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Afghanistan
Huge Explosion Hits Airport Road in Kabul, Kills Five
[ALMANAR.LB] A huge blast struck near the entrance of 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....
's international airport on Monday during the peak lunchtime period, officials said, killing five people and wounding more than ten others.

"The kaboom occurred at the first checkpoint of Kabul airport," said deputy Kabul police chief Sayyed Gul Agha Rouhani.

Taliban takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
group grabbed credit for the attack, which comes after a wave of lethal bombings in the capital on Friday as the insurgency escalates following a bitter power transition within the Taliban.

Taliban front man, Thabihollah, said in a statement that the suicide kaboom targeted two foreign military vehicles. However,
women are made to be loved, not understood...
there were no confirmation about the nationalities of the victims.

The blasts on Friday struck near an army complex, a police academy and a US special forces base, killing at least 51 people, officials said.

The wave of violence underscores Afghanistan's volatile security situation amid a faltering grinding of the peace processor.
Posted by: Fred || 08/11/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Deadly car bomb explodes in Kabul stoking tension with Pakistan
[REUTERS] A boom-mobile went kaboom! near the entrance to 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....
airport on Monday, killing at least five people and ratcheting up regional tensions, days after a series of suicide kabooms in the Afghan capital killed dozens of civilians and maimed hundreds more.

The attacks, which follow a change of leadership in the Taliban, have dashed any hopes of an immediate resumption of peace talks with the government and suggest new leader Mullah Mohammad Akhtar Mansour intends to send a message that there will be no letup in the insurgency.

They have also stoked tensions with neighboring Pakistain, the base of many leaders of the hardline Islamist Taliban movement, according to many in Afghanistan.

President Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
, who has made improving relations with Pakistain a priority on the grounds it may push the Taliban into peace talks, said that Islamabad had to act to cut off the bomb-making factories and suicide training camps being run from its side of the border.

"We hoped for peace, but war is declared against us from Pak territory; this in fact puts into a display a clear hostility against a neighboring country," he said.

The Taliban grabbed credit for Monday's suicide attack in a crowded area outside an airport checkpoint, saying it was targeting "foreign forces".

A security official at the scene said the attack appeared to have been aimed at two armored cars, although it was not clear who was in the vehicles.
Posted by: Fred || 08/11/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa Horn
Security forces repel Al Shabaab attack on prison
BELEDWEYNE, Somalia -- Amid joint military offensives in central and southern Somalia, Al Shabaab militants launched raid on Beledweyne central prison overnight on Sunday, Garowe Online reports.
So Fred, have you seen this movie?
The terror assault trigged a heavy gun-battle that lasted ‘half hour’ according to security officials in the central Somalia town, Beledweyne.

Mohamed Adey, a police commander in Hiran told the media that security forces fiercely repulsed the night raid.

“[Security] forces demonstrated professionalism in repelling the anti-peace elements. Later on, they fled and we are on manhunt,” said Adey.

Somali government forces alongside African Union peacekeepers are conducting clean-up operations in Beledweyne’s western countryside.
Posted by: Steve White || 08/11/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab

#1  I think I'd release a prisoner or two to the attackers, with remote-control Jackets on em.
Posted by: Frank G || 08/11/2015 14:40 Comments || Top||


Teashop blast wounds four in central Somalia
HALGAN, Somalia -- A bomb blast left four wounded at a teashop in Halgan village of central Somalia on Monday, Garowe Online reports. Somali government and African Union soldiers were sipping inside the teashop when the bomb went off, residents and local reports confirmed.

Allied forces cleansed Halgan of Al Shabaab remnants in coordinated onslaught a few months ago.

On Sunday, Ethiopian-AMISOM forces opened fire on bus enroute to Halgan, killing five civilians. African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) apologized for the civilian casualties and pledged probe into the motives behind the deadly incident.
Either disgruntled locals or Shaboobs have failed to accept the apology...
Posted by: Steve White || 08/11/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Africa North
Blast outside Cairo courthouse injures two policemen, civilian
[AlAhram] A bomb went kaboom! outside Misr Gedida Courthouse in eastern Cairo on Monday, wounding two coppers and a civilian, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.

