[AlAhram] At least eight people, including civilians, were killed late Thursday in a suicide boom-mobileing of a security barricade in the east of Libya, the second such attack in less than a month, local security and hospital sources said.
A suicide kaboomer went kaboom! his vehicle at a barricade manned by forces loyal to Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... near the city of Ajdabiya some 840 kilometres (520 miles) from Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , general Fawzi al-Mansouri, a top officer in the local security forces, told AFP.
Eight other people were maimed.
"Five people died on arriving at the hospital shortly after the attack," a source at the city’s public hospital told AFP.
The three other victims died later of their injuries, the source who requested anonymity said.
"There were civilians among the dead and injured," Mansouri said, adding that no one has yet grabbed credit.
A suicide attack which injured three people on March 9 south of Ajdabiya was claimed by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group.
Despite the loss of its Sirte bastion in northern Libya in December 2016, IS remains active in the centre and south of the country.
The oil-rich North African country has been wracked by chaos since a 2011 uprising that toppled and killed long-time dictator Moamer Qadaffy.
Two authorities ‐ the Tripoli-based unity government and a rival administration in the east ‐ are vying for control of Libya.
Haftar, who opposes a UN-backed unity government based in Tripoli, announced the "liberation" of the eastern city of Benghazi last July after a three-year campaign.
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[DAWN] Suspected Al Qaeda bandidossnuffies attacked a military checkpoint in southeastern Yemen, killing at least nine soldiers from a local force backed by a member of the Saudi-led coalition fighting in the country, an official said on Thursday.
The official said that five suspected bandidossnuffies also died during the gun attack late on Wednesday outside al-Mukala, the Hadramout ...the formerly independent Qu'aiti state and sultanate, annexed by Communist South Yemen in 1968, encompassing a region along the Gulf of Aden, extending eastwards to the borders of the Dhofar region of Oman. The people are called Hadhramis and speak Hadhrami Arabic. The city Tarimis is estimated to contain the highest concentration of descendants of the Prophet Muhammad (PTUI) anywhere in the world, approximately seven in every square yard... historic provincial capital, against a unit of the Hadrami Elite Forces.
The unit was set up and trained by the United Arab Emirates, as part of a strategy to combat Al Qaeda, which had exploited a three-year civil war and tried to expand its control in the area before they were driven out.
Hisham al-Jaberi, a local military commander, said at least four other soldiers from the Hadrami Elite Forces were also maimed in the attack in an area called Wadi Hajar.
Al Qaeda’s Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... affiliate, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000... (AQAP), had briefly seized control of Mukalla and several
other towns and cities in the neigbouring Shabwa, Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... and al-Bayda provinces. Local forces, backed by the UAE member of the Saudi-led coalition drove them out in a series of military operations over the past two years.
But bandidossnuffies still operate in remote areas in southeastern Yemen, including in Abyan, Shabwa and al-Bayda.
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[TheDrive] On March 27, 2018, the Houthis released a video showing the operation through social media and other outlets, including via Yemen's Al Masirah television network, which the group controls. The clip shows a unknown type of missile speeding into the night's sky, followed by footage of at least one F-16 that the rebels shot with a FLIR Systems infrared camera. The insurgents have used this equipment, an American-made system that they likely captured or otherwise obtained from former Yemeni government elements, to film attacks on aircraft in the past.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Saudi air defense intercepted, late Thursday, a ballistic missile launched by the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... Militia on Jazan and managed to destroy the missile before hitting any targets.
On Wednesday, the Security Council strongly condemned the launching of the missiles by the militias on Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... The Security Council affirmed that the ballistic missiles launched by the Houthi militias threaten the security of the region and expressed the concern that the militias announced their intention to target Saudi Arabia and other countries.
It urged that all member States implement fully the arms embargo as required by Security Council resolutions, including resolution 2216.
The security Council members expressed their deep concern over the violation of the embargo.
Saudi Arabia's air defense forces blocked 104 ballistic missiles fired by the Iran-backed Houthi militias against the kingdom since the dawn of June 6, 2015 when a Scud missile was destroyed by the Saudi Patriot defense system, in addition to seven ballistic missiles which were launched this week on a number of Saudi cities.
The missiles were monitored and intercepted while in air.
