[AnNahar] Afghan cops have launched an operation against forces of Evil in an eastern province seen as a rear base for the Pak Taliban which carried out a school massacre last week, officials said Monday.
The Mighty Pak Army chief met Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. in Kabul in the aftermath of the school attack in the Pak city of 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. which killed 149 people, mainly children.
The army chief sought Ghani's support in defeating the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP).
TTP leader Mullah Fazlullah ...son-in-law of holy man Sufi Mohammad. Known as Mullah FM, Fazlullah had the habit of grabbing his FM mike when the mood struck him and bellowing forth sermons. Sufi suckered the Pak govt into imposing Shariah on the Swat Valley and then stepped aside whilst Fazlullah and his Talibs imposed a reign of terror on the populace like they hadn't seen before, at least not for a thousand years or so. For some reason the Pak intel services were never able to locate his transmitter, much less bomb it. After ruling the place like a conquered province for a year or so, Fazlullah's Talibs began gobbling up more territory as they pushed toward Islamabad, at which point as a matter of self-preservation the Mighty Pak Army threw them out and chased them into Afghanistan... is believed to be hiding in Afghanistan's Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... , which borders Pakistain's restive tribal areas.
Kunar has been the scene of fierce fighting between local forces and the Afghan Taliban for the past 10 days.
"Afghan cops have launched a joint anti-militant operations in several parts of Dangam district of Kunar province," Dawlat Waziri, deputy defense ministry front man, told AFP.
"So far in the operation, 21 armed bandidos bad boys have been killed and 33 others maimed," Waziri said, adding that seven security personnel were maimed.
Kunar governor Shujaul Mulk Jalala said more than 1,500 Afghan Taliban fighters attacked remote villages in Dangam.
Jalala said Pak Taliban and Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... forces of Evil were also battling Afghan cops in Dangam.
Pakistain has repeatedly asked Afghanistan to capture and hand over Fazlullah.
Each nation has long accused the other of allowing forces of Evil to shelter in the border region and launch bloody attacks that threaten regional stability.
The Afghan Taliban have stepped up their attacks as NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... wraps up its combat operations, which end on December 31.
A follow-up mission of about 12,500 U.S.-led NATO troops will stay on to train and support Afghan cops.
[AnNahar] Three 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... soldiers and a civilian were maimed Thursday after the Shabaab staged a brazen attack on the heavily-fortified headquarters of the force in Somalia. Times of India sets the corpse count at 14.
The headquarters, located within the high-security compound of Mogadishu airport which also houses several embassies, was successfully repulsed, the AU force known as AMISOM said.
At least one Shabaab fighter, and possibly several others, was said to have been killed after penetrating the compound, the force said.
The African Union (AU) force said on its Twitter feed Thursday afternoon that "the situation is completely under control."
Paddy Ankunda, the Ugandan front man for AMISOM, whose contingent is in charge of the attacked base, confirmed to AFP that there is "no more fighting."
Ankunda said the assailants "sneaked into the base camp near the airport... but our troops foiled the attack." He later added on Twitter that the "attackers sneaked in incognito."
Somali police official Abdi Ahmed said strong kabooms resonated at the rear entrance to the Halam base, where exchanges of gunfire were also heard.
Shabaab quickly grabbed credit.
"Our fighters are inside the headquarters of the foreign troops in Somalia," Shabaab front man Abdulaziz Abu Musab told AFP, adding several AU soldiers had been killed.
Ankunda denied the claim, saying the intruders had suffered losses.
"The Shabaab attacked us today but we managed to repulse the attackers. One of them was killed inside the base camp," Ankunda said.
An AFP photographer initially heard gunfire coming from the inside the base, and later reported firing in the area had halted.
A Western security source said between 15 and 20 attackers were involved.
By mid-afternoon, officials said the Shabaab attackers had stormed the base and maimed three AU soldiers, while suffering at least one casualty in their ranks.
But their evident success in managing to penetrate the highly-guarded compound was in itself a troubling achievement.
