fighters along the Libyan border harbour ambitions similar to the al-Qaeda breakaway group that has seized a large expanse of Iraq: they want to topple Sisi and create a caliphate in Egypt. Sisi, who has said that armed groups stalking the Middle East pose a threat to everyone, has said Egypt will not allow Libya's turmoil to threaten Egypt's national security.
Posted by: Steve White || 07/20/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Arabia
Al Qaeda attacks Al Baidha province in Yemen
Following a lull in terror activists since President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi declared war on all Al Qaeda elements back in late April, it seems that the terror group has managed somehow to gather some of its strength back as militants have returned to the offensive over the past week. While terror operatives’ reach is clearly limited to small attacks, any challenge to Yemen’ sovereignty is one too many have said officials.

Local officials in Al Baidha province (central Yemen) have confirmed on Thursday that late on Wednesday alleged armed men linked to Al Qaeda assaulted a military outpost. As terror operatives clashes with anti-riot forces, two policemen were killed.

A local government official was quoted by AFP as saying, “The assailants on board two vehicles fired machineguns at the camp in the town of Rada late on Wednesday …Two policemen were killed and a third was wounded.”

It is not yet clear how many casualties terror militants suffered by the hands of police.

This attack comes two days after two policemen were kidnapped by Al Qaeda militants. Officials refused to comment on whether or not both incidents are linked.
Posted by: Steve White || 07/20/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia

#1  watch drone o matics in southern and northwestern and baghdad watch attempt in basra
Posted by: tensteiners6522 || 07/20/2014 18:17 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
12 security men killed in Khyber, Peshawar
[DAWN] Twelve security personnel, a civilian and four snuffies were killed when gunnies ambushed security forces and police patrol squads in Khyber Agency and Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
on Friday.

Eight security personnel died and three others suffered injuries when snuffies attacked a convoy of security forces in Jamrud area of Khyber Agency on the night between Thursday and Friday.

Security officials claimed that four snuffies were kil­led in the retaliatory fire. Three attackers were tossed in the clink
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
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Four snuffies dead, three held, say officials
The personnel of Swat
...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat...
Sco­uts were on a routine patrol in Ghundi's Malak Shaga area when they came under attack.

The officials said that an unspecified number of armed snuffies had shot up the security personnel riding in three vehicles which were also damaged.

Local people said that immediately after the attack the entire area reverberated with the sound of gunfire. Both sides used heavy and light weapons.

Security forces stationed at the Jamrud Fort used heavy artillery while those deployed at nearby hilltops fired shots at the direction of the site of the attack, causing fear among the residents.

"A team of Frontier Corps was moving to counter the snuffies on a tip-off, but they came under fire. At least eight security personnel and five snuffies were killed in an exchange of fire," AFP quoted an official as saying.

Another official said three snuffies were arrested while at least 10 beat feet from the scene.

According to Rooters, local residents said the gunfire began around midnight and continued for at least two hours. Security forces on Thursday morning claimed to have killed four snuffies and arrested three of their colleagues. The claim, however, could not be independently verified.

The soldiers who died in the Jamrud attack were identified as Naib Subedar Taj Maluk, Lance Naiks Nusrat Ali and Kashif and Sepoys Irfan, Hazrat Shah, Juma Khan, Siraj Khan and Mohammad Khan.

A curfew was imposed in Ghundi and nearby areas on Thursday morning and a house-to-house search operation was launched. Ten suspects were apprehended. The Jamrud bazaar remained open and traffic on the main Peshawar-Torkham road was also not suspended.

"The snuffies displaced from North Wazoo have returned to Khyber Agency and started attacks on security forces," Rooters quoted a security official as saying.
Posted by: Fred || 07/20/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Pillion riding banned in Quetta for Youm-i-Ali
[DAWN] QUETTA: In view of security threats, the Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
government has decided to impose a ban on riding double on the eve of Youm-e-Ali in the scenic provincial capital.

Home Secretary Balochistan, Akbar Hussain Durrani on Saturday told Dawn.com that article 144 would be intact for a day in the city to ensure peace.

"Except Quetta, there would be no ban on riding double in other cities of Balochistan," Durrani said.

The provincial government has already placed paramilitary troops and police on a high alert to avert any untoward incident on the occasion.

The home secretary stated that so far no decision was made to suspend mobile phone services in Quetta. Security on roads and streets leading to Hazara Town, Alamdar road and other areas has been tightened.

"Frontier Corps and Police are deployed at all sensitive points in the city," Durrani informed.

The government has already declared 55 Imam Bargahs as sensitive for Youm-e-Ali. The provincial high ups held a high level law and order meeting to evolve an effective security strategy in the city.
Posted by: Fred || 07/20/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Zarb-i-Azb: Two more militant strongholds cleared in NWA
[DAWN] After 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...
, two important villages of North Wazoo Boya and Degan, which were known to be strongholds of local and foreign krazed killers, have been cleared by Pak armed forces.

