[KhaamaPress] The US forces based in Afghanistan carried out Arclight airstrikes on Taliban ...Arabic for students... and ISIS hideouts in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province using the unmanned aerial vehicles, the military and police officials said.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East said at least three Taliban bully boyz were killed in the dronezap in Kkochiano area in Bati Kot district.
The source further added that another Death Eater was maimed and a Dshk heavy machine was destroyed in the airstrike.
Armed Taliban on Wednesday attacked security check posts in various areas in Parwan province, local officials said.
According to Parwan security officials the Taliban attacked three security check posts in three districts of the province.
Taliban attacked check posts in Syiah Gird, Shinwari and Shikh Ali district and clashed for several hours with security forces, but eventually they were forced to retreat, said officials.
Alozai Ahmadi, a security official in Parwan province, said that during the clash two insurgents were killed and three others were wounded.
He did not give any information about casualties among security forces.
This comes after Taliban on Wednesday announced their spring offensive and in a statement on Thursday claimed to have conducted dozens of attacks across the country on the first day of their new fighting season.
At least 72 military operations have been carried out in Logar province, in the south of Kabul, in last three months but residents and local officials said the province is still insecure.
One member of Logar Provincial Council said Taliban and other insurgent groups are active in parts of all the six districts in the province, including Pul-e-Alam city – the provincial capital.
“The military operations which are conducted at nights are carried out by ‘01 Unit’ from Kabul, independently and without coordination with local authorities (in Logar)… There are some problems. Some houses have been damaged during their operations,” Haseeb Stanekzai, head of the council said.
Logar police said the military operations have been effective in eliminating militants in the province.
“Seventy-two (military) operations have been conducted in the past three months, most of them by special forces and many of them were supported by Air Force. These operations have been effective in eliminating the enemy,” Security Officer at Logar Police Headquarters, Mohammad Ayub Wardak, said.
Residents claimed civilians have also suffered financial losses in the operations.
“The houses that have been targeted are not belonged to the Taliban,” said Ahmadullah, a resident of Shaikhan village in Baraki Barak district, where government forces conducted military operations.
Logar shares borders with Kabul and four other provinces. It also shares border with Pakistan.
This comes after Logar deputy governor Qamaruddin Shakib was killed in a Taliban ambush in Waghjan area in Mohammad Agha district while was on his way to Kabul on Thursday.
Al Shabaab said on Thursday that it has carried out a bomb attack in Barawe city in Somalia’s southern Lower Region.
The Al Qaeda-linked militant group issued a statement claiming an attack using a remote-controlled landmine targeting Somali military checkpoint in the town.
“At least three Somali military soldiers were killed and several others wounded in the blast,” read the statement as part.
There was no any comment from the Somali military regarding the incident, which comes barely a week after a bomb killed at least 6 football fans at soccer crowd in the city.
Despite being ejected out of main strongholds, Al-Shabab still capable of carrying out deadly attacks in the country, mainly in Mogadishu as part of its struggle to oust Somali government.
[AAWSAT] Libyan National Army Commander Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... arrived on Thursday from Cairo at Benina International Airport, east of Benghazi, amid popular and official celebrations after receiving treatment for three weeks in Gay Paree.
Earlier in the day, delegations of prominent figures, elders and sheikhs of the Eastern Province as well as members of the House of Representatives and civil society organizations came to Benghazi to participate in the reception ceremony of Haftar, who had received treatment in La Belle France amid "rumors" that he had died.
Popular celebrations began from Wednesday night and took place in the eastern Libyan cities. Crowds were arriving in the squares and hoisting banners and posters of the Marshal, who held talks in Cairo with Egyptian officials before traveling to his country.
During his visit to Egypt, Haftar discussed the relations between Egypt and Libya and the latest developments in his country.
On April 14, a "rumor" was spread about the death of Haftar in a hospital in Gay Paree, causing confusion in Libyan and Arab circles.
The citizens of eastern Libya highly appreciate Haftar, but he has been considered an obstacle to the "Islamists", especially in the west of the country, since his return from exile in the United States following the outbreak of the revolution of February 17, 2011.
