[DAWN] Afghanistan's Interior Ministry says a roadside kaboom planted by the Taliban has killed five civilians from the same family in the southern Kandahar province.
In a statement, it condemned the killings, adding that three of the victims were children.
The attack follows last weekend's presidential runoff, a vote which the Taliban had warned Afghans not to participate in or face attack.
On Sunday, officials said the group had cut of the fingers of a dozen voters in retribution and also killed 11 people.
The two candidates, former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... and former Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, have both vowed to improve ties with the West and sign a long-delayed security pact allowing nearly 10,000 US troops to remain in the country for two more years.
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[VOA News] The Somali murderous Moslem group al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... has grabbed credit for an attack on a Kenyan town that killed at least 48 people.
A statement posted to a pro-Shabaab website says gunnies attacked hotels, cop shoppes, banks and other public places in the coastal town of Mpeketoni. Some of those killed had gathered to watch the football World Cup.
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OK, so for a couple years the president of the united states has said this was a spontaneous event brought on by a video. We have the head of the state department validating the video theory and commenting that it does not matter. Literally mountains of evidence from our government leadership claiming it was spontaneous. Congress is in the middle of an investigation and the government has held their ground. Now we arrest the mastermind? The defense attorneys will make a circus out of the United States with this... They should interrogate him and throw him overboard...
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Nothing here regarding Khattala's anger of the video.
Ahmed Abu Khattala (born c. 1971) is a Islamist militia commander in Libya, a commander of Ansar al-Sharia militia. He is suspected of participating in the 2012 Benghazi attack on the American diplomatic mission at Benghazi, in which the American Ambassador and three other Americans were killed.[1] In a December 2013 investigation of the attack, the New York Times described him as a central figure.[2] Abu Khattala denies killing the Americans or being part of the attack.[3]
Abu Khattala spent most of his adult life in Abu Salim prison in Tripoli, jailed by the Qaddafi government for his Islamist views.During the uprising against Qaddafi in Libya, he formed his own militia of "perhaps two dozen fighters", naming it Obeida Ibn Al Jarra for an early Islamic general.[3] He later became involved in Ansar al-Shariah, a "group of as many as 200 militants" who, had broken away from the other militias in 2012 in protest of those militia's support for parliamentary elections in Libya.[3] He opposes American involvement in Libya and in interviews with the New York Times stated that the enmity between the American government and the peoples of the world is an old case. In regards to the role of the air campaign of NATO that overthrew Colonel Qaddafi, he believes that if NATO had not intervened, God would have helped us. He also claimed that, We know the United States was working with both sides and considering splitting up" Libya.[3]
Witnesses of the September 11, 2012 attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi say they saw him leading the attack.[4] On 6 August 2013, U.S. officials confirmed that Abu Khattala had been charged with playing a significant role in the attack. According to NBC, the charges were filed under seal in Washington, DC in late July 2013.[5]
On the weekend of June 14 to June 15, 2014, U.S. special forces, in coordination with the FBI, captured him in a covert mission in Libya.[6]
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Hillary just indicated she wants the Benghazi leader tried in a US Court. These politicians are so terrorist friendly, they need to be tried in a US Military Court.
[Libya Herald] In the last 48 hours in Derna, one man is known to have been murdered and another is reported to have been assassinated.
Faraj Rizg Al-Mansouri, a former municipal guard members was killed in the Bab Tobruk district south of Derna on Friday, a reliable source in the town has told the Libya Herald. He was shot down by gunnies in a car and was dead on arrival at Harish Hospital. Earlier this year he survived a kaboom beneath his car, though he lost a leg in the kaboom.
The second victim, named as Salem Al-Aligi, from Tobruk, believed to be a member of the armed forces, was reportedly murdered in front of his father by gunnies manning a checkpoint at Al Heisha, to the south of Derna on the road to Tobruk. Social media claimed that when his vehicle was stopped and searched, his military identification papers were discovered. It is understood that he was shot summarily by the side of the road. His body was taken to a hospital at Goubba.
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[Libya Herald] Ethnic violence in the southern town of Germa was eventually contained yesterday evening as ethnic festivities broke out in Sebha, killing two and injuring nine others.
"Elders and army units managed to broker a ceasefire between the Tuareg fighters and Arabs," head of the Obari joint-security room, Adam Saydi told the Libya Herald.
The festivities erupted in Gerrma on Friday when the imam of an Arab-community mosque allegedly called on his listeners to force out Tuaregs from a compound where they had recently taken up residence.
"We've received one corpse and five maimed from the Germa festivities," Murzuk hospital spokesperson Mohammed Whamer said.
It is also reported that eight dead and seven maimed arrived at Obari hospital and another three maimed were transported to Al-Rageeba hospital.
"Things have calmed in Germa. With the blockaded roads re-opened, we are expecting a number of elders and wise men to arrive from nearby towns to broker a more lasting peace agreement," explained Saydi.
However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... even as tensions began to calm in the Obari area, armed festivities between Arabs, Tuaregs and Tebu erupted in Sebha in the Burday district yesterday evening.
"The fights sparked in the Burday district between the district's resident Tebu and members of the Awlad Suleiman tribe," Tebu elder Bazinka Molimi told this paper.
"Two dead and nine injured were taken to the hospital last night, including a woman maimed in the festivities," Sebha Medical Centre officer Abdullah Owheda confirmed.
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[Libya Herald] Libya's caretaker government has expressed its deep sadness concerning the death of religious expert Tarek Al-Dresi, member of Dar Al-Ifta (the highest religious authority in Libya) in the town of Marj and imam of Omar Ben Khatab Mosque. Al-Dresi's body was found in nearby Al-Abyar on Friday.
In a formal statement the government strongly condemned the murder and expressed solidarity with the Al-Dresi family. "It is a heinous crime and unacceptable by all means, religiously, morally and humanly," caretaker government front man Ahmed Lamin declared to the Libya Herald.
From its side, Dar Al-Ifta has called for the prosecution of the criminals, describing the Al-Dresi liquidation as a terrorist act.
Sources from Marj said that Al-Dresi had been kidnapped on Thursday night in front of Omar Ben Khatab mosque and his body found with evidence of torture on it the next day near Marj.
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[Libya Herald] There are unconfirmed reports that Ansar Sharia lost 53 dead and 62 injured, many seriously, in the heavy fighting in Benghazi today with only four deaths and twelve injured among members of the Operation Dignity force.
The fighting was centred on Sidi Faraj where the Dignity troops had surrounded a camp used by Ansar Sharia. There were reports this morning that the compound had been overrun. However Mohammed Hejazi, the Dignity front man said that part of Sidi Faraj was still in Ansar Sharia hands.
Electric power, which was cut to much of the city around dawn was restored early in the afternoon. Some civilians fled the fighting and the least three were maimed and taken to Jalaa Hospital where they are still being treated.
Hejazi, who gave the casualty figures for both sides, told the Libya Herald that there were sources within Ansar Sharia who had confirmed the number of the Islamists' dead and injured. He said that bodies left on the street were loaded onto trucks by locals and taken away. He added that five Islamists were also captured, including three high-ranking members whom he did not name. He revealed however, that one was the head of operations in the 17 February brigade, nicknamed Bu Dalal.
