Turkey is training Islamic State terrorists in a camp disguised as a training ground for the Free Syrian Army, a 20-year-old jihadist captured by the Kurdish YPG told Sputnik. The prisoner said Ankara's help to the "moderate" Syrian opposition is not as innocent as portrayed.
Captured by the Kurdish People's Protection Unit (YPG) fighters in Northern Syria in November, Abdurrahman Abdulhadi, a Syrian national-turned Daesh (Islamic State) fighter, says he was trained in Turkey before receiving his first assignment with Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).
The YPG maintains external security in the three Democratic Union Party (PYD) run areas, and is fighting Islamist groups, primarily Jabhat al-Nusra and IS. The PYD, an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Turkey, has effectively been ruling parts of Syria after government troops were forced to withdraw from the areas in 2012. With special permission from the local Kurdish authorities, Russian journalists received first-hand testimony that Turkey is "a friend" of Islamic State.
"They only appear to be enemies, however, they are friends," the 20-year-old Abdulhadi, whose brother, Til Berak, is still fighting for IS told Sputnik Turkey. While Turkish nationals constitute only about "10 percent" of jihadists he had come across, the prisoner said Turkey is actively training Islamic State fighters.
"In August 2014, I was training in the Turkish town of Adana with one of ISIL's Emirs," Abdulhadi said, adding his month-long training was completed with 60 other fighters in a camp "not far from the airport."
The captured IS soldier said military training was conducted by two officers and one of them only "spoke Turkish, so another one had to translate for him."
"Once a week we had shooting classes where we were taught to use Kalashnikovs, machine guns and other arms," the 20 year-old said. "We were trained in Turkey because ISIL's command thought it was safer here than in Syria because of the bombardments there."
While the camp was officially declared to be one of the training grounds for the Free Syrian Army, the YPG prisoner says, "all sixty of those who were there were ISIL members."
"These were Syrian citizens, many of whom arrived in Turkey in search for a job initially, but later joined Daesh," he explained.
After completing his training, Abdulhadi was tasked with escorting Syrians who wanted to join the jihadists.
"After I finished the training, I went to one of the districts in the Turkish town of Adana. My task was to meet the newly arrived recruits from Syria. After the training we sent them to the Turkish town of Urfa. From there the recruits were transferred via Turkey-Syria border crossing back to Syrian Raqqa. And from there further across Syria," Abdulhadi explained, saying this was the only assignment he received from his "emir" during the deployment in Syria.
Besides helping to train recruits, the IS prisoner says he was deployed in Syria for brief periods. He was eventually captured in the village of Tal Afer on November 1.
The prisoner also revealed that IS is now receiving ammunition in trucks disguised as non-military cargo. He said that such low-level fighters as him have no idea where the arms come from.
"Weapons were brought to us in civilian cars, not in military ones because fighter jets might have bombed them. ISIL is now mostly using civilian vehicles. I've heard they put vegetables on top of boxes with ammunition, so that war planes do not spot them."
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While the camp was officially declared to be one of the training grounds for the Free Syrian Army, the YPG prisoner says, "all sixty of those who were there were ISIL members."
The Pentagon, refusing to transfer the data on terrorist targets in Syria to the Russian military, continues to fight against the Islamic State terrorist group "in word only", Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov told reporters on Monday.
He thus commented on a recent statement by the Pentagon spokesperson Michelle Baldanza who confirmed that the US military did not intend to share with Moscow the information on IS targets until Russia changes its policy towards Syrian President Bashar Assad. "We are not going to cooperate with Russia on Syria until they change their strategy of supporting Assad and instead focus on ISIL (IS)," Baldanza said.
"The hackneyed thesis has once again confirmed that the Pentagon will fight against IS in word only, instead of taking real action," Konashenkov said. "The statement by the US Defense Department spokesperson Michelle Baldanza about the [US side's] refusal from any cooperation in the fight against Islamic State is a broken record, and it's high time to change it," he said.
The Russian Defense Ministry spokesman said that at last week's news briefing of the chief of the Main Operations Directorate of the Russian General Staff, General Sergey Rudskoy, the military presented data on changes in the routes of illegal transportation of oil by the Islamic State militants.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the new routes run through the north-western regions of Iraq, which "are in the focus of constant attention of the United States." "We publicly told our American colleagues that it is necessary not to discuss the IS activities in Iraq, but to take real action to block the terrorists' sources of income in the region," Konashenkov said.
On December 25, Sergey Rudskoy told journalists that Russian intelligence found almost 12,000 tank/delivery trucks on the Turkish-Iraqi border near Zakho, where the 'eastern' oil smuggling route used by the Islamic State terrorist group runs. "As of the time the imagery was shot, there were 11,775 tank and delivery trucks on both sides of the Turkish-Iraqi border in the vicinity of Zakho, with 4,530 of them in Turkey and 7,250 in Iraq," he added. "It is worth mentioning that oil extracted both in Iraq and in Syria is smuggled via the checkpoint there," he added.
The Defense Ministry had said previously that the Russia-banned Islamic State's eastern oil smuggling route led from the oilfields in Syria's northeast and Iraq's northwest to Turkey via the border towns of Kara Chokh, Cham Khanik, Tavan and Zakho. Since the beginning of the operation in Syria, Russian aircraft have taken out around 2,000 tank trucks operated by the militants. "Thirty-seven oil wells and refineries operated by the terrorists and 17 tank truck convoys hauling oil products have been eliminated over the last week," Rudskoi said.
The Russian military launched an air operation against the militants with the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra in Syria on September 30 by request of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The Russian air task force in Syria included over 50 aircraft, including Su-34 (NATO reporting name: Fullback) and Su-24M (Fencer) tactical bombers, Su-25 (Frogfoot) attack aircraft, Su-30SM (Flanker-H) multirole fighters and Mi-8 (Hip) and Mi-24 (Hind) helicopters. The Russian Defense Ministry issued a statement in mid-November that it would focus its strikes on the oil production, storage, refining and transportation facilities controlled by Islamic State militants.
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On December 25, Sergey Rudskoy told journalists that Russian intelligence found almost 12,000 tank/delivery trucks on the Turkish-Iraqi border near Zakho
Per Zero Hedge (which I will not link to,) those trucks are loaded with 'Iraqi Kurdish oil'. Supposedly there's IS loads intermingled as well in what supposedly is a lucrative racket.
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I almost bought one a couple of months ago. The old 9mm ball put nice clean holes through its targets. The ARX round looks to completely change that shortcoming.
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Reliable old standby. Nothing fancy, Pachmayr's, a bit on the heavy side the way I like'em. Still in service with the Canadian Defense Forces I believe.
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Recently looked at a back up/off-duty roscoe. Initially chose the G26. Upon further review, I went with what I know - the Sig 239 in 9 as I carry a 228. Pricey yes but in this realm I'm not skimping. Plus I didn't want to do the mental gymnastics of switching guns. 3 x mags w/night sights is $900 ++. Problem is getting one in Kalifornia post - San Berdoo. Backordered until who know when.
Now to SEAL question. Frankly I'm surprised by the decision. Thought they would have stayed with the Sig.
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A huge hall filled with almost a thousand journalists, his formal "year-ender" December 17 news conference, broadcast live on all the major Russian TV networks and websites.
A question about Turkey, and why it shot down a Russian warplane in November.
President Putin was still furious. With a sneer and a snort, he let loose a volley of trash-talk.
"If anyone in the Turkish leadership decided to lick the Americans in a certain place -- I don't know if they acted correctly or not -- I don't know whether the Americans need that."
Laughs, and even applause from some of the Russian reporters. Foreign journalists looked stunned.
What Putin left out was the real ending of that Russian expression: "lick someone's a*s." But every Russian in the room knew what he meant.
Vladimir Putin has a presidential potty mouth that he uses to great effect.
The public first heard it in September 1999, when Putin was an unknown prime minister. Russia was hit with several deadly terrorist bombings of apartment buildings. Vowing revenge, Putin didn't hold back: "We're going to pursue the terrorists everywhere," he said. "That means, you'll excuse me, we'll catch them in the toilet, we'll wipe them out in the sh*t house, finally."
That tough talk shocked many Russians. They'd never heard anything like that from a leader before. But it also boosted their spirits; a tough, vigorous leader had their back and would fight to protect them.
A few months later, the ailing president, Boris Yeltsin, stepped aside and Vladimir Putin took the reins as Russian president.
But he didn't change his locker room talk.
At a summit meeting in 2002, a foreign journalist asked the president whether Russia was repressing human rights in the breakaway republic of Chechnya, where most people are Muslim.
"If you're really ready to become an Islamic radical and you're ready to have yourself circumcised, I invite you to Moscow," he shot back. "We have a multi-faith country and we have experts in that. I'll recommend doing the operation so that nothing grows back."
Male circumcision is practiced more by Muslims than any other religious group.
The first translator was left speechless and sputtered an attempt at explaining what Putin had in mind. "Uh...uh...uh, uh come to Moscow..." Another translator jumped in: "If you want to do a circumcision....You are welcome...and everyone is tolerated in Moscow." No translation was provided regarding anything not growing back.
Putin's sense of humor often has an ironic twist to it. "If a grandmother had certain sexual indicators, she would be a grandfather," he said in June of 2006, answering a question about sanctions against Iran.
Michele Berdy, who writes a column on the Russian language for The Moscow Times newspaper, has followed Putin's rhetorical style for years. She thinks "it's a way of being like the guy next door."
"I always thought it was a controlled way of slipping into 'Hey, we're all just one of the guys, sittin' around, throwin' back beers, and talkin' about life the way it really is,'" she adds.
The Russian president occasionally veers off into country-bumpkin expressions, which occasionally defy translation.
One of the first ones was a goat reference when Tony Blair was visiting," Michele Berdy recalls.
"Above us is Allah, under us are goats," is what Putin's interpreter translated him as saying to the former British Prime Minister. But a Moscow Times article explained that the Russian for goat has a second translation -- bastard, or something even more insulting -- and suggested that the interpreter suffered from excessive modesty.
"It involved goats and prisons and allusions that the translators, I think, understood but had no idea what to do with," Berdy adds.
But there was no issue about what he meant when he put down a question about his supposed wealth in 2008 with this zinger: "That's such garbage! They picked it out of their noses and smeared it on their papers!"
Putinisms have become famous in Russia, and it doesn't hurt that they're often about sex.
"They've asked me when I began having sex," Putin said in July, 2006, at an internet conference. "I don't remember ... I remember exactly when I did it the last time. I can define that right down to the minute."
Many of Putin's zingers are launched in apparent anger, which helps to solidify Putin's macho image.
"It's also this sort of 'man's man,' slipping into foul language, and always putting somebody down, making fun of somebody," says Berdy. "Like the Turks licking the Americans. It's insulting and it's putting down the Turks and the Americans in the process."
In December 2011, young people wearing white ribbons on their coats gathered on the icy streets of Moscow to protest what they said were rigged parliamentary elections. Putin smirkingly derided the symbol of their protest movement. "Frankly speaking," he said, "when I saw those little ribbons, I thought it was some sort of action against AIDS. I'm embarrassed to say I thought they were wearing condoms."
That comment infuriated the opposition and Vladimir Putin's crude expressions have not gone down well with many in Russia's educated class, the intelligentsia. For them, speaking proper, literary Russian is highly valued. But Putin, when he is not making off-color jokes, does speak excellent Russian.
"That's why I've always thought that his slipping into this is very strategic," notes Michele Berdy. "He decides when he want to leave standard literary Russian and get into non-standard Russian."
Putinisms are decidedly not politically correct, but PC language now is a dirty word in Russia. Some Russians deride the West for wimping out in a lame attempt not to insult anybody.
For most American or European politicians, comments like Putin's would be impossible to get away with.
In Russia, however, they seem to be part of Putin's political attraction. After all, who can miss the point of this shorthand explanation of how the law should work, that he unleashed in 2003:
"Everyone has to understand, once and for all, that you've got to obey the law all the time, and not just when they grabbed you 'in a certain place.'" I think I just figured out why 0bean doesn't think he needs to follow the rules . . . .
