[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Newest U.S. drone strikes have killed 25 turbans 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, the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) announced.
According to NDS, the newest strikes were carried out a gathering of rebels in Deh Bala District on Wednesday night.
Sediq Sediqi, front man for NDS said that there was no harm to civilians in the Arclight airstrikes.
These strikes come only a day after at least 43 bully boys, 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.... or Daesh, were killed by drones in Haska Mina and Achin districts of the same eastern province of Nangarhar.
With last night's fatalities, the corpse count of the bandidos bully boys killed by drones in Nangarhar province has suppressed 120 this week, dozens of others also maimed.
Among those killed is Gul Zaman a leading military commander of Daesh in Afghanistan and his deputy Jahanyar.
This was the deadliest week for Daesh since it emerged months before in Afghanistan.
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[ARABNEWS] The Afghan intelligence agency on Thursday said a third top Daesh commander in Afghanistan was killed in a US drone strike in the country's east this week.
Shahidullah Shahid, a former front man of the Pak Taliban who defected to Daesh and was operating in Afghanistan, was killed along with five turbans on Tuesday, an official said.
"He wanted to expand IS operation in the country and with his death, it will have an impact on their activities," Hasib Sediqi, front man for the Afghanistan National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS), told Rooters.
Shahid was killed in the same strike that killed Daesh number two in Afghanistan Gul Zaman, along with 49 turbans in the eastern Achin district of 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 where Daesh turbans have recently gained ground after pushing out the Taliban. One other commander was also killed.
Bordering lawless areas inside Pakistain, Nangarhar is one of the provinces where Daesh turbans are most active.
Daesh loyalists, mostly former Taliban disillusioned by the movement's unsuccessful bid to return to power in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... , are often accompanied by dozens of foreign foreigners, hoisting black flags in several districts in the province.
A small but increasing number of mostly ex-Talibs are pledging allegiance to Daesh in Afghanistan, making them a target of deadly strikes there by the US unmanned aircraft.
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think the Taliban gave up his location?
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Nothing will upset the Champs Afghan withdrawal schedule.
[AnNahar] Morocco said Thursday it had tossed in the clink Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! eight people suspected of operating a recruitment cell for the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group in the North African kingdom.
Cell members "secured the transfer of dozens of fighters... in coordination with elements operating on the border between The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Syria," said an interior ministry statement carried by the official MAP news agency.
The recruits were charged with "carrying out suicide boom-mobile operations in Iraq and Syria" for the Death Eater group, the statement added.
The arrests were made by the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations, a unit formed in March as part of the kingdom's counterterrorism push.
Morocco has frequently announced the arrest of "terrorist cells" and reported seizing weapons from groups authorities say have pledged allegiance to IS.
According to the British-based International Center for the Study of Radicalization, about 2,000 Moroccans are estimated to be fighting with IS in Iraq and Syria.
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[ALMANAR.LB] At least 14 people were killed in battles in Libya's second city Benghazi between faceless myrmidons and forces loyal to the internationally recognized government, hospital officials said on Thursday.
The fighting erupted Wednesday morning in the centre of the city, the officials said.Libya holy warriors
The Benghazi Medical Centre said on its Facebook page that it had received the bodies of 13 people as well as 50 maimed.
Al-Jalaa hospital said it was hit by a rocket that killed one person and maimed three.
It was not immediately clear if those killed and maimed in the festivities -- which subsided late Wednesday -- were civilians or fighters.
Benghazi has been reeling from more than a year of near-daily festivities between pro-government forces and gangs, including Islamists, battling for control of the eastern city.
At least 1,700 people have been killed in the violence since early 2014, according to the Libya Body Count watchdog.
Elsewhere in Libya, a senior military intelligence officer was killed in third city Misrata on Wednesday when a bomb concealed in his car went kaboom!, a security official said.
The officer, Taher Allush, was close to Fajr Libya, a militia alliance which seized Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... in August last year and set up a rival government and parliament.
