Top Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has escaped from a maximum security prison for the second time, officials announced late Saturday.
Oh! Oh! I seen dis movie! It's a sequel!
Guzman, who headed the powerful Sinaloa Cartel, was last seen in the showers of the Altiplano prison, about 56 miles outside the Mexico City, according to a statement from the National Security Commission. He went to the shower area but after some time was lost by security camera surveillance. When authorities went to check his cell, it was empty.
A manhunt began immediately in the surrounding area and highways. Flights have also been suspended at Toluca airport near the penitentiary.
Guzman was captured in February 2014 after more than a decade on the lam. He was listed as 56 years old at the time, though there are varying dates for his birth. He faces multiple federal drug trafficking indictments in the U.S. and was on the DEA's most-wanted list.
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Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, escaped from a maximum security prison through a 1.5-kilometer (1 mile) tunnel from a small opening in the shower area of his cell, the country's top security official announced Sunday.
The elaborate underground escape route built allegedly without the detection of authorities allowed Guzman to do what Mexican officials promised would never happen after his re-capture last year — slip out of one of the country's most secure penitentiaries for the second time.
Eighteen employees from various part of the Altiplano prison 55 miles (90 kilometers) west of Mexico City have been taken in for questioning, Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido said in a news conference without answering questions.
It was difficult to believe that such an elaborate structure could have been built without the detection of authorities, though photographs show the facility surrounded by construction, with large open ditches and lots of metal drainage pipes that could have camouflaged such a project. The tunnel terminated in a half-built house in a rural farm field near the prison, according to authorities who cordoned off the structure. Guzman dropped by ladder into a hole 10 meters (yards) deep that connected with a tunnel about 1.7 meters (yards) high that was fully ventilated.
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As per CNN AM, besides mention of the possible + highly likely "inside job", I was surprised to hear the CNN Reporter say that Guzman had allegedly received offers of help or sympathy from places "as far away as GUAM".
["MACHETE/MACHETE KILLS" Movies here].
BESIDES A PHILIPPINE NEWS ANALYST-COMMENTATOR WONDERING IFF THE SUPPOSEDLY DEAD OSAMA BIN LADEN WAS ACTUALLY ALIVE-N-WELL + LIVING IN THE PHILIPPINES, NOW COMES THE SCENARIO WHERE GUZMAN'S TUNNEL EXTENDS ALL THE WAY UW TO GUAM = GUAM-WESTPAC, WID HIM + OBL TO MEET UP IN MANILA OR HONG KONG???
The superficial humor or sarcasm of this PH News Analyst-Commentator belies his personal seriousness underneath, as per the overall, genuine nature or essence of "Black/Covert Ops", be it CIA-INTEL andor the UNDERWORLD-MAFIA.
[The Telegraph] Tourists driving to France this summer are warned to beware of robbers disguised as police who are stopping cars and stealing valuables.
Britons driving to France this summer have been warned to watch out for criminals disguised as police who are stopping tourists' cars and stealing valuables.
The French police issued the alert after a series of thefts on motorways near the Riviera and other popular holiday destinations in the south of France.
The modern-day highwaymen wear police uniforms or armbands and use unmarked cars with flashing blue lights mounted on the roof.
They have robbed more than a dozen French motorists in recent weeks and are now targeting Britons and other foreign visitors who may be unfamiliar with French police procedures and less likely to have been warned by local media reports. They strike at night, when victims tend to be tired and it is more difficult to identify them as fraudsters.
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We don't need no stinking 'bogus' police. We have real ones doing it for the local town/county treasury. Google - civil forfeiture. Carrying lots of money? Obviously for drugs. Thanks for your boost to our coffers.
[The Telegraph] The Government watchdog which inspects police forces' readiness for terrorism admitted that it employed one of Britain's most notorious Islamic extremists.
For almost two years Abdullah al Andalusi, led a double life, the Telegraph can reveal.
By night, he taught that the terror group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) was "no different to Western armies," said that "kaffirs," non-Muslims, would be "punished in hell" and claimed that the British government wanted to destroy Islam. A sort of community organizer as it were.
By day, using a different name, he went to work for the same British government at the London offices of Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC), the official regulator of all 44 forces in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The disclosures will be intensely embarassing to the Prime Minister, David Cameron, who has criticised parts of Britain's Muslim communities for "quietly condoning" Islamist extremism. His records of academic matriculation sealed are they ?
HMIC's staff, who number less than 150, are given privileged access to highly sensitive and classified police and intelligence information to carry out their inspections.
[iol] Durban, SA - The parents of a 14-year-old girl accused of marrying her off to an older man for 15 sheep have been granted bail.
The mother testified on Thursday that her daughter had left voluntarily to meet her husband-to-be and had ignored a call to come home and return to school.
Her mother was arrested last Friday and charged with sexual exploitation of a child and human trafficking for sexual purposes. Her name is known to the Daily News, but cannot be revealed to protect the identity of her daughter, who is in a place of safety.
[AlAhram] The United States and its allies carried out 34 air strikes 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.... forces of Evil in Syria and Iraq on Friday, the US military said.
Various Islamic State targets near the city of Hasaka were hit in 12 of the 17 strikes in Syria, a military statement said on Saturday. Note the ratcheting up of the air campaign against ISIS appears to coincide with the U.S. and Iranian nuclear negotiation mobile deadline.
The allied forces also carried out 17 air strikes near eight cities in Iraq, including four near the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , it said.
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[Rooters] France's foreign minister appeared to put pressure on the United States and Iran on Saturday to speed up nuclear talks, saying all issues were now on the table and that the time had come to make a decision.
Western and Iranian diplomats close to the talks said they expected to work well into the night in hopes of a breakthrough, perhaps as early as on Sunday, on a deal to bring sanctions relief for Tehran in exchange for curbs on its atomic program.
Iran and the six powers involved in the talks - Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States - have given themselves until Monday to reach a deal, their third extension in two weeks, as the Iranian delegation accused the West of throwing up new stumbling blocks to an accord.
[Breitbart] On July 7 the Memphis City Council voted unanimously to exhume the body of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest from its 110 year resting place and move it to another location. Who could be next ?
The body of Forrest's wife will be exhumed as well.
According to Local Memphis, the council voted to exhume Forrest's remains from Health Sciences Park on Union Avenue. They plan to sell a statue of Forrest as well--they are thinking of "selling the statue to anyone who wants it."
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...It is my understanding that EVERYWHERE in the US, it takes a court order to exhume a body, not a hissy fit from a bunch of political hacks. If somebody could find a definite, no-questions descendant of LTGEN Forrest, they could stop this dead in its tracks.
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There are indeed legal obstacles to the exumeing of the two bodies. In addition, Memphis doesn't own the statue. The Forrest family has made clear that they are “solidly opposed to digging up the graves and moving them any place.” They are opposed to moving the statue as well.
Some believe the Memphis City Council vote is another example of the anti-Confederacy hysteria that swept parts of the country after a photo surfaced of alleged Charleston gunman Dylann Roof posing with a Confederate flag. But city council member Janis Fullilove asked if the move has something to do with a rumored “$500 million [University of Tennessee] expansion” that would use the land where Forrest is currently buried.
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Forrest was a big guy who personally killed somewhere around 30 men (he wasn't counting.) He may be the only man ever to enlist as a private and wind up as a Lieutenant General. Granted that he's been dead for about 140 years, I'd be careful about pissing him off.
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Not even the dead are safe from political correctness tyranny.
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On April 12, 1865, the soldiers of the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered their weapons and flags to the Army of the Potomac at Appomattox, Virginia. The Union soldiers held their rifles in the "carry" position, indicating a "marching salute," as the Confederates passed by. This display of "honor answering honor" evoked great emotion in both armies.
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain recalled details of the day:
"It was now the morning of the 12th of April. I had been ordered to have my lines formed for the ceremony at sunrise. It was a chill gray morning....We formed to face the last line of battle, and receive the last remnant of the arms and colors of that great army which ours had been created to confront...We were remnants also....
We could not look into those braved, bronzed faces, and those battered flags we had met on so many fields where glorious manhood lent a glory to the earth that bore it, and think of personal hate and mean revenge. Whoever had misled these men, we had not. We had led them back home....
Forgive us, therefore, if from stern and steadfast faces, eyes dimmed with tears gazed at each other across that pile of storied relics so dearly laid down, and brothers' hands were glad to reach across that rushing tide of memories which divided us, yet made us forever one."
Fort Sumter had been fired upon exactly four years before, on April 12, 1861.
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As an ethnic white Southerner by birth, I'm going to be contrary on this one. Nathan Bedford Forrest founded the Klan. As in "The KKK." Now I know that the history of the KKK is a little more complex than that, but still. Moving his body and getting rid of his statue isn't the same as say doing it to Robert E. Lee or Stonewall Jackson.
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Secret Master, there is already a petition being circulated to rename Rt 1 here in Northern Virginia from the Jeff Davis Highway to something else.
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Stalinism. Nikolai Yezhov. Who do they next want to erase from history?
