#3
One time an old bull with a stick stirred
The swamp, and then sank. A fat tickbird
Sang, "Man, this is great!"
But when asked what he ate
After that: "Only hate," croaked the stick bird.
#5
"Heaven
I'm in heaven
I'm in heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
When were out together dancing cheek to cheek... "
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Asmodeus J-for John Jones is Summoned by Nevianne the Witch to combat the evil Palegos, who's oppressing the countryside. She's expecting someone nine feet tall, with fangs, and she gets him. He not only doesn't believe in magic, he suppresses its use for a mile in any direction. There's no way she can send him back. He's capable of slipping between reality streams, but he's so far away he can't find his way back.
How far away? Nevianne and her coven live in the Really Later Roman Empire. There was no battle at the Milvian Gate, no "In Hoc Signo Vinces." Emperor Julian reigned for thirty two years, not three, and he declared parity among religions, establishing a Ministry of Religion, to enforce it. Nevy and her coven are pagans. Athaulf the Visigoth king wasn't murdered in his bath. He reigned with Galla Placidia as Emperor Athaulf I. There was also an Emperor Genseric. There's a synagogue in Flumen Martii, the capital of Agus, which covers Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and part of New York. Asmodeus learns magic from the Archbishop of the Church of Saint Simon Magus.
Under Roman rule North America was settled around 1000 A.D. The population of Agus is about a third native, a third Saxon (and Celtic Briton and some Dane), and a third Latin. The official language is Latin. I don't mention it in the text, but there's also an official Latin Academy and an official Latin language, so there's no official French or Italian or Romanian; there are just different accents. The natives in Nevy's area speak Lenape, and there are Iroquois living to the north. The Susquahannocks aren't extinct. Nor are passenger pigeons.
Nevianne and Asmodeus fall for each other immediately, and hard. She first saw him as her future husband in her first vision when she was nine. Demons can be summoned only by maidens. Once they complete the task, the maiden is theirs forever. Nevy expected to be a human sacrifice to the demon. She and Asmodeus get to mess around a lot, but she has to remain a maiden at least until the wizard is vanquished.
As soon as Asmodeus (he prefers Jack) is Summoned, Palegos sends Nannakussi, his Lenape minion, and his men to kill the entire coven. Blaeda, Nevy's best friend and a member of the coven, who's a Seeress, warns them. Jack constructs an IED from the witches' gunpowder and flour, with rocks for shrapnel, and kills all of Nannakussi's men, burning Nevy's house down in the process. He conks Nannakussi in the head with a chunk of cord wood, defeating him in personal combat. Nannakussi and his wife and five-year-old daughter become Jack's slaves by law. They were Palegos' slaves before.
Besides the witches and the archbishop, there are flying monkeys, monkey-faced bears, a precocious five-year-old witch, a fire-farting imp, and a fight to the death between Asmodeus and a real demon.
It's rip-snortin' adventure with a language problem.
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[ToloNews] At least 12 security force members were killed in an attack by the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... on Bala Hisar military base in Imam Sahib district in the northern province of Kunduz on Thursday night, sources said.
The sources added that 11 security force members were maimed in the attack.
Meanwhile, ...back at the hoedown, the fiddler suddenly struck a sour note. The dancing stopped abruptly. Everyone looked at Bob... two police force members were killed when they were on their way to the army base to help the forces when their vehicle hit a roadside kaboom in which two others were maimed, the sources said.
The military base, which is a key base in the northern province, fell to the Taliban for some hours but was retaken by the security forces, the sources said.
The sources said that at least 10 Taliban members were killed or maimed in the attack, but the Taliban has not commented on the incident.
[KhaamaPress] At least two people were killed and further four maimed in a kaboom near an Afghan National Army’s outpost in Paghman district, west capital city Kabul, Friday morning, local police said.
The explosion occurred in Arghandi area of Paghman district, with photos circulating on social media show the earth-shattering kaboom had damaged the army outpost.
