The National Directorate of Security (NDS) – Afghanistan’s inelegance agency has detained seven Taliban in southern Kandahar province.
A statement released by NDS on Sunday states that the group was involved in planting landmines and terrorizing tribal elders and religious scholars in Kandahar city.
Military equipment, transmission set, Kalashnikov, ammunition and other materials used in terrorist activities were seized from the possession of the terrorists, the statement adds.
A footage released by the inelegance agency shows the detained terrorists confessing to their crimes and association with Taliban.
Kandahar is the birth place of Taliban and one of the restive provinces in the southern part of the country.
It is considered a stronghold of Taliban who operates in remote areas of the province but occasionally carry out attacks in the provincial capital.
A suicide car bomber, targeting a convoy of troops in Lashkargah in Helmand province on Sunday afternoon, killed at least one civilian and injured about 12 others.
Early reports indicated that a policeman had died but officials later said the deceased was a civilian.
The incident took place in a populated area. It was not however immediately clear whether the 12 people injured were all civilians or whether police or troops were also wounded.
One vehicle in the convoy was however completely destroyed in the bombing - which set the tank on fire, in turn sparking further explosions of weapons from inside the vehicle.
At least 22 insurgents including their commander surrendered their weapons and joined the peace process in northern Sar-e-Pul, local officials said on Sunday.
"Twenty two insurgents including their commander joined the peace process. Their commander, named Khal Mohammad, joined the peace process on two previous occasions," provincial governor, Mohammad Zahir Wahdat said.
"The commander has promised this time that he will not join the insurgent group again," Wahdat said.
Provincial council officials have said that Khal Mohammad is now fighting against the insurgents in Sheramha area of Sar-e-Pul city.
However, the Taliban has not yet commented on Khal Mohammad's move.
[RFE/RL] A drone strike in southern Afghanistan is said to have killed twelve Taliban militants. A spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar province reported the dead included three Afghans and nine foreigners. The Taliban's shadow governor for the district was among those killed.
The strike took place late on November 14 in Khogyani district, where militants have been active for months.
Spokesman Ahmad Zai Abdulzai said 150 Daesh fighters were killed or injured during a two-week military operation to expel them from the Achin district. He said checkpoints had been established to ensure they do not return.
In Helmand province, a suicide bomber targeted a convoy of foreign troops, killing one civilian and injuring twelve other civilians. A spokesman for the provincial governor said the attack occurred near the provincial prison on November 15.
Two people involved in commemorating the second anniversary today of the Gharghour massacre were seized by gunmen after a small group of relatives and friends of the victims had gathered nervously in Quds Square, the scene of the carnage.
Last year’s attempt to remember the slaughter of 43 demonstrators in a hail of gunfire from Misratan militiamen had been quashed by Libya Dawn forces, who had warned against a plot by “infiltrators and terrorists”.
A similar warning was issued this year but the handful of protestors went ahead anyway. They displayed boards with pictures of the dead and stood in silent protest at the massacre. It is understood that the two men were seized when they were putting away the boards.
Two years ago, hundreds of Gharghour residents, fed up with the Misratan militias’ use of villas near the square as a base and prison, advanced on the position demanding they quit the capital. It was part of a wider protest against militias who had come to dominate Tripoli. As the crowd approached the base, they were shot at.
There were reports at the time that a few demonstrators had been armed.
The massacre was the biggest single loss of life since the Revolution. It generated widespread shock and outrage.
Three days later, the Misratans pulled out of Gharghour and went back to Misrata, where they did not receive the normal warm welcome given other returning fighters. Indeed there were small demonstrations in the city condemning the massacre.
Other than the small protest in Al-Quds Square, the only place in Tripoli where the anniversary was marked was in Fashloum. There, protestors demanded that those responsible for the events two years ago be brought to justice.
One of the leading mujahideen commanders in Derna, Colonel Mohamed Bughafir, was killed this afternoon in fighting in Fataieh district south east of the town, according to reports. The area, still held by Islamic State (IS), was hit by US air strike yesterday, with 10 IS militants killed.
The exact circumstances of Bughafir’s death have not been revealed apart from the fact that he was leading in an operation codenamed Shuhada Al-Guba launched today against IS. Also reported killed in the fight was another mujahideen commander, Colonel Salah Sahad – again a former army officer.
From Beida, he had been head of its Ali Hassan Al-Jabber Brigade and was active last year in Ajdabiya against forces loyal to Ibrahim Jadhran when the latter was blockading the oil terminals. But he was forced to withdraw in a deal with Jedhran and local elders. He was then sidelined by the Libyan National Army (LNA) – Air Force chief Major-General Adam Saqr Geroushi is reported to have said that Bughafir could not be trusted. This year he went to Derna and joined the mujahideen against IS, launching a new unit named the Second Infantry Brigade.
The Derna mujahideen do not follow LNA orders and are regarded by it with suspicion although there have been reports of behind-the-scenes cooperation between the two.
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The former Libyan ambassador to Niger, is reported to have disappeared and is feared to have been kidnapped. According to the Beida officies of the Libyan news agency LANA, Essam Qatous apparently vanished on Thursday night at Gasr Khiyar, some 80 kilomtres east of Tripoli.
For the moment no information has been issued about the disappearance.
Kidnappings, mainly for ransom, are on the rise in Tripoli, the surrounding area and, in particular, the road from the capital to the Tunisian border. A week ago, two Serbian diplomats were abducted west of Sabratha. Theur fate remains unknown.
Qatous was removed from his post earlier this year by the foreign minister Mohamed Al-Dairi and replaced by Abdullah Al-Bashir. At first he reportedly refused to hand over, and allegedly only did so when the Nigerien forces intervened at the Libyan foreign ministry’s request.
KUWAIT CITY, Nov 14: Security systems have opened an investigation to determine the identity of a person who left his car and fled on foot after he was stopped by the police for checking. Security sources said the incident happened in Sulaibiya area when the police asked the motorist to stop and he tried to speed off.
The officers managed to catch up with the motorist and compelled him to stop, but he fled the scene on foot leaving his car behind. The same sources noted the officers found inside the car a ‘’flash memory’’ containing speeches and sermons of ISIL, while the car is registered under the name of a GCC national whom the authorities are currently trying to determine his whereabouts.
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Calling all CAIRS
Calling all CAIRS
BOLO for swarthy white-Arab male, approach with caution any and all sack clad babes with Florsheims.
The UAE troops fighting within a Saudi-dominated Arab coalition to restore the legitimate regime in Yemen have sent large reinforcements to Taiz from their base in Aden as a major offensive to seize the Southwestern town draws closer.
Military sources, quoted by Yemen’s news network Marib Press, said “scores” of UAE military vehicles have left Aden towards Al Anad, Yemen’s biggest airbase which has just been rehabilitated by the UAE and other coalition forces.
“Scores of military vehicles belonging to the UAE troops left Aden on Sunday heading for Al Anad air base in Lahij governorate,” a military source told the network.
