[The Nation (Pak)] Afghanistan accused Haqqani Network and Pakistain's Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) behind the attack on Kabul airport.
Interior ministry front man, Sediq Sediqi, told news hounds that the attack on Kabul airport was either plotted by Haqqani Network or the Pak Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI). Sediqi further added that the attack on Kabul airport was apparently plotted to avenge the coordinated attack on Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... airport, as Pak believes Afghanistan was involved behind the attack.
He said the Haqqani Network, Taliban group and Pakistain's ISI have continuously attempted to attack the airport in Afghaistan.
According to Sediqi, ISI is keen to stop the international flights in Afghanistan after similar flights were halted in Karachi following the
Taliban attack. The attack on Kabul airport was launched by a group of five turbans who took their positions inside an under constrution building located close to the airport.
Interior ministry officials said all turbans were eliminated during the shootout with the Afghan cops and no damages were incurred to airport. The officials also added that the assailant turbans were of Pak origin as they were speaking in Urdu language.
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[An Nahar] About 200 people in Islamist-run Sudan on Friday called for "jihad" at a demonstration against an Israeli assault on Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, in the Gazoo strip.
The peaceful demonstration took place outside the Grand Mosque in central Khartoum following Friday prayers.
"Jihad! Jihad against America! Jihad in Gazoo!" the protesters called,
They've been trying, but we can all see that Allah favours the Juices. It's very odd indeed, but there is no other way to interpret the thing.
according to an Agence La Belle France Presse photographer.
Israel began an offensive against Hamas-ruled Gazoo on July 8 with the aim of stamping out cross-border rocket fire.
More than 260 Paleostinians have been killed.
Israeli ground operations began on Thursday night aimed at smashing Hamas's network of cross-border tunnels.
Israeli officials have long accused Sudan of serving as a base of support for bully boyz of Islamist Hamas.
Sudan's 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. last week met in the Gulf nation of Qatar with Khaled Meshaal, the exiled Hamas chief.
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Nobody has much sympathy for gaza because of the ling and tiresome history of being professional victims
Except of course, people exiting a mosque or some green left socialist bots who prefer to support fascism if it looks like opposing the US
[ARABNEWS] The Ministry of Islamic Affairs is investigating 17 imams in Riyadh for allegedly ignoring a government order to highlight and condemn the recent Sharura terror attack in their Friday sermons.
Most imams across the country had highlighted the incident and the dangers of terrorism in their Friday sermons, as ordered by the ministry.
The ministry stated on Friday that it would penalize the imams if the allegations are proven true.
Tawfiq Al-Sudairi, the ministry's undersecretary, confirmed that 17 imams at mosques in Riyadh are under investigation for allegedly failing to highlight the incident in their sermons.
A Saudi newspaper, meanwhile, reported that 100 imams across the country allegedly ignored the ministry's order to condemn the Sharura attacks.
Al-Sheikh Salman Al-Hadi, a holy man in Jeddah, told Arab News that religious leaders play an important role in creating awareness of terrorist activities in the country.
He said people should be particularly aware of those who "deceive the young and convince them to fight against their country and society."
The incident in the Kingdom's southern governorate of Sharura took place two weeks ago when Al-Qaeda turbans attacked the Wadia Saudi border post along the Yemeni border.
The murderous Moslems killed the Saudi commander. Saudi security officers killed three of the assailants, and shot and captured two others.
This attack was preceded by an assault on the Yemeni side of the border post with the murderous Moslems detonating a boom-mobile killing one Yemeni soldier and wounding another.
The suspected Al-Qaeda assailants were seeking to infiltrate 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... from Yemen, possibly with the intention of carrying out further terrorist attacks.
Saudi security forces seized machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades from the vehicles used by the assailants.
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And yet there are people who deny that Islam is more about political power than meeting spiritual needs.
[An Nahar] Al-Qaeda in Yemen has said that its attack on a Saudi border point earlier this month was in Dire Revenge™ for providing U.S. drones with "land and sky" to target myrmidons, SITE Intelligence said.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula had already grabbed credit for the July 5 operation in which six myrmidons, and five officers on the two sides of the border were killed.
After initially saying the attack was in Dire Revenge™ for Islamist "female captives" held in Saudi prisons, the jihadist group now says it was also for the "disgraceful actions" of Saudi authorities by helping U.S. drone strikes, the U.S.-based monitoring group said.
