[Tolo News] A number of Afghan Police have left their checkpoints in Sangin district of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province, local officials said.
Officials and tribe elders in Helmand province said that the departure of police has coinciding with the end of the Zulfiqar military operation.
Reports indicate that police in the district said that without national army support and co-operation they could not remain at their security checkpoints.
The Zulfiqar military operation in Sangin was launched almost 50 days ago in a bid to rid local villages of myrmidons. It has been a key operation carried out by Afghanistan National Army (ANA) members.
Earlier this week Dawlat Waziri, deputy front man at the Ministry of Defense, said that 311 bully boyz in total have been killed and 114 have been injured in Helmand province, while the operation has resulted in the deaths of 42 ANA soldiers. MPs have said that considering the financial and human losses incurred during the operation, the achievements are not that positive.
Sangin is one of the most insecure districts of Helmand which is also a major route for narcotics and drug trade, providing funding for insurgency.
Helmand Police Chief, Nabi Jan Mullahkhail said the operation is being conducted very carefully so that the lives of civilians are not put at risk.
The operation was launched after reports surfaced of an increase in poppy cultivation in the southern parts of the country where bully boyz have taken advantage as they receive funding through this activity.
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[Tolo News] The 50-day Zulfiqar military operation in the Sangin district of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province officially ended on Wednesday and left hundreds of forces of Evil dead, security officials said.
Afghanistan National Army (ANA) commander Abdul Khaliq said at a presser in Sangin district that the Zulfiqar operation resulted in the deaths of at least 418 armed bully boys.
According to Khaliq 93 security personnel died and seven non-combatants were killed during the operation.
The Zulfiqar military operation was launched two months ago in a bid to rid local villages of bully boys. It has been a key operation carried out by ANA members.
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GALKAIO, Somalia -- A senior official with the Puntland's government has survived an assassination bid in Galkayo town on Wednesday, officials told Garowe Online. A land mine buried along a toll road in the town targeted a car carrying Ahmed Muse, the deputy commissioner for Mudug region.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
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[AnNahar] Egyptian prosecutors pressed murder charges against 379 people on Wednesday over the deaths of coppers and civilians during the bloody dispersal of Islamist protest camps in the capital in 2013.
It was not immediately clear how many of the defendants were in jug but it was the latest in a string of controversial mass trials to be announced over the violence that followed the army's overthrow of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in July that year.
Prosecutors charge that the defendants took part in an "armed sit-in" at the capital's Nahda Square in August 2013, and in "armed marches that attacked civilians" in several parts of Cairo.
"Their action resulted in casualties among coppers and civilians," a prosecution statement said.
Cairo's Nahda and Rabaa squares were the locations of protest camps set up by Morsi's supporters that were broken up by police on August 14, 2013 at the cost of hundreds of lives.
Human Rights Watch ... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge.... described it at the time as "one of the largest killings of demonstrators in a single day in recent history."
Prosecutors charged that during the dispersal of the Nahda Square protest camp the defendants used "force and violence against the police".
"This led to the killing of two coppers and wounding of 27 others," they said.
Other charges pressed against the defendants include illegal imprisonment and torture, forcibly resisting the security forces, weapons possession, occupying public property and blocking public transport.
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Was this the protest where Team Morsi made a wall of people and had shooters firing from in between wall members?
[AnNahar] The U.S. and French military are assisting in the search for a Romanian mineworker kidnapped in Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... and believed to have been taken into Mali, Burkina Faso's security minister has said.
Both the La Belle France and U.S. have drones based in Niger, which neighbors Burkina Faso, as part of efforts to combat Islamist Death Eaters in the region.
"Investigations are continuing... with our strategic partners, the French and the Americans, who have in-depth surveillance capabilities," security minister Auguste Denise Barry told news hounds on Tuesday.
Barry also spoke of being in regular contact with the authorities in Mali and Niger on the search.
He said while there had been speculation that the kidnappers had taken the security officer from the mine into Mali before moving into Niger, the site of the abduction was "much closer to the Niger border".
The security officer was taken on Saturday when five gunnies attacked a manganese mine in Tambao, 350 kilometers (220 miles) northeast of the capital, Ouagadougou.
