[AnNahar] Talibs wearing Afghan army uniforms launched a suicide and gun attack on a police headquarters near Kandahar Thursday, killing one soldier before the attackers were rubbed out, authorities said.
The attack came at dawn in the district of Arghandab, some 25 kilometers (15 miles) west of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, a relatively quiet area unused to such attacks, which appear to be a sign of the Taliban's alarming new push into urban areas.
Six people -- five assailants and one Afghan army soldier -- were killed in the attack, police told AFP.
"First one attacker detonated his vehicle laden with explosives at the entrance of the Arghandab police headquarters, then four others tried to enter the compound," Zia Durrani, Kandahar police front man told AFP.
The attack lasted half an hour before the gunnies were killed by security forces, Durrani said.
Niaz Mohammad Mujahid, police chief for Arghandab district, said that one Afghan soldier was killed and three others were maimed. A front man for the Kandahar governor confirmed the assault.
The Taliban, who have been fighting a bloody insurgency since they were driven from power in the US invasion of 2001, grabbed credit for the attack.
The National Directorate of Security (NDS) – Afghanistan’s intelligence agency has arrested a Taliban commander with his men involved in attack that led to the fall of Kundoz city in September.
NDS in a statement released on Thursday states that Ziulhaq and his men Qari Shir Agha, Qandagha, Mohammad Naqib and Wahidullah had recently crossed border into Baghlan province from neighboring Kundoz for attacks.
Besides the assault on the key northern city, the group also carried out terrorist activities in Chahar Dara District of Kundoz province.
A footage released by the intelligence agency shows the detained suspects who say they have received terrorist training in Pakistan.
Baghlan which borders Kundoz in the northern part of the country has been witnessing deteriorating security situation recently.
Nine people sustained injuries in an explosion in its Baghlan-i-Markazi District today
Taliban militants have captured Yamgan of Badakhshan province for second time in six months.
Militants armed with heavy and light weapons launched a coordinated attack on this district from several angles yesterday and ultimately captured the it.
Sakhi Dad Haidari, Deputy Police Chief of Badakhshan said due to bad weather conditions, reinforcement did not arrive to Yamgan on time.
The district was overrun by Taliban in June but after about two weeks they were pushed back and government forces retook control of the seized areas.
Sediq Sediqi, spokesman for the Ministry of Interior said 120 insurgents, including six commanders among them a Tajikistan national, were killed in the operation.
Yamgan is bordering Wardouj and Dara-e-Khastak districts where reportedly Taliban have a strong presence and from there they plan attacks on other areas of Badakhshan.
Nine people have sustained injuries in an explosion in front of the police headquarters of Baghlan-i-Markazi District of northern Baghlan province.
Abdul Bashir, deputy police chief of Baghlan province said the blast took place around 10:00 am this morning.
He said the bomb was attached to a motorcycle parked in front of the police HQ. Six civilians and three security personnel sustained injuries in the explosion.
This was second attack on district police headquarters today. The first one took place in the southern part of the country in which five attackers were killed and a soldier of the Afghan National Army embraced martyrdom.
The attack begun with a Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED) explosion in front of the police HQ of Arghandab District of Kandahar province after which four other militants started a gun battle with security forces.
The clash lasted for about an hour before all four attackers were gunned down by security forces.
No group has claimed responsibility for these attacks.
Five attackers, including a suicide bomber, have been killed and a soldier of Afghan National Army (ANA) embraced martyrdom in attack on Arghandab District of southern Kandahar province.
Kandahar Media and Information Center (KMIC) writes in post on its “facebook” page that the attack was launched by a suicide bomber around 07:00 am in the morning.
According to the information released, the suicide bomber had a “Townace” vehicle laden with explosives and detonated it in front of the police HQ of Arghandab District to remove barricades.
Afterwards, four other militants start exchanging fire with security forces and get killed.
A soldier embraced martyrdom in the clash, the statement adds.
“4 hell-deserved terrorists were killed by security forces after attacking one of the joint security gates of Arghandab District of Kandahar this morning,” states a Thursday morning twitter post by the ministry’s spokesperson Sediq Sediqi.
Kandahar is the birthplace and stronghold of Taliban in southern part of the country.
At least three people, including a district official have been injured when a bomb planted under a car exploded on Wednesday evening in Mogadishu’s Dharkenley district, witness and DC said.
Confirming the bomb attack, Omar Mayre Ma’aw who is in charge of Dharkenley district administration told Radio Shabelle by phone that Mohamed Abdullahi Omar, who was an official in the Dharkenley district was among the wounded.
Afterwards, security force members have cordoned off the area and launched an investigation find out the culprits. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the evening’s bomb attack.
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[Dawn] BAMAKO: Two gunmen have taken 170 people hostage in the luxury Radisson Blu hotel in the Mali capital Bamako on Friday, the group that runs the hotel said.
The hotel chain in a statement said two people had "locked in" 140 guests and 30 employees in an ongoing hostage-taking at the hotel.
"The Rezidor Hotel Group... is aware of the hostage-taking that is ongoing at the property today, Nov 20, 2015. As per our information two persons have locked in 140 guests and 30 employees," the company said.
"Our safety and security teams and our corporate team are in constant contact with the local authorities in order to offer any support possible to re-instate safety and security at the hotel," it added.
Gunmen shooting and shouting "God is great" burst into the hotel, a senior Malian security source said. The source said at least two private security guards had been injured.
Security sources said the gunmen have freed some hostages including those able to recite verses of the Holy Quran.