Today was the first time that the Dignity forces had deployed tanks. Hejazi declined to say precisely how many tanks and self-propelled guns had been used in the assault on Sidi Faraj but insisted that none had been damaged in the fighting.
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[Iraq Sun] Turkey has temporarily pulled its diplomatic staff out of the Libyan city of Benghazi and urged its nationals to leave the east of the country amid mounting security concerns, the Turkish foreign ministry said on Saturday.
Turkey is one of the last countries to maintain a diplomatic presence in Benghazi, where the U.S. ambassador was killed during an attack by Islamist forces of Evil on the American diplomatic mission in the port city in 2012.
The foreign ministry said its diplomats would continue to work from 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... while the Benghazi mission was closed.
The move comes after a huge kaboom likely caused by a jacket wallah at an army checkpoint in Barsis, 50 km (30 miles) east of Benghazi killed the attacker and maimed six others late on Wednesday.
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[Ynet] At least 15 people were killed when suspected Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... gunnies stormed a market in northern Nigeria late on Sunday, witnesses and a security source said.
Villagers in the farming community of Daku, in Borno state, described how they were surrounded by at least 20 gunnies who fired indiscriminately and threw petrol bombs, engulfing the market in flames.
"Sunday is normally a market day and people from neighboring villages had gathered at the local market in Daku when the Death Eaters laid siege," said grocery seller Laraba Simon.
"Scores of people escaped with bullet wounds while dozens of shops, stalls, houses, vehicles, cycle of violences and assorted foodstuff were set ablaze by the rampaging attackers."
Laraba said the Death Eaters "surrounded the village with sophisticated weapons and petrol bombs".
Attacks by Islamist hard boyz from Boko Haram have increased in recent months, with the military apparently incapable of preventing the almost daily bloodshed exacerbated by the kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls in April.
The group has killed thousands during its battle against the government since 2009, but the conflict has received unprecedented global attention since the abduction of the schoolgirls.
But Zaka Sama'ila, another trader, said the latest attack was the first of its kind in Daku.
"It seems the snuffies are extending their frontiers every day. About 20 of them stormed the market area around 11.15am (1015 GMT) with one (jeep) and some cycle of violences.
"There was serious pandemonium because they shot randomly, forcing unsuspecting people in the market to scamper for safety."
Sama'ila said villagers found 15 bodies among the market stalls after the gunnies left.
Residents said 10 others were found dead after being shot in their homes or as they were fleeing the violence.
Neither the police nor the army have commented on the attack but a senior security source in the state capital Maiduguri confirmed that it took place.
Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states, all in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , have been under emergency rule since May last year.
Around 20 gunnies on cycle of violences stormed a mosque in Yobe less than two hours after the Borno market attack and seized the local chief, residents said.
The gunnies set fire to the cop shoppe and a telecom mast in the village of Gumsa before fleeing.
"They took away a four-wheel van belonging to the chief and kept firing shots in the air," said a resident.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Unidentified miscreants have cut the leg of a Chhatra Shibir leader off at the Rajshahi University campus on Monday afternoon.
The victim, Russel Alam, 24, is a fourth year student of Finance and Banking Department and, also the general secretary of Nawab Abdul Latif Hall unit Shibir.
He was undergoing surgery till filing this report at 8pm.
Witnesses said a gang of miscreants caught Russel around 3:45pm while he was roaming around the Shahidullah Arts Building area and took him behind the building.
At one stage, they hacked the Shibir leader, cut his right leg off and fled the place.
Later, police rescued critically injured Russel and admitted him at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital.
Motihar cop shoppe Officer-in-Charge Alamgir Hossain said: "A team of police went to the Shahidullah Arts building at 3:45pm in order to arrest a Shibir leader, who was wanted in more than 50 cases.
On their way back to the cop shoppe, the police members heard the sound of firing and rushed to the building again. They found critically injured Russel and took him to RMCH," he added.
Tofazzel Hossain, duty doctor of RMCH told the Dhaka Tribune that the right leg of Rasel was severed off and he received injuries in his chest and leg.
His condition was very critical, he added.
Tanvir Haider Chowdhury, deputy police commissioner of Rajshahi Metropalitan Police (RMP), told newsmen: "A group of unidentified miscreants severed a leg of Russel. But, the identities of the miscreants could not be known immediately."
However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... witnesses calimed that a group of BCL leaders and activists led by RU unit Organising Secretary Faisal Ahmed Runu, Kaosar Ahmed Koushik, Joint Secretary Golam Kibria, Assistant Secretary Faruk Ahmed, Human Resources and Development Secretary Sabrin Samin alias kool Sushmoy and activists Rinet and Hirok launched the attack.
Labib Abdullah, publicity secretary of RU unit Shibir, has also claimed that the BCL activists led by its RU unit general secretary SM Tawhid Al Hossain launched the attack.
However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... Mizanur Rahman Rana, RU president of the BCL, denied the allegation.
RU Proctor Prof Tarikul Hasan said security measures have been tightened on the campus to avert further untoward situation
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[MoscowTimes] An 18-year-old Russian student on exchange in Britannia has been charged with manufacturing an explosive, after a bomb scare sparked the evacuation of Newcastle University last week.
Chechen, perhaps? Or just a dumb college kid with a taste for explosives, the kind that goes on to become chemists?
The student, who also faces charges of possessing a blade in a public place, has been remanded in jug and will appear before magistrates in London on Tuesday, the regional counter-terrorist police were quoted as saying by Britannia's The Guardian.
The unidentified Russian man, who was studying at Newcastle University in Britannia, was detained following reports of "suspicious items" on Tuesday, prompting police to evacuate students from their halls of residence, before bomb disposal experts were dispatched to the scene, the report said.
A controlled kaboom was later carried out on a nearby moor.
Another evacuation was initiated two days later, but student were allowed to return to their accommodation shortly afterwards, the report added.
A second Russian man, also aged 18, was also tossed in the clink Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! in connection with the incident and remains on police bail pending further enquiries, the report said.
[AnNahar] Chinese authorities executed 13 people on Monday for "terrorist attacks and violent crimes" in the violence-wracked northwestern region of Xinjiang, state media said.
The announcement by Xinhua news agency said the 13 were involved in seven different cases connected to Xinjiang, home to forces of Evil from the mainly Mohammedan Uighur ethnic group blamed by Beijing for a string of attacks that have rocked China in recent months.
"In one case, three defendants were convicted of organizing and leading bully boyz to attack cop shoppe, hotel, government office building and other venues, killing 24 coppers and civilians and injuring 23 others at Lukqun Township in Shanshan County of Turpan Prefecture on June 26 last year," Xinhua said.
The announcement came hours after state media announced that three people had been sentenced to death over a suicide car crash in Beijing's symbolic heart Tiananmen Square, in the government's latest move against Xinjiang myrmidons.
One other person was given life in prison for the "violent terrorist attack" that killed two tourists last October, said state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV), citing the Intermediate People's Court in Xinjiang's capital Urumqi.
[Ynet] A Madrid court incarcerated You have the right to remain silent... a member of armed Basque separatist group ETA ETA or Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (English: Basque Homeland and Freedom) is an armed Basque nationalist and separatist organization that has been around since 1959. It demands independence from Spain and France for the Greater Basque Country. The group is proscribed as a terrorist organization by most civilized countries. More than 700 members of the organization are incarcerated in prisons in Spain, La Belle France, and other countries, though members do seem to find ready hospitality in Venezuela. for 29 years on Monday for the killing of a Spanish soldier in 1995.
