Moved to Page 3 Oops North Korea deliberately detonated a missile during its failed weekend test because the rocket was heading for Russia, it has been claimed.
Pyongyang test-fired a ballistic weapon on Saturday despite warnings from the US that failure to curb its nuclear and rocket trials could lead to 'catastrophic consequences'.
The missile travelled 30 miles before crashing down on an inland part of North Korea.
But it has since been claimed that Kim Jong-un's spooked officials deliberately exploded the KN-17 device shortly after launch fearing it had been fired towards Russia by accident.
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The first order of action against North Korea is to immediately destroy and occupy all ICBM launch sites. Stealth fighters followed by stealth helicopters bringing in Seals is the first order of battle.
[AP] ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistan's army says it has repelled an attack by militants from across the border in Afghanistan that targeted two of its checkpoints, killing three of the attackers.
It says several militants were wounded as they fled back across the porous boundary. The army says Tuesday's incident took place in the South Waziristan tribal region, where the military has been conducting operations since mid-2014 to rout militants from the area
Islamabad alleges that Pakistani militants hide across the border in neighboring Afghanistan, from where they plot attacks inside Pakistan.
Kabul denies Pakistani allegations that it condones the militant sanctuaries.
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That would be the Tehrik-i-Taliban, whom Pakistan consider the renegade Taliban, the ones who attack in Pakistan; the good Taliban are the ones who attack in Afghanistan as the ISI orders them.
The U.S. State Department issued a travel alert for Europe on Monday, saying U.S. citizens should be aware of a continued threat of terrorist attacks throughout the continent.
In the alert, the State Department cited recent incidents in France, Russia, Sweden and the United Kingdom and said Islamic State and al Qaeda "have the ability to plan and execute terrorist attacks in Europe."
The State Department's previous travel alert for Europe, issued ahead of the winter holiday season, expired in February. A State Department official said Monday's alert was not prompted by a specific threat, but rather recognition of the continuing risk of attacks especially ahead of the summer holidays. The alert expires on Sept. 1.
Malls, government facilities, hotels, clubs, restaurants, places of worship, parks, airports and other locations are all possible targets for attacks, the State Department's alert said.
[The Hill] IS THE GAS TAX ON THE TABLE? President Trump on Monday floated raising the gasoline tax to pay for a roads and bridges improvement package, adding a new twist to the upcoming congressional debate over spending on infrastructure.
In an interview with Bloomberg News, Trump said he would "certainly consider" a gas tax hike "if we earmarked money toward the highways."
The gas tax last went up under President Clinton. There is little appetite among most conservatives for raising the gas tax now, though some Republicans have supported proposals to increase it, as many states have done.
Trump has made passing a $1 trillion infrastructure package a top priority for his first term in office. He is also pushing for an overhaul of the federal tax code, though he did not include a boosted gas tax in the proposal the White House released last week.
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also pushing for an overhaul of the federal tax code, though he did not include a boosted gas tax in the proposal the White House released last week
Not sure how the tax code and the budget are related, Mx. Journalist, but the boosted gas tax might reduce the deficit, which might save one of your progressive pet projects, at least for this year.
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Wasn't the gas tax money already earmarked for infrastructure?
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Fuel taxes are generally cents per gallon, which helps keep revenue flow stable when prices are wildly fluctuating, but in a generally inflationary environment the tax revenue does not keep pace. What to do, what to do? Aha! A ratchet tax, set at percentage when prices are rising and cents per gallon when they are falling!
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Effective 1 November 2017, the California excise tax on gas goes to 30 cents per gallon, with another 9.8 cents sales tax on the total amount (yes. Sales tax on the underlying excise tax). This 12 cent per gallon increase was passed so the Peoples Republic of California could repair the existing roads that rival Guatemala for their condition. We were promised it would oh be for Two years and then would revert back to existing levels by Jerry, so I'm sure the Prez will exempt us from even higher gas prices. No really.....
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And by raising the gas tax those that have electric cars don't have to pay for the roads they use. Since Tesla already gets massive government subsidies this is like double screwing the taxpayer.
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Funny how California needs more money to fix the roads yet when I drive around Southern California I notice that Orange County is finding the money to keep their roads rather nice while Los Angeles appears to pay people to destroy the highways or something.
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Never was about the roads RJ. Just before they raised taxes they were begging Washington for money to pay their current bills. Now that they have raised taxes to repair "roads", the beggars have stopped begging.
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We don't have a revenue problem. We have a spending problem.
But if you want to discuss gas taxes, OK. Let's start by adding up all of the current taxes on fuel, then accounting for where that existing money is going. Let's publish that data so that every American knows how much he is paying and what he is getting for that money. If Americans still support raising the gas tax after that, then so be it.
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Remembering that every mention of something President Trump is pondering is the opening move in a negotiation, with whom is he negotiating here, and about what?
[Breitbart] Every nation is free to vote for the political leaders it wants, said Pope Francis Saturday, while Europe itself is in danger of "falling apart."
"Every country is free to make the choices it believes are right for itself. I cannot judge if it is making this choice for this reason or another, because I do not know its internal politics," Francis said, in reference to the upcoming French presidential elections.
We must "respect people’s opinions, honest opinions of a political discussion," he said.
During the return flight from Egypt to Rome on Saturday, the Pope granted a press conference to the journalists aboard the papal flight, during which he was asked about the populist movements expanding in Europe.
Virginie Riva of the French group, "Radio Europe 1," made direct reference to the French presidential elections, claiming that French Catholics "are being forced to vote for either a populist or an extremist, and they are divided and confused." Late last month, a first round of elections reduced the list of presidential candidates to Marine Le Pen of the Front National party and Emmanuel Macron of the "En Marche!" party. The final, run-off vote will take place on May 7.
Francis confessed that "I do not understand French internal politics," but repeated the principle that every country is free to make the choices it believes are right for itself.
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Europe would be better served and more stable if it were served by a common culture and religious sensibility than it has been by a common currency.
Pay attention to that and to the Muslim invasion, Your Holiness.
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So true nmu. You can't have a successful democracy without a demos, a people with a common culture and understanding of the world in which they live.
If you try and force a conglomeration of tribes together you get trouble. Europe has never been united enough to have a common government but there are always those willing to act as the "interim" dictator.
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Pope should promote uniting African countries where they have real issues that could be resolved if they truly believed in something greater than their tribe.
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This is the same pope that said Europe should welcome all the Islamic refugees and let them into Europe homes. He is more in line with anarchists than he is with Christians.
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Strange, the Pope has been soft on the invasion of Europe by northern Africans and Mid-eastern immigrants into Europe and now he is concerned about Europe falling apart? That's kind of like Obama saying he is sorry that police officers are being shot and yet he has encouraged this via his anti-police policies.
[RT] New crime numbers show the murder rate in Chicago is keeping up with the record set in 2016, while homicides in Baltimore have reached such alarming levels that the mayor is getting federal assistance and requesting more support from the FBI.
For the first time in nearly 20 years, the city of Baltimore, Maryland, has experienced more than 100 murders before the end of April. After five people were killed last weekend, the total number of homicides in 2017 ticked up to 108, according to the Baltimore Sun. The last time the city experienced more murders by this point was 1993.
Since the population was greater in 1993, this year marks the city’s highest murder rate per capita ever, according to the Baltimore Sun. The murder rate in the city is up more than 30 percent compared to last year. Violent crime, shootings and robberies have also gone up by double-digit percentages from last year.
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in Baltimore there are some particularly violent gangs - one, calling themselves the Murderland Mafia, is a offshoot of the Blood, another calling themselves, Black Gorillas - they have been battling for territory
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No MS-13 in Balt.? Not yet?
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if i were a police officer there, I would punch in and punch out, since the citizenry and political structure is ungrateful.
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M-13 was active in Baltimore up until a few years ago -- police and federal action took out most of the leaders and stash -- M-13 is probably making a recovery now in Balt given the lower level of policing
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Wall off all the Vibrant! parts of the country, make virtue signalling liberals live in those same places, and let natural selection do its work.
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Article at Zerohedge today about how 51% of the murders occur in 2% of the counties. Correlation between murder rate and population density is very striking.
[AnNahar] The number of bully boyz spread out in some of Leb's outskirts have remarkably dwindled due to the army's measures, which makes any military operation to entirely liberate the outskirts much easier than before, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Monday.
Security and intelligence reports said the number of bad boy groups has decreased significantly because of the Lebanese army's siege, in addition to members who get killed as the result of army shelling. Reports have shown that no more than 500 bad boy fighters still exist on the outskirts which makes a military action against them much easier than before, said the daily.
A senior military source told the newspaper: "The army is studying its plans well and is ready for any confrontation, including the liberation of the outskirts. The political decision is available, but accurate calculations are made for any battle.
"The US permanent military aid for the army and the arrival of planes to the Riyaq airport give several indications. The Americans are ready to help us in any war to clean up the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group and al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-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."
The source stressed that "Leb is part of the international coalition against the IS. The international community is helping us fight terrorism and it will backs us in any future battle."
The sources affirmed that the Lebanese army is fighting alone on Leb's soil and is ready to make more sacrifices to liberate any area on its land.
Militants from the IS and al-Nusra Front, which rebranded itself as Jabhat Fateh al-Sham ...formerly al-Nusra, the current false nose and mustache of al-Qaeda in the Levant... when it split from the al-Qaeda movement, are entrenched in rugged areas along the undemarcated Lebanese-Syrian border and the army regularly shells their posts while Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... and the Syrian army have engaged in festivities with them on the Syrian side of the border.
