[WAPO] RALEIGH, N.C. -- Military prosecutors have reached into a section of military law seldom used since World War II in the politically fraught case against Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier held prisoner for years by the Taliban after leaving his post in Afghanistan.
Observers wondered for months if Bergdahl would be charged with desertion after the deal brokered by the U.S. to bring him home. He was -- but he was also charged with misbehavior before the enemy, a much rarer offense that carries a stiffer potential penalty in this case.
"I've never seen it charged," Walter Huffman, a retired major general who served as the Army's top lawyer, said of the misbehavior charge. "It's not something you find in common everyday practice in the military."
Bergdahl could face a life sentence if convicted of the charge, which accuses him of endangering fellow soldiers when he "left without authority; and wrongfully caused search and recovery operations."
Huffman and others say the misbehavior charge allows authorities to allege that Bergdahl not only left his unit with one less soldier, but that his deliberate action put soldiers who searched for him in harm's way. The Pentagon has said there is no evidence anyone died searching for Bergdahl.
"You're able to say that what he did had a particular impact or put particular people at risk. It is less generic than just quitting," said Lawrence Morris, a retired Army colonel who served as the branch's top prosecutor and top public defender.
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He was -- but he was also charged with misbehavior before the enemy, a much rarer offense that carries a stiffer potential penalty in this case.
Yeah, but a lot of commanders and their JAG advisers could also be charged similarly. Article 99 of the UCMJ -
(8)willfully fails to do his utmost to encounter, engage, capture, or destroy any enemy troops, combatants, vessels, aircraft, or any other thing, which it is his duty so to encounter, engage, capture, or destroy; or
(9)does not afford all practicable relief and assistance to any troops, combatants, vessels, or aircraft of the armed forces belonging to the United States or their allies when engaged in battle;
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) -- Afghanistan's intelligence agency has incarcerated ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... with 160 kilograms of kabooms in his vehicle in eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... A statement issued by NDS on Sunday states that the kabooms were concealed in a 'Suzuki' vehicle and were brought from across the border.
NDS statement adds that Jahanzib was arrested while driving the truck to deliver these materials to Manogai District for making roadside and magnetic bombs.
NDS has also released a video with the statement purportedly showing the arrested man 'Jahanzib'.
"My name is Jahanziib, my father's name is Shah Mahmood, I am a resident of Asmar District," he said. "These kabooms were handed over to me in Shelton by Khan, who told me to deliver the materials to Nangalam, on the bridge a man will be waiting for you, you have to give them hand over to that man."
This comes as Kunar province is witnessing severe insecurity these days.
Hundreds of snuffies attacked several security posts in Manogai and Chapa Dara districts on yesterday.
During the clash, a rocket fired by Taliban landed on a house in Chapa Dara district leaving a woman and three of her children dead.
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[Tolo News] At least 14 Taliban bandidos Death Eaters were killed in an attack on security posts in eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... on Saturday, local officials said.
In addition, 23 other bandidos Death Eaters were maimed during the festivities.
The incident took place in Mano Gai and Chapa Dara districts of the province after more than 500 Taliban bandidos Death Eaters attacked the posts. However they were met by a large-scale response from security forces, provincial police chief Abdul Habib Sayedkhili said.
"An Afghan security soldier was also killed in the attack along with 14 Death Eaters." Sayedkhili said. "The Taliban bandidos Death Eaters also torched eight shops and four civilian houses in Chapa Dara," he added.
He said that the bandidos Death Eaters have since fled the area.
Meanwhile, ...back at the hanging, Butch continued with his last words, trying not to repeat himself too often...... officials at the local hospital said: "Eight civilians and four soldiers who were maimed in the attack have been transferred to the central hospital -- where a woman died from her injuries."
The Taliban bandidos Death Eaters have grabbed credit for the attack but said they have taken control of a number of posts in the district.
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[Libya Herald] An army officer who was kidnapped three days ago in Tripoli’s Drebi district has reportedly been found dead. Colonel Musbah Al-Daudi Al-Warshefani had shot a number of times and there are said to be torture signs on his body. It had been dumped in Siyad district on the western edge of the capital. The reason for his abduction and murder is unknown.
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[IN.REUTERS] Saudi-led coalition jets bombed a Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... military position and army bases in the Yemeni capital Sanaa through the night and into Sunday morning in what appeared to be further retaliation for the killing of dozens of coalition soldiers two days ago.
