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ISIS on its last legs as the Syrian Army imposes full control over gas field in east Homs
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Afghanistan
Key ISIS leader among 45 killed in Nangarhar province
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least forty five forces of Evil of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed during the clearance operations in eastern Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province of Afghanistan.

The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the group’s leader in charge of communications and relations Qari Nafiz was among 36 killed during the Arclight airstrikes and ground clearance operations in Achin district.

Several hideouts and a tunnel used by ISIS forces of Evil were also destroyed during the operations.

MoD further added that 9 ISIS forces of Evil were killed and two others were maimed during a separate operation conducted in Haska Mina district.

According to MoD, the operation in Haska Mina involved Arclight airstrikes but no further details were given if the Arclight airstrike was carried out by the US forces or the Afghan Air Force.

Nangarhar is among the relatively calm provinces in eastern Afghanistan but the anti-government armed Death Eater groups have recently increased their insurgency activities in some parts of the province during the recent years.

Both the Afghan and US forces conducted regular strikes against the loyalists of the terror group in this province.

The increased raids, usually involving dronezaps, by the US forces followed a broader role granted by the B.O. regime earlier last year.

Posted by: Fred || 04/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336093 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Afghanistan reacts at Taliban’s announcement of spring offensive
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Ministry of Defense o f Afghanistan reacted at the announcement of spring offensive by the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
forces of Evil under the name of Mansoori operations.

The Ministry of Defense (MoD) front man Gen. Dawlat Waziri said the latest spring offensive announced by the Taliban will only lead to destruction and casualties of the innocent civilians in the country.

Gen. Waziri further added that the Afghan cops will utilize all the available resources to thwart the plots laid by the Taliban under the name of Mansoori operations in a bid to ensure the protection of the national illusory sovereignty of the country.

He said the Afghan forces are committed to any kind of sacrifices to ensure peace and stability for the people of Afghanistan.

This comes as the Talibs group in Afghanistan announced the launch of their new spring offensive under the name of Mansoori, vowing to carry out more attacks across the country.

The group said earlier today that the operation has been named after their former leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, claiming that they had major achievements on the political and military level under his leadership.

The group also claims that their operation will have two phases, a civilian phase to provide good administration and support to the civilians in the areas under their control, while the military phase will focus more on seizing more areas and carrying more attacks in the form of coordinated attacks, guerilla attacks, suicide kabooms, insider attacks, murders, and more.

Posted by: Fred || 04/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336082 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Local officials in Badakhshan reject fall of Zebak district
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The local government officials in northeastern Badakhshan province have rejected the fall of Zebak district.

Deputy provincial governor Gul Mohammad Bedar said the district has not fallen to Taliban
...Arabic for students...
control but admitted that heavy festivities are underway in this district.

He said reports regarding the fall of the district are absolutely baseless but added that heavy festivities are underway around one kilometer near the district administrative compound.

This comes as the Taliban group front man Zabiullah Mujahid earlier said that the fighters of the group have managed to take control of the district.

The claim by the Taliban front man comes as the group announced its spring offensive in the early hours of Friday morning.

However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go...
the Ministry of Defense officials said the Afghan forces are fully prepared to respond to the psychological war of the war the Taliban group.

The Ministry of Defense (MoD) front man Gen. Dawlat Waziri said the latest spring offensive announced by the Taliban will only lead to destruction and casualties of the innocent civilians in the country.

Gen. Waziri further added that the Afghan cops will utilize all the available resources to thwart the plots laid by the Taliban under the name of Mansoori operations in a bid to ensure the protection of the national illusory sovereignty of the country.

He said the Afghan forces are committed to any kind of sacrifices to ensure peace and stability for the people of Afghanistan.

Posted by: Fred || 04/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336086 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Arabia
2 Soddy NCOs die in land mine attack
Riyadh – The Saudi Ministry of Interior announced the martyrdom of two Saudi sergeants due to a landmine explosion and projectiles from the Yemeni territories that targeted a patrol of the border guards in Jazan Region.

“The incident resulted in the martyrdom of Jaber Ahmad Yatimi and Vice Sergeant Mohammed Musa Jaber al-Raithi,” Security Spokesman of the Interior Ministry Major General Mansour al-Turki was quoted as saying.

He added that relevant authorities have launched investigations.

