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Egyptian court declares Hamas a 'terrorist organization'
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Africa Horn
11 killed as allied forces clash with Shaboobs in Bakool
HUDUR, Somalia -- At least 11 people died after Somali government forces aided by African Union peacekeepers raided Al Shabaab bases in Bakool region of southern Somalia on Saturday, Garowe Online reports.

Somali National Army (SNA) commander in Bakool Abdirahman Mohamed told the media that fierce fighting in El Bar area left 8 terrorists militants dead and scores wounded.

Meanwhile Al Shabaab operations terrorist spokesman Abdiasis Abu Muscab claimed victory against the allied forces, saying they killed ten soldiers and destroyed several military vehicles.

Mohamed added that only three soldiers were killed and two others were wounded in the battle.

Following severe setback on the frontline in central and southern Somalia, Al Qaeda linked Al Shabaab group reverted to cowardly hit-and-run attacks.
Posted by: Steve White || 03/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab


Africa North
Egyptian court declares Hamas a 'terrorist organization'
[THEGLOBEANDMAIL] An Egyptian court declared Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, a "terrorist organization" on Saturday, further isolating the rulers of the Gazoo Strip who once found a warm welcome under the country's past Islamist government.
And in Israel there was much rejoicing. Except on the Left, which will worry that Hamas would lose all motivation to negotiate for peace.
Hamas losing all motivation to negotiate for peace? Don't worry, the Iranians will get them back into line at the peace processor...
The ruling by Judge Mohammed el-Sayed of the Court For Urgent Matters described Hamas as targeting both civilians and security forces inside Egypt's restive Sinai Peninsula and aiming to harm the country. The Sinai has been under increasing attack by Islamic Death Eaters since the Egyptian military ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in 2013.

"It has been proven without any doubt that the movement has committed acts of sabotage, liquidations and the killing of innocent civilians and members of the armed forces and police in Egypt," the judge's ruling said, according to state news agency MENA.

In Gazoo, Hamas official Mushir al-Masri condemned the decision and urged Egypt to reverse course.

"This ruling serves the Israeli occupation. It's a politicized decision that constitutes the beginning of Egypt evading its role toward the Paleostinian cause," he said. "This is a coup against history and an Egyptian abuse of the Paleostinian cause and resistance, which fights on behalf of the Arab nation. We call on Egypt to reconsider this dangerous decision."
Posted by: Fred || 03/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Egypt acknowledges what our own Harfing Regime won't?
Posted by: Frank G || 03/01/2015 6:56 Comments || Top||

#2  "We call on Egypt to reconsider this dangerous decision."

Or you'll double your efforts in Sinai?
Posted by: Pappy || 03/01/2015 11:00 Comments || Top||

#3  The Harfers will reciprocate by declaring the Knights Templar a terrorist organization
Posted by: Matt || 03/01/2015 11:12 Comments || Top||

#4  Perhaps mysterious deaths and disappearances will start in Gaza now.
Posted by: BigEdLB || 03/01/2015 17:00 Comments || Top||


Wataniya TV in Sebha silenced after attack: report
[Libya Herald] The Wataniya TV and Radio stations in Sebha have gone off air today after the building housing them was attacked this morning. It is not clear if the attack was political. As well as smashing up the premises, those responsible are reported to have stolen cables and equipment.
"No more moose and squirrel for you!"
Questions are being asked about the role of police who were supposed to be protecting the building. They are said to have been withdrawn before the attack.

It is that not the first time Wataniya in Sebha has been attacked. Generators have been stolen more than once.

Meanwhile it is reported that a university professor in the town died earlier this week when he was hit by a stray bullet. Mansour al-Sanusi Hammadi is reported to have been killed on Thursday.

