[DAWN] DERA KHAN: A US drone strike killed at least 15 snuffies associated with the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) in Afghanistan's Gomal district on Wednesday, intelligence officials said on Friday, as part of an intensifying drone campaign against Talibs in Afghanistan.
Three intelligence officials confirmed Wednesday's strike in an area bordering the South Wazoo region in Pakistain.
"Fifteen dead bodies of killed snuffies will be shifted soon to their native areas in Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... ," one of the officials said.
They confirmed that the 15 forces of Evil belonged to the Gandapur faction of the TTP led by Mullah Fazlullah ...son-in-law of holy man Sufi Mohammad. Known as Mullah FM, Fazlullah had the habit of grabbing his FM mike when the mood struck him and bellowing forth sermons. Sufi suckered the Pak govt into imposing Shariah on the Swat Valley and then stepped aside whilst Fazlullah and his Talibs imposed a reign of terror on the populace like they hadn't seen before, at least not for a thousand years or so. For some reason the Pak intel services were never able to locate his transmitter, much less bomb it. After ruling the place like a conquered province for a year or so, Fazlullah's Talibs began gobbling up more territory as they pushed toward Islamabad, at which point as a matter of self-preservation the Mighty Pak Army threw them out and chased them into Afghanistan... , who grabbed credit for the massacre of more than 130 pupils at the Army Public School in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. last December.
Tracking of drone strikes in Afghanistan is patchy -- many of them take place in remote regions and are not reported -- but Taliban capos say that fighters there have been increasingly targeted since late last year.
This is a good thing.
The strikes come a week after Pakistain and Afghanistan agreed to end a blame game over a spate of Death Eater attacks and work to restore trust.
Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. made closer ties with Pakistain a priority when he took office last year, hoping Islamabad could push Afghan Taliban leaders to the negotiating table to end Afghanistan's long war.
The relationship appeared to yield fruit in July with groundbreaking official peace talks with the Death Eaters.
But after confirmation of the death of the group's founder Mullah Omar ... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality... , the process was suspended and the Taliban launched a wave of attacks in 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.... , killing more than 50 people and souring relations between Pakistain and Afghanistan.
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[Tolo News] Air strikes by the Afghan airforce on Friday succeeded in pushing back the Taliban from Raghistan Bazar in Raghistan district, Badakhshan, officials said Friday.
Provincial police front man Chief Lal Mohammad Ahmadzia told TOLOnews that the Taliban attacked the district late Thursday night and came close to the Raghistan district Bazar but as a result of air strikes pushed back the murderous Moslems.
Ahmadzai said that during the Arclight airstrike at least 30 Taliban were killed and that the bodies of 10 gunnies remain on the battle field.
Three coppers were also killed and three others maimed in the clash, Ahmadzai added.
Earlier Friday Rustam Khan District governor and a provincial council member said Raghistan district had collapsed to the Taliban.
Taliban gunnies yet to comment about the attack.
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[Tolo News] Raghistan district of Badakhshan province has collapsed to the Taliban after two days of heavy festivities with security forces, local officials said Friday.
Jawed Mujadadi a provincial council member told TOLOnews that the district collapsed into the hands of the Taliban at 3am on Friday morning.
So far details on casualties have not been revealed, Mujadadi said.
Provincial police front man Chief Lal Mohammad Ahmadzia said that the Taliban are advancing and at the moment they are one kilometer from the district governor's office and heavy festivities are ongoing.
The provincial police front man warns that if within an hour air support is not sent to the district the district will fully collapse to the Taliban.
On Thursday at least 65 villages in Raghistan district had reportedly collapsed to the Taliban, local officials.
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[AnNahar] Kenyan forces on Friday launched a massive security operation in a forest in the country's coastal northeast which officials say is being used as a hideout by Somalia's al-Qaeda-affiliated Shabaab rebels.
Interior Minister Joseph Nkaissery launched the operation a week after police warned the area's residents to hand over any weapons and leave ahead of an "imminent security operation."
"We would like you to move so that we can clean the forest to eject the criminals that are in there," Nkaissery said Friday at the public launch of the operation in Mpeketoni, where Islamic Lions of Islam massacred around 48 people last year, close to the once-popular tourist island of Lamu.
The minister -- joined by military chief Samson Mwathethe and police chief Joseph Boinnet -- made the announcement to thousands of local residents after meeting for lunch on Friday.
A week earlier, Boinnet said the huge 2,200-square-kilometer (850-square-mile) Boni forest, straddling Garissa and Lamu counties and bordering Somalia, had become a sanctuary for Shabaab Lion of Islams.
