[Khaama (Afghanistan)] 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) terrorist group has started recruitments in the outskirts of Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... province, Mohammad Mohaqiq, the Second Deputy to Chief Executive Officer has said.
In an interview with Voice of America Ashna TV, Mohaqiq said based on the information they have received the ISIS recruits are receiving salaries upto $1,000 along with a cycle of violence.
He said the group has so far recruited around 700 to 800 fighters in the country and warned that the group poses a serious threat to Afghanistan.
Mohaqiq further added that the group will fight the Talibs in the first step as witnessed in eastern parts of the country where they have captured some districts.
Mohaqiq also added that the ISIS affiliates have also started persecution of Hazaras and Shias where they kidnapped 31 Hazara passengers in Zabul and some others were kidnapped by the group between Jaghoori and Qarabagh.
He said ISIS murderous Moslems also kidnapped two women which was rare during the past three decades of war in the country.
This comes as Mohaqiq called on his supporters during the second day of Eid al-Fitr to remain alert and vigilant for self defense amid deteriorating security situation.
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I can just see Oblahblah setting an "Arm the Taliban" policy to counter this. Idiot
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[Tolo News] At least 10 Taliban holy warriors, including their commander -- an apparent Arab - were killed in festivities with security forces in western Farah province on Monday night, local officials said.
The festivities took place near a military base in Gulistan district of the province after Taliban gunnies attacked the military base, deputy front man for national army forces in Farah, Hanif Rezayee said.
"Their leader named Abu Zarifa which is an Arab is also among the dead," he said.
Abu Zarif was from southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province and had hoped to take the capital of Gulistan district of the province, he added.
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[Iran Press TV] 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... troops have killed several people in separate incidents in the Somali capital Mogadishu and the southern port city of Merka.
In Mogadishu, troops belonging to the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), who were said to be stuck in a traffic jam, opened fire on a minibus, killing two of the passengers and injuring two others.
Eyewitnesses said it was not clear why the troops opened fire.
In Merka, about 109 kilometers south of the capital, AU troops killed at least nine people and maimed eight others after opening gunfire on boys playing football in a sports field, an eyewitness told Al Jazeera news agency.
"They then went to the nearby houses where they dragged people out and rubbed out seventeen people. They also left 14 people badly injured," the witness said, claiming that the AU soldiers had also "raped two women" there.
Speaking to DPA, a police brass hat, who asked not to be named, gave a different account of the incident. "At least ten non-combatants were killed deliberately by AU troops ... and several were hospitalized with gun wounds," the officer said.
He said he did not know the reason for the killings; however, he held out the possibility that the civilians may have been killed in an act of Dire Revenge after unidentified bombers destroyed an AU water tank the previous evening.
He said the fatalities included a woman and young people.
Meantime, Somali Interior Minister Abdirahman Mohammed Hussein Odowaa said, "We cannot accept such deeds and we will launch swift investigations."
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[AlAhram] Morocco said eight people were incarcerated Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! on Tuesday over alleged plots to carry out attacks mainly targeting security officials on behalf 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.... jihadist group.
The newly formed Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation, dubbed Morocco's FBI by the media, said an eight-member "terrorist cell" was dismantled across the country in the towns of Tangiers, Bouznika, Khouribga and Taounate.
The suspects had been in contact with IS leaders and given refuge to fighters who had received "intensive training in producing explosives and gang warfare", the interior ministry added.
It said members of the network, which included women, were planning "a series of terrorist operations" against security officials and sensitive sites.
They also had links with former Al-Qaeda gunnies in Afghanistan, it said.
Morocco, which is on guard against deadly attacks of the type carried out by IS in Tunisia, prides itself on being a bastion in North Africa against Islamist extremism with its anti-jihadist unit and training of imams to preach tolerance.
An estimated 1,500 Moroccans, however, figure among the ranks of jihadist groups.
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[Libya Herald] At least one arms smuggling vessel was apparently destroyed today in Mreisa harbour by a helicopter gunship as the army pressed on towards the small port, while shifting the thrust of its ground attack in the west of Benghazi away from Leithi and toward Buatni and Gwarsha . . .
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[AnNahar] Three coppers were killed in a kaboom during a vehicle search at a checkpoint outside the northeast Nigerian ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... city of Damaturu on Monday, police and a witness said,
Yobe state police front man Toyin Gbadegesin told AFP initially that two officers were among eight people who died, including two bombers.
But he later said: "More investigations as to the circumstances of the incident have revealed that all the other five people, including a woman, were in the car that went kaboom!.
"Three coppers were killed in the blast," he added.