Occasional random shootings continue in the town, regarded as the capital of Fezzan. Recently a mortar was reported to have hit a Sebha wedding tent killing three women wounding many more.
Posted by: Fred || 03/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  And yet their Nielsen ratings have surpassed Brian Williams, go figure.
Posted by: Chuckles Gravins5654 || 03/01/2015 0:07 Comments || Top||

#2  When I was writing and drawing rocky an bullwynkle no one best my ratings!
Posted by: brian wiliams || 03/01/2015 4:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Pantone 7416 lands a hard one from nowhersville! The crowd roars!
Posted by: Shipman || 03/01/2015 7:02 Comments || Top||


Claims and counter claims over crashed aircraft
[Libya Herald] Mystery surrounds reports that a Libyan jet fighter plane was shot down and crashed yesterday just near the border with Tunisia. The Tunisian news agency TAP has quoted an unnamed senior Tunisian security official saying that a plane belonging to Libya Dawn
...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar...
crashed just five kilometres inside Libya, adding that it may have been shot down by the Libyan National Army.

Tunisia's Radio Tataouine also reported but it said it had happened 15 kilometres from the border.

For his part, the Libyan National Army's front man, Colonel Ahmed Masmari, has said that a Aero L-39 Albatros trainer aircraft, converted by Libya Dawn to launch missiles, had been shot down as it was trying to attack Wattiya airbase.

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...
, however, Libya Dawn has denied losing any aircraft. Also, a photo purporting to be of the burned-out aircraft does not look like an Aero L-39 Albatros. Indeed, it does not look like any aircraft belonging to Libyan air force.

The head of the air force Saqr Adam Geroushi said that he had not heard about the crash but would check on it.
Posted by: Fred || 03/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Arabia
Rival protests grip Yemen in wake of Shiite rebel power grab as al-Qaida kills 4 soldiers
[YEMENONLINE.INFO] Tens of thousands of Yemenis marched Friday in the capital, Sanaa, in support of Iranian catspaws who captured the city last year. The demonstrators denounced alleged "foreign conspiracies" -- a reference to international backing for Yemen's embattled president, who managed to escape house arrest at the hands of the rebels earlier this month.

Meanwhile,
...back at the hanging, Butch continued with his last words, trying not to repeat himself too often......
rallies against the rebels known as Houthis took place in several other places across the country, including cities of Taiz, Hodida, Bayda and Dhamar.
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Posted by: Fred || 03/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Drone Raid Kills Three Qaida Militants in Yemen
[AnNahar] A drone strike Saturday killed three al-Qaida militants in Yemen, a tribal source said, in a region where the United States is the only country operating the unmanned aircraft.

The raid "targeted a vehicle in which three members of al-Qaida were riding in the village of Bijan, in Shabwa province," the source said.

All three were killed, and their bodies burnt.

Yemen has descended into chaos since a Shiite militia overran the capital in September.

The Huthi militia effectively placed President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi under house arrest in January but last week he escaped to the southern city of Aden.

Despite the turmoil, President Barack Obama vowed on January 25 not to let up in the U.S. campaign against jihadists in the strife-torn Arabian Peninsula country.

Within a week, a U.S. drone strike killed Harith al-Nadhari, a senior al-Qaida figure, and three other militants in Shabwa province, the jihadist network said on Twitter.

The Yemen-based al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, is seen by the United States as the deadliest branch of the global extremist network.
While Boko Haram and ISIS have become the deadliest jihadi organizations overall.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia

#1  There's something in common with all three. It's there on the tip of my tongue, I know its there but it apparently can't be articulated even by other people with degrees from Harvard.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/01/2015 11:00 Comments || Top||


Bangladesh
3 burnt in Habiganj train arson
[Dhaka Tribune] Three people were burnt in an arson attack on a train in Habiganj's Madhabpur yesterday night.

Maya Begum, 40, her daughter Amina Khatun, 22, and Madhab Raudra, 30, were admitted to Habiganj Sadar Hospital shortly after the attack.

They were travelling to Sylhet from Chittagong by Paharia Express, which came under attack in Noapara around 9pm.

Officer-in-Charge of Shayestaganj cop shoppe Yasinul Haque said police were trying to nab the attackers.
Posted by: Fred || 03/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Jamaat-e-Islami


Militant den busted, arms, explosives seized
[Dhaka Tribune] Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have busted a myrmidons' den in Bashundhara Residential Area of the port city's Halishahar and seized firearms, ammunition, and bomb-making materials.