Officials did not provide further details on the victims, whether the blast inflicted to people or security forces at the location.
No group or individual has immediately grabbed credit for the attack.
The attack comes amid widespread concern over soaring violence throughout Afghanistan, despite efforts to resume peace negotiations in Doha.
[KhaamaPress] In Kandahar, 97 Taliban — including nine of their commanders — were killed and seven other were maimed during festivities in Zherai district of the province.
"97 Taliban including 9 of their commanders were killed and 7 others were were maimed in Zherai district of Kandahar Prov. last night," MoD tweet. "Also, 9 Taliban were killed in Shahwali Kot district and a large amount of their weapons and ammunitions were destroyed."
At least 10 Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... were killed and further five maimed during a battle with Afghan cops in Saheb district of Kunduz province, said the Ministry of Defense in a statement Friday.
During the operation, Afghan National and Defense Security Forces (ANDSF) wrecked a huge amount of arms and ammunition that belonged to the Taliban.
"10 Taliban were killed and 5 others were maimed in Imam Saheb district of Konduz province after they attacked ANDSF last night," said MoD in a tweet. "Also, a large amount of their weapons and ammunitions were destroyed."
In another news from Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... , clashed between the bully boyz and Afghan cops claimed at least four member of the Taliban group and further six were maimed in Barmal district of the province.
"4 Taliban were killed and 6 others were maimed in Barmal district of Paktika province after they attacked ANDSF positions, yesterday," the tweet added. "Also, a large amount of their weapons were seized.
[AnNahar] Troops with La Belle France's anti-jihadist force in Mali have killed the military commander of an al-Qaeda-aligned group linked to attacks in the region, Defence Minister Florence Parly said Friday.
Parly hailed the operation involving helicopters and ground troops that "neutralised" Ba Ag Moussa, the military commander of the Group to Support Islam and Moslems (GSIM).
...in Arabic Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Moslemin (JNIM), the regional umbrella affiliated with Al Qaeda in North Africa.
Ag Moussa, alias 'Bamoussa', is "believed to be responsible for several attacks against Malian and international forces," she said in a statement.
"He is considered one of the top military jihadists in Mali, in charge in particular of the training of new recruits."
In June, French forces in Mali killed Abdelmalik Droukdel ... aka Abdel Wadoud, was a regional leader of the GSPC for several years before becoming the group's supremo in 2004 following the death of then-leader Nabil Sahraoui. Under Abdel Wadoud's leadership the GSPC has sought to develop itself from a largely domestic entity into a larger player on the international terror stage. In September 2006 it was announced that the GSPC had joined forces with al-Qaeda and in January 2007 the group officially changed its name to the Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb.... , the leader of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the rival jihadist group to GSIM.
La Belle France has more than 5,000 troops deployed in its anti-jihadist Barkhane force in the Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... Mali is struggling to contain an Islamist insurgency that erupted in 2012 and has claimed thousands of military and civilian lives since.
Despite the presence of thousands of French and UN troops, the conflict has engulfed the centre of the country and spread to neighbouring 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... and Niger.
[AlAhram] Twenty African migrants colonists are believed to have drowned off the coast of Libya when their boat sank as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, while more bodies washed ashore on Libyan beaches on Friday from a shipwreck earlier this week.
The latest shipwreck, a wooden boat that left from Surman in western Libya, is the fourth this week and brings the total corpse count to more than 100 people, an International Organization for Migration spokeswoman said.
Some of the survivors were from Nigeria, Gambia ... The Gambia is actually surrounded by The Senegal on all sides but its west coast. It has a population of about 1.7 million. The difference between the two is that in colonial days Senegal was ruled by La Belle France and The Gambia (so-called because there's only one of it, unlike Guinea, of which there are the Republic of Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, New Guinea, the English coin in circulation between 1663 and 1813, and Guyana, which sounds like it should be another one) was ruled by Britain... , Ghana 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... . Elsa Laino of Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) said three women had been rescued by local fishermen and were in a state of trauma.
