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They got 8 but most likely missed hundreds, if not thousands.
European ministers backed France’s request to trigger the bloc’s mutual defense clause Tuesday, opening the way for assistance to help Paris boost security at home and reinforce its overseas operations. French President François Hollande on Monday requested the activation of the European Union treaty’s self-defense clause, which commits governments to help a member that is “the victim of armed aggression.”
The clause had never been invoked before, leaving unclear the level of assistance member states will feel compelled to provide.
French officials have said they don’t want to invoke the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s mutual-defense clause, arguing the current U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State is more nimble. There are also concerns that invoking the NATO treaty, which was only done once, after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in the U.S., could serve as a propaganda boost for Islamic State.
Personally I'd worry a lot less about a "propaganda boost" for ISIS and more about rallying the home town folks...
However, while EU assistance for France’s efforts to scale up domestic security should be straightforward, there may be more wariness about direct support for its military attacks on Islamic State.
Because war is ucky...
EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini called the French decision to activate the mutual-defense clause “first of all, a political act, a political message.”
War is a political act too, but at some point you start slitting throats and collecting heads...
She said the tool is mainly intended to intensify bilateral cooperation but that the EU is given some role in coordinating those efforts. She said many ministers had already announced offers of “material assistance” that could help free up French capabilities.
Before Tuesday’s meeting, two French officials said Paris hoped triggering the self-defense clause would prod the bloc to advance its work on other security issues, including better border control and increased intelligence-sharing.
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EU Backs France’s ‘Mutual Defense’ Request - That America Save Us Again.
Meanwhile we'll allocate our monies to more socialist programs rather than defense.
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EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini called the French decision to activate the mutual-defense clause “first of all, a political act, a political message.”
Nailed it in one. It's also a pretty good smack at Germany, and perhaps just as significantly, a very pointed signal that Hollande is placing some mileage between Paris and the Washington.
[Defense Watch] In the last two weeks, ISIS has blown a Russian airliner out of the sky over the Sinai Peninsula, shot up a bar, a restaurant, a theater, detonated two suicide bombs in front of a soccer stadium in Paris and set off two bombs in Beirut. The total death toll nears 400 and the number of wounded is over 700.
Meanwhile, Obama continues to bob and weave in the foreign ring with all the aplomb of Gerry Cooney. In the last week, he authorized the release of five terrorist thugs from Gitmo and is currently leading the charge to relocate 100,000 Syrians to the US; a move that even Chris Matthews thinks is insane. In Obama's mind, ISIS is contained, our strategy is on track and we're winning the war against ISIS.
President Obama is waging a Phony War against ISIS, much like the Phony War that the dithering, ineffectual leaders of France and Britain waged against Nazi Germany from September of 1939 to May of 1940.
After declaring war on Nazi Germany, the Allies decided that the best way to secure victory was to do nothing. Sound familiar? France and Britain did nothing offensive against the Germans, in the hopes that Hitler, the Wehrmacht, the Luftwaffe and the SS would vaporize into thin air. As the French stared at the Germans across the Maginot Line, the Germans planned and trained and rehearsed for the Spring of 1940, when the Third Reich blitzkrieged across Denmark, Norway, France, Holland and Belgium.
It was only when Chamberlain was overthrown, when France was occupied, that Churchill took the stage, and rallied the British to fight alone, while waiting for the New World to come to their rescue.
We did.
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11/18/2015
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Well, he IS a conscientious objector in this war.
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He's also the guy who fired up Assad's Syria. The pyromaniac who created the chaos. Now he just sits aside, occasionally poking the flames while doing nothing serious to put it out. Sort of the same process he's used in race relations back in States.
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We don't have to wait for Obama's end of term to assess his contributions to the Middle East: partition and war in Irak, triggering permanent war in Lybia, enabling the Brothers in Egypt, triggering permanent war in Syria, enabling and allowing the rise of ISIS, encouraging the radicalization of Turkey, encouraging a flood of "refugees" enabled by Turkey towards Greece and Western Europe and inviting them to the USA, supporting and protecting nuclear weapons in Iran, developing massive arms sales to Iran's neighbor countries, blissfully watching war grow in Yemen, encouraging the Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan, ... all of this while systematically undermining Israel, ... what am I missing?
Posted by: frozen al ||
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The Twenty-Fifth Amendment-Section Four:
"Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President…"
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My take is he's a naive fellow who thinks all of the worlds problems were caused by US intervention. In that light he pulled out of Iraq to quickly and refuses to get involved again.
My theory is less clear regarding supporting Syria/Libyan rebels but not supporting Iranian uprisings except to say he doesn't believe strongly in anything so there is no true unifying pattern beyond keep US troops out.
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OWG-NWO + US-WORLD MARXIST-SOCIALIST ORDER, N-O-T NATIONAL SECURITY.
Apparently, not even GLOBAL = GEOPOL SECURITY EITHER.
The Bammer is doing it INTENTIONALLY.
Party Ideology, Rivalry nor Poor Political decisions is grounds for Impeachment.
'TIS SHOULD BE CLEAR OR OBVIOUS BY NOW THAT OUR UNITARIAN SOCIALIST GOP-DEM ESTABLISHMENT IN WASHINGTON SUPPORTS OBAMA ANDOR HIS PRO ANTI-US OWG-NWO + ANTI-AMERICAN AMERIKAN AGENDA.
The more Illegals, Mexican Cartelinos, + Radical Islamists-Jihadists, etal. that legally or illegally enter the US, THE BETTER FOR ALL THE ABOVE = US-LED ANTI-US OWG-NWO + US-WORLD/GLOBAL SOCIALIST ORDER.
ITS HIGHLY DOUBTFUL THE BAMMER-N-ONLY-THE-BAMMER IS THE ONLY ANTI-US US OWG GLOBALIST POTUS OUT THERE IN US POLITICS.
DON'T FEAR ANTI-US US OWG GLOBALIST POTUS OBAMA - FEAR MORE HIS SIMILAR ANTI-US US OWG GLOBALIST POTUS SUCCESSOR(S).
Iff the former USSR can implode + be partitioned, + Syria-Iraq, and Any Each + All those to come in the ME, Etc. SO CAN AMERICA = AMERIKA.
IN THE NAME + SAKE OF GOOD US-LED ANTI-US OWG-NWO + GLOBALISM.
[WORLD NEWS' PHOTO of SCS = Guam's besieged Camel Rock here] .
[The Mail] The full scale of the trade in false passports that allows terrorists to slip into Europe was exposed last night. It lets Islamic State fanatics who are bent on murder pose as refugees fleeing war and persecution.
Eight migrants have reached Europe using documents almost identical to those carried by one of the Paris suicide bombers.
He claimed asylum on the Greek island of Leros last month with a fake Syrian passport in the name of 25-year-old Ahmad Almohammad.
In a shocking indictment of the EU's porous borders, yesterday Serbian police revealed they had arrested a man carrying a Syrian passport which was almost a carbon copy of the one found on the IS bomber's corpse on Friday.
Posted by: Besoeker ||
11/18/2015
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Let Columbia University Admissions do the vetting. Nothing gets past them.
[The Mail] Vladimir Putin has ordered his warships to co-operate with the French military as both countries launched revenge attacks on ISIS targets in Syria.
Russia has hit the ISIS 'capital' Raqqa with cruise missiles - just hours after saying the passenger jet brought down in Egypt had been bombed.
The strikes come after it was revealed French jets had pounded targets in the terrorists' Syrian stronghold, including a command centre and a recruitment base for jihadists.
Now the Russian President wants his missile cruiser Moskva, which is in the Mediterranean Sea, to work with France's military, who are carrying out more airstrikes over Syria tonight after ISIS claimed responsibility for the Paris terror attacks which killed 129 people and injured 352.
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If Raqqa is still standing, there is more work to be done. The U.S. provided intelligence? Why didn't we take out these targets if we knew these targets harbored ISIS resources? The truth of the matter is that we (U.S.) don't have a leader worth squat. The guy was a no-nothing, do-nothing who somehow found his way into the WH. Seems as if he is running cover for the radical Muslims.
Not as many eyes to pinpoint the attack, not as much capacity to shoot back, and night terrors are more real for Arabs than Westerners. Personally, I think around-the-clock carpet-bombing would be more effective, but that's just me.
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OP, even a daylight full on Arclight would be pretty darn scary if you're on the receiving end.
Thermobaric bombs are also very effective.
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OK, how about a compromise: Thermobaric carpet bombing.
[Hot Air] "In the last days, obviously, that has been particularly put to the test. There's something different about what happened from Charlie Hebdo, and I think everybody would feel that. There was a sort of particularized focus and perhaps even a legitimacy in terms of -- not a legitimacy, but a rationale that you could attach yourself to somehow and say, okay, they're really angry because of this and that. This Friday was absolutely indiscriminate. It wasn't to aggrieve one particular sense of wrong. It was to terrorize people. It was to attack everything that we do stand for. That's not an exaggeration."
Kerry continued, "It was to assault all sense of nationhood and nation-state and rule of law and decency, dignity, and just put fear into the community and say, 'Here we are.' And for what? What's the platform? What's the grievance? That we're not who they are? They kill people because of who they are and they kill people because of what they believe. And it's indiscriminate. They kill Shia. They kill Yezidis. They kill Christians. They kill Druze. They kill Ismaili. They kill anybody who isn't them and doesn't pledge to be that. And they carry with them the greatest public display of misogyny that I've ever seen, not to mention a false claim regarding Islam. It has nothing to do with Islam; it has everything to do with criminality, with terror, with abuse, with psychopathism -- I mean, you name it."
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Constructive turmoil. The fracturing of former regimes and the splitting and birthing of others is a Business Development technique for DoS. Some of the little people may lose their lives, 'but what difference does it make.' Terrorism is your friend. Larger conflicts are generally avoided and we [the elites] remain in power.
[Rooters] Two Air France flights bound for Paris from the United States were diverted for several hours on Tuesday following anonymous bomb threats, and more than 700 passengers and crew were safely taken off the planes, officials said.
Flight 65, an Airbus A-380 that departed from Los Angeles, landed safely in Salt Lake City, where passengers and crew were escorted into the terminal, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration said. The Salt Lake Tribune, citing an airport official, said it was carrying 497 passengers and crew.
The FBI said in a statement that no evidence was found aboard the plane "which would lend credibility to the threats" against the flight.
The airport said operations were not affected, and local Utah media including broadcaster KSL reported that passengers had been cleared to reboard and resume their journey.
Keith Rosso, a passenger who tweeted a photo shortly after takeoff from Los Angeles, said he was "thankful to everyone who has been working to keep everyone calm and make sure air travel is safe. Hope to be taking off again shortly."
A separate Boeing 777 that left Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C., Flight 55, was diverted to Halifax International Airport in Nova Scotia, which said 262 passengers and crew members had safely disembarked.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Halifax said on its Twitter feed that police dogs searched the plane for evidence of explosives, but no details were disclosed.
h/t Instapundit
Jose Ortega y Gasset wrote The Revolt of the Masses in 1929. In his magnum opus, Ortega was critical of the phenomenon of "mass-man," which he saw as a harbinger of Fascism. Culture would be lowered to its lowest common denominator by the revolt of the masses, and so the achievements of civilization would be destroyed by the mob.
