[DAWN] Experts on Afghan affairs and Afghan Taliban sources suggest Mullah Yaqoob, son of late Taliban capoMullah Omar ... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality... , is likely to lead the Lion of Islam group following the reported death of Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour in a US drone strike -- but the process will take time.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The top Taliban leaders have reportedly met on Sunday in the framework of their leadership council to discuss successor Mullah Akhtar Mansoor who was killed in an Arclight airstrike on Saturday.
The leadership council discussed regarding various possible successors, including the notorious guerrilla commander Sirajuddin Haqqani ...son of Pashtun warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani, still titular head of the Haqqani Network.... , Taliban sources told Rooters.
Sirajuddin Haqqani is the leader of the notorious Haqqani terrorist network and he reportedly played a key role in resolving the Taliban leadership issues following the confirmation of Mullah Mohammad Omar’s death.
He has a $5 million U.S. bounty on his head and would likely prove an even more implacable foe of Afghan government forces and their U.S. allies.
According to the sources, Taliban were also considering Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob, the son of Taliban founder Mullah Mohammad Omar, a potential unifier because of his father’s name.
Former Guantanamo detainee Mullah Abdul Qayyum Zakir and Mullah Sherin were also cited, the sources said.
Mullah Mansoor was killed in an Arclight airstrike carried out by the US forces in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... province of Pakistain as he was travelling in a vehicle.
The Afghan government and security institutions as well as the US President Barack Obama I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money... confirmed Mullah Mansoor’s death on Sunday.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... the Taliban group has not officially confirmed Mullah Mansoor’s death so far.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Ministry of Interior of Afghanistan (MoI) said Monday that Taliban’s Quetta Council members will not remain safe in the region, insisting that the group is on the verge of a major defeat with the death of the group’s supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor.
MoI front man Sediq Sediq told news hounds that the international allies of Afghanistan will target the terrorists, pointing towards the US drone strike that targeted the Taliban Chief Mullah Akhtar Mansoor.
He said Mullah Mansoor was in coordination with the other terrorist groups and networks since he assumed the charge of the Taliban group to commit atrocities against the Afghan people.
Sediqi further added that the death of Mullah Mansoor will have a negative impact on the morale of the Talibs and insisted that the Afghan government will further increase pressure on the group.
According to Sediqi, the Taliban Chief was insisting on continued insurgency and war in the country and was not in favor of peace talks.
Calling Mullah Mansoor’s death a major achievement for Afghanistan, Sediqi the Talibs have an opportunity to join grinding of the peace processor.
Mullah Mansoor was targeted in a drone strike carried out by the US forces in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... province of Pakistain late on Saturday afternoon.
His death has been confirmed by the Afghan government and security institutions as well as the US President Barack Obama We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us...
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[AlAhram] US forces killed Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour in an air strike last week because he was engaged in plotting that posed "specific, imminent threats" to US and coalition personnel in Afghanistan, the Pentagon said on Monday.
Navy Captain Jeff Davis, a Pentagon front man, said the attack against Mansour inside Pakistain on Saturday was a defensive strike aimed at disrupting the Taliban plotting.
Mansour was engaged in "specific actions, specific things ... in real time," Davis said.
Asked if the Taliban threats were imminent, he said: "Yes, specific imminent threats to US and coalition personnel ... in Afghanistan."
[RT] There will be severe consequences if Sirajuddin Haqqani ...son of Pashtun warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani, still titular head of the Haqqani Network.... , considered one of the most dangerous warlords in the Middle East, becomes leader of the Taliban following the reported killing of Mullah Akhtar Mansour, a Russian Foreign Ministry official has said.
Haqqani, believed to be in his mid-40s, has been largely cited as a possible successor to Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour, who was reportedly killed in a targeted US drone strike in a remote Pak area on Saturday.
"There will be hell to pay" if the Afghan guerrilla commander replaces Mansour, Foreign Ministry official and the Russian president's special representative on Afghanistan, Zamir Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... ov, told Interfax on Monday.
The Russian diplomat added that so far Haqqani is regarded as the most possible candidate to become the new Taliban chief, and said that although Moscow does not yet possess any final data on Mansour's death, "the probability [of him being killed] is high."
