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Afghanistan
NDS prevents suicide attack in Samangan mosque
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
(NDS) -- Afghanistan's intelligence agency has prevented a suicide kaboom in a mosque in northern Samangan province.

NDS has placed in durance vile
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
three Death Eaters who planned to carry out suicide attack in Sarwar-e-Kaynat mosque as well as target other populated areas in Aibak city.

A statement issued by NDS on Monday states that Mullah Nazir S/O Khair Mohammad, Zain-ul-Abadin S/O Sharaf-ud-din and Mullah Rawzatullah S/O Khal Mohammad were arrested red handed with bombs, Kalashnikov, Pistol and ammos.

According to the statement Mullah Rawzatullah wanted to carry out the suicide attack in the mosque.

Posted by: Fred || 09/08/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Three mediators killed in Taliban clash in Zabul
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Three mediators who were trying to end fighting between two rival Taliban groups have been killed in the clash in southern Zabul province.

General Mirwais Noorzai, police chief of Zabul province said that fighting between two rival groups of Taliban increases in the jurisdiction of Khak-e-Afghan and Arghandab districts.

Noorzai further said that fresh festivities have left five faceless myrmidons from both sides killed in Khak-e-Afghan District.

According to Noorzai, when fighting between the supporters of Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour and the ones following Mullah Mansour Dadullah continues to rage then local elders try to mediate.

"Three community elders were killed while mediating," he said.

Taliban infighting began following the rifts within the leadership of the hard boy group over the appointment of new Supreme Leader.

One group pledged allegiance to Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour after he was announced as the replacement for 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...
at the end of July but another group containing Mullah Mansour Dadullah, Mullah Abdul Manan and some other notorious commanders opposes him.

This group wants Mullah Omar's son Mullah Mohammad Yaqoub to be the successor to his father.

Posted by: Fred || 09/08/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  The Dadullah crew are not happy with the ISI choice of Mullah Mansour.
Posted by: paul || 09/08/2015 5:12 Comments || Top||

#2  If they aren't going to unite to drive out ISIS, they might as well make themselves useful by killing each other off. A pity about the local elders, though.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/08/2015 8:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Replace "two rival Taliban groups" with "two rival KKK groups". You don't mediate, you drone zap.
Posted by: Percy Smiter of the Faeries3772 || 09/08/2015 16:06 Comments || Top||


Five policemen martyred in Zabul
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Five coppers have been martyred in their security post in Shah Joy District of southern Zabul province.

Wazir Mohammad Jawadi, governor of Shah Joy District said that the incident took place last night.

He said dead bodies of five coppers were found in the security post in Kajarkhil area while two other coppers have been disappeared.

Jawadi further said that it is yet unknown whether this was an insider attack or the two coppers have been kidnapped by Taliban after martyring five in the security post.

According to Jawadi, weapons have also gone missing from this post.

Taliban have not yet commented on the report.

More than 30 soldiers have lost lives in similar attacks in southern Afghanistan since last one month.

Posted by: Fred || 09/08/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


ISIS release beheading video claiming to be filmed in Afghanistan
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group has released a horrific beheading video which purportedly shows the execution of a prisoner carried out by the affiliates of the group's proclaimed Khurasan province.

The prisoner is shown wearing an orange jumpsuit and is paraded through a mountainous region although the exact location has not been verified.

A commander of the terror group appearing in the video welcomes the allegiance of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) to ISIS terrorist group.

It is yet not clear on what charges the prisoner was executed with the identity of the victim yet to be confirmed although the supporters of the terror group claim a member of the Afghan cops was beheaded.

The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), declared as a terrorist organization by the United States, announced earlier last month that the group is part of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group.

A video was released by the terror group which purportedly shows the IMU's leader Usmon Ghazi and his fighters taking oath of allegiance to ISIS terror group and its leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us...
.

Another Lion of Islam leader identified as Sadullah Urgenji also issued a video statement in March this year claiming that the group fights for IMU in northern Afghanistan.

Urgenji said his group was recognizing the authority of ISIS leader Baghdadi while pledging allegiance to the terror group.

The allegiance by IMU to ISIS terrorist group comes shortly almost two weeks after the death of the Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar was confirmed.

IMU issued a statement earlier this month demanding clarification from the Taliban regarding 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...
's death while accusing the group lying his death.

Posted by: Fred || 09/08/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan


'Friendly' air strike kills 11 Afghan policemen
[DAWN] An air attack has killed at least 11 Afghan coppers in the volatile and opium-rich southern province of Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
, officials said on Monday, in the latest apparent case of "friendly fire".