...However, today's battle between civilization and barbarism seems to have turned Ortega's analysis on its head. The threat to civilization at this moment appears to come not from "mass-man" but from the elites who govern without any commitment to civilization itself. From enabling the recent shootings in Paris, and allowing the looting of the Bagdhad Museum in Iraq, to permitting the destruction of Palmyra in Syria, Western elites have apparently abandoned the civilizing mission which once both defined the West and fueled the "soft power" necessary to conquer the world.
Current campus "uprisings" at Yale, Columbia, and the University of Missouri, are among the latest symptoms of elite barbarism. Uncivilized, and indeed Fascist, attitudes are obvious to the most casual observer.
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Why does the general public behave like lemmings?
Easy, 45 years of education by liberally trained school teachers. These were folk who couldn't hack biz or science and got programmed by their socialist/leftest profs. (many profs ex SDS)
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"Why does the general public behave like lemmings?" That is the "masses" Ortega y Gassett warned us about. They have been electing our distinguished Elite to run things. The Elite have taken off in their own direction. The masses (or at least 47%) still think they can do no wrong. When a sufficient fraction of the masses have suffered for this, they might begin to change.
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Why does the general public behave like lemmings? They've learned to divide using identify politics and cartoon vilification and a vast number have fallen for it. Those people are now attacking each other so we may have reached PeakID.
Shots were fired in the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis as French police conduct an ongoing operation related to the terrorist attacks last week, the police said.
A raid is being carried out at an address in the Saint-Denis Basilique district, the police said. Two people have been killed in the operation, French newspaper Le Monde reported. The raid is aimed at an armed group cornered in an apartment, AFP said.
Helicopters are circling the area and sporadic shots are being heard, Saint-Denis Mayor Didier Paillard said on France Info radio. All transport in the area has been halted, he said. People living in the area have been told to stay indoors, according to France Info radio.
The attacks on Friday at seven sites in the Paris area killed 129 people and injured more than 300. France has since conducted raids across the country in the search for suspects. The country has also bombed Islamic State targets, destroying a command center and a training site at the terror group's stronghold in Raqqa, Syria.
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killed two (the boombitch blew herself up)
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Found their "safe house." Much more will soon be learned from this raid.
Amateurs the lot. Professionals would have sanitized the facility, with logistical people leaving France before the attack.
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Problem is, Mr. B, that the smarter ones will learn.
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11/18/2015 9:09
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Not necessarily the same cell. My impression, from the number of raids, is they're sweeping up every suspect.
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11/18/2015 10:27
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It would be awfully nice if one of those in this lot were the Paris attacks suicide vest maker. It seems to me that for bomb makers, a professional is someone who survives making a first lot of bombs that didn't blow up until intended.
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The early reports said the vests were made with TATP. Very scary and volatile stuff out of which to make vests. Maker was very skilled or very lucky.
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Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said police had fired 5,000 rounds of munitions into the apartment, which was left shredded by the assault, its windows blown out and the facade riddled with bullet impacts.
The A-10 attack aircraft can't help but keep shredding ground targets in the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS.
The slow, low-flying close air support plane, known as the Thunderbolt II and nicknamed the Warthog, teamed with the AC-130 gunship to decimate a convoy of oil tankers stolen by ISIS militants in Syria. Bwahaha! Was that braaaaaap sound from the Warthog's guns or ISIS tanker drivers $hi++ing their jammies in unison?
As my colleague Richard Sisk reported:
"In the first wave of U.S. airstrikes since the Paris attacks, A-10 Thunderbolt ground attack aircraft and AC-130 gunships raked a convoy of more than 100 ISIS oil tanker trucks in Syria in a stepped-up effort to cut off a main source of terror funding, the Pentagon said Monday ...
The oil convoy attack and the carrier deployment signaled the U.S. intent to intensify airstrikes while increasing efforts to share intelligence with allies in the aftermath of the Paris carnage last Friday that killed at least 129, but President Obama insisted that there would be no fundamental changes in strategy ...
'ISIL is stealing oil from the people of Iraq and Syria' at a rate estimated by the Treasury Department at $1 million daily, [Pentagon spokesman Navy Capt. Jeff Davis] said. By hitting ISIS-controlled oil facilities and distribution networks, 'We're disrupting a significant source of funding' for terror activities, he said."
Given the battlefield successes of the Cold War-era gunship, it's not surprising that the Air Force has pulled back on its push to retire the aircraft.
As my colleague Bryant Jordan reported last week, the Air Force will probably seek to delay by "a few years" the retirement of the aircraft until 2019:
"Gen. Herbert 'Hawk' Carlisle, head of Air Combat Command, said changes in the production rate of the F-35 Lightning II coupled with increased demand on aircraft means the A-10 will likely remain in the inventory longer than originally planned.
'We will probably move the retirement slightly to the right,' Carlisle told reporters during a breakfast with defense reporters on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. 'Eventually we will have to get there -- we have to retire airplanes. But I think moving it to the right and starting it a bit later -- maybe keeping the airplane around a bit longer -- is something that's being considered.'"
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....You might think those A-10 drivers were in...(puts on sunglasses)...Hog Heaven.
Mike
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" My Precious!" Ah...feel good story of the day...my fav little, ugly, slow, old planes perform well. I'd say heart-warming but exploding oil tankers took care of that for the IS bastards.
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They should take out one of the ocean going tankers. That'll give pause to the folks carrying their oil to market. Of course the enviromentalists would be upset. Funny how they aren't protesting about the oil being spilled by the trucks nailed by the A10's.
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Funny how they aren't protesting about the oil being spilled by the trucks nailed by the A10's
Give 'em time, Grampaw.
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Rob Crawford asks the question of the week. We figured out that oil was Germany's weakness in WWII and went after it. Why haven't we done the same to ISIS?
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#11 - because we were trying to defeat Germany?
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Beat me to it, #12 Frank.
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PJ Media has a claim that the oil tanker fleet was leafleted 45 minutes before the strikes, to allow the drivers to get away.
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11/18/2015 17:06
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Mitch, the should have written the leaflets in Navajo.
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Funny how they aren't protesting about the oil being spilled by the trucks nailed by the A10's
Hey, it came out of the earth, we're just putting it back.
[Hurriyet] Turkish Foreign Minister Feridun Sinirlioglu confirmed to Hurriyet on Nov. 17 that NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... allies Ankara and Washington have agreed to stage a "joint operation" along The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's border with Syria, with sources saying this is the start of a previously announced bid to establish an "ISIL-free zone."
"When will you start this?"
"We haven't actually set the date to plan things, you understand, but as soon as we do we will definitively be able to say when we will commence planning the details of the commencement."
Sinirlioglu was responding to a question on statements by U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... , who had said earlier in the day that the two countries would start an operation to complete the securing of the northern Syrian border, which has been used in the past by 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) krazed killers.
Military and diplomatic sources told Hurriyet that Kerry was referring to "a cleaning operation" to be conducted in a 98-kilometer long zone on the so-called "Mare-Jarablus line," underlining that the campaign would kick-off soon.
Precisely the time period referred to above.
As the U.S. and Turkey together provide "air protection," armed forces from the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) will launch an offensive against ISIL.
Of course the head of the Moslem Brotherhood (Turkey) prefers the Moslem Brotherhood (Syria) to all others. They don't seem to be all that effective against ISIS, however, unlike any of the Kurdish groups.
Officials stressed that the Turkish Armed Forces will not put boots on the ground, though action will be taken against ISIL elements along the Turkey-Syria border.
The Turkish military will hit ISIL targets in Syria by strikes launched from Turkish territory, they said.
However will they be able to spare the time when they have Kurds to go after?
"We are pressing the button for the 'ISIL-free zone' that was publicly mentioned earlier," a senior Turkish official speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... told Hurriyet.
"Seventy-five percent of Syria's northern border has so far been shut down.
Really shut down, or apparently shut down?
And we are entering an operation with the Turks to shut off the remaining 98 kilometers," Kerry said in an interview with CNN earlier on Nov. 17.
If Senator Secretary of State Kerry negotiated it, we can be in no doubt as to how it will turn out. We've seen the Iran negotiations, after all.
. The United States and Turkey hope that by sweeping ISIL from the border zone they can deprive it of a smuggling route that has seen its ranks swell with imported muscle and its coffers boosted by illicit trade, Rooters said in a Nov. 17 report.
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[Rudaw] Iraqi armed forces repulsed an assault by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group (ISIS) in the Jarais area of northern Ramadi, destroying several boom-mobiles the Lions of Islam had planned to use against the military, an officer told Rudaw on Tuesday.
"Iraqi forces were able to defeat an assault by the Islamic State in the area of Jarais in northern Ramadi, destroying four boom-mobiles rigged with heavy explosives," said the Iraqi army's Brig Gen. Ismail Mahlawi.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Livia had made her point with her knee to Jane's stomach... a Rudaw news hound in Ramadi added that warplanes from the US-led coalition had bombed two improvised boom-mobiles in the area of Taamim in southwestern Ramadi.
Sources from the Anbar provincial council told Rudaw Tuesday that all ISIS supply lines into Ramadi had been cut off, adding that the city is surrounded by forces loyal to the Iraqi government.
Some 10,000 Iraqi soldiers, coppers, turbans of the Shiite Hashd al-Shaabi and tribal forces have been unsuccessfully fighting to clear Anbar province from ISIS since June. They have been unable to make any significant advances, with several assaults repulsed by the murderous Moslems.
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RIYADH: Saudi Border Guards have sunk an attempt by Yemenis to smuggle by boat 274 kg of hashish into the Kingdom, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
The smugglers were heading to a site on the Red Sea coast on Saturday when a Jeddah-based patrol vessel stopped them, Border Guards spokesman Sahir bin Mohammed Al-Harbi was quoted as saying by the SPA.
“The passengers threw a number of bags overboard after they were surrounded. Four people were arrested from the boat,” he said, adding that a Yemeni who was waiting for them on the coast was also arrested.
Officers recovered the bags, which allegedly contained the hashish.
The Interior Ministry announced on Sunday that Saudi anti-drug officers seized almost 30 tons of hashish, along with nearly as much heroin and millions of amphetamine pills, during the past Hijra year which ended in mid-October.
In August and September alone, police say they arrested 177 Saudis and 290 others suspected of smuggling drugs and weapons.
DERA MURAD JAMALI: Two people were killed and two others injured when suspected robbers opened fire on the car of a tribal elder near the Notal area of Jhal Masgi district.
Levies officials said on Monday that Lehri Khan Magsi, the tribal elder, was travelling with his colleagues late on Sunday night when armed men signalled them to stop near Marorr, an area close to Notal.
The suspected robbers opened fire when the car did not stop. Two of the car occupants were killed and another two injured.
“Two persons identified as Asghar Khan and Hamza Khan died on the spot due to multiple bullet injuries,” said a senior officer, adding that the tribal elder and Naseer Ahmed were seriously injured.
Levies and personnel of the Frontier Corps shifted the bodies and injured to the hospital.
Meanwhile, a man was injured in an armed attack at his house in Sobatpur area of Nasirabad division. Levies sources said armed men entered Ali Murad’s house on Sunday night and took his motorcycle away. However, Mr Murad woke up and resisted.
He was injured when the robbers opened fire.
Separately, three people were injured in two road accidents near Bibi Nani and Mach Bridge area of Bolan district.
