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Afghanistan
Bomb Blast Hits Mosque in Baghlan, 40 Wounded: Officials
[Tolo News] A kaboom has reportedly hit a Grand Mosque in Pul-e-Khomri, quiet provincial capital of Baghlan, during Iftar dinner, officials said.

At least 40 worshippers have been confirmed maimed including women, children and senior local officials.

A provincial politician was also among those maimed, deputy health director of Baghlan, Abdul Halim Ghaffari told TOLOnews.

Most of the injured were at death's door, he added.

The event was organized for at least 500 guests by the acting governor of Baghlan Sultan Mohammad Ibadi, local officials said, adding the casualties could possibly raise.

So far, no group including the Taliban has grabbed credit for the bombing.

Other the other hand, a magnetic bomb went off at Ansari aquare, PD 4 of capital Kabul
...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either....
. Officials confirmed the blast, saying no one was harmed in the kaboom.

In another kaboom in eastern Paktika
...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo...
, at least five people including a local policeman were maimed.
Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Faryab Security Deteriorates, Villages Fall
[Tolo News] The Taliban turbans are reportedly making advances in northwestern Faryab province as the turbans have seized control of about 100 villages, local officials said on Tuesday.

Khairullah Qarayee, a resident of Faryab and the commander of uprising group against Taliban, told TOLOnews that two important strategic military areas have been collapsed in the last two days.

"Nine people who were fighting the Taliban have been maimed in the festivities while six others have been taken hostage," Qarayee said.
About 10 other civilians were still missing, he added.

His comments came after a politician from Faryab, Naqibullah Faiq, said in social media that at least 30 Afghan local coppers had been killed and maimed in the Faryab battle.

He warned if government failed to support local forces, the whole province would likely collapse.But the military officials say they have been supporting locals that have risen against the Taliban.

"So far, 73 turbans have been killed and injured since Monday's battle. The Air Force is helping the locals who are battling the Taliban," said Reza, a military front man in the North.

Earlier this week, the Interior Minister Noor-ul-haq Olomi visited Faryab where he promised to not let the province's situation become like Kunduz.

This year, the Taliban turbans had been significantly engaged in fighting the Afghan forces. A number of districts and scores of villages fell to the Taliban since the group began its summer offensive earlier in April.
Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Unknown Gunmen Shot ex-Taliban Shadow Governor Dead at Samangan Mosque
[Tolo News] Unknown gunnies shot a prayer leader, who was a former Taliban shadow governor, dead at a Mosque in northern Samangan province on Monday night, local officials said.

The incident took place in Lababi village, Dar-e-Sof district, when unidentified motorcyclists shot up Mawlawi Mohammad Isreeal, a front man for Provincial Governor, Mohammad Sediq Azizi said.

"Mawlawi Mohammad Isreeal was a former shadow governor of the Taliban before he was separated from the group" Azizi added.

According to Azizi, Taliban had several times demanded the prayer leader to rejoin the group but he denied.

No one has been locked away
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
in this connection, he added.

So far, no group including the Taliban has grabbed credit for the shooting.
Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  "Blood in, blood out" with the Taliban?
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/15/2015 8:20 Comments || Top||

#2  "Mohammad Isreeal"?

Maybe somebody sounded out his name?
Posted by: Frank G || 07/15/2015 8:46 Comments || Top||


Shadow Governor Among 12 Taliban Killed in Laghman Raid: NDS
[Tolo News] A Taliban shadow governor ‎for eastern Laghman was among 12 turbans killed during separate special raids by the National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
‎ (NDS), the intelligence agency said on Tuesday.

The operations were conducted Monday night in Achin and Ghanikhil districts Monday in which Amin Jan Kochi, the shadow governor of Taliban was killed with 12 other myrmidons, a front man for NDS, Hasib Sediqi said.

"Khochi was one of the key commanders of the Taliban who was involved in several attacks against the Afghan cops," he said.

