[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) -- Afghanistan's intelligence agency has foiled plot to carry out suicide and other coordinated attacks in capital 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.... .
A statement issued by the NDS on Saturday states that a group of Death Eaters belonging to the Haqani terrorist network was busted in Niazi village of Pul-e-Alam, bustling provincial capital of Pashtun-infested Logar, that planned to carry out these attacks.
Nine snuffies were scheduled to take part in these attacks, four of them were killed and five tossed in the clink You have the right to remain silent... in a clash erupted during the raid, the statement adds.
Those arrested include Mohammad Ishaq S/O Abdul Baqi -- planner of suicide and coordinated attacks, Shabir alias Gulzar and Hamid S/O Zabto Khan -- two jacket wallahs, Sayed Agha and Hamidullah -- were sheltering the suicide bombers.
The blurb further adds that several heavy and light weapons were recovered from the Lion of Islam hideout during this operation.
In the initial investigation, the five detained Death Eaters have confessed that they had received a month long training for combat and suicide kaboom in Faruqi Madrasa (seminary) located in Tal area of Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... , administrative headquarters of the North Wazoo Agency, before being sent to Pashtun-infested Logar province.
They have further said that they were told to enter Kabul from Pashtun-infested Logar and target busy parts of the city.
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[Tolo News] At least 91 Taliban turbans have been killed in a large-scale military operation in three districts 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 over the past two weeks, local officials said on Saturday.
In addition, 62 Taliban turbans were maimed and 11 others tossed in the slammer You have the right to remain silent... , including a Pak.
The operation was launched in Hesarak, Sherzad and Khoghyani districts of the province which border with Pakistain. The operation was launched to clear turbans and will continue for a month, a front man for Nangarhar Police Chief, Hazrat Hussian Mashriqiwal said.
"The turbans have been targeted by ground and air forces," Mashriqiwal said. "The forces have also re-opened the road through Sherzad and Hesarak district - after turbans closed it off three years ago."
"So far five military soldiers and a policeman were maimed during the operation," he said.
Sherzad, Hesarak and Khoghyani are insecure districts in which the Taliban turbans have activities and often target local security forces.
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In addition, 62 Taliban turbans were maimed and 11 others tossed in the slammer, including a Pak.
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[Tolo News] A number of unknown gunniesrubbed out a school principal 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.. province on Friday, local officials said.
The incident took place in Kot district of the province after a number of unknown gunniesrubbed out Fazel Mawla, principal of Mawlawi Yousuf school, a front man for Nangarhar Education Department, Mohammad Asif Shenwari said.
"The incident happened while Fazel Mawla was on his way to his house from a funeral ceremony," he said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the game, the Babe headed for second base. He almost made it. Then Sheila slapped him.... the principal's family and a member of the provincial council of Nangarhar have accused the Taliban for the death of Fazel Mawla.
However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... the cause of this incident is not yet clear but police have started investigations.
No group including the Taliban has grabbed credit for the incident attack.
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[Tolo News] The remaining ten passengers out of 17 who were kidnapped in central Ghazni province last week were released on Friday evening, local officials said on Saturday.
The passengers were kidnapped in Qarabagh and Jaghori district on Tuesday. Seven of them were released on Wednesday after tribal elders negotiated with the hostage-takers. Ten others were released on Friday evening, a member of Provincial Council of Ghazni, Hassan Reza Yousufi said.
"All the passengers were released and have joined their families in Jaghori," he said.
Earlier, Yousufi warned "if the government does not send troops in to secure the highways of the districts, the highways will become more insecure."
The government is far away. The districts are here. Why not train the unemployed younger sons as a civilian guard, then have them patrol the highways? We in the West have heard much of the vaunted fierceness of the Afghan -- prove it.
Kidnapping cases have increased substantially in the country in recent months, especially on provincial highways.
In February, armed gunnies kidnapped 31 bus passengers in Zabul. After months of negotiations 19 were released in a reported prisoner swap. However, you can observe a lot just by watching... the whereabouts of the remaining 12 hostages is still unknown.
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[Tolo News] Taliban hard boyz have reportedly seized 10 villages in Burka district in northern Baghlan and that without any festivities in the area.
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory the smoke and fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight... the tribal elders claimed only few villages in the district were under control of the government. They warned if government failed to retake the villages, the entire district would likely collapse into Taliban hands.
They called on the government to send reinforcement troops to the area in order to combat scores of the Taliban they said had gathered in the district to take control of it.
