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Two Arrested in Mali over Ivory Coast Resort Attack
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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 03/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Now that's an outfit I would allow my daughter's boyfriend to take her to the prom in.
Posted by: gorb || 03/28/2016 0:44 Comments || Top||

#2  The full body condom. With hardened head...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/28/2016 0:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Now that's an outfit I would allow my daughter's boyfriend to take her to the prom in.

Huh??? What ???
I must be missing something here. That looks like a bikini outfit to me.
Posted by: junkiron || 03/28/2016 4:07 Comments || Top||

#4  OK. OK. Now I see...
I was just confused, cause if it was my daughter's prom, she'd be wearing the diving suit and he'd be wearing the bikini.
Posted by: junkiron || 03/28/2016 5:21 Comments || Top||

#5  I guess we have just witnessed the evolution of a great idea.
Posted by: gorb || 03/28/2016 9:42 Comments || Top||

#6  Why Mike Nelson left the Navy.
Posted by: Shipman || 03/28/2016 17:40 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
NDS seize 118 weapons with over 20,000 ammunition rounds in Parwan
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A large cache of weapons and ammunition was confiscated by the Afghan cops from northern Parwan province of Afghanistan.

The Afghan Intelligence -- National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
(NDS) said the cache included 118 various types of weapons and 20,200 rounds of ammunition.

A statement by NDS said the cache included 93 pistols, 10 Ak-47 rifles, 9 Ak-74 rifles, 4 Ak-74U, 2 M4 rifles

The statement further added that the cache included 11,200 rounds of pistol ammunition and 9,000 rounds of Ak-47 ammunition.

It was not clear if any suspect was detained in connection to the storage of the weapons and ammunition.

The anti-government armed Lion of Islam groups have not commented regarding the report so far.

Parwan is among the relatively volatile provinces in northern Afghanistan where anti-government armed forces of Evil are actively operating in a number of its remote districts and often carry out insurgency activities.

Various criminal gangs involved in arms smuggle and other criminal activities including murder and kidnappings are also operating in this province which largely contribute to the growing instability of Parwan.
Posted by: Fred || 03/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  I read the headline and thought they might have gotten a Rantburger!
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/28/2016 13:22 Comments || Top||

#2  No way Skid, That's less than 200 rounds per weapon, Rantburgers get flop sweat when it falls below 1,500/rpg
Posted by: Shipman || 03/28/2016 17:44 Comments || Top||

#3  The proper per weapon amount should have been 3,000 rounds, or 6 million total.
Posted by: badanov || 03/28/2016 17:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Oops. 350,000 total
Posted by: badanov || 03/28/2016 17:47 Comments || Top||


Mother of two killed on adultery charges in Jawzjan
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A mother of two children has been executed allegedly for having immoral contacts with a man disregarding her husband in northern Jawzjan province.

Officials say the woman was accused and handed over to Taliban by her in-laws.

Shakib, governor of Faizabad district told Pajhwok Afghan News that the woman was bumped off in Mimlik village on Saturday night.

Taliban spokesperson has also confirmed the killing but rejected involvement of his group in the incident.

Mujahid said Taliban had received a complaint from the woman’s husband accusing her for having wrong character but she was not killed by them.

According to Mujahid, the woman was executed by her husband.

However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go...
Maghfirat Samimi who heads mission of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) in Jawzjan has said that the woman was killed by fighters of Mullah Ahmad Shah, a Taliban capo.

Due to the fact that some remote areas in the country are not under full control of government, therefor turban groups, local warlords or strongmen in those villages have established their own desert courts.

They execute people based on their way of justice. Sometimes the accused are not even given a chance to have a say.

Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
, Pashtun-infested Logar, Ghazni, Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
, Zabul and Farah are among other provinces where similar incidents have taken place.
Posted by: Fred || 03/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


53 militants including ISIS loyalists join peace process in east of Afghanistan
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Scores of anti-government armed murderous Moslems have joined grinding of the peace processor in the restive eastern Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province of Afghanistan, local officials said Sunday.

Provincial governor Salim Khan Kunduzi said 53 murderous Moslems including four commanders leading the murderous Moslems surrendered to the Afghan government by renouncing violence.

He said 43 of the murderous Moslems were fighting in Taliban group’s ranks and 10 others were affiliated 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....
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group.

Welcoming the murderous Moslems decision to join grinding of the peace processor, Kunduzi called on other holy warrior groups to renounce violence and join grinding of the peace processor.

One of the murderous Moslems who joined grinding of the peace processor said he was previously working for the Taliban group and later joined the ISIS ranks but he said he never knew who was leading the ISIS loyalists in Afghanistan.

He said the majority of ISIS loyalists are comprised of foreigners mainly Pak nationals who are busy with training of the murderous Moslems in Afghanistan.

This comes as the loyalists of the ISIS terror group received major setbacks in eastern Nangarhar province during the recent months as a result of the mounting Arclight airstrikes by US forces and ground operations by the Afghan forces.