An interior ministry front man said the strike on Sunday was carried out by NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
forces but another ministry official could not confirm who was responsible.

NATO said in a statement it conducted no air strikes in Helmand on Sunday.

Afghanistan's own air force also has the capability to carry out aerial bombardments, but both the force and the defence ministry declined to comment.

"Eleven counter-narcotics police were killed and four others were maimed in an air strike carried out by international forces in Garmsir district of Helmand province," deputy interior ministry front man Najib Danish told AFP.

A front man for the counter-narcotics police at the interior ministry confirmed the toll but could not say who carried out the attack.

Helmand, the heartland of the global opium trade, is one of the biggest flash-points in the 14-year Taliban insurgency that erupted after a US-led invasion brought down their regime in 2001.
Posted by: Fred || 09/08/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Friendly fire isn't.
Posted by: Percy Smiter of the Faeries3772 || 09/08/2015 18:29 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Al Shabab displays slain AMISOM soldiers in Janaale attack
The dead bodies of Ugandan soldiers under African Union mission for Somalia (AMISOM) have been displayed by militants of Al Shabaab on Monday. The militants also paraded heavy weapons, ammunitions and battle-wagons that were seized from Ugandan soldiers during the attack on their military base in Somalia.

The attack happened in 1st September after heavily armed Al Shabaab gunmen have launched an attack on AMISOM military camp in the town of Janaale. The raid reported to have killed at least 50 African Union peacekeeping troops from Ugandan contingent, according sources who spoke to Shabelle Media in Mogadishu.

The attack was claimed by Al Shabaab insurgents, saying it killed over 80 AMISOM soldiers in revenge for massacred civilians by Ugandan soldiers in the coastal town of Marka town.

The Uganda government has denied that 50 of its soldiers under AU mission for Somalia have been killed in the attack but said only 11 soldiers were killed by Al Shabab in the raid on their military camp.
Posted by: Steve White || 09/08/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab


Africa North
2 Egyptian military men killed, 5 injured in Sinai explosion
[Ynet] Egyptian security officials say an army officer and a conscript have been killed and five soldiers injured when their armored vehicle was hit by a roadside kaboom in the restive northern part of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.

The officials, who spoke under condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to speak to news hounds, said the kaboom took place Monday morning in the Taweel al-Amir area south of Rafah and that the injured were taken to the military hospital in el-Arish.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/08/2015 00:00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis


Mali's army dismantles Islamist cell in the capital
[AlAhram] Mali's military said on Monday it had tossed in the slammer
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three suspected members of a new Islamist bully boy group who it claims were behind a series of recent armed attacks on security forces in and around the capital Bamako.

The Massina Liberation Front (MLF), led by veteran jihadist Amadou Koufa, has been blamed for a wave of attacks bringing Mali's three-year-old Islamist conflict from the remote desert north ever closer to its populous south.

"Three terrorists, all belonging to Amadou Koufa's group, were arrested by the special forces in the night from Saturday to Sunday," said Modibo Naman Traore of the army's public relations office.

An army statement identified the men as Hassan Dicko, described as Koufa's number two, and Ali Sangare, a taxi driver.

Ayouba Sangare, an Ivorian, was responsible for the cell's logistics and authorities discovered large quantities of weapons, ammunition and grenades during a search of his house, according to the statement.

The army said the cell was behind attacks on the lodgings of personnel from Mali's U.N. peacekeeping mission, MINUSMA, and a police post in Bamako, as well as a gendarme base in Baguineda just outside the capital.

Islamist fighters, some with links to al Qaeda, seized the northern two-thirds of Mali in 2012. A French-led military intervention scattered them the following year, but remnants of the insurgency continue to carry out attacks.

The MLF recruits mainly among central Mali's marginalised Fulani ethnic minority. Security experts fear that the rise of a jihadist group among the Fulani, whose 20 million members are spread across West and Central Africa, could regionalise the violence.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/08/2015 01:05 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Salafists


Reports of IS assassination attempt in Guba exaggerated say locals
[Libya Herald] Reports that 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....
fighters (IS) attempted to assassinate an army officer in Guba yesterday have been refuted by locals.
"No, no! Certainly not!"
The reality, the Libya Herald has been told, was that an argument between members of the Libyan National Army's Omar Mukhtar operation room guarding a checkpoint near Ras Hillal degenerated into a shoot-out in which one member was killed. In Dire Revenge, his brother then allegedly shot and killed three of those involved in the incident. After that he is said to have fired an RPG at the house of the officer named as the operations room's front man, Abdulkarim Sabra.
Posted by: Fred || 09/08/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Arabia
Saudi-led coalition jets kill 20 in Yemen
Jets belonging to a Saudi-led coalition killed at least 20 people at a wake in northern Yemen on Sunday, local tribesmen said, as warplanes pounded Houthis and other forces behind a missile strike that had killed dozens of Gulf Arab soldiers.