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Again, iff there is any catalyst for a de facto, genuine, SECOND CIVIL WAR = DOMESTIC INSURRECTION in Ex-Sole-Superpower, Soon-to-One-of-Many-OWG Co-Superpower Amerika, FERGUSON + SIMILAR PALES IN COMPARISON TO THIS.
BANNING CONFEDERATE FLAGS-N-SYMBOLS, ETC. WHERE THE MAJORITY OF ANTI-UNION/LINCOLN WHITE SOUTHERNERS WERE NOT UPPER-CLASS PLANTATION OWNERS NOR SLAVE-OWNERS, VERSUS KEEPING = NOT-BANNING NAZI + COMMIE FLAGS-N-SYMBOLS UNDER WHICH TENS OR SCORES OF MILLIONS OF INNOCENTS DIED.
[Motley Fool] For more than a decade, standard-issue M4 and M4A1 carbines used by infantry in the U.S. Army had been manufactured by just one company -- Colt Defense. A competing bid that significantly undercut Colt's sales price shifted the M4's manufacture to Freedom Group subsidiary Remington Arms in 2011 -- but still kept the weapon under an American brand name.
Two years later, Remington was itself underbid by a foreign operator, Belgium's FN Herstal, which offered to build the M4A1 for the U.S. Army at the low, low price of just $642 per gun -- nearly half what Colt had been charging just a few years before.
And don't look now but the tectonic plates are about to shift again.
Introducing the M4A1+
Earlier this month, the Army Times updated readers on the progress of a new Army program to upgrade the M4A1. The Army intends the M4A1 to replace the venerable M16 as a soldier's standard-issue long gun, and as long as they're doing that, the generals figure why not make the M4A1 better?
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"best carbine in the world" Carbines are for guys whose job is something else than shooting their personal weapon at the enemy.
The Marines tried an entire division with M1 carbines in the Pacific. Dropped that.
Range. Hitting power. Sacrificed to allow more rounds to be fired in the general direction of the enemy, many falling short. Maybe each squad will have to have two designated marksmen.
Full auto. Basic load 209 rounds. Somebody check the "coffee" in that office.
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I have used both the M16A2 and the M4 and I like the M4. For MOUT (house to house)and getting in and out of vehicles under fire the M4 is far better. The short barrel allows you to move through windows, doors, corners, etc. than a full sized rifle.
However, if you are trying to hit anything much past 200-250 meters the full rifle is still better. So for full open field fighting the M16A2 is still more accurate and hits harder at those ranges.
Unlike the M1 carbine, the M4 uses the same size round as the M16A2 so at short ranges the punch is the same. The longer rifle allows for a more complete burn of the powder so there is a much higher muzzle velocity, thus the longer accuracy and harder punch at long ranges.
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Darth. I was in when the 14 was being phased out. Seems the weapon of choice is the one whose use is best in the current unpleasantness, whatever it is, without regard to other possibilities. For example, during the Cold War, the NATO troops were armed with the M16. Stupid. Knew an Infantry platoon leader in WW II whose group encountered Germans in the open. Shot them all dead and, for a moment afterwards, leaves were falling on the GIs. The Germans all had full auto weapons and absolutely slaughtered the tree branches above the Americans who were using the Garand.
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As of a couple of years ago the M14 was still in use in AFG, at least with some Ranger Battalions and possibly others. Both sniper variants and standard issue wood stock, brown fiberglass fore arm. Saw them displayed in an change of command MRAP inventory.
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Specs call for a "single-stage trigger, free of creep, with consistent trigger pull weight" of 4-5 pounds. It should work on both semiautomatic and automatic settings.
Better cleaning tools, but no mention of a piston for cleaner, cooler operation. Odd.
[IsraelTimes] Flight from Beirut with some 50 families lands in Warsaw while government weighs absorbing 2,000 refugees from Africa, Middle East
Some 50 Christian families fleeing war in Syria have arrived in Poland to begin new lives.
A chartered plane from Beirut carrying about 150 refugees landed in Warsaw late Friday. The Syrians are being taken to a hotel, and within days they will begin the process of requesting asylum and being placed in housing.
A few spoke to news hounds, but they refused to be photographed or filmed, fearful of putting loved ones back home at more risk.
Poland's decision to take in the refugees, who hail mostly from Damascus and other cities, is a humanitarian gesture by predominantly Catholic Poland in the face of a massive humanitarian crisis in Syria.
However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... the decision to accept only Christians for now has faced some criticism as being discriminatory against Moslems.
Separately, Poland is also considering accepting 2,000 refugees from Africa and the Middle East as part of a larger European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... resettlement plan.
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"the decision to accept only Christians for now has faced some criticism as being discriminatory against Moslems." Plenty of developed Muslim countries the other religion can go to. Note the absence of criticism why this hasn't happened.
[AnNahar] Two missile strikes by unmanned American drones in southeastern Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... have killed 10 suspected members of Al-Qaeda, including three local chiefs, an official said Saturday.
The raids targeted a vehicle and a container loaded with weapons late Friday at the port of Mukalla, the quiet provincial capital of Hadramawt, the local official said.
The strikes destroyed the arms container, he added.
The deaths bring to 23 the number of suspected Al-Qaeda bully boyz killed by similar strikes in Yemen in less than three weeks, and follows the death of the second-in-command of Al-Qaeda's global network.
The group confirmed on June 16 the killing of Nasir al-Wuhayshi, who headed Al-Qaeda's Yemen branch, by U.S. drone strike.
Washington regards that branch, known as 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), as its most dangerous and has kept up a drone war despite the pullout of US troops from Yemen in March as the country's war worsened.
The U.S. still has drones and other aircraft at bases in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and Djibouti.
[IsraelTimes] Members of banned terror group had planned attacks on Hyper Cacher supermarkets; group's leader tossed in the slammer Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! for 9 years
A Gay Paree court on Friday tossed in the slammer Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! 14 Islamists for planning jihadist attacks on French Jews and other targets.
The Correctional Tribunal of Gay Paree sentenced 39-year-old Mohammed Amchalane, the leader of the banned terrorist group Forsane Alizza, to nine years in prison, Le Figaro reported.
He and 13 of his accomplices, all members of the group, were convicted of "participating in a group formed with a view to preparing terrorist acts."
The accomplices received lighter punishments of varying severity, ranging from a suspended sentence of one year to six years in prison, Le Figaro reported.
Among the group's alleged targets were five Jewish supermarkets of the Hyper Cacher chain, the news website ouest-france.fr reported, and several other Jewish businesses. A Hyper Cacher market in the Gay Paree area was the scene of January's deadly terrorist siege, in which four French Jews were murdered.
The names of the businesses targeted were recovered from a computer seized in 2012, when Amchalane was tossed in the clink Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! with other suspects during a police raid in the vicinity of Nantes, in western La Belle France.
Police also found in Amchalane's possession three AK-47 assault rifles, a grenade and a pistol, Le Figaro reported. He also had manuals on how to carry out terrorist attacks using explosives, including dirty bombs, which contain radioactive material.
Amchalane maintained in court that he was neither involved in violent activity nor was planning to become involved.
Forsane Alizza, Arabic for "knights of pride," was a group dedicated to fighting Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... , Amchalane's lawyer said.
[Ynet] Water supplies to almost half of Kosovo's capital city Pristina were turned off on Saturday after police jugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... three people on terrorism charges close to an artificial lake.
Two other men were arrested later in the day. All face terrorism charges, police said, without giving any further details.
The Water Supply Company Prishtina said it had turned off its water treatment facility at Badovc lake after the arrests, apparently to check for any contamination.
"We are checking the quality of the water and we will not restart until the tests say the water is clean," spokeswoman Arjeta Mjeku said.
Mjeku said the lake supplied 40 percent of the capital with drinking water.
Kosovo authorities say they incarcerated Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! five suspects linked to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group who allegedly were planning to poison a reservoir.
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The ground waters are poisoned by the decomposition products of the 100000 Kosovars killed by Serbs?
[AlAhram] Egyptian security forces have incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! a Moslem Brüderbund-linked "terrorist cell" which threatened national security, Egyptian army spokesperson Brigadier General Mohammed Samir said in a Facebook post on Saturday.
The post included a video which shows nine alleged members of the cell who said they collected money and received training in a foreign country to carry out violent acts before returning to Egypt in order to begin collecting information and data on strategic targets, public figures and police and army officers.
According to an army statement featured within the video, the cell members were arrested in a security raid on their quarters which was described as a "pre-emptive strike" against terrorism.
Last month, the interior ministry announced that it had arrested a cell linked to the outlawed Moslem Brüderbund, accusing its alleged members of gathering information in order to attack public facilities, politicians, judges and media personalities.
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[IsraelTimes] Gazoo's ruling terror group is spying on Egypt, training IS jihadists and smuggling arms -- all while cracking down on Gazoo's home-grown Salafis
While Hamas is far from reticent about showing off the drones it has sent into Israel several times over the past year, it appears that the Jewish state is not the only target of the terror group's covert UAV activity.
