[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A senior government official was killed in a coordinated attack by the Talibs in southeastern Ghazni province of Afghanistan.
The provincial police commandment in a statement confirmed that the district administrative governor of Khwaja Omar district Ali Shams Dost was killed in the attack last night.
The statement further added that the Talibs launched a coordinated attack on the district compound and security posts late on Wednesday night.
At least twenty seven Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Death Eaters were also killed during the festivities and Arclight airstrikes launched in response to the attack, the statement added.
In the meantime, the provincial police commandment said at least seven security personnel also bit the dust in the attack and at least nine others were maimed.
According to the police commandment of Ghazni, the district administrative compound of Khwaja Omar also sustained damages and was partially burnt during the attack.
The Taliban group claims that the fighters of the group have taken control of the district and have inflicted heavy casualties on government and security personnel.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... the provincial government commandment rejects the Taliban claims although conflicting reports exist regarding the fall of the district into the hands of Taliban.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan armed forces launched heavy Arclight airstrikes and ground operations to pound the Taliban ...Arabic for students... targets in response to a coordinated attack the group launched on Khwaja Omari district last night.
Provincial governor’s front man Mohammad Arif Noori said the air and ground offensive was launched earlier today in response to last night’s attack.
He said at least 38 Death Eaters were killed and more than 30 others were maimed after their positions came under heavy airstrikes as well as ground operations.
Noori further added that the members of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces have not suffered any casualty during the operation.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least four snuffies 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 were blown up by own explosives in eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... of Afghanistan.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East said the incident took place on Wednesday in the vicinity of Chapa Dara district.
The source further added that four ISIS snuffies were blown up in Wach Nawa area while they were planting an improvised bomb on a roadside.
According to the Silab Corps, at least two of the snuffies were killed and two others were maimed after they were blown up in a premature kaboom.
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[PRESSTV] At least two people have bit the dust in a Saudi air raid on western 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... targeting the set of a TV series for the al-Masirah channel that is run by 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 Arclight airstrike hit the Marawi'ah district in the Yemeni province of Hudaydah on Thursday during the filming of the TV series for the fasting month of Ramadan.
A Yemeni photographer said the victims were the series' set designer and finance director. Multiple military vehicles, including two tanks, were at the site of the attack, informed sources told AFP.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Alamo, Davy was counting their remaining cannon balls and not liking the results... a security source said Thursday's attack was one of a string of the Saudi strikes on Hudaydah.
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... and its allies launched the war in March 2015 in support of Yemen’s former Riyadh-friendly government and against the Houthis, who are currently running state affairs.
The military campaign has killed and injured over 600,000 civilians, according to the latest figures released by the Yemeni Ministry of Human Rights.
Several Western countries, the US and the UK in particular, are accused of being complicit in the aggression as they supply the Riyadh regime with advanced weapons and military equipment.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Houthi forces released several photos from their large-scale missile attack on the Saudi capital of Riyadh this week. They show the missiles'launch, but not any impact on their targets. Antimissile technology is expensive and not 100 percent effective, but I think it renders the Houthis' missiles nothing more than a tool for harassment. Even in pre-Patriot days, HE-payload short and intermediate range missiles weren't much more than that. Chem warfare (and bio warfare to a lesser extent) has been only minimally more effective -- terror weapons, rather than legitimate tactical or theater level weapons.
Houthi forces’ rocket battalion utilized Badr-1 and Burkan ballistic missiles to target the Saudi capital from their positions in northern Yemen.
Yesterday’s attack by the Houthi forces marked the third time this week that they have targeted a site inside Saudi Arabia.
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[Breitbart] A female Islamic Death Eater has been caught by police in possession of a USB key that contained the identities of 2,626 intelligence officials from La Belle France’s Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence (DCRI).
The woman, identified as Mina B., was already known to the country’s intelligence services and had been placed on the terror watch list known in La Belle France as the S-File, Le Point reports.
Mina B. was questioned by French authorities back in April of last year over her involvement with another radical Islamic Death Eater named Sana O. who she was said to have helped house and finance in 2016. Sana O. had attempted to travel to Syria and join radical Islamic Death Eater groups on two occasions before having his passport revoked.
Police recently opened a second investigation into Mina B. and found she had been in contact with several Islamic Lions of Islam in the area around Magnanville.