The air strikes targeted troops loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, an ally of the Houthis, across the country and hit a Houthi base in what had been the Al Imam University, a religious school in northern Sanaa, locals said.

But residents said the deadliest strike was in Al Jouf province north of Sanaa, where warplanes hit a wake for a local who had been killed by Houthi gunfire, in what was apparently an accidental strike by the coalition.

A spokesman for the coalition could not immediately be reached for a comment.

In Sanaa, residents said buildings had been levelled as explosions rang through the night and morning before stopping around noon. There were unconfirmed reports of two deaths.

The Al Sabeen maternity and children's hospital said it had been damaged, with patients trapped inside, and appealed to international organisations to help evacuate them.

The Saudi-led coalition says it does not target civilian facilities. But on Saturday, at least 27 members of two families were killed in Sanaa by air strikes targeting Houthi positions in the city, according to hospital officials.
Posted by: Steve White || 09/08/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Britain
David Cameron: Britain mounted fatal air strike in Syria
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] A British jihadist has been killed in an RAF air strike in Syria after he plotted to carry out "outrageous and barbaric" plots on British soil.

In a move David Cameron
... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ...
said was "a new departure" for Britannia, Reyaad Khan was last month assassinated in an RAF drone strike after security services uncovered his bid to stage a terror attack in the UK.

The Prime Minister said that it is the first time UK forces have killed a terrorist in a foreign country when Britannia is not at war and made clear that Britannia is now prepared to carry out more strikes on Isil targets in Syria, Iraq and Libya.

The Prime Minister authorised the strike without the approval of Parliament but said that it not require a vote because it was an act of "self-defence" for which there was a "clear legal basis".

Two other Isil fighters were killed in the attack on the Syrian city of Raqqa on 21 August. One of them, Ruhul Amin, 26, was also British, Mr Cameron said.The Prime Minister said that a third Briton, Junaid Hussain, 21, was killed by a separate US Arclight airstrike.

Mr Cameron said the targeting of Khan in the Isil stronghold of Raqqah was justified on the grounds of "self-defence", as he and Hussain were actively involved in orchestrating a number of plots to attack "high-profile public commemorations" over the summer.
Al Ahram pointed out:
Cameron also said police and security forces had thwarted at least six terror attacks inside Britannia in the last 12 months.
Posted by: Fred || 09/08/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Preempting a future assassination attempt(s) agz Queen Liz + Royals, + other Islamist-Jihadist planned domestic terror.

OTOH, as per PM Cameron Britain plans to accept 20,000 Refugees over the next five years thru Year 2020, at least for now.

ONLY TIME WILL TELL HOW WELL THE "BRITANNIA FOR BRITS ONLY" BRITISH PREVENT THE NOSTRADAMUS PROPHECY OF AN AMERICAN-BORN QUEEN COMING TO POWER IN THE UK, + TAKING OVER THE BRITISH EMPIRE-COMMONWEALTH, FROM COMING TRUE.

D *** NG IT, THE BRITS DEMAND TO SEE FUTURE QUEEN MADONNA'S NOT-OBAMA-ESQUE, WHOSE-HER-DADDY "BIRTH CERTIFICATE"!
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 09/08/2015 0:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Imagine how many Jihadists the Brits could've got if they carried out an air strike on Birmingham.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/08/2015 3:16 Comments || Top||

#3  As per WORLD NEWS, the US is warning about aterror threat to SOUTH AFRICA.

South Africa = UK + Dutchies.

Pragmatically, it also indics or infers that the US "Diadem/Diamond" Strategy for Africa includ African Union [AU] may now be at genuine risk from incoming Hard Boyz.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 09/08/2015 23:02 Comments || Top||


Europe
Spain Arrests Teen Woman Suspected of Recruiting for IS
One arrested, some part of 20,000 more enter the continent with malice aforethought, scattering across the nations.
[AnNahar] Spanish police on Monday incarcerated
I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece!
a 19-year-old woman on suspicion of recruiting for 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....
murderous Moslems, the latest in a string of women detained for allegedly sympathizing with the armed jihadist group.

The woman, who was not identified, was detained in the northeastern city of Figueres, the interior ministry said in a statement.

She is accused of the "indoctrination and recruitment of people with the goal of sending them to combat zones controlled by Daesh," the ministry said, using an alternative name for the Islamic State bully boy group.