Mohammad Hanif Kodaye, a member of Baghlan Provincial Council, also admitted to the concerns of the elders and said the hard boyz had asked the residents in Burka district to avoid cooperating with the government.
"Taliban are also extorting money from the residents," he added.
Security officials, however, have not yet confirmed the collapse of villages in Burka.
This comes as Taliban hard boyz are engaged in the festivities with the security forces over the past five days in Dand-e-Ghori area in Pul-e-Khumri, the picturesque provincial capital.
In the recent months, the Insurgents have increased their activities and attacks in northern provinces, especially in Faryab, Kunduz, Baghlan and Badakhshan.
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Unknown gunmen, though to be Shaboobs Al Shabaab militants have shot and killed a Somalia’s parliament female staff member in Mogadishu. Rahma Mohamed, a female employee working at federal parliament was gunned down by hooded men armed with pistols in Mogadishu’s Wadajir district, police said.
“Ms Rahma died on the shooting scene after she was hit several times by suspected Al Shabaab gunmen near her house at Nasteeho village” a witness told Shabelle Media based in Mogadishu.
Brave, brave lions of Islam...
The killers immediately fled from the crime spot.
Hundreds of government soldiers launched an investigation but no one was arrested over in the incident, according to witnesses.
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[ALMANAR.LB] A krazed killer group killed a village imam in central Mali who had refused their repeated attempts to recruit him, a local official told AFP Friday.
Gunmen with suspected links to holy warrior preacher Amadou Koufa killed the imam of Barkerou village, Aladji Sekou, on Thursday night, the official said on condition of anonymity.
The two men arrived by cycle of violence, leaving it on the edge of the village before approaching the imam's home on foot where they shot him, he said, adding that the assailants appeared to be familiar with the area.
Security sources say that Koufa has linked with the Macina Liberation Front (FLM), a new group that emerged earlier this year and has grabbed credit for a number of attacks, some targeting security forces in central Mali.
The FLM draws its support from the Fulani people of central Mali, where Koufa is also from, and is also linked to Ansar Dine -- Arabic for "defenders of the faith" -- one of the groups that took control of Mali's vast arid north in April 2012.
Washington added Ansar Dine to its terror blacklist in 2013, accusing it of close ties to Al-Qaeda and of torturing and killing opponents in the north.
Investigators have found evidence linking the FLM to a deadly raid on a hotel in Sevare on August 7 that killed four foreign UN employees.
Three suspects nabbed Book 'im, Mahmoud! so far were supporters of Koufa, a security source said.
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[Libya Herald] The Libyan government in Beida has called on Arab countries to carry out air strikes 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.... forces in Sirte, saying that because of the international arms ban it does not have the military capability to hit them.
Following IS's brutal suppression of this week's uprising the town, the government has asked for an extraordinary meeting of the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... on Tuesday to authorise action in Sirte. It cited the Arab states' obligations to held defend a fellow League member under attack. The request, calling for the permanent ambassadors to the League to approve air strikes, was handed to the League's secretariat today, the League's Deputy Secrertary General, Ahmad Bin Helli, has said.
In a statement today condemning IS' "heinous crimes" in the town's residential district No. 3, including beheadings and other executions, the Thinni government also criticised the inaction of the international community over the IS attacks and its unwillingness to protect innocent civilians. It further called on friendly states to put pressure on the UN Security Council to lift the arms embargo.
There appears to be growing Arab support for air strikes. Yesterday, following a phone call with Libyan Foreign Minister Mohammed Al-Dairi, the League's Secretary General, Nabil Elaraby, called for Arab governments as well as the international community to agree on action to end the killings by IS in Libya.
There have been reports during the day of further Arclight airstrikes in Sirte. These are thought to be by the Libyan airforce.
Meanwhile, ...back at the hanging, Butch continued with his last words, trying not to repeat himself too often...... in today's statement, the government said that it was focussing all its energies on providing safe corridors out of Sirte so that residents could be evacuated and the maimed treated, outside Libya if necessary.
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[ALMANAR.LB] The Yemeni army and the Popular Committee units destroyed during the last three days several LeClerc-type tanks used by the invading Emirati forces in 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... by firing the Russian-made Kornet missiles, Al-Manar correspondent reported.
Military sources told Al-Manar news hound that a "major Emirati holocaust" took place in Karsh and Al-Mseimir regions in south-east province of restive Lahj ... a Yemeni governate located in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It is the stomping grounds on the southern secessionist al-Harak movement .
