[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The newly emerged Death Eater group, Daesh has asked people in parts 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 to refer to their judiciary if there are problems.
The Death Eater group has issued warnings in areas where they are operating telling local elders not to organize Jirgas and if people have issues they need to refer to Daesh.
Daesh claims to have judges for making decision.
Provincial council members of Nangarhar province say that Daesh has also warned women not to leave their homes without veils such as Burqa and Hijab or a religious excuse.
According to the provincial council members, the Death Eater group has prohibited snuff and cigarette and threatened consequences if one is caught not obeying the orders.
According to reports, Daesh has been operating under the name of Khoraasan province in parts of Shirzad, Khogyani, Shinwari, Bati Kot, Achin and Haska Mina ans some other districts of Nangarhar province.
Videos and photos released recently 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.... in Iraq and the Levant or the Islamic State affiliated group in Afghanistan purportedly showing the barbaric killing methods applied by the Death Eaters in Iraq and Syria.
Afghan senators have warned that serious consequences will follow if the expansion of Daesh is not prevented.
Posted by: Fred ||
06/25/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[2 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
[Tolo News] At least 37 turbans have been killed in a series of coordinated operations over the past 24 hours by the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said in a statement on Wednesday.
In addition, 41 other turbans were maimed and four nabbed Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! .
The operations were conducted in Parwan, Takhar, Kunduz, Badakhshan and Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... provinces, the statement said.
"During the same 24 hour period, Afghan National Police discovered and defused 32 different types of IEDs placed by enemies of Afghanistan for destructive activities in Uruzgan, Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... and Helmand provinces," it said.
The MoI, however, did not comment on whether any security force members were maimed during the operations.
Posted by: Fred ||
06/25/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[2 views]
Top|| File under: Taliban
[Tolo News] At least five Taliban Death Eaters, including their leader, were killed in ongoing festivities in northern Baghlan province, local officials said on Wednesday.
Jawhar Khan Baburi, District Governor of Baghlan-e-Markazi said that the festivities continue. However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... snuffies reportedly attacked police posts in Mangal district on Monday night in a bid to take control of the district.
There are no military casualties so far in the festivities, Baburi said.
This comes after a number of Taliban snuffies attacked police posts in Baghlan-e-Markazi on Monday night and took control of Alawuddin and Mangal villages in the district.
Tribal elders meanwhile confirmed the collapse of villages into Taliban hands but said that the Afghan cops have re-taken control of at least one village, Khudaidadkhil, which had also fallen into the control of the Taliban Death Eaters.
Baghlan borders Kunduz province, which has been the scene of ongoing festivities with Taliban snuffies who took control of Dasht-e-Archi district.
Posted by: Fred ||
06/25/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[2 views]
Top|| File under: Taliban
[Tolo News] Insurgents claiming to be Daesh fighters have reportedly distributed leaflets in 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.. prohibiting women from leaving their homes without any Sharia (Islamic Legal) excuse, according to provincial officials.
The four-article pamphlet of so-called Daesh murderous Moslems includes threats against the elders of Nangarhar and women of the eastern province -- where officials have already confirmed sightings of the newly-emerged group, based in Iraq and Syria.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred ||
06/25/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[4 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
[Tolo News] The National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) on Wednesday reported that preliminary investigations show Monday's attack on Parliament was conceived in 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. , Pakistain, by the Haqqani Network. What's more, the NDS has asserted that an officer of the Pak intelligence service (ISI) aided the attack.
According NDS front man Haseeb Sediqi, the leader of the Haqqani Network's military arm, Mawlawi Sheerin, was the criminal mastermind of the attack. However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... in a development that is likely to complicate an the national unity government's attempts to make Islamabad a partner for peace, an ISI officer named Bilal is thought to have provided financial and logistical support for the Haqqani Network.
"This attack by the Haqqani group was organized with major support from someone named Bilal, an officer of the ISI," Sediqi said on Wednesday. "In this operation, the attackers were provided with approximately 7.5 million Pak rupees."
Sediqi also claimed that two other attempted attacks on the Parliament building had been foiled earlier in the year thanks to arrests made by the NDS. Even in those cases, he said, there were signs that the attackers received institutional support. "They had a lot of help, such as a very professional blueprint of Parliament and a very sophisticated attack."
The attack on Parliament occurred just as the Minister of Defense nominee, Masoom Stanekzai, was scheduled to appear in front of politicians to receive his vote of confidence. Over 30 civilians were maimed and five others were killed. The Taliban grabbed credit.
