[AnNahar] Ten people were hurt Tuesday when police in Egypt set off a controlled kaboom of a bomb-rigged car in the town of El-Arish in north of the restive Sinai peninsula, security officials said.
Those maimed were in their nearby home when the kaboom went off. They were taken to hospital.
"We blew up the car remotely. There was a half a tonne of explosives" inside, an interior ministry front man, Hani Abdel Latif, told AFP. It was too dangerous to try to defuse the bomb, he explained.
He added that those injured were cut by shattered window glass.
Tuesday's blast came during a nighttime curfew ordered since an October 24 suicide kaboom that killed 30 soldiers in a Sinai zone bordering the Gazoo Strip. It was not clear what the car-bomb was targeting.
Attacks targeting security forces in the peninsula have occurred frequently since the army toppled Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in July last year. Most are claimed by jihadist groups reacting to crackdowns by authorities.
Egypt's Ansar Beit al-Maqdis jihadist group, which has carried out a string of deadly attacks from its Sinai stronghold, on Monday pledged loyalty 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.... group active in Syria and Iraq.
[AnNahar] Twin suicide kabooms Wednesday hit the remote town where Libya's internationally recognized government took refuge earlier this year, among a series of attacks in the restive east, security sources said.
At least 20 people were maimed, four of them seriously, when the bombers blew up vehicles in the heart of Tobruk, an interior ministry official said.
The town, close to the Egyptian border and 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) east 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... , is still the base of the contested parliament elected in June but the government recently moved its headquarters to the nearby town of Shahat.
Both government and parliament took refuge in the remote east when Islamist-backed militias seized the capital in August.
The official said the bombs did not strike near the hotel which houses parliament. But a politician said security measures had been stepped up for fear of further attacks.
The parliament was annulled by the supreme court last week but its anti-Islamist majority has refused to accept the judgement, saying it was handed down under duress.
Three years after dictator Moamer Qadaffy was toppled and killed in a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... -backed revolt, Libya is awash with weapons and powerful militias, and run by rival governments and parliaments.
Another boom-mobile, also believed to be a suicide kaboom, on Wednesday struck near the Al-Abraq air base, also in eastern Libya.
Five soldiers were maimed in the attack, a security official said, but a medic reported two dead.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A boom-mobile outside a fast-food restaurant in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula maimed 10 people late on Tuesday when it went kaboom! as security forces were evacuating a heavily populated area, security and medical sources said, according to Rooters news agency.
The kaboom shook the town of Arish in northern Sinai, a volatile area where security forces have launched a crackdown on Islamist Lion of Islams, the sources said.
"We blew up the car remotely. There was a half a tonne of explosives" inside, an interior ministry front man, Hani Abdel Latif, told Agence La Belle France-Presse.
It was too dangerous to try to defuse the bomb, Abdel Latif said adding that those injured were cut by shattered window glass.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
Tuesday's blast came during a nighttime curfew ordered since an Oct. 24 suicide kaboom that killed 30 soldiers in a Sinai zone bordering the Gazoo Strip. It was not clear what the car-bomb was targeting.
The remote but strategic Sinai Peninsula borders Israel, Gazoo and the Suez Canal.
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Sinai was quiet and picturesque when we ruled it.
[Libya Herald] At least five soldiers have been killed with the number of casualties expected to rise in the coming hours following two deadly kabooms in the government held strongholds of Tobruk and Beida.
Mohammed Al-Hejazi, a front man for the Libyan National Army (LNA), told the Libya Herald that two boom-mobiles had went kaboom! in Tobruk on a busy road near the town's petroleum institute. He said at least two soldiers had been killed in the blast. Hejazi could not give information on the number of civilian casualties which are expected to be much higher.
The kabooms seem to have been caused in Tobruk by two remotely detonated boom-mobiles and were not carried out by a jacket wallah, although the specific details remain unclear as new information continues to emerge, Hejazi said.
In Beida at least three soldiers were killed and 12 injured, some critically, after another boom-mobilewent kaboom! at the south gate of the town's Labraq airbase, 30 kilometres from Beida. Hejazi said in this case a suicide bomber had caused the blast.
Telecommunications to Tobruk seem to have been disrupted in the aftermath of the attack. Attempts by the Libya Herald to reach residents in the town were unsuccessful.
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[Libya Herald] Pro-Libya Dawn ...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar... supporters were in 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... 's Martyrs Square this afternoon celebrating what they believed was the international community's decision to reject the House of Representatives and the Thinni government and recognise Omar Al-Hassi as prime minister instead. The celebrations followed today's brief visit to Tripoli by UN Special Representative Bernardino Leon who had discussions with former Congress president Nuri Abu Sahmain.
