[Khaama Press] Pakistain’s Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa has said the return of the refugees is prerequisite in a bid to help the Pak forces deny safe havens to the Afghan Death Eaters.
Speaking to the US CENTCOM commander Gen. Joseph Votel, the Pak Army Chief said "Pakistain is fully aware of US concerns on activities of Afghan nationals in Pakistain and we are already undertaking multiple actions through Operation ’Radd ul Fasaad’ to deny any residual capacity to holy warriors of all hue and colour for which return of Afghan Refugees is an essential prerequisite. Pakistain is also strengthening border controls unilaterally but if Afghanistan genuinely feels affected from Pakistain, bilateral border management must be Kabul’s top priority as well."
The Pak military in a statement said Gen. Votel apprised COAS about the US decision regarding Security Assistance and Coalition Support Fund and said that US values Pakistain’s role towards war on terror and expected that on-going turbulence remains a temporary phase.
The statement further added that the top US General also conveyed COAS that US is not contemplating any unilateral action inside Pakistain but is seeking cooperation to tackle Afghan nationals who, in US view, use Pakistain’s soil against Afghanistan.
"This view, he felt, was undermining in Washington, Pakistain’s contributions in war against terrorism. COAS said that entire Pak nation felt betrayed over US recent statements despite decades of cooperation. Accordingly unanimous national response reflected the same sentiments. COAS said that Pakistain shall continue its sincere counter terrorism efforts even without US financial support in accordance with our national interest and shall remain committed to bring it to its logical conclusion along with other stake holders. COAS said that Pakistain has suffered hugely due to great power contestation in the region," he added.
According to the Pak military, the Chief of the Army Staff reiterated that Pakistain will not seek resumption of aid but expect honourable recognition of our contributions, sacrifices and unwavering resolve in fight against terrorism for peace and stability in the region. COAS further said that Pakistain will keep supporting all initiatives for peace in Afghanistan despite the tendency to scapegoat Pakistain, as peace in Afghanistan is the only way to move towards enduring peace and stability in the region.
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[PAJHWOK] A quadrilateral intra-Afghan peace dialogue began on Saturday in the Ottoman Turkish capital Istanbul, to find a negotiated end to the decades-long conflict in Afghanistan, a reliable source said.
A participant of the meeting confided to Pajhwok Afghan News the gathering initiated on Saturday would last three days (until Monday).
The source, wishing anonymity, also shared a few photos of the gathering with Pajhwok, saying the peace dialogue was arranged in cooperation with the Ottoman Turkish government.
He said Taliban ...Arabic for students... ’s Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... Office members, Mullah Mohammad Rassoul splinter faction members, the Afghan government representatives and Hezb-e-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) members were attending the huddle.
Rahmatullah Wardak is representing the Taliban, Mullah Rauf and Abdul Halim the Rassoul group, Haji Dawajan Ahmadzai and Homayoon Jarir the HIA and Dr. Basir, envoy of High Peace Council (HPC) head Karim Khalili is speaking on behalf of the government in the session.
The source said similar meetings had taken place in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... between the sides last year, but media was kept in the dark about them.
The meeting comes as reports suggest the Ottoman Turkish government has proposed the Taliban to open a political office in the country.
A front man for the HIA, Mohammad Nadar Afghan, confirmed the gathering to Pajhwok. However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... he said, Homayoon Jarir and Dawajan Ahmadzai had not participated in the gathering on behalf of the HIA.
He said Jarir was a presidential advisor and both might be privately invited to the gathering.
Also an official of the HPC confirmed to Pajhwok the gathering in Turkey; however, he didn’t go into details.
A source close to Taliban admitted the peace negotiations but said no one from their supreme leader Mullah Haibatullah group was participating in the gathering.
He said a Taliban member named Rahmatullah Wardak was attending the gathering. Wardak, a former Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB) employee had served as an intelligence operative in the Tailban regime. Wardak has been running a bee honey business in Dubai over the past few years.
