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Tajikistan national among 48 killed, wounded in Kunduz operations
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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2018 11:05 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bacon - and beer- is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy. The ham is a bonus...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/29/2018 13:08 Comments || Top||

#2  A Black Irish boy of Tyrone
Arrives, 2050, alone.
And why does O'Hara
So love this tierra?
"Cerveza, señor, y jamon!"
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 09/29/2018 14:15 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Tajikistan national among 48 killed, wounded in Kunduz operations
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 48 turbans including a Tajikistani national were killed or maimed during the operations of the Afghan Special Forces in northern Kunduz province of Afghanistan.

The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North issued a statement earlier today confirming that the turbans were killed or maimed during the operations conducted in the past 72 hours.

The statement further added that the operations were conducted in the vicinity of Chahar Dara district, leaving at least 31 turbans dead, including a Tajikistani national.

According to 209th Shaheen Corps, the shadow district chief of the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
for Aliabad dsitrict Qari Nematullah was also among those killed.

At least 17 turbans were also maimed during the same operations, the 209th Shaheen Corps said, adding that at least 48 improvised bomb were also discovered and defused during the same operations.

The Afghan forces also confiscated 3 vehicles, and seized the control of 11 compounds, 3 improvised bombs manufacturing factories, 60 fuses of mines, and some other military kits, the statement added.

Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda


Arabia
Four Houthi leaders killed in army operation in Hodeidah, al- Bayda
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Yemeni National Army carried out several operations against 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 ...
militias in the al-Bayda and al-Hodeidah provinces, resulting in deaths of dozens including four of its leaders in al-Bayda.

Military sources said that those killed included Houthi leaders Jamal Yahya al-Dailami, Mohammed al-Ansi, Mattar Mohsen Muqaddam, one of the leaders from al-Jouf province, and Abdul Karim Ali al-’Azzi, the supply and distribution officer.

On the western coast, the forces carried out an operation in coordination with the Arab Coalition targeting the barracks and sites of the Houthi militias in the villages of al-Balakma and Mahwah east of the Directorate of Tahita in Hodeidah governorate.

Ammunition store
The operation resulted in the death and wounding of dozens of militias and the destruction of a weapons store and Houthi ammunition in the villages of Malajm and Mahwah. Coalition aircraft have launched several raids on militia positions and locations throughout the east and north of Hodeidah.

Local sources confirmed that the raids resulted in the destruction of weapons and reinforcement for the militias located in one of the western suburbs of Halaka market, which was used by the Houthis as a supply center for its units around the city.

The raids also targeted several locations near the Central Security Camp, in 50 Street, the northern area of the sixteen-kilometer triangle and the coastal defense building in Salif district.
Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Houthis prevent UN plane from landing at Sanaa International Airport
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Pro-Iranian 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 ...
militias prevented a UN plane from landing at Sanaa International Airport on Friday.

The plane was supposed to carry on board the two sons of former slain Yemeni president former President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...
out of Yemen, according to a prior agreement reached with the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
.

According to reports, the United Nations commissioned a plane to take Salah and Moudin, the sons of slain former president out of Yemen, according to the agreement which led to their release from the Houthi captivity.

The plane took off from the Jordanian capital Amman airport and headed to Sanaa but the Houthis prevented its landing, forcing the plane to return to Amman after the non-response of the pro-Iranian Houthi militia to allow it to land at Sanaa airport, which confirms the lack of seriousness of the Houthi militias and their violations of international laws.

It is noteworthy that the Houthis have conditioned the arrival of an Omani plane to Sanaa International Airport to transfer the former slain presidents’ relatives to the Omani capital Muscat, while the Arab coalition backing the legitimacy in 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...
agreed that a UN plane would do this mission, which was rejected by the Houthis.

Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Europe
Palestinian in Germany caught planning chemical terror attack in Israel
[IsraelTimes] Syrian-born 21-year-old nabbed
You have the right to remain silent...
by armed forces on suspicion of plotting attack, recruiting fighters for 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....