The unidentified gunnies took off in the direction of the nearby border with Mali, according to security officials in both countries.
Kidnappings of foreigners, often for ransom, occasionally occur in Mali and Niger but not usually in Burkina Faso, a landlocked Sahel country.
[DAWN] Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif emphasised the need for a political solution to the Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... conflict after his meeting with prime minister's adviser on foreign affairs, Sartaj Aziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... , at the Foreign Office on Wednesday.
Addressing a joint presser with Aziz, Zarif said Pakistain and Iran should cooperate to solve the crisis in Yemen.
"We need to work together to find a political solution," Zarif said during a visit to Islamabad in which he was expected to urge Pakistain to reject the Saudi request to join a military operation against Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... forces in Yemen.
Responding to a question, Zarif said his talks with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , Oman, and now Pakistain revolved around four major lines: "ceasefire, humanitarian assistance, intra-Yemeni dialogue and broad-based government."
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a political solution is if the Houthis are crushed
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[AnNahar] Two Saudi policemen were killed when their patrol came under fire in Riyadh early on Wednesday, police said, in the second drive-by shooting targeting police in less than two weeks.
The pre-dawn attack came in an eastern district of the capital, a police spokesman said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.
"A security patrol was carrying out its duties in east Riyadh when it came under fire from an unidentified vehicle," the spokesman said.
On March 29, two policemen were wounded in a similar attack in Riyadh, just days after the Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef ordered that security be tightened nationwide as the kingdom launched air strikes against Iran-backed Shiite rebels in neighboring Yemen.
NEW DELHI: US, besides economically developed France, Germany and Sweden, besides 22 nations have sought India's assistance to evacuate its citizens from violence hit Yemen.
There was a time when the Indians would have called us...
An US government travel advisory for Yemen pointed out that India would offer its assistance to evacuate American citizens from Sanna to Djibouti. The US citizens have been advised to contact Indian diplomats in Embassy at Sanna for assistance for evacuation either by boat or air.
Did we send our people to a closed airport or shuttered dock? Again?
This is significant considering the fact that the US has strong naval presence as well as deployment of its Air Force in West Asia. France also has presence of its Navy in the region to counter piracy.
We also have an Air Force that has transport planes that can go anywhere, Marines who can protect our citizens, and a Navy that can be just about anywhere in the world in short order. I think we have the capability. What we're lacking is leadership and will...
Diplomatic sources told ET that Indian assistance has been sought due to the country's geographical location and wherewithal to undertake evacuation. It has so far evacuated over 2,000 out of its 4,000 citizens in Yemen besides some Persons of Indian origin there.
"Roles have reversed with countries like USA are seeking India's assistance in violence hit region," a source pointed out.
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The Indians are tight with Iran, so they can get in and out of there with least hassle. The others who could help would be the Chinese, but they would charge by the pound.
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another Counter Terrorism Success™ for Oblablah
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If memory serves India now has a carrier. This might be a good opportunity to show an Indian carrier does not have to be an anti-Pakistani weapon.
SANAA, Yemen -- Iran dispatched a naval destroyer and another vessel Wednesday to waters near Yemen as the United States quickened weapons supply to the Saudi-led coalition striking rebels there, underlining how foreign powers are deepening their involvement in the conflict.
Iran's English-language state broadcaster Press TV quoted Rear Adm. Habibollah Sayyari as saying the ships would be part of an anti-piracy campaign "safeguarding naval routes for vessels in the region."
And, along the way, to escort the merchant vessels delivering arms to the Houthis...
The maneuver comes amid an intense Saudi-led Gulf Arab air campaign targeting the Yemeni rebels, known as Houthis, who come from a Shiite sect. Critics say Shiite power Iran backs the Houthis, though both the Islamic Republic and the rebels deny any direct military assistance.
Speaking a day earlier in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken blamed the violence in Yemen on the Houthis, and forces loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, saying that the U.S. is committed to defending Saudi Arabia.
"We have expedited weapons deliveries, we have increased our intelligence sharing, and we have established a joint coordination and planning cell in the Saudi operations center," he said in a statement to reporters after meeting with Saudi royals and Yemen's President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who fled his country amid rebel advances.
