Farmers and members of the provincial council in the northern province of Baghlan said Sunday that the Taliban have imposed illegal taxes on them to finance their war.
They said that the Taliban has ordered that for every 70 kilogram of wheat, seven kgs must be given to the Taliban as usher (tax). Farmers said that the Taliban issue them forms after collecting the tax.
"Taliban collects tax and gives forms, they collect seven kg wheat from each 70 kg," said a local farmer Khawja Habib.
"Taliban ask people for taxes, they collect one pack of wheat or more than that sometimes," a local resident Alam said.
They called on the government to address the issue.
"Taliban collect tax and dominate," another resident Gul Mir said.
"Taliban collects taxes and the government does not take action, people are forced to do whatever the Taliban order," farmer Sher Alam said.
Similar reports have surfaced about tax collection by the Taliban in areas under their control in the past.
"The Taliban impose a tax on people to get funding to continue the fight against government. The highway is under the control of Taliban, all villages are under control of the Taliban and they collect tax," said Shasulhaq Barakzai, a member of the provincial council.
It is said that currently the Taliban control at least 100 villages in Baghlan.
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That's what I said during the American Revolution. You can pay King George III or you can pay George Washington. One way or another there's gonna be a guy named George who's gonna make you pay.
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Legitimate governments impose taxes and execute criminals. Illegitimate ones are simply robbers, extortionists or murderers. Maybe the trouble is with the translate from the original languages.
[An Nahar] Sitting behind a table in his downtown Khartoum office, Sudanese businessman Ammar Sajjad talks in a hushed tone about his son's detention at his college campus last year.
For hours the 19-year-old electronics student was repeatedly beaten in a small room by a group of fellow pupils, who Sajjad said were members of a "jihad unit" that was active at the college.
"Nobody had access to this room, not even the police or professors," said Sajjad.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The prime minister of Libya’s UN-backed unity government has ruled out an international military intervention to fight ISIS, which has had a growing presence in the country since 2014.
Some 25 nations including the United States and Russia agreed last month to help Libya arm itself against the bad boys, but Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj told French newspaper Journal du Dimanche he would not allow foreign troops on the ground.
"It’s true that we need help from the international community in our fight against terrorism and it’s true that this is something we have already received," he said in the interview, published Sunday.
"But we are not talking about international intervention," Sarraj said, adding that the presence of foreign ground troops would be "contrary to our principles."
"Rather we need satellite images, intelligence, technical help... not bombardments," he said.
The Government of National Accord (GNA), established in 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... more than two months ago, has been trying to unify violence-ridden Libya and exert its control over the entire North African country.
However, ars longa, vita brevis... it faces opposition from a competing authority based in the east which has its own armed forces - militias and some units of the national army - commanded by controversial General Khalifa Haftar ... served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... Both bodies are currently engaged in a race to be the first to drive ISIS out of the coastal city of Sirte, a bastion for gunnies in the country.
On Saturday, forces loyal to the GNA said they had retaken an bad boy air base near the city.
Sarraj told Journal du Dimanche that "total victory over ISIS in Sirte is close."
"(We hope) that this war against terrorism will be able to unite Libya. But it will be long. And the international community knows that," he said
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Thank you, but no thanks. One intervention is enough.
[Dhaka Tribune] Babul Akter, a decorated police officer and a recipient of Bangladesh Police Medal in 2012 for bravery, was once introduced by the then inspector general of police at a government function as the most fearless and talented officer in his force for leading a good number of counter-terrorism operations against "homegrown" bully boys.
But such accolades, high praise, honour, and his own dedication to his job were not enough to save his own family. Akter's wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu was stabbed and rubbed out on broad daylight in downtown Chittagong's busiest area yesterday, apparently in the hands of those same bully boys. Their seven-year-old son was a witness of the incident.
On the very same day, an elderly Christian shopkeeper was hacked to death in NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... re's Banpara upazila, which has had a notorious history of bully boy activities for years.