The USB stick contained a list of the identities of 2,626 intelligence officials and was dated from 2008. Initially, the file appeared to have been deleted but Sherlocks were able to recover much of the data.
The list contained the names, numbers, and assignments of every intelligence official in the Commission National Joint Administrative Committee (CAPN).
Mina B. is now under investigation in connection to the 2016 terror attack that saw French police officer Jean-Baptiste Salvaing and his wife stabbed to death by radical Islamic Death EaterLarossi Abballa though sources say the policeman’s name did not appear on the list. Mina B.’s lawyer has denied she had any contact with Abballa.
How Mina B. acquired the list is unknown, although Sherlocks say she was friends with the daughter of a policewoman and stayed at their home for a brief time, intelligence sources claim.
Radical Islamic sympathies within the French police are not unknown. Last year, Breitbart London reported that a man who was on the terror watch list managed to become a police officer despite being an S-File member.
In another case earlier this year, a policewoman who was said to show radical Islamic sympathies was nabbed Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! after she had stolen several firearms from a cop shoppe.
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Radical Islamic sympathies within the French police are not unknown. Last year, Breitbart London reported that a man who was on the terror watch list managed to become a police officer despite being an S-File member.
Not nearly as troubling as having one serve two terms as president.
Diyala (Iraqinews.com) ‐ Two 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) Death Eaters were killed and their cycle of violence was destroyed Wednesday in an ambush set by paramilitary troops in Diyala province, in eastern Iraq.
In a statement, a copy of which was obtained by Alghad Press, the 110th brigade of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) said its troops, alongside forces of the 23rd brigade, set an ambush in northeastern Diyala to target Islamic State Death Eaters planning to carry out terrorist attacks against civilians and security forces in the province."
"The troops managed to kill two IS Death Eaters and destroyed their motorbike during the operation," according to the statement.
On Tuesday, the security committee of Diyala provincial council warned against growing movements by Islamic State remnants in many uninhabited villages on the borders between Diyala and Salahuddin provinces.
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Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) The pro-government paramilitary troops have managed to save a family that Islamic State was going to murder, southwest of Kirkuk, the media service reported on Wednesday.
In a statement, Abu Ali al-Abadi, from the intelligence of the 11th brigade, was quoted saying that troops “were notified that Islamic State members were going to execute a whole family in al-Rashad region in Hawija town, southwest of Kirkuk.”
“The forces managed to save the family,” he added.
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Four Iraqi policemen were wounded on Thursday in an attack by Islamic State militants in Kirkuk province, according to a security source.
The source told Alsumaria News that a Federal Police patrol became under fire from Islamic State militants in Theybat, al-Rashad, southwest of Kirkuk, leading to the mild injury of four personnel.
Earlier on Thursday, security sources said Islamic State militants killed a man in front of his family, torched and blew up the homes of other civilians, accusing all of collaborating with security forces.
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Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) ‐ Iraqi security forces foiled on Wednesday a plot by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) turbans to detonate an ancient citadel in Tal Afar district in Nineveh, a security official was quoted as saying.
"A force from the Nineveh Operation Command found four barrels filled with the highly explosive C4 material, 10 boom belts and 100 mortar shells placed under Tal Afar Citadel in Nineveh," Yehia Rasool, a front man for the Security Media Center, told Alforat News.
"Three other explosive barrels, two rockets and 11 landmines were also found on site," Rasool said, adding that the explosives were planned to be used by IS turbans for detonating the ancient citadel.
Tal Afar Citadel is believed to be built by the Ottoman Empire, although it contains remains dating back to the Assyrian period.
Following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the citadel housed the mayoral, municipal and police headquarters of Tal Afar. It was used as a base by American forces in the Battle of Tal Afar in 2005.
After falling to the hard boy Islamic State group in June 2014, the citadel was used as a prison for women and girls who were to be forcibly married to ISIS members.
In December 2014, the IS group blew up the city’s northern and western walls, causing extensive damage. The turbans also excavated some of the ruins within the citadel, probably to look for antiquities which they could sell. UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova
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Anbar (Iraqinews.com) – Two civilians were injured Wednesday in a car bomb attack in Ramadi city as the country still suffers from almost daily bombings believed to be launched by the Islamic State group.
“An explosive charge fixed into a car went off near a branch of Rafidain Bank in Ramadi, leaving two civilians wounded,” a security source told Baghdad Today.