Colonel Turki al-Maliki's statement
Colonel Turki al-Maliki, the spokesperson of the Arab coalition forces said that at exactly 9:35 PM on Thursday, Saudi Royal Air Force intercepted a ballistic missile launched by the Iran-backed Houthi militias from within the territory of Yemen’s Saada towards Saudi Arabia’s territory.
Al-Maliki stated that the missile was heading in the direction Jazan city and was launched in a deliberate way to target civilian and populated areas.
"This hostile act by the Iranian-backed Houthi militias proves that the Iranian regime continues to support the Houthis with wide-ranging armaments in clear and explicit defiance of the UN resolution 2216 and resolution 2231, and aims at threatening the security of Saudi Arabia as well as regional security," he said.
The firing of ballistic missiles towards densely populated cities and villages is a violation of the international humanitarian law," he added.
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[AnNahar] A man driving a car with fake license plates tried to ram a group of soldiers out jogging in southeast La Belle France on Thursday, security sources told AFP.
Speaking French and Arabic, the man first threatened a group of soldiers at around 8 am (0600 GMT) in Varces-Allieres-et-Risset, near Grenoble, and then tried to run down another group returning to their barracks from a jog, the sources added.
"The soldiers managed to get up onto the pavement without being hit," army front man Colonel Benoit Brulon told AFP.
The driver of the small Peugeot 208 hatchback, who was accompanied by a woman, sped off before being placed in durance vile I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! around lunchtime in Grenoble, police and military sources said.
Prosecutors in Grenoble, a town in the foothills of the French Alps, said the incident was not being treated as a terrorist attack for the moment and the motive remained unclear.
The motive is perfectly clear. “Allahu akhbar!” Islam triumphant. The sentiment is rather ruined by the miscreant’s rapid arrest, but whatever.
[IsraelTimes] Suspects accused of activities relating to 'international terrorism' linked to Tunisian Anis Amri, who killed 12 by ramming a truck into crowd
Italian police Thursday incarcerated Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! five people as part of an anti-terror raid linked to a Tunisian who staged a deadly attack on a Berlin Christmas market in 2016, Italian media reported. Anis Amri, a rejected asylum seeker, had rammed a stolen truck into the crowded square, killing 12 people and wounding about 100 others.
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 grabbed credit for the attack on December 19, 2016 ‐ its deadliest ever carried out in Germany.
Amri, who had previously lived in Italia, was killed four days after the assault by police in a Milan suburb.
The five detained Thursday morning are accused of activities linked to "international terrorism" and procuring false documents for migrants colonists, the Italian AGI news agency reported. The suspects included a Tunisian national from the city of Latina, south of Rome, who had allegedly planned to provide Amri with fake identity papers to help him flee abroad, Sherlocks told AGI.
The raids were carried out in several cities including Rome, Latina, and Naples.
Amri, who was 24 when he was rubbed out by police, landed on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa in 2011 and spent four years in prison in Sicily for burning down a school.
In the aftermath of the Berlin attack, Italian police raided several homes where Amri had reportedly stayed in 2015 in an agricultural region southeast of Rome. The press reported that he had spent several weeks in Aprilia, about 40 kilometers south of the Italian capital, with a fellow Tunisian whom he met in Lampedusa.
At the time, Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni ruled out the existence of "networks" supporting Amri in Italia, but judicial authorities said that the country’s criminal underbelly often provided logistical support to European terrorists.
Following the deadly market attack, German police faced fierce criticism when it emerged that Amri ‐ who had been in Germany since 2015 and was registered under several different identities ‐ should have been deported.
On Wednesday, Italian police also arrested a 23-year-old Italian with Moroccan parents, Halili Elmahdi, in the northeastern city of Turin. Police said Elmahdi showed alarming signs of radicalization and was promoting Islamist extremism on social networks. During a raid at his home, security forces uncovered manuals indicating how to kill someone with a knife and instructions for installing a bomb on board a truck.
The homes of 13 of Elmahdi’s contacts were searched on the same day in several Italian cities.
Elmahdi is suspected of seeking to recruit Moslem "lone wolves" in Italia to commit attacks.
Prosecutors said that the 23-year-old, who was under surveillance after being arrested in 2015 on charges of glorifying terrorism, may have been ready to commit acts of terror because of his radicalisation.
