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Afghanistan
Twitter suspends Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid’s account
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The twitter account of the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
group front man Zabiullah has been suspended as the group widely used the online news and social networking service to spread its propaganda.

Mujahid’s account was apparently closed earlier today and days after the group launched a coordinated attack on the 209th Shaheen Corps in northern Afghanistan.

The Afghan government declared a national day of mourning to pay tribute to dozens of Afghan soldiers killed in a deadly attack on the main army base.

The national flag will be at half mast across the country and in the diplomatic missions of Afghanistan outside the country as President Ghani issued a decree to organize special prayers in the presidential palace and other mosques across the country for the deaders of the attack for one day.

Posted by: Fred || 04/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336078 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Because he keeps posting nudies?
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/24/2017 9:47 Comments || Top||

#2  The Muslim killer from Cleveland ruined it for the rest.
Posted by: Pappy || 04/24/2017 11:32 Comments || Top||

#3  He probably wasn't respecting the preferred gender pronouns for other Twitter account holders.
Posted by: Crusader || 04/24/2017 12:22 Comments || Top||


Karzai says can no longer call Taliban brothers after army base attack
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The former Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
...One of the more egregious mistakes of the post 9-11 era...
said he can no longer call the Talibs as brothers after the barbaric attack on the Shaheen army corps in Balkh province.

Speaking during a presser in Kabul
...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either....
, Karzai called on Taliban
...the Pashtun equiovalent of men...
to stop committing atrocities against the Afghan nation.

He said each move and each bullet fired by the Taliban Death Eaters serve the interests of the outsiders who are pursuing their specific goals and interests in the instability of the country.

The former President also warned that the specific circles are working in the country to spark ethnic tensions among the Afghan people as he insisted that the Afghan people should get closer than any other time to maintain unity.

Karzai once again raised his voice against the use of the Mother of All Bombs in Achin district of 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 said he has taken his votes back which he had casted for the government of national unity, protesting against the government for allowing the use of the massive bomb.

However,
some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them...
Karzai said he attended the funeral ceremony in ARG Palace to show solidarity with the Afghan nation and pay respect to the victims of the base attack in Balkh.

Posted by: Fred || 04/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336081 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  "but still comrades"
Posted by: Frank G || 04/24/2017 7:31 Comments || Top||

#2  He calls them his Daddy.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/24/2017 7:33 Comments || Top||

#3  I wonder what they call him?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/24/2017 10:00 Comments || Top||

#4  So he can't work with us because of mommy, but he can't work with the taliwackers because they do what they do.

Seems to me he is a man that goes with the prevailing wind to me.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/24/2017 10:13 Comments || Top||

#5  I wonder what they call him?

What's Pashto for 'idiot'?
Posted by: Pappy || 04/24/2017 11:35 Comments || Top||

#6  Man in Black: Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.
Vizzini
Karzai: Wait til I get going! Now, where was I?
Man in Black: Australia
Afghanistan.
Posted by: magpie || 04/24/2017 14:15 Comments || Top||

#7  Seems to me he is a man that goes with the prevailing wind to me. And the prevailing boodle as well.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/24/2017 17:27 Comments || Top||

#8  He has a habit to support.
Posted by: gorb || 04/24/2017 23:54 Comments || Top||


Afghan forces to take revenge of the attack on Shaheen Corps: Atmar
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The National Security Adviser Mohammad Hanif Atmar has said the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) personnel are committed to take Dire Revenge of the deadly attack on 209th Shaheen Corps base in Balkh province.

Atmar made the remarks during a telephone conversation with the secretary of the National Security Council of Iran Ali Shamkhani.

According to a statement by the Office of the National Security Adviser (NSA), the Iranian National Security Council secretary made a telephone call to Mr. Atmar following the deadly attack on army base in northern Balkh province.

The statement further added that Mr. Shakhani strongly condemned the attack on the 209th Shaheen Corps base that led to the martyrdom of scores of soldiers during the Friday prayers.

He also conveyed the condolences of the Iranian government and nation regarding the incident to the Afghan government leadership and the Afghan nation.