The AU force headquarters is a fortified structure located on the grounds of the Mogadishu airport, which has also been placed under high security.
There are currently some 22,000 African Union troops as part of the AMISOM force, deployed since 2007.
They have managed to push Shabaab hard boyz out of the capital, but the Islamists still hold large swathes of territory.
Recent Shabaab attacks in Somalia have targeted key government and security sites in an apparent bid to discredit claims by the authorities and African Union troops that they are winning the war.
Thursday's attack came a day after Somalia's parliament endorsed a new prime minister, appointed last week after the war-torn country's president fell out with the previous premier amid bitter infighting.
The United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... , United States and European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... -- all key backers of Somalia's fragile government -- have all warned that power struggles in Mogadishu were a damaging distraction for the country as it tries to battle Shabaab rebels.
[CA.NEWS.YAHOO] Mauritania on Thursday condemned a man to death for "insulting the prophet", a human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... group said, a day after the country opened the trial of an anti-slavery activist.
Mohammed Cheikh Ould Mkhaitir, 28, was tossed in the clink Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! a year ago for writing an article about the Prophet Mohammad and the caste system, an extremely sensitive subject in a West African country with deep social and racial divisions.
He claims his article has been misinterpreted.
The prosecution asked for the death penalty to be carried out in accordance with Islamic sharia law and recommended he be shot. Mauritania, a poor country straddling Arab and black Africa, last applied the death penalty in 1987.
Separately, a court in the southern town of Rosso began proceedings on Wednesday against anti-slavery campaigner Biram Ould Dah Ould Abeiday and six members of his organization for "inciting violence, disrupting public order, contempt for authorities and membership of a non-recognized organization".
Biram Ould Abeid, a former presidential candidate, was arrested last month during a peaceful march. He could face a prison sentence of up to five years.
Human rights campaigners and the European Parliament have called for his release.
Mauritania became the last country worldwide to legally abolish slavery in 1981 and still has the highest prevalence worldwide of slavery per head of population, according to the Global Slavery Index 2013.
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pretty sensitive about the reputation of a warmongering pedophile fake prophet?
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Not on my bucket list.
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[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] A rocket set a storage tank at the east Libyan port of Es Sider on fire as armed factions allied to competing governments fought for control of the country's biggest export terminal, officials from both sides said on Thursday. Fouling their own nest in the name of Allah...
Clashes were also reported from Sirte, a city west of Es Sider, killing up to 19, among them 14 guards at a power plant, residents said. No more details were available.
Es Sider and its adjacent Ras Lanuf terminal have been closed since a force allied to a rival government 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... moved east trying to take them, part of a struggle between former rebels who helped topple Muammar Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years until he was ejected from the gene pool by his indignant citizens... in 2011 but now fight for power and a share of oil reserves.
Libya has had two governments and parliaments since a group called 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... seized the capital in August by expelling a rival faction, installing its own prime minister and forcing the recognised premier, Abdullah al-Thinni, to operate out of the east with the elected House of Representatives.
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[NY Times] A roadside kaboom struck an army vehicle late Thursday, killing an officer and a soldier in the Sinai Peninsula, security officials said. The attack occurred south of the town of El-Arish, the scene of frequent attacks by gunnies on the security forces. Another soldier was maimed in the blast, officials said. Egypt's military has been battling an insurgency on the peninsula since it ousted President Mohammed Morsi last year and cracked down on his supporters. Militant groups claim their attacks are in retaliation for the government crackdown, which has left hundreds dead and thousands tossed in the slammer Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! .
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[AnNahar] Islamists killed at least 19 soldiers Thursday after a surprise attack in which they used speedboats in a failed bid to seize some of Libya's main oil terminals, officials said.
The gunnies belonging to the Fajr Libya, or 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... , launched the attack on the port of al-Sidra by firing rockets from speedboats, setting an oil tank on fire, security sources said.
Soldiers damaged three of the vessels before festivities in which at least 19 of them were killed, they said, adding the murderous Moslems were eventually repelled.