The Iranian Fars news agency reported Wednesday that the Iranian navy has sent two military ships -- a logistical ship
...whatever that is...
and a destroyer -- to the Gulf of Aden near Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... and to the Bab-el-Mandeb strait in order to protect maritime routes. The ships were to patrol the area for three months, according to the report.
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The Houthis control 2 strategic islands (one being Perim) in the Strait, and I'll bet that 'logistics' ship is packed with supplies for them and will dock on the island.
The Houthis have fortified Perim island and it looks like it will take a large force and a few sunk ships to get them out.
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Saudi and co will have occupy Perim Island to keep the riffraff out.
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And the Iranian "destroyer" is something the rest of the world calls a frigate, a rather small and overaged one at that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_frigate_Alborz
[RFA] Security forces in Xinjiang have killed three people and jailed two others from an ethnic Uighur family during a three-month operation targeting terror suspects, according to official media and a relative of one of those killed.
Tursun Hoshur and his daughter Maynur Tursun were sentenced to 12 and eight years respectively, for harboring "terrorists". The two had been recovering after being shot by authorities during a June 2014 raid on their home, which also saw Hoshur's wife gunned down when she refused to open her door to police, state media reported.
Two sons of the family, Turdimemet Tursun and Nurmet Tursun, were among nine Uighur "terror suspects" gunned down by police in a second incident on August 1 last year, the report said.
Yasin Hoshur, Tursun's brother, who served as the Communist Party secretary of Dongjay village and village chief for 32 years before retiring, said that the two incidents had destroyed his family.
[AnNahar] The EU put more than 30 Iranian shipping companies and a top bank back on its nuclear sanctions list on Wednesday after a European court had earlier struck them off citing insufficient evidence.
Last week, EU-mediated talks between six major powers and Iran on its contested nuclear program produced a framework accord which could see all sanctions lifted in return for measures to prevent Tehran acquiring atomic weapons.
In January, the General Court of the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... ruled that 37 shipping companies and Bank Tejarat should not be subject to sanctions because the evidence against them was inadequate.
The court, the second highest in the 28-nation bloc, then suspended the decision to allow time for the EU to appeal or seek their re-imposition on different legal grounds.
The EU's Official Journal said Wednesday that as a result, 32 of the companies had been reinstated, along with Bank Tejarat, "on the basis of a new statement of reasons."
"Bank Tejarat provides significant support to the government of Iran by offering financial resources and financing services for oil and gas development projects," the Official Journal said.
"Bank Tejarat can (also) be identified as being involved in the procurement of prohibited goods and technology," it added.
In addition, the EU took three individuals off the sanctions list but gave no reasons.
Western sanctions against Iran date back many years but were stepped up sharply from 2010 led by the United States on growing fears Tehran was trying to build a nuclear weapon.
Iran insisted that its nuclear program was purely for civilian uses and condemned the sanctions regime.
Under last week's accord, which must be finalized by end-June, U.S., EU and U.N. sanctions will be progressively lifted as long as Iran sticks to its commitments.
[AnNahar] Nearly half of European jihadists known to have traveled to territory held by the holy warriorIslamic 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 are French, a report by the country's upper house Senate revealed Wednesday.
Just over 1,430 French people have made their way to Iraq and Syria, representing 47 percent of jihadists from Europe that are known and accounted for, Senator Jean-Pierre Sueur, who spearheaded a parliamentary probe into jihadist networks, told news hounds.
According to Sueur, French domestic intelligence services are currently monitoring more than 3,000 people suspected of being involved in one way or another in Syrian networks -- a 24-percent increase since November last year.
Some 85 Frenchies are thought to have died in IS-held zones while two are being held in Syria, the report said.
Of particular concern to intelligence services, some 200 have left to come back to La Belle France, prompting fears they may stage attacks mirroring the January 7-9 shooting spree that left 17 dead.
Sueur added that 152 Islamist murderous Moslems were currently in prison in La Belle France.