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[AlArabiya] At least five were wounded and eight went missing when gunmen on fishing boats attacked an Egyptian navy vessel in the Mediterranean on Wednesday, sources told Al Arabiya.
A military source said while a "unit of the naval sources was conducting combat activity in the Mediterranean, 40 nautical miles north of the port of Damietta, when a number of fishing boats opened fire from several directions."
The source said four boats were destroyed and 36 individuals were captured following an exchange of fire.
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My bad - for a sec there I thought this Artic was about Japan's CG versus Milyuhns-n-Dilyuhns-n-??? of coral-hunting Chinese fishing boats in Japanese waters.
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Picture at link shows some sort of fast attack craft (gun, I think) CIWS on the bow? What looks like a 3 inch Otto M. astern. Looks like it could handle a few fishing boats.
[Ynet] A female jacket wallah blew herself up on Wednesday at a college in Kontagora in Nigeria's central Niger State, close to the capital Abuja, a police front man said.
The bomb went off as the woman was trying to enter the college's library, a witness said.
At least 10 people were feared dead on Wednesday after an suspected suicide kaboom rocked a teacher training college in northwest Nigeria as students were sitting exams, police and a student said.
The blast happened at the Federal College of Education in the town of Kontagora, Niger state, some 150 kilometers (90 miles) from the state capital, Minna.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the kaboom happened just two days after nearly 50 students were killed in a suspected 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... suicide kaboom at a school in the northeastern state of Yobe.
That massacre was one of the worst in the five-year insurgency against a school teaching a secular curriculum, to which the Islamists are opposed.
Niger State police front man Ibrahim Gambari confirmed the blast by telephone from Minna, saying commanders were awaiting further details from officers on the ground.
"We have dispatched our teams from here," he told AFP.
Student Mary Okafor said the blast happened as they were sitting end of semester exams and saw everyone rush out of class.
"We saw bodies on the ground between the library and the female hostel. Among the bodies were two dismembered women who we believe were the bombers," she added.
"At least 10 students were killed and several others injured," said Okafor.
"They have all been moved to the general hospital. We have all been asked to vacate the school. The authorities in the town have asked all schools to close."
There was no official confirmation of the corpse count, or of whether it was a suicide kaboom.
Educational establishments in northern Nigeria have been hit several times by bombings in recent months.
On September 18, at least 13 were killed in Kano during a shoot-out between police and suspected jacket wallahs, again at a teacher training college.
A female suicide bomber killed six on July 30 when she detonated her explosives at a noticeboard on the campus of the Kano Polytechnic College while students were crowded around it.
The attack was the fourth by a female bomber in the city in a week and prompted the authorities to cancel public celebrations marking the end of the Moslem holy month of Ramadan.
The bombings were linked to Boko Haram, which is opposed to so-called "Western education" and wants to create a hardline Islamic state in Nigeria's Moslem-majority north.
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[AnNahar] Kenyan police said Wednesday they had tossed in the calaboose Book 'im, Mahmoud! 10 suspected attackers, including two female jacket wallahs, who had crossed into the country from war-torn Somalia.
"These 10 suspects were involved in recent terror attacks in Nairobi before they fled to Somalia, and now they have sneaked back," police spokeswoman Gatiria Mboroki told news hounds.
She did not reveal the nationalities of those arrested or provide any other details.
Kenya has been hit by a string of attacks in recent months blamed on Somalia's Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab Lion of Islams.
The Shabaab claimed they carried out the September 2013 attack on Nairobi's Westgate mall killing at least 67 people.
The Islamists said the attack was a warning to Kenya to pull its troops out of southern Somalia, where they are fighting the holy warriors as part of an 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... force.
Ahmed Abdi Godane, the Shabaab chief who vowed to bring "rivers of blood" to Kenya, was killed in a U.S. air strike in October.
[Ynet] At least 33 people have been killed in central Yemen in fighting in the past two days between Shi'ite MoslemHouthi ...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 Americaâ¢, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... fighters trying to expand their control and Sunni tribes allied with al Qaeda, residents said on Wednesday.
Residents said rustics and allied Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... bandidosbandidos myrmidons in the Qifa area, home to powerful Sunni tribes in al-Baydah province, had captured several hilltops, including al-Thaaleb (foxes) mountain overlooking an al Qaeda stronghold that had been seized by the Houthis.
[AnNahar] A powerful suicide kaboom on Shiite militia fighters in central Yemen left dozens of people dead on Wednesday, military and tribal sources said.
Yemen has been rocked by fresh instability since the Shiite fighters, known as Huthis, seized control of the capital Sanaa in September.