Though the killing of the sexagenarian shopkeeper can be listed as one more tally in the ongoing killing spree, claimed by the so-called 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.... or al-Qaeda in the Indian sub-continent (AQIS) operatives, but the 32-year-old Mitu's execution came as a shock to many, for the inconsistency in the known modus operandi (MO) of the bully boys.
Thus far, writers, publishers, online activists, teachers, priests, imams, LGBT activists and foreigners have been targeted in the bully boy killings.
It is safe to assume that Akter, for his direct involvement as a crucial part of state machinery in rooting out militancy, will be considered a highly-valuable target for the bully boys. But the killing of his wife demonstrates that the bully boys' MO has taken a drastically different and dangerous turn. They are not only working to spread fear among the population, but also they will not hesitate to take the path of retaliation by killing family members of coppers, mafia style.
Security analyst Maj Gen (retd) AK Mohammad Ali Sikder said: "Earlier, snuffies attacked police officials, personnel but never a family member. It seems the bully boy groups have changed the nature of their targets. They are targeting the family members of the active and efficient police officials to break their morale and to push forward their own agenda."
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[Dhaka Tribune] More than 100,000 Islamic scholars, leaders, thinkers and Olemas have finalised a "Fatwa of peace for human well-being" to curb militancy in Bangladesh.
The Khatib of Sholakia Eidgah, who took the initiative last year, said more than 100,000 Islamic religious scholars signed the groundbreaking fatwa against terrorism and militancy.
Last December, Fariduddin Masuud, secretary general of Jamaat-e-Ulema Maulana, first came up with the idea of using Fatwa to curb militancy and sought assistance from the police and other stakeholders.
Talking to the Dhaka Tribune, the Islamic scholar said the main theme of the fatwa was "Fatwa of peace for human well-being."
Masuud said they would announce the fatwa on June 18 through a presser in Dhaka city.
"We have prepared the main part of the fatwa with 10 questions that had been raised by the Death Eater groups and we answered those questions quoting the holy Qur'an and Hadith."
Masuud said 300 Olemas first finalised the draft. "Then we finalised the copy and sent it to Olemas across the country and they sent it back with their signatures. More than 100,000 Olemas signed the Fatwa."
The Khatib of the country's largest Eid congregation said the primary target was to publish a pamphlet writing only the main part of the fatwa and to distribute it among 10 million people.
"It is our primary target. But we will not seek any assistance from the government, but if government comes forward we will welcome it. If we can reach to 10 million people then it will reach 160 million people automatically," he said.
Masuud said the Olemas who signed the Fatwa would also preach it in their mosques and madrasas.
"One cannot deny that in Bangladesh, Fatwas can have a tremendous impact. A statement against terrorism by holy mans can be very effective," he said.
The Khatib said online and social media would be used to spread the message and to sensitise the public. "We will use Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and so on. Because the young generation gets so much misleading information on online platforms, to counter this, online media should be focused on more."
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unfortunately these 'peace' fatwas have, in the past, always had enough ambiguity and loopholes to allow honor killings, forced marriages, blasphemy killings, etc. to continue
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[An Nahar] A German right-wing populist politician has attacked Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... as a "dictator" who is trying to "replace the German people" with migrants colonists, a Sunday newspaper reported.
Alexander Gauland, of the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, told a rally outside Berlin that Merkel's liberal asylum policy was radically transforming the face of the country, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung said.
He called Merkel a "chancellor-dictator" to applause from the crowd and said Germany's mainstream parties were pursuing a policy of "human flooding", an "attempt to gradually replace the German people with a population coming from all parts of the earth".
The remarks could later be seen in a video posted on YouTube from the rally in the town of Elsterwerda Thursday.
Gauland, 75, is seen twice reading from a sign held by a member of the crowd: "Today we are tolerant and tomorrow foreign in our own country," a far-right slogan used by the neo-Nazi NPD party.
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[An Nahar] The co-leader of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) said on Sunday he was "not afraid" of being put on trial after parliament scrapped the immunity of dozens of MPs in a hugely controversial move.