In a statement posted online Thursday, AQAP accused 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... of "opening the land and sky of the Peninsula of (Prophet) Mohammed to American drones," SITE reported.
"It was necessary to respond by taking Dire Revenge™ and disciplining this immoral regime that wears the cloak of religion falsely," it added.
The United States is the only country operating drones over Yemen, but U.S. officials rarely acknowledge the covert operations.
The six Death Eaters killed in the operations were Saudi nationals wanted by authorities, according to the interior ministry.
The ministry had said that the Death Eaters attacked the Wadia border post, in the south of the kingdom, across from Yemen's southeastern Hadramawt province, whose rugged terrain provides hideouts for AQAP myrmidons.
AQAP, born in 2009 of a fusion of the Saudi and Yemeni branches of al-Qaeda, is considered by Washington to be the jihadist network's most dangerous affiliate.
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[Ynet] The man who blew up a bus in a Bulgarian Black Sea resort two years ago, killing five Israeli tourists as well as himself, has been identified as a dual Lebanese-French citizen, Bulgarian authorities said on Friday.
Sofia earlier blamed Lebanese Shi'ite militant group Hezbollah for the attack in the Burgas airport carport. The European Union subsequently put Hezbollah's armed wing on its terrorism blacklist. Hezbollah denies any involvement.
Bulgarian media had reported in April that the bomber was of Algerian heritage and had trained in camps in Hezbollah-dominated South Lebanon.
[An Nahar] Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi only they haven't dumped him yet... on Friday slammed Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi as an illegitimate tyrant, saying that Cairo could not be relied upon to negotiate a ceasefire with Israel.
"Is Sisi a party (to a ceasefire)? Sisi is a tyrant himself," Erdogan told news hounds.
"He is not different from the others," he said, adding that it was Egypt's current rulers who were blocking humanitarian aid channels to the Gazoo Strip ruled by the Islamist Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, movement.
Turkey's government has had a strained relationship with Egypt since the ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi, which Erdogan repeatedly called a "coup".
The spat between Ankara and Cairo came to a head in November when Egypt's military rulers expelled Turkey's ambassador over Erdogan's support for Morsi, prompting a tit-for-tat response from the Turkish government.
Erdogan, who portrays himself as the global Mohammedan leader who speaks up for Paleostinian rights, said supporting an Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire would mean legitimizing the administration in Egypt.
"Egypt is not a party ... They are trying to legitimize (the Sisi administration) in Egypt. It is not a legitimate administration. It is illegitimate," he said, lashing out at Israeli attempts to exclude Hamas.
"Hamas is a party there," he said.
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As distinct from "legitimate tyrants" like himself?
[Ynet] Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman ordered Friday the return of all diplomats' families to Israel following the violent riots that took place overnight near Israeli missions in Istanbul and Ankara.
In addition, it was decided to reduce the diplomatic representation in Turkey to the necessary minimum.
Lieberman instructed the foreign ministry to notify the Turkish government about the blunt violation of the diplomatic codes by Turkey's security forces.
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When they read the Soviet Union fell, they all said "Hallejulah! We don't have to vote for adults any more! We can find ourselves a crazy person! A crackhead! Give him some Bath Salts, see what happens!"
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35 Valerie Plame Cover Breach 2003 48% Surge Operations A group of senior presidential advisers exposed Valerie Plame as a secret operative of the Central Intelligence Agency in retaliation for her husband's criticism of the Bush administration's prewar intelligence allegations about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
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While some events appear to be non-partisan, others seem to be very biased and they get hyped depending upon the leftist ideology of the main stream media; for example Abu Ghraib or Valerie Plame.
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True - the MSM masturbated over Abu Ghraib for 18 months solid. And it was only 3 or 1 night done by some malcontents and the military were already investigating it.
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Report is by Brookings Institution, a globalist, don't-tell-me-about-the-caliphists Ivy League/DNC propaganda manufacturing company in Washington D.C. and other Ivy campuses. I prefer iwp.edu, also in Washington D.C. They are not globalists and have personal experience of freedom threatened and denied. Also they are actual scholars, not propaganda crafters.
[The Nation (Pak)] Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... Pakistain Chief Siraj-ul-Haq has said that the political and economic terrorism hold 180million population of the country hostage.