"These speedboats had fired several rockets at the terminals of Ras Lanuf and al-Sidra and one of them hit a tank south of al-Sidra port which then caught fire," said Ali al-Hassi, security front man for the region.
Witnesses said the attack was launched overnight, and reported seeing smoke from the burning oil tank.
A military source said 19 soldiers were killed in the region, and that the oil tank struck by a rocket was still burning in the Al-Sidra oil terminal.
Al-Sidra is located in the region known as the "oil crescent" that has been the scene of recent fighting between government forces and Fajr Libya.
Since the festivities erupted on December 13, oil production in the country has dropped to nearly 350,000 barrels per day compared with 800,000 previously, according to industry experts
A medical source at Ibn Sina hospital in Sirte said the facility received 18 bodies from the fighting.
"The armed forces on Thursday repelled an attack in which the Fajr Libya militia tried to seize the al-Sidra oil terminal," said Hassi, adding that it was during this attack that the 19th soldier died.
The number of casualties among the Islamist murderous Moslems was unknown.
The 136th battalion is affiliated with the military. Most its fighters are from a tribe loyal to former general Khalifa Haftar ... 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... Haftar's forces have been fighting alongside forces from the internationally recognised government of Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thani against Islamist murderous Moslems who have seized control of cities including 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... On December 16, a warplane belonging to Fajr Libya fired missiles at a sector to the west of al-Sidra, Hassi said at the time, in the first such raid in the energy-rich region.
More than three years after strongman Muammar Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years until he was ejected from the gene pool by his indignant citizens... was toppled and killed in a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... -backed revolt, Libya is still awash with weapons and powerful militias, and has rival parliaments as well as governments.
Islamists have seized Tripoli and Benghazi in the east, and forces loyal to Thani are fighting to regain control of the cities.
[DAWN] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... on Thursday beheaded a Pak man for heroin smuggling, the twelfth person from Pakistain to be executed in the kingdom for drug trafficking since mid-October.
They are among 85 foreigners and Saudis put to death this year in the oil-rich kingdom, according to an estimated tally.
Saudi Arabia has one of the world's highest execution tolls.
The sentence against Ismail Khan Sayed was carried out in Eastern Province after his conviction for smuggling "a large amount" of heroin, the Interior Ministry said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.
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Might curb the narco demand a bit if we had a 'chop-chop' square here in the States.
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Woodrow, if all the right people are correct, then users are chop-chopping themselves. Why intervene, except for the cheap thrill of misplaced do-goodery?
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Unfortunately, the users aren't chop-chopping themselves. Just making themselves a burden and a cost to the society around them in the long run. The suppliers and middlemen don't want to kill their revenue generators. They want to keep the money flowing (at any expense as long as there is a profit). They don't care if the user generates the money from 'free enterprise' or from government subsidizes. Money is money to them.
[AnNahar] A senior Yemeni intelligence official was kidnapped in Sanaa on Thursday by Shiite fighters from the Huthi militia in control of the capital since a September offensive, security sources said.
"General Yahia al-Marrani... was kidnapped this morning by armed Huthis from his home in Sanaa," a source told AFP.
Another source said that about 20 Huthis had stormed Marrani's residence and taken him to an unknown location.
The kidnapping was confirmed to AFP by a relative of the officer, who had served for five years as head of the police intelligence unit in Saada province, a Huthi stronghold in north Yemen.
He was named as a director in Yemen's intelligence services by President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi, who took power following a 2012 uprising that unseated longtime ruler 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... Yemen has been rocked by instability since the Shiite fighters, who are also known as Ansarullah, seized control of Sanaa on September 21.
The Huthis have since expanded their presence in central and western Yemen, but have met fierce resistance from Sunni tribes and Al-Qaeda Death Eaters.
Fresh festivities erupted overnight around the central city of Rada, which has been the scene of heavy fighting for several weeks.
A tribal source told AFP that 18 Huthi fighters and seven rustics were killed in violence that continued sporadically into Thursday in the villages of Qaifah, Khobzah and Massameh.