"Consolidation of Boya and Degan is in progress," said a blurb issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Saturday.

This information, however, could not be independently verified.

Terrorists are being eliminated and dislodged from their bases in North Waziristan as the operation progresses as per plan, said the statement.

The blurb said that house to house search in Mussaki, Hurmez and Mirali Bazar was being carried out by integrated group of forces.

Terrorists holed up inside Mirali and surrounding areas have been firing rockets and mortars and using heavy machine guns and sniper rifles, said the statement, adding that four bad boyz were potted during an exchange of fire last night.

According to ISPR, 12 IEDs were neutralised last night alone, while an IED making factory, huge cache of arms and ammunition and foreign currency were also recovered.

Corps Commander Lieutenant General Khalid Rabbani also visited Mirali, Boya and Degan areas of North Waziristan Agency earlier today and met with the Army troops.
Posted by: Fred || 07/20/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan


Terrorist command, control centre in North Wazoo eliminated
Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said on Saturday the army has managed to eliminate the terrorists’ command and control centre in the North Waziristan tribal region. Talking to media, Asif said the armed forces were going after the terrorists, adding that these elements would be apprehended regardless of where they may be located in the country.

“The state will go after the terrorists in all provinces,” the minister said, adding that the state had managed to ensure that the network of militants had started to collapse.

The minister’s statement comes a little over a month after the launch of a full scale military operation in North Waziristan.

Operation Zarb-i-Azb in the militancy-infested region was launched nearly a week after the attack on Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport in order to wipe out longstanding bases of the Tehreek-i-Taleban Pakistan (TTP) and other militant groups. The tribal area has for years been a hideout for several militant groups including Al Qaeda.
Posted by: Steve White || 07/20/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Iraq
Militants storm air base in Tikrit
BAGHDAD: Fighters from the jihadist-led coalition that controls large parts of Iraq launched a brazen raid on an Iraqi air base near Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit, military sources said on Friday. The army and an Islamic State statement differed on the outcome of the battle and the death toll, but a military intelligence officer admitted the air field known as Speicher was stormed late on Thursday.

“Last night, gunmen infiltrated the base. There were snipers and suicide bombers among them, they managed to reach the runway,” the officer, who witnessed the attack, told AFP.

IS fighters and their allies control the nearby city of Tikrit but Iraqi federal forces had managed to hold on to Speicher — named by US troops after a navy pilot whose plane was shot down by Saddam’s forces in 1991— despite repeated attacks in recent weeks.

“When the clashes erupted, the pilots flew the base’s aircraft out” to save them from destruction, the officer said. “But one Russian-made helicopter which had not taken off was destroyed.”

He said a unit of special forces soon arrived, sparking a bloody battle.

“When it was over, I counted 35 dead attackers inside the base. We had at least three special forces killed and four wounded.”

In a statement posted on internet sites close to the Islamic State, the jihadist group said it had killed many pilots and soldiers during its raid on Speicher, which lies a few kilometres (miles) north of Tikrit. It said it shot down two helicopters in the air, disabled or burned several aircraft on the ground, destroyed army vehicles, fuel reserves and communications equipment.

The intelligence officer, however, said that Speicher’s fleet had managed to take off and that, on their way out, one or several aircraft attacked another IS convoy they spotted heading towards the base to join the battle. He was not able to provide a casualty toll for the air raid.

Another army officer based in the area also said that IS fighters had stormed Speicher but did not specify how many combatants had died.
Posted by: Steve White || 07/20/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Christians flee from Islamic State threats
Christian families have abandoned their homes and fled Mosul after the Sunni rebel group, the Islamic State, threatened them with death if they did not convert to Islam or pay tax.

"Some families have had all their money and jewellery taken from them at an insurgent checkpoint as they fled the city," Abu Rayan, a Christian who left Mosul with his family told AFP news agency on Saturday.

"Some of our homes have already been confiscated and I know families who have handed their keys to neighbours, asking them to look after their property with the hope they would return one day." Rayan said.

The hardline group on Friday ordered Christians in Mosul that they could convert, pay a tax or flee the city after abandoning their possessions. An earlier Islamic State statement said there would be "nothing but the sword" if Christians did not abide by those conditions by 9am GMT on Saturday.

The AFP said that hundreds of Christians had fled by the deadline, although Al Jazeera could not confirm these numbers. While some families initially appeared prepared to pay the "jizya" Islamic tribute to stay in their ancient homes, messages broadcast by mosques on Friday appeared to spark an exodus.

"Christian families are on their way to Dohuk and Arbil" in the autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq, Chaldean patriarch Louis Sako, who heads Iraq's largest Christian community, told AFP.

"For the first time in the history of Iraq, Mosul is now empty of Christians," he said, putting the number of those who were still in the city on Thursday at 25,000.

