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Afghanistan
4 Afghan soldiers martyred in IED attack in past 24 hours
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least four Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers were martyred following roadside Improvised Explosive Device (IED) attack.

The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the incident took place during the past 24 hours.

No further details were given regarding the exact location where the four Afghan army soldiers bit the dust.

Talibs and Death Eaters from the other myrmidon groups frequently use Improvised Explosive Device (IED) as the weapon of their choice to target the security forces.

According to security officials, the Afghan army deaths stands at 4 service members daily on average which is mainly caused due to improvised bomb (IED) attacks.

IED attacks are also the major contributor to civilian casualties in Afghanistan, as civilians are mostly targeted in roadside kaboomings.

In the meantime, MoD front man Gen. Zahir Azimi said at least 48 Death Eaters were killed and 3 other were detained during operations led by Afghan army soldiers in the past 24 hours.

Gen. Azimi further added that the Afghan army soldiers also confiscated 31 rounds of Improvised Explosive Device (IED) during the same operations.
Posted by: Fred || 02/11/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Taliban blockade of District road in Kunar entered 4th day
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The blockade of a District road in eastern Kunar Province
...one of the four N2KL provinces (Nangarhar, Nuristan, Kunar and Laghman). N2KL is the designation used by US and Coalition Forces for the rugged and very violent region opposite Pakistain's Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Northwest Frontier Province. Kunar is the center of the N2KL region. Its population is 95% Pashtun. It is adjacent to Bajaur Agency..
by Taliban faceless myrmidons have entered to its 4th day.

Shujaul Mulk Jalala, Governor of eastern Kunar Province says that from the past four days the road that connects Naray District with picturesque provincial capital Asad Abad has been blocked by Taliban.

He said that Taliban have also planted landmines along the road and that people cannot travel on this road.

He added that people in Naray District are facing shortage of food and need medical assistance.

Mohammad Rahman Danish, District Governor of Naray says blocking public way means that Taliban are practicing enmity with local people.

Naray is one of the few Districts in eastern Kunar Province where insurgency raise occasionally.

Last week Taliban blown up a school and a clinic in this district.

Abdul Habib Sayedkhil, Police Chief of Kunar Province said that 80% of the school was damaged in the kabooms, adding that Holy Koran and school books were also burned in the fire caused by the kabooms.
Posted by: Fred || 02/11/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


1 killed, 4 injured including Provincial Council member in Jalalabad explosion
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Afghan Police at scene of the crimeOne civilian has been killed and four others maimed in an kaboom in Jalalabad city, historic provincial capital of eastern Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
Province.

Hazrat Hussain Mashriqiwal, front man for Nangarhar Provincial Police Headquarters told Khaama Press that the kaboom took place around 01:30 PM this afternoon.

He said it was a magnetic bomb kaboom which was attached to the vehicle of Angeza Shinwari, member of the Provincial Council of Nangarhar, adding that Angeza Shinwari is among the ones injured.

Ahmadzia Abulzai, front man for governor of Nangarhar province also confirms the incident.

He said that the kaboom occurred in front of Bibi Hawa high school in Jalalabad city.

He also upheld that one civilian was killed and four others including Angeza Shinwari were maimed in the kaboom.

The ones maimed have been transported to Jalalabad Regional Hospital where two of them were announced to be at death's door.

Angiza Shinwari, 34, whose vehicle was targeted in the kaboom today, is an Ex-Journalist journalist who was currently serving as the member of the Provincial Council of Nangarhar province.

Although, no group has so far grabbed credit for the attack on Shinwari but occasionally she was blaming Pakistain for instability in Afghanistan.
Posted by: Fred || 02/11/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Killer of Afghan National Army soldiers arrested
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
(NDS) personnel have tossed in the calaboose
You have the right to remain silent...
the killer of five Afghan National Army soldiers in eastern Kunar Province
...one of the four N2KL provinces (Nangarhar, Nuristan, Kunar and Laghman). N2KL is the designation used by US and Coalition Forces for the rugged and very violent region opposite Pakistain's Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Northwest Frontier Province. Kunar is the center of the N2KL region. Its population is 95% Pashtun. It is adjacent to Bajaur Agency..
A statement issued by the NDS states that Zahirullah who goes by the name of Omar Bilal was arrested from the jurisdiction Manogi District in Kunar Province.

NDS statement adds that Zahirullah is a member of Qari Hamza group of the armed Taliban who had martyred five Afghan National Army soldiers.

NDS statement further adds that Zahirullah had recently stopped a civilian vehicle in which the soldiers were travelling and sprayed bullets on them.

A video that was recorded by the holy warriors while martyring the soldiers was also recovered from Zahirullah by NDS personnel.

