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Afghanistan
Special Forces video shows Taliban militants blown into pieces in an airstrike
Video can be seen at the link.
[KhaamaPress] The Special Forces have released a video which purportedly shows an Arclight airstrike on a Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
gathering in Afghanistan.

It is yet not clear if the airstrike has been carried out by the Afghan Air Force or the coalition forces based in Afghanistan as both the Afghan and coalition forces conduct regular airstrikes against the high profile targets of anti-government armed elements.

The Special Operations Corps of the Afghan Military in a statement has said that the Talibs and their leaders will no more remain hidden from the sight of the National Defense and Security Forces.

In the meantime, the Afghan Military in the North has said leader of a terrorist group Abu Talha has been killed with his six fighters during an operation of the Afghan Special Forces in northern Faryab province of Afghanistan.

The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North in a statement said the Afghan Special Forces conducted operations with the help of close air support in Garziwan district on Tuesday.

The statement further added that the operations were conducted in Adam Qala area of the district leaving terrorist leader Abul Talha dead with his six fighters.

According to 209th Shaheen Corps, at least five snuffies were also maimed and five weapons were destroyed during the operations.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Pink Gray mist and hilarity ensues
Posted by: Frank G || 01/17/2019 7:04 Comments || Top||

#2  It is yet not clear if the airstrike has been carried out by the Afghan Air Force or the coalition forces

Drone launched Hellfire.
Posted by: Waldemar Tingle3635 || 01/17/2019 7:42 Comments || Top||

#3 
Talk about accurate.
Posted by: Roger Smith || 01/17/2019 12:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Nice camera work good framing and lighting.
Captures the happy event well where the talibs are recycled into useful forms.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/17/2019 12:06 Comments || Top||

#5  Nice shot
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/17/2019 15:35 Comments || Top||

#6  Working lunch cut dreadfully short.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/17/2019 15:45 Comments || Top||


Terrorist leader Abul Talha and his fighters killed in Faryab operations
[KhaamaPress] A leader of a terrorist group Abu Talha has been killed with his six fighters during an operation of the Afghan Special Forces in northern Faryab province of Afghanistan.

The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North in a statement said the Afghan Special Forces conducted operations with the help of close air support in Garziwan district on Tuesday.

The statement further added that the operations were conducted in Adam Qala area of the district leaving terrorist leader Abul Talha dead with his six fighters.

According to 209th Shaheen Corps, at least five murderous Moslems were also maimed and five weapons were destroyed during the operations.

The anti-government armed bully boy groups have not commented regarding the killing of the murderous Moslems in Faryab so far.

Faryab is among the relatively volatile provinces in North of Afghanistan where the anti-government armed murderous Moslems have increased their activities during the recent years.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


15 Taliban, ISIS-K militants killed in Afghan and Coalition Forces operations
[Rudaw] At least 15 Death Eaters affiliated with the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
and ISIS Khurasan (ISIS-K) were killed during separate operations of the Afghan and Coalition Forces in the past 24 hours.

According to the informed military sources, Afghan Special Operations Forces conducted a raid 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..
province, leaving at least 7 ISIS-K fighters dead.

The sources further added that a coalition air strike killed 1 Taliban fighter in Dilah wa Khoshamand district of Paktika
...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo...
Similarly, a coalition air strike killed 1 Taliban fighter in Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
while another coalition air strike killed 6 Taliban fighters in Tarin Kot district of Uruzgan, the sources added.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Horn
Death toll in 14 Riverside Drive attack rises to 21
[CAPITALFM.CO.KE] The corpse count following the Riverside Drive terrorist attack has risen to 21 after six more bodies were retrieved from the complex on Wednesday evening.

Of the dead was a police officer who succumbed to injuries while undergoing treatment.

Inspector General of Police Joseph Boinnet in a late night press briefing told journalists that 28 other people were admitted to various hospitals where they were receiving treatment.

Of the dead, the IG said, 16 were Kenyans, an American, Briton and three other victims of African decent who were yet to be identified.