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[AlAhram] Ottoman Turkish prosecutors ordered the detention of 70 serving army officers over alleged links to the U.S.-based preacher accused of orchestrating an attempted coup in 2016, CNN Turk said on Thursday.
Police launched simultaneous operations in 38 provinces across The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... in a probe led by state prosecutors in the central Ottoman Turkish province of Konya, the broadcaster said.
It said the suspects were targeted based on statements by soldiers previously detained over ties to the holy manFethullah Gülen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... and were believed to have been responsible for recruiting students for Gulen's movement.
The U.N. human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... office said earlier this month Turkey has detained 160,000 people and dismissed nearly the same number of civil servants since the failed coup in July 2016, which Ankara blames on Gulen. He denies any involvement.
Among those detained, more than 50,000 have been formally charged and kept in jail during trial.
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Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Security troops have arrested two senior Islamic State members in a security operation, south of Mosul, a source from Nineveh was quoted saying on Thursday.
Speaking to AlSumaria News, the source said, “joint troops managed, in an operation, to arrest Wali (governor) of Mosul and Wali of Qayyarah in an operation carried out in al-Mahana village.”
The militants, according to the source, “were in a meeting in the village when they were arrested.”
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) The Iraqi military has denied news on killing of five Iraqi soldiers in an ambush set up by Islamic State members in west of Mosul.
In a statement, the Security Media Center said, “what was circulated by media channels on killing of five security personnel in an ambush by Islamic State members, who were disguised in security forces uniform, is completely untrue.”
“Names of the soldiers, who were claimed to be killed, do not exist,” the statement said urging media channels to stick to accuracy and rely on official sources before publishing.
Previously today, news reports quoted sources as saying five Iraqi security personnel were killed as Islamic State militants set up a fake checkpoint on the road linking between Mosul and Rabt’a region, located in Tal Afar, west of Mosul.
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Four Islamic State members were arrested in a security operation carried out in Mosul, the Iraqi military intelligence said on Thursday.
In a statement, the department said, “military intelligence personnel managed to arrest four terrorists in Mosul Old City, al-Shura and Hammam al-Alil regions, depending on accurate information.”
“One of them is wanted by the department,” it added.
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Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Ten people, including an security personnel as well as civilians were killed and injured in a landmine explosion, west of Anbar, a security source from the province said on Thursday.
“A minefield exploded as a group of shepherds were carrying out their daily tasks at al-Sakra region, west of Haditha town, which left four of them killed,” the source told IkhNews website.
“Explosive experts arrived to the minefield. As they were trying to remove bodies of the victims, another bomb exploded, leaving four soldiers, including an officer, killed and two others wounded,” the source added.
Rawa (IraqiNews.com) Two Iraqi civilians were killed when an explosive device leftover from Islamic State’s occupation of Anbar province went off, a military source was quoted saying on Thursday
Alsumaria News quoted the source saying that two civilians were cleaning up their home in Rawa, a former Islamic State militants’ stronghold in western Anbar, but the house turned out to be booby-trapped, and exploded with them inside.
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Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi security forces on Thursday foiled an attempted bombing of a Shia rituals facility and killed the attacker in Kirkuk province, a commander was quoted saying.
Maan al-Saadi, an army commander in charge of the recent security campaign against remnant 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.... cells in Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... said in a statement, quoted by Alsumaria News, that Counter-Terrorism Service forces tracked down an IS member before he managed to plant a bomb at an under-construction "Husseiniya" at the province’s center.
The suspect engaged in a firefight with the suspect before killing him, according to Saadi.
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One is grateful, of course, but there comes a time when one must be practical.
Sinjar (IraqiNews.com) Yazidi fighters who fought 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.... alongside the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq are in talks with the Iraqi army to join it.
Saad Hamu, a Yazidi journalist, told Sputnik News on Thursday that nearly 1000 Yazidi fighters, including 300 femals, who remained in Sinjar, west of Nineveh’s djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , after PKK’s recent pullout, are in negotiations with the Iraqi government to enlist them in the Iraqi army.
Earlier this week, Sinjar’s mayor, Mahma Khalil, reported the PKK’s pullout from Sinjar and the arrival of Iraqi army vanguards to the region.