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[ALMANAR.LB] An Egyptian court Thursday sentenced to death 10 men for killing a security guard for one of the judges hearing a case against ousted president Mohammad Mursi, an official said.
Sergent Abdallah Metwally was part of a team of coppers guarding the home of judge Hussein Kandil, when he was bumped off in February 2014 in the city of Mansoura north of Cairo.
At the time, Kandil was the presiding judge in Mursi's trial for escaping from jail during the 2011 uprising that ousted longtime president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... In May, Mursi and more than 100 co-defendants were sentenced to death in that trial for plotting jailbreaks and attacks on police.
The 10 men sentenced to death on Thursday were among 24 tried in a court in Mansoura in connection with Metwally's murder, the official said. Verdicts against the 14 others will be announced in September.
In line with Egyptian law, the death sentences were referred to the mufti, the government's official interpreter of Islamic law, and the court will deliver its final ruling on September 7.
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[ARABNEWS] A roadside kaboom in Egypt's restive northern Sinai on Thursday maimed 20 coppers traveling in a bus and an armored personnel carrier, security officials said, the latest attack in the troubled part of the peninsula where Egyptian forces are battling an insurgency.
The bombing in the lovely provincial capital of El-Arish came just a week after one of the most vicious attacks on Egyptian troops in the region, in which turbans launched sustained, coordinated attacks on a northern Sinai town, military checkpoints and installations that drew a swift offensive and aerial bombardment from government aircraft. In that attack, at least 17 army soldiers were killed, according to Egypt's military, although other branches of security put the toll much higher.
The military said its troops killed over 200 turbans since the attack and posted photographs of their bodies, most of them in military-style fatigues. Media access to the area is restricted, complicating independent verification of reports.
Government forces have been carrying out an intensified hunt for turbans in several northern Sinai towns. But in El-Arish, a more densely populated area, government forces are more vulnerable to road side bombs -- which have become a recurrent weapon used against troops.
The security officials said the bus carried coppers in civilian clothes as they left El-Arish at the start of their leave. The armored carrier was their escort, and was hit hardest by the bomb, according to the officials.
Most of the 20 coppers were lightly maimed, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Nigerian troops have incarcerated Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! the criminal mastermind of bombings in the central cities of Jos and Zaria this week that killed at least 69 people, the defense ministry said on Thursday.
Well done, O Nigerian troops! Now interrogate him well, and his electronics, too.
No one has taken responsibility for the attacks but they bore the hallmarks of Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... terrorist group.
The arrest coincided with a government offer to negotiate with the bully boy bad boy group, a decision some analysts say contradicts President Muhammadu Buhari's pledge not to negotiate with terrorists.
Army front man Colonel Sani Usman said the arrest of the unnamed criminal mastermind came at a checkpoint in Gombe State.
"As a result of tip-off and cordon and search at a checkpoint in Gombe State, Nigeria, the criminal mastermind of the terrorist act in Jos at a mosque and restaurant and, of course, at the screening exercise in Zaria, Kaduna state, was arrested along with two others," he said.
Henchmen, too? They often know things... Fetch a barrel of mustache wax, the #4 calipers, and a pot of strong tea, Sergeant! There's work to be done tonight!
Usman declined to provide details on how the arrest came about except to say that it was a "combined operation" between the Department of State Service and federal troops. He said Nigerian security forces were doing everything in their power to deal with the Boko Haram problem.
"If you are quite aware, sometime back, the Boko Haram holy warriors were also holding territory here in Nigeria. But, we have succeeded in flushing them out of all those territories. They are now confined to the Sambisa Forest. What you are seeing is a kind of remnant elements that decide to go back to the tactics of bombing isolated or so-called soft targets," Usman said.
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[ARABNEWS] One of the three brothers placed in durance vile Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! in connection with the June 26 bombing of the Al-Sadeq Mosque in Kuwait is a 38-year-old Saudi businessman from Al-Khafji, a town close to the Kuwait border.