Militant group Ajnad Misr (Soldiers of Egypt) grabbed credit for the attack in a statement posted on its Twitter account.

The Cairo-based group has claimed previous deadly attacks targeting police locations, including kabooms outside a presidential palace and outside Cairo University campus.

The interior ministry said those maimed in Monday's blast included a police colonel and a major.

The bomb damaged a power box near the office next to which it went kaboom!.

Explosives experts also defused a second device they found while searching the vicinity of the building after the blast.

This is not the first time a bombing has targeted the court complex; in March, a bomb shattered the building's facade and damaged its doors, but left no casualties.

An 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....
affiliate in Egypt, which has claimed the deadliest attacks in the country, has more recently urged followers to attack judges.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/11/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Suspected jihadist shot dead in Tunisia
[AlAhram] A suspected jihadist has been rubbed out in western Tunisia near the Algerian border, a region where security forces have been hunting holy warriors since 2012, the interior ministry announced Monday.

It said "a terrorist was killed" in an ambush staged by police special forces on Sunday night on Mount Sammama in the Kasserine region.

The dead man was being examined for identification while a second suspect was jugged
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
on suspicion of providing support for "terrorist elements", it said, using the official term for Islamist Death Eaters.

A quantity of TNT, grenades, a Kalashnikov assault rifle and night-vision binoculars were seized during the operation on Mount Sammama, located next to the main jihadist hideout of Mount Chaambi, the ministry said.

Tunisia has since its 2011 revolution faced an upsurge in jihadist violence that has cost the lives of several dozen soldiers and police, with most attacks claimed by Al-Qaeda's North African branch.

But the bloodiest attacks, for which 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 has grabbed credit, killed a total of 59 foreign tourists, targeting the national Bardo museum in Tunis in March and a Sousse beach resort in June.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/11/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Subsaharan
Boko Haram Kills Four on Highway in NE Nigeria
More on this story from yesterday.
[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...
Islamists rubbed out four people and kidnapped five others in an ambush on a highway in northeastern Nigeria, local vigilantes said on Monday.

Several gunnies opened fire on a bus and a car near Nwajurko village in Borno State on Sunday, killing four passengers and seizing survivors who tried to flee, according to witnesses.

"The gunnies who hid inside homes along the road emerged and opened fire on a car as it approached, killing one person while the rest fled into the bush," said Yuram Bura, a member of a vigilante group battling the jihadists alongside the military. "The attackers also fired shots on a bus moments later, killing three people and seizing five others. Three more passengers were maimed."

Abbagana Saleh, also a local vigilante, said the dead and maimed were taken to hospital in Biu, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from the scene of the attack.

"When we received information on the attack we went to the scene and recovered four dead bodies and three people who sustained injuries from gunshots," Saleh said. "We (discovered) the dead victims near the abandoned vehicles while the injured were found in nearby bushes."

The victims had been traveling to Biu from Damboa,‎ which troops liberated from a nine-month occupation by Boko Haram in April, the vigilantes said.

Villagers the entire length of the 100-kilometer Biu-to-Damboa road have fled Boko Haram and the Islamists use many of the abandoned settlements as bases from which to launch roadside ambushes, say locals.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/11/2015 00:00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram


Arabia
Yemeni Army Controls Saudi Dhaba' Post, Thwarts Enemy Deployment in Shurfa
[ALMANAR.LB] The Yemeni army and the Popular Committees managed on Sunday to storm the Dhaba' Saudi military post in Dhahran-Asir on Sunday and to seize control over it, after destroying all its vehicles and the garrison escaped.
They've lost Aden, followed by Abyan, and now they're grabbing sand from the Soddies.
Moreover, the national military foiled an attempt by a group of Saudi soldiers to redeploy in Al-Shurfa post, several days after they had fled the area due to army blows.

In a similar development, the army forces destroyed a Saudi military vehicle in Jalah post in Jizan border area, by targeting it with an anti-tank missile.

Meanwhile,
...back at the dirigible, the pilot and the copilot had both hit the silk.

Jack! Cynthia exclaimed. Do you know how to drive one of these things?