“Ambulances rushed to the blast site and carried the injured to a nearby hospital for treatment,” the source said, adding that security forces also opened a probe into the incident.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) A mass grave containing human remains of burnt bodies has been found, north of Ramadi, Anbar Operations Command announced on Thursday.
“Troops of the army’s tenth division, affiliated to Anbar Operations Command, ran into a mass grave containing remains of unidentified burnt bodies inside a house in al-Tarabisha region, north of Ramadi,” a senior source from the command told AlSumaria News.
“The bodies have not been recognized yet; whether they are civilians or members of the Islamic State militant group,” the source, who preferred anonymity, added.
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Mosul (IraqiNews.com) A mass grave with the remains of at least 60 Iraqi civilians was found in the former Islamic State bastion, Mosul, a police officer was quoted saying on Wednesday.
Cap. Amir Watheq, from Nineveh police force, told BasNews website that security forces found the grave at Hammam al-Alil in southern Mosul, adding that most of the remains belonged to women who attempted to flee the area during the military campaign to retake the region.
As Iraqi troops recaptured areas held by Islamic State militants since 2014, they have regularly run into mass graves of civilians and security agents executed by the militants for fleeing the group’s havens or collaborating with security forces.
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi police forces arrested six Islamic State militants in the group’s former bastion, Mosul, a police official was quoted saying on Thursday.
Spokesperson of the Interior Ministry, Saad Maan, said in a statement that the six were arrested in al-Wahda neighborhood in eastern Mosul after a raid of searches, adding that those arrested had arrest warrants issued for them based on the anti-terrorism law.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Two suicide bombers were killed as they were attempting to attack visitors of a Shiite shrine, north of Baghdad, a commander said on Wednesday.
“In light of accurate information from intelligence department, a checkpoint was set up in al-Khadra region in Tarmiyah district, north of Baghdad. The two attackers, wearing explosive belts, approached a house, where the ambush was there,” Brig. Gen. Jalil al-Rubei’y, head of the Baghdad Operations Command, told AlSumaria News.
“The intelligence department opened fire against the bombers and killed them,” Rubei’y said adding that “hey were going to target visitors of Imam Musa al-Kadhim’s shrine.
Millions of Shiite visitors from other provinces across Iraq as well as neighboring countries flock to Kadhimiya neighborhood every year to commemorate death of the seventh imam revered in Shia Islam, amid high security measures.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) An Iraqi soldier was wounded on Thursday when an explosive device went off in northern Baghdad, a security source was quoted saying.
Baghdad Today quoted the source saying that the bomb was placed on the side of a road in Khan, Tarimiya, north of the Iraqi capital. It exploded when a Iraqi army patrol was passing by, causing injuries to one soldier.
Baghdad has witnessed almost daily bombings and armed attacks targeting civilians and security personnel since Islamic State militants took over a third of Iraqi territories in 2014 and even after the declaration of their defeat at the end of 2017. The group claimed responsibility for some of the bloodiest attacks in the Iraqi capital.
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Anbar (IraqiNews.com) The U.S.-led Coalition has been heavily hovering over the border region between Iraq and Syria, a security source from the mobilization forces in Anbar province said on Wednesday.
“The coalition jets have been heavily hovering over the al-Tanf region on borders between Iraq and Syria, without clarifying reasons for that,” the source told Almaalomah website.
“Security leaders deployed in the western side of the province have no information about the operations made by the Coalition jets,” he added. “Security forces are getting ready for an operation that targets the dormant cells of Islamic State in the western desert of Anbar reaching to the Iraqi-Syrian borders.”
Earlier today, U.S. President Donald Trump warned Russia of imminent military action in Syria, lambasting Russia for supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
During a speech on Tuesday, Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi stressed that measures have been taken to protect borders with Syria, saying that Islamic State will not be able to penetrate into Iraq once again.
The Iraqi-Syrian borders are under the control of joint troops of military and border guards.
Islamic State continues to launch sporadic attacks across Iraq against troops. Security reports indicate that the militant group still poses threat against stability in the country.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) The Iraqi government has stressed that all security measures are taken to face dangers that could result from the crises in Syria.