Talibs choosing Haqqani as their new chief will be the worst possible scenario, Kabulov told RIA Novosti, adding that he's "the most radical figure in their leadership."
The ministry official also said that Mansour's alleged killing might lead to an escalation of military tensions in Afghanistan, and could "significantly complicate the negotiation process" in the region.
On Monday, US President Barack Obama Jedi mind meld... confirmed the American military had killed the Taliban leader, proclaiming his death "an important milestone." Having called on other murderous Moslems to agree to peaceful negotiations, Obama said that "the Taliban should seize the opportunity to pursue the only real path for ending this long conflict [by] joining the Afghan government in a reconciliation process."
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Someone forgot the numerous "Second Highest" we wacked in Iraq before getting Number One. Sort of like killing the flea population first before hosing the rats during a plague.
[Iran Press TV] Iran has denied reports that Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour had returned to Pakistain from the Islamic republic before being killed in a US liquidation drone strike.
Speaking at his weekly presser in Tehran on Monday, Iranian Foreign Ministry front man Hossein Jaberi Ansari said Mansour was not in the Islamic Theocratic Republic before the attack.
"The relevant officials at the Islamic Theocratic Republic deny that this person on this date crossed into Pakistain from Iran's border," Jaberi Ansari said.
He added that Iran welcomes any measures aimed at restoring peace and stability in Afghanistan, without providing further details.
Some media outlets had reported that Pak authorities claimed earlier that identity documents found on the body of the man now known to be Mansour showed he had left for Iran on March 28 and returned the day he was killed.
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Tehran denies presence of Bin Laden family in Iran... Tehran denies presence of Ayman al-Zawahiri in Iran... Tehran denies training of Hizbollah in Iran... Tehran denies allowing Haqqani safe haven in Iran... Tehran denies... Tehran...
[AlAhram] Egypt's state-sponsored Islamic authority (Dar Al-Ifta), which issues edicts, said on Monday that an announced plan by the now-banned Moslem Brüderbund group to re-examine its political ideology and activities was overdue.
A sub-body of Dar Al-Ifta that monitors jihadist and hard boy edicts said that recent remarks by Brotherhood leaders indicating the movement aims to carry out a major reassessment is a result of an "ideology of failure" and its "defeat in the political and religious fields."
The religious unit made the comments days after a senior Brotherhood leader in exile, Gamal Heshmat, said his movement seeks "major revisions," mainly politically, while stressing the group would separate its political and religious work.
The Islamic authority said the announced plan by the group is "inevitable to preserve the security of society and protect individuals from drifting towards violent, bad boy ideology that characterised the group over the past period."
It urged the once-ruling organization to review all strategies it had adopted and have contributed to "violence and polarisation" in Egypt.
Heshmat's statement came as Tunisia's Islamist Party Ennahda, a Brotherhood offshoot, made a similar announcement saying that it has learned "there is no future in political Islam."
"All sides within the groups have stressed the determination to separate the competitive party work from that of preaching and education. This will be announced soon," Heshmat told the Turkish state-run Anadolu Agency last week.
He said the move will help develop the organization and reintroduce it to public opinion in a better shape.
Ill-timed move?
The 88-year-old Brotherhood has worked for decades in the shadows before it was catapulted to the forefront of Egyptian politics following the 2011 uprising that toppled long-time autocrat Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... The group's Islamist president Mohammed Morsi was ousted after a year-long rule that alienated large segments of the Egyptian population.
The group has since been forced back underground, with most of its upper echelons and supporters thrown behind bars.
The Freedom and Justice Party, the Brotherhood's political wing established in the aftermath of the 2011 uprising, was dissolved by a court ruling in August 2014.
On the announced reform efforts, researcher of Islamist movements and a former Brotherhood member Ahmed Ban told Ahram Online "it is a call that will not go any further."
He said that the organization should have made such efforts while holding legitimacy during its reign.
"Now they are not part of the state's calculations," he said, explaining that the group would no longer be allowed to combine politics and religion.