Jack wiped some of the blood from his knuckles.

No, he said. Do you?...

units of the Popular Committees and army shelled Najran military forces command in Najran and the Thowaila military post in Dhahran-Asir.
Posted by: Fred || 08/11/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


The Grand Turk
Three ISIL-linked Russians arrested in southern Turkey
[Hurriyet Daily News] Three Russian members of 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 the Levant (ISIL) have been tossed in the calaboose
You have the right to remain silent...
in the southern province of Adana.

"Three foreign nationals believed to be ISIL members have been arrested by the Adana Provincial Gendarmerie Command in Adana's Yumurtalik district," the Turkish General Staff said in a written statement on Aug 9.

The three, who were arrested around 11 a.m. on Aug 9, were believed to be Russian citizens, although their interrogation is still ongoing.

Turkish security forces have launched series of anti-terror operations against ISIL and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) as well, following the deadly Suruc bombing on July 20, which left dozens dead and more than 100 others injured in the border town.

Four ISIL-linked suspects, an Algerian woman and three Iraqis, were detained on Aug 7 after counter-terrorism unit officers of the police department in the northern province of Corum raided four homes as part of an anti-terror operation.

In a separate anti-terror operation on Aug. 7, 17 ISIL-linked suspects were detained after gendarmerie forces in the western province of Manisa raided six homes at around 6 a.m.
Posted by: Fred || 08/11/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


HDP deputy claims Turkey handed over YPG fighters to al-Nusra-allied group
[Hurriyet Daily News] A member of parliament has claimed that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
has handed over six fighters of the People's Protection Units (YPG), the military wing of Syria's Democratic Union Party (PYD), blaming the government for committing a war crime.

"The undersecretary of the Interior Ministry has openly confessed to us that these six maimed YPG members were handed to the front organization of al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
and gangs close to them," Idris Baluken, the deputy parliamentary group chair of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), told news hounds at a presser on Aug. 10.

Approached by Hurriyet Daily News for further clarification, Baluken said the undersecretary told him last week that the six YPG members were "deported."

"When somebody is deported, it means handed over to border gate authorities. In this case, it took place at Cilvegözu and everybody knows very well under whose control that place is," Baluken said, referring to news reports that 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...
controlled the Bab al-Hawa border crossing, opposite Turkey's Cilvegözu border entrance.

Baluken said the undersecretary told him that he was unaware of identities and affiliation of the administrators at Bab al-Hawa.

Six YPG members were detained on July 25 during a police raid on a guesthouse in Ankara owned by the Education and Science Workers' Union (Egitim-Sen). Soon after their detention, they were handed over to Ahrar al-Sham, Baluken said, underlining that despite intense efforts by both HDP deputies and lawyers, they were not able to obtain even a single official paper or document concerning their detention, which ended with acquittal.

The office of the undersecretary of the Interior Ministry was not yet available for comment when Hurriyet Daily News went to press.
Posted by: Fred || 08/11/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Nusra


At least 6 security personnel killed in attacks in Istanbul, southeast Turkey
[Hurriyet Daily News] Here is a round-up of Aug. 10 attacks in Istanbul and southeast Turkey, which left at least six Turkish security personnel dead. The terror attacks came after Ankara’s operations against the outlawed PKK, the DHKP-C and ISIL
Posted by: Fred || 08/11/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Turkish police shot militant attacking US Consulate in Istanbul
[Hurriyet Daily News] A Turkish police officer has been captured in footage while taking down a female myrmidon after she opened fire on the U.S. consulate building in Istanbul with another assailant.
Attackers were hard-line lunatic lefties, rather than PKK or ISIS...
Dogan News Agency released the footage on Aug. 10, hours after the assailant was detained after being maimed by police.

In the footage, the policeman warns the myrmidon who escaped into an apartment building near the consulate, before firing at her legs when she refused to raise her hands. Police continued searchs to detain the other assailant, a male myrmidon.

Two attackers open fire on US consulate in Istanbul

[Hurriyet Daily News] Two assailants opened fire on the United States consulate building in Istanbul on Aug. 10, fleeing the scene when police shot back. One of the assailants, a woman, was captured in a building where she took shelter.