Meanwhile,
...back at the palazzo, Don Smilzo looked for an avenue of escape. The only window opened a hundred feet above the moat. The nearest of the hired assassins hold a bloody axe.
The window was looking better all the time....

it is believed that the loyalists of the terror group are looking to shift the area of their operations from Nangahar to eastern Kunar province
... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country.....
in a bid to escape the ongoing operations.

Posted by: Fred || 03/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Taliban commander among several killed or wounded in Nuristan airstrike
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A Taliban was killed in an Arclight airstrike conducted by the Afghan National Army (ANA) forces in the restive Nuristan province of Afghanistan.

According to the local security officials, the Taliban capo has been identified as Taza Gul who was killed along with a number of his Lions of Islam in the Arclight airstrike conducted in Du’ab district.

An Afghan army official serving with the 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan National Army confirmed that a Taliban capo was among 18 killed or maimed in the air raid.

This was the second Arclight airstrike conducted by the Afghan army in Nuristan province within the past one week.

At least 8 Lions of Islam were killed and 13 others were maimed in Arclight airstrikes carried out by the Afghan Air Force (AAF) in Du’ab district last week.

The Arclight airstrikes are being conducted as as local officials are saying heavy festivities continue since in Du’ab district after the Talibs launched coordinated attacks on security posts of the Afghan forces.

The officials further added that the security forces are receiving close-air support from the Afghan Air Force (AAF) as they fight back the bad boys.

The Talibs group has not commented regarding the report so far.
Posted by: Fred || 03/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


ISIS militants among 46 killed in latest clearance operations: MoD
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 46 murderous Moslems including loyalists 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....
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed in the latest clearance operations conducted by the Afghan national security forces.

The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the operations were conducted in the past 24 hours in Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
, Nuristan, Badakhshan, Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
and Paktika
...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo...
provinces.

According to an operational update by MoD, at least 18 murderous Moslems were killed and a vehicle along with three bikes were destroyed while 17 landmines were dismantled during the operations in Sangin disrict of Helmand.

MoD further added that 7 murderous Moslems were killed including a commander of the group and 10 others were maimed in Nuristan operations conducted in Du’ab district.

At least 15 ilitants were killed and 5 others were maimed in separate operations conducted in Jurm district of Badakhshan and center of Kunduz province, MoD said, adding that 6 murderous Moslems including 2 ISIS loyalists were killed during the raids in Achindistrict of Nangarhar and Domanda area of Paktika.

According to MoD, at least three soldiers of the Afghan National Army (ANA) forces also bit the dust during the same operations.

The anti-government armed turban groups including the Taliban turbans have not commented regarding the reports so far.

Posted by: Fred || 03/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Africa Horn
AMISOM: repulsed attack on the SNA camp
At least one soldier was killed and two others were wounded when armed fighters from Al shabaab launched an ambush attack on Somali military convoy near El Baraf village in middle Shabelle region. The army convoy came under fire while travelling from El Baraf and heading to Biyo Adde area, where Somali National Army (SNA) soldiers were going to collect their monthly salaries.

On Twitter post, AMISOM has denied reports that Al shabaab seized the area, saying the attackers were successfully repulsed by SNA and Au troops & fled the town.

“AMISOM seeks to clarify that Somali National Army forces and our troops are still present and in total control of El Baraf area in Middle Shabelle region,” read the Twitter feed.

Al shabaab said its fighters took control of El Baraf area following an attack, a claim that AMISOM denied. Somali and AU troops are struggling to remove Al shabaab from the whole region.
Posted by: Steve White || 03/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab


Africa North
Two Arrested in Mali over Ivory Coast Resort Attack
[AnNahar] Two Malians have been tossed in the clink
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
on suspicion of playing a key role in a deadly attack on an Ivory Coast beach resort claimed by an al-Qaeda-linked group, security sources said Sunday.

The two were arrested in northern Mali on Friday and Saturday following indications they "actively participated" in the March 13 assault on three hotels and a beach in Grand-Bassam that left 19 people dead, one of the sources told AFP.

The suspects were named as Midy Ag Sodack Dicko, accused of organizing the logistics for the attack, and Ibrahim Ould Mohammed, said to be the right-hand man of accused criminal mastermind Kounta Dallah, who is still on the lam, the sources said.

The Grand-Bassam rampage, the first of its kind in the Ivory Coast, was claimed by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb which has also carried out similar assaults on tourist hotspots in Mali and Burkina Faso
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other...
Ag Sodack Dicko, who was arrested on Saturday, said the assailants had stayed at his home in Ivory Coast's main city of Abidjan, although he claimed he "didn't know" they were going to carry out the attacks, one of the sources said.

A police source told AFP that Ag Sodack Dicko had played a logistical role in the attacks and had flown to the Malian capital Bamako shortly afterwards.

