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-Lurid Crime Tales-
New Planned Parenthood Horror: '€˜Striving' for Baby Brains, Not Using Digoxin
[PJ Media] Fittingly, the eleventh video released by the Center for Medical Progress in their undercover series exposing Planned Parenthood's fetal tissue harvesting activities comes a few days before Halloween.
Apologies to former staff members and medical personnel of Mittelbau-Dora. We have now become you.
The ghastly footage shows Planned Parenthood of Austin, Texas, abortionist Dr. Amna Dermish describing an illegal partial-birth abortion procedure to terminate late-term fetuses for the purposes of obtaining intact fetal heads for brain harvesting:

Dr. Dermish admits she was trained by the Senior Director of Medical Services at Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Dr. Deborah Nucatola. Nucatola described a partial-birth abortion technique to harvest fetal organs in the first Planned Parenthood video released July 14 by CMP.

"My aim is usually to get the specimens out pretty intact," says Dermish, speaking to actors posing as a fetal tissue procurement company. Dermish admits that she will sometimes use ultrasound guidance to convert a 2nd-trimester fetus to a feet-first breech presentation:

"Especially the 20-weekers are a lot harder versus the 18-weekers, so at that point I'll switch to breech."

"That's what Deb [Nucatola] was telling us, was it really makes a difference for tissue collection at PPLA," says one of the actors, referencing Nucatola's technique for organ harvesting. "It's really nice when it's, yeah -- I trained with her," replies Dermish.

In reply to a question about harvesting fetal brain, Dermish notes, "I haven't been able to do that yet," but exclaims with laughter, "This will give me something to strive for!"

Dermish admits on camera that she does not use the chemical digoxin to kill the fetus before 20 weeks -- which means "her feet-first, intact extraction abortions are done on living fetuses":
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/29/2015 04:46 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Don't damage the goods, and to hell with the mother.
Posted by: Iblis || 10/29/2015 15:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Heard a PP spokesdroid on the radio saying (paraphrased) "We are not selling baby parts for profit". Not quite the same as saying we are not selling baby parts. I took it to mean they sell them to help defray the cost of their services.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/29/2015 17:59 Comments || Top||

#3  "I did not have sex with that woman".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/29/2015 18:13 Comments || Top||

#4  SS it means they have poor cost accounting.
Posted by: Shipman || 10/29/2015 18:38 Comments || Top||

#5  Monsters!
Posted by: Ebbart Glererong5900 || 10/29/2015 23:50 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Ford to Save You From the Apocalypse
Just for Frank G...
According to Digital Trends, the Terradyne Gurkha RPV makes the “Hummer H1 look cuter than a Toyota Yaris,” and honestly, from the Gurkha’s exterior, we can’t argue with that. Like the original Hummer H1, the Gurkha is a civilian version of a military vehicle. It’s the ultimate go anywhere/flee from the zombie apocalypse type of vehicle.

Terradyne builds these trucks off a Ford F-550 chassis, and similarities between the Gurkha and the stock Ford end right then and there. The truck is armored from top to bottom and is able to move its bulky body through whatever terrain and through whatever type of firepower you might come up against. According to the company, the Gurkha’s body can withstand hours of AK-47 fire, .50 caliber sniper fire, and is blast protected from small explosives, which definitely makes it more durable than your average F-550.

The truck features a 6.7-liter V8 turbo diesel that makes 300 horsepower and 660 lb-ft of torque. It can fit up to 12 people, and has a fuel capacity of over 40 gallons, thus ensuring you have enough fuel to get you out of those sticky situations. The downside of such a vehicle? It weighs almost 10 tons and starts at $278,000. However, you do get the peace of mind that you can come up against any situation and laugh hysterically as you plow straight through it. I wonder how it would behave on Los Angeles’ 405 Freeway?
Posted by: Steve White || 10/29/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  F-550? That means happy hour?
Posted by: Shipman || 10/29/2015 7:57 Comments || Top||

#2  "Can withstand .50 caliber sniper fire..."
I believe I'd have to see that before I buy on.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/29/2015 8:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Coming soon to a police department near you...
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 10/29/2015 8:11 Comments || Top||

#4  Yes, gas prices are down, but still: what's the gas mileage? Too low, and you'll run out of fuel 50' after you escape the dire situation.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/29/2015 11:35 Comments || Top||

#5  Did they ask permission for that name?

