Authorities in suburban reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... said a release of chlorine gas that sickened 19 people at a hotel hosting a 'furries' convention early Sunday was "intentional." The "furries" sound like harmless dumbassery.
The source of the gas was apparently chlorine powder left in a ninth-floor stairwell at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare hotel, according to the Rosemont Public Safety Department. Investigators are treating the evacuation as a criminal matter.
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[Ynet] Taliban fighters backed by a jacket wallah attacked a police headquarters in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing five people as the turbans step up attacks and foreign forces pack up and leave the country.
The latest attack on Afghan cops was in the southern province of Kandahar, the cradle of the hard-line Islamist Taliban movement that ruled Afghanistan for five years.
A policeman and four civilians died in the attack that started when a suicide bomber dressed in a police uniform detonated a carload of explosives at the main gate of the compound in Kandahar's Maiwand district.
Four heavily armed gunnies then forced their way inside, government front man Sameem Khpalwak said. The fighting in Maiwand lasted for two hours, before security forces killed the attackers.
DIINSOOR, Somalia -- Somalia's Al Qaeda linked Al Shabaab group has taken Hormuud telecom services off the air in Bay region towns of Diinsoor and Ufurow according to reliable sources, Garowe Online reports. The telecom blackout by militants remains mystery, although Somali government forces aided by African Union peacekeepers are pressing ahead with intense military campaign in central and southern Somalia.
Insiders who spoke to Garowe Online said [that] Al Shabaab militants are in fear for looming offensive against their hideouts.
Hormuud, one of the three largest telecommunications operators in the war-ravaged horn of Africa nation has faced similar bans before.
Al Qaeda-inspired group maintains militias presence in some parts of Bay region of southwestern Somalia.
On account of spying, Al Shabaab suspended the use of internet on mobile phones in January, forcing hundreds to flee to volatile Mogadishu where government officials and foreigners are targeted in broad day light attacks.
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KISMAYO, Somalia -- Three Jubaland soldiers were found dead in the outskirts of the southern port city of Kismayo, Garowe Online reports. The three bodies were on Sunday uncovered near a military base that lies a few kilometers away from Kismayo presidential palace according to witnesses.
Independent sources disclose that the three soldiers, two men and a woman identified as Hawo Wiilo fought alongside former warlord-Col. Barre Adan Shire (Barre Hirale)-militias. In early September, Barre Hirale surrendered to African Union mission in Somalia (AMISOM) following a two-month long IGAD-brokered mediation efforts.
Jubaland forces alongside Kenyan-AMISOM battalions are battling Al Shabaab militants in remote areas near Kismayo.
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[Ynet] Extremists linked to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group were nabbed ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... in Egypt following information that they were intending to harm the British embassy in Cahir, according to an Egyptian security source who was quoted in the Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper headquartered in London.
The information received, along with recent threats by the Islamic State for attacks to be carried out in London, led the British embassy in Cahir to close on Sunday.
[AnNahar] A Chinese court condemned eight people to death Monday for two deadly attacks in Xinjiang, as Beijing cracks down hard on violence in the homeland of the mostly Moslem Uighur minority.
Five others were given suspended death sentences, according to state broadcaster CCTV -- a penalty normally commuted to life in prison -- with another four tossed in the clink Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! for varying terms.
In one incident, assailants armed with knives and explosives attacked a train station in the regional capital Urumqi in April, killing one person and wounding 79 on the final day of a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping. Two assailants also died.
The following month 39 people were killed, along with four attackers, and more than 90 maimed when assailants threw explosives and ploughed two vehicles through a market in Urumqi, state media said.
The sentences, handed down by the Intermediate People's Court in Urumqi, bring the number of death penalties or executions announced for Xinjiang-related violence to around 50 since June.
They are part of a harsh crackdown Beijing has imposed on violence in the vast resource-rich area, deep in China's far west.
Over the past year at least 200 people have died in a series of festivities and increasingly sophisticated attacks in the region and beyond it.
Beijing has blamed such incidents on "separatists" and "terrorists".
Rights groups say that harsh police treatment of Uighurs and government campaigns against religious practices such as the wearing of veils have led to violence.
China defends its policies, arguing that it has boosted economic development in the area and that it upholds minority and religious rights in a country with 56 recognized ethnic groups.