In his turn, Mr. Atmar thanked the Iranian government for the message of condolences and emphasized on the need to joint regional efforts to root out terrorism.

Regarding the attack on Shaheen Corps base, Atmar said the Afghan forces will take Dire Revenge from the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
for the barbaric attack.

Posted by: Fred || 04/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336074 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Bangladesh
Islami Andolon demands removal of SC ‘idol’ before Eid
[Dhaka Tribune] Members of Islami Andolon gathered at Baitul Mukarram Mosque following the Jumma prayers Friday, renewing demands for removal of the Lady Justice ’idol’ from the Supreme Court premises.

On April 20, the Islami Andolon had given an ultimatum to the Supreme Court regarding removal of the statue, saying that half measures were not enough.

Thousands joined the protest, causing traffic in the Paltan area to be stopped. The party’s Publicity Secretary Ahmad Abdul Qayyum said that activists had come to Dhaka from across the country to join the rally.

Representatives of the party demanded that the Themis sculpture be removed before the end of the month of Ramadan, threatening to blockade the Supreme Court premises after Eid if the demand was not met.

Islami Andolon Bangladesh’s Ameer and Charmonai Pir Mufti Syed Muhammad Rezaul Karim was present at the rally, among others.
Posted by: Fred || 04/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336072 views] Top|| File under: Salafists


Europe
Terror charges filed against suspects in French election plot
[IsraelTimes] Police seized weapons and explosives in arrest of two men charged with planning an attack ahead of Sunday’s presidential vote.

The two men suspected of plotting an "imminent" attack ahead of La Belle France’s presidential election were charged Sunday with terror offenses, prosecutors said.

The foiled plot in Marseille sparked fears that the closing days of the campaign could be a target for bully boyz ahead of Sunday’s first round of voting in the country’s most unpredictable election in decades.

Elite police and intelligence agents locked away
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
the two Frenchies -- 23-year-old Clement Baur and Mahiedine Merabet, 29 -- on Tuesday in the Mediterranean port city.

Gay Paree prosecutors said the men are accused of participating in a terrorist conspiracy as well as weapons charges.

After searching the suspects’ shared Marseille apartment, authorities said they uncovered an Uzi sub-machine gun, pistols, seven pounds of TATP explosives and a homemade grenade as well as an 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 flag.

Police had been searching for them since April 12, following the interception of a video in which they pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.
They found them pretty quickly -- tres bien, guys.
The men had used a number of aliases, switched mobile phones frequently, and used pre-paid bank cards to evade police.

Two days after the arrests, 39-year-old Karim Cheurfi rubbed out a policeman on Gay Paree’s Champs Elysees avenue before being killed by police gunfire.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336079 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Suspected Stockholm truck attacker involved in 'extensive IDs trade' in Sweden
[RT] An Uzbek citizen who is the suspect in the recent Stockholm terrorist attack has allegedly come to Sweden with a purchased visa, local media reports, adding that "an extensive trade" of documents is happening in the country.
That would be Rakhmat Akilov, the failed asylum seeker who stole a 30 ton delivery truck and drove it through a crowded pedestrian zone in downtown Stockholm on April 7th, killing four and injuring 15. This was considerably fewer than he'd planned, but his bomb didn't explode, demonstrating that Allah did not approve.
Fake ID cards, employment papers, marriage certificates and driving licenses can be bought in Sweden "right in the open," according to a report by radio broadcaster Sveriges Radio.

The Ekot show conducted their journalistic investigation in the wake of the truck attack in Stockholm, the alleged perpetrator in which has been identified by the Swedish police as a rejected asylum seeker and 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....
(IS, formerly ISIS/ISIS) sympathizer.

According to the report, citing its sources, the suspected attacker "came to Sweden with a purchased Polish visa and offered others to buy fake documents." The man also allegedly used a fake address in the country.