Selahattin Demirtas and the HDP co-leader Figen Yuksekdag and dozens of other party MPs risk being put on trial and even tossed in the calaboose Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! on accusations of alleged support for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
"We are are not afraid of being put on trial," Demirtas said at a party rally in Istanbul. "But we have the right to wait so that the judicial authority that judges us is a true judicial authority."
He added: "We are being sent before a tribunal to extract a political Dire Revenge."
Prosecutors have already opened criminal investigations against Demirtas and Yuksekdag over calls for demonstrations in 2014 that turned violent. Until now, their immunity prevented them from being charged.
Sunday's rally passed off largely peacefully although police detained several participants for brandishing banners supporting the PKK and tossed in the calaboose Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! leader Abdullah Ocalan, an AFP photographer said.
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[DAWN] Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar warned on Saturday that while Prime Minister Narendra Modi had opened a window of goodwill and dialogue with Pakistain, it was now closing as doubts remained about its sincerity in tackling terrorism.
"Prime Minister Modi opened a window of opportunities when he visited (the) Pakistain prime minister. I think that window is slowly closing. Before it closes, Pakistain needs to develop that trust with India on its sincerity on the approach," he was quoted by NDTV as saying.
"Pakistain separates bandidossnuffies between good ones and bad ones. They are after bad ones but the good ones are promoted to operate in Afghanistan and India. I think that needs to be tackled at a diplomatic level," Mr Parrikar said.
The minister made the comments at the Shangri-La Dialogue, an inter-governmental security forum in Singapore. He referred to Mr Modi’s surprise visit to Lahore in December last year. The comments were backed by a tweet from BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav, a senior RSS man.
The comments came a day after the chief of the National Investigation Agency probing the Pathankot terrorist attack said the Pakistain government did not appear to be involved.
Mr Modi and Prime Minister 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... earlier this week had a phone conversation ahead of the latter’s heart surgery in London. They reportedly discussed ties between India and Pakistain that have cooled in recent weeks over the probe into the Pathankot terrorist strike.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An exhausted and ill-equipped Iraqi Army will most likely delay for months a long-planned major offensive against ISIS in Iraq’s second largest city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , American officials told the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... in an interview published Friday.
While President Barack Obama The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn’t. But she is a typical white person... was keen to reduce US involvement in the Middle East especially in Iraq, the United States in the last two years has increased its logistic support to further equip the Iraqi Army, which has struggled to funnel basics like food, water and arms to its troops.
The Americans are currently helping with organizing logistics by insisting on the Iraqis to implement measures to enhance a supply chain that would run over 200 miles from Defense Ministry depots in the capital Baghdad area to the ISIS-occupied Mosul.
"Logistics is one of the things we are most concerned about, so we look to do everything we can to keep the timeline on track," Col. Christopher Garver, the United States front man for the coalition fighting the ISIS in Iraq, told the New York Times.
The American commanders told the paper that without US help, the offensive against Mosul would most likely fail.
The officials also described Iraq’s scorching summer heat as a major impediment. Also, a much slower pace of work is expected due to the start of the holy month of Ramadan for Moslems on Monday.
Moslems who fast abstain from eating, drinking, smoking and having martial relations from dawn until sunset.
"A lull won’t be sexy, but it’s the hard and important work that needs to be done to generate combat power," said Col. Steven Warren, who until this month was the top American military front man in Iraq.
While Americans prioritized attacking ISIS in Mosul, Iraqi government of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi launched a vast offensive on May 22-23 against Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids... which lies only 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of Baghdad and is one of ISIS’s main bastions.
Abadi’s decision came after a rising domestic pressure to stop the threat emanating from Fallujah after a series of bloody bombings claimed by ISIS in the capital Baghdad.
Two weeks after the launch of the operation to recapture Fallujah, Iraqi forces said on Sunday they have secured the southern edge of the city.
Backed by US-led air strikes, Iraq’s elite counter-terrorism service has over the past week attempted to break into the center of the city but has been slowed by tough resistance, as well as concerns over the presence in central Fallujah of an estimated 50,000 civilians.
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"Ill equipped" because all the equipment USA gives them ends in ISIS hands?