The second brother was arrested in Kuwait and extradited to Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , while the third was arrested in Taif. A fourth brother is apparently in Syria fighting for Daesh, according to sources.
The brother in Al-Khafji had been tracked by the police to his sister's house. He had refused to surrender and opened fire on the police.
He was injured during the firefight and arrested. One officer suffered head injuries and was taken to Riyadh by air for treatment.
An investigation is now under way into the man's movements, and whether family members were involved in providing him refuge, according to reports in a local publication on Wednesday.
The Ministry of Interior issued a statement on Tuesday morning to announce that Saudi Arabia and Kuwait were cooperating in the investigation to track down those responsible for the bombing, which it described as a "sinful" act.
The suspects included four women, with some of their relatives living in areas controlled by Daesh in Syria and Iraq, according to reports.
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sounds like that family tree needs to be pulled out and burned - roots and all
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Wood-chipper, Frank. Much more environmentally friendly.
[Al Ahram] Yemeni fighters allied with exiled President Abd-rabbo Mansour Hadi killed 15 rebels in a Thursday attack on their checkpoints in the country's southern Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... province, a military source said.
In second city Aden, 17 rebels were killed in air strikes by Saudi-led coalition warplanes, according to pro-Hadi military sources.
Fighters belonging to the pro-government Popular Resistance Committees in Abyan's Zinjibar attacked checkpoints of the 15th Infantry Brigade, which has defected and joined Iran-backed Shia Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... rebels, the military source said.
The southern fighters also besieged the headquarters of the brigade, which was later hit by warplanes from the coalition that launched an air campaign in March backing Hadi.
Southern rustics meanwhile killed four Houthi rebels in an ambush Thursday near Ataq, in Shabwa province, a local security source said.
Troops loyal to former president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... have sided with the Houthis, who overran the capital in September and went on to seize control of several regions.
The rebels forced Hadi into exile when they advanced in March on the port city of Aden, where he had taken refuge after escaping house arrest in Sanaa.
Aden's health chief Al-Khader Laswar said 19 civilians, including three children and a woman, were killed and 115 others maimed since Tuesday in rebel rocket attacks on the city.
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[DAWN] GUJRANWALA: The city division police claimed on Wednesday to have bumped off an alleged terrorist in an encounter on Sheikhupura Road, while his accomplice managed to escape.
Police also recovered a suicide jacket.
City Police Officer (CPO) Waqas Nazir told news hounds that murderous Moslems had entered the city on Wednesday on the eve of Youm-e-Ali. Law-enforcement agencies, including the Sabzi Mandi police, raided the mini stadium where the murderous Moslems were allegedly hiding. When the team entered the stadium and ordered them to surrender, they opened fire.
In retaliation, one of the suspects who was wearing a suicide jacket was killed while his accomplice managed to escape.
Nazir said bomb disposal squad defused the suicide jacket.
He said several teams of police were chasing the absconder.
Bomb disposal squad in-charge Ubaidullah said the suicide jacket was made locally with 5kg of kaboom.
The CPO further said some murderous Moslems had attacked Imambargah ...since Pakistain is very religiously correct, Shia Moslems can't call their houses of worship 'mosques,' which are reserved for Sunnis. It's not clear if imambargahs are used for explosives storage like mosques are... Zainabia and other places last Ramazan and killed three people. The Inter-Services Intelligence ...the Pak military intelligence agency that controls the military -- heads of ISI typically get promoted into the Chief of Army Staff position. It serves as a general command center for favored turban groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, tries to influence the politix of neighboring countries, and carries out a (usually) low-level war against India in Kashmir... , Military Intelligence, Crimes Investigation Agency police and special branch had informed them that some murderous Moslems were planning an attack on the martyrdom day of Hazrat Ali (AS) on Thursday (today).
The CPO added that police had set up pickets on all roads leading to the city.
He said the body of the alleged terrorist killed in the "encounter" had been shifted to the DHQ Hospital and it could not be identified till the filing of this report.