"Separation means they will aim to keep both branches of work but segregate them functionally, which they will no longer be permitted to do in Egypt," he added
While some observers say the move indicates a compromise, the group, nevertheless, does not seem to seek a settlement with the state but is rather working towards lobbying against a "regime of coup," in reference to Morsi's ouster.
"There must be major revisions... but we first need a sensible organization to bolster an anti-coup movement... to topple a regime of coup," Heshmat said.
Heshmat made allusions, however, that the re-evaluation of the group's strategies will not be an easy task given that the movement is suffering from what he called a "major administrative vacuum" amid a rising schism of late.
The Brotherhood has been lurching from crisis to crisis, with the recent rise of an internal rift boiling over between chief Mahmoud Ezzat of the group's London office and a youth administration at home.
The split, which came to surface late last year, intensified last week with the group's London leaders sacking eight senior members, including former international cooperation minister Amr Derrag, after more than 240 members signed a document calling for an across-the-board election that would in turn force out long-serving leaders.
Youth leaders at home have snapped back, announcing a list of sackings of long-time leaders of the international bureau.
[AnNahar] Al-Azhar's Grand Imam Ahmed al-Tayeb, who had a historic meeting with Pope Francis on Monday, has been on a mission to update Islamic thought while championing classical scholarship against jihadist ideologues.
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[TODAY.NG] There are indications that the Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... gunnies group have shown willingness to negotiate their surrender and release of the remaining kidnapped Chibok school girls in their custody with the federal government.
All of them, or a small, non-representative group that speaks only for itself? It was the latter, the last several times this kind of thing came up.
According to the Times of London, senior members of the terrorist group said it was prepared to negotiate a surrender and release the hostages on the condition they would not be not betrayed by the government or killed for giving up arms.
Over 200 students of the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, were seized two years ago and have not been traced or found.
"We want to surrender because things are getting worse," said Amir Muhammad Abdullahi, who is reportedly Boko Haram’s second in command. He said no side was winning the battle and that only a third of the girls remained as "the rest have been martyred".
Actually, Boko Haram is clearly losing, which means the governments must be winning. And the government will accept receipt of all the kidnapped girls, and the boys, too, before this thing is over, O Amir.
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[ALLAFRICA] Displaced Nigerians are hungry, scared of further violence and haunted by bloodshed they witnessed
When Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... attacked Falmaya Baba Gama's village last year in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , executing a dozen men and burning down the market, thousands of people fled across the border into Niger, with some forced to leave behind their children amid the chaos.
The 30-year-old and her seven children arrived safely in the region of Diffa, but almost one year on, they are hungry, scared of further violence and haunted by the bloodshed they witnessed.
"Even now, the children dream about Boko Haram and cry," she said outside a thatched hut, held together with sticks and plastic sheets, in Assaga - a ramshackle site for the displaced located just a few miles from Niger's border with Nigeria.
Gama is one of some 240,000 uprooted people living in Diffa, a sweeping tract of desert in southeast Niger sparsely populated with isolated villages and dotted with shrubs and trees.
Many of the displaced live in makeshift huts alongside the country's main highway, having been driven from their homes in northeast Nigeria and southeast Niger by Boko Haram violence.
The murderous Moslem group has killed more than 15,000 people and displaced some 2 million in the West African states of Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... , Chad, Niger and Nigeria during a seven-year campaign to carve out an Islamist caliphate.
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[DAWN] Thousands of layoffs at state-linked companies in Abu Dhabi are a fresh sign the Gulf’s wealthy oil states are hunkering down for a long period of austerity as low crude prices pressure their economies.
Since mid-2015, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), 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... , Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... and other countries in the region have curbed spending on some construction projects and reduced energy subsidies to limit budget deficits caused by cheap oil.
Now some governments are also starting to reduce staff at the companies they control, many of them in the energy industry, in order to ensure the firms are not a drain on state finances if oil prices stay low for several years.
Abu Dhabi’s National Oil Co (ADNOC), with around 55,000 staff, has cut hundreds of jobs in the last few months and will have reduced its workforce by at least 5,000 by the end of 2016, sources familiar with the matter told Rooters.