According to the Taliban source, this was a third meeting of the kind taking placing between the Afghan government and Taliban representatives in Turkey. "But the recent (this meeting) is organized as a result of HIA leader Gulbuddin Hekmtyar’s visit to the country."
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[AlAhram] Egypt has renewed a nighttime curfew in designated areas of North Sinai following last week's extension of a nationwide state of emergency for three months starting 13 January.
Acting Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said in a decree published in the state's official gazette that the curfew covers Tal Rafah in the eastern part of Sinai to the international border at Rafah, and from Halal Mountain until Ouga on the border.
The curfew is in effect from 7pm until 6am (local time), except in El-Arish city and on the international road, where it runs from 1am to 5am.
The curfew will continue as long as the state of emergency is still in effect, according to the gazette.
A state of emergency was declared in North Sinai in 2014.
A nationwide state of emergency was imposed in April 2017 after two church bombings killed 47 people in Alexandria and Tanta. The nationwide state of emergency has been extended every three months since.
[ARABNEWS] Tunisia’s government on Saturday announced an increase in aid to the needy and improved health care as part of social reforms following a week of unrest triggered by austerity measures.
Social Affairs Minister Mohamed Trabelsi told reporters that monthly aid to needy families would rise from 150 dinars (50 euros) to between 180 and 210 dinars (60 and 70 euros).
He said reforms which have been in the pipeline for several months would guarantee medical care for all Tunisians, without elaborating, and also provide housing to disadvantaged families.
The announcement came after President Beji Caid Essebsi consulted with political parties, unions and employers.
The North African country has been shaken by a wave of protests over poverty and unemployment during which hundreds of people were arrested before the unrest tapered off.
“It’s a very advanced legal project, which was submitted to parliament and will be discussed over the next week,” said a government source who requested anonymity.
At the opening of his consultations, Essebsi accused the foreign press of “amplifying” the social unrest and damaging the country’s image in its coverage of protests.
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[DAWN] Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said on Saturday that meeting US President Donald Trump would be a “bitter pill” to swallow should he become the prime minister in elections later this year, but added, “I would meet him.”
In a press briefing, Khan said he has been a staunch opponent of Pakistan's participation in the war on terror since it began in 2001 following the 9/11 attacks on the US.
“Pakistan had nothing to do with it,” he said, adding that he supported co-operation with the US but not co-opting Pakistan's military into a ground battle with its own people in the tribal regions that border Afghanistan.
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The difference being that President Trump can make it a gigantic brontosaurus pill, and the prime minister of Pakistan will have to smile, swallow hard until he gets it all down, and say thank you while President Trump watches.
How fortunate for the comfort and peaceof mind of Mr. Imran Khan, former famous sportsman, that he needn’t develop his swallowing muscles because he won’t win.
[AlAhram] A UN-sponsored reconciliation plan may allow Saddam Hussein loyalists to make a comeback in Iraq
Nearly 15 years after the ouster of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, his loyalists are showing signs that they are abandoning their endeavours to topple the country’s Shia-led government and are following a softly-softly approach to get involved once more in the country’s politics.
In which the head of Shurat HaDin influences covert international events. Herewith a taste:
[Ynet] In a new book published in the US, Israeli lawyer Nitsana Darshan-Leitner reveals how she was entangled in operations with members of the Harpoon unit, a covert financial counterterrorism taskforce that has dealt heavy blows to Hezbollah, Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... , Yasser Arafat and Leb’s banks.
He is known in the world as "the Lebanese Madoff," but 10 years ago he was still called Salah Ezz al-Din: A rich businessman closely associated with Hezbollah. How close? He owned the publishing house of textbooks used in the organization’s schools. The publishing house was named Hadi Nasrallah after the Hezbollah secretary-general’s son, who was killed in a battle with IDF soldier. He wasn’t a person Hezbollah would suspect.