[ARA] More than 200 rebels deserted the Raqqa Revolutionary Brigade and joined the ranks of the western-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
Backed by the U.S.-led coalition's air cover, the Kurdish-Arab-Chrsitian alliance of the SDF is considered the main Syrian force fighting the radical group 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.... (ISIS) in northern Syria.
The SDF leadership confirmed on Saturday that some 200 rebel fighters from the Raqqa Revolutionary Brigade have joined its ranks over the past few days.
"We welcome our brothers from all revolutionary brigades and battalions to join our (SDF) alliance in order to unify the efforts and liberate our land from Daesh [Islamic State] terrorists," the SDF leadership said in a statement, using an Arabic acronym for ISIS.
Speaking to ARA News in Tel Abyad city north of Raqqa, SDF front man Ayman Ghanim said that the number of the new SDF members is increasing in the northern countrysides of Raqqa and Aleppo.
"Given the clear message of the Syrian Democratic Forces as a unified anti-terror umbrella, rebel fighters from various groups are seeking to join our ranks," Ghanim said.
"The SDF reflects the social mosaic of the Syrian people, as it includes Kurdish, Arab and Christian members fighting side by side against ISIS terrorists," the front man said. "This unity guarantees our victory over radical and suppressive groups in Syria."
The SDF, which has earlier recaptured more than 220 villages and towns in Hasakah province from ISIS, announced three days ago the start of a new military campaign against the hard boy group south of Kobane. Since then, the joint forces have regained several villages and farms near Kobane after bombing ISIS headquarters there. On Saturday, SDF fighters also seized the Tishreen Dam, a main supply route for ISIS bandidosbandidos holy warriors between Raqqa and Aleppo.
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[Tolo News] Local officials said Sunday that six members of one family have been killed by unknown gunnies in Nari district in eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... A front man for the provincial governor Abdul Ghani Musamim said the incident took place on Saturday night after a group of gunnies entered a house in Nari district and started shooting at members of the family. All residents were killed, including two children, two women and two men.
He said the attackers fled the area and police have started investigations into the incident.
Local officials said the motive for the attack is not known.
This comes after a number of unknown gunnies killed eight members of one family in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province two weeks ago.
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(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Nineveh Provincial Council announced on Sunday, that the Turkish forces are withdrawing gradually from Ba’shiqa District, while pointed out that the number of those forces does not exceed 100 soldiers.
The deputy president of the council, Noor al-Deen Qablan, said in a press statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “The Turkish forces are gradually withdrawing from Zalikan Base in the district of Ba’shiqa,” noting that, “The withdrawal of The Turkish force outside Iraq continues since the declaration of withdrawing previous patches.”
Qablan pointed out, “The number of the remaining Turkish personnel in Ba’shiqa is about 100 soldiers, including trainers.”
[RUDAW.NET] ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - More than 155 families have returned to the town of Jalawla a year after it was liberated by Kurdish Peshmerga forces, a local official said.
The families were allowed to return home after their houses, streets and roads were declared safe by bomb disposal engineers.
The town in northern Diyala was taken by 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) bully boyz August last year but Kurdish forces regained the town three months later.
"After bomb disposal teams cleared the neighborhood of Azadi of landmines and booby traps laid by ISIS during the battle for the city, 155 families managed to retuen to the city," the mayor of Jalawla Yaqub Lihebi told Rudaw.
The radical bully boyz had rigged many homes and public places with explosives during their brief control of the town.
"We assisted these families to return home by restoring public services to the town's neighborhoods including electricity, water and roads," the mayor added.
Previously, 83 families, mostly Arabs had returned to their villages in the outskirts of Jalawla.
With ISIS gone from most of Diyala, Peshmerga Brigadier. Najmadeen Omer, said that his forces and the Kurdish security maintain a heavy presence and patrol the area "to protect Jalawla from infiltrating ISIS hard boys,"
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[Beirut Daily Star] A Syrian activist who produced documentaries hostile to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group was assassinated in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... Sunday, according to the group with which he worked, "Raqa is Being Slaughtered Silently".
"Film maker Naji Jerf, father of two children, was assassinated... today in Gaziantep", on the border with Syria, with a silencer-equipped pistol, the group said in a statement on Twitter.
RBSS is a group of citizen journalists who work to expose human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... abuses in Raqa, the northeastern city that IS uses as its de facto capital in Syria.
A friend of Jerf's said he had been "supposed to arrive in Gay Paree this week after receiving, along with his family, a visa for asylum in La Belle France".
Jerf was also editor in chief of Hentah, a Syrian magazine that reports on the "daily lives of Syrian citizens", said the publication's website.
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[AlAhram] Egypt's army announced on Sunday that security forces have killed a murderous Moslem in North Sinai allegedly involved in the murder of a police captain in January 2015.
In a statement issued Sunday on his official Facebook page, Egyptian army spokesperson Mohammed Samir said army forces in North Sinai hunted down two murderous Moslem suspects in Al-Arish city. They managed to kill one of the forces of Evil reportedly involved in the murder of police captain Ayman Desouki earlier this year. According to the statement, the personal weapon of the late police captain was found with the dear departed suspect.
Security forces also killed another suspected murderous Moslem near Mount Halal, the stronghold of murderous Moslem and terrorist groups in North Sinai.
Police captain Desouki was kidnapped while travelling on a bus in North Sinai in January 2015 and was found dead days later. Sinai-based murderous Moslem group Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis released a video claiming responsibility for the killing of Desouki.
The ISIS-affiliated group has grabbed credit for most of the killings of Egyptian security forces in North Sinai.
Egypt's security forces have been facing a decade-long jihadist insurgency based in North Sinai, with murderous Moslem attacks taking place in the past 18 months and expanding into Cairo and the Nile Delta, killing hundreds of army and police personnel.
The military front man says in a Sunday statement on his official Facebook page that security forces chased two bandidosDeath Eaters as they fled on a cycle of violence, killing one and wounding another in the lovely provincial capital of el-Arish. In another incident, military forces pursued a third Lion of Islam near Mount Halal, leading to his death amid a shootout.
[DAWN] Former chief justice of Pakistain Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry launched on Friday a political party namely 'Pakistain Justice Democratic Critic Party (PJDCP)'.
Speaking at the launching ceremony, he said the PJDCP would welcome only non-corrupt people, adding that the party's aim would be to solve people's problems.
Mr Chaudhry, 66, said his party would work on a 25-point agenda, including in the sectors of health and education and land reforms. Provision of justice to the common man would be the basic manifesto of his party, he added.
The ceremony was attended by lawyers, civil society activists and others.
Earlier, the ex-CJ had said that he would announce his political party and manifesto on Dec 25.
Iftikhar Chaudhry was appointed 18th chief justice of Pakistain by then president retired Gen Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... on June 30, 2005.
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[Khaama] A roadside bomb blast has claimed four lives in the capital city of restive Helmand province.
Officials say those killed include two policemen and two civilians.
The bomb went off as police were on routine patrol in 3rd PD of Lashkargah this morning.
No group has immediately claimed responsibility for the blast but Taliban have carried out this type of attacks targeting security forces in Helmand province in the past.
This also comes amid heavy clashes between Taliban and security forces in parts of the southern province.
The group lost at least 50 fighters, including a key commander Mullah Nasir, in Sangin District last week.
Sediq Sediqi, spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior said during a press conference that Mullah Nasir was a close aide to the group’s supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor.
[DAWN] China officially ended its one child policy on Sunday with the signing into law of a bill allowing all married couples to have a second child as it attempts to cope with an ageing population and shrinking workforce. Hmmm... Halving your population shrinks your workforce and raises the average age of the population? Who'da thunkit?
The change, which was announced in October by the ruling Communist Party, takes effect from January 1, the Xinhua news agency reported. It also cuts the number of potential enlistees in the world's largest army by half...
All married couples will be allowed to have a second child but the legislation maintains limits on additional births. I think 2.5 or something like that is necessary for population stability, but I guess it is hard to have half a child...
The "one child policy", instituted in the late 1970s, restricted most couples to only a single offspring and for years authorities argued that it was a key contributor to China's economic boom and had prevented 400 million births. If the population's halved, I guess there's more money to go around...
It has been enforced by a dedicated national commission with a system of fines for violators and often forced abortions, leading to heartrending tales of loss for would-be parents. It would have made more sense to have a commission to plug the extras in where there are shortfalls, but I'm not a communist so I'm obviously wrong...
The policy led to sex-selective abortions or infanticide targeting girls, because of a centuries-old social preference for boys. If there aren't enough girls to contribute to the next wave of population growth you come up even shorter...
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[Daily Excelsior] Troops of Rashtriya Rifles battalion of Counter Insurgency Romeo Force today averted major tragedy when it detected and defused powerful TNT filled Improvised Explosive Device (IED), fitted by the turbans under a bridge at Saglet in Sakhi Maidaan area of Mendhar tehsil in Poonch district.
The turbans had planted the IED to blast the bridge and cause casualties of security forces and civilians but the alert troops foiled their designs by recovering the IED well in time and defusing it.
The troops used robotic arm to defuse the IED to ensure that there were no casualties of the security personnel by defusing it manually.
Official sources said the troops of Rashtriya Rifles battalion of Counter Insurgency Romeo Force spotted a cooker IED fitted under Saglet bridge in Sakhi Maidaan area of Mendhar tehsil in Poonch district at 7.30 am today and immediately stopped traffic on Mendhar-Poonch road via Mankote.
The troops called Bomb Disposal Squads of police and Army. Senior coppers rushed to the spot and stopped movement of civilians in the area.
The troops used robotic arm to defuse the IED to ensure that there were no casualties of Bomb Disposal Squad while defusing very powerful bomb. The cooker was filled with five kilograms TNT bomb, which was capable of blasting Saget bridge and causing extensive damage to vehicles crossing over it.
Sources said target of the turbans by planting the IED under bridge was vehicles of security forces and civilians as they intended to cause casualties by carrying out major subversive activity to make their presence felt in the border district of Poonch, where they were presently lying very low.
"The IED was successfully defused at 1.15 pm," sources said, adding the traffic on Mendhar-Poonch road via Mankote was restored only after Army and police sanitized the area and declared it fit for traffic.
Though there has been no major presence of turbans in the border district, some turbans and Over Ground Workers were reportedly active and in possession of bombs. Sources said the IED might have been fabricated and planted by one such group.
"The analysis of the bomb indicated presence of about five kilograms of powerful TNT kaboom inside the pressure cooker," sources said, adding the vigilant and timely action by the troops has averted what could have been a major catastrophe.
They pointed out that blasting of the bridge would have de-linked Mendhar with Poonch via Mankote. The IED was capable of blasting the bridge and disrupting the vehicular movement.
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Some background:
Poonch (Urdu: ضلع پونچھ ) is one of the eight districts of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. Poonch district borders Indian-administered Kashmir and is part of the greater dispute between India and Pakistan. The capital of the district is Rawalakot with the Sudhan and Awan tribes being the dominant groups in the district. After independence in 1947, Pakistan and India fought a war over Kashmir. As a result of the war, Poonch was split between the two nations. The city of Poonch now forms the capital of Indian-controlled Poonch district.
[Janes] The US Air Force (USAF) has graduated the first class of Afghan pilots to be assigned to the Embraer-Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) A-29 Super Tucano light attack aircraft, the Air Combat Command (ACC) announced on 18 December.
Eight Afghan Air Force (AAF) pilots were passed out and declared to be ready for combat operations during the ceremony, which was held at the home station of the 81st Fighter Squadron at Moody Air Force Base (AFB) in Georgia. These crews have completed just under a year of training, and will be redeployed to Afghanistan with their new aircraft in January 2016. The pilots are the first of 30 who will be trained by the 81st Fighter Squadron over the next three years.
Although training has reportedly progressed well, the programme suffered a setback earlier this month when two of the Afghan pilots absconded from Moody AFB on 11 December. They have yet to be found.
The AAF is scheduled to receive 20 Super Tucanos (with an option for a further 20) to replace the service's current Mil Mi-35 'Hind' helicopters that are due to be retired as the Super Tucanos enter service in January 2016 (although in October it was announced that Afghanistan is looking to procure new Mi-35s from Russia).
