[ALMANAR.LB] Taliban Lions of Islam dressed in police uniforms killed up to 15 coppers after raiding a security checkpoint in southern Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday, in the latest attack of their intensifying summer offensive.
The attack on Tuesday in Musa Qala district in the volatile province of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... highlights an expanding insurgency that has left beleaguered Afghan forces stretched on multiple fronts.
"At least nine coppers were killed after Lions of Islam disguised in police uniforms attacked a check post in Musa Qala district," said Omar Zwak, front man for the governor of Helmand.
But Bashir Shakir, a member of the provincial council, gave a higher toll, saying 15 coppers were killed in the late night attack.
Taliban front man Qari Yusouf Ahmadi grabbed credit for the raid.
The Taliban are stepping up their summer offensive, launched in late April, amid a bitter leadership dispute following the announcement of the death of longtime supremo Mullah Omar ... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality... .
A wave of bombings since last Friday in the 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.... have killed at least 56 people and maimed hundreds, prompting fury from 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 blamed Pakistain for failing to rein in the Taliban.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The National Directorate of Afghanistan (NDS) -- Afghanistan's intelligence agency has seized a terrorist-weapon depot in Jalalabad, the capital city of eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province.
A statement issued by NDS on Thursday states that the depot contained 26 different types of heavy and light weapons. 10 Kalashinkovs and two pistols were among the weapons seized from the depot. Two binoculars and three military suits were also recovered from the cache, the NDS statement adds.
In a separate raid the NDS personnel has incarcerated Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! a man who was having three Afghan passports, three Pak passports, three Tazkiras (Afghan identity cards) and two Pak IDs.
The man detained has been identified as Mir Ahmad Shah.
NDS statements usually do not contain the exact date of the achievements but they come after recent activities.
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[Libya Herald] 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.... (IS) has reported to have threatened to use gas against people in Sirte unless attacks against it stop.
House of Representatives member from nearby Sidra, Saleh Fhaima, told the Libya Herald the ultimatum runs out at 6pm this evening. He said he and Sirte member Zaid Hadia had been phoned by a contact in Sirte who had informed them that 38 members of the Ferjani tribe had been killed today by IS which had been shelling Sirte's residential district No. 3. It is said to be the only are in the town not under IS control. Among the dead in today's mass IS offensive, he said, were two children and four elderly people, all killed as a result of shelling. The others were Ferjani fighters. They are said to include the leader of the local Jaat Brigade, Marbouk Al Farjani.
Those fighting IS are reported to have relative few weapons largely, it is claimed, because when Misratan forces were stationed in the town, they regarded the locals as Qadaffy sympathisers.
Yesterday, it was reported that fighting in the centre of town between resulted in the deaths of two IS commanders: Abu Huzaifa Ansari, a Saudi national, and Abu Hammam Masri, an Egyptian. Two local you men fighting against them, were also said to have been killed.
The fighting broke out two days ago following the murder by IS of a Salafist holy man, Khalid bin Rajab Ferjani, the imam at the town's Cordoba Mosque. IS have managed to take over all the mosques in the town with the exception of those run by Salafists ...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them... who have refused to hand them over. The imam is said to have been one of those who rejected IS' demands.
Fhaima said he and Hadia have called on the international community -- specifically the US and the UK -- to take military action to save the Farjan tribe from being wiped out by IS in Sirte. He also said that Hadia, himself a member of tribe, had gone to Marj to appeal for help from the head of the armed forces, General Khalifa Hafter, also a member.
In a statement, Fhaima also said that district No. had been subjected to constant shelling by heavy weapons and that IS was advancing without much difficult because people there had neither weapons nor ammunition. He added that if IS won this battle, there would be no further uprisings against it in Sirte, that it would control the whole town and be able to spread to all the surrounding oil fields.
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[AlAhram] Kuwait has broken up a new three-member "terror" cell and seized large amounts of weapons, ammunition and explosives, the interior ministry said on Thursday.
Three Kuwaiti citizens were incarcerated Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! and have confessed to joining a "terror" group, a statement said.