Last December, the unmanned aircraft were given pride of place at a military parade to mark the group's 27th anniversary, including a drone that Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, claimed had been in operation during the conflict that summer. And it is becoming clear to Israeli officials that intelligence-gathering for military operations is not the sole purpose of the craft. Continued on Page 49
Commander of Iran's Border Police Brigadier General Qassem Rezaei said on Saturday that a group of border guards were dispatched to the Mirjaveh border region in Sistan-Baluchestan Province on Friday afternoon to keep a watchful eye on the routes in the area after it was reported that a terrorist group wanted to cross the border into Iran from Pakistan, Press TV reported.
The border forces engaged in clashes with the terrorists early on Saturday and managed to smash the terror group, the commander told a press conference in the provincial capital city of Zahedan.
The terrorists were upset at Iranian exploitation of Baluchi shale oil deposits...
“In this operation, a number of terrorists were killed and three others were arrested, one of whom sustained injuries,” the commander said.
Rezaei added that two of the detained terrorists are Pakistani nationals.
Also Baluchis...
He said that the terrorist group, which was trained by foreign spy agencies, was equipped with different types of weapons and explosives to carry out terrorist attacks in different cities in Iran, but the terrorists were arrested on the zero point border with Pakistan.
According to the commander, a number of militants fled to the Pakistani territory but Iranian forces managed to seize weapons, ammunition and explosives from them.
An Iranian border guard also succumbed to injuries on the way to the hospital.
The arrested terrorists confessed that they wanted to carry out terror attacks in certain cities including Zahedan, Kerman and Bam, the commander said, adding that they intended to explode several explosive-laden cars in public places.
The commander said the terrorists were trained in Pakistan, calling for the government in Islamabad to take tough measures against the issue.
Iran has repeatedly called on its eastern neighbors to rein in terrorists who cross the borders to carry out terror attacks on the Iranian soil.
In February 2013, Iran and Pakistan signed a security agreement, under which both countries agreed to cooperate in preventing and combating organized crime and fight against terrorism and activities posing a threat to national security of the two counties.
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Uighurs from Xinjiang are being given Turkish identity papers in Southeast Asia by Turkish diplomats and then taken to Turkey where some are sold to fight for groups like Islamic State as "cannon fodder", a senior Chinese official said.
First rule about Fight Club is that you don't talk about Fight Club...
Beijing says the Turkic language-speaking Uighur minority are firstly Chinese nationals, and those who flee China should be returned to their home region in the far west of China.
"Turkish embassies in Southeast Asia will give them proof of identity," said Tong Bishan, division chief of the Ministry of Public Security's Criminal Investigation Department.
"They are obviously Chinese but they will give them identities as Turkish nationals." I don't know about this. Many photos of Uighurs in China show pronounced western European features. OTOH, I've met some Navajos who could pass for Chinese, based on their appearance.
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Preliminary exploration operations have found oil shale deposits in southeastern Iran. Probable reserves of shale oil have been discovered in the southeastern Kerman and Semnan provinces, an informed source told official IRNA news agency on July 11.
This would be in what might be considered part of greater Baluchistan...
Prior to that, shale oil deposits had been found in the western province of Lorestan, the source added.
Shale oil and gas reserves in Iran have not been yet measured exactly. Each barrel of shale oil costs $40-$80, while each barrel of crude oil costs $5-$10. So, Iran has not focused on producing shale oil and is merely discovering shale oil deposits across the country.
Once the second-largest producer in OPEC after Saudi Arabia, Iran’s crude output has been reduced to about 2.8 million barrels a day, from 3.6m b/d in 2011, by EU and US sanctions aimed at reining in the country’s nuclear activities. Exports stand at about 1.1m b/d, half their pre-sanctions level.
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They'd have to frack to get that oil, and that is not acceptable to the beautiful people.
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Perhaps Obama and Kerry can sweeten the deal they're working on by offering to give Iran the necessary technology and expertise to extract the shale oil.
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Persians not quite so insallah as their Arab co-religionists, might be able to do some thing with the shale.
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Lest we fergit, OWG CO-SUPERPOWER SHIA IRAN [Nukulaar?] is supposed to be increasingly "un-liveable" in coming years due to pervasive, worsening NATURAL DROUGHT as coupled wid poor Govt. Planning-n-Policies.
THE GOOD NEWS IS WE'RE [US-West] ARE SSSSHHHH ..... PCCCCCCC GIVING THEM THE BOMB!
In case Iran needs to start attacking foreign lands just for simple, base survival???
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Momentum that has swept Syrian rebels to a series of swift victories over Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... appears to have slowed in two major attacks aimed at capturing the cities of Aleppo in the north and Deraa in the south.
The reasons include a determined military effort by the government and its foreign allies to stem the tide of setbacks, and shortcomings in rebel strategy and weaponry that have made it harder for them to capture two cities of strategic value.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Fearless Leader of the Islamic Revolution ...Iran's doddering head theocrat... Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei slammed the United States for its 'absolute embodiment' of arrogance.
During a meeting with a group of university students in Tehran on Saturday, Ayatollah Khamenei called on the land of the Medes and the Persians to be prepared to continue the struggle against arrogant powers. "US is perfect instance of Arrogance. Prepare yourselves for more fight against Arrogance," the Leader said.
"The campaign against arrogance is one of the principles of the [1979 Islamic] Revolution," he pointed out, adding that the Holy Qur'an mandates the drive against arrogance.
There is no respite from the campaign against arrogance, Ayatollah Khamenei stressed in response to a question by one of the students about the status of the campaign against arrogance after the conclusion of the nuclear talks with the P5+1 group of world powers.
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That prophet"", the Holy Qur'an" is arrogant.
Khamenei, you are arrogant.
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US National Park Service + University Researchers-Archaeologists now believe that Colonel George Armstrong Custer + his Battalion of the US 7th Cavalry [knowingly] fought a "defensive battle" agz almost impossible odds ... ...
[RUDAW.NET] Authorities in Iraq say bombings and a shooting have killed at least 11 people in and around the capital, Baghdad.
Police officials say three roadside kabooms went off simultaneously Saturday targeting an army convoy just southeast of Baghdad, killing four soldiers and wounding nine.
They say a bomb near an outdoor market killed two people in the town of Youssifiya just south of Baghdad. In the northeastern suburbs of the capital, police say gunnies killed two people in a drive-by shooting.
In Rashidiya just north of Baghdad, they say a bomb went kaboom! near a vegetable and fruit market, killing three people and wounding five.
Medical officials confirmed the casualty figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to journalists.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Tunisian authorities have incarcerated Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! 127 suspected "terrorists" since last month's attack on tourists at a beach resort, the minister heading the crisis group on the incident said Saturday.
"Since the attack, the security forces have carried out more than 700 operations resulting in the arrests of 127 suspected members of terrorist gangs," Kamel Jendoubi said.
The June 26 shooting rampage by a Tunisian student at Port El Kantaoui killed 30 Britons, three Irish nationals, two Germans, one Belgian, one Portuguese and a Russian, and was claimed by the ISIL terrorist group.
Jendoubi did not specify how many of the 127 people detained were being held for their suspected involvement in the beach attack. He had earlier announced the arrest of eight people suspected of having direct links to it.
The minister stressed the government's determination to protect "the country, citizens and nationals of foreign countries". "Today, more than 100,000 police, national guard and civil protection officers in addition to the army" have been deployed, Jendoubi said.
Around 3,000 security guards were protecting beaches, hotels and archaeological sites in the country, he said. Jendoubi also reiterated the government's "regret" at Britannia's decision to repatriate citizens from the North African country, saying "there is no new evidence suggesting the imminence" of an attack.
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Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the chairman of the Turkish opposition Republican People's Party said that the coalition government should be formed for 4 years, Hurriyet reported. The chairman, despite the complexity, expressed hope for a coalition with the ruling party.
Turkey held parliamentary election June 7, which involved 20 political parties. Over 53 million people cast ballots in this election.
The coalition government should be formed in Turkey, within 45 days after announcing the results of the parliamentary election.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has submitted a resignation letter June 9. The Turkish president accepted the resignation of the prime minister, but Davutoglu will officiate until the formation of the new government.
As a result of the parliamentary election, the ruling Justice and Development Party garnered 40.9 percent of the votes, the Republican People’s Party (CHP) – 25 percent, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) – 16.3 percent, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) – 13.1 percent.
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Four years is how long it will take for this group to agree on anything.
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[ALMANAR.LB] A man was tossed in the calaboose Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! and charged in British Columbia Friday after allegedly posting material supporting the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... group, ISIL (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 Levant), and calling for killings in the name of "jihad," officials said.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said 33-year-old Othman Ayed Hamdan of Fort St John, about 1,200 kilometers (745 miles) north of Vancouver, was charged on three counts. Canada police
He is accused of counseling to commit murder, counseling to assault causing bodily harm and counseling to commit aggravated assault -- all "for the benefit of a terrorist group," according to an RCMP statement.
"Hamdan was involved in posting pro-ISIL propaganda online which included inducement and instructions to commit murder in the name of jihad," the statement said.
