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KP government seals offices of Hafiz Saeed's JuD, FIF; seizes mosques, seminaries
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Afghanistan
Afghan Taliban claim deadly car bomb attack in Kabul
[DAWN] An Afghan Taliban
...Arabic for students...
suicide kaboomer blew up a bomb-laden car in Kabul during rush hour on Saturday, killing at least two civilians, as gunnies dial up pressure in the capital amid calls for peace talks.

Several others were maimed in the blast claimed by the Taliban that the Afghan interior ministry said had targeted global security company G4S.

It was the fourth suicide attack in Kabul in three weeks and comes days after the top US general in Afghanistan said protecting the city was "our main effort".

It also comes as the Taliban face growing pressure to take up Afghanistan's Caped President Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
's offer of peace talks to end the 16-year war. So far it has given only a muted response.

"Around 9:10 am this morning a suicide boom-mobile went kaboom! in Police District Nine of Kabul," interior ministry front man Najib Danish told AFP.

Two non-combatants were killed and three others were maimed in the attack, Danish said. The blast happened at a time when many people would have been driving to their offices on the first day of the working week.

Posted by: Fred || 03/18/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa Horn
Roadside Bomb Hits Military Vehicle Near Somali Capital
[RADIOSHABELLE] A powerful roadside kaboom has destroyed a military vehicle in the outskirts of Mogadishu, the Somali capital on Saturday morning, witnesses said.

An eyewitness confirmed to Radio Shabelle that a remote-controlled landmine struck the vehicle carrying Somali soldiers from Lower Shabelle region and heading to Mogadishu.

He said the blast has inflicted casualties on the soldiers, but, the number of the fatalities has not yet been established so far. No group has grabbed credit for the attack.

The attack was the latest in series of landmine kabooms targeting Somali and AMISOM troops on the main highway linking Mogadishu to Afgoye district in the past few weeks.
Posted by: Fred || 03/18/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


At Least 15 People Killed In Clashes In Central Somalia
[RADIOSHABELLE] Clashes in central Somalia between Somali army, Æthiopian troops, and villagers on one side and al-Shabaab
... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
Lions of Islam have left at least 15 people dead, witnesses say.

The festivities started after armed al-Shabaab members tried to impose taxes on residents of villages around the town of Mahas, in the Hiran region.

Residents said that government soldiers backing cattle herders engaged in more than six hours of battle with the Death Eaters.

Somali government officials in Mahas confirmed the army had moved in to back up the cattle herders.

Multiple residents said at least 12 combatants, including five Lions of Islam and one civilian, were killed in the fighting.

Clashes involving pastoralists resisting al-Shabaab taxes began in Somalia’s Hiran and Middle Shabelle regions in 2013.

Posted by: Fred || 03/18/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Africa Subsaharan
Citizens of French Mayotte take matters into their own hands
[BBC] A group of residents from the Indian Ocean French island of Mayotte
From Wikipedia: Mayotte is an insular department and region of France officially named the Department of Mayotte (French: Département de Mayotte). It consists of a main island, Grande-Terre (or Maore), a smaller island, Petite-Terre (or Pamanzi), and several islets around these two. The archipelago is located in the northern Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Southeast Africa, between northwestern Madagascar and northeastern Mozambique. The department status of Mayotte is recent and the region remains the poorest in France. Mayotte is nevertheless much more prosperous than the other countries of the Mozambique Channel, making it a major destination for illegal immigration.
has been rounding up suspected illegal migrants and taking them to local police.

The move targeted around 100 "foreigners, Comorans and Africans", a member of the group told AFP.

Protests against the economic crisis and illegal immigrants from the Comoros islands have paralysed the island.

Mayotte has been in turmoil since mid-February, with roadblocks, a general strike and protests.

France's minister for overseas territories, Annick Girardin, has condemned the move, saying "this kind of practice does not exist in a department".

She urged the population to let the police do their job, adding that security arrangements were already in place.
Except the police clearly are not doing their job, just as they are not permitted to in the French homeland, n’est pas?
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/18/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


Arabia
Army launches ballistic missile on Marib
[SABANEWS.NET] The army and popular committees fired ballistic missile on mercenaries gatherings in Marib province, a military official told Saba on Saturday .

The missile force fired Zilzal 1 rocket on al-Holl area in Nehm district in the province.