Another massacre of UAE tanks occurred in Al-Nasr camp in Khor-Maksar region of Aden city, and on the Al-Alam road located between Aden and Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... provinces in the south, as well as inside Abyan city.
LeClerc is a French-made main battle tank known as AMX-56 LeClerc, and the UAE is largely dependent on it in attacks on Yemen.
The sources also revealed that losses of the Emirati forces during the last 72 hours were more than 32 armored vehicles, 14 tanks and 23 military vehicles, in addition to 38 soldiers and 8 officers killed.
Al-Manar Website learned that the UAE claimed only half of the casualties.
"Special operations unit of the army and the Committees are working within units behind the lines of deployment of the Emirati invading forces in the cities of Aden, Abyan and Lahj," the sources elaborated.
"The major surprises are coming soon and will be earth-shattering. The enemy will only enjoy a defeat that will rupture his army," the sources in the national Yemeni military forces vowed.
The United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... has lately declared its highest-level humanitarian emergency in Yemen as 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... continues its deadly Arclight airstrikes against the impoverished Arabian Peninsula country.
Saudi Arabia has been bombing Yemen since March 26 to bring runaway president Abed-Rabbu Mansour Hadi back to power.
The Arclight airstrikes have so far claimed the lives of more than 5,302 civilians, mostly women and kiddies.
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Are they hampered by ROEs, or are the incompetent like most arab armies?
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..it's a jobs program, though the only diversity involved usually is of what sub-clan is being bought off.
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Al Manar is a mouthpiece for the Hizbollah terrorist group or Iranian Puppets...notice who is the "martyrs"...their human shield...a common muslim tactic of hiding behind baby carriage...does not seem to work fighting other muslims...
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The risk of direct US intervention in the Gulf just went up, as this outcome is likely to increase the risk of mil confrontation between new OWG US Co-Superpower sibling IRAN, + IRAN RIVAL SUNNI KSA.
[AnNahar] Forces loyal to Yemen's exiled government retook a fifth southern province Saturday, extending recent gains against Iran-backed Iranian catspaws who still control the capital.
The forces backing exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi have been aided by troops and materiel from Yemen's wealthy Gulf neighbors, as Saudi-led coalition warplanes pound rebel positions.
The rebels handed over Shabwa to government forces and withdrew after being promised a safe route out of the province, a military official told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Other sources confirmed the pull-out.
"The province was handed over" to the Southern Movement, a secessionist group whose holy warriors have been fighting in loyalist ranks, said Salem al-Awlaqi, a political activist in Shabwa.
Officials said the pro-rebel governor of Shabwa, which has substantial oil reserves, had fled as loyalists prepared to enter the province.
They also accused the rebels of booby-trapping government buildings before fleeing, as they had done in other provinces.
As the rebels began entering neighboring Baida province, Saudi-led coalition warplanes hit their convoys, destroying 13 military vehicles and leaving dead and maimed, military officials said.
The sources could not immediately provide a casualty toll, and the rebels rarely acknowledge their losses.
Loyalist forces in the south launched an offensive last month against the rebels, forcing them out of main southern city Aden.
They subsequently retook Daleh, restive Lahj ... a Yemeni governate located in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It is the stomping grounds on the southern secessionist al-Harak movement and Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... provinces.
The advance is heading toward third city Taez, southwest of Sanaa, which analysts regard as the gateway to the capital, overrun by the rebels in September.
After seizing Sanaa unopposed, the Huthis advanced on Aden in March, prompting intervention from the coalition aimed at restoring Hadi to power.
Renegade troops loyal to former president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... have joined the Huthis.
- Taez targeted for liberation -
On the other side, the southern secessionists teamed up with pro-government troops as well as local Sunni tribes to form what they have dubbed Popular Resistance Committees.
Analysts say the sweeping victories in the south are a result of the rebels pulling their forces back to Taez, where residents reported ongoing festivities.
On Friday, loyalist retook several facilities from rebels in Taez, including police and civil defense headquarters, the government's Sabanew.net website reported.
In a telephone call, Hadi reassured the 35th Brigade commander in the city Thursday that "Taez is on its way to being liberated and support will soon reach it."
Military sources say the coalition has provided Hadi's supporters with modern heavy equipment in recent weeks, including tanks and personnel carriers, and Yemeni soldiers trained in 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... .