In 2007, Ezz al-Din flew to the Persian Gulf emirates in search of investments. Major funds for southern Leb’s reconstruction began flowing in from Iran after the Second Leb War, and his high-ranking friends from Hezbollah looked for a good place for him to grow in. It is unknown to this very day who was the contact who had given Ezz al-Din the option of promising investments, but it is clear that he had made a deep impression on him.
He invested millions of private dollars and soon began earning a lot. He started an investment firm and recruited more and more investors who enjoyed the money‐thousands of the organization’s supporters in southern Leb, senior Hezbollah commanders and even the secretary-general himself, Hassan Nasrallah, who invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the initiative.
One day, it was all over. A senior Hezbollah commander’s check bounced. Ezz al-Din thought it was a mistake, called the bank and was told that the account was empty. All the other banks too informed him that his money had been emptied out. He called the company in Dubai and got no answer. Ezz al-Din discovered that his partners in the Persian Gulf had disappeared with about $1 billion, mostly from Hezbollah’s funds. Now try and explain that one to Nasrallah.
The Shiite organization’s serious investigations revealed nothing‐Abu Madoff was unable to tell them where the money had gone. "In Tel Aviv, however, people didn’t appear surprised by what happened. Hezbollah had been in (former Mossad chief) Meir Dagan’s crosshairs," says attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner.
Darshan-Leitner is the co-author of "Harpoon: Inside the Covert War Against Terrorism's Money Masters", which was published in the United States in early November and unveiled the Harpoon unit‐the Israeli intelligence body responsible for the war on terrorism financing, mainly that of the Paleostinians and Hezbollah.
"In the Arab world, people suspected Israelis had done it, but there was no way of proving it," she says about the Lebanese Madoff affair. "They still don’t know what happened to this very day, but according to foreign reports that blamed Israel, there is a certain likelihood that it was a Harpoon operation."
Darshan-Leitner, who wrote the book together with author Samuel M. Katz, knows what she’s talking about. Not only did she interview senior intelligence officials from the mysterious intelligence body for the book, including the person who was in charge of it for many years‐former Mossad director Meir Dagan‐but she was also very involved in it herself.
[Breitbart] According to al-Maqdesi, all of the 16 were killed in the Dir ez-Zor Governorate, most of them in American and Russian Arclight airstrikes. Three of the 16 were killed fighting Kurdish militias in the region.
Nine of the jihadists were said to have come from the city of Rafah in southern Gazoo while others came from Khan Younis, also in the south, and other areas of the Gazoo Strip.
Al-Maqdesi said the most prominent Paleostinian jihadist to be killed was Rassem Abu Jazar, a former official with the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbung millipede,’ so-called military wing. Abu Jazar left Hamas, joined the jihadists in Gazoo, and in 2013 managed to cross into Sinai and make his way to Syria and Iraq, where he fought in the ranks of IS.
Abu Jazar left the Gazoo Strip with his family before arriving in Syria. He was one of the first Paleostinian jihadists to join the ranks of IS and among the first Hamas officials to do so.
Abu Jazar moved up the ranks of IS and became one of the organization’s most senior members in the region of Aleppo. According to al-Maqdesi, Abu Jazar’s family and the families of the other jihadists killed recently were informed of their loved ones’ deaths partly through Paleostinian jihadists who continue to fight with IS in Syria.
Another prominent figure killed recently was Abdullah Kulab from Rafah, the jihadist said. Kulab was a brother of Mustafa Kulab, who went kaboom! last August along with a Hamas patrol that tried to prevent him and another jihadist from crossing into Sinai. A Hamas police officer was killed in the blast.
Those killed also included Imad al-Nahass, Muhamad Abu Shbeika and Muhamad Abdelal. Abu Shbeika and al-Nahass spent some time as operatives for Hamas’ "military wing" before leaving the group and joining IS in Syria and Iraq.
