[Tolo News] At least 12 non-combatants were killed Friday in Ghazni province of Afghanistan, local officials.
Deputy governor Ahmad Ali, while confirming the blast said that the incident occurred in Khogyani area of Qarabagh district of Ghazni province when a passenger vehicle hit a road side mine.
The victims were all members of one family, Ali said.
According to Ahmad Ali children and women are among the victims.
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[Tolo News] A number of turbans have attacked several posts of Afghan National Army (ANA) in Jurm district of northern Badakhshan province, killing five soldiers and injuring nine others, according to head of Provincial Council.
Nine posts have been deserted by the soldiers, Abdullah Naji said, adding a number of other soldiers were surrounded in their posts by the armed attackers.
He stated that many other soldiers were still missing since the fighting began late Thursday night.
According to Naji, some ANA vehicles were also seized by the turbans.
But the Badakhshan Police told TOLOnews that only one soldier was killed and five others were maimed.
Regarding deserting the posts, the police acknowledged that it was a tactical draw back.
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[Tolo News] At least three civilians were maimed in a suicide boom-mobileing that targeted vehicles of foreign troops in Despechari area, Police Distrcit (PD) nine of capital Kabul on Friday afternoon.
The Kabul Police Chief Abdul Rahman Rahimi confirmed the casualties and said that foreigners were not harmed in the attack.
But earlier, the eyewitnesses told TOLOnews that one foreign soldier was also among the injured.
The security forces cordoned off the area soon after the bombing, and started their investigations.
The Taliban in a statement have grabbed credit for the attack.
This was the second attack on foreign troops in a day in Afghanistan.
Earlier in the day, a jacket wallah attacked a convoy of foreign troops in eastern Jalalabad which resulted in killing of four civilians and injuring 12 others.
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KAMPALA -- Ugandan police have arrested at least three people over the killing last month of a senior prosecutor who was involved in the trial of a dozen men accused of belonging to the Somali armed group al-Shabab.
Ugandan police chief Kale Kayihura told reporters on Tuesday that the suspects — who once lived in the Kampala neighborhood where prosecutor Joan Kagezi was shot dead — had changed their physical address three times, leading a surveillance team to suspect they played a role in the killings. Police on Tuesday searched an apartment on the outskirts of Kampala that the suspects occupied before they were arrested. They were not identified.
Ugandan police suspect Islamic extremists killed Kagezi because of her public role as a senior prosecutor who handled international crimes and terror cases.
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[Libya Herald] An apparent suicide kaboom in Misrata failed early this morning with only the bomber killed. A second assailant involved in the incident was later captured in the town.
The drama started at around 1 am this morning when two vehicles -- a Hyundai Tucson and a Mercedes V2 -- drove up to the Kararim checkpoint some 30 kilometres south of of the city. The driver of the first got out with two grenade in his hands and moved towards the guards who shot him dead before he could throw them. One of the grenades then went kaboom!, blasting his upper torso apart. The Hyundai, in which a number of mortar shells had been placed, then caught fire and the shells started to explode, although not all of them. According to the military the bombs were not particularly powerful.
In the chaos, the driver of the Mercedes managed to drive off. He was, however, captured some two hours later in Misrata.
The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS), which has threatened an onslaught of suicide and boom-mobileings in Misrata, is being blamed for the attack although, unusually for it, it has not yet rushed to claim responsibility.
This is the fourth such attack in as many weeks. On 15 March bomb went kaboom! outside the headquarters of 166 Battalion killing one of its members. There was a second boom-mobile on 22 March outside the city's security administration building. Fortunately, no one was killed or injured. However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... just five days ago, seven people died when a truck blew up next to a bus which had stopped at the Sadada checkpoint.
IS grabbed credit for all three attacks.
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[Libya Herald] As many as 3,500 government troops are reported to be being massed outside Benghazi by the Libyan National Army ahead of a major, and possibly final, showdown in the city against the forces of the Benghazi Revolutionaries Shoura Council (BRSC) which include Ansar Al-Sharia . . .