Claiming that the use of such fake documents is "extremely widespread" in Sweden, the report on the radio, which has been shared by numerous local media, suggested that offers selling such illegal papers can be easily found online, including on "forums for Russian speakers."
Posted by: Fred || 04/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336070 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


India-Pakistan
Another video appears as Mashal murder suspect confesses to his role in lynching
[DAWN] As a new video footage showing a mob vowing to trace Abdul Wali Khan University student Mashal Khan and kill him surfaced on Saturday, another suspect confessed to his involvement in the lynching of Mr Khan over blasphemy charges.

The two-minute video shared on social media and WhatsApp groups shows the mob of angry youths pledging to search everywhere to find Mashal Khan.

The mobsters are also heard shouting "Allah-o-Akbar".

A youth says that a teacher has helped Mashal Khan to hide. Another youth with long hair, who has blood stains on his clothes and a piece of rope in his hands, asks the mob to kill the student even if they find him in a mosque.

Another one among the mob says that Mashal Khan is an apostate and has committed blasphemy.

In the cacophony of voices, one of the mobsters declares that they will even go to jail to hunt the student.

The long-haired boy uses strong language for Mashal Khan saying that they would not care about him since he has disgraced Islam. Another youth adds, "God, we are ready and present".

The mob also discusses blocking roads.

At the end of the video, one of the mobsters tells some others to stop filming the scene.

Meanwhile,
...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone......
a suspect confessed to his involvement in lynching Mashal Khan before first class judicial magistrate Muhib-ur-Rehman.

Police officials told news hounds that they presented four suspects in the court of the judicial magistrate -- two employees and as many students of the university.

They claimed that one of the suspects, Ashraf Ali, recorded his confessional statement before the judge. He told the court that he was involved in torturing Mashal Khan.

With his confession, the number of the suspects who have confessed to their involvement in the shocking incident has reached three.

The court remanded the three other accused in four-day police custody.

The officials said that the number of suspects tossed in the calaboose
I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece!
in the lynching case had reached 34.

Posted by: Fred || 04/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336074 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Iraq
In East Mosul Iraqis experience the joys of freedom from ISIS
Posted by: Frozen Al || 04/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336074 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Heinrich Himmler Nov 2, 1943 message to al Husseini is discovered
[JCPA.org] On March 29, 2017, the blog of the National Library of Israel announced the discovery of SS Commander Heinrich Himmler's telegram to Amin al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem.1 Although the telegram was not dated, there is conclusive evidence that it was sent on November 2, 1943, the twenty-sixth anniversary of the Balfour Declaration...

Himmler's telegram may be appreciated on several levels: 1) as a primary source which represents a statement of Nazi-German policy; 2) as an important part of the context of a major political rally against the Balfour Declaration at which an alliance with the Arab cause, and particularly with the Palestinian Arabs, was ceremoniously celebrated; and, 3) as an address by Amin al-Husseini, an unconditional Nazi-collaborator who pledged the support of the Palestinian Arabs and the Muslim world for Nazi cause.
Posted by: lord garth || 04/24/2017 07:56 || Comments || Link || [336080 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Let me guess: delivered via US Postal Service, and just arrived. Postage due.
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/24/2017 10:29 Comments || Top||

#2  People always scoff when I point out the Arab ideology is an offspring of Nazism. Then they see the evidence. Most are horrified, a few blame it as Jewish propaganda.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/24/2017 10:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Recommend people go read the telegraph, it is interesting. It is in the article.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 04/24/2017 11:03 Comments || Top||

#4  NATIONAL SOCIALIST MOVEMENT OF GREATER GERMANY

How many of our academic progs and democrats would even acknowledge the 2nd word? (emph added)


The Nazis told it as they meant it, just as the Monslems do today. The arrogant western libs just keep whistling past the grave yard or are too afraid to admit that they're on board with it.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/24/2017 12:24 Comments || Top||

#5  It Has Been Wrote Down

The Heinrich Maneuver came
Mooselimbs shrieked in orcasm
Toodleloo you Joo
Posted by: JHH || 04/24/2017 15:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Palestinian Arabs? In 1942? What happened to the idea that Arafat coined that himself in the 60s to lend legitimacy to his bowel movement?
Posted by: gorb || 04/24/2017 16:33 Comments || Top||