The two groups briefly overran the town of Arsal in August 2014 before being ousted by the army after days of deadly battles.
The retreating bully boyz kidnapped more than 30 troops and coppers of whom four have been executed and nine remain in the captivity of the IS group.
Lebanese Army = Hezbollah = Iran. Well, I guess when we (Israel) have enough and exterminate Hezbollah, Americans will complain that we're disrupting their plans to fight ISIS.
[IsraelTimes] Unidentified gunnies attacked an Egyptian police convoy near the main ring road around Cairo, killing three officers and wounding five others, the interior ministry said early on Tuesday.
"Armed elements riding in two vehicles approached a moving security convoy" around 11:45 p.m. Monday, the ministry said in a statement.
The convoy was crossing a roundabout that intersects with the main ring road that surrounds the capital, separating New Cairo and newer real estate projects from the city.
Police returned fire at the attackers’ vehicles, which police were pursuing "in an effort to apprehend the perpetrators," the ministry said.
While no one grabbed credit for the attack, Egypt has been fighting an insurgency by a local affiliate of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group in North Sinai province.
Or it could be one of the fighting wings of the Muslim Brotherhood that formed last year. No doubt at some point the answer will be revealed. Update from Al Ahram at 5:00 p.m. EDT, possibly of interest to those who know Cairo:
The attack took place in the city's northeastern neighborhood of Nasr City.
[AnNahar] Afghan cops were killed at a "shockingly high" rate during what historically has been a winter lull in fighting against the Taliban ...Arabic for students... , a US watchdog said in a report Monday.
According to the US government's Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), 807 troops from the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces died between January 1 and February 24.
"Afghanistan remains in the grip of a deadly war. Casualties suffered by (ANDSF) in the fight against the Taliban and other murderous Moslems continue to be shockingly high," the report noted.
Levels of violence have traditionally dipped over Afghanistan's cold winter months, but this year the Taliban continued to battle government forces, most successfully in a horrific April 19 attack on a military base outside the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif.
The massacre saw murderous Moslems armed with guns and suicide bombs slaughter at least 144 recruits, a US official told AFP, though multiple sources have claimed the toll was higher still.
The Afghan Taliban launched their "spring offensive" Friday, heralding fresh fighting the group said would include "conventional attacks, guerrilla warfare, complex martyrdom attacks (and) insider attacks."
Afghan police and army units in 2015 took over from NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... the task of providing security for the country.
According to SIGAR, 6,785 Afghan soldiers and coppers were killed between January 1 and November 12, 2016, with another 11,777 maimed.
The Afghan government has not provided US Forces-Afghanistan with data for the last seven weeks of that year, but even the partial numbers showed an increase of about 35 percent from all of 2015, when some 5,000 security forces were killed.
The SIGAR report also found that both Afghan government and Death Eater groups slightly increased the amount of territory they held, as the number of areas previously considered "contested" dropped.
Afghan forces now control 59.7 percent of the country, up from 57.2 percent the previous quarter.
The Taliban and other Death Eater groups meanwhile saw their areas of control or influence increase slightly from about 10 percent to 11.1 percent.
The US Congress created SIGAR to provide oversight into how the more than $100 billion appropriated for Afghan reconstruction has been spent since 2002.
Part of its remit is to compile quarterly reports providing snapshots of the country's progress -- or lack thereof -- and highlight ongoing challenges to the security situation.
The SIGAR report also points to a UN tally showing that civilian casualties in 2016 were the highest since the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... Assistance Mission in Afghanistan began recording them in 2009.
That count found conflict-related civilian casualties in Afghanistan rose to 11,418 in 2016, including 3,498 killed and 7,920 maimed.
[DW] In a weekend operation involving Arclight airstrikes, French forces have reported killing or capturing 20 jihadists hiding in a forest near the border between Mali and Burkino Faso. A French soldier had been killed last month.
A statement from the French regional force in Mali said the operation involved air and ground forces but it did not identify which myrmidon group had been attacked. Operation Barkhane is an ongoing anti-insurgent operation in Africa's Sahel semi-arid region.
The bandidosgunnies were targeted in a forest in the southwest of Gao province in an operation which began on Saturday, Colonel Patrik Steiger, a military front man told AFP on Sunday. The operation began with air strikes by Mirage 2000 jets on supply depots which had been located in an earlier operation.
The French "force has been engaged in an operation in which it was possible to neutralize about 20 bully boyz in the Foulsare forest near the border between Mali and Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... ," Steiger said. Helicopters transported ground forces who had found weapons including rocket launchers and ammunition.
Steiger said the bandidosgunnies were either killed or captured, but he did not give further details.
The operation took place in an area where a French soldier had been killed on April 5. On Saturday, Mali's National Assembly voted to extend a state of emergency by six months in a bid to control an upsurge in attacks.
Operation Barkhane
There are 4,000 French soldiers deployed in the region since 2014 as part of Operation Barkhane, named after a crescent-shaped dune in the Sahara desert.
The French counterterrorism operation is being carried out in partnership with five countries and former colonies which span the Sahel: Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger - collectively referred to as the "G5 Sahel."
French, Malian and UN forces are regular targets of attacks in the area.
On April 20, La Belle France "welcomed the establishment" of interim authorities responsible for the five regions of northern Mali.
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[AnNahar] Turkish police on Monday used tear gas and plastic bullets to disperse protesters seeking to defy a ban and march to Istanbul's Taksim square to celebrate May Day, an AFP journalist reported.
Police tried to stop around 200 protesters in the Gayrettepe district on the European side of Istanbul who wanted to walk to the famous square in spite of the ban by city authorities.
The protesters -- made up of left-wing groups -- unfurled anti-government banners against the result of the April 16 referendum, which handed President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... expanded powers.
"Long Live May Day, No to dictator!" the banners read. At least one protester was detained, according to the AFP journalist.
Turkish authorities imposed a ban on any demonstration at Taksim square, with police sealing off the avenue with barricades and halting traffic.
Police detained two women who attempted to unfurl banners at the square, the private Dogan news agency reported.
At least 13 people who attempted to defy the ban on Taksim were detained, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported.
Members of the group were wearing May Day T-shirts and chanting slogans: "No to Taksim ban."
In the secular Istanbul district of Besiktas, at least 60 protesters were detained, an AFP photographer reported.
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Some 30,000 police were on duty in Istanbul alone, with the governor's office urging citizens not to heed calls for protests in non-official areas.
Police checked tourists and citizens passing through Taksim and all streets leading to the square were cordoned off with iron barricades.
Metro lines did not stop at Taksim square, which was a rallying ground for May Day celebrations until 1977, when at least 34 people were killed during demonstrations.
Authorities later opened up the square for celebrations but it was shut down again after it played host to anti-government protests in 2013 targeting Erdogan, then prime minister.
"Our people were massacred on May Day in 1977, workers were massacred," a women protester who gave her name as Sevim told AFP.
"We are going to Taksim square because it is a meaningful place for the working class," she said shortly before the police intervention in Gayrettepe.
This year's May Day celebrations also come after the 'Yes' camp won last month's referendum with 51.41 percent of the vote against 48.59 percent for the 'No' camp.
The opposition have alleged major irregularities but its complaints were thrown out by the election commission and a top court.
Yunus Ozgur, another demonstrator, said he wanted to march to Taksim square to protest "irregularities" during the referendum.
"We are frustrated," he said. "Taksim has a political meaning. They (authorities) are scared of this. Taksim is ours."
In the meantime, several thousand people and unions attended celebrations in an officially sanctioned rally in the Bakirkoy district near the international airport on the city's western side.
In a statement, Istanbul governor’s office said some illegal groups sought to rally around Taksim Square and elsewhere in the city by using May Day celebrations as a "pretext," adding that a total of 207 people were detained.
Police had also seized 40 Molotov cocktails, 17 hand grenades, 176 fireworks and seven masks.
And one citizen was killed in an accident when a TOMA, an armored water cannon truck designed for riot control, was doing maneuvering, it said.
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Portland, Oregon wasn't much better.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least twelve gunnies affiliated with 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 Khurasan (ISIS-K) were killed during the ongoing operations 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 of Afghanistan.
According to the local government officials, the gunnies were killed during Hamza counter-terrorism operations in Achin district of Nangarhar.
The officials further added that the gunnies were targeted in air and ground operations in the vicinity of Lata Band and Mamand Dara areas.
A heavy Dshk type machine gun used by the gunnies was also destroyed during the operations, the officials added.
The Hamza operations were launched nearly one month ago in response to the growing threats posed by ISIS loyalists in Nangarhar province.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least eight Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... hard boyz were killed in an Arclight airstrike conducted by the US forces 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 of Afghanistan, the local security officials said Monday.
The murderous Moslems were targeted in the vicinity of Chaparhar district, home to several Taliban and ISIS turbans.
A clash was also broke out between the Taliban hard boyz and ISIS murderous Moslems in Chaparhar district yesterday which left more than 30 murderous Moslems dead or maimed from the both sides.
At least two civilians including a child were also killed and five others including children were maimed during the clash.
In the meantime, the security officials in Nangarhar are saying that four ISIS murderous Moslems including a big shot of the group were killed during the operations of the Afghan forces in Pekha area of Achin district on Sunday.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... on Sunday said that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... could again bomb positions of the Syrian Kurdish forces of People’s Protection Units (YPG) any time it wanted, ARA News reported on Monday.
