Rome (CNN) -- Muslims who were among migrants trying to get from Libya to Italy in a boat this week threw 12 fellow passengers overboard -- killing them -- because the 12 were Christians, Italian police said Thursday.
Italian authorities have arrested 15 people on suspicion of murdering the Christians at sea, police in Palermo, Sicily, said.
The original group of 105 people left Libya on Tuesday in a rubber boat. Sometime during the trip north across the Mediterranean Sea, the alleged assailants -- Muslims from the Ivory Coast, Mali and Senegal -- threw the 12 overboard, police said.
Other people on the voyage told police that they themselves were spared "because they strongly opposed the drowning attempt and formed a human chain," Palermo police said.
The boat was intercepted by an Italian navy vessel, which transferred the passengers to a Panamanian-flagged ship. That ship docked in Palermo on Wednesday, after which the arrests were made, police said.
[Penn Live] Leroy Stolzfus, 22, of Gordonville, crossed the finish line of the Harrisburg Marathon Nov. 8 in three hours, 5 minutes and 45 seconds.
That's a pretty impressive time for anyone, less than a minute away from a Boston Marathon qualifying time for a man his age. But Stolzfus ran the whole 26.2 miles in slacks, a long-sleeve button down shirt and suspenders, as he is Amish.
It's not his clothing he cites for "not running faster." Stolzfus said he believes he could have run closer to a three-hour marathon had he not gone out too fast in the race.
"I was feeling good, but I kind of almost crashed at mile 15," he said. He credited the cheering crowds for keeping him going, and said he was "amazed" by his finishing time.
Crossing the finish line, "I had no pain whatsoever. It was more mental anguish than in my legs. You have to train yourself not to think about it. It will just slow you down. I was once told by someone that it's 20 percent training and 80 percent mental. I do believe that," he said.
Islam derives meaning from physical supremacy, so war becomes an act of faith. To believe in Islam, is to have faith that it will conquer the entire world. And to be a true Muslim, is to feel called to aid in that global conquest, whether by providing money to the Jihadists or to become a Jihadist.
The fulfillment of Islam depends on the subjugation of non-Muslims so that violence against non-Muslims become the essence of religion.
When Hamas states that, "Killing Jews is worship that draws us close to Allah" or the ISIS rapists tell Yazidi girls that rape "draws them closer to Allah", they really do mean it.
They are not perverting a great religion, as our politicians claim, they are living it. Until the West admits it, and starts basing policy on it, the West will keep loosing.
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Until the West admits it, and starts basing policy on it, the West will keep loosing.
If our leaders would admit it, then they would have to act on it. In the meantime, Islam is the Religion of Pieces Peace. Pay no attention to the carnage you see on the news.
President Obama discussed America's faults Friday with young Asian leaders, saying the U.S. suffers from "pitfalls" such as income inequality, a political system controlled by the wealthy and political parties divided along racial lines.
Human-rights groups say Malaysia has a poor record on issues such as human trafficking and have accused the State Department of upgrading Malaysia's status on human rights so the country could be included in Mr. Obama's Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact.
Human Rights Watch said the ruling party in Malaysia "has engaged in a strong crackdown on civil and political rights" since losing the popular vote in 2013, and that Prime Minister Najib Razak has strengthened a sedition law after promising to repeal it. The group also said opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim received a five-year prison sentence this year on "trumped-up sodomy charges," and that Sharia (Islamic law) courts "have increasingly been used to prosecute alleged LGBT activity."
After meeting with Mr. Razak on Friday, Mr. Obama said they discussed "the importance of civil society and issues not just in Malaysia, but in the region generally, and how we can promote those values that will encourage continued development and opportunity and prosperity."
Mr. Razak said of Mr. Obama, "we take into account some of his views and concerns."
"But Malaysia is committed to reforms, and we are committed to reassuring at the same time there's peace and stability," the prime minister said.
Speaking at a town-hall event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Mr. Obama said the biggest problem in the U.S. is the influence of the wealthy on the government. Fourteen more months.
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"Speaking at a town-hall event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Mr. Obama said the biggest problem in the U.S. is the influence of the wealthy on the government."
Mr. President is, if nothing else, entertaining (in a dark and foreboding manner.).
[PJ Media] White privilege. It's everywhere, I tell you. You can't escape its smothering influence -- even at one of the finest (and most expensive) schools in the land.
Take the case of this poor, wilting flower. Nissy Aya is now in her fifth year of undergraduate study at Columbia University. She was supposed to graduate last year with the rest of her class, but finds herself -- totally not her fault -- on track to graduate next year.
Ms. Aya says that she has experienced much angst and anguish while taking Columbia's Core courses, studying the greatest, the most powerful, the most tolerant civilization in the history of the human race -- Western civilization. It seems that Ms. Aya has feelings of inadequacy when reading all these books by dead white males.
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No one forces you to attend Columbia or any other university in America.
Notice the success of the Asians. They too notice success in life and history and are keen to exploit it. Up till around 1700 China had been "the" power and civilization in the world. Then these upstart European states showed up on the globe far away from home. The problem for the Chinese was a cyclic history of dynasties that rose and collapse as each spent its time trying to maintain its status quo. The Euros lived in a dynamic world of conflict and chaos that sparked social, economic, and technological change and advance. When they showed up on the Asians shores, the Chinese, accustomed to being the power in the world, thought their problem was not following the strictures of old and efficiently maintain that status quo. The Japanese figure it was the technology and organization and embraced it. They got so good at it, they too were able to join in on the conflict and chaos. The Koreans would follow suit. The Chinese would not wake up will the 80s and have been on a run since then. Their success demonstrates they know something you obviously don't or refuse to recognize as many others wrapped up with their self centered egos.
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Nissy Aya is now in her fifth year of undergraduate study at Columbia University.
Five years of college... down the drain!
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Totally not her fault, yup, that's her generation. She is the smartest, never lost a soccer game and has the trophies to prove it, tolerant super woman. Go to another college if they don't teach to your liking...
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Well things are tough all over. If you haven't got anything out of the place in 5 years, then you better give the path a rethink, using all the logic you have acquired in all those years of higher edumication.
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Let's play: "Guess her Major"?
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Maybe you [Americans] should translate all textbooks to Ebonics?
We could write a computer program to do that. But it would be racist because the computer was invented by The White Man.
It's not hard to see why the gal feels bad. Pretty much everything that makes the modern world modern was created or invented by The White Man. If you define your identity as being Not-White, there is not a whole lot left to be proud of. Besides peanut butter.
But not to worry, The White Man is a big tent. Anyone can join up. Because it is not about skin color or gender, it's about culture. Dr. Ben Carson, born a black ghetto baby in Detroit, is a White Man. Condoleezza Rice, White Man. Same with Mia Love and Clarence Thomas. Or Asians, in general.
And unlike overweight black women ragging on gay men for appropriating their speech patterns and mannerisms, The White Man doesn't care about "cultural appropriation". Feel the urge to design a microchip, cure a disease, invent a dessert, drive a race car, sing Broadway show tunes? Have at it! The more, the merrier. The White Man is a big, big tent.
[IsraelTimes] The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) published a report on November 19 alleging that Israel possesses about 660 kilograms of plutonium, produced at the Dimona reactor since operations began in 1963, which would allow it to have an estimated 115 nuclear weapons today.
Israel maintains a policy of nuclear ambiguity, neither openly admitting nor denying that it possesses a nuclear program. It is also not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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BernardZ, both articles seem to indicate comparable amounts of Israeli Plutonium. How many weapons that makes is a function of strategy and technical design capability - I am pretty confident Israel can design and build nukes as small as anyone.
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I've heard unclassified estimates of between 150 and 200, and an 80% probability that Israel has constructed at least 25 thermonuclear weapons. They also have the capability to deliver those weapons anywhere in the world, in a limited capacity.
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[Ynet] A 60 year-old Paleostinian from Shuafat refugee camp was tossed in the calaboose Please don't kill me! earlier in the week on suspicion of making bombs and selling them for terrorist attacks in the Hebron region. The suspect manufactured pipe bombs in the garage owned by his landlord and was arrested after information was passed onto Judea and Samaria Police.
The suspect is alleged to have committed the crimes of conspiracy and making and trading weapons. His arrest has been extended until Sunday.
[AnNahar] More than 1,300 people, around two-thirds of them combatants, have been killed in Russian air strikes in Syria since Moscow's aerial campaign began on September 30, a monitor said Friday.
The figure supplied by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights is more that double the overall toll it gave in its last report on the Russian campaign three weeks ago.
The Britannia-based Observatory said it had documented 1,331 deaths in Russian air strikes, most of them of 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 jihadists or other fighters..
It said 381 IS fighters had been killed, along with 547 gunnies from Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front and other rebel forces.
The strikes also killed 403 civilians, including 97 children, according to the monitor.
The Observatory's last toll for the campaign, on October 29, put the number of killed at nearly 600.
Russia says its aerial campaign targets IS and other "terrorists" but rebel forces and their backers accuse Moscow of focusing on moderate and Islamist fighters over jihadists.
Several medical groups have also accused Russia of strikes that have hit field clinics and hospitals in Syria.
Russia's intervention in Syria follows that of a US-led coalition that has been carrying out strikes against IS in the country since September 2014.
The U.S.-led coalition does not coordinate with Damascus however.
According to the Observatory, the U.S.-led strikes have killed at least 3,649 people since they began, around six percent of them civilians.
The monitor said in late October that U.S.-led raids had killed 3,276 IS fighters, 147 members of Al-Nusra or Islamist groups and 226 civilians.
Russia has launched a merciless blanket air campaign, backed by Kalibr cruise missiles fired from the Caspian and Mediterranean Seas, for the object of wiping the Islamic State’s Syrian center of Raqqa off the map, DEBKAfile’s military sources report.