State leaders blasted the feds Monday for not alerting them about 14 Syrian refugees who were resettled in Louisiana. It's unclear when they arrived.
The majority of them are in the New Orleans area, but one came to Baton Rouge. WBRZ has learned Catholic Charities helped the refugee who settled in Baton Rouge, but said the immigrant left for another state after a couple of days, and they don't know where the refugee went since they don't track them.
Monday, Governor Bobby Jindal issued an executive order preventing the resettlement of Syrian refugees into Louisiana. The order prohibits state resources from being used for the refugees. However, that order does not apply to nonprofits and has no effect on the organization that helps refugees.
"We're at the receiving end," Executive Director of Catholic Charities, Chad Aguillard said. "We receive them, we welcome them into our community and help them resettle. There has been a lot of commotion and fear with Syrians. The fear is justified, but we have to check that against reality."
One way to check that justified fear is to keep tabs on the "refugees" for more than a week...
The executive order issued by Governor Jindal also calls for strict monitoring of the refugees. However, state leaders were not made aware that refugees were in Louisiana until this weekend after watching the news.
"This is a federal program, and it was their responsibility, as the governor has stated, that they should have notified myself or governor directly," GOHSEP Director Kevin Davis said.
As Catholic Charities continues to work with those less fortunate, the organization says it has helped refugees since the Vietnam War. It plans to continue to help refugees no matter where they are from.
"If we see anything suspicious, we are going to report it," Aguillard said. "We work with FBI, Homeland Security and do what we need to do to safeguard our community."
How will you know if you don't know where they are?
The feds say immigration laws prohibit states from blocking refugees from resettling. Calls to the State Department were not returned today.
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(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – A security source in Kirkuk province announced on Tuesday, that dozens of ISIS elements had been either killed or wounded in an aerial bombing that was carried out by French aircraft on several ISIS sites southwest of the province.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “French aircraft belonging to the international coalition, bombed ISIS sites in Riyadh and Rashad in Hawija district (55 km southwest of Kirkuk), killing and wounding dozens of insurgents.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added: “The bombardment was based on accurate information about the insurgents in those locations.”
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so, somebody stuck a JDAM kit (or at least part of one) on a B-61. Simple technically, yet given the "Nuclear Fetish", administratively a nightmare to execute. And uselessly gold plated too, I bet.
(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – A source in the police announced on Tuesday, that 13 civilians had been either killed or wounded in the explosion of two bombs in Baghdad.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “An explosive device that was planted on the side of a road in al-Bawiya area in Madain District southeast of Baghdad exploded before noon today, resulting in the injury of five civilians,” noting that, “Another explosive device that was emplaced near a popular market in al-Hussein neighborhood exploded, wounding seven civilians, including women, and killing another civilian. ”
The source, who asked anonymity, added “Security forces cordoned off the areas of the blasts and opened an investigation into the incidents
HASAKAH – The Kurdish-Arab joint alliance of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) regained swaths of territories in the eastern countryside of Hasakah, northeastern Syria, from the terror group of Islamic State (ISIS) after weeks of fierce battles, SDF top commanders told ARA News.
“We are determined to liberate every single town and village from the ISIS barbaric group in Syria.”
Remarks of the SDF top commanders came on the sidelines of a press conference in the recently liberated town of al-Hawl.
Speaking to ARA News, official spokesman of the SDF, Colonel Talal Silo, said: “The liberation of al-Hawl from ISIS comes in the framework of our campaign to cleanse the entire southern countryside of Hasakah from the barbaric group.”
“We will soon liberate the entire province of Hasakah from ISIS terrorists,” he added.
On October 30, the joint forces launched a military campaign that aims to expel ISIS extremist militants from the Hasakah province.
Between October 30 and November 13, the Kurdish-Arab alliance of SDF liberated an area of 1,362 square kilometers, which includes some 200 villages and towns, among them the strategic town of al-Hawl on the Syrian-Iraqi border.
The recent military operations in Hasakah province resulted in the death of 493 ISIS militants, 33 SDF fighters and four civilians, according to Silo.
The joint troops have also sized hundreds of weapons and a large deal of ammunition in the two-week operations against ISIS in northeastern Syria.
Al-Hawl, which is located some 40 kilometres (25 mi) east of Hasakah, holds a strategic location for being a key access to the Iraqi territory, Silo concluded. “After losing al-Hawl, ISIS’s military and economic situation may deteriorate due to the cut of a main supply route between the group’s strongholds in Syria and Iraq.”
Recapturing al-Hawl came hours after the Kurdish Peshmerga forces in Iraqi Kurdistan took control of Shingal (Sinjar) district in Nineveh province after fierce battles with ISIS. In August 2014, ISIS launched a massive offensive on Shingal, causing a mass displacement of tens of thousands of Yezidi civilians and the captivity of thousands of women.
Speaking to ARA News, Sheikh Bandar Deham al-Hadi, commander of the Arab force al-Sanadeed, which takes part in the SDF operations, said: “Within two weeks, ISIS was harshly defeated by our SDF forces in the key town of al-Hawl and major areas of the southern countryside of Hasakah province.”
Al-Hadi pointed out that their troops launched an attack from four sides on al-Hawl, regaining the villages of al-Mahra, Oum Hijera and al-Khatooniya, as well as the Tishrin oilfield.
“Our fighters are heading to the ISIS-held Shaddadi city and the rest of the occupied areas in Hasakah province,” he added.
“Al-Sanadeed joined the SDF with more than 1700 fighters, deploying them on the frontlines and backlines of the battles. Despite the wide geographical area of the fighting fronts, these joint forces were able to expel ISIS terrorists within less than two weeks,” al-Hadi told ARA News.
He pointed out that their battles with ISIS are fateful, and they will continue hitting ISIS strongholds on the whole the Syrian soil, adding “ISIS is different from the Syrian people ideologically and religiously.”
“This terror gangs came to ‘distort the religion of Islam’, the SDF will continue combatting its odd mentality,” he explained, adding “we promised our people in Syria to eradicate this barbaric group.”
Noteworthy, the United States has delivered a second batch of ammunition to fighters of the Kurdish-Arab alliance battling the extremist group in northern Syria, a U.S. official reported earlier this week.
The Syrian Democratic Forces announced two weeks ago the start of its military campaign for regaining control of the ISIS-held areas in the province of Hasakah. The SDF includes Kurdish forces of the YPG and YPJ, the Syriac Military Council, the Arab tribal group of al-Sanadeed, al-Jazeera brigades, Jaish al-Thuwar group and Burkan al-Furat battalion.
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This will to make Turkey unhappy... or unhappier.
LAHORE: The Punjab Counter Terrorism Department cannot rule out threat of Paris-like attacks in Lahore and elsewhere in the province, a senior CTD official has said.
Another senior official has said a seminary in south Punjab has been sealed for providing militant training to its students.
The two officials were briefing journalists on Tuesday about security arrangements being made for the coming local government elections in the province. Provincial Law Minister Rana Sanaullah was also present on the occasion.
There is no election-related threat from the Middle East-based Islamic State militant group, also known by its Arabic acronym Daesh, said CTD’s additional inspector general Rai Tahir. “But there are threats from the international terrorist organisation to Punjab,” he said.
As a precaution, he said, all the sensitive places and social media sites from where controversial messages could be spread were being monitored.
Mr Tahir said that details about the sensitive places and websites would be shared with the media at an appropriate time.
Provincial Home Secretary Maj (retired) Azam Sultan said the seminary in south Punjab which had been sealed was affiliated to Islamabad’s Lal Masjid, whose chief cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz had pledged allegiance to IS.
He said the authorities had taken Maulana Aziz’s statements about IS seriously and were monitoring whether the terrorist group had been able to make inroads into the province.
Though Lal Masjid, which hit headlines during Gen Pervez Musharraf’s rule when it had to be raided by army personnel in 2007, does not fall in the jurisdiction of the provincial government, Punjab is giving its input to the federal authorities and taking all possible measures to suppress chances of spread of extremism from the seminary, he added.
Rana Sanaullah said that action would be taken by the provincial government if IS was found to be active in any manner in the province. “Whether the person involved with Daesh is a seminary teacher or a college teacher, he won’t go scot-free.”
When asked if south Punjab could be described as a breeding ground for IS, he said Daesh is the name of a mindset which may rear its ugly head anywhere in the province.
He said that religious schools in the Seraiki belt of Punjab were being monitored to check entry of terrorists into the province.
The minister said that all the seminaries in Punjab had been geo-tagged and the authorities knew where seminaries were located and how many.
He admitted that people listed in the Fourth Schedule, a list comprising the elements that had taken part in militant activities or suspected to have links with militants, included some madressah teachers and students.
But he added that such people had been forced out of the seminaries and the schools were no longer involved in militancy.
Published in Dawn, November 18th, 2015
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The National Directorate of Security (NDS) – Afghanistan’s intelligence agency has detained the military commander of Taliban for Qala-i-Zal District of northern Kundoz province.
Commander Qari Sharifullah was arrested along with his deputy Zia-ud-din after a brief clash with NDS personnel in Mazar-e-Sharif, the provincial capital of Balkh province.
A statement released by NDS on Tuesday states that the arrested Taliban were involved in armed clashes in Qala-e-Zal and Chahar Dara districts, and the provincial capital of Kundoz province.
Qari sharifullah was in Mazar-e-Sharif for treatment after sustaining injuries in Kundoz province.
The arrested Taliban admit to have planted several landmines for targeting security forces besides other terrorist activities.
Kundoz saw some of its worst security recently. Militants stormed the provincial capital and staged attacks against security forces in Qala-i-Zal, Chahar Dara and other areas.
However, Taliban soon lost most of the seized areas back to security forces with heavy casualties.
Iran’s army conducted exercises Tuesday close to its border with Afghanistan designed to simulate how it would respond if “terrorist groups” such as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) organization mounted an attack.
The operation in the northeastern province of Khorasan came a day after a military commander said ISIS would be “neutralized” if it breached a 40 kilometer zone approaching Iran’s borders. Tanks, helicopters and planes took part in Tuesday’s manoeuvres, the ISNA news agency reported.
“One aim of the exercise was to practice methods and means to confront the possible actions of terrorist groups at the borders,” said General Amir Reza Azarban, an army commander in the province.
Iran, the major Shiite power in the Middle East, is heavily involved in conflicts in Syria and Iraq against ISIS, primarily Sunni Muslims who denounce Shiites as apostates. More at the link
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The Afghan Intelligence operatives have detained at least 27 university students who were affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group and the Taliban group.
The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said the university students were arrested after they torched the national flag and instead raised the flags of ISIS and Taliban group.
NDS said a number of the detained university students also have links with Hezb-e-Islami Party led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
Filed under Salafists because it appears they don't really care enough to have a proper allegiance, except to whoever is the current strongest horse/most fashionable.
The group was looking to organize further illegal demonstrations in a bid to disrupt the situation in Nangarhar and particularly in Nangrhar University, NDS said, adding that the suspects were arrested during a joint operation conducted by Afghan police and intelligence operatives.
The Afghan security forces also confiscated numerous ISIS and Taliban flags along with documents proving their affiliation with the terror groups, NDS added.
Calling the Taliban and ISIS as terror groups, NDS warned of strict actions against those who are supporting and spreading propaganda in favor of the mentioned groups.