Boinnet ordered residents -- many of them traditional hunters -- to "surrender all arms and ammunitions in their possession" and leave the "disturbed and dangerous place" ahead of an imminent security operation.
Officials suspect hundreds of Shabaab Lions of Islam are holed up in the forest. Kenya's army and paramilitary police unit will participate in the 'Linda Boni' ('Protect Boni') operation, which is excepted to last up to three months.
Boni forest borders Somalia, where Shabaab originated, and Kenyan officials believe recent attacks -- including a failed assault on an army post in June in which British jihadist Thomas Evans was killed -- were launched from the reserve.
[Al Ahram] Egyptian security forces have killed 98 Lions of Islam in Sinai during a recent military operation, the military said on Friday.
Egypt is battling an insurgency that gained pace after the overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi of the Moslem Brüderbund Islamist movement in mid-2013 after mass protests against his rule.
The insurgency, mounted by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... 's Egyptian affiliate, has killed hundreds of soldiers and police and has started to attack Western targets. In the latest fighting, four Egyptian soldiers were killed, the military said.
President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi describes Islamist militancy as an existential threat to Egypt, the most populous Arab state.
Islamic State group controls large parts of Iraq and Syria, has a presence in Libya and enjoys the support of Lions of Islam in Egypt.
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[ALMANAR.LB] A boom-mobileing killed an Egyptian woman and a child Friday in the North Sinai town of Rafah, where the military is engaged in a sweeping campaign against Extremists, the army said.
The military said that the bomb went off as troops combed the border town neighboring the Paleostinian Gazoo Strip, and there were no army casualties.
The army announced on Monday it has launched an offensive against 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... ISIL group's affiliate. Since Monday, 134 forces of Evil were killed, the army said, adding that at least two soldiers were killed during the operation.
The military says it has killed more than 1,000 forces of Evil since 2013, but the figures are difficult to independently verify.
The army is struggling to quell a murderous Moslem insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula that has killed hundreds of soldiers and coppers since 2013, when the army ousted president Mohammad Mursi.
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[AnNahar] At least seven people were killed and 20 others injured in a blast at a camp for people displaced by the 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... conflict in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , the country's main relief agency said on Wednesday.
A homemade bomb planted inside a tent went off shortly before 11:00 am (1000 GMT) at the Malkohi internally displaced persons (IDP) camp near the Adamawa state capital, Yola.
"So far seven persons bit the dust and 20 persons were maimed in the kaboom," a front man for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Sani Datti, said in a statement.
"Among the injured, seven were treated and discharged while 13 persons, including four NEMA officials, are still receiving treatment at (the) Federal Medical Center, Yola."
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but Boko Haram Islamists have previously hit "soft" civilian targets with improvised bombs (IEDs) or suicide kabooms.
Adamawa state police front man Othman Abubakar initially gave a lower toll of two dead and seven injured, while the Red Thingy said three had been killed and nine injured.
Suleiman Mohammed, director of response, relief and rehabilitation at the Adamawa State Emergency Management Agency (ADSEMA), told AFP five were killed and 20 injured.
The Adamawa state governor, Jibrilla Bindow, was reported as telling a meeting of northern governors that some of the many children at the camp were among the dead.
Lionel Rawlings, head of security at the American University of Nigeria (AUN), which is based in Yola, confirmed student volunteers were slightly injured by flying debris.
"None was in direct contact with the kaboom but there was flying shrapnel. We dodged the bullet," he said.
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Abubakar and Mohammed both said the blast was caused by an IED left by tents in the sprawling camp, which is just outside Yola to the south and near an army base.
Security had been tight after hundreds of women and kiddies held hostage by Boko Haram were brought to the camp after they were rescued by the military earlier this year. Armed soldiers manned the gates and carried out checks on vehicles and passengers, AFP news hounds witnessed on a visit to the camp in May.
"Our men are there," said Abubakar. "They are trying to find if there are any other explosives."
Yola has been seen as a relative safe haven from the violence and last year its population more than doubled in size to about 400,000 as those made homeless flocked to the city. Many of the displaced were housed at state-run camps or stayed with relatives and friends.
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[AnNahar] Iran-backed rebels fired Katyusha rockets at a busy market in Yemen's eastern city of Marib killing at least 20 people on Friday, medics and witnesses said.
"Twenty non-combatants were killed and dozens maimed" in the attack, a medical official said. Witnesses said the scenic provincial capital's market was targeted.