Western and Middle East sources tracking the campaign since Friday, Nov. 20, report that at least 75 air sorties have been conducted and are systematically razing the town of 200,000 inhabitants 160km east of Aleppo, district by district, irrespective of civilian town dwellers. Moscow wants the entire Middle East and Muslim world to see the price exacted for launching a terrorist attack on Russia after the downing of the Metrojet airliner that killed 224 people over Egyptian Sinai on Oct. 31. Russian bombers and cruise missiles rained death and destruction on the ISIS administration center after the jihadists claimed responsibility for that disaster and published photos of a soft drink can claimed to have been rigged as a bomb for blowing the plane up. When the Russians are done, the town will be a pile of rubble.
As for casualties, the published figure of 600 jihadists killed in one day is probably far below the real figure. Our sources report that the Islamist terrorists’ death toll most probably runs into thousands with many more injured.
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When the Russians are done, the town will be a pile of rubble. That would create a great propaganda victory for the West vs. Daesh, and make the "Caliph" look powerless and much less consequential.
[AnNahar] The General Security announced Friday that it has foiled an attempt to carry out a suicide kaboom in the country.
"As part of the monitoring of the terrorist groups' activities and the pursuit of their sleeper cells, the General Security tossed in the slammer I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! Lebanese national Y. D. over intelligence information that he belongs to a terrorist group and was plotting to stage an act of sabotage," it said in a statement.
"During interrogation, he confessed to belonging to the terrorist 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 group and to plotting a bombing with a boom jacket," it added.
He was referred to the relevant judicial authorities upon the end of interrogation.
Dozens of suspects -- including would-be jacket wallahs -- were arrested and several boom jackets were seized in recent days as security forces launched massive nationwide raids.
The crackdown comes in the wake of deadly suicide kabooms in the Beirut southern suburb of Bourj al-Barajneh that killed 43 people and maimed around 240 others.
The attack, among the worst in years, was claimed by the jihadist 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.
[AnNahar] Russia on Friday unleashed cruise missiles from warships in the Caspian Sea at targets across Syria, the defense minister said, as Moscow kept up its intensified bombardments in the war-torn country.
Moscow fired 18 missiles from ships in its Caspian Sea fleet at seven targets in the Raqa, Idlib and Aleppo provinces, defense minister Sergei Shoigu was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies.
It was the second time that warships have been used since the start of the bombing campaign on September 30.
Moscow has stepped up its strikes in Syria with long-distance bombers after confirming for the first time on Tuesday that a bomb downed a Russian airliner in Egypt last month.
Shoigu told President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... in a briefing that cruise missile strikes against one target near 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.... -controlled city of Deir Ezzor had killed "more than 600 fighters," but did not specify when the strike had taken place.
Russia has also doubled the number of jets it has based in government-held territory in Syria to 69 over the past few days, Shoigu said.
Putin praised the Russian operation in Syria but said it was "still not sufficient" to wipe out the jihadists in the country and that a "large volume of work" lay ahead.
Russia is bombing in Syria at the request of its longstanding ally Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... , while a U.S.-led coalition is conducting its own air campaign against IS.
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If they weren't fighters before the attack, they were after - Russian RoE.
[IsraelTimes] Youth arrested with concealed knife near Hebron; driver tries to run over policeman in East Jerusalem village
Border Police forces thwarted two separate attacks on Friday, a day after five people were killed in attacks in Tel Aviv and the Etzion settlement bloc.
At a checkpoint close to the East Jerusalem village of Abu Dis, the driver of a car tried to run over a policeman, the Hebrew-language Walla website reported. The policeman's comrades opened fire on the driver, who managed to flee the scene. ... as though they had never been... The policeman escaped with minor leg injuries. He was treated at the scene prior to evacuation to hospital.
A short time earlier, police operating in the West Bank tossed in the clink Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! a Paleostinian teenager suspected of planning to carry out a stabbing attack. The 15-year-old Paleostinian was detained at a Border Police post next to the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, after his actions raised the suspicions of the officers there, Channel 10 television reported.
The teen had approached the Border Police, and was detained at gunpoint after he failed to heed a command to stop. A security check revealed that the youth had a knife in his possession, leading police to believe that he had been planning to carry out an attack. The youth, a resident of the town of Dura, near Hebron, has been held for questioning by the security forces.
Dura was also the home of the terrorist who killed two Israelis in the stabbing attack in south Tel Aviv on Thursday.
Also Friday afternoon, some 200 Paleostinians clashed with Israeli security forces near the West Bank village of Anata, north of Jerusalem, Ynet reported. The protesters threw stones and set tires alight before they were mostly dispersed by the forces. There were no injuries, Ynet said. Paleostinian sources said that the rioters had opened fire on the security forces, which the Israel Defense Forces denied.
[Ynet] Security officials decide on multiple steps to counter violence in West Bank region after deadly attack.
The movement of Paleostinians will be temporarily restricted in the Gush Etzion region of the West Bank in the wake of an attack in the area that killed three civilians, security officials decided on Friday.
Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon, IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot and Gush Etzion Regional Council Mayor David Perl met for a situational assessment after the attack and agreed to adopt a series of steps in the area, including the limitation of movement. Also agreed upon was the deployment of additional security forces to Gush Etzion, to focus on confronting rock throwers and preventing both vehicular and stabbing attacks. The three officials also concluded that a fence would be built along certain highways, in places where Paleostinians have thrown rocks or fired at vehicles driving by.
The regional council called on residents who own firearms to voluntarily accompany children on school buses as potential first responders in case of a security incident.
Besides the bloody attack that occurred on Thursday, the past several weeks have seen a major spike in violence in the Gush Etzion region.
Attorney general, Mahbubey Alam has said there is no legal barriers to execute BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed as the Supreme Court has disposed of the review petitions of war criminals on Wednesday.
“The trial process of the cases ended through Wednesday’s verdicts. Now, there is no legal bar for execution of the verdicts,” AG Mahbubey Alam said after the SC ruling maintaining its previous decision upholding International Crimes Tribunal verdict.
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[Rudaw] Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani announced Thursday the launch of the Rashava- Deralook electricity station in the town of Amedi near Duhok.
The power plant will be instrumental in restoring energy to the shattered town of Shingal, which was recently retaken by the Peshmerga after a year and a half in the hands of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS), KRG officials said.
The cost of the project is $168 million, and 37 megawatts of electricity will be produced by the station, said Salahadin Babaker, the Kurdistan region's minister of electricity.
"It is the first time (the KRG) is launching a hydro power project," Babaker said.
Barzani used the announcement as a platform to rally the people of the Kurdistan region.
"Kurdish people will continue to survive at the most difficult times, and the enemy cannot stop life in Kurdistan."
During the announcement of the plant, Barzani appealed to the Iraqi government and international groups to help restore the liberated city.
"I ask the International organizations to have an effective role in renovating Shingal, and it is the Iraqi government's duty to participate in renovating the town," the prime minister said.
The electricity station project will be supervised by the Japanese company JICA, officials said.
On Monday, Barzani received Japan's new ambassador to Iraq, Fumio Iwai, and his accompanying delegation. Iwai congratulated the KRG on the liberation of Shingal, saying that Japan respects and values of the Kurdistan region and its success in preserving stability in the region.
[AlAhram] An international coalition led by the United States 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.... in Iraq with 20 air strikes on Thursday, the military said in a statement on Friday.
There were no strikes in Syria, the statement showed.
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[AlAhram] Bomb attacks on a Shiite mosque and elsewhere in southern Baghdad killed at least 15 people Friday.
The deadliest of the attacks targeted the mosque in the Iraqi capital's Nahiyet al-Rasheed neighborhood. A roadside kaboom blast went off on the street outside the mosque just as worshippers were finishing Friday prayers, police said. Within minutes, a jacket wallah inside the mosque detonated an explosives vest. Ten people were killed and 28 were maimed in that coordinated attack, according to police.
Two separate roadside kabooms went kaboom! in commercial areas of southeast Baghdad, killing five people and wounding nine, security officials said.
Hospital officials confirmed the casualties. Like the police, they spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to talk to the media.
No one immediately grabbed credit for the attacks, but near daily attacks in Baghdad are often claimed by 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.
IS, in a statement, said a suicide bomber named as Abu Hussein al-Ansari carried out the attack inside the mosque, while security and medical officials said it took place nearby after Friday prayers, also wounding at least 19 people.
Brigadier Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Commander of the Royal Guards in the Kingdom of Bahrain, praised the high moral of the officers and servicemen.
A second batch of Bahrain troops has arrived in Aden to work as part of the Saudi-led Arab Coalition working to restore the legitimate government in Yemen.
Brigadier Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Commander of the Royal Guards in the Kingdom of Bahrain, praised the high moral of the officers and servicemen and their pride in working with their Yemeni brethren in restoring the legitimate government.
Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said that landmines planted by Yemeni rebels in an effort to halt the advance of pro-government forces are exacting a mounting toll on civilians.
"Landmines have killed at least 12 people and wounded over nine," the HRW said, adding that the real casualty toll "may be much higher".
"The Houthis are killing and maiming civilians with landmines," HRW's arms director Steve Goose said. - Agencies
[Rudaw] Many active members and recruiters for the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) have been tossed in the calaboose Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! in Iran's western Kermanshah province, said the regional commander of the revolutionary guards this week.
"Many teams of the terrorist group ISIS who had been active in this province for two years have been arrested by the army and intelligence," Bahman Reyhani, commander of the revolutionary guards (Pasdaran) told his country's media.
Reyhani said that some of those arrested were recruiting for ISIS and "intended to send them outside the country,"
According to the Iranian commander, local security forces in Kermanshah had earlier detained a group of ISIS members who could have carried out terrorist acts inside Iran.
"They were equipped militarily and had military gear and time bombs," ILNA news agency quoted Reyhani as saying.
Kermanshah borders Iraq's eastern border where Iranian military advisors helped Iraqi forces and Shiite militia fight ISIS in Diyala province last year.
According to a report by BBC Persian, Iran's ground troops commander Ahmedreza Pourdustan has put his forces on alert to respond to any ISIS-related activity.
Earlier this month, Iran's intelligence chief Mahmoud Alavi said at a presser in Tehran that the security forces had unveiled a number of "terrorist cells" across the country and arrested dozens of "people with links to terrorist groups,"
According to Alavi some gangs had engaged the security forces in direct firefights particularly in the southern Arab province of Khozestan.