NDS has shared the video on "www.youtube.com" which can be obtained through this link "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhgUosVFsmk&feature=youtu.be"

According to the statement, Zahirullah is currently in one of the captivity of NDS awaiting the decision of the judiciary departments.
Posted by: Fred || 02/11/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Taliban suicide attackers assault Afghan police station
[Ynet] Taliban suicide kaboomers assaulted an Afghan cop shoppe Tuesday, killing one officer as a separate roadside kabooming targeted a prominent female politician in the country's east, authorities said.

The attack on a police headquarters in Afghanistan's northern Kunduz province saw turbans first detonate a suicide boom-mobile followed by a jacket wallah on foot, Interior Ministry front man Sediq Sediqqi said. Three more gunnies attacked following the bombings and died in a shootout with police, Sediqqi said.

A statement from President Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
condemned the attack, saying it killed one police officer.

Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahid claimed the attack in a message on Twitter.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/11/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa North
Egypt Islamic State affiliate posts beheading video
[IsraelTimes] Eight Bedouin victims accused of working as spies for the Israeli and Egyptian armies

The Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group's affiliate in Egypt has released video purporting to show the beheading of eight Bedouin men it accused of working for the Egyptian and Israeli armies.

The video, posted on the group's Twitter account late on Monday, also showed what it said were victims of Egyptian military operations in the restive Sinai Peninsula where an insurgency has killed scores of coppers and soldiers.

The jihadist group, known as Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis
...Supporters of Jerusalem, the current pen name of al-Qaeda in the Sinai Peninsula...
before pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group last November, has released footage in the past showing the execution of alleged informants.

In the latest video, masked turbans in camouflage behead eight men, some of them in broad daylight at a major thoroughfare in north Sinai.

The men were first made to confess they worked for the armies of Egypt and Israel, which borders the Sinai and has been attacked by fighters from the peninsula several times over the past three years.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/11/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis

#1  As per DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS, ditto as per a Video depicting a badly wounded PH PNP-SAF Officer-Commando getting "offed" [shot in the face] by someone on the side.

The PHIL Govt + other are outraged + have demanded that the Video be pulled.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/11/2015 21:06 Comments || Top||


Bombs Wound 10 Civilians in Egypt's Alexandria
[AnNahar] Five bombs went kaboom! outside cop shoppes in Egypt's second city of Alexandria on Tuesday, wounding 10 civilians, police said.

Militants regularly set off explosives in Cairo and Alexandria, but the deadliest attacks have been in the Sinai Peninsula where troops are fighting an Islamist insurgency.

Tuesday's bombings all struck eastern neighborhoods of the Mediterranean city.

Two bombs went off in front of cop shoppes in Montaza district, wounding nine civilians.

A third bomb outside a cop shoppe in Raml maimed one civilian, while two more in Smouha and Sidi Bechr districts caused no casualties.

Last week, a kaboom near a police checkpoint on the western outskirts of Alexandria killed one civilian and maimed two.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/11/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Egypt air raids kill 15 militants
[Ynet] Suspected Islamist forces of Evil set off five bombs in Egypt's second city Alexandria on Tuesday and air raids afterwards in the Sinai Peninsula killed 15 suspected holy warriors, official sources said.

It was not clear if the air raids in Sinai, where forces of Evil have killed hundreds of soldiers and police in attacks since 2013, were in retaliation for the Alexandria blasts. Military officials could not be immediately reached for comment.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/11/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Salafists


Africa Subsaharan
Boko Haram abducts 8 Cameroon girls, kills 7 other hostages
[Ynet] Residents in northern Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
say Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
snuffies have killed seven hostages and kidnapped eight maidens of tender years who were aboard a public transport bus hijacked by the forces of Evil over the weekend.

Chetima Ahmidou told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on Tuesday that the bodies of seven victims had been dumped near Cameroon's border with Nigeria. Ahmidou's brother was the driver of the bus and was among those slain.

Ahmidou said that eight girls between the ages of 11 and 14 were taken back to Nigeria by the Islamic krazed killers.

Boko Haram has intensified its attacks in Cameroon and Niger over the past week after both countries agreed to provide soldiers to a multinational military force.
Another Ynet article adds:
Boko Haram abducts 30 people in Cameroon, Nigeria

Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamic gunnies have kidnapped about 30 people including eight Cameroonian girls and killed seven hostages in two bus hijackings in Cameroon and Nigeria, Cameroon residents and a Nigerian intelligence officer said Tuesday.