A 21-year-old Syrian-born Paleostinian man has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of planning to carry out a terror attack in Israel using chemical weapons, according to German media reports.

Security forces armed with automatic weapons arrested the man last week outside a restaurant in Berlin’s Neukölln neighborhood, Bild reported Thursday.

The man had already recruited others to join the Islamic State terror group, the report stated.

The German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) reportedly received a tip from a foreign security service about the man, who arrived some time ago from Libya using a false passport.

The German newspaper Welt reported that the man intended to use chemical weapons for his planned terror attack in Israel, and in a phone call intercepted by security officials stated that he had already acquired the necessary materials.

However,
it's easy to be generous with someone else's money...
police had not yet found the materials, the reports stated, and the investigation was ongoing.

According to police, the man was arrested several months ago for assault during a brawl.

Welt reported that the man was already known to law enforcement officials for his aggressive behavior and Death Eater views.

He was reportedly arrested by SEK Special Deployment Commando forces while riot police secured the area.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Given German Citizenship?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/29/2018 4:29 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
COAS confirms death sentences of 11 hardcore terrorists
[DAWN] Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa on Friday confirmed death sentences awarded to 11 hardcore terrorists, according to the army's media wing.

The convicts were involved in heinous offences related to terrorism, including attacking armed forces, law enforcement agencies, destruction of an educational institution and killing of innocent civilians, said the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).

The convicted hard boyz were involved in the killing of 69 people ‐ 49 civilians and 20 uniform persons ‐ and injuring 148 others.

Arms and explosives had also been recovered from their possession. A special military court had awarded death sentence to these convicts, added ISPR. The court also awarded imprisonment to four convicts.

Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP

#1  Just Do It™
Posted by: Frank G || 09/29/2018 9:07 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Iraqi model, social media star Tara Faris gunned down in Baghdad
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Famous Iraqi social media star and model Tara Faris was bumped off in Baghdad earlier on Thursday.

Iraqi media reported that Faris was shot in the car in Baghdad during in the afternoon.

According to media reports, Tara Faris was born in 1988 to an Iraqi father and a Lebanese mother.

She was chosen as a beauty queen at the Iraqi Hunting Club in 2015 and then moved to Europe
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
for a while before returning to Iraq traveling between Erbil and Baghdad.

The news of Faris’s killing was also tweeted by TV correspondent Steven Nabil.
Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


US evacuates consulate in southern Iraq city of Basra following attacks
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The State Department says the US consulate in the southern Iraqi city of Basra is being evacuated following attacks blamed on Iran-backed militias.

The "ordered departure" of the consulate was announced Friday by State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert.

Consular services will be provided from the US. Embassy in Baghdad.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted on Tuesday that Iran-supported militias had launched rocket attacks against the US Embassy in Baghdad and the consulate in Basra.

The move to evacuate Basra comes as the Trump administration is increasing pressure on Iran ahead of powerful sanctions set to go into effect in November.

Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas financing scheme exposed
[Ynet] Minister Lieberman signs order for security forces at Ashdod Port to seize several containers of textiles destined for Gazoo after discovering that Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbung millipede, uses funds from their sale to finance terror activities, pay operatives.

The Ministry of Defense's National Counterterrorism Bureau announced on Thursday that it had uncovered a terrorist financing infrastructure for Hamas in the Gazoo Strip and the West Bank . The scheme was exposed in a joint operation of the IDF, the Tax Authority and the Shin Bet.

It is suspected that Hamas used textile merchants who import large containers into the Gazoo Strip. Senior Hamas figure Hamed Khudari, through his financial exchange business, declared by Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman as a terrorist organization, contacted Gazoo businessmen and persuaded them to work with him in exchange for financial benefits.

"We are working against Hamas on all fronts, attacking their arms stores and drying up their funding sources," Defense Minister Lieberman tweeted, adding that "this is why I established a national headquarters for economic warfare against terrorism, which together with the Shin Bet, the army and the tax authority, is already producing results. We will continue to fight terrorism, terrorists, their agents and the economic infrastructure, by all means and with wisdom."