Hamdan, who has been under investigation since October 2014, is in jug and is expected to appear in court shortly.
The RCMP said "a number of items" were seized from his residence.
"We were able to arrest this individual and disrupt his efforts to harm citizens across the country," said RCMP Superintendent Dan Bond, an assistant criminal operations officer for national security.
Canadian politicians passed new anti-terror measures this year, in response to attacks on Canadian soil last October, when a gunman rubbed out a ceremonial guard and then stormed parliament, and a soldier was run over and killed in rural Quebec.
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Meera ‘didn’t pay her birthday party bill’
According to Jang (May 26, 2015) after her birthday party, Meera left the restaurant without paying the bill. She had invited 30 people but about 100 showed up. When the manager brought that to her attention, at first she wouldn’t come to the point (aain baain shaain) and then said she would be right back and left in her car. The actress said she had paid the bill in cash but didn’t take a receipt.
Policemen bootlegged cricket tickets
Dunya says (May 27, 2015) policemen outside the Gaddafi stadium were illegally reselling tickets (black main farokht) for a cricket match between Pakistan and Zimbabwe. They charged Rs 1,500 for the Rs 500 ticket, and Rs 2,500 for the Rs 1,000 ticket.
Indian girl complains of abuse by Pakistani husband
Reported in Express (May 28, 2015) an Indian girl who had married a Pakistani boy after they fell in love on Facebook went to the police with a domestic violence complaint only four months after their wedding. She said her husband beats her, and her in-laws had locked her up in a room for 15 days. They have taken away her money ($7,000) and don’t let her touch their utensils saying she has not fully converted from Hinduism to Islam.
Cops guarding school took bribes to help cheat Jang reports (May 29, 2015) two railways policemen on security duty outside a school run by the department began to take bribes from students to help them cheat in exams. They were transferred after their action was reported.
‘India must return my pigeon’
Quoted in Dunya (May 30, 2015) a pigeon enthusiast from Shakargarrh has said the pigeon caught by India on suspicion of spying likely belonged to him. Four of my pigeons flew away during a contest, he said. India must return my pigeon.
Traffic warden angers PML-N lawmaker
According to Nawa-e-Waqt (May 31, 2015) when a traffic warden stopped a PML-N lawmaker in Multan from entering a road that had been blocked because of a protest by lawyers, she became angry (mushta’il) and called the CTO on the site. The officer suspended the traffic warden.
Sirajul Haq announces Rs 1b for Modi’s ‘arrest’ Quoted in Express (June 2, 2015) Jamaat-e-Islami emir Sirajul Haq has announced a reward of Rs 1 billion for the ‘arrest’ of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi. Whoever likes India should go live in Mumbai.
FBR seizes Muhammad Hafeez’s accounts According to Nawa-e-Waqt (June 3, 2015) the federal board of revenue seized the bank accounts of cricketer Muhammad Hafeez saying he had no paid Rs 420,000 in taxes. Hafeez said he was a responsible citizen and had paid every single penny he owed in taxes (aik aik paisa), and will consult with his lawyers.
Wedding canceled after NADRA error
Reported in Express (June 4, 2015) a judge in Lahore summoned the chairman of NADRA after a girl complained that her wedding was canceled because the age printed on her identity card was 10 years higher than her real age.
Suspected Indian spy arrested from Gulberg Lahore
Dunya reports (June 6, 2015) an intelligence agency arrested an Indian man who had been living in the Gulberg area of Lahore with a fake name. They suspect he is a spy. Local police say they are not aware of the arrest.
Fisticuffs at PTI rally
Nawa-e-Waqt reports (June 7, 2015) a quarrel broke out between PTI workers after their rally in Mandi Bahauddin. They began to fight (gutham gutha), using the poles of their flags and the chairs in the arena to beat each other up.
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I know what ya mean, brother. If it ain't aain baain shaain, it's gutham gutha.
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I'm so glad they gave up that stupid, uncopyable slideshow. This is much better, though it is well worth clicking through to the orignial to see the absolutely adorable pen & ink cartoons there.
For a map, click here. You can enlarge the map, if you open it separately.
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A total of four dead and 14 wounded are the toll in a shootout between Ukrainian Right Sector militants and Ukrainian security forces in western Ukraine Saturday afternoon, according to Russian language news accounts.
According to a series of news accounts in korrespondent.net news outlet, the shootout took place in Mukachevo in western Ukraine at a sports bar called "Antares" on Ulitsa Lermontov near the former Komsomolsk park, where the pro Maidan militants associated with the Ukrainian Pravii Sektor fired on interior ministry troops and local police using small arms, 12.7mm heavy machine guns and rocket launchers.
A total of two Right Sector militants and two more Ukrainian police special forces operators have been killed.
According to the report, a group of Right Sector recruiters were scheduled to meet with some local residents at a cafe, before police arrived. An unidentified member of the Right Sector group opened fire on police. The firing by the combatants was so intense that two police and two civilian cars were destroyed. A police checkpoint in western Mukachevo was also said to have been destroyed by Right Sector militants.
The remaining members of the group then moved to a farmhouse at the western edge of town, barricading themselves inside. A report in zakarpattya.net.ua said that fighting continues in the western hills around the farmhouse.
According to a news account posted in regnum.ru, Alexander Sachko, characterized in the news piece as a local extremist leader, claimed that police and armed gangs opened fired on Right Sector militants without warning.
Police told korrespondent.net that some of the fighting was over smuggling routes between local criminal gangs and a group associated with the Right Sector called the reserve battalion of the Right Sector-Transcarpathia. The zakarpattya.net.ua report said that a local gang surrounded the Right Sector militants as they tried to recruit locals, then local police and SBU operators surrounded both groups.
Right Sector groups are no strangers to smuggling, especially into rebel occupied areas of Donetsk. Last February a Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) officer was killed in a shootout between smugglers associated with Right Sector groups in Dnepropetrovsk and SBU operators. At that time, a three truck convoy near Volkhonavka was stopped by SBU troops while trying to smuggle untaxed liquor and tobacco across the lines into Donetsk. A subsequent SBU operation rounded up dozens of Right Sector members and led to several tense confrontations between them and the police over the issue of disarming.
The Antares Sports Bar is owned by former member of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada legislature Mikail Lano, who formed part of an opposition group Eremeev. Antares is a complex of saunas, a gym and a swimming pool.
At the moment the situation in Mukachevo is that the main roads leading into town are blocked and the town is locked down by police. According to the regnum.ru article, the Prosecutor's Office of the Transcarpathian region of Ukraine demanded the remaining members of the Right Sector group surrender their arms, but were rebuffed by an unidentified leader saying the group will "fight to the last."
Right Sector leader Dmitri Yarosh released a statement after the shootout demanding an investigation into whoever, police or militants, had opened fire.
According to a regnum.ru report, Yarosh said: "It is necessary to immediately detain the bandits and police officials who gave the order to open fire to kill"
Yarosh is said to be in Kiev to speak with Ukrainian central government officials "to prevent further bloodshed". Reports are that Yarosh has placed several Right Sector reserve battalions on "combat alert." Yarosh did not elaborate on what the precaution means.
Right Sector militants throughout Ukraine, but especially in Dnepropetrovsk form the main core of fighters in the several volunteer military units which have been fighting against Russian backed rebels in Donetsk and Lugansk since the spring before last.
Right Sector militants also are said to be responsible the the deaths at a Trades Union building fire in Odessa in May, 2014, and have gained such a reputation of brutality against Russian speaking Ukrainians that Russian backed guerrillas in Ukraine have gone out of their way to fire on them.
A deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Irina Friz, said that she suspects Russians are behind the unrest characterized by the incident.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com and on Twitter. You can read past articles about the 2014 war in southeastern Ukraina by clicking here.
MARKA, Somalia -- The African Union Mission for Somalia (AMISOM) forces have killed at least 2 civilian people and injured four others in Marka town, lies 109 km south-west of Mogadishu, residents said.
The incident happened after unknown gunmen hurled hand grenade explosions into AMISOM peacekeepers’ base in the town. The AU soldiers opened fire on civilians in response to the bomb attack. Hundreds of local residents took to the streets in Marka town, capital of lower Shabelle region, to protest against AMISOM troops following killings, witnesses told Shabelle Media based in Mogadishu.
No word from African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) peacekeepers’ officials was available. With local authorities declined to comment on the incident.
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The second report, released last week by Germany's domestic intelligence agency, is less ambiguous. The agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, confirmed to us that Iran continues to seek illicit technology for its nuclear and ballistic missiles programs.
Iran has had a long history of trying to obtain nuclear technology from German companies, particularly by seeking ways to transport merchandise in circumvention of international sanctions. Since November 2013, Tehran has sought industry computers, high-speed cameras, cable fiber, and pumps for its nuclear and missile program. It appears that Iran's readiness to negotiate does not reflect any substantive policy change. Rather, it is a diplomatic tactic retreat forced by economic distress, not a strategic rethinking of its priorities.