That's one group of folks I wouldn't want to piss off!
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/29/2015 12:19 Comments || Top||

#6  Drink UP!
Posted by: Frank G || 10/29/2015 12:54 Comments || Top||

#7  "Can withstand .50 caliber sniper fire..."

That means the bullets come in one side and then just rattle around inside for a while. (To steal a line from Patton.)
Posted by: JHH || 10/29/2015 17:29 Comments || Top||


DOD blimp turns into slo-mo cruise missile, causes 1000s of power outages
An unmanned Defense Department blimp that houses a state-of-the-art radar system (designed to detect incoming cruise missiles) became detached from its moorings at Aberdeen, MD and drifted north through Pennsylvania for hours Wednesday. Some 6,700 feet of steel cable dragged below the blimp, knocking out powerlines and causing thens of thousands of outages.

The blimp was designed as a radar station to spot incoming cruise missiles, and was tethered with a 1" cable designed to withstand hurricane force winds. A second blimp of similar design was grounded until the cause of the first blimp's malfunction is determined.

The blimp eventually deflated and came down in 2 pieces in a wooded area in Pennsylvania Wed. afternoon. It is unknown whether the US aircraft that had been shadowing the blimp had anything to do with the blimp's crash landing.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 10/29/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Raytheon press release video on this system, called JLENS
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 10/29/2015 0:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Raytheon video, some technical info
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 10/29/2015 0:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Damn Amish coming in under the radar AGAIN!
Posted by: Shipman || 10/29/2015 7:59 Comments || Top||

#4  thens of thousands

Tnens? Amish numeral ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/29/2015 8:02 Comments || Top||

#5  Glaring lack of blimp regulation is a result of the National Blimp Association (NBA) power-brokers control over congress. Champ needs to pick up his pen and phone ASAP.
Posted by: regular joe || 10/29/2015 9:08 Comments || Top||

#6  You couldn't dangle a Ranger from a helo and let him K-Bar the thing to death?
Posted by: SteveS || 10/29/2015 9:26 Comments || Top||

#7  SteveS, I would pay money to see that.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/29/2015 11:04 Comments || Top||

#8  Zerg Overlord?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/29/2015 12:26 Comments || Top||

#9  Shep "Panties in a bunch" Smith and Wolf "Shep's hairy sister" Blitzer were en fuego with hysterics covering this yesterday.
Posted by: Frank G || 10/29/2015 12:57 Comments || Top||

#10  So the test was a success? :-)
Posted by: Sven the pelter || 10/29/2015 13:10 Comments || Top||


Britain
Over 1000 Gather To Demand Justice For 'Marine A' Imprisoned For Killing Taliban Combatant
[Breibart]
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/29/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  WTF Great Britain
Posted by: newc || 10/29/2015 17:55 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
China Ends One-Child Policy
Posted by: Grunter || 10/29/2015 10:17 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Too late. Much too late. China will get old before it gets rich, which means it will never be rich. Also means that millions of single young men with no prospect of ever getting married have to be put to some other use than making iPhones. Whatever use could that be?
Posted by: Iblis || 10/29/2015 15:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Whatever use could that be?

Conquering something?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/29/2015 16:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Human wave cannon/machine gun fodder?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 10/29/2015 16:41 Comments || Top||


China: Will respond to US ships with all necessary means
[Richmond Times] BEIJING (AP) -- China's military will take "all necessary" measures in response to any future U.S. Navy incursions into what it considers its territorial waters around islands in the South China Sea, a Defense Ministry spokesman said Thursday.