Saudi security authorities and the armed forces have been confronting military operations of rebels inside the Yemeni territories. Saudi Arabia intercepted ballistic missiles, determined their locations and targeted them.
Posted by: badanov || 04/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336082 views] Top|| File under: Houthis

#1  I didn't know Saudi military had NGOs - I thought them all either privates or generals.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/29/2017 0:13 Comments || Top||

#2  2 Soddy NCOs die in land mine attack misstep.

Land mines aren't known for their mobility, like government bureaucrats.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 04/29/2017 15:36 Comments || Top||


Yemeni provincial governor survives assassination bid
[AA.TR] Abu Bakr Hussein Salem, governor of Yemen’s southern Abyan
...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues...
province, survived an liquidation attempt by unknown attackers, Salem told Anadolu Agency on Friday.

"Gunmen opened fire on my convoy near the Duvas region between the provinces of Abyan and Aden," he said.

The attack, the governor added, occurred late Thursday while he was on his way to the southern city of Aden, which currently serves as Yemen’s provisional capital.

"One of my guards was slightly injured in the attack and was taken to a nearby hospital in Aden," Salem said.

He went on to assert that such "cowardly acts" would "not deter us [i.e., the Yemeni government] from fulfilling our responsibility to impose security and stability in Abyan -- whatever the cost".

Salem refrained from accusing any parties or groups of being behind the liquidation attempt, but said certain "outlawed groups" were unhappy with his recent efforts to impose security in the area.

Posted by: Fred || 04/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336080 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula


Al-Qaeda denies being targeted by Saudi Arabia in Yemen
[ALMASDARNEWS] In an official statement on Friday, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) denied Saudi Arabia had detained any of its commanders as the Gulf Kingdom otherwise claimed yesterday. Saudi Arabia said it had arrested several Al-Qaeda leaders in the Hadramaut region on the southern coast of Yemen on April 26. Meanwhile, AQAP insisted it to be utter fabrication.
Posted by: Fred || 04/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336080 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula


Ten Saudi soldiers blown to smithereens due to Houthi offensive on coastal city
[ALMASDARNEWS] On Friday, two soldiers of the Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
n Army along with 8 proxies were killed-in-action (KIA) amid festivities with the Yemeni Army, Popular Committees, Elite Republican Guard and Missile Forces at the Red Sea port city of Midi.

The corpse count was inflicted after troops loyal to the Sana’a based government bombarded Saudi-held positions inside the contested Yemeni port, not far from Jizan province.

According to al-Masdar News field correspondent Naseh Shaker, festivities continued inside Midi overnight as the Yemeni and Saudi Army tried to dislodge one another.
Posted by: Fred || 04/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336095 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Bangladesh
RAB: Militants were planning to ship bombs on cargo vessels
[Dhaka Tribune] Three turbans including a close associate of Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury were tossed in the clink
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
by RAB on Thursday night from Savar.

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) found firearms and bomb-making materials in their possession and said they are members of a new faction of the banned myrmidon outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh, New JMB’s Sarwar-Tamim group.

The three men have been identified as Tamim Dwari alias Abdullah Al Hasan alias Azizur Rahman alias Abdullah Al Jafri alias Amir Hamza alias Al Huzaifa alias Sri Gowrango Kumar Mandol, 32,
...but his poor old mother just called him Son....
Kamrul Hasan alias Kajol alias Nur Uddin, 26, and Md Mostofa Mozumder alias Shihab alias Hamza, 32.

RAB Legal and Media Wing Director Mufti Mahmud Khan confirmed their arrest yesterday during a presser, saying: "Acting on a tip-off we searched a bus at Rajfulbaria bus stand coming from Paturia launch terminal where we apprehended the three members of Sarwar-Tamim group around 10pm on Thursday.

"We found one foreign-made pistol, five rounds of bullets, 1.15kg of plastic explosives made with the help of a bomb expert, a lot of bomb-making materials, three folding knives, one machete, laptops and foreign currencies in their possession."

RAB said the three came to Dhaka to carry out subversive activities.

The close associate of Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury, the criminal mastermind behind the Gulshan terror attack, is Tamim Dwari, a Hindu convert and a marine engineer, who was devising a plan to transport bomb-making materials and other weapons on shipping boats with Tamin Ahmed Chowdhury, said RAB.

RAB also said they were recruiting trustworthy members of the group to help transport these bombs with fake passports and visas.