The kaboom happened at about 1:00 pm (1200 GMT) to the north of the city, which is the capital of Yobe state, on the main road to Maiduguri in neighboring Borno state.
"A police highway patrol team was searching vehicles just outside the city and an SUV with a foreign number (plate) arrived at the spot," said witness Umar Goni.
"The police were uncomfortable, so they decided to search the vehicle. While the search was going on, another SUV arrived. It was stopped for the same search."
The second car went kaboom! during the search, he added.
A news hound with state-run Yobe Television, who was at the scene shortly after the blast, said a handbag belonging to the woman in the car was found and some explosives were recovered and defused.
Gbadegesin confirmed his account.
It was not immediately clear whether the checkpoint was the target but 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 have hit police stop and search points in the past.
Damaturu has also been repeatedly attacked during the six-year insurgency, most recently last Friday, when explosives strapped to three girls went kaboom! near a Moslem prayer ground and a mosque.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Yemeni army and Ansarullah popular forces lined up behind the borders with 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... in preparation for a possible ground battle against the Saudi regime's army, an informed source said on Tuesday.
An informed source close to Ansarullah announced that a large number of revolutionary forces and the Yemeni army's infantry units and presidential guards have deployed behind the borders with Saudi Arabia, the Arabic-language 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... Press reported.
The source declined to further comment on the development, but the line up has caused increasing speculations about imminent heavy festivities along the Yemen-Saudi Arabia borderline.
On Thursday, military sources confirmed that the Yemeni army and Ansarullah forces, in massive counter-attack operations, stormed the positions of the allied murderous Moslems of runaway President Mansours Hadi and al-Qaeda terrorist group and retook full control over the captured areas in Aden, including its international airport, Fars news agency reported.
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[ALMANAR.LB] An international ship carrying desperately needed relief supplies docked in Aden on Tuesday, the first UN vessel to reach the southern Yemeni city in four months of persistent Saudi-US brutal aggression.
"This is the first boat carrying the UN flag to dock in Aden since the war began" in late March, governor Nayef al-Bakri told news hounds at the Aden refinery port.
The ship is chartered by the World Food Program, which has tried repeatedly to deliver aid to the port city in recent weeks but failed due to security reasons.
"This will be the first WFP chartered ship to reach the port in Aden," WFP spokeswoman Reem Nada said shortly before the ship entered the harbor.
Vessels sent by the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran and the United Arab Emirates managed to reach Aden previously.
A humanitarian ceasefire declared by the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... earlier this month failed to take hold.
Riyadh launched 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... on March 26 without a UN mandate. 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... aims to undermine the Ansarullah popular fighters and restore power to runaway President Mansour Hadi.
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[BBC] A 24-year-old man has appeared in court charged with planning to kill US military personnel based in the UK.
Junead Ahmed Khan is accused of plotting to run over a serviceman, possibly from an US air base in East Anglia, and then kill him with a knife.
Mr Khan was also charged, along with his uncle Shazib Ahmed Khan, 22, both from Luton, over attempting to join Islamic State in Syria.
Both men were remanded in custody to appear at the Old Bailey on 10 August.
The men appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court charged with being involved in preparation with the intention to commit acts of terrorism, dating between 1 August 2014 and 10 May 2015.
The additional count faced by Junead Khan dates between 10 May 2015 and 14 July 2015.
It is alleged the delivery driver planned to stage a car accident and then kill a US serviceman, a method of attack that has echoes of the murder of Lee Rigby two years ago.
The two men, of Marlow Avenue, were arrested a week ago in an operation involving officers from the national counter-terrorism network.
Another man, in his 30s, was also detained. He was released without charge on Monday night.
Searches were carried out at two addresses in the Luton area.
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his Uncle is two years younger than him? Deport this entire family
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I think this is related to the threat against RAF Lakenheath over the 4th of July weekend. The American Air Force canceled the celebration they had planned because of a "credible threat".
I was there visiting my son and his family. ,
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[AnNahar] China has locked away ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... a member of its mostly Moslem Uighur ethnic minority who planned a kaboom after returning from a training camp in Syria, state media said Monday.
State broadcaster CCTV's report was based on a prison confession from the man it identified as "Aikebaier", which a Uighur rights group dismissed as "propaganda".
CCTV said that Aikebaier had travelled to Syria via The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... sometime after 2013 and received "bomb-making training".
It was not clear when he returned to China, but he was shown in a prison vest with a shaved head, saying that he planned an explosive attack on a shopping centre in the northern city of Shijiazhuang.
"I would like to say to my mother: please forgive me," he said, breaking into tears.