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[AnNahar] Gunmen suspected to be 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... Islamists have launched a fresh attack on a northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... n village killing two residents, two weeks after they beheaded 23 people in the same village, witnesses said.
The bully boyz stormed Buratai village on cycle of violences around 8:00pm (1900 GMT) on Thursday, killed their targets and fled, a security source said.
"Two people were killed instantly and three others that sustained gunshot (wounds) are currently receiving treatment at the Biu General (government) Hospital," he said.
A Buratai resident, Garba Musa, said the bully boyz invaded the village on cycle of violences.
"They were blood thirsty. This is not the first time they are attacking us. They were here on March 27 on the eve of the presidential elections...," Musa said.
Suspected Boko Haram gunnies beheaded 23 people and set fire to homes in Buratai village on March 27, on the eve of presidential and parliamentary elections.
What is the best way for a community to defend itself against raiders like this, when the army is hours or days away?
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[DAWN] Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition battered 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... overnight in the most intense strikes since the launch of a campaign against Iran-backed rebels last month, residents and officials said Friday.
"In Aden, the raids began at around 10:00 pm on Thursday and were the most violent since the start of 'Operation Decisive Storm'," a resident of the southern city told AFP.
The air strikes lasted well into the night, said other residents of Aden, especially the municipal headquarters of Dar Saad at the city's northern entrance.
They were carried out a few hours after Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... rebels and renegade army soldiers loyal to former president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... arrived at the building, according to the residents.
Coalition aircraft also targeted other positions, including a stadium in the centre of the city and checkpoints manned by the rebel forces.
There was no way to immediately verify the reports.
"Extremely violent" air raids also targeted Ataq, the capital of Shabwa province east of Aden which was seized by Saleh's forces on Thursday, an official said.
Strikes were launched against a missile base near the town and an arms depot at a base in Morra, to the west of Ataq, said another official.
Rebel positions were been targeted around the city of restive Lahj ... a Yemeni governate located in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It is the stomping grounds on the southern secessionist al-Harak movement , north of Aden, according to residents.
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[Jpost] According to investigators, the suspect met the Israeli, Yosef Damari, aged 22, in a Berlin hostel last week and is believed to have murdered him the following day.
Berlin Prosecutor Martin Steltner claimed that there was no indication of a robbery prior to or after the murder, but also suggested that there was no evidence to suggest that the murder was politically motivated. Of course not. A Muslim bashes a Jew's skull in, and no robbery, is not political. Now, the vice versa....
Istanbul is Byzantium-that-was. So of course the plots are Byzantine, and as likely to be a frame as real.
[AnNahar] A Turkish court on Friday placed under arrest pending trial 17 soldiers charged in a hugely controversial case over the interception last year of a consignment that allegedly contained arms bound for Syria.
The 17 have been charged with membership of a terrorist organization and working on behalf of the "parallel state", common official shorthand for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... 's arch enemy the U.S.-based preacher Fethullah Gulen.
A total of 32 soldiers detained after prosecutors issues warrants at the weekend had appeared before the Istanbul court but 15 were allowed to go free, 10 of them under judicial supervision.
A date for the trial has yet to be set.
In January last year, Turkish security forces stopped and seized seven trucks near the Syrian border that were suspected of seeking to smuggle weapons into Syria.
A series of documents were then leaked on the Internet indicating that the seized trucks were actually National Intelligence Agency (MIT) vehicles delivering weapons to Syrian Salafist tough guys fighting Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has vehemently denied aiding Salafist tough guys in Syria, such as the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) jihadist group, although it wants to see Assad toppled.
Turkey earlier this year imposed an all-out media blackout, including on Facebook and Twitter, prohibiting publication of the allegations.
It is not yet clear what precise role the 17 accused are alleged to have played in the affair.
As well as membership of a terror group and working for the parallel state, they have been charged with illegal eavesdropping, forging illegal documents and working to overthrow the government.
