To a "better firing position", no doubt
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] UN Secretary-General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon warned that ISIS fighters could set up new cells across Libya and north Africa as they are driven from their stronghold of Sirte.
Ban on Monday outlined the threat from foreign terrorist fighters (FTF) in Libya in a confidential report to the Security Council, obtained by Agence La Belle France-Presse.
"The recent pressure against ISIS (ISIS) in Libya could lead its members, including FTFs, to relocate and regroup in smaller and geographically dispersed cells throughout Libya and in neighboring countries," Ban said in the report.
The defeat of ISIS fighters in Sirte "appears to be a distinct possibility", leading many to flee south as well as west, to Tunisia.
"The future impact of scattered ISIS combatants on southern local gangs may become an issue of concern," he said.
Libyan forces allied with the UN-backed government in 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... have been battling to take Sirte from ISIS fighters for the past two months.
The coastal city is considered one of ISIS's most important rear bases outside of Syria and Iraq.
There are between 2,000 and 5,000 ISIS fighters from Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Mali, Morocco and Mauritania deployed in Sirte, Tripoli and Derna, according to the report.
Dozens of imported muscle from Tunisia have returned home from Libya "with the intent to conduct attacks," it added.
The ties extend further afield, with funds from Libya sent to Ansar Bait al-Maqdis, a jihadist group that operates in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, the report said.
Ban said Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), which is active in Mali and across the Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... , continues to use Libya as a sanctuary and a base to buy arms and ammunition.
Mokhtar Belmokhtar, leader of the Al-Mourabitoun group active in the Sahel, is able to travel throughout Libya with relative ease while the head of Ansar Dine ...a mainly Tuareg group that controlled areas of Mali's northern desert together with Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and MUJAO in early 2012... in northern Mali, Iyad Ag Ghaly, maintains a foothold in southern Libya, the report said.
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"The future impact of scattered ISIS combatants on southern local gangs may become an issue of concern"
"Far better that they stay in Sirte, where we can negotiate with them."
[Dhaka Tribune] Officers investigating the Gulshan restaurant attack claim to have identified the coordinator of the joint hard boy operation that killed 22 people including foreigners and police on July 1.
The suspect ‐ Rajib alias Shanta alias Adil ‐ is a mid-level leader of the banned hard boy outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh The JMB is said to be the youth front of Al Mujahideen, the parent organization that began working toward establishing Bangladesh as an Islamic state in the mid 1990s which remains obscure even today. Other organizations, such as Jama'atul Jihad, JMB, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), Hizbut Tawhid, Tawhidi Janata, Islami Jubo Shangha, Islami Shangha, Al Falah A'am Unnayan Shanstha and Shahadat-e al Hiqma are believed to be part of the Al Mujahideen network. The JMB at its peak was reported to contain at least 100,000 members, and an alleged 2,000-man suicide brigade, few of whom actually exploded. JMB allegedly received financial assistance from individual donors in Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Libya. Reports have claimed that funding of JMB by international NGOs like Kuwait based Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage (RIHS) and Doulatul Kuwait, Saudi Arabia based Al Haramaine Islamic Institute and Rabita Al Alam Al Islami, Qatar Charitable Society and UAE-based Al Fuzaira and Khairul Ansar Al Khairia. The top leadership of JMB was captured in 2005 and hung in 2007, which pretty much shot their bolt. (JMB). Police are yet to arrest him.
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[BBC] The so-called Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... has released a video purporting to show an Afghan asylum seeker making threats before attacking a German train. It doesn't matter who you kill as long as you kill someone every day.
The 17-year-old injured four people with an axe and knife, one critically, in the attack in Wuerzburg on Monday evening. He was rubbed out by police.
In the video, a young man brandishing a knife says he is an "IS soldier" preparing for a suicide mission.
German officials say they later found a hand-painted IS flag in his room.
The teenager reportedly shouted the Islamic phrase "holy shit! Allahu akbar" ("God is great") during the attack.
The self-styled news agency of IS said he had launched the attack "in answer to the calls to target the countries of the coalition fighting the Islamic State".
The attack comes days after a lorry ploughed into a crowd in Nice in La Belle France, killing 84 people. The self-styled Islamic State group said one of its followers had carried out that attack.
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This is the alleged coup plot, as described by anonymous government sources. It doesn't seem realistic to me, but I am not qualified to judge. What say you, dear Reader?
[Hurriyet] According to ranking official sources in Ankara who did not want to be named, the plan included carrying some 5,000 gendarmerie commandos to the capital in order to take control of key state facilities in the attempt to overthrow the government. The plan had three phases, as confirmed by sources. The first phase was to fly C-130 transport planes from military airports in Malatya, Kayseri and Ankara to the southeastern town of Sirnak, which borders both Syria and Iraq. It is a region where one of the most intensified anti-terror fights against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) is being carried out, and where gendarmerie commandos play an important role.
The second phase was to form an air bridge between Sirnak and Ankara’s Eitmesgut base to transport the commandos on fake orders, as the orders were from the Gendarmerie General Command in Ankara, whose chief, Gen. Galip Mendi, was to be seized by the coup plotters.