The report said the man had been "caught" but gave no details of when he was arrested, or what charges he faces.
Uighurs speak a Turkic language and many complain of religious and cultural discrimination in Xinjiang, their homeland in northwestern China, which has seen escalating violence in recent years.
Beijing blames the unrest on Islamist terrorist groups seeking independence for the region, although many analysts are sceptical.
Chinese state-run media have repeatedly cited unnamed sources linking Uighurs to jihadist violence in the Middle East, without giving evidence.
Dilxat Raxit, a front man for exiled group the World Uyghur Congress, slammed the CCTV report, implying that authorities had used coercion.
"For the sake of their family's safety, arrested Uighurs have no other choice than to become propaganda tools for the Chinese government," he said in a statement.
A number of Uighurs have attempted to flee China in recent years, in what rights groups say is an attempt to escape repression.
Thailand this month deported some 100 Uighurs to China, in a move which sparked protests in Turkey and was condemned by the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... refugee agency.
Chinese state media said that an unspecified number of those deported were travelling to "take part in jihad".
[TIMESOFINDIA.INDIATIMES] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... said on Tuesday it had identified a suspect over a devastating suicide kaboom on the border with Syria blamed 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.... jihadists, as the government rushed to bolster security on the porous frontier.
Thirty-two people were killed and more than 100 maimed on Monday when a bomb destroyed a crowd of young socialist activists in a mainly Kurdish region preparing to take aid over the border into Syria.
The attack in Suruc was one of the deadliest in Turkey in recent years and the first time the government has directly accused the ISIS group of carrying out an act of terror on Turkish soil.
Graphic images of the carnage in a cultural centre shocked the country, with the press publishing front page photos of the mutilated corpses of the activists lying on the ground covered in pages from broadsheet newspapers.
"One suspect has been identified. All the (suspect's) links internationally and domestically are being investigated," Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said in televised comments.
He added there was a "high probability" the attack was caused by a jacket wallah with connections to ISIS jihadists.
"We expect this investigation to be concluded as soon as possible," he said.
Davutoglu said the corpse count had risen to 32 and that 29 injured victims were still in hospital.
"What is necessary will be done against whomever responsible for (the attack)," said Davutoglu.
"This is an attack that targeted Turkey."
With little precise information disclosed, some Turkish press reports suggested the suicide bomber was a woman while others said it was a man dressed as a woman.
The daily Hurriyet said Turkey's intelligence agency had previously warned the government that seven ISIS members - three of them women - had crossed into the country in recent weeks with the aim of carrying out attacks.
The ISIS group, which has claimed swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq right up to the Turkish border, has so far not claimed the Suruc bombing.
But Davutoglu said Turkey was taking steps to improve border security, which has long been criticised by its western partners.
He said the cabinet would discuss Wednesday an "action plan" on border security and the government will then take the "necessary measures".
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[Rooters] The civil complaint filed in federal court in Portland, Oregon, on Monday against Mohamed Kariye follows his involvement as a plaintiff in a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of the imam and several others challenging their placement on the U.S. no-fly list.
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Peaceful Muslims, just like you or I,
Only want their fair share of the pie!
They'll bake the Big Apple
While drinking a Snapple,
Singin', "This'll be the day that I die..."
[DAWN] US authorities are seeking to revoke the citizenship of a holy man in Oregon who they say tried to conceal past associations with radical Islamic groups.
Mohammed Sheikh Abdirahman Kariye raised money, recruited fighters and provided training for krazed killer groups battling Soviet forces in Afghanistan in the 1980s, the US Department of Justice says in a complaint filed Monday in US District Court in Portland.
Government lawyers say Kariye for a time "dealt directly" with the late Osama bin Laden ... who used to be alive but now he's not... and Abdullah Azzam, the founders of Al Qaeda, and he recruited sympathisers in the United States and Pakistain for an Al Qaeda precursor known as Maktab Al Khidamat.
Kariye is also accused of being a founding officer and director of the now-defunct Global Relief Foundation, which authorities say provided assistance to terror groups including Al Qaeda and promoted radical jihad.
Federal authorities say Kariye failed to reveal those details in his application for citizenship, which was granted in 1998.
Attempts to reach Kariye through his Portland mosque and a former attorney were not immediately successful.
Born in Somalia, Kariye came to the United States on a student visa in 1982, according to the complaint. Between 1985 and 1988, he traveled to Afghanistan, where he went to a jihadist training camp and fought with the Afghan mujahedeen against the Soviets.