The conflict has cost nearly 4,300 lives since March, half of them civilians, according to U.N. figures, while 80 percent of Yemen's 21 million people need aid and protection.
Aid workers in the south told AFP aid groups from Saudi Arabia, the UAE and beyond began distributing much-needed food and other supplies to residents in Aden and nearby areas.
The five provinces so far retaken by pro-government troops, along with Mahra and Hadramawt, which the rebels never entered, comprise the formerly independent South Yemen.
It was its own state from the end of British colonial rule in 1967 to its union with the north in 1990.
A secession attempt four years later sparked a brief civil war that ended with northern forces occupying the region.
[Dhaka Tribune] Police have tossed in the clink Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! five activists of Chhatra Shibir, student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... , from the district's Satkania upazila.
The arrestees are Liakot Ali, 25, Md Faruk, 24, Md Saiful Islam, 19, Md Arafat, 18, and Mainul Islam, 18, said police.
Satkania cop shoppe OC Farid Uddin Khandokar said being tipped-off, police arrested them from a mosque on Friday morning while they were holding a clandestine meeting.
The law enforcers also seized some Jihadi books and anti-state leaflets from their possessions, added the OC.
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Yo Mo! Yeah, yeah, yeah? What?
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[Dhaka Tribune] Five persons have been killed in a "shootout" with the members of Bangladesh Army in Rangamati's Baghachharhi upazila.
The army members claimed that the dear departed were members of the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity (MN Larma faction), while the JSS denied the claim.
One of the dear departed was identified as Rupayon Chakma, 30.
Officer-in-Charge Zakir Hossain Fakir of Baghaichhari cop shoppe said: "Tipped off that the gang was taking preparation to commit crime, a team of army led by Baghaihat zone captain Lieutenant Colonel Ali Haider Siddique went to Dokhaiapara around 2:30 am yesterday.
"Spider senses tingling at the proximity of the army team, the criminals opened fire on them, prompting the army personnel to fire back, triggering a shootout. Five members of the gang were killed in the two hours long shootout that ended around 4:30 am."
Army trooper Liakat Ali was also injured in the clash, said the OC. "He has been admitted to Combined Military Hospital in Chittagong."
Army jugged Book 'im, Mahmoud! three members of the gang while their other associates managed to flee.
Seven firearms, including one machine gun, one SMG, two rifles, three SLRs, and 500 rounds of bullets were recovered from the spot, reports our Khagrachhari correspondent.
When contacted, Kakoli Khisha, secretary of information and publicity of the breakaway JSS faction, said he did not know any information about the incident.
Lieutenant Colonel Ali Haider Siddique told the Dhaka Tribune: "The bandidosturbans had taken shelter at the house of a man named Joyti Chakma in the area. They hold the residents of that house hostage while firing. They were preparing for conducting a massive operation in the area with the firearms and explosives."
In a statement to the media, United People's Democratic Front Rangamati unit Coordinator Shochol Chakma said: "Some television reports have mentioned the name of UPDF while telecasting reports on the shootout between Army personnel and bandidosturbans on Sunday. This was done to tarnish the image of UPDF."
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Boy, they have sure upgraded from the shutter gun in it's velvet-lined case! Otherwise, it is just another 0 dark 30 in the upazilla in Dhaka!
He said, he said. Any thoughts on where the truth might lie, dear Reader?
[Rudaw] Nealry three weeks of fighting with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has left hundreds of government troops dead and killed 30 members of the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK), including eight civilians in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, the PKK co-leader claimed on Friday.
"In the last 19 days of war against the Turkish army, 250 Turkish soldiers were killed and we have 30 deaders, including eight civilians who were killed in Zargali village," said Murat Karayilan, PKK co-leader and top commander, referring to a community at the base of the Qandil Mountains that was bombed on August 1.
He accused Turkish government of breaking a peace deal with Kurds and said 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 battles against Kurds in Syria was a proxy war the bully boyz had been fighting on behalf of Turkey.
"In 2013, Turkey announced a peace deal in Northern Kurdistan [Turkey], but it started war through ISIS in Western Kurdistan [Syria]," he said.
Karayilan denied earlier claims by Turkish officials that at least 390 PKK rebels have been killed and 400 maimed in the attacks.
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Problem for Erdogan's Brownshirts is that they are not facing the old PKK, whcih was a few fanatics with a bit of Russian training. These are leavened with battle hardened troops with leadership that has been in the fight in Syria - and they do have support of the local populace, as well as cross border sanctuary, and terrain that is friendly for guerrilla ops (mountainous and a few urban centers).