Juan Ramon Carasatorre Aldaz, 52, was sentenced to 29 years for the killing of infantry brigadier Mariano de Juan Santamaria, who was shot in the head on April 10, 1995, in the northern city of San Sebastian, the court said in a ruling Monday.
Two other ETA members, including the outlawed group's former military wing chief Javier Garcia Gaztelu, known as "Txapote", have already been sentenced for taking part in the same crime.
Carasatorre Aldaz was tossed in the clink Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! in southwestern La Belle France in December 2001 and transferred to Spain in November 2010 for trial over the killing of Juan Santamaria.
[Iraq Sun] Spain's Interior Ministry said police have detained eight people suspected of forming a group that recruited jihadist militants to fight in Iraq and Syria.
The ministry said the eight were arrested Monday in Madrid. A ministry statement said the Islamic cell found and dispatched recruits for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL.
The government statement said the group was led by a former Guantanamo Bay inmate who was arrested in Afghanistan in 2001.
Spain's press said the arrested ringleader was Lahcen Ikassriem, a Moroccan who was held for three years in the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay.
The suspect was reportedly extradited in 2005 to Spain where he was held in preventative detention for more than a year before being freed by the Spanish courts in 2006. The interior ministry was not immediately available to confirm these details.
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Two lawmakers from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) have accused the government of protecting and cooperating with jihadist militants of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the al-Nusra Front, while the Turkish government quickly denied the claim.
Reminder: the Erdogan government is not our friend, not a friend of democracy, and has its own plans for the region.
Those plans have most definitely been overtaken by events. The Turks conquered Byzantium, but did they ever conquer Persia?
CHP Deputy Parliamentary Group Head Muharrem Ä°nce has asked for explanations of a photograph showing ISIL commander Abu Muhammad allegedly receiving free treatment in Hatay State Hospital on April 16, 2014, after being injured during fighting in Idlib, Syria. The photograph circulated widely on the Internet following ISIL's assault on Mosul June 9.
"If we keep silent now, it is to let the government work more comfortably in this situation and prevent our people, our flag and our country from being harmed. But we will talk about the point to where wrong policies have dragged our country and what kind of trouble have all those whom they have fed, treated and assisted brought us," Ä°nce said at Parliament in Ankara on June 12.
He also said the visits carried out on the same day by Foreign Minister Ahmet DavutoÄlu to opposition leaders were not enough. "He should also come and inform Parliament," Ä°nce said.
Meanwhile, CHP Istanbul deputy Ä°hsan "--zkes claimed militants of the al-Qaeda splinter group the al-Nusra Front were allowed to stay at the guesthouses of Turkey's Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) under the monitoring of the National Intelligence Organization (MÄ°T) in the southern province of Hatay.
"--zkes, a former mufti, also claimed the order to host the militants was given by former Interior Minister Muammer GĂźler in a circular sent to the Hatay Governor's Office, which openly demanded assistance to al-Nusra fighters.
The allegedly official document shown by "--zkes reveals that al-Nusra fighters were brought by the National Intelligence Organization (MÄ°T) in order to fight against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) affiliated Democratic Union Party (PYD) in northern Syria.
"It is important to provide the necessary support for the intelligence officers on the issue of assisting the fighters of al-Nusra, including Tunisians and Chechens, who have been brought [here] under the supervision of the MÄ°T to fight against the PKK-affiliated PYD, crossing the borders to Syria and complying with the confidentiality of the matter," the document reads.
"The province of Hatay has strategic importance in the crossing of fighters from our country's borders to Syria. The logistics supply to Islamic groups, their training and the treatment of the injured will mostly be carried out from there. The MÄ°T and other relevant authorities have been tasked on the issue," it also said.
"--zkes also accused the government of sending charity money collected by Diaynet to the Islamist fighters. "Have those who fought been sheltered in the Quran classes and dormitories belonging to Diyanet? Is there an Interior Ministry circular that was sent to Diyanet on the issue?" he asked.
Deputy Prime Minister Bßlent ArĹnç denied the allegations during his press conference on June 13.
"Has Turkey provided any weapons or financial aid? Absolutely not, and the whole world knows this," ArĹnç said.
ArĹnç also said that the latest incident does not mean that Turkey has become a target.
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ISIS sources have confirmed the YPGs announcement that it had killed more than 25 ISIS fighters. ISIS sources said there were two Turks and many Azeris among the dead. Turkish fighter Abu Ismail [Erdal] from Inegol town and Mustafa from Ankara were killed in the clashes with the YPG. Ismail [Erdal], had come to Syria two months ago.
Target: Rmeilan oil fields
Several Arabic-language Internet sites that carry ISIS news published photos of nine ISIS fighters killed in the clashes. These sites also claim that ISIS is advancing in the Tal Abyad and Kobane areas.
The objective of ISISs attacks is to rupture the links between Kurdish regions of Jazeera, Afrin and Kobane and to seize the oil fields of Rmeilan inside the Jazeera region.
[Times of India]ISLAMABAD: Showing new resolve, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday said his country has had enough of terrorism and the military operation launched in North Waziristan tribal region a day earlier would continue until terrorist safe havens are destroyed in the country.
The operation called Zarb-e-Azb (strike of the Prophet's sword) was launched days after a terrorist siege at Pakistan's busiest airport in Karachi killed over 30 people. Earlier, Pakistan got back control of the neighboring South Waziristan and Swat after separate military offensives in 2009.
Sharif said he was forced to order the operation after the Taliban did not reciprocate his sincere efforts to pursue peace talks.
"On one hand, we were pursuing dialogue, why do people think that you can negotiate with the syndicate?
and on the other we were being targeted. From Islamabad courts to Karachi airport we were attacked. Even, our places of worship, schools and children were targeted," he told the National Assembly.
"We will change the fate of this country and under no circumstances will allow our country to serve as a safe haven for terrorists," he said. He added the operation would start a peaceful beginning for the country.
Sharif earlier got a short in the arm after Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) party endorsed the operation. PTI, which rules the provincial Khyber Pakhtunkhwa adjoining the tribal region, has been a staunch opponent of military actions. The province is feared to take the brunt of Taliban reprisals.
Army Chief General Raheel Sharif echoed the prime minister and said the operation would continue until the elimination of all terrorists and their sanctuaries. "We will rid the country of terrorists," he said.
The fresh operation is seen as a victory for the Pakistan army which had been upset with PM Sharif's insistence on talking with the Taliban. It was one of the reasons that had heightened civil-military tensions recently.
Separately, the Pakistan army said 140 militants - mostly Uzbek - were killed in air strikes on the second day of the operation. Six soldiers were killed while three others were injured in an IED explosion.
"Many East Turkestan Islamic Movement terrorists and their affiliates have also been killed in the strikes. It was a massive blow to the terrorists and one of their main communication centres has been dismantled," said an official release.
A local security official said fighter jets bombed two buildings in Miranshah - the main town of North Waziristan - early Monday, killing at least 10 Uzbek terrorists who were sheltered there.
The Taliban have vowed to retaliate in the cities of Islamabad and Lahore, saying they would burn the mansions of the country's rulers.