Her arrest is linked to objects seized from a suspected Islamic State jihadist, a 21-year-old Moroccan national, whom German police detained in Stuttgart last month after he fled Spain, the ministry said.

"With this arrest, a cell that was very active in promoting the ideology of the terrorist organization Daesh, and capturing new jihadist fighters and offering logistics support, has been neutralized," the interior ministry said.

On Saturday, police arrested an 18-year-old Moroccan woman accused of preparing to travel to Syria to join the group, which has carried out numerous kidnappings and executions.

And in July, police arrested a Spanish woman on the Canary Island of Lanzarote suspected of recruiting pre-teen girls and teenagers of both sexes to send to areas controlled by the Islamic State.

Spanish authorities believe the woman maintained contact with Islamic State hard boyz in Syria, including a controller who gave her orders for recruiting girls and arranging their travel to Syria.

More than 100 people from Spain are suspected of having joined jihadist fighters in Iraq and Syria and authorities fear they may return to launch attacks.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/08/2015 00:00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Flashback to February 2015: ISIS threatens to flood Europe with refugees
[Jihad Watch] While the world is consumed with horror over the plight of the refugees now flooding into Europe, it is useful to remember these threats that were made just six months ago.

"Islamic State militants are planning a takeover of Libya as a "gateway" to wage war across the whole of southern Europe, letters written by the group's supporters have revealed.

The jihadists hope to flood the north African state with militiamen from Syria and Iraq, who will then sail across the Mediterranean posing as migrants on people trafficking vessels, according to plans seen by Quilliam, the British anti-extremist group.

The fighters would then run amok in southern European cities and also try to attack maritime shipping.

The document is written by an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) propagandist who is believed to be an important online recruiter for the terror in Libya, where security has collapsed in the wake of the revolution that unseated Colonel Gaddafi in 2011.

The group has already established Libyan-based cells, who on Sunday released a video showing a mass beheading of 21 Egyptian Christian guest workers.

The video, which prompted Egypt to launch retaliatory bombing raids on Isil positions in Libya, included footage of a khaki-clad militant pointing a bloodstained finger northwards, declaring: "We will conquer Rome, by Allah's permission."

The Isil propagandist, who uses the alias Abu Arhim al-Libim, describes Libya as having "immense potential" for Isil. He points out with relish that it is awash with weapons from the Libyan civil war, when large quantities of Col Gaddafi's arsenals were appropriated by rebels. Some of those weapons came from Britain, which supplied the Gaddafi regime with machine guns, sniper rifles and ammunition during his final years in power, when he was seen as an ally against Islamist terrorism.

Mr Libim also points out that Libya is less than around 300 miles from parts of the nearest European mainland.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/08/2015 05:19 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Everyone calm down. Remember we are carrying a massive bombing campaign of 20 airstrikes a day to subdue isis.
Posted by: chris || 09/08/2015 15:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Ok then, somebody remind me why it was so important that Qdaffy had to be deposed.
Posted by: Grinetle Forkbeard9596 || 09/08/2015 15:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Ok then, somebody remind me why it was so important that Qdaffy had to be deposed.

Easier than dealing with Iran.

At the time, I recall saying something about if the choice is pencilneck or jihadest, drone zap the jihadist. The bamer is also tone deaf.
Posted by: Percy Smiter of the Faeries3772 || 09/08/2015 16:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Yuuuup.

As per CNN AM + MSM-NET ARTICS a couple of days back, the ISIS/ISIL/Deash are NOT even trying to hide their intent to use the on-going Syrian-Iraqi, etal. Refugee Crisis as a COVER to sneak Terror-happy Bad Boyz into Europe.

REMINDS ME OF THE POST-DUBYA, CURRENT US DEMOLEFT + ALIGNED, ETAL. NOT EVEN TRYING TO HIDE THEIR COMMUNISM-SOCIALISM ANYMORE.

Unfortunately, EUROPE = AMERIKA = theres little to no evidence that the Secular Marxists-Commies-SOcialists will be able to domestically or peacefully CONTROL, LET ALONE MILITARILY DEFEAT OR DESTROY IFF NEED BE, THE THEO-SOCIALIST HARD BOYZ ONCE THIER DOMESTIC TERROR NETWORKS ARE READY TO STRIKE.

WIPING OUT THE UK ROYALS + RENDERING SAME INEFFECTIVE IS HOW THE FUTURE US-BORN, US-RAISED, OWG QUEEN MADONNA BECAME OWG QUEEN MADONNA.

just sayin'.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 09/08/2015 20:37 Comments || Top||

#5  Ok then, somebody remind me why it was so important that Qdaffy had to be deposed.

