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Europe
Syrian, Iraqi militants said to have planned New Year attack in Munich
[REUTERS] Germany received a tip hours before midnight that Lions of Islam from Iraq and Syria were planning New Year attacks in Munich but police could not find the suspects and are not even sure if they exist or are in the country, the city's police chief said on Friday.

Hubertus Andrae told a news conference that German officials had received a "very concrete" tip that suicide kabooms were planned on New Year's Eve at two train stations.

Police closed the central and Pasing stations about an hour before midnight, and reopened them hours later.

"We received names. We can't say if they are in Munich or in fact in Germany," Andrae said.

"At this point we don't know if these names are correct, if these people even exist, or where they might be. If we knew this we would be a clear step further. We have no information that these people are in Munich or in Germany," he added.

The alarm came as Europe entered the New Year under a state of heightened alert, seven weeks after Islamist Lions of Islam killed 130 people in shootings and suicide kabooms across Gay Paree.

Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said the Munich tip, which media reports said came from French intelligence, indicated that 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....
murderous Moslem group was behind the planned operation.

Herrmann told news hounds later on Friday that the police presence at the train stations had been reduced.

"We all know that there is a high risk of attacks in Europe and also here in Germany and Bavaria. But we don't have a concrete indication that there will be an attack today or tomorrow at a specific location," he said.

Thomas de Maiziere, interior minister in the federal government of Chancellor Angela Merkel
...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom...
, said: "The situation in Europe and also in Germany remains serious in the New Year. Security forces anticipate the high threat of international terrorism to persist."

Police said they had received information that five to seven jacket wallahs were planning to take part in the attack.
Posted by: Fred || 01/02/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


The Grand Turk
Erdogan's Hitler comments 'misconstrued'
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Turkish presidency said on Friday comments by President Tayyip Erdogan about the system of governance in Hitler's Germany had been misinterpreted and that he had not suggested it was an example of an effective presidential system.

Asked on his return from a visit to 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...
late on Thursday whether an executive presidency was possible in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
while maintaining the unitary structure of the state, Erdogan said: "There are already examples in the world. You can see it when you look at Hitler's Germany.

"There are later examples in various other countries," he told news hounds, according to a recording broadcast by the Dogan news agency.
Erdogan wants to change the Turkish constitution to turn the ceremonial role of president into that of a chief executive, a Turkish version of the system in the United States, La Belle France or Russia..

"Erdogan's 'Hitler's Germany' metaphor has been distorted by some news sources and has been used in the opposite sense," the presidency said in a statement.

It said his comments were meant to demonstrate that an executive presidency can exist in a unitary state and does not depend on a federal system of government, and that neither a presidential nor parliamentary system is a guarantee against abuse of power.

"If the system is abused it may lead to bad management resulting in disasters as in Hitler's Germany ... The important thing is to pursue fair management that serves the nation," the statement said, adding it was unacceptable to suggest Erdogan was casting Hitler's Germany in a positive light.
Posted by: Fred || 01/02/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I think what he is saying is that Islamist rhetoric about a megalomaniacal mass murderer is too nuanced for us pikers.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/02/2016 0:24 Comments || Top||

#2  The number one best-selling book in Turkey is Mein Kampf the second most selling book in Turkey is the protocols of the Elders of Zion
Posted by: Newc || 01/02/2016 1:28 Comments || Top||

#3  G-ddam, whatcha gotta get high on
To start seeing Elders of Zion?
This Erd-addled Turkey
Whose vision's so murky's
A bird that we Hebrews must spy on.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 01/02/2016 2:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Yet another Islamist longing for the Reich
Posted by: john frum || 01/02/2016 7:28 Comments || Top||

#5  Not by Vladimir.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/02/2016 7:52 Comments || Top||

#6  "At least he made the trains carrying the Jooos run on time. Say What You Like About the Tenets of National Socialism. Dude, at Least It's an Ethos!"
Posted by: Frank G || 01/02/2016 12:03 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Seminaries' empty accounts perplex govt agencies
[DAWN] LAHORE: Hardly any 'substantial' bank transaction has been detected in the case of about 200 seminaries in Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....

which are being monitored for terror-financing, forcing the authorities concerned to try and trace any other channels of money transfer that they may have used.