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Could make for an interesting police property auction this year.
Snark of the day.
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[DAWN] Security forces placed in durance vile You have the right to remain silent... four suspected members of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) in the Nawan Killi area late on Wednesday night.
Official sources said the arrested Lions of Islam were wanted in criminal cases, including kabooms and murders. "They belonged to the banned TTP's Sajna group," a front man for the Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and anti-smuggling operations.... said.
After receiving information about presence of some high-profile Lions of Islam in the Nawan Killi area, personnel of FC and intelligence agencies conducted a raid and arrested four members of the Sajna group of TTP.
"They were planning to carry out subversive activities in and around Quetta," the FC front man said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, the radioactive tadpoles grown into frogs. Really big frogs, in fact... FC and police personnel also arrested four suspected Lions of Islam during a joint operation in Killi Deeba and Huda areas on Wednesday. A security bigshot said the arrested Lions of Islam included commander of a banned holy warrior organization.
"They were involved in recent killings in different areas of Quetta," he added.
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[AnNahar] Iraqi paramilitaries exchanged fire with police in Baghdad Thursday, the latest sign of tension between the government and the country's Shiite militias, security sources said.
An interior ministry officer said around 15 gunnies from the Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization) force stormed an unfinished health ministry building in the Zayyounah neighborhood overnight.
"The guards went to the police, which dispatched units of around 60 men equipped with armored personnel carriers to expel the gunnies, who opened fire," the officer said.
A police colonel said three coppers were maimed in the festivities, which resulted in the Lions of Islam eventually leaving the building.
"The gunfire lasted for almost an hour," said Wafa Mohammed, who lives nearby. "We were scared inside our home and had no idea what was happening on the street."
A shop owner from the same neighborhood said some members of the security services negotiated with the gunnies when the exchange of fire stopped.
The Hashed al-Shaabi is made up of volunteers and several mostly Shiite militias. They are theoretically under the prime minister's command but largely escape his control.
The militias, several of which have close ties with Tehran, have done much of the heavy lifting in the fight against 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.... jihadist group that took over swathes of Iraq last year.
The interior ministry issued a statement that appeared to allude to the overnight clash in Zayyounah.
"In the wake of the latest incidents, the minister and ministry officials discussed the situation in Baghdad and the means to provide security and stability," it said.
The statement said the minister had asked Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, his party and other political groups, "to support the ministry in its efforts to confront undisciplined groups."
Interior Minister Mohammed al-Ghaban himself is a member of the Badr organization, the political wing of one of Iraq's most prominent Shiite militias.
The militias and federal forces have consistently jockeyed for supremacy in the battle against IS.
While paramilitary groups enjoy huge popular prestige, critics say those groups need to do more to rein in members -- or gunnies who claim to be members -- challenging the law with impunity, especially in urban areas.
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Dang, does this mean putting four Moslems in a dark room mean we have three heads on a fence post by midnight?
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In Bangladesh, this would mean a trip apiece at 3 am for RAB2, RAB3, RAB6 and RAB8...
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[RUDAW.NET] US-led coalition Arclight airstrikes destroyed a military convoy of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) group in northern Iraq on Thursday, destroying armored vehicles and killing all the turbans, a Kurdish commander said.
"The (coalition) warplanes attacked ISIS elements as they were passing through a road in Halabiya village, east of the Dijla frontline," said Delshad Mawloud, a commander of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces.
Three armored vehicles that were in the convoy were destroyed and all ISIS fighters traveling with it were killed, he said, without specifying the number of casualties.
The village of Halabiya lies in an area that is in the frontline of the war between Kurdish forces and ISIS. It is east of the Dijla frontline and west of Aski djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , a very small town in the eponymous province.
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I'll bet everything I own there were no fluffy bunnies killed, either.
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Any bets on the brass hat authorizing this attack being forced to resign anon?
No, my bets are on continued pressure from SOF elements and a bewildered media after recent televised footage of multiple ISIS convoy running around the battlespace. Harmful to the larger narrative to have a political effort appear, not only notional, but totally ineffective.