The sources said the vehicles could then proceed towards Kirsh area, close to Taiz, where the coalition and the national Yemeni army and resistance have been massing troops to attack the Iranian-backed Houthis and their allies.
Yemeni and coalition officials have said that military preparations have almost been completed for a final offensive to end Taiz siege and take full control of the city, where more than 1,500 people have been killed in Houthi random shelling in the past nine months. Hundreds of hospitals, schools and other facilities have also been destroyed.
Iranian-backed coup insurgents have launched attacks on many fronts in Yemen over the past two days in just another desperate attempt to make a moral gain, the country’s assistant defence minister was quoted on Sunday as saying.
“These attacks are just another desperate attempt by the rebels to make a moral and media gain, but I can say that the next few days will see happy news on all war fronts,” Major General Abdul Qadir Al Amoudi told the UAE daily 'Emarat Al Youm'.
He said the national army and the resistance, backed by coalition jet raids, have succeeded in repulsing those attacks and expelling the rebels in most areas.
He said the army and the resistance have sent fresh reinforcements to some fronts, including Damat in Aldale and Dhabab in Taiz, adding that this would allow the national allies to achieve more victories and prepare for the battle of Sanaa.
“I don’t want to disclose details of the preparations for the battle of Sanaa., but I can say that all Yemeni governorates, on top of which is Sanaa, are a target for the coalition and our army…the operations will not stop until all Yemeni soil is liberated.”
He paid tributes to the coalition forces, including the UAE and Saudi Arabia, for their efforts in supporting the national army with weapons and training to prepare it for ending the coup in Yemen and liberate all areas.
[AnNahar] A Bahraini court on Sunday tossed in the clink Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! 12 Shiites for life and stripped them of their citizenship after convicting them of kabooms against police in the Sunni-ruled kingdom, a judicial source said.
The defendants were behind six bombings that targeted police patrols between 2013 and 2014, the source said, citing the verdict.
The prosecution had charged the group with "attempting to kill coppers... bombings, (and) possessing explosives to terrorise people and endanger lives".
Their acts were "serving a terrorist objective," it said.
An Indian and a Bangladeshi were also tossed in the clink Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! for one year, and ordered deported after serving their sentences, for forging the registrations of mobile phones used in detonating the bombs.
The two were not aware that the phones would be used for bombings, prosecutors said.
Bahrain in 2013 passed a law allowing for those convicted of "terrorist" crimes to be stripped of their nationality.
The country's main Iranian catspaw, Al-Wefaq, said recently that at least 187 people have lost their citizenship under the law.
The Gulf country, home to the U.S. Fifth Fleet, has witnessed unrest since the repression of a protest movement launched in 2011 by members of the Shiite majority demanding political reforms.
[JP] To confront comprehensively the Islamic State terrorist attacks on French soil, there have been calls for France's President Francois Hollande to invoke Article 5 of the NATO Treaty, which ensures mutual defense for its members, but neither Hollande nor the military alliance has activated the provision.
The lack of a declaration of war from Hollande and NATO is a window into the courtyard of the EU's gingerly foreign policy posture.
In short, it can be argued the EU failed to internalize the oft-quoted comment from the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky: "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you."
Rewind to 2001. After a group of al-Qaida terrorists smashed planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon, killing nearly 3,000 Americans, NATO triggered Article 5 to announce military support for the US in the event the US chose to wage war against the terrorists.
Article 5 states that "an armed attack'' against European and North American members, as well as Turkey, "shall be considered an attack against them all.'' As a result, NATO members are obligated to impose military force on a NATO adversary.
Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio is ahead of the Europeans, saying Sunday: "We should invoke Article 5."
However, the French-born Israeli political scientist Dr. Emmanuel Navon told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday that Hollande has a "stronger case for article 5" because NATO members UK and US are already fighting Islamic State.
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I just saw a post yesterday which observed France is not a member of NATO, so there is no agreement to invoke.
Another reason France did not join the NATO response after 9/11. They were not obligated to do so.
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France is a full member of NATO; it rejoined the military structure in 2009.
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Just heard Jeraldo Rivera say live on TV that Congress should declare war against ISIS whether bammy agrees or not. He also said we should stop accepting refugees from Syria. This is pretty much as though Mikey Bloomberg came on TV and announced he will buy every man woman and child in America a gun. Interesting times ahead, perhaps...
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Just heard Jeraldo Rivera say live on TV that Congress should declare war against ISIS whether bammy agrees or not. He also said we should stop accepting refugees from Syria.
Having a daughter stuck in the 'kill zone' appears to have altered his thinking somewhat.
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Would Obama veto it? How would that play out during the election? Obama's true believers in the USA are not just going to evaporate as long as they keep getting their bennies. In their eyes, every Obama does is right, and anyone who objects to that is a racis.
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"Obama's true believers in the USA are not just going to evaporate as long as they keep getting their bennies."
Works for me, #11 AH. Since they love Bambi so much, and he can do no wrong in their eyes, move ANY Syrian invaders that Bambi brings into the U.S. into their neighborhoods.
Paybacks are hell.
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Oooooh, I so like that idea. Settle them among the kaffir. Can't wait to hear the whining about the inheritance of 'slavery' (which they engaged in long before anyone on that side of the Atlantic ever knew of the Western Hemisphere).
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As per CNN, FRANCE is claiming that it is NOT in any Post-Paris/Bataclan "Clash of Civilization" agz Muslims.
A roundabaout, PCorrect-Deniable way for the French to say "No" to declaring war andor to invoking NATO.
ITS 1940, + PARIS DEMANDS TO CLAIM THAT GUDERIAN, MANSTEIN, ROMMEL + 7TH PANZER, ETAL. NAZI WEHRMACHT FORCES ARE N-O-T AT THE BORDERS WAITING TO INVADE???
[IsraelTimes] The Death Eaters who carried out Friday's deadly attacks in Gay Paree had communicated beforehand 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.... in Syria, The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reports.
The attackers in Friday's terrorist assault in Gay Paree communicated at some point beforehand with known members of the Islamic State in Syria, officials on both sides of the Atlantic say, adding evidence to the assertions that the radical group coordinated or helped carry out the attacks rather than simply inspiring them.
While the information made available so far about the links between the Islamic State and the Gay Paree attackers was not definitive, it suggested at a minimum that the assailants had not acted totally on their own.
Describing the case for the group's role, American and French officials said the attackers had operated with high levels of sophistication, beyond what would be expected of a plot in which the assailants were merely inspired to act by a radical group rather than being trained or equipped by it.
Seven Afghans and one Ukrainian have lost lives in a helicopter crash in central European country of Slovakia, the country’s interior ministry said on Saturday.
Reuters news agency reports that a Ukrainian civilian helicopter that illegally entered Slovak airspace and crashed on Wednesday killed eight people aboard including a Ukrainian pilot and five men and two women from Afghanistan.