The attack came hours after a Saudi-led coalition air strike killed seven rebels in Marib, where Apache helicopters have also joined the fight against Huthi Shiite Death Eaters and their allies.
The coalition strike targeted a military vehicle used by the rebels in Marib province, while other air raids targeted rebel positions in neighbouring Shabwa, military sources said.
[Dhaka Tribune] The police have detained 42 suspected Shibir members from a restaurant in the capital's at Farmgate area on Friday.
Tejgaon cop shoppe OC Mazharul Islam told the Dhaka Tribune: "All the students were picked up from Sky Restaurant around 5pm while they were participating in a programme titled Career Life Line Programme.
"The programme was organised by Science Youth Club. Most of the detainees are the students of Retina Coaching Centre. We are suspecting that they are Shibir members."
Police are verifying their identities, said the police.
- See more at: http://www.dhakatribune.com/politics/2015/sep/11/42-suspected-shibir-members-held-capital#sthash.uOsy5BZX.dpuf
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[Dhaka Tribune] A Dhaka court has granted seven days of remand to the acting chief of Ansarullah Bangla Team and his two cohorts.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shahriar Mahmud Adnan granted the remand after Investigation Officer DB Inspector Fazlur Rahman produced them before the court on Friday afternoon.
The three were shown incarcerated Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! in secular writer and blogger Avijit Roy murder case.
The arrestees are acting chief Abul Bashar -- the younger brother of Ansarullah chief Jasim Uddin Rahmani -- and the outfit's media wing members Julhas Biswas and Jafran Hossain.
The three members of the radical Islamist outfit were picked up by a RAB 3 team around 5am Thursday.
On February 26, writer-blogger Avijit Roy was killed by the five Ansarullah members. His wife Rafida Ahmed Bonya survived the attack, but was maimed.
On May 12, two months after Avijit's murder, assailants hacked to death secular blogger Ananta Bijoy Das in Sylhet. According to RAB, the two murders were done by the same Ansarullah team.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] A British citizen has been detained while attempting to cross into Syria from the Turkish border town of Kilis.
The governor's office in the southeastern province of Kilis said in a written statement that the person, identified only by the initials M.P., was detained by Turkish soldiers in the Akcabaglar village while attempting to illegally cross into Syria, state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
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Guessing the 'M' doesn't stand for Michael or Matt...
[Hurriyet Daily News] Outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Lions of Islam staged a gun attack on Sept. 11 on a soup restaurant in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir, killing one civilian and wounding five, including coppers, inside and outside the restaurant.
PKK Lions of Islam targeted a soup restaurant where coppers and civilian clients were sitting in the Yenisehir district. According to reports, three coppers and two civilians were maimed in the attack, while coppers sitting in front of the restaurant were badly maimed. Seyhmus Sanir, a waiter at the restaurant, departed this vale of tears in hospital after he was shot in the head.
The Diyarbakir Governor's Office said the PKK Lions of Islam responsible for the attack had been identified, adding that a wide-scale operation was being conducted to apprehend the Death Eaters.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Senate, Odius Sepulcher called for war against the Visigoths... in a separate attack in Diyarbakir, outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Lions of Islam opened fire on a patrolling police vehicle in the Kayapinar district with long-barreled weapons, wounding two coppers.
Two coppers were slightly maimed during a short clash with the Lions of Islam when the broken glass of the vehicle fell on them.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] Turkish warplanes struck 64 outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets in overnight raids on northern Iraq, dropping 80 bombs, according to reports on Sept. 11.
At least 60 PKK holy warriors were killed in the strikes, carried out by 21 Turkish F-16 and F-4 warplanes, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported, quoting security sources.
The toll could not be verified independently. The strikes, which ran from late Sept. 10 to dawn Sept. 11, are the latest in a relentless air campaign aimed at crippling the PKK, which has staged a string of attacks in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... in recent weeks.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had a cup of coffee. Even instant would do... Iraq has condemned Turkey for sending ground troops onto its territory in pursuit of the PKK holy warriors, calling it a "clear violation" of its illusory sovereignty.
"The foreign ministry expresses its condemnation of the incursion of a number of Turkish military units inside Iraqi territory," front man Ahmed Jamal said in a statement.
"It represents a clear violation of Iraqi illusory sovereignty and a clear offence to bilateral relations between the two countries," he said.
Turkish special forces entered Iraq on Sept. 8 in what officials termed a "short-term" incursion in pursuit of the PKK following attacks that killed more than two dozen soldiers and police.
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Erdogan: You let us bomb Kurds in Iraq and we will let you use our Incirlik Air Base.