Powered by a single 1,600 SHP Pratt & Whitney PT6A-68/3 turboprop engine, the Super Tucano carries two 12.7 mm machine guns (200 rounds each) in the wings, and can be configured with additional underwing weaponry such as 20 mm cannon pods, additional 12.7 mm machine guns, rockets pods, precision-guided munitions, and/or 'dumb' bombs of up to 1,500 kg. It has a seven-hour endurance, and can operate from semi-prepared air fields.
Once in service, the Super Tucano will augment the machine gun and rocket-equipped Mi-17 'Hip' MD Helicopters MD 530F Cayuse Warrior, and possibly new Mi-35 helicopters in the ground attack and fire- support role.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – On Sunday, the Iraqi Ministry of Interior announced, that the Commander of the so-called ISIS military council was killed, in addition to dozens of the organization’s leaders in Anbar.
The Falcon Intelligence Cell said in a press release obtained by IraqiNews.com, “A number of operations were carried out in coordination with the Joint Operations Command in Anbar.”
The statement added, “The Iraqi Air Force was provided with accurate information about a gathering for ISIS leaders,” indicating that, “The criminal Abu Ahmad al-Alwani, who is also known as the Commander of ISIS military council was killed, along with dozens of the organization’s leaders.”
Noteworthy, the Iraqi forces achieved a notable progress in the liberation of Anbar Province from ISIS elements, while the advance of the forces had been hampered by the improvised explosive devices.
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...previously known as Ansar Bayt al Maqdis, a much more interesting name...
has become the terrorist group's most effective branch in the Middle East; Military Intelligence believe that an attack is likely be carried out in one of the towns near the Sinai border.
The IDF has increased its intelligence-gathering efforts over the last couple of months on the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... 's Sinai branch.
Military Intelligence has added 'heavy' and classified operative layers to its efforts to increase and improve the collection and monitoring of Islamic State's Sinai Province, which accuses Israel of supporting and assisting the Egyptian army in its war against its murderous Moslems - sufficient grounds for them to target the IDF.
In the past year, since the faceless myrmidons in the Sinai Peninsula abandoned al-Qaeda and swore allegiance to Islamic State, the Sinai Province has become not only the most effective ISIS branch in the Middle East, but also one of its most compartmentalized.
The organization, which has thousands of armed murderous Moslems - most of them locals - has recently started enjoying millions of dollars in aid from abroad.
The organization, which has thousands of armed murderous Moslems - most of them locals - has recently started enjoying millions of dollars in aid from abroad and is able to carry out daily attacks against the Egyptian army. It is based and trains on a high level of secrecy, which makes it difficult for intelligence agencies to even single out its leader.
Recently, ISIS-Sinai Province has posted videos in which it calls for carrying out attacks against Israeli targets. The threat has not been translated into any concrete warnings, but Military Intelligence is working under the assumption that ISIS's attack will take place without intelligence warning, and even if there is a warning, it will only come a short time before the attack.
Most of the IDF and Shin Bet's monitoring of the Sinai is technological, due to the difficulty of using human agents to penetrate deep into the Jihadist groups. These groups are operating in a vast area of about 25 to 30 thousand square kilometers in the heart of the peninsula, an area that is largely mountainous with topographical conditions that create difficulties in photographing or tracking Islamic State's trainings, headquarters and weapons warehouses.
Israel has admitted publicly only once to having helped the Egyptian Army in the Sinai Peninsula, when it sent a surveillance aircraft to try and locate the remains of the Russian plane that crashed on its way from Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg.
Despite its focus on terror in the West Bank, and the fence that was completed last year along the Sinai border, the IDF has not lowered its guard along the 220 kilometer border from Kerem Shalom to Eilat: special ops forces remain on alert alongside regular army battalions. Three weeks ago, a surprise drill took place in the Southern Command to practice scenarios of large-scale attacks on Eilat and Nitzana.
In recent months, the Caracal Battalion has been training in built-up areas, practicing scenarios of ISIS attacks on one of the border villages.
On the Syrian border, the sole Islamic State branch is less significant than that of its Sinai equivalent. The Shuhada al-Yarmuq, who pledged allegiance to ISIS, have only tens or hundreds of bad boys. They have been busy over the past year fighting Jabhat 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 .. ... which is affiliated with al Qaeda, considered the most significant jihadist group in the Syrian Golan.
[Dhaka Tribune] The flat on the fifth floor of a building in the capital's Mirpur 1 from where seven men were held in connection with krazed killer activities on Thursday was used as a centre that provided training in making bombs, said Sherlocks.
Detective Branch (DB) sources said at least 10 Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh The JMB is said to be the youth front of Al Mujahideen, the parent organization that began working toward establishing Bangladesh as an Islamic state in the mid 1990s which remains obscure even today. Other organizations, such as Jama'atul Jihad, JMB, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), Hizbut Tawhid, Tawhidi Janata, Islami Jubo Shangha, Islami Shangha, Al Falah A'am Unnayan Shanstha and Shahadat-e al Hiqma are believed to be part of the Al Mujahideen network. The JMB at its peak was reported to contain at least 100,000 members, and an alleged 2,000-man suicide brigade, few of whom actually exploded. JMB allegedly received financial assistance from individual donors in Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Libya. Reports have claimed that funding of JMB by international NGOs like Kuwait based Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage (RIHS) and Doulatul Kuwait, Saudi Arabia based Al Haramaine Islamic Institute and Rabita Al Alam Al Islami, Qatar Charitable Society and UAE-based Al Fuzaira and Khairul Ansar Al Khairia. The top leadership of JMB was captured in 2005 and hung in 2007, which pretty much shot their bolt. (JMB) members were trained in the flat.
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[Tolo News] At least six bandidos bully boys and two coppers were killed in festivities with security forces in southern Zabul province on Saturday, local officials said.
The festivities took place in Qalat city, the capital of the province, after bandidos bully boys attacked a construction company and clashed with security forces, security police chief Ghulaam Jilani Farahi said.
"Six bandidos bully boys and two coppers were killed in the festivities. Security forces also discovered a vehicle full of bully boys," he said.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... he did not provide more details about the festivities.
The Taliban has not yet commented on the incident.
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[AnNahar] At least 14 people were killed and several others injured by Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... gunnies in a Christmas Day attack on a village in northeastern Nigeria, vigilantes said Saturday.
Attacking astride bicycles, the jihadists invaded Kimba village in flashpoint Borno state around 10:00 pm on Friday, opening fire on residents and torching their homes.
Note: image is not intended to reflect reality.
"The gunnies killed 14 people and burnt the whole village before they fled," Mustapha Karimbe, a civilian assisting the military in fighting Boko Haram, told AFP.
"Not a single house was spared in the arson," another vigilante, Musa Suleiman, said after visiting the razed village.
Hundreds of Kimba residents fled to Biu nearby, where they were put up in a refugee camp already brimming with people running from Boko Haram.
The attack comes just days before Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's self-imposed deadline to stamp out the group expires on December 31 and in the same week he said that Nigeria has "technically" defeated the jihadists.
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And so, day by day, the Neo-Ottoman meatgrinder grinds on toward spring, when perhaps it will decide the effort was pointless.
[AnNahar] A three-month baby and her grandfather were killed in crossfire in festivities between Turkish security forces and Kurdish holy warriors in the southeast, medics said on Sunday.
The family's house in the southeastern town of Cizre came under shelling on Friday night as festivities intensified between Turkish security forces and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
The baby, identified as Miray, was shot in the head, doctors said.
But the family called the ambulance when they saw Miray was breathing. Her 73-year-old grandfather Ramazan Ince was caught in the crossfire while he was carrying Miray to the ambulance, witnesses told AFP.
But it was already too late for her and her grandfather died in hospital, medics said.
The family claims that the fire came from the direction of the state hospital in Cizre, which is controlled by Turkish security forces.
Tensions are rising throughout The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's restive southeast, where curfew has been in place in a number of towns due to festivities.
The operations mark a new escalation in the over three decade conflict with the PKK after a fragile truce collapsed in July after just one-and-a-half years.
The army said on Saturday nearly 200 PKK holy warriors were killed in the operations since the offensive began in mid-December.
[ARA] KOBANE – Subsequent to fierce clashes with militants of the Islamic State (ISIS), western-backed alliance of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) recaptured two towns in the northern countryside of Aleppo, military sources confirmed on Sunday.
The Kurdish-Arab joint forces of SDF regained control of the towns of Tishreen and Sakaniya in the suburbs of Manbij city north of Aleppo.
At least 15 militants of ISIS were killed in Sunday’s clashes with the SDF units, which include Kurdish, Arab and Christian fighters.
This comes just one day after the SDF units expelled ISIS militants from the Tishreen Dam on the Euphrates River, which has for long served as a supply line for the extremist group between its de facto capital of Raqqa and the northern countryside of Aleppo.
“After liberating Tishreen Dam, our forces were able to regain the towns of Tishreen and Sakaniya on the western bank of the Euphrates River,” Kurdish member of the SDF Sarhad Abbas told ARA News.
“ISIS is unable to support its operations near Manbij after we cut off its main supply route,” Abbas said.
The SDF member added that their units, supported by the U.S.-led coalition’s air cover, are currently combating ISIS in Hasakah, northern Raqqa and northern Aleppo.
“The operations of our joint forces will continue until eliminating the terror group,” he said.
The SDF has recaptured more than 220 towns and villages in Hasakah province over two months since its establishment. After announcing a new anti-terror campaign last week, the alliance regained control of several areas in the northern countryside of Aleppo, beside recapturing the strategic Tishreen Dam and a large deal of weapons subsequent to clashes with ISIS.
[DAWN] Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday that Muslims must improve the image of their religion, which has been tarnished by the violence of hardliner groups such as 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.... ,
"It is our greatest duty today to correct the image of Islam in world public opinion," Rouhani told a conference on Islamic unity in Tehran in a speech broadcast by state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
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His remarks were rare for a leader of Iran, which considers itself an authority in the Islamic world and often blames the "enemies" of the religion for problems in the Middle East.
"Did we ever think that, instead of enemies, an albeit small group from within the Islamic world using the language of Islam, would present it as the religion of killing, violence, whips, extortion and injustice?" Rouhani said.
Rouhani, a relative moderate, said Islamic principles opposed violence and the extremism of groups such as Islamic State stemmed from "narrow-mindedness and a lack of moderation".
Rouhani criticized Muslim countries for "being silent in the face of all the killing and bloodshed" in Syria, Iraq and Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... - conflicts in which Iran plays a role.
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That won't happen, Hank, even if you say it twice. ;-p
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My current image of Iran is that it is a fundamentalist country that supports terrorism, suppresses women and executes homosexuals. I believe that my image is accurate. Improving that image would involve actual change altering the reality of Iran not rhetorical or superficial modifications. Interestingly my image of Saudi Arabia is not much different than my image of Iran. My impression of Pakistan is actually worse because I perceive that country to be smellier ... but that perception is totally subjective and not based on any direct observation. I can easily be convinced that Iran and Saudi Arabia are just as smelly.
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – On Sunday, a source in the Iraqi Ministry of Interior announced, that eight people had been either killed or wounded in a bomb blast east of Baghdad.
The source said in a statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “This morning, a bomb exploded near a popular market in al-Amin area east of Baghdad, killing one person and wounding seven others.”
The source added, “A security force rushed to the area and evacuated the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment and the dead body to the forensic medicine department, while an operation was carried out to search for the perpetrators of the bombing.”
[Daily Excelsior] Senior separatist leader and Jammu Kashmire Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik ...chairman of one of the two factions of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front. JKLF is a Kashmiri nationalist organization founded in Birmingham, UK in 1977. Branches weren't actually established in Kashmir for another ten years. It has the usual demands for separation of J&K from secular India so it can become an independent Islamic rathole. It seems to have no interest in Pak Kashmir breaking away to join it. In 1994 Malik renounced violence after he was released from jail and from that point he and his organization pursued peaceful means to impose their will on the region... along with other Front leaders has been sent to Central Jail on the charges of attempt to murder and waging war against the State.