Speaking to Baghdad Today website on Thursday, Mohamed al-Bayati, head of the security committee of Nineveh provincial council, said, “Factions of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces), Iraqi army and the border troops are deployed in the regions in the province that stretch along borders with Syria. Dormant cells of Islamic State are followed on a daily basis in the desert regions.”
Bayati indicated that border areas are highly secured, saying that plans are drawn to secure al-Jazirah region, which link between three provinces. “Thus it needs more deployment, fearing what could result from the U.S. threats or Islamic State members who could sneak into Iraq.”
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Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) Four paramilitary personnel were wounded in an attack by Islamic State members against a training facility, south of Tikrit, a security source from Salahuddin province was quoted saying.
Speaking to AlSumaria News, the source said on Wednesday, “Islamic State members attacked, in the evening, a training facility of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces), located in Balad town, south of Tikrit, leaving four personnel wounded.”
“The attack was launched from the western al-Hudeira region, located behind the facility, which is a liberated area,” the source, who asked to remain anonymous, added. “Military deployments arrived in the wake of the attack.”
Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) Eight people were killed and injured as Islamic State militants attacked a village, northeast of Salahuddin, a security source said on Thursday.
“Islamic State members attacked Asdeira village, leaving four people killed and four others wounded,” the source told Baghdad Today website.
[PRESSTV] At least 16 people have bit the dust in a kaboom during a funeral procession for Iraqi fighters, who were killed by the ISISTakfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist group, in the north-central province of Salahuddin.
Salaheddin Shaalan, mayor of Asdira village near the Iraqi town of Shirqat, told AFP that the bombing took place in the village on Thursday.
He noted that most of the 14 people maimed in the attack were in "critical condition."
Shirqat's leader Ali Dowdah said the funeral was held for three Iraqi fighters who had been killed on Wednesday.
Thursday's casualties, he said, came after bombs, which had been planted at the grave site by Takfiri holy warriors, went off.
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Gaza health ministry says 30 Palestinians injured, one critically
The Gazan health ministry says that 30 Palestinians have been injured during clashes with the IDF along the border with Israel.
One of the Palestinians was critically wounded, according to the ministry.
Palestinian protesters in Gaza hurled explosives and firebombs at Israeli troops manning the border, during what the Israel Defense Forces described as “several attempts” to damage the fence between Israel and the Gaza Strip and cross over into Israeli territory.
Thousands of Palestinians are taking part in violent riots in five locations along the length of the border, the army says. In addition to trying to cross the barrier, a number of attacks were carried out, with demonstrators throwing Molotov cocktails and explosives at Israeli soldiers.
The Israelis are out there with snipers, tanks, drones, and the usual riot control methods, against which the Gazans have piles of burning tires for a smoke screen, slingshots, molotov cocktails, more burning tires to send rolling against the fence, and the latest innovation: burning kites intended to set green Israeli fields aflame behind the soldiers. Given the usual Gazan ability with flying things, the odds are about half the kites will land on brown fields and trash heaps in Gaza, making the Strip even more uncomfortable than it was as of yesterday... for which Israel will of course be blamed.
Update at 9:45 a.m. EDT: The Jerusalem Post is liveblogging Gaza, too. Their latest posts:
16:36 363 wounded according to Gaza Health Ministry
363 individuals have thus far been wounded during Friday's protests on the Gaza border, the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza stated. This includes injuries sustained from both live fire and tear gas.
16:31 Protesters set off explosive, try to fly kite bomb over border
The IDF spokesperson stated that the violence on the border has continued throughout the past hour. An explosive device was placed and detonated near the Karni crossing, and may have caused Palestinian casualties. A kite bomb with a Molotov cocktail attached was attempted to be sent into Israeli territory, but ended up landing within Gaza.
This is in addition to several attempts by the over 10,000 protesters throughout the last hour to breach the border between Israel and Gaza and sabotage security infrastructure.
Aaaand we have a number.
The IDF continues to use riot dispersal methods as means to control the uprisings.
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Cute how the newsies report "wounded" as, I suspect, anyone who got a whiff of tear gas. It would be interesting if Napoleon could introduce them to grapeshot.
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinians say Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbung millipede, man killed in strike; Israel earlier targeted a Hamas facility after Paleostinians detonated bomb near military bulldozer
Israeli Air Force aircraft bombed a team of Paleostinian button men early Thursday, after they directed machine gun fire at an IAF aircraft. The gunfire missed the plane, but set off rocket sirens in Israeli communities near Gazoo, the army said.