The controversy erupted on January 19, 2014 when Turkish forces stopped trucks bound for Syria suspected to have been loaded with weapons. But they then found MIT personnel were on board.
The Turkish authorities have sought to blame the scandal on Gulen who Erdogan accuses of running a parallel state through supporters in the judiciary and security forces with the aim of usurping him.
A former ally of Erdogan, Pennsylvania-based Gulen has a range of interests in Turkey and abroad through his Hizmet (Service) movement in the education, media and financial sectors.
Supporters of Gulen, who have been pressured by a wave of arrests in the past months, ridicule the allegations and accuse Erdogan of leading Turkey to dictatorship.
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[BBC] A 20-year-old US citizen has been charged with attempting to explode a boom-mobile at Fort Riley in Manhattan, Kansas.
John T Booker Jr was making final preparations to carry out the suicide kaboom on behalf of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS), the FBI said.
Mr Booker previously had tried to join the Army, but was denied entry because of internet posts about "jihad".
Authorities say that US personnel were never in danger.
He is the latest American to be nabbed I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! for attempted support of IS. Two reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... men were arrested in late March for attempting to provide material support to the organization. In earlier this month two women in New York City were arrested on suspicion of planning to use a weapon of mass destruction.
Booker, also known as Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, enlisted in the military "with the intent to commit an insider attack against American soldiers," according to the FBI complaint.
He had "formulated several plans for committing jihad once enlisted", including shooting soldiers on the firing range and kidnapping a high-ranking officer.
PJMedia has the background of his interactions with the FBI here, though the writer gets a bit overexcited against the FBI, it seems to me.
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[DAWN] QUETTA: The spokesperson for Frontier Corps claimed that the alleged criminal mastermind behind the attack on Quaid-e-Azam's Ziarat residency was killed in a targeted raid carried out by the FC personnel in the Mach area of Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... 's Bolan district on Friday.
FC Spokesman Khan Wasey said three bully boyz were killed by security forces including Mehmood alias Mama, the alleged criminal mastermind of bombing the Quaid residency on June 15, 2013. The accused was also involved in ethnic killing in the province, he added.
Wasey said "the bully boyz were also involved in the murder of a Hindu trader in the area". FC also recovered arms and ammunition from the possession of turbans.
Militants had carried out a symbolic and audacious attack on Pakistain, its history and the federal structure when they blew up the Ziarat residency, the building in which the Quaid-e-Azam spent the last days of his life in 1948. The Balochistan Liberation Army had grabbed credit for the strike.
The residency was later rebuild and brought back to its original glory by the government and was then inaugurated on August 14, 2014.
Separately, the Quetta police claimed to have foiled a terrorism bid by seizing 100 kilogrammes of explosives from the city's suburbs on Friday, while three extortionists were killed by Frontier Corps in the Mach area of Bolan district.
Razaq Cheema, the Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Quetta, said police conducted a raid in Hazar Ganji area of the city and recovered 100 kilogrammes of explosives. "Terrorists had dumped kaboom at an empty place," Cheema stated.
He said police acted on intelligence reports and foiled a major bid of terrorism in the city, already plagued by terror acts.
The Quetta police chief, however, said that no arrest was made during the raid as the culprits had fled from the spot. "No arrest was made," he said, adding that raids were being conducted to apprehend the culprits behind dumping of kabooms.
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[IraqiNews.com] Sweden announced on Thursday, that it plans to send military forces into northern Iraq as part of the international coalition to combat the ISIS organization, adding that the number of soldiers amounts to 35 elements and might reach 120 elements if necessary.
The Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstorm and Defense Minister Peter Hultqvist said in a joint written statement published by the Russian website 'Sputnik' and followed by IraqiNews.com, "Sweden intends to send troops into northern Iraq as part of the international coalition to combat ISIS and advise the Iraqi security forces," explaining that, "The Swedish experts will work with other members of the coalition who are already in the region, like the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and Finland."