The Huthis have since been expanding their presence throughout the Arabian Peninsula nation but are facing fierce resistance from local Sunni tribes and Al-Qaeda's powerful Yemeni branch.
Wednesday's blast hit a large gathering of Huthis at the residence of a local tribal chief in Rada, a mixed Shiite-Sunni town that has seen heavy fighting, military and tribal sources said.
The kaboom was the heaviest to hit Rada since the Huthis took over parts of the town last month, the military source said, adding that it was carried out by a suicide boom-mobileer.
Residents said the dawn bombing was felt across the whole town.
Both the military and tribal sources said dozens were killed, but a more accurate toll was not immediately available.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
At least 26 more Huthis were killed in attacks that targeted them in several areas around Rada since early Tuesday, tribal sources said, giving a toll that AFP could not immediately confirm.
Al-Qaeda claimed twin attacks at the weekend that it said killed dozens of Huthi fighters in Rada.
The rise of the Huthis has challenged the authority of President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi, an ally of the United States, and violence has continued despite U.N.-backed efforts to find a political solution.
The instability in Yemen, which lies next to key shipping routes from the Suez Canal to the Gulf, stems from the 2012 overthrow of longtime strongman 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... , who has been accused of backing the Huthis.
Saleh is a member of the Zaidi sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam to which the Huthis belong.
Washington on Monday hit Saleh and two Huthi commanders with sanctions, accusing them of "engaging in acts that directly or indirectly threaten the peace, security, or stability of Yemen."
The U.N. Security Council previously approved sanctions against the three men.
A new cabinet, including members considered close to the Huthis, was sworn in Sunday in a bid to resolve Yemen's political crisis, despite calls for a boycott from both Saleh and the Shiite militia.
But authorities have made no move to tackle the militia in Sanaa or to impose order in other parts of the country.
Yemen is an important U.S. ally in the fight against Al-Qaeda. The group's Yemeni branch is considered one of its deadliest and has organized attacks against Western targets.
A suspected U.S. drone strike killed seven Al-Qaeda gunnies in Yemen's south Wednesday, the defence ministry and tribal sources said, the latest in a series of raids against the holy warrior network.
The gunnies were hit while gathered "under a group of trees" in Azzan village in the southern province of Shabwa, a tribal source said.
The defense ministry said in a brief statement on its website that seven Al-Qaeda gunnies were killed in an air raid Wednesday in Azzan.
"Those killed were planning to carry out a terrorist attack in Azzan using a bomb-laden vehicle," it said, without confirming the strike was carried out by a U.S. drone.
Drone strikes against Al-Qaeda suspects in Yemen have intensified this month, with at least 20 gunnies killed in raids by unmanned aircraft in the central province of Baida on November 3.
The United States is the only country operating drones over Yemen, but U.S. officials rarely confirm individual strikes.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000... (AQAP) has announced the deaths of two top commanders, Shawki al-Baadani and Nabil al-Dahab, in such raids.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] At least 33 people have been killed in central Yemen in fighting in the past two days between Shi'ite MoslemHouthi ...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 Americaâ¢, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... fighters trying to expand their control and Sunni tribes allied with al Qaeda, residents said on Wednesday.
Separately, a U.S. drone killed seven suspected al Qaeda Lions of Islam in southern Yemen while they were on their way to carry out an attack, Yemeni military sources said.
The expansion of the Houthis, who hail mainly from northern Yemen, has unsettled Sunni tribes in central al-Bayda province, threatening to provoke sectarian conflict.
Residents reported intense fighting in the Qifa area, home to powerful al-Bayda Sunni tribes who joined hands with the local al Qaeda wing, Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... , to halt the Houthi advance.
In the city of Radda in the same province, which fell to the Houthis earlier this month, a boom-mobile apparently targeting a local tribal leader allied with the Houthis was blown up safely before it reached its intended destination, residents said.
They said the vehicle was halted by a security barrier erected some distance from the home of Sheikh Mohammed Muqbel al-Aywei and his followers blew it up without casualties.
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I'm tempted to say: good news, lets throw sweets to the children
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Perhaps she was an elaborate plant? undercover like? is it Russian propaganda that she was helping Ukraine, since they are trying to invade and she's a hated jihadi? Or is she some kind of superspy really on our side?
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If the story holds water and she was zapped by a Russian, it was probably because she was playing the Jihad card with the local Muslim population of the Ukraine.
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From wiki: According to a 2009 Pew Research Center report, there are an estimated 456,000 Muslims in Ukraine.[15] In the Crimea, the Ukrainian Muslims make up to 12% of the population. A major part of the south steppes of modern Ukraine at a certain period of time belonged to the Turkic peoples, most of whom were Muslims since the fall of the Khazar Khanate.