Tamim and Tamim: Brothers in arms
Tamim Dwari was radicalised sometime in 2003, according to RAB, after making friends with a man called Tanvir Kabir and attending the Tabligh Jamaat with him. After studying at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology in 2005, he transferred to the Chittagong Marine Academy and finished his degree in 2007.

In 2013, while working as a marine engineer on the fat merchantman Banglar Kakoli, Tamim Dwari found a former university friend Abu Baker on a voyage to Pakistain. Their conversations circled around global prosecution of Moslems and what they could do about that to which Abu Baker suggested jihad was the only way.

In December 2013, Abu Bakar introduced Tamim Dwari to Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury as the man who had come from abroad to fight jihad in Bangladesh.

RAB’s Mufti Mahmud said this initial meeting had a deep impact on Tamim Dwari who invited Tamim to visit him in Chittagong.

In January 2014, they met at Patenga, Chittagong where Dwari showed Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury around the fat merchantman Banglar Doot where they discussed at length the ways in which they would transport bombs and bomb-making materials along with recruitments of trustworthy turbans and how they could acquire fake passports and visas for them.

In mid-2014, they met again in Dhaka in a flat in Mirpur DOHS along with Mir Farhad, Ashraf, Himel, Abdullah, Abu Bakar and three other unknown turbans to plan myrmidon attacks across the country.

RAB’s Mufti Mahmud said in July 2015 Tamim Dwari was admitted to the International Maritime Training Academy but dropped out and joined the general fat merchantman Bashundhara-4 in August 2016 to hide his deep involvement with militancy.

In November 2016, he was most likely fired and he said to have left home for hizrat (leaving home for jihad) in January 2017.
Posted by: Fred || 04/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336088 views] Top|| File under: Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (IS)

#1  what got into the RAB?
no random cross-fire, no stutter gun. not even any of the miscreats escaping (as if they were never there). but the fact that quincy wasnt called at all is stunning.
is this the dawn of a newer, kinder, gentler RAB?
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 04/29/2017 9:08 Comments || Top||


Britain
Police foil 'active terror plot' as woman is shot and six are arrested in north London raid
[Telegraph] A police operation in north London during which a woman was shot, foiled an active terror plot, Scotland Yard has said.

Armed officers raided a property in the Willesden area shortly after 7pm on Thursday evening and a woman in her 20s was shot by police.

Six people were tossed in the calaboose
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
during the operation and police said the woman remained in a serious but stable condition in hospital.

The raid took place at a Victorian property on Harlesden Road and locals reported hearing a number of shots as heavily armed officers from the Met's Counter Terror Specialist Firearms command stormed the house.

The operation took place just a few hours after a man was arrested in Westminster on suspicion of terrorism offences after being stopped close to Downing Street carrying a rucksack packed with knives.
That would be Khalid Mohammed Omar Ali, 27, born abroad and reared in Tottenham.
But Scotland Yard said the two matters were unrelated.

Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Neil Basu said: "Our highly trained firearms officers carried out a specialist entry into an address in Harlesden Road that we had under observation as part of a current Counter Terrorism investigation.

"An armed entry was necessary due to the nature of the intelligence that we were dealing with, and involved armed officers firing CS into the address.

"During the course of that operation one of the subjects of that operation - a woman - was shot by police - she remains in hospital.

"Her condition is serious but stable. Because of her condition she has not yet been arrested. We are monitoring her condition closely."

He added: "In total six people have now been arrested in connection with that investigation - five at or near the address and one in Kent.

"The two further arrests were made when a man and a woman - both aged 28 - returned to the address later last night.

"Searches are ongoing at three London addresses - including Harlesden Road - as part of this investigation.

"Due to these arrests that we have made, I believe that we have contained the threats that they posed."

Locals described how they saw heavily armed officers wearing bulletproof vests stormed the address just after 7pm. They said the house was occupied by a family of three who were occasionally visited by a an older woman in her 40s.

Neighbours said the injured woman was brought out of the house on a stretcher, wearing a burkha. One said she shouted "don't touch my body" as paramedics tried to tend to her wounds.

Police said six people had been arrested including a 16-year-old boy and a 20-year-old woman who were detained at the address. A 20-year-old man was arrested near to the address and a 43-year-old woman was arrested in Kent a short while later. Two further people, a man and woman both aged 28, were arrested when they returned to the address last night. All four have been arrested on suspicion of the commission, preparation and instigation of terrorist acts under section 41 of the terrorism act 2000.
The Daily Mail has photos here.