The two ministers added, "The Swedish government asked the parliament to ratify sending a group of 35 soldiers in 2015 to participate in military operations conducted by the international coalition in north of Iraq," noting that, "The number is probably up to 120 soldiers if necessary."
[IraqiNews.com] A security source in Diyala province announced Thursday, that the ISIS organization has executed four of its most prominent commanders in the province by a direct order from its leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murderer to the rest of us... , because they fled from battles in Diyala, indicating that the execution took place in Salahuddin province.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, "ISIS leader al-Baghdadi ordered to execute four of the most prominent commanders of the terrorist group in Diyala, including a security officer in the former regime, on the outskirts of al-Sharqat area in Salahuddin, because of their escape from the battlefield in the northern areas of Muqdadiya (40 km northeast of Baquba)," noting that, "The execution was in front of a gathering of people."
The source, who requested to remain anonymous, added, "The four leaders were placed in durance vile Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! two months ago in Hamrin on the border between Diyala and Salahuddin, after fleeing from Muqdadiyah battles."
[IraqiNews.com] On Thursday, a source within the police force in Kirkuk province announced, that the security forces have detained four elements of the ISIS group in southwest of the province.
The source told IraqiNews, "Today, local police forces conducted a security operation in the area of Bajwan (25 km southwest of Kirkuk)," pointing out that, "The operation resulted in arresting 4 ISIS elements."
"The forces seized a number of computers belonging to ISIS that contains information about the group's operations," the source added.
Ooooh, toys for the computer jockeys to play with. Have fun, guys!
[IraqiNews.com] On Thursday, a security source in Salahuddin province said, that the ISIS group holy warriors have carried out a violent attack on the district of al-Dajil, located in south of Tikrit.
The source stated to IraqiNews in an interview, "This evening, ISIS holy warriors have carried out a violent attack from 3 axes on the areas of al-Kasarat, al-Maqala and Sayed-Gharib in the district of al-Dajil (120 km south of Tikrit)," pointing out that, "Violent festivities have broken out between the ISIS group holy warriors and al-Hashed al-Sha'bi militia fighters stationed in the district."
[IraqiNews.com] On Thursday, a security source in Salahuddin province said, that the Iraqi tribal fighters have managed to kill 4 ISIS murderous Moslems during festivities in northeast of Tikrit city.
The source told IraqiNews, "Today, violent festivities erupted between the armed rustics and ISIS murderous Moslems in the outskirts of Rubayda village, located in northeast of Tikrit," noting that, "Iraqi tribal fighters managed to kill 4 elements of the ISIS group in the village."
"The tribal fighters are taking and holding the ground from ISIS murderous Moslems in the village of Rubayda," the source has asserted.
[IraqiNews.com] The Deputy President of the Republic Osama Najafi announced Wednesday, that the number of ISIS elements in Nineveh province doesn't exceed 5,000 elements, while pointed out that only 3% of the province's residents joined the terrorist group's ranks, confirming that six parties will participate in the military operation to liberate the province.
Nujaifi said in press statements, "The forces that will participate in the operation to liberate Nineveh are the Iraqi army forces (military teams have been prepared specifically for this task), forces of the federal police, local police forces (15,000 elements), the national Volunteer Fighters forces, the Kurdish Peshmerga and the international coalition."
Najafi added, "The Council of Nineveh issued a decision not to accept any forces coming from outside the province to participate in the operation."
[IraqiNews.com] According to a local source in Nineveh province, ISIS elements executed ten doctors by firing squad for refusing to treat maimedhard boyz belong to the terrorist organization south of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, "ISIS elements executed today ten doctors by firing squad of in Hamam Alil south of Mosul."
The source, who requested anonymity, added, "They were executed for refusing to treat the ISIS maimed."