Thousands of textile products were supposed to be sold to Gazoo residents, ostensibly earmarked for Hamas activity in Gazoo and the West Bank, among other things, for paying salaries to Hamas operatives and their families, arms purchases and funding of hostile terrorist activity.

With the help of intelligence and operational activities in the field, security forces, together with customs officials of the Israel Tax Authority, managed to confiscate several containers under an administrative seizure order signed by Defense Minister Lieberman.

In recent days an order was signed by Minister Lieberman to seize four containers in the port of Ashdod with tens of thousands of dollars of textile products destined for the Gazoo Strip has. These containers are I addition to two previous containers seized by Ashdod customs officials about two weeks ago.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Six Palestinians killed, including two children
[Al Jazeera] The spokesperson for Gazoo's health ministry confirmed the killing of six protesters and the wounding of 506 others on the 27th Friday of protests.

Mohammed Nayef al-Houm, 14, was shot in the chest by Israeli sniper fire east of al-Bureij in Gazoo's middle district.

Iyad Khalil al-Shaaer, 18, was also killed during the protests, the ministry's spokesperson Ashraf al-Qidra said.

A 12-year-old boy, Nasser Mosabih, also succumbed to his wounds after being shot in the head east of Khan Younis in Gazoo's south.

Mohammed Ali Mohammed Anshasi, 18, was also killed in Khan Younis.

Two other Paleostinians killed by Israeli gunfire have not yet been identified.

Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  That's works to how many EUropean girls not raped?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/29/2018 4:28 Comments || Top||

#2  4 less breeders
Posted by: Frank G || 09/29/2018 8:47 Comments || Top||


Palestinians say 7 killed, including two boys, in Gaza border clashes
[IsraelTimes] 20,000 gather at border, throwing hand grenades, rocks, burning tires and sending arson balloons into Israel; troops respond with tear gas and live fire

Seven Paleostinians, including two boys, were reported killed Friday as tens of thousands of Paleostinians protested along the Gazoo border fence, throwing hand grenades, rocks and burning tires in festivities with IDF troops, who responded with tear gas, live fire and air strikes.

The protests was one of the largest and most violent in recent weeks and comes following the break down of indirect talks with Israel over a cease-fire and warnings that the terror group Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,, which rules Gazoo, was gearing up for another conflict.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  a really hard whack is in order
Posted by: Frank G || 09/29/2018 8:47 Comments || Top||


Sri Lanka
Senior rebel commander killed in west Aleppo as infighting looms
[ALMASDARNEWS] A top military commander for the notorious Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement was assassinated yesterday in west Aleppo amid rising tensions among rival rebel groups.

The slain commander was killed along with his bodyguard when person or persons unknown shot up his vehicle near Kafr Naseh town in west Aleppo countryside.

In the wake of the attack, the National Liberation Front ‐ of which Zenki Movement is a major component ‐ launched a security campaign in west Aleppo; arresting dozens of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham
holy warriors.

The crackdown was further fueled when a member of HTS was caught on camera planting a roadside kaboom on a road controlled by the Front alliance.

In response, the al-Qaeda-affiliate Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham tossed in the calaboose
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
several Zenki fighters.

The situation even worsened when both rival parties summoned huge reinforcements in anticipation of wider festivities.
Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Nusra


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Turkish-backed rebels and Kurdish forces clash near Manbij
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ottoman Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
(FSA) and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) reportedly clashed outside the town of Manbij this morning after a relatively quiet few months.

According to local activists, the FSA and SDF clashed inside a town located north Manbij, as both forces exchanged gunfire and artillery shells.

No ground has been gained by either side, despite the intense exchange.

Currently, the U.S. Coalition and Ottoman Turkish military patrol the Manbij area as part of a deal that was established between Washington and Ankara earlier this year.
Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte



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  Kuwait: Houthi militias threaten international borders with Iran missiles
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