The rocket hit its target accurately and made violent kabooms in the area, the official added.
Posted by: Fred || 03/18/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Britain
Britain migrant colonist briefs

Justice Minister: UK Prison System ‘Preparing for Influx of Returning Jihadis’, Must Instill ‘British Values’
15 March
[Breitbart] Revealing “a lot of work is being done” by authorities to prepare for an expected influx of jihadis from the Middle East, Britain’s Justice Secretary said the prison system needs an incentive system that rewards “understand[ing of] society’s values”.

British lorry drivers warn French port of Caen is 'the new Calais' after people smuggler caught with two Sri Lankan asylum seekers in boot is jailed for three years
13/03/18
[DailyMail] French national Issa Kebe (pictured) was jailed for three years after he was caught at Portsmouth International Port in Hants, as he tried to help two Sri Lankan men enter the UK.

Muslim political leader who tried to sue Donald Trump for £10m faces jail after scamming vulnerable migrants out of thousands for bogus advice
06/03/18
[DailyMail] Muslim political leader Kamran Malik, 50, ran a London-based service offering bogus advice to vulnerable migrants and conned half a dozen people out of more than £16,000.

From Breitbart - immigration:
WATCH: Former Labour Home Secretary Jack Straw Says ‘Some Pakistani Men See White Girls as Easy Meat’
15 March
Former New Labour Home Secretary Jack Straw has said grooming gangs are a “cultural problem” and some Pakistani-heritage men view young white girls as “easy meat”, whilst insisting that Islam is not a factor.

Justice Minister: UK Prison System ‘Preparing for Influx of Returning Jihadis’, Must Instill ‘British Values’
15 March
Revealing “a lot of work is being done” by authorities to prepare for an expected influx of jihadis from the Middle East, Britain’s Justice Secretary said the prison system needs an incentive system that rewards “understand[ing of] society’s values”.

‘Cruel’ African Father Used FGM to ‘Punish’ Daughter, UK Court Told
14 March
A “cruel” father originally from West Africa, arranged to have Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) inflicted on his daughter, nine, as a form of “punishment”, the Old Bailey has heard.

Raped Daughter Was ‘Forced into Islamic Marriage for Money and Visa’: Judge
14 March
A woman who suffered severe head injury from a past violent rape was ‘married off’ by her father for money in a deal to improve the husband’s UK immigration prospects, a judge has ruled
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/18/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


Down Under
Australia migrant colonist briefs

'Good people make shocking decisions': Greens leader Richard Di Natale says 'brainwashed' ISIS terrorists should be ALLOWED back into Australia
05/03/18
[DailyMail] The Victorian senator is opposed to Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton's push to strip dual nationals of their Australian citizenship if they had engaged in terrorist atrocities overseas.

'I don't want these people back here': Pauline Hanson says the children of ISIS fighters should be stripped of citizenship instead of being returned to Australia
05/03/18
[DailyMail] The One Nation leader made the call on the offspring of terrorist dual nationals after the wife and child of a notorious Islamic State member returned to Australia from the Middle East last year.

REVEALED: How the Department of Juvenile Justice said Islam was GOOD for teenage jihadi who went on to help murder Curtis Cheng in a terror attack
01/03/18
[DailyMail] Raban Alou, 20, helped 15-year-old Farhad Jabar shoot police accountant Mr Cheng outside the New South Wales Police Headquarters in Parramatta on 2 October 2015.

'Beheading in France, 25 dead in suicide bomb. LOL': Chilling texts of the ISIS terrorist who gave Curtis Cheng's jihadi killer his gun - and he prayed for his 'soldier of Allah' in KFC the next day
01/03/18
[DailyMail] Raban Alou, 20, from Sydney, has been jailed for 44 years for arming 15-year-old Farhad Jabar. Just weeks before the attack, Alou posted sick messages supporting recent ISIS attacks.

Father-of-two accused of shooting two teenage boys to settle family feud 'Google searched "Rocket propelled grenade launcher'' and "Islamic State" before violent attack'
28/02/18
[DailyMail] Zakaria Zaatiti, 23, is accused of shooting Mr Omran and a 16-year-old over a family feud at Roxburgh Park in Melbourne.

Australia to monitor immigrants BEFORE they're allowed into the country - including rating how well they will 'integrate' into society
26/02/18
[DailyMail] Potential migrants will be subjected to three rounds of tests including covert research to establish how likely they are to integrate into Australian society under new plans being drawn up by ministers

From sipping beers at the Sydney Opera House to hiking in the Blue Mountains: How a glamorous Iranian refugee couple lived 'the Australian dream' before they were 'caught with nearly 40 KILOS of ice'
26/02/18
[DailyMail] Ali Maleki and Yosra Rabieh were granted temporary protection visas after arriving to Australia by boat in 2013 - and have since built a luxury life in Sydney's north-west with their two daughters.

