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Syrian rebels capture ISIS HQ in Deir Ezzor
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Afghanistan
Gen. Raziq confirms Taliban chief’s visit to Helmand
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The provincial police chief of southern Kandahar province Gen. Abdul Raziq confirmed the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
supreme leader Mullah Hebatullah Akhundzada visited southern Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province nearly ten days ago.
Gen. Raziq said a number of the members of the Quetta Council of the Taliban as well as some operatives of the Pak intelligence were also accompanying Mullah Hebatullah during his visit.
He said the Taliban chief arrived to Musa Qala district where he summoned a meeting of his local commanders and leaders to discuss the ongoing situation.
According to Gen. Raziq, the Taliban Überstürmbannführers and leaders were summoned from the southern and western provinces of the country for the talks.
The Kandahar police chief believes the main topic discussed during the meeting included the growing pressure, including increased Arclight airstrikes that have badly interrupted the operations of the group.
This comes as a source in South of Afghanistan privy of the development has said the leader of the Taliban group has instructed his fighters to end the war with the terror group.
The source further added that the leader of the group has instructed his fighters not to attack the Lions of Islam of the terror group in a meeting with his commanders during the recent days.
Akhundzada has also told his fighters and commanders that the cause of the Taliban and ISIS-led insurgency are similar and therefore the conflict between the groups should end.
Posted by: Fred || 10/09/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  The Kandahar police chief believes the main topic discussed during the meeting included......

Whatever Gen. Raziq wanted to talk about.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/09/2017 4:20 Comments || Top||


Certain circles in ANDS ranks have no capability or will to end war, claims Hekmatyar
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The leader of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil...
has said certain people exist among the security forces ranks who are not having the capabilities or the will to end the war.

Hekmatyar made the remarks during a meeting with the tribal and Jihadi leaders from the northern Parwan province of Afghanistan, according to the media wing of the party.

However,
a clean conscience makes a soft pillow...
he did not provide any further information regarding his latest claims regarding the security forces ranks.

He said the circles are intentionally and willfully attempting to extend the war in the country.

Hekmatyar called on the tribal and Jihadi elders to step up efforts in a bid to take the responsibility of the security in their own areas.

The leader of Hezb-e-Islami claimed that the government and the foreign forces have remained short to ensure security for the people.

According to Hekmatyar, the ongoing war and violence in the country is against the interests of Islam and Afghanistan as only the Afghan people are paying the price.

Posted by: Fred || 10/09/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Hizb-i-Islami-Hekmatyar


Britain
Thousands of football supporters march against extremism in London to oppose 'recent upsurge' of UK terror attacks
[Mail] Thousands of football fans marched against extremism today at a protest attended by English Defence League founder Tommy Robinson.

The Football Lads Alliance (FLA) descended on London for a demonstration condemned by charity Stand up to Racism (SUTR) as well as Labour's shadow home secretary Dianne Abbott.

FLA founder John Meighan said the event was organised to show concern at a 'recent upsurge' in UK terrorist attacks, according to the Evening Standard.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/09/2017 05:15 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What is it our own NFL is doing again ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/09/2017 5:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Demonstrating how "specialized" their skills are?
Posted by: gorb || 10/09/2017 5:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Dianne Abbott is a well known anti-white racist.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/09/2017 6:37 Comments || Top||

#4  ...therefore what 'terror' are they really marching against?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/09/2017 7:48 Comments || Top||

#5  Why is it that anyone protesting fundamentalist Islam gets shaded by calls of "racism"? Sure some in this crowd might be but onto the greater point.

If the Mooham man had lived now he would been filed away in some Fed pen dark hole. Rightfully so.

Pedophilia, sex slaver, (boys and girls as well as women) mass murder (Mecca first) caravan theft, kidnapping, Jihad, Dhims and so on and so on.

In the meantime Londonstan has sunk under the rank resulting weight of the Phedophile for Profit's sicking legacy. Reading, it isn't the Amish...

At one point humans get tired of barbarians killing blowing up their country men-women-children. Just to please some pagan turd moon goddess.

Where are our own Charles Martel and Vlads today? Oh wait, they would be called racist.
Posted by: Woodrow || 10/09/2017 11:33 Comments || Top||

#6  Well, they know how to kick balls.
Posted by: KBK || 10/09/2017 21:18 Comments || Top||


Europe
Three charged over makeshift gas canister bomb in Paris
Follow up to this report from a few days ago. The mills of justice are moving quickly this time.
[TheLocal.fr] French prosecutors have charged three men in connection with a makeshift bomb made of gas canisters placed inside an apartment block in western Gay Paree, a judicial source told AFP on Saturday.

The three, identified as Amine A, his cousin Sami B, and Aymen B., were charged late Friday with "attempted murder in an organised group in connection with a terrorist enterprise" and placed in pre-trial detention, the source said.
That's awfully coy. Usually they say.
All three were nabbed
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
on Monday evening, two days after the device was found in a block in the 16th arrondissement, one of the city's most exclusive neighbourhoods.

In total, police found four gas cylinders - two of them in the hallway attached to a mobile phone which Sherlocks believe was meant to be used as a detonator. The other two were on the pavement outside.

Amine A., 30, and Aymen B., 29, are both on the terror watchlist.

Three of their associates who were taken for questioning earlier this week have all been released.

"The consequences in terms of human life and material damage could have been dramatic," Gay Paree prosecutor Francois Molins said on Friday, adding that it was unclear why they chose to target that particular building in Porte d'Auteuil.