Two assailants, later identified as two women by the Istanbul Governor's Office, attacked the well-guarded U.S. Consulate in Istanbul's Sariyer district, but no casualties were reported, according to the Dogan News Agency.

One of the assailants, later defined as Hatice Asik, a member of the outlawed far-leftist Revolutionary People's Liberation Army-Front (DHKP-C) by the state-run Anadolu Agency, was seized inside a house close to the consulate, which she had entered in order to hide from the police.

Asik was reported to have been discharged from prison on July 8, after being imprisoned for membership of the DHKP-C.

The DHKP-C's website grabbed credit for the attack on the U.S. Consulate and also acknowledged the attacker to be Asik, Agence-La Belle France Press reported.
Posted by: Fred || 08/11/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies


PKK militants stage new attacks in Turkey's southeast
Militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have carried out two separate armed attacks in the southeastern provinces of Diyarbakir and Tunceli.

PKK forces of Evil fired shots with long-barreled weapons at the police department from a mountainous area in Diyarbakir's Lice district at around 1:30 p.m. on Aug 10, with no casualties reported.

A brief clash erupted after police fired back in response to the armed offensive.

Diyarbakir Police Department Head Halis Bögurcu said no casualties were reported in the attack.

The perpetrators were reported to be on the lam and the police started a vast anti-terror operation to arrest them.

In a separate incident in the eastern province of Tunceli, PKK forces of Evil fired with Biksi machine guns at two military helicopters.
[Hurriyet Daily News]
Posted by: Fred || 08/11/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


U.S. consulate in Turkey targeted as wave of attacks kills 9
[IN.REUTERS] Two women shot at the U.S. consulate in Istanbul on Monday and at least eight people were killed in a wave of separate attacks on Turkish security forces, weeks after Ankara launched a crackdown on 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....
, Kurdish and far-left Death Eaters.

The NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
member has been in a heightened state of alert since starting its "synchronised war on terror" last month, including air strikes against Islamic State fighters in Syria and Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) hard boyz in northern Iraq. It has also rounded up hundreds of suspected hard boyz at home.

A far-left group that killed a Turkish security guard in a 2013 suicide kaboom of the U.S. embassy in Ankara claimed it was involved in Monday's attack.

The Revolutionary People's Liberation Army-Front (DHKP-C), considered a terrorist organization by the United States and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
, said one of its members was involved in the attack, and called Washington the "arch enemy" of the people of the Middle East and the world.

Police with automatic rifles cordoned off streets around the U.S. consulate in the Sariyer district on the European side of Istanbul, following the gun attack there.

Ahmet Akcay, a resident who witnessed the attack, told Rooters that one of the women fired four or five rounds, aiming at security officials and consulate officers.

"Police were shouting 'drop your bag, drop your bag'. And the woman was saying: 'I will not surrender'," Akcay said.

"The police warned her again: 'Drop your bag or we will have to shoot you', and the woman said: 'Shoot'."

One of the two women was later captured maimed, the Istanbul governor's office said.

The Dogan news agency said the injured woman was aged 51 and had served prison time for being a suspected member of the DHKP-C. Rooters could not immediately verify the report.
Posted by: Fred || 08/11/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Three TTP leaders among 16 arrested
[DAWN] Security forces claim to have locked away
Please don't kill me!
16 suspected Death Eaters, among them three leaders of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), in different areas of Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
Security officials said on Sunday that personnel of Fro­ntier Corps and intelligence agencies raided a hostel in Qila Saifullah after receiving information about the presence of three TTP leaders and took them into custody.

An official said that on information provided by the arrested men security personnel carried out a search operation in Dalbandin city of Chagai district and arrested seven more men belonging to the TTP.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Kinnison began his slow infiltration of the sewer system...
security personnel raided a place in Sanjavi area of Loralai district and arrested three suspects who were allegedly involved in terrorist attacks and assassinations.

FC troops took three suspects into custody in Zhob.
Posted by: Fred || 08/11/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Rangers arrest six alleged 'target killers with ties to MQM'
[DAWN] KARACHI: Rangers conducted a surgical action in Ranchore Line area on Monday and tossed in the calaboose
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
six alleged hit mans having reported ties with Muttahida Qaumi Movement
...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead...
(MQM), said Rangers spokesperson.