According to the report, Slovak authorities have said an unidentified helicopter was detected in Slovak airspace on Wednesday night. They said Ukrainian authorities have not confirmed that any aircraft had crossed the border, which is also the EU’s eastern border.
Ivan Netik, spokesman for the ministry has been cited as saying that a search operation was begun after the crash but due to heavy fog found the crash site only on Friday,.
“The Mi-2 helicopter with Ukrainian markings was flying at a low altitude in very bad weather conditions, as if it was trying to avoid being detected,” Netik said.
Documents in Arabic were found at the site which point to the victims being from Afghanistan, he said.
The ministry said it was working with Ukrainian authorities to investigate and has hinted that people smuggling may have been involved.
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First and foremost, Islam is a political movement. Nothing more, nothing less.
It is Arab supremacy with spiritual undertones stolen from the roots of Religions it deems proper to destroy. It does so as Islam would never exist were it not for perverted coercion.
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Good stuff in The Atlantic again? It's a sign of the End Times, I tell ya!
Shutting down the radical mosques is a nice idea, but that still leaves the banlieues that surround your cities - those hives of crime and disaffected Arab youth that are no-go areas for the cops.
French authorities have said seven suicide attackers died in Friday’s carnage and are hunting another believed to be “directly involved” in the bloodshed. Belgian authorities have arrested seven other men in connection with the attacks.
Only one of the dead attackers, and one wanted man, have been officially named, but details are starting to emerge about others suspected of involvement. Among them is a trio of brothers - one dead, one arrested and one on the run.
1. Omar Ismaïl Mostefai was the first attacker named by French authorities. The 29-year-old is of Algerian heritage and grew up in Courcouronnes, just south of Paris, where he picked up a criminal record for petty offences. He was identified by prints taken from a severed finger found in the Bataclan concert hall, where he detonated his explosives belt.
French intelligence took note of Mostafei when he began spending time at a mosque with radical links in 2010, but they lost track of him in 2013, when he may have travelled to Syria, the Washington Post reported. His brother said they had not spoken for years, but he is still being questioned by police along with six others, including Mostefai’s father and sister-in-law.
2. Salah Abdeslam. Police have put out a wanted poster for the 26-year-old. Salah is thought to have rented the black Volkswagen Polo used by the group that attacked the Bataclan concert hall, the Associated Press reported. He was born and lived in Belgium.
3. Salah’s brother Ibrahim Abdeslam was identified by prosecutors as the man who rented a Seat vehicle used in the attacks. He carried out the suicide attack at the Comptoir Voltaire cafe. He was 31.
4. A third Abdeslam brother, who has not been named, is believed to have been among seven people arrested on Saturday in the Molenbeek-Saint-Jean district of Brussels, suspected of being connected to the attacks.
5. Another attacker who lived in Belgium was named by the Washington Post as Bilal Hadfi. He is thought to have fought for Islamic State in Syria, the paper said, but did not give his nationality.
6. A Syrian passport for a 25-year-old called Ahmed Almohamed was found near the site of one of the bombings. It was registered by a refugee who landed on a Greek island on 7 October, but French authorities have not said if that man’s fingerprints match any of the attackers’ remains.
7. A second Stade de France attacker was identified by prosecutors as another Frenchman who lived in Brussels. Few details have been revealed about him, other than that he was just 20 years old.
8. There are no details as yet on other dead attackers. Seven men have been detained in Brussels over the weekend in connection with the attacks.
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French detectives questioned one of the jihadis behind Friday's terror attacks as he crossed the Belgian border and let him go after he showed them his ID card.
Officers pulled over Salah Abdelsam on Saturday morning on the A2 motorway between Paris and Brussels. He was travelling with two other people, just hours after he abandoned a car containing three Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifles on the outskirts of the French capital.
Detectives soon realised their blunder when they discovered that Abdeslam had rented VW Polo abandoned near the scene of the massacre inside the Bataclan theatre. However, by the time they alerted Belgian authorities, the jihadi had abandoned the car in the jihadi stronghold of Molenbeek, Brussels and disappeared.
An international manhunt has been launched.
It'll have to be international, too, because Abdeslam is no longer in Europe...
French security officials have admitted that Abdeslam was one of three men inside the car which had been stopped on the border on Saturday morning. Officers in Paris had already identified Salah Abdeslam as a person of interest but that information had not been transmitted to those responsible for conducting the border checks.
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[Hurriyet] Five coppers have been maimed as a turban of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) blew his room up ahead of an anti-terror operation in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's southeastern Gaziantep province.
Anti-terror police initiated an operation against an ISIL cell house in Gaziantep's Beylerbeyi neighborhood on Nov. 14, after receiving intelligence that a turban related to the Oct. 10 Ankara bombings had entered the flat.
Special operations units were dispatched to the neighborhood, where many buildings are in construction, while anti-terror police arrived in armored vehicles.
Before the security forces raided the fifth floor flat in the 10-story apartment, an ISIL turban noticed the operation and detonated explosives planted inside his room.
Special operations teams already inside the flat were maimed.
Meanwhile, ...back at the bunker, his Excellency called a hurried meeting of his closest advisors. It was to be his last. They discussed the officers's efficiency rating system... five coppers who were out taking security measures around the building were also injured as a balcony collapsed with the force of the kaboom.
Five maimed officials were transferred to hospitals in Gaziantep for treatment, with one officer seriously injured.
The operation ensued after the kaboom, as a turban who had fled the cell house ahead of the operation was captured on Ipekyolu Boulevard.
The police also determined two other ISIL snuffies had escaped during the operation. However, the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... no trace of the snuffies could be found after hours of searches in empty houses around the neighborhood.
Gaziantep Governor Ali Yerlikaya visited the neighborhood after the operation in order to receive information. Yerlikaya later visited the maimedcoppers in the hospital.
In a written statement released on Nov. 15, the governor's office announced that five coppers had been maimed, two women had been apprehended and three children had been taken under state protection.
According to the statement, a suicide bomb vest, seven TNT cluster bombs and a large number of Kalashnikovs and explosives were seized in the operation.
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[Hurriyet] A woman has been killed while four others, including the woman's two children, have been maimed in festivities between the turbans of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and security forces in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's southeastern Mardin province.
Clashes between the security forces and the youth wing of the PKK, the outlawed Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement (YDG-H) ensued on the second day of a curfew in Mardin's Nusaybin district.
A woman was killed while four others were maimed as YDG-H turbans attacked security forces that were working on filling trenches on Cagdas Street on Nusaybin's Firat neighborhood.
Selamet Yesilmen, a 44-year-old woman, was killed during festivities on the same street. Yesilmen's daughter Sevcan, 14, and her son Firat, 10, were also maimed. A man identified as Yilmaz Tutak, 40, who ran to help Yesilmen and her children was also injured. All maimed persons were transferred to Nusaybin State Hospital for treatment where Selamet Yesilmen succumbed to her wounds.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy's udder had begun to ache... a man identified as Abdulhakim Aytimur was also maimed when an unknown object hit him in the back. Aytimur was also brought to Nusaybin State Hospital, though he was not mortally maimed.