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Attacking and destroying enemy LOC's (lines of communication) is not a new concept of warfare, and we certainly do have the technology and wherewithal
I had a very, very minor role in the HoD op. Suffice it to say that initiative at the scene had a major role at the start, and that it went into a rolling-snowball effect from there.
Today - technology and wherewithal, yes. Other factors, not so much.
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Yeah, the media made a big stink about 'piling on'. The HoD was small compared to what Ike and boys did at Falaise. Most of the HoD pics don't show a lot of bodies. The Falaise one's do. IIRC Ike said something about walking a mile without your feet touching the ground because of all the corpses, human and (draft) animals. Should have shoved that back into the faces of the little snowflakes at the press briefing.
[RUDAW.NET] 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.... fighters have destroyed Al Boshjal bridge connecting Fallujah city and Saqlawiyah town in order to halt the advance of Iraqi security forces, an official source from Anbar province police told Rudaw.
After controlling areas near the town of Saqlawiyah, 7km northwest of Fallujah in Anbar province, ISIS destroyed the strategic bridge that was known as a vital supply line for the ISIS bad boys.
"To prevent the escape of the civilians, ISIS has placed many checkpoints on the bridges of Fallujah and Albo-Alwan towns. In Hawija, in southeastern Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... ISIS organized a military parade under the banner of the Qawqaz Regiment and has pushed the young men from Fallujah to join its ranks," said the police source.
The Anbar provincial council has asked Iraqi military leaders to help the people of Anbar escape because ISIS might use them as human shields.
Naem Gaoud, head of Al-Buonmar militia, told Rudaw on Wednesday that the Islamic State had established a special force in nearby areas comprised of imported muscle.
"We have asked the Iraqi government to provide us with heavy weapons to defeat ISIS," said Gaoud.
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There is no bridge that connects Saqlawiyah and Fallujah...just a road with a few culverts over irrigation ditches. I guess no one at the RUDAW.NET volunteered to fact check the story.
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Good news, Frank: there's a request for contract coming out soon...
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There are a couple of pretty deep wahdis around Fallujah and we bombed them ourselves during the wars of the two Georges.
More importantly to me is ISIS seems to feel the need to slow Iraqi forces down. Does that mean the good(?)guys (I know good in this situation is pretty relative) are making advances at a fast enough rate to worry the Imperial Grand Overlord of the Universe himself?
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Hey Constantcough been hanging around the burn pit? My nephew 3 tours Iraq has a constant cough and he believes the burn pits caused it.
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the news service here "RUDAW" is Kurdish and they are undoubtedly getting their info 2nd or 3rd hand.
There is a major bridge east of Fallujah across the Euphrates but there are no rivers to the north of Fallujah in the direction of Saqlawiyah (as constantcough points out). There are some sanitary canals all around the city (and around villages, etc.) and various improvised bridges cross them.
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Hey Constantcough been hanging around the burn pit? My nephew 3 tours Iraq has a constant cough and he believes the burn pits caused it. Posted by bman
If he's not done so already, tell your nephew to get himself and his DD-214 to the VA asap. Needs to be documented if nothing else.
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] An Israeli civilian is being held against his will by the Islamist group Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, in the Gazoo Strip, Israel said on Thursday.
Hamas, the Paleostinian enclave's dominant faction, declined to comment.
Israel suspects bandidosholy warriors in Gazoo would use its citizens to bargain for the release of Paleostinians held in Israeli jails.
Israel's Defence Ministry said there was "credible intelligence" that Avraham Mangisto, 26, a resident of Ashkelon, the nearest Israeli city to the Gazoo Strip, "is being held against his will by Hamas in Gazoo". It said he had crossed the border on foot on Sept. 7, 2014.
The statement also said: "The defense establishment is also dealing with an additional case of an Israeli Arab who is being held in Gazoo." It did not give details.