The raid targeted the Radisson Blu hotel, located just west of the city centre in a neighbourhood that is home to government ministries and diplomats, they said. The Blu is located approx a kilometer from the US Embassy.
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CNN has updates. As of 8:32 a.m. ET French gendermerie and American Special Forces had arrived to support Malian forces, 80 people had been released and 3 were dead.
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When you want the very best, France on Friday afternoon said it dispatched to Mali an elite paramilitary group trained in hostage rescue and counterterrorism operations.
U.S. special operations forces also are helping "move civilians to secured locations as Malian forces clear the hotel of hostile gunmen," said Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Falvo, a spokesman for U.S. Africa Command.
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...neither was Saddam's 'elite' republican guard elite. At least in the military sense, but probably of the politically reliable, much like our own ruling caste 'elites'.
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Isn't Mali kind of a French friend or old protectorate?
Yes. And French troops have been active for the past year or two driving Al Qaeda-linked jihadis and other troublemakers from Mali's northern cities.
However, Al Ahram reports the jihadis were speaking to one another in English rather than French, which is the official language of Mali, or one of the many other recognized or unrecognized languages of the country.
All 54 Misratans seized in Tripoli on Tuesday by gunmen loyal to Abu Sleem militia boss Abdul Ghani Kilki (aka Ghneiwa) were released last night. In return, Misratan forces handed over five of his men they seized the previous day when they attacked a house in Hadba district, allegedly being used as a prison by him.
The deal was hammered out during negotiations in the capital involving representatives from the municipal and military councils of Abu Sleem, Misrata and Kikla. Misrata’s mayor Mohamed Ishtewie was one of the negotiators.
The Misratans, who were randomly grabbed from their cars when yesterday when Ghneiwa’s men set up roadblocks across the city, were released some hours apart in two batches of 27 people.
As part of the deal, the six men discovered at the house by the Misratans and who were alleged to have been kidnapped and held for ransom were handed over to the public prosecutor for investigation rather than being freed.
Gneiwa is reported to have demanded that they be handed back to him.
The deal is seen in Tripoli as a victory for him, reinforcing his growing power, and a major setback for Misrata, the second in just over a fortnight. On 2 November, Misratan forces were unable to protect the Prime Ministry building when it was attacked by Ghneiwa’s ally, Haitham Tajouri.
Misrata’s weak spot is now seen as its many people resident in the capital and who can be abducted by Tripoli militia leaders such as Ghneiwa for political purposes.
Despite the freeing of the 54 Misratans and the removal of the roadblocks, there is still tension still in Tripoli and a widespread belief that there will be further clashes involving them and local militias.
Meanwhile, Sheikh Sadik Al-Ghariani, the Tripoli regime’s grand mufti, has followed the lead of local militia leaders and demanded that Misratan forces quit the capital. On the Tanasah TV station of his Dar Al-Ifta (Fatwa House), he compared the Misratans to the Zintanis, whom he has regularly labelled as traitors. Zintan’s Sawaq Brigade had been kicked out of the city, he said, but now there was a new Sawaq Brigade which likewise had to go.
Two days ago, 11 Tripoli militia leaders signed a statement demanding Misratan forces leave Tripoli.
[AnNahar] Kuwaiti security authorities have busted an international cell led by a Lebanese man that was sending air defense systems and funds to 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, Kuwait's interior ministry said Thursday.
The cell's Lebanese chief, identified as Osama Mohammed Khayat, confessed that he raised funds and provided logistical support for the group, which has carried out deadly attacks in Leb and La Belle France in the past week, the ministry said.
He acted as coordinator for the IS in Kuwait and arranged arms deals and FN6 portable air defense systems from Ukraine, which were shipped to IS in Syria through The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... The ministry did not provide details about the size of the arms deals.
Besides the Lebanese criminal mastermind, authorities tossed in the slammer I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! three Syrians, an Egyptian and a Kuwaiti and said four others were outside Kuwait -- two Syrians and two Australians of Lebanese origin.
Several suspected IS members and sympathizers were tried in the Gulf emirate for a suicide kaboom in June claimed by the group.
A court sentenced seven men to death and tossed in the calaboose Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! eight others to between two and 15 years for assisting the Saudi bomber.
An appeals court is to issue its verdict in the case on December 13.
Earlier this month, Kuwait's lower court sentenced five men to 10 years in jail each for raising funds for IS.
They were charged with raising about 400,000 Kuwaiti dinars ($1.3 million) and sending it to IS, which has seized control of large parts of Syria and Iraq and carried out attacks throughout the Middle East.
Over the past year, Kuwaiti courts have issued several rulings against IS supporters.
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Yemen's military and popular committees enhanced their control over the strategic routes from which Saudi-led/US-backed invaders are attempting to launch campaigns towards the provinces of al-Baidha', Taiz and Ibb on Sunday, November 15, according to both military and local sources.
The sources stated that Yemen's military and popular committees in Makairas district of al-Baidha' province adjacent to Abyan province, repelled on Sunday, November 11, a new attack by Saudi-led/US-backed invaders' mercenaries spearheaded by al-Qaeda elements coming from Lawdar district under aerial cover against Aqabat Therah.
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Yemen’s national army and resistance fighters backed by the Arab coalition air force advance on coup rebel positions in Taiz and seized more land on Wednesday as the insurgents continued their retreat, military sources said on Thursday.