[The Mail] Neurosurgeon-turned-presidential candidate Ben Carson thinks those big frontal lobes that humans possess can come in handy - especially when it comes to making good decisions about Syrian refugees.
Today Carson told Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday that thinking it's a good idea to let Syrians into the United States after the recent terror attacks in Paris requires 'a suspension of intellect,' the GOP candidate said.
'You know that the human brain has these big frontal lobes, as opposed to other animals, because we can engage in rational thought processing,' Carson said.
'Animals, on the other hand, have big brain stems and rudimentary things because they react,' Carson said. 'We don't have to just react we can think.' And putting on his own personal thinking cap, Carson suggested that the United States help the refugees who are fleeing from ISIS, but keep them closer to home.
'We should use our expertise and resources to help get them resettled -- over there -- and to support them over there,' he said.
Carson and his fellow Republicans were quick to say they'd close the door on the flow of Syrian immigrants expected to pass through U.S. borders upon learning that a Syrian passport was found at one of the Paris attack scenes. There's concern that ISIS is taking advantage of the current refugee crisis, and infiltrating those masses.
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You're way too generous. The socialist and ISIS both want to end Western Civ. Until you start to acknowledge that fundamental point, you'll never grasp the real problem.
[Detroit Free Press] LANSING -- Gov. Rick Snyder's decision to suspend efforts to bring Syrian refugees to Michigan in light of the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday has sparked controversy and launched the state into the national debate of how to protect U.S. citizens while providing a haven for those who desperately need help.
Snyder's office released a statement Sunday saying the state would not be accepting any Syrian refugees until the U.S. Department of Homeland Security fully reviewed its procedures.
"Michigan is a welcoming state and we are proud of our rich history of immigration," Snyder said in the statement. "But our first priority is protecting the safety of our residents."
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Pardon my bluntness but what do we have to gain by a huge influx of Islamic refugees?
Based on the European experience, we get populations who don't share any of our cultural or educational values, who end up on the dole. Seems much more cost effective to provide aid and refuge in their own countries, even if it means sending in the 4th Infantry Division and the Red Cross.
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CNN AM = repors that a large number of US States are refusing to accept any Syrian or Muslim Refugees in the aftermath of 11/13 = Paris/Bataclan attacks.
A handful of US States are also repor by CNN as refusing to accept any Syrians or Muslim Refugees unless their backgrounds have been thoroughly vetted, or in alternate will accept only [vetted?]SYRIAN OR ME CHRISTIANS.
[Wash Times] Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley, citing the Paris terror attacks, said he will not accept Syrian refugees in his state.
In a statement released Sunday night by his office, Mr. Bentley said he "will not place Alabamians at even the slightest, possible risk of an attack on our people."
"After full consideration of this weekend's attacks of terror on innocent citizens in Paris, I will oppose any attempt to relocate Syrian refugees to Alabama through the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program. As your Governor, I will not stand complicit to a policy that places the citizens of Alabama in harm's way," Mr. Bentley said.
The state has one refugee-processing center, in Mobile, and while there was no immediate indication that Alabama had accepted any Syrian refugees, neighboring states such as Louisiana have.
SHEIKHUPURA: Three hardcore suspected terrorists were arrested, besides recovery of weapons from them during a crackdown on Sunday in District Sheikhupura.
DPO Sohail Zafar Chattha said that the police, on a tip-off, conducted operation in Tehsil Ferozwala of Sheikhupura during which three suspected terrorists were apprehended with weapons.
Sohail Zafar said that the suspects were planning to target public places during the upcoming local bodies (LB) elections, but timely action foiled the bid. The detainees have been shifted to an undisclosed location and more arrests were expected as they were being interrogated.
QUETTA: Unidentified armed men shot dead a man and injured a shopkeeper in Turbat, Balochistan. Police informed on Sunday that the Amjad Khan, a resident of Turbat, was on his way home when armed assailants opened fire at him and killed him on the spot.
Meanwhile, a shopkeeper namely Saghar also received wounds during firing. The body and the injured were rushed to nearby hospital where the body of the deceased was handed over to the heirs after legal formalities. Police registered a case and started investigation.
KARACHI / LAHORE: A police team from Punjab has arrested Capt Asmat Mehmood, the pilot who crash-landed a Shaheen Air flight in Lahore on Nov 3.
The team raided the pilot’s home in the Defence Housing Authority early on Sunday morning and took him away, according to his family and friends.
The Civil Aviation Authority has accused the pilot of having flown the plane while he was fatigued and ‘drunk’.
The pilot’s home is located in the jurisdiction of the Darakhshan police station, which expressed ignorance about the raid and the arrest.
When contacted, the Karachi-South Zone DIG, Dr Jamil Ahmed, told Dawn that he could not comment because he was on leave.
But another senior police officer, who wished not to be named, said that local police personnel had accompanied the Punjab police team during the raid and an entry was made in the diary of the police station.
Family members and friends told newsmen that 12 to 15 men, some in police uniform, had entered the pilot’s residence after scaling its walls. They accused the police personnel of manhandling Capt Mehmood before taking him away. They also took away his laptop.
Capt Mumtaz Hussain, a member of the inquiry team formed by the CAA, told Dawn that charges against the pilot were ‘baseless’. According to him, the pilot saved lives of 120 passengers and the crash-landing was caused by ‘overweight’.
He claimed that the plane had met with four such incidents over the past three years in Karachi, Quetta and Sialkot.
Quoting the pilot’s daughter, Capt Mumtaz said the police subjected Mr Mehmood to ‘undesirable attitude’. They broke the door, beat up the domestic servant and barged into the pilot’s room. When his (pilot) daughter asked the ‘intruders’ about their identity they said they were ‘robbers’.
When the pilot told them to let him dress properly, they grabbed him by the neck and took him away. “This is an attitude meted out to an experienced pilot who has the flying experience of 20,000 hours,” said Capt Mumtaz.
Deputy Inspector General (Operations), Lahore, Dr Haider Ashraf confirmed on Sunday evening that the Punjab police had arrested the pilot from Karachi.
He told Dawn that a case had been registered against Captain Asmat Mehmood under Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act at Sarwar Road police station on CAA’s complaint.
At least 10 passengers were injured when the plane crash-landed. Carrying 121 passengers and crew, the plane reportedly touched down heavily causing its tyres to burst and skid off the runway. Passengers suffered minor injuries when hand-carry luggage in overhead cabinets fell on them.
CAA spokesman Pervez George told Dawn that the action against the pilot had been taken after the inquiry team found him drunk while flying the aircraft. As per the Pakistan Civil Aviation Rules approved by the Government of Islamic Republic of Pakistan, no alcohol level is acceptable in the blood of any pilot, cockpit crew, cabin crew and passengers,” he said.