"We can come unexpectedly in the night... We are not going to tip off the terror groups and the Turkish Armed Forces could come at any moment," Erdogan said.
"Better they [YPG] live in fear than we have worries," the Turkish President said.
On April 25 at 02:00 hours, the YPG General Command’s headquarters based in Syria’s northeastern Hasakah province was bombed by warplanes belonging to the Turkish government. The YPG Press Center, the command affiliated institutions, the Radio building and other points belonging to the Syrian Kurds were targeted as well.
"In this attack by the Turkish army, 20 of our comrades were killed and 18 of our comrades were maimed," the YPG front man said.
As a response to these actions by Turkish Armed Forces, the U.S. and Russia deployed their military units to the YPG-controlled areas near the Turkish border in order to prevent further attacks.
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As a response to these actions by Turkish Armed Forces, the U.S. and Russia deployed their military units to the YPG-controlled areas near the Turkish border in order to prevent further attacks.
[DAWN] The head of an Iranian satellite television network who last year was sentenced in absentia to six years in prison by a Tehran court was rubbed out in Istanbul together with a business partner, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s Dogan news agency said on Sunday.
GEM TV founder Saeed Karimian and an associate were driving in Istanbul’s Maslak neighbourhood after 8pm (1700 GMT) on Saturday when their car was blocked by a jeep and shots were fired, Dogan said.
Mr Karimian was found dead by emergency services arriving at the scene, it said. His associate was taken to hospital but could not be revived.
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Drug deal gone bad, nothing to see here, move along.
[Iraq News] 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.... turbans executed ten civilians on Monday for attempting to flee districts under their control in western djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... as security forces begin assaulting those areas.
A local source told Alsumaria News that the group executed the civilians for attempting to flee the 17 Tamuz (July 17th) district and for collaboration with security forces. The source added the the group filed the execution process which had been sanctioned by the group’s so-called "Sharia court".
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A high-ranking field commander of the self-proclaimed 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.... was killed today along with scored others in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor during festivities with the Syrian Army. Whoever he is, judging by the picture he's dead now.
The terror group has staged a massive assault to take over the government-held airbase but failed to achieve any significant advance.
Fierce festivities broke out outside the airbase as the Army troops ‐ backed by local fighters ‐ foiled the offensive and fought back; expanding its control around the base.
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[Dhaka Tribune] A cow plummeted 70ft from a terrace and crushed a man in Kolkata, injuring the unfortunate man but losing his own bovine life in the process.
Forty three-year-old Abdul Mannan from Kolkata, West Bengal started Sunday morning like every other day. He walked to the local market at Masjid Bari Lane in Tiljala to buy fresh vegetables and other essentials for his family.
At around 8am, as he was checking out cucumbers at a roadside shop, however, his day took a turn for the worse. From the skies above, something heavy fell on him, causing him to collapse on the road.
Injured and fast losing consciousness, Mannan still managed to catch a glimpse of what hit him: an 85kg calf.
Locals and bystanders quickly whisked him off to a private nursing home, from where he was later shifted to a public hospital.
The cow, a six-month-old, which had dropped some 70ft, unfortunately was struck down in his prime. Though Mannan survived, he now has a fracture on his left leg, cracks in a rib and wounds on the back of his head, as well as multiple injuries all over his body that required as many as 18 stitches.
Much as it looked like it was raining cows, the reality was simple enough to explain. For the past week, the calf had been kept captive on the terrace of a nearby four-storey building by one of the building’s tenants.
That's one way to ensure a steady supply of dried dung for the cook stove.
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I don't laugh, I don't cry, I'm just glad that cows don't fly.
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Islamically inclined,
Who all were felled by falling cows,
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Beloved of Allah's mind)!
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As God is my witness I thought calves could fly.
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At around 8am, as he was checking out cucumbers but the price was way to high and he just got saying "I'll pay that price for your crummy cucumbers when cows fly." You know the rest of the story.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. has signed a decree for the release of the first batch of Hezb-e-Islam prisoners. If Hek remains true to form, he'll find some grounds to break his agreement.
The first batch of the prisoners to be released from the jails will include over 70 inmates.
The officials in ARG Palace said last month that the release of Hezb-e-Islami prisoners will kick off as the per the peace agreement and with the return of the party’s leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani also chaired the National Security Council meeting late in February and instructed the relevant authorities to take immediate steps in implementation of the peace deal with Hezb-e-Islami.
The peace agreement between Hezb-e-Islami and the Afghan government was signed in September last year, months after negotiations between the Afghan High Peace Council and the Hezb-e-Islami delegation.
The release of the prisoners of Hezb-e-Islami from the jails was one of the main conditions of the peace agreement between the two sides.
The conclusion of peace agreement resulted into the exclusion of Hekmatyar’s name from the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... Security Council sanctions list and his return to Afghanistan.
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[SHABELLENEWS] Al shabaab suspect found with a ’rucksack full of knives’ near Parliament Square was allegedly a friend of a British jihadist known as the ’White Beast’ who died fighting for the al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... terror group.
It was revealed by MailOnline that Khalid Mohammed Omar Ali was an aid worker who had travelled in a relief convoy to Gazoo.
But now it has emerged that jihadi Thomas Evans was also in the group who travelled there from London with the charity Road to Hope in 2010, according to reports.
Evans was shot in Kenya while fighting for the African terrorist group al-Shabaab in 2015.
Whitehall terror suspect Khalid Mohammed Omar Ali, pictured left, was on the same trip to Gazoo in 2010 as jihadi Thomas Evans, pictured right, according to reports.
He had been linked to the world’s most wanted woman ‐ ’White Widow’ Samantha Lewthwaite ‐ over an attack that left 50 innocent villagers dead in the Kenyan countryside in June 2014.
His mother told The Sunday Telegraph that she believes her son was radicalised on the aid trip which saw the pair stuck in Libya.
Sally Evans ‐ who reported her son to the authorities following the journey to Gazoo ‐ said: ’After he returned from that trip he began interpreting Islam more strongly. He was upset about he had seen there.
’He was already a Moslem but he became more radicalised on his return. I do feel that was the case.
’It needs to be investigated. I’m shocked they were both on the same trip.’
In footage of the convoy, Ali can be seen with a Paleostine banner tied round his head.
Footage from 2010 shows a young Khalid Mohammed Omar Ali ‐ now 27 ‐ sitting excitedly in the front of his van as he prepares to drive from London to Gazoo.
This article starring:
Khalid Mohammed Omar Ali
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I'm not sure who this highly touted bit of flimflam is intended to convince.
[IsraelTimes] Policy document, rejected by Israel as a bid to ’fool the world,’ calls for the ’complete liberation of Paleostine, from the river to the sea’.
In a bid to improve its flagging international standing, the Paleostinian terror group Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", unveiled Monday a new policy document that presents softened language on Israel while still implicitly calling for its destruction.
The document accepts the idea of a Paleostinian state in territories occupied by Israel in the Six-Day War of 1967 but dismisses the establishment of the State of Israel as "illegal," asserting a Paleostinian claim to the entire land of Israel, and a right of return for all descendants of refugees.
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[DAWN] QUETTA: A suspected Lion of Islam was killed in an exchange of fire with security forces in Pasni on Sunday.
According to Levies officials, security personnel launched a search operation in the Kolanch area after receiving information about the presence of forces of Evil there.
"Heavy exchange of fire took place in the area, resulting in the killing of an armed Lion of Islam," they claimed.
The body of the suspected Lion of Islam, identified as Habibullah, a resident of Ward No-6 of Pasni town, was shifted to the district hospital.
Habibullah’s family claimed that he had not returned home for the past four years.
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[Daily Excelsior] Pak Special Forces, known by the name of Border Action Teams (BATs) today carried out most dastardly and cruel act after sneaking about 400 to 500 meters inside the Indian territory across the border fencing along Line of Control (LoC) in Nangi Tekri area of Krishna Ghati sector in Poonch district and martyred two soldiers of Army and BSF.
Army vowed retaliation saying it will hit back and hit back very strongly to give "appropriate and adequate" response to most cowardly acted committed by Pak troops. The BAT attack by Pakistain Special Forces came just a day after Pakistain army chief Qawar Javed Bajwa visited LoC in Pakistain Indian Kashmiree (PoK) including the areas across twin border districts of Rajouri and Poonch.
Soon after the report of martyrdom of two soldiers and mutilation of their bodies came, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Defence Minister Arun Jaitley and National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval spoke to Army and BSF officers to review situation prevailing along the borders with Pakistain.
Singh also reviewed overall security situation of Jammu and Kashmire with top security and Home Ministry officials.
Official sources told the Excelsior that Army and BSF have been given free hand to teach Pakistain army a lesson for their dastardly act of killing the Army and BSF soldiers and mutilating their bodies. Army has vowed to retaliate saying it will take strong action against Pak troops for their unsoldierly act.
Head Constable of BSF Prem Sagar, a resident of Tokampur, Deoria in Uttar Pradesh and Naib Subedar Paramjeet Singh of 22 Sikh attained martyrdom in the BAT attack while Rajinder Singh, a BSF constable, was injured. The injured jawan has been hospitalized and was responding to the treatment.
Sources said the Pak Special Forces team sneaked 400 to 500 meters inside the LoC at Nangi Tekri in Krishna Ghati sector of the LoC in Poonch district this morning under the cover of rocket launchers and automatic weapons firing from Pakistain side.