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France wants the United Nations Security Council to push all able states to join the fight against the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq after the militants claimed responsibility for downing a Russian plane over Egypt and attacks in Paris, Lebanon, Turkey, and Tunisia.
France circulated a draft resolution to the 15-member council on Thursday that calls on countries "to redouble and coordinate their efforts to prevent and suppress terrorist acts committed specifically" by the group, which is also known as ISIS and ISIL.
The action rivals a Russian bid for UN approval of international military action against the militant group. On Wednesday, Russia submitted an edited draft of a text initially circulated to the council on Sep 30. That draft urged countries to coordinate military activities with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government and has been dismissed by veto-power Britain and other members.
Diplomats said the French draft was modelled on a resolution adopted after the Sep 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.
Russian UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin described the French text as a "good draft" and suggested on Thursday that the two proposals could be adopted separately.
"If you think back to the events after 9/11, first there was a short draft and then a couple of weeks later there was a more comprehensive draft, so it may well be we are going to go down that route," he told reporters.
British UN Ambassador Matthew Rycroft, president of the council for November, said on Thursday the shorter French draft focused on areas of the fight against Islamic State on which the Security Council could agree.
"The Russian draft ... does still talk about issues that do divide the Security Council so I don't see that having much prospect," he said. "It seeks to legitimise the authority of Assad."
French UN Ambassador Francois Delattre said he hoped for a swift adoption of the French text, which had been put "in blue," meaning it could be put to a vote as soon as 24 hours later.
The French draft, seen by Reuters, "calls upon member states that have the capacity to do so to take all necessary measures ... on the territory under the control of ISIL ... in Syria and Iraq."
It also urges Member States to intensify efforts to stem the flow of foreigners looking to fight with Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and to prevent and suppress financing of terrorism.
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A estimated 24,000 families from Achin, Nazian and Debhala districts have fled their homes to escape Daesh brutality.
A Nangarhar displaced persons organization says that help for at least 18,000 is needed urgently.
As Afghan forces continue their military campaign against Daesh in Nangarhar, displaced residents have however slammed government for not doing enough to help safeguard them.
According to some displaced families, no aid agency, including government, has reached out to help them.
Meanwhile, the Nangarhar governor has confirmed that thousands of families have been displaced since Daesh militants extended their activities in the province. He also said sufficient aid has not been provided to these families.
According to some displaced families, the militant group has also been actively involved in the deliberate killings of civilians in Nangarhar. They said that the military operation launched by Afghan troops recently has not helped.
"Battles also continue between Taliban and Daesh militants in our area," a displaced Achin district resident Gulistan said.
"Daesh fighters killed my father. Daesh sat him on a bomb and detonated the bomb," another Nangarhar resident said.
"Government should establish a camp for us and help us, over the past several months, we didn't receive any aid," another Achin resident Munawar said.
"They [security officials] claim to have launched a military operation, but they do not advance forward from their check points," a resident of Shinwar district Ilyas Shinwari said.
Displaced families have also criticized government for not being able to help families who have fled their homes.
"The total number of the displaced families was around 20,000, but now this figure has raised to more than 24,000," said Ghulam Haidar Faqirzai, head of Nangarhar's organization for internally displaced families.
The Nangarhar governor disputes these figures however and has also denied claims that the military operation is proving unsuccessful.
"The number of displaced families is not 20,000, it is around 10,000 to 14,000. We have a procedure for their relief and rescue, but it is in the first stage. The responsible institutions must conduct a survey to find out the exact numbers," Nangarhar governor, Saleem Khan Kunduzi said.
As winter approaches, concern among the displaced families is also growing as they say their children in particular are vulnerable and will not be able to cope with the extreme temperatures by next month.
MUSCAT: Oman’s air force has evacuated three US citizens from war-torn Yemen to the Omani capital following a request for aid from Washington, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
Oman “coordinated with Yemeni authorities to find them (the Americans) and allow them leave” late Wednesday from the airport in Yemen’s rebel-controlled capital Sanaa, said a ministry statement carried by Oman News Agency.
A security official in Sanaa said the three were held by the rebel-controlled intelligence agency “over spying accusations,” adding that they were arrested at different times, with some being in custody for at least five months.
The Omani statement did not identify the Americans. It said the trio were in Muscat “before heading home,” but provided no timeline.
One of two Americans detained in October by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels was announced dead in custody by US officials earlier this month. The United Nations said at the time that two foreign personnel working on maintaining a building used by UN staff were detained.
CHARSADDA: Two traffic police personnel were gunned down here on Friday, officials said.
Bashir Ahmed and Naseer Ahmed were on duty at Atmanzi Bazaar when men on three motorcycles opened fire and fled.
They said the policemen suffered injuries in the head. Naseer died on the spot and Bashir succumbed to his injuries in Peshawar’s Lady Reading Hospital.
Charsadda’s district police officer (DPO) Shafiullah Khan told reporters that it was a case of targeted killing. He said all personnel of Charsadda police had been provided with bullet-proof jackets, but the victim personnel had been shot in the head.
He said a search operation was under way in the area for the arrest of the killers.
Charsadda’s district nazim Fahd Riaz Khan visited the scene of the attack and asked the DPO to submit a report on the incident.
Funeral prayers for the two personnel were offered in the Charsadda police lines and later their bodies sent to their home towns.
PESHAWAR: Unidentified gunmen killed an Awami National Party (ANP) worker in Yakatot area of Peshawar city on Friday, triggering protest from area residents.
According to police, unidentified assailants targeted Imdad Hussain Jafri, an ANP office bearer and Shia notable, a few yards away from Yakatot police station, killing the political worker on the spot.
Residents of the area, including people from Shia community, started protesting against the police after the incident and blocked the road.
“Hundreds of our men have been killed in the past too, but the police has not taken any action against the murderers,” an angry protester told DawnNews.
Deputy Superintendent Police (DSP) Yakatot Shaukat tried to convince the protesters to call off their protest but in vain.
Later, ANP leader Mian Iftikhar Hussain and Senior Superintendent Police (SSP) Mian Saeed arrived at the spot and assured the protesters of timely arrest of the culprits, upon which, the crowd dispersed.
Imdad Hussain Jafri was an ANP office bearer from PK-2 constituency of Peshawar.
ANP chief Asfandyar Wali Khan condemned the killing of the party office bearer in strong words accusing KP police and provincial government of being negligent.
"Where is PTI's model police? political workers are being killed day in and day out but this police is doing nothing to prevent such incidents," said the ANP chief.
The Paris attacks have driven a significant increase in public support for British military action, especially if our allies are with us
Apparently people are beginning to get the message.
People are fickle. It wasn't long ago that the British people loudly demanded Prime Minister Cameron open the country's doors to the flood of Syrian refugees, along with the publics of Western Europe.
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Tripoli -- A man arrested in Ras Lanuf has reportedly confessed to the murder of lawyer and civil rights activist Salwa Bugaighis.
The man, named as Islam Al-Kwafi, from Benghazi, was detained by members of the Petroleum Facilities Guard, PFG spokesman Ali Al-Hassi has told the Libya Herald.
“We received information about a suspected terrorist who had come to Ras Lanuf from Tripoli” said Hassi. “We went to where he was staying and arrested him”.
Hassi continued: “When he was being questioned he surprisingly confessed that he was the person who murdered Salwa Bugaighis”.
Bugaighis was murdered when five gunmen burst into her home in Benghazi’s Hawari district in June 2014.
She was shot in the head and reportedly stabbed several times. Her murder, on the night of the general election, caused widespread outrage in Libya and abroad.
Hassi said that more details of Kwafi’s confession would be revealed in the next 48 hours.
Yemeni pro-government forces advancing into the strategic province of Taiz were battling rebels on the outskirts of its second largest town on Thursday, military sources said.
Eight rebels and two loyalists were killed in the fighting for Rahida, the pro-government sources said.
The town lies on the main road from government-held territory towards Taiz, Yemen's third largest city, 40 kilometres (25 miles) further north, where loyalist troops have been besieged by the rebels for months.
Loyalist forces were backed by significant reinforcements from a Saudi-led coalition to support President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi in March.
Hadi returned from Saudi exile on Tuesday as the offensive against the Houthi rebels and their allies got under way.
The coalition carried out at least 10 air strikes against rebel positions in and around Rahida during the night, the military sources said.
Breaking the siege of Taiz is seen as crucial for the recapture of other central provinces and opening the way to the rebel-held capital Sanaa further north.
At least 12 loyalists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.
According to the local government officials, the militants were killed during a gun battle with the Afghan national security forces in Achin district.
The district’s administrative chief Haji Ghalib said the gun battle between the Afghan forces and the ISIS loyalists triggered following an attack on a security post in Abdul Khel area.
He said the two sides exchanged fire for several hours before the Afghan forces manage to push them back, leaving at least 12 militants dead.
According to Haji Ghalib, at least three members of the Afghan national security forces also sustained injuries during the gun battle.
Nangarhar is among the relatively volatile provinces in eastern Afghanistan where anti-government armed militants are actively operating in a number of its remote districts.
The Achin and Kot districts have became a main operational base for the militants loyal to the Islamic State terror group during the recent months.
The Washington Free Beacon is reporting that U.S. military pilots fighting against the Islamic State in Iraq were blocked from dropping 75 percent of their ordnance on terror targets because the Obama administration would not give clearance to launch a strike.
Rep. Ed Royce (R., Calif.), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, stated that strikes against ISIS targets are often blocked due to the administration policy of avoiding civilian deaths and collateral damage, a policy that is being blamed for allowing the militants to gain momentum and continue waging terrorist attacks throughout the region and beyond. Royce said,
"You went 12 full months while ISIS was on the march without the U.S. using that air power and now as the pilots come back to talk to us they say three-quarters of our ordnance we can't drop, we can't get clearance even when we have a clear target in front of us. I don't understand this strategy at all because this is what has allowed ISIS the advantage and ability to recruit." It's a good time to be an enemy of America.
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And in spite of our strict rules of engagement, we still managed to off four civilians a few days ago, and the media is up in arms.
"First, kill all the reporters" - Sherman? Or was it someone form a much earlier time?