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Mohammed Sheikh Abdirahman Kariye raised money, recruited fighters and provided training for krazed killer groups battling Soviet forces in Afghanistan in the 1980s
Methinks the Klingons don't appreciate the competition.
[DAWN] Iranian border guards fired four mortar shells inside Pakistain near Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... 's Panjgur district on Wednesday, security officials said.
A Levies official who requested anonymity told Dawn.com via telephone that Iranian forces fired four mortar shells in Soorap area of Panjgur district close to the Iranian border. He added that no human loss was reported as a result of the firing.
The mortar shells landed in a deserted area, however, they caused panic among the residents of Soorap, the official said.
Tehsildar Maula Bakhsh and other officials reached the site and started an investigation into the incident.
The Levies official said security in the area was tightened in aftermath of the mortar attack by Iranian border guards.
The district administration informed the provincial government of Balochistan regarding the border violation by Iranian security forces, he added.
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[ALMANAR.LB] The Iraqi military - joined by the Popular Mobilization Forces - killed over 100 armed Lions of Islam of the so-called '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 the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... group during the military operation in the province of Nineveh over the past 48 hours, senior army officials said.
"Our forces have killed 108 ISIL forces of Evil in Nineveh province in the last 2 days," Nineveh Province Operations Commander Brigadier General Najm al-Jabouri told news hounds on Monday.
He noted that many ISIL military bases were also destroyed during the army's operations in different parts of the province.
Earlier Monday, Commander of the Iraqi Federal Police Raed Shaker Jawdat confirmed that the country's forces targeted the hideouts of ISIL Lions of Islam in the surrounding areas of Ramadi, killing a number of forces of Evil and destroying their vehicles.
"The rocket launching battalion of the 2nd brigade of the federal police destroyed a large number of the vehicles of the ISIL terrorist group near the bridge of al-Sadiqiyah in Eastern Husaybah," the police commander said.
He further added that several boats loaded with improvised bombs were also went kaboom! in the country's shelling.
The ISIL terrorist operatives are currently occupying shrinking swathes of Syria and Iraq. They have threatened all communities as they continue their atrocities in Iraq.
Senior Iraqi officials have blamed 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... , Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... , and some Persian Gulf Arab states for the growing terrorism in their country.
ISIL group has links with Saudi intelligence and is believed to be indirectly supported by the Zionist regime.
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[Iran Press TV] Three kabooms targeting civilians and security forces in Iraq's Baghdad Governorate have killed at least 12 people and injured dozens more.
Security sources said Tuesday that three people were killed in a boom-mobile south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
According to al-Sumeriyah news channel, the car bomb which exploded near a gas station in Baghdad's Zafarniyah district also injured 12 others.
A source speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... said those maimed in the attack were at death's door.
Another attack targeting Baghdad's al-Jadidah neighborhood, east of the Iraqi capital, killed five civilians and injured 16 others, according to a report by Al Jazeera.
Further to the north, an attack in Tarmiya district killed four security officers and injured eight others.
Unidentified sources said the blast came after a man attacked a joint command of police and military forces in Lakes area in the district, about 50 kilometers north of Baghdad.
No group has claimed the attacks, although they bear the hallmarks of attacks by ISIL, a terrorist group which is in control of some territories west and north of Iraq.
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[REUTERS] Iraqi security forces and Sunni tribal fighters launched an offensive to dislodge 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.... turbans near the western outpost of Haditha in a bid to secure a key supply route to an important military base, police and tribal sources said.
Haditha and its nearby dam are in one of the few parts of the Sunni Moslem province of Anbar still under the control of Iraq's Shi'ite-led government forces, which were driven out of the placid provincial capital Ramadi in May.The offensive started with army and police forces backed by Sunni tribal fighters attacking the Albu Hayat area, 20 km (12 miles) southeast of Haditha. Militants have used the area to strike the supply route to the Ain al-Asad military base where U.S. Marines are training Iraqi troops.
"We are attacking Daesh from three directions and we will not retreat until retaking Albu Hayat to secure not only Haditha but the supply route to the army base", said Sunni tribal leader Khalid Mijbil al-Nimrawi, using a pejorative term for Islamic State.
Clashes were ongoing, the sources said, with advancing troops facing heavy fire from the radical Sunni turbans who seized large swaths of the country's north and west last year.
Separately, at least six soldiers and coppers were killed in a suicide kaboom at a checkpoint in the central town of Tarmiya, police and medical sources said.
Fourteen others were maimed in the blast about 25 km (15 miles) north of the capital Baghdad when the bomber detonated his vehicle packed with explosives.
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[Ynet] U.S. officials say a key al-Qaeda figure has been killed in an American Arclight airstrike in Syria.