The attack was carried out by the Border Action Team (BAT), which comprised the Special Forces. The BAT team had set up an ambush to target the patrol party of the Indian soldiers while the Pakistain army engaged two Indian Forward Defence Locations (FDL) with rockets and mortar bombs.
"It was a pre-planned operation of the Pakistain army. They had pushed in BAT teams over 400 meters deep inside Indian territory and set up ambushes for a long period to carry out the attack," sources said.
"The Mighty Pak Army posts attacked two FDL posts with rockets and mortar bombs at 8.30 am and engaged them," sources said.
"Their target was a 7 to 8-member patrol party, which had come out of the post," sources said but added that since the posts were engaged, the patrol party men ran here and there. Two members of the patrol party, who were left behind, were attacked by the BAT team and killed. Their bodies were badly mutilated.
PTI quoted an Army official as saying that bodies of two soldiers had been beheaded.
There were reports that the Indian Army patrol, whose two members had their heads chopped off by Pak special forces today, might just have walked into a death trap laid by the enemy, official sources said.
The incident in Krishna Ghati sector along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmire occurred when a joint team of the Army and BSF had gone to check the veracity of an intelligence report that landmines had been planted by Pak troops on the Indian side.
As they were looking for landmines, the patrol was taken by surprise by Pakistain’s Border Action Team (BAT) which had laid an ambush over 250 metres deep inside the Indian territory.
While the Pak troops attacked two forward posts with rockets and mortar bombs, the BAT personnel lay in wait for their targets. The Indian Army patrol too came under fusillade of gunfire, resulting in the death of two soldiers.
The BAT personnel quickly moved in and beheaded two fallen soldiers, official sources said in New Delhi.
It was still not known if landmines had indeed been planted in the area.
K K Sharma, the Director General of BSF, one of whose personnel was killed in the attack and decapitated, met Union Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi and briefed him on the incident.
As per reports, at 8.30 am, Mighty Pak Army’s 647 Mujahid Battalion targeted India’s forward post ’Kirpan’ from its post ’Pimple’ in Krishna Ghati sector. It was followed by attack on another forward post in the sControlame area.
"They attacked with rockets a forward BSF post (which lies) ahead of the fencing and opened heavy fire from automatic weapons. They violated the ceasefire," sources said.
"It was an attack directly hitting a post (listening post)", they added.
The BAT is specifically employed for trans-LoC action.
In Pakistain, the SSG (Special Services Group) formed the core of BAT. Its primary task is to dominate the LoC by carrying out disruptive actions in the form of surreptitious raids.
There have been several BAT attacks in the past in which jawans have been beheaded or their bodies mutilated.
Sources said bodies of the two martyr soldiers have been shifted to their headquarters and will be flown to their native towns tomorrow morning with full military honours.
Sources pointed out that the forward post targeted by Pak Special Forces was about 400 meters ahead of border fencing and the area was filled with sense bushes and trees, where visibility is confined to only few meters. Therefore, they said, the security personnel couldn’t assess movement of the troops immediately and were trapped. However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... some of the jawans retaliated but by then the BAT members had managed to retreat.
Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Monday refuted Indian army claims that Pak soldiers had killed two members of an Indian army patrol on the Line of Control (LoC) and mutilated their bodies, saying Pak soldiers would never disrespect another soldier, even if they were Indian.
"Pakistain Army did not commit any ceasefire violation on the LoC or a BAT action in Buttal sector as alleged by India," said the ISPR statement.
BAT refers to 'Border Action Team'.
"Indian blame of mutilating Indian soldiers' bodies are also false," added the ISPR statement.
"Pakistain Army is a highly professional force and shall never disrespect a soldier even Indian," the ISPR statement said in response to the allegations.
The Indian Army had earlier claimed that Pak forces fired rockets and mortars at two Indian posts along the LoC.
"In a unsoldierly act by the Pakistain Army the bodies of two of our soldiers in the patrol were mutilated," the Indian Army claimed in a statement, adding that the "despicable act will be appropriately responded".
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Amid increased tensions in the East Ghouta, 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... stormed and entered Zamalka to dislodge Failaq al-Rahman (FSA) Lions of Islam from the town, located on the eastern fringes of the Syrian capital.
Utilizing heavy weaponry and tanks, Jaish al-Islam entered the northeastern part of the FSA stronghold and engaged Failaq al-Rahman who subsequently called upon Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) to stiffen their defenses.
With HTS reinforcements flooding into the town, heavy festivities erupted in Zamalka especially in the evening hours.
So far, at least 90 rebel fighters have been killed in the infighting that began last week, 32 of whom were from Jaish al-Islam.
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout Montefiore's foot was still stuck and the hound had completely soaked his uniform with slobber... Jaish al-Islam apologized in an official statement for opening fire on protesters, killing and injuring many civilians in the process.
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In some sense this is similar to the fatality increase in Balt and Chi with gangs going at it against each other.
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[Iraq News] Iraqi army commanders said army forces killed 30 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.... members and took over a command center on the borders between Anbar and Salahuddin provinces.
A source at the Anbar army command told Alsumaria news that a force from the army’s 7th division, backed by fighter jets and paramilitary forces, killed 30 IS members during an operation at the Malha desert region.
The source said a communication facility and two booby-trapped vehicles were also destroyed in the assault.
Borders conjoining Anbar, Salahuddin and Diyala have witnessed occasional attacks by Islamic State against government and paramilitary troops deployments since Iraqi forces, backed by a U.S.-led coalition and PMus, launched a major offensive to retake areas occupied by IS since 2014, most notably the city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Iraq’s second largest city and the group’s most important stronghold in the country.
Observers have said Islamic State’s occasional attacks against security and civilians outside Mosul aimed at distracting security attention from the Mosul front. IS still holds a few areas in Salahuddin, Diyala, Anbar and Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... but the Iraqi government, employing most of its military power in the Mosul campaign, is expected to aim at those strongholds once the battle in Mosul realizes victory.
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[DailyMail] ISIS defector Stefan Aristidou, originally of Enfield, north London, revealed there are between 250-to-300 British jihadis within the terror organisation, with many in 'higher roles'.
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Never let them back in.
Hunt down their cohort in UK and never let them back in.
[IsraelTimes] Woman tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... at Damascus Gate rally in solidarity with Paleostinian prisoners; Israeli official says number of hunger.
A protest in support of Paleostinian inmates on hunger strike was broken up by police at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City Monday.
Protesters showed up at Damascus Gate wearing shirts bearing images of Paleostinian prisoners as part of an "attempt to carry out a deliberate provocation," police spokeswoman Luba Samri said. Police at the scene declared the protest an illegal demonstration and ordered the participants to disperse.
A video from the scene showed about 100 people at the protest.
One female resident of East Jerusalem was arrested for disorderly conduct and failing to listen to police instructions, while the rest of the protesters left the area in accordance with police instructions, Samri said.
Paleostinian officials say some 1,500 prisoners are participating in the hunger strike that began on April 17, with detainees ingesting only water and salt. Israel Prison Service front man Assaf Librati said on Monday that 870 prisoners are still refusing to eat.
Librati did not elaborate on why over 400 prisoners had quit the strike. He said the strikers are held in separate wings, monitored by medical staff. He said several are held in isolation.
Support for the strike has gained momentum with West Bank marches and a social media campaign showing celebrities in the Arab world drinking salty water in solidarity.
The hunger-strikers, led by convicted terrorist and popular Paleostinian figure Marwan Barghouti, who is serving five life terms for his role in deadly attacks, have become a cause celebre, with near daily demonstrations in support of them.
On Sunday night, festivities erupted near Nablus as Israeli troops broke up a sit-in in support of the strikers, according to the Paleostinian Ma’an news agency.
While some demonstrations in the West Bank have turned violent, those in Jerusalem have been mostly calm. On Saturday, police dispersed dozens of protesters in Jerusalem’s Old City who demonstrated in support of the striking prisoners. The protesters held pictures of prisoners and attempted to march to the Damascus Gate, but were blocked by Israeli authorities.
Some 6,500 Paleostinians are currently detained by Israel for a range of terror offenses and crimes. Around 500 are being held under Israel’s system of administrative detention, which allows for imprisonment without charge.
Paleostinian prisoners have mounted repeated hunger strikes, but rarely on such a scale.
Among the demands made by Barghouti and fellow prisoners are the resumption of a second monthly visit by family members (a benefit that was canceled by the International Committee of the Red Thingy last year due to budget cuts), the prevention of family meetings being canceled for security reasons, extending the length of each visit from 45 minutes to an hour and a half, and the restoration of academic studies and matriculation exams for prisoners. Other demands include more television channels being available in cells and the installation of public telephones in security wings.
Barghouti is popular among Paleostinians, with polls suggesting he could win the Paleostinian presidency. Many Israeli and Paleostinian analysts have speculated that Barghouti organized the strike in a bid to boost his declining power in Paleostinian politics.
[IsraelTimes] An Israeli Arab man is lightly maimed after his car was hit by rocks thrown by Paleostinians on Route 465 in the West Bank. He received treatment from an IDF medic.
[Daily Excelsior] In a major strike, five coppers including an officer and two bank officials were killed when bandidosgunnies attacked a Jammu and Kashmire Bank Van in Kulgam district of South Kashmire today.
A J&K Bank mobile van bearing registration number JK01P-9793 carrying cash in the southern district of Kulgam was attacked by bandidosgunnies near Bombay village of the district.