Nangarhar is among the relatively volatile provinces in eastern Afghanistan where anti-government armed militant groups are actively operating in a number of its remote districts which have also became a hotbed for the loyalists of ISIS terrorist group.
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Gods, not the 747 cruise missile carrier idea again. *facepalms* IIRC, I last saw this concept back in the carter administration, right after they canceled the B-1 bomber.
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Not a bad idea for a quick and cheap supplement to existing platforms. Especially now that the missiles can be programmed on the fly.
I just don't want the bean counters in congress and the pentegon to start saying that this can replace all the bombers like they say about the F-35 replacing the A-10.
A Cruise missile carrier is an excellent supplement for a prestrike option prior to a large bombing campaign to take out air defenses. It isn't a replacement.
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New F-150s are lighter due to military-grade aluminum bodies. Lower fuel consumption and an alternative to the 747. Drink UP!
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A replacement for the boomers? While the payload may be similar, an Ohio-class boat would seem to have the advantage when it comes to loiter time and stealth. Maybe one size doesn't fit all.
F-150s tricked out as autonomous hunter-killers with missiles and machine guns would be pretty cool.
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I don't see any really good reason that amphibious F-150s couldn't replace the LCS on a one for one basis. 3 crew with one extra berth, 70 knots for 350 miles. ~ $95,000 in Pentagon motif.
French authorities were scrambling Tuesday to find eighth and ninth suspects involved in the deadly terror plot in Paris — as new surveillance footage revealed two gunmen who fired into a bar at one of the attack sites.
Officials had not previously specified how many people were involved in the slaughter at a sidewalk bar on Rue de la Fontaine. Five people were killed and eight were seriously wounded; witnesses report that the shooters were in a black vehicle.
Surveillance video of the shooting obtained by The Associated Press shows a team of three attackers: two black-clad gunmen calmly firing on the bar, then returning slowly toward a waiting car, whose driver was maneuvering behind them.
Three French officials confirmed that an analysis of the series of attacks on Friday indicated that one additional person directly involved in the assault remains unaccounted for. That's in addition to another known accomplice — Salah Abdeslam, 26, who remains the subject of a global manhunt. The second fugitive had not been identified.
Seven attackers died Friday night — three around the national stadium, three inside the Bataclan concert hall, and one at a restaurant nearby.
French and Belgian police were already looking for key suspect Abdeslam, whose suicide-bomber brother, Brahim, died in the attacks Friday night that killed at least 129 people and left over 350 wounded in Paris.
French police appealed Tuesday for help identifying one of the suicide bombers — a man whose face appeared on a Syrian passport bearing another name. The appeal for information and accompanying photo circulated described the individual as the "dead mastermind" of one of Friday's attacks on Paris's Stade de France.
The man's face matched one Greek officials previously said appeared on a Syrian passport bearing the name Ahmad Almohammad which was presented for registration on the Greek island of Leros. French justice minister Christiane Taubira told NBC News the passport used in Greece bearing the name Almohammad was likely not genuine — and the appeal for information appeared to confirm that.
As police teams race to locate the two fugitives believed to have helped the attackers, two men have been charged as accomplices. Hamza Attou and Mohammed Amri are accused of picking up 26-year-old Salah Abdeslam from Paris and taking him back into Belgium early Saturday, Belgian prosecutor spokesperson Eric Van Sypt told NBC News. Abdeslam's brother was among the attackers.
Attou and Amri were among seven people detained following a major sweep in the Brussels neighborhood of Molenbeek on Saturday.
German authorities also confirmed Tuesday that three people were arrested near the city of Aachen in connection with the ongoing investigation, but Abdeslam was not among them.
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Dozens of the dead and injured were moved to Aden hospitals after the Yemeni army and popular committees ambushed the mercenaries of the Saudi aggression in Omari military camp in Bab al-Mandeb area, according to Yemeni sources.
The sources noted that the Yemeni army and popular committees planted mines and improvised explosive devices in the camp and withdrew from the area.
They added that when the Saudi-led mercenaries advanced towards the camp, the Yemeni forces detonated the explosives and bombarded the terrorists.
[AlAhram] Tunisian security forces have detained nearly 20 people this month during "anti-terrorist" operations, foiling attacks on security buildings and hotels, a government source said on Tuesday.
"Seventeen people have been tossed in the slammer You have the right to remain silent... since the beginning of November in several security operations," the source told AFP.
Those held, whose identities were not revealed, were preparing attacks on hotels or buildings used by the security forces, the source added.
Without elaborating, the source said several of them had spent time abroad with members of jihadist organizations such as the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group.
The news comes after the interior ministry said Monday seven women have been arrested for posting propaganda on the Internet on behalf of the Tunisian affiliate of ISIS, Jund al-Khilafa.
It also follows an anti-terrorist sweep Sunday on Mount Mghilla in the centre of the country after the gruesome beheading there by jihadists of a 16-year-old shepherd. One soldier and an alleged jihadist were killed during that operation, the defence ministry said. No group has yet grabbed credit for the shepherd's murder.
Thousands of young Tunisians have travelled to Iraq, Syria and Libya to fight alongside Islamic Lion of Islams, according to the authorities in the North African country.
At home, ISIS has said it was behind two attacks targeting foreigners -- at the National Bardo Museum in March, killing 21 tourists and a policeman, and at a hotel in Sousse in June, killing 38 tourists.
Dozens of members of the security forces have also been killed by faceless myrmidons since the 2011 revolution that sparked the Arab Spring.
The Tunisian authorities say they have been particularly affected by the chaos in neighbouring Libya, where ISIS has established a presence. Tunisia has begun building a border wall some 200 kilometres (125 miles) long, with the aim of stemming the flow of contraband weapons across the frontier.
All the smart kids are building walls nowadays.
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It now seems clear that IS cannot continue to sustain personnel losses it has suffered in 2015. Mosul should be lost in the next six months, and Russia will likely bomb Rakka back to the stone age. Thus, look for IS to seek a change of venue, most likely western Libya.
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Libya for training camps, battlefields in Western Europe? They certainly can't retreat to Boko Haram, Al Shabaab, or Ansar Bayt al Maqdis, all of whom are already hard pressed.
(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – A security source in Kirkuk announced on Tuesday, that 11 elements of the ISIS were killed in an aerial strike that targeted ISIS gatherings southwest of the province.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “The international coalition warplanes bombed at dawn today a number of ISIS gatherings on the outskirts of Hawija (55 km southwest of Kirkuk), killing 11 members of the organization.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added: “The bombing came on the back of detecting movements of ISIS militants in the district”, adding that, “This was based on accurate intelligence.”
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[AnNahar] President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... on Tuesday ordered the Russian navy in the Mediterranean to establish contact with its French counterparts and work together "as allies" in a campaign against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group in Syria
Putin instructed his military to work out a joint Russian-French action plan against IS snuffies as he pushes the idea of establishing a broad anti-IS coalition that would involve both Russia and the West.
"It's necessary to establish direct contact with the French and work with them as allies," Putin told the military top brass at a meeting after French President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... said the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle would be deployed to the eastern Mediterranean.
"It's necessary to work out with them a plan of joint actions both at sea and in the air," Putin said, adding that both the chief of the general staff and the defense ministry had received orders to that effect.
The Kremlin said separately that Putin and Hollande had agreed in phone talks to ramp up cooperation and tackle "international terrorism" together.
"It has been agreed to ensure closer contact and coordination between the military and security service agencies of the two countries during operations against terrorist groups by Russia and La Belle France in Syria," the Kremlin said in a statement following the phone call between Putin and Hollande.
The two will further discuss the fight against terrorism in a meeting in Moscow on November 26, the Kremlin said.
Putin has been seeking to capitalize on shifting dynamics in the West following Friday's terror attacks in Gay Paree and the bombing of a Russian passenger plane over Sinai in October, arguing that Russia and the West should unite against a common enemy.
Earlier Tuesday Russia announced that the Airbus A321 carrying 224 people, most of them Russian tourists, was knocked out of sky by a bomb and pledged vengeance.
On Tuesday, Russian strategic bombers hit Islamic State group targets in Syria's Raqa and Deir Ezzor provinces, defense minister Sergei Shoigu said.
He added that cruise missile strikes had also hit Aleppo and Idlib provinces.
The strikes are the first time that Russia has deployed its strategic long-range bombers during its air campaign in Syria and came as Shoigu said Moscow had doubled the number of combat sorties it flew over the country.
In total, Shoigu said that Russian forces hit 206 "terrorist" targets in Syria in the latest wave of strikes.
Apart from a spate of missiles fired from its Caspian Sea fleet in October, up until now Moscow has mainly relied on smaller fighter jets to hit targets in Syria but has now deployed the more powerful long-range bombers from Russian territory.
[AnNahar] British police on Tuesday said they had detained two men for terrorism offenses as they tried to leave the country, adding that the arrests were not linked to attacks in Gay Paree.
Police said the men, aged 22 and 20, were placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! early on Sunday at Dover Eastern Docks, a ferry terminal in southeast England and a popular departure point for ships heading to the port city of Calais, La Belle France.
The men had been living in Hayes on the outskirts of west London and are currently in jug, said police, who declined to reveal their nationalities.
"I would firstly like to confirm these arrests are not linked to the Gay Paree terrorist incidents and there is no immediate threat to the local community," said Ian Hunter, head of investigations of the South East Counter Terrorism Unit.
"These men were trying to leave the UK via Dover and were arrested following good work by Kent coppers at the port."
Britannia has beefed up security at ports, transit hubs and other busy public areas after 129 people were killed in coordinated gun and kabooms in Gay Paree on Friday.
Hundreds of Britons have left to join the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group in Syria and Iraq in recent months. Some have attempted to use ferries to make their way there to try to avoid detection.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the police announced on Tuesday, that unknown gunmen stormed a house and detained the members of its family and stole 65 million dinars in the area of al-Ghadeer east of Baghdad.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “Two gunmen wearing military uniforms broke into a house in al-Ghadeer east of Baghdad,” noting that, “The gunmen detained the family inside one room of the house at gunpoint and were able to steal the amount of 65 million Iraqi dinars.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added: “The gunmen had managed to flee to an unknown location after carrying out the operation, while the security forces cordoned off the area of the incident and opened an investigation into its circumstances.”
A number of security force members from Helmand province claim the Taliban has access to a national database of security force members which is putting troops at great risk.
However, these claims have been rejected by the Interior Ministry.
According to the soldiers, a number of security force members have been identified by the Taliban as being troops after having their finger prints scanned by insurgents.
The troops said they wear civilian clothes under their uniforms and sometimes fight on the battlefield in civilian clothes.
"Most of them have private clothes under their uniform. When war intensifies, they take off their uniforms and then escape," an army commander told TOLOnews.
"They [Taliban] captured four of our colleagues. They scanned their fingers through a computer and found that they were security force members. Taliban has access to biometric [technology]," an army soldier said.
Interesting. Whence the impetus to modernize?
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) meanwhile rejected the claims and said these were unfounded rumors.
"This issue is not real. It is completely baseless," said Najib Danish, the deputy MoI spokesman.
"The issue of biometrics in Afghanistan has its own privacy that allows no one to access to it," he added.
Such an issue was raised after the Kunduz battle where it was said that militants had access to modern weapons and technology including biometric systems.