Armed with grenades and assault rifles, the attackers stormed three hotels in Grand-Bassam, a resort popular with expats that lies 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Abidjan.

It was the latest in a series of high-profile assaults in north and west Africa targeting locals and tourists alike.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/28/2016 00:00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa


Arabia
Five Qaeda suspects in Yemen killed in Saudi-led strikes
Saudi-led coalition warplanes carried out a series of raids in southern Yemen on Sunday targeting Al-Qaeda positions that killed five suspected militants, a Yemeni military official said. The official said the militants were killed in air strikes that targeted buildings in the city of Zinjibar, including an intelligence and special forces headquarters occupied by the militants.

Several people were also wounded and taken to a hospital in the nearby town of Jaar, the official said. An abandoned army weapons factory in Jaar which the militants had taken over was also hit, the official added, but was unable to say if there were any casualties.

Other raids carried out by the Saudi-led coalition struck suspected Al-Qaeda positions in second city Aden at dawn, according to the same official. It was not immediately clear if anyone was killed or injured.

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has taken advantage of Yemen's war between Iran-backed rebels and pro-government forces backed by a Saudi-led Arab coalition to expand in the south. AQAP, which has long been entrenched in Yemen, is regarded by Washington as the network's most dangerous branch, and it has carried out deadly attacks on the West in the past.

Last week a US air strike on an AQAP training camp in Hajr, in the southeastern province of Hadramawt, killed 71 fighters, according to provincial officials.

The militants have seized parts of Hadramawt including its provincial capital Mukalla in April last year.

The Saudi-led coalition launched its intervention in Yemen a year ago against the Houthi rebels but it has recently turned its guns on militants in southern Yemen.
Posted by: Steve White || 03/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia


Europe
Brussels police break up far-right protests
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Belgian police briefly used water cannon to control several hundred rowdy protesters in central Brussels on Sunday after they ignored an official call for marches to be postponed following Tuesday’s bombings.

Amid fears of further attacks, officials wanted to give police the scope to focus on investigations which have widened to other countries, leading to the arrest of an Algerian in Italia and intelligence cooperation with Germany. Police carried out 13 new raids in Belgium itself.

Hundreds nevertheless gathered at the Bourse to express solidarity with the victims of the suicide kabooms at Brussels airport and on a rush-hour metro train. Thirty one people were killed, including three attackers, and hundreds more injured. ISIS has grabbed credit.
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Posted by: Fred || 03/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  I wonder if one of the foundations of Belgian society is respect for themselves.
Posted by: gorb || 03/28/2016 0:59 Comments || Top||

#2  What I often wonder is why is it that the so-called "far-rightists" are the only ones who seem outraged by the latest atrocity. Why aren't there millions of folks from all walks of life on the street going rampagingly mad at the politicos and so-called intelligentsia that enabled civilization's enemies to enter in such great numbers.
Posted by: henry cybulski || 03/28/2016 6:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Because they're afraid of sticking their heads out, Henry.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/28/2016 6:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Because they are afraid of being accused of being "far-rightists", and being shunned by all right-thinking people.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/28/2016 7:23 Comments || Top||

#5  Because they are afraid of being accused of being "far-rightists", and being shunned by all wrong-thinking people
Posted by: Grins Snese4215 || 03/28/2016 8:27 Comments || Top||

#6  many of whom local media described as right-wing nationalists, carrying banners denouncing ISIS.

I wonder what the left-wing analogue would be, according to the local media? Commie Simps or Regular Folks?

How many of the local media? Which ones? The local equivalent of MSNBC or Fox News?
Posted by: Bobby || 03/28/2016 13:01 Comments || Top||

#7  Trust us says the government. Be quiet and do as your told.
Posted by: jvalentour || 03/28/2016 16:30 Comments || Top||


Two Belgian nuclear power plant workers have joined ISIS
Leads to fears the jihadis have the intelligence to cause a meltdown disaster
  • [DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Two workers from a nuclear power plant in Doel fled to Syria to join ISIS

  • One was 'killed in Syria' and another served time for terror offences in 2014

  • Security guard at a Belgian nuclear research facility murdered in Charleroi

  • Officials say killing is being treated as a criminal act rather than a terror act

  • Nuclear power plants are known to be targets for the terror network behind the Brussels bombings
Posted by: Fred || 03/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  FTA "Some 1,000 people work on sites like these. Their backgrounds are all checked thoroughly"

So, do some time 2 years ago for jihadi stuff and that is no impediment to getting hired at a nuke plant.

Digging their own graves, the Euros are....

Posted by: Bov Flimbers || 03/28/2016 16:05 Comments || Top||

#2  And if the Euros can't figure out whether or not someone's a jihadi when they have a reasonable background on them, how are they supposed to find the jihadis in the Syrian rapefugees?
Posted by: gorb || 03/28/2016 16:29 Comments || Top||


Frenchman suspected in planning terror attack arrested
[CBSNEWS] Dutch police jugged
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
a 32-year-old Frenchie in the port city of Rotterdam on Sunday at the request of French authorities who suspect him of "involvement in planning a terror attack," prosecutors said.