"They saw their family and relatives die in front of them and now they are left alone in a country that is not safe," she told Rooters.
Aid workers say that worsening treatment of sub-Saharan African migrants colonists in Libya as well as relatively calm seas may have prompted the flurry of departures. Thousands of migrants colonists leave sub-Saharan Africa every year on a perilous journey to Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... as they seek to escape conflict and poverty.
Earlier this week, coastguards and Spanish charity Open Arms were involved in two other rescues where several migrants colonists drowned.
On Thursday, a rubber dinghy crammed with more than 120 people aboard that had left from the town of Khums capsized.
"Staff in the region reported that more bodies continued to wash ashore overnight," IOM spokeswoman Safa Msehli told a briefing in Geneva.
Fisherman and the coasties had earlier recovered 31 bodies from the first wreck, including a toddler.
Survivors are being held in the city of Khums, Msehli said, calling on authorities to release them and provide protection to prevent them falling into the hands of smugglers and traffickers.
"The worsening humanitarian conditions of migrants colonists detained in overcrowded centres, widespread arbitrary arrests and imprisonment, and extortion and abuse are alarming," she said.
MSF's Laino said the lack of search and rescue teams in the Mediterranean was contributing to the high corpse count.
More than 900 people have died this year attempting the Mediterranean crossing to reach Europe. Thousands more have been stopped at sea and returned to Libya where they are often vulnerable to exploitation and abuse
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[IsraelTimes] Officials say security forces intercepted and destroyed two explosives-packed boats targeting a major refinery and terminal.
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... said early Friday it thwarted an attack by Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... ’s Iran-backed rebels that sparked a fire near an Aramco oil distribution center, involving unmanned boats loaded with explosives dispatched into the Red Sea.
In remarks carried by the state-run Saudi Press Agency, an unnamed official at the Ministry of Energy reported that Saudi security forces had intercepted and destroyed two explosives-packed boats that it said Yemen’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...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 legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. 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 They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels were using to target a major refinery and terminal in the southern Saudi province of Jizan.
The attempted attack took place late Wednesday near an offloading platform and caused the floating hoses that unload oil to catch fire, according to the energy official, who added that the blaze had been brought under control and caused no injuries.
The official sharply condemned the attack as threatening commercial shipping routes near the vital Bab al-Mandeb strait, used for oil shipments from the Gulf to Europe, as well as goods from Asia to Europe.
There was no immediate acknowledgement from Yemen’s rebels, who have repeatedly fired drones and missiles targeting oil installations, airports and cities in the Saudi mainland over the course of a grinding five-year war against a Saudi-led military coalition. In September 2019, drone attacks claimed by the Houthis struck two key oil installations in Saudi Arabia, halting about half of the supplies from the world’s largest exporter of oil. Saudi Arabia and the US attributed the assault to Iran, which has denied involvement.
Saudi Arabia often claims to foil Houthi cross-border attacks, but evidence is scarce, making it extremely difficult to independently verify the accounts.
The Houthis, which Saudi Arabia considers to be Iranian proxies, overran Yemen’s capital and much of the north in 2014, driving the internationally recognized government into exile. The war in the Arab world’s poorest country has killed over 100,000 people, pushed millions to the brink of famine and precipitated what the UN calls the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
[MIDDLEEASTMONITOR] Allied forces of the Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...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 legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. 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 They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... movement and the Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i armed forces have captured one of the most strategically important areas in the Marib province following announcements earlier today of the fall of the Mas Camp from Saudi-supported militia fighting on behalf of the exiled Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.This now means that the last line of defence to Marib city is under the control of Houthi forces who are on the verge of securing the Raghwan and Midghal districts, just northwest of the picturesque provincial capital, the last stronghold of Hadi's fighters and pro-coalition ground forces.