Yemen’s national army and resistance fighters seized several Houthi positions as they continued their advance in a major offensive launched on Monday to liberate the Southwestern town, a Yemeni news network reported on Wednesday.
The national allies, backed by Arab coalition air force, occupied a large government complex and a Houthi security headquarters in Wazeya in Taiz outskirts after heavy fighting, Masdar Online said, quoting resistance sources.
The fighters were also engaged in fierce battles with the Iranian-backed Houthis and their allies before seizing Al Shukaira and Ahyouk in that area, it said.
“The sources affirmed that the resistance men seized a large quantity of weapons and ammunition left behind by the retreating rebels,” the report said.
Inside the city, the resistance fighters launched a lightning attack on Taiz University and succeeded in taking part of the building, the report added.
The attacks by the national army and the resistance were launched under heavy air cover by the coalition warplanes, which bombed scores of rebel targets on Tuesday.
Yemeni officials and resistance commanders have said the liberation of Taiz is a matter of time and that it would pave the way for an attack on the capital Sanaa, the main stronghold of the insurgents.
The mother of ISIS beheading victim James Foley sent condolences Tuesday to France and said she feels their pain — as she asked Congress for a new American policy on hostage crises.
"We too have suffered from ISIS," Diane Foley told lawmakers on Capitol Hill. "Our son James was tortured and starved by ISIS for nearly two years, just for being an American."
Speaking before a House subcommittee, the still-grieving mom said her family's ordeal was only made worse because of America's "incoherent and ineffective hostage policy."
"What if we had been shrewd enough to engage with Jim's Syrian captors in the fall of 2013, to learn all we could about them, instead of ignoring them," she told the committee. "Is it ever wise to ignore enemies of freedom and justice?"
Foley's videotaped beheading in August 2014 at the hands of a masked ISIS barbarian horrified the world and cemented in the minds of many Americans the fanatical group's reputation for brutality. Since then, Diane Foley has accused U.S. officials of not doing enough to rescue her journalist son, who was kidnapped in Syria in 2012. And she has been pushing lawmakers to rethink the long-held U.S. policy of not negotiating with terrorists or paying ransoms.
"Jim believed in America," she said. "He believed that our government valued him as a journalist and as a citizen. He was hopeful until the end of his 20-month captivity. But he and our family were truly abandoned by our government. How would you feel if your son or daughter had been in Jim's predicament and treated similarly?"
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[Inquirer] Philippine security forces in western Mindanao said they were closely monitoring the movement of four foreign jihadis as world leaders began gathering in Manila for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.
City police director Angelito Casimiro said Dr. Mahmud Ahmad, Muammar Ghadafi, Like Elvis, Gaddafi isn't dead?
Mohammad Najib Husen and Muhammad Joraimee Awang Raimee had been sighted in Abu Sayyaf camps in Basilan and had recently tried to travel to Turkey via Manila. But he said the four, all of them Malaysians, canceled their planned trip for reasons not yet known.
Casimiro said they have been teaching the Abu Sayyaf bomb-making techniques. He said Ahmad, a surgeon previously connected with the University Malaysia and his three associates, were now working for the Daesh.
The four arrived in the Philippines in May 2014 and have been moving around Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi, and are currently in Basilan, Casimiro said.
Col. Arthur Biyo said such special units as antihostage-taking and airport security personnel had been dispatched from Mindanao to help secure APEC delegates in Manila and in Visayas.
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Just in case you were wondering where the Oval Office's priorities were:
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday offered the Philippines a warship as part of a $250-million aid package to Southeast Asian allies worried about Chinese efforts to control the South China Sea. Obama made the pledges aboard the Philippine Navy's flagship, shortly after arriving in Manila for a summit of Asia-Pacific leaders to also be attended by Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The offers were aimed at reassuring allies that the United States was committed to maintaining security in the region's waters, following Chinese artificial island building in parts of the South China Sea. China was almost certain to react angrily to Obama's announcement, as it insists the United States has no right to involve itself in disputes over waters that are far away from US coasts. China had also repeatedly called for the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, which starts on Wednesday, to focus exclusively on trade and not be distracted by the rows.
The Philippines, which has one of the weakest militaries in Asia and is the most vocal critic of China's actions in the sea, will receive the most support under the US package. Obama said the Philippines would get a decommissioned US Coast Guard cutter to be turned into a new warship that will "bolster the navy's ability to conduct long-endurance patrols". He said the Philippines would also get a research vessel to help map its territorial waters, while vowing US commitment to defend its longtime ally was "ironclad".
The Philippines will receive a record $79 million in assistance to bolster maritime security this financial year, the biggest recipient in Southeast Asia, the White House said.
Vietnam, a former US enemy that has also spoken out strongly against China's regional assertiveness, will get $40.1 million in aid over this financial year and next, according to a White House statement.
Indonesia, which is not a claimant but has asked China to clarify its position in the sea, will get nearly $20 million to help "protect its maritime areas".
Malaysia, where Obama will travel to on Friday for another regional political summit, will receive $2.5 million worth of maritime security aid.
The Philippines and Vietnam also signed on Tuesday in Manila a strategic partnership to deepen security ties, cementing an alliance built partly on their concerns over China.
LAHORE: A man breached security on the Indian side of the international border on Monday and rammed his vehicle into the gate on the Pakistani side of the Wagah-Attari checkpost.
According to initial reports in the Indian media, the man wanted to pay obeisance at Nankana Sahib in Pakistan but could not undergo visa and other formalities because it would take a lot of time.
The incident cautioned border officials and led to the Punjab Rangers writing a letter to the Border Security Force calling for an inquiry into the matter.
A Rangers spokesman said the crash left the gate at Attari ‘badly damaged’ and partially damaged at Wagah. He said the man was arrested by the BSF while his vehicle was seized by Rangers because it had crossed over to Pakistani territory. Later the vehicle was returned on a request by the BSF, he added.
An Indian news website identified the accused as Surinder Singh Kang, 42, originally hailing from Jalandhar, but now has settled in Canada.
He was later handed over to (Indian) Punjab police and a case was registered against him for making an attempt to murder; violating the Passport Act and preventing government officials from performing their duty.
Some media reports suggested that Kang was apparently ‘drunk’.
Quoting a BSF official, NDTV said preliminary investigations revealed that Kang was undergoing psychiatric treatment.
In an article for allNovaScotia.com Journalist Rob Gordon writes that the RCN is interested in keeping the Mk 41 missile launch systems from its Iroquois-class destroyers for possible use on the surface combatant.
“All MK 41Vertical Launch Missile systems…will be retained and preserved pending determination whether or not they will be required for the Canadian Surface Combatant,” stated a document, signed by Vice Admiral Mark Norman, commander of the RCN, and obtained by Gordon through the Access to Information law.
The vertical launch system consists of 29 missile silos, or bays, fitted to the bow of the ships and flush with the deck, Gordon wrote. Each bay contained a SM2 long range anti-aircraft missile, giving each ship the ability to destroy aircraft and missiles.
Defence Watch followed up Gordon’s article and asked about the launchers and SM2 missiles.
“The Department of National Defence is in the process of identifying if retention of the launchers is needed, and/or even viable,” Department of National Defence spokesman Evan Koronewski told Defence Watch.
“The launcher from HMCS Huron is now in storage, while the other launchers are still in their respective platforms.”
HMCS Huron was decommissioned and later sunk in 2007 during live fire training exercises. The other two destroyers, HMCS Algonquin and HMCS Iroquois, were decommissioned and are awaiting disposal. HMCS Athabaskan is still operating.
“The SM2 missiles were declared surplus and have been removed from all ships, including HMCS Athabaskan,” added Koronewski. “They are currently in storage pending disposition.”
As ISIS threatens to strike inside the U.S., airlines are keeping their schedules of flights from the U.S. to Paris and back, but U.S. authorities are intensively scrutinizing passenger lists on inbound flights.
Intelligence officials say that U.S. terror databases contain more than 2,700 names with connections to France, and NBC News has learned that 801 of them are considered potential "foreign fighters" who might try to join ISIS in Syria. Authorities are paying particular attention to their attempts to travel.
Only 800? That seems low...
Five of the individuals on the potential foreign fighter list have traveled or tried to travel to or from France in the past three months.
The MSM is almost as good as Snowden at leaking stuff that shouldn't be leaked...
Two of the five travelers flew from Paris to the U.S. in August and October, and a dual U.S./Pakistani citizen traveled from New York to Paris and back in October.
A dual Algerian/French national tried to fly from Paris to Canada earlier this month, but was denied boarding in France. A Syrian national tried to depart from Paris in August, but the outcome of his attempted travel was not known to U.S. officials.
There was no indication that the travelers were involved in terror plotting.
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KOBANE – Militant fighters of the Islamic State group (ISIS) launched an offensive on a Kurdish village near Kobane in northern Syria, causing casualties among civilians, military sources reported on Tuesday.
Speaking to ARA News on the phone, Sarhad Abbas, member the Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) said that a number of ISIS terrorists attacked the village of Merasir in the southern countryside of Kobane with mortars, and then infiltrated into the village.
“A group of villagers clashed with ISIS terrorists with light weapons,. The attack caused a state of panic among civilians,” the source reported.
“A unit from the YPG forces arrived in the area and was able to expel ISIS terrorists from the village subsequent to sporadic clashes,” the YPG member Sarhad Abbas told ARA News. At least seven civilians were hardly injured during the ISIS-led offensive on Merasir village.
Earlier this week, ISIS targeted headquarters of the Kurdish YPG forces in the suburbs of Kobane in northern Syria with dozens of mortar shells, military sources reported.
“ISIS militants, who are stationed in the villages of Jarabulus Tahtani and al-Jamel west of Kobane, bombed the YPG’s positions in the towns of Shuyookh Foqani, Nasiriyah and Atto,” the YPG fighter Noureddin Gaban told ARA News in an earlier interview.
Over the past few days, the village of Tuzanji in the southern countryside of Kobane has seen similar attacks by the terror group, which resulted in the displacement of several Kurdish families towards the relatively calm neighboring villages.
ISIS militants have been launching surprise attacks on the countryside of Kobane for months. The group carries out attacks from its positions in Jarabulus city against the Kurdish headquarters in Kobane and its countryside.
In return, the YPG leadership has recently deployed hundreds of fighters alongside the Euphrates River near the ISIS-held Jarabulus city in preparation for storming ISIS bastions in the area.
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[Ynet] A Belgian newspaper said on Tuesday that police found bullets and a possible bomb-making chemical at the Brussels homes of two men being held on suspicion of terrorist offences in connection with Friday's Gay Paree attacks.
The prosecutors office declined comment on the report.
Lawyers for the men have said they are innocent and got caught up in the case because they drove to Gay Paree early on Saturday to fetch Salah Abdeslam, now a prime suspect on the run, after he called them to say his car broke down.
The tabloid Derniere Heure, which did not identify its source, said the two men in jug had ammonium nitrate fertilizer in their homes. The men denied it had been purchased to make explosives, the paper said. Salah Abdeslam's elder brother, Brahim, was one of seven men who blew themselves up in Gay Paree on Friday evening with improvised suicide belts.
The newspaper said police also found ammunition in one of the homes, including bullets used in Kalashnikov assault rifles of the kind used by some of the Gay Paree attackers.