Boko Haram have taken eight Cameroonian girls hostage, said Chetima Ahmidou, the principal of a school in the area. The girls range in age from 11 to 14 and come from the town of Koza, he said.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/11/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram


Arabia
4 Qaida Suspects Dead in Yemen Drone Strike
[AnNahar] Four suspected al-Qaeda gunnies were killed Tuesday in a drone strike in Hadramawt province in southeastern Yemen, a military source said.

He said the drone, which only the United States operates in the region, targeted "a gathering of al-Qaeda gunnies" between the village of Qatan and the town of Shibam, killing four and wounding several others.

It was the fourth drone strike since U.S. President Barack Obama
Because I won...
vowed on January 25 not to let up in Washington's campaign against jihadists in Yemen despite the country's political turmoil.

Shiite forces of Evil last month took control of key government buildings in Sanaa, prompting Western-backed President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi to tender his resignation and the militia to take over the government.

Al-Qaeda said Thursday that Harith al-Nadhari, a senior figure who threatened more attacks on La Belle France after last month's killings at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo
...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
, had died in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/11/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia


Down Under
Police: 2 Sydney men planned ‘imminent’ terror attack
[IsraelTimes] Authorities seize hunting knife a machete, an Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
flag and other items from suspects


Two Sydney men were charged on Wednesday with planning to launch an imminent terrorist attack, after police seized a homemade flag associated with the Islamic State group, a machete and a hunting knife in a counterterrorism raid.

The men, aged 24 and 25, would have carried out the attack on Tuesday if they had not been placed in durance vile
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
that day in the raid in the Sydney suburb of Fairfield, New South Wales state Deputy Police Commissioner Catherine Burn told news hounds.

A video that was seized in the raid showed one of the men making threats, though Burn declined to detail exactly what was said. Prime Minister Tony Abbott later told Parliament that the video depicted one of the suspects kneeling in front of the Islamic State flag with the knife and machete while making a statement in Arabic.

Asked whether they were planning a beheading, Burn replied, "We don't really know what act they were going to commit."

"What we are going to allege is consistent with the IS messaging," she said, using an abbreviation for the Islamic State group. "We believe that the men were potentially going to harm somebody, maybe even kill somebody, and potentially using one of the items that we identified and recovered yesterday, potentially a knife."

Police were trying to determine whether the men were in contact with anyone from the Islamic State movement.

"Yesterday, our focus was to act on information that we received about something that was imminent," Burn said. "We believe that we have stopped that threat from occurring. However,
if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well...
there are further investigations that now we will need to follow through."

Omar Al-Kutobi and Mohammad Kiad were charged with undertaking acts in preparation or planning for a terrorist act, which carries a maximum punishment of life in prison. Their lawyer didn't apply for bail and it was formally refused during a brief court hearing Wednesday. Neither man appeared in the courtroom.

Police don't believe there is any link between the alleged plot and another plot that prompted a series of counterterror raids in Sydney in September. One man arrested during those raids was charged with conspiring with an Islamic State leader in Syria to behead a random person in Sydney.

Australia's government raised the country's terror warning level in September in response to the domestic threat posed by supporters of the Islamic State group, which has threatened Australia in the past. In September, its front man Abu Mohammed al-Adnani issued a message urging attacks abroad, and specifically mentioned Australia.

The prime minister said he suspected the terror threat in Australia was going to only worsen.

"As we have seen again and again in recent times, the death cult is reaching out all around the world, including here in Australia," Abbott told Parliament. "There are people in this country who are susceptible to these indictments to extremism and even terrorism."

The government believes about 90 Australians are fighting alongside the Islamic State movement in Syria and Iraq, with another 140 supporting the group from Australia.

The proliferation of Islamic State-style attack plots in countries such as Australia is not surprising because such plots are generally simple and low tech -- which makes them harder to stop, said Clive Williams, a counterterrorism expert at the Australian National University and a former military intelligence officer.

"To drive a car into a group of coppers takes no planning whatsoever," Williams said. "It's a lot different from what al-Qaeda was encouraging people to do, which was to do sophisticated bombings which would result in lots of casualties but took lots of preparation and organization. There was a better chance of detecting them, but they were more dangerous -- whereas these are less detectable but less dangerous."
Much more, including quotes from an unsuspecting neighbour from Australia's ABC News here.
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#1  Looks like Hewlett's and Packard's garage in Palo Alto, LOL. These guys don't look like brothers, only one looks Arab.
Posted by: KBK || 02/11/2015 20:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Looks like Hewlett's and Packard's garage in Palo Alto, LOL. These guys don't look like brothers, only one looks Arab.
Posted by: KBK || 02/11/2015 20:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Oops. Oops.
Posted by: KBK || 02/11/2015 20:27 Comments || Top||


Europe
Sharia4Belgium leader sentenced to 12 years' in prison
[CSMONITOR] A radical Islamic group that recruited youngsters to fight in Syria was a terrorist organization that wanted to violently overthrow democracy and replace it with strict sharia law, a Belgian court ruled Wednesday in a case that played out against a backdrop of soaring terror fears.

