[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) -- Afghanistan's intelligence agency has locked away Book 'im, Mahmoud! a Taliban capo who was trying to escape to Quetta city of Pakistain after participating in heavy festivities in Afghanistan.
A statement released by NDS on Saturday states that Sayed Mohammad-ud-Din alias Sadat was detained together with one of his lover companion during a special raid in western Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province.
Mohammad-ud-Din has confessed to NDS during initial investigation that he played key role in attack on Qaisar District of Faryab province.
As a result of the attack, Taliban took control of several areas in Qaisar District but they were pushed back by a military operation led by first vice-President Abdul Rashid Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... .
During the operation, Gen. Dostum escaped unharmed from a Taliban ambush in Qaisar District in mid August.
Also, three jacket wallahs were arrested in Qaisar district who had intended to kill the first vice-President.
The suicide bombers had made their way up to the vicinity of Gen. Dostum's residence.
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[Tolo News] Besides making progress in the ongoing operation in several districts of southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , the security forces have called for an air support to clear the areas from Taliban.
The security forces however retreated to two kilometers in Marjah after the bully boyz intensified their attacks on Saturday.
Embedded with the security forces, TOLOnews correspondent Tamim Hamid said reinforcement troops were being deployed to parts of embattled Helmand.
The forces however stressed the need for air support and called on the central government to respond to their request.
The Helmand fighting has entered its 20th day. However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... the bully boyz have been driven out of Lashkargah and the fighting is limited to Marjah district.
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[Tolo News] Nearly 50 members of newly-emerged Daesh [Islamic State] group have been killed in a wide-scale operation in Achin district in 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.. , officials said Saturday.
The joint operation launched three days ago in Shidal village in which more than 30 other members of the group were maimed.
According to security officials, the anti-Daesh [Islamic State] offensive will continue until the last hideout of the group -- which has seized large cities in Iraq and Syria -- is eliminated.
In addition, the security forces destroyed a small base of Daesh [Islamic State] and lowered their flag.
"Daesh [Islamic State] flag has been lowered ... and our forces are advancing to other hideouts of Daesh [Islamic State]," ANA commander Mohammad Nasim Sangin said.
Praising the advances made by the forces, Achin's district governor Mohammad Ghalib Mujahid assured the residents to clear their area from Daesh [Islamic State] soon.
"We will soon raise our national flag on all valleys in Achin and that with the cooperation of our security forces," he said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wine tasting, Vince was about to start on his third quart... the provincial council members of Nangarhar welcomed the operation and announced their full support to the forces.
"This operation was successful in two terms. First, the enemies have suffered massive casualties and second, the civilians have not been harmed in this operation," provincial council member Zabihullah Zemarai said.
They asked the security officials to extend the operation to other districts of Nangarhar.
Daesh [Islamic State] have had a significant presence in Achin over the past few months.
However scores of senior Daesh [Islamic State] commanders have been eliminated during special raids conducted by the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) during the past six months.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] 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.... police have registered 73 criminal cases including terrorism, kidnapping and robbery in last two weeks.
Kabul police chief said in a presser on Saturday that 167 suspects have been rounded up from different parts of the city in connection with these crimes.
Major General Abdul Rahman Rahemi told news hounds that among the jugged Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! suspects some are members of the group that recently kidnapped a child and demanded money from his family.
He said the child was recovered and handed over to his family without fulfilling demand of the kidnappers.
The arrested suspects also include people who were transporting weapons and using illegal transmission sets.
This comes as terrorist groups including Taliban and Haqqani Network are trying to create more security challenges for security forces.
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MOGADISHU -- Somali security forces have handed over three suspects, of whom one disguised as woman to National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA), Garowe Online reports. The men suspected of being would-be suicide bombers were apprehended in front of Mogadishu’s Weheliye Hotel.
Security Agencies have been on high alert for another planned attack on hotels popular with government officials since last week, when militants killed nearly a dozen people in deadly siege.