Officials involved in the monitoring of suspected seminaries told Dawn on Thursday that the seminaries maintained accounts with very small amounts -- of a few thousand rupees -- fuelling long-held suspicions that they had employed other channels of funding -- such as hawala or hundi in their own name or that of an associate -- or they were being run on direct cash collections.

"Joint investigation teams have completed verification of bank transactions of the suspected seminaries. They will now record statements of the administration of seminaries about the channels they are receiving money from to run their affairs," an official said.

A joint team comprising officials of the Counter-Terrorism Department, Fed­eral Investigation Agency, Special Branch of the Punjab Police, the National Counter-Terrorism Autho­rity, the Punjab Home Department and a number of intelligence agencies had prepared a list of seminaries suspected to have been receiving terror financing or funding from illegal channels.

"The Sherlocks have prepared a list (of suspected seminaries) on the basis of any of its student found involved in terror or suspicious activities. Finding out that the seminaries had carried out no substantial bank transactions could indicate that they are avoiding the legal channel to keep the source of funding secret," the official said.

The seminaries, he said, belonged to all leading schools of thought -- Deobandi, Barelvi, Ahle Hadith and Shia.

The official said that the investigation of seminaries' bank accounts had set a 'clear direction' for Sherlocks to unearth the truth about channels of their funding and bring them under financial regulation.

Dera Ghazi Khan, Muzaffargarh, Mianwali, Khushab, Layyah, Rajanpur Multan, Lodhran, Bahawal­pur, Bahawalnagar, Vehari, Bhakkar and Jhang districts -- all in southern Punjab -- have around 100 suspected seminaries while the other 100 are in the rest of the province.

On the other hand, the government has recently established the National Terrorists Financing Investi­gation Cell to lay hand on the 'controllers and financiers of terrorism'.

The State Bank, FIA, the Federal Board of Revenue and intelligence agencies are jointly working under this cell to track financial transactions between 'national and international banking systems'.

The SBP is reported to have frozen Rs1 billion in 126 accounts of banned groups and Rs250 million has been detected transferred here through hundi and hawala since the launch of the National Action Plan after the Taliban attack on 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 Army Public School.
Posted by: Fred || 01/02/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


International-UN-NGOs
Ahead of Syria talks, powers can't agree who is a terrorist
[RUDAW.NET] On December 18 the United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
Security Council passed a resolution which seeks to bring about a ceasefire in Syria in early 2016 and then initiate an 18-month transitional period. Not included in the ceasefire will be the terrorist groups 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) and the Syria-based al-Qaeda offshoot Jabhat al-Nusra
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Posted by: Fred || 01/02/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So what I might term a terrorist group because of their penchant to slaughter innocents and behead Westerners to terrorize us could also be considered the equivalent of Rotary group by people with a different veiwpoint. I'm picking up what your putting down. Why don't we see if this paper mâché piñata mask will fit over your cranium so we can try an experiment in different points of view Mr State Department guy.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/02/2016 0:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Poor Ben Ali Gator! He glowers
At Elephanchine on the flowers.
From mad midday Mecca
To midnight Giudecca,
The Powers are dancing the hours.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 01/02/2016 1:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Me. I'll stick with "us vs. them". There are a lot of them.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/02/2016 7:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Where's the pic of the guy with a headache?
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/02/2016 14:16 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Saudi Arabia reopens Baghdad embassy
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] After a 25-year hiatus 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...
reopened its embassy in Baghdad on Friday, giving way to more cooperation between the two countries on tackling terrorism, Al Arabiya News Channel reported.

The embassy was shut down in 1990 after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.

Its reopening will allow the two countries to cooperate on security and the fight against extremism, the new Saudi ambassador to Iraq, Thamer al-Sabhan, told Al Arabiya.