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about 800 palestinians have died fighting against the Syrian Govt side and about the same number of palestinians have died fighting for the Syrian Govt
in addition about 3000 palestinians civilians have been killed in the syrian civil conflict
only about 1000 palestinians died, combining civilian and military, in all the fatah vs hamas violence since 2006
of course this doesn't count palestinians killed by police during 'regular civil law enforcement'
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[AlAhram] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's president vowed to oust Kurdish bully boyz from Afrin, northern Syria, on Saturday as Syrian rebels also said they are bracing for such an operation.
Speaking in the eastern province of Elazig, President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... warned the People's Protection Units, or YPG, that Turkey will intervene if the "bandidosLions of Islam in Afrin do not surrender."
His remarks came as Turkey's military shelled Afrin, a Kurdish-controlled enclave along Syria's frontier with Turkey, saying it was responding to harassment by the YPG, according to the Ottoman Turkish station NTV.
Turkey regularly shells Afrin but Saturday's assault was particularly intensive and lasted more than two hours, said YPG front man Rojhat Roj.
"We are seeing preparations" for a Ottoman Turkish push into Afrin, said Roj.
"The YPG will defend itself against any aggression," he added.
Turkey considers the YPG a terror group and an extension of the Kurdish insurgency within its own borders.
The YPG and its political counterpart, the Democratic Union Party, or PYD, say they want regional autonomy within a federalized Syria.
They control nearly 25 percent of Syrian territory, shrewdly striking alliances with the U.S. and Russia to establish the Kurds as a powerful force on the ground in Syria's civil war.
But the Afrin region is detached from the bulk of Kurdish-controlled territory in northeast Syria. It's surrounded on three sides by Ottoman Turkish forces and Syrian rebels backed by Ankara. And while the U.S. military maintains bases in the Kurdish territory in northeast Syria, it is not believed to be present in Afrin.
A Syrian opposition news site, Baladi News, quoted a rebel commander on Thursday as saying that joint Ottoman Turkish military and Syrian rebel operations to attack Afrin could begin "at any moment."
Moaz Abu Omar of the Failaq al-Sham rebel faction said ground operations would likely be backed by Ottoman Turkish air power.
Turkey has already stationed troops and armored vehicles in rebel-held territory on either side of Afrin in northern Syria. The Ottoman Turkish military entered rebel-held Idlib in October to monitor "de-escalation zones" between rebels and the Syria government, following an agreement with Russia and Iran to restore order in Syria.
Kurdish officials say the Ottoman Turkish deployment is a cover for operations against them.
"The Ottoman Turkish government needs to realize a military operation will not succeed," said Kurdish political official Rezan Hiddo. The YPG is reporting artillery strikes to Russian military observer units stationed in Afrin, he added.
Erdogan has repeatedly said that Turkey will not allow Kurdish bully boyz to form a "terror corridor" in northern Syria.
"They will see how we will mess them up in not even a week," said Erdogan on Saturday.
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At some point Russia will hurt Turkey. The drone attack from a Turkish associated rebel group in a Turkish protected zone really upset them.
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It was in some Twitter posts from Russia. The actual jihadist groups name didn’t translate well with google . It was a group in an area of Turkish control
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badanov reads Russian, as does Fred. Perhaps they could help, if you can find the tweets again, 3dc. Though jihadi groups change names and personnel as quickly as minor rock groups, as far sa I can tell, so the name may not matter as much as the area of operation.
[IsraelTimes] Amid US president's push to incorporate Tehran's ballistic capabilities into nuke accord, Iranian official says missile program is 'only deterrent against enemy threats'
An Iranian government official on Saturday said that Iran would pursue its ballistic missile program despite US pressure, and slammed US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... for his "irrational behavior," calling him the "most hated president in American history."
In an interview on Saturday with the Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA), an operation partly funded by the Iranian government, the chairman of the Iranian parliament’s national security and foreign policy committee, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, said Iran makes decisions based on national interests and that its ballistic capabilities served as a deterrent.