Huge cache of weapons was also recovered from the possession of alleged MQM workers dubbed hit mans by Sindh Rangers.

The front man then went on to give details of the arrested suspects.

Khurram alias Muchar, unit in-charge MQM unit 28, was arrested over charges of involvement in extortion, dumping of weapons and murders.

Mahmood, an active worker of MQM unit 20, who has already confessed to murdering 47 people when he was arrested earlier in November 2014, was arrested on charges of kidnapping and torture.

Rangers also arrested Shahid alias Kala, an active worker of MQM unit 31, who had earlier confessed six murders during initial interrogation when he was arrested in September 2014. Shahid was currently on bail.

Mubin, the committee member of MQM unit 20, also faced arrest as he had confessed to numerous murders, extortion, arson, rioting and other heinous crimes when he was earlier arrested in May 2013.

Zubair alias Handi, worker of Ranchore Line Sector , was arrested over his alleged involvement in armed festivities, rioting, murders after kidnapping, cash van robbery -- during which two guards were killed in Azizabad in 2013 -- and extortion.

The sixth suspect arrested by Rangers was Kashif alias Macha, worker of MQM unit 30, involved in murders and extortion.
Posted by: Fred || 08/11/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Iraq
Institute for the Study of War: Iraq Situation Report 4-6 August 2015
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SAS Sniper Kills IS Executioner Before He Can Behead 8-Year-Old Boy
[Free Bacon] A British sniper from the elite SAS saved an 8-year-old boy and his father from an Islamic State executioner by shooting the executioner in the head last month.

The SAS sniper team was reportedly tipped off to the execution in the Syrian desert by an Iraqi spy. When they arrived, they found that several Shia Muslims had already been beheaded by their captors. The IS (commonly referred to as ISIS) executioner, flanked on both sides by armed companions, was preparing to kill a young boy and his father next when the SAS team deployed its .50-caliber silenced sniper rifle.

"The ISIS thug who was about to decapitate the father was shot in the head and collapsed," an unnamed source told the Daily Star. "Everyone just stared in confusion."

"The sniper then dispatched the two henchmen with single shots--three kills with three bullets."

The young boy and his father were last spotted heading to the Turkish border as the Syrian town they were evacuating celebrated the killing of the IS fighters.
Rifle in photo likely a .338 Lapua Magnum chambered L115A AWM, not a .50-cal silenced rifle.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/11/2015 01:30 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good shooting. Mahmoud? Ewww!
Posted by: Steven || 08/11/2015 1:36 Comments || Top||

#2  A British sniper from the elite SAS
Bet these guys didn't get extra water breaks...
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/11/2015 3:06 Comments || Top||

#3  I guess standing next to someone whose head had just exploded for no apparent reason might well give rise to a bit of confusion.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 08/11/2015 3:19 Comments || Top||

#4  Might have been a few pints raised back at the Squadron, and rightfully so.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/11/2015 5:01 Comments || Top||

#5  If God was going to talk to flatworms, how would he do it in a manner the worms would understand?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/11/2015 5:56 Comments || Top||

#6  P2k, Now that's profound right there.

And this is the group that the luvvies of the Brit progressive elite want to emasculate. SMH
Posted by: AlanC || 08/11/2015 8:05 Comments || Top||

#7  Alan, see, the problem is that current SAS guys are too mean. Really, killing three unarmed men who were just practicing their religion is beyond the pale.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 08/11/2015 9:28 Comments || Top||

#8  Good shooting.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/11/2015 9:51 Comments || Top||

#9  Free ?Bacon?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/11/2015 12:42 Comments || Top||

#10  RiV, don't I know it. That sums up the attitude of our current regime to a tee. The only folks you can be mean too are Republicans and Juice (of the wrong kind).
Posted by: AlanC || 08/11/2015 13:50 Comments || Top||

#11  Alan, don't forget Christians.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 08/11/2015 14:55 Comments || Top||

#12  Didn't know the .50's could be used on 'personnel'. Thought the .50 ROE was only for vehicles and such, or maybe that's just for the 'mericans.