Already, police have tossed in the slammer
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
two people whom they believe facilitated the Tuesday afternoon attack at the complex housing the dusitD2 hotel and several other office buildings.

One suspect was arrested in Ruaka inside a house where a terrorist was living since November last year.

Another one was arrested in Eastleigh Estate.

"They are being held in police custody," the IG said.

Director of Criminal Investigations George Kinoti took over the probe that will help pin down those who might have facilitated the attack.

It has emerged that the five attackers, who were all killed by Special Forces, had frequented the complex weeks before they executed the attack.

On Wednesday, families flocked to the City Mortuary for viewing and identification of bodies in an exercise full of emotions.

Two victims of Moslem faith have since been buried at the Langata Public Cemetery.
Posted by: Fred || 01/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Sudan police fire tear gas at protesters in Kassala: Witnesses
[Al Jazeera] Police in Sudan has fired tear gas at anti-government protesters in the eastern city of Kassala, according to eyewitnesses, as one of the biggest protests against President Omar al-Bashir
Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it.
's three-decade rule entered its fourth week.

It was the first time protesters erupted into the streets in Kassala, located near Sudan's border with Eritrea
...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age...
, since massive anti-government demonstrations started in December in which at least 24 people have died.

Eyewitnesses told AFP news agency that protesters shouting "freedom, justice and peace" were confronted by coppers who fired tear gas at them.

Shortly before the anti-government crowd erupted into the streets, followers of President al-Bashir held the first pro-government rally on January 7 in Kassala, which was followed days later by another in the capital, Khartoum.

Since December 19, Sudan has seen several large-scale protests in most major cities and towns.

Demonstrations initially erupted in the northeastern town of Atbara after the government raised the price of bread, but then quickly flared to other regions before spreading to Khartoum.

Posted by: Fred || 01/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan


Africa North
Egypt police kill five terrorists in North Sinai shootout: Ministry
[AlAhram] Egypt’s police said on Wednesday that they killed five gunnies during a raid in North Sinai, a statement by the interior ministry read.

The ministry said that the bad boyz were potted in a shootout as forces attempted to raid their hideout, which is located in a remote area in El-Arish.

Weapons, including an improvised bomb and a suicide belt, were found at the scene by police.

The raid came following monitoring operations by the ministry’s national security department, which said that the gunnies planned to execute a number of attacks against vital and important institutions and figures.

Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, the SWAT team had finally arrived...
Egypt’s Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly has renewed a night-time curfew in designated areas of North Sinai for three months, according to the official state gazette on Wednesday.

The curfew is in effect from Tal Rafah in the eastern part of Sinai to the international border at Rafah, and from Halal Mountain until Ouga on the border.

An announcement in the official gazette stated that the curfew runs from 7pm until 6am, except in al-Arish city and on the international road, where it runs from 1 am to 5am, or until further notice.

The decision by Madbouly comes just a few days after Egypt’s parliament approved an extension of a nationwide state of emergency for three months starting 15 January.

Egypt first saw the announcement of a three-month nationwide state of emergency in April 2017, following twin bombings at two churches in Gharbeya and Alexandria, which killed at least 47 and maimed over 120.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Renewed clashes rock southern Tripoli, Interior Ministry and UNSMIL condemn
[Libya Observer] Clashes between forces loyal to the 7th Brigade and 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...
Protection Force have been reported in southern Tripoli since early Wednesday, with continuous mobilization of military equipment, vehicles, and fighters from both sides.

According to medical sources from the capital, one person was killed and three others have been injured after fighting intensified in southern Tripoli areas like Qasir Benghashir, with reports of intermittent festivities in Souq al-Ahad and Souq al-Sabit areas and waves of displacement.

Health Ministry’s Injured Persons’ Affairs Department announced, meanwhile, the state of emergency as it expects the number of casualties to increase due to the festivities.

Photos circulated on social media showed early on Wednesday military vehicles for Special Deterrence Force and other Tripoli Protection Force brigades moving into Qasir Benghashir, knowing that the latter said it had foiled an attack by an gang in the morning, adding that it is taking action to save the innocent lives in the areas.