He had threatened to open the floodgates, letting all of Africa and the MidEast pour into Europe. So they got rid of him, and now Africa and the MidEast are flooding into Europe, pretending to be Syrian refugees.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/08/2015 20:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Qadaffy got rid of his weapons of mass destruction so by removing him a lesson was sent never to do anything favorable to the west.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/08/2015 22:56 Comments || Top||


Trial opens of 10 accused of recruiting Dutch Muslims for Islamic State
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Ten suspected Islamist bully boyz went on trial in the Netherlands on Monday, accused of recruiting Dutch Moslems to fight with 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 of Evil in Iraq and Syria.

The trial, the largest against alleged jihadists in the Netherlands in a decade, is seen as a test of whether a court can convict suspects who may endorse a radical ideology but have not carried out any attacks in the West.

Lawyers for the defendants said at a hearing on Monday they are innocent of any wrongdoing and have a right to speak out about their religious and political views.

"Some defendants may have crossed lines, but the way the cases are brought in is exaggerated," said Bart Stapert, an attorney for one of the accused.

Prosecutors say the suspects, aged 19 to 41, played a variety of roles within a single criminal group "with the goal of committing terrorist crimes". Some allegedly focused on recruiting, others preached in favor of IS at demonstrations and on the Internet and others managed finances and logistics.

"We think it's important to keep people from going to fight under the flag of ISIS or other terrorist organizations", prosecution front man Wouter Bos told Rooters. "We also don't want them to return with more skills and commit attacks at home."

In neighboring Belgium, the leader of a radical Islamist group that recruited young men to fight in Syria was sentenced to 12 years in prison in February

The Dutch secret service last month estimated that 210 Dutch youths have left for Syria since 2013, of whom 38 have been killed.

The chief suspect, identified by the media as Azzedine Choukoud, 33, is accused of "terrorist recruitment" and "inciting terrorism". Under Dutch privacy law, the court only named him as Azzedine C.

He is a public figure in the Netherlands, after appearing in a television interview as "Abou Moussa" and participating in a pro-Islamic State demonstration in The Hague. He was tossed in the slammer
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in Germany in August 2014 with his wife, who is also on trial.

Three defendants are being tried in absentia. They are believed to be in Syria, with one of them possibly dead.
Posted by: Fred || 09/08/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  This argues for a selective door policy; Encourage bad actors to leave while keeping bad actors from coming (back) in.
Posted by: Percy Smiter of the Faeries3772 || 09/08/2015 18:44 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Five detained in anti-terror raids in Istanbul
[Hurriyet Daily News] Five suspected members of the far-left terrorist organization the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (MLKP) have been detained in an anti-terror police operation in Istanbul.

The five suspects were detained for carrying out illegal acts after officers from the Istanbul Police Department's Counterterrorism Unit raided multiple locations in Istanbul's Sultangazi district on Sept. 6, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.

Two unregistered pistols, several Molotov cocktails and documents related to the terrorist organization were seized in the raids.

The detained suspects were taken to the Istanbul Police Department building in Istanbul's Fatih district.

The raids came about a month after two suspected members of the MLKP were detained in Sultangazi in early August in an anti-terror police operation in which over a dozen suspects linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the outlawed Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) were detained.
Posted by: Fred || 09/08/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Commies


16 Turkish troops killed, 6 wounded in Kurdish attack
[DAWN] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's military announced Monday that 16 soldiers were killed and six others maimed in a Kurdish rebel attack against troops in southeast Turkey a day earlier.

The attack was the deadliest assault on Turkish troops since renewed fighting between the rebels and Turkey's security forces erupted in July, shattering a fragile grinding of the peace processor.

Rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on Sunday detonated roadside improvised bombs near the village of Daglica, in the mainly-Kurdish Hakkari province which borders Iran and Iraq, targeting soldiers who were traveling in a convoy on a mission to clear the area of mines and explosives.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Monday the rebels first fired on the soldiers and later detonated the bombs.

He said the troops were on a mission to clear the rugged terrain in Daglica of mines and explosives.

Daglica, just a few kilometers from the Iraqi border, is a main crossing point for the rebels to launch attacks on Turkey from bases in northern Iraq. Turkish security forces have frequently come under attack in this region.

"Our 16 martyred brothers were clearing the roads of land mines so that the people of the region could travel in peace," Davutoglu said.

Once again, he vowed to press ahead with the fight against terror groups.