RAB 7 Commanding Officer Lt Col Mista Uddin told the Dhaka Tribune: "Acting on a tip-off,
*Ring, ring* "Mahmoud the Weasel here. Listen carefully, I will say this only once."
the RAB members raided the first floor of a five-storied building in the residential area,
Hopefully a suitably proletarian apartment block, though it definitely doesn't compare to a brickyard or strawberry field...
And in no way close to a banana grove...
and tossed in the slammer
You have the right to remain silent...
three myrmidons."

"We have seized 30 grenades, along with a huge cache of firearms, ammunition and kabooms from their possession. We are estimating that some 300-400 bombs could be made using the explosives."
Not just some little gang of miscreants, but a criminal manufactury. Good work, RAB!
Benazir Ahmed, the newly-appointed RAB director general, will arrive in the city around 12pm and brief the media over the recovery of the firearms and explosives, said the official.
Posted by: Fred || 03/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Jamaat-e-Islami

#1  Don't be messin with a Lt. Col. Named Mista
Posted by: Shipman || 03/01/2015 7:04 Comments || Top||


Europe
German City of Bremen on Heightened Terror Alert
[AnNahar] German police said Sunday they have temporarily detained two people and searched an Islamic cultural center amid a weekend terrorism alert in the northern city of Bremen.

Police stood guard at key locations, including the town hall, main church and a synagogue, for a second day following a federal police warning issued Friday about possible Islamist terrorist activity.

With a Bundesliga football match to be held later Sunday, the city continued to face a "heightened threat level", a police spokeswoman told national news agency DPA, adding that "we have thrown a security cordon over Bremen".

Security will be tightened in and around the more than 42,000-capacity Weserstadion football ground where home team Werder Bremen was to have a Bundesliga clash with second-placed VfL Wolfsburg.

Werder has said there were no plans to postpone the league match, but that the club was in constant contact with the police operations center.

It is Germany's third recent alert after threats of possible attacks led to the cancellation of a march by the anti-Islam movement PEGIDA in Dresden in January and Brunswick city calling off a carnival parade in February.

Police union GdP warned against complacency about the threat of attacks.

"Politicians should stop talking of an abstract terror threat in Germany," said the union's chairman Oliver Malchow. "Germany is undoubtedly a target of terrorists. The terror warnings are becoming more frequent and specific."
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/01/2015 07:44 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  complacency
kəmˈpleɪs(ə)nsi/
noun
noun: complacency; noun: complacence

a feeling of smug or uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's achievements.

I would put money on those who caused the cancellation of the above events as feeling VERY complacent with their achievements...
A thousand taqiyas and a snackbar, please, it's for the future.

RF
Posted by: Whamble Joluter4909 || 03/01/2015 12:22 Comments || Top||


Copenhagen Gunman's Third Accomplice Charged
[AnNahar] Danish judicial authorities on Saturday charged a third alleged accomplice in Copenhagen's twin shootings this month, accusing him of helping the attacker obtain a bulletproof vest and a knife, a court front man said.

The defendant, a slender 18-year-old in khakis and a red sports jacket, denied the charges before his custody hearing held behind closed doors, news agency Ritzau reported.

"He is accused of helping the attacker and will be detained for 26 days," Jens Stausboell of Copenhagen district court told Agence La Belle France Presse.

The man was identified Friday by public broadcaster DR as the younger brother of gunman Omar El-Hussein, a Dane of Paleostinian origin who killed two people in the capital this month.

Three accomplices in all have been detained for allegedly helping the gunman, who was rubbed out by police in a pre-dawn shootout following the attacks.

Two men -- nabbed
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
in the immediate aftermath of the February 14-15 shootings -- have been charged with hiding El-Hussein after his first attack and helping him obtain and get rid of weapons, Stausboell said.

Armed with an assault rifle, El-Hussein fired 28 bullets a cultural centre hosting a seminar on free speech and Islam.

He later shot up a synagogue, killing an unarmed Jewish security guard.
Not just a known wolf, but actually the tip of a spear with a 3:1 tail.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Salafists


India-Pakistan
Security forces arrest key militant in Quetta
[DAWN] Security forces nabbed
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
a key krazed killer from Quetta's Lak Pass area in Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
on Saturday morning.