Residents were evacuated from homes near addresses on two streets that were raided Sunday by anti-terror police, who also took three other men into custody.

French officials requested the arrest Friday after the suspect emerged during an investigation, according to a statement from the Dutch national prosecutor's office.

The suspect was allegedly involved in a plot disrupted by police in the Gay Paree region last week, the Gay Paree prosecutor's office said. Another Frenchie, Reda Kriket, was detained Thursday in that plot and remains in jug.

An official with the Gay Paree prosecutor's office said there is no sign of a link at this stage between Kriket's purported plot and a network behind attacks in Brussels and Gay Paree in recent months.

The Gay Paree official and Dutch prosecutors' Spokesman Wim de Bruin declined to give more details about the alleged plot.

The suspect, whose identity was not released, is expected to be extradited to La Belle France soon.

Three other men were detained in Sunday's raids; two with Algerian backgrounds and a third man whose identity could not immediately be established.

De Bruin said the three were held in relation to a Dutch investigation, but he gave no further details.

The raids came with Europe on high alert following last week's deadly suicide kabooms in Brussels.

Belgian riot police clashed Sunday with hundreds of right-wing hooligans at a temporary shrine honoring victims of the Brussels suicide kabooms, as Sherlocks launched fresh anti-terror raids, taking four more people into custody.

Police used water cannon when scuffles broke out in front of the Bourse, which has become a symbolic rallying point for people to pay their respects to those who died in Tuesday's attacks. Black clad men carrying an anti-ISIS banner with an expletive on it trampled parts of the shrine, shouting Nazi slogans. Ten were arrested and two coppers injured.

"We had 340 hooligans from different football clubs who came to Brussels and we knew for sure that they would create some trouble," Police Commissioner Christian De Coninck said. "It was a very difficult police operation because lots of families with kids were here."

Much like in La Belle France after the Gay Paree attacks, public interest in fiery
...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob...
far-right nationalistic populism has went kaboom! in popularity. Vocativ reports Facebook likes for Vlaams Belang, the right-wing populist party from Flanders, has surged more than 3,000 percent.

Brussels mayor Yvan Mayeur expressed his disgust, with Belgium still in mourning over the suicide kabooms at Brussels airport and subway, which killed at least 31 people and injured some 270.

Federal prosecutors, meanwhile, said Sunday morning's raids were linked a "federal case regarding terrorism" but did not specify whether it had any links to the March 22 attacks.
Posted by: Fred || 03/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Algerian nabbed in Italy for alleged link to Belgium network
[WASHINGTONPOST] Police in southern Italia have placed in durance vile
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
an Algerian man wanted by Belgian authorities for alleged involvement in a Belgium-based network which provided false IDs used by people implicated in the Gay Paree and Brussels attacks, Sherlocks said Sunday.

Djamal Eddine Ouali was arrested Saturday in the town of Bellizzi, outside of the port city of Salerno, said Luigi Amato, the head of Salerno police’s anti-terrorism squad. Ouali apparently "didn’t know he was wanted" by Belgian authorities and applied for a residency permit about 10 days ago in Italia, Amato said in a telephone interview.

Ouali, 40, was locked away
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
while authorities expected extradition procedures to soon begin, the police official said.

Ouali had entered in Italia sometime after late December, Amato said. His wife, also Algerian, is also in Italia.

A statement from police in Salerno noted that authorities’ interest in Ouali was triggered when they noticed he had the same name of man sought by Belgium for alleged involvement in "a criminal network dedicated to false documents on a large scale" that emerged last year in Brussels.

Belgium issued a warrant in January, three months after a raid in the Brussels suburb of Saint-Gilles yielded some thousand digital images used for false documents.

That raid discovered "photos and of some aliases used by the three holy warriors belonging to the group which planned and carried out the attacks in Gay Paree" on Nov. 13, 2015, the Italian police statement said.

The Italian news agency ANSA said the aliases included Soufiane Kayal, the name used by Najim Laachraoui, one of the jacket wallahs in last week’s Brussels airport attack, as well as one used by Mohammed Belkaid, who was killed during the hunt for Salah Abdeslam, as well as an alias, Yassine Baghli, used by Abdeslam, the suspected ringleader of the attacks.

Amato said Oauli declined to answer Sherlocks’ questions. The official stressed he couldn’t elaborate on what links the documents’ falsification had to the suspects in the Gay Paree and Brussels attacks. Italia’s investigation of Oauli’s activities on Italian territory is also continuing.
Posted by: Fred || 03/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


The Grand Turk
Two soldiers killed in Turkey
Two Turkish soldiers were martyred and five others injured during a counter-terrorism operation in Turkey’s southeastern Nusaybin district of Mardin province, Anadolu Agency reported.