Not sayin' that the gentleman wasn't correct in implementing the utilization, though.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/11/2015 16:02 Comments || Top||

#13  A legend born of the Vietnam War MR. A misunderstanding tuned into urban legend.
Posted by: Shipman || 08/11/2015 16:05 Comments || Top||

#14  I've read many accounts from WWII about what happens when a 50 cal hits a limb. Basically severs it.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 08/11/2015 16:08 Comments || Top||

#15  There are a few decent pictures of the aftermath of a .50 hit on someone at Google images. Warning, not for the faint of heart.
Posted by: Ebbart Glererong5900 || 08/11/2015 20:32 Comments || Top||


Baghdad gov't: Fresh assaults on ISIS in Anbar kill 50 militants
[RUDAW.NET] The Iraqi Ministry of Interior has said in a Monday announcement that 50 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....
holy warriors were killed in Anbar province in military operations against the group's bases and personnel.

"As a result of festivities between the Iraqi joint forces in Anbar with ISIS, 50 bad boyz were potted and 35 landmines and booby traps were defused," read the ministry's announcement.

The announcement added that the military campaign for the liberation of Anbar will not stop until the province's areas are entirely cleared of Islamic State holy warriors.

The Iraqi government commenced military campaigns against the Islamic State in Anbar on July 13, but no significant gains have been made by the Iraqi army despite the help of coalition Arclight airstrikes.
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At least 47 people killed in two bomb attacks in eastern Iraq: security sources
[REUTERS] At least 47 people were killed and nearly 100 injured in two kabooms on Monday in eastern Iraq, security and medical sources said, underscoring a continued threat from 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....
bully boyz in a province previously considered freed of them.

In January Iraqi officials declared victory over the radical jihadist group in Diyala province, which borders Iran, after security forces and Shi'ite paramilitaries drove them out of towns and villages there, but the bully boyz have remained active.

At least 40 people were killed and 72 others maimed when a boom-mobile went kaboom! in a marketplace north of the city of Baquba, the sources said. A separate blast to the east of the city killed a further seven people and maimed 25.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks, but they came less than a month after a bombing claimed by Islamic State in the nearby town of Khan Bani Saad, which left more than 100 people dead.
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ISIL French Senior Member Killed in Northern Syria
[ALMANAR.LB] A French Lion of Islam and senior member of 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....
of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
group, was killed in a Syrian army raid on the takfiris' positions in Aleppo province on Sunday.

Omar Diabi, 40, joined the ISIL group in 2013, Fars news agency reported.

The French government has voiced serious concern over its citizens joining ISIL in Syria, and stated that over 1,700 of its citizens are in contact with Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
networks in Syria and Iraq.

La Belle France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark and Britannia have the largest number of nationals in ISIL's ranks.

In May, French counterterrorism bodies confirmed that tens of the country's nationals fighting for the Takfiri terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq had been killed till then.

"A sum of 104 Frenchies who had joined the Takfiri groups (in Syria and Iraq) have been killed in festivities with the Syrian and Iraqi governmental forces," the French newspaper, Le Figaro, cited the country's counterterrorism reports as saying.

According to a Gay Paree prosecutor, an estimated 1,132 French fighters are currently in Syria and Iraq with ISIL group, but many of them have grown disillusioned with war and want to return.

In excerpts from their letters to home, they complain of difficult conditions and of being forced to perform menial tasks instead of taking up arms.

About 120 men have already returned to La Belle France, where they may face charges of "terrorism" under French law. Nearly 200 are in transit from Iraq and Syria, in addition to the 104 who have been killed.

French authorities have incarcerated 76 French citizens who have returned from the front lines in Syria and Iraq.

The western countries, that have long supported the terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq, are now imposing travel restrictions on those suspected of preparing to join ISIL.