Over the past several months, joint Houthi-local government forces have been making steady progress towards the city, notably from its western axis. However the stronghold is heavily supported by the Saudi-led coalition's air strikes.
According to al-Masdar, it is speculated that the Houthi forces will seek to repeat their strategy of encirclement as they besiege the city, similarly to how they captured the neighbouring picturesque provincial capital of al-Hazm in Jizan earlier this year.
The loss of Marib city and the province's oil fields by the Hadi government and its Saudi supporters will be a serious blow to their effort in overthrowing the rival Sanaa-based government, the National Salvation Government.
Five Danish far-right activists suspected of planning to provoke Muslims in #Belgium by burning a Quran have been arrested and ordered out of the country. #Islamophobiahttps://t.co/ezQoaOTuPv
For reds who want blood but fear white,
Don't get enough darkness at night,
And lend a fresh mouth
To our friends from the south,
There can't possibly be a near right.
[Jpost] Germany has experienced a spate of right-wing attacks in recent years directed at minorities and those perceived to support them.
German prosecutors have charged 12 men with plotting well-funded, armed attacks on mosques in which they planned to kill or injure as many Moslems as possible, authorities said on Friday.
"They aimed through attacks on mosques and the killing and wounding of as many Moslems as possible to create civil war-like conditions," prosecutors said in a statement.
Prosecutors said the suspects, 11 gang members and one accomplice, had met regularly to plan, with all but one of them pledging to contribute thousands towards a 50,000-euro ($59,000) pot to finance the purchase of weapons.
The suspects, aged between 31 and 61, are all Germans and all but one of them has been detained. The twelfth is still on the lam, prosecutors in the southeastern city of Stuttgart said.
Another suspect had died while in jug. A prosecution official said he had killed himself and that there was nothing to indicate foul play.
The official said cash sums in the "mid four-digit range" had been found in suspects' houses.
Germany has experienced a spate of right-wing attacks in recent years directed at minorities and those perceived to support them.
Members of the so-called National Socialist Underground were convicted in 2018 for a decade-long spree of murders of ethnic Turks. Last year, another right-wing krazed killer targeted a synagogue in Eastern Germany, killing two bystanders.
A suspected far-right sympathizer is on trial for killing conservative politician Walter Luebcke. Luebcke, a vocal supporter of Chancellor Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslem colonists... , had called for refugees to be given the support and welcome they needed during the 2015 refugee crisis.
Far-right sympathisers have also been unmasked in the police and armed forces.
Far-right extremism is particularly sensitive in Germany because of its responsibility for the Nazis' World War Two genocide of six million European Jews.
Federal prosecutors said eight of the men, led by Werner S. and Tony E., formed the "Group S" organization during a meeting in September 2019. Three others were accused of joining later, and a twelfth suspect was charged with supporting the group.
The suspects are accused of planning attacks on politicians, asylum-seekers and Moslems, according to sources. Authorities have warned that far-right extremism poses a growing threat in Germany.
The men were arrested in nationwide raids in February.
Eleven of the suspects stand accused of belonging to a terrorist organization and weapons offenses, according to regional public broadcaster SWR, which first reported on the charges. The 12th is accused of supporting a terror group.
RIGHT-WING PLOT TO GENERATE 'CIVIL WAR'
The suspects are believed to have set up a "right-wing terrorist organization" with the goal of "destabilising and ultimately overthrowing" Germany's democratic order, prosecutors said when they announced the arrests in February.
They allegedly planned to spark "a civil-war-like situation ... via as yet undefined attacks on politicians, asylum seekers and people of Moslem faith."
Right-wing terror groups have drawn the attention of authorities after the 2019 murder of conservative local politician Walter Lubcke and an attack on a synagogue in eastern city of Halle in October last year. Both cases were linked to the extreme right.
In December, 600 new posts were announced targeting far-right krazed killer threats. Federal police said at the time that they had identified 48 extreme-right people who could carry out an attack.
In which yet another idiotic jihadi wannabe tells all to his new BFF, the FBI undercover man.