Malik, along with his eight of party associates, were detained on Friday last week when they attempted to take out a rally towards Lal Chowk against the killings in Rajouri district by Village Defence Committee (VDC) gunnies. The police action had triggered violent protests in Maisuma, where the JKLF protesters rallied, which left Kothi Bagh SDPO Fahad Tak critically injured in eye and face, and he was airlifted to Delhi for specialized treatment.
"Police have charged Yasin and others under acts of attempt to murder and waging war against State. Police after three days today produced Yasin Malik and others before a Magistrate and the Court ordered to send them on 10 day-judicial remand to Central jail Srinagar," said a JKLF front man here in a statement.
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The Somali Islamist group al Shabaab said it ambushed a Kenyan security vehicle in remote northeastern Kenya on Sunday, killing four members of the security forces. The Kenyan Red Thingy Cross said in a post on Twitter that two police officers had been killed and two others injured, while a Kenyan police spokesman said he was unaware of the attack.
Clearly somebody is right. No doubt later we will discover which one.
“Security has been beefed up in the region. Tension remains high,” the Red Cross said.
Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, al Shabaab’s military spokesman, told Reuters the militants had ambushed the car on the main road in Mandera County, on the Somali border, killing four Kenyan soldiers, and seizing their weapons. The statement made no mention of police.
Al Shabaab and officials often given conflicting details and death tolls.
No, really?
Al Shabaab, which seeks to overthrow Somalia’s Western-backed government and impose a strict version of Sharia law, has carried out regular assaults in neighbouring Kenya in retaliation for Kenya contributing troops to an African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia.
The attack in Mandera County came two days after al Shabaab, which has links to al Qaeda, targeted two Kenyan security vehicles in Lamu County, killing at least one police officer.
Earlier this week, Kenyan police warned of the risk of fresh attacks by Shebab insurgents, claiming they had split into rival factions inside Kenya, with some shifting allegiance from Al-Qaida to Islamic State.
Those now loyal to IS operate in the Mandera region, while the Al-Qaida force is based in the southeastern Boni Forest district, police said.
I vote they fight until one group is the clear winner...or all are dead. Allah shows his favour by awarding victory, after all.
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[Beirut Daily Star] Copenhagen: Denmark's centre right-wing prime minister on Sunday said he would seek a revision of the UN Refugee Convention, as Europe faces its worst migration crisis since World War II.
"If this continues or gets worse... we will get to the point where we'll have to talk -- and Denmark won't be able to do it alone -- about adjusting the rules of the game," Lars Lokke Rasmussen told TV2 television.
The Danish premier, whose Venstre party rules with the backing of the anti-immigration Danish People's Party (DPP) in parliament, said the 1951 treaty should be revised in order to clarify the rights of refugees in the first country they fled to.
"If someone seeking shelter from war has lived for two or three years in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , should he then go to Europe and seek asylum there? As they stand today, the rules allow people to do that, but we are going to have a discussion about that," he told the Danish television channel.
The prime minister believes the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , of which Denmark is a member, should lead an effort to modify the convention, which came into law just six years after World War II ended.
The Danish government's policies on migrants have triggered global controversy, most recently with a plan to seize migrants' valuables and cash.
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Iraq's army declared victory over Daesh fighters in a provincial capital west of Baghdad on Sunday, the first major triumph for the US-trained force since it collapsed in the face of an assault by the militants 18 months ago. After encircling the city for weeks, the Iraqi military launched a campaign to retake it last week, and made a final push to seize the central administration complex on Sunday.
"By controlling the complex this means that we have defeated them in Ramadi," said Sabah Al Numani, a spokesman for the force leading the fight on the government side. "The next step is to clear pockets that could exist here or there in the city."
State television broadcast footage of troops, Humvee vehicles and tanks advancing through Ramadi streets amid piles of rubble and collapsed houses. Some districts appeared to have been completely destroyed by the advance.
Television also showed nighttime celebrations in mainly Shia cities south of Baghdad for the victory in Anbar, with people dancing in the streets and waving Iraqi flags from cars.
Officials did not give any immediate death tolls for the battle. The government says most civilians were able to evacuate before it launched its assault.
Anbar provincial council member Falih Al Essawi called on the government to restore services to Ramadi quickly and start rebuilding the city to allow the return of the displaced.
Ramadi was the first major city recaptured by the army itself, without relying on the militias, who were kept off the battlefield to avoid sectarian tension with the mainly Sunni population.
The government, led by a Shia Prime Minister, Haider Al-Abadi, said Ramadi would be handed over to local police and a Sunni tribal force once it was secured, a measure meant to win over the community to the fight against Daesh.
"We have trained hundreds of tribal fighters, their role will be holding the ground," said Brigadier-General Yahya Rasool, spokesman for the joint operations command.
"Seeing their own tribes responsible for security will be a relief for the civilians" and will help convince those who have been displaced to return to the city, he added.
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Looks like they had to destroy Ramadi to save it.
[Beirut Daily Star] Syrian activists say government forces set off explosives planted at a farm where Islamic rebel factions were gathering, killing 17 bully boys.
That was clever.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the kaboom took place late Saturday in the village of Kfar Shams in southern Deraa province.
Ahmad al-Masalmeh, a Deraa-based opposition activist, said Sunday that a farm in the village was booby trapped and the explosives were detonated once the bandidosbandidos holy warriors had gathered there.
Syria's state news agency reported that several fighters of the Islamic Muthana Movement were killed and two of their "dens were demolished at Kfar Shams."
The latest killings deal another blow to Syria's Islamic rebels, just days after the liquidation of a powerful rebel leader.
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[ARA] His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... , the supreme leader 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) bully boy group, said in an audio message released on Saturday that Arclight airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition and Russia have failed to weaken his group.
Al-Baghdadi said that his self-declared Caliphate is "doing well", promising his followers with victory over their enemies.
"Be confident that God will grant victory to those who worship him, and hear the good news that our state is doing well," the ISIS alleged Caliph said in an audio message released online by pro-ISIS media outlets.
"The more intense the war against it, the purer it becomes and the tougher it gets," he said.
Al-Baghdadi also mocked the recently announced Saudi-led Islamic alliance against "terrorism", considering the member states of the alliance as enemies of Islam.
ISIS leader also warned Israel saying: "We are getting closer to you every day."
Threatening Israeli Jews, al-Baghdadi said:"You will hide behind trees and stones from the fighters of our state."
Concluding his audio message, ISIS leader urged Muslims worldwide to prove their commitment to their Islamic duty and join the fight.
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As per ZERO HEDGE, the response from ordianry or mainstream Muslims to AL-Baghdadi's call to Global Jihad ala Twitter ranks a mighty "not so much", perhaps more popularly aka "thanks, but no thanks"???
* See ZERO HEDGE > ISIS HEAD'S CALL TO GLOBAL JIHAD ... HERE ARE SOME MUSLIM RESPONSES.
[ARA] At least 800 Tunisian nationals were killed in Syria since the outbreak of the war there in 2011, Tunisia's interior ministry said on Friday.
Cleaning up the shallow end of the gene pool...
Hundreds of Tunisian young men have joined the ranks of the radical groups in Syria, mostly fighting for the al-Qaeda affiliated al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front and the 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).
"Most of the Tunisian jihadists have joined the ranks of ISIS after the group proved its success in taking over large areas in Syria and Iraq," an informed source told ARA News.
The ministry confirmed the death of 800 Tunisian jihadists in Syria so far, adding that hundreds others are still fighting for ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
The front man of the Tunisian interior ministry Waleed Allouqini said in a statement that the authorities are prepared to take strict security procedures against returning jihadists, "as they may pose threat to the national security of Tunisia".
"Security units in cooperation with special forces have recently captured several pro-ISIS recruiting cells across the country," Allouqini said, adding that the authorities are pursuing other suspects "to prevent further radicalization of Tunisian youth".
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Now that Russia expanded to a second air field, it is harder for our side's planes to stay out of their way.
[Ynet] The Pentagon says the United States hit 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 targets in Iraq and Syria with 17 Arclight airstrikes on Christmas Day.
The strikes targeting Islamic State fighters, facilities and vehicles were carried out by fighter aircraft, bombers and remotely controlled aircraft. The Pentagon said Saturday that five of the strikes were carried out in Syria and 12 in Iraq.
The strikes targeted Islamic State tunnels, explosive manufacturing sites and other targets such as bridges and Islamic State fighting outposts.
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[Tolo News] Embattled Afghan cops in the southern province of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... said Sunday they are still waiting for orders from the central government to launch military operations in various parts of the province.
The security forces have warned that more areas in the province could collapse to the Taliban unless a quick and decisive action is taken to eliminate the Taliban.
TOLOnews correspondents Wali Arian and Abdullah Hamim who are embedded with troops in the volatile province report from the battlefield that security forces have raised their concerns about the deteriorating situation and lack of orders.
Forces on the ground have said that the Taliban even poses a threat to Lashkargah -- the capital of the province.
"The situation is critical here. Taliban operate in many villages around here. Last night Taliban attacked our base," an Afghan National Army soldier on the frontline told TOLOnews.
"We are still waiting the order for war - right now there is no problem in terms of military hardware, we have heavy weapons. But we are waiting orders," another soldier said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the abandoned silver mine, the water was up to Jack's neck and still rising. And then he smelled the smoke... security forces in Nad-e-Ali district have also said that they too are awaiting orders to launch a decisive operation against Taliban in the area.
"There is three to four kilometer distance to the center of the province and there is no other security belt except this," an officer of the Afghan border police said.
"So far we have not received the order to launch an operation. The order for an operation is related to the high level officials and does not belong to us; we have to obey orders. We joined the army to serve and defend and move ahead and not slide backwards," another soldier said.
Helmand province, once a Taliban stronghold in the south, has been under frequent attack by the Taliban over the past fourteen years -- reportedly because of it being a good income provider as it is the key poppy growing area in the country.
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(IraqiNews.com) Anbar Operations Command announced on Sunday the killing of eight ISIS elements as well as the dismantlement of 260 explosive devices north of the city of Ramadi.
The commander of Anbar Operations, Maj. Gen. Ismail al-Mahalawi, said in a brief statement received by IraqiNews.com, “A force from Anbar Operations, with support from the international coalition aviation, had managed to destroy two booby-trapped vehicles and kill the suicide bombers inside them in the northern axis of the city of Ramadi,” adding also that, “A force from the army had killed eight elements of the ISIS and dismantled 260 explosive devices during an operation to advance into the Euphrates River as well as the international road near Albu Faraj Bridge north of Ramadi.”
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – On Sunday, a source in the Joint Operations Command announced, that 25 ISIS elements were killed in an aerial bombardment west of Anbar (110 km west of Baghdad).
The source said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “The Iraqi Air Force carried out an air strike on ISIS sites in al-Qa’im District west of Anbar, killing 25 elements and destructing 2 hideouts for the organization.”
The source added, “The air strike was carried out under the supervision of the Joint Operations Command, and in coordination with Falcon Intelligence Cell.”
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[ARA] CIZRE – At least three Turkish soldiers were killed and two others wounded in an attack by rebels of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on an army convoy in the Kurdish town of Cizre in the southeastern province of Şırnak.
The Turkish army said in a statement on Sunday that PKK fighters bombed a military vehicle, killing three soldiers and injuring two more.
“The terrorists (in reference to PKK members) detonated an explosive device under an army vehicle in Cizre on Sunday, in an attempt to prevent the Turkish forces from carrying out their duty,” the statement said.
This comes amid a curfew imposed by the Turkish army on the town of Cizre.
Last week, the army shelled residential neighborhoods, schools and infrastructure in the Kurdish town, causing the displacement of thousands of civilians from Cizre, according to local sources.
“The Turkish forces are bombing civilians and destroying Cizre under the pretext of pursuing few PKK rebels,” a media activist in the town told ARA News, on the condition of anonymity.
“The government does not care about the citizens affected by the military campaign on Cizre. The situation is disastrous. We appeal to the international community to stop the Turkish offensive on the town,” he said.
Turkish state media confirmed last week that some 10,000 military forces are participating in the ongoing operation against the PKK in the towns of Cizre and Silopi in Şırnak province.
[ArabNews] ADEN: Six civilians were killed and 16 were wounded when Houthi and Salah militias launched artillery shelling on residential neighborhoods in the Yemeni city of Taiz on Saturday.