It also remains unclear why the men did not activate the device. Police tracked them down by means of DNA found at the scene.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/09/2017 01:21 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


The Grand Turk
Istanbul charging Amnesty Turkey chief, 10 others with terror
[IsraelTimes] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
’s official news agency says the Istanbul prosecutor’s office is charging Amnesia Amnesty International’s Turkey chief and ten others with belonging to and aiding terror groups.

The Anadolu news agency said officials completed an investigation into the 11 human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty...
activists, who are now awaiting trial.

Police detained the activists during a workshop on digital security at a hotel near Istanbul in July. Eight people, including German Peter Steudtner and Swede Ali Gharavi, were placed in durance vile
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
. Three others were detained but released pending trial.

They are accused of aiding armed terror organizations in alleged communications with suspects linked to Kurdish and left-wing Death Eaters as well as the movement led by US-based Moslem holy man Fethullah Gulen
... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world...
, who is accused of orchestrating last year’s coup attempt. Gulen has denied the accusations.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/09/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  Red on red?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/09/2017 11:30 Comments || Top||


US suspends all non-immigrant visa services in Turkey
[Hurriyet Daily News]

Turkey suspends US visa applications after US decision to suspend all non-immigrant visa services
[Hurriyet Daily News]


Posted by: Fred || 10/09/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  Really time to delete them from NATO.
Posted by: 3dc || 10/09/2017 8:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Just the visa announcement is causing them to sweat.
Turkey urges U.S. to review visa suspension as lira, stocks tumble
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/09/2017 16:23 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm not sure that the world is ready for the neo-Ottoman empire. It may be interesting to see where this goes but getting them out of NATO is step 1.
Posted by: AlanC || 10/09/2017 18:53 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran’s IRGC to treat US troops like Daesh if blacklisted
[PRESSTV] The chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says Iran will treat US troops like ISIS Death Eaters who will have to move their military bases farther from Iran's borders if Washington blacklists his force.

Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari's warning on Sunday came after reports that US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
is expected to announce new measures against Iran, including the prospect of additional targeted sanctions and the designation of the IRGC as a terrorist organization.

"As we have announced in the past, if America's new law for sanctions is enforced, this country will have to move its regional bases outside the 2,000 km radius of the Iranian missiles' range," the ISNA news agency quoted him as saying.

By the new law, Gen. Jafari was referring to the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) that Trump signed into law on August 2 after it passed a Senate vote.

Jafari said Iran "deems the implementation of CAATSA equal to America’s unilateral withdrawal from the JCPOA," which will allow the country to exponentially enhance its missile capabilities.

The JCPOA stands for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action - the nuclear accord which Tehran reached with the US and other countries in 2015 to limit its nuclear program in exchange for lifting of sanctions.

Trump is expected to announce soon that he will "decertify" the deal in a step that potentially could cause the accord to unravel.

"We will use the opportunity of the stupid behavior of the Trump government to achieve a leap in defense, missile and regional programs," Gen. Jafari said.

A senior US administration official, cited by the Financial Times, said on Friday that Trump would not seek the reimposition of broad sanctions that would risk collapsing the accord but was expected to announce new measures.

Those measures will include additional targeted sanctions, the blacklisting of the IRGC and the adoption of a tougher stance on what Washington calls Iranian proxies in Syria, Iraq and Yemen, the official was quoted as saying.

Posted by: Fred || 10/09/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  "...have to move its regional bases outside the 2,000 km radius of the Iranian missiles' range"

Again this strangely specific and precise demand suggests that withdrawal of US forces to bases no closer than 2,000 km to Iran is something that the Obama administration secretly agreed to.

If Trump won't release secret elements of the Iran nuclear agreement then the Iranians might do it.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 10/09/2017 6:34 Comments || Top||

#2  What's with this worldwide suicide by cop syndrome?
Posted by: 3dc || 10/09/2017 8:54 Comments || Top||

#3  What's with this worldwide suicide by cop syndrome?

For years the 'cop' has given rational adversaries good reason to believe that he's a paper tiger.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 10/09/2017 11:24 Comments || Top||



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1Moslem Colonists
1al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
1Hamas
1Hizb-i-Islami-Hekmatyar
1Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army

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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2017-10-09
  Syrian rebels capture ISIS HQ in Deir Ezzor
Sun 2017-10-08
  Two Saudi guards killed in attack on royal palace in Jeddah
Sat 2017-10-07
  Driver 'deliberately mows down pedestrians' outside London Museum
Fri 2017-10-06
  Iraqi premier claims victory against Islamic State in Hawija
Thu 2017-10-05
  3 Special Forces Troops Killed and 2 Are Wounded in an Ambush in Niger
Wed 2017-10-04
  Daesh defense line collapses in Hawijah as Iraqi forces liberate more villages
Tue 2017-10-03
  Key ISIS member Qari Zahid killed in US drone strike in East of Afghanistan
Mon 2017-10-02
  Terror Attack in Las Vegas - Mass Shooting - Updated 50+ dead, 400+ wounded
Sun 2017-10-01
  Kurdish secession bid in Iraq threat to entire region: Hezbollah chief
Sat 2017-09-30
  Islamic State sets oil wells on fire, urges militants evacuate villages in Hawija
Fri 2017-09-29
  Lebanon Military Tribunal sentences Takfiri preacher to death
Thu 2017-09-28
  Al-Qaeda leadership, dozens of jihadists wiped out by Russian missile strike in Idlib
Wed 2017-09-27
  Palestinians admitted Interpol membership
Tue 2017-09-26
  US drone targets ISIS vehicle in Nangarhar leaving 5 dead
Mon 2017-09-25
  Tennessee Church Shooter Suspect Identified As 25-Year-Old From Sudan


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