Security forces seized "19 tonnes of ammunition" as well as 144 kilos (316 pounds) of TNT, as well as rocket propelled grenades, hand grenades, firearms and detonators, the ministry said.
Definitely meets the definition of large amounts...
It said the explosives were found in a farm in Abdali, near the border with Iraq, and in two houses in undisclosed locations.
At the end of July, Kuwait said it had broken up a five-member cell of alleged 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.... group.
In June a Saudi bomber went kaboom! in a Shiite mosque in Kuwait City, killing 26 people and wounding hundreds. The jihadist IS group grabbed credit for the attack.
Last month, Kuwait said it had broken up a five-member cell of alleged IS holy warriors.
[YEMENONLINE.INFO] Yemeni security and medical officials say mortar rounds fired by Shiite 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 ... rebels have killed six civilians in the central city of Taiz, the country's third largest.
The security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... because they are not authorized to brief news hounds, say Thursday's shelling came as reinforcements arrived to help the rebels maintain their grip on the city.
The officials say rebel fighters retreating from the south, where pro-government forces backed by Saudi-led Arclight airstrikes have been advancing in recent weeks, have joined the battle for Taiz.
The officials also reported Arclight airstrikes and ground fighting near the rebel-held capital, Sanaa.
The fighting in 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... pits the Houthis and allied troops against southern separatists, local and tribal militias, Sunni Islamic bandidosLions of Islam and loyalists of exiled President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.
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[ALMANAR.LB] US warplanes carried out on Wednesday its first air strikes on targets 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 in Syria after taking off from a Turkish base, kicking off a key new phase in the campaign against the jihadists.
A US drone had last week executed a single lethal air strike against an ISIL target in Syria but this was the first time manned US fighter jets had carried out raids after taking off from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's strategically-located Incirlik base.
Using the Incirlik base outside the city of Adana in southern Turkey drastically cuts the distance needed for the US jets to fly to northern Syria compared with other launch bases further afield in the Middle East.
"Today, the United States began flying manned counter-ISIL missions from Incirlik Air Base, Turkey. Strikes were conducted," Pentagon spokeswoman Commander Elissa Smith said.
Turkey's Dogan news agency said three US fighter jets were seen taking off from Incirlik in the evening.
Last month, Turkey agreed to open up the base to coalition planes for bombing ISIL targets in Syria following months of tough negotiations.
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[DAWN] A New York man will serve 16 years in prison after admitting to attempting to support bandidoshard boyz in Pakistain.
Agron Hasbajrami was sentenced Thursday at US District Court in Brooklyn.
Prosecutors say the 31-year-old man tried to travel to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistain in 2011 to join a radical jihadist hard boy group.
He is also accused of sending more than $1,000 to support terrorist activities in Pakistain and Afghanistan.
Hasbajrami was tossed in the slammer Please don't kill me! in September 2011 at John F. Kennedy International Airport with a one-way ticket to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... .
Authorities say he had spoken of his desire to die as a martyr.
Hasbajrami will be deported back to Albania, where he is a citizen, after his federal prison sentence. His attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Now, 16 years of free meds, behavioral counseling and proctology exams...
[DAWN] The government has revealed that terrorist organizations are operating around 3,000 websites to promote their nefarious agenda in the country.
This was disclosed by PML-N politician Tahir Iqbal during the meeting of the sub-committee of National Assembly's Standing Committee on Information Technology and Telecommunication.
The committee met on Thursday to re-examine the proposals received on the 'Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill, 2015' at the Parliament House earlier in the day.
Iqbal said that the government wants to finalise the 'Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill, 2015' as soon as possible, since it was demanded by law enforcement agencies to implement the National Action Plan (NAP) in its accordance.
Members of the NA sub-committee discussed several offences and punishments one by one which were severely criticised by the opposition members in the committee, lawyers, NGO's and members of human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... organizations.