"The attacking forces are not committed to the ceasefire and withdrawal from Tripoli military zone." The force said in a statement.

Meanwhile,
...back at the buffalo wallow, Standing Buffalo drew a bead on his old enemy and squeezed the trigger...
the Interior Ministry of Presidential Council deplored the violence in southern Tripoli, confirming in a statement that it had officially handed over Tripoli International Airport to the Security Directorate of Tarhuna for protection.

The ministry warned Tripoli truce breakers of the consequences of their acts, saying a report would be submitted to the Presidential Council about the incidents.

The ministry’s statement clearly indicates that the truce breakers are the armed brigades of Tripoli Protection Force, who ignited the fighting after the deployment of Tarhuna’s 7th Brigade in the vicinity of Tripoli International Airport.

For its part, the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) strongly condemned the recent military mobilization of forces in southern Tripoli and said it was monitoring the situation closely.

"UNSMIL warns parties against any breach of the ceasefire agreement concluded on 04 and 09 September 2018, compromising stability in the capital and, most importantly, endangering the lives of civilians and their properties." It said in a statement.

The UNSMIL added that any party initiating a confrontation will be held fully responsible, reaffirming that it will take action as necessary and will explore all possible and available measures based on future developments on the ground in order to deter such events, which it condemns and rejects unequivocally.

"The Mission reminds all parties in Libya that any direct or indirect attack on civilians, their properties and public facilities constitutes a serious violation of international humanitarian law and international human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
law." UNSMIL added.
Posted by: Fred || 01/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Africa Subsaharan
Seven die in terrorist attack in Nangade
[POPTEL.ORG.UK] Seven people died on 6 January when an gang attacked a pick-up truck in Nangade district, in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, according to a report in the online edition of the daily newspaper "O Pais".

The truck was carrying passengers from the town of Palma to the administrative post of Pundanhar in Nangade. The attackers, believed to be Islamic fundamentalists, opened fire, forcing the vehicle to stop. They ordered all the occupants to step out of the truck. The forces of Evil then beheaded the driver, and used machetes to kill six passengers, most of them women.

On 5 January, the bully boyz attacked the village of Mussemuku in the mainland part of Ibo district. There are no reports of any casualties from this raid. Local sources told "O Pais" that the Mozambican defence and security forces captured several krazed killers.

Meanwhile journalist Amade Abubakar, detained on 5 January in Macomia district, has been transferred to a military prison in Mueda, 300 kilometres from Macomia. Abubakar works for the Macomia community radio station, and strings for the Zitamar news agency.

Cited by "O Pais", his father, Abubakar Artur, said that, despite contacting the Macomia district government and police command, he did not know where his son was being held or why he had been incarcerated
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
. The state-owned Mass Communications Institute (ICS), which owns the Macomia radio, also had no idea why Abubakar had been picked up. The Cabo Delgado ICS delegate, Paulo Cazimoto, said "our journalist was detained, but we have no details about the case. Despite approaching the authorities, we also don’t know his whereabouts".

Eye-witnesses report that, immediately prior to his detention, Abubakar had been photographing households fleeing from the interior of the district into Macomia town, escaping from terrorist raids. There is no Mozambican law forbidding journalists, or anybody else, from taking photographs in public places. In this case, Abubakar was merely documenting something that is already well known ‐ the exodus of peasant families from rural Macomia, because of terrorist raids.

The terrorist attacks began in October 2017 in the district of Mocimboa da Praia. Subsequently the raids have spread to the districts of Macomia, Nangade and Palma.
Posted by: Fred || 01/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Home Front: WoT
FBI arrest 'radicalized' 21-year-old over 'planned suicide attack on Trump's White House using IED and anti-TANK rocket'
In which yet another idiot goes to an FBI informant to get help realizing his plans for glorious jihad. No doubt today photos of the gentleman in question will be released along with information about his background, none of which could be found as this was posted.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Mennonite youth pastor Hasher Jallal Taheb, 21, of Cumming, Georgia, was arrested Wednesday by FBI agents in a sting, U.S. Attorney in Atlanta says