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Has he run this through the military/mullah hierarchy?
Appears so. The Army was upset at Sharif for trying to talk to the Taliban (BTW, I also believe that is a non-starter). The army wanted this all along.
China is mad a Pakistan because terrorist attacking China were using Pakistan as a base. China is offering economic assistance and the price is smiting the terrorist bothering China.
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China is mad a Pakistan because terrorist attacking China were using Pakistan as a base. China is offering economic assistance and the price is smiting the terrorist bothering China.
All that sounds vaguely familiar. Maybe the Chinese could ask Bush and/or Obama about it.
[DAWN] MINGORA: An anti-terrorism court remanded three alleged bully boyz for 10 days in police custody here late on Saturday night.
According to sources, the police jugged Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! three alleged bully boys, including two Afghan nationals, from Mingora city near the general bus stand.
They claimed that the suspects were trying to enter the city's central areas through Mingora stream. Police sources identified the suspected bully boyz as Waheedullah and Sajid, both residents of Jalalabad, and Mohammad Karim of Hayatabad area of Mingora city.
They said that they also recovered two hand grenades, two pistols and silencers from the possession of the three.
The police said that they registered an FIR against the three suspected bully boyz under the Anti-Terrorism Act and had produced them before a special anti-terrorism court, which granted their 10-day physical remand. The sources said that the suspects were handed over to Mingora cop shoppe for interrogation.
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[DAWN] LANDI KOTAL: Militants in Bara on Sunday slaughtered a local resident after abducting him from Matani area of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
Sources in Akkakhel area of Bara said that activists of Bara-based krazed killer group Lashkar-e-Islam had kidnapped Khayal Mohammad from Matani area of Peshawar a few days ago.
They said that beheaded body of Mr Khayal was found near a petrol pump in Akkakhel on Sunday morning with a written warning that those not following the orders of Kamdar, a local LI commander, would meet the same fate.
The sources said that the dear departed belonged to Zaodin Zakhakhel tribe and was a resident of Sheen Qamar.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy was furiously chewing her cud and thinking... health authorities postponed the planned two-day anti-polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... campaign in Bara till Monday.
They had earlier announced to conduct polio vaccination in all parts of Bara on the pattern of Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... 's 'Sehat ka Insaf' programme.
They had then said that around 35,000 children under five years of age would be vaccinated in the two days campaign to be carried out in four phases on every Saturday and Sunday.
The first phase on June 7 and 8 was successfully completed, but the second phase which was scheduled for June 14 and 15 would now be conducted on Monday and Tuesday.
Agency Surgeon Dr Rehman said that though they were not given any specific reason for the change in vaccination schedule, they intended to achieve their target of vaccinating 120,000 children across Bara in next three phases.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: Two suspected snuffies were rubbed out in an 'encounter' jointly carried out by the Sohrab Goth police and the Anti-Violent Crime Cell (AVCC) in Sohrab Goth in the early hours of Sunday, officials said.
They added that the officials had received a tip-off that suspected snuffies wanted to target polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... vaccinators during an anti-polio drive on Sunday and they might pass by the area near Machhar Colony.
A joint police party was already deployed there and when the suspects travelling in a rickshaw and a hatchback came at around 3am the police party signalled them to stop. However, the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... the suspects allegedly threw a cracker-like bomb and opened fire on the police in their attempt to flee. The coppers in 'retaliatory fire' maimed two suspects in the rickshaw, but their alleged accomplices in the vehicle escaped under cover of darkness.
The maimed suspects were taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where doctors pronounced them dead on arrival.
They were identified through the computerised national identity cards found in their pockets as Qamar Zaman, 26, and Moosa Khan, 35, hailing from Wazoo.
A hospital official said that Qamar sustained two bullet injuries on his head and chest while Moosa received three bullet wounds.
The police claimed to have seized 10 kilograms of kaboom, two hand grenades, weapons and ammunition from their possession.
"The dear departed belonged to the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain and were planning to attack polio workers on Sunday," said Sohrab Goth SHO Shoaib Ahmed.
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[DAWN] A close relative of Chief Justice of Pakistain Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jilani, Umer Jilani, who was also identified as a security official, was kidnapped on Monday by unidentified persons from Garden Town area in Multan.
The security official is the nephew of Pakistain's incumbent Chief Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jilani, according to an APP report.
Multan Police officially confirmed the abduction of Umer Jillani and quoting eyewitnesses said that the abductee was en route to his office on his bike when four to five cycle of violence-riding gunnies intercepted him in Garden area and kidnapped him.
Police further said that after receiving information on the incident, law enforcement agencies and police personals reached the spot and started a probe into the kidnapping.
Moreover, the city has been put on alert and a Joint Investigation Team was also constituted comprising of police and law enforcement agencies officers to work on this case.
Multan police was also directed to seal the city and to conduct an extensive search for the recovery of Umer Jillani.
On the other hand, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif also took notice of the incident and directed the Regional Police Officer Multan to utilise all efforts for the recovery of that abdcutee and to keep him informed of every progress.
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[DAWN] The criminal mastermind of the Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... airport attack, Abu Abdul Rehman al Maani was killed during the overnight air strikes carried out by Pakistain Air Force (PAF) fighter jets and the Pakistain Army jointly in North Wazoo early morning Sunday, military sources told Dawn.com.
Intelligence and military sources told Dawn.com that Abu Abdur Rehman Almani is considered a key commander of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), also now famous by the name of Islamic Movement of Turkestan. The IMU, an organization of gunnies mostly from the central Asian Uzbek state, had claimed that its jacket wallahs carried out the attack on the Karachi airport.
There are also reports of some East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) forces of Evil also killed in the strikes, considered a big blow to the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) and the ETIM network in the North Waziristan Agency. However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... there was no confirmation from the military on the identity of the dear departed.
The ETIM is a separatist turban outfit blamed for numerous terror attacks in China's restive western region of Xinjiang.
The Chinese government had recently pressed Pakistain to take action against the Uighur separatists based in North Waziristan.
The movement's principle aim is to establish an independent Islamic state called East Turkestan.
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[DAWN] The security forces on Saturday locked away ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... more than 40 suspected Death Eaters in Jamrud tehsil of Khyber Agency during a search operation conducted in collaboration with the local political administration.
The exercise was conducted in light of the growing incidence of assassinations, kidnapping for ransom and kabooms in the region, said an official in the know.
According to the official, the administration used loudspeakers of mosques to ask the people to stay indoors before the forces imposed curfew in the tehsil for the house-to-house search in Sur Kamar, Nawayabad, Gharreeza, Gudar and Ghundi areas.
All entry and exit points of Jamrud were plugged, while the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. -Torkham Highway was sealed for traffic. The operation lasted for around nine hours.
Early in the morning, security officials announced the curfew would be in effect until 5pm.
Official says crackdown planned due to high incidence of assassinations, kidnappings However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... they lifted it at around 1pm after 'achieving the search operation's objectives' as put by a security official.
Another administration official said security forces took them on board about the operation and that the Khasadar and levies personnel collaborated with the forces during the exercise.
He said more than 40 suspected Death Eaters were taken into custody for interrogation.
The official said the forces faced no resistance during the operation and the situation remained under control by and large.