Five coppers including an Assistant Sub-Inspector and two JK Bank officials were killed in the deadly attack and bandidosgunnies decamped with 4 riles of the cops.
The slain coppers have been identified as Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Bashir Ahmad Dar (100/GRP) son of Abdul Gani Dar of Bonigam Qazigund, Farooq Ahmad Bhat (No. 332/KGM) son of Abdul Aziz of Nehama D.H.Pora, Mohammad Qasim (No. 638/KGM) son of Bohu Khan of Awoora Trehgam Kupwara, Muzafar Ahmad (No. 1090/KGM) son of Gul Mohammad Bhat of Y.K.Pora Qazigund, and Ishfaq Ahmad Hajam (No. 745/KGM) son of Abdul Ahad Hajam of Zakoora Batpora Srinagar. The two Security Guards of J&K Bank have been identified as Javaid Ahmad Bhat of Vessu Batpora Kulgam and Muzafar Ahmad Laway of Largoo D.H. Pora Kulgam.
The bandidosgunnies fled away after carrying out the attack leaving the cops and bank officials in a pool of blood. Soon after the incident, a joint team of Army, SOG and CRPF reached the spot and have launched a massive man hunt against the assailants.
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kashmire SJM Gillani said that the incident happened at around 4:15 pm at Pombai in Kulgam. "The cash van was returning to Kulgam from Manzgam and gunnies attacked it in which our five police personnel were martyred. Two civilians, who were in the van, were also martyred in the attack", he said.
The IGP said that Umar Majid and his associates carried out the attack. "During our preliminary investigation, the name of a terrorist from Kulgam, Umar Majeed, and two of his associates, has come forward. They have taken four weapons which were being carried by the guards", he said.
Militants this evening fired at the vehicle of DySP headquarter Pulwama, Farooq Ahmad at Dangerpora Pulawma. His guards retaliated. However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... no loss of life was reported.
Hizbul Mujahiden has grabbed credit for the attack. However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... it said that they killed five coppers and not bank guards. "They were killed by CRPF men," it claimed and said that the attack was not aimed at looting cash.
Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti strongly condemned the killing of five police personnel and two bank officials of a cash van.
Minister said the officials were on duty to disburse and collect cash at a local bank branch and their killing reflects the dangerous criminalization turn the society is taking.
Mehbooba also condemned the killing of two soldiers in a cross LoC fire in the Krishna Ghati sector of Poonch district. She also expressed grief over the death of a civilian in a grenade attack yesterday in the Khanyar area of Srinagar.
Mehbooba Mufti said she has been warning of the ill effects of violence time and again and appealed the civil society to rise to the occasion to make the future of our younger generation peaceful.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio wondered: Where the hell was Chumbaloni? And where was his $600?... JK Bank Chairman Parvez Ahmad expressed grief over the killing of security personnel guarding the bank’s cash van."We at J&K Bank are pained over the killings of these security personnel who were on way back to Kulgam after delivering cash remittance at the Bank’s Manzgam, Aharbal branch. My heartfelt condolences and deep sympathies are with the bereaved families," he said.
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[Ynet] Three women were tossed in the calaboose Book 'im, Mahmoud! under Britannia's anti-terror laws in east London on Monday, police said, in connection with investigations into a plot that was thwarted last week.
The Metropolitan Police said it arrested two 18-year-olds and a 19-year-old on suspicion of the commission, preparation and instigation of terrorist acts.
"The arrests were made as part of an ongoing intelligence-led operation in connection with an address on Harlesden Road," the police said in a statement, referring to a location where a woman was shot on Friday during an armed raid which police said disrupted a Lion of Islam plot.
[Libya Herald] Field Marshal Khalifa Hafter flew from Benghazi’s Benina Airport today to Abu Dhabi amid speculation that he will meet with Presidency Council head Faiez Serraj there.
According to a statement from the Libyan National Army General Command media office, the visit is at the invitation of Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi and deputy commander of the UAE armed forces. However, ars longa, vita brevis... there have been constant rumours over the past three or four days of an encounter between him and Serraj having been organised by the Emiratis.
Hafter is said to be under heavy pressure by the Emiratis as well as by the Egyptians, Russians and the Americans to meet the PC head who, it is said, will arrive in the UAE in the next couple of days.
In February, Hafter refused to meet him in Cairo despite major efforts by the Egyptian government to broker an encounter. Serraj later claimed that Hafter had baulked at meeting him on the grounds that House of Representatives (HoR) President Ageela Saleh, who was also in the Egyptian capital at the time, should also have taken part but had refused to do so.
Hafter’s refusal resulted in a distinct cooling of relations between him and Cairo, and they are not yet seen as being fully mended.
Hafter was last in Abu Dhabi three weeks ago, again at the invitation of Sheikh Mohammed, during which time he is reported to have met secretly with a senior US military official.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] On Monday, series of powerful kabooms rocked islamist-held Babsqa town near the Turkish border in north Idlib countryside.
According to local sources, the incident occurred in the area controlled by "Fastaqim Union", an gang which is a part of "Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... " islamist coalition. The series of kabooms, which lasted more than 40 minutes, were caused by detonation in an ammo depot belonging to the aforementioned group.
The exact cause of kaboom is unknown so far. However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... there is an indirect evidence that might indicate involvement of "Hayat Tahrir al-Sham" (HTS, "Al-Qaeda in Syria") jihadist group.
Weapon and ammo storages in this area are used by both "Ahrar al-Sham" and "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... " groups. The latter is currently involved in heavy infighting against fellow jihadists from HTS and "Faylaq al-Rahman" in East Ghouta region near Syrian capital of Damascus. Recently, HTS issued a warning to "Jaish al-Islam" commanders threatening to sabotage their facilities in Idlib province as a punishment for infighting in Ghouta.
Since "Jaish al-Islam" has much less influence and presence in Idlib in comparison to East Ghouta, which is their long-time stronghold, such a scenario is quite possible.
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[DAWN] The Army repulsed a cross-border "terrorist attack" on two border checkposts in South Wazoo, the military's media wing said in a statement issued in the early hours of Tuesday. Inter-Services Public Relations said Army troops valiantly repulsed the attack, killing three 'terrorists' and injuring a number of others in an "intense exchange of fire".
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan (MoD) claims at least 130 gunnies were killed during the counter-terrorism operations in the past 24 hours.
A statement by MoD said, The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces conducted joined offensive operations in order to protect lives and properties of people in the past 24 hours, also defeating the gunnies in different parts of the country that as a result, 130 gunnies including 46 ISIS affiliates and a local commander of Taliban ...Arabic for students... were killed, 24 maimed and 3 others tossed in the slammer Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! The statement further added, joint operation of the Defense Security Forces was held by supporting of the artillery and air forces 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.. , Kunar , Kapisa , Parwan , Paktia , Ghazni , Kandahar , Urozgan , Zabul ,Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... , Balkh , Kundoz , Faryab , Baghlan , Takhar , Badakhshan and Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... provinces.
"During these operations, in Dehrawod and Trenkot districts of Urozgan , 30 Taliban gunnies killed and 4 maimed , in Achin , Chaparhar and Khogyano districts of Nangarhar , 56 gunnies including 46 ISIS affiliates were killed , 2 maimed , 4 hideouts and a vehicle destroyed , in Tagab district of Kapisa , 16 gunnies killed also , enemy’s camp destroyed , in Nahrsaraj district of Helmand , 11 gunnies killed including a local commander of Taliban , 13 maimed , 22 vehicles loaded of ammunition destroyed," the statement added.
MoD further added "Similarly , in Moqor and Andar districts of Ghazni , 6 gunnies killed and 4 maimed , in Watapor district of Kunar , 5 gunnies killed , in Shahjoi district of Zabul , 2 gunnies killed and 1 maimed ,in Zebak district of Badakhshan , 4 gunnies killed and a vehicle destroyed , in Gozra district of Herat , 3 hard boyz arrested with a vehicle , in Bagram district of Parwan , 1000 KGs of Ammonium Nitrate along with some other explosives confiscated."
According to MoD, the Afghan National Army as nation’s defense forces, are ready to give sacrifice to ensure peace and security for people and has strong determination to eliminate terror groups.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A prominent Afghan religious figure, former Jahid leader and ex-member of the Afghan parliament Abdul Rab Rasool Sayyaf ...Afghan Salafist warlord, owned by Saudi Arabia. He was the guy who invited al-Qaeda to come into Afghanistan and make themselves at home... once again slammed the Taliban ...Arabic for students... group for their so-called holy war ’Jihad’ and emphasized that it is only the Afghan forces who are waging a true Jihad against slaves and foreigners interfering in Afghanistan.
Speaking during a gathering organized on the eve of the Soviet forces defeat in Afghanistan, Sayyaf said the Afghan forces losing their lives in action are true deaders.
Questioning Taliban’s stance in the ongoing violence in the country under the shadow of Jihad, Sayyaf said Taliban are only killing innocent civilians, women, and children.
Sayyaf further added that the murder of the women and kiddies has been banned by Prophet and therefore their insurgency has no legitimacy.
The former Jihadi leader also slammed the Muftis endorsing Taliban’s insurgency and suicide kabooms, saying the Muftis should first carry out suicide attacks if such attacks are legitimate in Islam.
Sayyaf is one of the most influential jihadi leaders and has been harshly criticizing the Taliban group for their insurgency activities.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A large ISIS flag in Tabqa city centre was pulled down today by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) as their units secured downtown Tabqa, rendering jihadist bandidossnuffies in control of only 3 northern neighborhoods and a small portion of the adjacent Tabqa Dam.