"We will continue our struggle against terrorism in a determined manner, without making any concessions on democracy or the rules of laws," Davutoglu said. "Those mountains will be cleared of the terrorists,"

The Turkish prime minister added that the mountains, the plains, the highlands and the cities of his country would not be "left in the hands" of the terrorists.
Posted by: Fred || 09/08/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The PPK strikes me as being tone deaf. Hello, remember ISIS?
Posted by: Percy Smiter of the Faeries3772 || 09/08/2015 16:19 Comments || Top||

#2  PPK -> PKK.
Posted by: Percy Smiter of the Faeries3772 || 09/08/2015 16:20 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Three killed in military's first drone strike in North Waziristan
[DAWN] At least three suspected Lions of Islam were killed while a Death Eater hideout was destroyed in Shawal valley of North Wazoo in the first ever air strike by a Pakistain made drone "Burraq".

The armed drone was used for the first time since its development in November 2013.

Director General of Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major General Asim Saleem Bajwa
... who is The Very Model of a Modern Major General...
announced the first ever use of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on his Twitter page adding that a terrorist compound was hit and three Lions of Islam were killed in the air strike carried out by "Burraq"
Posted by: Fred || 09/08/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan


QWP councillor shot dead in Dir
[DAWN] TIMERGARA: A tehsil councillor belonging to the Qaumi Watan Party, Mohammad Umar, was bumped off by masked motorcyclists outside his house at Kotigram area in the jurisdiction of Ouch cop shoppe of Lower Dir on Sunday.

Mr Umar, who was also a former tehsil nazim
...small time big shot, the chief elected official of a local government in Pakistan, such as a district, tehsil, union council, or village council...
, was standing near his house when two motorcyclists wearing masks approached and opened indiscriminate fire on him. He died instantly. The two soon fled from the scene.

The Ouch police started the paperwork but haven't done much else against three suspects, including Shah Room and his nephews Tajdar and Shahab of Ouch, on the complaint of Hazrat Umar, brother of Mohammad Umar. The victim is said to have an old enmity with the accused family and he had been acquitted by a Timergara court in a murder case last year.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Senate, the partisans of Honorius went for their knives and the partisans of Stilicho went for the doors...
a taxi driver was killed and two other persons were maimed when their car hit a roadside tree at Kat Gala Talash here on Sunday.

Sources said the driver, Mansoor, 20, a resident of Barorai Adenzai, lost control on the car due to speeding and hit a tree. As a result, he was killed on the spot while the two other persons were maimed.

The car was part of a wedding party coming from Talash to Barorai, Chakdara. Talash police have registered the case.
Posted by: Fred || 09/08/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  and I raise you one NY Governor's Lawyer shot dead in NYC... and the third world comes knocking....
Posted by: Spike Fluque9731 || 09/08/2015 12:57 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Anbar Activities
Iraqi army destroys tunnel used by ISIS militants south of Fallujah

[IraqiNews.com] al-Anbar -- A source within the Rapid Intervention Forces said Monday, that the army forces had managed to destroy a vital tunnel for the ISIS Lions of Islam south of Fallujah.

The source informed IraqiNews.com, "A force belonging to the army, with coordination with the army's air force, managed to destroy a tunnel for the ISIS starting from the industrial area south of Fallujah and ending on the outskirts of al-Hayakel area south of the district."

The source, who requested anonymity, added, "The ISIS organization had begun digging the tunnel several weeks ago," noting that, "The length of the tunnel is nearly 2500 meters."

15 ISIS vehicles destroyed in aerial strike east of Ramadi

[IraqiNews] The President of Khalidiya Council in Anbar province, Ali Dawood, announced on Monday the destruction of a convoy consisting of 15 ISIS vehicles and the killing of its occupants in an aerial strike east of Ramadi.

Dawood said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, "The international coalition warplanes, in coordination with the army, bombed a convoy belonging to ISIS as it passed in Albu shihab in Khalidiya Island (23 km east of Ramadi), resulting in the destruction of 15 ISIS vehicles and killing its occupants."
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/08/2015 09:52 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq

#1  Tunnel. A bunker or is there a wall, river or other obstacle to be breached?
Posted by: Percy Smiter of the Faeries3772 || 09/08/2015 18:08 Comments || Top||


ISIS Ninevah Nonsense
Source: ISIS kidnaps 40 civilians for not lengthening their beards

[Iraqinews.com] Nineveh -- According to a local source in Nineveh province, ISIS has kidnapped 40 civilians due to refusing to lengthen their beards in central djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, while pointed out that elements of the organization have skinned five others because of smoking cigarettes.