PKK said in an earlier statement it was withdrawing from the mainly-Yazidi region as it managed to protect the locals from Islamic State murderous Moslems whose defeat the Iraqi government declared last December.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Iraqi Armed Forces have taken full control of a Syrian border-crossing in the Nineveh Governorate, al-Sumaria TV reported this morning.
According to the report, the Iraqi Armed Forces asserted full control over the Khansour border-crossing after the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) withdrew from this part of the Nineveh Governorate.
The report added that Yezidi members of Hashd al-Sha’abi (var. Popular Mobilization Units) and Iraqi Army personnel are now deployed to this border-crossing with Syria.
Earlier this week, the PKK made the decision to completely withdraw from the western part of Sinjar, following threats from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... to invade this region.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Amid an ongoing anti-insurgency operation by Iraqi forces across the country’s central areas, a platoon-sized grouping of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... Death Eaters was recently caught in an ambush and entirely wiped out.
According to reports from well-informed Iraqi pro-government sources, the engagement took place in the Hawija district of Kirkuk province and saw Iraqi Federal Police units came into contact with an ISIS grouping hiding out inside a large trench emplacement.
As photo evidence (below) shows, the terrorist fighters were completely annihilated (literally being blown into pieces) in the battle that ensured, the duration of which has not been stated.
Iraqi Federal Police units are generally as well-armed as the nation’s army minus some heavy equipment. Many federal officers are veteran troops after years of battling ISIS and other Death Eater groups that existed prior to Islamic State takeover of 2014.
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So were the bodies strip searched for intelligence or simply looted?
[IsraelTimes] And Hamas Leaders are "leading from behind", I'm sure
Six Palestinians were killed and some 500 were wounded by Israeli rubber bullets and live fire in the Gaza Strip on Friday, as a series of massive protests intensified along the security fence surrounding the Hamas-controlled enclave, Palestinian sources said. Five were reported killed in escalating violence, hours after a Gaza man was killed at the border in disputed circumstances.
The Israel Defense Forces estimated that 17,000 Palestinians were taking part
500/17,000=34. So one in 34 are more or less badly injured on the first day, probably most by being hit with things thrown by others in the crowd. It will be interesting to see how long the enthusiasm lasts.
in "March of Return" demonstrations along the Gaza border, focused at five main protest sites where rioters threw petrol bombs and stones at troops, and burned tires.
The IDF did not confirm the Hamas death toll figures. In a statement reported by Israeli Kan TV, the army said organizers of the protests were deliberately trying to place civilians in harm's way, and cited an incident in which it said a seven-year-old girl was sent to the security fence in an apparent cynical attempt to draw Israeli fire, but was spotted by troops who realized what was happening and ensured she was not hurt
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry reported that five men were killed during the mass protests along the border. Some 500 Gazans were injured as of 3:00 p.m., with most of the injuries being caused by rubber bullets and tear gas. A smaller number were hit by live fire.
The army confirmed that soldiers had shot at “main instigators.” It said some protesters were lighting tires on fire and throwing Molotov cocktails and rocks at IDF troops on the other side of the border. The military maintained that it would not allow Palestinian protesters to “violate Israel’s sovereignty” by crossing the security fence.
The main sites for protests in Gaza were Rafah and Khan Younis in the south, el-Bureij and Gaza City in the center, and Jabalya in the northern portion of the coastal enclave.
Early Friday morning, a Palestinian farmer was killed by Israeli tank fire near Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, the Hamas-run health ministry said. Witnesses said he was working his land near the border when the shells hit, but Hadashot news reported that the army suspected the man had been trying to place an improvised explosive device near the security fence. He was growing IEDs from Iranian seeds
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A good napalm run would clear that up. Or a few ARCLIGHT strikes.
I really don't understand why we bother dealing with these people. They HAD a country in 1948. They lost it not to the Israelis but to Jordan. That's who they should be blaming and attacking. The only reason they lost the rest is because they were moronic enough to attack Israel and try to destroy it.
It is a group of Jordanian terrorists and their actions should be taken as an act of war by Jordan. It's time to end all the stupid perpetual fictions involved in this entire situation.
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Always wondered what would happen if the Paleos employed Gandhi's tactics. But a thoroughly mad society like the Paleos will never have a Gandhi and would never follow one. In addition, the Juice, unlike the Brits, have their backs to the wall with no homeland to repair to.