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I think you're conflating Sherman and Shakespeare. But you do have a point...
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To up the bombing would be tantamount to admitting that they are not contained.
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For a 'True' Muslim it is a sin to kill another Muslim. Note how often he claims ISIS is not 'real' Islam. He like others have to legitimize their target to stay within the law. Just as Sunni and Shiite treat each other as apostates to justify their killing of each other. Once you understand that perspective, you understand why he only authorizes ones, twos, and fews. Yes, Virginia, at heart he's a Muslim. (and you can throw in his public hatred for those obstructing 'refugee' Muslims and his administration rejection of Christians from the same environment.)
"With seven league boots I bestrode ya
When meting out justice to Georgia,
But surely in Heaven
All torts are forgiven..."
Miss Scarlet storms in from the loggia.
WASHINGTON: Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif has assured Pakistanis here that military operations against terrorists, their backers and financers would continue uninterrupted.
Addressing the Pakistani community at a dinner on Thursday, Gen Sharif expressed the “unflinching commitment of the armed forces in ensuring peace and security in the country as well as in countering external threats”.
He said that the operation against terrorists “should have started yesterday” but now that it had started it would continue.
“The armed forces of Pakistan would take the war against terrorism to its logical conclusion and would not let the sacrifices of martyrs go in vain,” he said.
The speech, which was embargoed till Friday morning, also highlighted Pakistan’s commitment to friendly relations with its neighbours “with dignity and honour”.
The stress on dignity and honour earned him a warm applause from the audience who interrupted the speech on several occasions to express their appreciation.
Gen Sharif also noted that Pakistan and the United States had convergence of views on countering the existing and emerging threats. He expressed satisfaction at the upward trajectory and growth in the Pakistan-US defence and counter-terrorism cooperation at this critical juncture.
The army chief said that the American officials he met during his five-day visit to Washington endorsed his assessment that Zarb-i-Azb operation was a success story.
He said that the resilient Pakistani nation was providing unprecedented support to the armed forces that had lost 5,000 uniformed men in this fight, including those from the Rangers and police.
The armed forces, he said, had conducted 12,000 intelligence-based operations in Karachi and KPK and hundreds of militants and their sympathisers had been arrested. “There is no going back now. The operations will continue,” he said. “I see light at the end of the tunnel.”
Gen Sharif said that the Indian intelligence agency RAW was on top of the list of foreign elements that were stirring troubles in Pakistan.
He said that simultaneous with the return of peace and normalcy to the country, the completion of CPEC would herald greater economic prosperity throughout the region.
China, Iran and Afghanistan would also benefit from this project, he added.
Tripoli -- Despite the Wednesday’s peace deal between Tripoli militia leader Abdul Ghani Al-Kikli (“Ghneiwa”), there were again clashes last night between Misratan forces and “revolutionaries”.
The fighting, involving forces belonging to hardline Islamist Salah Al-Marghani and members of Misrata’s small Adiat Brigade, took place in Wadi Rabie area east of Tripoli International Airport.
The same area, where many self-proclaimed revolutionaries use local farms as their bases, saw clashes at the end of September between Misratans and forces loyal to Hatham Tajouri, leader of the Tripoli Revolutionaries Brigade.
Marghani, from Tarhouna but whose forces are based in Ain Zara, was one of 11 militia leaders who signed a statement published on Tuesday telling Misratan forces to leave Tripoli. Tajouri and Ghneiwa also signed it.
In yesterday’s clashes, according to local sources, Marghanis’s forces attacked the Misratan brigade, killing one of its men. He has been named as Abdulkarim Abubakr Ghazali.
A Tunisian customs guard unit in the governorate of Medenine Thursday arrested three Tunisian suspect terrorists who returned back home stealthily after a visit to Libya. The three suspect terrorists entered the Tunisian territory from the Libyan side of the border, customs source said, adding that one of them was on police wanted list.
In a separate report, Walid Louguini, spokesman of the Tunisian interior ministry said that the security level in Tunis has been stepped up following terrorist threats received by the security forces. He also explained the strong presence of security forces at Habib Bourguiba Road saying that they were after a suspect terrorist.
The spokesman claimed that terrorist acts have significantly dwindled in the wake of the destruction of all supply chains used by terrorists.
A recent report published by the Spanish Think Tank Real Instituto El Cano indicates that Tunisia has witnessed an unprecedented surge in the number of terrorist attacks since 2011. The Think Tank says that from two attacks in 2011, one attack in 2012, Tunisia became the second country in the Maghreb with growing number of attacks behind Libya with 25 attacks in 2013 and 21 in 2014.
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Five foreign nationals from Somalia were stopped on the Ohio Turnpike and charged with credit card fraud, possession of forgery tools, as well as drug and traffic violations, authorities say.
Just the Somali equivalent of a Salvadoran gang or part of the loose network of hard boyz?
The Ohio State Highway Patrol reported on Wednesday, November 11, that five men from Somalia were pulled over on the Ohio Turnpike near Lordstown in Trumbull County, Ohio for failing to use signals to change lanes. But soon police found devices used to create credit cards as well as some small amounts of marijuana.
Arrested were Jibril Abdiselam, 24; Mohammeddeq Hassan, 27; Mahamoud Mohamed, 26; Zakaria Warsame, 25; and Said Abu, all of whom are currently residing in the Columbus area. All five are being held on $25,000 bond. The five men were charged with six counts each of possessing criminal tools and identity theft, and Said Abu was charged with criminal simulation and possessing marijuana.
All five were required to hand over their passports.
A grand jury is now considering their case.
Ohio officials say that the five Somalis are not suspected of having any connections to terrorism.
"No, no, certainly not!"
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were pulled over on the Ohio Turnpike near Lordstown in Trumbull County, Ohio for failing to use signals to change lanes
Just a lucky stop? I'd bet not
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Frank has it. The "failure to signal" is the age-old excuse cops use when someone (DEA, etc) has passed them information and they want to stop someone on the road.
I'm betting these four mooks have been on the radar for quite a while.
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Thank Bill Clinton for the policy that first let Somali's in claiming asylum. At a DHS Intel conference in the arly 2000's, we protested the influx of Somali's into San Diego and Hayward, given that local police as well as DHS's own analysts had determined that they were a tribal/clan based kleptocracy and were establishing criminal territories. Multi-generational theft/fraud rings based on taxicab service initially, they were utterly dishonest and uninterested in assimilation. When asked, DHS senior analyst confessed that they had little chance to stop their influx given their color, what a charge of racism would do to their careers.
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Our observations of Somalis in Dodge City match that well. Arrogant, lazy, can't drive and have a taxi service. No, not my appraisal, a 2nd gen Mexican who runs a good crew.
George Galloway -- yes, him -- on what Labour should be saying (and isn't) about whether the British police should have the authority to shoot-to-kill if terrorists pop up in Britain. He said what the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, couldn't bring himself to say:
"Well you know me, so you would never consider me as a liberal. And I think that on these matters one has to be iron and steel hard.
"One has to say that if anyone comes here with guns and bombs, our police will shoot them down and stop them. There's no room for equivocation about that at all.
"Of course, a shoot to kill policy in general is a bad idea ... apart from being wrong, they don't work, they make more terrorists.
"What the Labour leadership should do is be absolutely clear that when it comes to the safety and the defence of our people in our own island, on our own streets, then the police will have the full backing of the political leadership to gun them down if necessary.
"I'd shoot them myself with my own hand. I'd pull the trigger myself. I'd be happy to see them all dead in the street.
"These people are just about the most horrific group of people I have ever seen in my long political life and I'm damned sure I'm not going to sit idly by while they are running around up and down Piccadilly with guns and bombs."
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"...so you would never consider me as a liberal."
And then their ears fell off...
This aside, sometimes Psalms 119:18 manifests itself.
An attack by suspected Islamist militants who took 170 people hostage at Radisson Blue Hotel in the Malian capital is over, US officials say.
Mali said the gunmen had "no more hostages" and were being chased. More than 20 people died, and a national state of emergency has been declared.
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and its offshoot al-Murabitoun said they carried out the attack.
Speaking after a crisis cabinet meeting late on Friday, Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita announced the state of emergency from midnight on Friday for 10 days, as well as three days of national mourning. He said 21 people were killed in the attack, including two gunmen.
reports said at least 27 people had died. A UN official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said 12 bodies were found in the basement and 15 on the second floor.
One of the hostages killed was Geoffrey Dieudonne, a member of parliament in Belgium's Wallonia region. China's state news agency Xinhua says three Chinese nationals are among the dead. The US state department said one US citizen was killed.
UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said three Britons in the hotel were safe.
Pictures showed that some of the hostages leaving the hotel were wounded.
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[ARA News] TEL ABYAD – Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) clashed with militant fighters of the Islamic State group (ISIS) in the northern countryside of Raqqa, subsequent to an offensive by ISIS militants on YPG-held areas near Tel Abyad, the YPG leadership reported.
Clashes broke out in the vicinity of the towns of Ain Issa and Suluk in Raqqa province, northeastern Syria, after ISIS militant fighters launched a mortar attack on the Kurdish headquarters there.
Similar clashes erupted between the Kurdish forces and the radical group around Mount Abudlaziz (Kazwn) in the province of Hasakah.
Officials of the YPG Media Center told ARA News: “ISIS terrorists launched several attacks on our security headquarters in the area stretching from the town of Ain Issa to Mount Abdulaziz.”
“Daesh terrorists started their offensive with an attack on al-Hisha village east of Ain Issa, pounding Haweed checkpoint with heavy weapons, but our forces responded strongly to these attacks,” the YPG leadership said, using the Arabic acronym for ISIS.
“The terrorists then attacked the village of Hijouh near the town of Suluk southwest of Tel Abyad (Gire Spi), resulting in the outbreak of fierce clashes between our YPG units and the terror group. Our forces were able to repel their attacks,” a spokesman for the YPG said.
The source also pointed out that sporadic clashes broke out in the village of Abu Shakhat west of Mount Abdulaziz in Hassakah province between the Kurdish forces and ISIS militants.