Posted by: Fred ||
06/25/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[2 views]
Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan
[Beirut Daily Star] Somalia's Al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... rebels killed at least six people Wednesday in a suicide kaboom on a diplomatic convoy from the United Arab Emirates in the Somali capital Mogadishu, police and the Islamists said.
"We have confirmed the death of six people, four of them civilians, while six others were also maimed, some seriously," police officer Abdukadir Hasan told AFP.
He said no UAE diplomats were hurt in the attack, with the Somali security staff escorting them stopping the bomber with their truck as the blast went off.
Al-Shabaab said it carried out the attack, which is believed to be the first time the Al-Qaeda affiliate has targeted the UAE in Somalia. The UAE is involved in a number of security, infrastructure, development and humanitarian projects in Somalia.
"The mujahedeen fighters ... carried out a successful attack on a delegation from the apostate government of the United Arab Emirates," said an Al-Shabaab statement posted on an murderous Moslem website.
"A jacket wallah rammed his car into the pick-up truck and there were casualties," Somali security official Abdi Dahir said. "There was a heavy kaboom."
A military convoy from the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... force in Somalia (AMISOM) was also passing nearby at the time of the attack close to the UAE Embassy, witnesses said.
"I saw the dead bodies of two people, and there were several maimed soldiers," said Abdulahi Yasin, who saw the aftermath.
"The kaboom was very heavy and it destroyed the pick-up truck," said Hassan Bile, another witness.
U.N. envoy to Somalia, Nick Kay, condemned the "utterly cruel terror attack against UAE in Somalia."
Posted by: Fred ||
06/25/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[2 views]
Top|| File under: al-Shabaab
[AnNahar] A girl thought to be aged just 12 detonated explosives she was carrying at a market in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... on Tuesday, killing 10 people and injuring dozens, a relative of one of the injured told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The blast bore all the hallmarks of 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... Islamists, who have used young women and girls in the past as human bombs and regularly attacked "soft" civilian targets such as markets.
The kaboom happened at around 11:00 am (1000 GMT) at the weekly market in Wagir, in the Gujba district south of the Yobe state capital Damaturu.
"It was a suicide kaboom by a girl of around 12 years," said Hussaini Aisami, whose relative was among at least 30 people injured. "She went into the market and headed straight to the grain section. She detonated her explosives in the middle of traders and customers.
"Ten people died from the kaboom. We brought 30 people to the hospital."
On Monday, a girl thought to be aged about 17 killed at least 20 at a bus station near a fish market in the state capital of Borno, Maiduguri, when the explosives she was carrying went off. A girl about the same age was also killed in an kaboom nearby but there were no other casualties.
Security analysts have suggested that younger girls may have their explosives detonated remotely by a third party.
The injured from Wagir were taken to the Sani Abachi Specialist Hospital in Damaturu for treatment but others with less serious injuries were released.
A nurse at the hospital, who asked not to be named, confirmed the relative's account after speaking to other relatives.
"We received 30 people with various grievous injuries from Wagir this afternoon," he said. "We have not received any dead bodies. Residents from the village said the dead were taken out for burial from the scene after the blast at the market."
Suicide attacks, raids and shelling have increased since new President Muhammadu Buhari took power on May 29 vowing to crush the murderous Moslems. In all, some 208 people have been killed since then, according to AFP reporting.
Posted by: trailing wife ||
06/25/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[3 views]
Top|| File under: Boko Haram
[AnNahar] Suspected 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... gunniesrubbed out at least 42 people in two separate attacks in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , with no let-up in sight to the Islamist group's targeting of civilians.
The attacks in the remote villages of Debiro Hawul and Debiro Biu in Borno state on Monday and Tuesday came before at least 10 people were killed in a suicide kaboom in neighboring Yobe.
The attacks saw some 30 Lion of Islam fighters storm Debiro Biu on Monday and Debiro Hawul the following day, with reports taking time to emerge because of the villages' remote location.
"We received reports of attacks by suspected Boko Haram gunnies on the two villages, in which 42 deaths were recorded," one police officer told AFP from the town of Biu.
Umaru Markus, who fled Debiro Hawul, said the attacks were carried out by some 30 Islamists in a convoy of pick-up trucks and cycle of violences. The rebels rubbed out their victims after looting homes and shops and setting fire to buildings, he added.
"They came around 12:30 am (1130 GMT on Tuesday) and opened fire on the village, which sent people scampering into the bush to escape the attack," he said. "The gunnies slaughtered 22 people who were not fast enough in fleeing and went about looting homes, grains silos and drug stores."
The attack on Debiro Biu left 20 people dead, he said.
"It never occurred to us we would be the next target," he added.