Obama: Sounds like a good deal to me.
[Hurriyet Daily News] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's Interior Ministry has dismissed the mayor of a southeastern town over inciting people to armed uprising and terror propaganda, hours after an announcement that the curfew would be lifted.
Interior Minister dismissed Cizre Mayor Leyla Imret over an investigation launched by the Chief Prosecutor's Office in Cizre into Imret, charging her with inciting people to armed uprising and terror propaganda.
A curfew which was implemented late Sept. 4 in the Cizre district of southeastern Turkey's Sirnak province would be removed as of 7:00 a.m. on Sept. 12, Sirnak Governor's office said on Sept. 11 soon after three markets and one bakery were permitted to open with telephone and internet lines also opened to access.
The GSM and internet lines were reportedly opened for usage during the day on Sept. 11 but would be once again blocked at night, while three markets and one bakery, which serves at most five loaves of bread to each family, were allowed to open for citizens to meet their needs after eight days of being forcefully confined to their homes due to the curfew announced on Sept. 4, Dogan News Agency reported.
Ali Riza Alaboyun, the energy and natural resources minister of the interim government, told a group of journalists on Sept. 11 in Ankara that power distribution units in Cizre could have been damaged on a small scale "but the electricity flowing to Cizre and the transformers were actively working."
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[DAWN] The special police unit in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... on Friday claimed to have enjugged Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! an alleged suspect involved in firing shots at a commercial PIA aircraft last year in June at the Bacha Khan International Airport, killing a woman passenger.
Police arrested Noor Muhammad alias Yar Muhammad on Friday from Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. 's Ring Road area after receiving a tip off from security agencies.
Authorities claimed that during initial investigation, the accused had confessed to firing multiple gunshots at PIA's Boeing PK-756 as it was landing at the Bacha Khan International Airport in June 2014.
An FIR has been registered in Badabair Police Station against the shooter, police said, adding that the suspect will be handed over to the concerned cop shoppe.
PK-756 was coming from Riyadh, 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... , to Peshawar with 196 passengers on board when it was attacked by unidentified gunnies on June 24, while landing at the airport, killing a woman and injuring two flight stewards on board.
Airline officials said the gunnies had aimed specifically at the highly flammable fuel tank as they sought to blow up the aircraft, as well as the cockpit, to kill the pilot.
Army and police personnel conducted a search operation and arrested over 100 suspects after the attack.
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[DAWN] Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... (MQM) on Friday accused Rangers of "extra-judicially" killing four party workers Thursday night near the Northern Bypass in 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... 's Sohrab Goth area.
The paramilitary force had Thursday night claimed to have killed four suspects in an 'encounter' on Northern Bypass near Sohrab Goth.
"They were nabbed Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! by Rangers a month ago," Farooq Sattar said, adding that family members of the dear departed had identified them as Mohammd Adeel, Kashif Khalil, Shahid Ghulam and Zohaib Ullah.
Sattar said his party had given a list of 150 "disappeared" workers to the prime minister, his cabinet members, Sindh CM Qaim Ali Shah and the DG Rangers.
"But no action has so far been taken on our demand and at least four of those 150 workers have been extra judicially killed," alleged Sattar.
But the paramilitary force, which has been in charge of the security operation in the city since 2013, in a blurb on Friday said MQM's allegations were "baseless propaganda."
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[ALMANAR.LB] Fighting in Indian-administered Kashmire killed two soldiers and two suspected persons Friday, as representatives from India and Pakistain met to discuss security on the disputed frontier.
The deaths were the latest to occur in recent weeks, which have seen an upsurge in firing by both sides across the militarized border.
Police claimed the fighting broke out late Thursday after the army received a tip-off that snuffies were in Laribal village, some 70 kilometers northwest of the main city of Srinagar.
The firefight between both sides left two persons and two Indian soldiers killed.
India regularly accuses Pakistain of arming and training what it called 'rebels' to infiltrate what it sees as its territory.
Islamabad denies the allegation, saying it only provides diplomatic and moral support to the Kashmiri struggle for self-determination.
News of the latest deaths came as Pak paramilitary officials met India's Home Minister Rajnath Singh in New Delhi to discuss border security.
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[DAWN] A team of the Counter-Terrorism Department placed in durance vile Please don't kill me! JUI-F leader and former MPA Mufti Kifayatullah for allegedly making a hate speech here late on Wednesday night.
Mr Kifayatullah had come here from Mansehra ...a city and an eponymous district in eastern Khyber-Pakthunwa, nestled snug up against Pak Kashmir, with Kohistan and Diamir to the north and Abbottabad to the south... to attend the 'Istehkam Pakistain Conference' convened by Maulana Ilyas Chinioti, a PML-N MPA.