The Islamic State "seems intent on wiping out all traces of minority groups from areas it now controls in Iraq," Human Rights Watch said in a statement Saturday.

The mass displacement was the latest in weeks of turmoil which has forced more than 600,000 people from their homes, left thousands dead and brought Iraq to the brink of collapse.
Posted by: Steve White || 07/20/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Tax evaders? or going to Casablanca for the waters?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/20/2014 9:13 Comments || Top||

#2  The more i read about Islam the more i hate them.

We are tolerant in the west re freedom of religion but we are blind/ignore the intolerance of the Saudis,Pakis,Gulf states etc.

How do Christians get on in Shiite countries like Iran?I bet there is more freedom of religion in shiite countries than Sunni!
Posted by: Paul D || 07/20/2014 12:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Religion of peace. Not all cultures are equal.
Posted by: mossomo || 07/20/2014 17:57 Comments || Top||

#4  David Warren reported some complicating factors: Christian's property was seized, so they couldn't pay the tax if they wanted to.
Posted by: James || 07/20/2014 22:25 Comments || Top||


Dozens killed as bombings rock Baghdad
A series of bombings, including three over a span of less than 10 minutes, have killed at least 27 people across the Iraqi capital, officials say. The attacks on Saturday are among the most significant in Baghdad since fighters led by the Islamic State group captured Iraq's second-largest city Mosul last month.

The first bombing took place in the Shia neighbourhood of Abu Dashir, where a suicide attacker drove a car packed with explosives into a checkpoint, killing at least nine people and wounding 19, officials said. Four policemen were among the dead, a police officer said.

Later in the day, three car bombs went off in different neighbourhoods of Baghdad, hitting the districts of Baya, Jihad and Kadhimiyah. Police sources told Al Jazeera that the car bomb in Kadhimiyah killed nine people and injured 20 others.

Hospital officials in Baghdad confirmed the casualty figures in all of the attacks.

Baghdad has seen few attacks compared to the violence in other areas hit by the Islamic State's offensive last month, though bombs still hit the city on a fairly regular basis.
Posted by: Steve White || 07/20/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
UN agency handed rockets back to Hamas, Israel says
HT to Hot Air. Unfreakingbelievable
A United Nations agency that last week found rockets in a Gaza school operating under its auspices has handed that weaponry over to Hamas, Israeli officials said Sunday, accusing the organization of actively helping the terrorist organization potentially attack Israeli civilians.
not even really pretending anymore when they're caught
“The rockets were passed on to the government authorities in Gaza, which is Hamas. In other words, UNRWA handed to Hamas rockets that could well be shot at Israel,” a senior Israeli official told The Times of Israel.

A different senior official said UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, charged with overseeing humanitarian efforts in Gaza, has been suffering from “battered-wife syndrome” for years and currently “attempts to ingratiate itself with Hamas.”

Posted by: Frank G || 07/20/2014 11:21 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sounds good to me, now stand in font of them when launched.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 07/20/2014 12:23 Comments || Top||

#2  United Nations Baby Killers Inc.
Posted by: Lemuel tse Tung6767 || 07/20/2014 14:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Geeze! When I asked which other school the rockets were moved to the other day I was snarking!
I guess sometimes you can make this sh*t up.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/20/2014 14:32 Comments || Top||

#4  This should clear up any ambiguity as to where the U.N. stands on Israeli matters?

The U.N. members won't be happy until there is a black flag unfurled on their campus.

An interesting progression in institutional suicide? Or is the heretofore unstated being played out?
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 07/20/2014 15:49 Comments || Top||

#5  "Unfreakingbelievable"

Not really, Frank - the Useless Nitwits are involved.

I'd expect nothing else.

Posted by: Barbara || 07/20/2014 16:17 Comments || Top||

#6  I hope the IDF is carefully inspecting EVERY UN school, office, building, ...
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 07/20/2014 16:25 Comments || Top||

#7  On my semi-annual listening of NPR this morning there was a real sob story about how the poor Paleostinians were having to cower in overcrowded shelters as the Israelis attacked. According the the lie, I mean story, Hamas started firing more rockets in response to the Israeli attack. I almost tore the radio out of the car.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 07/20/2014 17:14 Comments || Top||

#8  Surprise! Not really. And that's sad.
Posted by: mossomo || 07/20/2014 18:08 Comments || Top||

#9  Of course they did.