No doubt it has been explored whether that family is connected to Hamas. Why else would an Israeli Arab voluntarily wander into Gaza?
Reporting the cases had been barred until Thursday.
Mangisto's brother, Ilan, speaking on behalf of the family said they were placing their trust in the Israeli government to bring Avraham, who was unwell, home.
"This is a distressing humanitarian case because my brother is not well...
An odd locution -- suicidal, manic, or paranoid schizophrenic, perhaps?
I ask the Israeli government to bring him home safely and call on the international community to intervene and to bring its influence to bear for his release."
In an emotional plea made outside the family's run-down Ashkelon apartment, Ilan Mangisto also called on Hamas to consider his brother's medical state and to "release him immediately".
Israel's president, Reuven Rivlin, said the family had feared for Mangisto's safety before he crossed to Gazoo, adding he should not be considered an asset.
"Without discussing (medical) details, his family was very worried about him before he left ... he cannot be considered to hold tactical or strategic value in the struggle between us and Hamas or any other foes," Rivlin told news hounds.
Israeli media said Mangisto, who is of Æthiopian origin, crossed of his own volition into the Gazoo Strip, circumventing the border along the beach.
Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier who was kidnapped by bandidosholy warriors in a cross-border raid in 2006, was released after more than five years in captivity in exchange for over 1,000 Paleostinians in Israeli jails.
Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon said this week Israel was seeking the return of the remains of two soldiers killed during last year's Gazoo war.
The Defence Ministry said Israel had "appealed to international and regional interlocutors to demand (Mangisto's) immediate release and verify his well-being" and would "continue to pursue the release and return of the citizen to Israel".
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Israeli media said Mangisto, who is of Æthiopian origin, crossed of his own volition into the Gazoo Strip, circumventing the border along the beach
Consequences of choices made. He's got em.
Bye
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...A second citizen, a Bedouin resident of the south, has also crossed the border into the Strip, also of his own accord, in April 2015. The young Bedouin is said to be mentally ill, and has tried to cross into Gaza in the past.
Mangisto was seen walking on the beach, heading south. He reached the Zikim beach area, and continued walking south until he crossed an electric fence that divides Israel from Gaza, which starts on the beach and continues into the water.
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Even more from The Times of Israel. It seems Mr. Mengistu, who was rejected by the Israeli army, wanted to go back to Ethiopia, while the Bedouin lad was in the habit of wandering into bordering countries.
[Gulf Today] The Philippine military reported that three members of the communist New People's Army were killed in an encounter with security forces in Quezon province in Southern Luzon.
Battalion commander Lieutenant Colonel Simeon Talosig said his troops who were on patrol engaged the militants in a 30-minute clash in a remote village in the town of Mauban, Quezon on Wednesday night. He said, "The rebels left behind their three dead comrades when they fled," adding the soldiers recovered three M16 rifles and a grenade launcher from the scene.
[Bangkok Post] A Muslim policeman was gunned down by suspected insurgents in a drive-by attack in Narathiwat province on Thursday night shortly after he attended Ramadan services at a local mosque.
Pol Capt Nitinai Arbuwa was heading home aboard a motorcycle in Sri Sakhon district when a gunman riding pillion on another motorcycle fired a handgun at him. The assailants then fled. The officer, who was a deputy inspector with the district police station’s crime suppression unit, was shot twice in the head and chest. He later died from his injuries in the hospital.
The attack took place shortly after Nitinai had joined villagers in having a meal and performing evening prayers during the Muslim holy month. Police blamed southern separatists for the killing.
[RUDAW.NET] Kurdish fighters with the YPG, or People's Protection Units, fighting alongside the Syrian rebel group Borkan al-Forat have retaken the Syrian town of Bozani after an intense battle 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.... , reports Rudaw correspondent Omar Kalo at the scene.
Bozani, also known as Ain Issa, fell to the forces of the Islamic State, or ISIS, on Monday. The YPG and Borkan al- Forat, which translates as Euphrates Volcano, launched a blistering attack on ISIS positions in the south of Gire Spi district and retook the area on Thursday with the help of Arclight airstrikes from the US-led coalition.