Having lost large chunks of territories, Al Shabaab carries out unprecedented terror operations.
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One of the continuing problems with the burquah is that a bad guy can put one on and none of the local authorities seem willing to pull the veil or frisk the cross dresser.
I thought cross dressing was a no no in Muslim countries. How come this happens so often?
[AlAhram] At least 19 people have been killed in Saudi-led coalition air strikes and festivities between pro-government forces and rebels in Yemen's south, military sources said on Saturday.
The air strikes took place late Friday and targeted two rebel vehicles on a road linking the central province of Ibb province to Daleh province further south, the sources said.
Forces loyal to Gulf-backed President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi recaptured Daleh and four other southern provinces in July.
Loyalist forces also clashed with Iran-backed Houthis and their allies on the outskirts of Daleh's second-largest city Damt on Friday, the sources said.
Eight pro-government fighters and 11 rebels were killed in the festivities and air strikes, they added.
In Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , the civil defence announced late on Friday the death of a Saudi woman and her three-month-old baby in the border city of Najran when a missile fired from 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... crashed into their home, the official SPA news agency said.
The Saudi-led coalition, in which the United Arab Emirates has played a key role, has been battling rebel forces who since last year have controlled the capital Sanaa, as well as much of northern and central Yemen.
The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... says around 5,000 people have been killed and 25,000 maimed, many of them civilians, in Yemen's conflict since it escalated in March.
In Saudi Arabia, more than 70 people have been killed from border shelling and skirmishes since the coalition campaign began. Soldiers have accounted for most of the border casualties.
[AnNahar] Bangladesh police have tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... seven suspected Islamist Lions of Islam including four Pak nationals, they said Saturday, accusing them of planning to commit acts of violence in the Muslim-majority country.
The seven, who were arrested on Friday and later taken to court for interrogation, are suspected of belonging to the banned Islamist group Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), police said.
"In primary interrogation, they've admitted that they're activating the operation of the banned JMB. They gathered to commit acts of violence," a police statement said, adding authorities believed the group was conspiring against the government.
The arrests come as tensions run high in Bangladesh following a spate of assassination'>assassinations and fears of mounting Islamist violence in the conservative country of 160 million.
Dhaka police front man Muntashirul Islam told Agence La Belle France Presse those arrested included four Pak nationals, the first time police have claimed Paks are active in the banned group.
Police said they had seized Pak currency and jihadist books from those arrested, including one which spells out punishment for defaming the Prophet Mohammed.
JMB Lions of Islam have been blamed for attacks in recent weeks including slashing the throat of a Christian pastor and a series of murders of Sufi Muslims, who the Lions of Islam consider as heretics.
Bangladesh is also grappling with a series of murders claimed by 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 (IS) in recent weeks, including the fatal stabbing of a policeman on Wednesday.
IS has also said it was responsible for the murders of an Italian aid worker and a Japanese farmer, as well as a blast at the country's main Shiite shrine which left two people dead.
The government has rejected IS's claims, saying it does not have a presence in the country.
A branch of Al-Qaeda has also grabbed credit for the murders of four atheist bloggers and machete attacks on publishers in the past year, calling the victims "atheists and blasphemers".
The government, however, has blamed those attacks on local myrmidons, along with the main opposition party and its Islamist ally, for orchestrating violence to destabilise the country.
The home-grown JMB, whose leaders were executed in 2007 over a series of blasts, have been trying to regroup in recent years.
The group was set up in late 1990s by Bangladeshi jihadists, some of whom had fought in the Afghan war against the Russians.
[AnNahar] A planned refugee shelter was burned down in Sweden on Saturday with police saying the fire may have been started deliberately, the latest in a string of suspected arson cases targeting a huge influx of migrants.
"Several buildings were burnt, including one which witnesses say has been destroyed completely," police said in a statement.
