[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 3 people were maimed in a magnetic bomb kaboom in West of 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.... city earlier this evening, security officials said.
The officials further added that the incident took place in the 3rd police district of the city after a magnetic bomb planted in a police vehicle went off in Golayi Dawa Khana area of the city.
No group including the Taliban bully boyz has so far grabbed credit behind the incident.
This comes as two rockets landed in the vicinity of key diplomatic area in Shashdarak area of the city late on Wednesday night.
The officials confirmed Thursday that the rocket attack did not incur any casualties to the local residents or security forces.
Earlier, a deadly suicide kaboom targeted a mosque in the west of Kabul city ten days ago, leaving at least 32 people dead and scores of others maimed.
The 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 grabbed credit behind the attack.
The attack on Baqir-ul-Olum mosque took place almost one and half month after a similar attack destroyed a shrine in Kabul city, leaving at least 18 dead and several others maimed.
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The officials confirmed Thursday that the rocket attack did not incur any casualties to the local residents or security forces.
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Magnets separated by small block of wood or other non-conductor. Remove the non-conductor, electrical circuit is completed setting off blasting cap.
An official says Puntland state has released dozens Al shabaab members captured in recent battle from several jails in the region, including Garowe, the region’s capital Garowe.
That might make sense in the original Somali...
Gen Muhaydin Ahmed Muse, the commander of Puntland’s anti-terror police said the Al shabaab prisoners had been freed, with a court has ruled to appeal their early sentences. Muse has called on Puntland judiciary to review the decision to free the detained Al shabaab members held at the prisons. Puntland state did not comment on the general’s comments.
If you wait long enough the appeal won't matter...
Puntland forces have captured dozens of Al shabaab fighters as prisoners of war during Suuj battle.
Capturing them and keeping them on ice seems like a good idea. Releasing them means you'll just have to capture or kill them later.
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the alternative is disposing of such people by means other than capture.
At least 11 government soldiers were killed, and three others wounded in a heavy fighting between Al shabaab fighters and Somali troops in Bakool region, south west of Somalia.
Al shabaab claimed it killed 11 soldiers in the combat which erupted when Somali federal government forces attacked militants in Dhuraay area located in the outskirts of Wajid town. The Al Qaeda-linked militants said they seized 9 AK-47 riffles during the clashes with SNA.
However, Somali military has denied the Al shabaab claims of killing at least 11 SNA force members in the battle. There was no independent sources in the area confirming the casualties.
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[Libya Herald] At least two females who seemed to be civilians surrendering to Bunyan Marsous forces, blew themselves up today after being brought inside BM lines, killing four fighters and injuring more than a dozen others.
One of the women had brought two children with her, reported Rooters, but did not detonate her explosives until the infants had been taken to an ambulance. The children were reportedly hungry and dehydrated.
This incident follows the flight of other women from IS positions in recent days, in response to loudhailer calls for civilians to escape while they could. One young Tunisian girl who surrendered earlier this week has had her story of being duped into joining IS given wide publicity by the BM operations room.
Yesterday according to US Africa Command, there were three US air strikes all against terrorist positions. There have now been 470 American raids since August.
On Wednesday a BM commander was reported to have said that his men would be holding back from further advances and loss of life. Though tanks, armoured cars and self-propelled guns continue to be in the front line, the attackers have largely been content to bombard terrorist positions while laying down suppressive fire.
With the capture of each new building, the extent of the IS defences becomes clearer, with networks of bomb shelters, tunnels and communication lines knocked through buildings. Some of this labyrinth is booby-trapped, a few parts, it seems are well concealed. It is reported that today bandidosDeath Eaters started firing from a building that had been taken and supposedly cleared by BM fighters. It is not known if the bandidosDeath Eaters had hidden themselves inside the ruins or had later returned to it through tunnels.
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[Libya Herald] The Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... Revolutionaries Brigade (TRB) this evening announced that it had taken control of Camp 77 military camp next to the former Qadaffy compound in the capital’s Bab al-Aziziya area. They also said they had taken the adjoining zoo and the Nasr forest park.
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... in a subsequent separate statement, it also said that it had no intention of seizing the Rixos complex, which is at the eastern side of the forest park and home to the former General National Congress, or the so-called Hospitality Palaces across the road from the complex.
These latter are currently being used as a base by former "Salvation Government" head Khalifa Ghwell and his supporters.
Earlier Ghwell, who seized the Rixos complex a month and a half ago and declared himself back in power, threatened he and the armed factions linked to him would respond to any attack on the Rixos or the forest park.
"We call all our linked armed factions to get ready for immediate action in order to defend residents and the state facilities," his statement read.