The UN hates the Jews almost as much as Hamas.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/20/2014 18:09 Comments || Top||

#10  2104 Estimates

Gaza Strip Population 1.8 Million
West Bank Population 1.7 Million
Israel Population 7.9 Million
Posted by: Thineng Angailet7166 || 07/20/2014 18:17 Comments || Top||

#11  2014 Estimates
Posted by: Thineng Angailet7166 || 07/20/2014 18:17 Comments || Top||

#12  UN aiding and abetting war crimes. How ironic.
Posted by: regular joe || 07/20/2014 21:22 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: spano bellingbo3665 || 07/20/2014 21:39 Comments || Top||


IDF kills 2 terrorists emerging from tunnel shaft in south Gaza
An Armored Corps unit detected two terrorists who emerged from a tunnel shaft in south Gaza. The unit opened fire, killing both attackers. There were no injuries among soldiers.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/20/2014 09:06 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


IDF: Hamas Fired On Troops During Two-Hour Humanitarian Ceasefire It Requested
[Ynet] Request made via Red Thingy comes after night and morning of harsh shelling by IDF in Gazoo City; Gazooks say hundreds flee neighborhoods under fire; Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, stopping foreign journalists from leaving Gazoo.

The IDF said its troops came under fire in the Gazoo City neighborhood of Saja'iyya on Sunday afternooon, less than an hour after Israel agreed to a Hamas request for a humanitarian truce to allow the evacuation of maimed from the area.

The military said its forces were shot at shortly after the two-hour truce, facilitated by the Red Thingy, had begun at 1:30 pm, and that it had resumed combat operations. Hamas had no immediate comment on Israeli claims it had breached the ceasefire.

The IDF agreed to the ceasefire in the Saja'iyya neighborhood of eastern Gaza City after Hamas asked Israel for the lull in hostilities at around noon Sunday to rescue the wounded and retrieve the dead.
The IDF agreed to the ceasefire in the Saja'iyya neighborhood of eastern Gazoo City after Hamas asked Israel for the lull in hostilities at around noon Sunday to rescue the maimed and retrieve the dead.

Ynet defense analyst, Ron Ben-Yishai, notes that Israel feared that ceasefire would be exploited for a kidnapping or for Hamas to prepare other Hamas tactics. The heavy artillery fire on Saja'iyya and the air force sorties were intended to isolate the area of operations.

The IDF also announced it deployed a field hospital in the Erez Crossing to treat Paleostinians maimed in the fighting. The announcement said the hospital would begin operating starting at 8 pm.

Foreign journalists have been trying to leave the Strip through the Erez Crossing but they were prevented from doing so by Hamas.

In the last few hours, the Paleostinians have released harsh images of the dead and maimed, including children, who were killed overnight Saturday and Sunday morning in a massive IDF attack in the area.

The IDF also announced it deployed a field hospital in the Erez Crossing to treat Paleostinians maimed in the fighting.
Hamas is seeking to rile up the international community, and the Arab world in particular, including those who can pressure Israel to end the operation. The movement called the IDF action overnight a war crime.

"The massacre of civilians in Saja'iyya is a war crime that will not break the will of our people. The resistance will not allow the enemy to trample over the soil of Gazoo," said a statement by the group.

Hamas front man Sami Abu Zuhri
...a senior spokesman for Hamas. Zuhri gained notoriety in 2006 when he dropped his money belt containing somewhere between 640,000 and 900,000 euros, which was confiscated by Paleostinian security and customs officials at a routine border crossing from Egypt to Gaza. The news brought competing Hamas and Fatah forces to the crossing checkpoint for an epic face-making and hollering contest...
accused Israel of trying to compensate for its failure in the campaign against the group's military wing by taking its Dire Revenge™ out on the civilian population.

Overnight, the Paleostinians reported the most intensive IDF attack in Gazoo since Operation Protective Edge began, in neighborhoods in the east of Gazoo City center. Official Gazoo sources said that hundreds of residents of these neighborhoods had fled westward and were trying to find shelter at Shifa Hospital in the city. Unofficial reports indicate that thousands of people have fled the neighborhoods.

Among the dead is Osama Al-Haya, son of Hamas leader Khalil al-Haya. According to reports, the IDF bombed the house in which he was staying, and his wife and son were also killed. Medical officials in Gazoo have accused Israel of preventing ambulances from reaching the site of the incident, despite a request made via the Red Thingy.
No doubt the Israelis had caught members of "military wings" -- or merely lots of weapons -- catching rides in ambulances, as is the longstanding Palestinian tradition.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/20/2014 08:25 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


In Depth: IDF Shifts Focus To Tunnels
[Ynet] As military troops attempt to uncover and destroy as many tunnels as possible before ceasefire is signed, Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, does everything in its power to slow down the forces' activity — including desperate suicide kabooms.

IDF forces began to expand Israel's ground operation in Gazoo Strip on the 12th day of Operation Protective Edge, with the focus shifting to destroying as much of Hamas' terror tunnel infrastructure before a ceasefire is reached.

Hamas for its part is doing everything it can to slow down the incursion, including desperate suicide attacks on forces.

"We feel growing frustration and tension (in Gazoo)," a senior IDF official told Ynet, "our operation is stirring the tunnels. Hamas wants to make full use of them and they feel we're on to something significant," the official said in reference to the new focus on tunnels.

The army claimed that since the ground operation began, some 34 terror tunnels were discovered, 20 just in the last 24-hours, five of which had exit-points within Israel.