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The fight in Falluja will be a Pyrrhic victory for the winner - either ISIS or the Iraqi/Shia Army...both will be fought to a frazzle. The fighting season will end early this year for the Iraqis...other than a truck load of dire threats that will last through the fall. Maybe Mosul, maybe next year.
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The Iraqi Army is ill-led rather than ill-equipped.
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the 3rd battle of Fallujah will be on going the who month of Ramadan
a lot of the fasting in Fallujah itself will be simply because the city is running short of food and water
with respect to the Iraqi Army and the Shiite militias, they have probably already obtained get a fatwa permitting them to eat and drink during daylight during this Ramadan but I haven't seen any reports on this
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Mosul has pretty much been an afterthought for a long, long time.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Iraqi government will investigate allegations of abuses by the security forces in the course of the operation to retake the Lion of Islam-held city of Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids... a front man said on Sunday.
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has ordered the creation of a human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... committee to examine "any violation to the instructions on the protection of civilians," Saad al-Hadithi said in a televised briefing.
He said Abadi had issued "strict orders" for prosecutions to take place in the event of any abuses.
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the most revered Shiite holy man in Iraq, has issued guidelines intended as a form of code of conduct for forces fighting ISIS and aimed at curbing abuses.
Officials including Parliament Speaker Salim al-Juburi have expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... over reports of abuses committed by the forces involved in the operation to recapture Fallujah.
Juburi spoke on Thursday of "information indicating that some violations were carried out by some members of the federal police and some volunteers against civilians."
The statement did not provide details on the alleged abuses, but urged Abadi to "look into these acts and deal with them in a strict and expeditious way."
Fallujah is a Sunni city that lies only 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of Baghdad and is one of ISIS’s most emblematic bastions.
The Hashed al-Shaabi taking part in the Fallujah operation is an umbrella organization that includes Sunni tribal fighters but is dominated by powerful Tehran-backed Shiite militias.
It is nominally under Abadi’s authority but some of its most powerful groups answer directly to Iran.
Those groups have been repeatedly accused of fueling sectarianism and their involvement in the Fallujah battle was seen as potentially explosive.
Hadithi reiterated Abadi’s stance that the fate of the estimated 50,000 civilians still believed trapped inside the besieged city was given utmost priority.
"The operation to liberate Fallujah could have been completed in days but we put the safety of civilians first," the front man said.
Iraqi forces launched an offensive to retake the jihadist bastion on May 22-23. After a week of shaping operations, they have since struggled to break into the city center.
The UN’s top envoy in Iraq, Jan Kubis, also said in a statement that Iraq should "thoroughly investigate" reports of human rights violations against civilians.
"This noble cause of ridding Fallujah of ISIS (ISIS) gunnies should not be allowed to be tarnished by violations of human rights and dignity of people, notably on sectarian grounds," he said.
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It's hard for me to get all worked up and sympathetic about the poor, innocent people of Fallujah.
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When this round is over, the residents of Fallujah will have a lovely collection of rubble and dust where once there were houses into which they'd invited ISIS. Kind of like Sodom and Gomorrah...
[IsraelTimes] In Jerusalem Day message, PA president says Paleostinian people will not settle for anything less than independent state with East Jerusalem as capital
Bluster, and pointless bluster at that. But he has to say something to offset the celebration of the conquest of Jerusalem and the Palestinian territories in '67.
In March, a senior commander with the Islamic State group was driving through northern Syria on orders to lead militants in the fighting there when a drone blasted his vehicle to oblivion.
The killing of Abu Hayjaa al-Tunsi, a Tunisian jihadi, sparked a panicked hunt within the group's ranks for spies who could have tipped off the U.S-led coalition about his closely guarded movements. By the time it was over, the group would kill 38 of its own members on suspicion of acting as informants.
They were among dozens of IS members killed by their own leadership in recent months in a vicious purge after a string of airstrikes killed prominent figures. Others have disappeared into prisons and still more have fled, fearing they could be next as the jihadi group turns on itself in the hunt for moles, according to Syrian opposition activists, Kurdish militia commanders, several Iraqi intelligence officials and an informant for the Iraqi government who worked within IS ranks.