The air strikes targeted 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... , an ally of the Houthis, and a Houthi base in what was the al-Imam University, a religious school in northern Sanaa, residents said.
Residents said kabooms could be heard all night and buildings had been levelled, but the bombing stopped around noon. A Rootersnews hound said there were unconfirmed reports of two deaths.
The al-Sabeen maternity and children's hospital said it had also sustained damage, with patients trapped inside by the bombardment, and appealed to international organizations to help it evacuate patients.
"The hospital had been badly damaged due to the bombardment of areas around it," the Houthi-run state news agency quoted a hospital statement as saying.
The Saudi-led coalition says it does not target civilian facilities. But on Saturday, at least 27 members of two families were killed in Sanaa by air strikes targeting Houthi positions in the city, according to hospital officials.
Coalition warplanes struck military bases on the capital's Nahdain and Fajj Attan hills and the neighboring presidential complex, south of Sanaa, as well as a headquarters for special forces.
Also targeted were Huthi positions in the northern areas of Sufan and al-Nahda, forcing scores of residents to flee, as well as rebel positions near the Saudi and Emirati embassies, witnesses said.
Elsewhere, coalition warplanes hit rebel positions in Bayhan, in the southern province of Shabwa, military sources said.
In the neighboring province of Baida, 27 people were killed -- 14 rebels, 10 loyalist fighters and three civilians -- in two days of coalition raids on the town of Mukayris, military sources said.
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[AlAhram] A scheduled Brussels-Cairo flight by the Egyptian airline Egyptair was cancelled on Saturday because of suspicious behaviour by a passenger, Belgian police said.
Egyptair flight MS 726 was denied clearance for take off to let security "re-examine the passenger list and baggage", the federal police said in a brief blurb.
"In the light of uncertainties about a passenger and as a matter of precaution, the flight cannot takeoff until security services are able to carry out wider checks," it said.
The Phlegmish-language newspaper Het Nieuwsblad said that the passenger was detained for questioning after saying "something's going to happen" on the flight.
Herewith the buried lede:
He was already under monitoring by the security services, it added.
The flight should have taken off at 3:55 pm (1355 GMT) but was cancelled several hours later, and passengers were put on other flights, the French-language daily Le Soir said.
The police and Brussels' airport authority could not be immediately reached for comment.
[Rudaw] Turkish authorities have tossed in the slammer Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! a Dutch journalist who was reporting in a town located in a predominantly Kurdish region of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... Frederike Geerdink, a freelance journalist who reports on Kurdish issues, wrote on her Twitter account Sunday that she was taken into custody in the town of Yuksekova.
She added that she was with "a human shield group," who are all in jug, and that she expected to be questioned by the prosecutor "today or tomorrow."
Geerdink was also arrested last January, accused of disseminating terrorist propaganda and acquitted of those charges in April.
Two British journalists from Vice News were released this week after they were arrested on terror charges while reporting from the city of Diyarbakir, the bastion of Turkey's Kurdish region and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
[REUTERS] Kurdish Death Eaters said on Sunday they had killed 15 soldiers in an attack on an army convoy in southeast The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , and a security source said the military responded with air strikes.
In a statement posted online, the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) said its guerrillas had ambushed the convoy of armored vehicles in Yuksekova district, in what could be the bloodiest assault since the collapse of a ceasefire in July.
"An attack from several sides left 15 soldiers dead, and a large number of weapons were seized in the action," the statement read.
The number of casualties could not be independently verified but in a televised statement President Tayyip Erdogan confirmed an incident had taken place in Hakkari province, close to Turkey's borders with Iran and Iraq.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who had been watching the national soccer team playing in the city of Konya, left the stadium early to return to the capital as news of the attack broke.
A security bigshot told Rooters that Turkish jets had retaliated, hitting at least 10 PKK targets, including those behind the ambush.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: Pakistain Rangers, Sindh, on Saturday claimed to have seized a huge cache of arms and ammunition in Landhi, dumped by the "militant wing of a political party", said a statement.
Though the statement did not carry the name of the political party behind the dumping of the arms, the paramilitary force said that with the seizure of the arms it had "averted a major terrorist activity in the city".
"A volunteer law-abiding citizen belonging to a political party, who denounces terrorism, guided Pakistain Rangers to recover the arms," said the statement.