Camp 77 had been under the control of radical Misratan militiaman Salah Badi ...a Misrata militia commander, self-appointed colonel and a member of the Wafa Islamist bloc. He was cashiered from the Libyan army in 1992 because he was nuts... and others for some time. He has been accused by armed factions in Tripoli of using it as a base for Islamic hardliners and other Lions of Islam including those from the Benghazi Revolutionaries’ Shoura Council (BRSC) such as Wissam Ben Humaid who fled Benghazi after being forced out by Khalifa Hafter’s Operation Dignity.
The camp was taken during the morning by combined forces of the TRB, those under Abu Sleem strongman Abdul Ghani al-Kikli (also known as Ghneiwa), Central Security Boards and other factions.
It has not been confirmed so far if the Deterrence Forces (RADA) led by Abdulraouf Kara had a role in the operation.
Following its capture, the TRB said it had discovered a huge amount of explosives at the camp, posting pictures of some of it on its Facebook page. It added that had nabbed You have the right to remain silent... a number of people inside the camp and would publish their statements soon. They were said to be almost entirely from the east of the country.
Commenting before the camp was taken, however, the TRB said that a fight with the Lions of Islam was "crucial" because they were terrorists.
The later statement about not taking the Rixos complex is seen as something of a climbdown by the TRB, although one analysis of yesterday’s festivities between the alliance of Tripoli militias on the one side (including the TRB) and the holy warriors on the other has been that they were testing each others’ strengths. Certainly, the festivities have seen a redrawing of militia areas of control in the capital.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Big Shirley was still trying to snatch Nunzio bald-headed. She was already halfway there... support for Ghwell has come from Misrata’s al-Marsah brigade. In a separate statement it would beat "with an irony fist" any faction that thought of seizing the Rixos complex and the Nasr zoo. It complained that while it had been in Sirte fighting 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.... , "some people have exploited our absence". It would go to Tripoli as soon as possible, it said.
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[Iran Press TV] At least half a dozen people have been killed and several others have sustained injuries when 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... ’s fighter jets carried out a number of Arclight airstrikes against residential areas in Yemen's northwestern province of Sa’ada.
Citing anonymous security sources, Yemen's official Saba news agency reported that Saudi warplanes bombarded a residential neighborhood in the Talh area of Sahar district on Friday, killing five people and wounding three others.
Saudi bombs also claimed the life of another Yemeni and inflicted injuries on one more civilian after they hit the victims’ vehicle in Qatabir district. Two other Yemenis were also critically maimed as their house was destroyed as a result of Saudi aerial bombardment in the province's Hidan district.
The Saudi war machine also carried out at least five Arclight airstrikes on different districts of the northern province of Jawf, but there has been no immediate report about the possible casualties.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Big Shirley was still trying to snatch Nunzio bald-headed. She was already halfway there... in retaliation for the deadly Saudi military campaign, Yemen's army and fighters of the popular committees launched mortar and rocket attacks against a number of Saudi bases in the kingdom's southern province of Najran, killing at least one Saudi soldier in the Kers military base. The Yemeni forces also destroyed a military vehicle in the Saudi military base of Qenas in Najran.
Elsewhere, in Yemen’s Jawf province, at least two Saudi mercenaries were slain by Yemeni troops.
Saudi Arabia has been engaged in a deadly campaign against Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... since March 2015 in an attempt to reinstate the former Yemeni government and undermine the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... Ansarullah movement. The war has left at least 11,400 civilians dead, according to a recent tally by a Yemeni monitoring group.
The war-torn Arab country is also grappling with the scarcity of food supplies and outbreak of diseases amid Saudi Arabia’s atrocious Arclight airstrikes.
International organizations have repeatedly censured Riyadh for the Arclight airstrikes on Yemen’s infrastructure, including hospitals and schools, saying the campaign is taking a huge toll on the civilian population.
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[IsraelTimes] EU agency is currently assisting more than 50 counterterrorism investigations across the continent.
And that was the key bit of information in this article. For the rest, look for multiple mass attacks on soft targets, Sudden Jihad Syndrome lone wolves, and probably nothing more complex than guns, knives, cars, and bombs for the forseeable future.
Europol warned Friday 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.... group could launch fresh attacks in Europe in the near future, and the agency’s director said police forces across the continent are investigating more than 50 terrorism cases.
Europol -- the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... ’s police agency -- said in a grim analysis of IS tactics published Friday that EU countries participating in the US-led coalition fighting the krazed killer group in Syria and Iraq are most at risk.
La Belle France and Belgium are among the European nations that have joined the US-led coalition. Others include Britannia, the Netherlands and Denmark. Germany’s military also is involved, but not in combat operations.
Europol director Rob Wainwright said in an interview that counterterrorism agencies are tackling the threat from IS in cooperation with his Hague-based agency. Europol currently is assisting more than 50 terror investigations by national agencies across the continent, he said.
"That says something about the level of the threat, but also about the level of interconnectedness amongst the counterterrorist community here," Wainwright told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named at Europol’s headquarters.