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[DAWN] Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif ..Pak chief of army staff, meaning he pulls the strings on the Nawaz Sharif puppet to make it dance and sing and not do much at all.... on Thursday approved death sentences of seven "hardcore terrorists" involved in the massacres at Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. 's Army Public School and 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... 's Safoora Goth, a statement released by the army's media wing said.
This is the first approval of death sentences by the army chief following Supreme Court's recent judgment giving legal cover to the establishment of military courts in the country.
The convicts, however, have the right to appeal, said the statement from the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR).
One terrorist has also been awarded life imprisonment, said the ISPR.
Political parties had unanimously agreed over the issue of setting up military courts to tackle terrorism cases in the country following the gruesome attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar in December 2014, following which the Parliament passed the 21st constitutional amendment to set up the said courts.
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BERLIN, Germany -- The German military on Thursday confirmed a possible chemical weapons attack on Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers fighting the Islamic State group (ISIS).
Homemade chemical weapons or just the ones the U.S. Democratic Party assured us that Saddam didn't have?
The autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq had asked for international help to determine whether chemical weapons had been used in an attack late Tuesday on the Peshmerga on the Makhmur front, some 35 kilometers (22 miles) southwest of Erbil.
There was a “possible chemical weapons attack on the Kurdish frontlines at sector six,” the German defense ministry said.
Muhammad Khoshawi, a Peshmerga commander, told Rudaw on Wednesday that a group of Western experts had arrived in the area to take samples and establish facts after a Tuesday night mortar attack on Kurdish positions in Makhmur, some 35 kilometers (22 miles) southwest of Erbil.
“Last night at least 45 mortar rounds were fired at our positions, which we believe were loaded with chemicals, since the wounds are different,” Khoshawi, whose forces patrol the area, had said.
Burn wounds on the bodies of a number of Peshmerga were examined by the experts and sent to a laboratory for further studies, according to Khoshawi. He said Peshmerga forces in the area were instructed to use gas masks in case of mortar attacks until results are verified in the laboratory.
This spring, the Kurdish government informed its allies that Peshmerga forces were attacked with chlorine gas. Late last year, ISIS repotedly seized an Iraqi chemical weapons factory with about 2,500 rockets, containing the deadly nerve agent Sarin.
More of the weapons Saddam never had, no sir...
About 80 German soldiers are stationed in the Kurdistan Region to train the Peshmerga forces. Germany is one of the few countries supplying the Kurdish troops directly through Erbil and not through the Iraqi central government in Bagdad. The German defense ministry said that there will be no changes for the mission in the Kurdistan Region. German soldiers will continue to train Peshmerga forces.
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So. The left screeched about everyone down to the janitor in the Bush administration being a war criminal every day. Are Obooboo and Kerry accessories before the fact for their phony "chemical weapon stand down" in Syria?
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Need to use some chemicals to euthanize the whole administration.
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[RUDAW.NET] Kurdish police have locked away I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! 12 people in two suspected drug rings, and seized 300 kilograms of illicit tablets.
"There are also two women among the detainees with an unspecific amount of illicit drugs, including heroin, opium and crystal methamphetamine," police General Jalal Amin told Rudaw Wednesday. Amin said the confiscated drugs were planned to be sent to Iran through the border gates in the east of Kurdistan.
He said at least 60 people had been arrested in Sulaimani in drug-related offenses since the beginning of 2015.
Iraq has some of the toughest regulations in the region against illicit drugs, and authorities are given legal space to discipline both the dealer and the customer.
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were planned to be sent to Iran through the border gates in the east of Kurdistan.
don't stop em
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[RUDAW.NET] As many as 70 non-combatants were killed and many others injured Thursday by a massive truck bomb that struck a busy market in a Shiite neighborhood of eastern Baghdad, a Rudaw news hound and media reports said.
More than 70 people are reported dead as the corpse count continues to rise. Hundreds are injured.
"A truck bomb was planted on the side of the road in Jameela market located in Baghdad's Sadr City," said Rudaw news hound Behman Hassan in Baghdad.
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 grabbed credit for the attack, releasing an online statement, according to reports.