In other news:
British man, 25, appears in court in Ireland over Islamic terrorism charges

[DailyMail]
  • Hasan Bal was arrested on suspicion of helping to send funds to terrorists

  • He was 'being monitored' and 'set off alarm bells' because of overseas contacts

  • He has both British and Irish passports, has lived in Ireland for a decade, and is living on benefits while training as an electrician

  • Woman also arrested was released but Bal appeared at Waterford District Court

Would-be jihadi bride, 26, caught with an Al-Qaeda manual for ‘making a bomb in your mum’s kitchen’ is jailed for 18 months

[DailyMail]
  • Jade Campbell, 26, was arrested after police received an anonymous message

  • Claimed Westfield and Victoria Station were being targeted with explosives

  • The IP address for message was traced to her home in south west London

  • Police discovered she had a bomb-making manual and searched 'how to how to marry someone from ISIS'. She has now been jailed for 18 months


ISIS supporter 'built deadly pressure cooker bomb with detonator built from household doorbell for railway attack plot'

[DailyMail] Zahid Hussain, from Birmingham, a 'bedroom radicalised' ISIS supporter tried to make a nail bomb and improvised detonator parts from Christmas fairy lights for an attack on a railway, a court has heard.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336101 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Mohammed Omar Ali; that's an unusual name. Amish, Mennonite, Mormon? White, right-winger? I don't mean to be profiling but that name sounds a little suspicious (sarc).
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/29/2017 9:41 Comments || Top||


Europe
Europe migrant colonist briefs

Woman caught smuggling gold, khat and cash on Denmark-Norway ferry

[TheLocal.dk] A 43-year-old woman was caught carrying khat by customs after taking the Hirtshals-Larvik ferry on Friday. Customs officers discovered 82 bunches of the chewable leaf, which is illegal in Norway, weighing a total of just under eight kilograms. The woman was also carrying 128,000 kroner ($15,000) and 81 grams of gold, reports NRK. The money is suspected to be the result of criminal activity, and the gold suspected to have been smuggled into Norway, customs reported Monday.

Islam researcher: Not all Salafists are the same

[DW] Q: Not all Salafists are potentially violent. How to you make distinctions within the group?
The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Editor's note: Germany's domestic intelligence agency) believes there to be around 10,000 people in the Salafist scene.
Good to know.
In other words, a very low number compared to the 3-4 million Muslims in Germany.

I roughly break down the group down into Salafists who are purists, those who are political and those who are jihadists. Around two-thirds are apolitical purists and political Salafists. And then there is around a third who are potentially violent, or who support violence.
Also good to know. There are also the non-Salafists who are prone to violence or supporting the violent -- an unknown number at this point.
Of course Salafism is a restrictive interpretation of Islam, but I find it regrettable that the whole group gets lumped together. I have spoken with many members and preachers who publicly distance themselves from an emphasis on violence. They are under pressure from jihadists. Unfortunately the media presentation of the protest movement against jihadism within the Salafist scene is not as good as it could be.

French police blow up suspicious car outside synagogue
Speaks to the general mood of apprehension in France.
[IsraelTimes] Sappers perform controlled explosion of vehicle next to Metz synagogue in what turns out to be a false alarm.

Islamic State suspect arrested in western Germany

[Ynet] German authorities have arrested a 23-year-old Syrian on suspicion of membership in a terror organization for allegedly fighting for the extremist Islamic State group in his homeland. Federal prosecutors said in a statement that Emad A., whose last name wasn't released in line with privacy laws, was arrested early Friday in the western state of Baden Wuerttemberg. He's accused of joining the Islamic State group in 2013 and fighting for it in multiple engagements in Syria.

German soldier, posing as refugee, arrested in attack plot

[IsraelTimes] A German soldier who pretended to be a Syrian refugee has been arrested on suspicion he planned a gun attack with racist motives, prosecutors said Thursday. The 28-year-old suspect who was not identified was thought to have a “xenophobic background,” they said — while Die Welt daily reported he may have plotted to pin the blame for an attack on foreigners.

The strange case involved a joint police operation across Germany, France and Austria with raids on 16 locations, prosecutors in Frankfurt said in a statement.