The Crimean Tatars are the only indigenous Muslim ethnic group in the country. The Nogays, another Muslim group who lived in the steppes of southern Ukraine, emigrated to Turkey in the 18th-19th century. In addition, there are Muslim communities in all major Ukrainian cities representing Soviet-era migrants from Muslim backgrounds. There are approximately 150 mosques in Ukraine. Many Muslim mosques use the Crimean Tatarian, Arabic, Azeri, Tatarian and Russian languages.
[Ynet] German prosecutors say they've detained two suspected supporters 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.... group and the Syrian rebel organizations Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... and Junud al-Sham.
Federal prosecutors said the two were incarcerated Book 'im, Mahmoud! Wednesday in the Cologne area. One suspect, identified as 58-year-old Pak citizen Mirza Tamoor B., was taken into custody over accusations he helped take two fighters from Germany to the jihadi groups in Syria as well as providing 3,200 euros ($4,000) and a vehicle.
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[FOXNEWS] A shocking video appears to show radical Turkish nationalists roughing up a trio of U.S. Navy servicemen in Istanbul on Wednesday, pulling bags over their heads and shouting, "Yankees go home!"
In the video, which was quickly posted on YouTube, a group of roughly 20 men carrying a banner with Turkish founding father Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's face on it pelt the sailors with garbage and paint before surrounding them and pulling bags over their heads.
"Because we define you as murderers, as killers, we want you to get out of our land," one of the assailants is heard saying. "Damn America!"
"Damn America!"
- One of 20 Turkish attackers assailing three Navy sailors
The sailors were not injured and were safely back aboard the guided missile destroyer the USS Ross, Capt. Greg Hicks, a front man at European Command, told Fox News. The ship had been docked in Turkey following a 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... drill in the Black Sea, according to U.S. officials.
Hicks described the attackers as being part of a "Turkish nationalist group." A statement from the Navy said the attackers claimed to be from the Turkish Youth Union, which reports said characterized as a leftist, ultra-nationalist group that opposes Turkish membership in NATO. The U.S. Embassy in Ankara condemned the "appalling" attack, which took place in the historic Eminonu neighborhood of Istanbul.
An Nahar provides a slightly different perspective on the events:
U.S. Sailors Hit by 'Hood Attack' in Turkey, 12 Locals Arrested
A group of nationalist Turkish youths on Wednesday attacked three visiting U.S. sailors in Istanbul, trying to force sacks on their heads in an assault angrily condemned by the U.S. embassy.
Several dozen members of the nationalist youth group Turkiye Genclik Birligi (Turkish Youth Union/TGB) attacked the sailors in the Eminonu district on the Istanbul waterfront, a popular tourist hub.
They sought to force white sacks onto the heads of the sailors, who were in civilian dress, and chased them across the quayside, shouting "Yankee Go Home" and "Down with U.S. Imperialism".
The use of hoods was a reference to an incident from the 2003 Iraq war that outraged many in Turkey when U.S. forces in northern Iraq jugged Book 'im, Mahmoud! a group of Turkish soldiers, forced hoods on their heads and held them for three days.
The incident inflamed nationalist sentiment in Turkey and formed the basis of the smash-hit 2006 film about Turkish agents in Iraq "Valley of the Wolves: Iraq"..
"We want you to get lost and we are using our right to protest," the group said it told the sailors.
According to NTV television, 12 people were subsequently arrested.
In a statement posted on Twitter, the U.S. embassy in Ankara described the footage of the incident, which was posted on social networks, as "appalling".
"While we respect the right to peaceful protest and freedom of expression, we condemn today's attack in Istanbul," it said, adding it had "no doubt the vast majority of Turks would join us in rejecting an action that so disrespects Turkey's reputation for hospitality."
Turkey's refusal to cooperate with the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 caused a full-blown crisis in relations between Washington and Ankara.
But tensions has re-emerged again in recent months over Turkey's wariness of offering full support to the U.S.-led coalition fighting 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) jihadists in Iraq and Syria.
U.S. Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... is expected in Istanbul on November 21 for talks with Turkish leaders in a visit seen as crucial for smoothing out the current tensions.
The TGB claims to be staunchly loyal to the principles of modern Turkey's founding father Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and also staunchly opposed the ruling Islamic-rooted party co-founded by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him....
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Why does Turkey still have a presence in Europe?
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So they are in the same party as Erdrogan? Pull all funding, miltary sales etc. Kick this asses out of NATO. Arm the PKK since they only seem too be on the terror list because Turkey is a nato "ally".