“Daesh terrorists fled the battlefield under heavy blows from the Kurdish forces,” he told ARA News. “At least eight militants were killed in the clashes.”
Speaking to ARA News, media activist Rezan Hamo said: “It is clear the terror group is no longer able to launch large-scale attacks to seize swaths of territories. The recent ISIS attacks on positions of the Kurdish forces in the region are mere hit-and-run assaults; mostly intended to provoke the Kurds or to camouflage other preparations,” he argued.
Islamic State’s extremists have been launching surprise attacks on Kurdish positions in the suburbs of Kobane and Tel Abyad for months, especially after losing both strategic areas. Kurds liberated Kobane from ISIS last February, while Tel Abyad was announced free in June.
The departure of deposed Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh from the conflict-battered Arab country will help reach a political settlement to end the war, the UAE’s Minister of Foreign Affairs has said.
Anwar Gargash said Saleh’s forces and his Houthi allies have been under great pressure over the past days because of their military defeats in Taiz and other areas overturn by Yemen’s national army and resistance fighters, backed by intensified attacks launched by Arab coalition warplanes.
In a brief comment on his Twitter page, he said the Iranian-backed Houthis and Saleh’s forces appeared to be split over their participation in the planned UN-brokered peace negotiations in Geneva because of their defeats on the battle field.
“The success of the peace negotiations and the efforts by the UN envoy in this regard should push towards the exit of the deposed Saleh from Yemen,” Gargash said.
“The absence of Saleh from the Yemeni scene will greatly contribute to the success of a political settlement in the country.”
He said Saleh’s absence would give the delegates to the peace negotiations more freedom and “remove a major block to a political solution.”
The security spokesman for the Saudi Ministry of Interior Major General Mansour Al-Turki said that security forces have seized Iranian currency, weapons and live ammunition during raids and search operations in Al-Qudaih, Al-Qatif yesterday. Major General Al-Turki added in a statement to “Asharq Al-Awsat” that security forces also seized military equipment and forged documents in a raid. He added that wireless communication equipment was also seized.
On Wednesday, the Saudi Ministry of Interior announced the “martyrdom” of two security personnel: Sergeant Jabir Al-Miqadi and Lance Corporal Ashirari who were fired on by unknown sources in an agricultural area near the city Saihat in eastern Saudi Arabia.
Prince Fahd bin Badr bin Abdulaziz, Governor of Al-Jouf region led prayers for the deceased Lance Corporal Ashirari who was killed in service in the Asharqiyya province, in the Mosque of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques located in the Al-Qurayyat province, northern Saudi Arabia.
Operations targeting security forces continued in the Saudi Al-Qatif governorate recently when an unknown group targeted a traffic patrol in the Al-Khuwaylidiyyah neighbourhood around ten days ago which resulted in an assistant head patrol and two passersby of Indian nationality being injured, and the damage of a citizen’s car.
The Saudi Ministry of Interior announced a list of 23 wanted persons in January 2012 against the backdrop of terrorist attacks and criminal acts that the village of Al-Awamiyah in the Al-Qatif governorate witnessed. 17 people on this list have been found whilst security forces are still looking for the remaining 7.
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[ARA News] ALEPPO – At least 15 militants from the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) have been killed during clashes with Syrian rebels of the Levant Front and As-Safwa brigades in the northern countryside of Aleppo, military sources reported on Friday.
Rebels were able to recapture several locations from the terror group, taking advantage of the anti-ISIS airstrikes carried out by the U.S.-led coalition’s warplanes in the region.
Speaking to ARA News in Aleppo, rebel commander Saleh Zein confirmed that fighters of Levant Front (al-Jabha al-Shamiya) in cooperation with As-Safwa brigades were able to detonate five buildings where ISIS insurgents were stationed in the town of Tel Mald in northern Aleppo.
“Our rebel forces have targeted the ISIS-held buildings with dozens of local-made missiles before blowing them up, and killing all militants inside,” the rebel commander said.
On the other hand, the U.S.-led coalition’s warplanes pummeled several key positions of the terror group in the towns of Asanbel and Herbel in Aleppo countryside, causing the death of at least ten militants, according to activists.
Several factions of the armed Syrian opposition have been engaged in clashes with ISIS militants in the northern countryside of Aleppo in a bid to fend off attempts by the radical group to capture it.
After two years of fierce battles, rebels of the Levant Front have succeeded to fortify major towns and villages in the northern countryside of Aleppo against ISIS militants.
KUWAIT CITY, Nov 19: In a new preemptive move against DAESH cells in Kuwait, the local security agencies arrested a terrorist network consisting of six individuals including their leader, identified as Osama Mohammad Sayed Khayat. In a press statement, the Interior Ministry disclosed Khayat is a Lebanese residing in Kuwait and he was born here in 1975. He serves as terrorist communication coordinator and logistics support for DAESH.
He administers a website which he uses in supporting DAESH. During interrogations, Khayat said he signed contracts to buy weapons and missiles (FN6) for DAESH and he is in constant communication with the group’s command in Syria.
He revealed that he made these deals in Ukraine from where he shipped the weapons to Turkey and then delivered to DAESH. He also prints stamps, designs rubber stamps bearing DAESH slogans, and transfers funds to accounts in Turkey and Syria. He mentioned the names of his partners in the organization as follows: Abdul Karim Mohammad Saleem — a Syrian born in 1962 — is a weapons dealer with the company in Ukraine who facilitated the purchase of mobile missiles and wireless communication devices; Hasim Mohammad Kheir Tartari — a Syrian born in 1984 who works in an undisclosed company; Waeel Mohammad Ahmad Baghdadi — an Egyptian born in 1974; Rakan Nasser Al- Ajmi — a Kuwaiti born in 1988 who supports those suspected of involvement in terrorism operations; and Abdul Nasser Mahmoud Al-Shawa — a Syrian born in 1987. All of them have been arrested. The ministry affirmed the confessions unveiled the existence of four other persons affiliated with DAESH and are currently outside Kuwait.
These persons include Hisham Mohammad Dahab — an Australian of Lebanese origin; Waleed Naseef — a Syrian banker in Orfa, Turkey which is close to the Syrian border; Rabiya Dahab — an Australian of Lebanese origin; and Mohammad Hikmat Tartari — a Syrian born in 1980 who serves as external finance and communications coordinator for the group.
The ministry confirmed all those arrested, together with the confiscated weapons, were referred to the concerned security department; while reaffirming its intention to confront terrorist or extremist attempts to threaten the security and peace of this country and its people. It then called on everyone to fully cooperate with the security agencies for the benefit of the public. The Interior Ministry has raised the security level around the oil facilities and vital installations following information that the Shuaiba Port was a target for attacks, reports Al-Anba daily.
Moreover, leave has been cancelled and those in vital positions are required to report for duty even on days off and public holidays. Security precautions have also been taken by increasing the number of security personnel in each shift.
A circular which has been issued says emphasis have been laid down on checking the identities and permits of all workers particularly those working for the contracting companies. The sources added the circular also stresses on thorough inspection of cars at the entry and exit points and increased number of CCTV cameras working around the clock to ensure highest level of security measures to protect the oil and vital installations.
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Officials in southern Helmand province said on Friday that the Taliban has "deliberately" sabotaged a number of telecom towers in parts of the province, resulting in limited communication for residents.
"People are not able to communicate with each other," a Helmand resident complained. "Mobile phone services aren't working properly and we can not communicate with our friends and relatives."
Journalists and media outlets have also been affected by the failure in communication services.
"This has created huge obstacles for journalists and they are not able to get information on time," a local journalist said. "This has also affected the economy."
Provincial council members also confirmed the problem and asked the telecom companies to reactivate their services as soon as possible.
They however accused some of the companies of taking orders from some local Taliban insurgents.
"I call on the telecommunication companies to reactivate their services, because their stations are in government-controlled areas but they take orders from Taliban," a member of Helmand provincial council Bismillah Rouhani claimed.
They warned they would take decisions themselves if the government failed to bring officials of the telecommunication companies to justice.
The volatile southern province of Helmand has long experienced fighting over the past years and violence has had a major impact on the local economy, rule of law and governance.
Four civilians, including possibly a child, were “likely” killed in a U.S. air strike against an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group checkpoint in Iraq in March, an investigation released Friday found.
It marks only the second such concession since the start of a coalition air campaign in Iraq and Syria - the U.S. military in November 2014 admitted accidentally killing two children during a strike in Syria.
The U.S. military, which for more than a year has led the coalition bombing ISIS extremists’ positions in the two countries, investigated the Iraq incident after a woman said her car had been destroyed with five civilians in it.
“The preponderance of the evidence gathered during the investigation indicates that the air (strike) likely resulted in the deaths of four non-combatants,” the U.S. military’s Central Command said in a statement.
“One of the non-combatants may have been a child.”
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War is supposed to be bad, and very, very, messy. That is one of the primary reasons people avoid it.
Wailing and bawling about every innocent killed, due to the enemy's actions of hiding among the civilians only encourages them to do more of it.
See Al-Quaeda, Taliban, Iran, Hezbollah, HamAss, and now ISIS. All were and still are encouraged to kill more civilians either directly or indirectly by hiding behind them because we allowed ourselves to get so upset about each and every one.
MANSEHRA: Chief of his own faction of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam Maulana Fazlur Rehman has urged the military leadership that if the country will ever face an outside aggression or a challenge to its existence the religious forces will stand with the army.
At the same time, he criticised secular forces in the country, saying they would not be helpful in difficult times.
Addressing a public meeting in Chaterplane area near Mansehra on Thursday, the JUI-F chief said these “bearded men wearing turbans” would fight “shoulder-to-shoulder” with the army whenever the country would face a threat.
Addressing Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif, he claimed that “secular forces which now seem to be close to him will never come to protect the country”.
The Maulana expressed his displeasure over using of the word ‘liberal’ for the country by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a recent speech, saying that Pakistan came into existence in the name of Islam.