"According to details, Pakistain Rangers Sindh conducted a surgical action in Al-Burq Gymkhana, Landhi, and recovered a huge weapons cache. The weapons and ammo was to be used to carry out sporadic murders and other sabotage activities in the city from a hard boy wing of a political party."
The seized arms included a 12.7 gun with mound, a rocket-propelled grenades launcher, a 7mm rifle, an 8mm rifle, a pump action 12 bore rifle, a revolver, 40 Avan bombs, 2,730 rounds of light-machine gun and 640 rounds of sub-machine gun, added the statement.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Senate, the partisans of Honorius went for their knives and the partisans of Stilicho went for the doors... a suspected gangster was killed in an encounter with the paramilitary force in Lyari. The Rangers statement said an intelligence-driven targeted raid was conducted on reports of Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... gangsters involved in the Sept 2 murder in Bihar Colony.
"When the Rangers troops were approaching the hideout, bully boyz opened fire and tried to escape," said the statement. "In the ensuing exchange of fire a terrorist was killed while four others were tossed in the slammer Book 'im, Mahmoud! ."
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[DAWN] Two councillors and another man were killed and two others injured in a bomb kaboom in Hangu and firing in Kohat district on Saturday.
According to police, Hangu district ... Hangu is famous for its greenery, hills, beauty and water. Most of the people of this area are Bangash & Orakzai Pashtuns. Part of the Bangash are Shia. The Orakzai and the Sunni Bangash are determined to kill them... councillor Malik Mumtaz, belonging to the Awami National Party founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986. Part of the PPP-led cabinet 2008-13. The ANP is considered left wing, advocating for secularism, democratic socialism, public sector government, and economic egalitarianism.... , and his cousin Javed were killed when an improvised bomb blew up his vehicle in Doaba town.
Terrorists had placed the IED on the road between Tora Warai and Doaba and detonated it by remote control, officials said. A guard and another man were severely injured.
Nasrullah, a tehsil councillor of Kohat from Shiekhan area, was rubbed out by opponents. According to Jungle Khel police, Mr Nasrullah was affiliated with PML-N and his family had an enmity.
Relatives of the victim nominated his suspected killers in the first information report.
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[AnNahar] Iraq has put F-16 warplanes acquired from the United States into action against 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 for the first time, the commander of the air force said Sunday.
"Fifteen air strikes were carried out in the past four days," Staff Lieutenant General Anwar Hama Amin told AFP following a news conference in Baghdad.
"Smart weapons" were used in the strikes, Amin said, without specifying the type.
Defense Minister Khaled al-Obaidi told the news conference that the strikes had achieved "important results" and that the jets will have "an impact on the conduct of operations in the future."
All wonderfully vague, which makes one wonder what they hit.
Baghdad Bob could have written that press release...
Amin told the news conference that the F-16 strikes had taken place in Salaheddin and Kirkuk provinces, north of Baghdad.
The first four Iraqi F-16s arrived from the United States in mid-July, out of a total of 36 Washington has agreed to sell to Baghdad.
The purchase had been a source of tension, with Baghdad repeatedly complaining that they have not been delivered quickly enough.
Insecurity in Iraq, where IS seized significant territory in June 2014, had delayed the delivery of the jets, with the first batch being sent to Arizona, where Iraqi pilots have been training.
An Iraqi pilot was killed when his F-16 crashed during training in Arizona earlier this year. Hopefully his Breitling survived the crash. Good Navitimers are getting hard to find.
F-16 jets are much more sophisticated than other aircraft in Baghdad's arsenal and will boost Iraq's capacity for air strikes, which are currently carried out by aging Sukhoi Su-25 jets, Cessna Caravan turboprop aircraft and various helicopters.
But with foreign aircraft from the international anti-IS coalition also carrying out strikes against the jihadists on a daily basis, the delivery is not seen as a game changer in the war against the Lion of Islams.
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Warthogs might be more suited for kind of missions needed against ISIS - though without the spent Uranium tank-piercing ammo.
[Rudaw] The US led coalition carried out Arclight airstrikes on ISIS positions in Tal Afar on Saturday, reportedly killing the ISIS governor of the Jazira region bridging northern Syria and Iraq.
Issa Zewai, the commander of the 4th Peshmerga Brigade on the Shingal front, told Rudaw that "lately the US coalition war planes have intensified their attacks on ISIS military bases and positions, destroying ISIS vehicles and targeting a strategic line where ISIS attacks Peshmerga by directing mortar shells."