The official added that as of now, a little over two days into the ground operation, the IDF is targeting some 13 additional tunnels: "All of our efforts are focused on them now."

His comments came after an incident Saturday morning in which some 13 murderous Moslems entered Israel via tunnel and attacked an IDF patrol force.

Sgt. Adar Barsano and (res) Maj. Amotz Greenberg were killed in the attack. One terrorist was killed while the rest managed to make their way back to Gazoo.

The official also said that though tunnels are now the main focus, the IDF is aware that there is a good chance they will not be able complexly neutralize what the army says is a web of interconnected tunnels.

"It is very possible that after we leave some of the tunnels will remain in place. We cannot be a hundred percent certain."

The mission, he explains, is marred by the fact that Hamas booby-trapped the tunnels, forcing the forces to work slowly and at time in open areas in Gazoo, leaving them exposed to sniper and anti-tank fire.

Hamas is also actively attempting to exact a toll from Israel, to better its position ahead of a ceasefire deal, by also focusing their efforts on preserving the tunnels.

In one such case, a terrorist armed with a suicide belt went kaboom! near a force working to expose tunnels with the help of the massive D9 tractor. After he let 'er rip an armed Hamas man exited the tunnel and opened fire on the forces. Two bad boyz were potted in the incident.

"Our intelligence tells us that Hamas will attempt to kidnap soldiers and pull soldiers inside tunnels and harm them, which is why the soldiers are briefed about it."

During Saturday, the IDF continued to deploy forces on the border of the Gazoo Strip in preparation for the possibility of the expansion of the ground operation.

IDF Armored Corps and the IAF hit many terrorist targets in the area of Nahal Oz at the evening hours. Earlier in the day, an IDF Spokesperson's Unit issued a statement saying that since the entry of forces into the Gazoo Strip, troops had uncovered 34 tunnel shafts and five tunnels that led to Israel. Thirteen murderous Moslems were tossed in the slammer
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
and taken to Israel.

Throughout the weekend, despite the ground offensive in Gazoo and the strikes carried out by the IAF, rockets continued to rain on Israel.

Israel's army said on Saturday Gazoo-based holy warriors had used up or lost about half of their rockets in 12 days of fighting - though the Islamist fighters say they have been replenishing their arsenal.

The Israeli military said Paleostinian fighters had fired at least 1,705 rockets out of an estimated stockpile of about 10,000, a depletion of about 17 percent.

"I think that we have hit and destroyed 30 to 40 percent of the rockets," IDF Spokesman Brigadier-General Moti Almoz said.
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Israelis kill 46 Gazans on Day 12, raising toll to 342
[ARABNEWS] The Gazoo corpse count hit 342 on Saturday as Israeli warplanes intensified their bombardment and troops pressed a ground assault on the 12th day of a major confrontation with Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,.

And the overall Israeli corpse count rose to five following violence in which two soldiers and a civilian were killed, the army and police said.

The latest incident in Gazoo saw one man killed in an air strike on the northern town of Jabaliya shortly after two were killed in a strike near Deir Al-Balah in central Gazoo, emergency services front man Ashraf Al-Qudra said.

And another two people were killed in Zeitun, east of Gazoo City, raising the number of Paleostinians killed on Saturday to 46.

In southern Israel, two soldiers were killed when a group of Gazoo Lions of Islam got under the border fence and fired machine guns and an anti-tank missile at an army patrol.

Troops returned fire killing one of the Lions of Islam in an attack claimed by Hamas.

Also in the south, an Israeli Bedouin man was killed and four family members maimed, two of them children, when a rocket hit their desert encampment not far from Israel's nuclear reactor in Dimona, police said.

Their deaths raised to five the number of Israelis killed since the conflict began on July 8, including a soldier who was reportedly killed by friendly fire.

Among those killed in Gazoo were five members of the same family, including a 6-year-old and a 2-year-old, who died in a strike on a house in the northern town of Beit Hanun, Qudra said.

Earlier, Qudra also reported five bodies had been pulled from a home hit by an Israeli air strike in Khan Yunis.

So far, more than 2,385 Paleostinians have been maimed in the biggest confrontation in and around Gazoo since Operation Cast Lead, a bloody 22-day offensive which ended in January 2009.

Israeli troops began a ground offensive in parts of Gazoo late on Thursday, starting a new phase in the operation which it said was aimed at destroying tunnels used by the territory's dominant power, Islamist movement Hamas.
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Liveblogging the Gaza Operation: Day 13
[IsraelTimes] As Israel hunts for terror tunnels after soldiers killed, Abbas to meet Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, chief for ceasefire talks

IDF says it finds 34 more tunnels; gunman killed in southern Gazoo emerging from tunnel, firing on troops; 94 rockets fired from Gazoo on Saturday.