Melbourne: Sudanese Youths Account for 0.1 Per Cent of the Population, But 8.6 Per Cent of Home Invasions
22 January
[Breitbart] Aggravated burglary has become the “crime of choice” for Sudanese youths in Melbourne, Australia, according to senior police officers.

'You've got to obey our laws and respect out way of life': Former PM Tony Abbott blasts Melbourne's 'ethnic gangs' as he calls for a massive cut in Australia's immigration intake
21/02/18
[DailyMail] Tony Abbott has blasted Melbourne's African gang crime as he called for a dramatic reduction in Australia's annual immigration intake. The former PM said they were 'causing mayhem'.

Why was she let in? Bangladeshi student was DENIED entry to Turkey but was granted an Australian visa before she was charged over 'ISIS-inspired' stabbing
16/02/18
[DailyMail] Bangladesh counter-terrorism authorities said Momena Shoma, 24, was refused a Turkish visa in late 2014 before winning her Australian study visa and travelling to Melbourne on February 1.

Deportations Proposed as African Street Gangs Invade Homes, Terrorise Residents in Melbourne
8 January
[Breitbart] Australia is considering new measures to deport criminal migrants as young as 16, following a spate of violent home invasions and street robberies.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/18/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


Europe
Europe migrant colonist briefs

Following Italian Elections, Pope Francis Denounces Anti-Immigration Politics
12 March
[Breitbart] One week after Italian elections saw a major shift toward anti-establishment parties, Pope Francis has decried politics based on fear of migrants.

European Union Security Boss: More Terror Victims in European Cities for ‘Years to Come’
11 March
[Breitbart] Innocent people across the European Union (EU) will continue to die and suffer because of terror attacks “for years to come”, the EU’s Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs, and Citizenship has said.

From the DailyMail - European migrant and refugee crisis:
Two African migrants are found crammed under the backseat of a Mercedes A Class in bid to cross into Spanish territory from Morocco
13/03/18
The car was stopped at the Beni-Enzar border crossing between the Spanish autonomous city of Melilla and Morocco, when border police using a heartbeat detector discovered the men.

X-ray images show migrants stowed away in a fuel tanker at a Greek port, as anger simmers among the truck drivers forced to chase away hundreds of people trying to reach Italy
13/03/18
X-ray images released by Greek authorities show desperate migrants hiding in fuel tanks and among fruit deliveries on lorries ready to board the ferry from the port of Patras to Italy.

Far-right thug Tommy Robinson punches a migrant in Rome while filming in an apparent ‘no-go zone’
12/03/18
After a heated exchange in Italy, during which Robinson threatens the man by saying he would 'put him to sleep', the EDL co-founder throws a right hook which catches his adversary on the jaw.

UN warns of rampant sexual violence in Greek refugee camps where 'bathrooms and latrines are no-go zones after dark for women and children'
12/03/18
Asylum seekers suffer widespread sexual violence and harassment in Greece's overcrowded reception centres, the UN has warned.

From Breitbart - immigration:
39 Arrests in Crackdown on Albanian Crime Rings Facilitating Illegal Immigration
17 March
Albania police have arrested 39 people in a crackdown on crime rings illegally sending about 1,000 Albanians to Britain, the United States and Canada.

Survey: Three Quarters of Germans Say Islam Does Not ‘Belong’ in Germany
17 March
Three quarters of Germans said that Islam does not belong to Germany in a new poll, in direct opposition to recent comments by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

‘Islam Belongs to Germany’, Merkel Insists After Minister Highlights Nation’s Christian Heritage
16 March
Angela Merkel has again insisted Islam is part of German culture, speaking out to contradict Interior Minister Horst Seehofer after he stressed the nation’s Christian heritage.

PICS: Anti-Police Riots in Madrid After African Street Vendor Dies of Cardiac Arrest
16 March
Madrid’s “most multicultural neighbourhood” was set aflame in riots against “racist” authorities after a Senegalese street vendor reportedly died of a heart attack.

Hungarian Prime Minister: ‘Those Who Do Not Halt Mass Migration Are Lost: Slowly But Surely They Are Consumed’
16 March
Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán has issued a stark warning to the peoples of Europe on his country’s national day, telling them that “Europe is now under invasion”, and that “the empire of George Soros” is seeking to “break Hungary” for standing in its way.