Mr George said that medical investigation reports of cockpit crew of the Shaheen Air flight NL-142 just after the incident revealed that the pilot in command had unacceptable level of blood alcohol and lactate.
“The lactate indicates that the pilot was fatigued and he had been drinking alcohol.”
He said the Federal Aviation Authority of the US permitted the blood alcohol level of up to 40mg per decilitre, but it was 83mg per decilitre in the pilot’s blood sample.
Mr George said such a level might affect the central nervous system and lead the pilot towards error of judgment.
Meanwhile, President of the Pakistan Air Lines Pilots Association Amir Hashmi called for an impartial inquiry into the incident and said that technically qualified people should be recruited in the CAA.
In a statement, he alleged that in the recent past the CAA had conducted one-sided enquiries and had taken harsh actions against pilots.
TAXILA: A joint search operation was conducted by police and army officials on Saturday in order to seek out possible anti-state elements in the vicinity of Gurdwara Punja Sahib in Hassanabdal.
The operation was backed by intelligence agencies, and was conducted before a massive Sikh pilgrimage to the area beginning on November 20.
The door-to-door search operation, which took around two hours to complete, was conducted by police officials along with two sections of the Elite Force and 30 army personnel.
During the operation 110 houses around the temple were checked, as were 146 residents.
Sub-divisional police officer (SDPO) Taifour Akhter on Saturday said that police were acting on information from intelligence agencies.
He said that police, accompanied by army, intelligence agencies and other law enforcement agencies launched an operation in the area around the temple. Mr Akhter said that security had been strengthened in anticipation of the pilgrimage and all resources would be utilized for the safety and security of the visiting pilgrims.
KHAIRPUR: The Khairpur police on Saturday claimed to have arrested the prime suspect of the October 31 Daraza firing incident along with his two alleged accomplices.
The firing at a polling station had left 12 people dead and several others wounded. Most of the deceased victims were members of the Hur Jamaat and activists of the Pakistan Muslim League-Functional and belonged to Sanghar district.
A police team led by the Khairpur SSP raided Nihal Khan Kalhoro village late on Saturday night and arrested Ikhtiar, son of Bilawal Junejo, Sajid, son of Ghous Bukhsh Kalhoro, and Aijaz, son of Khadim Junejo, a press release issued from the SSP’s office said. It claimed that Ikhtiar was the prime suspect of the incident, adding that one Kalashnikov and a repeater gun were seized from the suspects.
The Sindh government had recently announced a head-money of Rs1 million for Ikhtiar Junejo.
KARACHI: Two policemen deployed for the security of the Ismaili community’s residential complex were shot dead at a checkpoint in the Sachal area on Saturday noon, according to officials.
Police constables Ali Raza, 50, and Ghulam Jaffer, 46, were targeted at the checkpoint set up outside Jeewani Heights, off the Superhighway, by four armed motorcyclists, said Gadap SP Chaudhry Saifullah.
The attackers also took away their official weapons, the officer said.
Both policemen were rushed to the nearby Dow varsity hospital where doctors declared constable Ali Raza dead on arrival, said Sohrab Goth DSP Khalid Khan. He added that the other constable, Ghulam Jaffer, who sustained gunshot wounds in the head died during treatment later in the evening.
According to the police, constable Ali Raza was posted at Sachal police station some four months ago. He was a resident of Bhitaiabad and originally hailed from Pano Aqil. Constable Ghulam Jaffer was posted at the Sachal police station about six months ago. He was a resident of Sachal Goth and originally belonged to Kotdiji.
With the murder of the two police officials, the number of policemen killed in the city during the current year reached 80, said a police spokesperson.
The police investigators said all the attackers wore helmets. Three of them were clad in shalwar kameez while their accomplice wore a shirt with trousers, the officials said.
The Gadap SP believed that the attack was carried out in a way that the policemen could not get a chance to retaliate.
“The picket was set up at a sensitive place,” said additional inspector general of police Mushtaq Ahmed Mahar while talking to the media at the crime-scene.
Mr Mahar, who visited the crime-scene along with Karachi-East DIG Munir Ahmed Shaikh, did not specify the nature of the area’s sensitivity.
Police sources said some police posts were established in the vicinity to keep a strict watch on criminals and to protect the community in the area after the May 13 targeted attack on their bus in which over 45 Ismaili community members were shot dead.
DSP Khan confirmed to Dawn that the police picket was set up for the protection of Ismaili community members as they resided in Jeewani Heights.
“There should have been at least four policemen at the picket,” said the city police chief. But the SHO concerned displayed ‘negligence’ by deploying only two policemen there. He said there was also negligence on the part of the officer that the policemen had not been provided with bulletproof jackets.
Asked as to how bulletproof jackets could have protected them when hitmen shot the policemen in the head, the police chief said the Sindh government had been asked for the procurement of light-weight bulletproof helmets as the old ones were heavy.
About the unabated killing of policemen despite the Rangers-led targeted operation in Karachi for the past two years, additional IG Mahar said the city that had been in the grip of violence for the past three decades could not be purged of criminals within just one or two years.
He added that the killing of the policemen might be a reaction to the ongoing operation against the criminals. About the latest killing of the two policemen, he said the attackers used 0.9mm pistol and 30-bore pistol in the attack and took away official weapons. He said the police investigators later collected 14 spent bullet casings from the crime-scene.
He said a forensic report might help the police investigators to identify the group involved in the deadly attack and to determine if the same weapons were used in other murder cases.
Following the killings, the police launched a search operation in surrounding areas. “We searched homes and flats in surrounding areas but no one was detained as we don’t want to arrest innocent persons,” said the Sohrab Goth DSP.
Meanwhile, the DIG East suspended and reverted Sachal SHO and head mohrrir on charges of negligence.
[AnNahar] Members of Iraq's Yazidi minority, which was brutally attacked 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, looted and burned Muslim homes in Sinjar after its recapture from the jihadists, witnesses said Sunday.
IS overran the northern town last year, targeting Yazidis -- whose faith it considers heretical -- in a campaign of massacres, enslavement and rape that the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... has described as a possible genocide.
Yazidis fleeing the IS onslaught in August 2014 told AFP that some of their Muslim neighbors enabled the attacks, identifying them for the jihadists.
Rudaw reported that they not only pointed out the Yezidis, but participated in what followed.
Sinjar was recaptured from IS on Friday in a major operation led by forces from Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region and backed by U.S.-led air strikes.
"Muslim houses were looted and burned," especially those that had "Sunni" written on them after IS seized the town, said one witness, who declined to be named.
An AFP journalist saw houses in Sinjar that had been marked "Sunni", possibly as a means for IS to identify which homes should be protected.
"I saw one of the mosques burned at the hands of Yazidis," the witness said.
A second witness, who also asked not to be identified by name, also reported seeing Yazidis looting Muslim homes and setting them alight.