The fear of informants has fueled paranoia among the militants' ranks. A mobile phone or internet connection can raise suspicions. As a warning to others, IS has displayed the bodies of some suspected spies in public -- or used particularly gruesome methods, including reportedly dropping some into a vat of acid. Sounds like some higher-up in the military heard about our plan . . . .
IS "commanders don't dare come from Iraq to Syria because they are being liquidated" by airstrikes, said Bebars al-Talawy, an opposition activist in Syria who monitors the jihadi group.
Over the past months, American officials have said that the U.S. has killed a string of top commanders from the group, including its "minister of war" Omar al-Shishani, feared Iraqi militant Shaker Wuhayeb, also known as Abu Wahib, as well as a top finance official known by several names, including Haji Iman, Abu Alaa al-Afari or Abu Ali Al-Anbari. Yeesh. You should see what the spell-checker did with this paragraph!
In the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, the biggest city held by IS across its "caliphate" stretching across Syria and Iraq, a succession of militants who held the post of "wali," or governor, in the province have died in airstrikes. As a result, those appointed to governor posts have asked not to be identified and they limit their movements, the Iraqi informant told The Associated Press. Iraqi intelligence officials allowed the AP to speak by phone with the informant, who spoke on condition of anonymity, fearing for his life.
The purge comes at a time when IS has lost ground in both Syria and Iraq. An Iraqi government offensive recaptured the western city of Ramadi from IS earlier this year, and another mission is underway to retake the nearby city of Fallujah.
Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said some IS fighters began feeding information to the coalition about targets and movements of the group's officials because they needed money after the extremist group sharply reduced salaries in the wake of coalition and Russian airstrikes on IS-held oil facilities earlier this year. The damage and the loss of important IS-held supply routes into Turkey have reportedly hurt the group's financing.
"They have executed dozens of fighters on charges of giving information to the coalition or putting (GPS) chips in order for the aircraft to strike at a specific area," said Abdurrahman, referring to IS in Syria.
The militants have responded with methods of their own for rooting out spies, said the informant. For example, they have fed false information to a suspected member about the movements of IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and if an airstrike follows on the alleged location, they know the suspect is a spy, he said. They stop fighters in the street and inspect their mobile phones, sometimes making the fighter call any unusual numbers in front of them to see who they are. Hopefully they don't find out about the operatives we have sleeping with their wives. Or the microphones we put in the collars of their favorite goats.
After the killing of al-Anbari, seven or eight IS officials in Mosul were taken into custody and have since disappeared, their fates unknown, said the informant.
"Daesh is now concentrating on how to find informers because they have lost commanders that are hard to replace," said a senior Iraqi intelligence official in Baghdad, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group. "Now any IS commander has the right to kill a person whom they suspect is an informer for the coalition."
Another Iraqi intelligence official said at least 10 IS fighters and security officials in Mosul were killed by the group in April on suspicion of giving information to the coalition because of various strikes in the city.
Mosul also saw one of the most brutal killings of suspected informants last month, when about a dozen fighters and civilians were drowned in a vat filled with acid, one senior Iraqi intelligence official said.
In the western province of Anbar, the Iraqi militant Wuhayeb was killed in a May 6 airstrike in the town of Rutba. Wuhayeb was a militant veteran, serving first in al-Qaida in Iraq before it became the Islamic State group. He first came to prominence in 2013, when a video showed him and his fighters stopping a group of Syrian truck drivers crossing Anbar. Wuhayeb asks each if he is Sunni or Shiite, and when they say Sunni, he quizzes them on how many times one bows during prayer. When they get it wrong, three of them admit to being Alawites, a Shiite offshoot sect, and Wuhayeb and his men lay the three drivers in the dirt and shoot them to death.
After Wuhayeb's killing, IS killed several dozen of its own members in Anbar, including some mid-level officials, on suspicion of informing on his location, and other members fled to Turkey, the two intelligence officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the press.
Some of the suspects were shot dead in front of other IS fighters as a lesson, the Iraqi officials said.