Iran's cheating should give Western negotiators additional resolve to impose ironclad guarantees in the agreement. They should compel Iran to reveal its past activities, including its post-JPOA procurement efforts, and impose tough, intrusive, "anytime, anywhere" inspections before sanctions are suspended, let alone lifted.
Instead, the lack of reporting to the U.N. despite evidence of cheating suggests a lack of resolve on the part of Western nations, and their willingness to downplay all but the most egregious violations. This does not bode well for the future. If Western powers are reluctant to penalize Iran for trying to evade sanctions because they're afraid of spoiling the negotiations, what will happen in the future when Western powers have even more invested in preserving an agreement?
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Once again, its done in part as return for IRAN's military or MilPol help agz the Sunni Hard Boyz, i.e. the ISIS/ISIL + Al-Nusra, etal. + by extens the mostly Sunni Regional-Global Jihad.
The other part is "Tip-of-The-Spear" US-Led Anti-US OWG-NWO, i.e. the ANti-US OWG Globalist agenda whereby the Sole Superpower USA unilaterally gives up its POwer-N-Influence, etc. around the World so that Russia, China, + Iran, Other TBD? can rise to Co-Superpower, "US-style/par", Siblinghood HERE THE FUTURE US, THE OWG MIGHTY USSA VS THE OWG WEAK USRA GLOBAL SSR, IS JUST ONE OF MANY SUPERPOWERS IN THE WORLD + N-O-T THE LEADER = UNIVERSAL/GLOBAL EL SUPREMO ANYMORE.
THE PRICE FOR SETTING UP OWG-NWO = SPACE GOVT-ORDER = SPACE EXPLORATION + COLONIZATION, ETC. IN THE FACE OF A CHANGING SUN [Solar Changes].
But I digress ... ...
* E.G. BIGNEWSNETWORK > [Telegraph.UK] CHAOS IN THE MIDDLE EAST MEANS IT TIME FOR AN ALLIANCE WID IRAN.
* SAME > BUNKER-BUSTER BOMB WON'T BE ENOUGH TO STOP IRAN IFF NUCLEAR TALKS FAIL.
* REAL CLEAR WORLD > HOW TO GUARANTEE THE ISIS WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED | DOUBLING UP ON A DOUBTFUL STRATEGY: WHY THE CURRENT US PLAN TO WIN BACK IRAQ MAY GUARANTEE THAT THE ISIS WON'T BE DEFEATED.
VERSUS
* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > [RCP.com] JIMMY CARTER:"US IN INEVITABLE [Evolutionary + Historical, etc.] DECLINE OF WORLDWIDE INFLUENCE, CHINA WILL SUCCEED THE US AS WORLD #1 ECONOMIC POWER.
CMF BLOGGER > SAME ARTIC = JIMMY CARTER SPEAKS OF "YELLOW PERIL", [In truth it will be ...] ISIS TO BE THE NEXT SUPERPOWER, NOT CHINA.
* GROONG > [Journal-Neo.Org] STRUGGLE FOR A MULTI-POLAR WORLD IS GETTING INTENSE.
Unipolar USA = Washington DC, versus Multi-polar Russia + BRICS.
* JAPAN TIMES > OPINION: SOUTH CHINA SEA SERENITY.
ARTIC = The Days of Unquestioned, US-specific Primacy/Hegemony + Capacity = "Making the Rules" in Asia-Pacific are OVER!?
* RELATED FREEREPUBLIC > [The Australian] ERA OF US DOMINANCE IN REGION "COMING TO A CLOSE": REPORT.
To paraph WW2 BRIT PM WINSTON CHURCHILL = "... The Beginning of the End, or ... the End of a Beginning"???
AGAIN, presuming that the OWG Globies did NOT miscalculate, + the US is being existentially threatened as it retreats or falls back across East Asia-Pacific/WESTPAC towards Hawaii + CONUS/EASTPAC, THEN WHY WILL THE US SEE A NEED TO SINK OR DESTROY GUAM + OTHER STRATEGIC PACIFIC ISLANDS AS IT DOES SO, AS PART OF SO-CALLED "A2/AD" [Anti-Access/Area-Denial] OF THE ISLANDS' MILITARY ULTILITY AGZ USAGE BY CHINA ANDOR NUCLEAR ISLAM, BUT ESPEC AGZ CHINA???
[DAWN] More than 4,000 parents have refused to administer polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... drops to their children in the Quetta block that comprises of the Quetta, Pishin and Killa Abdullah districts of northern 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... , Coordinator Balochistan Emergency Cell Dr Syed Saifur Rehman told DawnNews.
This year, at least four polio cases were reported from Balochistan, three of which came from the Quetta block. Officials termed parents' refusal to administer polio drops as the underlying cause behind the aforementioned cases.
Lately, polio volunteers have faced difficulties in administering the vaccine to children in various parts of the Quetta block as a number of parents have been resisting the campaign.
Most refusals have been reported from the outskirts of Quetta. These areas include Pashtoonabad, Kharotabad, Nawan Killi and others that mostly house Afghan refugees.
"We have traced out the refusal cases and are trying to convince the parents," Dr Rehman said.
The Balochistan government has formed refusal coverage committees to cajole the parents into allowing polio vaccines to be administered to children below the age of five years. The deputy commissioner will head the committees and religious scholars will be appointed as members of the committees to persuade parents to not resist polio vaccination for their children.
Also read: Balochistan govt to make refusal against polio vaccine 'a crime'
According to officials, more than 50 per cent of polio cases are occurring because of parents' refusals in the province. Meanwhile, ...back at the precinct house, Sergeant Maloney wasn't buying it. It was just too pat. The whole thing smelled phony, kind of like a dead mackeral but without the scales... lack of commitment, negligence on part of concerned quarters and attacks targeting polio workers are among reasons that have contributed to the re-emergence of polio in Balochistan.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Syrian Army units inflicted more losses and casualties upon terrorist organizations in continued operations backed by air strikes in various areas across the country on Friday, state-run SANA news agency reported.
In Idleb, army units targeted gatherings of murderous Moslems in al-Sermaniyeh and Jannet al-Qura villages in southern Jisr al-Shughour in the southwestern countryside of the northern Idleb province.
A military source said many of the bad boyz were potted, while an armored vehicle was destroyed in al-Sermaniyeh and a bulldozer in Jannet al-Qura.
In the meantime, SANA quoted field sources as saying that many murderous Moslems of al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front and the so-called "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... Movement (Free People of Syria)" were killed as the army targeted their hideouts in the towns of al-Taman'eh and Kafr Oweid in southern Idleb province.
In the neighboring Hama province, five terrorist leaders were killed as the army artillery targeted their hideout while they were holding a meeting in Toloul al-Homr village to the east of Salamiyeh city in the countryside of the province, according to field sources.
An ammunition depot and a logistic supply route were hit and destroyed at the Agricultural Research building and Bawadi al-Azib in the eastern countryside of Salamiyeh.
In Quneitra, an army unit targeted dens of al-Nusra murderous Moslems in Mas'hara village, 12 km to the east of the city.
The army operation left a number of murderous Moslems dead and injured, and their arms and ammunition destroyed.
In al-Zabadani city in Damascus Countryside, the army air force destroyed a rocket depot and artillery bases and killed many murderous Moslems in a series of air strikes on their positions.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea, one that didn't involve kerosene... a number of terrorist groups' leaders were killed and an ammunition depot was destroyed during army operations in Douma, Harasta, Masraba and al-Rihan in Eastern Ghouta.
In Hasaka, SANA news hound told that assembly points 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.... of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... group and their hideouts were targeted in al-Villat al-Homr neighborhood and the area between al-Bassel and al-Panorama roundabouts in Hasaka city.
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[RUDAW.NET] Afghanistan said Saturday that recent US Arclight airstrikes it assisted destroyed the top leadership of a fledging 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.... affiliate there, potentially striking a major blow to an Lion of Islam group already targeted by local Taliban fighters.
While US officials declined to confirm it, Afghan authorities said an American Arclight airstrike Friday killed Islamic State affiliate leader Hafeez Sayeed and more than 30 other murderous Moslems. That comes after Afghan officials earlier said another US Arclight airstrike killed the affiliate's second-highest official, Gul Zaman, and six others, including a former Pak Taliban front man named Shahidullah Shahid who earlier had joined the group.
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"funny" they don't seem to manage to do the same to the talibs.
A bit of reminiscing by Canadian conservatives. Worth the time to read.
I just finished Ted Morgan’s rather long biography of William Burroughs. For a guy who shot his wife dead and was a heroin addict most of his life, not to mention a weird sort of homosexual avatar, Burroughs had many glittering friends and a remarkably dull life.
I like literary biography as a genre and will read lit bios more or less to fill in the missing pieces of the English literary enterprise in the 20th century. Burroughs’ own work I have found unreadable and now that I know, in excruciating detail, from whence it came, I should not be surprised. Give me Gore Vidal anytime.
On eBay, I found a stash of Tom Wolfe’s early work. Four dilapidated pocket books chronicling the end of the Beats and the birth of the Hippies. The shorter form journalism of The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby remains a pleasure with Wolfe getting the rise of American prole/teen culture in the early sixties exactly right.