Top Polish Politician: European Union in Greatest Ever Crisis
16 March
Deputy speaker of the Polish parliament and member of the Law and Justice Party (PiS) Ryszard Terlecki has claimed that the European Union is facing its greatest crisis as divisions between East and West continue to grow.

France: Illegal Immigrants Run ‘Free Hugs’ Scam to Steal Victims’ Phones
16 March
Police in Brest, France have arrested eight illegal immigrants after locals reported having their cellphone stolen after taking up a stranger’s offer of ‘free hugs’.

Three in Four of Swedes Favour Banning Religious Schools
16 March
A poll has revealed that 73 per cent of Swedish citizens are in favour of banning independent religious schools after the ruling Social Democrats promised to ban them to aid integration.

German Teen Murdered by Asylum Seeker After She Refused to Convert to Islam
16 March
German teenager Mireille B. was found dead this week and her Afghan failed asylum seeker boyfriend Ahmad G., 18, has been arrested on suspicion of killing her; her friends claim

German Court Forces Volkswagen to Rehire Islamic Extremist Fired for Alleged Terrorist Threat
15 March
The German automotive giant Volkswagen has been forced to rehire a known radical Islamic extremist who they had previously fired because they feared he might commit a terror attack on their factory. Islamic extremist Samir B. was fired from his job at the Volkswagen car plant in November 2016 after he threatened several of his colleagues and expressed a desire to fight for the Islamic State in the Middle East.

EU Threatens to Punish Non-Member States Who Refuse to Take Deported Migrants
15 March
The European Union has threatened countries with limiting the issue of work and travel visas if they refuse to take back failed asylum seekers and illegal migrants.

Pensioner Prosecuted for Facebook Post Claiming Immigration Will Reduce Average IQ
14 March
A 65-year-old woman in the city of Jönköping is set to be prosecuted on hate crime charges for claiming that mass Muslim immigration will lower the general IQ of the Swedish population.

Finnish Police Begin Week-Long Hunt for Illegal Immigrants
14 March
Police forces across Finland are carrying out a search for illegal immigrants in a six-day crackdown on aliens living in the country without permission, local media reports.

Austrian Government Considers Overhaul of Asylum Laws After Recent Violent Migrant Attacks
14 March
Anti-mass migration Freedom Party (FPÖ) Federal Interior Minister Herbert Kickl has vowed to act after a number of violent attacks committed by migrants occurred on the streets of Vienna.

Sweden to Spend Millions to Encourage Migrant-Background Citizens To Vote in September Election
13 March
The Swedish government is set to spend eight million Krona (£700,000) on initiatives to encourage residents from migrant backgrounds to vote in the national election.

Merkel Effect: Thousands of Migrants Jet to Germany from Poorer EU Nations
12 March
Fed up with living in Greek camps, a rising number of illegal third world migrants have been heading to Germany by aeroplane, authorities warn.

75 Per Cent of First-Time Young Italian Voters Marked Their Ballots For Populist Parties
11 March
New statistics from the recent Italian election show 75 per cent of the youngest first-time voters — born in 1999 — voted for anti-establishment parties.

Vatican Seeks to ‘Change the Narrative’ on Immigration by Emphasizing the Positive
11 March
The Vatican is looking to change people’s perspective on mass migration by highlighting positive stories to replace the negative accounts that dominate the media. Jesuit Father Michael Czerny, the co-secretary of the Vatican’s department for migrants and refugees, said that

Mob of Migrants Terrorise Small Town Fair Sexually Harassing Women and Fighting Locals
11 March
A group of ten asylum seekers are said to have terrorised a local fair in Steinfurt by sexually harassing young women.

Paris Police Officer Says Majority Of Sex Attackers On Metro Come From North African Backgrounds
11 March
A French police officer, who works as part of a plainclothes team on the Paris metro to prevent crime, has claimed that the majority of sex attackers he arrests come from North African backgrounds.