While there's a significant possibility that these images are photoshopped (we've reached out to the Department of Defense to confirm the authenticity of these photos and will update this post accordingly when we hear back), it's not out of the realm of possibility that military personnel might scrawl a message of solidarity on ordinance meant for ISIS militants. As the Washington Post points out, there's a long history in the U.S. armed forces of decorating bombs:
After the 9/11 attacks, a slew of pictures popped up of bombs inscribed with messages for Osama Bin Laden and notes of solidarity for the New York police and fire departments. One message of note was prominently circulated by the Associated Press and shows a Navy sailor next to a bomb aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise in October 2001. On the bomb was a phrase that read "Hijack this" as well as an anti-gay slur. The image was quickly condemned by a number of rights groups and prompted an apology from both the AP and the United States Navy. The Rooskies are on board also: Russians inscribe 'For Paris' on bombs destined for Syria
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I suppose the political commissar for the air wing made sure the messages were politically correct
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During Desert Storm, USS Ranger would not allow any notes. At least VA-155 had clean bombs.
PESHAWAR: The Special Police Unit (SPU) arrested a target killer, involved in the murder of an Elite Force personnel, and seized arms and hand grenades during the crackdown on Friday.
According to details, SPU conducted the operation at Haji Camp bus terminal of Peshawar, during which a target killer, identified as Israr Ahmad, was arrested.
Arms and hand grenades were recovered from the possession of the nabbed target killer stated to be involved in murder of Elite Force personnel, Khairul Haseeb in Bannu.
The police took the recovered weapons and hand grenades into custody and after registering a case against the detainee at respective police station, started investigation.
[Hurriyet] Turkish police seized a huge shipment of amphetamine tablets near the border with Syria on the night of Nov. 19.
The operation seized a record amount of 1,800 kilograms
...that's nearly two tons...
of the drug Captagon in Hatay, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's southernmost province that borders northwest Syria. The seized shipment of 11 million tablets is thought to have been bound for the Gulf.
Captagon is the trademark name for synthetic stimulant fenethylline. It is widely used in the Middle East and is used by many fighters in Syria to stave off fatigue and fear.
The drug is also said to be manufactured and sold by the warring sides in Syria to fund the civil war. Prices vary but it has been reportedly sold for as much as $20 in cities such as Dubai.
The tablets were found by police in Hatay in two operations. Police first seized more than 7 million tablets produced in Syria, hidden among a shipment of oil filters bound for Gulf states, according to an official speaking to Anadolu Agency on condition of anonymity. Police later raided a depot in Hatay and discovered 3.6 million packaged tablets.
One Syrian and two Turks have been detained on suspicion of drug trafficking.
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Wouldn't it be a shame if the supply of these little pills were to be contaminated with something lethal. Would that be considered chemical warfare?
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Some are contaminated with poison. Some are contaminated with pig fat.
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I wonder what would happen if we arranged to flood the region with unlimited free meth? In small amounts and for short periods of time it can indeed benefit a fighter, but it's addictive, and 'more is better' kicks in fast, and results in extremely erratic and ineffective behavior. And death.
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That reminds me of a story I read way back when and have wondered ever since if it was true.
After the Six Day War and Egyptian and Israeli troops were facing each other across the Suez canal for a few years, Israel very quietly allowed drug smugglers from Lebanon to transit, escorted and without stopping, all the way to Suez where they would sell the goods to the Egyptians across the water.
No idea if this was somebody's fantasy or propaganda or what, but all is fair, in war, at least.
I made a return trip to Canton Lake last weekend to see if I can remedy my problem with bullet drop at the 200 yard band. The thread about the last time I went to Canton lake is here.
At that time, I suspected that lifting the sighting leaf on the AK-74 another 100 meters (to 300 meters) would help, and it did, albeit with the shots landing about four inches above bulls eye. Adjusting my aim lower, the shots hit at the center. I did not take my time, and my attention was mainly forcused on getting the shots to hit at the right elevation. I guessed, but without actually measuring (I had no scale or tape measure), that the bullet drop for the Silver Bear 5.45x39mm 60 Gr. was between 12 and 18 inches. The Russian standard issue 5.45x39mm 53 grain round at that range is only supposed to be 4.5 inches (114mm). I plan to go shooting again next month at Canton Lake to further refine my aim at that range, and this time get some kind of idea of just how much the bullet drop is.
The goal is to set the rifle where I can engage any target out to 400 meters without adjusting the sights.
While there I met (but I did not get their names) two young men, who were apparently local. One had a 7mm Remington Magnum bolt action rifle and the other had an AR. The bolt action was loud because it had no barrel attachment, and probably also because of the round, which I have heard is very loud. Going from memory, I would say it is as loud as a 7.62x51 NATO round.
The two gentlemen did not know that Canton Lake had the only 200 yard range in the state. They just went there because it was close and free. (It requires only a hunting license.)
The shooting conditions were nearly perfect. 41 F, clear, calm winds and dry as can be. The only element to make it better would be 31 F. I love to shoot in the cold.
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Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Prices for pistol ammunition were mostly steady while prices for rifle ammunition were mixed.
Prices for used pistols and used rifles were mixed.
New Lows:
California: 9mm (Beretta 92FS or other Semiautomatic) $200
Virginia: Winchester Model 54 $250
Pistol Ammunition
.45 Caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (10 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Quality Made Cartridges, Store Brand, RNL, Reloads, .25 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Blok Tactical, Store Brand, TMJ, Reloads, .25 per round (From Last week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 grain, Unchanged (6 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Sportsman's Outdoor Superstore, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 250 rounds: Ammo Mart, Legendary Ammo, FMJ, Brass, Reloads; .21 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
9mm Parabellum, 115 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Bud's Gun Shop, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Cased, .17 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Ammo Clearance, Leadhead brand, FMJ, Brass, Reloads, .16 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3Q, 2015))
.357 Magnum, 158 grain, From Last Week: -.02 Each After Unchanged (2Q, 2015)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Surplus Ammo, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .26 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: Lucky Gunner, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .30 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each After Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: BigHat Tactical, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .22 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.308 NATO 150 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt!, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .38 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt!, Tulammo, Steel Cased, FMJ, .36 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3Q, 2015))
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (8 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition Depot, Wolf WPA, steel case, FMJ, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: SG Ammo, Wolf WPA, steel case, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q 2015))
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: +.01 After Unchanged (4 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Selway Armory, International Raptor, RNL .09 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds (1 Box Limit): Cabela's, Remington, RNL, .07 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
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My WWII rifle collection on display during Veteran's Day. One rifle from each WWII manufacturer. Yours truly in the Jungle Fatigues.
Below is my father on the tail of a Stuka, with his trusty M1 Carbine, in Eastern Germany 1945. He went in with the 30th Infantry Division D-Day +5 and fought from the Hedgerows to the Battle of the Bulge and through Germany to the Czechoslovakian boarder where they met up with the Russians.
Dad was in the Malmedy area during the Battle of the Bulge and witnessed the aftermath of the Malmedy massacre at five points.
This picture was probably taken in June 45 after the German surrender. Dad is wearing his Combat Infantryman Badge. He rotated back to the States in July 45 and passed through Paris in time for Bastille Day.
Width reset to 500, because at 800 it was breaking the Burg.
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Have 15 boxes of 100 for $10.99 each here at the store ;)
We have a listing of established customers who want certain calibers, .22 for example, who we know will make a purchase. It allows us to increase our purchase, which makes us more attractive to our distributor, which allows us to estimate our purchases, allowing distributor to (I hope) make better purchases.
I'm not sure where you tried, if you can find a Mom and Pop who run a good ship, it will be beneficial to establish that relationship. Buy the magazine for a dollar extra, BS chat, it can pay off. Or, as the city people the other week, "See fellows, this is why I stop in small town stores, when was the last time you saw any of this?"
/shameless Mom and Pop plug
Turkey has warned Russia that it must immediately stop bombing "civilian Turkmen villages" in Syria, close to the Turkish border.
The Russian ambassador to Ankara was summoned to the Turkish foreign ministry to hear the protest. Turkey warned that bombing villages populated by the Turkmen minority could lead to "serious consequences".
Syrian government forces backed by Russian aircraft launched a ground offensive on the mainly Turkmen villages in Bayir Bucak, north-west Latakia province, on Thursday, Turkey's Anadolu news agency reported.
The Turkish government is vehemently opposed to President Assad, while Russia says its air campaign is justified because Mr Assad has requested it.
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A very well-done paper on the purpose of, and historical use of, forced displacement. Many thanks to 746 for the find. Some excerpts:
Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement as an Instrument of Coercion Kelly M. Greenhill
Coercion is generally understood to refer to the practice of inducing or preventing changes in political behavior through the use of threats, intimidation, or some other form of pressure—most commonly, military force. This article focuses on a very particular nonmilitary method of applying coercive pressure—the use of migration and refugee crises as instruments of persuasion. Conventional wisdom suggests this kind of coercion is rare at best. Traditional international relations theory avers that it should rarely succeed. In fact, given the asymmetry in capabilities that tends to exist between would be coercers and their generally more powerful targets, it should rarely even be attempted.
Coercive engineered migrations (or coercion-driven migrations) are “those cross-border population movements that are deliberately created or manipulated in order to induce political, military and/or economic concessions from a target state or states.” The instruments employed to affect this kind of coercion are myriad and diverse. They run the gamut from compulsory to permissive, from the employment of hostile threats and the use of military force (as were used during the 1967-1970 Biafran and 1992-1995 Bosnian civil wars) through the offer of positive inducements and provision of financial incentives (as were offered to North Vietnamese by the United States in 1954-1955, following the First Indochina War) to the straightforward opening of normally sealed borders (as was done by President Erich Honecker of East Germany in the early 1980s.
