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Southwest State Confirms The Death Of Burhakabo Military Commander
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Afghanistan
NDS release photo of suicide bomber arrested alive during army base attack
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan Intelligence has released the photo of a jacket wallah who was tossed in the calaboose
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
alive during an attack on the army base in capital Kabul on Monday.

The National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
(NDS) released the photo of the would-be suicide bomber late on Monday and hours after the defense officials said one of the attacker has been arrested by the security forces.

A group of at least five snuffies launched a coordinated attack on a base of the 111th division of the Afghan army in the early hours of Monday morning.

The ministry of defense front man Gen. Dawlat Waziri said a group of five snuffies launched a coordinated attack on a compound of the 111th division of the army in Qargha area and at least two of the suicide bombers carried out a suicide kaboom, two of them were rubbed out and another one has been arrested alive.

Gen. Waziri further added that the Afghan armed forces seized a rocket launcher, four Ak-47 rifles, and a suicide attack vest during the operation.

According to Gen. Waziri, at least eleven Afghan soldiers also bit the dust in the attack and and sixteen others have sustained injuries.

Yesterday’s attack was the the third largest attack in capital Kabul since 20th January and after a group of snuffies launched an attack on Intercontinental Hotel.

Posted by: Fred || 01/31/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336074 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  No 72 virgin piglets for you Muhammad!
Posted by: Woodrow || 01/31/2018 8:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Arrested alive? Somebody's overdue for a demotion.
Posted by: jpal || 01/31/2018 9:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Performance anxiety = no explodulation
Posted by: Frank G || 01/31/2018 10:48 Comments || Top||


Large of cache of weapons, explosives belonging to ISIS seized in Kabul
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A large cache of weapons and explosives belonging to the ISIS terrorist group was discovered and seized by the Afghan forces in Kabul.

The Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
(NDS), said the cache was seized from during an operation from the vicinity of the 5th police district of the city.

According to NDS, several weapons and large quantities of explosives from seized from the cache as the faceless myrmidons were using them for their attacks in the city.

This comes as a group of at least five murderous Moslems apparently belonging to the ISIS terrorist group launched a coordinated attack on a base of the 111th division of the Afghan army in the early hours of Monday morning.

The ministry of defense front man Gen. Dawlat Waziri said a group of five murderous Moslems launched a coordinated attack on a compound of the 111th division of the army in Qargha area and at least two of the jacket wallahs carried out a suicide kaboom, two of them were rubbed out and another one has been tossed in the slammer
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
alive.

Gen. Waziri further added that the Afghan armed forces seized a rocket launcher, four Ak-47 rifles, and a suicide attack vest during the operation.

According to Gen. Waziri, at least eleven Afghan soldiers also bit the dust in the attack and and sixteen others have sustained injuries.

Posted by: Fred || 01/31/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336072 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Africa Horn
Southwest State Confirms The Death Of Burhakabo Military Commander
[RADIOSHABELLE] At least 3 soldiers and a commander were killed and others injured following heavy fighting with Al-Shabaab
... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
holy warriors in Bay region, in the south part of the Horn of Africa nation.

Southwest front man, Nuradin Yusuf Abukar confirmed that four government soldiers and the commander of the military forces in Bur-Hakabo district were killed in the fighting.

"We have killed seven al-Shabaab Death Eaters, injured several others and recovered four guns after fighting that lasted several hours in Lug-habar location, along the road which joins Burhakaba and Baidoa town in this region," Abukar said.

He said the Somali National Army (SNA) conducted the operation against al-Shabaab holy warriors in the area after getting information that the murderous Moslems had mounted a checkpoint in the area.

Al-Shabaab Death Eaters, however, said they won the battle with Somali National Army, claiming to have killed SNA’s commander for Bur-hakaba town, Abdirahman Osman Abrone.

The group said its fighters ambushed an SNA convey from Baidoa town, the administrative capital of Southwest State in Somalia to Burhakaba town.

The latest fighting came amid military operations in the region to flush out murderous Moslems who have been mounting near-daily attacks on African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
peacekeeping mission bases, government installations, and other public places.


This article starring:
Abdirahman Osman Abrone
Posted by: Fred || 01/31/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336123 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


IED Blast Near Galgala Kills 1 Puntland Soldier, Injures Several
[RADIOSHABELLE] At least one Puntland
...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion...
soldier was killed on Tuesday an in a roadside kaboom blast in Galgala Mountains of Bari region, a military source said.

A military source, who requested anonymity, told Radio Shabelle that Puntland soldier was killed after the roadside kaboom struck the military vehicle in Sugure area of the Galgala Mountains.

At least two soldiers were also maimed in the blast, according to the source.

Al-Shabaab
... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
Death Eaters claimed the responsibility for the attack.