In the report released Friday, Europol said boom-mobiles and other tactics the Islamic State group uses in Iraq and Syria could also be deployed in Europe. It said past attacks such as those in La Belle France and Belgium over the last two years show that Lions of Islam acting in the name of IS can effectively plan complex attacks.
"Estimates from some intelligence services indicate several dozen people directed by IS may be currently present in Europe with a capability to commit terrorist attacks," according to the report, which draws on counterterrorism intelligence from around Europe as well as media reports and previously publicized calls by IS leaders for attacks.
Despite the warnings, Wainwright expressed optimism that the counterterrorism efforts will likely, over the long term, rein in the threat posed by Islamic State.
"We’re not there yet. I think we will get there. It might be replaced in the future, of course, by another iteration in the international terrorist scene," he said. "So it doesn’t have to be the new normal, but we have to take the right measures, right now, to protect our citizens from the kind of atrocities that unfortunately we’ve suffered in the last two years."
Community leaders also have a role to play in diminishing the threat from IS recruiters and trainers who prey on marginalized youths -- some of whom may have mental health problems or backgrounds in petty crime -- and incite them to carry out attacks, Wainwright said.
"We have to work in the community with faith leaders, with parents, with teachers to try and make sure that these young impressionable minds are not turned so easily," he said.
The Europol report noted a shift in IS attacks from symbolic targets like coppers and military personnel to indiscriminate attacks on civilian targets, such as the attacks a year ago in Gay Paree at a rock concert, the national stadium and bustling sidewalk cafes.
"Indiscriminate attacks have a very powerful effect on the public in general, which is one of the main goals of terrorism: to seriously intimidate a population," according to the report, which concludes the focus on so-called soft targets means that attacking critical infrastructure like power grids and nuclear facilities is "currently not a priority."
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout Montefiore's foot was still stuck and the hound had completely soaked his uniform with slobber... a police raid in Morocco in February may have thwarted a possible chemical or biological weapons attack by an IS cell, raising the specter that such weapons also could be used in Europe.
The report noted, however, that automatic firearms, knives and vehicles are more easily available and that "the effectiveness, ease of use and access of these weapons will continue to be relevant."
The consensus among intelligence agencies in EU member states is that "the cyber capabilities of terrorist groups are still relatively low," Europol’s report said.
But the document’s authors added that "the possibility of terrorist-affiliated cyber groups engaging in cyber warfare sponsored by Nation States -- those with capacities to engage in this type of attacks -- should not be discounted."
Al Ahram adds:
The 14-page report, an update on methods and tactics used by IS, also said counter-terror experts were concerned that strife-torn Libya could develop into a "second springboard for IS, after Syria, for attacks in the EU and North Africa".
Since the armed revolt five years ago that overthrew dictator Moamer Kadhafi, the North African country has been plagued by violence and political instability.
"Experts expect that IS will start planning and dispatching attacks from Libya if the current phase, in which they are primarily focused on taking territory and dispatching of local enemies, comes to an end."
Europe's security services arrested 667 suspects for suspected Islamist militant activities in 2015, the report added.
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No. Not new. They are scare-mongering to justify their continued non-productive role.
The threat is real but a centralized organization 'assisting' local and regional forces is no more effective than efforts of 50 local police forces trying to address a spontaneous international menace.
Europol warned Friday that the Islamic State group could launch fresh attacks in Europe in the near future Obvious.
EU countries participating in the US-led coalition fighting the group in Syria and Iraq are most at risk. Even more so.
marginalized youths -- some of whom may have mental health problems or backgrounds in petty crime ... "We have to work in the community with faith leaders, with parents, with teachers to try and make sure that these young impressionable minds are not turned so easily,"
How do you turn a solitary charging boar?
With a .44 slug to the forehead.
[Daily Excelsior] The BSF tonight foiled an infiltration attempts by the forces of Evil in Dinda area of Bamiyal sector in Pathankot district along the International Border, bordering Lakhanpur area of Jammu and bumped off three infiltrators.
It was not immediately known as to how many forces of Evil tried to infiltrate from the border.
Official sources said the BSF jawans observed movement of forces of Evil in Dinda area at 10 pm tonight and challenged the infiltrators. In the ensuing gunbattle, three infiltrators were killed.
Gunbattle in the area was on when the reports last came in.
Bamiyal area falls on Jammu-Punjab border. Gurda-spur Zone of the BSF mans this border area. The murderous Moslems, who had attacked IAF airbase in Pathankot on January 2 this year had also infiltrated from Bamiyal.
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[Daily Excelsior] Protesters today clashed with security forces at several places across Kashmire where shutdown paralysed life and chairman of Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz delivered sermon at Jamia Masjid for the first time since July 8.