Kochi had killed nearly 80 local coppers, Sediqi continued.

There has been no words so far from the Taliban on the incident.
Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa Horn
US Issues Kenya Travel Warning Ahead of Obama Visit, Shebab Attack Kills 5
[ALMANAR.LB] The United States has warned its citizens in Kenya against terrorist attacks ahead of visit by President Barack Obama
I am the change that you seek...
and as suspected Death Eaters from the Somali-led Shabaab myrmidon group killed at least five people in a roadside kaboom in the country.

The US president is scheduled to give a speech to the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) in Nairobi, which opens on July 24.

Kenya security forces deployment"As with all large public events, there is the opportunity for criminal elements to target participants and other visitors," the US State Department said in a statement.

"Large-scale public events such as this summit can also be a target for terrorists. US citizens should maintain a high level of security awareness."

The US embassy in Nairobi, in its previous warning last issued in May, said its citizens should be "aware of continuing and recently heightened threats from terrorism and the high rate of violent crime in some areas."

Obama's visit later this month will be his fourth to Africa since becoming US president, but his first to Kenya since taking office in 2009, his father's birthplace.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shouting match, Bart was wondering if fisticuffs would be appropriate at this point...
police said on Tuesday that the attack on a police truck took place on Monday in the eastern coastal county of Lamu, which borders Somalia and has been hit by a wave of attacks by the Al-Qaeda linked group.

"Five people were killed in the attack, including a mother and her child," Lamu police chief Chrispus Mutali said, adding that five others were maimed in the attack.

All those killed were reportedly civilians who had been given a lift by the police, while the officers escaped unharmed.
Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab

#1  And in response to these warnings, the locals have hidden away their fried foods, Twinkies and other Moochelle-disapproved items for safety; to be retrieved after AF1 departs with Her Wookiness aboard.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 07/15/2015 14:40 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Mali Forces Arrest Gunmen Linked to Terrorist Attacks
[ALMANAR.LB] The Malian army captured two people linked to Ansar Dine group (Arabic translation of "supporters of the religion") and seized evidence linking them to planned attacks, security sources said on Sunday.

Ansar Dine was part of an alliance of gunnies that helped seize Mali's desert north after a Tuareg uprising in 2012 but was ousted by a French military operation a year later.

The group this week grabbed credit for a series of recent attacks across Mali's south and west, including the capital Bamako, formerly deemed safe.

"An army patrol tossed in the slammer
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
two men in possession of military material and compromising documents," said one of the sources, adding that the men were captured in the central region of Mopti and taken to Bamako.

He said the documents contained a message from Ansar Dine's Tuareg leader Iyad Ag Ghali to an accomplice in the south about future attacks.

The southern accomplice has not yet been identified, he said, adding that others had been called in for questioning based on the intelligence gathered so far.

A second security source said a total of six people were tossed into the calaboose for questioning, including two women, part of a push to dismantle Ansar Dine's network.

Armed groups and the Malian government signed a peace agreement in June designed to stop uprisings in the north, but Ansar Dine was not part of it.
Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Subsaharan
Dozens Killed in Boko Haram Raids, New Military Team in Place
[AnNahar] Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
gunnies killed dozens of people in four villages in northeast Nigeria
... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border...
, slitting some residents' throats and opening fire on others, one resident and the police said on Tuesday.

The atrocities near Monguno in the northeastern state of Borno took the corpse count since Muhammau Buhari became president in late May to more than 625, according to an AFP count.

Buhari on Monday further signaled his intent to crush the six-year Islamist uprising by sacking the entire military high command that oversaw the Islamists' rise in strength last year.

The latest raids happened late last Friday but details have only just emerged because of poor to non-existent phone networks in the remote area.

On Monday, a jacket wallah went kaboom! in the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, a day after the first suicide kaboom in northern Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
that killed at least 11.

In another sign of the rebels' threat to regional security, a suicide bomber disguised as a woman in a full-face veil went kaboom! in Chad's capital, N'Djamena, on Saturday, killing 15.