[IraqiNews.com] A local source in Nineveh province announced Thursday, that the ISIS organization issued orders to use landline phones instead of mobile phones for fear of intelligence picking up information about the organization outside the province, adding that the ISIS Lions of Islam cut off the fingers of four civilians because of their use of cellphones, while explained that organization threatened to cut off their hands.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, "The so-called Wali of Nineveh held a meeting with employees of the communication department in the province and asked them to re-install landlines instead," noting that, "Landline phones returned to service by 50% in the whole province, while there are some materials that need maintenance to operated."
The source, who requested anonymity, added, "The purpose of re-installing landlines is to curb the people's anger after cellphones and contacts between the people of Nineveh and other provinces were banned.
[IraqiNews.com] On Thursday, a source within the Peshmerga forces said, that 10 ISIS turbans have been killed in festivities with the Kurdish Peshmerga forces in al-Khazr area, located in eastern djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... The source stated to IraqiNews in an interview, "The Kurdish Peshmerga forces have managed to repel a violent attack by the ISIS group turbans on sites for the Peshmerga in the village of Tal-Aswad in the area of al-Khazr, located in eastern Mosul," pointing out that, "The festivities between the two sides resulted in killing 10 elements of the ISIS group."
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Our man in Mosul need a stylus
If he's to continue to dial us.
Let's train him at Brailling
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Lest we get shorthanded and eyeless.
[AnNahar] A boom-mobile went off near one of Baghdad's landmark hotels and suicide kaboomer went kaboom! in a restaurant north of the Iraqi capital Friday, killing eight people, police said.
The explosives-laden vehicles rocked the central Baghdad neighbourhood of Karrada, near the upmarket Babylon hotel that overlooks the Tigris.
A police colonel said at least three people were killed 12 maimed in the blast, which occurred at a time when many civilians gather for midday Friday prayers.
A hospital official confirmed the toll.
Such attacks, once almost daily in the capital, decreased in frequency this year after security forces pushed jihadist Death Eaters back from parts of the Baghdad belt and dismantled a bomb-making cell.
In Mashahdah, a town around 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of Baghdad, a jacket wallah detonated his explosives vest in a restaurant, killing at least five people, an official at the interior ministry said.
Most of the casualties of the blast, which also left 15 people maimed, were members of the Popular Mobilisation units, an umbrella group under which many Shiite militias have been fighting jihadists alongside government forces.
Mashahdah straddles the main northbound road from Baghdad to the northern front of the battle against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group, including cities such as Samarra and Tikrit.
[CNN] IS fighters seized several districts in the Iraqi city of Ramadi in an hours-long assault Friday that included suicide and boom-mobiles, an Iraqi provincial official said.
At least 10 Iraqi security forces were killed in the attacks, according to Faleh al-Essawi, the deputy head of Iraq's Anbar provincial council. And the head of the Iraqi military operation in Anbar province, Gen. Qassim al-Muhammadi, was maimed.
Iraqi and allied forces have made inroads in recent weeks beating back the group that calls itself the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... , which took over vast swaths of Iraq and neighboring Syria last year. Their most high-profile victory, for instance, was the recapture of Tikrit.
Still, ISIS remains a formidable force and, as the Ramadi assault shows, one that's still capable and willing to go on offense to take territory.
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[AnNahar] Philippine soldiers clashed with about 200 fighters of a Al-Qaeda-linked krazed killer group on Thursday, leaving two soldiers and six guerrillas dead, a military spokeswoman said.
The soldiers were on patrol in the strife-torn island of Jolo when they encountered fighters of the Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... group, army spokeswoman Captain Rowena Muyuela said.
"The firefight lasted for two hours resulting in a big number of casualties to the bandidos," she told news hounds.
Ten Abu Sayyaf fighters and 15 soldiers were also maimed in the encounter before the forces of Evil fled, she added.
The Abu Sayyaf, set up with seed funds from Al-Qaeda in the early 1990s, has been blamed for many of the deadliest krazed killer attacks in the Philippines, including the 2004 Molotov cocktailing of a ferry on Manila Bay that claimed more than 100 lives.