The court in Antwerp sentenced the Sharia4Belgium group's "charismatic leader," Fouad Belkacem, to 12 years' imprisonment and gave dozens of other members lower sentences. Belkacem, who was led into court in handcuffs by police in body armor, smiled as he listened to the judgment.

The verdicts came in one of Belgium's biggest ever terror trials -- 46 Moslems were originally indicted, though only a handful appeared in court. Others are believed to be fighting with Sunni gangs in Syria or to have died in its civil war.

Clamping down on the Sharia4Belgium network, which was disbanded more than two years ago, appears to have done little to rein in Islamic holy warriors in the country.
An Nahar adds:
Moslem convert Jejoen Bontinck, 19 -- whose father brought him home from Syria in a celebrated case and who later became a key prosecution witness -- received a 40-month suspended sentence. The other members of the group were sentenced to between three and five years in prison, with some of the sentences being suspended.
Posted by: Fred || 02/11/2015 11:01 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Salafists

#1  Don'tBendOver4TheSoap!
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/11/2015 15:15 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Lebanese Man in U.S. Court for Allegedly Being Ex-Hizbullah Operative
[AnNahar] A Lebanese man went on trial in the United States on Monday on charges that he kept secret his prior affiliation with Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
and Amal movement to remain in the country and to possibly gain access to sensitive information.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Roomberg told jurors in San Antonio, Texas, that Wissam Allouche admitted to an undercover agent to previously being an Amal commander and that he supported Hizbullah.

Roomberg also said that he has told his ex-wife's family of being a prisoner of war in Israel and to pummeling to death an Israeli pilot.

Allouche, 45, was a contract linguist for the U.S. Military in Iraq and moved to the U.S. in 2002.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation locked away
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
him in 2013 after being indicted on charges of not disclosing, during his quest to obtain his U.S. citizenship, his membership in Amal and Hizbullah in the 1980s.

He is also charged with not disclosing his prior membership in those parties when he applied for a linguist job with the Defense Department.

Counterterrorism officials allege that Allouche also falsely claimed to be a U.S. special operations forces officer during visits to Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston and even tried to hook up with women at the post, possibly to gain access to sensitive information.
Not to mention access to pretty women and free beer.
The suspect faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/11/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


India-Pakistan
Health centre blown up in Mohmand
GHALANAI: A government-run community health centre was blown up by unidentified persons in Shal Kor area of Ekkaghund tehsil of Mohmand Agency on Tuesday.

Local people told Dawn by telephone that the miscreants had planted explosives in the building of the health centre.

They said that two blasts occurred in the building which destroyed its structure and boundary wall.

They said that the blasts were heard in the far off areas.

Agency Surgeon Dr Niaz Afridi confirmed the incident and said that total 17 health centres had been blown up by militants in Mohmand tribal region.

The political administration arrested some local people under the collective responsibility clause of Frontier Crimes Regulation and started search for the attackers.
Posted by: Fred || 02/11/2015 20:52 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Health is Un-Islamic
Posted by: Frank G || 02/11/2015 21:14 Comments || Top||


Three volunteers among four hurt in blast
[DAWN] A khasadar
...a rural policeman in Pakistain or India...
official and three volunteers suffered injuries when the vehicle of a local peace committee head was targeted with an improvised bomb in Mohmand Agency
... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar...
here on Monday.

Political tehsildar, Baizai, Miraj Khan confirmed the incident and said that Baizai peace committee head Malik Sanobar was going in his vehicle when it was hit by an improvised Explosive device in Shandara area. As a result, Malik Sanobar, a khasadar official, Hazrat Ali, and two peace volunteers, Ismail Khan and Hazrat, were maimed. He said that the injured men were shifted to a local hospital.

Following the blast, security forces launched a search operation to track down the attackers.

Meanwhile,
...back at the bunker, his Excellency called a hurried meeting of his closest advisors. It was to be his last. They discussed the officers's efficiency rating system...
the security personnel also defused another IED in the same area.
Posted by: Fred || 02/11/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Iraq
If you're ISIS in Kirkuk (or Mosul), submit to being killed
Dying between the Devil...
At least 34 ISIS casualties in U.S.-led strike southwest of Kirkuk

[IraqiNews.com] On Monday, a security source in Kirkuk province said, that 12 ISIS elements have been killed and at least 22 others were maimed in an air strike conducted by the international coalition warplanes in Kirkuk.

