Award-winning American journalist David Gilkey and his Afghan videographer colleague Zabihullah Tamanna were killed last Sunday while traveling with an Afghan army unit that came under fire in southern Helmand province, in a sign of just how dangerous the conflict remains for the media trying to cover it.
But, six days after the tragic incident, new details emerged about the Taliban ambush on the vehicle the two journalists were traveling in.
Colleagues of Gilkey and Tamanna who were traveling in a separate vehicle at the time of the attack said they think it was a pre-planned attack and the Taliban were already informed about their journey to Helmand.
In an interview with TOLOnews, Gilkey's colleagues said that other vehicles were also on the same road, but the Taliban did not target them.
"We waited for two hours for our friends David and Zabi. Because we thought they had a flat tire. We waited and we didn't receive information. Because no one could speak English. We were trying to communicate as best as we could," said one NPR journalist Monika Evstatieva who had been accompanying the two slain journalists in Helmand.
"We were in the front car with the general and its rare to have the commanding officers in the front. He usually rides the second or third or the fourth car. So we wonder if they shot David and Zabi believing they were hitting the vehicle with the general in it," said Tom Boman another colleague of the slain journalists.
The two NPR staffers said the incident happened after they left a military camp and were on their way to Marjah district.
The group of four journalists were traveling in Humvees. The two surviving journalist were with an Afghan army general in the lead vehicle, the second vehicle was carrying Afghan security forces while the third was carrying Tamanna and his American colleague.
"When you step back and look how this happened it is very suspicious that suddenly we drive into an ambush when all those military vehicles were on the road and they were never shooting it down. It was only when we arrived that they opened fire," he said.
After the attack, the car carrying the two surviving journalists returned to the military camp while the other vehicles stayed in the area.
Despite the tragic demise of their colleagues, Bowman and Evstatieva are committed to continuing their work in Afghanistan.
They said the attack will not deter their work and they will come back to Afghanistan.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] After months of debate, the US is close to a decision to expand the military’s authority to conduct Arclight airstrikes against the Taliban as the violence in Afghanistan escalates, a senior US defense official said Thursday.
The official said a final decision has not been made, but the discussions are in their final stages. There is a broad desire across the B.O. regime to give the military greater ability to help the Afghans fight and win the war. The official said the US is likely to expand the authority of US commanders to strike the Taliban and do whatever else is necessary with the forces they have to support the Afghan operations.
The 9,800 US troops still in Afghanistan, however, would still not be involved in direct combat. The official was not authorized to talk publicly about the discussions so spoke on condition of anonymity.
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[An Nahar] Unabated attacks by 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... in 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... have sparked soaring food insecurity and driven 190,000 people from their homes, creating fertile ground for recruitment by the jihadists, the U.N. warned.
Nigeria-based Boko Haram fighters have in recent months carried out fewer spectacular attacks and suicide kabooms in neighboring Cameroon.
But the U.N. humanitarian coordinator for the country Najat Rochdi said the jihadists were attacking villages and burning homes and fields across northern Cameroon on a daily basis.
"The impact of the violence by Boko Haram is not over, and we have to remain vigilant," she told AFP this week.
While the current attacks are less eye-catching, they have a more devastating effect, Rochdi said.
She said that in the last six months alone, the number of Cameroonians displaced within their own country had jumped from 60,000 to 190,000.
In addition, Cameroon is hosting 60,000 refugees from Nigeria and another 312,000 from the Central African Republic, amounting to more than 500,000 displaced people in all.
The number at risk of going hungry, she said, has meanwhile soared from 900,000 to 2.4 million since January, as Boko Haram fighters have continued to attack fields and food supply routes.
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[An Nahar] Five Moslem men have been charged with the murder of an elderly Christian woman over an alleged blasphemy in the north Nigerian city of Kano, police said on Friday.
The suspects are accused, along with six others who are still on the lam, of killing 74-year-old Bridget Abahime last week after she allegedly insulted Islam's holiest figure, the Prophet Mohammed.
All five pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." at a magistrates court in the city and were remanded in jug pending another hearing on June 28.
The victim, an ethnic Igbo trader, was beaten to death at a Kano market on June 2, drawing condemnation from across Nigeria. President Muhammadu Buhari called the killing "utterly condemnable."
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[An Nahar] Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev ...has served as the President of Kazakhstan since the Fall of the Soviet Union and the nation's independence in 1991. Contrary to commonly held belief, there is a difference between Kazakhs and Cossacks: Kazakhs have mustaches. Or maybe it's the other way around... on Friday blamed radical Islamists for deadly shootings that left seven dead in the west of the oil-rich Central Asian state.