Puntland soldiers are battling Death Eaters from al-Shabaab in Galgala Mountains.

Posted by: Fred || 01/31/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336074 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Africa Subsaharan
Nigeria: 168 killed in herdsmen-farmer clashes in Jan
[AA.TR] At least 168 people have been killed in festivities between herdsmen and farmers in Nigeria so far in January, while 549 were killed in 2017, according to Amnesia Amnesty International on Tuesday.

The rights group said the government's response to the violence was unimpressive and that its deployment of soldiers to villages caught in the crisis had only worsened the situation because troops displayed "excessive force".

"Nigerian authorities' response to communal violence is totally inadequate, too slow and ineffective, and in some cases unlawful," Osai Ojigho, Amnesia Amnesty International country director, said in a statement issued in the Nigerian capital, Abuja.

"Clashes between herdsmen and farmers in Adamawa, Benue, Taraba, Ondo and Kaduna have resulted in 168 deaths in January 2018 alone.

"Hundreds of people bit the dust last year, and the government is still not doing enough to protect communities from these violent festivities. Worse, the killers are getting away with murder," Ojigho said, and called on the Nigerian authorities to investigate these attacks and "where these investigations indicate criminal responsibility, prosecute those responsible and bring them to justice".

Posted by: Fred || 01/31/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336075 views] Top|| File under: Fulani Herdsmen (Boko Haram)

#1  "Oh the Farmer and the Ploughman should be friends" . . . . from Oklahonigeria
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 01/31/2018 15:42 Comments || Top||

#2  :-D
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/31/2018 18:45 Comments || Top||


Arabia
UAE jet enables separatists to seize army base in Aden
[Al Jazeera] A senior Yemeni official has told Al Jazeera that southern separatists, backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), seized control of a key military base in the coastal city of Aden, after a UAE fighter jet bombed the facility.

The official told Al Jazeera that fighters from the Southern Resistance Forces (SRF), the armed wing of the Southern Transitional Council (STC) - a political movement demanding secession for southern Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
- seized the base early on Tuesday, despite a ceasefire being brokered by coalition partners 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...
and the UAE, hours earlier.

In a post on Twitter, Mukhtar al-Rahbi, an official in Yemen's government, said: "A plane from the Arab coalition, that said it had come to support legitimacy [Yemen's internationally recognised government] bombed the base of the Fourth Brigade. What a farce."

Videos posted on social media showed thick plumes of black smoke billowing from the camp, which is located in Aden's northern Dar Saad district.

Posted by: Fred || 01/31/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336089 views] Top|| File under:


Yemeni army, allies fire ballistic missile at Saudi Arabia’s King Khalid International Airport
[PRESSTV] Yemeni army forces and allied fighters from Popular Committees have reportedly launched a locally designed and manufactured ballistic missile toward an area deep inside 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...
in response to the Riyadh regime’s devastating aerial bombardment campaign against its crisis-stricken southern neighbor.

Brigadier Yahya al-Mahdi told Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Sahat satellite television network that Yemeni soldiers and their allies had fired a Burkan 2-H (Volcano H-2) missile towards King Khalid International Airport, located 35 kilometers (22 miles) north of the Saudi capital city of Riyadh, on Tuesday afternoon.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 01/31/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336090 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


The Grand Turk
Turkey detains leadership of top medical group over Syria criticism
[IsraelTimes] Erdogan lashes doctors' association as 'a gang of unthinking slaves' and 'servants of imperialism'

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund....
on Tuesday detained all the top members of the country’s main medical association, including its chief, after they criticized Ankara’s offensive against a Kurdish militia in Syria.

The arrests came after the Ottoman Turkish Medical Association (TTB), which represents 80 percent of the country’s physicians, issued a statement saying that conflicts lead to "irreparable problems" and that "war is a man-made public health problem."

The TTB ended its statement on Wednesday with the words: "No to war, peace right now."

Prosecutors swiftly launched a probe, after President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
on Friday lashed out at the "so-called Ottoman Turkish Medical Association" as "terrorist-lovers."

Erdogan again hit out at the group on Sunday, saying: "They are not intellectuals, they are a gang of unthinking slaves... They are the servants of imperialism."

Among those held was TTB director Rasit Tukel, state-run news agency
...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?...
Anadolu said.

The health ministry on Monday said it had filed a lawsuit seeking the removal of the 11 executive council members because they were "acting against the law."

The Ottoman Turkish interior ministry on Monday said 311 people including journalists and activists were tossed into the calaboose over accusations they were spreading "terror propaganda."

’Threats of violence’
The TTB confirmed to AFP that all its top members were tossed into the calaboose, but an association official who did not wish to be named said that little information was immediately available as the arrests had taken place in different parts of the country.

The TTB, which has more than 83,000 members representing 80% of physicians in Turkey, is the nation’s leading medical association.