  • He allegedly planned to use an improvised explosive device and anti-tank rocket in a suicide attack on the White House

  • Also wanted to attack Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial and an unnamed synagogue in the city

  • Had previously wanted to travel to the Middle East to join ISIS but had no passport

  • Local law enforcement contacted the FBI in March tipster said Taheb had become radicalized, changed his name and planned to travel abroad
More at USA Today
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  >Hasher Jallal Taheb, 21, of Cumming, Georgia,

Unlikely.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/17/2019 9:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Isn't that 'Rage Boy's' younger brother, or am I stereotyping again ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/17/2019 9:21 Comments || Top||

#3  I assume the FBI snatched him up rather than put him in the Known Wolf folder because an attack on the White House would disturb the Mueller investigation.
Posted by: SteveS || 01/17/2019 12:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Thank you for adding his photo, Bsoeker. How is that done?
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/17/2019 21:31 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Pakistan Releases Senior Taliban Jihadi Days After Arrest
[Breitbart] Authorities in Pakistan released a senior Taliban leader briefly detained this week to apply pressure on the narco-jihadi group to engage in U.S.-backed peace negotiations with the Afghan government, Reuters learned from the terrorist organization.

Pentagon officials have long accused Pakistan of harboring the Afghan Taliban and its Haqqani Network, an assertion denied by Islamabad. However, Pakistan has admitted to having a degree of influence over the terrorist group that it is trying to use to persuade the jihadis to accept the peace talks.

U.S. President Donald Trump has suspended hundreds of millions in funding over Islamabad’s reluctance to take decisive actions against the Taliban and Haqqani Network, to no avail.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/17/2019 02:47 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Suspected mastermind of Orakzai terror attack killed in Hangu
[DAWN] Four suspected terrorists, including the alleged criminal mastermind of a deadly suicide kaboom last year in Orakzai, were killed in an 'encounter' with security forces in Hangu on Wednesday.

A local police official, Muhammad Khalid, confirmed to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named that security forces had conducted a raid in Hangu. A security source told DawnNewsTV that the raid was carried out after a tip-off was received that the house was serving as a myrmidon hideout.

The suspected murderous Moslems opened fire on security forces during the raid, the source said, adding that four 'terrorists' were killed in the ensuing encounter.

A civilian was also accidentally killed in the shootout, AP reported.

Khalid identified one of the faceless myrmidons killed as Muhammad Islam and said that he was responsible for orchestrating the Nov 23 suicide attack near an imambargah in lower Orakzai's Kalaya Bazaar that left at least 32 people dead and 31 injured.

The security source told DawnNewsTV that Islam had ties to the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban
...Arabic for students...
Pakistain.
Posted by: Fred || 01/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Iraq
Sulaimani security arrest ‘dangerous’ ISIS militant
[Rudaw] Security forces in Sulaimani tossed in the calaboose
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
a "dangerous" wanted ISIS hard boy, they announced on Wednesday.

The detainee took part in battles in djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, Zimnako Omer, spokesperson for Sulaimani Western Asayesh (security), told Rudaw.

"The hard boy had fled Mosul and wanted to hide himself in the Kurdistan Region," Omer explained, describing the man as "dangerous."

He did not provide any identifying details.

The man was tracked down in an investigation and captured in Chamchamal, Omer said.

"After interrogation, he confessed that he was an ISIS hard boy and had fought for the group in Mosul for two years and taken part in many inhumane acts."

He is a known figure and is wanted by the global coalition against ISIS, according to security officials.

"He will be tried in accordance with the terror penal codes," the Asayesh stated.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Kirkuk: 3 turbans airstruck, 3 paramilitaries maimed fighting fed cops


Iraqi airstrike kills three Islamic State terrorists in Kirkuk

Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi warplanes killed on Wednesday three 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....
snuffies in the oil-rich province of Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
a military front man was quoted as saying.