Seven people -- four civilians and three soldiers -- were killed after gunnies went on the rampage at gun shops and a military base in the city of Aktobe near the Russian border on Sunday.
"We already know that it was a terrorist attack by a group of followers of the non-traditional religious movement Salafism," Nazarbayev said in a televised meeting with the country's security council, referring to an ultra-conservative brand of Islam.
"While granting freedom of worship in the country, we also intend to deal a decisive blow to all those who, hiding behind religious slogans, upset the situation in the country."
Nazarbayev's comments came hours after security forces killed five more people suspected of perpetrating Sunday's attacks.
In total government troops claim to have killed 18 suspected attackers. Nazarbayev said "a few" of them were still in hiding and has vowed that all attackers would be strictly punished.
Police in Aktobe said Friday that they were still searching for three suspects.
Authorities had initially said that six people were killed in Sunday's attacks but later updated the casualty toll to seven after another civilian succumbed to injuries in the hospital.
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More than 3,000 boat migrants have been rescued in the Mediterranean over the past two days and two bodies have been recovered, Italian Coast Guard said on June 9.
The Coast Guard coordinated rescues of migrants from 15 different boats on June 9, bringing 1,950 people to safety. Two bodies were recovered from a rubber boat. Some 1,100 migrants were rescued at sea on June 8. The coastguard had no details about the nationalities of the migrants,
Esquimaux?
nor about the two deaths.
Lutherans?
All the rescues took place between Italy and Libya, where people-smugglers operate with impunity amid the chaos of civil war.
Britain’s HMS Enterprise and Germany’s FGS Frankfurt, patrolling the area as part of the European Union’s anti-people-smuggling operation, together rescued migrants from seven boats, a coastguard spokesman said.
A Doctors Without Borders (MSF) vessel, the Dignity 1, rescued almost 500 from four boats, while the Phoenix, run by humanitarian group Migrant Offshore Aid Station, took 243 people from two boats.
Almost 50,000 people have come ashore in Italy this year, about 10 percent fewer than in the same period last year, according to the Interior Ministry. Warm weather and calm seas have led to a surge in attempted crossings over the past three weeks, and hence in the number of deaths, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
Some 320 migrants are believed to have drowned off the Greek island of Crete in the Mediterranean last week. So far 2,809 deaths have been recorded this year, about 1,000 more than in the same period of last year, the IOM estimates.
The smugglers charge about $4,000 per refugees. A one-way air ticket from Istanbul to Berlin Templehof is about $110. If Chancellor Merkel really thought that Germany needed more people and that saving refugees was a good idea, she'd be passing out tickets...
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Following successful operations against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorist group in several southeastern provinces of Turkey, PKK militants signaled their intention to lay down arms, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said, the Hurriyet newspaper reported June 9.
"Stop them! They're kicking our asses! And we're ending up in [gasp] Turkish prisons!"
Yildirim added that in spite of this, Turkey will continue military operations against the PKK until the terrorist group is completely destroyed.
Turkey's current priority is internal stability and security of its citizens, Yildirim said.
The conflict between Turkey and the PKK, which demands the creation of an independent Kurdish state, has continued for over 25 years and has claimed more than 40,000 lives.
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[IsraelTimes] Americans awarded $13 million in damages for Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and Hezbollah attacks in Israel, Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... , Leb
That much less for Iran's militaristic adventures, a very good thing.
A Canadian judge has ordered Iran’s non-diplomatic land and bank accounts in Canada to be handed over to victims of attacks by Hamas and Hezbollah, sponsored by Tehran.
The judgment, obtained by AFP on Friday, awards a reported $13 million to families of Americans who died in eight bombings or hostage-takings in Buenos Aires, Israel, Leb and 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 1983 to 2002.
Hundreds died in the attacks.
The families, led by the parents of Marla Bennett, who was killed when a jacket wallah struck at a cafeteria at Hebrew University in Israel in 2002, had successfully sued the Islamic republic in the United States.
The US court found that Iran was responsible for training Hamas and Hezbollah operatives, as well as backing the groups financially.
But those judgments remain largely unpaid.
"Terrorism is one of the world’s greatest threats," Ontario Superior Court Justice Glenn Hainey said in his decision.
"The broad issue before the court is whether Iran is entitled to immunity from the jurisdiction of Canadian courts for its support of terrorism."
The Canadian lawsuits were brought under a relatively new law passed in 2012 that allows victims and their families to collect damages from state sponsors of terrorism.
Canada lists Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism.
Iran did not defend against either the US or Canadian lawsuits.