The shelling targeted the neighborhoods of Esefrah, Edh-ha and Thaabat, as the militia continues its siege of all the key city outlets and prevented the entry of medical and relief supplies to civilians.
The shelling took place despite a verbal commitment for their leaders and delegates to provide safe passage for relief efforts.
The rebels have been besieging Taiz for months and have prevented the delivery of essential aid to the city for months.
According to AFP, military sources in Aden said Yemeni loyalists killed at least 20 Iran-backed rebels Saturday in a pushback against Houthis seeking to retake positions to the northeast of Sanaa.
“The Houthis (rebels) on Friday launched an offensive in the direction of Jabal Al-Salb in Nihm” district of Sanaa province, “but were repelled on Saturday morning,” a loyalist commander told AFP.
“At least 20 Houthis were killed” since Friday night, another military source said.
Last week, pro-government forces captured the Jabal Al-Salb area 40km outside Sanaa.
Forces loyal to President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi and the Saudi-led military coalition supporting them have sent troops, armored vehicles and tanks to reinforce the district.
Meanwhile, coalition fighter jets led dawn raids on rebel positions in Majzar area in neighboring Jawf province to the north, which is mostly under loyalist control, a spokesman for the pro-government Popular Resistance militia said.
Loyalist forces advanced in Ghayl area in the same province, around 20 km northeast of Majzar, Mohamed Al-Behaih added.
Air strikes also targeted rebel positions in Baqim and Kitaf areas in Saada province, the Houthis’ stronghold in northern Yemen, loyalist military sources said.
The rebels seized Sanaa last year and then advanced south to Aden.
Following territorial gains by loyalists, President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi returned to Aden in November after six months in exile.
LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - The Mall St. Matthews has been closed for the night after several disturbances. Those incidents may have involved as many as 1,000 to 2,000 teens, according to the St. Matthews Police Department.
There has been no confirmation of shots fired inside the mall, although some were reported, and no injuries or arrests have been reported.
Police first responded to the mall around 7 p.m. Saturday in response to numerous unruly youths. According to the SMPD, there were several fights inside the mall and those altercations may have then spread outside.
"We had no indication that anything like this was going to happen at Mall St. Matthews," said Dennis McDonald of the SMPD. "(We) responded to a disturbance, then we began to respond to numerous disturbances inside, and outside, of the mall."
During the disturbances some store owners attempted to close, but in some cases juvenile patrons refused to leave. In some cases, stores were used as safe havens for those trying to escape the chaos.
Eventually, management decided to close the entire mall early.
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Doing jobs Americans won't do. Specifically, voting for Democrats.
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That not a single kid was arrested tells everything about the race of the "youths". We have devolved through fear into separate standards for racial groups. The fabric is fraying faster and the browning of America is accelerating. Drove back from LA sunday (never drive I-5 after a Christmas weekend, a 7 hour trip took almost 11And the image of isles of cars stopped both ways on a freeway in the middle of nowhere was stunning) and stopped at In-n-Out around 2pm. Packed wall to wall with Asian and Hispanic families. We were literally the only Caucasians in the place and most of what was spoken wasn't English. This isn't assimilation now, it's cultural suicide.
[AlManar] The Yemeni army, backed by Popular Committees loyal to the Houthi Ansarullah movement, has hit a military base in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern border city of Najran with a ballistic missile.
Yemen (archive)Yemen’s al-Masirah news channel reported on Sunday that the Qaher 1 missile caused huge explosions by hitting armories of the base, located in the al-Arissah district of Najran.
Yemeni forces also launched missile attacks on a convoy of Saudi mercenaries moving from Yemen’s central province of Ma’rib to the northern province of Jawf. Three vehicles were destroyed in the attacks.
Military forces of Yemen also fired over 80 Katyusha rockets at Saudi bases in Najran in retaliation for Riyadh’s incessant strikes against Yemen.
Dozens of mercenaries fighting for the regime in Riyadh were killed after Yemeni fighters fired missiles at a presidential palace in Ma’rib and the al-Amri district of the southwestern province of Taez.
According to the latest reports, heavy clashes continue between Ansarullah fighters and Saudi-backed militants loyal to the fugitive former Yemeni president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, in the Dhubab district of Taez.
Similar clashes are underway in the northeastern part of the Yemeni capital, Sana’a.
In a separate development on Sunday, Saudi warplanes repeatedly bombarded Yemen’s border regions. The jets also pounded the Kataf district in the northern province of Sa’ada.
[AAWSAT] Yemeni Foreign Minister Abdel-Malek al-Mekhlafi said that 70 percent of Yemeni territory is under the control of the legitimate government.
FM al-Mekhlafi also told Asharq Al-Awsat, “Current ground status is under the legitimacy’s dominance, given that 70 percent of land is under the government’s control, which is a crushing defeat for the insurgents.”
When asked about the Geneva negotiations that will resume on Jan. 14, al-Mekhlafi said, “There are international guarantees coming from the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council on forcing the other party to take steps toward building up trust so that deliberations can continue, among the guarantees given was the release of detained politicians, especially Yemen’s Defense Minister Mahmoud Salim Subaihi, President Abd Rabbuh Hadi’s brother along with others, the halt of all the media prodding, and to commit to the cease fire.”
He also stressed on all guarantees to be carried out before the new round of discussions resume on Jan. 14, so that well intentions are reserved and they can prepare for the uphill phase after. If the date is reached with none of the above mentioned demands being achieved, questions on why they should be participating in the discussions will rise.
On the subject of international commitment to work on the trust build process and the Houthis complying to this phase’s requirements al-Mekhlafi confirmed: “We have indeed attained international promise that these cases will be followed up with guarantees given by the United States of America, Britain and other Security Council permanent members. Houthis are obliged with carrying out those guarantees, and have agreed principally on carrying out these tasks; however no true measures have been taken on the subject.”
[RUDAW.NET] ERBIL, Kurdistan Region- A report by the Nineveh police department on 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) crimes in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... says that up to 837 women have been executed by the Lion of Islam group since its takeover of Mosul.
Commander of the Nineveh police Zanuon al-Sabawi, said at a presser that the women have been executed in various forms.
According to al-Sabawi, most of the women victims were former candidates to the Iraqi parliament , provincial council members, and public employees.
He added that municipality workers and staff members of the election commission were also among those executed by ISIS.
The women and other victims of ISIS of the local population are believed to have been sentenced by the Lion of Islams' Sharia court that has condemned to death for alleged charges of disloyalty to the caliphate, espionage or un-Islamic behavior.
The group has also been responsible for killing and enslaving hundreds of Kurdish Yezidi women in Shingal and parts of the Nineveh plain.
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Every time something like this happens, the western liberal defenders of Islam should be made to answer for it.
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Western "feminists" (spit) don't care - the dead women (a) weren't white, (b) didn't go to the "right" schools, (c) couldn't advance the "narrative," and (d) weren't their friends.
Did I mention spit?
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[Daily Excelsior] The moderate separatist group in Jammu and Kashmire today urged the top political brass of India and Pakistain to ensure that "rabble-rousers" in both countries are not allowed to vitiate the "atmosphere of peace" emerging after the recent thaw in Indo-Pak relations.
The Hurriyat Conference headed by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq hoped that the leadership in both the countries will carry forward the grinding of the peace processor in a "bold way" and resolve all outstanding issues including Kashmire. It also said that it would not shy away from talks with the Government, adding that any dialogue should be "with an open mind and heart".
Keenly watching the developments, Mirwaiz Farooq, who is also a Muslim religious head, feels that the Friday meeting of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with his Pak counterpart Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... in Lahore has given a fresh hope not only to people of the two nations but to the entire South Asian region.
"I only hope that the process, which has been initiated after many speed breakers, gains momentum and both nations sit together and find solutions to all the outstanding issues including Kashmire by involving the Kashmiri people," the Mirwaiz said here.
He, however, expressed apprehension that radical elements, who are inimical to peace in the region, would try and make desperate attempts to sabotage the grinding of the peace processor.
"Both the Prime Ministers are democratically elected and have a strong mandate in their respective countries. If they are to carry forward a grinding of the peace processor and take historical steps, it is important that the process has broad support from the political opposition and general public in both countries.
"Any party or group that stands in the way of attempts to achieve peace are enemies of the people of South Asia. The leadership in India and Pakistain should invite and involve all the stakeholders -- especially the people of Kashmire -- to contribute and be a part of this process.
"The rabble-rousers should be reined in so that issues can be addressed and peace becomes the order of the day in the South Asian region," he said.
When asked that certain separatists groups including his one time ally Syed Ali Shah Geelani were considered as hawks, the Mirwaiz said, "Everyone in Kashmire supports meaningful dialogue and engagement. My point is simple that we in the Hurriyat Conference believe that Kashmire is a political issue which needs to be resolved through dialogue "
"We in Hurriyat Conference would like to walk an extra mile for ensuring that grinding of the peace processor can succeed. I have said it many times that we wish to see Kashmire as a bridge of friendship between India and Pakistain rather than a bone of contention," the Mirwaiz said.
To a question whether the Hurriyat Conference was willing to talk to the central leadership, he said, "We have never shied away from dialogue aimed at addressing the Kashmire issue be it with India or Pakistain.
"We held talks with the then Prime Ministers Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh as well as Pervez Musharaf and even gave some suggestions in order to move forward. Hurriyat would not shy away from any serious process aimed at resolving the Kashmire issue involving all stakeholders"
To a question about statements from Union Ministers that talks with Hurriyat would be held within Indian Constitution, the Mirwaiz claimed it was Vajpayee who spoke of holding unconditional talks under the ambit of 'insaniyat' and vowed that India "shall not traverse solely on the beaten track of the past".
"Talks need to be held with an open mind and heart," the Mirwaiz said. (PTI)
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[Guardian] The Taliban have launched more attacks in Helmand than in any other province of Afghanistan this year, defending their territory in remote districts and ferociously pushing the war into government enclaves.
Control of Helmand was won over the past decade by thousands of British and American troops, and with their departure in 2014 the government’s hold began to slip. Insurgents were quick to take advantage. They spent the year making a slow pincer movement, closing in from north and south towards the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah. Over the past seven months, Taliban forces overran some of the most hard-won rural bases in southern Afghanistan, losses that went almost unnoticed in the media.
The losses are due as much to poor leadership of the Afghan army and police as to Taliban strengths. Corruption, desertion, “ghost soldiers” whose salaries are claimed by fraudulent commanders, and other problems have hampered efforts to stem the Taliban advance. But there is no question that the insurgent movement has poured resources into Helmand.
Their focus can be explained partly in economic terms. Afghanistan produces most of the world’s opium, and Helmand is the biggest single centre for production in the country, so whoever calls the shots in the province can get a sizeable share of drug business. The drug business was always an important source of funding for the insurgents, but it has become more so as opportunities for extortion and skimming from foreign forces started drying up, and wealthy Gulf donors began redirecting their cash to militant groups fighting closer to home.
But the lure of Helmand goes beyond its opium economy. The Taliban have put it at the centre of a long-term strategy to expand their reach in the south. They see it as a stepping stone to other areas and hope to make Helmand the first province they “liberate”, Taliban sources say. They even dream of turning it into a safe haven for leaders based in Pakistan. That would make their insistence that the whole leadership is on Afghan soil a reality.
To move top commanders, the Taliban would need to feel confident about holding core territory while driving Afghan security forces from the province and protecting their leaders from any raids. That would have been almost impossible when 60 Nato spy blimps were scattered across the province, watching fighters from the sky. There is now only one, Reuters recently reported.
It would still be difficult, but Helmand boasts good exit routes across the border to Pakistan or through neighbouring Nimruz province to Iran, and strong supply lines to other parts of Afghanistan. All the provinces surrounding Helmand have a strong Taliban footprint, with most of the adjacent districts already under insurgent control. That makes it easy for them to move in reinforcements, and difficult for government forces to besiege all of Helmand.
The Taliban can also count on the sympathy of the Ishaqzai tribe, who constitute a sizeable part of the province’s population. The current Taliban leader, Akhtar Mansour, and many in his close circle, are Ishaqzais and the tribe was alienated by the US forces and their Afghan allies in the early years after the fall of the Taliban regime.