Sheriff Kulo, from Kilwa, said holy warrior fighters stormed his village late on Friday night, killing residents before stealing food and cattle then burning down homes.

"In Kilwa alone, they killed seven people, including the village head and left one seriously injured with a fracture on his leg," he added.

"They then proceeded to Gwollam, Misala and Magaram, where they did the same thing. In all they killed 43," he told AFP from Maiduguri, where he fled to raise the alarm.

"They opened fire on residents and in some cases they used knives to slaughter their victims."

There was no independent corroboration of his toll but the Borno state police commissioner, Aderemi Padokun, said: "From what we heard, the gunnies raided these villages.

"They rubbed out their victims and in some cases slit their throats. They also carted away foodstuffs and livestock.

"We don't have details of the actual number of people killed in the attack but I can confirm it happened."

Boko Haram mounted a similar raid on a nearby village in the Monguno area on July 1, killing 48 people.

Buhari's removal of the military top brass he inherited from his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan
... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau...
, was expected but he indicated that his new team must deliver. The replacement officials, including a new chief of army staff and national security adviser both from Borno which has been worst affected by the violence, were chosen "on merit", he told them.

Retired army colonel Hassan Stan-Labo told Nigeria's Channels television he welcomed the changes at the top and called on Buhari to now overhaul military logistics and communications.

Lagos-based political analyst Jide Ogunlesi said the appointments indicated Buhari -- a former army general and military ruler -- "can pick a good team that can deliver". But he warned against politicizing the military in the way some alleged the former high command was during Jonathan's administration.

"Critics will be silenced when they see these officers perform," he told AFP. "I think their appointment will give a fillip and a stronger bite to the fight against terrorism and all forms of banditry."

Nigeria's military has been traditionally dominated by officers from the mainly Moslem north and Jonathan was accused of ignoring the insurgency because he was from the Christian-majority south. Some saw regional bias in the appointments with Buhari also a Moslem from the north, while others said the high command should be given time to be effective in their new positions.

Boko Haram's upsurge in attacks on civilians comes after a four-nation coalition of Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon pushed out the bandidos murderous Moslems from captured territory earlier this year. A new, strengthened force with African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
backing is expected to deploy by the end of the month.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/15/2015 00:00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram


Arabia
Coalition allies retake Aden airport from Houthis
[ARABNEWS] Yemeni forces recaptured Aden's international airport and some city districts from 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 ...
militia fighters on Tuesday, in a sudden advance after months of stalemate, the exiled government said.

Yemenis on social media reported celebrations in cities across the country's south, where refugees from Aden have fled, and in other areas where local fighters are still battling the Houthis and army units loyal to former president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...
.

Houthi-run Maseera television reported that the Houthis had chosen to quit the city after "cleansing it of Al-Qaeda and 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 an apparent admission of the militia's retreat.

Photographs on southern Yemeni media, which Rooters could not immediately verify, appeared to show a column of armored vehicles advancing along a street in Aden, where the fighting has mostly involved guerrilla fighters in civilian clothes.

The fighting followed the collapse of a humanitarian truce
..The purposes of a truce are twofold: 1.) bring up more arms, ammunition, and reinforcements; and 2.) get the enemy to relax his vigilance. A truce is not the same thing as a ceasefire, and a ceasefire doesn't mean you have to stop shooting...
brokered by the United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
.

Local fighters aligned with exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi took control of Aden's central district of Khormaksar, and aid sources reported fighting around the port area.

Backed by air support from a Saudi-led coalition, the forces launched a wide-ranging assault in Aden this week to reclaim territory held by the Iranian-allied Houthis.

"Aden International Airport and Khormaksar have been cleared of Houthi and Saleh elements by armed forces backing Yemen's legitimacy and the popular resistance forces, in coordination with and with direct support by the coalition," Yemeni government front man Rajeh Badi said.