The statement by Col. Yang Yujun followed the sailing of a U.S. guided missile destroyer within the 12-nautical mile (22-kilometer) territorial limit of one of the islands newly created by China in the strategically vital region. The U.S. refuses to recognize the man-made islets as deserving of sovereign territory status.

The Chinese side took no forceful action during the USS Lassen's sail-by on Tuesday, but strenuously protested the maneuver. China's reaction fits the pattern in similar such incidents in recent years. Yang offered no details on how Beijing might respond differently in the future.
Is the Champ setting us up for the ultimate international embarrassment ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/29/2015 09:09 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If you have personnel info on any federal database, you can assume its no longer 'private'. [What the heck, why should the Chinese not have the same access that the IRS and WH have?]

Now if only they can get his birth certificate and college transcripts....
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/29/2015 9:41 Comments || Top||

#2  I would have a couple cruise missile subs waiting some 20 miles away. If the Chinese fire at the destroyer... well... 150 cruise missiles hitting your tiny little island would not a happy day make for those Chinese.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/29/2015 11:02 Comments || Top||

#3  He's weak. They know he's weak, so they are pushing for any and all possible concessions before he leaves office. He will give in to any demand rather than have his "legacy" um, tarnished? by an embarrassing incident.

We can all look forward to another 15 months or so of international humiliations.
Posted by: Iblis || 10/29/2015 11:47 Comments || Top||

#4  Not just concessions from O, but the ability to stop being jerks when the new President comes into office and get big time brownie points the way Iran did with Reagan.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/29/2015 13:00 Comments || Top||

#5  He's weak, but it's the U.S. Damn Navy. We go where and when so GTFbout of the damn way.
Posted by: Shipman || 10/29/2015 15:26 Comments || Top||

#6  As proud and confident I am in my USN compatriots, 0-7 and above are sadly more pliant in our military after 7 years of Flag Officer management by this WH. Don't think so, consider the Bergdahl case and the complicit way they have let it be slow-walked, partially compromised by an ambitious JAG and 0-8, and now, quietly in the MSM, turned into a whistleblower case and sad victim story. I think the same coercive power will float out of Champ and his staff of synchophants.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/29/2015 16:03 Comments || Top||

#7  US Navy has rules of engagement they have to follow. I'm sure the Chinese are aware of the ROE and have worked out what to do.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/29/2015 20:39 Comments || Top||

#8  Fortunately for China + PLA, + unfortunately for America + USDOD-Navy, US Regional Allies, + Guam-WESTPAC the WH + NatSecAuth is led by an Anti-US US POTUS dedicated to PCorrectly-Deniably setting up Anti-US OWG-NWO where Amerika + OWG NAU is just one of many Great Powers = Co-Superpowers + OWG GFUS in the World.

As #1 on the US NatSecAuthor aka US NatSecCom the Bammer is resposnible for the US' Direct Military Response to any Crisis around the World, or in alternate the LACK OF SAME.

The US = US-West proudly surrendering like France to OWG-NWO + Global Marxism-Socialism aren't just Purdy words to these Personages.

Again, as long as the Bammer keeps the USN, etal. outside of China's claimed 12-NM limit, CHINA WILL LIKELY PROCEED ON WID ITS VARIOUS ISLAND IMPROVEMENTS/CONTRUCTIONS WHILE ALLOWING THE BAMMER = US TO PRETEND ITS ACTUALLY STOPPING OR CHALLENGING CHINA BEFORE US-WORLD MEDIAS. In reality the Bammer will covertly PDeniably be allowing China to acquire its new Sphere of Infleunce vee its "First Island Chain" strategy + putting China in a good staging position to proceed accomplish its "Second Island Chain" strategy.

* MAHA-RUSHIAN HISTOIRE' = Given China's past, prob safe to say that China will firstly engage in steadily escalatory, PCorrect MilPol responses until the day the PLA andor China CG suddenly opens fire on US Air-Naval Assets.