A thaw in the once chilly relations between Saudi Arabia and Iraq could help strengthen a regional alliance against Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) murderous Moslems who have seized territory in Iraq and Syria.
Posted by: Fred || 01/02/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia


US army: ISIS militants still in Ramadi
[RUDAW.NET] Several hundred 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) Lions of Islam are still believed to be in Ramadi days after the Iraqi army declared it free from the group's control.

U.S. Army Captain Chance McCraw told news hounds in Baghdad there are Lions of Islam inside the city and in the direction of Fallujah.

"Within what we call central Ramadi they estimate still up to 400 Daesh [Islamic State] [ISIS] members and then once you go east of that toward Fallujah you've got about 300 out there in that direction," U.S. Army Captain Chance McCraw was quoted by Rooters.

The Iraqi army reached the center of Ramadi on Monday and raised the national flag on top of the government compound.

Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi hailed the liberation of Ramadi as a fatal blow to ISIS and said 2016 would be the year of total victory over the group.
Posted by: Fred || 01/02/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  The "300" is now the "700", + still counting.
Posted by: Josephmendiola || 01/02/2016 0:27 Comments || Top||

#2  OOOPPPS, my bad, above post is mine.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 01/02/2016 0:28 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Jordanian MP: 'My dead son was an ISIS militant. Now I'm their target'
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Still grieving over his eldest son's death while allegedly fighting alongside ISIS, Jordanian MP Mazen Dalaeen has been taking it upon himself to personally counter the Lion of Islam group's propaganda and recruitment efforts.

Dalaeen's son, 23-year-old Mohammad, referred to in local media as a "Jordanian medical student-turned-bomber" was reported killed in October this year after blowing himself up in a suicide kaboom in Iraq's Anbar province.

At the time, Dalaeen said his son left his studies in Ukraine last June, when he was "brain-washed" by ISIS and travelled to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
to cross over into Syria to join the group.

Mohammad's death has put his hometown district of Ai, in the southern Karak governorate, in the media spotlight again, previously reported on as also being the hometown of Jordanian combat pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh, who was burnt alive by ISIS.

Following Mohammad's death, Dalaeen has been engaged in what he describes as "fruitful" personal efforts to safeguard young people against ISIS' "false promises" to prevent them from falling prey to the group, which the politician termed as the 'al-Khawarij' (the outlaws).

Dalaeen says he has so far succeeded in bringing back two Jordanian women who had already flown to Turkey and were allegedly heading to join ISIS.

"This has put me under ISIS's microscope," Dalaeen told Al Arabiya News on Monday, adding: "But I don't care and I have no fears."

A call for help
In November, Dalaeen rescued one of the women, a 25-year-old, before she reached ISIS-controlled territories in Syria.

The story began, according to the MP, when the family of the woman -- a psychology graduate -- received an SMS from their daughter informing them that she would be joining ISIS in the group's stronghold of Raqqa.

"Her father called me asking for help, knowing that I am experienced in such matters," Daleen said, adding that he immediately notified security officials and then tried contacting her via WhatsApp.

"I wrote to her that she chose the wrong people if her purpose was to defend Islam, because these people [ISIS] are anything but Muslims.

"She replied saying she had already reached Raqqa and there was no way to return back. But I learned from the answers I received that she was not the one who was writing to me. I knew it because they were the same answers given to me by my son when I was trying to convince him to come back home."

The MP then told the woman that her father was already on his way to Syria to bring her back and that he was risking his life doing so.

"This piece of information had such an impact on her that she begged me to stop her father from entering Syria. She then told me that she was still in Turkey residing in a house that she was escorted to by veiled women," Dalaeen said.

"To make a long story short, the woman then left the house upon my advice and I contacted the Jordanian embassy in Istanbul who rescued her and then brought her back to Jordan in cooperation with the Turkish authorities."

A similar story happened a month later when Dalaeen was able to convince another woman to return to Jordan while she was in Turkey on her way to join ISIS.

