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Already voted, now it is time for a (see pic) thanks for the use of your venue Fred - Rantburg. May there be a bright dawn tomorrow and a shift to the Right.
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AP, CNN project Mirch McConnell (R, KY) re-elected to the US Senate.
ABC News projects Kasich (R) re-elected governor of Ohio.
[Libya Herald] Saiqa Special Forces ...Libya's elite army unit, insofar as they have one, formed from a mixture of paratroopers and commandos. The group emerged from a militia with the same name in 2010. It now numbers a few thousand and reports to the Ministry of Defence. It deployed in Benghazi in an attempt to control the carnage. As a result, it has been attacked and several of its officers murdered. The force is popular in Benghazi for its stance against Ansar al-Sharia group... has rebuffed claims that its commander, Wanis Bukhamada, was maimed in the last two days of fighting in Benghazi, saying he is in perfect health . . . Remainder behind the paywall...
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[Libya Herald] The Libyan National Army (LNA) has claimed to have carried out Arclight airstrikes on a convoy of 30 vehicles attempting to reach Benghazi as festivities continued across the city.
Mohammed Al-Hajezi, a front man for Operation Dignity and pro-government forces, told the Libya Herald that the air force had bombed weapons, vehicles and personnel from Libya Dawn ...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar... forces as they travelled from Sirte to Benghazi yesterday.
explained that the Arclight airstrikes took place east of Sirte on the road between Wadi Harawa and Nawfaliya. Hejazi claimed the entire convoy had been destroy and added that any forces opposed to the the army trying to enter the eastern city could expect to suffer the same fate.
In Benghazi itself, fierce festivities have continued following relative quiet across the city both this morning and yesterday morning. Thirty-six people were reported killed in fighting in Benghazi over a period of 24 hours. The online publication Bowabat Al-Wassat has said that a total of 254 individuals have now been killed in the city since the beginning of renewed festivities in mid-October, quoting medical sources.
In the Sabri district, the Libyan Red Islamic Thingy worked yesterday to evacuate staff and patients remaining at the Jumhuriya maternity hospital which has become caught-up in fighting there.
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[Libya Herald] Fires are raging onboard a Libyan Navy vessel after it was struck by a missile during heavy festivities between pro-government forces and Benghazi Revolutionaries Shoura Council (BRSC) battling for control of Benghazi's port.
One of the few remaining residents in Benghazi's central Sabri district told the Libya Herald that fierce fighting had erupted in the area this afternoon with further festivities at a naval base some ten kilometres away from the main seaport.
The navy ship was struck by the missile in exchanges at the base. The resident explained that naval personnel there had barricaded the roads leading towards their position as navy ships from the east sailed into port.
In response the forces of BRSC moved on the naval base with technical vehicles carrying mounted anti-aircraft guns and and one or two armoured personnel carriers. In the subsequent battle armed naval guards were able to repulse the BRSC convoy pushing it back to Suq Al-Hood.
Mohammed Hejazi, a Libyan National Army (LNA) front man, said fighting had continued in Suq Al-Hood into the evening but was beginning to subside. He too said that the fire on board the ship had been caused by a BRSC missile.
To the north of the naval base, the army deployed a number of tanks which moved from the outskirts of the Sabri district towards central Benghazi. One rocket hit the nearby Narwan Hotel which had to be evacuated by the Red Islamic Thingy because of the fierce fighting.
Sabri residents reportedly joined the fray on the side of the army. Most local gunnies came from the area's Abdul Monem and Riyad streets. The worst of the festivities took place at one of Sabri's main junctions near to where a cop shoppe was destroyed in July.
As well as evacuating the Narwan Hotel, the Libyan Red Islamic Thingy also helped move staff and patients from central Benghazi's 7 October Hospital which was also threatened by the fighting. A front man said eight intensive-care patients were evacuated and six members of medical staff, five of whom were Filipinos.
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Meanwhile, AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON Fans, + NOT to be outdone by Libyuh, ... ...