Turkish security forces started an operation on March 14 against the PKK terrorist organization.

A handmade explosive planted by PKK terrorists in Nusaybin exploded during the search of a house. Two out of seven soldiers were martyred as the house turned to rubble. The five other soldiers were sent to Nusaybin State Hospital.
Posted by: Steve White || 03/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Military called to rein in violent pro-Qadri protesters in Islamabad
[DAWN] Around 10,000 people protesting the execution of Mumtaz Qadri -- a former 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....

police commando hanged last month for assassinating Punjab governor Salman Taseer -- breached Islamabad's Red Zone Sunday evening.

The government has called in the army to control the law and order situation in the capital.

The protesters are staging a sit-in outside the Parliament and have refused to clear the area unless their demands - which include the imposition of Shariah law in Pakistain - are met. The demonstration that started early Sunday evening is still underway early Monday morning, although the crowd has diminished from 10,000 to around 3,000 protesters.

They removed containers and blockades on the way to the Parliament House and also set some containers to fire before staging a sit-in outside the building, where fiery
...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob...
anti-government speeches are being delivered.

Earlier in the day, riot police used tear gas and batons to disperse the stone-pelting crowd from the high-security zone outside the parliament building.
Posted by: Fred || 03/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia


Taliban suicide bomber kills 65 in 'playground blast' that targeted Christians on Easter
[EXPRESS.CO.UK] Pak police confirmed that a jacket wallah was behind the blast at a public park in the eastern Pak city.

The park was particularly busy on Sunday evening due to the Easter holiday weekend.

Taliban splinter group Jamaat-ul-Ahrar has grabbed credit for the attack and said they specifically targeted Pakistain's Christian minority.

Speaking on behalf of the sick jihadis, Ehsanullah Ehsan
...formerly the front man for the Pak Taliban, now the lips and tongue of the Jamaatul Ahrar splinter group in Mohmand Agency...
said: "The target were Christians.

"We want to send this message to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
that we have entered Lahore.

"He can do what he wants but he won't be able to stop us. Our suicide bombers will continue these attacks."

Police sources had earlier said the bombing appeared to target "Christian families" celebrating Easter.

Mustansar Feroz, police superintendent for the area, said: "Most of the dead and injured are women and kiddies."

While senior police officer Haider Ashraf said the area was crowded with Christians celebrating Easter.

The blast occurred in the parking area of Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, just outside the exit gate and a few metres away from children's swings.

Eyewitnesses describing seeing body parts strewn across the parking lot once the blast's dust had settled.

Most of the victims were women and kiddies, according to a rescue service front man.

According to doctors at the Jinnah Hospital, many injured are at death's door and fear the corpse count may rise.

Media footage showed children and women crying and screaming and rescue officials, police and bystanders rushing injured people to ambulances.

The terror attack happened at the heart of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's political base of Punjab.

Posted by: Fred || 03/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: TTP

#1  NYTimes: Its Trump's fault
CAIR: Warns against Isamophobia
Kerry: Those weren't real mulims
Posted by: lord garth || 03/28/2016 0:54 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Iraqi kops detain 17 in Babel
(IraqiNews.com) Babel – A source within the police force in Babel province said on Sunday, that the security forces had managed to detain 17 wanted individuals on different criminal charges in different parts of the province.

The source said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “The provincial police was able to detain, today, to arrest 17 wanted individuals on criminal charges, ranging between murder and armed robbery, during operations carried out across the province,” adding that, “The detainees were taken to a police station for interrogation.”
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ISIS Top Turban, 30 others die in airstrike in Tikrit
(IraqiNews.com) Salahuddin – The leadership of Federal Police announced on Sunday the killing of ISIS Amir of Makhoul Mountains, along with four of his bodyguards by rockets attack on their vehicle, while indicated to the killing of 30 ISIS militants east of Tikrit (170 km north of Baghdad).

The Federal Police Captain Raed Shakir Jawdat said in a press statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “Today the forces from the Federal Police 13th brigade were able to kill ISIS Amir of Makhoul Mountains, who was also known as Abu Abdallah, along with four of his companions by launching a cornet rocket on their vehicle.”

Jawdat added, “The 3rd brigade of the commandos also repulsed ISIS attack on Ajil and Alas oil fields, killing 30 ISIS militants, as well as destroying four vehicles belonging to ISIS.”
Posted by: badanov || 03/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  ISIS Amir of Makhoul Mountains

Similar to an Irish King, although without the cow.

Posted by: Pappy || 03/28/2016 11:58 Comments || Top||

#2  How about a goat?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/28/2016 14:40 Comments || Top||


Ninevah Nightmares: 12+ die
Playing hardball: ISIS executes deserters' family members

(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – A local source in Nineveh Province announced on Sunday, that the so-called ISIS executed 12 of its fighters’ relatives who were previously working with the security forces in Mosul, while pointed out that one of ISIS fighters executed his brother and cousin on charges of cooperating with the security forces.