"Again, just like the first time, I received a call from relatives of the woman telling me that their daughter had already flown to Istanbul to travel from there to ISIS-controlled territories in Syria," Dalaeen said. "When they called me, their daughter was airborne."

"I immediately informed the Jordanian embassy in Ankara to take action."

Without giving more details, Dalaeen said the woman is highly educated and belongs to a wealth family in Amman.

"Turkish authorities kept the woman in jug at the airport for some time before she was sent back to Jordan."

A target
After succeeding in bringing the two women back, the grieving politician believes he has now become a target of ISIS.

"Recently, they [ISIS] threatened me by sending a recorded video of my son, calling Jordanian MPs 'apostates.'"

He added: "I am sure my son was pushed to say what he said. He wasn't himself at all. I am his father and I recognized from his facial expressions when he wasn't at ease. My son was brain-washed by ISIS. He was deceived and dragged into the group's hostile territories."
Posted by: Fred || 01/02/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran: ‘We’ll make missiles for as long as US supports Israel’
[IsraelTimes] Revolutionary Guards head hits back at US threat of sanctions over weapons tests, says regime has so many missiles it doesn't know where to put them

Iran will keep producing missiles for as long as the United States supports Israel, the head of the Revolutionary Guards Corps vowed Friday, as a war of words between Washington and Tehran continued in the aftermath of Iranian rocket tests last week.

The US had warned that the tests violated the terms of previously signed agreements as well as those of a July 2015 nuclear deal struck between Iran and world powers, and could result in fresh sanctions on the Islamic Theocratic Republic. Washington has since said that plans for new sanctions were on hold.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 01/02/2016 00:00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  See RELATED BIGNEWSNETWORK, IRNA > IRAN PRESIDENT ORDERS EXPANSION OF MISSLE PROGRAM [all variants] AFTER US SANCTIONS THREAT.

and

* REUTERS > DEFIANT IRAN VOWS TO RAMP UP MISSLE PROGRAM, IN CHALLENGE TO OBAMA.

IOW, OWG Co-Superpower Iran = OWG Co-Superpower Rising China = ... Russia? = wants to make sure that Iran-n-Only-Iran is the All-Pwerful, All-Dominat, Principal-Leader Nation-State in any OWG Islamic, Middle East, + Pan-Iranian/Persian Global Federal Union(s), etc. "Sphere(s) of Influence" that occurs IFF-N-WHEN THE GWOT = FIGHT AGZ ISIS/ISIL + AL-QAEDA, ETAL HARD BOYZ IS FINALLY WON.

Or at least done.

DITTO CHINA AS PER AGZ JAPAN, RUSSIA = DARTH
VLAD/VLADVEDEV AGZ EVERYBODY.

ISRAEL = JAPAN, ETAL = NO US ALLIES ALLOWED, ONLY IRANIAN, CHINESE, + RUSSIAN VASSAL STATES - I say "Vassal States" because its NOT clear yet going into Year 2016 iff these Co-Superpowers will accept "PARITY" from their fellow OWG Union Member-States, + OBAMA + ALIGNED ANTI-US GLOBIES STILL AREN'T TELLING.

Anyhoo ...

* RUSSIA TODAY > IRAN TO DEVELOP 5000-KM RANGE MISSLES IN RESPONSE TO US SANCTIONS.

* LUCIANNE > [PJ Media] WHY THE ISIS NEEDS BE DESTROYED NOW!

N-O-W, NOW - spelled K-N-O-W/N-O-U-S - NOW!

Why yes, Nukes-WMDS are involved.

* WORLD NEWS, TOPIX > CHINA'S RAPPROCHEMENT WITH CENTRAL ASIAN STATES WORRIES RUSSIA LEADERS.

Turf war???

* WORLD NEWS [Daily Beast] NOW CHINA WANTS OKINAWA, SITE OF US BASES IN JAPAN, AND HOME TO 54,000 US TROOPS.