* BLOOMBERG > INDIA SAID TO PULL [2 ea.] WARSHIPS FROM KOLKATA [East India] ON TERROR THREAT.
VERSUS
* GROONG > US NAVY MUST EXIT PERSIAN GULF: IRGC ADMIRAL [IRGC RADM. Ali Fadavi].
On a personal note, iff my childhood dreams or visions once again hold true, my home island of GUAM in future time may experience incidents like this as stability in East Asia-Pacific grows increasingly precarious or uncertain, vee US-VS-CHINA-VS-NUCLEAR-ISLAM [Nuclear Radical Islam].
[ABCNEWS.GO] A jacket wallah killed himself and 32 civilians Monday when he detonated explosives on the edge of a religious procession by the moderate Moslem Brüderbund in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , a hospital official and witnesses said.
The official said 119 people were maimed. He quoted hospital records in Potiskum, capital of Yobe state, and spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to give information to news hounds.
In a separate development, gunnies attacked a prison in central Kogi state and freed 145 inmates, prison chief Omale Adams told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
He said one inmate died in Sunday night's attack and 12 escapees were recaptured by late Monday.
The prison break took place in a central part of the country that sporadically has been attacked by the Islamic myrmidonBoko 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... group, though authorities would not say that the gunnies were the prime suspects.
In Potiskum, Moslem Brüderbund members detained two suspects near the suicide bomber kaboom and refused to hand them over to the military, said Mohammed Adamu, a tailor who was part of the parade.
As the crowd began beating the suspects with fists and wooden clubs, soldiers fired several shots into the air and one bullet killed a Moslem Brüderbund member, Adamu said.
One suspect turned out to be a policeman, and the crowd finally handed both over to the police. An AP news hound saw the two badly beaten men at the hospital, along with two dozen women and kiddies injured in the blast.
It is the first attack in months in Potiskum by suspected members of Boko Haram, which follows the strict Wahabi school of Islam.
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[ARABNEWS] Two people have been sentenced to 23 years in prison combined for supporting Al-Qaeda through media campaigns, funding terror organizations and inciting violence.
The first suspect was sentenced to 16 years in prison and a travel ban equal to his prison term for joining Al-Qaeda and making a film through Al-Sahab, Al-Qaeda's propaganda arm, in which he openly expresses willingness to help leaders carry out terrorist operations.
He also calls on fighters to carry out operations within the Kingdom and dissent against the government.
The second defendant was sentenced to seven years in prison and fined SR5,000 for his involvement with terror groups and for traveling to Dubai, Pakistain and Afghanistan to fight alongside terrorists.
He was also found guilty of communicating with Al-Qaeda leaders in Afghanistan and transferring funds from the Kingdom to individuals in the UAE to support fighters in Afghanistan.
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[ARABNEWS] Violence broke out in Bangladesh on Monday after the country's highest court upheld the death sentence of an Islamist party leader convicted of committing war crimes, including mass murder, during the 1971 independence conflict.
The Supreme Court's rejection of Mohammad Kamaruzzaman's appeal means that he will now be hanged within months, unless the case is reviewed again or he is granted clemency by the country's president.
The 62-year-old assistant secretary general of the Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... will be the second senior Islamist to hang for crimes committed during the war, which saw the former East Pakistain secede from Islamabad.
The decision triggered sporadic violence across Bangladesh.
Islamist protesters set off more than a dozen crude improvised bombs, torched and damaged cars and pelted police with rocks, who responded by firing rubber bullets and tear gas.
Jamaat called a nationwide 48-hour strike from Wednesday morning to protest against the court's decision.
The ruling came after another senior Jamaat official, Abdul Quader Molla, was executed in December after being convicted on similar charges.