He expressed these views while addressing an Iftar-dinner ceremony, organized by Jamaat-e-Islami, Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... in honour of the journalists at Idara-e-Noor Haq on Friday.
Speaking at the occasion, Siraj-ul-Haq said that the few selected families are in power from last 66 years in the country and holds the entire nation hostage.
"Change can be brought into the life of feudals, landlord and political barhamins through elections, while the downtrodden people get nothing from elections", he added.
On the occasion, Siraj-ul-Haq stressed upon that the VIP culture should be abolished from the country and JI is being struggled for the eradication of this culture.
He said that the terrorism, inflation and lawlessness prevail in the country for the last 15 years from the tenure of Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... , Zardari and Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... .
Commenting on Pervez Musharraf issue, JI Pakistain Chief said that the issue of Musharraf has become complicated for the present government, army and judiciary.
He further informed that the influential people and rulers are involved in corruption, adding that 80 percent parliamentarians are not paying tax.
On the occasion, Siraj-ul-Haq made it clear that JI has rejected the Protection of Pakistain Ordinance (PPO) and challenged it to the court.
He hoped that the Supreme Court will defunct the said Ordinance in its verdict.
Siraj-ul-Haq appealed to the lawyers' community, youth and people from different walks of life to come forward and stand with JI on the said issue.
On the occasion, Siraj-ul-Haq thanked JI Karachi for arranging such a decent gathering with the prominent journalists, columnists and analysts.
JI Karachi Chief Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman, Central Information Secretary Ameer-ul-Azeem and others also spoke on the occasion.
The others JI leaders including Muhammad Asghar, Zahid Askari and others were also present on the occasion.
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[DAWN] LAHORE: A suspected terrorist, who succumbed to his wounds sometime after the 10-hours long operation conducted by security forces at a rented house near Arayan village Raiwind on Thursday, was identified as Tufail of Pakpattan on Friday.
Tufail was said to be a trained bully boy and was assisting his deceased fellow Aqsan Mehboob in carrying out their activities in Lahore.
A police source told Dawn the suspect, who was initially taken to a private hospital by the Military Intelligence officials, died of severe wounds late on Thursday. He said Tufail's body was not handed over to police until filing of this report. A Jinnah Hospital's morgue source also confirmed that they had yet to receive any body from the City Raiwind police.
The source further said Mian Imtiaz, owner of the five-marla house used by suspects, and Abdul Sattar, a paramedic who brokered the rental deal between Imtiaz and the suspects, were being questioned to determine whether they knew the intentions of the suspects or were abetting them in their activities.
However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... Acting Capital City Police Officer Zulfiqar Hameed, when contacted, said police had identified only one deceased suspect as Aqsan Mehboob. He said a joint investigation would be initiated to trace the missing terror suspects and identify their network. He said police were interrogating family members and friends of the dear departed suspect Mehboob to get further information about his activities and his associations.
The CCPO said Mehboob, who was an aggressive young man, got inclination for jihad and got proper training. He said the dear departed suspects appeared to be indigenous and they and their other detained accomplices might have direct connections with the Al Qaeda. He said police would send evidences like weapons and RPGs used by suspects and empty bullet shells and hand grenades collected from the scene of the crime to the Punjab Forensic Science Laboratory as a part of the investigation.
According to a police investigator, forensic experts found automatic pistols with silencers from the scene of the crime which suggested the suspects were also hit mans. He said jihadi literature seized from the spot also indicated that the suspects were against Pakistain, its ideology and existence and considered law-enforcement agencies officials as their enemies.
He said the Military Intelligence, which conducted the first raid to capture suspects from Firdos Colony in Raiwind, would make further arrests as they had already captured some other key members of the network.
The investigator said an extensive house-to-house search and examination of tenants record was being conducted in all the areas along the Raiwind Road, Jati Umra, Sundar and Manga Mandi.
Meanwhile, ...back at the cheese factory, all the pieces finally fell together in Fluffy's mind... officials of law-enforcement agencies conducted raids in Kasur and Okara to arrest one Hafiz Imran, who owned one of the two cycle of violences seized from the suspects' possession. Earlier, police had declared that registration number plates of both the cycle of violences were fake.
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[DAWN] Curfew has been lifted in Mohmand tribal region owing to improvement in the security situation there, political administration officials told Dawn here on Friday.