[DAILYCALLER] A Utah man pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to potential ISIS members he believed were planning a terror attack, the Department of Justice announced Thursday.
Murat Suljovic, 23, admitted to corresponding with a person he thought was a follower of ISIS while living in Salt Lake City, according to the DOJ. Suljovic thought this person, referred to as "Person A," was interested in carrying out an attack on behalf of ISIS along with a "Person B."
Suljovic said he pretended to be an ISIS leader online and believed that he convinced Person A and Person B of his leadership position, according to the DOJ. Suljovic gave Person A and Person B advice on how and when to plan a potential terror attack.
Suljovic admitted to providing a video tutorial on bomb-making to Person A so that they could disseminate the information as training material for Person B to execute an attack, according to the DOJ.
Suljovic admitted to knowingly attempting to provide material support to ISIS by giving the video to Person A, the DOJ announced. He was charged in May with providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.
Suljovic agreed to surrender equipment he used to communicate with members of ISIS as part of his plea agreement, according to the DOJ. He faces 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, pending formal sentencing.
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The military's media wing, in a statement on Friday, said that Indian forces targeted civilian population along the Line of Control after being "humiliated" at the hands of local freedom fighters in occupied Kashmir, opposite Neelum Valley on the night of November 7/8.
[OneIndia] At least eleven Pakistain Army soldiers killed on Friday in retaliatory firing by Indian Army in response to ceasefire violations from across Line of Control. The list of Pakistain Army soldiers killed includes two-three Pakistain Army Special Service Group (SSG) commandoes.
16 Pakistain Army soldiers were maimed in the Indian Army firing in which a large number of Pakistain Army bunkers, fuel dumps, and launch pads have also been destroyed.
Pakistain Army's corpse count in Indian retaliatory firing has risen to 11, number of injured has also risen to 16. Indian Army retaliated strongly to Pakistain's unprovoked ceasefire violations at multiple locations today, Indian Army sources told ANI.
According to intercepts of Pakistain Army's communication, those killed included two commandos from its Special Service Group.
The Indian retaliation came after Pak forces resorted to heavy shelling in several areas in north Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... , killing four security personnel and six civilians.
Four security forces personnel were among 10 people killed in multiple ceasefire violations in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday as Pakistain intensified cross-border shelling along the Line of Control (LoC) between Gurez and Uri sectors and in retaliation, Indian troops inflicted casualties and caused extensive damage to Pakistain Army's infrastructure.
Three Indian Army personnel, a BSF sub-inspector and six non-combatants were killed while four security forces personnel and eight civilians were maimed.
Srinagar-based defence front man Col Rajesh Kalia said Pakistain used mortars and other weapons and deliberately targeted civilian areas.
The Indian troops retaliated strongly causing casualties and substantial damage to Pakistain Army''s infrastructure across the LoC, he said.
"Several ammunition dumps, FOL dumps and multiple terrorist launch pads have been damaged," he said.
"Pakistain initiated unprovoked ceasefire violation along the LoC spread across multiple sectors to include Dawar, Keran, Uri and Naugam. Three Indian Army soldiers have been killed in action and three soldiers injured," Col Kalia said, adding the nation salutes their supreme sacrifice.
Two non-combatants were killed in Kamalkote sector, also in Uri, while a woman was killed in Balkote area in Haji Peer sector, the officials added.
They said apart from various places in Uri, the ceasefire violations were reported from Izmarg in Gurez sector of Bandipora district and Keran sector of Kupwara district. A defence official in Jammu said Pak troops violated ceasefire twice in Poonch district.
"Around 1345 and 1445 hours today, Mighty Pak Army initiated unprovoked ceasefire violation by firing with small arms and shelling with mortars along LoC in sector in Sawjian in Poonch," he said, adding Indian troops retaliated in a befitting manner.
Earlier, Col Kalia said the Army foiled an infiltration bid, which was aided by the ceasefire violation, along the LoC in the Keran sector.