In the last week, Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal -- a domestic court -- has sentenced Jamaat's supreme leader Motiur Rahman Nizami ...During the liberation war of 1971, Nizami formed the Al-Badr Force and acted as its supreme commander. The Al-Badr militia took active part in rape, extortion, looting and killing of Bangladeshis who supported the liberation, including a pre-planned massacre on December 14, 1971, when the Al-Badr militia along with Pakistan Army rounded up hundreds of doctors, professors, writers, and other Bengali intellectuals, and executed them... and key financier Mir Quasem Ali to death.
The convictions of some of Nizami's top lieutenants last year triggered the country's deadliest political violence since independence. Tens of thousands of Jaamat activists clashed with police in protests that left some 500 people dead.
Critics say the latest flurry of judgments are designed to intimidate the opposition, which has been stepping up protests against Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums.. 's government.
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[DAWN] PESHAWAR: Three people a woman among them were found dead, as police foiled a sabotage attempt by defusing a bomb in the quiet provincial capital here on Sunday.
A young man identified as Imdadullah and his wife, Shagufta were found dead inside their house in Faqirabad locality. A police official said that the bodies were shifted to local mortuary for an appointment with Dr. Quincy.
He said that there was no apparent sign of violence on the bodies, but added that the victims were bleeding from their noses which indicated that might have been poisoned to death. However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... the official said that the actual story would come out after postmortem. He added that the Sherlocks were also searching for relatives of the victims.
The official said that a case against unidentified persons had been registered at the Faqirabad cop shoppe.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again... body a man was recovered from Sheikh Wala water canal in limits of Paharipura cop shoppe. The victim was identified as Ayam of Regi town. Police said the body had bullet marks, adding he was thrown in the canal after being killed somewhere else. The police said they were informed about the body by an informer of Dauranpur village.
An investigator said that though the victim belonged to Regi town his family was presently living in Nishtarabad locality 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. city.
Meanwhile, ...back at the saw mill, Scarface Al had tied Little Nell to the log and was about to turn on the buzz saw... bomb disposal unit personnel defused an improvised bomb, which had been planted along a road at Khatako Pul area.
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[DAWN] SAHIWAL: Two men rubbed out a leader of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jammat (ASWJ) here on Sunday night at village 86/9-L.
Reports said two men riding a cycle of violence arrived at the gate of the Anwar-e-Madina Mosque during Isha prayers and asked about Maulana Bashir Ahmed.
According to eyewitness, two men wearing helmets waited for some time and moved towards the holy man when he came out of a house situated near the mosque. They sought identification from Maulana Bashir and opened fire.
The 45-year-old religious leader received three bullet injuries to his chest and succumbed to his wounds on the spot.
The assailants managed their escape by resorting to gun sex.
Harappa police rushed to the spot and shifted the body to Sahiwal DHQ Hospital for an appointment with Dr. Quincy.
ASWJ District Nazim Ijaz Qadri has refused to comment on the killing, saying it is not a sectarian case.
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[DAWN] QUETTA: Armed Lions of Islam killed a tribal leader in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... 's Noshki district on Monday.
Levies sources said Lions of Islam on a cycle of violenceshot up Sardarzada Wali Khan Mengal and killed him on the spot.
The incident happened on the Jinnah Road area of Noshki, Balochistan's district bordering with Afghanistan. Levies sources added that the assailants sped away on their cycle of violence after the strike.
Police, Levies and personnel of other law enforcement agencies reached the spot as investigation into the incident went underway.
Shopkeepers pulled down their shutters soon after the firing incident which caused panic in the city. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the killing.
The dear departed had high influence in the district of Noshki. He belonged to one of the largest tribes in Balochistan -- the Mengals.
Low scale bomb kabooms and incidents of assassinations have also been previously reported from Noshki.
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[DAWN] Security personnel conducted a search operation in the areas adjoining the Wagah border crossing near Lahore and recovered a large quantity of explosives and boom jackets which were defused, Rangers sources told Dawn.
A bomb disposal squad official told Dawn that the boom jacket was stuffed with eight kilograms of explosives and ball bearings and added that had the vest detonated it would have caused immense damage.