"For the moment the cause of the fire is not certain but as there are reasons to suspect it may have been started deliberately, a preliminary arson inquiry has been opened."
The planned shelter, on the outskirts of the town of Floda in southwest Sweden, had yet to welcome its first residents. There were no injuries and there have been no arrests.
The fire follows around a dozen confirmed or suspected cases of arson targeting migrants in Sweden this year.
Total arrivals of asylum-seekers to the Scandinavian country are expected to reach up to 190,000 in 2015, the most per capita of any European nation as the continent struggles with its worst migration crisis since World War II.
On Thursday the Swedish government warned that its capacity to host the refugees has reached saturation point and it cannot guarantee shelter for any new arrivals.
"We are in a tense situation and we are dependent on the opening of new lodgings. It is incredibly hard when they are destroyed by a fire," migration agency spokeswoman Johanna Uhr told the Goteborgs-Posten newspaper.
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On Thursday the Swedish government warned that its capacity to host the refugees has reached saturation point and it cannot guarantee shelter for any new arrivals.
I'd beat we and the Canadians can send you technical help on the construction of igloos. That'll hold over winter. People pay good money for the like. Or they can move back to warmer climes.
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Islammigrants on the Grand Tour,
Head northward and watch out for spoor.
The critter you're after
Has bats on her rafter:
Johanna, the Schwarzwälder Uhr.
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As with the messy-cans, the mud slimes will stop coming if you stop the fat welfare checks...which is double the salary of a doctor in their sewer of a "bled"(arab village)
[AnNahar] Turkish police on Saturday detained seven foreign nationals in southern The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... on suspicion of planning to head to Syria to join 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, state media said.
The detentions were part of a series of police operations against suspected members of IS across Turkey, which is on high alert ahead of a G20 summit of world leaders on November 15-16.
Anti-terror police launched a dawn raid at a hotel in the southern Adana province and detained the suspects, a French couple of Tunisian origin and five Indonesians, Anatolia news agency said.
They are scheduled to be deported on Saturday along with two children, one of whom is disabled, Anatolia added.
Turkey is imposing tight security ahead of the Group of 20 summit in the Mediterranean resort of Antalya which will bring together a host of leaders including U.S. President Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... and Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... .
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[Hurriyet] Ankara police on Nov. 6 searched offices of business groups working under the Turkish Confederation of Businessmen and Industrialists (TUSKON), known to have close links to the movement of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gulen.
The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's office ordered the search targeting TUSKON's member associations, Anadolu Agency reported. The order was issued by the Prosecutor's Office Bureau for Crimes against the Constitutional Order, the Cihan News Agency said.
The raids were launched as part of an investigation into the "Parallel State Structure Terror Organization/Pro-Fetullah Terror Organization" (Fetullahci Terör Örgutu), Anadolu Agency reported. The "Pro-Fetullah Terror Organization" was first cited in a draft indictment penned by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office and finalized in April. The indictment stated that it had found "concrete evidence" that sympathizers of Gulen were trying to form a "Cemaat state" parallel to the state of the Republic of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... Police also this week detained dozens of high-ranking state officials and coppers in several cities, as part of the ongoing investigation into Gulen supporters.
TUSKON was founded in 2005 in Istanbul and, as defined on its institutional webpage, is an "umbrella organization representing seven business federations, 211 business associations and over 55,000 entrepreneurs from all over Turkey."
TUSKON has played a role in diversifying Turkey's exports, mainly to African countries and Latin America, at a time when such a move was vital due to the crisis in the eurozone, the largest destination for Turkish exports.
It has four foreign representative offices in Brussels, Washington, Moscow and Beijing.