CAN THE "WEAK/DECLINING" SOLE-SUPERPOWER-USA-SOON-TO-BE-ONE-OF-MANY-OWG-CO-SUPERPOWER USoAMERIKA DO THIS WIDOUT BEING SEEN AS "DE FACTO "WEAK/
DECLINING" ALA THE "GREAT GAME", WID ULTIMATELY TO BECOME EXISTENTIALLY THREATENED BY THE VERY OWG CO-SUPERPOWER SIBLINGS IT EMPOWERED, + BY OTHER MILPOL/GEOPOL WANNABES, BE IT NATION(S), BLOCS, ANDOR NUKE-HAPPY NGOS E.G. ISIS, ETAL.???

I have no doubts that what begins in the SCS will devol to include the East China Sea [Japan], the IOR [India-Pak], + potens even the Russian Far East.

MSM-NET ANALYSTS HAVE ALL BUT COMPLETELY AFFIRMED MY BELIEF + NET ARGUMENT THAT ANY US CONFRONTATION SCENARIO(S) AGZ CHINA WILL BE THE MOST DANGEROUS FOR THE US THAN AS AGZ RUSSIA + IRAN.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/29/2015 22:56 Comments || Top||

#9  Smh, bout time the bitch ass nigga get out of office
Posted by: chris || 10/29/2015 22:57 Comments || Top||

#10  I think that this is all theater. O directs joint chiefs to sail a can near the sand pile. Chicoms feign outrage. O has already given the farm. Now if repeated sail byes are done, then the Navy may be doing it and o is shutting up. Putin is running about O like o has no OODA loop. So are the Chicoms
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 10/29/2015 23:45 Comments || Top||


Economy
Electric Car Sales Crash Once The Feds Are No Longer Helping
[Daily Caller] It only took a month for electric car sales to drop 90 percent after a 15 year old tax credit for electric car buyers expired in Georgia.

The $5,000 subsidy for electric vehicles expired last June and has gutted the electric sector, reducing popular green models like the Chevy Volt to single digit sales across the entire state, reported Watchdog.org. The subsidy is under fire for being a 15-year-long giveaway, rather than a worthwhile incentive.

"I thought the credit turned from an incentive into a virtual entitlement," Georgia Republican state Rep. Chuck Martin told Watchdog.org.

The Nissan Leaf was hit hardest, dropping from 1,008 sales in June to just 66 in August. Overall, only 148 electric cars were purchased in August, down from 1,338 in June. Watchdog.org reports that the $5,000 tax credit was on top of the $7,500 federal credit given for purchasing electric vehicles, making buying one of these cars in Georgia extremely cheap.

"It was never really free, but it was very inexpensive," Don Francis, coordinator of Clean Cities Georgia Coalition, told Watchdog.org.
That which the socialist 'command economy' fails to subsidize, soon disappears.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/29/2015 04:14 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nissan Leaf, Reddy Kilowatt and Willy Wiredhand hardest hit.
Posted by: Shipman || 10/29/2015 8:06 Comments || Top||

#2  What I've wondered is, does the owner of an electric vehicle bear the down the line costs of rehab/disposal. There's a whole pile of hazardous waste in one (batteries) and it's not something you can do with parts from AutoZone.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/29/2015 8:15 Comments || Top||

#3  They need to set up a road that goes from the coast of Hawaii (the big island) directly into the volcano. Set the vehicles up to drive by remote control and then sell the right to control their jump into the lava to the highest bidders. Sell the best ones on DVD or streaming and it'll pay for itself. No worries about toxic batteries (at least I don't think).
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/29/2015 13:02 Comments || Top||

#4  You're messing with Pele, there, rjschwarz. Bad things can happen if you give her anything but Tanqueray. She's a bit more serious than Gaia.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 10/29/2015 14:38 Comments || Top||

#5  It was just another graft machine just like solyndra and the F-35.