From Junior Johnson and stock car racing to slot cars to Hot Rods and demolition derbies - plus Las Vegas - he demonstrates the sheer power of the underclass with a bit of World War II money. It’s a bit dated now - “style of life” for “lifestyle” - but Wolfe’s journalism says a lot about America in an age of optimism. More at the link: An interesting look at recent cultural history, only I guess it's not all that recent.
I grew up as part of that 1968 generation--Class of '65. All that rebellion and stuff looked really kewl, and there I was stuck in Vietnam or Okinawa or Thailand, eventually in West Berlin. They were doing neato-keano stuff and I had to work. All that wasted time and energy was because I didn't realize how damned boring they were.
Wolfe really was a great writer. "The Right Stuff" describes what real he-men are like. Not the tough guys with tattoos up and down their arms, or the yo boys haunting street corners and packin' unregistered heat. Wolfe defined the difference between the two types--I sometimes think of them as two species, kinda like the difference between thoroughbreds and jackasses.
All the easy choices in life seem to lead to the jackass stable. They've even had a teevee show about them. High school too much for you? Drop out, get a tattoo on your neck and go relax in the stable. Finished with high school and feel like coasting for four years? Major in modern dance or Black Studies or Gender Studies. You won't have a job when you get your degree, but there's lots of room in the stables and you can probably support yourself pouring overpriced coffee at Starbucks'. He's handsome, your're drunk and not on the pill? Go ahead and shuck your drawers. If you find yourself sober and with child (that's assuming you're ever sober) there's lots of room in the stables.
"I hate Americans!" Whatsername said the other day as she was licking the icing off the counter display at the donut shoppe. She was demonstrating to her friends (she didn't know about the video camera) that she's a by-Gum rebel. Not a Confederate battle flag kind of rebel, mind you; they were ucky and they oppressed all those Negroes and she's glad they're all dead now. She's the female equivalent of the Marlon Brando Rebel Without a Cause movie, or like James Dean. What she really hates is White People, even though she is one.
It's always possible to cease being a jackass, even though the numbers say it doesn't happen very often. It takes goals, with milestones along the way from You Are Here to There. It takes hard work and diligence. Usually it takes teamwork to get there, which is a different thing from Collective Effort™. It takes a willingness to use the tools that are available, rather than sitting down and complaining about their lack or inadequacy.
We live (or have lived) in an age where it's possible for the poorest, most downtrodden among us to be just as good as any member of landed gentry. Being a "gentleman" or a "lady" depends not on birth, but on character.
The fact that there aren't more ladies and gents is a pretty black commentary on humanity.
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What she really hates is White People, even though she is one.
A very accurate observation of hate, but not an isolated one. Like most forms of treason, cultural treason's most frequently used tool is the love of money.
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We live (or have lived) in an age where it's possible for the poorest, most downtrodden among us to be just as good as any member of landed gentry. Being a "gentleman" or a "lady" depends not on birth, but on character.
Equality of outcome ends up with the outcome being an upgrade for people who don't deserve a good one and a downgrade for those who do, in the economic realm.
It also ends up incentivizing a downgrade for everyone in the social realm.
In the end, we managed the WWII peace dividend horribly. It could have been used to build a society that lasted centuries. Instead we burned through it in less than two generations and politicians told the people it would last forever. Outcome equality requires atrocities be performed on the people who would be ladies and gentlemen, every time. And politicians found a lot of votes in telling people that while in office, they'd make sure that the government would insure that the lowest person wouldn't be that much less than the smartest or most talented or hardest working. You don't need to guess the sort of person this appeals to the most.
The second worst thing we did was not de-communizing the way we de-Nazified. Two presidents in particular - Truman and Bush I - had golden opportunities to simply defund the left by fiat, given the times they served in as presidents, and did not. We are now paying the price as a nation in terms of a nearly completely degraded culture, an economy on the brink of what happened to Greece, and a hostile public sector clerisy which is prepared to, at a whim, put people like me into concentration camps and sip chardonnay while listening to NPR with a smile on their face - or licking a donut in a bakery.
If the center/right ever gets into the position to do so again - which is by no means a certainty - they must engage in scorched-earth tactics. Remove EVERY person with even a whiff of leftism about them from as many positions of power and bureaucratic posts and functionary positions as possible and force them to choose between doing real work in the private sector or facing economic oblivion. Enact as many laws as possible to remove professors and farmers and lawyers and lobbyists from making money off of rent-seeking regulations and subsidies. Revoke tax free status of foundations who have been taken over by leftists. Most importantly, return the percentage of government employees to the rest of us to pre-1968 levels.
If we don't do that we will certainly perish as a nation - people like me first, by the left's violence, but eventually they will even destroy themselves.
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What she really hates is White People, even though she is one.
A very accurate observation of hate.
Actually a very good description of Barack Obama's mother (Stanley Ann Dunham). During her college years, she was known for being dating anyone provided they weren't white.
Obama is actually an obedient son who is following his mother's instructions. She hated White middle class America, and he is trying to destroy it.
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Target ahead
Do the Bombay door thing man
Righteous
Bomb run nao!
10,000 copies of the Naked Lunch on San Dieago!
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Actually Dunham would screw anything in pants provided they were not white...and pose for girly magazines.
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Maybe not buying into the 'big tent' crap allowing the professional liberals who escaped the socialist party to take over your own party. There's a certain part of any population you are never going to incorporate because they never want to 'share'.
[Tolo News] The turbans have reportedly seized control of another Afghan National Army (ANA) post in Dand-e-Ghori district in northern Baghlan, local officials said on Saturday.
This was said to be the last post being collapsed into the hands of the Taliban in the district, a member of Provincial Council of Baghlan, Bimillah Atash said.
He warned of further deteriorated situation if reinforcement troops were not deployed to the area.
The security officials, however, are yet to comment on the fall of the security post.
The festivities began about two weeks ago in the district when turbans carried out a coordinated attack on the security posts.
Earlier, the tribal elders had also warned collapse of the district.
Over the past few months, the turbans have increased their activities in northern parts of the country and are targeting police posts. They have also captured a number of districts over the period.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Informed sources in Vienna announced that French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has grown angry with the approach of his US counterpart John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... and for the same reason he had a verbal dispute with Iran's top negotiator Mohammad Javad Zarif.
Informed French sources, speaking on conditions of anonymity, told the Arabic-language Lebanese Al-Ahd news website that Fabius is discontent with the American team of negotiators, adding that he had a dispute with Zarif after he felt the negotiations were going too smooth, Fars news agency reported.
"Fabius is angry with the US negligence towards La Belle France in the nuclear talks and that has resulted in his anger," the sources added.
Late on Thursday night, diplomatic sources in Vienna cautioned that the western powers have toughened their stances after the US lost a self-imposed deadline for a deal with Iran and are raising even more demands from the Iranian team, Fars said.
The source said the western parties to the talks with Iran, specially the US, have in the last few days raised excessive demands beyond earlier agreements, making the road to a draft final nuclear deal even more bumpy.
The source said Iran is determined to clinch a deal and it has shown much flexibility on this path, but the US-led West has been raising excessive demands and shows "fading respect for its earlier agreements with Iran".
"They have started psychological operations and are playing the blame game to make Iran surrender to their increasing demands or wait to be portrayed as the party to blame for the potential failure of the talks," the diplomat added.
The source also strongly rejected the allegations made by certain western media outlets that the Iranian team is referring the opposite sides' proposals or the draft text to Tehran to ask for permission, reiterating that "the Iranian team of negotiators have been vested with full authority to strike a deal on behalf of the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran based on the country's specified redlines, and does not need to refer anything to Tehran."
The diplomat strongly warned the western powers' approach in the last few days "is pushing the talks into a deadlock".
Earlier on Thursday night, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif left a new post on his Twitter account, saying, "We're working hard, but not rushed, to get the job done. Mark my words; you can't change horses in the middle of a stream."
Minutes later, US Secretary of State John Kerry also appeared in front of the cameras in Vienna, and said, "Despite all the agreements we have made so far, some tough issues have remained unresolved."
"These issues should be resolved. And tough decisions should be made," he added, and continued, "We want a deal that stands the test of time."
Kerry said the negotiations are not open-ended, but he didn't say how long the talks would last.
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never I would see the day that the French seem tougher than the US when dealing with muslims.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Lebanese militia group Hezbollah said on Friday that the Syrian army's resistance to recent large-scale rebel attacks had disproved predictions that Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now... 's days were numbered.
In a speech to mark the annual pro-Paleostinian "Quds day", Lebanese Shi'ite leader Hassan Nasrallah said the army had taken the initiative since losing most of Idlib province to an Islamist alliance including al Qaeda's Nusra Front.
Hezbollah is allied with the army and fights alongside it in Syria.
"Just recently, when Idlib fell, some said that Syria was finished and they began counting days," Nasrallah told supporters in a speech in the group's stronghold in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
The momentum that had swept 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.... and more moderate rebel groups to a series of swift victories over the army appears to have slowed in two major attacks aimed at capturing the cities of Aleppo in the north and Deraa in the south.