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Gulen is the muslim terrorist that established the Erdogan's muslim radicals that rule the big Turkey...Ironic that the old Jihadi Gulen do not take refuge in Saudia but in the United States(If you had any doubts that Barry Hussein is a jihadi stealth muslim himself)
[Hurriyet] One soldier was killed late Nov. 5 in the Dicle district of the southeastern province of Diyarbakir during festivities with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
Beytullah Tercan was killed during the festivities near Görese Mountain in the Dicle district. His body was sent to the eastern province of Malatya on Nov. 6 after an official ceremony was held in Diyarbakir Military Hospital.
Diyarbakir Gov. Huseyin Aksoy visited the soldier maimed in the same area during the festivities after the ceremony. The operations against PKK holy warriors have started after an indeterminate curfew took effect in 22 neighborhoods in Dicle at 5 a.m. on Nov. 5.
The Governor's Office said operations would be conducted against PKK holy warriors in mountainous and forest areas between Dicle's north and the Kursunlu, Kirkpinar and Kayas neighborhoods of the district.
The statement also said a curfew in effect since Nov. 4 in several neighborhoods in Diyarbakir's Lice district was lifted at 5 a.m. on Nov. 5.
[DNAINDIA] Two India-born brothers and naturalised American citizens have been charged by a US federal court for financing al Qaeda and supporting "violent jihad against the US, the US military in Iraq, Afghanistan, and throughout the world".
Yahya Farooq Mohammad (37) and Ibrahim Zubair Mohammad (36) were indicted for raising thousands of dollars and making wire transfers to slain al Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki ... Born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, zapped in Yemen, al-Awlaki was a dual citizen of the U.S. and Yemen. He was an Islamic holy man who was a trainer for al-Qaeda and its franchises. His sermons were attended by three of the 9/11 hijackers, by Fort Hood murderer Nidal Malik Hussein, and Undieboomer Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. He was the first U.S. citizen ever placed on a CIA target list... .
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Al Wacki is not going to repay that money, ya know.
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[DAWN] QUETTA: Armed assailants on Saturday evening killed two members of the Hazara community in the lovely provincial capital.
"Armed assailants shot up a vehicle on Spini road and killed two members of the Hazara community," said a police official.
The police official added that one person died at the spot of the attack while the other departed this vale of tears while undergoing treatment.
"The two individuals belonged to the Hazara community and were residents of Hazara Town," stated the police official.
The unknown assailants managed to flee the spot of the incident.
A contingent of police and Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and anti-smuggling operations.... (FC) personnel reached the site of the incident and commenced initial investigation.
"It was act of murder," stated the police official.
There was no claim of responsibility for the incident.
In a separate incident, two bodies were recovered from Khuzdar district in the province.
"The dead bodies were found in Naal tehsil of Khuzdar district," said a Levies official.
He added that the identity of the victims could not be immediately ascertained and both had received multiple bullet injuries.
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[DAWN] At least 20 suspected snuffies were killed as Pakistain Air Force (PAF) jets destroyed a number of krazed killer hideouts and other related targets in Khyber agency.
Security sources told DawnNews that PAF jets targeted krazed killer hideouts in Tirah, killing five suspected snuffies and injuring three others.
In a separate round of Arclight airstrikes, PAF jets struck targets in Khyber's Rajgal area, killing 15 suspected krazed killers.
Militant hideouts and ammunition depots were targeted in Rajgal, claimed security sources.
The identity of the dead 'militants' and their affiliation with any outlawed organization is yet to be ascertained.
The details could not be independently verified as access of media personnel is restricted in the region.
Tirah Valley lies astride the Pak-Afghan border between the famous Tora Bora mountains and the plains of Bara which connects with the picturesque provincial capital, thus giving it a unique strategic position.
Military operations Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... and the National Action Plan were launched against gunnies following attacks on 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 Jinnah International Airport and 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 in 2014.
Since the beginning of Zarb-e-Azb, snuffies have fled to other tribal regions, including Khyber and its Tirah Valley and Shawal, all of which border Afghanistan.