The ruling comes as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government seeks to re-establish diplomatic ties with Iran, and following Tehran’s detention of a Montreal professor, Homa Hoodfar, without charges.
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[GEO.TV] Pak security forces claimed to have curtailed myrmidon activities by around 80% since the deadliest attack occurred in an Army run school in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. in December 2014.
More than 7, 000 hardcore Lions of Islam were tossed in the slammer
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From Thursday. We live in ever more interesting times.
[Jpost] Following the shooting, Salma al-Jamal, a Paleostinian news anchor working at Al-Jazeera TV, wrote on Twitter: "The Ramadan operation is the best answer to stories about 'grinding of the peace processor'."
Paleostinians in the West Bank and east Jerusalem erupted into the streets to celebrate the deadly terrorist shooting in Tel Aviv on Wednesday night that left four people dead.
Upon hearing the reports of the shooting, dozens of Paleostinians gathered at Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem, singing out loud and cheering the gunnies.
In the West Bank city of Tulkarm, many young men erupted into the streets and distributed candies to the local drivers, while in the Dheisheh Refugee Camp in Bethlehem dozens of Paleostinians participated in a march praising the terror attack.
Paleostinians also expressed their joy on social media networks, where they created the hashtags "#Carlo Bullet," after the name of the improvised submachine gun used in the attack, and "#Ramadan Operation" to laud the horrendous terror shooting.
Another popular hashtag on Paleostinian social media networks was "#We broke the fast killing them," referring to the fact that the two gunnies broke their Ramadan fast in the restaurant where they later shot people.
Following the shooting, Salma al-Jamal, a Paleostinian news anchor working at Al-Jazeera ... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula, as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS... TV, wrote on her Twitter page: "The Ramadan operation that took place today is the best answer to stories we have been hearing about 'grinding of the peace processor' that some people are trying in vain to revive."
In a striking contrast to the Paleostinian reaction, the official Saudi media strongly denounced the Tel Aviv terror attack.
Reporting about the shooting on its Facebook page, the well-known Saudi TV channel al-Arabiya referred to the people injured in the attack as "victims," and not as "settlers" as most of the Arab outlets usually refer to Israelis. This remark aroused cynical reactions among users on social media, who claimed that the channel distorted the report to defend Israel, because the victims are Paleostinians, not Israelis.
Dahham al-Enazi, a member of the Saudi Journalists Association, also condemned the shooting in a series of remarks on his Twitter page.
"The Tel Aviv attack is terror and thuggery. Our solidarity and support for the Paleostinian people does not mean that we accept the killing of innocents and civilians. We would like to extend our condolences to the families of the victims," Enazi said.
"I will keep saying that killing civilians and innocents in the streets as happened in the Tel Aviv attack is terror. Even if it happened in the streets of Tehran or Isfahan it would be terror," he concluded.
[IsraelTimes] At least 30 projectiles launched, although not aimed at Israeli territory
The Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, terror organization on Friday test-fired dozens of short-range rockets in the Gazoo Strip, with Israeli sources estimating that at least 30 projectiles were launched.
The rockets were aimed at areas not under Israeli control, Army Radio reported.
The tests came as part of ongoing efforts by Hamas to improve its rocket range and accuracy, two years after it last fought Israel. The Islamist terror group, which seeks to destroy Israel, has also been digging tunnels towards and under the Israeli border, in preparation for further conflict.
The Defense Ministry announced late last month that Israel foiled an attempt to smuggle metal pipes and motors into the Gazoo Strip, which could have been used for building rockets and tunnels.
The Gazoo-bound shipment came through Tarkumiya, a small village outside of Hebron in the West Bank. The trucks were headed to the Kerem Shalom Crossing, where they would enter the coastal enclave.
Inspectors at the Tarkumiya crossing, along with the Shin Bet security service, intercepted the packages, which were believed to have been on their way to Hamas in the Gazoo Strip, the ministry said in a statement.
According to officials, the "large shipment" consisted of "hundreds of pipes with a diameter under four inches, with a special kind of screw that is used for the production of mortars and rockets."
"The shipment has been confiscated and an investigation has been opened to locate those involved in the smuggling," the Defense Ministry said.
Also in May, the Israel Tax Authority uncovered an attempt to sneak four tons of ammonium chloride into Gazoo, concealed in table salt.
Sacks of the ammonium chloride were found buried in some 36 tons of salt. The chemical compound is used mainly in agriculture as a fertilizer, but like many nitrogen-based fertilizers, can also be turned into an explosive.