He said he expected Aden to be cleared completely within the coming days.

A coalition of Arab states has been bombarding Houthi forces, Yemen's dominant power, since late March in a bid to reinstate Hadi. It has also run training programs for Yemeni soldiers loyal to Hadi and dropped arms to local forces fighting the Houthis.

Hadi was ousted from power when the Houthis took over the capital Sanaa in September. He then fled to Riyadh as Houthi forces closed in on Aden, where he had sought refuge.

A UN-brokered cease-fire to allow delivery of aid to a city desperately short of food, medicine and other necessities collapsed on Monday after Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
said it did not recognize the truce and continued air strikes.

"The fighting in Aden began in the morning as the forces approached Aden from different positions," said Ali Al-Ahmadi, front man for the Southern Popular Resistance, which is defending Aden from the Houthis.

"After violent festivities that continued for hours the forces were able to enter the airport and Badr base and they killed a large number of the militias."

The UN's World Health Organization managed to deliver medical supplies to Aden but it said food rations have been delayed.

Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


3 Pakistanis among 29 charged over Kuwait suicide attack
If it's violence at a mosque there are probably Paks involved.
[DAWN] Kuwait charged 29 people on Tuesday over the suicide kaboom of a Shia mosque last month, claimed by the self-styled 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, that killed 26 people and maimed more than 200.

The attack, carried out by a Saudi, was the worst in Kuwait's history.

Those charged included seven Kuwaitis, five Saudis, three Paks, 13 stateless people known as bedouins, and another person on the lam, the prosecution said, cited by the official KUNA news agency.

Of those placed in durance vile
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
, 24 have been detained in Kuwait and the remaining five will be tried in absentia. Among the latter are two Saudi brothers who allegedly transported the explosives into Kuwait and are being held in Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
.

The prosecution charged two of the suspects with premeditated murder and attempted murder. Two others were charged with training in the use of explosives, nine with assisting in committing the crime and the rest with knowing of the attack without informing the authorities.

An IS-affiliated group calling itself Najd Province grabbed credit for the bombing and also said it carried out suicide kabooms at two Shia mosques in Saudi Arabia earlier in May.

IS considers Shias to be heretics and has targeted them across the region.

On Monday, the Kuwaiti cabinet decided to set up a permanent committee to "fight against all forms of terrorism and extremism," and it will coordinate among various bodies in a bid to ensure security.
Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


China-Japan-Koreas
China police say they fatally shot 3 Uighur terror suspects
[Ynet] Police in northeastern China said Tuesday that they fatally shot three minority Moslem Uighurs in a confrontation with suspects they described as gunnies who were using knives to resist arrest.

Police also injured a fourth suspect during the incident Monday in Shenyang, the city police said in a statement on their microblog. A man who refused to identify himself at Shenyang police's criminal offenses office said the four were ethnic Uighurs.

A foreign-based front man for Uighurs said the people shot were among a group of Uighurs who were trying to flee China through its northern border.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/15/2015 00:00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
14 militants, including top commanders, killed in NWA air strikes: ISPR
[DAWN] At least 14 gunnies were killed on Tuesday in air strikes carried out by Pakistain Air Force in North Wazoo's Alwara area, said a statement issued by the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR).

The statement further said some important holy warrior commanders were among those who were killed, adding that holy warriors were seen to be dragging the bodies of some of the dear departed while fleeing the area.

This information, however, could not be independently verified as news hounds have limited access to the restive agency.

The attack took place in Alwara area of North Waziristan tribal region, where the army has been waging a major offensive to clear holy warrior hideouts since June last year.

The Pakistain Army launched Zarb-e-Azb
..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)...
, a comprehensive operation in 2014, against foreign and local holy warriors who were hiding in sanctuaries in the North Waziristan tribal region, a week after the brazen hard boy attack on the country's busiest airport in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
.