He said arms, ammunitions and three vehicles allegedly used by Death Eaters were seized.
Local residents said security personnel were deployed in the area at around midnight and that they used ladders to scale the walls of some houses, where suspected Death Eaters were believed to be hiding.
They said hundreds of people had left Jamrud for Peshawar, Mardan, Abbottabad ... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden.... , Islamabad and other safer cities due to the growing Death Eater activities in the region, especially in the wake of death threats over refusal to pay extortion money.
Local JUI-F leader Kabeer told Dawn that the people in the tehsil lived under constant threat of action by 'unidentified gunnies'.
He said many had already left the area for safer places as the administration had miserably failed to ensure protection of their life.
The JUI-F leader said the gunnies flouted the ban on cycle of violence riding with impunity for assassinations, kidnappings and attacks on forces.
Kukikhel ...a tribe of primitives inhabiting Khyber Agency. They are a branch of the Afridi tribe. Traditionally they have been migratory, tromping between Jamrud and the Rajgal valley with the seasons. The tribe has had mustache-cursing relationships with several other tribes, including the Zakkakhel and Kambarkhel, and with the Mullagori. They make welcome most anyone with a turban and automatic weapons, but every once in awhile they get together a tribal lashkar to mollify the government... elder Malik Fazlullah Jan said he was hopeful that the forces would clear Jamrud of all 'undesirable elements' during the operation, which was supported by local residents.
Peace volunteer killed
A member of the Shalobar peace committee was killed in a roadside kaboom blast in Qambarabad area of Bara tehsil on Saturday.
Local officials said unidentified people blew up an bomb planted along the road when the committee members patrolled the area.
They said the blast left a peace volunteer dead instantly.
There followed a search operation by security forces in TD Bazaar, Sur Kamar, Nawayabad, Gudar, Lashurra, Patay Owba, Gatto Ghar, Madathu Kuta, Spelano Kas, Gul Rehman Kalay, Bakarabad, Malakabad, Gharreeza, Pump House, Sakhi Pul and Ghundi areas.
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[DAWN] Seven more Death Eaters were killed in exchange of fire when trying to flee from cordoned off area in North Wazoo on Monday evening, taking the total toll to 187 since Saturday night when operation Zarb-e-Azb was launched.
"Fire exchange took place in which two soldiers also embraced shahadat (martyrdom)," said a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).
Earlier in the day, 13 bad boyz were potted in the Shawal area of North Waziristan tribal region. Six soldiers were also killed in the tribal agency when a planted bomb went kaboom! on the Pak-Afghan border.
The operation was launched against foreign and local gunnies hiding in sanctuaries in North Waziristan, a week after a brazen myrmidon attack on the country's busiest airport in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... .
Seven more Death Eaters killed in fire exchange
Seven more Death Eaters were killed in exchange of fire when trying to flee from cordoned off area in North Waziristan on Monday evening, said the ISPR blurb. Two Pakistain Army soldiers were also killed in the fire exchange, it added.
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Rough Translation: These are not visitors to a religious shrine, they are the the millions of volunteers at Camp Taji (Implication is that Shia are turning out in large numbers to fight ISIS)
Interesting side note: Camp Taji is where until very recently Iraq forces officer's and NCOs were trained by ahem contractors in security and tactical operations.
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FYI, from what I was told, these are mostly "former" militia members, so there is at least weapons familiarization and bit of training, with some of those actually having seen "combat". And, further data - basically this was a deliberate propaganda shot, with everyone in the region packed onteo the area shown, and not much anyone else off camera. Remember, that Iraq under Maliki has always maintained "outreach" to the regional militias across the Shia areas, so this includes very large numbers from the entire country. The Arabic in the picture captions says "millions", but I'm betting 100K+, which is in the realm of possibility for an "a;; hands" call up. Another bit of data is that this isn't just 18-329 - this is 16 to 66, so there are a LOT of why we would consider "old" guys here.
Still, its a good picture for the size of the fight the ISIS has chosen.
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One other thing - the Iraqis are set up to handle mass crowds due to the pilgrimages they see, so if they divert those supplies, they can handle large numbers. Its one of the few logistics exercises they do regularly as a society.
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No worries about the Arabic. I was posting it for the few who might be able to read the original captions that I was translating (and likely doing it inaccurately, my Arabic is so rusty that if it were a car, you'd see thru the floorboard)
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It is not clear at the time of writing whether ISIS will launch a military attack on Baghdad, or even if it could take the heavily armed city in a pitched battle.
Unclear to some possibly. Most effective sieges leave an obvious exit and quick avenue to death. This may not end well.
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Can Iran allow this type of shit? I'd think that they would unleash pretty much anything to prevent ISIS from winning Iraq. Where is their air-force?
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Iran still has some time and it makes sense for them to wait a bit and see if we will do their job for them. That way we would both spend the money and blood and take the political heat. ISIS isn't even close to strong enough to take Baghdad. A siege might have worked in the absence of Iran, but Iran can easily break a siege when they choose to do so.
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The bad news for ISIL is no outlet to the ocean and, IIRC, that part of the country is not where most of the oil is. Skirting Baghdad and moving for Basra might be the best strategy. But then, IRGC might be waiting for them in Basra.
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that part of the country is not where most of the oil is.
Mosul has plenty of oil and Baiji has a very large refinery. whether or not ISIS takes over the oil fields, Iraq can kiss much of its oil revenue good bye.
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Borders of ISIS area are bit out of date - the Kurds have already pushed them back from Kirkuk and are pushing into Salaheddin. And Samarra is very much contested, not ISIS. Fallujah and Ramadi on the other hand,basically flipped sided without a shot being fired. Sunni generals there pretty much turned their troops over.
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I respectfully disagree with Amb. Bolton. Too many decent Iraqis were willing to believe us; too many decent Iraqis just want to build their country. They need one more chance at it.
And second, this matter is correctly seen as a test of will and fortitude. Our country needs to rise above our current president in that regard.
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Why is Obama letting Congress know now? He had never liked doing that before. Lord, things are bad when you distrust the President as much as the enemy.
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So lemme get this straight: We like the Sunnis in Syria but not Iraq, is that it? Oh, but there were other Sunnis in Syria who were not ISIL? How's that working? I'm guessing not so well. Who do the Soddies like? But then we might need Iranians to help us in Iraq? What will the Soddies think?
I'm sorry about those Iraqis who believed us. We gave them a chance and they blew it. Next time they'll know better and maybe we will too...unless we have another dumbass president like Obama...or McCain...or Hildebeast...or Bush. I believed Bush then. Fool me once. Well, after 9/11 we had to smack somebody. But this time I'll pass.
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@6 - So lemme get this straight: We like the Sunnis in Syria but not Iraq
Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia. But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge, which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control.
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We can dither, but in the end - convert, submit or die. We can chose the time and place or allow them to. Because: Dar al-Islam and the Dar al-harb: The House of Islam vs The House of War; Jiahad is Holy War, a divine right.
Dar al-harb, the House of War, who remain outside the Islamic frontier, and with whom therefore there is in principle, a canonically obligatory perpetual state of war until the whole world is either converted or subjugated.
We are at War with Global Jiahad. We're best served if we do not forget. We may avoid it for a time. But thinking this is simply a Middle East ploblem that will stay contained are forgetting lessons learned.