Ending the insurgency is a priority for Buhari and his administration. The new president has already visited Chad and Niger to secure sustained regional support for the fight-back. On Tuesday, his office said he had accepted an invitation to go to 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... , whose far north region has been increasingly hit by the violence.
A new regional fighting force comprising 8,700 troops from Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon and Benin is due to deploy at the end of next month.
But there will be pressure to counter Boko Haram's urban guerrilla tactics to which it has reverted after it captured swathes of territory last year.
Posted by: trailing wife ||
06/25/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[6 views]
Top|| File under: Boko Haram
[Iran Press TV] The Yemeni army has fired as many as 12 rockets at a Saudi military base in the southwestern Saudi province of Jizan.
Yemeni army forces, backed by popular committees, targeted the Saudi military base of al-Doud and the area surrounding it in Jizan late on Wednesday.
There has been no immediate report on the casualties or material damage caused by the rocket attacks.
The rocket attacks by the Yemeni army were in response to Saudi aggression against several areas across the impoverished Arab country. Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... has been carrying out Arclight airstrikes against Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... since March 26 without the authorization of the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... .
The Saudi fighter jets targeted the premises of Yemen's customs in the city of Hard in the northwestern province of Hajjah, and a governmental complex in the northern province of al-Jawf.
Saudi warplanes also pounded several areas in Yemen's northwestern province of Sa'ada. In one of the attacks on Wednesday morning, Saudi fighter jets struck a residential building in the Saqin district, razing it to the ground, the Arabic-language al-Masirah satellite television network reported.
A Shia Moslemholy man, identified as Allameh Homaizah, and five members of his family, including two children and a woman, were killed in the aerial attack.
Time running out for ceasefire as famine looms
Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, the pastor had finally been wrestled from the pulpit. Y'got the wrong guy! he yelled just before Sergeant Malone's billy club landed... Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, the UN envoy for Yemen, called for an immediate ceasefire in Yemen, saying that some 21 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance and one million people have been displaced in the fighting in the country.
"It is imperative for all the parties -- and for me everybody is responsible -- to find a truce," the envoy told news hounds.
He further called for the ceasefire to take hold before the end of Ramadan on July 17, adding that the Arab country is on the brink of famine.
"We are one step away from famine," the UN envoy said, adding, "We want to really find a way to lessen the suffering of the population."
Posted by: Fred ||
06/25/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[4 views]
Top|| File under: Houthis
Moments before a judge sentenced him to death, Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev rose to his feet Wednesday and apologized to the victims and their loved ones for the first time. "I pray for your relief, for your healing," he said. Apologizing to the dead does them no good.
"I am sorry for the lives that I've taken, for the suffering that I've caused you, for the damage that I've done - irreparable damage," the 21-year-old college student said haltingly in his Russian accent, breaking more than two years of silence. "I'm sorry I got caught."
After Tsarnaev said his piece, U.S. District Judge George O'Toole Jr. quoted Shakespeare's line "The evil that men do lives after them. The good is often interred with their bones."
"So it will be for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev," the judge said, telling Tsarnaev that no one will remember that his teachers were fond of him, that his friends found him fun to be with or that he showed compassion to disabled people. What will be remembered is that you murdered and maimed innocent people, and that you did it willfully and intentionally.
"You did it on purpose," O'Toole said in ordering that Tsarnaev be executed.
[RUDAW.NET] 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.... 's finance minister in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... was killed by a booby trap while returning from the town of Gayara to the group's stronghold of Mosul on Tuesday, a Kurdish official told Rudaw.
"ISIS Finance Minister Mohammed Zaalan al-Afari was killed in a booby trap ambush on the Gayara-Mosul road after he took part in the opening of a women's prison for those not committed to sexual jihad," Saeed Mamuzini, a media officer of the Kurdistan Democratic Party's (KDP) 17th branch in Mosul, told Rudaw.
Wait -- so if a female of appropriate age refuses to be a temple prostitute for the greater glory of Allah, they throw her in prison? I need to stop being surprised by this kind of thing.
Sexual jihad is a controversial practice within jihadi groups where women voluntarily offer themselves in a sexual comfort role to fighters.
"Alongside Afari four other Death Eaters were killed by the booby trap," Mamuzini added. The Mosul Independent Youth have grabbed credit for the attack, Mamuzini continued.
According to information obtained by Rudaw, Afari was an Iraqi army officer prior to joining holy warrior jihadi groups in 2004.
One of Saddam Hussein's ends-justify-the-means guys using the caliphate to restore the Baathist tyranny.