They arrested the soldier — a lieutenant usually stationed on a Franco-German military base near Strasbourg — in the southern German city of Hammelburg on Wednesday.

On the same day they also arrested a second German man, a 24-year-old student and alleged co-conspirator in possession of objects that breach weapons and explosives laws, they said.

French Mayor Fined for Mentioning Demographic Changes in Local Schools

[Breitbart] French mayor Robert Ménard has been fined by the government for hate speech after mentioning that French children were being “replaced” in schools in his town.

Number of migrant criminal suspects in Germany soared by more than 50% in 2016, as minister warns the number of crimes has 'increased disproportionately'

[DailyMail] Police in Germany revealed they were pursuing 174,000 migrant criminal suspects in 2016, an increase of 52.7 per cent on the previous year. Islamist crime also rose by 13.7 per cent.

From Breitbart:
Hungary Completes Second Anti-Migrant Fence
28 April
Hungary said Friday it has completed a second anti-migrant fence on the Serbian border, a “smart” barrier with night cameras, heat and movement sensors and speakers blaring warnings in five languages.

Italy Clears Activist Charged with Trafficking Migrants into France
27 April
An Italian court on Thursday acquitted a humanitarian activist who had faced a possible prison term for trying to help a family of Sudanese migrants cross from Italy into France.

Terror Risk Sees Germany Slump to 51st Place for Security in World Tourism Rankings
27 April
Germany now sits between the Gabon and Mongolia in the 2017 Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report’s “safety and security” field, having plummeted 31 places since the 2015 edition of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) biannual report measuring how “tourism-friendly” economies are.

Shock Report: Migrants Become Less Integrated the Longer They Stay in Europe
27 April
A new study has found the gap in labour participation rates between citizens born in Norway and third world migrants widens the longer newcomers have been in the country.

Interior Ministry Admits Migrant Crime Up 50 Per Cent in 2016, Continuing Year-on-Year Trend
25 April
Germany’s interior ministry has once against reported a significant rise in crimes committed by so-called asylum seekers, “tolerated foreigners”, and unauthorised foreigners in the country, with the migrants in the groups suspected of crimes rising by over half since 2016.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/29/2017 01:43 || Comments || Link || [336103 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  dont dwell on possible places of qat conceslment for that woman that got busted for the attempted smuggling
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 04/29/2017 9:10 Comments || Top||

#2  "Germany's domestic intelligence agency) believes there to be around 10,000 people in the Salafist scene. In other words, a very low number compared to the 3-4 million Muslims in Germany.
I roughly break down the group down into Salafists who are purists, those who are political and those who are jihadists."


There is the George W. distinction again of "good Muslims and bad Muslims." Even a relatively small number of these jihadist Salafists do a great deal of damage to the fabric of a country. Why don't the good Salafists purge the bad Salafists from their ranks? There are a lot of supporters of the jihadists who don't engage in jihad but support those who do. And also there are the twin concepts of taqiya and kitman.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/29/2017 10:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Eight kilos is about 17 pounds, which makes the thing you are not contemplating even more horrifying, USN.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/29/2017 10:42 Comments || Top||


Two Police Wounded by 'Islamist' on France's Reunion Island
[AnNahar] A man suspected of being a radicalized Islamist shot and maimed two coppers on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion as they tried to arrest him on Thursday, authorities said.

"The man refused to be locked away
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
and fired a rifle at police," a local government official on the island said, adding that the suspect -- a man in his 20s believed to be a recent convert to Islam -- was now in jug.

The lives of the two officers are not in danger.

The anti-terrorist department of the Gay Paree prosecutor's office is investigating the attack.

The attack on Reunion comes a week after a French policeman was shot and killed and two others maimed on Gay Paree' Champs Elysses avenue. That attack was claimed 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.

A jihadist network, the first in a French overseas territory, was smashed in Reunion in June 2015. Its leader, a 21-year-old known as "The Egyptian", was arrested and transferred to Gay Paree.

Authorities in Reunion estimate there are around 100 radicalised Islamists on the island.

The local government official said Thursday's assailant was also "suspected of being radicalised".

La Belle France's police union Unite SGP POLICE‐FO said it was "deeply shocked and angry after this new attack."