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A signal for The One to get down on his belly, crawl, and lick Erdogan's boots.
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There was a time this would not have happened. Of course, then, sailors did shore leave in uniform and in groups with numbers that would have discouraged crap like this.
But we now have an image to protect / allow to atrophy. And, of course, we now live in a world more respectful of our presence. /sarc
the attackers claimed to be from the Turkish Youth Union, which reports said characterized as a leftist, ultra-nationalist group that opposes Turkish membership in NATO.
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TW: I was being sarcastic , giving the wat Erdrogan has been acting.
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It should be made clear that it is only because of cooperation and their NATO membership that the US and Greece haven't taken back Constantinople and pushed the Turks out of Cypress.
chris, I'm afraid I'm not as subtle as most at reading mood into typed words on a screen. If there isn's some sort of emoticon or a "/sarc" somewhere, I -- as we just saw -- tend to miss it completely.
[DAWN] QUETTA: The Special Judge of the Anti-Terrorist Court (ATC) Quetta, Mr Nazeer Ahmed Langov, escaped a remote control kaboom on his car in the Zarghoon road area on Tuesday. The powerful bomb detonated by remote control left a 13-year-old boy dead and 29 other people injured. The injured included four coppers and a woman.
An official of the bomb disposal squad said that around 40 kilograms of explosives had been used in the blast.
"The target of the attack, a senior police official said, was Anti-Terrorist Court judge who escaped unhurt. The car of the judge was damaged and his two security guards were maimed.
According to sources, the explosives were planted in a car by snuffies who parked it close to the Zarghoon Plaza.
The bomb exploded when the car of Special Judge Nazeer Langov and the police vehicle escorting him were near the plaza.
"I was behind the car of the ATC judge in the police vehicle when the powerful blast took place, Police Officer Janjua told Dawn, adding that "by the grace of God judge Sahab and I and some other people at the place remained safe".
The boy who died in the blast was taking his pushcart with bread and other items for sale.
"The lower part of the boy's body was blown to pieces," witness Adnan Ahmed told Dawn. The boy was identified as Aizaz Ahmed of Sirki road area.
The condition of at least four of the injured people was stated to be serious.
The blast damaged a number of private vehicles and cycle of violences and shattered window panes of several nearby buildings and shops. Police and the Frontier Corps personnel and rescue teams took the injured and to the Civil Hospital.
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[DAWN] Six suspected foreign bandidossnuffies were killed in a US drone strike in Dawa Toi area of North Wazoo on Tuesday afternoon.
According a security official, the drone fired two missiles at a compound which also hit an explosives-laden vehicle, killing four Uzbeks and two Arabs.
Dawa Toi is a forested valley near the Afghan border, about 45km west of the regional headquarters of Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... .
"The valley is infested with local and foreign myrmidons," the official said, adding that most of the bandidossnuffies who fled the military operation in Miranshah and other places were now hiding in the valley.
This was the 14th drone strike since January this year and 10th since the army launched the operation Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... in North Waziristan in June. Most of the strikes were carried out in Dattakhel area ... which is owned and operated by Hafiz Gul Behadur... .
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[DAWN] At least 13 susÂpected holy warriors, among them some foreigners, were killed and 11 injured on Tuesday in air strikes on their hideouts in Akkakhel area of Tirah.
Sources said jets carried out air strikes at Dars Jamaat and Khushab Darra localities of Akkakhel in Tirah valley, where activists of banned Lashkar-e-Islam ...a group of Islamic bandidos infesting Khyber Agency. It's headed by a former bus driver.... (LI) had established their hideouts.
The air strikes were carried out on reports that snuffies involved in the suicide kaboom at Wagah border crossing were present in the area, they said, adding that some foreign turbans were among the dead.
Security forces were making steady gains in Tirah where, according to recent reports, the LI had made local people hostage to shield the area from air strikes.
A statement issued by the security forces said that around 148 suspects had been killed in Khyber One operation, and 250 others, including their commanders, had surrendered since Oct 16.
The security forces gave 24 hours to residents of Sipah and Malikdin Khel to move to safe places though most Bara residents had already fled to Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. and adjoining areas.
Sipah is the birthplace of LI chief Mangal Bagh ...a former bus driver, now head of the Deobandi bandido group Lashkar-e-Islam and the Terror of Khyber Agency... who wields considerable influence over local population.
JAMRUD OPERATION: Two suspects were killed and their three accomplices and two soldiers injured during festivities in Laashorha and Shangerh localities of Gundi, officials said.
The security personnel also got two kidnapped men freed during a search operation they carried out after the festivities.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has removed 26 military officers from their posts, sending 10 others to retirement and appointing 18 new commanders, the prime minister's office said in a statement obtained by Al Arabiya News.