Sources said the CTD cop shoppe in Faisalabad ...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... had started the paperwork but haven't done much else against him under the Anti-Terrorism Act for speaking against state institutions and praising terrorists.
The sources said that Mr Kifayatullah had criticised Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... operation and allegedly glorified Malik Ishaq, a leader of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... killed recently in a police encounter, to stir up sectarian hatred. He also raised slogans against the state institutions.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: The south zone police on Thursday claimed to have locked away Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! eight suspected hit men allegedly belonging to a "famous political party of 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 Karachi-south DIG said.
Speaking at a presser at his office, Dr Jamil Ahmed added that the held hit men had 'confessed' to killing at least one dozen people in different parts of the city.
The DIG-South said the suspects -- Mohammed Kalam Bihari; Kamran, alias Kami; Adnan, alias Audi; Farhan; Haider Aijaz; Shahbaz; Syed Shahroz and Ateeb -- were detained in the 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.... and Malir areas.
Two Kalashnikovs, two pistols, one car and several mobile phones were seized from their possession, he added.
They have allegedly killed people in Orangi Town, Pakistain Bazaar, Iqbal Market, Zaman Town, North Nazimabad and Nazimabad areas.
Asked about identity of the victims, Dr Jamil merely said that the suspects had no personal enmity with them (victims). Apart from assassinations, they were involved in extortion and street crimes, he added.
He said that Mohammed Kalam Bihari and Haider Aijaz were "known hit mans" while the rest were their accomplices.
Replying to a question, the DIG-South admitted that street crimes were a serious problem as there were many complaints of citizens specially in Clifton and Defence areas regarding it.
He added that he had given special task to SSP-South Dr Mohammed Farooq to control street crimes in Clifton and Defence and that a new cop shoppe, Sahil, had been set up for this purpose.
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not Sid Blumenthal?
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[TIME] An Indian court pronounced 12 men guilty on Friday for carrying out the 2006 series of train bombings in Mumbai.
The blasts killed 180 people and maimed over 800 on July 11, 2006, when seven pressure-cooker bombs detonated across the city within 15 minutes during rush hour. The men face the death penalty or life in prison at their Monday sentencing, the BBC reports.
"Justice has been done for the people of Mumbai. I will ask for the strictest punishment when I argue for their sentences," the public prosecutor said.
The trial lasted for years after the attacks, and the judge reached Friday's ruling after 13 months. A thirteenth man, accused of harboring the other 12, was acquitted.
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[Al Ahram] An Islamist rebel group stormed Syria's largest prison on Friday, seizing two buildings in the complex near Damascus amid heavy fighting, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
"Jaish al-Islam ...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful... entered Adra prison and seized two buildings in the women's section of the complex," said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman.
The rebels launched an offensive Wednesday on the regime-held complex, which lies in the Eastern Ghouta suburb of Damascus, capturing a hilltop before seizing part of the facility, he told AFP.
"Most of the prisoners there are activists, political figures, and human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... defenders who are against the regime" of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... , said Abdel Rahman.
At least 5,000 prisoners are being held at the facility, almost twice its capacity of about 3,000 prisoners, he added.
When Jaish al-Islam announced their upcoming offensive, security personnel in the women's section fled, taking the female detainees with them.
In an online statement, the rebel group said it had taken control of a hilltop and buildings around the prison as well.
Video footage published alongside the statement showed men firing heavy weapons beyond a wall of sandbags, while others darted between buildings carrying machine guns.
Corpses which the rebels claimed to be security forces who died trying to defend the prison could also be seen in the video.
Jaish al-Islam is the most powerful rebel group in the opposition stronghold of Eastern Ghouta, where Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, Al-Nusra Front, is also present.
The prison in Adra has been targeted in the past by heavy rocket fire, and last month at least 11 people were killed and 56 maimed when rockets fell outside the prison, according to state media.
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[Al Ahram] Bombs killed 13 members of the Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces during an operation 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.... jihadist group in the northern province of Kirkuk on Friday, officers said.
"The aim (of the operation) is to secure the Baghdad-Kirkuk road and the centre of the Daquq district and to end activity by (IS) members," said Mohammed Mustafa Hama, a brigadier general in the autonomous Kurdish region's peshmerga forces.
Hama said that roadside kabooms and explosives-rigged vehicles left by the jihadists killed 13 peshmerga and maimed 47 during the operation, figures confirmed by a second Kurdish brigadier general who declined to be identified by name.