[Freebeacon] The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas is planning a mass demonstration along Israel's border on Friday, prompting fears of a new war with the Jewish state ahead of the Passover holiday, according to regional experts and U.S. officials who say they are closely monitoring the situation.
On the heels of a recent military exercise that observers described as "unprecedented," Hamas leaders have called for some 100,000 Gaza Strip resident to engage in six weeks of mass demonstrations along the Israeli border as Jewish families gear up for the Passover holiday, which begins Friday evening.
Regional experts closely tracking the situation say the demonstrations are meant as cover for a mass military campaign to swarm Israel's border and stoke violence against the Jewish state.
[Ynet] As Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", plans 'March of Return' toward Israeli border on Friday, thousands of IDF soldiers deployed along the border, parts of the border area declared closed military zones, and troops equipped with non-lethal crowd dispersal measures in effort to avoid fatalities on Paleostinian side.
The IDF was making final preparations Thursday night ahead of the Paleostinian "Great March of Return" towards the Israel-Gazoo border fence on Friday.
Thousands of soldiers from the Golani Brigade, the Armored Corps, the Nahal Brigade and the Givati Brigade, as well as troops from the Combat Intelligence Collection Corps, Air Force video units and Special Forces will be deployed along the Gazoo frontier, while parts of the border area will be declared closed military zones.
The Seder night breaks for hundreds of soldiers currently in training had to be canceled so reinforcements could be sent to the Gazoo border.
The IDF has completed works to build fortifications in the form of massive mounds of earth, behind which dozens of snipers will be stationed on Friday.
IDF engineering forces also set up barbed-wire fences to make it harder on Paleostinians who may attempt to cross the border fence.
The march is expected to begin in the late morning hours, and it is part of a broader Paleostinian campaign that begins Friday, Land Day, and is set to end in a month and a half on May 15‐Nakba Day. Buses to the border will leave from all across the Gazoo Strip after noon prayers.
While the height of the Paleostinian campaign is expected around Israel's Independence Day and the opening of the new US Embassy in Jerusalem, defense officials estimate that thousands of Paleostinian protesters will take part in the march on Friday in more than 10 locations along the border‐from the Erez Crossing in the north of Gazoo to the Kerem Shalom area in the enclave's south.
The IDF wishes to prevent a "photo of victory" from Hamas‐either of Paleostinian rioters crossing the border fence and planting a Paleostinian flag on the Israel site, or of many bodies of rioters shot to death by the IDF.
To that end, troops have been equipped with gas and stun grenades as well as other crowd dispersal measures in an effort to avoid the use of live fire against the protesters as much as possible.
The IDF forces will also be using multirotor drones and tactical drones, which will be flying over friction points to monitor rioters and alert the troops to their actions.
The troops have been preparing to face worst-case scenarios, including an attempt by Hamas fighters to infiltrate Israel under the cover of the protests‐either through tunnels or from above ground‐and attack the soldiers who would be distracted by the rioting. The soldiers are also prepared for possible sniper fire from Gazoo under the cover of the protests.
The IDF urged Israeli citizens living in the border area not to break from their daily routine, and no restrictions have been placed on them or visitors expected to arrive at the western Negev area during the intermediate days of Passover.
While Paleostinians in Gazoo will march towards the border, their brethen in the West Bank will also hold protests to mark Land Day, which commemorates the six Arab citizens of Israel killed by Israeli security forces in demonstrations in 1976 over land confiscations. The main demonstration is set to take place at the Beit El checkpoint, which leads to Ramallah.
[IsraelTimes] Five Paleostinians said shot as 200 stage violent protests near border; preparations continue on both sides ahead of Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbung millipede,-backed 'March of Return' on Friday
Israeli troops shot up a number of Paleostinian rioters who tried to damage the security fence around the Gazoo Strip on Thursday, the army said.
According to the army, approximately 200 Paleostinians took part in violent protests at four main locations along the security fence, lighting fires and throwing rocks at Israeli soldiers on the other side.
[IsraelTimes] Two Paleostinians armed with a knife and wire cutters breached the security fence around Gazoo on Thursday, the fourth such incident in a week despite the army being on high alert in the area.
The men, from southern Gazoo, were detained just after crossing into Israel and taken for questioning, the army said.