"Acting on accurate intelligence reports, Iraqi jet fighters targeted three snuffies riding a cycle of violence in al-Mahkour village in Kirkuk," Alghad Press quoted front man for the Security Media Center Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool as saying.

"The Arclight airstrike left the snuffies dead," added the front man.

Shiite militiamen clash with federal police in Kirkuk hospital

[Rudaw] Three Shiite militiamen were wounded in a skirmish with Iraqi federal police at a hospital in Kirkuk on Tuesday night after refusing to relinquish their weapons.

At around 23:00 local time, a group of Hashd al-Shaabi militiamen arrived at Komari hospital with seven comrades wounded in an earlier roadside bombing.

Federal police told the Hashd fighters they must give up their guns before entering the hospital. When they refused, a clash broke out.

“It was because when Hashd militants wanted some of their injured taken to the hospital, they wanted to enter with their arms, but the federal police didn’t allow them, thus leading to tensions and clashes,” Azad Jabbari, head of the security committee in the Kirkuk provincial council, told Rudaw.

Three Hashd militants were injured and the others arrested.

The earlier roadside bombing hit the Hashd convoy in the town of Rashad.

Around the same time, ISIS remnants operating in the province attacked a police station in the village of Mahmoud Abbas in Khanaqin, killing one police officer and injuring two more, according to Brig. Gen. Azad Issa, director of KRG’s Khanaqin police.

“When Peshmerga were in the Khanaqin area, such incidents happened once in a year, but in the past two months, Daesh has led 20 attacks in Khanaqin,” Issa added, using the Arabic acronym for ISIS.

Thousands of Hashd fighters and other Iraqi military formations have been deployed in Kirkuk since taking control of the disputed province from the Peshmerga on October 16, 2017.

Although the Hashd is an official part of Iraq’s defense apparatus, the Shiite militia is largely under the command of individuals close to Iran.

The Iraqi PM on Tuesday rejected rumors the US has asked him to officially dissolve the Hashd paramilitary forces.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Iraqi troops arrest two Islamic State terrorists in Anbar
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi security forces placed in durance vile
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
on Wednesday 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....
forces of Evil while hiding among the displaced families in Anbar province, a security source said.

"Security forces carried out a crackdown targeting several villages of Anbar, managing to arrest two dangerous IS krazed killers," the source told Almaalomah news website.

The source added that the pair was "implicated in launching attacks against security forces and civilians in Anbar."

They had fled to the liberated areas among the displaced families after the liberation of Anbar from Islamic State, the source added.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas frees 3 Italians suspected of being IDF soldiers
[Ynet] Italian security guards at their country's embassy in Israel held for two days of questioning in Gazoo after they were chased into a UNESCO building in Gazoo when they refused to stop at a Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, checkpoint.

Hamas on Tuesday night released three Italian security guards held for two days at the UNESCO offices in the Gazoo Strip on suspicion of being part of an IDF undercover force. The three were freed following intervention by the Italian ambassador to Israel.

The men, who were armed, entered the Strip to prepare for a visit of Italian Ambassador to Israel Gianluigi Benedetti on Wednesday.

The guards, who were driving a vehicle with diplomatic plates, refused to stop at a Hamas checkpoint inside Gazoo. Hamas gunnies then shot up the vehicle and gave chase to the UNESCO offices in the Strip, where the Italians sought refuge.

Once the guards were inside, the Hamas men besieged the UNESCO offices. A team of Paleostinian Sherlocks then entered the building in order to question the men, whom Hamas suspected to be part of a special undercover IDF force.

Only after Benedetti had spoken with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
, confirming the men were Italian nationals, did the terror organization agree to release them.

In November, an IDF special forces mission in Gazoo was discovered by the Paleostinians. The subsequent exchange of fire led to the death of IDF Lt. Col. M. and another round of fighting between Israel and Hamas.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Paranoia strikes deep. Into your heart it will creep. It starts when you're always afraid....
Posted by: Frank G || 01/17/2019 7:02 Comments || Top||


Italians leave Gaza Strip after Hamas standoff
[PULSE.NG] Three Italian security officers left the Gazoo Strip on Wednesday after an incident that saw them flee to a UN building as Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, security pursued them, an official and a diplomatic source said.