The Times of Israel is liveblogging events as they unfold through Sunday, the 13th day of Operation Protective Edge. On Saturday, two IDF soldiers — Major (res.) Amotz Greenberg, 45, and Sgt. Adar Barsano, 20 — were killed after a Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, terror cell infiltrated Israel through a tunnel and opened fire on an IDF patrol. An Israeli man was killed and four of his family members were maimed when a rocket hit a Bedouin community near Dimona. The army said it planned to expand its operations in the Gaza Strip after uncovering 13 terror tunnels on the Gaza border. Palestinian sources put the total Gaza death toll to date at over 320.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/20/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  We are under attack SEND!
Posted by: Lemuel tse Tung6767 || 07/20/2014 14:26 Comments || Top||


IDF: Explosive Donkey Attacked Forces In Gaza
[Ynet] Forces operating near Gazoo attacked by explosive-laden donkey, and IDF claim this is not the first time Paleostinians have used such animals to attempt and kill IDF forces — read details of this bizarre terror practice.
Horrifying to those who give moral weight to the treatment of domestic animals, but not terribly effective.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/20/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Iraqi version:
Posted by: 3dc || 07/20/2014 0:40 Comments || Top||

#2  All I can think of is Eddie Murphy's voice yelling "This is some serious Bullcrap".
Posted by: Charles || 07/20/2014 2:55 Comments || Top||

#3  The Gazoos sacrificed the donkey? Damn, no more driver's ed or sex ed.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/20/2014 9:11 Comments || Top||

#4  They attack us every other November.
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 07/20/2014 15:50 Comments || Top||

#5  In many ways, this could be the story of...
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 07/20/2014 17:51 Comments || Top||

#6  The Greeks gave an ass to the Trojans
(this was back before bombs and explosions);
When the ass was hauled in
It was just bones and skin
But soon fattened upon their devotions.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 07/20/2014 18:30 Comments || Top||


Two IDF Soldiers Killed By Hamas Infiltrators Saturday Morning
[IsraelTimes] Terrorists emerged from tunnel into Israel, opened fire on IDF jeep, killing Amotz Greenberg, 45, and Adar Barsano, 20, wounding 4 others

Two IDF officers were killed Saturday morning when Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, holy warriors infiltrated Israeli territory via a tunnel under the border fence from the central Gazoo Strip and ambushed a military vehicle patrolling on the Israeli side of the border, the IDF said Saturday evening.

The two were named as Amotz Greenberg, 45, a major in the reserves from Hod Hasharon, and Sgt. Adar Barsano, 20, from Nahariya. The information was cleared for publication after the families were informed.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/20/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Gaza update
Israeli bulldozers demolished more than a dozen tunnels on Saturday in the Gaza Strip, and Palestinian authorities reported intensified airstrikes and shelling as the death toll from Israel's ground offensive rose to at least 342 Palestinians. Diplomats struggled to revive a ceasefire.

Israeli soldiers uncovered 34 shafts leading into about a dozen underground tunnels, some as deep as 30 metres, that could be used to carry out attacks, the military said. Still, Palestinian gunmen managed to infiltrate Israel from Gaza using another tunnel and killed two Israeli soldiers and injured several others, the military said. At least one Palestinian was killed in the clash. Hamas said 12 of its fighters participated in the attack.

It was the second time Palestinians had used their network of underground tunnels to penetrate Israel in the current round of fighting. Israel embarked on its ground offensive late Thursday in part to seek and destroy the tunnels.

Thirteen heavily armed Palestinians sneaked through a tunnel from Gaza and emerged inside Israel near a southern community. The militants were killed by an Israeli airstrike after they popped out of the tunnel.

Shimon Daniel, a retired brigadier general and former head of the Israeli military's engineer corps, said the military knew that Hamas had a large number of tunnels designed to assault Israel.

"I think finding 13 tunnels in such a short time is a great achievement," he told Channel 10 TV.

"These tunnels aren't for hiding. They are intended for large attacks in Israeli communities and army bases," chief military spokesman Brig. Gen. Moti Almoz said.

Footage released by the Israeli military showed tunnels being demolished by army excavators and other equipment on the ground and by airstrikes from above.

Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf Al Kidra said the new round of airstrikes raised the death toll from the 12-day offensive to at least 342 Palestinians, many of them civilians.

In Israel, a Gaza rocket killed a man near the southern city of Dimona and wounded four people, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said, marking the second Israeli civilian casualty from the fighting. An Israeli soldier was killed after the start of the ground operation, probably from friendly fire.

Israel says it is going to great lengths to avoid civilian casualties and blames them on Hamas, accusing it of firing from within residential neighbourhoods and using civilians as "human shields."

The military said it has hit more than 2,350 targets in Gaza, including 1,100 rocket launchers, during the 12 days of fighting. It said that some 70 "terrorists" were and another 13 brought to Israel for questioning.