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[Ynet] A blast struck a market in the northeastern Nigerian city of Yola on Tuesday evening, police said.
The kaboom occurred at a fruit and vegetable market beside a main road in the Jimeta area of Adamawa's state capital around 8pm (1900 GMT). One witness said he counted more than 30 bodies but officials could not provide details of casualties.
Nobody has grabbed credit but the blast bore the hallmarks of bully boy Islamist group Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... which has killed thousands over the last six years in its bid to create a state adhering to strict Sharia law in the northeast.
"The kaboom occurred at the Jimeta by-pass which houses a vegetables, fruits and a timber market but I am yet to get the number of casualties," said Adamawa state police front man Usman Abubakar.
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ISLAMABAD: The Anti-Narcotic Force (ANF) carried out six operations in different cities and seized 366kg of drugs, including heroin.
Six suspects, among them a woman and a foreigner, were detained and three vehicles impounded.
The value of the seized drug is estimated to be Rs896 million and most of the seized heroin was to be smuggled to foreign countries.
Sumbal, a resident of Lahore, was taken into custody at the Benazir Bhutto International Airport after 3.5kg of heroin was found in her luggage. The drug was concealed inside the folding of bed sheets.
Sumbal, 35, was to travel to Abidjan via Turkey by a Turkish Airline flight.
An ANF team stopped a suspected mini-truck at Tarnol near Rawalpindi and seized 120kg of hashish and 5kg of opium concealed in secret cavities of the vehicle. Badar Munir and Fahim Khan, residents of Nowshera, were taken into custody.
[IsraelTimes] No casualties among troops; army says two other shooters locked away Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! in attack near Turmus Aya village
Paleostinian gunman opened fire on IDF troops near the West Bank village of Turmus Aya on Tuesday evening. The soldiers returned fire, and one of the gunnies was killed; there were no casualties among the troops.
The military said "shots were fired" at a patrol near the village, and that "forces responded with fire towards the attackers."
"One hit was confirmed and two suspects have been detained at the scene," the IDF said in a statement, with officials confirming the death of one assailant.
[Ynet] The US-led military coalition on Monday staged 23 air strikes targeting 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.... in Syria and Iraq, including oil facilities used by the Death Eater group, the Combined Joint Task Force leading the operations said.
In a statement released on Tuesday, the task force said six strikes near three Syrian cities hit several fighting positions as well as an Islamic State gas and oil separation point near Abu Kamal and three oil facilities near Dayr Az Zawr, the statement said.
In Iraq, 17 strikes in Iraq near six cities hit numerous targets including Death Eaters' fighting positions, roads, tactical units and a headquarters in Sinjar.
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[Ynet] German police in the western city of Aachen have incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! two women and one man in an operation linked to the attacks last Friday in Gay Paree which killed at least 129 people.
"After (receiving) leads we arrested two women and one man," said a spokeswoman for Aachen police on Tuesday, declining to give any information on the identity or nationality of the three individuals.
German broadcaster ARD had reported the arrests took place in Alsdorf, a small town near Aachen in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and close to Germany's border with Belgium and the Netherlands. Other German media quoted a witness as saying police made the arrests in front of a job centre.
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Aachen has long been a center of Islamist recruiting, beginning with Issam Al-Attar, the former leader of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood. Attar led failed attempts to overthrow the Syrian government in the nineteen sixties and fled Syria for Europe. He then emerged as the director of the Aachen Islamic Center. In the late nineteen seventies he founded the Talaa'i, a secret Muslim organization centered in Germany and through which he continued his lifelong relationship with the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood. Today, Aachen is considered a Brotherhood home away from home.
LAHORE: The Civil Aviation Authority told an anti-terrorism court here on Tuesday that the ‘element of terrorism’ was also being explored during the investigation into the crash-landing of a private airline’s plane at the Allama Iqbal International Airport on Nov 3.
Advocate Usman Arif, the authority’s counsel, said Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act was rightly inserted in the FIR because everyone on board had been terrorised by the crash-landing. The investigators were seriously examining the possibility of the pilots’ links with any terrorist organisation, he added.
The CAA’s counsel said the interim medical examination of crewmembers of the Shaheen Air plane conducted just after the accident had revealed that Captain Asmat Mahmood, the pilot, had unacceptable level of alcohol.
He said the accident jeopardised the lives of passengers on board and it might have caused grave potential repercussions.
Sarwar Road police produced the accused before the presiding judge of ATC-II, Khwaja Zafar Iqbal and the investigating officer sought the pilot’s remand for 13 days.
Advocate Hassan Warraich, the pilot’s counsel, opposed the remand’s request and argued that inclusion of Section 7 of ATA in the FIR had no justification.
He said the chairman of a departmental inquiry had declared his client a ‘hero’ for saving lives of the passengers. The pilot had to crash-land the plane due to a problem in the landing gear.
Mr Warraich said pilots were not responsible for any mechanical problem occurring during a flight because it concerned the engineering team. A considerable delay in registration of FIR showed the mala fide intention of the authorities. He alleged that the pilot was being made a scapegoat to save many other influential authorities.
The counsel asked the court to delete Section 7 of ATA from the FIR and refer the case to a court of ordinary law.
After hearing arguments from both sides, the court allowed a seven-day physical remand and directed the investigating officer to complete investigation by the next hearing.
LAHORE - An anti terrorism court (ATC) on Tuesday handed over Shaheen Air’s pilot Asmat Mehmood – who crash landed on November 3 - to police on a seven-days physical remand.
The police produced the accused pilot before ATC Judge Khawaja Zafar Iqbal in strict security.
The Civil Aviation Authority’s (CAA) counsel arguing before the court submitted that the accused had endangered lives of 120 people on-board the aircraft. He said that the accused was drunk and his negligence could have resulted into loss of lives of passengers. He pleaded the court to hand over the accused to police for investigation.
Accused Mehmood’s counsel opposed the request and submitted that his client was not drunk. “He saved the lives of all the passengers who later termed him a hero,” he said.
The court after hearing arguments of both parties handed over the accused pilot to police on a seven-day physical remand and directed to produce the accused on expiry of the remand term.
A police team from Punjab arrested the accused pilot from his residence in Karachi on November 15 after registration of a case against him under Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act at Sarwar Road police station on CAA’s complaint.
Carrying 121 passengers and crew, the plane reportedly touched down heavily causing its tyres to burst and skid off the runway. Passengers suffered minor injuries when hand-carry luggage in overhead cabinets fell on them. At least 10 passengers were injured when the plane crash-landed
[PhilStar] A Malaysian hostage who was kidnapped by the Abu Sayyaf from a resort in Malaysia's Sabah state in May was beheaded in Indanan, Sulu after his family failed to pay the ransom. The victim was kidnapped along with restaurant manager Thien Nyuk Fun in Sandakan, Sabah last May. Fun was released earlier this month.
Joint Task Group Sulu chief Alan Arrojado said Bernard Ghen Ted Fen, the remaining Malaysian hostage from the abduction, was beheaded yesterday afternoon. The Abu Sayyaf faction involved were reportedly led by Alden Bagade and Idang Susukan.
Citing intelligence reports, Arrojado said the victim's body was buried near where he was beheaded.
Fen was killed as Philippine troops conducted an air raid on the group's lair. Arrojado said, "It appears that the beheading pushed through almost simultaneously with the bombardment and rocket fire."
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Three landmine planters have been killed in the explosion of their own bomb in eastern Kunar province.
According the Ministry of Interior, the incident took place in Panjshir Naw area of Noorgal District on Monday.
A statement issued by the ministry states that the militants belonging to Taliban group were in the process of planting bomb on a roadside that exploded on them.
The only casualties the explosion had were the militants, the statement adds.
The ministry also reports destroying a huge weapon cache and Radio system of Taliban in Marja District of southern Helmand province.
Weapons, bombs, ammunition and other materials used in attacks were hidden in the depot and the radio was used by Taliban for their propaganda campaign, a statement released by the ministry states.
(IraqiNews.com) al-Anbar – The Security Committee of Khalidiya District Council announced the killing of the so-called “Minister of Information” of the ISIS in the district of Heet west of Ramadi.
The chairman of the committee, Ibrahim Fahdawi, said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “The Minister of Information of the ISIS organization, called Salam Islamil Nijm, was killed in an aerial bombing by the international coalition that targeted the ISIS headquarters in the district of Heet,” adding that, “The bombing also resulted in killing and wounding dozens of elements of the organization, in addition to inflicting upon them considerable material losses.
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The friendly soccer game between Germany and the Netherlands was canceled 90 minutes before kickoff on Tuesday due to the suspected threat of a bomb at the stadium.
"We had concrete evidence that someone wanted to set off an explosive device in the stadium," Hannover police chief Volker Kluwe told German TV.
Referring to another bomb threat about an hour beforehand that turned out to be a false alarm, Kluwe said, "After the first object turned out to be harmless, we got a tip that had to be taken seriously that an attack was being planned."
Members of the German government including Chancellor Angela Merkel were not at the stadium, but had arrived in Hannover to attend the match to send a signal that Germany wouldn't bow to terrorism in the wake of the deadly Paris attacks on Friday.
They then bowed...
Federal Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere took responsibility for calling off Tuesday's game. He said indications of a planned attack became stronger as the match approached, and the decision was made shortly after Merkel and her ministers landed. De Maiziere said he could give few details because he needed to protect the source of information, and because "part of these answers would upset the population."
Lower Saxony Interior Minister Boris Pistorius, speaking at the same late news conference, said no explosives had been found by then, and no arrests had been made. Pistorius said there was no confirmation of rumors that an explosive device was placed in an ambulance or another vehicle inside or outside the stadium.
Announcements at the stadium in northern Germany advised people to go home in a calm manner, and that there was no danger to fear. Most fans were still waiting outside when the order came. There were no signs of panic, with most fans seemingly accepting the decision with resignation. Police became more forceful with members of the media who attempted to stay beside the stadium.
Security at the stadium was very tight, with police armed with machine guns and maintaining a very obvious presence in the city.
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Yemen's President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi returned to the southern port city of Aden on Tuesday to rally forces loyal to him in the country's civil war and oversee a campaign to retake the city of Taiz, a presidency official said.
Hadi's loyalists made advances amid heavy fighting in the southwestern province surrounding the city which killed around 45 fighters from both sides on Monday, medical sources said.
"Twenty-five pro-Hadi fighters were killed in an ambush laid for them by Houthi and Saleh forces at the Bab Al Mandeb, and 20 Houthi fighters were killed in fighting and coalition air strikes," a medic told Reuters by telephone from Taiz, adding that a family of 8 were killed in an air strike on the city.
Residents said warplanes had bombed Houthi militia targets in the city dozens of times on Tuesday.
Mukhtar Al Rahbi, an official in Yemen's presidency, said Hadi had arrived in Aden to oversee the campaign to retake Taiz, which has been battered by fighting. Medics in the city say more than 1,600 people have died there.
"He will also meet with military officials to assess the security situation and to oversee the merging of the resistance forces into the army and security forces," Al Rahbi said.
The coalition has made some progress on the battlefield and took control of Aden in July, but the Houthis still retain control of much of Yemen, despite almost daily air bombardment.