The three were in Gazoo to prepare for an upcoming visit by the Italian consul general based in Jerusalem, the diplomatic source said, and were stuck in the UN building for around a day after the incident.

They were allowed to leave after their identities were confirmed and it was determined they were not involved in any wrongdoing, a Gazook security source said.

Hamas has been on high alert for infiltrations following a November botched Israeli special forces operation inside Gazoo.

The unusual incident began on Monday night, when the three were in a car in central Gazoo as gunfire rang out, said Gazoo interior ministry front man Iyad al-Bozum.

"The car then headed to a United Nations
...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society...
headquarters in Gazoo City," he said in a statement, adding that there were suspicions about their identities.

Hamas security forces pursued them and surrounded the building, leading to a standoff.

Hamas-affiliated media reported that the Italians had refused to be searched and then fled to the UN building, but al-Bozum did not comment on this.

The Gazoo security source said that through investigations they had identified the three, clarified their entrance to Gazoo was legal and "that their car had no relation with the shooting incident."

The diplomatic source said the discussions with Hamas occurred through intermediaries since Italia does not have contacts with the Islamist group, which the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
labels a terrorist organization.
Posted by: Fred || 01/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
NYT Update with photos: ISIS Attack in Manbij, Syria Kills 4 Americans
Wagner Group - Russian mercenary pay-back or Camp Chapman redux? You decide.
[NYT] WASHINGTON ‐ Four Americans were among 19 people killed in Syria on Wednesday in a suicide bombing that was claimed by the Islamic State, just weeks after President Trump ordered the withdrawal of United States forces and declared that the extremist group had been defeated.

The attack targeted an American military convoy in the northern city of Manbij while troops were inside the Palace of the Princes, a restaurant where they often stopped to eat during patrols, residents said. While the Americans were inside, a nearby suicide attacker wearing an explosive vest blew himself up.
I ended the posting when I got to.... "a restaurant where they often stopped to eat." That really is the 'tactically stupid' stopping point.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/17/2019 02:52 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


#2  Cui bono?

Posted by: JohnQC || 01/17/2019 9:47 Comments || Top||

#3  You really have to mix it up. Eating at the same place 4 days every week with your convoy outside is a poor idea.

Drop off a team and do take out order while the convoy circles the block.
Posted by: newc || 01/17/2019 11:48 Comments || Top||

#4  Video
Posted by: newc || 01/17/2019 15:22 Comments || Top||


Iran journalist arrested in US
[DAWN] A journalist for Iran's English-language Press TV has been jugged
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
in the United States, the news channel said on Wednesday.

US-born Marzieh Hashemi was arrested on arrival at St Louis Lambert International Airport on Sunday, according to family and friends cited by Press TV.

"The US officials have so far refused to provide any reasons for her apprehension either to her or her family," the broadcaster said on its website.

It added that Hashemi, a Moslem convert who changed her name from Melanie Franklin, had been visiting "her ill brother and other family members."

Press TV claimed that all she had been offered to eat was pork, religiously forbidden for Moslems.

The broadcaster was due to hold a presser on her case later on Wednesday.
The Daily Mail has the usual photos, and adds:
  • Marzieh Hashemi, a prominent American anchorwoman on Iranian state television, has been arrested by the FBI and is being held as a material witness

  • She was detained on Sunday while trying to fly out of St Louis where she was filming a Black Lives Matter documentary after visiting family in New Orleans

  • Hashemi had driven from Denver to New Orleans and then St Louis, saying that she did not want to fly because she is 'harassed'

  • The FBI said in an email that it had no comment on the arrest of the woman who was born Melanie Franklin of New Orleans

  • She lives about half the time in Colorado, where her children live, and half the time in Iran
Posted by: Fred || 01/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  She lives about half the time in Colorado, where her children live, and half the time in Iran

Lovely. Now they can visit her more often in the Jug
Posted by: Frank G || 01/17/2019 6:34 Comments || Top||



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