Kurdish security commanders denied that burning and looting was taking place, and accounts of the unrest could not be independently confirmed.
Rights group Amnesia Amnesty International documented attacks by Yazidi Death Eaters against two Sunni Arab villages north of Sinjar in January, in which 21 people were killed and numerous houses burned.
Looting and burning has followed the recapture of other areas in Iraq from IS, sparking resentment among residents and posing a threat to long-term stability.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Iraqi police announced on Sunday, that two persons had been killed in a bomb blast in the district of al-Mahmoudiyah in southern Baghdad.
The source reported for IraqiNews.com, “This afternoon, a bomb that was emplaced under a civilian vehicle went off as it passed in the area of Tal Asmar in the district of al-Mahmoudiyah in southern Baghdad, resulting in the death of the driver as well as a person that was with him.”
The source, who requested to remain anonymous, added, “A security force arrived in the area and transferred the two bodies to the forensic medicine department, while opened an investigation into the incident to determine the party that stands behind it.”
(IraqiNews.com) Salahuddin – A security source in Salahuddin province said on Sunday, that two civilians were killed by a sniper in central Tuz Khurmatu District in eastern Salahuddin.
The source, who requested anonymity, reported for IraqiNews.com, “Today, a sniper shot two civilians in central Tuz Khurmatu District (90 km east of Tikrit), resulting in their immediate death,” adding that, “The bodies of the dead were transferred to the forensic medicine authority.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the police announced on Sunday, that an officer and a soldier had been killed and two other soldiers were wounded in a bomb blast that targeted an army patrol south of the capital Baghdad.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “An explosive device that was planted on the roadside exploded in Arab Jabour area, targeting an army patrol,” pointing out that, “The blast resulted in killing an officer and a soldier, in addition to injuring two soldiers.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added: “The security forces cordoned off the area and transported the injured to a nearby hospital and the bodies of the dead to the forensic medicine department.”
[Rudaw] Official sources from the Anbar police told Rudaw Sunday that Iraqi security forces with the support of tribal militias and US coalition Arclight airstrikes have taken over the Ramadi train station and killed several ISIS krazed killers.
"US coalition warplanes have targeted several ISIS strongholds in Harrayat district, which resulted in the death of several ISIS krazed killers," the sources, whose names were not provided, said.
On Saturday, Eid Amash, a spokesperson of the Anbar provincial council, told Rudaw, "Iraqi security forces managed to take control of the shelter of emergency police forces after hours of festivities with 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.... organization in northern Ramadi and several districts of southern Ramadi."
Some 10,000 Iraqi soldiers, coppers, Death Eaters of the Shiite Hashd al-Shaabi and tribal forces have been fighting to clear Anbar province from ISIS since June, but they have not managed to make any significant advances into ISIS-held areas since operations to take back the province have several times been repulsed by ISIS.
Recently, Iraqi Defense Minister Khaled al-Obeidi claimed that Iraqi joint forces have made massive advances from all directions around the Islamic State-held city of Ramadi, and the lovely provincial capital would soon be liberated from the Lion of Islam group.
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[Rudaw] The Shiite militia movement known as the Hashd al-Shaabi, or Popular Mobilization Units, has arrived in the town of Saadia with heavy weapons and intends to enter by force the Kurdish-controlled town of Jalawla, a Kurdish official told Rudaw on Saturday.
Jalawla and Saadia, both located in Diyala province, have been heavily disputed areas between Kurdish and pro-central government Shiite forces even as both factions are fighting 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.... Jaafar Mustafa, a Kurdistan Democratic Party official in Khanaqin, told Rudaw Saturday the Hashd al-Shaabi want to implement ex-Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014... 's plan to control Saadia, Jalawla, Amrly and Sleman Bagh, adding that if hostilities continue between the erstwhile allies the situation will only get worse.
Mahmud Sangawi, the head of Peshmerga forces in Jalawla, said his forces are aware of the Hashd al-Shaabi plan for Jalawla and his Peshmerga are well prepared.
"We hope nothing will happen, but if they fire at Peshmerga we will respond," Sangawi told Rudaw Saturday. "We will never let them take over Jalawla. Jalawla is a Kurdish town. We took control of it with our blood. No other forces should be seen inside Jalawla."
Kurdish Peshmerga and security forces in Khurmatu, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... clashed with Hashd al-Shaabi forces last week and several people were killed on both sides.
Amid recent tensions between Kurdish forces and Shiite militia in Khurmatu, locals reported Saturday that Shiite forces of Evil had torched homes and shops in several parts of the town.
However, you can observe a lot just by watching... calls for peace amid the escalations have come from an unlikely source.
On Friday Iraqi Shiite holy manMoqtada Tater al-Sadr ... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah... , whose Mahdi Army during the US-occupation of Iraq was infamous for promoting violent sectarianism, called on Kurdistan region President Masoud Barzani, Iraqi President Fuad Masum and Shiite militia leader Hadi al-Amiri to work towards ending the conflict between the Peshmerga and Hashd al-Shaabi.
[Hurriyet] The Turkish military staged a cross-border aerial campaign in northern Iraq and hit 44 outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) targets in the Qandil Mountains throughout the night of Nov. 14, military sources said.
F-4E 2020 and F-16 war planes along with unmanned drones participated in the Arclight airstrikes. The PKK tried to restore some shelters and storages after receiving blows from Arclight airstrikes by the Turkish Armed Forces since July, according to sources.
Iraqi Kurdish forces were working to clear bombs planted by the Daesh group in Sinjar, where a grave believed to hold dozens of the militants' victims was found on Saturday. The bombs must be removed before the northern town's mainly Yazidi residents - members of a minority group who were targeted in a brutal campaign of massacres, enslavement and rape by Daesh - can return and begin rebuilding their lives.
Kurdish regional president Massud Barzani on Friday announced the "liberation of Sinjar", a day after the launch of a major ground operation to drive out the militants.
"Until now, we defused 45 bombs and a car bomb," said Sulaiman Saeed, a member of the autonomous Kurdish region's peshmerga forces who works in explosives disposal.
"Bombs are widespread in houses," Saeed said, adding that some 20 tonnes of explosives were found in a bomb-making factory, while they also discovered 20 barrels of explosives. "Now that they've seized Sinjar, or freed Sinjar, the next phase is to go back and clear it," Colonel Steve Warren, spokesman for the international operation against Daesh, told a news conference on Friday.
"That will take a while, that will probably take a week, 10 days, maybe even two weeks, depending on the complexity of the minefields and obstacles that (Daesh) left behind," Warren said.
But bombs are not the only obstacles to a return by residents, as many houses and shops were smashed during the fighting.
With the town retaken from Daesh, new evidence of the militants' horrific abuses is beginning to emerge. Based on information from young women who witnessed the executions and were enslaved by Daesh but later escaped, officials on Saturday found the site of a mass grave believed to hold dozens of Yazidi women killed by the militants. Miyasir Hajji, a local council member for Sinjar, said that the grave on the edge of the town, which has not yet been excavated, is thought to contain the bodies of 78 women aged from 40 to around 80.