As is everything this dolt wastes our money on.
There will be nothing to show for it one day and this place will be as a sunken ship.
Posted by: newc || 10/29/2015 17:40 Comments || Top||

#6  You make a good point, we can load up the trunks with Tanqueray to ensure Pele understand the sacrifice is being done with all due respect.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/29/2015 20:40 Comments || Top||

#7  Works for me, rj. :-D
Posted by: Barbara || 10/29/2015 22:39 Comments || Top||


Europe
Germany to Send 'Tens of Thousands' of Migrants Back to Balkans
[AnNahar] Germany will return thousands of rejected asylum applicants to the Balkans in coming months, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said Wednesday, as Berlin toughens its stance against economic migrants amid a record influx.
And of course, they will not turn around and attempt to return.
Why the Balkans? The refugees weren't born there. If you're going to deport them, send them all the way home...
"I expect that in the next weeks, the number of repatriations, voluntary returns and deportations will rise significantly," de Maiziere said.

The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees has been tasked with dealing with "many unresolved asylum applications" before Christmas, said the minister, adding "that means that tens of thousands of rejected asylum seekers from the Balkans would have to leave our country."

"This must be accomplished," he said.

De Maiziere said he would also travel in coming days to Albania to find out how deportees are treated there.

German authorities have so far expelled 11,000 people, while another 27,000 have voluntarily left the country with financial help, said de Maiziere.

Germany is expecting to welcome a million asylum seekers this year.
May it truly be so few.
Many of those who have arrived so far are from war-torn countries like Syria or Iraq, but a sizable number has also come from conflict-free countries in the Balkans.

In a bid to free up resources to deal with those fleeing war and persecution, Berlin this month passed a law adding Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro to a list of "safe origin countries."

The description means that citizens of these countries would not normally be eligible for political asylum.

According to official data, Germany received 577,307 asylum seekers from January to September. Of these, 66,311 were Albanian and another 32,258 were Kosovan.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/29/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Why the Balkans? The refugees weren't born there."

Only those who were, of course: Kosovo, Albania etc.
Posted by: European Conservative || 10/29/2015 0:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Why the Balkans? The refugees weren't born there. If you're going to deport them, send them all the way home...

Because they don't have the lift capacity? They've always been dependent upon Uncle Sugar for any deployments outside of their home bases.

The only other way would be to lock'em up in boxcars and that's still a sore point with some due to the optics of what happened before when they did that. (Now they just let the 'friends' of these refugees chase 'those' people away. It's not so hard on their conscious.)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/29/2015 7:55 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkish police raid Gulen-linked media HQ, shut down live broadcast
[Hurriyet] Istanbul police used force on Oct. 28 to enter the headquarters and seize control of media outlets owned by the Koza-Ipek Group, dramatically breaking into the main broadcasting room and shutting down two TV stations owned by the group.

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office on Oct. 26 ordered the Koza-Ipek Group to be placed under the management of a trustee panel while an investigation is ongoing into the group's purported ties to the U.S.-based holy man Fetullah Gulen, a former government ally. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
and the Justice and Development Party (AKP) now accuse Gulen of heading a purported illegal organization that Erdogan believes is trying to topple the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government with followers working as insiders in the police, the judiciary and other state institutions.

The police fired tear gas and water cannons at the crowd gathered in support outside the media group's office building in Istanbul's Sisli district at around 7:30 a.m. on Oct. 28, two days after the initial court ruling, Dogan News Agency reported. The building is used by Kanalturk TV, Bugun TV, daily Millet, and daily Bugun, all of which are owned by the Koza-Ipek Group.

Breaking down the iron gates of the media group's compound, the police unplugged the wires and halted the TV stations' live broadcasts, escorting the newly appointed trustees into the building after scuffling with hundreds of employees and supporters of the Koza-Ipek Group gathered outside in support.

The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, meanwhile, launched an inquiry on Oct. 28 into some protesters outside the building on charges of "resisting security personnel," "preventing security personnel from doing their official duty," and "inciting crime," according to the state-run Anadolu Agency.