The move was Abadi's first such shake up of the military since he took office in August, succeeding Nouri al-Maliki ... Former Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra when the Shiites were going nuts, but proved incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014, then unceremoniously dumped... , who help the premiership for eight years.
Maliki is widely blamed for the poor state of army, which lost major swathes of land 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) during his administration. Maliki was accused of pursuing a sectarian agenda that favors Shiites over Sunnis in state administration and the military.
Critics say Maliki built the army on sectarian and personal loyalties rather than on national and professional grounds.
The prime minister holds the post of General Commander of the Armed Forces under the Iraqi constitution.
Before Abbadi came to office, several elite brigades were taking orders directly from Maliki, who is now the vice president.
Al-Abadi's seeks to restore the army's professional capabilities, with the help of the United States, which has sent a few hundreds of advisors and trainers to Baghdad.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Suicide bombings and boom-mobiles, including an attack on federal police headquarters, killed 23 people in Iraq on Wednesday, police, military and medical sources said.
A boom-mobile, followed shortly afterwards by a suicide kaboom, killed 11 people at the police building in al-Nisour Square in Baghdad, including six coppers. Twenty-one people were maimed.
In Diyala province north of Baghdad, Army Colonel Faisal al-Zuhairi was killed when a jacket wallah in a Humvee attacked his convoy. Five of his men also died.
A suicide bomber in an exploding car attacked an army checkpoint in the town of Yusifiya, 15 kilometers south of Baghdad. Six people were killed and 20 maimed, police said.
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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) hard boyz swept through northern Iraq in June and took control of large areas of the Sunni Moslem west of the country, seizing Humvees, tanks and armored vehicles from defeated Iraqi government troops.
Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi said on Tuesday he intended to remove concrete security barriers from Baghdad and give a greater role to police in protecting the capital, despite little respite from the boom-mobiles the barriers were designed to thwart.
Abadi praised what he called "excellent" security operations in Baghdad, and his comments suggested he aimed to reduce the army's security role in the city of 7 million people.
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[Iraq News] On Wednesday, a security source in Kirkuk said that 19 ISIS elements have been killed in an air strike in southwest of the province.
The source informed IraqiNews, âThis evening, U.S. warplanes conducted an offensive operation against ISIS shelters in southwest of Kirkuk. The airstrike resulted in killing 19 ISIS militants, including a senior leader of the group. The operation was based on accurate intelligence received from reliable sources.â
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[Iraq News] 12 persons were either killed or injured when a car bomb exploded in Nisoor square of western Baghdad. Security source stated to IraqiNews.com âThree persons were killed and nine others injured when a car bomb exploded in Nisoor square of western Baghdad.â
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[Iraq News] Informed source revealed to IraqiNews.com that the Commander of Anbar Operations Command General Rashid Flaih is among the officers who were dismissed according to the decision of the Iraqi Armed Forces Commanding General and Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.
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[Iraq News] On Wednesday, the head of the police force Gen. Officer Gamil al-Shamri announced that 30 ISIS Death Eaters have been killed in violent festivities near the dam of north Baqubah.
Al-Shamri stated for IraqiNews, "Iraqi S.W.A.T forces accompanied by armed volunteers with heavy weapons clashed with ISIS Death Eaters around the dam of al-Azim, located 80 km north of Baqubah. The heavy festivities between the two sides resulted in killing 30 ISIS elements including Arab as well as Chechen citizens, and destroying 6 bombed vehicles that were prepared to target the security forces."
He added, "The operation resulted in killing the military leader of ISIS in al-Azim area and the Mufti (holy man) of ISIS."
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The suspect in a passenger bus bombing in Maramag, Bukidnon has a pending warrant for the August 2013 Cotabato City bombing that killed eight people and injured dozens more. Bukidnon provincial police director Glenn dela Torre identified the suspect as Dawtin Gendang, who is also known as "Actor".
Earlier, Inspector Jose Regner Sevilleno said the perpetrator, who was behind the explosion of an improved explosive device inside the Rural Transit Mindanao Incorporated passenger bus on November 6, is a member of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF).
[IsraelTimes] Kurdish forces fighting 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 in the flashpoint Syrian town of Kobani on Wednesday cut off a key supply route used by the jihadists, a monitoring group said.
"The (Syrian Kurdish) People's Protection Units (YPG) targeted IS positions behind the (strategic) Mashta al-Nur hill and cut off the Halanj-Ain al-Arab road south of the town," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, using the Arabic name Ain al-Arab for Kobani.
It said 16 IS members were killed in the advance.