The rebel offensives have so far failed to make much headway in the face of stiff resistance by the army, which has used its superior air power to pound their positions.
The army is also closing in on Islamic State forces of Evil in control of ancient Palmyra in central Syria, with troops seeking to recapture the city of Roman ruins currently around about 10 km (six miles) away.
Iranian-backed Nasrallah said the army had taken back the initiative across most frontlines, including the border city of Zabadani, near the Beirut-Damascus highway, where it and Hezbollah are fighting three years of rebel control.
"What happened in the last few weeks is clear that the scene has changed. The steadfastness of the Syrian army in facing the great campaign in Deraa, Sweida, Hasaka and Aleppo," Nasrallah told supporters.
Separately, a mortar round fired by Islamic State forces of Evil caused a major fire at a Syrian government building in the northeastern city of Hasaka, which firefighters put out, state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
reported on Friday.
Earlier, a Syrian army source said the forces of Evil had blown up a third car bomb in the eastern part of the city. The source said there were casualties but gave no further details.
The hardline myrmidon group continues to stage lightning attacks inside the city after being driven out of some districts following a failed offensive last month to capture Hasaka, capital of Syria's main oil- and grain-producing province.
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[Tolo News] A key member of the Taliban's Quetta Shura ...Mullah Omar's command center, located in Quetta, that the Pak govt hasn't been able to find since its establishment in November, 2001. Honest... was tossed in the calaboose Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! in a special raid conducted by National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) operatives in southern Zabul province, the intelligence agency said in a statement on Saturday.
Mawlawi Faizullah, a resident of Daichopan district in the province, was an active member of Shura's military commission, the statement read.
Faizullah was the commander of Ma'az 10 wing of Shura for southern provinces of Zabul, Kandahar and Ghazni, according to the NDS.
He was said to have been engaged with recruiting Death Eaters for Taliban, kidnapping passengers on the highways and financing and supporting Death Eaters with logistics.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Shortly after a humanitarian truce ..The purposes of a truce are twofold: 1.) bring up more arms, ammunition, and reinforcements; and 2.) get the enemy to relax his vigilance. A truce is not the same thing as a ceasefire, and a ceasefire doesn't mean you have to stop shooting... went into effect in Yemen, Saudi warplanes struck several areas across the Arab impoverished country, violating the UN-sponsored ceasefire.
Al-Manar correspondent in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... reported that the Saudi-led warplanes hit Saada, Shabwa and Taiz, few minutes after the truce went into effect.
The warplanes also struck a house in Jabal Jarra, a truck loaded with food supplies in al-Arish city in Aden province, our correspondent said.
The relentless air campaign continued into the early hours of Saturday morning, with the Saudi-led warplanes hit Maalla, Khor Mikser and Ribat areas in restive Lahj ... a Yemeni governate located in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It is the stomping grounds on the southern secessionist al-Harak movement province.
Earlier on Friday, the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... Security Council called on all sides of the Yemen conflict to observe the break in fighting, which is slated to run up to the end of the fasting month of Ramadan on July 17.
"All parties will need to suspend military operations during the pause," the 15-member UN council said in a unanimous statement, urging all sides "to exercise restraint in cases of isolated violations and to avoid escalation."
Also on Friday, leader of Yemen's Ansarullah movement Abdul-Malik al-Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... said he was doubtful about the ceasefire.
"We do not have much hope for the truce to succeed," said Huthi in a televised statement on Yemen's al-Masirah television.
The Saudi Arclight airstrikes targeted Sanaa on Friday and hit mainly central and southern cities overnight. On Thursday night, an Arclight airstrike hit a school housing refugees in the southern province of Lahj, killing nine people and wounding 14 others, residents said.
Yemen has been since March 26 under brutal aggression by Saudi-led coalition. Thousands have been martyred and injured in the attack, with the vast majority of them are civilians.
Riyadh launched the attack on Yemen in a bid to restore power to Yemen's runaway President Abd Rabbu MansourHadi who is a close ally to 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... .
Last week, the UN declared Yemen a level-3 humanitarian emergency, the highest on its scale, with nearly half of the country's regions facing a food crisis.
More than 21.1 million people -- over 80 percent of Yemen's population -- are in need of aid, with 13 million facing food shortages.
Access to water has become difficult for 9.4 million people, according to the UN.
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UN sez to go to Money-Com 3, repeat Money-Com 3' this is not a drill.
A BBC documentary has substituted the word “Israelis” for "Jews" in its translation of interviews with Palestinians, its maker has admitted.
Proudly, she admitted...
Lyse Doucet has stood by the decision to translate “yahud” as “Israeli” in subtitles on her hour-long documentary Children of the Gaza War, which airs on BBC Two tonight. The correct translation for “yahud” from Arabic to English is “Jew”.
The BBC’s chief international correspondent said that Gazan translators had advised her that Palestinian children interviewed on the programme who refer to “the Jews” actually meant Israelis. In one instance, a Gazan child says the “yahud” are massacring Palestinians. However the subtitles read: “Israel is massacring us”.
Canada-born Ms Doucet said: “We talked to people in Gaza, we talked to translators. When [the children] say ‘Jews’, they mean ‘Israelis’.
So why not translate what they say as "Jews" and explain, in a voice-over, what the Gazans told her it means?
“We felt it was a better translation of it.”
I'm sure you did...
She added: “We checked this again yesterday.
“We are not trying to cover it up – we took advice on it and that was the advice we were given by translators.”
The programme follows the lives of Israelis and Gazan children during and after the 50-day war last summer. Ms Doucet reports on Israelis who fled their homes in the south of the country during rocket attacks from Hamas, and on Palestinians whose homes were demolished during Israeli air strikes.
She said she was determined to tell the story from the perspective of children.
“Some of the most compelling stories and often the acts of courage come from young children.
“If we want to not just try to understand what is happening in these wars, but also get a glimpse into the future, then I think we have to talk to and hear the children. It tells us a lot about the times we live in and it tells us a lot about the times that lie ahead.”
She said the interviewees on both sides had a “real sense of indignation that they have been robbed of a normal childhood”.
[IsraelTimes] Blurring the lines between opposing occupation and opposing Israel, the boycott and sanctions effort continues to make inroads, all the way to the 2016 US presidential elections
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Just sat jooooooooooooooooooooooo! See dat easy. Now let say pppppuuuupppppppaleo. See easy. Now say shit eating Arab, no, no like the meal or the ethnic? Well, let's try head slamming ragheads, can you say dat? Okay snowflakes, last chance, Friend of the Camel. Okay with dat?
[ALMANAR.LB] A powerful bomb destroyed the Italian consulate in Cairo Saturday, killing one person, the first assault on a foreign mission in Egypt in two-year turban attacks against security forces.
The consulate in central Cairo was closed at the time of the kaboom around 6:30 am (0430 GMT), which brought down the facade of the building and could be heard across the capital.
A health ministry front man said the blast killed one person and maimed four. Medics had earlier said two coppers and three passers-by had been maimed.
Italia swiftly condemned the attack, with its foreign minister Paolo Gentiloni saying "Italia will not let itself be intimidated."
He added on Twitter that there were no Italian casualties.
Militants have carried out scores of attacks since the army overthrew Moslem Brüderbund's president Mohammad Mursi in July 2013, killing hundreds of coppers and soldiers mostly in the Sinai Peninsula.
Diplomats had told AFP they had been warned by police months ago that embassies could be targeted, but it was not clear whether this was based on specific intelligence.
At least one Western embassy had relocated over security concerns.
The Italian consul in Cairo arrived at the scene of the attack and went inside the building to inspect it, refusing to speak to news hounds.
The official MENA news agency reported that the blast was caused by boom-mobile.
It brought down part of the building, and the remains of at least one vehicle were strewn on the street.
The attack came less than two weeks after suspected murderous Moslems assassinated the country's top prosecutor in a boom-mobileing in the capital.
In Sinai, Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... s loyal to ISIL group (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 Levant) launched a wave of attacks on July 1 that killed at least 21 soldiers.
[THEFRIDAYTIMES] On July 5, the Death Eaters of IS warned local farmers in the eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province to stop cultivating opium. They also reportedly slapped some local smokers and those using 'naswar', a famous tobacco snuff consumed by Pashtuns around the world.
On January 27, on Pak side of the Durand Line, an important Pak Taliban leader, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed Khan, announced his allegiance to Al Baghdadi and reportedly took charge as the emir of IS in Pakistain and Afghanistan. Some disgruntled Taliban groups like Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain's Mehmond chapter, and the former TTP front man Shahidullah Shahid, also announced allegiance to the IS chief -- a new claimant for the title Ameerul Momineen, which was previously claimed by Mullah Umar.
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[ALMANAR.LB] At least 14 people were killed in a suicide kaboom at a crowded market in Chad's capital on Saturday just days after 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... claimed a previous bombing in the city that left 38 people dead.