Member of the House of Representatives Dr. Mohammed Amer al-Abbani told Asharq al-Awsat that "the return of the commander-in-chief in good health, proves that he is a man of strategies and does not get carried away by rumors."
Posted by: Fred ||
04/28/2018 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under: Arab Spring
#1
Was he upright? Warm?
Posted by: Frank G ||
04/28/2018 9:56 Comments ||
Top||
[Breitbart] Catholic Bishops this week called on Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari to resign for failing to protect Christians from the deadly Moslem terrorist menace at the hands of the Fulani herdsmen gripping the African country.
The comments from the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria came days after the April 24 attack by suspected murderous Moslem Fulani herdsmen that killed the 19 Christians, including two priests, during morning mass at the Catholic Church in the Ukpor-Mbalom community of the Gwer East Local Government Area in Nigeria’s Benue State.
Amid the ongoing carnage at the hands of the herdsmen, Christians have accused President Buhari, who shares ethnicity with the semi-nomadic Fulani group, of leniency towards the terrorists, Africa News reports.
In the wake of the April 24 massacre, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and other followers of Christ condemned the heinous attack.
The attack came a day after David Curry, the CEO of Open Doors USA, a group that monitors Christian persecution across the world, highlighted the "rising threat" against Christians posed by the terrorist Fulani herdsmen in comments to Breitbart News.
"Despite this rising threat [by murderous Moslem Fulani herdsmen] ... This is the conflict in Nigeria that no one is talking about," he said, echoing the president of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN).
The Catholic Bishops Conference accused Buhari of failing to keep Nigerians safe by ignoring festivities between the settled Christian farmers and the herdsmen that "have left hundreds dead," Africa News points out.
In a statement shared with various African news outlets, the Bishops describe the Fulani as a "wicked and inhuman gang of the rampaging and murderous terrorists, who have turned the vast lands of the Middle belt and other parts of Nigeria into a massive graveyard."
The Global Terrorism Index (GTI), repeatedly cited by the U.S. State Department, revealed last year that Fulani murderous Moslem herdsmen carried out more attacks and were responsible for more fatalities in Nigeria in 2016 than 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.... (ISIS/ISIS)-linked Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... In 2016, the index noted that Fulani snuffies had killed 60,000 people since 2001.
Open Doors USA points out, "In the last year alone, Fulani bandidosDeath Eaters have razed more than 50 villages and over the last four months have killed now 516 Christians."
Consistent with reports from Open Doors, the Catholic Bishops noted that the attacks by Moslem terrorist Fulani herdsmen against Christians have intensified in recent months, declaring in the statement:
Since then, the bloodletting and the destruction of homes as well as farmlands have increased in intensity and brutality. Now our Churches have been desecrated and our people murdered on their altars. ... We collectively feel abandoned and betrayed.
Consistent with the position of other Christian groups, Rev. Ayokunle Olasupo, the CAN president, urged members of the religious minority in the African country to rise and defend themselves against the herdsmen.
Citing the Amnesia Amnesty Internationalhuman rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... group, Curry acknowledged that some Christians had killed members of the Moslem Fulani herdsmen group.
[All Africa] Detained leader of Nigeria's Shiite group, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky,
...former leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Nigeria, he converted to Shi'ism after a visit to Iran, and now is a fiery Iranian sockpuppet...
has been charged with murder amid growing street protests demanding his release from prolonged detention.
How better to express one’s religious faith than by murderously riot in the streets?
Mr El-Zakzaky and his wife have been held by the Nigerian government since December 2015 despite court rulings authorising his release.
The government claims he is held in a "protective custody", but his supporters have in the last two weeks intensified protests demanding his freedom.
In what appears to be a response to the protests, the Kaduna state government slammed a fresh eight-count charge on the Shiite leader, his lawyer, Femi Falana, said Thursday.
The charges include homicide which is punishable by death.
Court papers obtained by PREMIUM TIMES indicate that the charges were filed on April 18.
According to the charge, the alleged offences took place during the December 2015 clash between the IMN and a convoy of Nigeria's army chief, Tukur Buratai.
This article starring:
Zakzaky
Posted by: Fred ||
04/28/2018 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[3 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies
TAIZ, Apr.27 (Saba) - The army units and popular committees shelling two attacked at Saudi’ sites in Taiz province, a military official told Saba on Friday.