The army and the resistance, who launched a major offensive on Monday to liberate the Southwestern town of Taiz, occupied most areas in Wazeyia and continued their swift advance towards Hannah near the main road linking Taiz with the port of Alhudaydah and other areas, they said, quoted by Yemen’s news network Mareb Press.
In Southeast Taiz, the fighters attacked Rahda town and seize the strategic Hammala hilltop after delaying the offensive for one day because of landlines planted by the fleeing Iranian-backed Houthis and their allies.
The attacks on two fronts were backed by intensified coalition air raids on rebel targets in Taiz, including a Houthi barracks and a Katyusha rocket base.
In another development, a Houthi field commander was killed in pitched battles with the national army and resistance in the Southern Aldale governorate, the network said.
It quoted resistance sources as saying Kahlan Al Shahri was killed after the allies seized Houthi positions in Murais in Aldale.
“The army and the resistance also occupied Yaees and Al Qahra, the last rebel positions in North Aldale following heavy night clashes,” the report said.
[AlAhram] Yemeni pro-government forces advancing into the strategic province of Taez were battling rebels on the outskirts of its second largest town on Thursday, military sources said.
Eight rebels and two loyalists were killed in the fighting for Rahida, the pro-government sources said.
The town lies on the main road from government-held territory towards Taez, Yemen's third largest city, 40 kilometres (25 miles) further north, where loyalist troops have been besieged by the rebels for months.
Loyalist forces were backed by significant reinforcements from a Saudi-led coalition which intervened in support of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi in March.
Hadi returned from Saudi exile on Tuesday as the offensive against the Huthi Iranian catspaws and their allies got under way.
The coalition carried out at least 10 air strikes against rebel positions in and around Rahida during the night, the military sources said.
Breaking the siege of Taez is seen as crucial for the recapture of other central provinces and opening the way to the rebel-held capital Sanaa further north.
It is also important for securing the south, where loyalists have retaken five provinces from the rebels since July, including second city Aden, where Hadi has set up base.
In their advance out of the south, pro-government forces have also been battling the rebels in Marib province east of the capital.
Hundreds of reinforcements were deployed to the province on Thursday, equipped with dozens of military vehicles newly arrived from neighbouring 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... , military sources said.
Loyalists control Marib city, 140 kilometres (90 miles) from Sanaa, but they have so far failed to secure the rest of the province, which is the source of much of Yemen's oil output.
The latest reinforcements came as Saudi Arabia's regional rival Iran called on all sides in the conflict to join UN-sponsored peace talks in Geneva later this month.
Tehran accused Riyadh of deepening the conflict with its military intervention against the rebels.
According to United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... , more than 5,700 people have been killed since the intervention began in March, nearly half of them civilians.
[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 has grabbed credit for shooting and wounding an Italian priest in Bangladesh this week, according to a notice released Thursday by the SITE Intelligence Group.
"Security detachments of soldiers of the Caliphate in Bangladesh carried out some unique operations (including)... Targeting the Italian Crusader foreigner Piero Parolari," the jihadist monitoring organization SITE quoted IS as saying.
Parolari, who worked as a priest and a doctor at Suihari Catholic Mission in the northern city of Dinajpur, was shot by three gunnies on a cycle of violence on Wednesday.
It follows the murders in recent weeks of an Italian faith-based aid worker and a Japanese farmer, in attacks also claimed by IS group.
"Unless we can find out who has actually executed the operations, we can't say who or which group was behind the attack," Dinajpur police chief Ruhul Amin told AFP.
The attack bore "some similarities with the previous attacks on foreigners," he added.
All three of the recent attacks on foreigners involved gunnies riding on cycle of violences.
Bangladesh authorities have previously said there is no evidence that Islamic State turbans are active in the country.
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Father Piero Parolari,
Rather careless on safari,
Ruined his tour of the Dar
By thoughtlessly leaving his car.
Either all of a sudden everyone is taking action, or all of a sudden the authorities are noticing.
[AnNahar] A 19-year-old who spent his student loan traveling to the The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... -Syria border and wanted to join 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 behind bars in Britannia, police said Thursday.
Yahya Rashid paid £906 (1,300 euros, $1,400) for himself and four friends to travel to the Turkish border town of Gaziantep in February.
He stayed in an IS safe house but shortly before he was due to cross into Syria, he changed his mind and returned to Istanbul.
Rashid, aged 18 at the time, was then detained by Turkish police and deported back to Britannia, where he was placed in durance vile Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! on his arrival.
Police believe his traveling companions did cross into Syria and are still there.
Rashid, whose family is originally from Somalia, was sentenced to five years in a youth offenders' institution Wednesday for terrorism offenses.
"You told the jury you had never held a gun in your life and there is no reason to believe that is untrue," Judge Philip Katz told Rashid as he passed sentence.
"But goodness knows what you would have gone on to do as a foot soldier of ISIS" (another term for IS).
Rashid's lawyer Mark McDonald insisted his client had wanted to live in an "Islamic utopia" but not fight.
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How about a lifetime punishment consisting of getting a useless master's degree then having to pay it off at slightly over minimum wage?
[AnNahar] Italian police have incarcerated Please don't kill me! two Syrians trying to travel to Malta on false passports who had Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) related images on their phones, local media reported Thursday.
The two men, aged 19 and 30, were apprehended at Bergamo airport near Milan late Wednesday after presenting Austrian and Norwegian passports but answering only to Arabic, the Eco di Bergamo daily said.
They had been trying to board a flight to Malta. Security officials who searched their mobile phones found photographs related to the jihadist IS group, it said.