Pak security forces have carried out ground offensives in Khyber Agency ... the place to go if you've got an Indiana Jones hat and whip. Chock full of high adventure and treacherous Pathans. You should really train up to it, though... , particularly the Tirah Valley of Bara which borders Nazyan.
The forces cleared much of the Bara plain in Operation Khyber One launched in October 2014 while in a follow-on operation named Khyber-2 cleared the fierce Tirah terrain consisting of deep valleys and high mountains.
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[Rudaw] At least 15 forces of Evil 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 (ISIS) were reportedly killed while trying to infiltrate across Peshmerga stockades in the village of Bashary in western djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , a Kurdish military official told Rudaw.
"An ISIS group of 15 forces of Evil tried to infiltrate across a Peshmerga stockade but was repulsed, said Captain Khalid Hamzo, deputy commander of the Duhok Peshmerga Battalion.
"Before reaching the Peshmerga barrier they were bumped off," he told Rudaw Friday, adding that an ISIS emir, or governor, named Adnan, was among the dead.
"The ISIS position was bombarded several times by Peshmerga and repulsed. Later, the US coalition managed to conduct Arclight airstrikes on the ISIS stronghold and kill them all," Hamzo said.
Mosul fell to ISIS in June last year. The defeat was a humiliation for the Iraqi Army, with many troops known to have abandoned their weapons and uniforms as they fled the Islamist onslaught.
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[Rudaw] Eight prisoners believed to be working for Iraqi security forces reportedly escaped an alleged secret jail in Salahadin province run by 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 (ISIS), military sources told Rudaw Saturday.
They said the prisoners escaped the prison near the town of Shargat and managed to reach borders controlled by the Iraqi army.
"ISIS has put up several checkpoints at the main roads and published the names and photos of the prisoners," according to an official source at the Salahadin Operations Command."
He said the prisoners "are currently safe."
The military official said, "The prisoners are believed to be employees of the Iraqi security forces who were detained by ISIS."
The prisoners told officials their captors had planned to behead them.
The Iraqi army, together with Shiite militias and tribal fighters, pushed out ISIS from the major portion of Salahadin province in fighting over the last several months.
On Monday, nearly 70 young men living in territories controlled by ISIS turned themselves over to Peshmerga forces on the Gwer front. Many of them described life under ISIS control as "hell," saying had no access to education and had constantly lived with the fear of starvation or violence.
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[Rudaw] 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.... fighter who once declared that his Kurdish identity was "unimportant" was killed in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... province, ISIS social media reports said on Saturday.
The reports gave no details about the death of Abu Humam Kurdi, who often appeared in ISIS propaganda videos, threatening Kurdish leaders and promising to take over all of Iraqi Kurdistan.
"Being a Kurd has no meaning for me," Kurdi declared in one video. In another, he warned against supporting political parties in Kurdistan. He said even if his own brother joined, "I swear to God, I will cut off his head."
Kurdi had also promised ISIS leader Abubakr al-Baghdadi that he would capture all of the Kurdistan region for the radical group.
The ISIS social media reports said Kurdi had fought against the Peshmerga in Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... Tal Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and Tal Kocher.
Kurds in modest numbers have been among the recruits joining ISIS from around the world.
The Kurdistan Region used to be fertile recruitment ground for different murderous Moslem Islamic groups, many fighting Kurdish nemesis Baghdad, Syria or other unwanted regimes in the region.
But the number of Kurdish recruits declined after the bully boyz turned their guns against the Kurdistan Region in August 2014, Peshmerga and religious officials have said.
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Kurdi had also promised ISIS leader Abubakr al-Baghdadi that he would capture all of the Kurdistan region for the radical group.
Juuuuust a little short on that one
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"Being a Kurd has no meaning for me"
And now you're a dead, meaningless Kurd. Congratulations.
[IsraelTimes] Heavy army presence in city as troops block access routes, seek out assailants; soldier maimed in Friday attack remains at death's door
This was the only excitement reported on Saturday.