The first attacked was in Khazan hilltop in Haufan, the second attacked was in Saudi ‘sites in Habshe montane.
These two attacked left several mercenaries were killed and wounded.
ASIR, Apr. 27(Saba) – The army and popular forces foiled several attempts infiltration of Saudi aggression mercenaries in Manthba area in Asir Border, a military official told Saba on Friday.
The attacked left dozens of mercenaries were killing and wounding.
At the same time, the US-Saudi aggression air forces were flying in the same province.
HAJJAH, April 27 (Saba) - Warplanes of the US-backed Saudi-led aggression coalition waged 21 raids on Hajjah province, an official told Saba on Friday.
12 airstrikes hit Jar farms in Abs district and 9 others Haradh and Midi districts.
TAIZ, April 27 (Saba) – US-backed Saudi-led aggression coalition fighter jets waged five raids on Taiz province , a security official told Saba on Friday.
The five strikes hit southern Kalid camp in Mouza district.
MARIB, April 26 (Saba) – The Snipers unit in the army and popular committees’ forces shot dead four mercenaries in Marib provinces, a military official told Saba on Thursday.
The mercenaries were killed in al-Zoghan area in Serwah district.
[Ynet] Russia's main intelligence agency says it has detained four men from a Siberian oil town who are linked to 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 and are suspected of plotting terror attacks in Moscow.
The FSB agency said Friday that the four members of the suspected IS "sleeper cell" were detained in the Moscow region after they traveled from Novy Urengoi, an oil town in western Siberia. The FSB said the men plotted attacks in Moscow and were receiving orders from IS members in Syria via a messaging app.
Twenty people were detained in Novy Urengoi on suspicion of aiding the group.
Russia has been providing air cover for Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... since 2015, while thousands of its own citizens went off to Syria to join IS in fighting against Assad's government.
Posted by: trailing wife ||
04/28/2018 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[1 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
[AAWSAT] Authorities have detained four suspected senior ISIS Death Eaters, including a close associate of the group’s leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart... , in an operation in the Aegean coastal city of Izmir, Ottoman Turkish media reported on Friday.
The suspects include the group's so-called "emir," or ruler, of Deir Ezzor, a major city in eastern Syria, and its environs. He is identified only by the initials K.E.H., Hurriyet newspaper said.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's state-run news agency ...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?... Anadolu described the other three suspects as senior operatives within the Death Eater group.
Hurriyet said the four were captured as part of a joint operation by Turkey's intelligence agency and police anti-terrorism units.
The suspects were hiding among a group of Syrian refugees planning to cross into Europe, the newspaper reported.
The four are being questioned by anti-terrorism police in Izmir.
Police in the city confirmed the operation but could not immediately provide details.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/28/2018 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[2 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
[IsraelTimes] Israeli military aircraft struck six targets in the Gazoo Strip Friday night belonging to Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,’s naval forces, the army said, in response to "terror acts and the major attempt to infiltrate the border into Israeli territory earlier in the day."
Paleostinians reported that four people were maimed in strikes on a position belonging to Hamas’s naval commando forces in the port of Gazoo City in the northern Strip.
According to Paleostinian reports, IAF aircraft launched missiles at two boats at the Gazoo port, as well as a Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbung millipede, post in Deir al-Balah, south of the port. No injuries were reported in the strikes, but the boats were damaged.
[SanDiegoUnionTribune] Hundreds of Palestinians stormed a flimsy fence that runs along the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel on Friday, setting parts of the barrier on fire.
It was the first breach of the security fence in five consecutive weeks of Palestinian protests. Israeli army spokesman Lt. Jonathan Conricus said Israel viewed this as an "audacious" and "severe" attack, adding that Israel will not tolerate attempts to infiltrate its territory. Soylent Green: "bring out the scrapers"
A 15-year-old Paleostinian teenager hurt in the violent festivities on the border succumbed to his early Saturday, bringing the number of dead in festivities this Friday to four. Azzam Oweida, 15, was hit in the head during protests in southern Gazoo on Friday, the Gazoo health ministry said.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Frank G ||
04/28/2018 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under: Hamas
[Ynet] Austria's defense minister is ordering an investigation into whether the country's peacekeepers allowed Syrian police to drive into a fatal ambush in the Golan Heights six years ago.