The 30-year-old was also captured posing with a submachine gun, though he insisted it was a photograph of his cousin.
The younger man reportedly said he kept the images on his telephone in memory of his dead brother.
Italian security services have been on high alert following coordinated gun and suicide kabooms in Gay Paree last Friday claimed by IS, and warnings from the FBI over possible jihadist attacks at Italia's historical sites.
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[AnNahar] A Hungarian judge ordered on Thursday the deportation to Britannia of two British nationals who spent time in jail for financing terrorism and who were detained trying to enter Romania.
Trevor Brooks, 44, also known as Abu Izzadeen, a Muslim activist dubbed a "hate preacher" by the British press, and Simon Keeler, 40, were not allowed to leave Britannia without permission.
It would appear new protocols are called for.
Hungarian police apprehended the pair on Saturday on a train on the Hungary-Romanian border because they did not have correct documentation and later realized they were subject to European arrest warrants.
Both men, appearing in separate hearings in Budapest flanked by armed guards on Thursday, were incarcerated Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! for financing terrorism and were released in 2009.
It was unclear what the planned final destination of the men had been, with Hungarian media speculating that they intended to travel to Syria via Bulgaria and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... .
Keeler told judge Eva Varhegyi he was on his way to Turkey to join his family, and that security measures imposed against him in London were "too tough."
[AnNahar] A man who killed two members of Bosnia's armed forces in Sarajevo was linked to Islamist circles and almost certainly committed a "terrorist act," a minister said Thursday.
The pair were killed on Wednesday night when a man attacked them with automatic weapons near a barracks in Sarajevo before blowing himself up, police said.
"Based on elements that we have gathered since last night, it is almost certain that this is a terrorist act," Deputy Defence Minister Emir Suljagic told national radio.
He said the perpetrators were "certainly linked with people of radical religious convictions and that is certainly where we should look for the motivation for this attack," he said.
Dozens of coppers from special forces were dispatched to the scene after the attack in a betting shop in a suburb of the Bosnian capital.
They then trapped the killer, a 34-year-old man inside a house, where he went kaboom! at around midnight (2300 GMT).
Police front man Irfan Nefic said two military personnel were killed in the attack, and a bus driver and two passengers were also injured by broken glass when the assailant shot at a bus as he left the scene.
A spokeswoman for Bosnia's anti-terror agency SIPA, Kristina Jozic, told Agence La Belle France Presse that "elements that have been collected so far in this case indicate that there are some elements of terrorism".
Leading Bosnian newspapers on Thursday quoted witnesses claiming that the attacker shouted "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest) before opening fire.
"When the police surrounded the house, an kaboom rang out. They found the corpse of a man who had killed himself inside the house," police official Vehid Cosic told media after the attack.
Muslims make up about 40 percent of Bosnia's 3.8 million people while the rest of the Balkan country's population is mostly Serbian Orthodox or Catholic.
The vast majority of Bosnian Muslims are moderates but a tiny minority openly support radical Wahhabism.
Last year a 24-year-old Bosnian Islamist killed a policeman and injured two others when he attacked a cop shoppe in the eastern city of Zvornik with a shotgun, before being shot.
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According to Michael J. Totten in Where the West Ends, g(r)omgoru, Europe's indigenous Muslims are as likely to be religious as Europe's indigenous Christians.
[AlAhram] Police in Italy and Sweden tried to track down suspected militants and increased security around public buildings on Thursday after receiving reports that attacks might be planned on their soil following last week's mass killings in Paris.
Italy's foreign minister said possible attacks could be aimed at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome or the cathedral or La Scala theatre in Milan. In Stockholm, police stepped up their presence around the parliament and main railway stations.
Both countries were on a high state of alert to guard against any possible attack.
Rome's underground train operator temporarily closed lines on three separate occasions during the day due to suspicious packages, which all proved to be false alarms.
Milan's top city authorities said after a meeting with police officials that there was "no specific evidence of an imminent danger for the city of Milan," but security measures remained at their "maximum level."
In Germany, Bild newspaper reported that a group of attackers had planned to set off multiple explosives in Hanover stadium at Tuesday night's friendly soccer match between Germany and the Netherlands, and to detonate a bomb in the city centre.
Swedish security services said they had concrete information about a possible attack on the country, days after the Islamist militant attacks in Paris that killed 129 people.
Swedish police were searching for a suspect identified as Mutar Muthanna Majid and distributed a grainy picture of a smiling, bearded young man dressed in dark clothing.
Tabloid Expressen said Majid was a member of Islamic State. The news agency TT and newspaper Aftonbladet both quoted anonymous sources as saying he is part of a bigger group of accomplices currently in or on their way to Sweden. A police spokesman would not comment on the report.
Police raised their presence at public and strategic locations around the country, including government buildings, foreign embassies and some media outlets.
Fewer people than normal were using trains and subways in the capital.
"I don't recognise my Stockholm," Camilla Kvartoft, a news anchor at public television station SVT, tweeted.
The president of Sweden's council of Jewish communities, Lena Posner Korosi, said evening activities such as sports training for youths were cancelled in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmo after discussions with police.
Over the last few years, Sweden has participated in NATO missions in Afghanistan and is training Kurdish forces in Iraq, moves that have changed its traditional image of neutrality.
In Rome, Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said security forces were working to identify five people suspected of planning possible attacks.
The US Embassy in Rome said in a message to its citizens that big tourist sites, churches, synagogues, restaurants, theatres and hotels in Italy's two main cities might be targets.