Zewai added that during the coalition Arclight airstrikes many ISIS fighters were reportedly killed, including Hazm Klash, the Jazira governor.
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What a sad, sad day - we need a whole concert of nano-violins...
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Questions:
Have we decided to hit IS training sites yet? Given this absurd strategy in the ME will someone tell me who in the Pentagon is its author?
Of the 5,000 US forces in Iraq where are they? How many are in the Green Zone or sucking up beers in Irbil?
Doesn't it seem we are just going through the motions until Obama departs the White House?
[Ynet] Shin Bet, police arrest 27-year-old who allegedly confessed to planting bombs during Operation Protective Edge.
Shin Bet and police placed in durance vile Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! a man from Gazoo who was allegedly responsible for terror attacks against IDF troops during Operation Protective Edge and other targets, it was revealed on Sunday.
The suspect, Ihab Abu Nahal, 27, was apprehended at the end of July as he requested permission to travel to 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... for a job as a teacher as part of an initiative to employ Gazook teachers.
Abu Nahal is a member of an Islamist faction associated with 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.... known as "Unity of God," said the Shin Bet. This faction belongs to the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) in Gazoo. He began his activities in Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,'s military wing, where he was trained in using weapons, camouflage, observations, and participated in tunnel-digging.
Abu Nahal reportedly said in his interrogation that during last summer's military operation in Gazoo, despite siding with the Salafists ...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them... , Hamas used him for attacks on Israel, alongside the group's special forces in the northern Gazoo Strip.
The Shin Bet said Abu Nahal admitted that he and these forces placed and detonated bombs against IDF troops inside Gazoo. For the purpose of carrying out this attack, they allegedly used the home of a doctor trusted by Hamas.
Abu Nahal was chosen by the PRC back in 2010 to commit a suicide kaboom on Israeli targets on the Israeli-Egyptian border and received special coaching to that end, added the Shin Bet, and that year left the Gazoo Strip for Sinai through a tunnel in preparation for an attack on a bus next to Eilat -- but the plan failed for various reasons.
Last year, Abu Nahal was recruited into the radical Salafist faction linked to ISIS, according to the Shin Bet. An indictment was issued against him last week at the Be'er Sheva Magistrate's Court.
He is accused of the following offenses: Contact with an outside agent, membership and activity in an unlawful association, forbidden military training, weapons offenses, conspiracy to murder and attempted murder.
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The apprehension of Abu Nahal was almost certainly facilitated by Hamas.
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A member of the naval commando unit of Hamas's military wing, the Kassam Brigades, drowned in a training accident on Sunday off the coast of Gaza, the group announced.
The Hamas naval commando was named as 27-year-old Nabil Marine, from Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip. the pic at JP is simply precious.
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"We train in the funkiest water
To squeeze through a drain like an otter,
So bold Hamas sappers
Can infiltrate crappers
And bugger the Zionist squatter!"
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"Requirements for Naval Kommandos:
1. Physique like the late Marlon Brando's.
2. 'Nuff guns to sink blubber.
3. One Israeli rubber.
4. No drawers, just man-bra and man-hose."
Heh. Fat jokes. Funny funny. Okay, who stole my cookies?
Three New People's Army militants have surrendered in Zamboanga del Sur province. Military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Audie Mongao identified the surrenderees as Erme Elnas, Anselma Quijano, and Lodevico Nadal Jr., all are members of the NPA's Western Mindanao Regional Party Committee.
[The Nation] Four soldiers were injured when their pickup truck was caught in a bomb explosion in Pattani province. The troops had been returning to their base in Kapho district when their pickup was hurled 50 meters by the blast. The bomb had been planted on a motorcycle and sidecar that had been stolen two years ago.
One source said authorities think the attack may have been the work of the Runda Kumpulan Kecil (RKK).
[Anadolu] A Muslim leader in southern Thailand who had survived a previous attack was gunned down Saturday in Pattani province. Dormeng Benjaewan, the 76-year-old imam of the Payonok Mosque in Saiburi district, was shot several times by a suspect riding pillion on a motorcycle in front of a food store. He was taken to a local hospital where he died from his injuries.
Benjaewan had been respected among local residents and had worked with Thai offiials to resolve the decades-long insurgency that has been destabilizing the three southernmost provinces.