"It seems that the terrorist members only wanted young girls to enslave," Hajji said, referring to the militants using women as sex slaves who can be bought and sold.
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[Ynet] A member of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,' armed wing was killed and two others injured Saturday night in a tunnel kaboom in the Gazoo Strip. The incident appears to have been a work accident during military activity.
Paleostinian affiliated with Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, died on Sunday after apparently blowing himself up by accident in unclear circumstances, medical and security sources said.
The body of 25-year-old Amir Hamad al-Zaharani was brought to the Shifa Hospital in Gazoo City early on Sunday after an apparent kaboom, a medical source said. Three others maimed by shrapnel were being treated, he added.
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Islamist movement Hamas which controls the Gazoo Strip, confirmed in a statement that Zaharani was a member. The group said Zaharani, who came from Sheikh Radwan in northern Gazoo, died "as a result of an error with a weapon".
A security source in Gazoo told Agence La Belle France Presse that according to preliminary information the death was caused by an "accidental kaboom" of a rocket-propelled grenade.
[IsraelTimes] Family of Shadi Matua feared their home would be demolished by IDF after he shot and killed Israeli rabbi and his son
The father and brother of a Paleostinian terrorist who rubbed out two Israelis in the West Bank on Friday were the ones to inform the Israeli authorities of his involvement, in a bid to prevent the family home being demolished.
Oh?
Hebron resident Shadi Ahmad Matua, aged 28 and married with two children, was incarcerated Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! by the Israel Defense Forces on Saturday night, and is said by Israel to be a member of the Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... terrorist group.
Following an extensive search, security forces located the gun that killed Rabbi Yaakov Litman, 40, and his 18-year-old son Netanel, as well as a car used in the attack near the settlement of Otniel.
The other family members in the car -- the mother, a 16-year-old boy and three maidens of tender years aged 11, 9 and 5 -- were lightly maimed, suffering mostly from bruises and shrapnel injuries.
According to a report from the Hebrew-language Ynet website, Shadi Matua told his brother Majidi that he had carried out the shooting. His brother then told their father and the two decided to turn the shooter in, to avoid a possible razing of their home.
Smart move -- winter is coming.
The suspect made comments during his initial investigation that implicate him in the attack, the Shin Bet security service said in a statement.
The practice of demolishing the family homes of holy warriors has been criticized by non-governmental groups, but government officials have defended its use as a deterrent against attacks.
Not to mention as an impetus to contact the IDF.
Critics claim that, in addition to being a form of collective punishment, house demolitions could motivate family members of holy warriors to launch attacks themselves.
Betcha no one else in this family makes that mistake.
Israel razed four homes of holy warriors overnight Friday, after the High Court upheld the measure despite an appeal by the families living in the homes.
Authorities say the Litmans' car was fired on by a car that passed it on the road. After being hit, the car swerved into the opposite lane, where it crashed into rocks by the side of road. Yaakov and Netanel were both hit by the initial gunfire, and Yaakov was fatally maimed. Netanel Litman tried to call rescue services but was then also rubbed out by the gunman, who got out of his car to fire more shots into the Litmans' vehicle. The Litmans were driving to an event in the town of Meitar to celebrate the upcoming wedding of their eldest daughter.
Father and son were laid to rest Saturday night in Jerusalem.
The IDF said in a statement Monday morning that IDF troops had come under attack overnight during the operation to demolish the home of Muhammad Abu Shaheen, the terrorist who murdered Danny Gonen in the West Bank in June, in Kalandia.
Armed gunmen opened fire on the soldiers who fired back in response.
"Suspects opened fire at the forces and in response to the immediate danger they fired towards the attackers," the IDF said. "In addition, hundreds of Palestinians attacked the force with fire bombs, IEDs and rocks."
The IDF reported three Palestinian casualties in the scuffle. There were no Israeli casualties.
All that effort by hundreds to accomplish absolutely nothing? No wonder they don't have a country.
25-year-old Danny Gonen of Lod was shot dead on June 19, 2015 near Dolev, about 27 km. northwest of Jerusalem, after he and a friend were waved down by a Palestinian man on the side of the road, who shot them with a 9 mm. pistol at pointblank range. The thing about Palestinians that even most Israelis don't grasp is what they are not a nation but the World's biggest terrorist organization---possibly to be superseded soon by European Muslims.
[Gulf Today] Two more Abu Sayyaf militants were killed in a clash with Philippine security forces in their continuing operations launched to rescue about 12 hostages being held on the island province of Sulu.
Brigadier General Alan Arrojado said the two slain were among twenty militants who engaged Marine troops in a running gunbattle on Wednesday in the jungles of Patikul, Sulu where they operate with impunity.
Arrojado said Patikul police confirmed the killing of the two insurgets by mortar fire as they battled pursuing troops determined to rescue their remaining hostages including the three foreigners — two Canadians and a Norwegian — and their Filipina companion they had abducted from an island resort in Davao del Norte province on September 21.
In a related development, Lieutenant General Rustico Guerrero said they have established the identities of the Abu Sayyaf militants who participated in the abduction of the three foreigners. He reported, "They are Sulu-based Abu Sayyaf militants," saying their identities were based on documents and videos submitted to the military.
According to Guerrero, some of the identified suspects were linked to previous kidnapping cases of foreigners in Mindanao including a German couple in 2014.
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Which serves as a reminder: have you replenished your ammo supplies lately?
[ARA News] HASAKAH – The United States has delivered a second batch of ammunition to fighters of the Kurdish-Arab alliance battling the extremist group of Islamic State (ISIS) in northern Syria, a U.S. official reported.
The first batch of weapon shipment was delivered on October 11 through an air drop.
The joint forces, mainly known as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), consists of nearly 10-12 groups that may reach to almost 5,000 fighters, many of whom stood alongside the Kurds finding them a well-organized force on ground in northern Syria.
Backed by the U.S.-led coalition’s air cover, the SDF has recently recaptured the key town of al-Hawl in eastern Hasakah province, on the Syria-Iraq border.
In a shift in its anti-ISIS strategy, the U.S. second batch of weaponry was delivered on Saturday by land, the U.S. official added, without further details.
Turkey, the U.S. NATO ally, has repeatedly criticized bolstering Syrian Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) on ground in northern Syria, expressing its concerns following the first ammunition air drop.
Turkey, which has its own large Kurdish population of approximately 15 million, fears of any advance by Syrian Kurds on the southern borderline.
After stopping the plan of training fighters outside Syria, Washington started supplying groups headed by U.S.-vetted commanders inside the country as a new strategy for combatting ISIS.
The U.S. military has expressed confidence that the ammunition helped the SDF who were able to recapture territories in the northeastern province of Hasakah, including the key town of al-Hawl ــthe main ISIS bastion in northeastern Syria.