The second officer said the operation was launched at dawn on Friday with support from international coalition aircraft, and had succeeded in retaking 10 villages from IS.
Kurdish forces also retook villages from IS in Kirkuk in a similar operation in late August.
IS overran large areas of Iraq in a devastating offensive in June 2014, sweeping security forces aside, and drove Kurdish forces back towards their regional capital that August.
A US-led coalition began carrying out air strikes against the jihadists and Kurdish forces have since pushed the jihadists back, as have Iraqi federal forces in other areas.
But much of western Iraq remains under IS control.
General Yaseen Abdulla of the 9th Peshmerga Brigade said the offensive was supported by coalition Arclight airstrikes targeting positions of the Islamic State group (ISIS).
He said the Peshmerga casualties were from ISIS snipers and buried landmines around the villages.
"We have two mobile hospitals with us there which treat the maimed," Abdulla said, adding that US military doctors were also involved in treating maimed Peshmerga of the Kurdistan Region.
The Peshmerga launched a three-pronged ground offensive to drive out ISIS gunnies from 13 villages on Friday morning. Abdullah said at least two of them, Talrabaa and Albu Muhammad, had been fully recaptured.
A statement issued by the US-led coalition forces said Thursday that 28 rounds of Arclight airstrikes had targeted ISIS positions in the past 24 hours, including in Kirkuk. It added that coalition air power targeted 18 sites in Khurmatu, Shingal, djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Ramadi and other Iraqi areas, destroying "technical units and vehicles" belonging to ISIS.
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[BizPacReview] Video (at Link) of a beating inside an Ottawa jail shows Carlos Larmond, who is facing terrorism-related charges along with his twin brother, being attacked after allegedly trying to convert another inmate to Islam.
The incident occurred March 3 at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre. Video of the incident, played in an Ottawa courtroom Thursday, shows two men viciously attack Larmond with a flurry of punches and kicks while surrounded by other inmates. At one point in the video one of the men appears to drop an object on Larmond before he is able to get to his feet and is escorted out by correctional officers.
Terrence Wilson, 24, was sentenced on Thursday to 60 days in jail for assault causing bodily harm related in the attack.
Paolo Giancaterino, the lawyer representing Wilson, told Global News Larmond had tried to convert his client to Islam on several occasions and threatened to kill him when he resisted.
"It first started with some friendly requests for him to convert to Islam and be a soldier of Islam, and my client was having none of it," Giancaterino said. "It escalated to the point where threats were starting to be made that my client would be killed in his cell if he didn't convert. That was followed up by another threat that my client's family would be killed by someone on the outside if he didn't convert."
Giancaterino said the threats escalated over a period of several weeks.
Giancaterino said Larmond suffered a broken left hand and a black eye in the beating.
Carlos Larmond and his twin brother, Ashton, are facing terror-related charges after they were arrested by the RCMP in January after allegedly attempting to travel overseas for terrorist purposes.
Both have been charged with participation in the activity of a terrorist group and for attempting to leave Canada to participate in terrorist activity abroad. Ashton has also been charged instruction to carry out activity for a terrorist group.
Attempts to reach the Ontario Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services for comment were not successful. It would be impossible to run out of snark for this one, eh?
It's Canada. I'm sure they were polite about it. Eh.
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OK. I want to know who the inmates involved in the beating are---I want them out of jail and enrolled in UN's new "Office for Relations with Islam".
[AnNahar] French jihadist David Drugeon was likely killed in a coalition strike in Syria in July, a U.S. official said Friday.
Drugeon, an alleged bombmaker, has been described as a key figure in the al-Qaeda offshoot Khorasan group, which American officials say is a dangerous hard boy outfit planning to attack the United States and other Western countries.
U.S. officials previously thought Drugeon was killed in a November 2014 drone strike, but the claim was later disproved.
"There are very good chances that we did get him in a strike in July in Syria," a U.S. official told AFP on Friday.
According to the official, Drugeon was a "very key technical member" of the Khorasan group and was an expert at making "non-metallic Improvised Explosive Devices" -- the military term for homemade bombs.
"Khorasan is a very dangerous organization which uses cutting-edge technology for (preparing) attacks in the West," the official said.
Drugeon's death was also announced on Twitter by a Saudi jihadist, who mentioned a strike near Aleppo.
A football fan in his early years, Drugeon later drew close to ultraconservative Salafist Moslems, converted to Islam, started learning Arabic and studying the Koran.