The reduction will occur across most of its 17 subsidiaries as part of a restructuring following a reshuffle of the firm’s leadership this month, they said.
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less funding available for terrorism is a good thing
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They're not gonna keep on spending like Chavez and Maduro did? Too bad. That would have been fun to watch.
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o Thousands of schoolchildren evacuated after a series of anonymous calls
o One warned of a bomb on school grounds that would 'children's heads off'
o Many students were pulled from school grounds in middle of their exams
Bomb threats forced the closure of 26 schools across the UK today as students prepared to sit their GCSE exams.
Thousands of pupils were evacuated after a series of anonymous phone calls warning of hidden explosives were received by school offices up and down the country this morning.
Many students were pulled from school grounds in the middle of their exams as emergency services swooped on scene to carry out searches, in what appears to have been an elaborate hoax.
A similar incident occurred in January when a Russian Twitter group was believed to have been responsible for a series of bomb threats which saw 14 schools evacuated in Britain. The group had invited pupils to get in touch if they wanted to 'get out of school' - raising speculation that students may have devised a similar hoax to avoid today's exams.
But because there are real jihadis with real bombs and guns roaming the land, the authorities must assume a real threat until proved otherwise.
[Iran Press TV] A senior German official says nearly 1,000 offenses were perpetrated in the country against refugee shelters in 2015, a five-fold annual rise amid an influx of asylum seekers.
Speaking at a presser in the German capital of Berlin on Monday, the country's Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said some 923 offenses against refugees and refugee facilities were recorded in 2015, against 175 the previous year.
He said the offenses included 177 acts of violence, three attempted killings and hundreds of non-violent acts such as painting graffiti, the use of Nazi symbols and incitements to hatred.
"A decline in the number of political crimes is not to be expected in 2016 unfortunately," the minister said, adding that in this year's first quarter there had been 347 crimes against refugee centers.
Maiziere noted that the refugee topic was the focus of politically motivated crime in Germany last year, when the country took in over one million refugees and asylum seekers.
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Because the authorities hid sexual assault and other crimes. Vigilantism is nasty, but all too often the result of incompetent or corrupt government (though it could just as well be both).
[Iran Press TV] Austria's independent candidate Alexander Van der Bellen has narrowly defeated far-right rival Norbert Hofer in the country’s presidential runoff.
The 72-year-old Van der Bellen, a former economics professor, won over 45-year-old Hofer, from Freedom Party (FPOe), by 50.3 percent to 49.7 percent, said Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka during an official announcement in the capital Vienna, adding that "a difference of 31,026 votes," clinched victory for Van der Bellen.
"Very few people thought I could catch up. But in the last 14 days, there has been such a momentum among voters -- musicians, actors, workers, totally different people across all generations, professions and all sections of society," Van der Bellen, who had campaigned on a pro-EU platform backed by the Greens Party, said late on Sunday.
Hofer conceded defeat in the knife-edge runoff and said in his Facebook account: "Of course I am sad. I would have loved to have looked after this wonderful country for you as president."
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The Interior Ministry count gave van der Bellen, a former Greens party leader, 50.3 percent of the vote, compared to 49.7 percent for [Norbert] Hofer [of the Freedom Party]. The margin of victory was just over 31,000 out of nearly 4.5 million valid votes cast.
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I wonder how much 'help' our beloved administration gave to Mr. Van der Bellen?
Probably a significant amount, though likely not as much as the Euros did.
Interesting that, even with "such a momentum among voters -- musicians, actors, workers, totally different people across all generations, professions and all sections of society," they barely eked out a victory.
A top U.S. commander who secretly visited northern Syria on May 21 in order to witness efforts to build up local forces in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has arrived in Turkey in a surprise visit, daily Hürriyet reported on its website.
Gen. Joseph Votel, head of U.S. Central Command (Centcom), made a surprise visit to Kobane and met U.S. military advisers working with Syrian Arab fighters and the leaders of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which includes the People’s Protection Units (YPG), the armed wing of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD).
Good for him. Top commanders should get out to the front edge and see what things look like for themselves.