North Waziristan is one of the seven regions in Pakistain's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) governed by tribal laws which is situated along the Pak-Afghan border and is rife with Taliban holy warrior activity.
Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan


Iraq
US-led coalition launches 29 airstrikes as Iraqi forces advance in Anbar
[RUDAW.NET] The US-led coalition has announced the completion of 29 Arclight airstrikes 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....
in the city of Ramadi in Anbar province.

The Anbar provincial council has also reported some areas in Anbar were retaken from ISIS by pro-government forces.

In a statement, US-led coalition forces reported that over the past two days 29 Arclight airstrikes have been launched near Ramadi to target 67 ISIS bases, and several ISIS combat vehicles were destroyed.

Iraqi forces issued a statement Monday saying there had been operations to recapture some areas of Anbar with the cooperation of special forces, Iraqi police and Hashd al-Shaabi Shiite militias.

Eid Amash, a representative of the Anbar provincial council, said areas near Fallujah like Karma and Saqlawiyah had been recaptured, and the anti-ISIS forces were trying to prevent civilian casualties.

Amash added ISIS fighters killed a number of civilians who tried to escape. The Iraqi army has opened safe corridors for citizens to be able to leave the areas where there is fierce fighting.
Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Hashd al-Shaabi spox says ISIS has declared emergency in Fallujah
[RUDAW.NET] 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....
has declared a state of emergency in Fallujah,
... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids...
as Shiite Hashd al-Shaabi militias have launched an attack to liberate the city, an Iraqi military source said Tuesday.

"We'll take control of Fallujah very soon, the attack won't last long," said Ahmed al-Asadi, a spokesperson for the Hashd al-Shaabi. He added that after ISIS declared a state of emergency it forcibly took civilians to the front line.

According to Asadi, former Iraqi babus government employees inside Fallujah contacted the Hashd al-Shaabi and promised to help as they enter the town.

He also said that turbans of the terror group rigged mosques and houses with explosives.
Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  this hashd al shaabi group is newly recruited and probably not well trained

expect a lot of dead militiamen

also, per the article a lot of dad civilians
Posted by: lord garth || 07/15/2015 13:44 Comments || Top||


Iraqi Forces Pounding ISIL around Ramadi
[ALMANAR.LB] Iraq's army and allied paramilitaries attacked ISIL terrorist group positions around Ramadi Tuesday in their latest push to recapture the Anbar capital from the jihadists, commanders said.

The authorities announced a major offensive to "liberate Anbar" on Monday.

"The Iraqi army and the Hashed al-Shaabi are pounding ISIL positions with rockets and mortar rounds east, west and south of Ramadi," a senior army officer said.

Ramadi is the capital of Anbar, a province which is largely under ISIL control. It is traversed by the Euphrates and stretches from the borders with Syria, Jordan and Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
to the outskirts of Baghdad.

Iraqi forces had resisted ISIL attacks for almost a year and half when they retreated in the face of a spectacular onslaught in mid-May.

Operations have been on ongoing across Anbar for months, and Iraqi forces have recently attempted to sever ISIL supply lines by moving in from provinces, including Salaheddin to the northeast.

Officers said advances achieved on Monday would further isolate Fallujah,
... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids...
which lies about half way between Ramadi and Baghdad, and allow anti-ISIL forces to better organize supplies and reinforcements.
Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Palestinian rocket engineer sentenced to 21 years' jail
[Ynet] A Paleostinian engineer was sentenced on Tuesday to 21 years in prison for helping Gazoo's Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, bad boy group develop and improve their weapons capabilities.

Dirar Abu Sisi, detained by Israel in 2011, was a director of the Gazoo Strip's sole power station. He said he was kidnapped during a visit to Ukraine in February and transferred secretly to Israel.

In a plea-bargain agreement that sealed a court case lasting over four years, Abu Sisi pleaded guilty to five counts which included membership of a bad boy organization and building and modifying missiles used against Israel.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/15/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Why not sentence him to life or better yet death ?
Posted by: Jvalentour || 07/15/2015 10:34 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Two Islamic State leaders killed in Syria air strike: Observatory
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Two senior 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....
leaders were killed in an air strike in northeastern Syria on Monday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.