Arab Gangs Targeting Berlin Police With Threats And Sex Rumours To Intimidate Officers
11 March
Arab criminal gangs operating in Berlin have been accused of targetting individual police officers with threats, including spreading rumours of sexual encounters with prostitutes, in order to intimidate or take revenge on officers.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/18/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


Home Front: WoT
Syrian convicted of making bomb parts used in US troop attacks
[Ynet] A Syrian man accused of making a key component in improvised bombs used in attacks against US soldiers during the Iraq War was convicted Friday on federal conspiracy charges.
That was fast — his trial only started in January, though he’s been in custody since the Turks sent him over in 2014.
Jurors deliberated over four days before delivering the verdict against Ahmed Alahmedalabdaloklah,
...he was arrested as Ahmad Ibrahim Al-Ahmad, but told the court the above is his real name. He also has been known as Ahmad Ebrahim, Ahmad Ibrahim, and Ahmed Hassan Farhan, though not in our archives. That part of his career that we care about started in 2005, when he made bombs for a gang of Saddam Hussein loyalists, carelessly leaving lots of fingerprints for the Americans to find. But before they did he’d fled with his family to China, where he set up a successful mail order business supplying key bomb components to customers in Iraq, Syria, Sudan, and Yemen. In 2011 he was arrested and jailed by the Turks, who did their bit to see that he never walks free again...
who is accused of making circuit boards used to remotely detonate roadside kabooms for the 1920 Revolution Brigades.
...a Sunni Iraqi nationalist group with a hefty sprinkling of Saddam Hussein loyalists, they fought viciously against the Americans until joining with them to attack Al Qaeda...
The group grabbed credit for 230 attacks against American soldiers in Iraq from 2005 to 2010, prosecutors have said in court papers.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/18/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
KP government seals offices of Hafiz Saeed's JuD, FIF; seizes mosques, seminaries
Goodness. Someone must have made very clear exactly how much money will no longer be available if real action wasn’t taken immediately.
[DAWN] The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government on Saturday initiated a crackdown against Hafiz Saeed
...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat...
-led Jamaat-ud-Dawa
...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
(JuD) and its humanitarian wing, Falah-e-Insaniyat
...the current false nose and mustache of Jamaat ud-Dawa, which was the false nose and mustache of Lashkar e-Taiba...
Foundation (FIF), by seizing the organizations' offices and taking over the latter's operational matters.

Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
's district administration, with the help of police and other law enforcement agencies, had initiated action against the JuD in the picturesque provincial capital after receiving directions from the federal government.

"We have sealed the offices of the foundation, seized three religious schools and two mosques and handed over the seized properties to the Auqaf department to look after operational matters," a bigwig told DawnNewsTV.

The move came after the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistain (SECP) issued a notification asking citizens to not donate to organizations listed on a United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
Security Council (UNSC) list of proscribed organizations.

The UNSC sanctions list includes al-Qaeda, Tehrik-e-Taliban
...Arabic for students...
Pakistain, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
, JuD, FiF and other organizations.

After JuD and FiF were placed on the UNSC list, the interior ministry had written to the provinces asking them to take action.

Malik Nadeem Awan, a central leader of JuD, told DawNewsTV that after the Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....

government, the KP government had sealed and seizes the offices and ambulances of FiF in different districts in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

"A health facility in Balakot and office in Abbottabad
... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden....
has been sealed and ambulances have been seized and parked in cop shoppes," he said.

Posted by: Fred || 03/18/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Lashkar e-Taiba


Indian troops kill two ‘fighters’ near Srinagar
[DAWN] Indian government forces killed two turbans who tried to snatch a guard’s rifle in disputed Kashmire, police alleged in a statement on Friday.

As word of the killings spread, protests against Indian rule and festivities erupted in the region.

At least two men were trapped overnight in a home on the outskirts of Srinagar after they tried to take the rifle from an officer guarding a local leader of India’s ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, police said, adding that the officer was maimed.

Counterinsurgency police and soldiers cordoned off the neighbourhood and killed the two men in the exchange of gunfire that followed, they claimed.

The slain men were from neighbouring Pulwama district, where officials ordered schools and colleges to be closed on Friday in an attempt to stop student protests.

Protests and festivities occurred separately in another village north of Srinagar after authorities sealed it on a tip that some suspected turbans were hiding there.

Police said a brief shootout followed, but at least two turbans escaped during the severe festivities between rock-throwing protesters and government forces using tear gas. No casualties were immediately reported.

Posted by: Fred || 03/18/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies


2 polio workers killed in Mohmand Agency, 3 abducted
[DAWN] Two polio
...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set...
workers were rubbed out and three others were kidnapped by person or persons unknown in Safi tehsil of Mohmand Agency
... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
and Kunar...

, DawnNewsTV reported on Saturday.

According to Political Administration officials, unidentified miscreants opened fire on the polio team comprising seven volunteers in Safi tehsil of the agency.