One of the Hamas operatives was killed in the strike, and another was seriously maimed, according to the Hamas-run health ministry in the enclave. The terrorist group said the dead man was one of its fighters manning an observation point east of Gazoo City, in the north of the Strip.
The Hamas button men’s attack on the aircraft came shortly after IAF fighter jets conducted an Arclight airstrike against one of the terrorist group’s positions in northern Gazoo late Wednesday night, in retaliation for a bomb detonated by Paleostinians against an Israeli bulldozer in the northern Gazoo Strip earlier in the day, which had caused neither injury nor damage, the army said.
The Israeli aircraft was not hit by the gunfire and sustained no damage.
Some of the bullets fired by the Hamas button men at the plane struck a house in the Sha’ar Hanegev region when they fell back to earth, causing light damage but no injury.
The false rocket sirens that were set off by the gunfire in the Sha’ar Hanegev and Sdot Negev regional councils bordering the Gazoo Strip sent thousands of Israelis scrambling to bomb shelters in the middle of the night.
A similar false alarm occurred last month, with machine gun fire from Gazoo triggering not only sirens, but also the anti-rocket Iron Dome missile defense battery due to the system’s "oversensitivity," the army said at the time.
The target of Wednesday’s initial airstrike was a military site belonging to Hamas in the northern Gazoo Strip. Paleostinian media later identified it as the "Abu Jarad" base south of Gazoo City.
"The IDF views the Hamas terrorist organization as responsible for all incidents that take place in the Strip or coming from it and will not allow a terrorist group to turn the border area to into a combat zone," the army said in a statement.
[PRESSTV] Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, says the interception of the Israeli jets during the latest bombardment of its positions in the besieged Gazoo Strip is a convincing proof that fighters from the Paleostinian resistance movement are on full alert to fight off any act of aggression by the Tel Aviv regime.
Hamas Spokesman Fawzi Barhoum, in a statement released on Thursday, hailed the efforts made by Mohammed Hajeila, the slain member of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades -- the military wing of Hamas -- and his comrades to intercept Israeli military aircraft striking the Gazoo Strip, stressing that his movement stood with any anti-Israel faction, and would use its munitions at the proper time to target the right place.
He noted that Israeli aerial assaults would only increase the resilience and determination of the Paleostinian nation, and spark more anti-Israel protests.
Earlier on Thursday, the Qassam Brigades stated that 31-year-old Hajeila had lost his life overnight after an Israeli fighter jet struck an observation site belonging to the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades in the eastern Shuja'iyyah neighborhood of the Gazoo City.
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[IsraelTimes] Witnesses say Abdullah al-Shehri was throwing stones at soldiers; IDF insists it is unaware of the incident
Need one actually say, “Don’t bring stones to a gunfight”?
A 28-year-old Paleostinian man was shot and killed by Israeli fire at a Gazoo border protest campsite Thursday, the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-run Paleostinian health ministry said. Witnesses told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named that Abdullah al-Shehri, 28, was throwing stones at soldiers stationed behind the fence with Israel.
However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... the IDF insisted that it was unaware of any such incident.
Shehri would be the 34th Paleostinians killed by Israeli fire over the past two weeks, according to Paleostinian tallies. At least 26 were killed during protests.
The Hamas terror group, which rules Gazoo, has called for a mass rally Friday at the border as part of a weeks-long campaign of protests against a decade-old blockade of the territory.
If trends continue, a mere 5,000 will gather at key points along the border. Some will jump up and down while screaming mustache curses, others will sling rocks at the Israelis, still others will set piles of tires on fire or roll them against the fence, all to camouflage a few members of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighting wings who will try to cut through the fence for the mass breakout... or at least to set up bombs intended to blow up Israelis later. How many will discover to their sorrow that they had a date with an Israeli sniper’s bullet remains to be seen.
[IsraelTimes] Israel says the men were denied permission to transfer to Ramallah hospital because their injuries resulted from participation in violent demonstrations.
Leftwing NGOs Adalah and Al Mezan said Yusef Karnaz, 20, and Mohammad al-Ajouri, 17, were both shot and maimed when tens of thousands of Gazooks converged near the border with Israel on March 30 for the first in a series of planned protests that led to bloody confrontations.