"This case underscores the activity of Gazoo-based terrorist organizations in smuggling dual-use materials disguised as goods destined for the civilian population and reconstruction projects," the Tax Authority said at the time.
#1
This may be a little untraditional, but what about rounding up the testers, their vehicles, any logistical supplies from the test site then follow them home to confiscate everything before blowing the house?
It seems a test site would be softer than a weapons launch site.
What else are they going to do with the rockets? Fish? No they are gonna lob them over the line.
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian cousins who killed four at Sarona Market entered Israel through gap in security fence, got help, changed clothes, took cabs from Beersheba
The two Paleostinian Lions of Islam who perpetrated the attack at the Sarona Market in central Tel Aviv on Wednesday night, killing four Israelis, arrived in the city by taxi from Beersheba, according to information revealed by security authorities Friday.
According to a joint investigation by the Shin Bet, IDF and Border Police, the two perpetrators, cousins Muhammad and Khalid Muhamra from the West Bank town of Yatta, left their village just south of Hebron and made their way to the Israeli settlement of Meitar through a wide gap in the security barrier.
The two were already armed, having purchased their weapons -- Carl Gustav automatic firearms -- in their hometown through an intermediary.
This suspected collaborator was reportedly tossed in the calaboose Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! by Israeli security forces sometime between Wednesday night and Thursday. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed Thursday that a third man had been arrested.
Once on the Israeli side in Meitar, the cousins were assisted by a Paleostinian man working illegally in Israel who drove them to the Bedouin town of Segev Shalom, southeast of Beersheba.
This is where, according to the investigation, they changed into the formal attire -- suits and ties -- which they wore when they carried out the attack.
Dressed and armed, they took a taxi from Segev Shalom to Beersheba, and another cab to Tel Aviv’s Sarona Market where, after entering and ordering dessert at the Max Brenner cafe, they got up and fired their weapons at the Israeli customers around them, killing four and wounding 16.
A cab ride from Beersheba to Tel Aviv takes less than two hours and costs approximately NIS 400 (about $100)
According to Channel 2, the taxi driver who took them from Beersheba to Tel Aviv was picked up by police for questioning, and claimed he had no idea who they were and what they planned to do.
According to a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office on Thursday, work to plug the gaps in the security fence in the Tarkumiya-Meitar area will begin on June 28 and the budget has already been allocated.
Israel has also deployed additional forces to the area until the work is completed, the PMO's office said.
[An Nahar] An Israeli police officer inadvertently invited a Paleostinian gunman into his home after the Tel Aviv shooting thinking he was a civilian fleeing the scene of the attack, media reported Friday.
Two Paleostinians opened fire on Israelis in a popular Tel Aviv market at random on Wednesday, killing four people and injuring at least five others.
Hundreds of civilians expeditiously departed at a goodly pace when the attack started, including the off-duty police officer, his wife and in-laws who were out having ice cream, the Yediot Aharonot newspaper reported.
"We started to run towards the house, in order to be in a safe place and for my husband to take his handgun," the police officer's wife, identified only by her first name Ofri, told the newspaper.
"We got into the building and opened the apartment door and then we saw that another person had joined us. We asked him who he was and he didn't speak, just asked for 'water, water'," she said.
Ofri said the man was wearing a tight fitting black suit and tie.
"We thought that he was a civilian like us," she said.
The police officer then grabbed his gun and rushed back out to the scene of the attack at Tel Aviv's Serona market, leaving the alleged attacker at home with his wife and her parents.
Upon arrival the officer saw a gunman, who had been shot, wearing an identical suit as the man he had left at home with his wife.
He immediately made the connection, raced back home and tossed in the calaboose Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! the man.
"My husband came in with his gun drawn, grabbed the terrorist, put him on the floor and handcuffed him," Ofri said.
"At first we didn’t understand why he was doing this to the innocent civilian who had been sitting with us, so frightened. But then he said: 'he’s dressed just like the other terrorist,'" she added.
They were dressed like they came from the West Bank, said the Arab-Israeli waiter who observed them before they opened fire in his restaurant.
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The dark blue my friend, the dark blue, trust me.
I dunno Mr. Glickman, I want to look goyish I guess?
Abbie! Turn on the camouflage light!
[An Nahar] French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault voiced outrage on Friday after the Syrian regime barrel-bombed Daraya just as aid workers were distributing the first food supplies to the besieged town in years.
Ayrault accused Damascus of "extraordinary duplicity", saying the regime had finally granted access to aid convoys after heavy international pressure "and then the bombing restarted."
The foreign minister said he was "outraged beyond words" and called for world powers to meet to discuss the worsening crisis from Syria's five-year war.