The source stated to IraqiNews in an interview, "This afternoon, warplanes of the international coalition conducted an air strike against gathering sites for the ISIS group bandidos forces of Evil in central al-Hawija, located 55 km southwest of Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
" pointing out that, "The air strike resulted in killing 12 ISIS bandidos forces of Evil and injuring at least 22 other elements of the group."
...And the deep blue sea.
ISIL executes 13 of its members due to being defeated in Kirkuk

[IraqiNews.com] The ISIL Death Eaters executed 13 of the "Neglectful" Death Eaters during their attack on the building of Kirkuk Governorate.

Informed sources stated "After foiling the ISIL attack on the building of Kirkuk Governorate, the ISIL executed 13 of its neglectful members who escaped during the festivities because the members came from Syria to support their attack."
More of the same in Mosul. The Mosul Devil:
ISIS executes 23 of its elements for surrender and treason north of Mosul

[IraqiNews.com] A local source in Nineveh province announced Tuesday, that the ISIS organization has executed 23 of its elements by firing squad on charges of surrender and treason northern of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, "ISIS executed 23 of its elements by firing squad on charges of cowardice and treason in the district of Tall Afar (15 km north of Mosul)."

The source, who requested anonymity, added, "The terrorist group sentenced them to death after they fled from battles against the Kurdish Peshmerga forces that took place last week in Wanah and Noran areas north of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
."
And Mosul's deep blue sea:
U.S.-led strike kills 29 ISIS elements in southeast of Mosul

[IraqiNews.com] On Tuesday, a local source in Nineveh province said, that 29 elements of the ISIS group have been killed in an air strike by the U.S.-led international coalition in southeast of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
The source informed IraqiNews, "Warplanes of the international coalition conducted an air strike on ISIS ranks near the village of al-Sultan-Abdullah in Makhmour district, located southeast of Mosul," adding that, "The air strike resulted in killing 29 elements of the ISIS group, in addition to destroying a number of armored vehicles that belonged to the group."
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/11/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Seems that they don't have a Islamist version of Stalin's Orders 270 and 227.

What I'm surprised at is that they don't have a version of the NKVD behind the lines, what with all the 'Soviet veterans' they have.
Posted by: Pappy || 02/11/2015 11:01 Comments || Top||


Of Baghdad booms and boomers
Security forces kill terrorist behind Kadhimiya bombing

[IraqiNews.com] The security forces announced killing the terrorist who detonated his boom-mobile in Adan square of Kadhimiya city of northern Baghdad on Monday.

IED explodes in al-Madaen district of southeastern Baghdad

[IraqiNews.com] Six civilians were maimed in southeastern Baghdad on Tuesday.

Security source stated to IraqiNews.com "An Improvised Explosive Device went off in southeastern Baghdad on Tuesday, injuring six civilians."

"The injured citizens were sent to the hospital for treatment," the source concluded.

9 citizens injured in southern Baghdad

[IraqiNews.com] Nine citizens were maimed in a boom-mobileing hit Mahmoudyia district of southern Baghdad on Tuesday.

Security source stated to IraqiNews.com "The boom-mobile went off in a public market place, injuring 9 civilians in an initial count."

"A security force transported the injured to the hospital for treatment," the source concluded.
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IED explodes in northern Babel
[IraqiNews.com] Two civilians were maimed in northern Babel on Tuesday.
Security source stated to IraqiNews.com "An Adhesive Explosive Device attached to civilian vehicle went off in al-Haswa area of al-Mahaweel district."

"The ambulances hurried to the kaboom scene and sent the injured civilians to the hospital for treatment," the source concluded.
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35 security forces elements killed, wounded in two explosions south of Tikrit
[IraqiNews.com] On Tuesday, a source within Salahuddin police announced, that 35 elements of the security forces have been killed and maimed in an kaboom of two boom-mobiles south of Tikrit.

The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, "Two cars driven by jacket wallahs blew off in the late hours of last night in front of the security forces' headquarters located on Samarra -Thar Thar road southwest of Samarra (40 km south of Tikrit), which resulted in killing six security forces elements and wounding 29 others."

The source, who requested anonymity, added, "Security forces cordoned off the scene, while ambulances rushed to transport the maimed to a nearby hospital and the bodies of the dead to the Forensic Medicine Authority.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/11/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Southeast Asia
MILF leader says it is still a ‘revolutionary’ group
[Gulf Today] A senior leader of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front said the front still considers itself a "revolutionary organization" pending full implementation of its peace agreement with the Philippine government.