Amid the Kurdish counter-insurgency operations, three boom-mobiles were immobilized and tons of armaments captured. Booby traps and mines were also continuously dismantled while humanitarian corridors have allowed over 20,000 civilians to escape.
Tabqa city was completely encircled on April 2; shortly after, the SDF liberated the Alexandria suburb which served as a launching pad to capture the former ISIS bastion.
US warplanes have aided the offensive with air support, conducted hundreds of Arclight airstrikes against ISIS bandidossnuffies while choppers have also been deployed, a relatively new development.
Once Tabqa city is wrestled from ISIS, the YPG-led SDF will head towards Raqqa city, the self-proclaimed ISIS capital since 2014.
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The Iraqis need to learn from the kurds, maybe it wouldn't take them a year to get something done.
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This is why the Turks are scared of the Kurds. in the south eastern 1/3 of Turkey, Kurds are a majority. If they do decide to rebel as a group, it would be a big civil war, and the Kurds know how to fight.
[SHABELLENEWS] The Al Qaeda-affiliated Al shabaab fighters have publicly executed two men convicted of rape and murder in a bully boy bastion central Somalia on Monday.
The men ‐ Ahmed Ibrahim, 29, and Yusuf Ali, 22, were killed a big square in Buq Aqable town in Hiiraan region, with the presence of hundreds of residents, including women and kiddies.
Ibrahim was stoned to death for raping a women in Beledweyne and killing her brother, while Ali rubbed out firing squad for participating the alleged rape, according to Al shabaab media.
An Al shabaab judge said at the execution site that the men were nabbed in an operation at Baar area, located on the outskirts of Beledweyne, the regional capital of Hiiraan province.
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Don't really trust their justice system, but if they got the right guys I can't fault their sentencing.
[MiamiHerald] Venezuela is in the grips of a monthlong anti-government protests that have left more than two dozen dead, hundreds injured and more than 1,500 people detained. But the demonstrations are also leaving a trail of property destruction in a country that’s already staggering amid a deep economic crisis. In the chaos of the demonstrations, dozens of stores, mom-and-pop shops and cargo trucks have been looted by crowds, sometimes driven by hunger. Of the 28 deaths being attributed to the protests, almost a dozen seem to be directly related to the brazen thefts.
he morning after a wave of robberies hit his neighborhood in El Valle last week, Javier Guevera, 35, found the metal shutters of his butcher shop battered but still holding against burglary attempts. He knows he was one of the lucky ones.
“I’m trying to support my colleagues who were victims,” he said. “It’s not right that you wake up early in the morning to go to work and realize that you’ve been left with nothing.”
He blamed the lawlessness on a mix of hunger and rampant criminality.
“This was done by violent people who didn’t have any food — accompanied by armed groups,” he said. “These were not honest people.”
In one of the most high-profile cases earlier this month, authorities said as many as 11 people died in a single night of looting in Caracas. While the numbers vary, it appears at least seven were electrocuted while trying to rob a bakery called La Mayer del Pan.
At the time, there was speculation that the store had been booby-trapped with an electric fence or that a power-line had fallen. But the truth is more mundane, said Jose de Freitas, the store’s 34-year-old manager. He said the night of April 20, armed gangs descended from the surrounding barrios to start sacking stores. They forced the bakery’s doors open with crowbars and emptied the shelves and the warehouse. He said the bakery had not been rigged to purposefully harm anyone.
“The people died because they tried to steal a coffee maker that was full of water,” he explained. “When the plug was pulled it made contact with the water, and because we have stainless steel furniture, it made a big circuit and, well, they were electrocuted.”
Damiano Del Vescovo, the head of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce in Carabobo state, told local radio that 13 stores in his city were looted in a single night this week. And he pleaded with demonstrators to understand who was paying the price for their actions.
“Vandalism is not a form of protest,” he said. “The merchants are not responsible for the economic crisis we’re living.”
While security forces have been engaged in fierce street battles to keep protesters at bay, they’ve been accused by the opposition of ignoring the looting — and sometimes even joining in.
The problem isn’t likely to go away anytime soon.
The opposition says it will stay on the streets until the government gives in to key demands, including holding general elections, allowing humanitarian aid into the country, releasing political prisoners and firing Supreme Court judges they accuse of trying to dissolve congress.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Russia proposed the creation of four zones in Syria as part of a wider plan to de-escalate the tension in the war-torn country.
The proposed zones will have safety lines along them and monitoring centers in order to avoid direct fire among the warring parties, as well as granting safe access to unarmed civilians and aid convoys.
The Russian proposal also involves the possibility of the three guarantor states (Russia, Iran and Turley) to form a working group and send troops in order to enhance the application of the proposal.
But not the U.S., etc? An interesting proposal.
The three states have brokered a ceasefire in the northern city of Aleppo last year which led to conclude a deal whereby rebels surrendered their districts to the Syrian Army and left to Idlib.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Pakistain has extended by three months the house arrest of Hafiz Saeed ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat... , accused by the United States of criminal masterminding the 2008 attacks on the Indian financial capital Mumbai that killed 166 people, a Pak official said on Monday.
Saeed was sent to his room in January after years of living free in Pakistain, a sore point in the relationship between the United States and Pakistain. His freedom had also infuriated Islamabad’s arch-foe India.
The U.S. had offered $10 million for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Saeed, who heads the Moslem charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... (JuD). Washington says JuD is a front for the Pakistain-based myrmidon group Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (LeT).
Malik Muhammad Ahmed Khan, a front man for the provincial Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... government, said the regional administration decided on Sunday to extent the restrictions on Saeed, but did not specify the reasons why.
"Hafiz Saeed’s house arrest, which ended Sunday night, has been extended for another three months," Khan said.
Saeed could not be reached for comment.
The Mumbai attacks in 2008, when 10 gunnies swarmed across targets including two luxury hotels, a Jewish center and a train station in a rampage that lasted several days, brought Pakistain and India to the brink of war.
India accused Pakistain of sponsoring the attacks through LeT, which Saeed founded in the 1990s. Pakistain has denied any state involvement and Saeed ‐ who has distanced himself from LeT ‐ has said repeatedly he was not responsible.
Previous Pak announcements of action against anti-India myrmidon groups have rarely led to serious punishments for them.
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"And NO henna. For at least a week"
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[TheLocal.se] Sweden's largest Shiite Moslem mosque was badly damaged overnight in a suspected arson attack, police said Monday, adding later that they had made one arrest in connection with the incident.
Fire and emergency services were alerted to the scene a little before 12:30am on Monday, where "flames were engulfing the outer facade" of the Imam Ali Islamic Centre in the northern Stockholm suburb of Jakobsberg, a police front man said.
No injuries were reported.
"A man who earlier in the day had been tossed in the slammer Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! and was scheduled for a hearing, was, after interrogation, taken into custody," police said in a statement.
However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... they released no information on the man's identity or possible motive.
"This is Sweden's largest Shia mosque with thousands of faithful... They are really concerned," mosque front man Akil Zahari told broadcaster SVT. Zahiri said that there were a few people in the mosque when the fire was first noticed. A party had been held earlier in the evening.
The fire raged for over an hour but by 3am fire fighters had the flames largely extinguished.
No residential buildings surround the large mosque, so police said there was no risk of the fire spreading to other houses.
Several mosques in Sweden have been the target of arson attacks in recent years but few perpetrators have been caught.
In April last year, a 31-year-old man identified through CCTV footage was tossed in the clink Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! for three years for racially-aggravated arson after admitting setting fire to a mosque in the southwestern town of Boras.
Swedish anti-racism campaigners protested in January 2015 after a trio of arson attacks on mosques in the Nordic country.
[NYPOST] An FBI translator who was assigned to investigate a bloodthirsty ISIS terrorist wound up falling head-over-heels in love with the man -- and married him instead, a report says. Junior translator, linguist, investigator, which is it ?
Daniela Greene, 38, was apparently so lovestruck by the German-born jihadist that she left her husband in the US to be with him in war-torn Syria, and then lied to the feds about her whereabouts, according to CNN. 'Lied to the feds about whereabouts' but kept in contact with friends via email ?
Denis Cuspert — a wannabe rapper-turned-ISIS pitchman — reportedly became the apple of her eye sometime in 2014, despite having a notorious penchant for violence. An apple in someone's eye no doubt.
Roughly three years after joining the FBI as a linguist, Greene was assigned to the Detroit bureau in Jan. 2014 and asked to probe Cuspert.
By June, she was already smitten by the tatted-up terrorist and making plans to be with him in the Middle East. They reportedly tied the knot in Syria sometime that month.
Greene eventually got cold feet, though, and decided to come back to the US in Aug. 2014. She was immediately arrested upon her return. He's just not interested in a White House performance.
According to CNN, Greene had been emailing an unidentified person back home about having second thoughts about her decision to pack up and leave soon-after she got hitched.
Greene was arrested immediately upon her return to the states and later agreed to cooperate with authorities. She pleaded guilty to making false statements involving international terrorism in Dec. 2014 and was released from prison in Aug. 2016 after serving a surprising two-year sentence. 'Later' was it? Just a nice quiet plea, no evidence, no media or publicity.
Some have argued that Greene — who now works as a hostess in a hotel lounge — got off easy, compared to other Americans who’ve been prosecuted for ISIS-related crimes. No need to 'argue' that one.