"Suspicious movement was observed by our troops at the forward posts along the LoC in Keran sector (in north Kashmir''s Kupwara district) today. The suspected infiltration bid was foiled by alert troops," he said, adding.
This was the second infiltration attempt within a week. The earlier unsuccessful bid in Machil sector during the intervening night of November 7- 8 was foiled in which three bully boyz were killed.
Three Army soldiers, including a Captain, and a BSF jawan also bit the dust during the operation. In New Delhi, BSF officials said SI Rakesh Doval, 39, deployed at the force''s artillery battery at the LoC in Baramulla was killed after he sustained head injury in the firing around 1315 hours. Constable Vasu Raja sustained splinter injuries on his arms and cheeks. He was deployed at the same forward defended location, they said, adding the constable is stable.
Almost all BSF units along the LoC are facing heaving firing since morning and an effective retaliation by the troops, artillery regiment and support weapons has been mounted, a senior officer of the force said. The BSF works under the operational command of the Army at the LoC..
According to official data, Pakistain has resorted to 4,052 incidents of ceasefire violations in the current year as against 3,233 in 2019.
[Jpost] Police found 2,700 Paleostinians living illegally in the Old City in Jerusalem on Friday.
This is the second week of "large scale operations conducted by security forces to locate the thousands of Paleostinian infiltration attempts and attempts made by terrorist elements to take advantage of the arrival of worshipers in the area," according to a Police report.Officers, K-9 units and helicopters were used to conduct the operation.
Hundreds of the Paleostinians found, who were living in Israeli territories without a permit, were detained, inspected and sent back to the territories. Four drivers suspected of smuggling Paleostinians across the border were also arrested, and dozens of fines were given for violations of health regulations.
According to a field source in Latakia, local spies in the Idlib Governorate gave the coordinates of a jihadist training camp near the administrative capital; it was then followed up by Russian reconnaissance planes that flew over the area.
Not long after the drones returned to their base, the Russian military struck the jihadist training camp in Idlib, causing a powerful explosion in the governorate’s countryside.
This latest attack comes just weeks after the Russian Aerospace Forces carried out a similar attack in the northern countryside of the Idlib Governorate.
The aforementioned attack targeted the training camp of Faylaq al-Sham near the large town of Salqin in northern Idlib; it resulted in the death of more than 100 Ottoman Turkish-backed fighters.
According to a field source in neighboring Latakia, the Russian military fired two short-range Iskander ballistic missiles toward the jihadist positions west of Idlib city.
The source said the missiles were fired from the Latakia coast toward the western outskirts of Idlib city, resulting in two major blasts near the administrative capital on Friday afternoon.
The source would add that the Russian military carried out the strikes after reconnaissance aircraft circled the area for a short period of time.
Prior to the ballistic missile strikes, the Russian Aerospace Forces carried out a number of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s over southern Idlib.
According to a Syrian Arab Army (SAA) source near the line of contact in southern Idlib, the Russian Aerospace Forces targeted the krazed killer positions inside the town of al-Bara and its surrounding area.
These strikes reportedly came after Russian reconnaissance planes spotted the movements of the krazed killer forces in the Jabal al-Zawiya region of southern Idlib.
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Two Ottoman Turkish soldiers were killed in a mine explosion in northeastern Syria on Friday, RT Arabic reported, citing two sources in the al-Hasakah Governorate.
According to the RT report, the two Ottoman Turkish soldiers were killed by a mine at the outskirts of Tal Tamr, which is located in the western region of the al-Hasakah Governorate.
The two sources added that the Ottoman Turkish soldiers were about to lay mines at the separation border, but it appears that one of the mines went kaboom! on them.
Tal Tamr is a city under the control of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF); it has been repeatedly targeted by the Ottoman Turkish military and their allied bully boys.