This is one Erdogan and his Brownshirts cannot win, despite their psychoses that make them believe they can through "ethnic superiority".
Decades of ethnic repression and racism are going to bring one hell of a high price to Erdogan and his ilk. Turkey will be split. Kurdistan will be liberated. Its only a matter of time and blood.
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As for the veracity, Erdogan's troops are inflating casualty counts with "probables" based on estimates like "volume of fire". And they are not clearing, they are fighting and disengaging. This means they are likely as accurate as US counts in Vietnam were - which is to say not accurate at all.
If you're basing your success on body counts, then you are already in a position of losing. Success means pacification, control of the locals, and the ability to operate freely without threat. That takes either overwhelming force (ww2 style), or a heavy but competent footprint which the local perceive as long term, and which is friendly to the locals to convince them they are there to help not harm. See: Iraq, the Surge that ultimately pacified Iraq before we abandoned it - or the Brits cordon and clear in Malay a long time ago.
The turks have none of those - they are simply repressing the locals based on culture/race, continuing the ethnic warfare and genocide as much as they can get away with in this day and age (Armenians know what this is like on a smaller scale early last century).
In other words, maybe double the PKK and there's your proper estimate of Kurd casualties. about 2/3 the PKK estimates is likely the Turk casualty rate. Remember the rebels have nothing to gain my inflating casualties, whereas the Turks need gaudy numbers to indicate they aren't losing. The whole game here is to dress up the threat to buffalo the populace into supporting the regime - and then dress up the results as "we are winning". Either of those fails, Erdogan faces an elector loss - or a bullet in a coup. The o9nly way for the PKK to "lose" is to surrender to a genocide, and that's not going to happen.
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Let me be clear about one thing: The PKK are no angels, and factions of the PKK deserve blame for atrocities and have never been brought to full account for their actions. In all honesty the Kurds are better off coming up with a replacement for the PKK, based around Ocalan's "conversion" to peaceful revolution and a grudging acceptance of free markets and abandonment of communism.
That being said, the Turks and their covert (alleged) involvement with ISIS, as well as their "declaration of war on ISIS" which initially consisted of a 30 aircraft raid on Kurdish positions shows the duplicity of the Turks and their true intent of continue ethnic suppression (rather than accommodation) of the Kurdish majority in SE Turkey.
[Ynet] One of four men tossed in the slammer Please don't kill me! in New York in February and accused of plotting to join 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 and wage war against the United States has pleaded guilty.
Federal prosecutors say Abdurasul Hasanovich Juraboev
...one of the ungrateful Uzbeks in this sordid tale...
on Friday admitted conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.
Authorities say the 25-year-old posted online threats saying he would kill President Barack Obama It’s very rare that I come to an event where I’m like the fifth- or sixth-most interesting person.... in an act of martyrdom. They say he planned to travel to Syria to fight on behalf of the Islamic State and said he would commit terrorist acts in the US if he couldn't leave the country.
Prosecutors say he discussed killing the president or planting a bomb on Coney Island.
[DAWN] Pakistain Rangers Sindh on Saturday claimed to have placed in durance vile Book 'im, Mahmoud! five suspected holy warriors in raids conducted across Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... The paramilitary force conducted targeted raids in Defence Housing Authority (DHA), Gizri and Gurumandar areas of the city.
"Five Death Eaters belonging to proscribed outfits have been arrested in raids conducted today in Karachi," said a spokesperson for the paramilitary force.
The spokesperson also added that a significant quantity of weapons were also recovered from the arrested individuals.
Earlier, Rangers had also claimed to have arrested multiple alleged criminals including hit mans in a surgical operation conducted in the city's Landhi-VI area on Thursday.
Karachi Corps Commander Lt Gen Naveed Mukhtar earlier last week had reiterated his trust in Rangers and other law enforcement agencies leading the 'Karachi operation', which he said, was "apolitical, indiscriminate and free of any compromise" aimed at bringing the violence-hit city back to normality.
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[DAWN] Pakistain Rangers Sindh on Saturday claimed to have placed in durance vile Book 'im, Mahmoud! five suspected holy warriors in raids conducted across Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... The paramilitary force conducted targeted raids in Defence Housing Authority (DHA), Gizri and Gurumandar areas of the city.
"Five Death Eaters belonging to proscribed outfits have been arrested in raids conducted today in Karachi," said a spokesperson for the paramilitary force.