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gorb, they have firewalls for these kinds of things. Iraq and Syria can go ahead and have their own internet but there's no good reason why it has to have access to ours. These politicians wring their hands about social media recruiting of people in our country by ISIS but it's all bullshit. Simply block all the IP addresses from those countries coming into this country and the problem is solved. If they get their hands on a computer in Germany then track them down and rub them out. The only reason we are helpless to stop this nonsense is because traitors like Obama and Merkel are running the show.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the police said on Tuesday, that two soldiers had been injured in an armed attack that targeted a patrol belonging to the army in northern Baghdad.
The source, who requested anonymity, reported for IraqiNews.com, “This evening, unidentified gunmen attacked a patrol belonging to the 22nd brigade of the army in the district of al-Tarmiyah, located in northern Baghdad, resulting in the injury of two soldiers,” pointing out that, “The elements of the patrol have transferred the injured to a nearby hospital.”
KASUR: Five alleged robbers were shot dead ‘accidentally’ by their accomplices during an encounter, police claimed on Monday.
At least 10 suspected robbers attacked Ganda Singhwala police van near Pakki Haveli on Ferozepur Road to get four arrested men released from police custody.
A police party headed by Sub-Inspector Phool Muhammad of Ganda Singhwala police was transporting four allegedly notorious men from Kot Lakhpat and Camp Jail Lahore to interrogate them. On their way to the police station, they were attacked by 10 armed men on a car and two motorcycles near Pakki Haveli on main Ferozepur Road in the Mustafabad police precincts. The assailants got the four arrested released, snatched an official riffle from a policeman and fled.
On receiving information, a heavy contingent of police led by the station house officers of Mustafabad, Ganda Singhwala, Saddar and A Division started a search operation.
The suspects were located near Charewan village but they hid in nearby fields and opened fire on police that was retaliated for about half an hour.
Later, police recovered four bodies from the scene that were identified as Abdul Jabar alias Bao, Muhammad Imran, Muhammad Ashraf alias Qilli and Bashart alias Basharti. These were the same men who were earlier in police custody.
They were wanted in more than 60 cases of robbery, house dacoity and murder by Lahore and Kasur police. Police claimed to have recovered the snatched official riffle and a Kalashnikov reportedly belonging to the assailants.
Later, Public Relation Officer Muhammad Sajjid told the media that while searching in the fields police recovered another body that was identified as Arshad alias Sethi. He was wanted in 30 cases of robbery, house dacoity and highway robbery by Kasur and Lahore police. The remaining assailants managed to escape.
District Police Officer Ali Nasir Rizvi constituted teams for the arrest of the fleeing assailants and also claimed all assailants were killed in firing by their accomplices.
A recent investigation into the ongoing war in Helmand shows that security forces face huge challenges in fighting insurgents due to a lack of military hardware and the failure to get quick back up when needed.
TOLOnews journalist Tamim Hamid spent several days with these forces on the frontline as they engaged in clashes with insurgents.
In this report, local authorities talk about the absence of thousands of soldiers among the various security force branches in the province.
The people of Helmand, meanwhile, have strongly criticized what they call a lack of good governance in the province which they believe is the main reason for ongoing insecurity in the area.
Bahrain's top court on Monday upheld the death sentences of two men convicted of planting a bomb that killed a police officer last year, the prosecution and lawyers said.
The two are part of a group of 12 people tried over a February 14, 2014 bomb attack in Dair village that killed policeman Abdulwahid Sayid Mohammed Faqeer and wounded several others, the prosecution said in a statement.
"Two of the defendants were found guilty of planting and detonating the explosive device, with 10 others convicted of obtaining and manufacturing explosive devices with the intent to use them in terrorist attacks," said the statement.
The court "upheld the Higher Criminal Court's and the Court of Appeal's decisions to sentence two of the individuals to death, in light of the calculated and carefully planned manner in which Abdulwahid Sayid Mohammed Faqeer was murdered," advocate-general Nayif Yousif said in the statement.
It also upheld the prison sentences handed down to the others, he added.
Six of the defendants, including those facing execution, are in custody, while the other six remain at large, according to lawyers, who charged that confessions had been obtained under duress.
URFA – Subsequent to the intense airstrikes by the French warplanes –which take place within the U.S.-led coalition’s operations in the wake of deadly Paris attacks– on the main stronghold of the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) Raqqa in northeastern Syria, locals have been split between approbation and resentment over the anti-ISIS strikes by French fighter jets.
The ISIS propaganda circulated that large numbers of civilians fell under French attacks, instigating locals to support the group on ground, while many local activists denied ISIS allegations of any civilian casualties so far.
Civilians Relieved with French Strikes
“As French fighter jets pummel ISIS locations in Raqqa, civilians enjoy more freedom because they escape another day of suppression by ISIS,” an eyewitness from Raqqa told ARA News on the condition of anonymity.
“As airstrikes hit their positions, ISIS gunmen hastily disappear and people breathe freely,” he said.
Activists of the campaign “Raqqa Slaughtered Silently”, which documents ISIS violations in Raqqa province, confirmed that there were no civilian casualties in the French raids so far, arguing, “Any allegations of attacking civilians are baseless.”
“They (ISIS militants) hide in their headquarters like rats, so people enjoy some freedom,” the campaign’s spokesman told ARA News, pointing out “people could enjoy smoking for a while.”
Music, dance and smoking are forbidden under the ISIS strict regulations.
However, A civil rights activist in Raqqa emphasized concerns about ISIS using civilians as human shields under the airstrikes.
“The group has previously used civilians as human shields in several areas across Syria in order to stop the progress of its enemies,” he said, on the condition of anonymity. “In the coming days, the group may oblige people to gather around its headquarters in Raqqa, in an attempt to cause as much civilian casualties as possible and claim that the coalition is killing innocent citizens. Thus the U.S.-led coalition should take such strategies by the radical group into consideration.”
Resentment
With the start of the French intense airstrikes, the city saw entire outage of electricity and water.
“This has dramatically increased the suffering of civilians in the ISIS de facto capital of Raqqa,” local media activist Muhammad Samman told ARA News on Tuesday.
“Last month, the radical group started imposing conscription sanctions on violators, confiscating their property, arresting dozens, pushing them undergo jihadi trainings, in a bid to acquire jihadist mentality of killing opponents,” the source added.
Fiercest Raids On Raqqa
On Tuesday, 10 French jets of Rafale and Mirage 2000, took off from the United Arab Emirates and Jordan, and dropped 16 bombs on ISIS locations in the Syrian city of Raqqa, destroying two tactical units for the terror group, according to the French Ministry of Defense.
One of the raids targeted an ISIS-held garage north of the city, a weapons storehouse and a training camp for the extremist group, local activists told ARA News in Raqqa.
Also, the U.S.-led coalition forces conducted nearly 30 airstrikes, mainly by French fighter jets, most of which hit the southern part of the city, the French Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.
In the meantime, the Russian defense minister said on Tuesday that they have destroyed 40 targets for the terror group in Raqqa, using winged missiles of Russian ships in the Mediterranean.
French Strikes “Mere Temporary Reaction”
Speaking to ARA News, Syrian human rights activist Majeed Salqini said that the ongoing French strikes “could be viewed as a temporary reaction to the recent Paris attacks”.
Salqini compared the currently intensified French raids to a previous air campaign by Jordan “right after ISIS militants burned the Jordanian pilot Moaz Kassasbeh to death”.
“The French ire hitting ISIS in Raqqa, especially after Paris attacks, can be understood within the framework of a media propaganda.”
“This will soon diminish similar to the Jordanian reaction regarding the murder of its pilot,” he told ARA News.
French President Francois Hollande had announced that “ISIS will face merciless war” after claiming its responsibility for Paris deadly attacks, during which at last 129 were killed and 300 more wounded.
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"locals have been split between approbation and resentment over the anti-ISIS strikes by French fighter jets."
The problem is that we can only win if the local civilians, fake and real, start to fear the West more than they fear ISIS. Only then will the West be able to impose its will on the enemy.
Any Western action in Syria that is constrained by the same self-defeating ROE that governed the interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq will end in a similar humiliating political defeat.
So far all of this looks like a farcical reprise of the 9/11 war which the West lost.
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I still think they should have nuked the place as a demonstration of intent. It's like the joke about training a donkey - first you have to get it's attention.
[IsraelTimes] Authorities raid two rooms, apartment in suburbs used as safe houses by hard boyz who killed 129 people in Friday attacks
French police on Wednesday raided two rented hotel rooms and an apartment used as a safe house by some members of the eight-man terror squad that launched the coordinated attacks in Gay Paree on Friday, in which 129 people were killed.
According to the French magazine Le Point, authorities found syringes, needles and empty pizza boxes inside one of the rooms rented by Salah Abdeslam on Bookings.com days before the November 13 attacks. Abdeslam is the only terrorist who took part in the attacks who managed to flee and is currently on the run. An international warrant has been issued for his capture.
Abdeslam's brother, Ibrahim, was also one of the gunnies in the attacks at a series of restaurants and bars in Gay Paree on Friday. He died detonating his boom jacket.
According to the report, the Abdeslam brothers rented rooms 311 and 312 in a hotel in Alfortville, a suburb to the southwest of Gay Paree, from November 11 to 17. The rooms could accommodate up to six people, Le Point reported.
The hotel has no security cameras, but police found DNA traces among the syringes, plastic tubing, pizza leftovers and chocolate cookies found in the rooms, authorities said.
An apartment in the Gay Paree suburb of Bobigny was also rented out by the Abdeslams, according to authorities, to be used as a safe house. Police raided the apartment as well but found it empty except for some cellphones, reportedly belonging to some of the other attackers, according to the Daily Mail.
The woman who rented the apartment to them described the brothers as "nice and proper," to French media. She said they told her they were in Gay Paree on business.
A third brother, Mohammed, was briefly detained by Sherlocks in the wake of the attacks. He has denied all connection to and knowledge of the operation.
"I was accused of committing an act of terrorism... but I have not in the slightest way been connected to the operation in Gay Paree," he said Monday from Brussels, according to the Independent. "I have worked for the local council for 10 years and I've never had a problem with anyone... my parents are completely shocked by the tragedy."
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syringes, plastic tubing, pizza leftovers and chocolate cookies
Comfort food.
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The filings revealed that the foundation got $29 million between 2010 and 2013, or roughly $5 million a year.
In 2014, the year she announced for president candidacy, $174 million. Coincidence or buying future access, inquiring minds already know. The Clinton's are utter thieves and grifters.
Excerpt: "A video of the short performance, which is less than three minutes, is posted on the website of the renowned club, Laugh Factory, and the Clinton campaign has tried to censor it. Besides demanding that the video be taken down, the Clinton campaign has demanded the personal contact information of the performers that appear in the recording. This is no laughing matter for club owner Jamie Masada, a comedy guru who opened Laugh Factory more than three decades ago and has been instrumental in launching the careers of many famous comics. “They threatened me,” Masada told Judicial Watch. 'I have received complains before but never a call like this, threatening to put me out of business if I don’t cut the video.'"
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They threatened me,” Masada told Judicial Watch. 'I have received complains before but never a call like this, threatening to put me out of business if I don’t cut the video.'"
Nice name, may have picked on the wrong guy.
[AnNahar] The detainee Mohammed Ibrahim al-Hujeiri, aka Kahroub, was involved in the kabooms that killed a number of Syrian Muslim holy mans and maimed Lebanese troops in the northeastern border town of Arsal, the army said Tuesday.