"Ballistic capability is the only deterrent against enemy threats," Boroujerdi was quoted by ISNA as saying, "after Iran has agreed to have no nuclear weapons and to use no weapons of mass destruction such as chemical and biological weapons, because it is totally against the use of weapons of mass destruction."
The remark comes on the heels of Trump’s decision on Friday to sign a waiver on Iranian sanctions, suspending punitive measures for another 120 days and keeping the Iran nuclear deal alive. The US president warned that this would be the last time he does so unless Congress and European countries fix the nuclear deal’s "terrible flaws," and heed his call to strengthen it, including incorporating Iran’s missile program into the accord.
The US president has to sign sanctions waivers every four months, while the American intelligence services monitor the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s compliance with the nuclear deal, signed in 2015, which rolled back crippling sanctions against Tehran in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program.
In a statement following the signing of the waivers, Trump laid out four conditions that must be met, including increased inspections, ensuring "Iran never even comes close to possessing a nuclear weapon," and that there be no expiry date to the nuke deal. The current one expires after a decade.
His last condition required Capitol Hill politicians to pass a bill unilaterally incorporating Iran’s missile program into the nuclear deal.
"The legislation must explicitly state in United States law ‐ for the first time ‐ that long-range missile and nuclear weapons programs are inseparable, and that Iran’s development and testing of missiles should be subject to severe sanctions," the president’s written statement said.
Iran has repeatedly said that the nuclear accord could not be renegotiated, including earlier Saturday when the Iranian Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying Tehran would "accept no changes" to the deal and will not allow the accord to be linked to any non-nuclear issue.
"The Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran stresses clearly that it will take no measures beyond its commitments under the JCPOA [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action ‐ the deal’s official name] and will accept no changes to this agreement now or in the future, and will not allow that the JCPOA be linked to any other issue [than the nuclear issue]," said Iran’s Foreign Ministry.
The ministry added that, "The internal solidity of and international support for the agreement have blocked attempts by Mr. Trump, the Zionist regime and the ominous alliance of hard-line warmongers to terminate this agreement or make changes to it."
In the interview with ISNA Saturday, Boroujerdi said that "while many European countries and the signatories of the nuclear deal have repeatedly protested [against] the irrational behavior of Trump, he is still considered as a serious violator of JCPOA."
But "Trump was forced once again to extend Iran’s nuclear sanctions waiver despite all the boasts," he added.
Boroujerdi said Trump was "the most hated president [in] the American history, whose hatred has crossed US geological boundaries and [has] become a global phenomenon."
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[ARABNEWS] Tough new sanctions imposed by US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... on 14 Iranian individuals and organizations are a political blow and a warning to the regime in Tehran, a leading analyst told Arab News on Saturday.
Among those targeted are the powerful politician Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani, the head of Iran’s judiciary and a close ally of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Groups facing sanctions include the cyber unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
The US move is a significant move and "a critical victory for human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... defenders and the Iranian people," said Majid Rafizadeh, a Harvard-educated Iranian-American political scientist.
The sanctions on the IRGC cyber unit were also a step toward peace and stability by combating the Iranian regime’s attempts to hack other governments’ systems and organizations, he said.
Announcing the new action on Friday, Trump said he would continue the suspension of US sanctions on Iran under the 2015 nuclear deal ‐ but only for 120 days. In the intervening time, he has demanded a separate agreement to restrict Iran’s ballistic missile program, which is not explicitly covered by the nuclear deal, and to make the 10-year curb on Iran’s nuclear program permanent. If he sees no progress on such an agreement, the president will withdraw from the nuclear deal.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] al-Qaeda-linked militias are preparing for a major operation to halt the advance of Syrian pro-government forces throughout southwest Aleppo province by making a determined stand at a strategic town in the region.
As the Syrian Arab Army and allied paramilitary groups sweep across the southwestern countryside of Aleppo province en-route to friendly forces in eastern Idlib encountering little to no resistance (so far), al-Qaeda-affiliated bully boyz are nonetheless readying for a major engagement in southwest Aleppo at the town of Tal ad-Daman.