The attack in N'Djamena by a man disguised as a woman in a full-face veil came after a botched bombing of a bus station in the restive capital of Nigeria's Borno state, Maiduguri, which killed two pedestrians.
Experts said the bombing in Chad, following previous strikes in Niger and repeated targeting of northern Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... , demonstrated the need for an effective solution to the problem involving both Nigeria and its neighbors.
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari, who came to power on May 29, has made defeating Boko Haram a top priority but experts said he could not do it alone.
"The fight against Boko Haram is unlikely to be concluded with any rapidity," Ryan Cummings, chief Africa analyst with the Red24 consulting group, told AFP. "The fact remains that while Boko Haram continues to be defined as a Nigerian problem, evidence suggests that it has become a quandary of regional proportions requiring a regional solution.
"In the absence of Nigeria's neighbors recognizing the extent of Boko Haram's regional contagion and subsequently responding to it decisively, the most exhaustive efforts by the Nigerian government alone won't solve the problem."
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[RUDAW.NET] Baghdad celebrated Quds Day with hundreds of people coming out to the streets holding photos of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei and of deceased Iranian Islamic Theocratic Republic founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
"The photos of Khomeini and Khamenei that were raised during the Al-Quds Day parade on Friday are used for religious purposes, because those two people are considered religious people and not politicians," Hassan Khallati, the spokesperson of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council Led by Sayyid Ammar al-Hakim, the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI, formerly the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, or SCIRII, pronounced Scarey)) is not nearly as supreme as it makes out to be. The al-Hakim family business is merely another one of political parties, this one Shiite and with its power base in the south of the country. The Iranian government sponsored the party's creation in 1982 during the Iran-Iraq war after the leading Iraqi Islamist group was weakened by a government crackdown. Designed as an umbrella organization to unite Iraqi Shi'a groups, the party supports Islamic government controlled by holy men. In post-Saddam Iraq ISCI has worked closely with other Shi'a organizations to provide social services and humanitarian aid. Though accused of receiving money and weapons from Iran, ISCI leaders maintain that the party is committed to democracy and peaceful cooperation. The Badr Brigade initially acted as ISCI's armed wing but later to split to form the independent Badr Organization., told Rudaw. "Raising their photos on this day is normal."
"Those who mix this issue with politics aim to create sectarian division and sedition among the Iraqi people," he said.
However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... not all were pleased with Iranian leaders being featured so prominently in Iraq.
"This is a violation of Iraqi illusory sovereignty, because those two individuals are the supreme leaders in their country," Iraqi MP Khaled Al-Mafraji, the leader of the Coalition of National Forces, told Rudaw.
"Why did they not raise the photos of Iraqi religious leaders instead of Khomeini and Kamenei?" he asked.
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[Ynet] The United States and its allies targeted 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.... on Thursday with 16 air strikes in Iraq and 15 strikes against the bad boy group in Syria, the US military said in a statement on Friday.
The Iraq strikes hit targets near Bayji, Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids... Habbaniyah, Haditha, Makhmur, djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Sinjar and Tal Afar.
In Syria, the coalition targeted Islamic State positions near Al Hasakah, Aleppo, Raqqah, Ayn Isa, Kobani and Tal Abyad.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A child was slightly injured following an kaboom in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... province this afternoon, according to security officials.
The incident took place in the vicinity of Bagrami district where the explosives carried by two jacket wallahs went off, apparently due to a premature kaboom.
Deputy interior minister for security Gen. Ayub Salangi confirmed that a child was slightly injured in the incident.
No group including the Talibs has so far grabbed credit behind the incident.
The Taliban led insurgency has been rampant since the group announced its summer offensive earlier this year and carried out numerous attacks across the country including capital Kabul.
This comes as the anti-government armed krazed killer groups launched coordinated suicide kaboom on NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... troops convoy and the Afghan intelligence compound in capital Kabul last week.
According to the security officials at least three people were maimed in the attack on NATO troops convoy while a security guard of the NDS compound was killed along with three suicide bombers in the second attack on the intelligence compound.
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[ALMANAR.LB] The head of the ISIL terrorist group in the Afghanistan-Pakistain region has been killed in a drone strike in eastern Afghanistan, intelligence officials and myrmidon commanders said Saturday. It was reported that he might have been killed earlier this year. I guess we should consider this an announcement that he might have been killed in the middle of the year.
The National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... , the Afghan spy agency, said Hafiz Saeed was among 30 ISIL-linked cadres killed in the strike in restive Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province, close to the Pak border, on Friday.
Two ISIL-affiliated commanders in Afghanistan confirmed Saeed's death to AFP.
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See also TOPIX, BHARAT RAKSHAK > AGHANISTAN: US AIR/DRONE STRIKES TARGETS [aims to destroy]ISLAMIC STATE BRANCH.
Saving Russia, China, + Pakistan's Nukes, even Afghan-Pak/AFPAK TTP from the ISIS/ISIL Boyz???
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] A Syrian regime Arclight airstrike on the northern Syrian town of al-Bab near Aleppo killed at least 23 people, including 3 children and 3 women, and maimed dozens on Saturday, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said as a barrel bomb pounded a crowded local market.
Activists said the deadly attack on al-Bab is the second in four days where 15 people, including 6 children, had been killed when barrel bomb stormed Ibad al-Rahman mosque on Wednesday minutes before the Maghrib Prayer where people were preparing their daily breakfast for Ramadan, the holy month where Moslems fast from dawn to sunset.
Regime's barrel kabooms have also targeted the village of Rasem al-Hermel in the eastern countryside and two barrel attacks hit the neighboring distric of Kuwaires military airport, activists said.
Aleppo city is divided between the Syria military, backed by militia, and a range of bully boy groups including al Qaeda's Nusra Front, Islamist brigades and Western-backed rebels.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] As has become obvious, the B.O. regime's response to the Syrian conflict is an abject failure. No clear strategy has been determined; the administration's "red lines" have not been honored. Short-term, stopgap measures informed by the Iraq and Afghanistan experiences, along with the noise generated by a media fixated on 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.... , have taken priority over achievable, long-term goals. The result: a corpse count commonly estimated at between 200,000 and 300,000 people (though it's certainly higher), more than 11 million displaced and numerous cities in ruins.
Nowhere is this failure clearer than in the consequence of the misguided way that Syrian revolutionaries are labeled as either "moderate" or "extremist."
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[RUDAW.NET] Iraqi security forces have wrested control of the Falasi district in Khalidiya in Anbar province from the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... .
An Anbar police official told Rudaw that after fierce fighting, Iraqi security forces supported by tribal bully boyz with the federal police and anti-terrorism forces took Falasi.
A source, who wished to remain anonymous, added festivities took place after ISIS launched an assault on Iraqi forces in some Anbar districts. During the festivities more than 20 ISIS fighters were killed and a number of armored vehicles were destroyed.
Despite the reported government progress, Mohammed Harat, a tribal leader, told Rudaw Islamic State fighters launched mortars at different districts in Khalidiya and the situation was getting worse.
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[ALMANAR.LB] A large number of ISIL holy warriors have informed Iraqi officials that they are ready to lay down arms and surrender to government troops in Fallujah after the army besieged the city.
"Over 150 ISIL forces of Evil have declared that if the Iraqi troops enter the city they will surrender without any resistance," al-Sumariya news website quoted Iraqi Federal Police Commander Ra'ed Judat as saying on Friday.
On Wednesday, 35 members of the ISIL terrorist group surrendered to the Iraqi forces in the Western parts of Ramadi, Anbar province.
Commander of the third battalion of the Iraqi popular forces Mahmoud Marzi was quoted as saying by Sumariya news that all the holy warriors are from al-Karamah town who joined the ISIL in 2014.
On Tuesday, the Iraqi army, backed by volunteer forces, launched an operation to liberate the strategic city of Fallujah from the control of the ISIL terrorists.
Iraqi officials said the offensive to retake the troubled city, located roughly 69 kilometers (43 miles) West of the capital, Baghdad, began on Monday night, and that government troopers together with volunteer fighters have now reached the gates of Fallujah.
The authorities said that Iraqi forces are now in full control of the Western, Southern and Eastern areas leading to the city.
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Does this mean that ISIS really is all hat and not ranch. And when the going gets tough, the leadership ducks out to Crete or Cyprus and leaves the fervent followers to surrender or die?
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[DAWN] Mushtaq used to be a member of the province's 1,000-member strong Special Police Officer (SPO) unit. Salaried at Rs15,000 a month, this force performs the same duties as regular coppers but does not enjoy job security as its members are hired on a contract basis.
After the attack, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... Chief Minister Pervez Khattak had announced compensation of Rs100,000 for Mushtaq. However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... that is yet to be translated into reality.
Poorly trained and ill-equipped, coppers across the country are the first line of defence in civil spaces. They often make headlines for being caught in the cross hairs during raids or encounters with hard boys, or when their convoys are attacked hard boys.
Just this year, 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. has lost at least 20 coppers. Since 2012, the deaths of at least 250 coppers have been reported, with many more injured in the line of duty.
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