Coercive engineered migration is frequently, but not always, undertaken in the context of population outflows strategically generated for other reasons. In fact, it represents just one subset of a broader class of events that all rely on the creation and exploitation of such crises as means to political and military ends—a phenomenon I call strategic engineered migration. Coercive engineered migration is often embedded within mass migrations strategically engineered for dispossessive, exportive, or militarized reasons. It is likely, at least in part as a consequence of its embedded and often camouflaged nature, that its prevalence has also been generally under-recognized and its significance, underappreciated. Indeed, it is a phenomenon that for many observers has been hiding in plain sight. For instance, it is widely known that in 1972 Idi Amin expelled most Asians from Uganda in what has been commonly interpreted as a naked attempt at economic asset expropriation. Far less well understood, however, is the fact that approximately 50,000 of those expelled were British passport-holders, and that these expulsions happened at the same time that Amin was trying to convince the British to halt their drawdown of military assistance to his country. In short, Amin announced his intention to foist 50,000 refugees on the British, but did so with a convenient ninety-day grace period to give the British an opportunity to rescind their decision regarding aid. And Amin was far from unique.
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Not mentioned are the highly successful Coercion driven migrations in Zimbabwe and South Africa. [tongue in cheek]
Whilst we point our fingers at the global others [save the bit about Israeli settlements], not to be neglected is our very own political elites use of Coercion at the local levels, through voting district gerrymandering, low/no interest home loans [the right to own a home], the urbanization of conservative suburbia and resultant 'white flight.'
There is a definite method to the madness. Quite an excellent article by the way. I can't recall seeing the dynamic captured as succinctly.
[ARA News] HASAKAH – Subsequent to recapturing the key town of al-Hawl from the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS), the Kurdish-Arab joint alliance of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), backed by an air cover from the U.S.-led coalition, started heading to the ISIS-held Shaddadi city and the rest of the occupied areas in Hasakah province, northeastern Syria, SDF top commanders reported.
Shaddadi, located at a distance of 46km south of Hasaka city, is still under ISIS control with some nearby villages.
Speaking to ARA News in Hasakah, Adnan al-Ahmad, commander in chief of Shams ash-Shamal brigades which fight in the SDF ranks, said there is a high degree of coordination between the various factions of the SDF.
“ISIS is declining on the ground day by day. Our advance will continue against this terror group. Recapturing the strategic town of al-Hawl was just a first step towards the great victory,” he said.
“After liberating al-Hawl and its surrounding villages, we are heading to the group’s second main bastion Shaddadi south of Hasakah,” he added.
After losing al-Hawl, ISIS’s military and economic situation may deteriorate due to the cut of a main supply route between the group’s strongholds in Syria and Iraq.
The commander pointed out that their joint forces will successively combat ISIS in Tishreen Dam, Raqqa, and Jarablus, crossing the group-held cities of Manbij, al-Raee and al-Bab down to Afrin on the border with Turkey.
Kurdish female fighters of the Women Protection Units (YPJ) have also participated in the recent anti-ISIS operations in Hasakah under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
YPJ commander Torhildan told ARA News: “We have participated in the fighting front of al-Hawl alongside the YPG forces and the Arab and Christian allies.”
“The Kurdish female fighters in Rojava (Syrian Kurdish region) were able to prove their military capabilities hand in hand with Christian and Yezidi female fighters in the battlefields against ISIS terrorists,” she said.
Speaking to ARA News, Alwan al-Shammari, leading member in al-Sanadeed force, which also takes parts in the joint alliance, said: “Since we started our anti-ISIS campaign, we helped civilians to evacuate the town of al-Hawl to avoid any accidental explosions of mines planted by the terror group inside the residential areas.”
“After liberating al-Hawl, the SDF’s engineering units have dismantled the planted mines. Afterwards, we called for civilians to return to their houses and farms in order to continue their normal lives,” he said, pointing out “our forces will provide them with protection.”
Qehreman, commander in chief of Liwaa at-Tahreer of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), told ARA News: “We took part in the anti-terror campaign, joining the SDF due to the lack of other open fronts against terrorists (ISIS) in our areas surrounding Kobane and Raqqa.”
“We and the SDF have a common enemy which is Daesh,” he said, using the Arabic acronym for ISIS.
“Warplanes of the U.S.-led coalition has a key role in our advance against Daesh” the commander told ARA News.
He pointed out that the high coordination among the joint factions (SDF) “will definitely lead to the liberation of the entire Syrian soil from the grip of the terror group”.
“What was delaying operations was the random distribution of mines planted by the hardline group in the vicinity of al-Hawl, as well as the car bomb attacks on our checkpoints,” Qehreman said.
“The coalition aircraft decreased the number of our casualties since they hit ISIS’s frontlines, causing big losses to the group,” he concluded.
The battle for al-Hawl was launched on October 30, during which the SDF was able to recapture the town within two weeks.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) includeKurdish forces of the YPG and YPJ, the Syriac Military Council, the Arab tribal group of al-Sanadeed, al-Jazeera brigades, Jaish al-Thuwar group, and of Burkan al-Furat battalion.
New testimonies have emerged regarding the atrocities being committed by the loyalists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as the activities by the terror group have rampant to gain foothold and expand activities in Afghanistan.
The latest horrific testimony regarding the atrocities of the terror group’s loyalists have been provided by a 23-year-old Afghan university student who was kept as captive for a period of almost nine months.
Freed during an operation by the Taliban militants, Yousuf speaks of the harsh moments he spent with the ISIS loyalists and witnessing the atrocities committed on the hostages including torture and beheadings.
In an interview with the AFP, Yousuf said he was even forced to bury the decapitated head of a fellow detainee besides suffering the tortures and threats from the ISIS militants.
An ethnic Tajik and student of engineering faculty, Yousuf was kidnapped in the southern province of Ghazni in February, when men carrying Kalashnikovs stopped the bus he was riding from western Herat city, where he was living, to Kabul.
He said the at least three people including a government employee were beheaded in front of him after they were accused of being against the God.
“They would kick us, punch us and beat us up with lashes and sticks,” he recounted. “They told us to raise our hands and we had to keep them up for five or six hours.”
Yousuf further added “There was little to eat and drink. A cup of tea in the morning and a piece of bread, two trays of plain boiled rice in the evening for 15 people.”
“They were telling us if the government does not exchange you we will chop off your head. It is not important whether you are Sunni or Shia. We want to reach our goal,” he added.
According to Yousuf, the militants affiliated with the ISIS terror group and who were holding them as captives, were Uzbek fighters.
story sheds fresh light on the extreme cruelty of the Islamic State with the group’s loyalists rampantly operating in parts of Afghanistan to expand its presence.
This comes as a new documentary was released earlier this week which reveals that the loyalists of the terror are training children as young as 3-year-old by establishing schools were terrorist related lessons are taught exclusively to the children.
The documentary shows children being trained on how to use assault rifles and other weapons including hand grenades as a number of teenage suicide bombers have already been prepared and ready to carry out suicide attack upon the receipt of orders.
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Run of the mill news reports indicate public executions go on daily in Daesh controlled cities & towns. Not really news any more. I'm sure the US and Russia have numerous satellite photos of them, in addition to the ISIS sponsored recruiting videos.
FAISALABAD: Unidentified attackers hurled a hand grenade on the Faisalabad Bureau office of a local television channel Dunya News on Friday evening, injuring three people.
According to Dunya News, the grenade attack outside their Faisalabad bureau left three of the channel's employees injured while windows and vehicles outside the office were damaged.
The attackers also threw pamphlets containing threats from 'Daulat-i-Islamia Khorasan' (Islamic State- Khorasan group).
"Islamic State of Khorasan claim responsibility for this attack, we will continue to attack deviant rulers, their forces and their abettors (the media). People belonging to the Ahl-e-Sunnat sect shall stay away from these targets," read the pamphlet reportedly thrown at the crime scene.
The attackers arrived on a motorcycle outside the Dunya News office and hurled a hand grenade at the office before fleeing from the spot, CCTV footage aired on the media channel showed.
Condemnations and protests
Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists’ (PFUJ) President Rana Azeem while condemning the attack announced that the journalist community across the country will protest against this ghastly act.
According to Dunya News, Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif took notice of the incident and has demanded an inquiry report from the relevant authorities.
Shahbaz Sharif ordered the Regional Police Officer (RPO) to arrest the culprits within 24 hours. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif also condemned the attack and ordered the immediate arrest of culprits.
Journalists from various media groups staged protests in different cities of Punjab, including Lahore, Multan and Sahiwal terming the incident, an attack on media freedom.
The journalist community demanded from the government to immediately bring the culprits to justice.
Cycle of violence
KARACHI: Four Rangers personnel were killed when unidentified assailants opened fire at a Rangers checkpost in Baldia Town on Friday, officials said.
The law enforcement personnel were on routine duty, when two gun-wielding men riding a motorcycle opened fire at the checkpost soon after Friday prayers. Three personnel died on the spot while one survived the assault but died later of his injuries, officials said. While talking to reporters after the incident, Rangers Director General Major General Bilal Akbar said the assailants wanted to attack a nearby mosque but on seeing Rangers security, resorted to firing at the personnel.
“Perhaps the mosque and the affiliated madrassa were the target of the terrorists,” Akbar said. He said four security personnel were on board a vehicle, while two each were on board two motorcycles at the time of the attack. The Rangers DG vowed to apprehend those behind the attack. The area has been sealed by security forces and a search operation is currently underway. Rangers is currently spearheading a grand operation against criminal elements in Karachi.
The ‘operation’ against criminal elements in Pakistan’s commercial hub was initiated back in September 2013 after the federal cabinet empowered Rangers to lead a targeted advance with the support of police against criminals already identified by federal military and civilian agencies for their alleged involvement in targeted killings, kidnappings for ransom, extortion and terrorism in Karachi. A high-level apex committee meeting chaired by the Chief of Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif on May 14, 2015 decided to implement effective policing and surveillance in the “vast suburbs of Karachi”, to prevent what the military spokesperson said were “sneaking terrorist attacks”.
Amid resentment and criticism from certain political circles over the ‘Karachi operation’, the military establishment in August said that there would be no let-up in actions by law enforcement agencies “to ensure a peaceful and terror-free Karachi”. Although terror-related incidents have been reduced up to 60 per cent in the two years since the commencement of the Karachi operation, sleeper cells of terror outfits still exist in the metropolis and law enforcers have been making concerted efforts to eliminate the same, Karachi Police AIG Mushtaq Maher said in early September.