According to Rudaw's Kalo, dozens of ISIS murderous Moslems and 10 fighters of the YPG and Borkan al- Forat forces were killed.
Bozani town is located about 80 km southeast of Kobani. The town was originally liberated on June 23 by the YPG and Borkan al- Forat, but ISIS murderous Moslems seized the town again earlier this week.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Seven hard boyz from Syria's Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra Front terrorist group, including commanders, were killed in US-led air strikes Wednesday in the northwest of the conflict-riven country, a Britannia-based opposition monitoring group said.
The US-led raids in Syria, which began last September, have allegedly focused on the so-called 'Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... group, but Al-Nusra Front terrorist organization has also been the target of some strikes.
"Seven Al-Nusra members, including commanders, were killed in at least five coalition air strikes against the group's bases and a vehicle in Idleb province," the director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdel Rahman, said.
Most of Idleb province has been under the control of Al-Nusra and its terrorist allies.
The United States is backing more moderate rebels in their fight against the Syrian regime. Like ISIL, Al-Nusra is blacklisted as a "terrorist organization" by Washington.
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Figuring the cost of Jet-A, ordinance, pilot pay, and ground support costs, I think that comes to about $87,518.36 per Al-Nusra guy whacked.
Almost as cost effective as a dronezap.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Syrian rebels on Wednesday have taken control of al-Hamidiya village in the southern countryside of Aleppo province, activists told Zaman al-Wasl.
Rebels, also, took control of al-Qarea checkpoint near strategic Khanaser town after fierce fighting with Syrian regime forces and allied Shiite militias.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio wondered: Where the hell was Chumbaloni? And where was his $600?... the forensic commission of rebel-held Aleppo received 10 bodies belong to Salafist tough guys in corpse-exchange with regime army who received in turn 16 corpses.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] An Arclight airstrike by Syrian regime in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo killed 15 people, including 6 children, on Wednesday as helicopter gunships pounded a rebel-held neighborhood, activists said.
Zaman al-Wasl local news hound said the bombing had targeted Ibad al-Rahman mosque in al-Bab neighborhood minutes before the Maghrib Prayer where people were preparing their breakfast for the 21st day of Ramadan, the holy month where Moslems fast from dawn to sunset.
Regime's barrel kabooms have also targeted neighborhoods of Sheikh Kheder and al-Hulk in the rebel-held city.
Aleppo city is divided between the Syria military, backed by militia, and a range of murderous Moslem groups including al Qaeda's Nusra Front, Islamist brigades and Western-backed rebels.
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Odd that these primitive devices fail to find the thousands of wedding parties our GBUs are famous for hitting. Then again maybe the answer was in my question, the GBU cut down on overly ceremonial linkagery?
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] A Syrian Kurdish militia on Wednesday recaptured a town that had been stormed by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... fighters earlier this week north of the jihadist group's base of operations in Raqqa city, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
Islamic State fighters had stormed the town of Ain Issa on Monday, part of a wider attack by the jihadist group on areas held by the Kurdish YPG militia. Ain Issa is 50 km (30 miles) north of Raqqa city.
The latest advance by the YPG comes amid to-and-fro battles with Islamic State fighters across northern Syria, who have also been clashing with the Syrian military around Hasaka city further east.
A drone strike as part of a U.S.-led air campaign against Islamic State killed a senior figure from the group in Raqqa city overnight, the Observatory said earlier on Wednesday. The strike killed an Uzbek leader of the group involved in security as he sat in a car outside a downtown hotel.
Islamic State has attracted imported muscle from across the world to fight in its self-declared caliphate across parts of Syria and Iraq. It has named Raqqa its de-facto capital.
The United States says it has intensified an aerial campaign against Islamic State in Syria with a wave of strikes in and around Raqqa city.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] ISIS fighters on Wednesday have pressed advances in the eastern countryside of Homs province, getting closer to government-held city of Homs, field sources told Zaman al-Wasl.