Israeli security forces tossed in the calaboose Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! Friday overnight a 16-year-old Paleostinian from the Hebron area, who admitted to shooting and seriously wounding an IDF soldier earlier that day, officials said Saturday.
The teen, from the village of Bani Naim, also handed over the rifle he had used to security forces, according to a statement from the Shin Bet security service. Investigators were continuing to question him.
The soldier, who was shot at the Beit Anun junction north of Hebron on Friday evening, was still being treated at death's door Saturday at Jerusalem's Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital.
He was the fourth person attacked by Paleostinian assailants in the West Bank on Friday. Earlier a shooting attack near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron maimed two Jewish youths, one of them seriously. On Friday afternoon, a man in his 40s was seriously maimed when he was stabbed in a West Bank industrial park north of Jerusalem. The terrorist expeditiously departed at a goodly pace; he later handed himself in to the Paleostinian Authority. Minutes earlier, a Paleostinian woman in her 70s tried to drive her car into a group of IDF soldiers near Hebron, but was shot and killed by troops at the scene. None of the soldiers were maimed in the attack.
In response to the attacks in the Hebron area, many troops moved into Hebron overnight Friday. Forces on Saturday blocked exits from the southern West Bank city as they launched a manhunt for assailants.
On Saturday, army front man Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner told AFP there was "ongoing activity to locate the perpetrators of yesterday's attacks."
Israeli forces were searching Paleostinian homes in and around Hebron as well as setting up new checkpoints, an AFP news hound said. The army also blocked off the northern entrance of Hebron with mounds of dirt. The eastern entrance has been sealed off for days.
Clashes were reported between Paleostinian protesters and security forces. Paleostinian medics said two Paleostinians were maimed by live fire.
Hebron has 200,000 Paleostinian residents with approximately 500 Israeli settlers living in the center, protected by an army-patrolled buffer zone. The situation is a constant source of tension.
[WND] It was recently revealed that Israeli special forces carried out a daring operation to rescue the last Jewish family in the Syrian city of Aleppo.
The Jewish Chronicle reports that preparation for the mission began months in advance. First an Israeli-American businessman named Moti Kahana sent a message to the family, whose name has not been released, that he wanted to get them out of the war-torn country. The family was aware of how dangerous Syria was, but they were too afraid to even take the chance on escaping.
Kahana, who has a number of connections with rebel forces, soon heard reports that ISIS was closing in on the family and decided to get them out, whether they liked it or not.
Without revealing precisely how or with whom he coordinated his plans, Kahana set the wheels in motion for the IDF to make another tally in its history of saving stranded Jews, a list that already includes the legendary stories of Yemen and Ethiopia.
Once the time came, three soldiers knocked on the family's front door. The 88-year-old matriarch answered, fearing that Assad's soldiers had come to take them all away. Instead, the soldiers ordered the seven people present that they could each take one bag and that they must get into a waiting minibus.
After the minibus began moving, the soldiers handed out Syrian passports and said that they would soon be free.
The vehicle was stopped at an ISIS checkpoint, but the family was able to convince the guard that they were refugees trying to escape from Assad. The guard was so impressed by their claims that he even called other checkpoints, instructing them to let the minibus through.
It took them 36 hours to cross the hundred kilometers to the Turkish border. Once out of Syria, they drove to a rented home in Istanbul, where Kahana was waiting.
[AnNahar] The army incarcerated Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! a Lebanese national in the northern region of Akkar on charges of smuggling weapons to a terrorist group, an army statement said on Saturday.
"An army patrol arrested Youssef Mahmoud al-Khodr on Friday, in the northern Lebanese border town of Mashta Hassan," the statement said.
"Khodr is wanted on charges of transporting weapons and ammunition in 2014 in the town of al-Douseh, and attempting to smuggle them through the northern border to one of the terrorist groups," it added.
The man was handed to the related authorities for interrogations.