Ottoman Turkish medics have played a key role in treating war victims in Syria, often making dangerous cross-border trips into a nation ravaged by seven years of war.

Rights group Amnesia Amnesty International criticized the arrests, and said the TTB’s head office had received a "large number of threats of violence by email and telephone" leading up to the detentions.

Amnesty’s Turkey researcher Andrew Gardner said the TTB became a target for making a "completely legitimate reasonable" statement.

"This is completely irrational targeting of people for expressing their peaceful views, there is nothing that can justify these sorts of detentions," he told AFP.

Erdogan’s front man Ibrahim Kalin last week warned the Ottoman Turkish public and media to be wary of "lying, fake, distortive and provocative news, images and gossip."

But the TTB was not the only group to criticize the assault.

Over 170 former ministers, actors and writers signed a letter last week, calling for an end to the war.

The letter was sent to all of Turkey’s MPs including those from Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).

Erdogan called the signatories "traitors."
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/31/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336081 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Home Front: WoT
Man shot by officer after hitting pedestrian identified
h/t Gates of Vienna
[Fox29] Police have released the name of a driver shot and killed by an off-duty Philadelphia police officer after hitting a pedestrian and struggling with the officer.

Investigators said 31-year-old Khalil Lawal of Arlington, Virginia apparently tried to hit a person who had just gotten out of a car in south Philadelphia during Monday's morning rush hour.
Bingo!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/31/2018 02:37 || Comments || Link || [336077 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Let's not jump to conclu-
Aaaand it's Muslims
Posted by: Classer || 01/31/2018 3:16 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm guessing near ZERO MSM interest in this?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/31/2018 3:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Investigators said 31-year-old Khalil Lawal

Coulda cut it off there.
Posted by: gorb || 01/31/2018 9:34 Comments || Top||

#4  More from the article:

Police said the man then chased another driver who had blocked him in, charged at the off-duty officer after he approached and was shot after a struggle. He died at a hospital. The officer and the man struck by the car were treated at hospitals.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/31/2018 9:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Hot Bed.

The Best 10 Mosques in Arlington, VA - Last Updated January 2018 ...

US imam calls on Muslims in US to wage jihad
Feb 26, 2013
- The controversial imam of a prominent mosque in Arlington, Va., has urged immigrant Muslims in the United States to wage war for Islam. “The enemies of Allah are lining up. The question for us is, are we lining [up] or are we afraid because they may call us terrorists?”

You just admitted it.
Posted by: Woodrow || 01/31/2018 14:19 Comments || Top||

#6  Khalil means friend in Arabic. This guy didn't live up to his name. Sudden jihad. Thanks to the officer, he put an end to this.

Lefties always seem about a step away from sudden jihad? Muslim bedfellows? Judging from their expressions, many of the Dems at the SOTU address should have been patted down last night. expressions.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/31/2018 15:21 Comments || Top||

#7  Well now that cop is REALLY in trouble.
Posted by: Glenmore || 01/31/2018 17:50 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli army shoots dead Paleostinian teen in West Bank
Why shoot a dead Paleostinian? Target practice?
[Al Jazeera] Israeli forces have rubbed out a Paleostinian teenager in the occupied West Bank, the Paleostinian ministry of health has confirmed.

Layth Abu Naim, 16, was shot in the head with live ammunition during a confrontation with the Israeli army in the village of al-Mughayir, northeast of the occupied West Bank town of Ramallah.

According to local media, Abu Naim - a high school student - was shot at point blank range. The confrontations reportedly erupted after Israeli forces raided the village.

The boy's funeral is set to be held on Wednesday after midday prayers in his hometown.

A spokeswoman for Israel's military said "violent riots are taking place in this area and burning tires and stones were thrown at the soldiers," according to Israeli media.

The spokeswoman was "unable to confirm that any Paleostinians had been hit by gunfire".
Ynet adds:
The IDF issued a statement Tuesday evening denying that live rounds had been used, but said that that soldiers opened fire using rubber bullets after dozens of Paleostinians began throwing rocks and rolling burning tires in the village Mughayer. The military also launched an investigation into the incident.
Posted by: Fred || 01/31/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336072 views] Top|| File under: PLO

#1  Lets strafe the funeral.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/31/2018 1:44 Comments || Top||

#2  I suppose a rubber bullet at PBR would have a NEGATIVE EFFECT.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/31/2018 10:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Funny how they conveniently avoid mentioning what the nice young boy did to provoke the situation - my $'s on rock throwing.
Posted by: Raj || 01/31/2018 11:02 Comments || Top||

#4  EoZ posters for "Apartheid Week"
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 01/31/2018 12:07 Comments || Top||

#5  Thanks, VRWC. That made my day. None of it surprised me, but I kept laughing every few pages, imagining the cumulative effect on various mindsets. Quite a clinic in quality of quantity.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 01/31/2018 12:52 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Activists: Bomb kills 2 Turkish troops in Syria
[IsraelTimes] Syrian activists say two Ottoman Turkish soldiers were killed in a kaboom targeting a large military convoy moving through a rebel stronghold in northwestern Syria.