In a letter addressed to a Senate committee, Mohagher Iqbal, the MILF's chief peace negotiator, said that while the front has signed a peace agreement with the government "after 18 years of intermittent war and negotiations, that peace agreement has yet to be implemented. Until that peace agreement is fully implemented, we will remain to be a revolutionary organization."

Iqbal wrote the letter to explain his absence from a hearing which is being conducted to look into the killing of 44 police commandos during a botched law enforcement mission on January 25.

In the same letter, Iqbal said the MILF's central committee had approved his appearance at a date which has yet to be scheduled as he requested that he be allowed to testify in a session closed to the public and media. But most of the senators opposed the request, saying this would not be fair to senior government officials and ranking security officers who testified in an open hearing covered live on radio and TV.

Still unconfirmed reports said weapons, including heavy guns, seized from the "fallen 44" by the MILF and BIFF members were being sold in Mindanao.
Posted by: ryuge || 02/11/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Moro Islamic Liberation Front

#1  Sort of like the Institutional 'Revolutionary' Party of Mexico which is sort of like the Donk party in Illinois, a corrupt mafia like organization that runs the place. Neat names but new boss same as the old boss.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/11/2015 8:03 Comments || Top||

#2  What we take in each day, month, year is none of your business. You gots any other questions, ask my brother Anthony at the next toll stop, 17 miles ahead. Now shut up and keep driving.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/11/2015 8:10 Comments || Top||

#3  MILF? BIFF?

These guys need new acronyms.
Posted by: Raj || 02/11/2015 10:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Illinois was only to collect tolls until their portion of the initial Interstate was paid off, or so they said at the time (1958).

We figure that would have been about 1965. Odd that they still collect tolls. ;)

They generate roughly $850 million in annual revenue (according to published sources) with a $700 million annual budget.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 02/11/2015 12:07 Comments || Top||

#5  In other words, "We don't want peace, just continued war".
Posted by: 49 Pan || 02/11/2015 13:43 Comments || Top||

#6  More like "we haven't sold out."
Posted by: Pappy || 02/11/2015 16:52 Comments || Top||

#7  Recruiting down from the younger, hipper groups?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/11/2015 18:00 Comments || Top||

#8  MILF? BIFF? These guys need new acronyms.

Cougar?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/11/2015 18:04 Comments || Top||

#9  LSMFT
Losing Sucks Make Taqqiya
Posted by: Shipman || 02/11/2015 18:46 Comments || Top||

#10  See also MANILA TIMES > [oVER] 250 MUSLIM FIGHTERS [MILF + BIFF] KILLED AT MAMASAPANO.

* SAME > "MARWAN PALNNED/PLOTTED TO KILL POPE" ARTIC [Pope Francis during PH visit] = Former SAF Commander Getulio Napanenas claims that MILF, Abu Sayaff, + BIFF all helped to covertly hide "Marwan" from arrest or capture by PHIL Govt-Army-Police authorities???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/11/2015 20:13 Comments || Top||

#11  De latest from MANILA TIMES ...

> SAME > "AQUINO HAMPERED RESCUE [SAF]OPERATION".
> "MARWAN" DEATH WILL NOT STOP TERROR RECRUITMENT.

* MANILA BULLETIN > BIFF WON'T YIELD [surrender] GUNS OF SLAIN SAF TROOPS.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed + hoping hard that PH President Aquino + POTUS Obama won't prove to be "red line" mirror-images of each other.

As per prophetic warnings from God + my Ancestors = 1960's-1970's Taotamonas, THE TIME TO CHANGE THE FUTURE OF GUAM-WESTPAC, EVEN AMERICA = AMERIKA, IS NOW WHILE IT STILL CAN BE CHANGED.

Better late than never.


Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/11/2015 21:34 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Kurdish forces to reach Jarablus after defeating ISIS in Kobane
[ARA] Kurdish fighters of the People's Protection Units (YPG), in cooperation with the Peshmerga forces and rebels of the Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
(FSA), were able to regain more areas in western Kobane (Ain al-Arab) in the province of Aleppo, northern Syria, military sources reported on Tuesday.

The newly regained areas are only 3 km from the city of Jarablus, a Syrian border city controlled by the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group (IS/ISIS) since more than one year.

Speaking to ARA News on the phone, Saeed Judi, a fighter in the YPG ranks, said that the Kurdish fighters took control of Khirbet Atto village (administratively linked to Shuyookh town) near Jarablus.

"Thus the city of Jarablus is about 3 km away, and now the whole city, which is one of the most strategic strongholds of the radical group, is under the crossfire of the Peshmerga and the YPG military units," he said.