While Greene’s conduct was described in court papers as skirting “a line dangerously close to other more serious charges,” Assistant US Attorney Thomas Gillice insisted that she receive a lighter sentence on account of her cooperation.
The ISIS savage, known as Abu Talha al-Almani in Syria, is infamous in Germany for his terror-related rap songs.
Performing under the name “Deso Dogg,” Cuspert once praised Osama bin Laden and rhymed about killing then-President Barack Obama.
Greene’s case is just now being reported on account of it being sealed by the Justice Department. Good morning Attorney General Sessions, we have a special case we'd like to brief you on this morning. Here are your follow-along PPT's sir.
It wasn’t unsealed until after she was done cooperating with authorities, CNN reports. The Paramours:
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According to CNN, Greene had been emailing an unidentified person back home about having second thoughts about her decision to pack up and leave soon-after she got hitched.
Yea, more than likely her Case Officer.
'He's constantly deployed and spends all our money on dancing boys in Raqqah. When he's home all he wants to do dope and drink beer. Please send more money. I want out of this op.'
In October 2015, the Pentagon said Cuspert was killed in an air strike near the northern Syria city of Raqqah.
Nine months later, on August 3, 2016, the Pentagon released a statement reversing its assessment of Cuspert's death: "It now appears that assessment was incorrect and Denis Cuspert survived the airstrike."
One day later, Greene was released from federal prison, records show.
Cuspert's past is well documented, and presents a checklist of social pathologies. Son of a German mother and Ghanaian father, his father abandoned the family when Denis was a baby. The boy was alienated from his African-American stepfather, and was involved in a series of petty criminal act, including drug use. He felt racially ostracized, and said that he had been beaten as a child because of his race.[1]
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how do we know for sure that the translator was not simply pretending to fall in love with the jihadi and was in Syria to bring the govt info about ISIS
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Because jihadis are crazy, not idiots - unlike western "intelligence" services what fight them.
Court documents did not explain how she escaped from IS territory, but by early August, less than two months after traveling to Syria, she returned to the United States and was arrested.
She immediately confessed and began cooperating with US prosecutors. Her cooperation “was significant, long-running and substantial,” said an investigator, supporting a lenient sentence.
Ultimately she pleaded guilty to one charge of “making false statements involving international terrorism,” based on what she originally told the FBI about her travel plans. She received a relatively light 24-month prison sentence, and was released last year.
[IsraelTimes] Terror group’s Yemen branch has become a de facto ally of Yemeni government in civil war against Iranian-sponsored Houthis.
The leader of al-Qaeda’s branch in Yemen said that his murderous Moslems have often fought alongside Yemeni government factions -- remarks that could embarrass the US-backed coalition fighting the impoverished Arab country’s Iranian catspaws.
Qasim al-Rimi leads the group known as al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000... , considered by Washington to be the most dangerous offshoot of the global terror network. He succeeded Nasir al-Wuhayshi, who was killed in a US dronezap nearly two years ago.
On the US most-wanted list with a $5 million reward for his capture, al-Rimi has been a top target of US Arclight airstrikes, which have soared in the past four months in southern Yemen. He spoke on Sunday to AQAP’s media arm al-Malahem from some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location in Yemen.
"We fight along all Moslems in Yemen, together with different Islamic groups," he said, adding that his followers have teamed up with an array of factions -- including the ultraconservative Salafis, "the Moslem Brüderbund and also our brothers among the sons of (Sunni) tribes" -- against Yemen’s Iranian catspaws known as Houthis.
Al-Rimi did not elaborate on what exactly fighting "alongside" meant but al-Qaeda has emerged as a de-facto ally of the government of Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi and his backers Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and the United Arab Emirates against the Houthis in a grueling civil war that has wreaked devastation, caused widespread hunger and killed more than 10,000 since late 2014.
Over the past decade, the terror group has built up ties of one degree or another with the country’s many tribes -- and has often used anger over civilians killed in American Arclight airstrikes to gain recruits.
The Moslem Brüderbund and Salafis are some of the key militias on Hadi’s side, and regularly receive funds and weapons from the US-backed Saudi led coalition.
The Yemen war pits fighters loyal to Hadi, who was forced into Saudi exile after Houthis seized the capital, Sanaa, in September 2014. A coalition of mostly Sunni Arab countries led by Saudi Arabia stepped in to wage an extensive air campaign in March 2015 and deployed ground forces against the rebels.
Multiple rounds of UN-brokered peace talks have failed to bridge the gap between Yemen’s warring sides, and the conflict allowed al-Qaeda and its rival Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... affiliate to exploit the chaos and increase their footprint, especially in southern Yemen where Hadi’s forces have failed to restore law and order.
Al-Qaeda seized the city of Mukalla, the capital of Yemen’s largest province of Hadramawt in 2015, but was forced to withdraw last year.
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[WashingtonPost] For the second consecutive spring, Venezuela is a powder keg.
For weeks, demonstrators have been protesting the unpopular government of President Nicolás Maduro, and the country’s food shortages and foundering economy. The catalyst for this year’s demonstrations came in the form of the government shutdown of the opposition-controlled National Assembly.
Opposition leaders are pushing for early presidential elections, presenting the option as a means of avoiding further strife — and more deaths. But bans and threats against opposition politicians have sparked more protests, fueled by pent-up outrage at the prolonged economic recession. Opposition-led protests are gaining traction within Venezuela’s working classes, including urban centers that were once strongholds of Maduro’s predecessor, Hugo Chávez.
With few allies in the region and Venezuela’s international reserves dropping to new lows, Maduro is coming under increased pressure to negotiate an electoral solution.
Here are five areas to watch:
1) Maduro can try to hunker down, but it won’t be easy
Last week, Venezuela gave its formal notification to withdraw from the Organization of American States. The exit costs for this authoritarian regime are already very high, and leaving the OAS may be a sign that the Venezuelan government is preparing for a fierce battle. This hunker-down scenario faces the formidable challenge of economic collapse.
2) Maduro made huge blunders and has not bounced back
The double blunder of shutting down the Assembly and then backtracking on made Maduro look weak — and opponents capitalized on a humiliating video of protesters pelting the president with eggs at a pro-government rally.
3) Looting is on the rise — but what message does this send?
Looting generally does not signal pro-opposition support, but if it takes place in parallel with political protests, such co-occurrence can give a powerful message that the authorities are to blame for the meltdown. The looting, along with disruptive protests and a growing sense of instability and lawlessness, creates further problems for the government’s political legitimacy.
4) The military remains tolerant, if not actively supportive, of Maduro
Venezuela’s military is also a conglomerate of business interests. The high command manages the critically important food import sector, has been accused of profiting from food shortages and has interests in the strategic state oil and mining industries. If popular discontent continues to swell, creating the need for the army to step in, there could be a major change in the political leanings of the military high command. The army may be corrupt, ideological and pro-government, but it may not be willing to radically change its professional role to repress Venezuelans on behalf of a discredited government.
5) There is growing international pressure for an electoral solution
Venezuela’s formal notice to exit the Organization of American States will launch a two-year withdrawal process. But international support for dialogue is growing stronger, with Latin American countries calling for the Vatican to resume suspended international mediation. The end goal of an internationally supported dialogue would be a commitment to the democratic process — and published dates for regional and presidential elections, along with the participation of international monitors to ensure free and fair elections.
With more protests and countermarches from the government announced for the weeks ahead, the clashes seem likely to continue. What we have learned is that whether Venezuela reaches a tipping point depends not only on popular mobilization but also on whether the government cracks under the combined international political and economic pressure.
[Dhaka Tribune] Violence erupted between protesters and police near Place de la Bastille in the French capital during a march for the annual May Day workers' rally led by three unions, six days before the presidential election run-off.
Three officers were hurt in festivities between riot police and masked youths during a May 1 march in Gay Paree on Monday that carried extra significance six days before the presidential election run-off.
"Masked individuals threw objects and Molotov cocktails at police" who responded by firing teargas, authorities said.
The violence erupted near Place de la Bastille in the French capital as the march led by three unions including La Belle France’s biggest, the CGT, headed for another square nearby.
At one point, a blazing shopping trolley packed with flammable material was pushed towards police lines, an AFP photographer saw.
The rivals for the presidency, centrist frontrunner Emmanuel Macron and far-right rival Marine Le Pen, faced shows of opposition to their programmes during the fractious May 1 workers’ marches.
The election runoff takes place next Sunday.
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who responded by firing teargas,
Grapeshot works better start with double aught and work up as necessary.
[SHABELLENEWS] Al shabaab fighters ambushed a convoy of Æthiopian troops serving the UN-mandated African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) in Lower Shabelle region on Monday.
The convoy came under attack on a road near the southern village of Leego, as it has been travelling to Burhakabo town in Baay region, according to locals who spoke to Radio Shabelle.
The attack began with IED blast, and followed by heavy exchange of gunfire between the holy warriors and the AMISOM soldiers. There no immediate confirmation of the casualties.
Residents in jamee’a Mubarak, where the attack took place reported loud kabooms and artillery fire, as a result of the combat. AMISOM did not release any statement on the raid.
Despite being pushed out of its major urban strongholds, Al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... still controls large rural areas in southern Somalia, and retains the ability to launch large-scale assaults in the country, even with a major African Union mission present.
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[Dhaka Tribune] A three-year-old child was murdered in cold blood by his uncles and cousin after abduction in Thakurgaon’s Ranishangkail upazila, the court has been told.