The source said in a brief statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “ISIS executed 12 of its fighters’ relatives who were previously working with the security directorates in Mosul, after the air strike that were carried out by the Iraqi Army Aviation and US-led coalition aviation on ISIS headquarters in the University of Mosul.”

The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, added, “One of ISIS members also executed his brother and cousin on charges of cooperating with the security forces.”

ISIS Top Dawg has a Very Bad Day


(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan spokesman in Nineveh Gayath al-Surji revealed on Sunday, that the so-called ISIS Wali of Ba’aj was killed in an air strike southwest of the province.

Surji said in a press statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “Today the international coalition aviation bombarded ISIS headquarters in Nineveh, killing a group of ISIS militants, including the so-called ISIS Wali of Ba’aj Mohamed al-Shamri, who was also known as Abu Mariam.”

Surji added, “The coalition aviation also targeted a number of ISIS headquarters in Nineveh and managed to kill 10 ISIS militants.”

400 families flees areas in Ninevah

(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – An informed source within the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan announced on Sunday, that more than 400 families left their homes in villages northeast of Makhmour District and headed to the center of the district.

The source said in a press statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “More than 400 families have fled from the villages of Khrbirdan, Kodellh and Muhana northwest of Makhmour District towards the center of the district,” indicating that, “The displaced people left their areas in search of safer areas for their lives after clashes had erupted between Iraqi forces and ISIS militants,” pointing out that, “The concerned authorities are preparing to set up a camp in a safe area in the district of Makhmour.”
Posted by: badanov || 03/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Anbar Antics
Iraqi forces capture cop shop in Anbar

(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – Haditha Police Command in Anbar Province announced on Sunday, that the joint forces managed to cleanse the building of Heet Police Directorate west of Ramadi and killed dozens of ISIS militants.

The spokesman of the emergency police’s 14th regiment in Haditha District Lieutenant Saud Harb al-Obeidi said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “The security forces carried out a wide-scale military operation and were able to cleanse the building of Heet Police Directorate after fierce battles,” pointing out that, “Dozens of ISIS members were killed during the operation.”

Obeidi added, “The security forces raised the Iraqi flag over the building and dismantled the improvised explosive devices that were planted around the building,” indicating that, “The cleansing battles in the areas west of Anbar are continuous.”

ISIS cuts off water for resident of Kabisa
If you thought it was for line maintenance, I have news for you...
(IraqiNews.com) al-Anbar – The mayor of Heet District in Anbar province, Mohanad Zbar, said on Sunday, that the ISIS militants had cut off the water supply for the people of Kabisa vicinity from the city of Heet.

Zbar said in a brief statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “The ISIS controls the city of Heet (70 km west of Ramadi) and cut off the water [supply], completely, for the residents of Kabisa vicinity south of the city,” adding that, “The ISIS is trying to kill the people of Kabisa of thirst after the liberation of the vicinity from these criminal gangs,” pointing out that, “Army forces within the Seventh Division and al-Jazeera Operations began delivering water to the people in order to alleviate their suffering.”

ISIS attack US air base

[ARA News] ERBIL ــ Radical group of the Islamic State (ISIS) launched suicide attacks on the Ayn al-Asad Airbase in western Iraq, clashing with U.S. and Iraqi military forces in the area, Iraqi media sources reported on Saturday.

Local military sources confirmed that around nine ISIS suicide bombers were able to infiltrate into the airbase in western Anbar.

Ayn al-Asad Airbase, a U.S.-Iraqi base, is located in the largely Sunni province of al-Anbar.

The U.S. forces intervened to support the Iraqi troops after hours from ISIS attacks, according to media reports.

“The U.S. special forces were able to repel the attack and killed eight suicide bombers, while an Iraqi lieutenant pilot and two other soldiers were killed in addition to the injury of six other soldiers in the operations,” an official from the Iraqi army told ARA News, speaking on condition of anonymity.

In this regard, Iraqi political activist Jassim Khalaf said that the United States is determined to eliminate the terror group “after becoming a real threat to the global security.”

“Daesh will receive painful blows from the U.S.-led coalition forces in the coming days,” he stressed, using an acronym for ISIS.

Earlier, the hardline group had attacked another U.S. military base north of Mosul and was able to kill an American soldier.

Over the past few weeks, U.S.-led coalition forces conducted several airstrikes on the Iraqi province of Anbar, killing a number of jihadi leaders and other militants from the extremist group, according to Iraqi officials.

The coalition’s airstrikes have recently killed dozens of prominent leaders of the radical group across Syria and Iraq, besides hitting tactical units and oil fields held by ISIS. The group has been suffering an apparent shortage in manpower in the recent weeks.
Posted by: badanov || 03/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Baghdad Bomb and Bullet Bulletin: 2 die
2 die in bomb attack on market

(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Iraqi Ministry of Interior announced on Sunday, that 11 people had been either killed or wounded in a bomb blast near fruits and vegetables market in southern Baghdad.