He allegedly had close ties with the Islamic State's Caliph His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... and slain Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
Posted by: Fred ||
06/25/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[3 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
[RUDAW.NET] Iraqi military forces in a joint operation with Hashd al-Shaabi Shiite militias have regained total control over the oil-rich city of Baiji, according to a military source.
An Iraqi army officer, who asked to remain anonymous, told Rudaw that after a series of fierce festivities with ISIS hard boyz Iraqi military forces finally regained control of Baiji Tuesday night. He added that ISIS hard boyz withdrew from the town and fled north.
On June 7, Shiite hard boyz of Hashd al-Shaabi managed to enter Baiji, located in Iraq's Salahadin province, but they failed to retake control of all parts of the town from ISIS holy warriors.
The Baiji oil refinery, Iraq's largest oil facility, has been the scene of intense fighting for many weeks. It was partially overtaken by ISIS fighters during heavy fighting last month. The military source did not mention fresh fighting at the refinery specifically, but did say the military was approaching the site.
Posted by: Fred ||
06/25/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[2 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] A jacket wallah detonated a boom-mobile at a gathering of Iraqi Sunni tribal leaders, killing 14 people in an attack claimed Wednesday 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, police said.
"Fourteen people were killed and at least 24 maimed," a police captain said of the Tuesday night bombing in the Baladruz area of Diyala province, north of Baghdad.
A medical source at the Baladruz hospital confirmed the toll.
The bomber struck "a gathering of notables and figures, most of them from the Al-Nida tribe," the officer said.
An army colonel said that the Al-Nida -- a major Sunni tribe in Diyala province -- had supported the government against Islamic State (IS) group jihadists.
ISIS claimed the suicide kaboom in an online statement Wednesday, saying a Tajik man carried out the attack.
The jihadist group is made up of Sunni Moslems, but does not hesitate to attack Sunnis who oppose it.
Iraq announced in January that Iraqi forces had "liberated" Diyala, significant parts of which had been overrun by IS after the jihadists launched a brutally effective offensive last June.
Posted by: Fred ||
06/25/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[2 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
[Rudaw] The Iraqi Ministry of Defense has announced that a late-night attack by Iraqi forces killed an ISIS leader described as a mufti, or judge, in the murderous Moslem-run Sharia court in Anbar province along with dozens of the group's turbans, according to a statement released on Wednesday.
"A force of the Anbar Operations Command with the help of Iraqi jets conducted attacks against ISIS bases in areas east of the town Ramadi including Albu Alwan, Albu Shajil and eastern Hasbia, killing 24 snuffies and wounding 36 others beside destroying 12 weapons depots," read the statement.
The statement said a separate military campaign against ISIS elements in the town of Hasbia discovered a huge weapons depot containing light and heavy weapons and anti-aircraft missiles. The weapons cache was destroyed along with 30 forces of Evil who were defending it, according to the statement.
Iraqi fighter jets with the help of intelligence information were reportedly responsible for the death of the ISIS mufti.
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 seized control of the city of Ramadi on May 17, sending Iraqi forces racing out of the city in a major loss despite the support of US-led Arclight airstrikes targeting the murderous Moslems. Since then, festivities have been frequent in the province as Iraqi forces prepare to a campaign to retake the area.
Posted by: trailing wife ||
06/25/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[2 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq
[Iran Press TV] Hezbollah Brigades in Iraq has issued bounties for the arrest of members of the ISIL Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... group who have been wreaking havoc in the Middle Eastern country.
The Special Operations of Hezbollah Brigades, also known as Kata'ib Hezbollah or Hezbollah Battalions, a group fighting the ISIL Takfiri group in Iraq, said in a statement on Tuesday that as much as $12,000 has been allocated as a reward for those who take captive members of the Takfiri group from Western Europe and North America, online newspaper Iraqi News reported.
The statement by the group further noted that a bounty of $10,000 will be offered to anyone who captures Takfiri bandidoshard boyz from the countries in the Persian Gulf region, Leb, and Algeria.
It also added that anyone who arrests ISIL bandidoshard boyz from the Caucasus region and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... will be awarded $7,000. The statement, however, said that no reward has been allocated for nabbing Takfiri bandidoshard boyz with Iraqi, Pak, Afghan, and and Syrian nationalities.
The northern and western parts of Iraq have been witnessing acts of terrorism and violence by ISIL since June 2014. The Iraqi army, joined by volunteer fighters, has been battling the terrorist group to flush them out of the areas they have under control.
The United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... has said that 25,000 bandidoshard boyz from more than 100 countries have traveled to Syria and Iraq to join terrorist groups such as ISIL and al-Qaeda-affiliate al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front.