[AyPee] A priest taken hostage last year by Maute militants described how military airstrikes helped crush the siege of Marawi, but said a Muslim autonomy deal is crucial for preventing new fighting.
Reverend Teresito Soganub recalled his 116-day captivity in a news conference where he described how he and the other hostages constantly feared for their survival amid the airstrikes and clashes. He said he and the other hostages were forced by their captors to collect powder from firecrackers and unedetonated military ordnance, which the rebels used to make bombs.
Explosions and gunfire repeatedly shook the ground and smashed buildings where the rebels ordered them to lie low during fierce fighting, said Soganub, who couldn't recall how many near-death moments he experienced. He said, "Every moment, day and night, we were facing death. We didn't know if we'll still be alive in the next hour or next minute."
When the siege began, about 120 armed militants barged into a church compound, where Soganub said he was seized with five church workers and others. Later, in the buildings where they were hidden, Soganub counted about 120 hostages with him at one time.
During the fierce fighting, the rebels took cover in concrete buildings and houses, which they used as combat bases and sniper posts. But military strikes and artillery fire gradually caused that combat advantage to crumble and allowed troops to advance,
Soganub said, "The airstrikes were terrible, you could fill each crater they dug with two cars, and we could get killed if they hit our building dead center or on the sides," adding that two of the kidnapped church staffers were killed in airstrikes and artillery bombardments.
Soganub said Malaysian and Indonesian gunmen were involved in the fighting but that local militants, including Hapilon, led the uprising. Hapilon, who died during the final battles, visited their hideout occasionally to lead a prayer and check on the hostages.
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[FMT] A notorious Abu Sayyaf sub-leader, reported to have been killed during a gun battle with police in Sabah, last month, is apparently still alive. He is reported to have given himself up to the Philippine authorities yesterday.
On March 1, a Malaysian newspaper had identified a man, who was killed along with two other Filipino terror suspects, as the highly-wanted Nurhassan Jamiri. The newspaper said that Nurhassan was gunned down with the two accomplices at a plantation in Tawau on February 27. The identities of those three men have yet to be announced by officials, whose investigation also involves Interpol as well as security agencies from the Philippines and Indonesia.
The newspaper's report had then irked the Eastern Sabah Security Command, whose chief said the media should clear such reports before publishing as it had not been confirmed.
Philippine media sources yesterday reported that Nurhassan and 13 of his followers surrendered with their firearms in a remote village in Basilan province in Mindanao.
Nurhassan, who had remained off of the authorities’ radar for the last seven years, was suspected to have been involved in the bus bombing at the Makati financial hub of Manila that killed five passengers in 2011. He was also the reported captor of Warren Rodwell, an Australian who was held by the Abu Sayyaf for 472 days in Basilan in 2011.
It was also reported that Nurhassan led a notorious Abu Sayyaf sub-group consisting of slain bomb expert Mussana Jamiri, his cousin, in Basilan.
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Basilan is an island, not province. HMMM
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Basilan is an island, but it's also a province.
True? Bluff? Who knows, but it does twist turbans and the Mad Mullahs lose face
[Jpost] Two Israeli F-35 fighter jets entered Iranian airspace over the past month, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida reported on Thursday. The act is a signal of heightened regional tensions, especially in light of recent Israeli military attacks in Syria, including against Iranian bases in the country.
Sources quoted in Al-Jarida stated that two stealth fighters flew over Syrian and Iraqi airspace to reach Iran, and even targeted locations in the Iranian cities Bandar Abbas, Esfahan and Shiraz.
The report states that the two fighter jets, among the most advanced in the world, circled at high altitude above Persian Gulf sites suspected of being associated with the Iranian nuclear program.
It also states that the two jets went undetected by radar, including by the Russian radar system located in Syria. The source refused to confirm if the operation was undertaken in coordination with the US army, which has recently conducted joint exercises with the IDF.
The source added that the seven F-35 fighters in active service in the IAF have conducted a number of missions in Syria and on the Lebanese-Syrian border. He underlined that the fighter jets can travel from Israel to Iran twice without refueling.