It "shows that coppers are in danger throughout the national territory and not only in certain areas as judges would have us believe," it added.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/29/2017 01:09 || Comments || Link || [336083 views] Top|| File under: Salafists


Three people charged with supplying arms to terrorists in 2015 Paris attacks
[IsraelTimes] Authorities link sale of weapons to jihadist who killed 4 Jewish men in kosher supermarket, brothers who murdered 12 at Charlie Hebdo during 3-day rampage.

Three people have been charged with supplying arms to jihadists who staged deadly attacks in 2015 on a kosher supermarket in Gay Paree and the Charlie Hebdo
...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
satirical weekly, a judicial source said.

Those charged this week include Samir L., believed to be linked to the sale of weapons to the supermarket attacker, as well as Miguel M. and Abdelaziz A., who are thought to have been involved in trafficking arms between Belgium and La Belle France.

Seven people have already been charged over the assaults. The attackers had a wide array of weapons including guns that came from Slovakia.

Investigators are trying to piece together how La Belle France-based jihadist Amedy Coulibaly obtained the weapons used in the January 9, 2015 attack on the supermarket.

Coulibaly killed four Jewish men after taking shoppers hostage at the kosher store. Elite police later shot him dead as they stormed the building. He had killed a policewoman in the Montrouge suburb south of Gay Paree the night before, when authorities think he may have initially been targeting a nearby Jewish school.

Coulibaly said he carried out the attack in the name of 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....
terror group.

The attack was part of three days of terror in the French capital in January 2015 that began with the raid on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine offices. Two brothers who said they were members of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000...
killed 12 people in that attack.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/29/2017 00:48 || Comments || Link || [336083 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Berlin terror cell nabbed after arrests in Italy and Germany
[DW] Italian police have revealed that they helped dismantle a Berlin-based cell of Islamic Death Eaters. The suspects reportedly had links to Christmas market attack suspect Anis Amri, who was rubbed out in Italia.

Italian police said on Friday that they had helped break up an 11-person terror cell based in Berlin not long after Anis Amri allegedly plowed a truck into a Christmas market in the city, killing 12 people.

The operation to dismantle the group was completed at the end of January but is just now being revealed. The investigation into the group began after authorities picked up two of the cell's members in the Italian port of Ancona on December 4, 2016.

Congolese citizen Nkanga Lutumba and Moroccan citizen Soufiane Amri were planning to travel to Syria to join the so-called "Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
" (IS) terrorist group when they were picked up by the authorities, Italian police said.

From there, authorities continued their investigation into the two men, monitoring Lutumba and tracing calls back to the Berlin-based terror cell.

Links to Christmas market attacker
Three other members of the group were tossed in the clink
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
at the border between Croatia and Serbia in December.

Italian police also said members of the terrorist cell were frequently in contact with Anis Amri, who was a regular visitor at the place where Soufiane Amri and Lutumba lived.

Amri was rubbed out by Italian police on December 23, four days after carrying out the attack at the Berlin Christmas market.

Parallel German investigations led to four arrests on January 31.
The Local - Germany adds:
The departure of Nkanga, 26, and Soufiane Amri, 22, was delayed by a Greek ferry strike and it was during the unexpected delay that they were subject to an identity check which revealed that Germany had banned Amri from leaving the country.

Amri was deported to Germany while Nkanga was detained in a centre for failed asylum-seekers awaiting deportation in the southeastern port of Brindisi.

Subsequent investigations and monitoring of Nkanga's telephone calls from the centre established that the two men had been travelling with false documents and were in regular contact with other members of the cell based in the central Berlin district of Moabit.

Three other members of the group were tossed in the clink
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
on December 4th at Bajakovo at the border between Croatia and Serbia, the Italian police said. Emrah Civelek, Feysel Hermann and Husan Saed Hussein were also said to have been trying to get to Iraq or Syria.

Mosque closed down
Civelek was described as a Berlin taxi driver who was involved in the running of the "Fussilet 33" mosque which was closed down in February because of concerns it was a meeting place for Islamists.

A Tunisian national unrelated to his Moroccan namesake, Anis Amri was rubbed out by Italian police in Milan on December 23rd.

The Berlin cell which the Italians described as "a very diverse group of Lion of Islams," were all legally resident in Germany, between 20 and 30 years of age and with identical records of radicalisation.