Shetu, the maternal uncle of Abdul Kafi Tushar, 3, told Thakurgaon’s Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal on Monday that three others, including the child’s paternal uncle and cousin, were directly involved in the murder.
Tushar went missing on April 26. His body was recovered from a haystack near his house two days later.
Police say they have locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! nine suspects.
Shetu said Tushar’s paternal uncle Raju had planned the abduction for ransom as the latter needed money for marriage.
Raju had roped in Shetu, his nephew Shanto, 15, and Shanto’s friend Ripon promising to give them large sums of money.
Shetu told the court that Tushar was kidnapped on April 26 as per Raju’s plan. Shetu stole his mother’s phone and Raju used it to call his Tushar’s father Masud Rana demanding Tk5 lakh ransom several hours after the abduction.
But after Masud Rana filed a police complaint about his son’s kidnap, the abductors moved Tushar to another place.
Shetu said the four of the sedated the boy and took him to a room where they killed him by severing his tendons and slitting his throat.
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[DAWN] RAWALPINDI: An amputated leg was found in the parking space of the Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... Hospital (BBH) on Sunday, causing panic among the people. "Is this your leg?"
"I dunno. What color is it?"
The police were called and are now trying to track down the people who may have thrown it into the parking and left.
The leg seems to have been amputated at least a couple of days ago and was found in the parking lot opposite the police post and emergency department.
When asked, BBH Superintendent Arshad Ali said the amputation of limbs is normal practice at the hospital and that the administration strictly follows the legal procedure and gives the amputated parts to the patients’ relatives to be buried.
He said it would seem that the amputated leg was thrown into the parking lot and that the police have been called to investigate the matter.
He said a woman’s leg was amputated a few days ago but her son was given the amputated limb.
The police said a report has been registered and an investigation launched though officials say no case has been registered during the last week which could help solve this one.
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What's all the fuss? The guy probably had his hands full and just dropped it by accident.
[DAWN] CHARSADDA/MANSEHRA: A 14-year-old girl was allegedly strangulated by her father with the help of his teenage son in the name of honour in Prang village of Charsadda.
Separately, a man was killed on Sunday also allegedly in the name of honour by the relatives of the girl the victim’s brother had married without consent of her family in Pulrah area of Mansehra ...a city and an eponymous district in eastern Khyber-Pakthunwa, nestled snug up against Pak Kashmir, with Kohistan and Diamir to the north and Abbottabad to the south... .
In Charsadda, police claimed to have placed in durance vile Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! both the suspects when they were burying the body of the killed girl. They said that the girl was killed by her father and brother when she returned home after meeting her boyfriend.
The father of the dear departed girl told police during initial investigation that he had warned his daughter to mend her ways and refrain from meeting the boy but she ignored it.
The mother of the girl informed police about the incident. Police raided the place and arrested the man and his son when they were burying the body of the dear departed girl.
The body was sent for postmortem and police registered an FIR against the father and his son at Prang cop shoppe.
In Mansehra, the victim was on his way home after attending a marriage ceremony in a nearby village when he was rubbed out by a group of armed assailants.
The body was taken to King Abdullah Teaching Hospital for an appointment with Dr. Quincy and later handed over to family.
According to Pulrah police, a younger brother of the dear departed had married a girl without permission of her family, which led to his killing by the girl’s family.
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[Libya Herald] One person is said to have been killed and two others maimed when a number of rocket-propelled grenades hit Benghazi’s Leithi district this evening. A man, named as Abdulrasul al-Zwai, is reported to died when one of the grendes hit a lorry carrying bottles of cooking gas, causing it to explode. The massive blast was heard across the city.
The maimed, named as Marwan Raied Aissa and Abdulaziz Rafallah Fakrun, were taken to Jalaa Hospital for treatment but their injuries were not said to be serious.
The attacks are thought to be in reprisal for renewed Arclight airstrikes on Death Eaters’ positions in Sabri and Suq al-Hout.
Leithi was, until it was finally recaptured early last year, one of the main centres of Death Eater resistance to the Libyan National Army.
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[Ynet] The Arabic-language news network releases an investigative documentary on the liquidation of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,' chief drone engineer who was bumped off in Tunisia by unknown parties.
Al Jazeera has broadcast a new documentary Sunday detailing new revelations about the liquidation of Hamas' drone engineer, Mohammad al-Zawahri, last December in Tunisia.
The documentary featured interviews with officials from the drone unit of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, where al-Zawahri had been a key member since his recruitment to the organization in 2006.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] On Monday, Kurdish activists published photos depicting arrival of Russian military units to Afrin canton which is situated in the northwestern part of Aleppo province.
A convoy of Russian military police has arrived to a rural area in the aforementioned region.
The activists claim that Russian military command in Syria and commanders of Afrin’s People’s Protection Units (YPG) reached an agreement, by the terms of which a Russian military installation will be established in Afrin canton near the Turkish border. According to local sources, this agreement is intended to prevent Turkish Army from attacking YPG positions in the region.
Meanwhile, ...back at the abandoned silver mine, the water was up to Jack's neck and still rising. And then he smelled the smoke... the US military vehicles have been spotted in the city of Qamishli in northeast Syria, where they perform the same patrol duties along the Turkish border
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[Iraq News] An official from the paramilitary troops of al-Hashd al-Shaabi has revealed Prime Minister and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces Haidar al-Abadi’s refusal of the troops participation in liberating Tal Afar town, 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 major stronghold near the borders with Syria.
In remarks, Jawad al-Tulaibawi, from the Public Mobilization Units (PMUs) said the forces will head toward al-Baaj, after liberating Hatra region, in addition to securing the Iraqi-Syrian borders in order to prevent any supply to IS in Iraq.
He added that Abadi’s orders including liberating Hatra then Baaj and securing the borders, refusing the troops participation in storming of Tal Afar.
Nahla al-Hababi, MP representing the Shiite alliance, said in statements on Saturday that "the Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... delivered a message to Abadi that the Iraqi troops advance toward Tal Afar would mean a similar advance by Turkish troops toward the town too."
In an TV interview aired in April, Erdogan criticized the PMUs and described them as terrorist entity.
"Who are al-Hashd al-Shaabi? Who is backing them? The Iraqi parliament supports al-Hashd al-Shaabi, but, honestly, they are a terrorist organization, and should be known who stands behind it," he said during the interview.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
North Korea deliberately detonated a missile during its failed weekend test because the rocket was heading for Russia, it has been claimed.
[AP] ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistan's army says it has repelled an attack by militants from across the border in Afghanistan that targeted two of its checkpoints, killing three of the attackers.
[The Hill] IS THE GAS TAX ON THE TABLE? President Trump on Monday floated raising the gasoline tax to pay for a roads and bridges improvement package, adding a new twist to the upcoming congressional debate over spending on infrastructure.
[Breitbart] Every nation is free to vote for the political leaders it wants, said Pope Francis Saturday, while Europe itself is in danger of "falling apart."
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least twelve 
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least eight 
[ALMASDARNEWS] Turkish President 
[DAWN] The head of an Iranian satellite television network who last year was sentenced in absentia to six years in prison by a Tehran court was 
[Iraq News] 
[ALMASDARNEWS] A high-ranking field commander of the self-proclaimed 
[Dhaka Tribune] A cow plummeted 70ft from a terrace and crushed a man in Kolkata, injuring the unfortunate man but losing his own bovine life in the process.
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
the personification of Somali state failure...
[DAWN] QUETTA: A suspected
[Daily Excelsior] Pak Special Forces, known by the name of Border Action Teams (BATs) today carried out most dastardly and cruel act after sneaking about 400 to 500 meters inside the Indian territory across the border fencing along Line of Control (LoC) in Nangi Tekri area of Krishna Ghati sector in Poonch district and martyred two soldiers of Army and BSF.
Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Monday refuted Indian army claims that Pak soldiers had killed two members of an Indian army patrol on the Line of Control (LoC) and mutilated their bodies, saying Pak soldiers would never disrespect another soldier, even if they were Indian.
...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...
[IsraelTimes] Woman 
[Daily Excelsior] In a major strike, five 
[Libya Herald] Field Marshal Khalifa Hafter flew from Benghazi’s Benina Airport today to Abu Dhabi amid speculation that he will meet with Presidency Council head Faiez Serraj there.
Wazoo
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan (MoD) claims at least 130 
Afghan Salafist warlord, owned by Saudi Arabia. He was the guy who invited al-Qaeda to come into Afghanistan and make themselves at home...
[SHABELLENEWS] The Al Qaeda-affiliated Al shabaab fighters have publicly executed two men convicted of rape and murder in a
[NYPOST] An FBI translator who was assigned to investigate a bloodthirsty ISIS terrorist wound up falling head-over-heels in love with the man -- and married him instead, a report says.
[IsraelTimes] Terror group’s Yemen branch has become a de facto ally of Yemeni government in civil war against Iranian-sponsored Houthis.
[Dhaka Tribune] Violence erupted between protesters and police near Place de la Bastille in the French capital during a march for the annual May Day workers' rally led by three unions, six days before the presidential election run-off.
the personification of Somali state failure...
[DAWN] CHARSADDA/MANSEHRA: A 14-year-old girl was allegedly strangulated by her father with the help of his teenage son in the name of honour in Prang village of Charsadda.
[Libya Herald] One person is said to have been killed and two others 
[Ynet] The Arabic-language news network releases an investigative documentary on the 