The source said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “This morning, a bomb exploded near fruits and vegetables market in Yusufiya area in southern Baghdad, killing two people and wounding nine others.”

The source, who asked anonymity, added, “A security force rushed to the area and evacuated the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment and the dead bodies to the forensic medicine department, while carried out a raid to search for the perpetrators of the bombing.”

Iraqi forces close bridge in Baghdad

(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A security source revealed on Sunday, that the security forces cut off al-Gomhoreya Bridge in central Baghdad.

The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said in a statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “The security forces cut off al-Gomhoreya Bridge in central Baghdad, and prevented the vehicles movement over it.”

Earlier today, Iraqi Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr entered the Green Zone in central Baghdad and decided to protest inside the area alone against the government’s slow pace of carrying out reforms.

Iraqi forces detain ISIS bomb maker

(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Iraqi police said on Sunday, that the security forces had managed to arrest the ISIS explosive expert in the so-called Wilayat Baghdad during a tactical operation north of the capital Baghdad.

The source said in a press statement received by IraqiNews.com, “Based on intelligence information, the Eighth Brigade of the Federal Police carried out, today, a tactical operation in the district of al-Taji north of Baghdad,” adding that, “The operation resulted in the arrest of the ISIS explosives official, in addition to [seizing] bombs, explosive belts, weapons and ammunition.”
Posted by: badanov || 03/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Iraq’s Sadr in ‘Green Zone’ sit-in protest
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iraqi holy man Moqtada Sadr on Sunday entered the perimeter of Baghdad’s fortified "Green Zone" and began a sit-in to ramp up pressure for reforms.

The symbolic move by the young Shiite holy man comes after thousands of his supporters have been camping outside the restricted area’s entrances for more than a week.

Sadr wants Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to enact reforms tackling corruption and announce a technocratic government to replace the current cabinet of party-affiliated ministers.

In his most recent address, Sadr had said Abadi should announce new measures by Saturday or face further pressure from the street.
Posted by: Fred || 03/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I doubt it'll be a hunger strike.
Posted by: Raj || 03/28/2016 11:38 Comments || Top||

#2  If Tater thinks he knows so much about how to run the government why doesn't he run for office?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/28/2016 12:42 Comments || Top||

#3  why doesn't he run for office?

He'd have to get his teeth fixed for the media cameras.

I'd actually pity the media folks, having to put up with what I can only assume to be the devastating halitosis emanating from that pie-hole.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 03/28/2016 14:16 Comments || Top||

#4  If Tater thinks he knows so much about how to run the government why doesn't he run for office?

Think of him as an Iraqi Al Sharpton - just substitute "Shiite" for "black" and factor in poor choices in dress and dental hygiene.
Posted by: Pappy || 03/28/2016 15:46 Comments || Top||

#5  You mean he doesn't run because he makes too much money as a race hustler? OK. Works for Sharpton. Jackson too.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/28/2016 17:11 Comments || Top||

#6  Not money - influence. The Iranians are paying for his "ride."
Posted by: Pappy || 03/28/2016 19:28 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Two Abu Sayyaf militants killed in Basilan
[GMA News] An Abu Sayyaf sub-leader and member were killed in a Friday morning clash in Al-Barka, Basilan that also resulted in five soldiers, two militiamen, and six other terrorists being injured. Major Filemon Tan identified the former sub-leader as Eric Ajibon, allegedly an expert bomb maker who was "responsible in the series of bombings against the government forces and business establishments in Basilan."

The other fatality was identified only as Ayan. His and Ajibon's bodies were recovered from the area of the battle and were turned over to the police. Tan said, "The troops also recovered war materials and personal belongings in the encounter site."

The six Abu Sayyaf militants reported injured in the fighting were carried off by the retreating rebels.

The clash occurred after the military was tipped off by residents of Sitio Luglugi in Barangay Macalang about the presence of around 40 Abu Sayyaf militants in the area. The military deployed elite troops from the 4th Special Forces Battalion, which caught up with the insurgents led by Isnilon Hapilon, a top Abu Sayyaf leader.

Tan said, "Heavy exchange of fires lasted for 30 minutes and sporadic firefight dragged on for three hours."
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Islamic State driven out of Syria's ancient Palmyra city
[REUTERS] Syrian government forces backed by heavy Russian air support drove 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....
out of Palmyra on Sunday, inflicting what the army called a mortal blow to gunnies who seized the city last year and dynamited its ancient temples.

The loss of Palmyra represents one of the biggest setbacks for the ultra-hardline Islamist group since it declared a caliphate in 2014 across large parts of Syria and Iraq.

The army general command said that its forces took over the city with support from Russian and Syrian air strikes, opening up the huge expanse of desert leading east to the Islamic State strongholds of Raqqa and Deir al-Zor.