A further 12 Shiite gunnies were killed in the previous 24 hours in festivities with Al-Qaeda gunnies near Rada, according to a tribal source.
And in neighboring Ibb province, Huthi gunnies stormed a Sunni religious school on Wednesday evening and "kidnapped several students," a local official told AFP.
[Ynet] An arsonist set fire to a mosque in the Swedish town of Eskilstuna on Thursday, injuring five people, police said, an incident which comes amid an intense debate over immigration.
Between 15 and 20 people were in the mosque, located in the ground floor of a building in a mainly residential area, when the fire erupted. Local media footage showed smoke and flames billowing from the windows.
"A witness saw somebody throw an object through the window of the building, which serves as a mosque, after which a violent fire began," police front man Lars Franzell said.
[TIMESOFINDIA.INDIATIMES] A Pak court on Friday issued arrest warrant against hard boyholy manMaulana Abdul Aziz ...nutball holy man who runs the Lal Masjid in the heart of Pakistain's capital. After instigating a rebellion against the state in 2007, he was caught trying to sneak away dressed in a burka. He rejects democracy as un-Islamic, which it probably is... for threatening activists protesting outside his Lal Masjid ...literally the Red Mosque, located in Islamabad and frequented by all sorts of high govt officials. The proprietors, Ghazi Abdul Rasheed and Maulana Abdul Aziz Ghazi, unleashed their Islamic storm troopers on the city, shutting down whorehouses and beating people up who weren't devout enough. The Musharraf govt put an end to the nonsense by besieging the place. Abdul Aziz Ghazi was nabbed while he was trying to escape dressed up like a girl. BBC reported that the corpse count at 173, but other claims, usually hysterical, say there were up to 1000 titzup. Among their number was Abdul Rashid Ghazi. Everyone then said tut-tut and what a nice guy he had been... (Red Mosque) in Islamabad.
The activists were protesting the holy man's pro-Taliban stance in the wake of 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. massacre at a sit-in outside the mosque last week.
The mosque came into prominence in 2007 when Mighty Pak Army commandos stormed it for challenging the state's writ. Aziz's brother was killed in the operation, which is widely believed to have prompted retaliatory Taliban strikes on public places, mosques and military installations. Aziz was tossed in the calaboose ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... while trying to escape from the mosque wearing a face veil and paraded on national TV in the same attire. He was released on bail in 2009.
On Friday, civil judge Saqib Jawad issued the warrant against the holy man after hearing a petition of the activists, who protested outside the mosque throughout last week.
The holy man had refused to call the terror victims deaders and described the attack a "reaction" to the ongoing anti-Taliban operations.
Aziz's front man, Hafiz Ehtisham, said his followers would resist his arrest. "Before arresting Maulana Aziz, (Prime Minister) Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... , (opposition figure) Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... and Punjab's CM Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... should be arrested,'' he said. "Maulana Aziz has decided not to handover himself to police.''
Activist Jibran Nasir, who organized last week's protests, warned of a "new plan" if the holy man was not arrested on Friday.
"We demand from police that sections of Anti-terrorism Act should be included in the First Information Report (FIR) and if the holy man is not arrested by 5pm on Friday, we will announce our next line of action.''
Aziz had last week warned of backlash in the event of executions of convicted terrorists.
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[TIMESOFINDIA.INDIATIMES] A key Taliban capo, who had facilitated the 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. school massacre, has been killed in an anti-terror operation in Pakistain's tribal region bordering Afghanistan.
Officials identified the slain terrorist as Saddam and added he was killed in a shootout with armed forces in Khyber tribal area bordering Peshawar on Thursday night.
"Commander Saddam was a dreaded terrorist, who was killed in an exchange of fire with the security forces in Jamrud town of Khyber tribal region," local official Shahab Ali Shah told journalists in Peshawar.
He said Saddam's six accomplices were maimed and tossed in the calaboose Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! . Shah added he is believed to have facilitated the school attack but the extent of his involvement was not known.