Takfiri bully boys, who currently control parts of Syria, Iraq, and Libya, have carried out atrocious crimes in the countries, including mass executions and beheading of people.
Posted by: Fred ||
06/25/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[2 views]
Top|| File under: Hezbollah
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Iraq's most powerful Shiite force said it is relying more heavily on elite units who fought in Syria in the battle against 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) for control of a critical Iraqi refinery and is now well placed to counter the krazed killers' guerrilla warfare.
Iraq's biggest refinery complex near the town of Baiji north of Baghdad has changed hands several times over many months of fighting and is one of the main fronts in Iraq's bid to retake the third of its territory held by the Sunni Lion of Islams.
Haji Jawad al-Talabawi, a military commander and front man for the Asaib Ahl al-Haq militia, said it is now more effective in street combat and he is hopeful that the tide will turn in favour of government troops and their Shiite militia allies.
"We are using our special forces who were trained fighting in Syria (against ISIS). That has enabled us to fight street-to-street and house-to-house," he told Rooters in a telephone interview. "We are depending on a new strategy."
"We will defeat Daesh in Baiji soon, in a matter of days." Daesh is a mildly pejorative Arabic acronym for ISIS.
Iraqi army and police commanders leading the battle for control of the Baiji refinery told Rooters this week they cannot defeat ISIS unless they change tactics to better cope with the Lion of Islams' guerrilla tactics.
'Last card'
In March, the army and its Iranian-backed Shiite militia allies recaptured former dictator Saddam Hussein's home town Tikrit in the Tigris river valley about 180 km (100 miles) north of Baghdad.
The fighters responded with their own major victory last month, seizing the city of Ramadi in Sunni heartland Anbar Province in the west.
The battle for Baiji, about 40 km (25 miles) north of Tikrit, is an important test of whether the government and Shiite forces can reclaim momentum. But they have so far failed to secure victory there against a mobile and hidden enemy that has proven expert in unconventional warfare.
Talabawi said militias now control 80 percent of Baiji - a claim that could not be independently confirmed. ISIS is resorting to what he called its "last card" in Baiji.
"They have mostly imported muscle from countries like Afghanistan and Pakistain and Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... . They have jacket wallahs in place," said Talabawi.
Posted by: Fred ||
06/25/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[2 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
[AA.TR] The Al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... group has posted a video online which shows three hostages begging for their ransoms to be paid as their abductors stand by threatening to behead them.
The 3-1/2 minute clip that appeared late Wednesday shows Aliguay Island Barangay village chief Rudy Boligao and coastguards Rodlyn Pagaling and Gringo Villaruz blindfolded, kneeling, making their pleas.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Livia had made her point with her knee to Jane's stomach... seven masked gunnies, one of them armed with a machete, stand by threatening to execute the men.
Boligao, Pagaling and Villaruz were kidnapped by suspected Abu Sayyaf affiliates at a beach resort in Aliguay Island, Dapitan City - home to two high-end resorts frequented by foreign and domestic tourists - in Zamboanga del Norte in the southern Philippines on May 4.
Authorities had earlier told Anadolu Agency that around 15 Abu Sayyaf gunnies clad in military and police uniforms had landed in Barangay Aliguay Island and kidnapped the victims, and then fled in an unknown direction.
The suspects had reportedly introduced themselves as police and military personnel and asked about the presence of tourists.
In Wednesday's footage, Pagaling is the first to beg for help from President Benigno S. Aquino III, family members and government officials saying that their captors intend to kill them. A machete was raised above his neck as he talked in front of the camera.
"I am Rod Pagaling and a coastguard... We are calling the government to help us, especially the president... President Aquino help us... Help us... They will kill us... Have mercy on us... To the officials and government to our family help us," Pagaling says in his native Tagalog.
Posted by: Fred ||
06/25/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[2 views]
Top|| File under: Abu Sayyaf
[Inquirer] An alleged high ranking official of the communist New People's Army operating in Samar has been arrested and is now being detained at the provincial jail in Catbalogan City. Erwin Lagucay was nabbed Sunday night and has been charged with illegal possession of explosives. A hand grenade, a blasting cap, two improvised explosive devices and bladed weapons were discovered in his bag during his arrest.
Army officials described Lagucay as a leader of the NPA's Centro de Gravidad and head of the organizing committee of the Jorge Bolito Command. He was said to be a resident of Barangay Villa Aurora in Basey, once a stronghold of the communist group in the region.
Inspector Eric Loterio said, "He was standing on the street when was arrested by the members of the Army’s intelligence group."