#7  In 1942 it was the Jews who were called Palestinians. The local and migrant Arabs, the latter come for the jobs the Jews provided, were simply called Arabs, a point they insisted on until the mid-1960s.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/24/2017 16:55 Comments || Top||

#8  It is strange how the Left, the fascists and the Arabs have a mutual attraction for each other. Jerusalem Post article on The Grand Mufti's Nazi Connection.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/24/2017 17:18 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
IRGC Navy Gets New Cruise Missiles
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy on Saturday took delivery of a large cargo of Nasir, a cruise missile developed by local experts for naval battles.

The IRGC Navy was officially equipped with the new homegrown missile in large quantities in a ceremony attended by Defense Minister Brigadier General Hussein Dehqan and IRGC Navy Commander Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi.

Speaking to news hounds, Dehqan said Nasir can be fired as a coast-to-sea or sea-to-sea cruise missile, and can hit various naval targets, including military vessels or piers.

The cruise missile can be rapidly prepared for launch, enjoys high navigation precision, has great destructive power, can be fired from speedboats, and has anti-jamming features due to an advanced radar system, the minister added.

The homegrown cruise missile was unveiled by President Hassan Rouhani on April 15.

Iranian military experts and technicians have in recent years made great headways in manufacturing a broad range of indigenous equipment, making the armed forces self-sufficient in the defense sphere.

Posted by: Fred || 04/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336077 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Can they make indigenous F-14 spare parts yet?
Posted by: Bobby || 04/24/2017 8:01 Comments || Top||

#2  can be fired from speedboats

That's an interesting development.

Nasir
"The Nasir missile was first test fired during the “Valayat 95” Iranian military drills in the Persian Gulf in February 2017."
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/24/2017 9:40 Comments || Top||

#3  From the same article, the Heidar .50 sniper rifle; 35 lbs, 3000 meters.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/24/2017 9:46 Comments || Top||


ISIS ‘essentially moved’ its Syria HQ from Raqqa to Deir ez-Zor province
[RT] In a move that may affect the protracted Raqqa offensive, 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....
(IS, formerly ISIS/ISIS) forces of Evil have "essentially moved" their so-called capital in Syria to the eastern province of Deir ez-Zor, Fox News reported, citing unnamed US defense officials.

The jihadists and their military command are now centered some 140 kilometers southeast of the city of Raqqa, the US media report claimed.

Saying that the move came in the wake of increased pressure from the US-backed Syrian fighters, the report claimed that the IS "government" is no longer in Raqqa.

In late March, the US coalition told media outlet Newsweek that up to 3,500 IS fighters were estimated to have been present in Raqqa, long described as the terrorist group’s "capital" or stronghold in Syria. The city with the population of some 300,000 people was captured by the forces of Evil in 2013.

But hundreds of IS "babus bureaucrats" left the terrorist stronghold in the past two months for the IS-held city of Mayadin, officials told Fox News, adding that the move has been watched by US military drones. Mayadin is located some 40 kilometers from the surrounded city of Deir ez-Zor, which has been the sole government-controlled area of the province resisting repeated IS offensives.

In mid-April, following a US missile strike at the Syrian Army airbase of Shayrat, the coalition reportedly scaled down their operation in the region, having carried out some 120 Arclight airstrikes around Raqqa. More than 7,800 strikes were conducted in March, according to the Pentagon.

Posted by: Fred || 04/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336072 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State



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  Drone strike kills 5 Qaeda suspects in Yemen
Sun 2017-04-23
  5 terrorist suspects arrested in Brussels after arms, ammo & drugs seized in police raids
Sat 2017-04-22
  Dozens of About 140 Afghan troops dead in Taliban base attack
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  ISIS Media Chief dies in airstrike
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  US: Man screams 'Allahu akbar!' and kills three civilians
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  Pakistani Taliban leader Ehsanullah Ehsan 'surrenders'
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  At least 43 killed as car bomb hits Syria evacuees
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  Iraqi command says controls 60% of western Mosul
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