RELATED BREITBART > CHINA WANTS JAPAN, US OUT OF OKINAWA.

Thats ridiculous - CHINA wants Taiwan, Okinawa Archipelago, Yonaguni, PH Milbases, and Guam-CNMI by 2020 NLT 2025, Hawaii after 2030 NLT 2050.

WILL POTUS OBAMA SINK GUAM = USN BB USS "OKLAHOMA", as the best thing Anti-US US POTUS Obama + Aligned can do to unilaterally or aymmetrically empower SHort-of-War, China-led, Anti-US OWG Global Fed Union in East Asia is NOT live up to US Defense-Security Treaty obligations.

[WORLD NEWS PIC OF ALMOST-GUAM'S-CAMEL-ROCK here].
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 01/02/2016 1:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Iran: ‘We’ll make missiles for as long as US supports Israel’

Typical Islamic gratitude. All that the Champ has done to distance us from our only ally in the region besides Jordan, and this is the thanks he gets ?

Posted by: Besoeker || 01/02/2016 10:17 Comments || Top||

#3  They know that Bumbles will bend even more to attain his 'legacy'. Remember they have a insider in ValJar.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 01/02/2016 11:33 Comments || Top||

#4  ‘We’ll make missiles for as long as US supports Israel’

apparently they don't read the news
Posted by: Frank G || 01/02/2016 12:11 Comments || Top||

#5  Why should they bother acknowledging the truth when they can get what they want with another lying tantrum?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 01/02/2016 15:22 Comments || Top||

#6  Apparently as soon as they said that, the White House backed away from plans for sanctions.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/02/2016 16:05 Comments || Top||

#7  Like the White House needed an excuse?
Posted by: Pappy || 01/02/2016 17:05 Comments || Top||


Rojava security vow to find perpetrators of the Qamishlo bombings
[RUDAW.NET] The security forces of Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava) known as Asayish have vowed to catch those responsible for a double bombing in the city of Qamishlo Wednesday night that killed 16 people and injured at least 45 others.

"We will do our best to find the criminal networks that aim to destroy the security and safety of our region and our people shall live a new year in peace and stability," the Asayish wing of the Peoples Protection Units (YPG) said in a statement on Thursday.

Two kabooms targeted civilian crowds at Qamishlo's Miami café and Gabriel restaurant in a spirit of New Year festivities.

"We reiterate our commitment to security, coexistence, democracy and freedom in areas under our control," said the Asayish, sending condolences to the victims' families.

"Our security forces have despite the financial, technological and political circumstances done our best to provide security and safety for the people of this region and for that reason the offices of the Asayish in Rojava have been targeted by Daesh [Islamic State] (ISIS)," read the statement.

The Asayish also published a detailed report of all car kabooms and roadside kabooms against civilians and YPG forces in 2015 across Rojava.

The statement adds that ISIS snuffies have stepped up their attacks against civilians due to their retreat in the battlefield in recent months.

"As the YPG and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) continued freeing areas northern Syria throughout 2015 the Daesh [Islamic State] terrorist organization kept up its terrorist attacks against defenseless civilians and innocent people," read the Asayish statement. "And that is proof of their defeat and failures in the battlefield and loss of vast areas they used to control near Jazira and Kobani."

The YPG and its security wing Asayish have been in control of most of Rojava since the withdrawal of Syrian government forces from the area in 2012.

"We knew from the very beginning that with its inhuman acts in our areas Daesh [Islamic State] (ISIS) works for foreign interests and political agenda and is supported by states that claim democracy and brotherhood of nations in the Middle East."
Posted by: Fred || 01/02/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Sheikh Qassem: Dwindling ISIL Relies on US, Israel & Saudi to Survive
[ALMANAR.LB] Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem
... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies...
told the Iranian Wefaq newspaper that ISIL's influence in the region is dwindling and that the terrorist group depends on the American, Israeli and Saudi support to survive.

In a different context, Sheikh Qassem stressed that Hezbollah will certainly punish the Zionist entity for assassinating the resistance's officials in Syria.