The ultra-hardline Islamist group took more districts near Furuqlus town that situated on the eastern gate of the ancient city of Palmyra and it links to the Syrian desert (Badiyat al-Sham) where ISIS controls swaths of territory.
Activists Mohammed al-Homsi said ISIS is just 20 km (14 miles) from Homs but for now he do not think the Islamic Sate will overrun the city or make further advances toward government-held towns. ''ISIS is unpredictable,we hope such advance," ' he added.
Oon Tuesday, ISIS controled two checkpoints near the T-4 military air base that situated between Homs and Palnmyra. Also ISIS fighters had seized Milan missile launcher base, according to Twitter news feeds.
The Syrian city of Homs, dubbed "the capital of the revolution" by rebels, has been a key flashpoint since the early days of the almost five-year-old revolt against Bashir al-Assad.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] A key rebel group operating under Southern Front in Daraa province, said over disputes with other rebel groups it will not continue its mission as a guardian of Nasib border crossing which rebels had captured last April, according to statement issued Wednesday.
Yarmouk Army said some rebel groups have made barracks inside the border crossing what has disturbed their mission in securing the strategic border crossing.
Southern region, including Daraa, is of strategic importance due to its proximity to Damascus and neighboring states Israel and Jordan. It is also the last significant foothold of mainstream rebels, who have mostly been crushed elsewhere in Syria by government forces or jihadist groups.
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[Al Ahram] The Syrian army said on Thursday it was closing in on Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... Lions of Islam in control of Palmyra, in a major offensive to recapture the city of Roman ruins from the jihadists.
A newsflash on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
quoted a Syrian army source as saying its forces were in the vicinity of the city.
Footage showed tank and artillery shelling of distant targets in the largely desert terrain.
"The units of the army had delivered concentrated hits to the terrorists' hideouts and killed many of them," an army statement said.
In the last few days the army has intensified its aerial bombardment of the central Syrian city, also known as Tadmur, in the heaviest such raids since it was seized by the Sunni Islamist group last May.
The army said in the last 24 hours it had taken Nuzl Hayal and the Tel al Marmala on the outskirts of the city and hilltops about 10 km (six miles) from the centre.
The city of 50,000 people is the site of some of the world's most extensive and best-preserved ancient Roman ruins.
Islamic State is fighting the Kurdish YPG militia along the northern border with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and with the Syrian military around Hasaka city to the east.
The United States said this week it had intensified an aerial campaign against Islamic State in Syria with a wave of strikes in and around Raqqa city, the de facto capital of the holy warriors' self-declared caliphate in parts of Syria and Iraq.
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[ARABNEWS] Purported supporters of the hard-line Daesh group hacked the website of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights watchdog and threatened its Syrian director who has documented abuses on all sides of Syria's war.
The Britannia-based Observatory, which tracks the conflict using sources on the ground, took down its website after the online attack from a group calling itself "The Cyber Army of the Khilafah."
The cybertattackers had posted the face of Observatory director Rami Abdulrahman superimposed over a hostage wearing an orange jumpsuit and kneeling next to a Daesh holy warrior holding a knife, according to the SITE monitoring service. "They are trying to stop us," Abdulrahman said by telephone, confirming the SITE report.
"When you work in human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... , you know you get such threats but never like that. It is a serious message."
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[ARABNEWS] The Afghan intelligence agency on Thursday said a third top Daesh commander in Afghanistan was killed in a US drone strike in the country's east this week.
[ALMANAR.LB] Nigerian troops have 
[Gulf Today] The Philippine military reported that three members of the communist New People's Army were killed in an encounter with security forces in Quezon province in Southern Luzon.
[Bangkok Post] A Muslim policeman was gunned down by suspected insurgents in a drive-by attack in Narathiwat province on Thursday night shortly after he attended Ramadan services at a local mosque. 