It urged Americans to be vigilant as militant groups "may possibly utilise similar methods used in the recent Paris attacks". There was no suggestion from authorities that the threat encompassed plans for a specific attack.
Gentiloni said Italy was ready to help its "French brothers" in the fight against Islamic State but rejected the possibility of the Western coalition sending ground troops into Syria.
"No one is going to put boots on the ground in Syria, not (French President Francois) Hollande, nor Obama, nor us," he said.
Like much of Europe, Italy is reluctant to join France and the United States in conducting air strikes over Syria because, without an express request from a government it recognises, it considers the legal justification uncertain.
GERMANY THREAT
Germany's Bild said it had obtained a copy of a document by the domestic intelligence service that detailed how attackers planned to set off several explosives in the stadium in Hanover, as well as a bomb in the city centre, during Tuesday's international soccer match. Chancellor Angela Merkel had been due to attend the game, which was called off.
The attackers planned to smuggle the explosives into the stadium in an ambulance, Bild cited the document as saying. After midnight, another attack was planned at Hanover railway station.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere told a news conference: "The indications were so concentrated that calling off the match was unavoidable. Whether the indications were a real threat, or just an indication, we don't know."
In the event, the authorities said they found no explosives at the stadium.
Meanwhile European Union interior ministers are to agree on Friday to tighten checks at the external borders of the passport-free Schengen area to boost security after the Paris attacks, a draft document seen by Reuters showed.
Ministers will agree to "implement immediately the necessary systematic and coordinated checks at external borders, including on individuals enjoying the right of free movement", the draft conclusions of their meeting says.
The document reflects France's request to strengthen controls at the external borders of the 26-nation Schengen area, of which most EU countries are members.
Swedish police on Thursday arrested a man suspected of plotting a âterrorist attackâ after a two-day manhunt, as the country steps up security after last weekâs carnage in Paris.
Iraqi Mutar Muthanna Majid was apprehended during an afternoon raid on a center for asylum seekers in the northeastern city of Boliden without incident, according to security services.
Authorities had issued an arrest warrant for 25-year-old Majid, who local media said was suspected to have fought in Syria, for preparing a âterroristâ attack.
âThe arrest took place in a calm mannerâ and investigators are planning to interrogate the suspect, Swedenâs intelligence agency, Sapo, said in a statement.
[AlAhram] Belgian police tossed in the calaboose Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! nine people in Brussels on Thursday during raids connected to last week's deadly Gay Paree attacks, prosecutors said.
Seven people were "taken in for further investigation" during six raids linked to French national stadium bomber Bilal Hadfi, the federal prosecutor's office said in a statement.
The other two arrests were also linked to last Friday's attacks, the federal prosecutor's office said in a statement.
Many of the raids were in the largely immigrant area of Molenbeek, where Gay Paree attacks ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud and two brothers linked to the attacks, Brahim and Salah Abdeslam, came from.
But there were also raids in the upscale Brussels suburbs of Uccle and Laeken.
Prosecutors said they would give more details on how long the suspects would be held on Friday.
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A plane taking 161 tourists from Poland to Egypt landed in Bulgaria and was being checked for explosives after a passenger said there was a bomb on board, Bulgarian and Polish officials said Thursday.
Georgy Tchipilsky, head of the airport in Burgas, said the Airbus A320 en route from Warsaw to the holiday resort of Hurghada requested an emergency landing due to a bomb threat and touched down in Burgas at 5:48 am local time. The flight was operated by Lithuanian charter airline Small Planet. Tchipilsky said a 67-year-old Polish passenger who said there was a bomb on the plane was being questioned by the police. Tchipilsky could not immediately confirm reports that the man said he had been drinking on the flight.
Polish Vice Consul Jakub Lasinski said on TVN24 he was assured by Bulgarian authorities that the situation is "under full control." There were no reports of any explosives being found.
Passenger Agata Pinuszewska told TVN24 by phone that armed Bulgarian officers burst into the plane at Burgas airport shouting at the man "Where is the bomb?" He was then led out and the other passengers were asked to leave the plane.
Pinuszewska said the passengers were waiting at the airport for another plane to come from Warsaw and take them to Hurghada.
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The suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was among those killed in a French police raid on Wednesday, prosecutors say.
They confirmed the Islamic State (IS) militant had died in a flat in the Paris suburb of Saint Denis.
His body was found riddled with bullets and shrapnel in the apartment. The 28-year-old was identified from his fingerprints. The BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris says the identification of Abaaoud raises serious questions for security services.
He was high on French and Belgian wanted lists and yet managed to travel from Syria to the heart of Paris without ever leaving a trace.
Even Abdelhamid Abaaoud's own family prayed for his death, and on Thursday they got their wish when the Belgian jihadist behind the Gay Paree attacks was confirmed killed in a French police raid.
His female cousin was reported to have blown herself up.
Abaaoud was a one-time school bully and petty criminal from the Brussels immigrant district of Molenbeek who graduated to become a leading 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.... hard boy with ties to a series of plots in Europe.
The effect on his family was profound, with his sister Yasmina telling Phlegmish newspapers last year that "we can only pray that he is really dead" after it was -- mistakenly -- reported that he was killed in Syria.
The Times of Israel reports that cousin was a troubled party girl until about six months ago, when she suddenly started wearing a niqab.
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From a purely statistical point of view, if you have 1.5 Billion Muslims and any good estimate of the extent of serious mental health problems is about 2.5%, that means about 37,500,000 seriously deranged Muslims floating around out there...quite a labor pool for ISIS and probably a pretty good description of the demographic that supplies most of the cannon fodder.