Lagucay denied being a leader, and said he was only a member of the militant group. He also admitted involvement in an ambush and a raid on a paramilitary detachment in Sta. Rita. That ambush in 2005 resulted in the death of a policeman.
[Reuters] A car bomb exploded near the Turkish border gate in the Syrian town of Kobani on Thursday as Islamic State militants launched an attack from three sides of the town. The attack killed and injured people in the town but the toll is not immediately clear.
A doctor in Kobani,Welat Omer, said that around 60-70 people had been hurt in the latest attacks, many of them women and children.
[BESTANEWS] Now that YPJ/YPG forces and their allies have driven Daesh out of the city of Girê Spî (Tel Abyad), the brutality of the gang's rule is beginning to emerge.
The people of the recently liberated city have left flowers at the cages that the gang set up across the city.
The city of Girê Spî, Syria was under Daesh occupation for over two years. The city was long a crucial location for Daesh, as it borders Turkey. Girê Spî was a key site where Daesh brought weapons and fighters across the border with the support of the Turkish state.
Cages part of the gang's system for punishing When reporters traveled to Girê Spî to observe the newly liberated city, the strange cages scattered across the city were initially mysterious.
In interviews with the local population, it emerged that the cages were part of the gang's system for punishing and humiliating the population. Other punishment techniques that civilians reported were killings of women for "adultery" and cutting off the hands of alleged thieves.
Flowers at site of cages YPG/YPJ fighters have been among those to leave flowers at the site of the cages dotted across the city, which have become a symbol of the cruelty of Daesh occupation. The defense fighters began to cleanse and defeat all the cages and place flowers of freedom inside the them as life is normalizing in the town day after day.
-
Posted by: Fred ||
06/25/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[3 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
#1
Pictures of the cages at the link.
Posted by: frozen al ||
06/25/2015 16:12 Comments ||
Top||
[Iran Press TV] At least 19 members of the ISIL Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist group have been killed during festivities with Syrian forces in the central province of Homs.
According to the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the bad boyz were potted in an operation by the Syrian forces in the area of Jeb al-Jarah, northeast of the countryside of Homs.
The Britannia-based group added that at least three Syrian forces were killed and six civilians, including children, sustained injuries during the festivities in the area.
Reports by the Syrian media also said that the army destroyed vehicles equipped with heavy machine guns belonging to the terrorist group.
It was also reported that the Syrian army units repelled an infiltration attempt by the ISIL faceless myrmidons into the villages of Maksar al-Hosan and Toloul al-Hawa, about 60 kilometers (37 miles) to the east of the city.
The Syrian army and pro-government forces also secured the area surrounding the Jazal oilfield near the ancient city of Palmyra in the central province.
The liberation of the region comes as part of the recent operations toward Palmyra. ISIL faceless myrmidons occupied Palmyra on May 21.
The Syrian army also conducted a series of operations in other provinces, including Quneitra, Dara'a, Hasakah, and Lattakia across the country, inflicting heavy losses on the Takfiri snuffies fighting against the government of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... .
Posted by: Fred ||
06/25/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[2 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Syria
[RUDAW.NET] 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 has warned Kurdish residents of Raqqa to leave the city in three days, reportedly in an attempt to avoid anti-ISIS sleeper cells, a local source told Rudaw.
The source, who asked to remain anonymous due to security reasons, told Rudaw late Tuesday ISIS has informed Syria's Kurdish families in its stronghold Raqqa to leave and move to nearby areas like Hams and Tadmar.
According to the source, the holy warriors issued a three-day ultimatum to the Kurds inside Raqqa.
"In the letters the ISIS Caliph His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... 's signature is missing," the source added.
"They are scared of Kurdish sleeper cells. They know Kurds will help Kurdish fighters against their gunnies," the source claimed.
The ISIS warning follows a series of major offensives by the Kurdish fighters of the People's Protection Units (YPG) against ISIS in Tal Abyad, known to Kurds as Gire Spi. The Kurdish taking of the city cut off a key ISIS supply road to Raqqa from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... .
Ein Eissa's Syrian military base, once held by ISIS elements, was also liberated by YPG fighters days after the Gire Spi victory.
Posted by: Fred ||
06/25/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[2 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
[ARA] On Tuesday, the radical group 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) blew up two monuments in the ancient city of Palmyra in central Syria, IS-linked media sources reported.
Pictures uploaded to a text and image sharing website showed one of the monuments, believed to be the tomb of Sheikh Mohammed Ali, being blown up. Militants from the extreme group destroyed the shrines because they consider them to be sacrilegious.