A key leader of the group posted video footage of himself and other gunnies last year pledging allegiance to 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.... fighters in Syria and Iraq.
The government has recently mounted major operations against Moslem bad boy groups in different parts of the southern Philippines.
A raid by police commandos in January killed Malaysian Zulkifli Abdhir, who is listed on the FBI's list of "Most Wanted Terrorists".
Forty-four police commandos were also killed in the operation, embarrassing President Benigno Aquino's government and casting a shadow on his efforts to forge a peace accord with other mainstream Moslem rebels.
A massive operation from February to March against another Moslemgang, the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters ...a MILF splinter group aligned with the Islamic State... (BIFF), killed 140 krazed killers, the military said. Six soldiers also died.
The BIFF is opposed to the peace talks and its leaders have also pledged allegiance to the Islamic State movement.
The largely-Christian Philippines has been struggling for years with various Moslemgangs seeking independence in the south which they consider their ancestral homeland.
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[AnNahar] Two Syrians were jugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! in the eastern Bekaa region for belonging to a terrorist group, reported the National News Agency.
It said that the Army Intelligence arrested them in al-Labweh for being affiliated to the al-Nusra ...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant... Front.
The detainees have been identified as Mohammed Idris and Abdul Muhaymen al-Abed.
The army has in recent months arrested scores of suspected faceless myrmidons linked to the Syrian conflict.
The al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front, completely unknown before the rebellion in Syria that began two years ago, has been a rebel standard-bearer since mid-2012 when it became the spearhead of the insurgency ahead of the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... The organization has been blacklisted in December by the United States as a "terrorist" organization and makes no secret of its aim for Syria to become an Islamist state.
The jihadists remain entrenched on the outskirts of the northeastern town of Arsal on the porous Syrian-Lebanese border.
The mountainous area along the Lebanese-Syrian border has long been a smuggling haven, with multiple routes into Syria that have been used to transport weapons and fighters.
Lebanon continues clearing the decks against the probability of future problems from Syria.
[AnNahar] Security forces succeeded on Thursday in arresting and killing prominent runaways wanted on terrorism charges, most notably Sheikh Khaled Hoblos, who is wanted for his involvement in festivities with the army in Bhannine in late 2014.
An Internal Security Forces statement late on Thursday announced that Hoblos was tossed in the calaboose Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! while riding in a Kia Picanto vehicle that was driven by Amir al-Kurdi in the northern city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... Soon after, an Opel vehicle, with two passengers on board, shot up the security forces, slightly wounding two members.
The forces retaliated at the car, killing the two passengers. They were later identified as Osama Mansour and Ahmed al-Nazer.
They also determined that Masnour had opened fire.
He also possessed an boom belt that a military expert has since dismantled, added the communique.
As Safir newspaper Friday said that the ISF Intelligence Bureau managed to pursue and kill Mansour and al-Nazer in an ambush in the Miatayn crossroads in Tripoli.
The Bureau had been monitoring the telephone calls of a terrorist group, finding out that some of its members will be holding a meeting at a cafe in Tripoli's Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhood.
An Intelligence Bureau unit, under the surveillance of Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq, was summoned to raid the cafe and arrest the suspects.
As it approached the scene, the unit was surprised with the appearance of two cars leaving the area at high speeds.
They took the al-Zahriyeh road leading towards the Miatayn crossroads near an army checkpoint.
The security forces sought to block the road against one of the cars, which was transporting Mansour and al-Nazer, in order to apprehend the passengers, said As Safir.
They were instead met with gunshots from the other car that was following it and transporting Hoblos and three of his armed companions.
Two members of the ISF unit were seriously maimed in the clash that lasted about five minutes, added As Safir.
The army was also involved in the incident.
Mansour and al-Nazer were killed in the unrest, while Hoblos was maimed and arrested.
He has been transported to the ISF General Directorate in Beirut where investigations are underway with him.