The spokesperson also added that a significant quantity of weapons were also recovered from the arrested individuals.
Earlier, Rangers had also claimed to have arrested multiple alleged criminals including hit mans in a surgical operation conducted in the city's Landhi-VI area on Thursday.
Karachi Corps Commander Lt Gen Naveed Mukhtar earlier last week had reiterated his trust in Rangers and other law enforcement agencies leading the 'Karachi operation', which he said, was "apolitical, indiscriminate and free of any compromise" aimed at bringing the violence-hit city back to normality.
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[DAWN] A civilian was killed and three others injured when Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) personnel resorted to unprovoked firing at the Line of Control (LoC) in Nikial sector of Kotli, according to a statement released by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Saturday.
"Due to the firing, a civilian Muhammad Shafi who is a resident of Kanthi Gala village was rubbed out and three other civilians were maimed," said the ISPR statement.
Read: Woman dies in 'unprovoked Indian firing' across LoC, daughters injured
The statement added that Pak troops responded to Indian firing in a befitting manner and silenced the Indian guns.
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did they hit the infiltration team?
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As Diplomatic, Media, + even poten Military belligerencies or confrontations begin as China asserts its rights + agenda all over East Asia, LOOK FOR INDO-PAK INCIDENTS LIKE THIS TO ALSO INCREASE IN FREQUENCY.
AGAIN, "US-STYLE", "US-PAR", OWG CO-SUPERPOWER WANTING + CARVING OUT THEIR OWN "SPHERE(S) OF INFLUENCE" WHILE THE EX-SOLE-SOON-TO-BE-ONE-OF-MANY-CO-SUPERPOWERS USA ITSELF UNILATERALLY FALLS BACK IN PCORRECT-DENIABLE STRATEGIC SELF-RETREAT ACROSS THE WORLD.
* SAME > ROBERT MANNING: STALLED TPP LEAVES/PUTS OBAMA PIVOT IN DOUBT.
As 1960'S-1970S Guam Taotamonas = US Congress Member once said, "GUAM WILL CAPSIZE"!
[USN BB "USS OKLAHOMA" here].
Iff the Globalists miscalculate ...
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Times of India] BE PREPARED FOR REGIONAL WAR [Wars = plural]: CHINESE PRSIDENT XI.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Pakistain's former military intelligence -- Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) Chief Gen. Hamid Gul The nutty former head of Pakistain's ISI, now Godfather to Mullah Omar's Talibs and good buddy and consultant to al-Qaeda's high command... died on Saturday evening after suffering a brain haemorrhage.
According to Pak media reports, Gen. Gul died in Combined Military hospital in Murree where he was taken for treatment after suffering brain haemorrhage.
Gen. Gul's daughter Uzma Gul confirmed his death who was quoted by the local media as saying that the former spy master was rushed to the hospital after falling seriously ill but the doctors could not revive him.
Reports regarding Gen. Gul's death rapidly spread in social media in Afghanistan played a part in the establishment of the Taliban and was once known as the "father of the Taliban".
Born on 20 November 1936 in the Sargodha district of Punjab, Gen. Gul palyed also key role in starting the insurgency in Kashmire against India in 1989 by diverting the Mujahideen who participated in the Soviet war to the valley, according to Hindustan Times.
Gul was also accused by the United States of having ties to the al Qaeda apart from his role in the Kashmire militancy in India and the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan.
He served as the director general of ISI between March 29, 1987 and October 4, 1989 and retired from service in 1992.
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Couldn't have happened to a better guy.
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This was one evil SOB. He publicly bean his support for AQ and the jihadist movement during his appearance at the Popular Arab and Islamic Conference gathering held in Khartoum in 1993. His hatred for the West, his support of the Taleban both in Pakistan and Afghanistan would eventually cost tens of thousands of lives.
[US News & World Report] Since June, the U.S. military has been slowly stockpiling massive amounts of its gear coming out of Afghanistan at a depot in Kuwait adjacent to a bustling commercial port, in preparation for ultimately shipping it across the border into Iraq for an allied offensive against the Islamic State group.
The facility's warehouses and large asphalt yards now are home to roughly 3,100 vehicles, most of them MRAPs -- the mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles that have been ubiquitous in America's prolonged wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. There is also some electronic equipment and other supplies at the depot, located at Kuwait's Shuaiba port, defense officials say.