The third phase was to transport the commandos to key positions in Ankara, like the parliament building, the presidential compound, the prime minister’s office and the headquarters of the chief of general staff, the Interior Ministry, the National Intelligence agency (MIT) and the police special forces, as well as the Turkish satellite ground station, which is a key node in the country’s telecommunications network.
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[DAWN] Two death-row prisoners were sent to the gallows in Adiala jail on Monday morning, said jail officials.
Tahir Hussain, resident of Landhi, Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , and Chan Zaib, resident of Abbottabad ... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden.... , were convicted in murder and armed robbery case registered with Sadiqabad cop shoppe on September 1, 2003.
According to FIR, the convicts entered Adnan Jewellery Shop after overpowering the security guard and broke the showcase of the shop and looted jewellery. While fleeing from the scene of the crime they rubbed out the security guard.
The police jugged Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! the robbers the very next day and registered an FIR against them under section 302/324/394 of PPC and section 7 of anti-terrorism act (ATA).
On September 1, 2009, an anti-terrorism court judge, Malik Mohammad Akram, sentenced both of them to death. They were also fined Rs100,000 each and awarded five-year imprisonment under section 324.
The convicts filed appeal with the Lahore High Court Rawalpindi bench against the decision of the trial court but the high court rejected it on September 18, 2013.
They then moved the Supreme Court against the decision but it also rejected the plea on November 12, 2015. A review appeal was also turned down by the Supreme Court on February 8.
On May 24, President Mamnoon Hussain rejected the clemency petition of the convicts.
Last week, the Anti-Terrorism Court No. 1 Judge Mohammad Ayub Marth issued death warrants of the prisoners and the jail administration executed them on Monday morning.
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So, they stole necklaces and wound up with neckties...
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[DAWN] Advisor to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj PrunefaceAziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... stated on Tuesday that criticism by certain US Congress members against Pakistain is not reflective of the actual US policy.
"Recently an amendment to cut assistance for Pakistain was defeated in Congress. It shows that a wide section of the Congress does not share the sentiments of a select few members," Aziz said while speaking in the Senate.
The advisor briefed the house over the remarks made by the US congressional panel which demanded cutting off all US assistance to Pakistain, in order to persuade Islamabad to act against the Afghan Taliban groups allegedly using its territory to launch operations into Afghanistan.
"The US State Department, just a day after Congress’ hearing, publically recognised Pakistain’s meaningful progress in eliminating safe havens of forces of Evil and also recognised the fact the country has paid huge cost fighting terrorism."
He also informed the upper house that the Foreign Relations Committee of US congress closely observes developments in Pak-US relations as Pakistain is major recipient of US assistance.
"Interest of the Congress is understandable regarding how Pakistain spends its assistance which should be helping the US in achieving its objectives," Aziz said.
"Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... and our military leadership have met the Congressional committee leaders during their visits," Aziz informed the senate.
Pakistain is vigilant and is closely engaging with the US at various levels to ensure its national interest and priorities are duly considered by the US decision makerd, he maintained.
"For making effective linkages with the next administration and to neutralise the negative moves of anti-Pakistain lobbies, we are also in the process of hiring a professional lobbying firm in Washington," he added.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A special court hearing treason charges against former Pak president and army chief Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... ordered the seizure of his assets on Tuesday after he failed to appear for a hearing in the capital Islamabad, media reported.
Musharraf in March left Pakistain for Dubai to seek medical treatment, shortly after the country's top court lifted a ban on his travel.
He is facing trial on treason and other charges related to his seizure of power as army chief in 1999 in a coup, the murder of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... in 2007 and the killing of a prominent holy man in a military operation in Islamabad.
A three-member bench of the special court hearing the cases passed orders to freeze his bank accounts and confiscate his property after Musharraf failed to appear for a hearing, media reported. There had also been a similar order in 2011 relating to the Bhutto case.
Mazhar Alam Miankhel, chief justice of the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. High Court, is presiding over the special court, which sits in Islamabad. He adjourned Tuesday's proceedings until Musharraf is locked away Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! or surrenders.
"According to law, the accused cannot (go on trial) in absentia," Miankhel said, according to English daily Dawn newspaper.
Dawn reported Musharraf's counsel argued the former president was in ill health and could not appear before the court in person.
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[Dhaka Tribune] The Indian army has expressed regret over the death of four civilians in an incident on Monday when troops "were forced to open fire when a large mob turned violent."
A police front man, giving details of the incident, said an army mobile patrol party shot up an unruly stone-pelting mob in Kashmire’s Churaht Qazigund area when troops had been trying to clear a road blockade.
Four persons, including two women, were killed and seven others injured in the incident.
"An inquiry has been ordered into the incident," NDTV quotes a defence spokesperson as saying.
The number of casualties reached to 43 as of Tuesday since the beginning of the violence more than a week ago over the death of a popular myrmidon, even as curfew remained in force in the Valley.
"The Army deeply regrets, the unfortunate loss of life in the incident at Churat, Qaziund where the troops were forced to open fire yesterday when a large mob turned violent, resorting to heavy stone pelting and attempted to snatch weapons from the soldiers," the spokesperson said.
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