His eminence added that 'Israel' is trying, by assassinating martyr Samir Kuntar to impose new rules of engagement in a way that Hezbollah does not respond to its crimes.
Posted by: Fred || 01/02/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Assyrian Churches mourn victims of terror attacks in Syria's Qamishli on New Year's Eve
[ARA] Assyrian Churches in Syria's northeastern province of Hasakah mourned the victims of the ISIS-led terror attacks in Qamishli city by canceling celebrations of New Year's Eve.

The murderous Moslem group of 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) on Thursday claimed the responsibility for three bombings that hit restaurants in Qamishli, killing 16 civilians and wounding more than 45 others.

"We dedicate this evening to prayers for the victims of those attacks. We pray for our region and country amid the bloody war that claims lives of civilians everyday," a joint statement by the Assyrian-Syriac Churches of Hasakah province said.

Speaking to ARA News in Qamishli, Father Touni Hannah condemned the ISIS-led terror attacks and appealed to people to avoid gathering at any public place in the province "to avoid the loss of any more innocents".

"People were making their preparations to celebrate this Eve, but they were shocked with the brutal attacks that killed and maimed dozens of civilians," Hannah said.

"We hope the year 2016 would bring peace to Syria and the region after years of bloodshed."
Posted by: Fred || 01/02/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


More than 5500 ISIS militants killed in clashes with Syrian Kurds in 2015
[ARA] At least 5800 turban 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....
(ISIS) have been killed in festivities with the Kurdish forces of the People's Protection Units (YPG) in northern Syria during 2015.

The YPG's leadership said in a statement on Thursday: "A total of 5875 faceless myrmidons of ISIS were killed in festivities with our forces during the year 2015."

"Our units have conducted 453 military operations against the terror group; 392 festivities took place during these operations. The documented corpse count in the ranks of ISIS reached 5875 terrorists, and we have taken 38 faceless myrmidons as hostages," the Kurdish leadership said in its annual report.

It added that the YPG units, in cooperation with the female fighters of the YPJ, have seized 204 ISIS military vehicles, 24 tanks, 26 armored vehicles and detonated 58 boom-mobiles, beside seizing a large deal of ammunition.

On the other hand, 680 Kurdish fighters bit the dust while fighting ISIS over the year 2015.

In cooperation with allied armed forces and with the support of the U.S.-led coalition's air force, the Kurdish units have regained control of strategic towns and cities from ISIS's fist in northern Syrian last year, including Kobane, Tel Abyad, Ain Issa, Tel Temir, Hasakah, Tel Hamis, Tel Brak, Suluk, Dahmaa, Mount Abdulaziz, army bases of '93' and Melabiyah, beside dozens of villages.

The YPG leadership notified that these records do not include the gains of their joint operations in the ranks of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

According to the Kurdish leadership, the Turkish army has targeted 22 YPG headquarters in northern Syria in 2015, particularly in the northern countryside of Raqqa.
Posted by: Fred || 01/02/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State



Who's in the News
19[untagged]
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  ISIS executes 40 civilians in Ramadi
Wed 2015-12-30
  Blue on Blue: 38 Bad Guys die in bombing attack in Nangarhar
Tue 2015-12-29
  North African al-Qaeda says top figure killed in ambush
Mon 2015-12-28
  Iraqi airstrike kills ISIS Top Dawgs
Sun 2015-12-27
  Syrian Rebels Mourn Loss of Leader, Name Replacement
Sat 2015-12-26
  One Killed as Bomb Blast Rocks Ahmadi Mosque in Bangladesh
Fri 2015-12-25
  30 ISIS Bad Guys die in Fallujah
Thu 2015-12-24
  ISIS troops forced out of Ramadi
Wed 2015-12-23
  Driver Shouting 'Allahu Akbar!' Runs Down 11 French Pedestrians
Tue 2015-12-22
  Tunisia dismantles cell recruiting women for Islamist militant
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