Authorities are worried about prison radicalization and have unveiled a raft of measures to try and fight this, such as hiring an extra 60 Moslem chaplains on top of the 182 who already work in jails.
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Just saying, wouldn't executing existing Muslim chaplains in prisons be better than hiring a bunch of new ones? Maybe hire some quaker or better yet yzedi chaplains?
[RUDAW.NET] Swiss authorities say they have nabbed I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! a 24-year-old man who is suspected of seeking to join an Islamic bully boy group in Syria or Iraq.
Federal prosecutors say the unidentified man was arrested at Zurich airport Tuesday afternoon as he attempted to board a plane to Istanbul, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... Prosecutors said in a statement Wednesday that the man, who was from the Zurich region, is suspected of seeking to join either al-Qaeda or 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, and of supporting a criminal organization.
Last year, Swiss authorities detained three Iraqi citizens on suspicion of supporting the Islamic State group. Prosecutors said they plan to indict the men in the coming months.
Federal prosecutors say they are currently dealing with about two dozen criminal cases related to radical jihadists.
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He just wanted to take them some... chocolate, that's it. And Swiss army knives.
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[AnNahar] Spanish police Wednesday jugged Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! 11 people suspected of links 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, including six Moslem converts, some of whom intended to launch attacks in the Catalonia region, officials said.
It was the latest of scores of such raids as Europe seeks to stop recruitment by the holy warrior group, which has claimed the killings of many foreign hostages.
Wednesday's arrests followed a year-long operation involving hundreds of police who made 13 raids around Barcelona and five other areas of the northeastern Catalonia region.
"We are dealing with a cell openly linked to Daesh," another name for the group calling itself Islamic State, said Catalonia's regional interior minister Ramon Espadaler.
"It recruited young people and radicalized them. It sent some of them to Syria and Iraq and had also set up an operational cell which was willing to launch attacks in Catalonia."
He added however that "at no time did the existence of this cell pose a danger because it was under surveillance at all times."
Police arrested 10 men and a woman aged between 17 and 45. Five of them were Moroccans, five Spanish and one Paraguayan -- the latter six converts to Islam -- Espadaler said.
They face charges including belonging to a terrorist group, recruitment and indoctrination, and incitement to terrorism.
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Spain has raided a number of alleged recruitment cells, most of them in its North African territories of Ceuta and Melilla as well as in Catalonia.
On April 1, a Moroccan living in Catalonia was remanded in jug after allegedly seeking to send her 16-year-old twins to fight with jihadists in Syria, a year after another of her sons died in that country.
Spain's Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz said that of the 1,264 mosques in Spain, 98 are devoted to the hardline Salafist branch of Islam. Of those, 50 are in Catalonia, he told Catalunya Radio.
Espadaler said, however, that "it would be outrageous to say that mosques in Catalonia are preaching" jihadism.
"There are some places that pose a problem and we are monitoring them."
Scores of alleged Islamists facing terrorism charges are being held in Spain, authorities say.
About 100 people from Spain are suspected of having joined jihadist fighters in Iraq and Syria, and fear they may return to launch attacks.
Hundreds more such snuffies from La Belle France, Britannia and Germany are also thought to have traveled to those countries to fight.
"The jihadist phenomenon is a reality," Espadaler said.
"It exists in our country, in our neighboring European countries and worldwide, but we also have police capable of detecting radicalization and of fighting this phenomenon."
The network broken up on Wednesday had sent four jihadists to conflict zones but three of them were arrested in Bulgaria in December, Espadaler said. An international arrest warrant has been issued for the fourth.
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[HOSTED.AP.ORG] Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted on all charges Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombing by a jury that will now decide whether the 21-year-old should be executed or shown mercy for what his lawyer says was a crime criminal masterminded by his big brother.
The former college student folded his arms, fidgeted and looked down at the defense table in federal court as he listened to the word "guilty" recited on all 30 counts against him, including conspiracy and deadly use of a weapon of mass destruction. Seventeen of those counts are punishable by death.
The verdict, reached after a day and a half of deliberations, was practically a foregone conclusion, given his lawyer's startling admission at the trial's outset that Tsarnaev carried out the terror attack with his now-dead older brother, Tamerlan.