We are watching the largest mobilization in a generation of volunteers traveling abroad to join a war. An estimated 11,000 foreign fighters have been mobilized in Syria, according to a just-published study by the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (PDF). More than a quarter of those combatants are from Western countries, mostly from Britain, France, Germany, Sweden and Belgium. Australians, Canadians and U.S. citizen also have joined the ranks.
They pray for our destruction everyday. Multiple times. It's not just prayers, they actualize plans. Allowing jiahadi groups to fester, allows them to grow in strength. We are already late to the party and should have struck their bases months ago. The massacres and Civil War we're seeing are of no surprise and were telegraphed.
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We are not entirely blameless for the current situation. Our missteps in Libya and our fumbling in Syria helped to arm ISIS. Not to mention our freckless foreign policy. We can ignore it, but that doesn't stop the genocide. Vatican Radio: Mosul now emptied of Christians, says Archbishop. Nor will it stop global jiahad.
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If we'd stayed and forced a Status of Forces Agreement that we could work with, that would be one thing (ISIL would not be in the position they are now, and, perhaps, I'm dreaming, but Maliki would have been curbed), but at this point I'm not sure what we will gain. ISIL is going to run out of steam before long. I doubt they have the organization to rule that much territory and should fall to infighting quickly. Maliki and our president are turds for letting this happen, but happen it did. If we go back in, we lose with almost any plausible outcome.
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mossomo, on the larger global jihad issue, I am totally with you. But our willingness to address that in the scope and ferocity required will not happen until we take another major hit. It is too far away, too unreal for most in this country to even imagine and our local religious leadership don't seem to care much about the Christians around the world who are slaughtered each day. Impolite to raise objections about other religions don't ya know.
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#12 .. "Dar al-harb, the House of War, who remain outside the Islamic frontier, and with whom therefore there is in principle, a canonically obligatory perpetual state of war until the whole world is either converted or subjugated. " is correct. So: while Dar al-Harb is killing itself why should we interfere?
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If Champ had any intention of assisting the Iraqi's, he would not have put the 275 troops under command & control of the Ambassador. Some type of special Joint Task Force would have been established. My suspicion is the 275 are the ADVON for a Non-Combatant Evacuation (NEO), nothing more.
[Iraq Sun] Iraq has claimed to have taken back much of the territory taken by forces of Evil who seized all of one province and some other parts of the country last week.
In an offensive that was launched last Monday, the myrmidons, known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) over-ran vast swathes of land and infrastructure, including oil facilities, while Iraqi security forces performed badly, with some discarding uniforms to avoid violence and retaliation.
Many Iraqi soldiers are missing following a round of hostage taking.
Images of Iraqi soldiers were released on an ISIS Twitter feed on the weekend. In many cases the photographs were of soldiers being tortured by the bully boys.
Some photos were of dead soldiers being trodden on or violently kicked.
There have been many complaints to Twitter about the images as violent pictures and messages violate the site's policies.
There are fears the Sunni forces of Evil may have killed many Iraqi soldiers, possibly near the town of Tikrit, 150 kilometres north of the capital Storied Baghdad.
Militants seized Tikrit last week after first taking control of Iraq's second largest city, djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , in the offensive that some prompted Iraqi soldiers to lay down their weapons.
Much of the crisis has been blamed on global neglect of Syria's civil war, which has seen the springing up of Sunni jihadist forces.
While Washington has responded to the sweeping crisis by deploying an aircraft carrier to the Gulf, Iran, which has become involved in helping Storied Baghdad, has warned any more foreign military intervention could lead to other conflict.
On Sunday, Storied Baghdad expressed confidence it would be able to repel the al-Qaeda inspired ISIS with the help of Iraqi commanders and its own forces.
It has been reported Iraqi soldiers recaptured two towns north of Storied Baghdad on the weekend with large myrmidon tolls.
Following the battles, security front man for Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, Lieutenant General Qassem Atta, appeared on television to say the government had managed to overturn the push by forces of Evil with the help of the army of volunteers, who had been spurred on by a call to arms.
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... some volunteers were killed on Sunday in the town of Khales in central Iraq, when a recruitment centre came under mortar attack.
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[Iraq Sun] Iraq has invited Iranian troops into the country to help attack non-government Sunni jihadist forces from the Isis network, otherwise known as the al-Qaeda-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
On Saturday Iranian president Hassan Rouhani said Iran was ready to support Iraq from the fast spreading insurgency.
Shortly after the Rouhani declaration Major General Qassem Suleimani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards elite Quds Force, arrived in Storied Baghdad to help with the defence of the capital.
President Rouhani also said Tehran would cooperate with the B.O. regime in Washington to defeat the Sunni bad boy group.
While the US and Iran were foes throughout the US occupation of Iraq, Iran has expressed no objection should the US send in military reinforcements.
On Friday, US President B.O. renewed his promise for US support should Iraq not be able to handle the serious issue. While he ruled out sending US troops into combat in Iraq he said that other options were being reviewed.
Since then, the military option has been placed on the table again with President B.O. insisting that any US intervention would need to be accompanied by an Iraqi government effort to bridge divisions between Shiite and Sunni communities.
The US ordered an aircraft carrier into the Gulf on Saturday, in case of a military Washington decision by Washington.
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The US ordered an aircraft carrier into the Gulf on Saturday
The official Pentagon line is that "SecDef Hagel gave the order to move the G.H.W. Bush into the Gulf."
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With Champ on the links and the potential for activating a NEO very near, Hagel probably figured it would be better to ask forgiveness than permission. The Champ is totally combat ineffective.
From: Tom Jensen, Director of Public Policy Polling
Subject: Voters support Obama approach in Iraq over NeoCon Republicans
Date: June 17, 2014
A new Public Policy Polling survey finds that Americans strongly prefer President Obamas approach to handling the situation in Iraq over that of NeoCon Republicans like John McCain, and that voters across party lines continue to be strongly opposed to sending combat troops to Iraq.
Key findings from the survey include:
-Only 20% of Americans think that the renewed fighting in Iraq is due to the United States withdrawing troops from the country before the job was done, whereas 67% think its more rooted in centuries of internal conflict that was exacerbated by the US invasion during the Bush administration.
-Only 16% of Americans would support sending combat troops to help deal with the crisis in Iraq, compared to 74% who are opposed. Theres a bipartisan consensus on that issue with with Republicans (28/57), Democrats (10/86), and independents (9/86) all strongly opposed to sending combat troops.
-Asked specifically whose vision they agreed with more about having US troops in Iraq between Obama (no troops under any circumstances) and John McCain (troops should have remained in Iraq after 2011), voters side with Obama by a 54/28 spread. In addition to Democrats strongly siding with Obamas perspective, independents (53/28) and Republicans (49/30) do as well.
-What a majority of Americans do support doing in Iraq is providing intelligence to the Iraqi government (56/30) and a major diplomatic initiative aimed at mobilizing the international community to stabilize the situation there (52/30). Both of those courses of action have support across party lines.
Voters continue to repudiate the way NeoCons handled the situation in Iraq, and considerably prefer the approach President Obama has taken there.