Two polio workers managed to escape the attack and reached Ghalanai, the headquarter of Mohmand Agency, and informed about the incident, the officials said.

Attacks targeting polio teams were very frequent few years back but following the military operation, their frequency has decreased over the last few years.

Pakistain along with Afghanistan, the last two polio-endemic countries in the world, is facing Death Eaters, who first forcibly stopped vaccination in Swat
...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat...
in 2007 and then in North and South Wazoo agencies in 2012 and thus, leaving at least 160 children crippled.

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Iraq
Two people wounded in bomb blast, northeast Baghdad: Source
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Two civilians were maimed in a kaboom, northeast of Baghdad, a security source was quoted saying on Saturday.

Speaking to Alghad Press, the source said, "a bomb went off near a coffee shop in Jisr Diyala region, leaving two people slightly maimed."

"Security troops cordoned off the blast spot and conducted investigations. The maimed were taken to hospital for treatment," the source added.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli warplanes attack Gaza with early morning strikes
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Gazoo Strip came under attack again tonight, as Israeli warplanes and artillery, opened fire upon targets throughout the besieged coastal enclave.

The Israeli shellings were primarily reported to have taken place in the East of Gazoo, in the Zeitoun neighborhoods and surround al-Bureij Refugee Camp.

A confirmed civilian injury, reported to the Press by the Paleostinian Ministry of Health, is being treated at the al-Shifa hospital. Emergency response units are still searching the scene, no more information on injuries or deaths have been confirmed.
Posted by: Fred || 03/18/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  For no good reason? "We wuz just sitting here, and the Juice bombed us"
Posted by: Frank G || 03/18/2018 7:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Gazans pour sewage into the sea - they hurt Mother Gaia!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/18/2018 8:04 Comments || Top||


Netanyahu says Israel will demolish home of car-ramming attacker
[IsraelTimes] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday vowed that Israel would demolish the house of the Paleostinian who ran over and killed two IDF soldiers and maimed two others in a car-ramming attack in the West Bank.

"We will work to demolish the home of the terrorist and will deal with him to the fullest extent of the law," he said.

The statements came after the Shin Bet security service said that 26-year-old Ala Qabha confessed to carrying out the attack.

The security agency said that it appeared the Paleostinian resident of the village of Barta’a, near Jenin, acted alone, and possibly spontaneously, when he drove his vehicle into a group of soldiers standing guard near the settlement of Mevo Dotan in the northern West Bank on Friday afternoon. The army on Friday designated the car-ramming as a terror attack.

Qabha did a U-turn on the road before plowing into the soldiers, and accelerated into them, Israeli TV reports said Saturday, leaving no doubt that the attack was deliberate.

Earlier Saturday, IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot confirmed that Israeli forces tossed in the clink
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
Qabha’s brother and an uncle in the family’s hometown of Barta’a, outside Jenin. Both relatives were initially suspected of helping him carry out the deadly attack.

Forces also mapped out Qabha’s home in preparation for its demolition, conducted a broader search of the village for illegal weapons, and continued security checks of cars in the roads surrounding Barta’a.

Qabha’s family insisted the deadly incident was an accident. His father told the Walla news site Saturday that his son is not affiliated with any terrorist group, and did not intentionally target Israeli troops. "This isn’t the first car accident like this and won’t be the last," Rateb Qabha said. "You hear about accidents like these every day in the news."

Asked about reports in Hebrew-language media that his son was known to Israeli intelligence services, and had recently been released from prison, Qabha downplayed the allegations, saying that Ala had gotten in to trouble once "for stone throwing or something like that."

On Friday, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai announced that he had revoked the work permits of some 30 relatives of Qabha following the attack.

A front man for the Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva said Saturday morning that there had been no improvement in the status of the pair of injured soldiers, whose conditions remained very serious and moderate respectively. Both of the soldiers underwent multiple surgeries overnight for injuries sustained after Qabha plowed his car into the troops.

The Beilinson front man said that doctors were still working to save the life of the soldier at death's door as his status worsened.

One of the victims was pronounced dead at the scene. A second died a short time later, after attempts to save his life failed. Qabha was stopped by IDF troops less than a hundred feet from the scene. The 26-year-old was then interrogated and transferred to Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera for treatment of his minor injuries. He remains in Israeli custody.
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#1  And if we'll do it with his family still inside, it may have some effect.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/18/2018 8:06 Comments || Top||


Bomb detonates along Gaza border, Israel destroys Hamas post in response
[IsraelTimes] A bomb planted near the Israel-Gazoo border went kaboom! Saturday, causing no casualties, the military said. In response, Israeli tanks destroyed a Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, post in the area.