The officials say that Muhsin al-Fadhli is dead. He was a leader of the Khorasan Group, a cadre of al-Qaeda operatives who were sent from Pakistain to Syria to plot attacks on the West. Officials say the Khorasan Group is embedded in the 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, Syria's al-Qaeda affiliate.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss the operation.
Previously based in Iran, al-Fadhli was the subject of a $7 million reward by the State Department for information leading to his capture or death.
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A reward, huh? Not likely we got that intel strictly through technical means. Even if there were a tracker on or near his person, somebody had to put it there.
So somebody deserves the reward. He'd be smart not to claim it, since State would no doubt publicize his name, address, and those of his relations out to in-laws'in-laws. Sort of like a terp trying to get out of shitholistan as promised and finding his case on the local version of Sixty Minutes while State is shredding his green card app.
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I doubt any of these rewards ever get paid out. I think the guy who gave up pablo escobar is still waiting on his.
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[Iran Press TV] Syrian troops and fighters of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah have established full control over some strategic areas on the outskirts of the Syrian border town of Zabadani.
Syria's official SANA news agency said Tuesday that the allied forces managed to retake the Sahl Zabadani region, which is located around 45 kilometers north of the capital Damascus.
A statement by the Syrian army said the allied forces are now in full control of Zabadani's southern entrances as well as a road leading to Lake Barada.
A highly strategic region along Syria's border with Leb, Sahl Zabadani is also home to lakes and basins which supply water to the urban population in the Syrian capital.
For more than ten days, the 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 groups had disrupted the flow of Barada's water to more than six million people in Damascus in a bid to stop the advance of Hezbollah and Syrian forces in Sahl Zabadani.
The SANA report said that Syrian fighter jets managed to completely destroy a number of myrmidons' hideouts, killing scores of them, including six chief members of the Nusra Front terrorist group.
Heavy festivities, however, are still continuing between Hezbollah fighters and forces of Evil south of Zabadani while members of the Lebanese group advance toward the Saylan neighborhood further to the center of the city.
Late on Monday, Hezbollah fighters and Syrian troops seized control of Darb Kalassah and Darb Hasbah on the outskirts of Zabadani, killing scores of holy warriors and capturing tens of others.
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[AnNahar] Almost 70 fighters have been killed in the two-week-old battle between pro-government forces and Salafist tough guys for control of Zabadani on Syria's border with Leb, a monitoring group said Monday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 46 rebels and 21 members of 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... fighting on the government side have died since pro-regime forces entered the town of Zabadani on July 4.
It did not give a figure for Syrian army losses in and around Zabadani, which lies north of Damascus and in February 2012 became the first town to fall into rebel hands.
According to the Britannia-based Observatory, regime aircraft have dropped 600 barrel bombs since the launch of the government offensive to recapture the town.
Regime forces have seized control of a hilltop overlooking the south of Zabadani.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] According to reports, 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) terrorist group snuffies have started using chickens as mobile improvised bombs.
Pictures which purportedly shows defenseless chickens strapped with boom belts have recently emerged online showing the savagery of the terror group.
It has been reported that the defenseless chickens have been used by the members of the terror group in and around the city of Fallujah.
The ISIS snuffies apparently use remote controls to set off the devices by encouraging the chickens to wander into enemy camps, killing all those close by.
This comes as reports suggest the terror group is running low on ammunition as US-coalition forces target delivery lines leading to Syria and Iraq.
An unnamed British man fighting alongside Kurdish troops in the region quoted in a report by MailOnline said 'ISIS will use whatever means they can to bring death and destruction. Using animals has little military value -- it is just another example of how their twisted minds enjoy dreaming up bizarre ways to kill people."
In the meantime, reports also emerged recently suggesting the terror group strapping IEDS to a goat that was sent into a Kurdish base in the Syrian city of Kobane.
Sickening photos also emerged during the recent days which purportedly shows the turbans using shopping trolleys and arming them with deadly machine guns. It is believed fighters have no heavy lorries available so have to improvise to transport the weaponry.
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Is there no end to the evil that is MTV Rap???
First, as per WAFF, "YANKEE DOODLE PIGEON" GETS ARRESTED BY INDIA ON ALLEGED SPYING FOR PAKISTAN, now Mild-Mannered HENRY A. CLUCK? AKA "SUPER-CHICKEN" TURNS OUT TO BE A JIHADIST SUICIDE BOMBER!?
Of course you realize this means Amerika will have to depend on PENELOPE PITSTOP + FUNKY PHANTOM, ETAL. for our National Security.
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