The Observatory, which gathers its information from an activist network on the ground, identified the leaders as an Iraqi, Abu Osama al-Iraqi, and a Syrian named Amer al-Rafdan.

The Observatory said the air strike was believed to have been carried out by the U.S.-led coalition that is targeting Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, though Rami Abdulrahman, who runs the Observatory, said he could not be sure.

The Syrian army and militia fighting alongside it are mounting a separate campaign against Islamic State in the region that borders The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
to the north and Iraq to the east.

The ultra-hardline Islamic State is fighting in Hasaka province against both pro-government forces and Syrian Kurdish fighters who have received air support from the U.S.-led coalition.

U.S. President Barack Obama
If I had a son he'd look like Trayvon...
said last week the coalition was intensifying its campaign in northern Syria. The Kurdish YPG militia have made a series of advances against Islamic State in the north, including the capture of the town of Tel Abyad at the Turkish border.

Abdulrahman said al-Iraqi had the title of "governor" of the province Islamic State had declared in northeastern Syria. Rafdan had previously served as Islamic State's governor of Deir al-Zor province, he said.
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Suicide bombers kill Syrian rebel figure in Idlib province
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Two jacket wallahs killed a prominent figure from the Islamist Death Eater group Ahrar al Sham when they blew up a local headquarters in Syria's northwestern Idlib province, rebel sources and a monitor said on Monday.

They said Sheikh Abu Abdul Rahman al Salqeeni was killed along with six others, including the bombers who detonated themselves shortly after entering the Death Eater groups' office in a village near the town of Salqeen, along the Turkish border.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks violence across the country, said several others were maimed and at death's door. It said Abu Adul Rahman was a big shot in Ahrar al-Sham
...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014...
, one of the largest jihadist groups in Syria.

A rebel source with Ahrar al Sham accused the hardline 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 of carrying out the attack that took place only days after a boom-mobileing in Sarmeen town in Idlib province that was also blamed on the holy warriors and killed a member of the group.

Ahrar al Sham, is part of a rebel coalition that includes non-jihadist groups that have received Western aid that are battling Islamic State in several parts of the country, mainly in the northern Aleppo countryside.

Jihadist groups and mainstream rebel groups have been engaged in internecine fighting that has helped Syrian President Bashar al Assad's army to hold back holy warriors from further gains across the country. (Rooters)
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Syrian Army Strikes Terrorists across Country
[ALMANAR.LB] Units of the Syrian army and armed forces continued operations of hunting down terrorist organizations' members, destroying their dens and killing large numbers of them in several areas around the country.

Homs

A number of ISIL bad boyz were potted and others were maimed in intensive operations carried out by units of the army and the armed forces against their positions in the framework of a wide-scale military operation against ISIL in Palmyra and the eastern countryside of the central Homs province, a military source told SANA Tuesday.
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Terror Networks
US, allies target Islamic State with 27 air strikes in Syria, Iraq
[Ynet] US-led forces conducted 20 air strikes in Iraq on Monday against 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....
forces, concentrating on the Anbar province cities of Ramadi and Falluja, and seven more in Syria, the Combined Joint Task Force leading the air operations said on Tuesday.

In Iraq, air strikes using bomber, attack, and fighter-attack aircraft were conducted near Falluja, Habbaniyah, Haditha, Makhmur, djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, Ramadi, Sinjar and Tal Afar, the statement said. Six of the air strikes were near Falluja and five near the lovely provincial capital Ramadi, the statement said.

In Syria, air strikes using bomber, fighter and drone aircraft were conducted near Al Hasakah, Aleppo and Dayr Az Zawr, the statement said.
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#1  It would probably be more effective to target ISIS with our IRS.
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