Palmyra would become "a launchpad to expand military operations" against the group in those two provinces, it said, promising to "tighten the noose on the terrorist group and cut supply routes ... ahead of their complete recapture".

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said festivities continued on the eastern edge of Palmyra, around the prison and airport, but the bulk of the Islamic State force had withdrawn and retreated east, leaving the city under Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Lord of the Baath...
's control.

Later the Observatory said six powerful kabooms were heard in the city triggered by triple boom-mobileings inside the city and its edges by the krazed killer group. Three gunnies with suicide belts also blew themselves up inside the captured city, inflicting unspecified casualties among army forces and allied troops.

Syrian state-run television broadcast from inside the city, showing empty streets and badly damaged buildings.

It quoted a military source saying Syrian and Russian jets were targeting Islamic State fighters as they fled, hitting dozens of vehicles on the roads leading east from the city.
Posted by: Fred || 03/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Rebuild and restore is the next phase. The Russians are eager to showcase the pearl of their efforts. Museums and history will return.
Posted by: Dale || 03/28/2016 7:34 Comments || Top||


Terror Networks
Fr. Thomas Uzhunnalil was crucified by ISIS on Good Friday
[TORONTOCATHOLICWITNESS.BLOGSPOT] Austrian media is reporting that Cardinal Schönborn of Vienna confirmed last night, during the Easter Vigil at Stephansdom that the Salesian priest, Fr. Thomas Uzhunnalil was crucified by ISIS on Good Friday. Polonia Christiana is also carrying the news, based on the Austrian reports.
So Evil they'd make Beelzebub gag.
Fr. Tom is now in Paradise with Our Blessed Lord and His Mother. May his murderers repent and come to believe in the Gospel.
Posted by: Fred || 03/28/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Prayers
Posted by: newc || 03/28/2016 0:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Pope Francis to the white courtesy phone please. We need some advice on how much we need to love these murderers before they will start to act civilized.
Posted by: gorb || 03/28/2016 0:55 Comments || Top||

#3  When the Priest was kidnapped, 4 nuns were murdered and their heads bashed in by Islamic State on the spot during the kidnapping.
Posted by: Ho Chi Crinens5363 || 03/28/2016 0:56 Comments || Top||

#4  And some folks are are concerned about Cruz and his "carpet bombing" and Trump's "waterboarding, or worse" comments.

I suppose we should brace for the Champ's soon coming moronic response or actions.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/28/2016 1:01 Comments || Top||

#5  O Lord, send your spirit to calm us
So moderate Moslems won't bomb us,
Nor sons of Osama's
Provoke the Obamas'
Presumptuous #BringBackOurThomas!
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 03/28/2016 5:26 Comments || Top||

#6  Oooh, pointed double entendre, Zenbia F.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/28/2016 9:33 Comments || Top||

#7  Fr. Tom is an example of a Christian martyr: someone who is killed for his faith. Unlike a Muslim "martyr", who kills others for his faith.
Posted by: Rambler in Viginia || 03/28/2016 11:00 Comments || Top||

#8  I suppose we should brace for the Champ's soon coming moronic response or actions.

Or lack thereof.
Posted by: Pappy || 03/28/2016 12:00 Comments || Top||

#9  Its a male catholic, and a priest as well. Indian, so insufficiently ethnic. Obama will be silent. Not someone he speaks for or cares about. No victim or minority card to play, and he would have to actually speak out against Muslims. Not going to happen. Jarret would never OK it.
Posted by: Ho Chi McGurque1753 || 03/28/2016 14:00 Comments || Top||

#10  What will be happening is that Barraka Hussein will attend the opening ceremony for the largest (Islamic Forward Operating Base) mosque in America -funding courtesy of Turkey.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 03/28/2016 15:30 Comments || Top||

#11  Per Wall Street Journal, Obama turned it down:

Mr. Obama has turned down Mr. Erdogan’s request to join him for the inauguration of a Turkish-funded mosque in Maryland, and the U.S. president has no plans for a formal one-on-one meeting with his Turkish counterpart, who is a vital ally in the fight against Islamic State, U.S. officials told The Wall Street Journal.

The White House is instead expected to have Vice President Joe Biden meet with Mr. Erdogan.
Posted by: Pappy || 03/28/2016 15:49 Comments || Top||

#12  ..conflict with a scheduled tee time?
Posted by: Bertie Unogum8587 || 03/28/2016 15:59 Comments || Top||

#13  ...oops that was me. Just too good of an opportunity to pass up.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/28/2016 16:00 Comments || Top||

#14  Thanks Pappy -hadn't seen that. P2K - that's where the smart money is
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 03/28/2016 18:34 Comments || Top||

#15  ..conflict with a scheduled tee time?

The official line is "concerns about crackdowns on [internal] dissent and Kurdish insurgents."

More likely it's the WH having concerns about this.

BTW, King Abdullah also didn't get to visit with The Lightbringer.
Posted by: Pappy || 03/28/2016 19:37 Comments || Top||



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