The IDF said there were no troops near the bomb when it detonated.
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Raiders sent running back towards rebel lines after seasoned Syrian troops ambush them in west Suwayda
[ALMASDARNEWS] On Friday afternoon, rebel fighters attempted to raid Syrian forces positions near the government stronghold town of al-Qurrayah in the western countryside of As-Suwayda province.

Not long after undertaking the attack, Lions of Islam walked into a prepared kill-zone set up by seasoned pro-government fighters belonging to a mostly Druze unit of the National Defence Forces.

When the ambush was sprung by Syrian troops, the rebels found themselves snagged in crescendo of artillery and machine gun fire that suppressed their ability to move almost immediately.

After very brief time under the fire of government forces, the murderous Moslems called off the raid and retreated back to rebel lines.

Syrian government forces and armed rebel groups share a frontier that more or less runs along the provincial border of Daraa and As-Suwayda. This most recent engagement marks the first time in a while that festivities have occurred inside As-Suwayda.

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Syrian Army begins storming two major militant strongholds at same time in east Damascus
[ALMASDARNEWS] Elite forces of the Syrian Army have kicked-off a new assault operation against armed rebel groups in Damascus’ East Ghouta region.

According to military-affiliated sources, the Syrian Army is conducting a concentric attack in the southernmost pocket of the East Ghouta area, targeting the murderous Moslem stronghold districts of Kafr Batna and Saqba.

Both districts are located in what sources describe as the rebel-controlled ’urban heartland’ of East Ghouta ‐ the attack by government forces is coming from both the northern (into Saqba) and eastern (into Kafr Batna) directions.

At the present time, it is unclear which Syrian Army formations are involved in the assault operation, however given general knowledge on the disposition of government units in east Damascus, it may very well be the case that both the Tiger Forces Division and the Elite Republican Guard are involved.

Ceasefire announced in strategic East Ghouta suburb

[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Ministry of Defense announced a 24 hour ceasefire in the strategic suburb of Harasta in the East Ghouta.

According to the Ministry of Defense, the 24 hour ceasefire is being implemented to allow civilians to flee the war zone in Harasta.

The ceasefire could be expended, depending on the situation and cooperation of the bully boys, the Ministry of Defense.

Today, 170 civilians managed to exit Harasta through the safe-zone established in the suburb.
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Turkish forces carry out massacre in Afrin city
[ALMASDARNEWS] On Friday, Ottoman Turkish forces perpetrated nothing short of a massacre in the city of Afrin when army artillery and air force jets indiscriminately shelled and bombed residential areas to an intensity not yet seen during Ankara’s Olive Branch operation.

According to sources, Ottoman Turkish shelling and Arclight airstrikes killed at least 45 five civilians ‐ among the dead were sixteen children and fourteen women. One Ottoman Turkish bomb reportedly struck Afrin’s main hospital leaving some nine people dead.

According the reports, Ottoman Turkish forces are deliberately attacking random civilian targets across Afrin in a bid to scare people into leaving the city.

Amid all this, thousands of civilians refuse to leave their homes in Afrin saying that they would rather die than leave anything to ’Ottoman Turkish invaders.’

U.N. Envoy: Turkey ‘War Crimes’ Against Christians in Syria Foreshadow ‘Genocide’

[Breitbart] Turkish troops fighting to conquer the Kurdish-held region of Afrin in Syria are committing “war crimes” against Yazidis and Christians that mirror the “ethnic cleansing and genocide” in the region at the hands of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), declared a top United Nations envoy.

More than 150,000 Flee Syria's Afrin since Wednesday Evening

[AnNahar] More than 150,000 civilians have fled the city of Afrin in northern Syria since Wednesday evening to escape a Ottoman Turkish-led military offensive against a Kurdish militia, a war monitor said.

"There was fierce fighting throughout the night on the northern outskirts of the city as the Ottoman Turkish forces and their Syrian allies tried to break into the city," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday.

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and its Syrian Arab rebel allies have waged a nearly two-month offensive on the Afrin enclave, which is held by the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG).

Earlier this week, they largely surrounded the enclave's sole city, which was home to some 350,000 people, including people displaced from other parts of the enclave already overrun.

A single escape route remains open to the south to territory still held by the YPG or controlled by the Damascus government.

"Civilians are fleeing through the southern corridor," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.