Judi also reported that the YPG fighters were able to enter the town of Jalabiya, in the southeastern countryside of Kobane, where fierce festivities continue in the vicinity of the French plant of Cement, adding that more than 80% of Kobane's countryside became under the control of the defending forces of Kobane.

On the other hand, high ranking leaders of the YPG asked for extending the mission of the Peshmerga forces in Kobane, where a base for these forces will be built on the outskirts of the city to be a launching pad for military operations against the hardline group of the Islamic State, a Kurdish military source told ARA News.

"However,
the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits...
the decision of the Peshmerga's remaining in Kobane is up to the approval of President Massoud Barzani
... hereditary head of the Kurdish Democratic Party, maybe a little too close to the Medes and the Persians for most people's tastes...
, president of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq," the source added.

Subsequent to the remarkable advancement made by the joint forces defending Kobane and the attacks hit IS headquarters in Manbij and Jarabalus, the IS group declared a state of alert in the remaining villages under its control in the countryside of Kobane, calling for more reinforcements there.
Posted by: Fred || 02/11/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Syrian warplanes attack civilians in Deir ez-Zor
[ARA] Two non-combatants were killed and several others injured due to aerial bombardment by warplanes loyal to Syrian president Bashir al-Assad on the town of al-Bu Omar in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor province, in eastern Syria, locals reported on Tuesday.

Speaking to ARA News in Deir ez-Zor, civil rights activist Fayez Abdulaziz said that pro-Assad military forces targeted residential buildings in the town with steric missiles, killing two women and injuring several other civilians.

"The injured were transferred to the field hospital in the town," he added.

Abdulaziz said that the attack followed similar bombing in the town on Monday, killing one civilian and wounding four others.

Meanwhile,
...back at the fist fight, Jake ducked another roundhouse, then parried with his left, then with his right, finally with his chin...
the pro-regime warplanes targeted al-Jafra village adjacent to the military airport of Deir ez-Zor. No casualties reported.

"Also, fierce festivities broke out between turbans of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(IS/ISIS) and the pro-regime forces near the military airport of Deir ez-Zor, without receiving information about losses," Abdulaziz told ARA News.

On Monday, the pro-regime snipers ‐stationed on the Furat al-Sham hotel‐ injured three civilians in the city of Janina, in western Deir ez-Zor, which led to festivities between IS holy warriors and the pro-regime forces in the area, local sources told ARA News.

In the meantime, the Islamic State group closed the water crossing of al-Janina village (which is linked to the regime-held neighborhood of al-Jura), after preventing civilians from entering areas and neighborhoods held by the pro-regime forces.
Posted by: Fred || 02/11/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Kurdish forces cooperate with FSA to free Arab villages from ISIS
[ARA] In collaboration with the Peshmerga forces and rebel fighters of the FSA-linked Burkan al-Furat rebels, the People's Protection Units (YPG) retook villages (administratively linked to Shuyookh town) west of Kobane (Ain al-Arab) after battles with gunnies of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group (IS/ISIS), Kurdish military sources reported on Monday.

"The joint forces (YPG, FSA, and Peshmerga) regained villages near the town of Shuyookh, the main stronghold of gunnies west of Kobane," Saeed Judi, a YPG fighter, told ARA News.

Judi emphasized that the joint forces took control of the entire villages of Talik and Darbazin near the town of Shuyookh.

"The population of both villages is primarily Arab and Kurd.

"All IS command centers in the town of Shuyookh are in the crossfire of the Peshmerga and the YPG fighters," the source told ARA News.

Judi also denied some pro-IS websites allegations concerning the infiltration of IS members in the established security box of central Kobane, pointing out that the radical group has been defeated in all fighting fronts.

"All these news are rumors the IS hardline group uses as part of a 'psychological war' propaganda," Judi argued.

Also on Monday, field sources reported what they described the "liberation of eight new villages" east of Kobane, including Zari, Qartal, Kalti, Darb Hassan, Kochkar, Shish, Bir Habash, and Matin.

Meanwhile,
...back at the hanging, Butch continued with his last words, trying not to repeat himself too often......
the sources confirmed that Kurdish-led operations of dismantling mines and bombs continue in other eight villages, including Bir Arab Janubi, Bir Arab Shamali, Baghdik, Khan, Idaniya, Jirn, Zarzuri and Kolt, a distance of more than 40 km eastern the city.

Notably, YPG and FSA-linked sources confirmed Sunday that there is no intention for the YPG fighters to enter or stay in the Arab villages and areas, and that the administration of theses areas will be assigned solely to the FSA factions only.
Posted by: Fred || 02/11/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


Syria Kurds target new border town after retaking Kobani
[IsraelTimes] Tal Abyad, located in Raqqa province, is currently used by Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
to cross into Turkey


Syrian Kurdish forces have set their sights on taking back from jihadists Tal Abyad, another strategic town on the border with Turkey, after recapturing Kobani, a monitor said Monday.