The YPG has been fighting the IS since mid-September in Kobani. The Syrian Kurds are backed by Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters and Syrian rebels.
Kobani has become a major symbol of resistance against the IS, which in recent months has seized large swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria.
A US-led coalition on September 23 launched air strikes against IS positions in Syria, including around Kobani.
On Wednesday, the Observatory said at least 865 people, 746 of them IS fighters, have been killed in the strikes. Another 50 were civilians, including eight children, while 68 of those killed were members of Syria's al-Qaeda affiliate.
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In regards to the little boy that saved the little girl while faking being shot by snipers in the video posted here yesterday, the little girl was the little boy's sister.
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Cahit Storm, a Kurdish IT consultant who has a following of 5000 people on twitter has raised enough Euros to provide items for 2500 refugees, taken pictures of the fighting in Kobane from a hiding spot in a pepper field (his twitter picture is a guy dressed like a pepper) and is on his way to Paris to speak at a conference in Paris.
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ISIS has to be going through a lot of ammo, weapons and basic supplies. Who is re-supplying them? Who is selling them weapons and spare parts? Are they still drawing down captured stores or is new inventory coming from the outside? It seems to me that this is the Achilles heel of this group. Perhaps those more knowledgable than I could opine on this topic.
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Turkey is the second largest army in NATO. They also provide routes for people who join ISIS. They have provided dozens of truck loads of weapons and ammunition to ISIS per the Kurds.
They continue to do so, except along the border of Kobane, Syria where kurdish volunteers on the Turkish side of the border are stopping reinforcements from crossing over to the town of Kobane, Syria.
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They have provided dozens of truck loads of weapons and ammunition to ISIS per the Kurds.
I suspect that a lot of that was shipped out of Benghazi and Dern to Turkey. Egypt has traditionally had a strong influence in the former. The Muslim Brotherhood provided a lot of support for the Libyan rebels and likely were backing the Syrian Islamists before being overthrown. The Turks were/are no slouches in Benghazi either.
IS has a foothold in the latter city.
Other sources of weaponry are defectors from the other Syrian rebel groups. It also wouldn't be surprising if shipments are coming out of the Balkans to Turkey as well.
[AnNahar] U.S. military action against 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.... jihadists in Iraq and Syria began on a small scale three months ago but has steadily expanded in size and scope, raising the stakes for Washington, experts say.
The mission has morphed from protecting religious minorities in Iraq to a vow to "destroy" the IS group in both Syria and Iraq, a dramatic shift for an American president who as a candidate was an outspoken opponent of the previous U.S. war in Iraq.
"As commander in chief, I will not allow the United States to be dragged into another war in Iraq," President Barack Obama If I had a son he'd look like Trayvon... said on August 7, when he announced the first U.S. air strikes against the IS group in Iraq.
But last week, Obama approved reinforcements that will bring the total military footprint to 3,100 troops in Iraq, with a new mission to shape the government army into an effective fighting force.
The justification for the initial U.S. bombing raids in August was narrowly defined -- to protect U.S. diplomats in northern Arbil and to prevent a massacre of besieged Yazidis on Mount Sinjar.
The United States had no intention of "being the Iraqi air force," Obama said at the time.
"But that's explicitly what the United States is now," said Micah Zenko of the Council on Foreign Relations.
"Mission sets expand, costs go up," he told Agence La Belle France Presse.
After more than 800 air strikes, there is no end in sight and U.S. officials say the fight could last years.
The step-by-step expansion of the war effort is a familiar pattern for American presidents, and Congress tends to give the commander-in-chief a green light, Zenko said.
"Every administration does this. It's not unique to this White House," he said.
- Risk of casualties --
The American military advisers are not in a "combat role" but some of them will be based in the frontline province of Anbar in the country's west, a bastion for the IS group.
The deployment raises the risk of potential American causalities if the IS group overruns an Iraqi air base there or if it manages to down an American helicopter with a shoulder-launched surface-to-air missile, though U.S. officers insist those are remote scenarios.
The biggest risk of the expanding campaign is the notorious "slippery slope," with Washington increasingly pulled into the multi-sided civil war in Syria and pressure mounting to employ more military power to turn the tide, experts say.
Obama has pledged not to send ground forces into combat but some Republican politicians already have urged him to order in forward air controllers to direct air strikes by coalition warplanes, a proposal favored by some top brass.
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The U.S. military recommended more advisers as it has pinned its hopes on nine brigades in the Iraqi army, which are deemed good enough to be trained for an eventual counter-attack.