A search operation was conducted in the populated areas located near the Wagah border after intelligence agencies received information regarding the presence of a 'suspicious person' in the area.
An initial report over the Sunday blast near the Wagah border was presented to Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... during a high-level meeting presided by the Punjab chief minister.
The attack was discussed in detail during the meeting, following which Sharif directed for the formation of a joint investigation team to probe the incident. He also instructed for tightening of security for Ashura.
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[ARABNEWS] Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... gunnies beheaded eight Syrian rebels who had surrendered in a town on the border with Iraq last week despite pledges of an amnesty, a monitor said Monday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the men were executed and their bodies hung on makeshift crucifixes in Albu Kamal in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor.
"The men surrendered in Albu Kamal because the Islamic State had offered amnesty to people who fought them if they turned themselves in," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.
Instead, he said, the eight opposition fighters had their heads chopped off and then hung from crosses in a method often employed by the group.
The monitor, which relies on a large network of sources on the ground in Syria, said the men had belonged to a group that had fought against both the Syrian regime and the Islamic State.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, the spittle had reached unprecedented levels... in the city of Deir Ezzor, the scenic provincial capital, IS gunnies decapitated another three men, also hanging their corpses from crosses, the Observatory said.
The group said it was unclear when the executions took place, adding that two of the men were accused of collaboration with the Syrian regime and the third of fighting against the Islamic State.
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[Iraq News] On Monday, a source within the police force stated that 23 casualties among civilians resulted in a car bombing that took place in Al-Sadr in eastern Baghdad.
The source informed IraqiNews, âIn the late night hours of Sunday, a bomb that was emplaced inside a parked car caused an explosion that took place during Al-Husseiniya march in Al-Sadr in eastern Baghdad. The explosion resulted in 4 dead and 19 injured civilians.â
Earlier in the same day, an explosion took place during Al-Husseiniya march in the week of Ashura near Al-Darwish in Al-Ellam, located in southern Baghdad. The explosion resulted in 32 casualties.
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[Iraq News] Security source within Salah-il-Din Operations Command assured on Monday that the Iraqi Air Force bombarded shelters of the terrorist Islamic State northern Tikrit.
The source reported to IraqiNews.com âThe IAF bombarded shelters of IS in Jamila area within Shurqat district of northern Tikrit which destroyed three shelters for them.â
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Not the Juice?
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[Iraq News] On Monday, the leader of the volunteersâ brigades in Al-Baghdadi announced that 2000 fighter from the tribal forces arrived in Ain Al-Asad base to support the security forces in liberating Heet district.
Colonel Shaaban Al-Abidi informed IraqiNews, â2000 fighters from the tribal volunteer forces arrived today in Ain Al-Asad, 90 km west of Ramadi. The fighters carried security aids, heavy weapons and gear to support the security forces in fight with the ISIS militants in Heet district.â
âThe security forces had already informed the people in Heet that an extensive military operation is to begin from three different locations,â he added. The district of Heet is being blockaded by Army forces accompanied by volunteers from Al-Dalim, Al-Abid, Albu-Nimir and Al-kheghayfa clans.
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[Iraq News] On Monday, a source within the police force stated that the Army forces killed 11 ISIS elements in an area, located in Al-Latifiya district in southern Baghdad.
The source informed IraqiNews, "This evening, ISIS bandidossnuffies dressed in military uniform set up a checkpoint in Al-Latifiya district in southern Baghdad. The Army forces of the 17th Brigade clashed with them and killed 11 elements while others fled away. The dead bandidossnuffies were taken to the Forensic Medicine Authority to identify their bodies."
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[Iraq News] Several mortar shells hit the suburbs of Kadhimiya city of northern Baghdad. Security source reported to Iraqi News âThe casualties due to the mortar shells are unidentified yet.â
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[Iraq News] On Monday, a security source in Kirkuk province stated, that the U.S. Air Force conducted an Arclight airstrike against ISIS bandidosDeath Eaters in southwest of Kirkuk.