A convoy of trucks carrying food arrived in Daraya late Thursday, delivering rice, lentils, sugar, oil and wheat flour to civilians for the first time since the regime laid siege to the town in late 2012.
Early Friday, the town came under heavy bombardment, with the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights saying regime helicopters had dropped at least 20 barrel bombs.
Ayrault accused the regime of "continuing to attack its own people" and said "there is no more ceasefire" as agreed by Russia and the United States in late February.
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[An Nahar] Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... 's Loyalty to Resistance parliamentary bloc warned Thursday that remarks by Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh about the suspension of 100 Hizbullah-linked bank accounts reflect an inclination to renounce "national illusory sovereignty."
"The policy of blackmail and various type of pressures that the U.S. administrations practice against countries and forces that are opposed to their policies will never manage to arm-twist Hizbullah or change its stances against the U.S. tyranny and injustice," the bloc said in a statement.
"The current U.S. administration's targeting of the resistance and its supporters through the Lebanese banking sector is doomed to fail and will not succeed in achieving its objectives," Loyalty to Resistance stressed.
"The government and the Central Bank are directly concerned with protecting Leb's illusory sovereignty and its monetary and social stability," the bloc added.
Commenting on Salameh's latest statements, Loyalty to Resistance described them as "ambiguous and suspicious."
"The central bank governor's latest stance reflects an inclination to liberate the financial policy from the restraints of national illusory sovereignty and that's why we reject it in its entirety," the bloc said.
"Everyone must realize that the resistance's supporters and educational and health institutions are immune to any attempt to target them by anyone," it added.
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This is the joyful moment a woman literally casts off ISIS rule by taking off her terrorist-imposed black niqab in front of fellow liberated villagers in northern Syria.
The strict dress code implemented by ISIS in their conquered areas in Syria and Iraq dictates that all women be covered from head to toe in black, covering their faces with a veil.
Images of women celebrating their freedom by no longer covering their faces in black veils are flowing out of Aleppo, where several villages and towns have been liberated from ISIS this week.
Other women in the village on the outskirts of Manbij, Aleppo, stand next to her, all wearing coloured dresses with their hands and faces exposed.
On Thursday, Khadija Abdu Al-Muotee from liberated Abu Qalqal, south of Manbij, also cast off the ISIS rules, and swore to never wear black again.
'Now I will only wear red!' an exhilarated Mrs Abdu Al-Muotee told Ara News after her town in northern Syria was freed from ISIS this week.
Celebrating the freedom of her home, Mrs Abdu Al-Muotee can be seen wearing a red leopard-print hijab decorated with flowers over a leopard-print dress with red patterns.
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Prancing about with nothing on, they should be ashamed of themselves.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Efforts to choke off the finances of ISIS have left it unable to pay its fighters and spurred corruption within the group, a senior US official said Thursday.
Daniel Glaser, the Treasury’s assistant secretary for terrorist financing, told Congress that a combination of bombing attacks on ISIS cash stores and oil shipments, locking it out of the banking system, and cutting off Iraq government cash flows to ISIS-controlled areas, has left the group struggling financially.
"As a result of these efforts, ISIS is struggling to pay its fighters and we have seen a number of ISIS fighters leaving the battlefield as their pay and benefits have been cut and delayed," he said, using the US’s preferred acronym for 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.... "When we see indications that ISIS cannot pay the salaries of its own fighters and is trying to make up for lost revenue elsewhere, we know we are hitting them where it hurts.... ISIS, like any terrorist organization, needs money to survive," he said.
In written testimony for a House of Representatives committee hearing on security threats, Glaser said the US government’s focused attack on the financial resources of Islamic State and other groups the US dubs terrorist have had significant impact.
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[Daily Caller] The House Select Committee on Benghazi on Friday issued a subpoena for a Defense Department official who recently falsely claimed that the military could not identify a drone operator who was working on the night of the Benghazi attacks.
The identity of the drone operator, who has been publicly identified only as "John from Iowa," has long been known to the Air Force, Select Committee chairman Trey Gowdy said Thursday after he was interviewed.
He said that the Defense Department "has expended significant resources to locate anyone who might match the description of this person, to no avail." I'm sure the two are totally unrelated, but in other 'Drone' related news: FBI investigating drone emails as part of Clinton server probe
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.
More than 3,000 boat migrants have been rescued in the Mediterranean over the past two days and two bodies have been recovered, Italian Coast Guard said on June 9. 
... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means 
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Efforts to choke off the finances of ISIS have left it unable to pay its fighters and spurred corruption within the group, a senior US official said Thursday.