The curfew was imposed after an IED blast targeted a security convey at Utmanzai area of Pandiali tehsil on May 24, killing six personnel and injuring one.
The officials said that the political administration and high ups of security forces had decided to lift the curfew after security situation improved in all parts of the tribal region.
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... they said that movement of marble trucks had been restricted to only night time across the agency.
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[DAWN] The people have begun returning to five border villages of Mamond tehsil of Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central ...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth... after the security forces announced postponement of an operation against bully boyz in the region.
Around 30,000 people of Loi Mamond tehsil, Nakhatar, Ghakhai, Mula Killi, Gohati and Kitkoot had fled homes three days ago fearing the launch of the military operation.
The operation was postponed after local elders announced formation of a tribal lashkar to crack down on murderous Moslems in the region.
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[DAWN] Security continues to be a key issue hampering the planned anti-polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... campaigns devised by the authorities in the provincial health department in certain 'sensitive neighbourhoods' during Ramazan. Lack of security personnel for the volunteers has failed a major anti-polio drive and several parallel low-key activities that were also to kick off, it emerged on Friday.
Officials said a major anti-polio campaign in parts of 'sensitive neighbourhoods' of the city's most vulnerable Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... West district had to be deferred by the authorities after the local police refused to provide them security cover due to staff shortage. Moreover, they said that the remaining coppers had been assigned to maintain law and order situation during Ramazan hence the constraint.
The campaigns for Gadap, Gulshan-e-Maymar, Pirabad and Mominabad had been planned a week before Ramazan in a bid to not let the lethal virus go unchecked for the month keeping in view the fact that the country was already facing travel sanctions by the World Health Organisation for being one of three polio-endemic countries.
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[DAWN] If Afghanistan and Pakistain fail to keep pressure on gunnies within their borders, Al Qaeda could return to the region to plan 9/11 like terrorist attacks, warns a top US general.
Gen Joseph Dunford, who commands all US and allied forces in Afghanistan, also told Congress on Thursday that those in uniform did not necessarily support President Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... 's decision to withdraw all American troops from Afghanistan by 2017.
"I think all of us in uniform, including the Afghans, would have preferred for that to be a bit more ambiguous," he said.
Gen Dunford, who has now been nominated the next commandant of the US Marine Corps, told his confirmation hearing that success in Afghanistan also depended on Pakistain's ability and desire to go after forces of Evil on their side of the border.
According to him, Pakistain has had some success against the TTP but they had been less effective against the Haqqani network.
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[DAWN] Pakistain pressed on Friday for progress in talks with India after a 'good beginning' made by their prime ministers, but its envoy in Delhi also underscored the importance of addressing the Kashmire issue, saying it was at the root of all their bilateral disputes.
Pakistain's High Commissioner Abdul Basit also told a news conference at the Press Club of India that the two countries needed to work together to promote peace and prosperity.
Talking on the disputed issues between the two countries, Mr Basit said: "All our bilateral problems more or less stem from the Jammu and Kashmire dispute. It was, therefore, necessary to resolve this issue and take irreversible steps towards peace and stability."
"A good beginning has been made with the meeting of the two prime ministers," he said. "It is now important to build on that and do not allow this rare opportunity to go waste."
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[DAWN] The state and frontier regions (Safron) ministry has asked the interior ministry to send 20 platoons of the Frontier Constabulary (FC) to Bannu to maintain law and order due to a large influx of internally displaced persons from North Wazoo.
A relevant official told Dawn on Friday that the district administration recently requested Safron minister Abdul Qadir Baloch for the dispatch of the FC personnel to Bannu adjacent to the troubled North Waziristan.
The minister had visited Bannu on July 8 to examine arrangements for IDPs and it was during that visit that the district administration made the said request.
"The existing police force in the district is inadequate keeping in view the presence of IDPs and therefore, the interior ministry should deploy at least 20 platoons of FC to cope with the security situation," stated a letter sent to the interior ministry lately.
The letter stated 852,495 IDPs had been registered in Bannu and that foolproof security arrangements were necessary to facilitate disbursement of cash and distribution of relief goods among them.
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[ARABNEWS] The United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... accused Islamic State fighters in Iraq of executing religious and other leaders as well as teachers and health workers, forcibly recruiting children and raping women among acts that amounted to war crimes.
A UN report focused on a range of violations committed against civilians, particularly by the Islamic State, though it also said Iraqi forces and allied fighters had not taken precautions to protect civilians from violence.