The gear, primarily from the Army, will be fixed up and held as top U.S. planners in Iraq determine what they'll need to defeat the Islamic State group in the coming months, says Air Force Maj. Gen. Rowayne "Wayne" Schatz, the director of operations and plans for U.S. Transportation Command.
"From June to December, we've worked a lot on moving items into Kuwait," he says. "The Army is holding the gear there, and it has room to hold it, as the mission fleshes out."
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Why not call up the Kurds and give them some? They'll even come get them. Guaranteed to put them to good use. Problem is it would upset the Moslem Brotherhood EastErdogan the Caliph Turks, so Obama will not do this.
So they go to the "Iraqi" Army (AKA Shia rabble), so as soon as its in place it will be abandoned.
[Rudaw] The Tigris operations command said on Saturday that an ISIS assault was repelled in eastern Salahadin province.
"With the help of Hashd al-Shaabi and tribal fighters, Iraqi security forces defeated a massive assault of ISIS gunnies on the oilfields of Allas and Ajail, in the east of Salahadin province," said Abdul Amir Zaid, a Tigris command officer, at a presser Sunday.
"As a result, more than 20 gunnies were killed, most were Chechen nationals, along with the destruction of eight vehicles equipped with heavy weapons," Zaid added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the space pirate fleet to attack Zemblonia... a security source told Iraqi agencies that ISIS gunnies had recaptured the area of Albu Jaradian in the town of Baiji in Salahadin, and "they are on the offensive towards the western neighborhoods of Karaba and Naft in Baiji."
The Baiji setbacks came as Iraqi Defense Minister Khalid Obaidi arrived in the town of Zaluia in Salahadin to mark the establishment of the Zaluia-Balad bridge.
On June 30, Hadi al-Amri, the head of the Badr Organization, said the oilfields of Allas and Ajail had become a graveyard for ISIS Lion of Islams, and that they could not return to the provinces of Diyala and Salahadin ever again.
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[ZamboangaToday] Philippine troops clashed anew with Abu Sayyaf militants in the province of Basilan, killing one and wounding three others. While conducting operations, the soldiers encountered 15 or so Abu Sayyaf militants at Sumisip, Basilan early Friday morning.
Military spokesman Rowena Muyuela said that an Abu Sayyaf militant was reportedly killed and three others, including a soldier, were wounded in the clash. She said that one soldier and two other Abu Sayyaf militants belonging to the group of Radzmil Jannatul and Katatuh Balaman were wounded in the exchange.
The clash comes two days after a Moro National Liberation Front militant was killed in an encounter with special forces Wednesday midnight in hinterland of Isabela City, Basilan. Soldiers had been conducting an operation against the Abu Sayyaf in Masola, Isabela City when they were attacked by several armed men.
In a statement, Capt. Roy Vincent Trinidad said, "The troops fought back and held on to their defensive position until the enemies withdrew. In the morning, they found the body of an MNLF member near the area of the enemy's position."
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[ABS-CBN] A suspected communist militant was killed in an clash with the Philippine soldiers in Misamis Oriental on Wednesday.
Troops exchanged fire with about 30 militants, believed to be members of the Sentro De Gravidad (JAGU) of the New People's Army's guerrilla front 4B of North Central Mindanao Regional Committee under Marvin Lutawan alias "Budo". The militants were said to be operating in the hinterlands of Claveria, Balingasag and Gingoog City in Misamis Oriental.
The firefight lasted for a half-hour. The body of a militant, armed with a high-powered firearm, was left behind.
The battalion involved launched pursuit operations after the NPA attacked Barangay Alagatan, Gingoog City in July. That attack left one soldier dead, two civilians injured, and another abducted. Three members of the Citizen Armed Force Geographical Unit were also allegedly killed by the same group of militants in Barangay Hindangon in Gingoog City on July 19.
[ALMANAR.LB] Units of the army and armed forces on Saturday continued to launch wide-scale military operations against dens and positions of 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 organizations across the country, killing scores of them and destroying their arms and ammunition, state-run SANA news agency reported.
In Daraa, units of the army and armed forces destroyed the supply routes and dens of 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 terrorist organization and of the so-called "Jaish al-Yarmouk" in the southern Daraa province.