Iran has repeatedly warned that those states that have supported the terrorist groups in Syria will have to experience the repercussions of their policies once the well-trained Lions of Islam go back home.
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#1  To the Bastille?
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#2  An argument over a proper wine to serve with Blanquette de veau?
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Lebanese Army: 3 Would-be Suicide Bombers Arrested

aka The Real Slim Shadi
[ALMANAR.LB] The Lebanese Army Monday said it has incarcerated
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
a man suspected of plotting terrorist acts and recruiting would-be jacket wallahs, three of whom were also detained.

In an online statement, the Army said Abdelrahman Tarek al-Kilany was arrested as soon as he entered Leb over involvement in recruiting the bad boys. It said he recruited the holy warriors during a period when he was living outside the country.

The suspect, whose nationality was not mentioned, allegedly confessed during interrogations to belonging to the organization led by notorious holy warriors Shadi Mawlawi
... Nusra recruiter and hard boy, operating out of Ein el-Hellhole. He was mediated out of jug in 2012 and went back to his old ways, which shows how well his rehabilitation worked. He acts as coordinator between the emir of al-Nusra Front Abu Malik al-Talli and potential Lebanese jacket wallahs....
and Osama Mansour. Mansour was rubbed out earlier this year by police in Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
Kilany also confessed to taking part in assaults against the Army in Tripoli, the statement added.

When abroad, Kilany was ordered by Mawlawi and suspected bad boy Bilal Badr to recruit young suicide bombers. He admitted to recruiting three Lebanese nationals to carry out attacks.

Those three, who are also in jug, told interrogators they were involved in plots to attack Army and Internal Security Forces positions.
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Nusra Front Withdraws from Frontline against ISIL, Slams Turkey
[ALMANAR.LB] The terrorist group fighting in Syria, Nusra Front, has withdrawn from frontline positions against its rival Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
group, ISIL (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 Levant), north of Aleppo.

Rooters news agency reported that the Nusra, al-Qaeda branch in Syria, ceded the positions to other allied krazed killer groups, leaving an area of northern Syria where The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
wants to establish a buffer zone.

Nusra announced the withdrawal in a Sunday statement.
Earlier, a monitoring group said that ISIL holy warriors were fighting Nusra and allied krazed killer forces in northern Syria.

According to the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the holy warriors were fighting over control of four villages in Aleppo province. They are located in a strategic location along the krazed killers' supply line from Turkey.

The UK-based opposition source said ISIL began its assault using two bombers on Saturday night. At least 10 holy warriors and 18 snuffies were killed in the festivities.

Meanwhile in its Sunday statement, Nusra slammed Turkey over its joint plan with the United States against ISIL snuffies in the Syrian-Turkish border area, saying the aim was to serve "Turkey's national security" rather than the fight against the Syrian government.

The Nusra Front, an enemy of ISIL, said participation in the campaign was forbidden.

It said the Turkish government and the US-led alliance against ISIL were seeking to direct the battle according to their interests and priorities, and said Syrian groups taking part were not doing so of their free will.

"Facing this current scene, our only option was to withdraw and leave our frontline positions (with ISIL) in the northern Aleppo countryside for any fighting faction in these areas to take over," the Nusra Front said.

It added that the Nusra Front would maintain frontlines with ISIL in other areas including Hama province and the Qalamoun mountain range near the border with Leb.
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#1  Cocks a finger toward US of O?
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Popular Committees Repel Violent Terrorist Attack on Beseiged Idlib Cities
[ALMANAR.LB] Popular committees in the Syria besieged cities of Fuaa and Kefraya in Idlib countryside repelled a violent attack by forces of Evil on Monday, amid heavy firing of rockets and mortar shells on civilian neighborhoods in the cities.

"Violent festivities continued between the popular committees in the besieged cities and gangs affiliated with an alliance known as "Army of Conquest"," well-informed sources told Al-Manar website.

The popular committees managed to destroy a BMP vehicles (a Soviet amphibious tracked infantry fighting vehicle)before it reached its target amid heavy artillery from terrorist groups.

The committees also repelled attacks by forces of Evil in Deir Zughb, Samaghiyeh and Banash cities and damaged a tank. They inflicted heavy losses among the terrorists.

Separately, a number of forces of Evil were maimed when a bomb detonated in a tunnel went kaboom! as they were dugging through it from the point of Banash to reach one of the committees posts.
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