Security sources told Dawn that forces arrested Abdul Salam Regi during a raid in Lak Pass.

Later, he was shifted to some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location for interrogation.

Sources added that Regi was affiliated with the banned krazed killer group Jundullah, and was planning to launch suicide kabooms in Balochistan and Iran.

"We are interrogating the suspect," Home Secretary Balochistan Akbar Durrani told Dawn. He, however, stated that the suspect's affiliation with Jundullah is yet to be confirmed.
Posted by: Fred || 03/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Jundullah


Iraq
Southern Baghdad Mortar attack causes 3 injuries
[IraqiNews.com] The mortar shell which hit Dora area of southern Baghdad on Saturday evening resulted in injuring three persons.

Security source reported to IraqiNews.com "Casualties of the mortar attack which hit Shurta neighborhood of southern Baghdad on Saturday evening resulted in three injuries among civilians and material damage for several houses."
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Death toll of Balad Ruz bombings hit 68 deaths, injuries
[IraqiNews.com] The corpse count of the two boom-mobiles that hit Balad Ruz district of Diyala, earlier today climbed to 15 deaths and 53 injuries.

The casualty figure of the two bombings that swept a market in Balad Ruz reached 15 and 53 injuries, security source told Alforat.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


11 citizens killed, injured western Anbar
[IraqiNews.com] 11 persons killed of western Anbar.

Security source stated to Iraqi News "Two persons were killed and seven others injured due to mortar shells attack when the ISIL elements targeted Baghdadi district of western Anbar."
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


6 Terrorists killed, injured in Tikrit
[IraqiNews.com] Six snuffies affiliated to what is so called 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....
of Iraq and Levant were maimed in Tikrit city.

Security source reported to Iraqi News "The Iraqi army shelled the terrorist shelters and resulted in killing four snuffies and wounding two others in Albo-Abed village in Tikrit city."
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli military conducts 'surprise' drill in West Bank
ay-pee. Absolutely NOTHING to do with Bibi's speech on the 3rd. I expect Paleo chatter was abundant
Israel's military has called up thousands of soldiers in a "surprise" training drill in the West Bank.
cue Lindsay Graham Gomer Pyle
The military said Sunday's exercise was to train soldiers in "different scenarios."
as in "shooting the molotov in your hand"
The military declined to elaborate and emphasized that the exercise was planned in advance and was not connected to any current developments or security threat.

Israeli media said the exercise would last at least two days.
which would take it to...hmmm add the one... March 3rd?
About 13,000 reserve soldiers received phone calls telling them to be on alert, though only 3,000 had to report for duty. The military said different units, including infantry, are involved in the drill, which is bigger in scope than regular ones that are carried out periodically.
Posted by: Frank G || 03/01/2015 16:35 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Gomer Pyle? You beat me to that one. :)
Posted by: BigEdLB || 03/01/2015 16:59 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Dozens Dead as Qaida in Syria Takes Rebel Base
"Weapons transfer to target group achieved, sir."
"Well done, Jones. Well done, indeed," is precisely how I hope the conversation didn't go. But the other possibility isn't much better:
"I don't understand it, sir. Every time we arm and train a group of the good rebels, the bad rebels overrun them and take the weapons."
[AnNahar] Al-Qaeda's Syria affiliate on Saturday drove U.S.-backed rebels out of a strategic northern military base in fierce fighting that left dozens dead, a monitor said.

At least 29 fighters from the Western-armed Hazm movement were killed along with six Al-Nusra
...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant...
Front jihadists, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

It said fierce fighting had broken out on Friday night for Base 46, west of the city of Aleppo.

"Al-Nusra captured Base 46," said Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Britannia-based Observatory.

Base 46 is a sprawling military compound that rebel fighters seized in November 2012 from troops loyal to Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Scourge of Qusayr...
.

In a statement, residents in the nearby rebel-held village of Atareb criticized the attack on the base and appealed to Al-Nusra to instead fight the "infidel regime and its allies".