He eventually went to Egypt and studied in religious schools there. Drugeon, who was 24 or 25, returned to La Belle France and at the start of 2010 told his family he was going back to Egypt.
Like many other international volunteers, however, he went down the jihad route and traveled to tribal zones in Pakistain, never to be seen by his relatives again.
[ARA] Clashes broke out between Kurdish forces of the People's Protection Units (YPG) and snuffies 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.... (ISIS) in the vicinity of Tel Abyad town in the northeastern Syrian province of Raqqa, military sources reported on Friday.
"Subsequent to an offensive by ISIS Lions of Islam on villages near Tel Abyad town, fierce festivities took place in the area between the radical group and YPG forces," a front man for the Kurdish YPG forces told ARA News.
Nuraddin Gaban reported that ISIS snuffies launched an attack on areas stretching from Ain Issa to Tel Abyad in northern Raqqa on Thursday, "which to led festivities that continued until Friday evening".
The source added that more than five ISIS snuffies were killed before the group's withdrawal towards its main headquarters in Raqqa city.
"We have lost two of our bravest fighters in the festivities. But we were finally able to repel the terrorists' attack," the YPG front man said.
Gaban added that the YPG has seized weapons and ammunition that was left behind by ISIS snuffies before retreating from the festivities' locations.
In the meantime, the YPG General Command issued a statement saying that ISIS group infiltrated into the village of Ser Giran near Tel Abyad on Thursday evening, adding that the group withdrew after being exposed to heavy artillery shelling by the Kurdish forces.
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[ARA] Militant fighters 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.... radical group (ISIS) launched an attack on the Kurdish village of Qolan in the southern countryside of Kobane, local sources reported on Thursday.
Amid constant attempts by the radical group to infiltrate into the southern countryside of Kobane, fierce festivities took place in the vicinity of Qolan between ISIS turbans and Kurdish forces of the People's Protection Units (YPG).
Speaking to ARA News, YPG member Habun Osman said: "Our forces repelled a new ISIS attack on the southern countryside of Kobane. After three hours of festivities, the ISIS Lions of Islam withdrew from the area on Thursday evening."
At least one ISIS myrmidon was killed and three injured during the festivities, while two Kurdish fighters were hardly maimed.
"We have taken strict security measures in order to prevent the terror group from returning to Kobane region," Osman said.
In August, turbans of the Islamic State infiltrated into Qolan village and kidnapped dozens of Kurdish civilians. Among the abductees were women and kiddies, who have recently returned to their hometown after the YPG forces regained the area and expelled turbans of the radical group.
Speaking to ARA News, YPG fighter Sarhad Abbas said: "We are concerned about the destiny of the abductees. We are aware that the barbarians of ISIS use civilians as human shields during battles, that's why we are deeply concerned."
Kurdish forces of the YPG and Peshmerga liberated the city of Kobane in January, after four months of fierce battles with the radical group of Islamic State.
In June, some ISIS turbans infiltrated into Kobane city and committed a massacre in which dozens of civilians were slaughtered.
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[ALMANAR.LB] At least 20 snuffies 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... group in Syria, Nusra Front, were killed and 30 others were maimed in a failed attack on the southwestern city of Zabadani on Thursday.Hezbollah, Syrian Army Foil-Nusra Front Attack on Zabadani
Media Military sources told al-Manar how Hezbollah and the Syrian army thwarted the snuffies attack on the Syrian army military posts in al-Alali orchard and Moza castle in northwestern Zabadani.
About 200 snuffies took part in the attack which was aimed at breaking the siege on their fellows in Zabadani, the Military Media sources told al-Manar.
Al-Nusra commander Abu Malek Al-Talli personally ordered the attack, the sources added.
The allied forces repelled the terrorists' attack, setting off bombs as well as striking their gathering points, according to the sources.
The festivities lasted for eight hours and caused the death of at least 20 of the Nusra snuffies and the injury of 30 others.
The allied forces have been since July 4 engaged in the battle of Zabadani, the last city under the control of snuffies in the Qalamoun region on the Lebanese border.Hezbollah, Syrian Army Foil-Nusra Front Attack on Zabadani
The ongoing battle is part of a wider operation launched by the Syrian forces and the resistance movement's fighters on May 4, which has reportedly driven snuffies out of more than 90 percent of the territory in the mountainous region.
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Iran's plans for Hezbollahstan moving along nicely.
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Islam Amy fighters have seized control of Tel Kurdi district in the northeastern suburbs of the capital amid intense efforts to liberate detained females from the central prison of Damascus, activists said on Friday.