CCTV showed several of the defendants seated in a row at the front of a courtroom. The young men were clad in brightly-colored prison vests and had their heads shaven.
Nine of the defendants were identified by the Communist Party's flagship People's Daily newspaper on its official microblog, all of whose names sounded Uighur.
For the train station attack, it said, two defendants were condemned to die, three given suspended death sentences and one given five years in prison.
For the market incident, another six were given death sentences, two given suspended death sentences and one life in prison, it added. Two received 10-year terms.
The charges included "organizing, leading and taking part in terror organizations", "setting off explosives" and "endangering public security by dangerous means", according to the People's Daily. Calls by AFP to the Urumqi court went unanswered.
Hundreds of people have been tossed in the clink Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! or detained on terror-related offenses in Xinjiang following the May attack, and police have rubbed out dozens of locals in other festivities over the summer.
Authorities tightly restrict access to Xinjiang, and official reports on incidents in the region are difficult to independently verify.
Dilxat Raxit, front man for the exile World Uyghur Congress, said: "The cause of (these) incidents is that China basically won't look for the root problem within its own extreme policies."
Raxit also said in an emailed message to AFP that it was "fundamentally impossible" for those sentenced by China to "receive the right of a fair defense".
The crackdown in Xinjiang has extended to academics such as prominent Uighur scholar Ilham Tohti, who in September was sentenced to life in prison for "separatism". Several of his students were subsequently tried in secret for the same offense.
The targeting of Tohti and his students has been decried by the U.S. and European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... as well as international rights groups as part of an effort to silence criticism of government policies in the region.
[DAWN] THE disturbing violence in Faisalabad ...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... on Monday marks a change in the PTI's profile. Despite the events of Aug 30 and Sept 1, the party had, generally speaking, not shown a predilection for the politics of violence.
But now, the rioting and confrontation in the industrial city should entail some serious thinking on the part of the PTI, while the PML-N needs to do much better than play victim to an unreasonable opponent's desperate assaults.
It has been observed frequently that the ruling party must shun any strategy that brings it face to face with the protesters on the street. That advice was not heeded on Monday, resulting in at least one fatality as supporters of the two parties clashed.
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[IraqiNews.com] Seven murderous Moslems affiliated to what is so called the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Levant were killed in Dejel district of southern Tikrit city.
Security source reported in a statement received by Iraqi News ?The International Coalition Aviation shelled a terrorist shelter killing seven murderous Moslems in Dejel district of southern Tikrit city.?
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[IraqiNews.com] On Monday, the head of al-Anbar police Gen. Officer Kazim al-Fahdawy confirmed the death of dozens of ISIS forces of Evil in air strikes by the international coalition in western Ramadi.
Al-Fahdawy stated for IraqiNews, ?This morning, dozens of ISIS forces of Evil have been killed and a number of vehicles which belonged to the group were also destroyed in air strikes conducted by the international coalition on four ISIS shelters in the areas of al-Tamim and al-Khamsah, located in western Ramadi.?
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[IraqiNews.com] On Monday, Anbar police command announced that the security forces foiled an attack by the so-called Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) from 4 axes on the government complex in central Ramadi, indicating that the forces killed more than 20 members of the terrorist organization.
Provincial Police Chief, Staff Major General Kazim Fahdawi said in an interview for IraqiNews.com that, ?At one o?clock and until seven o?clock in the morning, a force of the police backed by tribal fighters repelled an attack by ISIS targeted a government complex in central Ramadi from 4 axes.?
Fahdawi stated that repelling the attack resulted in the deaths of more than 20 ISIS members, and added that ?military aviation bombed several sites of ISIS elements.?
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[Ynet] Central Unit Sherlocks in the Northern District locked away Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! nine young men in their 20s, who are residents of villages in the Golan Heights, for allegedly waved Hezbollah flags. Suspects will be released under restrictive conditions at the end of the investigation.
[Ynet] Reports in Arabic-language press says attacks targeted sites storing Russian-made advanced missiles for Hezbollah; Moscow demands explanation.
Two Hezbollah activists were killed Sunday in what foreign sources have said was an Israeli Arclight airstrike on military targets in Syria, the Al Arabiya news channel reported Monday. The report contradicts earlier claims by Syrian security forces, who said Sunday that there had been no casualties in the attack.
While official Israel continues to keep mum on the daylight attack in Syria that has been attributed to it, the Arab press has in the meantime published more and more details about the alleged Israeli assault.