Gaza militants have fired more than 1,600 rockets at Israeli cities since July 8.
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IN VIDEO: IDF destroys terror tunnel in Gaza Strip
Posted by: Flick Snore3762 || 07/20/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  One of the video streams quits with this message:


"This video contains content from Keshet who has blocked it on copyright grounds"


If Israel wants effective PR they need to knock some heads in their media companies until they get on board with propaganda being opensource.

Perhaps they should pull the deferments, tax advantages and press rights of the Israeli companies until they all get on the same bandwagon.
Posted by: 3dc || 07/20/2014 16:28 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
Baby Killers of Hamas
Abdullah Quran was only twelve years old when he was found with a bomb in his bag, but the indoctrination of children begins much earlier. Children's magazines and television shows encourage them to kill and die using everything from songs to costumed characters. On Pioneers of Tomorrow, the children are urged to grow up to kill Jews. "All of them?" a little girl isprompted. "Yes" is the reply.
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 07/20/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Angel of death (Malak al-Maut) worshippers? I think so.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/20/2014 9:27 Comments || Top||

#2  United Nations it's all the same!
Posted by: Lemuel tse Tung6767 || 07/20/2014 14:35 Comments || Top||

#3  That's why I have no qualms of destroying all of Gaza, and anyone still living there. Give them 24 hours to leave, any way they can, then level the place, rip up the ground, and salt the earth afterwords.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 07/20/2014 18:13 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: spano bellingbo3665 || 07/20/2014 21:42 Comments || Top||

#5  OP, I don't have certain knowledge, but I notice that Egypt's assistance is more and more obvious, and that nobody in the area seems to like Palestinians much, though they have to pretend for PR purposes ("not our tribe"). My guess is that the IDS soft approach keeps under-the-table intelligence contacts open, and that they might face a tougher situation if some other governments in the region cut back on the cooperation they can't talk about.
Posted by: James || 07/20/2014 22:40 Comments || Top||

#6  spano that is all you have for comment a fricken Smoky poster? Lots of serious feedback there, thanks for your input.
Posted by: Pancho Forkbeard9494 || 07/20/2014 23:57 Comments || Top||


Israel Is the Victim of Mohammed's War Against the Jews
"Theological consensus can only be achieved by the suicide bomber, the sniper, the Sarin nerve gas shell and the death squad. If England and France have come a long way since then, the Middle East hasn't. Mohammed's way or the highway is still the rule of the road. And Mohammed's way is whatever the man with the most guns and Korans says it is."
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 07/20/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nope. Israel is the victim of EUropeans' war on common sense.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/20/2014 8:04 Comments || Top||

#2  No reason it can't be both.
Posted by: Barbara || 07/20/2014 10:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Relief Aid / GAZA CONFLICT AMERICAN SECURITY BANK BOX 1 C/O BANK PRESIDENT OF CITY - HILO - HAWAII HILO , HAWAII 96720
Posted by: tensteiners6522 || 07/20/2014 18:26 Comments || Top||

#4  ISRAEL WANTS CONQUER ALL HAMAS TERRITORY HOPING ABBAS IS NEO SADAT FOR PEACE WHITE MAN'S GREAT WHITE HOPE
Posted by: tensteiners6522 || 07/20/2014 18:32 Comments || Top||

#5  (snicker)
Posted by: Boss Shans4455 || 07/20/2014 18:49 Comments || Top||

#6  If I could go back in time, post WWII I would have dismantled Jersulem brick by brick and moved it and all the Jews to Wyoming. Given each current state resident a check for 100k and declared a new State of Israel as an enclave of the USA. Park em next to the Mormans. They would have thrived and the Paleos would still be killing each other or somebody
.
Posted by: Pancho Forkbeard9494 || 07/20/2014 20:34 Comments || Top||

#7  wow. That's a whole lotta collected stoopid
Posted by: Frank G || 07/20/2014 20:34 Comments || Top||

#8 
Posted by: spano bellingbo3665 || 07/20/2014 21:37 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Four social workers abducted by Abu Sayyaf, but one escapes
One of four social workers abducted by Abu Sayyaf gunmen on Thursday actually managed to escape.

Police Chief Superintendent Noel de los Reyes said Lerma Jura managed to escape when she and her three colleagues were being abducted by about ten rebels in Sinumaan village on Thursday afternoon. He said, "She walked for about a kilometer and sought help from village officials, who turned her over to the Philippine marines."

ARMM Governor Mujiv Hataman ordered the Sulu police provincial office and local officials to locate and rescue the four social workers. The victims work at the ARMM’s Department of Social Welfare and Development and were in Talipao to conduct a survey when they were seized by ten armed men around Thursday afternoon.

Hataman said while negotiations would be allowed, no money would be involved. He said, "We maintain the government’s no ransom policy (but) we will negotiate for their release."