"Six of his accomplices were maimed and arrested." He added that Saddam is believed to have facilitated the school attack, although the extent or capacity of his alleged involvement was not yet known.
"Authorities are currently interrogating the injured terrorists," Shah said.
He described Saddam as an important commander in the Pak Taliban, or Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), and said he had criminal masterminded several kabooms.
Saddam and his accomplices had been involved in several recent attacks on security forces that had resulted in heavy casualties, Shah said.
Many Taliban fighters had fled to Khyber from North Wazoo after the Mighty Pak Army launched an operation against them in June 2014.
Over 1,700 forces of Evil have been killed in the offensive so far. The operation has been intensified since the Peshawar massacre in which 134 children were among the victims.
Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, the SWAT team had finally arrived... a US drone strike on a Taliban compound in North Waziristan killed at least four Death Eaters on Friday, officials said, the second such incident in a week.
Another drone strike in North Waziristan on December 20 killed at least five holy warriors, officials said.
The area is generally off-limits to journalists, making it difficult to independently verify the number and identity of the dead.
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[DAWN] The Frontier Corps (FC) on Thursday tossed in the calaboose Book 'im, Mahmoud! seven suspected murderous Moslems from coastal highway near 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 port city of Gwadar.
According to FC front man, the forces conducted a raid near Shadikur area of Gwadar where they arrested the seven myrmidons.
He said security forces recovered arms and ammunition from the possession of the accused.
The murderous Moslems were shifted for interrogation by security agencies. The men belong to a banned myrmidon organization, operating in the area.
The front man stated that the arrested murderous Moslems were involved in acts of kidnapping, assassinations and attacks on security forces.
The FC's claim could not be verified by independent sources.
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[DAWN] Three suspected forces of Evil were killed in an `encounter' in Surjani Town here on Wednesday night, officials said.
Law-enforcement personnel during routine patrolling at Northern Bypass signalled the suspects to stop but they opted to open fire at the troops, resulting in injuries to one soldier, said the Rangers' spokesperson. The troops chased the fleeing suspects and after an exchange of fire, three suspects were killed and a fourth escaped in the cover of darkness.
The dear departed were identified as Anwar, Shere Raheem and Nasrullah, who belonged to the outlawed Tehrik Taliban Pakistain (Khan Zaman group), said Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... West SSP, Azfar Mahesar.
He said one policeman had also been injured in the shootout.
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[TIMESOFINDIA.INDIATIMES] Eleven Death Eaters carried out the brutal Taliban attack on an army-run school in Pakistain's 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. city last week that killed 150 people, mostly children, an initial investigation report has said.
The report, prepared by anti terrorism squad and police, said only seven Death Eaters out of the 11 went inside the school while four stayed outside to assist them.
The forces of Evil began the bloodbath in the school with a suicide kaboom, followed by lethal firing on children, it said. The four attackers outside the school campus remained there throughout the day and assisted those inside. They eventually managed to escape the scene, according to the report.
The report said the 11 Death Eaters were brought to Peshawar early morning on December 16 from Landi Kotal tehsil of Khyber Agency.
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[IraqiNews.com] On Thursday, a security source in Salahuddin province stated that, Sukhoi fighter jets started bombing the gatherings of the so-called 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.... in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) southern of Tikrit, while noting that the elements of the organization began to escape.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, ?Today ,Russian Sukhoi fighter jets, operated by Iraqi pilots, began bombing the gatherings of ISIS in the area of Yathrib, (80 km south of Tikrit),? noting that,?Those Sukhois are considered the first over areas south of Tikrit.?
The source, who asked not to be named, added, ?Elements of ISIS began to flee the area.?
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Russian Sukhoi jet fighters hitting ISIS targets designated by U.S. SOF targeteers, who knew? Gotta be some good training there somewhere. I have to wonder though.... how many of the Sukhoi pilot are actually Iraqi ?
[IraqiNews.com] The security forces liberated five areas in Anbar province.