Hassan said Sadr City is a Shiite neighborhood and Jameela is one of the most popular markets in the city.
Police officer Muhsin al-Saedi told the Rooters news agency, "A refrigerator truck packed with explosives blew up inside Jamila market at around 6 am. Many people were killed and body parts were thrown on top of nearby buildings."
On July 22, at least four kabooms hit separate areas in the city and killed at least 37 people and injured several others.
Ten days earlier, on July 12 a series of bombings hit Baghdad, killing at least 14 people and maimed 41, police officials said.
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[AlAhram] US-led forces conducted 12 air strikes 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 Syria on Wednesday and also targeted the group with 12 strikes in Iraq, the US military said on Thursday.
Strikes in Syria were concentrated near Al Hasakah, where five hit tactical units and destroyed fighting positions and a vehicle, the military said in a statement. There also were two strikes near Abu Kamal, three near Aleppo and two near Kobani, according to the statement released by the Joint Coalition Task Force.
US-led forces hit Islamic State targets in Iraq, the statement said. Two strikes near Ramadi hit a tactical unit and destroyed buildings, vehicles and a recoilless rifle, while two near Haditha destroyed mortar systems, a building and a vehicle, it said. Aircraft also hit targets near Al Baghdadi, Bayji, Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... Makhmur, djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Sinjar and Tal Afar, it said.
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240 sorties, resulting in 24 strikes?
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[ARABNEWS] Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri ... Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area. That is not a horn growing from the middle of his forehead, but a prayer bump, attesting to how devout he is... pledged the group's allegiance to new Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour in an audio recording released Thursday on murderous Moslem websites. Wonder how many years he's been dead...
"As emir of Al-Qaeda, I pledge to you our allegiance, following the path of Sheikh (Osama) Bin Laden and his martyred brothers in their allegiance to Mullah Omar ... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality... ," Zawahiri said, referring to the former Al-Qaeda leader and to the longtime Taliban chief whose death was confirmed last month.
The statement came amid a bitter struggle within the Taliban over Mansour's leadership.
The recording plays over a picture of Zawahiri, who is believed to be in hiding in the Afghanistan-Pakistain border region.
He said that the "emirate" established by the Taliban in Afghanistan was the "first legitimate emirate after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, and there is no legitimate emirate in the world apart from it."
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so it is Al Q and the Taliban vs ISIS
steel cage death match
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This makes little sense. In the past, the AQ has pledged no allegiance other than to itself. Zawahiri certainly has more cred both as a Muslim scholar and a Muslim jihadist than does Mullah Akhtar Mansour. It makes me wonder if Zawahiri is still alive, or if he has been forced to make this submission by the Pakistani ISI in order to continue to operate from South Waziristan/east Baluchistan.
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Personally I'm interpreting this as a very good indicator or sign that Mullah Omar is indeed dead.
* FYI WORLD NEWS > [BBC News] BIN LADEN: OSAMA'S SON HAMZA "ISSUES AL-QAEDA MESSAGE".
Message repor calls on dedicated followers to launch "Holy War" = attacks on West includ Washington, London, Paris, + Tel Aviv.
* JAPAN TIMES > MULLAH OMAR: MORE TROUBLE DEAD THAN ALIVE.
Yuuup - MO was in favor of the Taliban's jihad or insurgency "local", I.E. CONFINED/RESTRICTED TO AFGHANISTAN= AFPAK ONLY. Now, wid his repor passing + the ISIS/ISIL trying to set up in the Region for attacks agz CENTASIA + RUSSIA + CHINA+ INDIA, THE ANTI-TALIBAN WAR AS FOUGHT THUS FAR WILL SEEM LIKE THE "GOOD OLE DAYS".
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[DAWN] The government has revealed that terrorist organizations are operating around 3,000 websites to promote their nefarious agenda in the country.
[DAWN] Chief of Army Staff General 
BERLIN, Germany -- The German military on Thursday confirmed a possible chemical weapons attack on Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers fighting the Islamic State group (ISIS).
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