Delos Reyes said Sulu's police office was now in close coordination with local Muslim clerics there to help secure the release of the abductees.
Posted by: ryuge || 07/20/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Abu Sayyaf

#1  I'd be happy to trade the remaining (3) for (1) Community Organizer / Constitutional Scholar.
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 07/20/2014 15:59 Comments || Top||

#2  I dunno, Uncle Ph.

Abu Sayyaf would probably consider that an act of war.
Posted by: Barbara || 07/20/2014 16:22 Comments || Top||


Five Thai policemen wounded in police station attack
A police substation in Pattani province came under attack by suspected terrorists insurgents on Thursday night, leaving two officers with serious gunshot injuries and three others burned after the attackers set fire to the facility before fleeing.

Thung Yang Daeng's provincial police chief yesterday praised all seven officers stationed there for their heroic effort in defending the facility and driving away the attackers after an extended fight. A trail of blood, likely from injured attackers, was discovered at the scene.

The attack was apparently planned as the 40 or so attackers split up into three teams for a three-pronged assault. When soldiers from an army outpost tried to make their way to the substation to assist, a roadside bomb hampered their move. No soldiers were wounded. The attackers also blocked access to the police substation with several felled trees and spikes.

Investigators say the three attackers' teams had launched an offensive from three positions, two of them stationed on upper floors of a building nearby to observe the area and set up vantage points. Before launching the attack, a flare was shot into the air to make the target visible, before two rounds of M79 grenades were launched at it, followed by firebomb grenades and automatic gunfire from three directions.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Battle for Syria gas field after jihadists execute hundreds
[ARABNEWS] Syrian government forces launched an offensive Saturday to retake a gas field in Homs province seized two days ago by Islamic State jihadists who killed 270 people, most of them executed, a monitoring group said.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported that a woman accused of adultery was stoned to death by the jihadists in the northern city of Raqa, in the second such case in as many days.

Syrian troops backed by warplanes pressed a counter-attack Saturday around Shaar, recapturing large areas of the gas field, said Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman.

"They are advancing in Shaar and have managed to regain large parts of it, while trying to control surrounding areas that fall under the control of the Islamic State," he said.

"Regime forces are conducting air raid and festivities are taking place on the ground," he added.

The counter-attack had killed at least 40 IS Lions of Islam and 11 soldiers while 10 other troops were maimed, said the Observatory which relies for its information on a network of activists and medics on the ground.

It described Thursday's takeover of the Shaar field as the biggest anti-regime operation by the IS since the jihadist group rose to prominence last year among rebel groups in the Syrian conflict.

The watchdog said it had documented "the deaths of 270 people killed in the fighting or executed" by the jihadists. "A large majority of the men killed were executed at gunpoint after being taken prisoner following the takeover of the camp," said Abdel Rahman.

"Eleven of the dead were civilian employees, while the rest were security guards and National Defense Forces members," he added.

The fate of nearly 100 people who worked at the site remains unknown.

There was no official confirmation of the reports but supporters of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators...
's regime posted photographs of the dead.

One pro-regime Twitter user said: "Thirty deaders were brought to Homs hospital from the Shaar gas field... Homs is still bleeding."

Gruesome footage apparently recorded by the jihadists at the gas field and distributed via YouTube showed dozens of bodies, some of them mutilated, strewn across a desert landscape.

One video shows a jihadist posing with the bodies as he speaks in German interspersed with religious terms in Arabic, seemingly celebrating the killings.

Posted by: Fred || 07/20/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State of Iraq & the Levant

#1  watch Assad possible assassin attempt and palace watch the Parliament -ALLAH O AKBAR
Posted by: tensteiners6522 || 07/20/2014 18:15 Comments || Top||

#2  You'd have to be on your tenth stein to write that clearly...
Posted by: Boss Shans4455 || 07/20/2014 18:51 Comments || Top||


Syria trying to retake gas field
Syrian government forces have launched a counterattack to recapture a gas field seized by the Islamic State group, activists say, even as the death toll from three days of fighting there rises to 270.

The intense fighting in the Shaer field, which lies in the desert region of Palmyra in the central province of Homs, has been among the deadliest battles between government forces and the Islamic State group since the start of the Syrian uprising more than three years ago.

Fighters from the Sunni-led rebel group have in the past few weeks seized a huge chunk of territory straddling the Iraq-Syria border, where they declared a self-styled caliphate. They also have captured much of Syria's oil-rich eastern province of Deir Az Zor.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Syrian special forces launched an attack late on Friday on the Shaer field and have regained parts of it. A Homs-based activist who goes by the name of Beibares Tellawi confirmed that troops attacked fighters from the group.

"The fighting today is mostly hit-and-run attacks," Tellawi said via Skype. "Large numbers of [President Bashar] Assad's forces are attacking the field."

The Syrian Observatory said that the number of troops, guards and workers killed in the gas field since it was captured on Thursday has risen to 270, adding that some were captured and killed by Sunni rebels. Tellawi said the death toll was at least 200.
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