The city police chief had said 3,000 hardcore criminals had been arrested, while 246 terrorists, 38 kidnappers and ten extortionists had been killed so far in police encounters. Maher said that car-snatching incidents reported in the city were the lowest in the past 15 years while motorcycle-snatching incidents were on the rise, which he said will be curtailed. Rangers spokesman Colonel Amjad maintained that 913 terrorists including 550 target killers were nabbed while 15,400 illegal weapons were recovered from the custody of criminals operating within the city.
Meanwhile, Rangers foiled a major plan to sabotage the local bodies election (LBE) in Karachi. According to media reports, on a tip-off, Rangers conducted raid houses in Gulshan-e-Maimar colony and arrested a suspected terrorist affiliated with a banned outfit and wanted to police. Police shifted him to an unspecified location for interrogation. In another raid in Shah Gulshan Colony, Rangers arrested two suspects affiliated with a criminal gang. A Rangers spokesperson said those arrested from Shah Gulshan Colony have revealed during interrogation that they wanted to attack a poling station to sabotage polling process.
The ISIS defector, who goes by the pseudonym Abu Khaled, spoke with Weiss about the group's internal dynamics, and what it was like to live under ISIS's rule.
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ISIS members receive additional incentives to fight for the group. “I rented a house, which was paid for by ISIS,” Abu Khaled, who worked for ISIS's internal-security forces and "provided training for foreign operatives," told Weiss. “It cost $50 per month. They paid for the house, the electricity. Plus, I was married, so I got an additional $50 per month for my wife. If you have kids, you get $35 for each. If you have parents, they pay $50 for each parent. This is a welfare state.”
Little wonder Obama isn't serious about destroying ISIS.
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The 'bread & circuses' the ancient Roman masses used to live on & enjoy were nice until the Roman empire ran out of easy pickins' to rob and enslave. Then their gravy train stopped. Very similar to how Daesh is paying for those bennies.
Recap of how the French tossed the Ansar Dine rebels out of the countryside in 2012. The terrorists have responded by behaving like ... wait for it ... terrorists. Much hand-wringing in this piece.
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A senior official says Al shabaab terrorists militants laid a siege on Burdhubo, to deny the lorry trucks transporting food stuff access to the town which is under Somali and AMISOM troops control.
Speaking with Radio Shabelle on the phone, Hussein Abdi Harun who is in charge of the town said the terrorists militants’ intention to blockade the city is to allow the residents to die for hunger and malnutrition.
“All roads leading to the town are cut off by Al shabaab. No entry and exit at the moment. People are facing increasing inflation of the food and other services due to the barricade,” said Harun.
He called on the defense ministry of the federal government to help in an offensive against Al shabaab in the villages near Burdhubo, where the militants use for their attacks and blockade.
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Britain is poised to join air strikes against Isil in Syria after senior Labour MPs publicly defied Jeremy Corbyn and pledged cross-party support for international action in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks.
How long do you suppose Mr. Corbyn will be able to remain the head of his party, dear Reader?
Hilary Benn, the shadow foreign secretary, welcomed a UN security council resolution - passed on Friday night - calling for "combat by all means" to be used to wipe out Isil. The resolution was passed unanimously at the UN last night.
Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, said he would “consider” the government’s plans for air strikes against Isil in Syria. In a speech in Bristol, he said: “Labour will consider the proposals the government brings forward - including its responses to the Foreign Affairs select committee report opposing British air strikes in Syria.
Algerian ailing President Abdel Aziz Bouteflika made a brief publicly appearance Thursday after rumours circulated that he died. The Algerian President was shown receiving the visiting Maltese Prime Minister.
Who was for some strange reason in Algeria rather than back home dealing with the hostage shoot-out...
Analysts argued that this rare appearance was a response to allegation that the 78 year-old ruler was seriously sick and admitted to hospital in France. Rumours on social networks went further alleging that the Algerian President was “dead.”
Last week the Algerian Prime Minister Sellal claimed that Bouteflika was in full control of the country’s affairs after a group of 19 prominent Algerian public figures wrote a letter to the President asking to meet with him and throwing into question the legitimacy of institutions. The group of 19 also alleged that a number of Bouteflika’s aids and ministers were taking advantage of the President’s poor condition to groom a successor and run the country unilaterally.
Well that is the way it's usually done on that continent...
Sellal said that if anyone vies the position of President he should run for elections.
However, Wednesday, Abderrazak Makri, leader of le Mouvement pour la société et la paix (MSP) slammed authorities for keeping silent on the President’s health condition.
“Every day, there are rumours on the sickness of the President, his admission to hospital and even his death. The regime is keeping quiet. Where is the state? It is not normal,” Makri slammed.
In a recent press conference, Makri said he is fearing the worst for Algeria. The situation is on the verge of explosion and Algeria, in view of the current economic crisis, is threatened by collapse before the end of 2016.
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...'E's merely pinin' for the fjords.
Mike
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His comb-over will live forever!
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The legitimate for now Yemeni government has started its work from temporary capital Aden with the opening of the office of the foreign ministry on Thursday amid deployment of as many as 1,500 new policemen from the popular resistance forces.
Yemeni president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi had on Thursday directed the ministers of the government of the moment to begin work in Aden until capital Sanaa was liberated from militias. Government sources told pan Arab daily Asharq Al Awsat that the Yemeni government was making all possible efforts to resume the normal functioning of the government in the liberated land.
Until they get overrun again and all the new government functionaries flee...
Director-General of Police in the governorate of Aden, Brigadier Mohammed Massad was quoted by the report as saying that the first batch of policemen took charge at government buildings in the city, including premises of the local authority. The officer said with the joining of 1,500 new policemen, the total number of individuals from resistance forces who incorporated with the law enforcement has gone up to 3,700. The new cadre will work in police stations and checkpoints, he added.
Aden police now boasts of 10 police teams who can respond to any kind of emergency, he said adding the officers were trained by Emirati forces who were present in the city to help the local security.
The senior police officer denied presence of Al Qaeda terror group in the city as was being propagated by some media outlets.
"Lies! All lies!"
He also spoke seemingly forever at length on the crimes perpetrated by the Houthi rebels and shelling of civilians.
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The Daesh terrorist group claimed responsibility for attacks on the army in southeast Yemen on Friday, after the military had blamed Al Qaeda for the assaults that cost dozens of lives. The Daesh said in a statement, quoted by SITE monitoring group, that 50 Yemeni troops were killed in multi-pronged attacks including a suicide bombing and clashes in Hadramawt province.
The Yemeni army earlier said Al Qaeda had launched the attacks on army positions near the town of Shibam, and that 12 soldiers and 19 militants were killed. Medics later said the army lost 15 men and that several civilians were wounded. Hadramawt province is a stronghold of Al Qaeda whose militants control its capital Mukalla.
The Daesh group is also present in Yemen feeding on chaos in the country where a Saudi-led Arab coalition has been battling Iran-backed Houthi rebels opposed to the government.
Both Al Qaeda and Daesh are visibly present in Yemen's second city Aden, where the Saudi-backed government has set up a temporary headquarters after the Houthis took over the capital Sanaa.
The Daesh said its operation on Friday targeted "three barracks of the apostate Yemeni army" on a road near Shibam in Hadramawt, SITE reported.
The Daesh said its fighters seized the barracks, killing or wounding those inside and that later a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-packed car into army reinforcements sent to the area. The statement claimed that in all 50 soldiers were killed and said that clashes with Yemeni troops were still underway.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Rome (CNN) -- Muslims who were among migrants trying to get from Libya to Italy in a boat this week threw 12 fellow passengers overboard -- killing them -- because the 12 were Christians, Italian police said Thursday.
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Brigadier Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Commander of the Royal Guards in the Kingdom of Bahrain, praised the high moral of the officers and servicemen.
PESHAWAR: Unidentified gunmen killed an Awami National Party (ANP) worker in Yakatot area of Peshawar city on Friday, triggering protest from area residents.
Tripoli -- A man arrested in Ras Lanuf has reportedly confessed to the murder of lawyer and civil rights activist Salwa Bugaighis.
Yemeni pro-government forces advancing into the strategic province of Taiz were battling rebels on the outskirts of its second largest town on Thursday, military sources said.
The Washington Free Beacon is reporting that U.S. military pilots fighting against the Islamic State in Iraq were blocked from dropping 75 percent of their ordnance on terror targets because the Obama administration would not give clearance to launch a strike.
The security spokesman for the Saudi Ministry of Interior Major General Mansour Al-Turki said that security forces have seized Iranian currency, weapons and live ammunition during raids and search operations in Al-Qudaih, Al-Qatif yesterday. Major General Al-Turki added in a statement to “Asharq Al-Awsat” that security forces also seized military equipment and forged documents in a raid. He added that wireless communication equipment was also seized.
KUWAIT CITY, Nov 19: In a new preemptive move against DAESH cells in Kuwait, the local security agencies arrested a terrorist network consisting of six individuals including their leader, identified as Osama Mohammad Sayed Khayat. In a press statement, the Interior Ministry disclosed Khayat is a Lebanese residing in Kuwait and he was born here in 1975. He serves as terrorist communication coordinator and logistics support for DAESH.
MANSEHRA: Chief of his own faction of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam Maulana Fazlur Rehman has urged the military leadership that if the country will ever face an outside aggression or a challenge to its existence the religious forces will stand with the army.
New testimonies have emerged regarding the atrocities being committed by the loyalists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as the activities by the terror group have rampant to gain foothold and expand activities in Afghanistan.
FAISALABAD: Unidentified attackers hurled a hand grenade on the Faisalabad Bureau office of a local television channel Dunya News on Friday evening, injuring three people.
Labour revolts against leader Jeremy Corbyn
Algerian ailing President Abdel Aziz Bouteflika made a brief publicly appearance Thursday after rumours circulated that he died. The Algerian President was shown receiving the visiting Maltese Prime Minister.
The Daesh terrorist group claimed responsibility for attacks on the army in southeast Yemen on Friday, after the military had blamed Al Qaeda for the assaults that cost dozens of lives. The Daesh said in a statement, quoted by SITE monitoring group, that 50 Yemeni troops were killed in multi-pronged attacks including a suicide bombing and clashes in Hadramawt province.