The source told IraqiNews.com, "ISIS gunnies kidnapped today 40 civilians from the public markets in Bab Tob, Aleppo Street and the Industrial Zone in central Mosul, because of lack of commitment to lengthen beards and violation of organization instructions," noting that "Those gunnies transferred the kidnapped to the prison."

The source, who asked not to be named, added: "ISIS elements also had flogged five civilians, because of violating the instructions that prohibit smoking cigarettes."

ISIS kidnaps 127 children from Mosul to train them in special camps, says Mamouzini

[IraqiNews] Media official of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in djinn-infested Mosul Saeed Mamouzini revealed on Monday, that ISIS has kidnapped 127 children in Mosul to train them in the ranks of the organization, emphasizing that the father of a detained child had killed two ISIS members while trying to prevent the kidnapping of his son.

Mamouzini said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, "The organization kidnapped, during the past few days, 127 children aged between 11 to 15 years," noting that "these children have entered in special camps to be trained on the use of weapons and implementation of terrorist operations."

Mamouzini added that " "ISIS had kidnapped hundreds of children during the last period, and they were trained to carry out suicide operations."

ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi arrives in Nineveh coming from Syrian Raqqa

[IraqiNews.com] Nineveh – A local source in the province of Nineveh revealed, that the ISIS leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us...
has arrived in the province coming from the Syrian city of Raqqa, along with a number of Arab and foreign leaders of the organization.

The source, who requested anonymity, informed IraqiNews.com, "Baghdadi and a group of Arab and foreign leaders of ISIS arrived in Nineveh coming from the Syrian Raqqa, noting that, "The arrival of al-Baghdadi was not in the form of a large convey, but his entry into the province was by passing through the desert which is controlled by ISIS alongside the Iraqi-Syrian borders."
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/08/2015 00:00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Surprised Baghdadi has not been killed yet as we must have intel via infiltrated wannabe jihadis re his movements in Raqqa and Mosul which cities should be given 48 hours notice to clear out for civilians then levelled.
Posted by: paul || 09/08/2015 12:45 Comments || Top||


ISIS wife, child shot while surrendering to Iraq Army
[Rudaw] The wife of 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....
Death Eater and her child were shot as the woman tried to turn herself in to the Iraqi Army, Anbar province officials said Monday.

"The woman who beat feet from her husband with her only son continued approaching the army checkpoint despite being shot, which resulted in injuring both of them," a senior officer in the Iraqi Army told Rudaw.

The woman reportedly escaped the jihadist organization in the ISIS-held city of Ramadi with her son and meant to turn herself in to authorities in the Hamriya district of Anbar.

"The family consists of a woman and her son. While they were trying to approach the army checkpoint to surrender, shots were fired in the fear they were jacket wallahs," added the officer who wished to remain anonymous.

They woman and her son were transferred to the hospital immediately, the officer added.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/08/2015 00:00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Lets get a really big magnifying glass---we need it to find good guys in Dar's internal conflicts.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/08/2015 4:13 Comments || Top||

#2  The woman reportedly escaped the jihadist organization in the ISIS-held city of Ramadi with her son and meant to turn herself in to authorities in the Hamriya district of Anbar.

It's hell when the authorities aren't any better than ISIS.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/08/2015 7:40 Comments || Top||

#3  She probably wouldn't stop when ordered and the police were worried about suicide bombs. It's all part of how terrorists make everyone miserable.
Posted by: gorb || 09/08/2015 8:55 Comments || Top||


Iraqi DM Unharmed after Sniper Hits Convoy
[ALMANAR.LB] Iraqi Defense Minister Khaled al-Obeidi's convoy came under sniper fire Monday but he was unharmed, a ministry front man said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which joint operations front man Brigadier General Yahya Rasool said took place in the western outskirts of the town of Baiji, 190 km (120 miles) north of Baghdad.

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has said the battle over Baiji and its refinery, Iraq's largest, is critical to the fight against ISIL terrorists.

Obeidi was in Baiji as part of a field visit to Salahuddin province. He earlier inspected troops at Camp Speicher, a former U.S. military base, and later toured Tikrit, a ministry statement said.

"The minister is well and safe," Rasool told Rooters. He said a guard had been lightly injured in the attack.
Posted by: Fred || 09/08/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian Army Destroys Terrorists' Positions in Idleb, Quneitra
[ALMANAR.LB] Units of the Syrian army eliminated terrorists' positions and weapons in many areas across the country, inflicting heavy losses upon the terrorist organizations in personnel and equipment, state-run SANA news agency reported Sunday.