QUETTA: Four suspected militants were killed during a search operation which was carried out after a security man lost his life in a roadside explosion in Mashkay tehsil of Awaran district on Thursday.
Official sources said that a convoy of security personnel was passing through the area when the roadside bomb was detonated by remote control.
They said that security personnel started combing the area for suspects involved in the blast during which they were fired upon from a house. In retaliatory firing, they added, four attackers were killed.
The identity of the dead could not be ascertained immediately.
[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 executed five men it described as spies in Iraq's Anbar province, west of the capital, according to photos posted online.
The photos show the barefoot men dressed in orange jumpsuits kneeling in a street as a crowd of people, many of them apparently turbans, look on.
Black-clad men wearing balaclavas are then pictured shooting them with pistols.
The photos were said to have been taken in Anbar, where security forces are battling to regain ground from the turbans, especially around historic provincial capital Ramadi, which the Death Eaters seized in May.
But no precise location was given, and the authenticity of the images could not be independently confirmed.
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[Rudaw] Warplanes from the US-led coalition blasted 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.... (ISIS) forces of Evil on the Gwer front Wednesday night, said a Kurdish official.
"Last night, the US-led coalition warplanes bombed ISIS bases and positions on the Gwer front, causing casualties among the group's Death Eaters," a Peshmerga official told Rudaw on condition of anonymity since he was not authorized to speak to the media.
The source also said that "four ISIS forces of Evil were hunted down in Arclight airstrikes in the village of Tal Aswad on the Gwer front."
According to Peshmerga officials, there were separate assaults launched by ISIS on Wednesday. No Peshmerga casualties were reported.
Peshmerga forces reportedly defeated two consecutive assaults from ISIS near djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , killing several bandidossnuffies whose bodies were left behind.
"At 8 p.m. sharp, several ISIS forces of Evil launched an assault to capture stockades of the Peshmerga at the heights of Aski Mosul on the western Dijla front," Captain Nawzad Barwari, a Peshmerga offical on the front, told Rudaw by phone.
"The Peshmerga fiercely repulsed the assault, killing several Death Eaters," he said.
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – Interior Ministry announced on Thursday, that 16 ISIS members have been killed in various military operations.
Federal police captain Raed Shakir Jawdat said in a press statement issued by the Ministry of Interior received by IraqiNews.com, “The 5th division of the federal police managed to kill five ISIS members and destroy their vehicle west of the island of Samarra.”
Jawdat added, “A force of the 3rd division killed eight terrorists in Mikshafiya Operations,” noting that, “The police forces also killed three members of the ISIS, after the destruction of their hideout in Husaybah al-Sharqiya.”
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Lads just having their little fun on the Muslim weekend.
[Ynet] After a relative lull in attacks, terror returned to the streets of Israel and claimed the lives of five victims in two attacks, one outside a Tel Aviv synagogue and the other on a road in the West Bank.
Five non-combatants were killed in two terrorist attacks in Tel Aviv and the West Bank on Thursday in the deadliest day of terror yet to strike the country during the current violent escalation began in October.
The first incident took place just outside a synagogue in the Panorama building on Ben Tzvi Boulevard in Tel Aviv on Thursday afternoon. According to witness reports, a terrorist armed with a knife attacked the first victim, who managed to stumble into the synagogue after being stabbed. Other worshippers managed to close the door as the attacker attempted to follow the maimed victim in. The assailant then proceeded to stab several people in the building, killing two Israelis --Reuven Aviram, 51, and Aharon Yesiav, 32, and leaving two others maimed.
Yesiav lived in Holon and worked at a store in the building. He was a father of five, the youngest of whom was born four months ago. He went to pray before the attack and witnesses told his father that he protected other worshippers: "He was the one who saved the people and shielded them with his body from the stabber."
Aviram, 51, from Ramle, was killed while praying. His only son Uriel, 25, found out about his father's death after he saw his body on the ground in a video he received on whatsapp. "He was a humble man, who was taken from us before his time," his son said.
The assailant, a 36-year-old resident of Dura near Hebron, with no criminal record, was seriously maimed and was taken into custody.
Less than three hours later, an Uzi-wielding Paleostinian terrorist killed three people and injured several others after he drove his car onto the shoulder on the congested road leading from Alon Shvut to Gush Etzion junction. The terrorist took advantage of a traffic jam, bypassed several cars, and then shot up the vehicles. The terrorist managed to murder three people in his attack: 18-year-old American volunteer Ezra Schwartz, Yaakov Don, 49, and Shadi Arafa, 40, a Paleostinian citizen of Hebron.
Schwartz was part of a group of Yeshiva volunteers from Bet Shemesh, who travelled to the area in order to hand out food to soldiers. The group was on its way back home before the attack took place. Schwartz came to Israel as part of a program in which young people come to Israel for nine months of volunteer work.
Don, the son of holocaust survivors. and a doctoral student for education technology at Haifa University, had previously served as an educational envoy, was a resident of Alon Shvut, and a father of four.
Arafa, 24, was from the village of Dir Samat near Hebron. The Paleostinian Health Ministry, an official PA body, later released a notice starting that Shadi Arafa was killed by Israeli forces. However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... the terrorist was captured, not shot, and it was not clear whether Israeli forces had even fired shots. Arafa's body was set to be transferred to the PA on Thursday night.