His companions in the car managed to flee the scene. ... as though they had never been... The army has since cordoned off the area where the clash took place and forensic experts discovered a number of weapons, hand grenades, and boom belts in the runaways' abandoned vehicles.
In October, the army engaged in festivities in the northern town of Bhannine with Islamist gunnies led by Hoblos.
The festivities in Bhannine coincided at the time with unprecedented fighting between the army and Islamist gunnies in Tripoli's old souks and Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhood.
A number of the members of Hoblos' Islamist network have since been arrested.
Mansour is wanted on terrorism charges.
In January, he was implicated, along with 27 others, in the double suicide kaboom that rocked the Jabal Mohsen district of Tripoli earlier that month.
Mansour, along with prominent runaway Shadi al-Mawlawi, was wanted for leading gangs that engaged in deadly gunbattles with the army in Tripoli and its surrounding areas in October.
Mansour and al-Mawlawi were also charged with recruiting people for the purpose of carrying out terrorist attacks, assaulting the army and planting bombs.
[ARA] Dozens of Western fighters from different nationalities have joined the ranks of the Kurdish forces in Syria and Iraq in order to combat murderous Moslems of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS/ISIL).
The mounting atrocities of the holy warrior group against civilians have these Westerners --some with military experience and others with no fighting background--supporting Kurds in their months-long conflict against IS.
In Syria, hundreds of Western members of the People's Protection Units (YPG and Women's Protection Units (YPJ) have formed what is known as "Lions of Rojava" (Lions of Syrian Kurdistan). They force combat IS in several areas in Syria's Kurdish region alongside the YPG and YPJ.
The force fights under the banner "Send Terrorists to Hell and Save Humanity".
Speaking to ARA News, Peter, an American fighter in the ranks of Lions of Rojava, emphasized the importance of being united with the Kurdish forces in order to fight against IS holy warriors, saying it's a front that everyone should join since IS is an enemy to all of humanity.
"What prompted me to come here and join the Kurdish forces was the desire to help eliminate the enemies of humanity (in reference to IS bad boys)," Peter said.
"By this amount of brutality and barbaric atrocities against innocent civilians, theese gunnies are trying to destroy humanity. Thus it seems a duty to fight and eliminate them."
"They are a source of extremism and terrorism, and they share all inhuman qualities," he added.
Speaking to ARA News on the fighting front against the radical group in the town of Tel Brak near Qamishli, Peter appealed to the U.S.: "Air operations must be more efficient against the Islamic State, and essential tactical units of the group should be given a priority in the Arclight airstrikes in order to enable us to achieve remarkable advances on the ground."
"Eliminating terrorism starts with eliminating IS, because the group has attracted Death Eaters from all over the world. So this is a great opportunity for the U.S. and allies to put an end to those gunnies who threaten innocent people, not only in this region but all over the world," Peter told ARA News.
Delil, a Kurdish fighter who is fighting alongside Peter, said that the presence of Peter and other Western fighters on the Kurdish side of the conflict against IS "it raises the overall morale among Kurds".
"When you see foreigners leave their homelands to join us in the fight against terrorism, this strengthens our spirits in this war, so we remain even more steadfast in our commitment to defend our people and homeland," Delil told ARA News.
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RIP Kurdish YPG female warrior Viyan Peyman who was martyred this week in a battle with ISIS.
Meanwhile, on the ground where it matters, ISIS and Al Nusra gobble up the smaller groups and minority populations, and fight against the Kurds and Assad's remainder of Syria.
[AnNahar] A group of Syrian opposition figures is seeking to form an alternative to the National Coalition body and open negotiations with Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... to end their country's conflict.
Fiddling while Syria burns.
The "National Syrian Democratic Conference" is expected to take place in Cairo in early May and bring together some 150 opposition figures living in Syria and abroad, organizers say.
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[AnNahar] Jihadist fighters from the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group are holding hostage at least 50 civilians, almost half of them women, seized in a raid on a village in central Syria, a monitor said.