Al-Arabiya also said that one of the two dead men had been a senior military official in Hezbollah.
According to reports, which are so far unsubstantiated, eight Israel Air Force warplanes participated in the strikes close to the international airport on the outskirts of Damascus. The target, the reports say, was most likely a warehouse containing new Russian-made anti-aircraft missiles that were en route to Leb.
Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz refused to comment directly on Sunday's incident, but noted Israel has a "firm policy of preventing all possible transfers of sophisticated weapons to terrorist organizations."
Russia on Monday demanded an explanation for the Arclight airstrikes, while the Syrian and Iranian foreign ministers called it an act of aggression that proves Israel was "in the same trench" with krazed killer groups fighting the Syrian government.
"Moscow is deeply worried by this dangerous development, the circumstances of which demand an explanation," ministry front man Alexander Lukashevich said.
The Ministry sent a letter to the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... complaining about Israel's "aggressive action" and demanded that such attacks should not happen again, Lukashevich added.
London-published newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi on Monday morning quoted Syrian officials as saying that an Israeli attack possibly intended to strike the warehouse containing modern Russian-made missiles destined for Hezbollah. According to the same sources, the airport at Dimas, close to the Syria-Leb border, was apparently a storage point for advanced air defense missiles recently delivered from Russia.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Kinnison began his slow infiltration of the sewer system... Leb's Al Akhbar newspaper, which is affiliated with Hezbollah, quoted security sources as saying that eight Israeli warplanes attacked two targets. According to the same sources, "the first site attacked, near Damascus International Airport, is a hangar for unloading goods. The second site was reportedly a row of hangars within a military installation."
The sources denied unconfirmed reports that the assault included bombing positions in Sabura or attacks on the 90th Syrian army division in Quneitra. The lead story in the newspaper appeared under the headline: "Bombing weapons of the resistance. Israel provokes".
At the same time, Lebanese newspaper As-Safir, also affiliated with Hezbollah, quoted Syrian officials as saying that the attacks were designed to disrupt recent weapons deliveries to Syria. The officials reportedly denied rumors that Russian-made S-300 missiles had been in the warehouses. These missiles, they said, had not been delivered.
The newspaper also reported the relatively ?small? intensity of the kabooms, compared to the large kabooms heard in previous raids, and claimed this supported the impression that the raids had not achieved their goal ? the destruction of large stockpiles at the airport.
Hours after Syria reported the bombings, the Syrian foreign office sent two missives to the secretary-general of the UN and the head of the Security Council in protest of Israel?s attacks.
?Syria demands that sanctions be placed to deter Israel, which doesn?t hide its policy of supporting terror and its malicious intentions against Syria,? read one letter. ?Syria further demands to implement all methods determined in the UN Charter to prevent Israel from repeating these attacks.?
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Kinnison began his slow infiltration of the sewer system... Leb's Al Akhbar newspaper published Monday morning an article bearing the headline: ?Netanyahu bolsters his public credit... in Syria,? suggesting that the timing of the attack was politically motivated.
Also Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif met with his Syrian counterpart, Walid Muallem, in Tehran.
In a presser at the end of the meeting, Zarif said that ?Iran condemns Israel?s attack in Syria. Yesterday?s attack indicates that this step was coordinated with terror organizations in Syria.?
Muallem said that ?Israel attacked yesterday to raise the terrorists? morale after their decline in the field.?
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] U.S. allies will deploy almost 1,500 troops to Iraq where they will train and advise Iraqi and Kurdish soldiers in their fight against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) murderous Moslem group, a top U.S. commander announced on Monday.
The forces would add to about 3,100 U.S. troops President Barack Obama I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody... had authorized be deployed to Iraq, Lieutenant General James Terry, who commands all coalition efforts against ISIS in Syria and Iraq, said, according to Rooters news agency.
The allies' commitments were made during a conference among coalition members on Dec. 2-3.
"When you start now to balance the different capabilities out across the coalition, I think we're doing pretty well in terms of boots on the ground," Terry told news hounds in Kuwait during a visit along with outgoing Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.
Terry declined to say which countries were contributing but said the troops would represent a broad mix from a coalition that, on the military side, now included nearly 40 countries.
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think we're doing pretty well in terms of boots on the ground," Terry told news hounds in Kuwait during a visit along with outgoing Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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