The offensive came a month after Al-Nusra -- al-Qaeda's official affiliate in Syria -- expelled Hazm from Regiment 111, another base they had taken from Assad's forces.

Hazm is mainly present in northern Syria. Last year, it was the first to receive U.S.-made anti-tank missiles from its Western backers.

It is one of a number rebel groups that the United States classes as "moderate". They are loosely branded as the Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Nusra

#1  Our rebels always explode get over run.
Posted by: Shipman || 03/01/2015 7:06 Comments || Top||

#2  It's all that sensitivity training.
Posted by: Pappy || 03/01/2015 15:11 Comments || Top||


Two Syrians Detained in Nabatiyeh for Joining ISIL Ranks
[AnNahar] The General Security Directorate detained on Saturday two Syrian national on charges of belonging to 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....
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

The state-run National News Agency reported that Ali Abed al-Awad (41) and Awad Mohammed al-Ali (19) were detained in the area of Buwaiti in the village of Kfarjoz in the southern province of Nabatieh.

The two detainees confessed during investigations of taking part in the fighting in Syria, where they joined the ranks of the Islamic group.

A number of people have in recent months been charged with belonging to ISIL and other turban organizations.

The army and security forces have been cracking down on suspects wanted on terrorism charges.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Terror Networks
ISIS blows up road to Mosul airport
[RUDAW.NET] A source inside djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
said ISIS snuffies have detonated explosives on the road to Mosul International Airport in a bid to prevent coalition forces from using the route.

"Out of fear of an expected massive assault on Mosul against ISIS, the group's snuffies launched a pre-dawn blast on the route to Mosul International Airport in the neighborhood of Zaghlan, south of the city, with the aim of stopping coalition forces that may use the airport to hit ISIS bases inside Mosul," Saaed Mamuzini, a Kurdistan Democratic Party official in Mosul, told Rudaw.

Mamuzini added that following the destruction of the Mosul Museum there is a risk the snuffies would destroy the ancient city of Nimrod, some 30 km south of Mosul.
Posted by: Fred || 03/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Kurdistan arrests six suspected pro-ISIS clerics
[RUDAW.NET] Kurdish security forces have placed in durance vile
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
six holy mans for allegedly supporting 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....
and inciting violence in the Kurdistan region.

"Three holy mans were arrested in the city of Erbil, and one in the town of Harir in the province of Erbil, another in Bardarash ​​area in the province of Dohuk, and one in Zaryan, Sulaimani province, on charges of encouraging ISIS ideology and inciting violence," sources told Rudaw.

Last November, a Kurdish holy man from Erbil known as Mullah Shwan joined ISIS with his wife and children. Mullah Shwan appeared in a video released by ISIS earlier this month that threatens the Kurdish leaders and vows to take control of the Kurdistan region.

According to the sources, the detainees are still under investigation and have not been convicted for any crimes.

Kamal Moslem, Kurdistan Regional Government's minister of Religious Affairs, was skeptical that such a number of preachers had been arrested.

"This issue has got to do with the security authorities in the Kurdistan Region. They should speak about this matter," said Moslem.

Nearly 500 Kurds joined ISIS last year, but the number has declined dramatically since ISIS attacked areas in the Kurdistan region.

KRG security forces have also taken stricter measures and worked to educate young people about the risks involved with joining the Islamic State.
Posted by: Fred || 03/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


ISIS leaders killed in Peshmerga victory in Shingal
[RUDAW.NET] Peshmerga forces fought off a fierce four-pronged ISIS assault in Shingal on Friday with the help of coalition Arclight airstrikes.

"The Death Eaters launched the assault at 9:30 last night," Peshmerga commander Hasim Sitai told Rudaw. Sitai said the Peshmerga did not suffer any casualties in the hour-long battle.

Sitai added that two prominent ISIS leaders, Abu Yaqub and Abu Omar, were killed along with several Death Eaters and some of the dead bodies were left behind.

"We are making a solid plan to re-launch an assault on the ISIS in Shingal with the aim of driving them totally out of the area," Sitai said.
Posted by: Fred || 03/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State



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