On Sunday, the Islamic State group (IS/ISIS) planted large deal of explosives and mines in the archaeological locations of the Syrian ancient city of Palmyra (Tadmur), as a prelude to detonate them.
The radical group has been in control of the ancient city since last May.
"The group intends to blow up all ancient monuments in Palmyra," said Yazan Qutna, a Syrian civil rights activist.
Syrian antiquities chief Abdul Maamoun Abdulkarim said: "In all the areas where they [IS] spread when they see tombs they destroy them as see them as sacrilegious and a return to paganism."
Hundreds of statues had been moved from the city to safe locations, before the bully boys, who control large swathes of Iraq and Syria, took over, he told Rooters.
This is not the first time that Islamic State has destroyed historic monuments.
In April a video was uploaded in which Lions of Islam were purportedly shown to be destroying artifacts with electric drills and explosives in the city of Nimrud in Iraq and in February another showed people destroying statues in a museum in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... .
The 2,000-year-old city of Palmyra is listed by UNESCO as a world cultural heritage site. The United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... appealed to the international community to intervene and protect the Syrian ancient city against atrocities of IS group.
Posted by: Fred ||
06/25/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[2 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
[ARA] On Tuesday, several kabooms hit the city of Hasakah, northeastern Syria, causing the death and injury of several civilians, local activists reported.
Speaking to ARA News in Hasakah, human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... activist Muhammad Haskawi reported that the first kaboom was a boom-mobile that went kaboom! near a security center for the Kurdish forces of Asayish in Tel Hajar district in northern Hasakah.
The attack left casualties among civilians, beside material damage to surrounding buildings.
"The second kaboom targeted the pro-regime forces near al-Kahraba checkpoint at the southern entrance of the city, amid news of casualties," he added, pointing out that the injured were transferred to medical centers and hospitals across the city.
Civil rights activist Ghassan Mohammed told ARA News in Hasakah that three other kabooms targeted various locations in the city center.
ARA News could not verify the exact numbers of casualties.
In the meantime, the General Command of the Asayish announced that two car kabooms hit the neighborhood of al-Mufti near an Asayish center, causing the death of a number of civilians and the injury of three Kurdish security members.
"Over the last few days, bandidosgunnies of Daesh (ISIS) intensified this cowered strategy of attacks against our people, due to their collapse on the frontlines before our brave forces of the YPG (People's Protection Units) who regained major towns in the province of Raqqa, the group's main stronghold in northeastern Syria," the Asayish General Command said.
Hasakah witnessed Tuesday a security alert in the ranks of both the pro-regime forces and the Kurdish Asayish forces.
Posted by: Fred ||
06/25/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[2 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
[ARA] At least 17 Death Eaters 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) were reportedly killed in battles with the Kurdish forces in Ain Issa town of Raqqa province, northeastern Syria, military sources reported on Tuesday.
The Media Center of the People's Protection Units (YPG) issued Tuesday a statement, of which ARA News received a copy, saying their units liberated several villages north of Raqqa, including Bajaliya, and destroyed an IS-led boom-mobile in the village of Tel al-Hamama (where Turkmen constitute majority) with two gunnies inside.
"Our units also liberated the villages of Shiradi, Aghlik, Hoshin, Sherdik, Almnad, al-Inad, Masoura, Khalidiya, Sersuh, Oudiya, Awedana Oula and Awedana Thaniya," the Kurdish YPG leadership said.
On Monday, the Kurdish forces took over "Brigade 93″ and then the entire town of Ain Issa, in addition to the killing of 15 IS Death Eaters and the destruction of six military vehicles loaded with heavy machine guns, according to the YPG's statement.
Speaking to ARA News, media front man of Burkan al-Furat (a YPG ally), Shervan Darwish, reported that the joint forces (YPG and Burkan al-Furat rebels) cleared the streets of Ain Issa town from IS remnants.
"A large part of Raqqa's countryside is liberated by our fighters and allied YPG. We are determined to eliminate this terrorist group," Darwish said.
The YPG's leadership pointed out that two of their fighters bit the dust in festivities with IS Death Eaters in the town of Ain Issa, before the Kurdish forces and allied rebels took over the town.
Posted by: Fred ||
06/25/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[2 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Rebels active in southern city of Daraa announced on Wednesday a new battle to take full control of the border city with Jordan.
A motivational video that circulated online by activists has shown rebels' practices, weapons and readiness for the battle of 'South Storm.'
The "Southern Front", an alliance of rebel groups, has inflicted significant defeats on Bashir al-Assad in the last three months, notably by capturing the Nasib border crossing with Jordan on April 1.