Security source stated to IraqiNews.com ?The security forces liberated al-Houz, al-Andolus, al-Jamhouri, al-Mua?alimin, and 20th Street areas in Ramadi of central Anbar from the ISIL terrorists.?
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[IraqiNews.com] On Thursday, according to a security source in Salahuddin province, a joint military operation was launched to purge the outskirts of Balad and Duluiya south of Tikrit.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, ?A massive joint military operation of security forces and locals was launched this morning between the provinces of Diyala and Salahuddin.?
The source, who asked not to be named, added, ?The operation aims at purging the outskirts of the districts of Balad and Duluiya from the western side.?
Most areas of Salahuddin province are experiencing military operations to chase ISIS elements. The forces have made significant progress and restored a number of areas.
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[IraqiNews.com] On Thursday, a security official in Salahuddin province said, that the ISIS governor (Wali) of Yathrib has been killed in a security operation in southern Tikrit.
The official told IraqiNews, ?The military units of the 17th division accompanied by armed volunteers have managed to kill the ISIS governor of Yathrib, known as Abu Sufyan al-Saudi, during festivities at the outskirts of Yathrib in southern Tikrit.?
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[IraqiNews.com] On Thursday, a source in Samarra Operations Command said, that 23 ISIS elements, including big shots, have been killed during security operations in southern Tikrit.
The source informed IraqiNews, ?A military force from the 17th division has managed to kill 23 ISIS elements, and wound many others,? pointing out that, ?The ISIS casualties included a number of big shots within the group.?
?Most of their casualties were transported by civil vehicles to al-djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... ,? the source added.
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[IraqiNews.com] On Thursday, the commander of al-Baghdadi police regiment announced the liberation of 14 villages in western Ramadi after fierce festivities with ISIS Death Eaters.
Col. Barzan al-Abidi, commander of al-Baghdadi police regiment, stated for IraqiNews, ?This morning, Iraqi security forces consisting of elements of the army and the police backed with armed volunteers from al-Abid clan have managed to liberate 14 villages in al-Baghdadi Island and Jabah area, located 90 km south of al-Ramadi.?
?The security forces have killed dozens of ISIS fighters to gain control over the whole area as advancing on ISIS positions in al-Baghdadi Island and Jabah area with support from the international coalition,? Abidi added.
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[IraqiNews.com] On Thursday, Iraqi army forces foiled an attack
by forces of Evil of the so-called 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.... in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on Haditha Dam western Anbar, and were able to restore villages in Salahuddin province.
A front man for the Iraqi Ministry of Defense, Brigadier Tihssin Ibrahim said, ?The army force, the rustics and the people were able to thwart an ISIS attack, which inflicted big losses in the ranks the IS organization.
In Salahuddin province, the army was able to restore villages that were under the control of the Islamic State, on the road that links between the city of Tikrit, Salahuddin province, and Balad district.
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A day after a Molotov cocktail thrown at Ayala Shapira and her father, she remains in serious condition and will undergo surgery; doctors say they will have to eventually reconstruct her face.
[NY Times] The tenuous cease-fire in the 50-day war between Israel and Gazoosnuffies was deeply strained Wednesday by a clash that Israel's military said had been started by a Paleostinian sniper attack on a routine border patrol.
The clash left one Paleostinian Death Eater dead and an Israeli soldier maimed. It appeared to be the most serious direct confrontation between Israel and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, the Islamic group that dominates Gazoo, since fighting was halted in late August.
After the patrol on the Israeli side of the border came under fire, the Israeli military said, Israel responded with air and ground forces against Hamas positions in the immediate vicinity of the attack.
A front man for the Health Ministry of Gazoo identified the Paleostinian who was killed as Tayseer al-Samari, 33. The military wing of Hamas immediately claimed Mr. Samari as one of its own, and it said he was the head of the group's reconnaissance unit in southern Gazoo.
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[IsraelTimes] IDF soldiers tossed in the slammer Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! seven suspected terror operatives and uncovered a major arms cache in the northern West Bank early Thursday.