A military source told SANA that units of the army carried out operations against terrorists' dens on the southwestern outskirts of Daraa City, killing a large number of bully boyz from al-Nusra Front and other Takfiri organizations, adding that among the bully boyz killed was Hasan Mansour al-Saleh who is the leader of the so-called "Horan Martyrs Brigade"
In Daraa al-Balad neighborhood, an army unit carried out special operations morning against hotbeds and dens of the Takfiri bully boyz in the surroundings of Zenobia School and the building of the Doctors Syndicate, and in the neighborhoods of al-Nazihin, al-Sibieh, and al-Hammadin.
Two armored vehicles were destroyed in the operations and a number of bad boyz were potted including terrorist Mifleh al-Kinani who is the leader of one of the Takfiri organizations in the area.
An army unit also destroyed a den of the Takfiri organizations to the east of al-Sikak buildings in Ataman town, killing a number of their members and destroying a machinegun and an amount of varied arms.
Heavy losses were also inflicted upon the Takfiri terrorist organizations in the personnel and the ammunition in operations carried out by units of the army against their dens in Tal al-Harra, Enkhil, Jasem and Kafr Shams.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy's udder had begun to ache... the terrorist organizations admitted on their pages on the social networking websites that tens of their members were killed including terrorist Hasan Mansour al-Saleh who is the leader of the so-called "Horan Martyrs Brigade" and Mohammad Nidal al-Shummari who is the leader of the so-called "Jaish al-Yarmouk."
In Homs, the army air force destroyed vehicles and positions of bully boyz 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 in the surroundings of al-Maqale'a in Palmyra Countryside.
In Lattakia, a unit of the army and the armed forces kills scores of terrorists, one of them of Saudi nationality in al-Hilweh town in the northern countryside of the coastal Lattakia province.
In the Southwestern province of Quneitra, military sources said that gunnies have retreated from several battlefields following the Syrian Army's offensives in various parts of the province on Friday.
The sources said that the army troops' operations in al-Tuloul al-Homr, Trinjeh and Abo Shabta have resulted in the killing and wounding of several murderous Moslems.
Earlier this month, the Syrian government forces targeted Takfiri holy warriors' hideouts and assembly points in al- Hamehiyeh and al-Samadaniyeh al-Gharbiyeh villages in the countryside of Quneitra, and killed a large group of terrorists, and destroyed all their weapons and ammunition.
Earlier on Thursday, over 1,200 bully boyz laid down arms and surrendered to the Syrian authorities, the Syrian local sources also confirmed.
The gunnies also turned over their cache of ammos to the authorities, both sources added.
The development came after Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... in a televised address in July pardoned all soldiers who have fled the army, saying that his words served as a general decree to relevant officials.
Hundreds of gunnies have been laying down their weapons and turning themselves in to authorities in areas across the country.
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Vasectomies and tubal ligations for their families if they want to live.
[ALMANAR.LB] Clashes reignited on Saturday between Hezbollah, Syrian army on one side and terrorist forces of Evil on the other side in east of Zabadani as a cease-fire collapsed.
zabadaniThe festivities included artillery fire by the allied forces on Death Eaters' position after the truce declined and the parts failed to reach a final deal on a ceasefire.
The cease-fire began at 6 a.m. Wednesday and was initially agreed to last two days, but was quickly extended to Saturday. Media reports said there were news that the truce would be extended till Sunday.
The so-called 'Abu al-Yazid Taftanaz', a front man for the terrorist Death Eater group Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... , said in a statement that "the truce collapsed after negotiations with the Iranian delegation, which aims at ending the military operations led by Hezbollah and the Syrian army in Zabadani (near Leb's border), in return to ceasing rebel attacks on [the villages of] Kefraya and Foua (in the northwest Idlib province), crumbled."
Syrian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
said a child and her father had been killed and 12 others maimed in terrorist shelling on Kefraya and Foua.
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[AlAhram] US-led forces continued to bombard 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 on Friday, targeting the krazed killer group with 15 air strikes, according to a statement released by the military on Saturday.
The strikes were concentrated near Ramadi with coalition forces launching five as part of an attempt to clear the way for the Iraqi army to recapture the city that fell to the Islamic State in May.
The strikes hit tactical units and also destroyed four Islamic State buildings, a weapons cache, vehicles and improvised bombs, the Coalition Joint Task Force said.
Forces also conducted five air strikes in Syria and destroyed excavators, a bulldozer, fighting positions and a machine gun with three strikes near Al Hasakah.
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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
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[ABS-CBN] A suspected communist militant was killed in an clash with the Philippine soldiers in Misamis Oriental on Wednesday.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Units of the army and armed forces on Saturday continued to launch wide-scale military operations against dens and positions of the 
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