Tal Abyad, located about 65 kilometers (40 miles) east of Kobani, is an Arab and Kurd town in the Syrian province of Raqqa used by jihadists of the Islamic State group to cross into Turkey.

The Sunni krazed killer IS seized Tal Abyad from Kurdish and rebel combatants who have been fighting to oust the regime of Syria's Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
The Scourge of Hama...
since 2011.

After four months of fierce fighting, the Kurds and rebels recaptured Kobani in January, and they have since also reclaimed a third of the villages in the area, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

"The next battle after Kobani is Tal Abyad," Rami Abdel Rahman, the director of the Britannia-based monitoring group, said on Monday.

"The Kurds and a Raqqa revolutionary brigade arrived on Monday at the edge of Raqqa province."

An activist in Raqqa said the battle for villages around Tal Abyad had already begun, forcing people to flee across the border into Turkey.

"Tal Abyad is so important to IS that it has dug tunnels in the area and built fortifications on the town's outskirts," said the activist who identified himself as Nael Mustafa.

"The battle will take a long time, but it's a start."

On another front, further west in the province of Aleppo, "IS sent reinforcements to protect its strongholds of Minbej and Jarabulus which could also be a target for the Kurdish fighters," said Abdel Rahman.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/11/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Syria Activists Accuse Islamists of 'Kidnapping' Colleagues
[AnNahar] Syrian activists on Tuesday accused Jaysh al-Islam, a powerful Islamist group near Damascus, of detaining a group of their colleagues, in what they said was the latest in a string of abuses.
Mensheviks always complain when trampled by Bolsheviks.
"An gang believed to be loyal to Jaysh al-Islam stormed the office of Erbin's local (activist) committee... It kidnapped the team there and took them to an area near the frontline," said the non-violent Local Coordination Committees activist group.

The gunnies also "seized and destroyed the Erbin committee's equipment", said the LCC, condemning the raid. Its statement came a day after the Erbin committee announced via its Facebook page that its office had been broken into.

An LCC spokeswoman told AFP via the Internet that six activists had been taken from their office on Monday, while the Erbin committee said one had since been set free.

According to the Erbin committee's Facebook page, the unnamed activist who was released said his detained colleagues "are being held in isolation from each other, in solitary confinement."

LCC spokeswoman Majeda, who refused to be identified by her full name for fear of persecution, said the latest detention is part of a campaign by Jaysh al-Islam to "empty the revolution of its true activists."
Of course. That's what Bolsheviks do.
Jaysh al-Islam is the most powerful rebel group operating in the Eastern Ghouta area, east of Damascus, where Erbin is located. Critics have accused its chief, Zahran Alloush, of seeking to sideline any potential rivals, armed or peaceful.

Jaysh al-Islam front man Islam Alloush told AFP that the Erbin activists had been "detained by the United Judiciary", the local judicial authority in the region. He said he had no further information on the case, or on what charges had been brought against the activists. Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman said the rebel judiciary in Eastern Ghouta is "dominated" by Jaysh al-Islam.

The rebel group has been accused of detaining activists before, including in late 2013, when four prominent activists in Douma, also east of Damascus, went missing.

"The kidnapper is one and the same," LCC spokeswoman Majeda said of the two incidents. "By no means is it the first time that we see such a kidnapping."
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/11/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Salafists


Terror Networks
UAE launches air strikes against ISIS from Jordan
[IraqiNews.com] The UAE launched air strikes against ISIS hideouts from an air base in Jordan, returning to combat missions after suspending air strikes following the detention and execution of the Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh

The General Command of the UAE Armed Forces announced that Emirati F-16 warplanes have carried out air strikes against hideouts for the ISIS group in the ISIS‐seized territory, returning to combat missions after suspending air strikes.

The fighters returned safely back to the base after striking their targets, an official statement said.

Noteworthy, the UAE has announced last Saturday, that it will resume its air strikes against the ISIS group Lions of Islam in Iraq and Syria after the suspension that followed the execution of the Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/11/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  I wonder how much the White House 'paid' to get them back into the air.
Posted by: Pappy || 02/11/2015 11:06 Comments || Top||

#2  I wonder how much the White House 'paid' to get them back into the air.

They moved the Search and Rescue airplanes much closer to the target areas, Pappy. But perhaps more/easier visas for their students, guaranteed stipends, continue blocking Keystone, harass Israel more... so many possibilities.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/11/2015 11:36 Comments || Top||



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