A dispute also flared up between Kanalturk editor Tarik Toros and the trustees who entered the main broadcasting room of Kanalturk and Bugun TV, with Toros declaring that no one could meddle in their broadcasting.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/29/2015 00:00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Turkey to gift Pakistan with 34 aircraft and spares
Very odd. Why would President Erdogan do such a thing, and where did he get the money?
[Dawn] ISLAMABAD: Pakistain and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
signed on Wednesday a defence agreement under which Pakistain will get 34 T-37 aircraft and spares free of cost from its close friend. The T-37 is a Jet Trainer and Light Attack aircraft.

The agreement was signed by Director General of Pakistain's Defence Procurement Maj Gen Naveed Ahmed and Turkey's Chief of Logistics Maj Gen Serdar Gulbas.

A Joint Communique was also signed by Pakistain's Defence Secretary retired Lt Gen Muhammad Alam Khattak and Turkey's Deputy Chief of General Staff Gen Yasar Guler, says a blurb issued here on Wednesday.

During his visit to Turkey, the defence secretary focused on Pakistain's defence and military capability and its requirements in the current global perspective.

He praised the initiatives of President Recep Tayyip Erodogan for democracy.

He said that Pakistain wanted to translate the exemplary brotherly relations with Turkey into strategic cooperation. The two sides agreed to enhance cooperation at regional and multinational forums, including UN, OIC, ECO and D-8.

Expressing his views in the High-Level Military Dialogue Group (HLMDG) on Regional and Global Security, he said Pakistain wanted to expand cooperation from defence industries and training to the level of joint ventures.

He thanked the Turkish defence industry's support for Pakistain's naval, air and communication systems.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/29/2015 00:00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Turkey are clearly running out of friends to join up with Pakistan.
Posted by: paul || 10/29/2015 2:20 Comments || Top||

#2  We had an unwritten agreement the USSR to save ten for Fwrance. Change in target.
Posted by: Shipman || 10/29/2015 15:30 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel accepted to UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
Israel was accepted into the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space on Thursday.

The decision was made with 117 votes in favor to one vote against from Namibia.

According to the Israeli mission to the UN the acceptance, which they described as a "victory" for Israel was achieved following "intensive diplomatic efforts" especially after the representatives of Syria at the UN and the Arab Group had thwarted Israel's acceptance to the committee in Vienna.

Is this like a gentle hint? I mean: "We don't want you Jews in our country" is pretty standard. And, since 1948, "We don't want you Jews in your own country" became fairly common.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/29/2015 16:19 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  On the plus side-- Israeli Rods from G__ ?
Posted by: Nguard || 10/29/2015 19:52 Comments || Top||

#2  the Namibian Space-Industrial Complex doesn't like competition
Posted by: Frank G || 10/29/2015 20:47 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Thu 2015-10-29
  Nigerian Troops Rescue 338 People Held by Boko Haram
Wed 2015-10-28
  Yemeni Army claims Soddy warship destroyed
Tue 2015-10-27
  Mathew Stewart: Aussie soldier now terrorist leader in Syria
Mon 2015-10-26
  Senior Nusra Front leader killed near Aleppo
Sun 2015-10-25
  Turkish police on alert to capture four ISIL members prepared for attacks in Turkey
Sat 2015-10-24
  US drone strikes kill 16 ‘IS militants’ near Pak-Afghan border
Fri 2015-10-23
  Pakistan’s indigenous armed drone conducts first nighttime strike
Thu 2015-10-22
  U.S., Iraqi commandos free dozens of ISIL hostages
Wed 2015-10-21
  Dissident commanders meet to choose rival Afghan Taliban leader
Tue 2015-10-20
  ISIL child training camp discovered in Istanbul
Mon 2015-10-19
  Yemen govt agrees to talks with Houthis, Saleh
Sun 2015-10-18
  Senior al-Nusra commander killed in Syria airstrike
Sat 2015-10-17
  Saudi forces kill gunman after Shiite site attack
Fri 2015-10-16
  Taliban Shadow District Governor Killed In Takhar
Thu 2015-10-15
  Champ to keep troops in Afghanistan beyond 2016, officials say


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