Authorities since morning deployed additional contingents of security forces in sensitive areas of Srinagar including in Old City. However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... there was no restriction on the movement of people. At some places, security forces erected concertina wires and mobile bunkers to prevent violence.
Additional coppers were deployed in Civil Line areas of Maisuma, Lal Chowk, Budshah Chowk and adjoining areas. The security forces had also erected barricades in these places. There was less flow of private and public transport in Civil Line areas while majority of shops, petrol pumps, commercial establishments and educational institutes were closed.
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, addressed a Friday gathering at Jamia Masjid for the first time since July 8. Mirwaiz along with supporters reached Jamia Masjid where he was given a warm welcome. After offering Friday prayers, Mirwaiz led a large rally from the Masjid and when the protest march reached Rajouri Kadal, police used force to disperse it.
This led to festivities as protesters pelted stones at police and they continued intermittently for several hours. In Maisuma here, JKLF chairman Yasin Malik ...chairman of one of the two factions of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front. JKLF is a Kashmiri nationalist organization founded in Birmingham, UK in 1977. Branches weren't actually established in Kashmir for another ten years. It has the usual demands for separation of J&K from secular India so it can become an independent Islamic rathole. It seems to have no interest in Pak Kashmir breaking away to join it. In 1994 Malik renounced violence after he was released from jail and from that point he and his organization pursued peaceful means to impose their will on the region... led a procession after Friday prayers but it was intercepted by police near Akhara building and was detained along with his supporters.
Police said post-Friday festivities also broke out at Reka Chowk in Batamaloo area here. "Stone-throwers were chased away by police and CRPF", Police said.
Police said festivities after Friday prayers broke out at Palhallan and Sopore. Protests also erupted at Tahab village of Pulwama against arrest of 20 youth.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Senate, the partisans of Honorius went for their knives and the partisans of Stilicho went for the doors... curfew remained in force at Dooru area of Anantnag district in South Kashmire after a Congress leader was killed in alleged encounter with police last evening.
Police while giving its version said today: "On 1.12.2016 at about 1720 hrs an accused person namely Sajad Malik alias Bita Malik decamped with an AK rifle along with one magazine from cop shoppe Dooru.
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[Daily Excelsior] Pak troops today violated the ceasefire by firing on forward posts along the LoC in Rajouri district, leaving a BSF jawan injured.
"At 10 AM, a BSF constable deployed at a forward location at LoC in Bhimber Gali sector of Rajouri district sustained an injury due to single round fire (sniper fire) from Pakistain Forward Defence location", sources said.
The injured BSF jawan has been identified as Kishen Halkar.
The condition of the jawan is stable.
The fresh ceasefire violation by Pak troops has taken place after a lull of over one week along the LoC.
Eleven persons including six Army personnel, four BSF jawans and a civilian porter working with Army were maimed in Pakistain shelling and firing in Nowshera, Manjakote, Balakote, Mendhar and Gurez sectors on November 23.
A total of 26 people, including 14 security personnel and 12 civilians, have been killed and more than 83 suffered injuries in Pak shelling and firing along IB and LoC in Jammu after surgical strikes.
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[Daily Excelsior] Police today informed the State High Court that 33 persons have been arrested for torching schools across Kashmir and dossiers for booking 14 of them under Public Safety Act (PSA) have been submitted to the District Magistrates for issuance of detention warrants.
The Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kashmir in his report informed the court that till date 33 accused have been arrested and are being dealt with sternly. “Out of 33 accused arrested in such cases, dossiers against 14 accursed persons have been submitted to concerned District Magistrates for issuance of detention warrants under PSA. 9 warrants have been received out of which 6 detention warrants have been executed till date”, report revealed.
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[Iran Press TV] Syrian army forces have retaken full control of a town near the capital Damascus after foreign-backed gunnies agreed to withdraw from the area and move to bad boy-held areas in the northwestern province of Idlib under a deal with the Damascus government.
The Russian military’s Center for Reconciliation in Syria announced in a statement on Friday that government troops recaptured Khan al-Shih, located about 25 kilometers southwest of Damascus, the previous day.
The statement added that 1,846 murderous Moslems and 1,164 of their relatives have already moved to Idlib, located roughly 300 kilometers (186 miles) north of Damascus, onboard buses provided by the government.
It noted another 100 gunnies and 300 members of their families will head towards Idlib within the next few days.
Khan al-Shih had been under the control of foreign-backed murderous Moslems since 2012.
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chairman of one of the two factions of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front. JKLF is a Kashmiri nationalist organization founded in Birmingham, UK in 1977. Branches weren't actually established in Kashmir for another ten years. It has the usual demands for separation of J&K from secular India so it can become an independent Islamic rathole. It seems to have no interest in Pak Kashmir breaking away to join it. In 1994 Malik renounced violence after he was released from jail and from that point he and his organization pursued peaceful means to impose their will on the region...