"(This)...may also amount to war crimes," the report found.
At least 5,576 Iraqi civilians have been killed this year in violence, the UN said in the most detailed account yet of the impact of months of unrest culminating in advances by gunnies led by the Al-Qaeda offshot Islamic State, formerly known as ISIL, across the north.
"ISIL and associated gangs have also continued to... perpetrate targeted liquidations (community, political, and religious leaders, government employees, education professionals, health workers, etc.), sexual assault, rape and other forms of sexual violence against women and girls, forced recruitment of children, kidnappings, executions, robberies."
The report also accused them of wanton destruction and plundering of places of worship and of cultural or historical significance.
"Credible information on recruitment and use of children as soldiers was also received," the report noted.
"Every day we receive accounts of a terrible litany of human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... violations being committed in Iraq against ordinary Iraqi children, women and men, who have been deprived of their security, their livelihoods, their homes, education, health care and other basic services," UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said.
The report also details violations committed by government forces and affiliated groups, citing "summary executions/extrajudicial killings of prisoners and detainees," which it said may constitute a war crime.
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I'm sure that ISIS, based upon this accusation, will immediately abandon their corporeal ways./sarc
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..its a multicultural thingy. You don't want laws conceived by old white men to be imposed upon other people do you? Isn't it bad enough when they self impose a moribund political economic model from one of them? /sarc off
[Iraq Sun] Iraq Friday recalled its ambassador to Jordan for consultations, following a meeting of Sunni leaders in the country.
Iraq decided to call its ambassador in Amman Jawad Abbas back for consultations, Xinhua quoted the country's foreign ministry as saying in a statement without giving more details.
Analysts say this move could be seen as a sign of protest after Iraqi Sunni leaders held a meeting in Jordan and described the current insurgency in Iraq as a "popular revolt".
Iraqi Sunni leaders in exile Wednesday downplayed a Sunni Islamist uprising led by Islamic State turbans, portraying the violence as a fightback against the incumbent Shiite-led government.
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[IsraelTimes] The tunnel threat, the unknowingness of it, has eclipsed the threat of rockets in Israel's war with Gazoo. This may change in the future, if detection methods improve. For now, though, after narrowly thwarting a mega-attack in the Eshkol region on Thursday, Israel has sent in troops to find, probe, and destroy the underground arteries that stretch beneath the border, all along the border.
Conversations with current and former officers illustrate some of the challenges those forces now face in Gazoo.
The Roman army was as much about engineering as it was about fighting, it seems to me. At the moment, so is the IDF. Fascinating stuff.
Brig. Gen. Miki Edelstein, the Gazoo division commander, told news hounds near an offensive tunnel discovered in October 2013 that the entrance to that tunnel was likely in the back yard of a civilian's home in Rafah.
Brig. Gen. (res) Shimi Daniel, a former commander of the combat engineering corps, painted a more complex picture. He said Thursday on Channel 2 news that the entrance shafts of the tunnels are located within civilian homes and that, by the time troops arrive, "they've already poured fresh concrete over the opening."
Once detected, soldiers from the SAMUR unit, specializing in counter-tunnel operations, lower a robot into the shaft. Major Ido, the commander of the combat engineering special forces school, said in a phone interview several months ago that the robots can send back video to the squad on the ground and have the capacity to map the contours of the tunnel.
Afterward, the army will usually send explosive-detecting dogs from the Oketz unit into the channel. On Thursday, an Oketz soldier was lightly maimed and a dog was killed in the tunnel near Kibbutz Sufa. Ordinarily, if the dog detects explosives a bomb disposal robot can be summoned.
Only then are the troops lowered into the darkness. Some of the recently discovered tunnels have been more than 60-feet-deep and over a mile long. Many have branched out near the border, with multiple exits, so as to enable a more complex attack. The army has discovered at least eight and reportedly as many as 30 offensive tunnels, thus far, and the channels are now, the army says, "under comprehensive investigation. "
Destroying them, Major Ido said, is much easier than detecting them, but it is still difficult.
The tunnels can be struck from above. Brig. Gen. (res) Asaf Agmon, the head of the Fisher Institute for Air and Space Strategic Studies and a former air force pilot and commander, said the concrete-reinforced tunnels are readily penetrated by a standard one-ton bomb dropped from a plane. The fuse on the bombs, he said, simply needs to be set further back so that the bombs detonate only after penetrating into the void of the tunnel. "Bunker-busters are not necessary," he said.