The source informed IraqiNews, "This evening, warplanes belonging to the U.S. Air Force conducted an Arclight airstrike against ISIS bandidosDeath Eaters in Al-Huwaija, 55 km southwest of Kirkuk. The air strike resulted in killing 20 ISIS bandidosDeath Eaters and destroying 7 armored vehicles belonged to the group."
"The operation was based on intelligence received from the U.S. Central Intelligence (CIA) and local sources," he said.
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[Iraq News] A document issued by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) mentioned the prices set by the terrorist group to sell Yazidi and Christian women and children abducted by its members.
According to the document âThe market to sell women and spoils of war has been experiencing a significant decrease, which has adversely affected ISIS revenue and financing of the Mujahideen.â
ISIS decided to impose price controls over the sale of women and spoils, vowing to execute whoever violates those controls, which are as follows:
A (Yazidi or Christian) woman, aged 40 to 50 years, is for 50,000 dinars.
The rate of a (Yazidi or Christian) woman, aged 30 to 40 years, is 75,000 dinars.
The rate for a (Yazidi or Christian) woman, aged 20 to 30 years, is 100,000 dinars.
A (Yazidi or Christian) girl, aged 10 to 20 years, is for 150,000 dinars.
A (Yazidi or Christian) childâs price, aged 1 to 9 years, is 200,000 dinars.
According to the document, it is not authorized for any individual to purchase more than 3 spoils; except for foreigners like Turks, Syrians and Gulf Arabs.
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[Iraq News] The United States of America declared carrying out about (400) airstrikes since the start of the airstrikes of the international alliance of combating terrorism.
The US Ambassador to Iraq, Stewart Jones, revealed that âThe airstrikes were effective in Beiji district and southern Fallujah where many terrorists were killed and he assured that Iraq need no foreign ground troops to fight terrorists.â
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[AnNahar] With global attention focused on the fight against jihadists, Syria's regime has in recent weeks stepped up its use of deadly barrel bomb strikes, killing civilians and wreaking devastation.
In less than a fortnight, warplanes have dropped at least 401 barrel bombs on rebel areas in eight provinces, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group.
Activist Yassin Abu Raed, from the town of Anadan in northern Aleppo province, has seen his house hit three times in barrel kabooms.
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[AnNahar] Fierce festivities erupted between Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... fighters and al-Nusra ...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant... Front jihadists in the Syrian Qalamoun along the Lebanese border, a monitor said Sunday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Syrian regime troops backed by Hizbullah fighters engaged in battles with al-Qaeda affiliate al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front on the outskirts of the strategic Syrian al-Qalamoun region along the Lebanese border.
Media reports said in Saturday eve that gunbattles erupted between Hizbullah and Nusra fighters in the town of Younine in eastern Bekaa.
Hizbullah sent fighters to Syria to back Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... 's forces against rebels trying to remove him from power. The armed intervention in Syria earned the group the enmity of Syria's predominantly Sunni rebels. Assad is a member of the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
Over the past year, Syrian troops and Hizbullah fighters have captured most of the towns and villages in Syria's mountainous Qalamoun region along the Leb border, depriving the rebels of residential areas where they can stay during the winter.
However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... Hizbullah's involvement in Syria had drawn the ire of many in Leb.
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See also REALTED TOPIX > LEADER OF SYRIA AL-QAIDA WING THREATENS STRIKES AGZ HEZBOLLAH IN LEBANON.
and
* JAPAN TIMES > SYRIAN AL-QAEDA FORCES MASS NEAR VITAL REBEL-HELD CROSSING [Bab al-Hawa] INTO TURKEY.
Fear that US-backed Syrian Rebs will desert to join the NEW AL-NUSRA, ISIS ALLIANCE, + allow Nusra-ISIS Boyz into Turkey for burqua shennanigans.