"Along with a man called Abou Ali al-Yabroudi, the detainee Hujeiri collected information about the time and place of the meeting that the Qalamoun Scholars Committee held in Arsal," the Army Command said in a statement.
"They then tasked the Syrian Abou Firas with booby-trapping a cycle of violence and parking it outside the meeting's venue and blowing it up on November 5," it added.
At least six holy mans were killed and several others maimed in the kaboom.
Hujeiri was also involved in a bombing that targeted an army vehicle in Arsal the next day.
"In collaboration with al-Yabroudi, Abou Firas and Abou Ali al-Asiri, he targeted a military personnel carrier with a roadside kaboom," the army said.
Five soldiers were maimed in the bombing.
The man has also confessed to booby-trapping "ten cycle of violences with the aim of carrying out liquidations inside Arsal," the army added.
Hujeiri also has a long record of activities with several myrmidon groups.
During his cooperation with al-Yabroudi, their group booby-trapped five cars with the aim of "targeting army posts, facilitating the entry of myrmidons, and enabling them to reach 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... to seize control of an outlet to the sea."
Hujeiri, who had ties 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.... 's Qalamoun branch, had also been a member of the Seif al-Haq group led by the Syrian Amin Mohammed Ghourli, which comprises Lebanese and Syrian nationals, the army said.
The group was behind firing rockets at Hermel, monitoring a judge's house with the aim of abducting him, and distributing ammo to bully boyz during the deadly Arsal battles with the army.
Hujeiri had also created an IS cell in the town in order to monitor individuals who cooperate with Lebanese security agencies, the army added.
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While being operated at roughly 15,000ft, “the aircraft exceeded the targeted angle of sideslip until it departed controlled flight,” the report states. It “momentarily inverted, before being recovered after losing approximately 5,000ft of altitude.” The aircraft’s crew – who escaped injury – returned to base and landed safely, but the Ghostrider was rendered a total loss
If the pilot regained control, returned to base and landed safely, how is the plane a total loss?
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That because of all the cracks and pops that happened to the airframe. Possibly bits and pieces were falling off on the way back to the runway. Remember any landing you can walk away from is a good landing but an excellent one is where the aircraft can be used again!
[RFE/RL] Officials in southern Kyrgyzstan have detained a 19-year-old man suspected of recruiting fighters for Daesh.
The nation's interior ministry said that the Kyrgyz national was detained at Osh's international airport on November 14 as he was accompanying a recruit traveling to Turkey. Police said the alleged recruiter, whose name was not disclosed, is a member of the banned Katibat al-Imam al-Buhari group.
Kyrgyzstan says up to 500 of its citizens might be fighting with Daesh.
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PESHAWAR: The apex committee of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa decided on Tuesday to ‘gradually’ withdraw army troops from checkpoints in areas where the security situation is improving.
However, a statement issued by the Governor’s House, did not mention any timeframe and the areas from where withdrawal of troops would start. It only said that the vacated checkpoints would be manned by police.
The statement also did not say who would replace the troops in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas in case of their pullout from there.
Also read: KP police report: 100% conviction rate after NAP claimed
The apex committee meeting, presided over by Governor Mahtab Ahmad Khan, was attended by Chief Minister Pervez Khattak, Corps Commander Lt Gen Hidayatur Rehman and senior officials of the military, law-enforcement agencies and civil administration.
KP police chief Nasir Khan Durrani, who attended the meeting, said that it had been decided that the army troops would be withdrawn from the checkpoints, but no timeframe or areas had been specified.
“It (pullout) will take some time,” he said, adding that deployment of police at the checkpoints would be planned according to capacity and resources of the force.
“The process will start gradually,” he added.
The army was called out in the province in 2007 by the then Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal government to curb insurgency in Swat valley, spearheaded by outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan chief Mullah Fazlullah.
The army had launched an extensive operation against militants in Swat and other districts of Malakand division in 2009. Army and paramilitary troops were also deployed in other districts of the province and on the main highways to restore the state’s writ.
The troops have been manning checkpoints on the Indus Highway, Motorway and Grand Trunk Road, other main highways linking tribal agencies with KP and inner roads of all major cities and towns to contain movement and activities of terrorists.
The official statement said the apex committee had reviewed progress on the implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP) and discussed matters relating to the return of temporarily dislocated persons (TDPs) and the law and order situation in the province and Fata.
The committee expressed satisfaction over the progress and called for taking further steps. The meeting was briefed on security measures and rehabilitation arrangements in the affected areas.
The meeting was informed that more than 800,000 TDPs had returned to their homes with the government’s assistance.
LOUDSPEAKERS: It was decided that misuse of loudspeakers would not be allowed and action taken against those involved in militancy. No-one will be allowed to use loudspeakers for spreading hatred, violence and anarchy.
The committee decided that elements providing any sort of assistance and financial support to terrorists and other criminals in the province and Fata would be taken to task. All such channels of illegal monetary support will be blocked.
The officials concerned were directed to contact the federal government for the return of eight platoons of the Frontier Constabulary.
These troops will be deployed on the Karakoram Highway and other important points in the province.
Russia struck the Daesh stronghold of Raqqa in Syria on Tuesday with a "significant number" of strikes that may have included long-range bombers and sea-launched cruise missiles, a US defence official said.
There was no immediate confirmation from Moscow, but Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier vowed vengeance as Moscow confirmed a bomb brought down a Russian passenger jet over Egypt last month, killing all 224 people aboard.
"We are aware that over the past several hours Russia conducted a significant number of strikes in Raqqa, some of which may have included sea-launched cruise missiles and long-range bombers," said the official, who made the remarks on condition of anonymity.
"While we do not coordinate or collaborate in any way with Russia on its activities in Syria, I can confirm that the Russians did provide us notice prior to conducting these strikes, via the Coalition Combined Air Operations Center in Qatar, in accordance with the safety protocols agreed to in October," the official said.
"These strikes are not affecting coalition operations, and we have not scrapped any missions as a result," the official added.
In a meeting with his security chiefs, Putin pledged to ramp up Moscow's bombing campaign in Syria in response to the attack. But he but stopped short of blaming any one group.
"We will search for them anywhere they might hide. We will find them in any part of the world and punish them," he said.
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(IraqiNews.com) A source in Nineveh province said, that the security forces had managed to raise the Iraqi flag over the headquarters of Sinjar District Council west of the province.
The source reported for IraqiNews.com, “The Iraqi flag along with the flag of the Kurdistan region was raised over the devastated building of Sinjar District Council,” adding that, “The administration of Sinjar District had resumed its work since yesterday under a tent.”
Noteworthy the War Media Cell announced on Friday (November 13, 2015), the control of the paramilitary Peshmerga force on the district of Sinjar west of Mosul.
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Iraqi Interior Ministry announced on Tuesday, that ten people were either killed or wounded in a bomb blast north of Baghdad.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “A bomb exploded this morning in Hamamiyat area in Taji District north of Baghdad, killing two people and wounding eight others.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added: “A security force rushed to the scene and transported the wounded to a nearby hospital to receive treatment and the bodies of the dead to the forensic medicine department, while opened an investigation to determine the circumstances of the incident and the party that stands behind it.”
Iranian authorities have arrested a cartoonist and sent him to prison to complete a suspended jail sentence, his lawyer said on Tuesday, joining a growing list of journalists, artists and activists detained on security charges.
Hadi Heidari, a cartoonist at the Shahrvand newspaper, was arrested on Monday and sent to Tehran's Evin prison, his lawyer told Reuters in a telephone interview from Tehran.
"He was convicted two years ago for his cartoons and was sentenced to one year in jail. The authorities had a different interpretation of his cartoons than he had," the lawyer, Saleh Nikbakht, said. Heidari had served about a month of the original sentence, Nikbakht said.
The Tasnim news agency, which is close to the hard-line Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), said Heidari had telephoned his family from prison and told them his arrest stemmed from the original conviction.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[The Mail] The full scale of the trade in false passports that allows terrorists to slip into Europe was exposed last night. It lets Islamic State fanatics who are bent on murder pose as refugees fleeing war and persecution.
[Hot Air] "In the last days, obviously, that has been particularly put to the test. There's something different about what happened from Charlie Hebdo, and I think everybody would feel that. There was a sort of particularized focus and perhaps even a legitimacy in terms of -- not a legitimacy, but a rationale that you could attach yourself to somehow and say, okay, they're really angry because of this and that. This Friday was absolutely indiscriminate. It wasn't to aggrieve one particular sense of wrong. It was to terrorize people. It was to attack everything that we do stand for. That's not an exaggeration."
[Rooters] Two Air France flights bound for Paris from the United States were diverted for several hours on Tuesday following anonymous bomb threats, and more than 700 passengers and crew were safely taken off the planes, officials said.
Who Then Vamoosed
(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – A security source in Kirkuk province announced on Tuesday, that dozens of ISIS elements had been either killed or wounded in an aerial bombing that was carried out by French aircraft on several ISIS sites southwest of the province.
Iran’s army conducted exercises Tuesday close to its border with Afghanistan designed to simulate how it would respond if “terrorist groups” such as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) organization mounted an attack.
The Afghan Intelligence operatives have detained at least 27 university students who were affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group and the Taliban group.
Dozens of the dead and injured were moved to Aden hospitals after the Yemeni army and popular committees ambushed the mercenaries of the Saudi aggression in Omari military camp in Bab al-Mandeb area, according to Yemeni sources. 
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
A number of security force members from Helmand province claim the Taliban has access to a national database of security force members which is putting troops at great risk.
Yemen’s national army and resistance fighters seized several Houthi positions as they continued their advance in a major offensive launched on Monday to liberate the Southwestern town, a Yemeni news network reported on Wednesday.
ISLAMABAD: The Anti-Narcotic Force (ANF) carried out six operations in different cities and seized 366kg of drugs, including heroin.
LAHORE - An anti terrorism court (ATC) on Tuesday handed over Shaheen Air’s pilot Asmat Mehmood – who crash landed on November 3 - to police on a seven-days physical remand.
Three landmine planters have been killed in the explosion of their own bomb in eastern Kunar province.
Bahrain's top court on Monday upheld the death sentences of two men convicted of planting a bomb that killed a police officer last year, the prosecution and lawyers said.
URFA – Subsequent to the intense airstrikes by the French warplanes –which take place within the U.S.-led coalition’s operations in the wake of deadly Paris attacks– on the main stronghold of the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) Raqqa in northeastern Syria, locals have been split between approbation and resentment over the anti-ISIS strikes by French fighter jets. 
authorities found syringes, needles and empty pizza boxes inside one of the rooms
PESHAWAR: The apex committee of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa decided on Tuesday to ‘gradually’ withdraw army troops from checkpoints in areas where the security situation is improving.
Russia struck the Daesh stronghold of Raqqa in Syria on Tuesday with a "significant number" of strikes that may have included long-range bombers and sea-launched cruise missiles, a US defence official said.
(IraqiNews.com) A source in Nineveh province said, that the security forces had managed to raise the Iraqi flag over the headquarters of Sinjar District Council west of the province.
Iranian authorities have arrested a cartoonist and sent him to prison to complete a suspended jail sentence, his lawyer said on Tuesday, joining a growing list of journalists, artists and activists detained on security charges.