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Great, now we get to support him the rest of his life.Should have killed him when they caught him.
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put him in Gen Pop. He'll wish he were dead
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chris, yes, we have to support him for the rest of his life. However, since he is eligible for the death penalty, that may not be too long.
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When does he go in for his gender change surgery?
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I have a feeling his fellow inmates will take care of that for him.
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P2K, use the firing squad. Bill his family for the bullets.
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I say life with no possibility of parole in Super Max with no human contact. Only reading material allowed is a Bible. Then tape a cyanide pill to the wall. It will cut down on the cost of the appeals.
[IraqiNews.com] On Tuesday, a security source in Anbar province said, that a joint force destroyed an ISIS rank and killed a number of ISIS forces of Evil in western Ramadi.
The source told IraqiNews, "This afternoon, a joint force, consisting of the local police elements and federal units backed by the army's air force, has managed to repel an ISIS attack from 3 axes on the police headquarters in the area of al-Sabin-Kilo, located in western Ramadi," noting that, "The joint force attacked the group's ranks and killed a number of ISIS forces of Evil and destroyed 5 vehicles for them."
[IraqiNews.com] On Tuesday, a source within the police force in Anbar province said, that the security forces have imposed a comprehensive curfew in the city of Ramadi.
The source stated to IraqiNews in an interview, "A comprehensive curfew has been imposed in the city of Ramadi, in coordination with a military operation that began to liberate the area of al-Sajariya, located in east of Ramadi." pointing out that, "A large number of army troop reinforcements have arrived in Ramadi."
"The security operation has begun from the eastern, western and southern directions of al-Sajariya area," the source added.
[IraqiNews.com] On Wednesday, Anbar Provincial Council announced, that an extensive military operation has begun to liberate the cities and areas of Anbar province from the ISIS group myrmidons.
The president of the provincial council, Sabah Karhoot, stated to IraqiNews.com, "Today, Iraqi joint forces have carried out a military operation to liberate all the cities and areas of al-Anbar province," pointing out that, "Joint forces, consisting of army troops, local and federal police elements and the anti-terrorism units, with support from the international coalition warplanes and the Iraqi Air Force, have participated in the operation, along with 10,000 tribal fighters from the clans."
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[RUDAW.NET] Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... gunnies have destroyed the ancient Bashtabiya castle in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... city, the Iraqi Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said in a statement.
The attack on the 12th century monument is the latest move by Islamic State to desecrate historical sites in areas it occupies. The ministry described the castle as a powerful symbol of "the identity of the city."
Although the archaeological site did not contain any statues, graves or a shrine, ISIS demolished it because the gunnies believed it was against Islamic principles, according to the ministry.
"The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities will hunt down the perpetrators who blew up the castle and take them to international courts," the statement
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"The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities will hunt down the perpetrators who blew up the castle and take them to international courts."
I am snarkless.
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[IraqiNews.com] Chairman of the security committee in Diyala Council Sadiq al-Husseini announced on Tuesday, foiling an ISIS attack in Mount Hamrin in Salahuddin province, stressing that the terrorist group has suffered great losses in lives and equipment.
Husseini said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, "The security forces of Diyala police and the 5th Division backed by al-Hashd al-Sha'bi militia foiled the biggest ISIS attack in Mount Hamrin mountain in Salahuddin," noting that, "The group had intended to sneak towards the liberated areas and strike security post."
Husseini added, “The fierce clashes between the joint forces and the ISIS elements resulted in killing dozens of the latter, in addition to destroying 17 vehicles carrying weapons, explosives and munitions.”
[IraqiNews.com] On Wednesday, commander of Diyali police force announced, that 22 ISIS elements have been killed and two vehicles were destroyed in in a security operation in Hamrin hills.
The commander of Diyali police force Lt. Gen. Jamil al-Shammari stated for IraqiNews.com, "Yesterday evening, a force from the special police units backed by al-Hashed al-Sha'bi militia fighters conducted a security operation in the area of al-Hamrin hills, located in eastern Salahuddin," pointing out that, "The operation resulted in killing 22 elements of the ISIS group and destroying two vehicle carrying weaponry and equipment for them."