The Taliban’s hopes of securing full control of Helmand may be overly optimistic for now, because the loss of Lashkar Gah would be such a devastating blow to morale and confidence that US and UK forces are likely to provide considerable support for some time to come.
The Taliban are also struggling with internal splits about leadership and whether to undertake peace talks, which could undermine their focus on the fighting in Helmand.
But if the government forces cannot rein in their own problems with corruption and attrition, it will still be hard to stop – much less reverse – the Taliban momentum in Helmand, and possibly beyond. And if the insurgents can consolidate even the advances they have made so far, it will be enough to make the province an important base for them and a heavy drain on government troops and resources for Kabul for many years to come.
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As I understand it, we've avoided doing anything kinetic about the poppy fields because we wanted to win the hearts and minds of the poppy farmers. Since that ship seems to have sailed, why not plow the poppy fields under and salt the earth? The money is either going to the Taliban or ISIS, depending on who gets thar fustest with the mostest.
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[ARA] HASAKAH – Warplanes of the U.S.-led coalition bombed on Sunday a convoy for the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah, military sources reported.
An ISIS convoy, consisting of four vehicles, were heading towards headquarters of the Kurdish forces near Mount Abdulaziz in Hasakah, before being hit with an airstrike by the western coalition.
“The radical group was preparing to launch car bomb attacks on our security headquarters in Mount Abdulaziz, but the cars were hit by a U.S.-led strike before reaching their targets,” a spokesman for the Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) told ARA News in Hasakah.
The source confirmed the death of the entire crew of the ISIS convoy.
“There is a high level of coordination between our leadership and the U.S.-led coalition,” he concluded.
Kurdish forces of the YPG regained Mount Abdulaziz in northeastern Syria after fierce clashes with ISIS militants in May.
[Beirut Daily Star] Germany has recruited 8,500 people to teach child refugees German, as the country expects the number of new arrivals to soar past the million mark in 2015, Die Welt daily reported Sunday.
With some 196,000 children fleeing war and poverty entering the German school system this year, 8,264 "special classes" have been created to help the new arrivals catch up with their peers, Die Welt said, citing a survey carried out in 16 German federal states.
"Some 8,500 additional teachers have been recruited nationwide," the daily said.
According to Germany's education authority, 325,000 school-age children reached the EU country in 2015, amid Europe's worst migration crisis since World War II.
Germany expects over a millon asylum seekers this year, which is five times more than in 2014 and has put a strain on its ability to provide services to all the newcomers.
"Schools and education administrations have never been confronted with such a challenge," Brunhild Kurth, who heads the education authority, told Die Welt.
"We must accept that this exceptional situation will become the norm for a long time to come."
Heinz-Peter Meidinger, head of the DPhV teachers' union, said Germany will in fact need up to 20,000 additional teachers in order to cater for the new numbers.
"By next summer, at the latest, we will feel that gap," he said.
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The female teachers will be wearing hijabs, right?
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Do they really think the 'refugees' will sent their little Jihaldi Darlings to a non Muslim school? The refugees will demand, and likely be granted Islamic school.
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No, Syrian families with small children are actually the least religious. Many come from an urban, middle class background and certainly harbor no jihadist ideas.
The earlier their children receive a proper education, the better.
According to German police Syrian families cause almost zero trouble (troublemakers are rather from Afghanistan, Kosovo or North Africa).
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[Beirut Daily Star] Iraqi forces have totally encircled the government complex in Ramadi, the last stronghold of ISIS bandidosforces of Evil in the western city, and are about to enter it, joint operations command front man Yahya Rasool told Rooters.
"We're clearing the buildings and streets around the complex of bombs in preparation to go in," he said. "I expect we will go into the complex in about an hour," he added.
Recapturing Ramadi, which fell to the bandidosforces of Evil in May, would be one of the most significant victories for Iraq's armed forces since ISIS swept across a third of the country in 2014.
The bandidosforces of Evil "seem to have fled the complex, we're not encountering any resistance," said Sabah al-Numani, a front man for the counterterrorism units that are leading the fight on the government side.
ISIS is awfully fond of digging tunnels...
"We're seeing lots of Daesh [Islamic State] (ISIS) bodies, killed in the air strikes on the compound," he told Rooters.
The Iraqi government forces are backed by air support from an international coalition led by the United States.
Shiite militias backed by Iran, which have played a major role in other offensive against ISIS, have been kept away by the Iraqi government from the battlefield in Ramadi to avoid sectarian tensions.
If the offensive in Ramadi succeeds, it will be the second main city to be retaken from ISIS after Tikrit, in April. Officials said it would be handed over to the local police and to a Sunni tribal force once secured.
Ali Dawood, the head of the neighbouring Khaldiya council, said IS fighters used civilians as human shields to slip out of the government complex.
"Daesh [Islamic State] fighters forced all the families living around the compound to go with them in order to flee towards Sichariyah, Sufiya and Jweiba," on the eastern outskirts of Ramadi, he said.
He had said on Saturday that more than 250 families had managed to escape the combat zones since the start of the operation and had been escorted to safety by the army. Some of them were in camps with other displaced people in Anbar, while others headed to Baghdad or the northern autonomous Kurdish region.
According to the International Organization for Migration, Anbaris account for more than a third of the 3.2 million Iraqis who have been forced from their homes since January 2014.
The U.S.-led coalition, which was heavily involved in supporting Iraqi forces in Ramadi, also congratulated them on the success of an operation that began soon after they lost the city in May.
"It is the result of many months of hard work by the Iraqi Army, the Counter Terrorism Service, the Iraqi Air Force, local and federal police and tribal fighters all supported by over 600 coalition air strikes since July," front man Colonel Steve Warren said.
According to medical sources, 93 members of the security forces were brought in with injuries on Sunday alone.
"The dead bodies are taken directly to the main military hospital" near the airport, said one hospital source.
At least five government fighters have been killed over the past two days alone, but no official has divulged any overall toll for the operation.
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The Saudi-led coalition battling rebels in Yemen says Saudi Arabia's Air Force has shot down a ballistic missile directed at the kingdom's southern border.
The coalition statement said on Sunday that Houthi rebels fired the missile overnight from Yemen's capital city of Sanaa toward Saudi Arabia's southwestern border city of Najran. The coalition said the Saudi Air Force reacted immediately and destroyed the launching pad inside Yemen. It was the second time in under a week that Saudi Arabia says Houthis have fired scud missiles toward its territory.
Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies in the Gulf have been bombing the Houthis since late March after the rebels overran the capital and other major Yemeni cities, forcing the internationally-backed government to temporarily flee the country.
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Intercepted, you say? The way any target 'intercepts' a missile? Or did they 'intercept' the second missile on the launch pad? English can be such a tricky language!
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – On Saturday, Baghdad Operations Command announced, that 44 ISIS elements were killed in the south of Fallujah cleansing battles, while a number of improvised explosive devices and booby-trapped houses were dismantled.
Baghdad Operations Command said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “The security forces in Baghdad Operations and the associated teams are advancing to liberate south of Fallujah areas,” indicating that, “44 terrorists were killed in the operation, while other elements were injured.”
The statement added, “The security operation resulted in the destruction of 3 vehicles equipped with machine-guns, in addition to dismantling 85 explosive devices and 12 booby-trapped houses.”
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[ARA] Rebel fighters of Jaish al-Islam ...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful... (Islam Army) bombed on Saturday Syrian regime's security headquarters in the capital Damascus, killing dozens of pro-Assad troops, military sources reported.
"At least 28 pro-Assad security forces were killed and dozens more maimed in a strategic operation by fighters of Jaish al-Islam," the group said in a statement on Saturday.
"Forces of Jaish al-Islam have infiltrated into security headquarters of pro-Assad troops in Joubar neighborhood in Damascus and detonated a large amount of explosives," the leadership of Jaish al-Islam said.
This comes only one day after a Russian Arclight airstrike, coordinated with Syrian regime's intelligence, hit a building in Damascus suburb where leading members of the rebel group were meeting. The top leader and founder of Jaish al-Islam Zahran Alloush was among those killed in the Arclight airstrike on Friday.
Speaking to ARA News in Damascus, media activist Zuher al-Ghoutani said that the bombardment of the regime's security headquarters in Joubar comes in response to the killing of Alloush.
"A state of alert hit the ranks of pro-Assad troops in Joubar and other areas of Damascus after the operation of Jaish al-Islam, that claimed lives of dozens of security forces," al-Ghoutani said. "The regime's troops imposed a curfew on several districts across Damascus in a bid to minimize the chance for the rebels to move or infiltrate into other regime headquarters in the capital."
On Friday, a Russian Arclight airstrike hit rebel headquarters in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus countryside. "The Russian Arclight airstrike hit a building near Misraba district of Eastern Ghouta, where major rebel commanders of al-Islam Army were holding a meeting, including the prominent leader of the group Zahran Alloush," media activist and rebel front man Jihad Mustafa told ARA News in Damascus.
The raid has also claimed lives of several leading members of the group, including the deputy of Alloush.
Zahran Alloush is the founder of al-Islam Army, the largest rebel group in Damascus province. He had led rebel operations against pro-Assad army in Damascus and its countryside for nearly three years after deserting the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) and establishing his own rebel group. Regime-held districts of Damascus have been repeatedly exposed to bombardment by the rebels of al-Islam Army.
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[TheHill] The U.S. military is seeking to craft a “new narrative” for the war against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), in part to push back on the growing perception that President Obama does not have a strategy.
The poor darlings.
Military officials on the Operation Inherent Resolve task force have recently formed a working group to formulate a "new narrative," defense officials told The Hill.
Remember the old days, when the military wargamed strategies and tactics against clear objectives? Life was so much simpler then.
Separately, the Joint Staff has drafted its own messaging document. The steps are preliminary, and are part of a larger effort to better communicate the U.S.'s military strategy amid heavy criticism from Republican presidential candidates who say Obama is losing the battle against the terrorist group.
It is not clear who is overseeing or directing the effort, which appears to be internally driven within the military. Still, the focus on messaging is in sync with the White House, which has said it needs to do a better job communicating the ISIS strategy to the public.
Obama earlier this week in an interview with NPR suggested that the administration has not done enough to publicize progress in the ISIS war. The White House has undertaken a flurry of activity over the past month to highlight the military campaign against ISIS.
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Monday rejected the idea that weak messaging is to blame for rising public fears about terrorism. The issue was not with "a communications plan" to defeat ISIS but rather over the need for a "comprehensive plan to destroy this enemy and protect our homeland," a statement from Ryan’s office said. But the administration clearly disagrees.
The task force's near-term plan is to get the new narrative done within the next several weeks, to present to Army Gen. Sean McFarland, the U.S. commander overseeing the ISIS war.
The messaging effort comes as the U.S.-led coalition is seeing some success in Iraq. Iraqi forces retook the Beiji oil refinery from ISIS in October, Kurdish peshmerga forces retook Sinjar from ISIS in November, and Iraqi forces are on the brink of retaking Ramadi.
Those successes have been muted, however, by ISIS terrorist attacks in Paris in November and a mass shooting in San Bernardino in December where one of the attackers had pledged allegiance to ISIS.
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In the worst-case, CAN A OWG-NWO MARXIST-COMMIE-GLOBALIST AMERIKA UNDER OWG + NAU + RELATED SUCCESSFULLY CONTROL THE GLOBAL ISLAMIST-JIAHDIST NUCLEAR CALIPHATE???
Similarly, IS A SOLE SUPERPOWER USA STILL A SUPERPOWER IFF IT BOTH UNILATERALLY PULLS OUT OF EAST ASIA + GIVES UP 1/2 OF THE PACIFIC TO MILPOL OR GEOPOL RIVALS + WANNABES, + ALSO UNILATERALLY PULLS OUT OF EUROPE, ETC. + GIVES UP 1/2 OF THE ATLANTIC TO SAME.
The Guam Locals I've talked with, to include University Professors, say "NO".
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Hey Private, Run out to that field and grab a F@*Load of strawmen, put them on the duce and a half, and deliver them to 1600 PEN Avenue in DC, mmmmmkay?
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the Joint Staff has drafted its own messaging document.