[AlAhram] US and coalition warplanes carried out 20 air strikes against Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... bandidossnuffies in Iraq and Syria on Friday, primarily hitting targets around the Iraqi towns of Ramadi and Sinjar, the US military said on Saturday.
Coalition jets conducted six air strikes around Sinjar in northwestern Iraq, destroying Islamic State group fighting positions, machine guns, weapons caches and mortar positions, it said in a statement.
They hit an Islamic State group weapons cache, vehicle-borne explosives, heavy machine guns and fighting positions with four air strikes near Ramadi, it said.
Coalition jets carried out a total 15 strikes in Iraq, also targeting the rebels near Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids... Kisik, Sultan Abdullah and Tal Afar, the statement said.
In Syria, coalition warplanes carried out two air strikes near al Hawl, two near Mar'a and one near Dayr az Zawr, the military statement said.
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[AlAhram] At least 23 civilians, among them children, were killed Saturday in suspected Russian air strikes on a rebel-held town outside Damascus, a monitor group said.
The raids hit central Douma, where several markets are held, and killed at least six children and seven women, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
[AlAhram] 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 released 37 Syrian Christians Saturday, most of them women, who were among more than 200 people kidnapped in February, an NGO said.
The group of Assyrian Christians consisted of 27 women and 10 men, most of them elderly, the Assyrian Monitor for Human Rights. They arrived on Saturday morning in the town of Tal Tamr in the Khabur region of Hasakeh province in northeastern Syria, the group said.
The releases were confirmed by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor, which said most of those freed were from other towns in Khabur.
The former hostages were among a group of 220 Assyrians captured by IS when they overran parts of the region in February. Since then, a trickle of prisoners has been released, with between 140 and 150 believed to be still held by IS.
The Assyrian Monitor said the releases were the result of negotiations carried out by the church, but other reports suggest IS has been paid to free the hostages.
Assyrians numbered about 30,000 among Syria's 1.2 million Christians before the country's conflict began. They lived mostly in 35 villages in Hasakeh. In February, IS overran many of the villages, but Kurdish forces later expelled them.
IS has captured hundreds of hostages, including Christians from different denominations, in territory it controls in Syria and Iraq.
Elsewhere, the Britannia-based Observatory said at least 10 civilians, among them a child and a woman, were killed in air strikes on rebel-held Douma, outside Damascus.
The group said the strikes were believed to have been carried out by Russian warplanes, but could not confirm.
The Observatory's director Rami Abdel Rahman said the toll was expected to rise because of the number of people seriously maimed.
Douma lies in the Eastern Ghouta region outside Damascus and is a frequent target of government air strikes.
The Observatory also said Saturday that the toll in Thursday air strikes on the town on Albu Kamal on the Syrian border with Iraq had risen to 49 people, at least 31 of them civilians. It had previously said at least 22 people were killed in the strikes, but it was not able to confirm who was behind the attacks.
Russia, Syria's government and a US-led coalition are all carrying out bombing in Syria, sometimes operating in the same areas.
The Observatory said at least four of those killed in the attacks on the IS-held town were children.
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MOGADISHU -- Somali security forces have handed over three suspects, of whom one disguised as woman to National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA), Garowe Online reports. The men suspected of being would-be suicide bombers were apprehended in front of Mogadishu’s Weheliye Hotel.
[AlAhram] At least 19 people have been killed in Saudi-led coalition air strikes and 
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
[DNAINDIA] Two India-born brothers and naturalised American citizens have been charged by a US federal court for financing al Qaeda and supporting "violent jihad against the US, the US military in Iraq, Afghanistan, and throughout the world". 
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[Rudaw] Eight prisoners believed to be working for Iraqi security forces reportedly escaped an alleged secret jail in Salahadin province run by the 
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[WND] It was recently revealed that Israeli special forces carried out a daring operation to rescue the last Jewish family in the Syrian city of Aleppo.