Austrian weekly Der Falter published a leaked video Friday that was apparently filmed by the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... peacekeepers from Austria in September 2012 and shows Syrian smugglers ambush the police.
The Austrian soldiers are clearly heard discussing whether to warn the officers, but then letting them pass.
In a statement, the defense ministry said it was only made aware of the "dimension of the incident" by the images and video leaked to Falter.
Defense Minister Mario Kunasek says "the incidents will have to be meticulously and completely cleared up."
Austria's peacekeeping role on the border between Syria and Israel ended in 2013.
[Ynet] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... will take steps together with the United States in Syria's Manbij region, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday, following his meeting with new US Secretary State Mike Pompeo in Brussels.
Cavusoglu made the comment to Ottoman Turkish broadcasters after meeting with Pompeo, who went straight to NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... headquarters on Friday, barely 12 hours after being sworn into his job.
Cavusoglu also said there was no French presence in Manbij and added Turkey could evaluate "good offers" for Patriot missiles or other air defence systems from allies.
Posted by: trailing wife ||
04/28/2018 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[4 views]
Top|| File under: Sublime Porte
Damascus Countryside, SANA- Units of the Syrian Arab Army continued to advance in pursuing terrorist organizations in al-Hajar al-Aswad area to eradicate the terrorists completely from south Damascus.
The army units, backed by Syrian air force and artillery continued advancing on several directions in al-Joura, al-‘Asali and Hajar al-Aswad areas, south Damascus, after breaking the fortified positions of terrorists, SANA reporter said.
The reporter added that the army inflicted heavy losses upon terrorists in personnel and equipment.
The army units, based on accurate monitoring operations and backed by the army air force and artillery, are carrying out their plans of targeting the terrorist groups’ positions and movement’s routs, cutting off their supply routes, the reporter said.
The military operations will continue until control is established over the south of Damascus, and consequently securing the neighboring neighborhoods which the terrorist organization target with shells.
Damascus, SANA- Two children were martyred and eight others were injured due to a terrorist attack with a mortar shell on al-Qadam neighborhood in Damascus.
Dr. Muhannad Fallouh of Damascus Hospital said that the hospital received two martyred children and eight injured who sustained varying degrees of injuries to the limbs and abdomen, most of them children.
Earlier, a source at Damascus Police Command said that terrorists positioned in southern Damascus fired a mortar shell on Bayader Nader area in al-Qadam neighborhood on Friday, claiming the life of a civilian, injuring four others and causing material damage.
On Tuesday, five people were martyred and 22 others got injured when terrorists fired a mortar shell on a populated street in Nahr Aisha area in Damascus.
Since the end of last week, units of the Syrian Arab Army have been carrying out a large-scale military operation to root out the terrorist organizations from southern Damascus, inflicting heavy losses upon terrorists in lives and equipment.
The Army managed to achieve remarkable advances on various directions towards al-Hajar al-Aswad, southern Damascus.
Manar al-Frieh/Manal
Posted by: badanov ||
04/28/2018 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[5 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Syria
Quneitra, SANA – Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist groups targeted the surroundings of Khan Arnabeh town in Quneitra countryside, causing material damage.
SANA’s correspondent reported that al-Nusra terrorists positioned in some areas of Quneitra countryside targeted with a number of shells the surroundings of Tall al Quba’ and Khan Arnabeh, resulting in material damage to citizens’ houses and properties.
Units of the Syrian Arab Army responded by targeting the sources of attacks in the villages of Ofania and al-Houriah and destroyed fortified positions for terrorists, according to the correspondent.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
[Breitbart] Catholic Bishops this week called on Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari to resign for failing to protect Christians from the deadly 
... 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...
[All Africa] Detained leader of Nigeria's Shiite group, Ibrahim El-
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart...
[SanDiegoUnionTribune] Hundreds of Palestinians stormed a flimsy fence that runs along the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel on Friday, setting parts of the barrier on fire.