Opposition activist Abdelkafi Alhamdo says an kaboom, possibly a boom-mobile, destroyed the first vehicle in a Ottoman Turkish convoy as it entered his town of Atareb, in Aleppo province, on Tuesday.

The activist-run Thiqa News Agency and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group, report that two soldiers were killed.

There is no immediate confirmation of the attack from the Ottoman Turkish military.

The convoy was accompanied by an escort from the al-Qaeda-linked Levant Liberation Committee, which dominates a rebel stronghold spanning Idlib province and parts of Aleppo.

Ottoman Turkish forces first deployed in Idlib in November as part of an agreement with Russia and Iran to define their respective zones of influence in war-torn Syria.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/31/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336081 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  Divine wind.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/31/2018 1:45 Comments || Top||


Suspected Russian warplanes hit busy market in Idlib, kill 15
[Ynet] At least 15 people were killed on Tuesday when suspected Russian warplanes struck a crowded market in the rebel-held city of Ariha in the second such strike on a shopping area in opposition-held Idlib within 24 hours, residents and rescuers said.

They said the aircraft were flying at high altitude, which differentiates it from ageing Syrian airforce.

The opposition-run Civil Defence service said a further 20 people were maimed in the strike. Video released by local activists showed extensive damage, with produce mixed up with human parts.

Rooters could not verify the authenticy of the footage

A resident said the attack took place at the busiest time of the day.

Russia's defense ministry regularly says it is attacking hardline Islamist bully boys. It denies opposition and witness accounts that its warplanes target market places, medical centers and residential areas away from frontlines
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/31/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336079 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Replace "Russia" with 'USA' and the story would be just as "believable".
Posted by: DooDahMan || 01/31/2018 0:36 Comments || Top||

#2  An attack on an Idlib internal displacement camp possibly involved the use of napalm.

Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 || 01/31/2018 0:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Suspected Russian warplanes hit busy market in Idlib, kill 15

Several empty vodka bottles were found afterwards?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/31/2018 2:01 Comments || Top||

#4  Cucumber Sprite
Posted by: Blackbeard Phusoter1724 || 01/31/2018 14:05 Comments || Top||


Turkish air strikes pound Kurdish fighters in Syria
[AlAhram] Ottoman Turkish air strikes pounded the Syrian border region of Afrin and fighting raged on two fronts as Ankara pursued its offensive against the Kurdish enclave on Tuesday.

A monitoring group and Kurdish sources said The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund....
's air force had stepped up its raids on the 10th day of operation "Olive Branch", which sees Turkey providing air and ground support to Syrian opposition fighters in an offensive against Kurdish militia in northwestern Syria.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/31/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336087 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Footage shows renewed protests in several Iranian cities overnight
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Protests renewed in Iran overnight according to videos and footage which showed people protesting in Bandar Abbas in the south, Najafabad in Isfahan in center Iran, Kerman in the southeast and in Shiraz, the center of the Fars Province.

During their protest in Bandar Abbas, protestors were calling on more people to join them.

In Shiraz, protestors chanted "death to the dictator." This has become a major slogan during the recent protests against Iran’s Supreme Guide Ali Khamenei.

In Najafabad, protestors chanted against the regime while in Kerman they called on security forces not to suppress their protests and to support their peaceful demonstrations.
Posted by: Fred || 01/31/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336098 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  God protect them. Loved the President's reference to the Iranians protesting. He might, might have inspired.
Posted by: Woodrow || 01/31/2018 8:56 Comments || Top||


Turkey says 5 soldiers killed in Syria's Afrin as offensive continues
[PRESSTV] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
’s Defense Minister Nurettin Canikli says five Ottoman Turkish soldiers and 24 allied gunnies from the so-called Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
(FSA) have bit the dust in the ongoing cross-border offensive in Syria’s northwestern region of Afrin against the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG).

Addressing parliament on Tuesday, Canikli denied reports of civilian deaths in the offensive, saying, "No civilian has been harmed in Operation Olive Branch of Ottoman Turkish Armed Forces and the FSA."

He added that a total of 649 YPG gunnies had been killed since the beginning of the operation on January 20.

Posted by: Fred || 01/31/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336077 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte



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Wed 2018-01-31
  Southwest State Confirms The Death Of Burhakabo Military Commander
Tue 2018-01-30
  Iraqi court sentences Al-Qaeda member to death over executing eight civilians in 2007
Mon 2018-01-29
  McCabe Resigns
Sun 2018-01-28
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