Tal ad-Daman is by no means a large town (not even to Syrian rural standards), however it does happen to command all the main roads leading from southwestern Aleppo into eastern Idlib and northeast Hama.
Several days ago, fighters of the Ha’yat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly 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 .. ... , the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda) myrmidon group filmed themselves inside the town, claiming to have repelled an army advance.
Whilst the claim was an outright lie because the Syrian Army was tens of kilometers away from the Tal ad-Daman at the time, government troops are now in fact closing on the town via the al-Hass plateau and Ha’yat Tahrir al-Sham has made clear its intention to fight for the it.
The end game of Ha’yat Tahrir al-Sham is clear, the myrmidon group wants to hold Tal ad-Daman in order to prevent a secure link-up between Syrian forces in southwest Aleppo and those in eastern Idlib.
If the Syrian Army intends to properly connect the southwest Aleppo front with eastern Idlib, the control of Tal ad-Daman is crucial. By not holding it, Syrian troops leave themselves open to constant counter-attacks by armed rebel groups from the north, who will use the town as a major mobilizing point.
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[USATODAY] 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.... murderous Moslems fleeing strongholds in Syria are leaving behind a trove of records detailing everything from the terror group’s finances to personnel documents on individual fighters.
"Their record keeping is phenomenal," Maj. Gen. James Jarrard told USA TODAY in an interview from Baghdad.
The Islamic State, also called ISIS, kept meticulous records, including directives and orders marked with official stamps.
Over the past three years, the coalition and local forces have seized "hundreds of terabytes" of data from ISIS computers and storage devices in northern Syria, where U.S.-backed forces are operating, according to the coalition headquarters.
Each terabyte can hold more than 80 million pages of Microsoft Word documents.
"We did learn a lot about their organizational structure, how they communicated, how they facilitated personnel and finances," Jarrard said.
"It is a very detail oriented book keeping organization (with) tremendous amount of details on every individual," Jarrard said. The records include a "laundry list of individuals that have moved into Syria and Iraq," he said.
The information has allowed the coalition to target the group’s top leaders. "The most valuable stuff that we look for immediately is the connections, the understanding of the organization’s construct so we can focus our targeting efforts," Jarrard said.
The Pentagon said it has killed many of the group's most bigwigs, though the top leader, His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart... , remains on the lam.
Analysts also use the intelligence to paint a broader picture of how ISIS functioned.
At its peak, the Islamic State earned about $50 million a month from oil revenues and had another $500 million it had looted from banks in areas it controlled. In 2014 it swept into Iraq from Syria, capturing large swaths of territory, including djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Iraq’s second-largest city.
At the time it appeared invincible, drawing fighters from around the world to its self-proclaimed caliphate in Syria and Iraq.
Today, the Islamic State has lost 98% of the territory it once controlled, according to the coalition. Pockets of murderous Moslems have fled to remote areas, including villages along the Euphrates River Valley, stretching between Iraq and Syria. Revenues have been depleted.
"They are struggling for cash in some areas," Jarrard said. "They’re telling folks no when they request money and resources."
Jarrard, who commands the Special Operations Joint Task Force in Iraq and Syria, said it will take at least a few more weeks to finish eliminating the caliphate.
"That doesn’t mean the war is over," he said. "We will have to continue to maintain that pressure."
Much of the intelligence data was captured when U.S.-backed forces pushed murderous Moslems out of Raqqa, the Islamic State’s global capital, in October. The organization was controlled from the city in northeast Syria.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
[AlAhram] A UN-sponsored reconciliation plan may allow Saddam Hussein loyalists to make a comeback in Iraq
...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
[IsraelTimes] Amid US president's push to incorporate Tehran's ballistic capabilities into nuke accord, Iranian official says missile program is 'only deterrent against enemy threats'
...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart...