The death of the two Ottoman Turkish soldiers comes just a day after one of their military convoys was targeted by a roadside kaboom in the Idlib countryside.
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Mossad agents are wandering the streets of the Iranian capitol with plans of mayhem in their hearts? That’s almost as unbelievable as Mossad emptying an entire warehouse archive of top secret files, hard drives, and flash drives into trucks and taking them all the way across the MidEast to Israel without anyone noticing.
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#BREAKING: New York Times reports Israeli agents shot Al Qaeda’s No. 2 leader on the streets of Tehran at the behest of the U.S., officials said. The killing was kept secret until now. https://t.co/al5ukFFXsg
Al Qaeda’s second-in-command, accused of helping to criminal mastermind the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa, was killed in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... in August by Israeli operatives acting at the behest of the United States, the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported on Friday, citing intelligence officials.
Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, who went by the nom de guerre Abu Muhammad al-Masri, was bumped off by two men on a cycle of violence in the streets of Tehran on Aug. 7, the Times reported.
The killing of Masri, who was seen as a likely successor to al Qaeda’s current leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri ...Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area assuming he's not dead like Mullah Omar. He lost major face when he ordered the nascent Islamic State to cease and desist and merge with the orthodox al-Qaeda spring, al-Nusra... , was kept secret until now, the newspaper said.
It was unclear what, if any, role the United States had in the killing of the Egyptian-born bad boy, the Times said. U.S. authorities had been tracking Masri and other al Qaeda operatives in Iran for years, it said.
Al Qaeda has not announced his death, Iranian officials have covered it up and no government has publicly grabbed credit, the Times said.
A U.S. official, speaking to Rooters on condition of anonymity, declined to confirm any details of the Times’ story or say whether there was any U.S. involvement. The White House National Security Council did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Masri, one of al Qaeda's founding leaders, was killed along with his daughter, the widow of former al Qaeda chief the late Osama bin Laden ...... who is now neither a strong horse nor a weak horse, but a dead horse...... ’s son, Hamza bin Laden, the Times reported.
Osama bin Laden orchestrated the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States and was killed in a U.S. raid in Pakistain in 2011.
Masri had been in Iran’s "custody" since 2003 but had been living freely in an upscale suburb of Tehran since 2015, the Times cited unnamed U.S. intelligence officials as saying.
Al-Masri was driving his sedan close to his home when two Israeli agents on a motorcycle pulled up alongside his vehicle and fired five shots from a silenced pistol, killing al-Masri and his daughter, Miriam, who was married to Osama bin Laden’s late son Hamza bin Laden.
The assassination has not been publicly acknowledged by the US, Israel, Iran or al-Qaeda.
The US was keeping tabs on al-Masri and other members of the terrorist group in Iran for years, but it’s unknown what role the US played in the killing, if any.
Following the shooting, Iranian media identified the victims as a history professor from Lebanon named Habib Daoud and his daughter, Maryam, the New York Times report said. A Lebanese news outlet and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps said the victim was a member of the Hezbollah terrorist group, which is backed by Iran.
Daoud and Maryam did not actually exist, however. One intelligence official, and a former head of Egypt’s Islamic Jihad group, said the persona was an alias Iran provided to al-Masri.
Iran has denied harboring al-Qaeda members and did not respond to a New York Times request for comment on the article. Israeli and US officials also declined to comment.
Around the time of al-Masri’s killing, a series of mysterious explosions rocked Iran, hitting several sensitive sites, including the Natanz nuclear facility, a power station, a pipeline, and the Parchin military complex outside Tehran.
Iran said in September it had identified those responsible for the sabotage at the Natanz facility, but did not provide further details. Foreign media reports have attributed the explosion, which they said badly damaged an advanced centrifuge development and assembly plant, to Israel or the US.
Israeli agents had in past years assassinated Iranian nuclear scientists using shooters on motorcycles, similar to al-Masri’s killing, according to foreign reports.