The new delivery of weapons would most probably push the SDF fighters to target the terror group in the town of Shaddadi south of Hasakah.
ISIS playing hardball
[ARA News] URFA – The radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) has reportedly executed dozens of its insurgents who fled recent battles with the Kurdish Peshmerga forces in Shingal (Sinjar) district in northern Iraq, official sources reported on Sunday.
“Under the request of the group’s alleged caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, some 73 ISIS militants, who apparently fled the fighting with the Peshmerga forces in the Yezidi region of Shingal few days ago, were executed,” the Kurdish official Saeed Mamozini told reporters in Erbil.
He stressed the executions were carried out by firing squad south of Mosul.
Earlier this week, the terror group executed a number of its local Iraqi militants in Anbar province west of the country on charges of high treason and dissidence from the group, an eyewitness told ARA News on the condition of anonymity.
The source revealed that the extremist group has recently arrested dozens of its Iraqi members, who were apparently trying to desert the group and flee outside the ISIS-held city of Ramadi.
“The group has executed eight local members in the town of Zankoora, in Anbar province,” the source added.
In the meantime, ISIS foreign members carried out a campaign of arrests against Iraqi members of the group, executing dozens on charges of high treason.
Over the past few days, the radical group has faced defeat in both Syria and Iraq. In Syria, ISIS lost control of the key town of al-Hawl in Hasakah province, northeastern Syria, after battles with the Kurdish-Arab alliance of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), while in Iraq, the group has lost the Yezidi region of Shingal after battles with the Peshmerga forces.
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French fighter jets launched their biggest raids in Syria to date targeting the Islamic State’s stronghold in Raqqa just two days after the group claimed coordinated attacks in Paris that killed more than 130 people, the defence ministry said.
“The raid ... including 10 fighter jets, was launched simultaneously from the United Arab Emirates and Jordan. Twenty bombs were dropped,” the statement said, adding that the mission had taken place this evening.
The operation, carried out in coordination with US forces, struck a command centre, recruitment centre for jihadists, a munitions depot, and a training camp for fighters. The sites targeted had previously been identified on earlier reconnaissance flights, the statement said.
That's a good start. Now follow up with a few hundred more strikes like this. And get the French special forces in there slitting throats. And the Foreign Legion to grab a few outposts from which to help the special forces do their jobs better.
A defence official was quoted by Associated Press as saying the strikes were ‘massive’ and had destroyed two jihadi sites in Raqqa.
That's not 'massive' even by today's standards. But if it's day 1 of a decade long plan to extirpate Islamist terrorism, great. But I fear Mr. Hollande will tomorrow say "see, we did something about it" and then be done.
“The first target destroyed was used by Daesh (another Arabic acronym for IS) as a command post, jihadist recruitment centre and arms and munitions depot. The second held a terrorist training camp,” a ministry statement said.
Information from inside Syria suggests the bombings had cut water and electricity supplies.
Activists in Raqqa have said the bombings have caused “panic” in the city.
Raqqa is claimed as the de facto capital of the IS ‘caliphate’, and has come increasingly under the control of the terrorist organisation since 2013. The city has hollowed out under IS rule - the population has fallen from about one million to 400,000 - and IS has imposed an increasingly harsh regime on those who remain.
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What ye'all wondering is will they persist? What I'm wondering: the next time IDF bombs Gaza, will the frogs have the brass to criticize?
[Ynet] A US-led coalition conducted 18 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.... in Syria and Iraq on Saturday, the US military said on Sunday.
Six strikes in Syria hit targets including a vehicle and cash distribution site, and 12 strikes in Iraq used attack, bomber, fighter and remotely piloted aircraft, a statement said.
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[Daily Caller] Ben Rhodes, Deputy National Security Advisor for Barack Obama, doubled down on comments Obama made earlier in the week claiming ISIS was "contained" in Iraq and Syria by suggesting on Sunday "we were able to halt" their expansion.
Appearing on NBC’s “Meet The Press” Sunday, host Chuck Todd asked Rhodes how ISIS could still be “contained” if there were three terrorist attacks potentially committed by ISIS in the last ten days in locations other than Iraq and Syria.
In response to Todd referencing the bombing of the Russian airliner bombing, the Beirut bombing, and Friday’s attacks in Paris, Rhodes explained, “the President was referring very specifically to the question of ISIL’s geographic expansion in Iraq and Syria.”
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Its just like saying that China + PLA are still contained to the SCS + ECS, ergo PLA forces have landed on Guam + taken over Guam's Camel Rock.
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The National Directorate of Security (NDS) – Afghanistan’s inelegance agency has detained seven Taliban in southern Kandahar province.
A suicide car bomber, targeting a convoy of troops in Lashkargah in Helmand province on Sunday afternoon, killed at least one civilian and injured about 12 others.
At least 22 insurgents including their commander surrendered their weapons and joined the peace process in northern Sar-e-Pul, local officials said on Sunday.
[RFE/RL] A drone strike in southern Afghanistan is said to have killed twelve Taliban militants. A spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar province reported the dead included three Afghans and nine foreigners. The Taliban's shadow governor for the district was among those killed.
Tripoli, 15 November 2015:
The Yemeni army and popular committees managed on Sunday to strike a Saudi military boat on Mocha Coast in Taiz province.
The UAE troops fighting within a Saudi-dominated Arab coalition to restore the legitimate regime in Yemen have sent large reinforcements to Taiz from their base in Aden as a major offensive to seize the Southwestern town draws closer.
French detectives questioned one of the jihadis behind Friday's terror attacks as he crossed the Belgian border and let him go after he showed them his ID card. 
[The Mail] Neurosurgeon-turned-presidential candidate Ben Carson thinks those big frontal lobes that humans possess can come in handy - especially when it comes to making good decisions about Syrian refugees.
SHEIKHUPURA: Three hardcore suspected terrorists were arrested, besides recovery of weapons from them during a crackdown on Sunday in District Sheikhupura. 
KARACHI / LAHORE: A police team from Punjab has arrested Capt Asmat Mehmood, the pilot who crash-landed a Shaheen Air flight in Lahore on Nov 3.
TAXILA: A joint search operation was conducted by police and army officials on Saturday in order to seek out possible anti-state elements in the vicinity of Gurdwara Punja Sahib in Hassanabdal.
KARACHI: Two policemen deployed for the security of the Ismaili community’s residential complex were shot dead at a checkpoint in the Sachal area on Saturday noon, according to officials.
(IraqiNews.com) Salahuddin – A security source in Salahuddin province said on Sunday, that two civilians were killed by a sniper in central Tuz Khurmatu District in eastern Salahuddin.
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[Daily Caller] Ben Rhodes, Deputy National Security Advisor for Barack Obama, doubled down on comments Obama made earlier in the week claiming ISIS was "contained" in Iraq and Syria by suggesting on Sunday "we were able to halt" their expansion.