[IraqiNews.com] A security source in Salahuddin province announced on Tuesday, that 34 ISIS elements have been killed in armed festivities with the joint security forces, noting that they were hiding in different houses in Qadisiyah neighborhood north of Tikrit.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, "Security forces of the federal police and al-Hashd al-Sha'bi clashed with a number of ISIS elements in Qadisiyah neighborhood north of the city of Tikrit," pointing out that, "These elements were hiding in several houses in the neighborhood."
The source, who requested anonymity, added, "The festivities resulted in killing 34 ISIS elements, in addition to killing a senior commander in al-Hashd al-Sha'bi forces and an officer in Salahuddin police."
[IraqiNews.com] On Tuesday, a security source in Salahuddin province stated, that 9 ISIS elements, including a French national, have been killed in festivities with the security forces in northern Tikrit.
The source informed IraqiNews, "A force from the anti-terrorism units clashed with a number of ISIS bully boyz hiding in the area of al-Shuhada in the neighborhood of al-Qadesiyah, located in northern Tikrit," noting that, "The violent style:dotted;border-bottom-color:gray;' title='clashes'>festivities between the two sides resulted in killing 9 elements of the group including a French national wearing an boom belt."
"The security forces continue to secure to al-Qadesiya and cleanse its areas of explosives," the source added.
[IraqiNews.com] On Tuesday, a security source in Salahuddin province said, that two civilians were rubbed out in a shooting spree in Tikrit.
The source stated for IraqiNews.com, "Today, unidentified gunnies have opened fire on two civilians in central Tuz Khormato, located in eastern Tikrit," pointing out that, "Both men fell dead immediately."
"A security force cordoned the area of the incident and transferred the two dead bodies to the Forensic Medicine Authority," the source added.
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[IraqiNews.com] US embassy in Baghdad stated on Tuesday, that the United States has provide a daily shipment of arms and ammunition to support the Iraqi forces in expel the ISIS group's Lion of Islams, and indicated that it provided 10,000 soldiers with gear and trainers.
Spokesman of the embassy said in a press statement received by IraqiNews.com, "The United States continues to provide a large amount of military equipment, weapons and ammunition to support the Iraqi security forces in expelling ISIS from Iraq," explaining that, "The United States' mission in Iraq is proud to partner with the Iraqi security forces, and praises the recent success achieved in the final Tikrit battle," noting that, "ISIS defeat in Tikrit is a further evidence of the continuing trend of its military defeat in all parts of the country."
"The United States will continue to stand by all Iraqis until ISIS is defeated," he added.
[IraqiNews.com] On Tuesday, a security source in Kirkuk province said, that 22 ISIS fighters were killed in an air strike by the international coalition in southwest of Kirkuk.
The source told IraqiNews, "This evening, warplanes of the international coalition conducted an air strike on sites for the ISIS group hard boyz in a number of villages in the district of al-Hawija, located in southwest of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... " pointing out that, "The air strike resulted in killing 22 elements of the group."
"The air operation was based on accurate intelligence received by the coalition forces," the source also added.
[Jewish Press] Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani waves to the crowds at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, Tuesday.
Qatar "loaned" the Palestinian Authority $100 million dollars today, to help pay salaries and make up for the tax revenue being withheld by Israel after the PA took unilateral steps against Israel in the ICC and the UN, according to a Reuters report.
PA Chairman Mahmoud "Abu Mazen" Abbas officially thanked Qatar.
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PA president Mahmoud Abbas has a son living in Canada -- either Toronto or Montreal, according to my Canadian-American source. Either he or his papa has $100 million, presimably Canadian, which would be about US$75 mil.
It's expensive to maintain princelings in proper style so far away.
[MindaNews] Gunmen thought to be members of the Abu Sayyaf militants have seized a retired marine late Monday off Sulu. Capt. Maria Rowena Muyuela identified the victim as Renato Fernandez. Muyuela said Fernandez was seized Monday morning in the municipal waters of Pangutaran, an island municipality in the province.
Fernandez was aboard a motorboat when forcibly taken by four gunmen among the motorboat's passengers. The gunmen took Fernandez aboard one of two motorized bancas and took off in an unknown direction.