Al-Masri was from Egypt and around 58-years-old. He fought the Soviets in Afghanistan with jihadist groups, was then barred from returning to Egypt, and joined Bin Laden. He worked for al-Qaeda in Sudan and Somalia, where he trained militants to use weaponry they then used to shoot down US helicopters in Mogadishu in 1993 in the so-called Black Hawk Down incident. Nineteen American soldiers were killed in the battle with Somali militiamen.
Bin Laden then charged al-Masri with plotting attacks against US sites in Africa, leading to the simultaneous bombings of the two US embassies. The FBI had offered a $10 million reward for information on him.
Related from the Rantburg archives:
Next in Line to Lead al-Qa`ida: A Profile of Abu Muhammad al-Masri
[Combating Terrorism Center] Abu Muhammad has long played a critical role in al-Qa`ida, both as an operational commander and as a member of the governing shura council. Yet despite his importance to the organization, Abu Muhammad remains a shadowy figure. Little is known about his early life or his current activities. Unlike most al-Qa`ida Central figures, he is based not in northern Pakistain but in Iran, where he was previously imprisoned and now resides under a murky arrangement by which he is apparently allowed a great deal of freedom while still being barred from leaving the country.
The fall of 1998 marked a high point in Abu Muhammad al-Masri’s career. He had just returned to Afghanistan from East Africa, where he had criminal masterminded al-Qa`ida’s deadliest attack on the United States yet‐the twin truck bombings of U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.1 He had positioned himself as one of Osama bin Ladin’s key confidants, to be consulted on the planning of all major attacks. And he had risen to the leadership of al-Qa`ida’s network of training camps.
Abu Muhammad was born Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah in June 1963 in Gharbia, a governorate of Lower Egypt in the central Nile Delta. As a young man, he played soccer professionally for a club in the Egyptian premier league.
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Get ready for another Iraq style quagmire as soon as Biden's neocons start their shit. Based on the same lies and the media will line up to bleat the talking points just like in Animal Farm.
#6
I have to wonder given the NYT historical lame reporting using FACTS.
Was this a work of fiction or a Anti-Israel Agenda tactic to cover internal political issues in Iran.
What better way to disrupt the Peace accords currently underway by the Trump Admin, than to plant blame on Israel. Thus pausing such peace deals and giving IRAN's government cover for killing Israeli leaders anywhere in the world?
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What better way to disrupt the Peace accords currently underway by the Trump Admin,
The MidEastern countries in talks with Israel or considering it would be glad Israel is quietly eliminating another of their problems. It is for this that they were persuaded to pursue peace in the first place.
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During a May 1993 meeting of senior Islamists held at the Popular Arab and Islamic headquarters in Khartoum in May 1993, and at a meeting that followed, Al Qaeda's al-Masri and Zawahiri were present. There resulted an Iraq-Iran-Sudan "contingency plan" to confront directly the United States military forces in Somalia. Al-Masri was named to lead AQ activity in Somalia. The result? They suckered Bill Clinton into a policy that was a disaster.
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thx, b. I look fwd to your input
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/\ As do I as well. From the things you have shared, I doubt I'd be too shocked to learn the details of your CV and previous work.
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Zawahiri dead, al-Masri dead, Abdelkader Mokhtari (Abu el-Ma'ali, The Gendarme)the Islamist commander who was a "sacred legend" in Bosnia is dead. It's been a bad week propaganda-wise for the Mujahideen.
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Oops, sorry, al-Ma'ali was killed sometime back. I have his name confused with another AQ character who was killed this week.
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11/11/2020: Mohammad Hanif Alias Abdullah, a leader of Al-Qaeda for the Indian sub-continent was killed in a special operation by the National Directorate of Security (NDS).
Ayman Zawahiri, al-Qaeda leader & Osama bin Laden successor, died a month ago of natural causes in his domicile. The news is making the rounds in close circles.
- I realize the issue wt such claims but corroborated it wt sources close to AQ (Hurras al-Din)
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