My apologies — I misremembered the progression. It was not 20,000 the first Friday followed by 10,000 last Friday. The actual numbers were 30,000 the first Friday and 20,000 last Friday, so somewhere between 10,000 (down by 10,000) and 13,300 (down by a third) today... or not.
[Bangkok Post] A top Runda Kumpulan Kecil (RKK) insurgent was gunned down during a standoff with Thai security forces in Pattani province. The death of Sobueri Jehe was confirmed Wednesday by military spokesman Thanavee Suvannarat.
Thanavee said eight police officers were on patrol in two trucks in Yarang district when three men having a conversation on the side of the road raised their suspicion on Tuesday. He said one policeman approached the men and asked to check their identities. Two of them opened fire and ran off into a rubber plantation while the other fled on a motorbike. The patrol pursued the two who opened fire that led to a firefight which ended with three policemen wounded and both suspects dead.
Thanavee said one of the dead men was later identified as Sobueri, a leading figure in the RKK. The other dead suspect, Yusoh Jehlong, had three arrest warrants out against him.
According to Thanavee, the provincial court had approved 18 separate arrests warrants for Sobueri, who had been detained four times previously for violence in the province. He did not say why Sobueri had been freed each time.
Footage from CCTV cameras had earlier proved that Sobueri was behind the gruesome murder of Sunisa Boonyen, a teacher who was gunned down in her car on Oct 28, 2016. The attack also wounded her friend.
[FoxNews] President Trump on Friday announced that he has approved military strikes in Syria against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The announcement follows a suspected chemical gas attack from the Assad regime on a rebel-held town near the Syrian capital last weekend.
Trump's announcement immediately preceded reports of loud explosions lighting up the sky in Damascus.
Assad's actions, Trump said, "are not the actions of a man," but "are the crimes of a monster instead."
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Britain and France participating from Cyprus and Jordan(?)
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We knew when we hired Donald Trump that we were in for interesting times. I’m praying hard that he called this one correctly. I assume this is aimed at much at Iran and North Korea —see what we do when you make The Donald angry? Please stop making him angry! — as it is at President Assad.
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I wonder what brought the French onboard? If it were just Trump I'd wonder if this were just policy momentum, but the French have their own interests.
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Macron claimed to have proof that Assad dunnit, james.
France has been attacked by Islamic radicals far too many times. Turkey, a facilitator of Islamic radicals, is a friend of Russia, who is a friend of Pencil Neck, all who have no problem with chemical weapons being used against innocent civilians.
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I hope we're blasting the shit out of some Iranians. Those mofos have had a black eye coming since 1979. The Russians I'd prefer we give a wide berth...
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Various sites noted Douma is newly liberated from ISIS, leaving behind many widows, spawn, and traumatized hostages. France and the UK don't want their insurgents' dependents returning to Europe. Staging a chemical attack to take care of social problems + draw Trump into conflict with Russia, and nixing any peace progress with Assad. Removing Assad in another regime change destabilizes the region. Testing positive for chemicals doesn't prove who delivered them. Further comments said gas canisters marked nitrous oxide for NGO 'Operation Smile' were delivered to the White Helmets, with same caught staging and filming with corpses....Smile is Nordic Ice Princess Cindy McCain's pet project, and her hubby is pictured smiling with all the key jihadists. A Deep State conspiracy makes more sense to me than trusting Brit intel right now.
[AlAhram] Syria's army has evacuated key defence buildings in Damascus following intelligence they might be targeted in a Western strike in response to an alleged chemical attack, a monitor said Wednesday.
The United States and La Belle France have warned of a strong response after an alleged deadly chemical attack by the regime on the rebel-held town of Douma on Saturday.
"The buildings of the ministry of defence and the army headquarters have been empty for two days," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.
Regime forces have also evacuated military airports as well as the bases of the elite Fourth Division and Elite Republican Guard outside the capital, the Observatory said.
"The Russians told the Syrian army's leadership they had intelligence on possible US and French targets in Syria," Observatory head Abdel Rahman said.
According to the Russian intelligence, the United States is pushing for possible strikes to target the ministry of defence and army headquarters in Damascus, he said.
The intelligence indicated they were also aiming to strike military airports and bases, the Observatory said.
According to the same Russian intelligence, La Belle France would like targets to include Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... 's suspected chemical facilities.