Saturday's attack came as the military government is holding peace talks with Mara Pattani, an umbrella movement grouping six different insurgent factions. Some analysts, however, have expressed doubts about the degree of control of Mara Patani has on the insurgents active on the ground, where the main movement is the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN, National Revolutionary Front).
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Al Qaeda's Syria wing the Nusra Front has blown up an army checkpoint east Hama city, killing number of military personnel including two officers, sources told Zaman al-Wasl Sunday.
Al Sammakh checkpoint has been considered as one the most powerful bases east Hama city near Salamiyeh town, the stronghold of Ismaili minority, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... two officers were identified by rebels, Brigadier General Aakel Aakel and Major Shaaban Ahmed.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.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.... on Sunday has taken control of Jazel village in the northern countryside of Homs city, the hardline group said in statement as its fighters keep encircling a nearby oil field.
Supporters of the the radical group said ISIS is pressing hard to capture Jazel oil field after taking full control of the strategic village.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had escaped from his bonds and overwhelmed his guard using the bludgeon the faithful Filomena had smuggled to him in the loaf of bread... the United States and its allies carried out 21 air strikes on ISIS strongholds in Iraq and Syria on Saturday, the Command Joint Task Force said in a statement on Sunday.
In Syria, four air strikes hit construction equipment, a tactical unit and a fighting position, Rooters said.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] At least 12 people were killed Sunday when the Syrian regime targeted opposition-held towns in the provinces of Damascus and Idlib with vacuum bombs and explosive-laden waste containers, according to civil defense sources.
At least six non-combatants were killed, and dozens injured when the Syrian regime jets dropped vacuum bombs on a residential area in the town of Arbin in Eastern Ghouta, an opposition-held region east of the capital Damascus, a civil defense source told Anadolu Agency.
Three buildings were completely destroyed in the attack, and the locals were helping the civil defense teams in search-and-rescue efforts, the source said.
A separate attack carried out by Syrian army helicopters in the town of Ariha south of Idlib killed at least six others, another local civil defense source said.
Dozens were maimed in the attack on a residential area with explosive-laden waste containers, the source said.
"Six buildings were destroyed in the attack, with dozens of others suffering major damage," he added.
Assad forces have reportedly been using explosive-filled waste containers lately instead of barrel bombs, since they are more effective and easier to make, according to local sources.
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[IN.REUTERS] Syrian state media said on Sunday that an Islamist Lion of Islam had confessed after his arrest to being behind two boom-mobile blasts that killed 37 people in the south of the country on Friday, including a Druze leader.
The kabooms had provoked protests by Druze in the city of Sweida during which six government security personnel were killed and a statue of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... 's father was destroyed, a monitor said.
A Lebanese Druze leader who backs the uprising against Assad had blamed the government for the killing of Sheikh Wahid al-Balous. Balous had opposed the government and Islamists fighting against it.
State news agency SANA said security forces tossed in the calaboose Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! an Islamist Lion of Islam from the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, who confessed to the two boom-mobiles and involvement in unrest that followed.
The arrested man, named as Al-Wafed Abu Tarabeh, reportedly also confessed the group was behind attacks on government property in Sweida city after the bombings, which killed 31 people.
"Authorities in Sweida today arrested the terrorist Al-Wafed Abu Tarabeh, who confessed to responsibility for the two terrorist bombings on Friday," state news agency SANA reported.
State television identified Abu Tarabeh as a member of al-Nusra.
"The terrorist also confessed to participation in the attacks on the military police and security branches... in addition to acts of vandalism and theft in Sweida," SANA said.
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[Ynet] The United States and its allies carried out 21 air strikes 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.... forces in Iraq and Syria on Saturday, the Command Joint Task Force said in a statement on Sunday.
The greatest concentration of action came near Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids... Iraq, where staging areas, a building and a bunker were hit in five air strikes. Twelve other attacks were carried out near six other Iraqi cities, hitting tactical units, fighting positions, weapons and other Islamic State assets, the statement said.
In Syria, four air strikes hit construction equipment, a tactical unit and a fighting position.
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[The Nation] Four soldiers were injured when their pickup truck was caught in a bomb explosion in Pattani province. The troops had been returning to their base in Kapho district when their pickup was hurled 50 meters by the blast. The bomb had been planted on a motorcycle and sidecar that had been stolen two years ago.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