PPP surveyed 790 registered voters on June 14th and 15th on behalf of Americans United for Change. The surveys margin of error is +/-3.5%
FULL RESULTS: http://www.americansunitedforchange.org/page/-/IraqPollResults61614.pdf
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OTOH WAFF > VIDEOS: [Mostly Iraqi]SHIAS CREATE THE BIGGEST MILITIAS IN THE WORLD COMPRISED OF 1.0MILYUHN VOLUNTEERS.
ARTIC = indics that ROUGHLY ONE-HALF will go to Baghdad, ostensib to help protect the Shia-led Malicki Govt. of Iraq, while the other half will begin ANTI-ISIS FIELD COMBAT-SECURITY OPERATIONS.
IMO Artic read, OPPORTUNITY FOR ANKARA = TURKEY + ASYMMETRIC/SELECTIVE GEOPOL AGENDA TO SEND TURKISH ARMY FORCES INTO IRAQ.
AKA TURKEY FINALLY GETTING OOPORTUN TO EXPAND GEOPOL SPHERE OF INFLUENCE IN THE NAME OF GOOD OWG GLOBALISM = "VICHY" OBAMA/AMERIKA???
Still leaves CHINA over in East-Asia-Pacific.
As said before, US-VS-CHINA aka CHINA-VS-EVERYBODY + INDIA in East Asia-Pacific will be the litmus test for Obama + Globalists. Unlike the US-VS-RUSSIA/OBAMA-VS-PUTIN over the Ukraine + CRimea region of same, the US will have mutliple sovereign countries to deal wid as poetntial strategic or military battle fronts, + a China that is most likely uninterested in any Crimea-style partition or secession = geopol "sharing" wid the US = US-Allies/West. IMO OWG GLOBALIST CO-SUPERPOWER CHINA WILL DEMAND CHINESE-N-ONLY-CHINESE "SOLE" CONTROL OR DOMINATION OF EAST ASIA + WESTPAC WHILE THE US UNILATERALLY WITHDRAWS + CONFINES ITSELF TO EASTPAC [Hawaii] + US WEST COAST.
PCORRECTLY-DENIABLY, OF COURSE.
* JAPAN TIMES > OPINION: A WORLD OF OPPORTUNITY OPENS FOR IRAQI KURDS.
* SAME > NO GOING BACK FOR IRAQ [pre-ISIS/Fall of Mosul status quo] AFTER ISIS OFFENSIVE, KURDISTAN PM.
Kurd PM Nechirvan Marzani.
* IIRC RUSSIA TODAY > "AMERICA CAN'T BE PART OF ANY SOLUTION TO END ISIS VIOLENCE IN IRAQ".
A mighty Kelly Bundy-ian "The Hell You Say"! is heard again over Asia-Pacific from a Madonna Fan on Guam.
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Americans United for Change is a liberal group whose message closely mirrors that of the Obama White House... The groups leaders include: acting Executive Director Tom McMahon, a former executive director of the Democratic National Committee and former deputy national campaign manager for Howard Deans 2004 presidential bid; and Deputy Executive Director Caren Benjamin, a former aide to then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Brad Woodhouse was the groups executive director, before leaving in 2009 to become the DNCs director of communications.
What's the saying about the Devil being able to quote Scripture when it suits him?
[Iraq Sun] The Iraqi security forces Monday recaptured a city in western province of Anbar, while the Sunni militants took full control of a city in northern part of the country, an official said.
The Iraqi army, police and border guards fought sporadic clashes with gunmen in the city of Qaim, some 330 km northwest of the capital Baghdad, and took control over the city, Xinhua quoted a police source as saying Monday.
The troops also waged an offensive on the border with Syria, and re-took the posts they left late Wednesday after battling the militants, the source said.
The Iraqi air force carried out several airstrikes on some neighbourhoods of the city of Fallujah, 50 km west of Baghdad, killing 13 people and damaging some houses, a provincial police source said.
In Iraq's northern province of Nineveh, Sunni militants, including the militants linked to the Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (ISIL), an al-Qaida offshoot, have taken full control of the city of Tal Afar, some 70 km west of provincial capital Mosul, after fierce clashes with Iraqi security forces and volunteers from the residents, Mohammed Abdul Qader, head of the city council, told Xinhua.
"Tal Afar has fallen in the hands of the militants of Daash (as the ISIL is called) after they heavily pounded the city with mortar rounds and rockets since last night," Abdul Qader said. "The defenders of the city have withdrawn after they ran out of their ammunition," he said, adding that many security officers disappeared after the battle.
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[Iran Press TV] More gruesome videos have been released showing atrocities of members of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL) terror group in Iraq.
The videos posted on a bad boy website show several Iraqi men in plain clothes and army uniforms who have been captured by the bad boys.
The videos include a scene where bully boyz belonging to the 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 kill an Iraqi officer who refuses to repeat slogans chanted by them.
On Sunday, pictures surfaced online showing the bully boyz killing dozens of Iraqi men in Salahuddin province.
Iraq's military front man General Qassim al-Moussawi has confirmed the authenticity of the photos. He says there are more reports about the mass murder of captured Iraqi soldiers.
Several witness accounts and video clips have been released showing the grisly crimes perpetrated by the Takfiri Death Eaters against innocent civilians in the crisis-torn country.
Al-Qaeda-affiliated groups such as the so-called ISIL have been behind many of the deadly kabooms targeting both civilians and government institutions across Iraq in recent years.
Recently, a similar gruesome video was released, purportedly showing members of the ISIL Takfiri group brutally killing Shia Mohammedans in drive-by shootings in Iraq.
The ISIL bully boyz have vowed to continue their raid toward Iraq's capital, Storied Baghdad. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014... has said that the country's security forces would confront the terrorists, calling the seizure of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... by bully boyz a "conspiracy."
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[Iran Press TV] The Iraqi army has retaken control of most districts in a strategic city in Nineveh province, local media reports say.
According to the reports on Monday, the Iraqi army managed to regain control of most parts of the city of Tal Afar. This comes while throughout the day there were contradictory reports about who controls Tal Afar which sits on a main highway linking Nineveh province to Syria.
The army also released footage of air raids against bully boy positions and hideouts in Salahuddin and Nineveh provinces. According to the army, the strikes have been effective and successful.
According to some reports earlier in the day, Death Eaters from the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL) took Tal Afar on Sunday morning.
Iraqi security sources have categorically denied reports that the city has fallen to the bully boys.
Al-Qaeda-affiliated groups such as the so-called ISIL have been behind many of the deadly kabooms targeting both civilians and government institutions across Iraq in recent years.
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Apparently, after giving up Tal Afar yesterday the ISF is still battling to retake the city.
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If I read the map right, Kobane is a river in Syria on the border with Turkey and the other side of Euphrates from Aleppo. So the ISIS has their backs up to the Turkish border in this spot with Kurds attacking. Does this imply ISIS support from Turkey?
[Ynet] IDF's wave of arrests continues as 40 Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, members have been placed in durance vile Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! Monday night throughout the West Bank, said a military source. According to him the number is expected to reach 50.
[Ynet] An Iron Dome missile defense battery intercepted two rockets fired towards Ashkelon from Gazoo. Fragments of the rockets fell across the city. There were no reports of injuries or material damages.