FYI the US is repor weighing ordering immediate airstrikes agz same in order to prevent the above.
* VARIOUS > OBAMA CANNOT ALLOW TURKEY TO BE THREATENED [destabilized + taken over] BY MILITANTS [ISIS, etal.] + ERDOGAN KNOWS IT.
[In a future GUAM, a young man + ex-US Elite reads
a Quran + about the GWOT, ISIS from many years before ... ... and the rest, as Rush Limbaugh would say, is HISTOIRE'].
The Lebanese army continues trying to rid the country of internal threats before they have to face the threats coming from the other side of the border.
[AnNahar] The army on Sunday conducted a major crackdown in the vicinity of the al-Beddawi Paleostinian refugee camp near 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... and in other areas in the North.
Military units "carried out a major crackdown around the al-Beddawi camp in search of gunnies and runaways, while raids were made in several suspicious locations," the army said in a statement.
Army forces "staged patrols and erected checkpoints and surveillance points in all these areas," the statement added.
The army said its steps are part of the "continued security measures in the neighborhoods of the city of Tripoli and the Akkar region."
Earlier, the army detained in a raid in the town of Bhannine in the Akkar district two men involved in the recent festivities in the area and confiscated a rocket propelled grenade and military equipment.
The army command said in a communique issued late on Saturday that a "military unit carried out raids on several suspicious areas in (the northern district of) Minieh and Bhannine and tossed in the clink Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! Toufic Mohammed Akkoush and Mohammed Ahmed Akkoush, who were involved in the shooting at soldiers in the town of Bhannine."
The statement added that a Lebanese national and two Syrians were also detained, without revealing their identities.
"An RPG and a quantity of military equipment were seized near the town's technical school," the army continued.
The suspects along with the confiscated weapons were referred to the competent judicial authority, the statement said.
Gunmen led by Islamist holy warrior Sheikh Khaled Hoblos, a previously unknown holy man, engaged in deadly festivities with the army last weekend in the town of Bhannine.
The festivities in Bhannine and al-Mhammara coincided with unprecedented fighting between the army and Islamist forces of Evil in Tripoli's old souks and Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhood.
It's that time of year again, when Shiites beat themselves bloody in a religious ecstasy, and Sunnis gather like sharks attracted to the blood.
[AnNahar] The army on Sunday dismantled an bomb that was placed near a Ashura gathering in the predominantly Shiite Sidon suburb of Haret Saida.
"The army defused an armed bomb weighing 500 grams that was found on the Haret Saida road," state-run National News Agency reported.
Later on Sunday, the Army Command issued a statement saying "a military expert defused the bomb in Haret Saida and it was not detonated, contrary to what some media outlets reported."
"Following search and investigations, an army intelligence patrol discovered at 6:00 pm near the Sayyed al-Shohada complex in Haret Saida an bomb consisted of 500 grams of TNT, a hand grenade and an electric detonator," the statement said.
The army noted that the bomb was set for remote detonation, adding that a probe has been launched into the incident.
MTV had earlier said that the army "detonated two hand grenades that were in a bag placed near a Ashura gathering organized by Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... in Haret Saida."
Security measures have been beefed up in the country ahead of the tenth day of Ashura, which will be commemorated in mass rallies on Tuesday.
Fears have been raised over possible terrorist attacks against Ashura mourning gatherings in the wake of Hizbullah's participation in the fighting in Syria in support of the country's regime.
Unarmed members of Hizbullah and AMAL Movement have been seen near security forces checkpoints in Beirut's southern suburbs, particularly in neighborhoods where the congregations are being held.
Ashura marks the death of Imam Hussein, one of the most revered figures in Shiite Islam, over 1,300 years ago.
Millions of Shiites around the world mark Ashura, which this year climaxes on November 3, by setting up mourning tents and staging rallies.
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.
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as 
[Iraq News] A document issued by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) mentioned the prices set by the terrorist group to sell Yazidi and Christian women and children abducted by its members.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