After the Tunisian militant Abu Hayjaa was killed on the road outside Raqqa on March 30, IS leadership in Iraq sent Iraqi and Chechen security officials to investigate, according to Abdurrahman and al-Talawy, the Syria-based activist. Suspects were rounded up, taken to military bases around Raqqa, and the purge ensued. Within days, 21 IS fighters were killed, including a senior commander from North Africa, Abdurrahman said.
Dozens more were taken back to Iraq for further questioning. Of those, 17 were killed and 32 were expelled from the group but allowed to live, Abdurrahman and al-Talawy said, both citing their contacts in the militant group. Among those brought to Iraq was the group's top security official for its Badiya "province," covering a part of central and eastern Syria. His fate remains unknown.
Non-IS members are also often caught up in the hunt for spies. In the Tabqa, near Raqqa, IS fighters brought a civilian, Abdul-Hadi Issa, into the main square before dozens of onlookers and announced he was accused of spying.
A masked militant then stabbed him in the heart and, with the knife still stuck in the man's chest, the fighter shot him in the head with a pistol.
Issa's body was hanged in the square with a large piece of paper on his chest proclaiming the crime and the punishment. IS circulated photos of the killing on social media.
According to al-Talawy, several other IS members were killed in the town of Sukhna near the central Syrian city of Palmyra on charges of giving information to the coalition about IS bases in the area as well as trying to locate places where al-Baghdadi might be.
Sherfan Darwish, of the U.S.-backed Syria Democratic Forces, which has been spearheading the fight against IS in Syria, said there is panic in IS-held areas where the extremists have killed people simply for having telecommunications devices in their homes.
"There is chaos. Some members and commanders are trying to flee," Darwish said.
The U.S. -led coalition has sought to use its successes in targeting IS leaders to intimidate others. In late May, warplanes dropped leaflets over IS-held parts of Syria with the pictures of two senior militants killed previously in airstrikes. "What do these Daesh commanders have in common?" the leaflet read. "They were killed at the hands of the coalition."
The jihadis have responded with their own propaganda.
"America, do you think that victory comes by killing a commander or more?" IS spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani said in a May 21 audio message. "We will not be deterred by your campaigns and you will not be victorious." What? We didn't do anything. Except maybe sit here and enjoy watching you punch yourself in the face.
[An Nahar] Security agencies have determined that 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.... Death Eater group is adopting the "cluster cell" method in order to expand its operations in Leb and abroad, reported the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat on Sunday.
Security sources explained to the daily that cluster cells work independently from each other and the members of each cell do not know the identity of members of other cells.
This means that the members of a cell incarcerated Book 'im, Mahmoud! in the southern city of Sidon in early May was unaware of the plots of another cell uncovered by the army in Khirbet Daoud in Akkar on Thursday, said al-Hayat.
Three Death Eaters were arrested in the Khirbt Daoud raid.
These suspects had no information about a group that was detained by State Security in Aley on Friday, reported the daily.
The terror group's method has not deterred the security forces however from detaining a number of murderous Moslems throughout the country.
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[An Nahar] Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Wally Jumblat ... Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling... noted Sunday that the presidential chances of Marada Movement the personal militia of Suleiman Franjieh, president of Lebanon at the outbreak of the civil war, currently Syrian toadies, but you never know when that could change... chief MP Suleiman Franjieh have "started to collapse," adding that he is willing to endorse Free Patriotic Movement
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iran has rejected an annual US State Department report that called it the world's leading sponsor of terrorism.
State TV on Sunday quotes Foreign Ministry front man Hossein Jaberi Ansari as saying the report is "false" and further evidence of the "lack of credibility of reports by the US State Department."
As in many previous years, the report identified Iran as the world's "foremost state sponsor of terrorism in 2015" through its financing, training and equipping of various murderous Moslem groups, notably Leb's Hezbollah, as well as the government of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... But Tehran has defended its support for Paleostinian murderous Moslem groups, saying they have the right to resist Israel's occupation.
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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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
In March, a senior commander with the Islamic State group was driving through northern Syria on orders to lead militants in the fighting there when a drone blasted his vehicle to oblivion.
Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling...
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