Votel arrived in Ankara late on May 22 and is expected to hold talks with the Turkish General Staff and Foreign Ministry. An operation against ISIL’s capital of Raqqa is on Votel’s agenda, but Ankara is not planning to contribute to the operation, Hürriyet said.
Votel’s visit comes at a time when Ankara has been calling on the U.S. and its Western allies to stop supporting the PYD, which is linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), but Washington has provided air power and small arms ammunition to the militant group, saying the PYD and the YPG are “reliable” partners in the fight against ISIL.
More reliable than the Turks, in fact...
The PKK, with which Turkey has been in armed clashes since the mid-1980s, is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and the EU. Turkey also considers the PYD and its YPG military branch to be terror groups, but the West has refused to designate them as such.
It would help if the PYD and YPG would explicitly swear off any links with terrorist groups within Turkey, but that's asking a lot right now...
The PYD combined the self-declared Kobane canton in central northern Syria with the Jazeera canton in the northeast after it captured Tal Abyad and the villages around al-Hasakah province from ISIL early last year.
U.S. special operations forces are helping train fighters in Syria to combat ISIL as Washington leads a coalition of countries in an air war against the jihadists in Iraq and Syria. The United States has roughly 200 advisers on the ground in Syria, but no combat units. Votel’s visit comes as the first of 250 more U.S. special operations forces are beginning to arrive.
Kurds play a dominant role in the U.S.-backed SDF, providing the core of the forces that have pushed back ISIL in the country’s northeast. The SDF has a total of about 25,000 Kurdish fighters and about 5,000 Arab fighters. Washington is pushing to bring more Arab forces into the group.
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A Turkish Airlines aircraft at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport was searched after a note threatening a bomb attack was found on board on May 23.
The plane, which was set to fly to the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri, was evacuated and postponed after a note with “bomb” written on it was found in the bathroom at around 3:50 p.m. The note was found by the cabin crew as they were checking the bathrooms before taking off.
The bomb alert turned out to be false this time and all 134 people, including the crew, were due to fly to Kayseri with another plane.
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[Ynet] A man accused of aiding a foiled plot to bomb a Kansas military post on behalf of ISIS pleaded guilty to conspiracy on Monday, admitting that he loaned a friend money to store the explosives that he intended to use in the attack.
Alexander E. Blair, 29, could get up to five years in prison when he's sentenced Aug. 22. He will remain free until then.
According to prosecutors, Blair lent John T. Booker
...aka Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, who got mad when the Army would not accept him on the grounds that he was entirely too interested in jihad...
$100 to pay for storage of a bomb that Booker planned to detonate in April 2015 outside of the Fort Riley military post, which is about 60 miles west of Topeka. Booker planned the ISIS-inspired attack with two contacts who were actually confidential FBI informants, and when he tried arming the bomb, which was fake, FBI agents incarcerated Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! him.
[Iran Press TV] Islamabad has summoned the US ambassador to voice its concerns over a recent US drone strike on Pak soil that reportedly killed Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour.
According to a statement released by Pakistain’s Foreign Office on Monday, David Hale was called in by the Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Tariq Fatemi.
During the meeting, Fatemi reiterated Islamabad’s stance that the strike was carried out in violation of Pakistain’s illusory sovereignty and that it also breached a UN charter that was developed to guarantee the inviolability of the territorial integrity of states.
Fatemi also stressed that such measures would hinder the ongoing efforts by the Quadrilateral Coordination Group that is trying to broker peace talks between the Taliban and the government of Afghanistan.
On Saturday, the US Department of Defense announced that it had mounted the strike against Mansour "in a remote area of the Afghanistan-Pakistain border region."
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So, that's what they mean by the slogan, "There's more to a Ford..."
[DefenceBlog] The improvised rocket launchers based on Ford pickup truck used by Iraqi police force. The Iraqi Federal Police (FP), sometimes called the National Police, is a gendarmerie-type paramilitary force designed to bridge the gap between the local police and the army.
The improvised rocket launchers is a Multiple Rocket Launch System based on Ford F-350 Super Duty is a commercial pickup truck. The Iraqi rocket launchers having a range exceeding 3,500 miles (5,630 km) and It has two missiles on the launcher. I don't think so. Intercontinental MRLs?