Jaish al-Islam ...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful... , the dominant rebel group in Eastern Ghouta suburbs, said Thursday that the main goal of the attack is to liberate female prisoners from Adra prison, 15 km (10 miles) northeast Damascus.
Islam Amy said in statement that its fighters have captured the buildings surrounding the prison after seizing control of strategic Tel Kurdi district that used to be the industrial and commercial area of damascus before the revolution erupted in March 2011.
Separately, Islam Army's front man, Islam Alloush, said Syrian air forces had thwarted Islam Army attack on ISIS in Hajer al-Aswad suburb west of Damascus.
He hinted to coordination between the radical group and the regime army in fight against rebels.
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[ALMANAR.LB] The leader of Al-Qaeda terrorist organization, Ayman al-Zawahiri ... Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area assuming he's not dead like Mullah Omar. He lost major face when he ordered the nascent Islamic State to cease and desist and merge with the orthodx al-Qaeda spring, al-Nusra... , in a new audio message accused top leader 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, His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... , of "sedition" and insisted the Iraqi terrorist recluse was not the leader of all Moslems as al-Baghdadi had claimed 14 months ago in a djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... mosque, a report in ABC news said. The other day they were gonna cooperate against us infidels.
In the new audio tape, which was released online Wednesday, al-Qaeda leader appeared to confirm that he had not directly addressed infighting among ISIL and 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, for fear of legitimizing ISIL.
"That division -- now formally declared by the highest ranking official of the group that apparently slaughtered almost 3,000 Americans 14 years ago -- could provide an opening that American counter-terrorism operatives could find a way to exploit," he added.
Former National Counterterrorism Center Director Matthew Olsen said that the US could use misinformation to further pit the two against each other and encourage the series of shootouts and liquidations each has waged against the other -- like when ISIL reportedly killed a top Zawahiri emissary trying to broker a ceasefire between the gunnies in Syria in February 2014.
The "franchise" in Afghanistan and Pakistain, known as Khorasan Province of ISIL, "has been fighting non-stop" with the Taliban and al Qaeda there, a counter-terrorism official told ABC News.
ISIL, formerly the al Qaeda branch in Iraq, split from the larger group two years ago, after it received finance from major countries in the region.
Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said in one of his speech that ISIL has been formed by a joint work between the US, Saudi and Pak intelligence services.
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Thats a switch - as per the Net, in one Guam day Ayman-the-Z-Man seemingly goes from wanting to cooperate wid Al-Baghdadi + ISIS/ISIL for the good of Islam to "declaring war" on same???
Mullah Omar's death must have affected him more than realized.
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Not surprising. From its beginning AQ sought cooperation with Shiite forces. It did so at meetings held in the Sudan, at training camps in Lebanon and by setting up offices in Tehran. Bin Laden and Zawahiri saw the internecine struggle between Shia and Sunni as self-defeating. In all likelihood Zawahiri is presently located in Iran, likely at Mashad, west of Herat, Afghanistan.
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However when it comes to the U.S. or the Jews, these so-called enemies will be united against the U.S. or Israel. Let them go at it--maybe we will get lucky and attrition will be our friend.
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[DAWN] DERA KHAN: A US drone strike killed at least 15 
[Tolo News] Air strikes by the Afghan airforce on Friday succeeded in pushing back the Taliban from Raghistan Bazar in Raghistan district, Badakhshan, officials said Friday.
[Tolo News] Raghistan district of Badakhshan province has collapsed to the Taliban after two days of heavy 
[Al Ahram] Egyptian security forces have killed 98 
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[Dhaka Tribune] The police have detained 42 suspected Shibir members from a restaurant in the capital's at Farmgate area on Friday.
[Dhaka Tribune] A Dhaka court has granted seven days of remand to the acting chief of Ansarullah Bangla Team and his two cohorts.
[Hurriyet Daily News] A British citizen has been detained while attempting to cross into Syria from the Turkish border town of Kilis.
[Hurriyet Daily News] Outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) 
[Hurriyet Daily News] Turkish warplanes struck 64 outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets in overnight raids on northern Iraq, dropping 80 bombs, according to reports on Sept. 11. 
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[DAWN] KARACHI: The south zone police on Thursday claimed to have 
[TIME] An Indian court pronounced 12 men guilty on Friday for carrying out the 2006 series of train bombings in Mumbai.
...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful...
[Al Ahram] Bombs killed 13 members of the Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces during an operation against the 
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[ARA] Clashes broke out between Kurdish forces of the People's Protection Units (YPG) and 
[ARA] Militant fighters of the 
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