A former commander of the combat engineering corps, though, said that the destruction inflicted by air force ordnance was very "local" and did not cause dramatic damage. In order to completely dismantle a tunnel system, heavy drilling equipment has to be brought to the tunnel and many hundreds of pounds of explosives have to be inserted into the channel all along its length, he asserted.
This final stage is particularly dangerous, as the drillers are visible from afar and the explosives are perilous to transport within a combat zone. Cpt. Aviv Hakani, the Southern Command's first counter-tunnel officer, lost his life, along with four other soldiers, while travelling toward a tunnel in the Gazoo Strip in an APC that was filled with explosives and then hit by an anti-tank missile. That May 2004 incident produced the awful footage of soldiers on hands and knees in the sand along the Philadelphi Route, between Gazoo and Egypt, searching for body parts — the very picture that signaled the beginning of the end of Israel's presence in the Gazoo Strip.
The current operation, which is both meant to neutralize the tunnel threat and serve as leverage during the search for a ceasefire formula, should take, from a technical perspective, two weeks, officers said.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in addressing the nation on Friday, the first day of the ground operation, warned that "there is no guarantee of 100% success, but we are doing our utmost in order to achieve the maximum."
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I can't help but think that somewhere in Gaza is a mountain of digging spoil from all these tunnels.
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I can't help but think that somewhere in Gaza is a mountain of digging spoil from all these tunnels. Posted by ed in texas
Ed ~ Somewhere in Israel is an enterprising Jew buying 'fill dirt' from the Paleo's for settlement construction, whilst selling coordinates of the load site to the IDF. I wish I owned the business.
IN VIDEO: IDF destroys terror tunnel in Gaza Strip
Video published by IDF shows method used to strike terrorist tunnels: Forces detonate explosive at opening, demolish infrastructure with bulldozer. Army official says IDF will reach every target and every tunnel Hamas attempts to build.
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I had a colleague I worked with at USGS in the 70s that put in miles of Spiral 4 cable in SKOR to detect tunnel building and movements by the Norks, using seismometers.
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Explosives on remote controlled card
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Drill. Pump in natural gas/air mixture. Ignite.
Done.
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I remember the terrible stories of men lost in the Chu Chi tunnels.
I also remember the technique of blowing smoke in to mark nearby vents, blocking those then blowing in an air/fuel mix that the engineers would ignite. Sometimes just a load of diesel fired by WP would deny access. Neither would destroy the deeper complex very often but both would evacuate breathable air pretty quickly.
[An Nahar] The Israeli army's ground offensive in Gazoo is purportedly aimed at destroying a network of sophisticated cross-border tunnels, which Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and other Death Eaters have dug to infiltrate Israeli lines.
In 2006 Israel imposed a blockade on the impoverished coastal enclave after GazooDeath Eaters captured an Israeli soldier in a cross-border raid.
This pushed Hamas and other Death Eaters to dig tunnels under the border with Egypt to spirit into the densely populated Gazoo Strip food, fuel, a variety of consumer goods as well as weapons.
In March, Egypt's military said it has destroyed 1,370 smuggling tunnels under its border with the Gazoo Strip, months after it ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi who was a Hamas ally.
Israel is now after dozens of so-called "terror tunnels" in Gazoo and the army says it has already found eight access points.
"Dozens of terror tunnels are spread throughout the Gazoo Strip, the majority of them constructed and utilized by Hamas," an army front man said in a statement Friday.
"The Hamas tunnel network is highly developed and continuously preserved interconnecting launch sites, rocket maintenance and command and control positions," the statement said.
On Thursday morning, 13 heavily-armed Death Eaters managed to infiltrate southern Israel before being spotted by troops, with one killed in an air strike and the rest fleeing back underground.
Haaretz newspaper reported Friday that five cross-border tunnels have been found in Israel over the past two years.
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It seems to me that stopping the flow of construction materials and tools into Gaza is a first step. No steel, no lumber, no wire, no hammers, no nothing. Egypt seems to be putting the screws on the tunnel trade, but I wonder how effective they really are.
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And then they should aim for the "less developed" tunnels.