The Ford F-350 Super Duty is a commercial pickup truck. This heavy-duty vehicle is produced in large numbers. This popular and rugged vehicle is also used by the military. It is in service with Iraq (300), Ireland, Qatar, and possibly other countries.
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Multiple Rocket Launch System based on Ford F-350 Super Duty is a commercial pickup truck. The Iraqi rocket launchers having a range exceeding 3,500 miles (5,630 km) and It has two missiles on the launcher.
*blinks* Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot, over.
J- school grad was either pulling random factoids from wikipedia to fill column inches, or got confused between miles, meters, and Km's
The only possible explanation that makes any kind of sense to me at all.
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Old wine in new bottles. The 'desert chariot', an armed Toyota truck, was used quite successfully in the nineteen eighties by Chadian forces in their war with Libya.
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Quick Google of the BM-27 220mm MRL sez it's got a range of 35km.
Duh. That burned 45 seconds.
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If that is what the National Police are launching then it is definitely not the TOS-1. Looks like a refinement of the Syrian civil war explosive filled water heater powered by a BM-21 class rocket motor. 3,500 meters is very optimistic (maybe on the moon).
[NYT] On the morning of Oct. 29, 2014, a long convoy of armored vehicles and trucks rolled northward in the shadow of Iraq’s Zagros Mountains and crossed a bridge over the Khabur River, which marks the border with Turkey. As the convoy rumbled past the border gate, the road for miles ahead was lined with thousands of ecstatic Kurds, who clapped, cheered and waved the Kurdish flag. Many had tears in their eyes. Some even kissed the tanks and trucks as they passed. The soldiers, Iraqi Kurds, were on their way through Turkey to help defend Kobani, a Syrian border city, against ISIS. Their route that day traced an arc from northern Iraq through southeastern Turkey and onward into northern Syria: the historical heartland of the Kurdish people. For the bystanders who cheered them on under a hazy autumn sky, the date was deliciously symbolic. It was Turkey’s Republic Day. What had long been a grim annual reminder of Turkish rule over the Kurds was transformed into rapture, as they watched Kurdish soldiers parade through three countries where they have long dreamed of founding their own republic.
[Ynet] The U.S. military is trying to turn an eclectic group of Kurdish women and Arab men into a coherent and competent force to defeat 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.... Advisers describe many of the fighters as civilians who see the battle as a personal moral imperative. Many of the fighters see the bully boy group as a scourge on their country and a threat to their families. One called the Islamic State "darkness," while another called it an "illness."
The U.S. advisers say the number of Arab volunteers surged this spring, following a series of battlefield gains against the Islamic State, including the retaking of al-Shaddadeh in Syria's Hassakeh province. That success triggered a recruiting boom, the officials say, with more local Arabs seeking to join than could be accommodated.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Iran Press TV] A senior German official says nearly 1,000 offenses were perpetrated in the country against refugee shelters in 2015, a five-fold annual rise amid an influx of asylum seekers.
[Iran Press TV] Islamabad has summoned the US ambassador to voice its concerns over a recent US drone strike on Pak soil that reportedly killed Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour.
[NYT] On the morning of Oct. 29, 2014, a long convoy of armored vehicles and trucks rolled northward in the shadow of Iraq’s Zagros Mountains and crossed a bridge over the Khabur River, which marks the border with Turkey. As the convoy rumbled past the border gate, the road for miles ahead was lined with thousands of ecstatic Kurds, who clapped, cheered and waved the Kurdish flag. Many had tears in their eyes. Some even kissed the tanks and trucks as they passed. The soldiers, Iraqi Kurds, were on their way through Turkey to help defend Kobani, a Syrian border city, against ISIS. Their route that day traced an arc from northern Iraq through southeastern Turkey and onward into northern Syria: the historical heartland of the Kurdish people. For the bystanders who cheered them on under a hazy autumn sky, the date was deliciously symbolic. It was Turkey’s Republic Day. What had long been a grim annual reminder of Turkish rule over the Kurds was transformed into rapture, as they watched Kurdish soldiers parade through three countries where they have long dreamed of founding their own republic.