It is phrasing like this that disgusts and therefore turns off any normal productive person. SAHMs, plumbers, auto-repair people, etc. KNOW what this means and recognize it for the pseudo-intelligent babble that it is.
People who seriously use this type of language are automatically discounted as worthless.
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New narrative: "We win. They lose."
Hey, it worked before. Or we could go with an update of the Halsey Narrative: "When we're through with them, the Japanese language will be spoken only in Hell." (Which, fortunately for all, did not entirely work.)
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The spin-machine started up before the holidays. ABC News, The Washington Post, AyPee, Rooters, Slate, etc. have all been slathering on articles and opinion pieces about how the President has been unfairly treated and how he's being magnanimous about it:
"President Obama sees his current poor ratings in polls as stemming from a failure to communicate. Aides say that he plans to spend more time next year explaining his policies and describing what he has been doing both to defeat ISIS abroad and to stop acts of terrorism at home."
[AnNahar] Dutch police said three men were in detention Sunday after a late-night brawl at a refugee center in the city of Arnhem left four people slightly hurt.
The Saturday night fight was the latest of a series of incidents which have flared in the Netherlands as it copes with a record influx of asylum seekers this year amid a Europe-wide crisis which has sharply divided public opinion here.
The three men under arrest were aged 24, 25 and 26. One came from Tilburg and two from Arnhem.
About 15 people were involved, the Dutch police said in a statement, adding the incident was being investigated and "the reason for the fight is not yet known."
Contacted by AFP, a police front man said no further information was immediately available.
The Dutch news agency, ANP, said one of the injured might have to be operated on for a broken nose. He also suffered an injury to his eye.
Arnhem, in the eastern Netherlands, is just one of the places where tens of thousands of refugees are being housed as their request for asylum is processed.
The Netherlands took in a record 54,000 refugees in the first 11 months of 2015 fleeing conflicts in the Middle East and Africa.
But tensions have at times spilled over into violence in local and national debate ... an expenditure of personal wind at the national level that leads to face-making and other histrionics but can't be shown to have ever solved an issue ... s about the issue.
Earlier this month, police fired warning shots to break up a riot in the central village of Geldermalsen, which erupted over plans to open a refugee center for some 1,500 migrants.
In a Christmas Day message, King Willem-Alexander called on his people to stand by those in need and not to let fear about their future overwhelm them.
"Of course we want to protect what is dear to us. We can't stop or deny feelings of fear. But we mustn't hand it (fear) the reins of our life and allow it to dominate our society," the king warned.
The Dutch people "cannot crawl back into our shell" but need courage and dignity to work together "in turbulent times" and to show "solidarity with those who really need our help."
[Dawn] QUETTA: Rockets fired from across the Iranian border exploded in Mashkel tehsil of Kharan district on Sunday, official sources said.
However, no casualty was reported.
They said several rockets exploded near some houses in the Aahogo area, creating fear and panic among residents. Panicked people ran out of their houses as rockets were exploding at brief intervals, they added.
Soon after the attack personnel of Frontier Corps and Levies Force reached the area.
A Levies official said Pakistani officials had registered protest with Iranian border authorities over the rocket attack.
[HOSTED.AP.ORG] Should those irreconcilable differences suddenly become reconcilable, don't go looking to get un-divorced in New Hampshire.
The state's Supreme Court this month upheld a lower court ruling refusing to vacate a New Castle couple's 2014 divorce after 24 years of marriage.
Terrie Harmon and her ex-husband, Thomas McCarron, argued on appeal that their divorce decree was erroneous because they mended fences and are a couple once more. But the justices, in a unanimous ruling issued Dec. 2, said the law specifically allows them to grant divorces - not undo them.
Courts in some states - including Illinois, Nebraska, Mississippi, Arkansas, Maryland and Kentucky - will vacate divorces within a certain time frame or under certain circumstances, at the parties' request. Others - including New York and South Dakota - maintain they, like New Hampshire, have no statutory authority to undo a divorce.
Attorney Joshua Gordon, appointed to defend the lower court's ruling, said allowing the couple's divorce to be undone could jeopardize the finality of all divorces.
"Divorce is a uniquely fraught area of litigation," Gordon argued. "For divorced couples, it is often important to have the solace of knowing that their former spouse is indeed former."
Harmon and McCarron did not return calls seeking the answer to the question: Why not just remarry?
They were married in 1989 and filed for divorce in January 2014; the divorce decree was finalized in July that same year. In March, they filed a joint motion to vacate the decree.
New Hampshire law does allow for divorces to be set aside for reasons of fraud, accident, mistake or misfortune. Gordon said that none of those circumstances happened in the Harmon-McCarron divorce and that any adverse financial consequences the couple claimed were "self-imposed."
He said it's his understanding they had several reasons for trying to vacate the decree.
"I think it was partly sentimental, and partly that they had some business interests that a divorce and remarry would be more complicated than undoing the divorce," Gordon said.
Harmon, a lawyer, argued in court papers that a couple shouldn't have to show the decree was legally flawed if they reconcile. She said that test is "designed to balance the interests of adverse parties," not those who want to get back together.
Attorney Kysa Crusco, head of the family law section of the New Hampshire Bar Association, said Harmon's argument was "creative" but the law and prior New Hampshire rulings are clear.
"People just have to be cautious in making sure divorce is what they really want," she said.
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"I think it was partly sentimental, and partly that they had some business interests that a divorce and remarry would be more complicated than undoing the divorce," Gordon said.
My best guess - a divorce would force a division / sale of assets, probably the alluded to business, for which capital gains taxes would be incurred, and they can't afford to pay the tax involved.
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My best guess - a divorce would force a division / sale of assets, probably the alluded to business, for which capital gains taxes would be incurred, and they can't afford to pay the tax involved.
Bingo, raj! Somebody didn't read the fine print.
And the lesson here is "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes"
[Ynet] Two soldiers hurt in stabbing near Hawara checkpoint; two bully boyz rubbed out; in early morning attack, soldier stabbed near J'lem's Central Bus Terminal, and fought off his attacker; terrorist was overpowered, incarcerated. Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
Two soldiers were maimed on Sunday afternoon in a stabbing attack at Hawara checkpoint in the West Bank, hours after another soldier as lightly maimed in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem.
Givati Brigade soldiers were in the middle of a routine operation on Highway 60 near the town of Hawara, south of Nablus. They spotted two suspicious men and got out of their jeep to ask for their papers. The bully boyz took out their papers, then began to stab the soldier who was checking their papers. The soldiers shot and killed both attackers. )
One soldier was moderately maimed in the knee from the stabbing, while the other was lightly-to-moderately maimed in his face from friendly fire. Both were taken to the Beilinson Hospital at Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikva.
The bully boyz were Muhammad Sabana,17, and Noor al-Deen Sabana, 23, from Qabatiya in the northern West Bank.
Early Sunday morning, a 21-year-old soldier was stabbed near Jerusalem's Central Bus Station. He was lightly maimed. A security guard nearby neutralized the terrorist.
Magen David Adom medics treated the soldier who was suffering from a stab wound to his upper body. He was taken to Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem's Ein Karem.
The terrorist, about 30 years old, was on Tzvi Street in Jerusalem and saw a soldier on his way to the Central Bus Station. He stabbed the soldier in the back and then tried to stab him a second time but the soldier fought back and pushed his attacker to the ground.
A security guard who witnessed the attack overcame the terrorist. Police at the bus station ran to the scene and arrested him.
The stabbed soldier recounted to his parents what happened: "I was walking to the Central Bus Terminal when I felt a blow on my back. I thought it was a friend from behind saying hello and it took me a moment to realize that it was a terrorist attack and that I had been stabbed. I saw someone continue walking and then stop, he looked at me and started to run.
"All of a sudden I noticed he was carrying a knife. Everything happened so fast, I did not understand what was happening. I chased after him and grabbed his hand holding the knife and we both fell backwards. Luckily I fell on his hand so he could not stab me. I grabbed his face with my other hand and screamed for help and a security guard came and took control of him."
The soldier enlisted in the Artillery Corps three weeks ago. He was discharged from the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem's Ein Karem and will be able to participate in the inauguration of his unit in about a week. His parents, who made aliyah a few years ago, were happy that their son was only lightly maimed. "Thank God he's alright and we're happy that he's coming home," said his mother.
Also on Sunday, a Paleostinian woman armed with a knife was spotted on the road to Ma'ale Shomron. She dropped the knife and tried to escape when the settlement's head of security drove towards her, but was caught. Another Paleostinian woman was caught with a knife as she was passing by a checkpoint in Hebron. She was detained and questioned.
A police officer was lightly maimed from stone-throwing at HaOkfim Junction near Kiryat Arba on Sunday morning.
[ARA] Iraqi Kurdish forces carried out a commando operation near Hawijah in which several senior members of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) were captured or killed, local and security sources said Saturday.
The operation involved helicopters and bore similarities with a joint raid elite Kurdish troops conducted in October with U.S. special forces also near Hawijah, the sources said.
Local Iraqi security officials said the raid took place overnight in the town of Riyadh, south east of ISIS-held Hawijah and south-west of Kurdish-controlled Kirkuk.
"The operation targeted a Daesh [Islamic State] (ISIS) hideout," said Sarhad Qadir, a police brigadier general in Kirkuk district.
"A fight erupted between the two sides which led to the death of several Daesh [Islamic State] members and the arrest of another group of them," he told AFP.
Qadir and other officials said a local ISIS leader called Hussein al-Assafi was among those killed in the operation.
Some sources said the raid was a joint operation with U.S. commandos but the U.S.-led anti-ISIS coalition's front man, Colonel Steve Warren, denied any involvement.
Rokan Mekhlef Jassem, a police captain from Hawijah, said nine IS members were detained and 12 killed, but no confirmation was immediately available from the government of the autonomous Kurdish region.
Ibrahim al-Juburi, an official in the Hawijah mayor's office before the area was taken over by ISIS last year, also confirmed a raid on a jihadist hideout.
He said Assafi was a member of the Islamic Army from 2003 to 2010 and then of the Ansar al-Sunna Lion of Islam group.
He pledged allegiance when ISIS took over in June 2014 and was made a bad boy chief in Riyadh, Juburi said.
Iraqi forces, including fighters from the Popular Mobilisation paramilitary organization and from the Kurdish peshmerga, have been slowly closing in on Hawijah in recent months.
Kurdish anti-terrorism forces and U.S. special forces conducted a raid on October 23 during which 70 captives described as facing imminent execution were freed.
A U.S. serviceman died of wounds sustained during the brazen operation, which seemed to mark a break from Washington's declared "no boots on the ground policy."
The U.S. defense secretary, Ashton Carter, said the next day that he expected more such raids in the future.
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QUETTA: Two persons were injured in a clash between two groups in Barkhan. Levies said on Sunday that two groups developed a dispute over a petty issue and attacked each other.
“Two men received injuries in a clash,” it said adding that the injured were shifted to hospital. The injured were identified as Mushtaq Ahmed and Sher Zaman. The levies force has been investigating into the incident. Further probe is underway.
[IsraelTimes] A dozen jacket wallahs may have been involved in Jihadist group's assault on Maiduguri, the city where it was founded
Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... Islamic bully boyz struck the northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... n city of Maiduguri for the first time in months Monday with rocket-propelled grenades and multiple suicide bombers, witnesses said. At least 15 people were killed but the toll was feared many times higher.
Nigerian troops "intercepted and destroyed" 10 suicide bombers, according to PR Nigeria, an agency that disseminates government news.
Maiduguri, the city under attack, is the birthplace of Boko Haram, which emerged as a much more radical entity after Nigerian security forces attacked their compound there, killing 700 people in 2009.
Militants firing indiscriminately from the back of three trucks attacked the outlying village of Dawari, soldiers engaged them, and as people were fleeing, a woman ran into a suburb yelling "Boko Haram, Boko Haram." When people gathered, she detonated herself, according to village head Bulama Isa.
As the chaos reigned and a rocket-propelled grenade went kaboom!, setting alight grass-thatched huts, a second woman blew herself up, according to Isa. The village chief, 10 of his children and others were killed in Duwari, an outlying suburb of Maiduguri, according to residents Ahmed Bala and Umar Ibrahim.