The strategy resembles the effort undertaken during the American occupation of 2003-2011, when advisers worked with Iraqi units and Sunni tribes to fight al-Qaeda holy warriors, said Robert Scales, a retired U.S. Army major general.
But as the Iraqi forces train, the IS jihadists will have time to strengthen their hold on territory, stockpile weapons and recruit more young fighters, Scales wrote in the Washington Post.
"If nine Iraqi brigades with their U.S. advisers can't do it next year, the clock will keep ticking. And Obama will have two options: Accept an Islamic State 'caliphate' that occupies much of Iraq and Syria or add more U.S. forces to the opposition," Scales wrote.
Daniel Bolger, a retired lieutenant general who led troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, warned Wednesday the United States runs the risk of repeating the mistakes of "two failed wars" in Iraq and Afghanistan by relying on military action to solve political problems.
In a New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... commentary, Bolger argued the military's experience in Iraq has been misunderstood in Washington and that the 2007 troop surge was not the success it has been portrayed as.
"The surge in Iraq did not 'win' anything. It bought time," he wrote of the reinforcements sent to salvage the war.
"But in the end, shackled to a corrupt, sectarian government in Baghdad and hobbled by our fellow Americans' unwillingness to commit to a fight lasting decades, the surge just forestalled today's stalemate," he said.
Now the United States faces the same bandidosgunnies it fought for eight years, and calls by hawks for larger-scale military action amounted to "insanity," said Bolger, author of "Why We Lost."
"If insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, I think we're there."
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Just another example of how the liberals do not have anything except one playbook.
I am seeing LBJ and JFK in Viet Nam all over again in the way nowhere man is approaching ISIS, Iraq and Syria.
An incoherent trickle of assets designed to stay disengaged but offer a tempting target to the opposition to precipitate engagement and a propaganda score.
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[AnNahar] The Lebanese army intelligence has tossed in the clink Please don't kill me! a man on suspicion of selling chemicals used for manufacturing explosives, security officials said.
The officials, who were not identified, told al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... newspaper published on Wednesday that a military intelligence unit arrested Mohammed Saadeddine J. in the southern city of Sidon several days ago.
The suspect is the owner of a shop that sells cleaning material and substances, they said.
The sources said the man was referred to the military prosecution after several detainees admitted to buying from him some chemicals used in bomb-making.
Investigators are trying to find out whether Mohammed was aware that the substances he was selling were being used for terrorist activities, the officials added.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Kurdish forces blocked a road 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) bully boyz use to resupply their forces in a Syrian town on the Turkish border, a town official and a monitoring group said on Wednesday, the first major gain against the bully boyz after weeks of violence.
Iraqi-Kurdish Peshmerga forces crossed into Kobane on Oct. 31 to help the besieged Kurdish YPG and YPJ fighters in the town. The combined forces have now cut off the road which leads south east to the village of Hilnij, the sources said.
Despite having limited strategic significance, the battle in Kobane, also known as Ain al-Arab, has become a powerful symbol in the fight against ISIS. The hardline Sunni Moslem group has captured large expanses of Iraq and Syria and declared an Islamic "caliphate."
Idris Nassan, a local official in Kobane, said by telephone that anti-ISIS forces had taken the strategic hill of Mistanour and the road which runs along the side of the hill.
"ISIS was using this road for ammunition and fighters," he said.
He added that Peshmerga forces had been focusing artillery strikes on ISIS positions on the outskirts of Kobane like Mistanour over the past week, to halt ISIS shelling on the town.
Rooters was unable to reach ISIS fighters in Kobane. The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that Kurdish forces had not taken Mistanour hill but had started fighting on the road to Hilnij, preventing ISIS fighters from using it to resupply.
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[EXPRESS.CO.UK] Samantha Lewthwaite, 30, was bumped off by a Russian sniper two weeks ago, alleged Regnum news agency in Moscow.
One of Britannia's most wanted people, she was reported last month as fighting for 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.... 's Lions of Islam in Syria.
The extraordinary Russian claim could not be verified at all today.
Lewthwaite was married to 7/7 jacket wallah Germaine Lindsay, 19, a Jamaican-born Yorkshireman, and allegedly left Britannia in 2009 before being linked to atrocities in Africa.
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“When I’m out speaking, I never mention the bin Laden mission,”
.....No need of mention, it's contained in my CV and the event programme. I let the audience pull the trigger.
Other SEALs have challenged O’Neill’s version of events and blasted him for bragging about the mission in violation of the elite force’s code of secrecy.
.....That would be our frequently violated 'code of secrecy' if you will.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has removed 26 military officers from their posts, sending 10 others to retirement and appointing 18 new commanders, the prime minister's office said in a statement obtained by Al Arabiya News.