The ineffectual Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas on Friday urged support for an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire proposal in the Gaza Strip, as he held talks with Turkey’s leaders on a brief stopover after a visit to Cairo.
“Israel accepted the ceasefire proposal. We (the Palestinians) must also accept it so that we can put the Israeli side at unease,” Abbas told a news conference with Turkish President Abdullah Gul in Istanbul in comments translated from Arabic into Turkish.
Egypt-mediated talks to end the escalating Gaza Strip conflict have faltered amid Israeli plans to widen its ground operation in Gaza Strip, a Palestinian territory ruled by the Islamist Hamas movement.
Abbas voiced support for the ceasefire proposal which he said was floated by “our Egyptian brothers at our request”.
Turkey, a staunch critic of the Israeli assaults in Gaza, is pressing for involvement of Hamas in any negotiations for a ceasefire.
That will ensure that there isn't any ceasefire. I'm beginning to wonder if Erdogan and the Mad Ayatollahs™ are canoodling...
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, who overthrew the Muslim Brotherhood from power last year, has sought to isolate Hamas and initially demanded that the militants unconditionally accept its truce.
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"To counter these threats, DSIT offers its AquaShield ER, specifically designed to detect fast-moving SDVs and UUVs. Before its introduction, DSIT put the system through its paces, achieving detection ranges of up to 3,500 meters for SDVs."
"Mr. Putin and Mr. Rouhani exchanged views on the state of talks on Iran's nuclear program," stated the Kremlin readout of the call. "The two leaders also examined bilateral cooperation matters of mutual interest, including joint projects in the oil and gas sector and in peaceful nuclear energy." Not good. Weakness begets provocativeness. Adding personal animus makes it worse.
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Court Room paper airplane
Iraq soldier not American paper airplane on head like stealth aircraft tan colored right before helicopter and plane stuff priceless!
What kind of weapon debris will be found and from what country from shoot downnnnz!
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It's actually a simple chain of events.
(1) Russia only negotiates from a position of strength.
(2) Due to 'circumstances', Russia finds itself suddenly not in a position of strength.
(3) Therefore, all negotiating will stop until strength returns.
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I see Kerry and his State Department 'conned artists' are releasing another impounded $2.8B to Iran during extended 'talks'.
http://news.msn.com/world/iran-gets-dollar28-billion-during-extended-atomic-talks-most-sanctions-stay-us
"...last year's election of a pragmatist, Hassan Rouhani, as Iran's president led to a thaw in ties that resulted in November's diplomatic breakthrough."
Recalling the touting of a "moderate" being elected, it is now a "pragmatist" in office.
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Recalling the touting of a "moderate" being elected, it is now a "pragmatist" in office.
While those are the memes being put forth, I don't believe them for a New York minute. The mullahs have their proxies and are supplying them with money and arms. Meanwhile, the U.S. if not careful in international politics, will likely get rolled by the mullahs and this moderate/pragmatic front man. We have not been particularly careful and we have not been keeping our eyes on the ball. The problem is that we have a bunch of silly leftist ideologues led by an a$$hole who are more concerned with forcing their ideology on the America with little care or concern for America's people.
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The problem is that it's hard to sanction Russia over Ukraine and have them cooperate with us by sanctioning Iran over nukes. They are just reminding us of that unpleasant fact. Something similar happened when we got on Argentina's case for all their murders during their "dirty war" against domestic opposition. When Russia invaded Afghanistan and we embargoed grain, Argentina broke the embargo and shipped grain to Russia for profit and to get even with us. It's difficult to sanction international bad actors when there are so many of them and the Europeans act so weak.
Iran and the P5+1 group of countries agreed to extend their nuclear negotiations for another four months.
The sixth round of nuclear negotiations between Tehran and the P5+1 group of countries is currently underway in Austrian capital, Vienna. Delegations from both sides are trying to finalize the text of a comprehensive nuclear deal within the next 20 days. Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has described this round of talks as a unique opportunity to make history.
The two sides inked an interim accord in Geneva, Switzerland, on November 23, 2013.
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Anybody else think these yahoos meeting in Vienna is weired?
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[The Nation (Pak)] Afghanistan accused Haqqani Network and Pakistain's Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) behind the attack on Kabul airport.
[An Nahar] Turkish Prime Minister 
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Iran and the P5+1 group of countries agreed to extend their nuclear negotiations for another four months.