"The troops laid ambush on the terrorists' suspected routes. ...The suicide bombers were intercepted in three different locations approaching the city," PR Nigeria said, quoting the military.
The area is close to Giwa Barracks, a major military base attacked several times in the past by the murderous Moslems. In January 2014, Boko Haram attacked the base and freed hundreds of detainees. Nigeria's military is accused by human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. groups of killing thousands of detainees there.
The attack comes as Nigeria's government says it has contained the Islamic uprising that has killed 20,000 people in six years and driven 2.3 million people from their homes.
The government claim is impossible to ascertain in an area where access is dangerous and restricted by the military.
But the report of the attack, a few dozen murderous Moslems in three trucks, is a far cry from previous attacks by hundreds of snuffies including tanks stolen from the military.
It could bear out the government's report that most terrorist hideouts have been destroyed and they are reduced to seeking "soft targets" through suicide kabooms.
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[Tolo News] Gunmen affiliated to Zahir Qadir, the first deputy speaker of the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of Parliament), reportedly killed nine Daesh [Islamic State] fighters and allegedly beheaded four of them in Achin district in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. on Saturday.
After beheading the Daesh [Islamic State] fighters the gunnies reportedly placed their decapitated heads on piles of rocks on a busy road for motorists to see, TOLOnews news hound Ziar Khan reported.
He said alleged Daesh [Islamic State] fighters raised their flag in Deh Sarak village in Achin on Saturday and took five gunnies affiliated to Zahir Qadir hostage before beheading them.
The two groups reportedly clashed with each other from 9am to 12am on Saturday.
In a bid to reportedly take Dire Revenge for the killing of their colleagues, Ziar reported the gunnies affiliated to Qadir started clashing with Daesh [Islamic State] fighters at around 12pm on Saturday night which resulted in the death of nine Daesh [Islamic State] fighters.
The gunnies who recently took up arms to fight Daesh [Islamic State]bully boyz in the area said they did this to avenge the killing by the Lions of Islam of four of their own members.
"We came here and attacked them ... our members were martyred," said one of the gunnies.
Another gunman said: "They took our colleagues and beheaded them and we attacked them and beheaded them [Daesh [Islamic State] fighters]."
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory the smoke and fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight... Haji Ghalib, district chief for Achin, criticized the move and said it was the job of the courts to punish the alleged Daesh [Islamic State] fighters.
"If they were criminals then they had to be punished by judicial organizations but they punished them like a kangaroo court. This should not have happened," the district chief said.
Qadir meanwhile hailed the move by the gunnies and said this act was done by members of a public uprising.
"Government is not aware of a public uprising. The conflict started at 9am and ended at around 12am [Saturday]," he asked.
But a number of senators in the Meshrano Jirga have criticized the incident.
"It was better if they were jugged Please don't kill me! . It is good to fight against them," said Senator Jawed Rauf.
"Those anti-government elements that are arrested by government or security forces should be sent to judicial organizations and they should decide about their fate," Abdul Rauf Nahzat, anther senator said.
The Interior Ministry and Independent Human Rights Commission meanwhile would not comment on the incident.
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[Dhaka Tribune] The remains of the bomb that went off in the Baghmara Ahmadiyya mosque on Friday have similarities with the hand grenades seized from a JMB den in Dhaka's Mirpur, an investigator has said.
Seeking anonymity, a member of the police team investigating the mosque blast told the Dhaka Tribune that the outer shell of the bomb is a GI pipe connector.
Galvanised Iron or GI pipes are generally used in water supply networks. The use of GI pipe connectors in making bombs was unheard of until now.
The investigator also said that one end of the connector was sealed and the other end had a two-inch opening.
Asked about kind of substance used in the bomb, Abul Kalam Azad, investigating officer of the Baghmara blast, said that they had sent samples to the Department of Explosives in Dhaka. Azad also said that he did not know anything about the similarities.
Three days ago, during a 14-hour drive in a residential apartment in Dhaka's Mirpur, a joint team of law enforcers seized 17 handmade improvised grenades along with a huge cache of bomb-making parapharnalia.
Sources said after the drive that the seized bombs were similar to those that were set off in the middle of a Shia procession preparation in Dhaka in October. These improvised grenades have pins just like military grenades but do not go off if the pin is removed; they explode only after hitting a hard surface.
Until yesterday, local police have made very little progress in the probe into the mosque blast, with why the attack was made and who did it still unknown.
Investigators are also not sure whether it was a suicide kaboom or if the bomb went of accidentally.
Baghmara residents have told Dhaka Tribune's Kamrul Hasan, who is now in the area, that they had seen two unknown people standing outside the mosque and they quickly fled the area after the blast.
Police are still to identify the young man who was carrying the bomb and got killed in the kaboom. Finger print samples have been sent to the office of Police's Special Branch in Dhaka who will match the samples with the information stored in the government's National ID database.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Don Smilzo looked for an avenue of escape. The only window opened a hundred feet above the moat. The nearest of the hired assassins hold a bloody axe.
The window was looking better all the time.... Quantum Foundation yesterday administered the burial of the dead attacker at the Hatemkha graveyard in the Rajshahi city as the young man was still to be identified.
Yesterday, Mubassirul Islam, national Ameer of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at of Bangladesh, visited the mosque and the three people who got injured in the kaboom.
"An outsider carried out the attack in order to destablise and create division in the country's Muslim community," he said.
Urging the government to find the criminal mastermind behind the attack, Mubassirul said: "The law enforcement agencies have some successes but they will have to show greater efficiency in fighting the murderous Moslems and exposing them."
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[Dhaka Tribune] Detectives seized a state-of-the-art sniper rifle and army uniforms and badges among other things by busting a JMB den in Chittagong's Hathazari upazila yesterday.
The drive was conducted on the basis of information given by three Chittagong University students -- all from the physics department -- incarcerated Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! in different parts of the port city a day before.
Police are saying that this is the first time they had recovered an MK-11 sniper rifle from Lions of Islam in country. It is a powerful semiautomatic American made sniper rifle used by the US Navy that can destroy any target within a 1,500-yard radius.
Only if the person pulling the trigger is in the habit of hitting the center of the littlest circle on the target, though. Otherwise it will hit something 1,5000 yards away, but probably not the intended target.
The seizure list also includes 250 MK-11 rifle bullets, 12 sets of army uniform, a rank badge of an army major, nameplates, magazines, five kilograms of power gel, 10 detonators, a huge cache of bomb-making materials, Jihadi books, confidential organizational documents of JMB
Whee! Lots more arrests to follow!
and maps.
The arrestees -- all members of the outlawed holy warrior organization Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh The JMB is said to be the youth front of Al Mujahideen, the parent organization that began working toward establishing Bangladesh as an Islamic state in the mid 1990s which remains obscure even today. Other organizations, such as Jama'atul Jihad, JMB, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), Hizbut Tawhid, Tawhidi Janata, Islami Jubo Shangha, Islami Shangha, Al Falah A'am Unnayan Shanstha and Shahadat-e al Hiqma are believed to be part of the Al Mujahideen network. The JMB at its peak was reported to contain at least 100,000 members, and an alleged 2,000-man suicide brigade, few of whom actually exploded. JMB allegedly received financial assistance from individual donors in Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Libya. Reports have claimed that funding of JMB by international NGOs like Kuwait based Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage (RIHS) and Doulatul Kuwait, Saudi Arabia based Al Haramaine Islamic Institute and Rabita Al Alam Al Islami, Qatar Charitable Society and UAE-based Al Fuzaira and Khairul Ansar Al Khairia. The top leadership of JMB was captured in 2005 and hung in 2007, which pretty much shot their bolt. (JMB) -- are Naimur Rahman alias Nayon, 25, Faisal Mahmud, 26, and Md Sawkat Rasel, 26, said sources from the Detective Branch (DB) of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP).
This comes just three days after police in Dhaka busted a major explosives workshop set up by JMB Lions of Islam in an apartment in Mirpur.
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Babul Akhtar, additional deputy commissioner (ADC) of Chittagong DB, told the Dhaka Tribune: "DB raided the house of one Ishaq in the Jaynab Colony area [in Hathazari] at midnight and conducted the drive until 5am to recover the arms and ammunition."
The three Lions of Islam had been arrested on information given by JMB men in jug. Naimur and Rasel were nabbed from the city's Panchlaish area and Faisal from Nalapara on Saturday.
He also said Fardin, chief of JMB's Chittagong chapter, rented the three-room house on the ground floor of a building in the Jaynab Colony of Hathazari some months ago. Fardin introduced himself as Nafis, a businessmen, and said he would live there with his wife and a child. The house was being used as an armoury for JMB and the place for coordinating the root-level activities of the outfit.
Chittagong DB Sub-Inspector (SI) Sontosh Chakma told the Dhaka Tribune: "Fardin alias Noman is also a student of physics at Chittagong University. The three members arrested on Saturday got involved with the holy warrior organization on Fardin's encouragement."
The SI also said: "Fardin maintained contact with JMB through Facebook, e-mail and other Internet platforms."
A diary that detectives recovered during yesterday's drive says that Fardin got his "training" from the JMB in 2010.
On October 5, police busted another JMB den in the port city's Khoaj Nagar area and arrested five JMB Lions of Islam and seized nine handmade grenades, a foreign-made pistol, and 120 bullets.
On the following day, one of the Lions of Islam was killed in a grenade kaboom when detectives took him to conduct another drive in the city's Oxygen area.
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Where did they get these? Something from when Iraqi forces ran like sissies when ISIS took Ramadi?
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.
It was a classic "Putin moment."
[Tolo News] Local officials said Sunday that six members of one family have been killed by unknown 
Pervez 
[Daily Excelsior] Troops of Rashtriya Rifles battalion of Counter Insurgency Romeo Force today averted major tragedy when it detected and defused powerful TNT filled Improvised Explosive Device (IED), fitted by the 
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – On Sunday, the Iraqi Ministry of Interior announced, that the Commander of the so-called ISIS military council was killed, in addition to dozens of the organization’s leaders in Anbar.
Attacking astride bicycles, the jihadists invaded Kimba village in flashpoint Borno state around 10:00 pm on Friday, opening fire on residents and torching their homes.
[DAWN] Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday that Muslims must improve the image of their religion, which has been tarnished by the violence of hardliner groups such as 
chairman of one of the two factions of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front. JKLF is a Kashmiri nationalist organization founded in Birmingham, UK in 1977. Branches weren't actually established in Kashmir for another ten years. It has the usual demands for separation of J&K from secular India so it can become an independent Islamic rathole. It seems to have no interest in Pak Kashmir breaking away to join it. In 1994 Malik renounced violence after he was released from jail and from that point he and his organization pursued peaceful means to impose their will on the region...
The Somali Islamist group al Shabaab said it ambushed a Kenyan security vehicle in remote northeastern Kenya on Sunday, killing four members of the security forces. The Kenyan Red 
Iraq's army declared victory over Daesh fighters in a provincial capital west of Baghdad on Sunday, the first major triumph for the US-trained force since it collapsed in the face of an assault by the militants 18 months ago. After encircling the city for weeks, the Iraqi military launched a campaign to retake it last week, and made a final push to seize the central administration complex on Sunday.
[ARA] 
[Tolo News] Embattled 
[AAWSAT] Yemeni Foreign Minister Abdel-Malek al-Mekhlafi said that 70 percent of Yemeni territory is under the control of the legitimate government.
[RUDAW.NET] ERBIL, Kurdistan Region- A report by the Nineveh police department on 
The Saudi-led coalition battling rebels in Yemen says Saudi Arabia's Air Force has shot down a ballistic missile directed at the kingdom's southern border.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – On Saturday, Baghdad Operations Command announced, that 44 ISIS elements were killed in the south of Fallujah cleansing battles, while a number of improvised explosive devices and booby-trapped houses were dismantled.
...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful...
[ARA] Iraqi Kurdish forces carried out a commando operation near Hawijah in which several senior members of the 
[IsraelTimes] A dozen 
[Tolo News] Gunmen affiliated to Zahir Qadir, the first deputy speaker of the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of Parliament), reportedly killed nine 