Yuval Lasri, who overpowered the terrorist at the scene, said: "I stood in the traffic jam and heard gunfire. The terrorist rammed a car behind me. I got out of my car, pushed his gun away and threw him on the ground. I didn't shoot at him because I wasn't sure that he was the terrorist, but then I saw the gun next to him and understood that he was."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said of the attack: "The murderous terror has struck Gush Etzion and Tel Aviv. My heart is with the families of the murdered and I send my wishes for a speedy recovery to the maimed.
"Whoever condemned the attacks in La Belle France needs to condemn the attacks in Israel. It's the same terror. Whoever does not do this is a hypocrite and blind," the prime minister concluded.
Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, released a statement praising the attack, connecting it to the fact that Israel still holds the bodies of several recent Paleostinian attackers who were killed by security forces.
[Bangkok Post] Seven people were hurt on Thursday in unrelated attacks in two provinces in southern Thailand.
In Narathiwat, six rangers were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded this afternoon. Members of the 11th Rangers Regiment were returning to their base in Waeng district when a home-made bomb about 20 meters away detonated.
Earlier in Yala, a security guard was shot and seriously injured in a daylight attack at a school-guard booth in Yaha district. Abrohem Masae and two other security volunteers were on guard when the attack occurred. A truck with four men on board stopped in front of the booth near the school's fence. They pretended to ask for directions, causing Mr Abrohem to leave the booth. After he did so, one of the men drew a gun and fired.
The attack caused Mr Abrohem's fellow security guards to exit the booth and return fire, but their rifles jammed. They immediately ran into the school. The assailants fired at them from their truck. Students panicked amid the hail of bullets, but escaped unharmed.
Twenty bombs? You call that an air strike? THIS is an air strike:
Nov. 17, Russia sent nearly 40 heavy bombers and escorting fighter jets on a massive air raid in Syria. Moscow has now showed off almost all of its aerial arsenal in strikes in the embattled Middle Eastern country.
Flying from bases in Russia, 25 Tu-160, Tu-95MS and Tu-22M3 bombers launched more than 30 cruise missiles and dropped dumb bombs on targets in Idlib and Aleppo provinces. A dozen Su-34 and Su-27SM fighter jets escorted the bombers on their mission.
"The targets destroyed include command posts that were used to coordinate ISIL activities [and] munition and supply depots in the northwestern part of Syria," chief of the Russian General Staff Gen. Valery Gerasimov said, using a common acronym for the Islamic State terrorist group.
Strategic bombers flying out of Russia. I think they're serious.
More pretty plane pix at the link
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ISIS is regretting pissing in Putin's Cheerios now.
On a side note, how do you effective defeat an enemy that wants to die? Much like the Japanese in WWII, ISIS and other Muslim Jihadis seek death because of the alleged rewards on the other side, so if killing them is what they want, how do you not give them what they want and win?? Or do you give them what they want on a Biblical scale and depopulate the region?
Old Allah up early, out prowling,
Was surly. A bird heard him growling,
"This place is deserted!
That herd I converted
Is still, but my wasteland is howling."
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Even the Bear's antiquated garbage is dangerous when being used to deliver their newest and best stuff. Buyers in the region are paying attention, you can bet...
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I think El-Putin's a bit fecked off about the Egyptian plane and took his time assembling the revenge package whereas the French just went bomb something.
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On a side note, how do you effective defeat an enemy that wants to die?
If they won't surrender, you have to kill every last one of them. That's what they did on those Pacific Islands against Japan and it's what they would have had to do on the Japanese main islands if it hadn't been for Fat Man and Little Boy. Nasty business.
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What exactly are those trash can bombs? They really look like they wouldn't be that accurate even for a "dumb" bomb. More like they are an area weapon that aim isn't important. Don't tell me they are using (c-word) munitions on peaceful wedding partys. To quote Keith Laumer, "I believe in peaceful solutions, ain't nobody more peaceful than a dead trouble maker."
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Mugsy, so what if they used Willie Pete? According to Wikipedia, it is not a chemical weapon. You can't drop it on civilians, of course, but on a legitimate military target,it's ok.
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The real good part is there are never any duds. Air/boom!
Certainly ISIS doesn't have an air force, so who might they be protecting the bombers from? Or is this just a standard precaution because nobody is particularly trustworthy or smart in that particular combat area.
Also, I believe the Geneva conventions only apply when both sides both signed and are following the protocols. ISIS wasn't around and they certainly aren't following Geneva protocols from what I can tell.
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So Russia has not entered into a war where strategic bomber are used in decades. This is a great way for the Russians to prove out their doctrine and exorcise their capabilities globally.
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so who might they be protecting the bombers from? Or is this just a standard precaution because nobody is particularly trustworthy or smart in that particular combat area.
I'd send 'em along, just because. Someone suggested they were there for BDA. Maybe some countermeasures or targets of opportunity, too?
[AnNahar] Two jihadist holy warriors were killed and five others were maimed Thursday in a "Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... ambush" in the outskirts of the northeastern border town of Arsal, media reports said.
"A group of holy warriors fell into an ambush set up by the mujahideen of the resistance in the Wadi al-Kheil area in Arsal's outskirts," Hizbullah's al-Manar television said.
Quoting "the murderous Moslems' sources," the TV network said "they have admitted that two of their members were killed and five others were maimed."
Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa suddenly spied Mr. Bartlett at the checkout counter. He was buying Grecian Formula!... Voice of Leb radio (93.3) said the holy warriors belong to al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front, also saying that two were killed and five others were maimed.