In a joint operation by the Paratroopers and Kfir brigades, joined by special forces, in the Nablus area, soldiers found two handguns, an M-16 assault rifle, an Uzi submachine gun, a Kalashnikov rifle, an improvised firearm and eight pipe bombs.
A significant amount of cash belonging to terror organizations was also confiscated in the operation, the army said.
Three other Paleostinian suspects were arrested elsewhere in the West Bank overnight Wednesday.
Two were arrested in Jilazoun, a village north of Ramallah, while the third, a reported Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, operative, was arrested in Hebron.
On Thursday morning, a Paleostinian youth was arrested after police witnessed him throwing stones at passing cars in northern Jerusalem.
[IsraelTimes] An 11-year-old girl was maimed in a firekaboom in the West Bank Thursday evening, Israeli military and medical officials said.
The girl and her father were driving home near a West Bank settlement in the northern West Bank when their car was struck by a Molotov cocktail.
The girl suffered third degree burns over the majority of her body and face and was put on a respirator, paramedics said. The father suffered minor burns to his limbs. Doctors said the girl suffered very serious burns and that her injuries were life-threatening.
The father reportedly rescued his daughter from the burning vehicle and carried her over a kilometer to the nearest town to call for help, Channel 2 reported.
According to the IDF, the attack occurred on Route 55 outside the Maale Shomron settlement at about 6:30 p.m.
Their vehicle was completely consumed by flames, Ynet reported.
An Israeli man and his 11-year-old daughter were maimed Thursday when assailants threw a Molotov cocktail at their vehicle in the northern West Bank, the army said.
A military spokeswoman told AFP the assailants, believed to be Paleostinians, threw a Molotov cocktail at the car near the Maale Shomron settlement.
Firekabooms by Paleostinians against Israeli civilians and military targets are not rare in the West Bank.
According to the military, in the first nine days of December Paleostinians carried out 24 Molotov cocktail attacks, five of them targeting civilian Israeli cars.
Alert villagers foiled two New People's Army (NPA) land mine attacks in separate areas in Eastern Mindanao.
According to a Philippine military report, the first incident occurred December 22 at Barangay Rizal, Buenavista, Agusan del Norte. Villagers sought the assistance after noticing a group of armed men installing an IED along a provincial road. A brief skirmish ensued after responding soldiers were fired upon by the NPA rebels.
On December 23, troops recovered a land mine and RPG live ammunition at Don Panaca, Magpet, North Cotabato, after locals sought their assistance.
[AnNahar] At least 44 members 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 were killed in festivities with Kurdish forces in Syria on Thursday, a monitoring group said.
Thirty of the jihadists were killed fighting against members of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) in the village of Qassiab in Hasakeh province, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The YPG regained control of the village, two days after it was seized by the jihadists, said the Britannia-based group, which has a wide network of activists on the ground in Syria.
Three Kurdish fighters were also killed in the festivities, it added.
Another 14 jihadists and an YPG fighter were killed fighting in the flashpoint town Kobane in northern Syria, said the Observatory.
Fighting over Kobane began in mid-September, when the IS launched a bid to take it over.
A U.S.-led coalition has been launching air strikes against IS positions in Syria since September 23 and the YPG have also received backing from Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga and from some Syrian rebel groups.
On Wednesday, the coalition launched eight strikes against IS positions in Kobane, which is known as Ain al-Arab in Arabic.
Elsewhere, Syrian air force raids killed at least 21 people, including several children, in the IS-held areas of Al-Bab and Qbasin in the northern province of Aleppo, said the Observatory.
The regime air force has killed thousands of people, mostly civilians living in areas out of government control, since it was first deployed in the country's war in July 2012.
Since Tuesday alone, at least 89 civilians including 19 children have been killed in more than 400 government air strikes across Syria, the Observatory said.
The UN and international rights groups have repeatedly called on the government to refrain from using its air force against inhabited areas.
Nearly four years of civil war ravaging the country have killed an estimated 200,000 people and also displaced half of the population.
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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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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