In Hama/Idleb, hideouts and vehicles of gunnies from the so-called "Jaish al-Fateh" were destroyed in army Arclight airstrikes in Abu al-Duhour, Kinsafra, Iblin, Qaqour, Frika, Ariha, al-Mansoura, al-Inkawi and Qastoun in the countryside of Idleb and Hama provinces.

In the southern region, army units, in cooperation with the popular defense groups, clashed on Saturday night with armed terrorist groups, which tried to infiltrate from the villages of al-Hamidiyeh, al- Hurriyeh and Ovania towards Tal al-Qaba'a and Khan Arnabeh town in the countryside of Quneitra province.

Field sources told SANA on Sunday that the festivities resulted in the death and injury of a number of gunnies and the demolishing of their vehicle with all weapons and ammunition inside it and a cannon which they used in targeting civilians neighborhoods of Khan Arnabeh, Baath city and Jibba village.

In the neighboring Daraa province, an army unit killed all members of an armed terrorist group in al-Hammadin neighborhood in Daraa al-Balad and destroyed 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 .. ...
Front hotbeds at Syriatel vicinity and north of al-Bajabejeh quarter.

A number of bad boyz were potted and injured while their weapons and equipment were destroyed to the east of Rajm al-Mashor during an army operation at the eastern countryside of the southern province of Daraa.

Meanwhile,
...back at the game, the Babe headed for second base. He almost made it. Then Sheila slapped him....
terrorist of Al-Nusra 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 named al-Wafed Abu Turaba admitted responsibility for the twin terrorist boom-mobileings that rocked Sweida city on Friday.

Head of the Security Committee in Sweida said in a statement to SANA that Abu Turaba, who was incarcerated
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
on Sunday, admitted to participating in the attacks on the Military Police, the Criminal Security Department and the Municipality in the city on Friday, in addition to vandalism and robbery acts.
Posted by: Fred || 09/08/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


IS takes Syrian state's last oilfield
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Islamic State fighters have seized the last major oilfield under Syrian regime control during battles over a vast central desert zone, Rooters said on Monday.

The Jazal field was now shut down and festivities were ongoing east of Homs, with casualties reported on both sides, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, without giving dates or more details.

Syria's army said, according to Rooters, it had repulsed an attack in the same area but did not mention Jazal or comment on how much of the country's battered energy infrastructure remained under its sway. It said it killed 25 fighters, including non-Syrian jihadists.

"The regime has lost the last oilfield in Syria," said the Observatory, which tracks war through a network of sources on the ground.

Commentators on social media said fighting had surged in the last two to three days and the rebels had taken the oilfield on Sunday.

Jazal is a medium-sized field that lies to the north west of the rebel-held ancient city of Palmyra, close to a region that holds Syria's main natural gas fields and multi-million-dollar extraction facilities.

The army, which has been fighting to retake the city and surrounding areas since they fell in May, had managed to secure the oil field's perimeter in June.

The Observatory also said U.S.-led coalition bombing raids in areas in the krazed killer's de facto capital of Raqqa had killed at least 16 krazed killers, including five foreign jihadists.

Salafist tough guys bombarded the heart of the Syrian capital Damascus and mortars killed at least one civilian and maimed scores, state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
said.
Posted by: Fred || 09/08/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  The SAA repor has retaken it.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 09/08/2015 23:30 Comments || Top||


Rebels kill 10 Assad soldiers in Zabadani town
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Syrian rebels have killed 10 Syrian regime soldiers in a counterattack on their post in the embattled town of Zabadani near the Lebanese border, activists said Sunday.

In retaliation regime army has extended fierce bombardment on Zabadani town, about 45 km (30 miles) northwest of the capital Damascus, as the 70-day-old offensive seems without an end yet.

Activists said army has targeted rebels bastions with 20 surface-to-surface missiles and 14 barrel bombs.

The regime army backed by Lebanese Hezbollah militia has also targeted Madhaya, the town that hosts thousands of Zabadani's displaced amid lack of aid and basic needs.

Rebels of the strategic town urged their counterparts near Damascus to send reinforcements and ammunition as well to escalate attacks to relieve pressure on them.

Hezbollah bandidos murderous Moslems and Bashir al-Assad army have controlled most of Zabadani city after intense aerial bombardments and heavy artillery fire on rebels hideouts.

The control of the city is seen as crucial to consolidate government-held areas linking Leb and Syria. Zabadani is a former popular resort on the main Beirut-Damascus highway, according to Rooters.

Its capture would be a strategic gain for al-Assad, whose army is battling on several other fronts with groups including non-jihadist rebels and 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....
turbans, Rooters added.
Posted by: Fred || 09/08/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria



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Mon 2015-09-07
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