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Did they know he was a retired marine before they took him, or did they discover that little fact the hard way?
[Sun Star] A high-ranking leader of the New People's Army and another militant were arrested Tuesday evening in Davao City.
The NPA leader was identified as Vincent Estrada, also known by the aliases Brod, Bords, Oban, Obama and Dennis Montecillo. He was arrested Tuesday night along with his comrade, Zacarias delos Santos Mancia Jr.
Major General Eduardo Ano said the arrest of the two militants is expected to create a big vacuum in communist leadership in the Davao region. Ano said Estrada was a highly-valued officer, difficult for the communists to replace.
He said, "We urge the other NPA rebels who are being deceived by their leaders to surrender and embrace a peaceful life in the mainstream society. Being in the armed group, you can run but you cannot hide forever.".
[Khaosod] A Thai army commander has formally apologized a deadly raid that a fact-finding commission says killed four young men who had no connection to the Islamist insurgency. The four men were gunned down by security forces during a raid in Pattani province on March 25.
The operation was an attempt to arrest insurgents, and initially identified two of the slain as members of a militant group. The military told reporters that three assault rifles were found next to the deceased, and that security officers only began shooting after the suspects opened fire.
However, an independent panel ruled that the four men were not related to the insurgency, or armed when the raid took place, citing forensic evidence and witnesses’ testimonies. Lt.Gen. Prakarn Chollayuth, the provincial army commander and its neighboring provinces, said he accepted the findings and apologized to the families of the victims.
Seven soldiers will be charged with murder for their role in the raid.
[RUDAW.NET] Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... snuffies have torched tons of food meant for refugees at Yarmouk Camp in Damascus, according to reports.
The convoy carrying the supplies was forced to stop by ISIS fighters in the Syrian city of Halab, the Independent newspaper reported on Wednesday. A short time later, ISIS posted images of murderous Moslems burning the food aid on the group's social media accounts.
"The food, especially meat and chicken, was not prepared according to Islamic codes and it is not halal [permissible by Islam]," posted an ISIS leader from the Syrian city of Raqqa.
International humanitarian organizations in charge of delivering the food denied the ISIS claim, saying the meat was prepared according to Islamic rules.
Islamic State snuffies infiltrated the Paleostinian refugee camp of Yarmouk on April 1.
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if it was really halal, wouldn't ISIS have simply stolen the food?
maybe they were confused by the labeling
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If I was ISIS, I wouldn't give a damn if it was halal or not, I would rather eat than starve. They can go against islamic law by robbing, drugs and so much other stuff but real devoted on the halal point.
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What? No leftists screaming about the sufferings on poor Palestians? No LMeftists asking for sanctions or real military actiuon against IS? Why? I wonder.
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I don't think they gave a damn whether it was or wasn't mo approved, it was going to the Yarmooks, who ISJV are attacking. If this was a quick check point or light attack vs. the convoy, they may not have had time to capture the food - so they burn it and say the rations were not mo approved to justify of sorts the burning.
I do like the comments (paraphrased):
"I can't believe they would let refugees starve :("
Newsflash junior. They are digging up mass graves of their war captives, think they give a damn if their enemy is short on food? Hell, probably lu lu ing for hours.
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"I can't believe they would let refugees starve :("
Probably the same sort who'll wonder, as they get dragged out of their cars and beaten to death, why it's happening to them, since they're "good people" who always supported their assailants.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[RFA] Security forces in Xinjiang have killed three people and jailed two others from an ethnic Uighur family during a three-month operation targeting terror suspects, according to official media and a relative of one of those killed.
[Jewish Press] Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani waves to the crowds at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, Tuesday. 
[MindaNews] Gunmen thought to be members of the Abu Sayyaf militants have seized a retired marine late Monday off Sulu. Capt. Maria Rowena Muyuela identified the victim as Renato Fernandez. Muyuela said Fernandez was seized Monday morning in the municipal waters of Pangutaran, an island municipality in the province.
[Sun Star] A high-ranking leader of the New People's Army and another militant were arrested Tuesday evening in Davao City.