Most of the Syrian regions near Leb's border were captured over the past year by Syrian regime troops and Hizbullah fighters.
Militants from al-Nusra and the Lion of IslamIslamic 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 are still however entrenched the outskirts of Arsal and other border areas.
[AnNahar] A boom jacket, bomb-making material and a tactical vest were found Thursday during garbage sorting in the southern city of Sidon, media reports said.
"Workers found a boom jacket containing explosives, a timer and a tactical vest as they were sorting garbage at the Sayniq waste management plant in south Sidon," state-run National News Agency reported.
"Security forces immediately arrived on the scene and launched an investigation," NNA added.
Several boom jackets were seized in recent days as security forces launched a massive nationwide crackdown in the wake of deadly suicide kabooms in the Beirut southern suburb of Bourj al-Barajneh.
The attack, the worst in years, killed 44 people and maimed 240 others and was claimed by the jihadist 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.
[AnNahar] The army on Thursday stopped a car carrying a small amount of explosives at the entrance of a Paleostinian refugee camp in the southern town of al-Bourj al-Shamali, east of Tyre.
"An army unit intercepted a Renault Centro car carrying a fake license plate at the entrance of the al-Bourj al-Shamali camp," the Army Command said in a statement.
The driver, Lebanese citizen Ahmed Jihad Alawiyeh, and the passengers Lebanese national Hussein Hamad Alawiyeh and Paleostinian national Wissam Ali Dahwish were placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! "Two kilograms of explosives and a duct tape used in detonation were seized in the car," the army added.
The detainees were referred to the relevant authorities as an investigation was launched, it added.
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"Workers found a boom jacket containing explosives, a timer and a tactical vest as they were sorting garbage at the Sayniq waste management plant in south Sidon,"
I bet that was exciting
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[AnNahar] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... has resorted to forming "cluster cells" of members in order to expand its ranks and adopting religious "brainwashing" to recruit new members, reported As Safir newspaper on Thursday.
Widely informed sources told the daily: "Confessions of some detainees have revealed that the IS has effective religious and security bodies that brainwash youths, who are mainly teenagers, in order to turn them into terrorist Lions of Islam within two months."
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[AnNahar] Russian's military on Thursday blasted targets across Syria with long-range strategic bombers for a third day, the defense ministry said, as Moscow pressed on with its intensified air campaign in the country.
Strategic bombers flying over Russian territory unleashed 12 cruise missiles at 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 targets including warehouses and command posts in the Idlib and Aleppo provinces as they launched their "third massive air strike," the defense ministry said in a statement.
Powerful long-distance Tu-22 bombers also struck six targets including three "major plants" for refining oil in IS strongholds in the Raqa and Deir Ezzor provinces, Moscow said.
Meanwhile jets stationed at Russia's base in government-held territory in Syria hit 138 targets around the country on Thursday, the statement said.
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Oh by the way, Coalition, the Russians not only did a WWII style bombing raid on ISIS, they ALSO took to the air with their tactical air assets and flew more missions than you have in a month.
I think the French have flown more missions than the US.
[AlAhram] A Russian deputy foreign minister says that 160 Russians fighting for 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 have been killed in Syria.
Russian news agencies on Thursday quoted Oleg Syromolotov as saying that out of some 2,700 Russians fighting in Syria, 73 have returned and been convicted and 36 placed under arrest.
Russia in September began carrying out attacks on IS positions to support Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... 's forces. 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... on Tuesday pledged to intensify Russia's air operation there after the Russian intelligence chief announced that a bomb brought down a Russian plane over Egypt on Oct. 31, killing all 224 onboard.
IS grabbed credit for the attack but Russians would not say whether they think the IS was behind it.
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Daesh said Wednesday it has executed a Chinese and a Norwegian hostage, two months after it had demanded a ransom for the pair's release.
Taking hostages is traditional. Either someone pays a ransom to get them back, or they become chew toys to amuse the lads.
The group's English-language Dabiq magazine featured graphic photos of two bloodied bodies that appeared to be Chinese hostage Fan Jinghui and Norwegian Ole-Johan Grimsgaard-Oftsad. The bodies were pictured adjacent to photos of the blindfolded captives apparently taken just before their execution.
It was unclear how they were killed, but their heads were bloodied by apparent gunshot wounds.
The magazine's cover photo featured what appeared to be French aid workers at the scene of Friday's bomb and gun attacks in Paris that killed 129 people and were claimed by Daesh.
It has used its magazine and other media arms to publicise its gruesome murders, including the beheadings of American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, Japanese journalist Kenji Goto, US aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig and others.
The Chinese and Norwegian hostages were last featured in the magazine's September edition, in which Daesh asked for an unspecified ransom for their release.
Neither that edition nor the one released on Wednesday gave details about where or when the men were captured, held or killed.
The Chinese national was a 50-year-old consultant and the Norwegian, 48, was connected with a university in Trondheim.
In September, Grimsgaard-Ofstad's family said it was unable to pay the ransom asked by Daesh and appealed to his hostage-takers to release him. The Norwegian government ruled out paying for his release, with Foreign Minister Borge Brende saying it was "out of the question for Norway to pay a ransom."
Norwegian authorities said Grimsgaard-Ofstad was abducted January shortly after his arrival in Syria.
And China's foreign ministry acknowledged in September that Daesh was probably holding one of its citizens.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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At least three people, including a district official have been injured when a bomb planted under a car exploded on Wednesday evening in Mogadishu’s Dharkenley district, witness and DC said.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
...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...