They were kidnapped from the village of Mabujeh in Hama province on March 31, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
News of the kidnappings had been kept quiet because of ongoing negotiations for their release, but the talks have since faltered, said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman.
Ten of those taken, including six women, are Ismailis, a minority sect that is an offshoot of Shiite Islam. The remaining 40 are Sunni Moslems, including at least 15 women.
"There are fears that the women are being taken as slaves," Abdel Rahman told AFP.
He said the Ismailis were kidnapped because IS considers them "infidels," and that the Sunnis -- although from the same sect as IS fighters -- were taken because IS viewed them as "loyal to the Ismailis."
Mabujeh, east of the lovely provincial capital Hama, has a population of Sunnis, Ismailis and Alawites, another offshoot of Shiite Islam that is the sect of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... and his clan.
On March 31, IS executed at least 37 civilians in Mabujeh, including two children, by "burning, beheading, and firing on them," the Observatory said.
IS has regularly targeted minority sects in Syria, especially Shiites it accuses of apostasy, as well as Sunnis who it alleges have violated its interpretation of Islam.
It has also carried out mass kidnappings of Kurds and Assyrian Christians in Syria, and members of the Yazidi faith in neighboring Iraq.
In another attack on a minority village in Syria, a boom-mobilewent kaboom! Friday in the Alawite neighborhood of Hay al-Arman in Homs city, the Observatory said.
Abdel Rahman told AFP that one child was killed and at least 10 people were maimed in the kaboom.
He could not specify who was behind the boom-mobile, but Syrian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
said a "terrorist attack" had struck the area.
Abdel Rahman said Hay al-Arman was under regime control and was a "stronghold" of pro-government militias.
Alawite areas in Homs have been under attack by jihadists, including a brutal suicide kaboom at a school in October 2014 that left 54 dead, among them 47 children.
In the northern city of Raqa, which IS has declared the capital of its self-styled "caliphate," 16 people were killed in a series of regime air strikes on the city and its suburbs.
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[SACBEE] The Paleostine Liberation Organization said it will not be drawn into military action in an embattled Paleostinian refugee camp in Syria, rejecting claims that Paleostinians would join Syrian troops in driving out 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.... krazed killers.
The PLO statement, issued late Thursday, contradicted comments earlier by the PLO envoy to Damascus, Ahmad Majdalani, that Paleostinian groups are ready to join forces with the Syrian government to expel IS fighters from the Yarmouk camp in the Syrian capital.
Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... has long insisted that Paleostinians stay out of the Syrian conflict. It was not immediately clear why Majdalani, sent by Abbas to Damascus to deal with the crisis, came out in support of Paleostinian military involvement in Syria.
The contradictory comments exposed internal Paleostinian disagreements on how to handle the growing crisis in Yarmouk, where thousands of civilians are trapped under appalling conditions.
Wasel Abu Yusef, a senior PLO official based in the West Bank town of Ramallah, said Friday that negotiating safe passage for Yarmouk's besieged residents and for humanitarian supplies is preferable to military action.
"We know that if the (Syrian) army, with its planes and tanks, would interfere, this would mean the complete destruction of the camp," he said.
A Damascus-based Paleostinian official, Khaled Abdul-Majid, said the back and forth was not helping Yarmouk. He said the PLO was backing away from earlier statements "as a result of pressure from external sides." He did not elaborate, but said Damascus-based Paleostinian factions will stick to the agreement reached on joining Syrian troops in driving IS gunnies out.
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When the sort of person who thinks of stealing from his neighbor starts thinking that way, only in paleoland do thoughts turn to stealing a clogged toilet...
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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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.
KAMPALA -- Ugandan police have arrested at least three people over the killing last month of a senior prosecutor who was involved in the trial of a dozen men accused of belonging to the Somali armed group al-Shabab.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[BBC] A 20-year-old US citizen has been charged with attempting to explode a 