The hope that Israel's attention is too-firmly fixed on the hunt for kidnapped schoolboys, perhaps? Or simply the need to show the Palestinians and the world that despite giving up official control of the Gaza Strip to the PLO, Hamas is still committing jihad against the juices? Or, possibly, because they've got plenty of flying explosive things, and it just feels so good to shoot them off? In susceptible people that feeling becomes addictive, 'tis said.
[Ynet] Information cleared for publication highlights lack of timely police response to the kidnapping of three Israeli boys in the West Bank.
The fog of peace claimed three victims that day.
One of the boys kidnapped Thursday evening near Gush Etzion called the police seconds after entering the vehicle, yelling "We've been kidnapped." The information was cleared for publication on Sunday -- two days after searches began for 16-year-olds Gil-Ad Shaer and Naftali Frenkel, and 19-year-old Eyal Yifrach.
According to reports by Channel 10 News, which cited senior police sources, a soldier serving her mandatory military service with the police took the phone call from the kidnapped teen. She reportedly called on her commanding officers to hear the conversation, but they arrived at the conclusion that the call was from a prankster.
The call came in at 22:25pm, but police failed to inform the IDF and Shin Bet. Suspicion of a real situation was only evident after the father of the one of the kidnapped boys arrived at a cop shoppe at 03:00am.
Judea and Samaria police declined to comment on the veracity of the report.
"There are many details related to the investigation into the kidnapping," the police said Saturday. "At present, we are not confirming or denying any details of the investigation, and are focusing on the massive effort underway together with the IDF and Shin Bet."
Meanwhile the IDF continued its search operations in the Hebron region. The IDF has deployed northwest of the city since being informed of the possibility of a kidnapping -- several hours after police received the initial details.
Soldiers manned security checkpoints at the entrances and exits to Hebron, the largest city in the West Bank. The increased activity is intended to pressure the local population and prevent the movement of the terror cell that conducted the kidnapping and any possible transfer of the victims.
The checkpoints deployed by the IDF have allowed passage to Paleostinian pedestrians and vehicles, but only after soldiers conduct thorough searches.
The IDF said the intention was not to harm the Paleostinian population or to disrupt daily life. Additional arrests are expected Sunday night, as the IDF attempts to breach the inner circles of the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, cell behind the abduction.
[Ynet] Ali Abdel-Latif al-Awoor was riding cycle of violence with uncle, was maimed in a June 11 strike; uncle Mohammed al-Woor killed on the spot.
Score one more for the good guys!
A seven-year-old boy has died of wounds suffered in an Israeli air strike that killed his uncle, a Paleostinian turban, as they were riding on a cycle of violence in the Gazoo Strip, relatives and hospital officials said on Sunday.
Human shield. At least he took a relative, and not some fatherless child off the street.
The Israeli military had no immediate comment on the death of the boy, Ali Abdel-Latif al-Awoor, whom hospital officials said succumbed on Saturday to multiple shrapnel injuries from the June 11 strike that killed Mohammed al-Woor, 33.
Shortly after Wednesday's attack, the military said it had targeted the turban over his involvement in rocket strikes on Israel.
There'll be more where that came from for a while, but it doesn't hurt to get rid of the most skilled, affecting the quality of training of those that follow. Look for more rockets that miss Israel completely, hitting either Gaza or another country -- the longer range ones might land in Lebanon!
Relatives said Ali's father had asked the uncle to give the boy a ride on the cycle of violence to Beit Lahiya, the northern Gazoo town where the family lives.
Suuuure they did.
Militants said Awoor belonged to a pro-al-Qaeda Salafi group.
Al Qaeda in the Sinai Peninsula, then?
Israel has said it seeks to avoid civilian casualties in strikes against snuffies it believes are behind rocket attacks from the Gazoo Strip.
A pious sentiment. But now is the time to clear the decks of both Palestinian entities, while Iran and Hizb'allah are otherwise occupied. Remember, the original plan was an encirclement by Hizb'allah on one side and Hamas on the other, together shooting off some 150,000 rockets currently staged for the event. if I recall the big number correctly, while Iran readied the coup de gras of those first nuclear bombs. Or so it seems to me, in my ignorance of matters military.
[Ynet] Bulletproof bulldozers reinforce large forces deployed in area, impose stricter closure of West Bank city.
The IDF continued to seal off Hebron on Monday in an attempt to locate the 3 Israeli teens kidnapped last week, reinforcing with bulletproof bulldozers called in from the 601st Engineering Brigade's base near Jerusalem to help impose a stricter closure on the West Bank city.
While the defense establishment has yet to pinpoint the location of the kidnapped boys, a senior military source said Monday afternoon that "the closure is beginning to bear fruit."
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Philippine authorities captured two members of the Abu Sayyaf group believed to be involved in several kidnappings, including those of former Australian soldier Warren Rodwell and American Kevin Lunsman, but failed to capture their primary target.
Security forces mounted an operation in Zamboanga City on Monday to serve arrest warrants for kidnapping and illegal detention charges on a certain "Walid" in Barangay Sangali. Although Walid managed to evade the dragnet, the team captured Jimmy Nurilla, alias "Doc", and Bakrin Haris, allegedly members of an Abu Sayyaf branch operating in Zamboanga City with links to groups in Basilan commanded by Furiji Indama and Khair Mundos, who was captured in Manila recently.
In addition to Rodwell and Lunsman, Nurilla and Haris were also thought to be involved in the kidnapping of elementary teacher Cathy Casipong and businesswoman Sabrina Voon. Voon is still in captivity.
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[AnNahar] Syrian government helicopters dropped barrel bombs on opposition-held districts of the northern city of Aleppo on Monday, killing at least 31 people including several children, an NGO said.
Some of the maimed were in a serious condition after the strikes on the Sukkari and Ashrafiyeh neighborhoods, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Two bombs hit Sukkari minutes apart, with the second catching helpers who had gone to the assistance of the casualties from the first.
"We were sleeping safely when the first barrel dropped around midnight," said resident Abu Mohammad.
"And when people came to the rescue, a second barrel dropped, so all those people who were on the site were dead.
"We don't have military bases in our area. All people here are civilians. Why is he (Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... ) attacking us?" he asked.
Syria's regime has waged a fierce aerial offensive against rebel-held areas of Aleppo since December.
The Observatory said in May that the campaign had killed nearly 2,000 people -- more than a quarter of them children -- since the beginning of 2014.
Tens of thousands of people have fled rebel-held districts of Aleppo in the face of the bombing.
Elsewhere, eight children were among 13 people killed by rebel shelling of a government-held area of Idlib province on Sunday night, the Observatory said.
An activist in Idlib told Agence La Belle France Presse that among the children killed were two five-year-old boys, two aged seven and one aged eight.
More than 162,000 people have been killed in Syria since the uprising against Assad's rule erupted in March 2011.
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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.
Basque separatist group ETA
[Times of India]ISLAMABAD: Showing new resolve, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday said his country has had enough of terrorism and the military operation launched in North Waziristan tribal region a day earlier would continue until terrorist safe havens are destroyed in the country.
[DAWN] KARACHI: Two suspected 
Wazoo
If not well trained and led, large numbers mean nothing. 
[Iraq Sun] Iraq has claimed to have taken back much of the territory taken by 
[Iran Press TV] More gruesome videos have been released showing atrocities of members of the so-called 
Nouri al-Maliki
Thank Allahn these guys make Wile E. Coyote look like a genius at times. 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