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Seen in google searches:
No ferry range figure was ever published for any F-35 variant. What has been published is various range requirements by plane’s users, USAF, USN and so on. What they state is that the plane has X range while carrying Y set of weaponry on a very specific altitude path at specific speeds with a very specific excess fuel reserved for maneuvering. Of course, all these specifics are classified. What we do know is that a strike mission USAF needs allows F35A to cover 600 nm. In pure air to air mission, the same F35A can cover 750 nm.
All that suggests F-35A has potential ferry range of some 1600 nm, possibly even 1700nm.
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Fake news. All the ranges outside of any F-35 published range (Air-Air range of 760 nm, 875 miles). Bandar Abbas will be out of range even with the F-35 + JSOW-ER combo (~900nm, 1035 miles).
Jerusalem to Bandar Abbas 1305 miles
Jerusalem to Esfahan 963 miles
Jerusalem to Shiraz 1040 miles
[ALMASDARNEWS] On the night of Wednesday to Thursday, heavy festivities erupted between 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.... affiliate forces and rebel fighters in the southwestern countryside of Daraa province.
Sources say that ISIS launched a powerful attack against Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... forces of Evil at the town of Khirbat Yabla in a bid to capture new areas from rival murderous Moslem groups. After hours of firefights, rebel forces managed to repel to Islamic State assault.
According to a report from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), both ISIS and the Free Syrian Army suffered considerable losses to their ranks in the battle that was.
The SOHR report added that rebel fighters managed to capture an Islamic State field commander whom they promptly beheaded ‐ the severed head was then hung in the Jaleen housing area near ISIS-lines for display.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A Ottoman Turkish military convoy was pictured heading towards the Idlib Governorate city of Jisr al-Shughour, today, as negotiations with the Russian Reconciliation Center failed in northern Syria.
The Ottoman Turkish military convoy reportedly approached the Idlib Governorate via the Khirbat al-Joz area; however, their personnel would remain in the Hatay Province.
According to a Syrian military source, the Ottoman Turkish military is planning to setup an observation point near Jisr al-Shughour in order to deter the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) from launching an offensive to capture this city.
This latest report comes just 24 hours after the Ottoman Turkish military refused to handover Jisr al-Shughour to the Syrian Army, despite the fact they demanded control of Tal Rifa’at in northern Aleppo.
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Popcorn......
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Videos and images of Iranian forces shooting live ammunition in the air to scare off thousands of Arab Ahwaz protesters have been widely circulated on social media as protesters continue for the second day.
According to an Ahwaz human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... group, no injuries have been reported yet, however videos on social media show Iranian forces shooting live ammunition extensively in the air and running young protesters toward downtown Ahwaz to corner them and scare them off.
Another video shared by activists showed Iranian forces arresting several protesters as random shots being fired.
Activists have also confirmed that Iranian authorities have blocked the social media platform Telegram in order to limit the protests.
Thousands have already gathered in the city of Ahwaz southwest of Iran with videos showing about 5,000 protesters, including women, chanting popular Ahwaz slogans like "With our soul and blood, we will protect you Ahwaz".
The protests were sparked by a children’s television show aired on the country’s national channel on Iran’s New Year’s Day, Nooroz, including a segment that completely ignored the Arab origins of the city which is mostly Arab-populated.
Activists are saying that the government is purposely propagating a discriminatory agenda against the Arabs of Ahwaz, and is continuing its plan to change the demographic of the city and ignore the Arab identity there.
The city, fully characterized to be Arab in terms of population, geography, culture, language and history out of all other regions of Iran, has seen a call for protests on social media through the hashtag "I am Arab".
Protesters criticized the Iranian Radio and Television Corporation, which is under the direct supervision of Ali Khamenei, demanding accountability of those involved and an official apology for Arab people in Ahwaz.
Following forced separation of protests in some streets, thousands of people gathered in the old souk of the city on Thursday.
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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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Saudi air defense intercepted, late Thursday, a ballistic missile launched by the 
... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world...
[IsraelTimes] 
[AyPee] A priest taken hostage last year by Maute militants described how military airstrikes helped crush the siege of Marawi, but said a Muslim autonomy deal is crucial for preventing new fighting.
[FMT] A notorious Abu Sayyaf sub-leader, reported to have been killed during a gun battle with police in Sabah, last month, is apparently still alive. He is reported to have given himself up to the Philippine authorities yesterday.