Afrin has come under heavy air and artillery bombardment by the Ottoman Turkish army.

On Friday evening, a Ottoman Turkish bombing raid struck the city's main hospital, killing 16 civilians, a monitor said.

Turkey's military denied hitting the hospital, saying that its operation in Afrin "is carried out in such a way as to not cause any harm to civilians."
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Warring Islamist factions in northwest Syria reach ceasefire after hundreds of rebel fighters kill each other
[ALMASDARNEWS] Authorities from different Islamist Death Eater groups have reportedly reached a ceasefire in northwest Syria after a weeks-long inter-rebel civil war that has left hundreds of fighters from all sides killed.

Opposition and rebel sources claim that al-Qaeda affiliate militia Ha’yat Tahrir al-Sham
(better know by its former name, Jabhat al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-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 .. ...
) and rival groups Jabhat Tahrir Souriya and Suqour al-Sham have agreed to a two-day ceasefire effective immediately.

The temporary halt order is being made in preparation for talks to organize a greater ceasefire arrangement that will decisively end the Islamist infighting all together throughout rebel-controlled areas of Idlib and Aleppo provinces.

Reports state that the main terms for the greater ceasefire is for all warring holy warriors factions to release their current prisoners and stop any further actions towards arresting new rival fighters.

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#1  Hopefully the cease fire will not last long.
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Militant corpses left strewn out over Hama battlefield amid Syrian Army counter-attack
[ALMASDARNEWS] On Wednesday, different krazed killer groups operating out of northern Hama province teamed up to conduct an offensive operation against the Syrian Army aimed at relieving pressure on allied rebel faction in Damascus’ East Ghouta region.

At first, gunnies captured the towns of Kernaz and al-Hamamiyat from Syrian government forces, however, soon enough the Syrian Army and allied paramilitaries launched a counter-attack with armor, artillery and Arclight airstrikes.

The sheer power of the government counter-blow was intense enough to send rebel fighters reeling back from their gains within a few hours of making them; heavy equipment used by krazed killer groups was abandoned during the rout.

When the battle ended and the Syrian Army restored control over all lost points, dozens of gunnies had been left dead and maimed, most of them hardline Islamist types who acted as shock troops (Inghamasis) for the assault.
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Turkish forces begin to set up new base just north of Aleppo city
[ALMASDARNEWS] On Saturday morning, another Ottoman Turkish military convoy entered northwest Syria bringing with it the forces and equipment required to set up yet another observation base.

According to sources, the new Ottoman Turkish Army military site will be established just north of Aleppo city atop the mountain of Jabal Anak near the small rebel-controlled town of Anadan.

Ottoman Turkish forces began establishing military observation points in northwest Syria at the beginning of 2018 as part of a deescalation scheme brokered between Moscow and Ankara aimed at reducing violence across the region.

The establishment of such sites by the Ottoman Turkish military comes immediately after the Syrian Army concluded its Idlib-Aleppo operation against ISIS and other bully boy groups.

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Scores of Al-Qaeda militants slain during botched assault on besieged Shiite-majority towns
[ALMASDARNEWS] On Saturday, al-Qaeda-linked jihadist murderous Moslems in northern Idlib province attempted to break through government lines at the long-besieged Shiite-majority towns of Fouaa and Kafraya.

The assault, described as an infiltration operation by local military-affiliated sources who first reported the event, was stopped dead in its tracks by local Syrian pro-government troops defending both towns.

Within a very brief engagement time, local Syrian forces bumped off at least 15 jihadists. The remaining al-Qaeda attackers were sent running from the battlefield under a hail of machine gun and mortar fire.

The murderous Moslems attempting to storm Fouaa and Kafraya belonged to Ha’yat Tahrir al-Sham
(better known by its former name, Jabhat al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-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 .. ...
). Followers of the group (and other Salafist jihadist militias in Syria) have marked the towns’ mostly Shiite population for extermination, believing them to be apostates.

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Inside Hamas's Southern Lebanon Strategy
[Jpost] An attempt by the Gazoo terrorist group to build a post in South Leb has been foiled ‐ for now.

ON JANUARY 14, 2018, Mohammed (Abu Hamza) Hamdan entered his silver BMW car in the city of Sidon in Leb. Within seconds, a huge kaboom set the car on fire and smashed windows in nearby buildings.

Looking at photographs and videos shot at the scene, it is clear that the assassins meant to kill him. It can also be assumed that the half kilogram of explosives, attached to the car, was assembled by professionals.
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