These would be the Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Center in Jamaraya, just north of the capital, and the suspected chemical warfare headquarters in Damascus.
Gay Paree would be pushing for a strike on the Dumair military airport, which is suspected of having been the launchpad for Saturday's alleged chemical attack.
There was no immediate confirmation from the Damascus regime.
Rescuers say more than 40 people were killed in Saturday's alleged toxic gas attack.
Last year, Trump launched a cruise missile strike against a Syrian air base in retaliation for a sarin attack the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... later pinned on Assad.
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Keep doing headfakes and they'll tire of camping out
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[AlAhram] Russia's armed forces said Wednesday they would send military police into the Syrian town of Douma from Thursday to keep the peace.
"From tomorrow, for security and to ensure law and order as well as to organise help for the local population, units of Russian military police are being brought into Douma," senior Russian officer Viktor Poznikhir said at a briefing in Moscow.
[IsraelTimes] Images claim to show destroyed hangars and equipment at T-4 site near Palmyra
Iranian media on Wednesday published photos purporting to show damage at an airbase in Syria that was allegedly bombed by Israel earlier this week.
The images showed what appeared to be destroyed equipment inside a bomb-shattered hangar where at least 14 people, including seven Iranian military personnel, were killed.
Russia, Syria, Iran and the United States have all said Israel carried out the predawn Monday missile barrage on the T-4 Air Base near Palmyra in central Syria. Israeli officials refused to comment on the strike.
Israel is believed to have carried out numerous raids inside Syria since 2013, targeting the regime and the Leb-based terror group Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran.
Israel has vowed to prevent Hezbollah from obtaining advanced weapons and missiles, fearing they would be used against the Jewish state.
A Tuesday report from Israel’s Hadashot TV news, quoting what it said were numerous foreign reports, stressed that the target of the attack was not a missile shipment but, rather, some type of "advanced system" that could have complicated or undermined Israeli air superiority in the skies of Leb and Syria.
Channel 10 television reported that the Iranian corpse count of seven may not be final.
It said Iran had lost "a significant asset" and perhaps "even an entire system" in the strike.
In a highly unusual move, Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency has acknowledged that "Iranian military advisers" were killed in Monday’s attack on the military airfield.
The Tasnim media outlet, which has been affiliated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, specified that seven IRGC members were killed in the strike, including one high-ranking officer, Col. Mehdi Dehghan, who reportedly served in one of the group’s drone units.
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[Al Jazeera] Syrian government forces have retaken the town of Douma, thus gaining full control of the former rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta, according to a Russian military official.
Syrian troops pushed the last rebel fighters out of Douma on Thursday, Major-General Yury Yevtushenko, head of Russia's Centre for Syrian Reconciliation, told local news media.
"Today, a landmark event in the history of the Syrian Arab Republic took place," he was quoted as saying by the Russian agency Sputnik.
"The state flag flown over a building ... in the city of Douma marked the regained control over this settlement, and consequently over entire Eastern Ghouta."
There has been no official statement from the Syrian government so far.
Russian military police have been deployed on the ground to take over Douma's security, Russian news agency RIA reported.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army’s elite Tiger Forces have received orders to redeploy from the East Ghouta region to southern Damascus, a military source told al-Masdar News this afternoon.
Following their victory in the East Ghouta, the Syrian Arab Army’s High Command made the decision to send the Tiger Forces to the Yarmouk Camp and al-Qadam districts in order to halt 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.... ’s (ISIS) advance in the area.
ISIS was recently able to seize more than 90 percent of the al-Qadam District after a swift offensive against the Syrian Arab Army late last month.
The Tiger Forces will be leading this offensive alongside their allies from the Elite Republican Guard and several Paleostinian paramilitary groups.
Among the Paleostinian paramilitary groups participating in this offensive will be the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine-General Command (PFLP-GC), Liwaa al-Quds ...the Jerusalem Brigade is a Paleostinian-Syrian pro-Government group that operates in Aleppo, formed in 2013. The group is composed of predominately Sunni Paleostinians from the al-Nayrab district as well as the former refugee camp Handarat. It is believed to be the largest Assadist auxilliary force operating in storied Aleppo... , Qawat al-Jaleel, and Fatah al-Intifada.
The Syrian Army and their Paleostinian allies have finished their preparations and should be launching this offensive in the coming hours.
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