Southern region, including Daraa city, is of strategic importance due to its proximity to Damascus and neighboring states Israel and Jordan. It is also the last significant foothold of mainstream rebels, who have mostly been crushed elsewhere in Syria by government forces or jihadist groups, according to AP.
More than 230,000 people have been killed in Syria since the conflict began in March 2011 with anti-government demonstrations that were met with a regime crackdown.
Posted by: Fred ||
06/25/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[2 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Syria
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Two jacket wallahs from 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group have killed 10 Syrian soldiers in the northeastern city of Hasakeh, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Wednesday.
Separately, at least 13 non-combatants were killed in a car kaboom against a mosque in a village near the capital Damascus, the monitor said.
All three incidents occurred Tuesday night, AFP reported.
"Ten soldiers were killed and 16 others injured in two suicide kabooms carried out by ISIS against army positions in Hasakeh," the Britannia-based Observatory said.
"The first attack was carried out by three jihadists against a military barracks in the center of town, while the second was carried out by one suicide bomber against a checkpoint near a children's hospital."
A third suicide bomber hit a post manned by the Kurdish security forces in the city, causing serious damage to buildings in the area but no deaths.
Control of Hasakeh, which is ethnically mixed, is divided between Syrian troops and Kurdish forces.
On May 30, ISIS launched a bid to enter the city, but was pushed back after violent festivities with Syrian troops and Kurdish fighters.
Early Wednesday, ISIS has also carried a surprise attack on predominantly Alawite villages in the eastern countryside of Homs, killing 20 members of paramilitary National Defense Units, according to Zaman al-Wasl sources.
Elsewhere in the country, the Observatory said 13 non-combatants were killed when a boom-mobilewent kaboom! in front of a mosque in the village of al-Tall as worshippers were leaving prayers.
More than 230,000 people have been killed in Syria since the conflict began with anti-government protests before spiraling into a war after a regime crackdown.
Posted by: Fred ||
06/25/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[2 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] A well-informed source told Zaman al-Wasl a swap deal carried out between Syrian regime and Islam Army last two weeks was behind the release of Justice Minister who was kidnapped by the key rebel group on June 9.
A judicial source said regime security had released 574 detainees mostly from the city of Douma, the hometown of Islam Army's commander, Zahran Alloush, in an exchange for Justice Minister, Najm al-Ahmed, and tens of people who were taken hostages by Islam Army in Adra al-O'malia offensive near Damascus early 2014.
The source said that Islam Army had deliberately denied al-Ahmed kidnapping in an effort to complete the exchange deal.
Islam Army also has received more 300 million Syrian pound in the exchange deal, source said.
The key rebel group in Eastern Ghouta district near Damascus has 6 secret prisons where more than 5000 people loyal to Bashir al-Assad regime are still in detention, according to Zaman al-Wasl sources.
Posted by: Fred ||
06/25/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[3 views]
Top|| File under: Jaish al-Islam
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] The United States and its coalition allies staged nine air strikes in Iraq and Syria in the latest round of daily attacks on 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group on Tuesday, a Command Joint Task Force statement said.
Eight of the strikes were near the Iraqi cities of Bayji, Haditha, Sinjar and Tel Afar, striking tactical units, vehicles, buildings and a mortar position, the statement released on Wednesday said.
An ISIS tactical unit also was hit near Tel Abyad in Syria.
Posted by: Fred ||
06/25/2015 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[2 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Tolo News] Insurgents claiming to be Daesh fighters have reportedly distributed leaflets in eastern 
[Tolo News] The 
Moments before a judge sentenced him to death, Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev rose to his feet Wednesday and apologized to the victims and their loved ones for the first time. "I pray for your relief, for your healing," he said.
[RUDAW.NET] The 
[Inquirer] An alleged high ranking official of the communist New People's Army operating in Samar has been arrested and is now being detained at the provincial jail in Catbalogan City. Erwin Lagucay was nabbed Sunday night and has been charged with illegal possession of explosives. A hand grenade, a blasting cap, two improvised explosive devices and bladed weapons were discovered in his bag during his arrest.
[Reuters] A car bomb exploded near the Turkish border gate in the Syrian town of Kobani on Thursday as Islamic State militants launched an attack from three sides of the town. The attack killed and injured people in the town but the toll is not immediately clear.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[ARA] At least 17 
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] A well-informed source told Zaman al-Wasl a swap deal carried out between Syrian regime and Islam Army last two weeks was behind the release of Justice Minister who was kidnapped by the key rebel group on June 9.