All members of the group have been indicted in Italia for having links to international terrorism while the two suspects initially detained on Italian soil are also specifically charged with links to Isis and raising funds for the group.
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India-Pakistan
CTD kills three suspects in Khanewal ‘encounter’
[DAWN] The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of police claimed on Thursday to have killed three forces of Evil in an encounter in Lucky Tibbi Area of Khanewal. Another team incarcerated
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
three suspects in Gujranwala.

A CTD front man said a team of law enforcers in Multan received intelligence reports that seven or eight members of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
(LeJ) were hiding in a house in Lucky Tibbi Area and were planning to attack sensitive installations. He said the CTD team raided the hideout and asked the forces of Evil to surrender late on Wednesday night.

He said the forces of Evil after seeing police shot up them and the latter retaliated. When the firing stopped, three forces of Evil were found dead while their four or five accomplices managed to escape taking benefit of darkness.

The front man said two of the forces of Evil were identified as Inamur Raheem and Usman Jaleel and efforts were carried out to identify the third. He said they also recovered four hand grenades, two pistols, ammunition and two rifles they had snatched from the law-enforcement agencies some time back. The bodies were shifted to morgue.

Lucky Tibbi is one of the most notorious areas in Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....

where a number of Lions of Islam and their controllers used to stay in their hideouts. In the past the police in collaboration with intelligence agencies conducted several operations and smashed gangs of banned outfits and robbers.

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#1  I been spending too much time on a computer - I thought CTD was Crash to Desktop.....
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Five ‘militants’ killed in Mand encounter
[DAWN] Five suspected Death Eaters were killed and two security officials suffered injuries in a fierce shootout in the Mand area of Kech district on Thursday.

Official sources said that the personnel of the Frontier Corps
...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations....
and an intelligence agency, acting on a tip-off about the presence of suspected bad boys, launched a search operation in Gowak, a town near the Pakistain-Iran border.

They said that the Death Eaters opened fire on the security forces, causing injuries to two soldiers of the FC. The security forces cordoned off the area and returned fire.

"Five members of a banned bad boy organization were killed in the exchange of fire that lasted an hour," Turbat Deputy Commissioner retired Capt Sarmad Saleem said.

A front man for the FC, Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
, said that four kilogrammes of explosives, AK-47 rifles and pistols were found in the hideout of the bad boys.

The slain Death Eaters were involved in attacks on security forces, kabooms, assassination'>assassination
s and other subversive activities, he said.

The bodies were shifted to hospital where the dear departed were identified as Master Baitullah Mehmood and his son Ahmedullah, resident of Dazan, Mohammad Asif of Khanak, Mohammad Jasam of Gomazi and Mohammad Noroz of Mand.

The injured soldiers were shifted to Turbat by helicopter.
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Three Indian soldiers, two Kashmiris killed in attack on mly base
[DAWN] A 70-year-old civilian was killed and seven other people were maimed during an anti-India protest that erupted on Thursday following a shootout that killed three military personnel and two forces of Evil in India-held Kashmire, sources said.

A group of forces of Evil stormed a military camp close to the heavily militarised Line of Control dividing the disputed Himalayan region, army front man Col Rajesh Kalia said.

The forces of Evil hurled grenades and fired automatic weapons at the highly guarded camp in Panzgam, northwest of Srinagar, a police officer said.

Two forces of Evil were killed in an ensuing shootout, while another was believed to have escaped, the officer said.

He said three security personnel, including an army officer, were killed and five soldiers maimed in the attack. The injured soldiers were airlifted to the Indian army’s main base in Srinagar for treatment.

No holy warrior group fighting against Indian rule in the region immediately issued any statement about the attack.

However,
ars longa, vita brevis...
scores of villagers assembled outside the army camp in Panzgam in solidarity with the forces of Evil and chanted pro-freedom slogans and demanded that bodies of the slain forces of Evil be handed over to them for their last rites, the police officer said.

He said soldiers fired at the protesters after they hurled rocks at an army vehicle leaving the camp. A 70-year-old man was killed and at least seven others maimed in the firing, he said.

Villagers said the slain man was not part of the protest and was hit by a bullet in the chest.

In another protest, hundreds of villagers erupted into the streets a few kilometres from the site of the shootout and hurled rocks at police and paramilitary soldiers, who fired tear gas and warning shots to break up the demonstration. No one was reported injured in those festivities.

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#1  scores of villagers assembled outside the army camp in Panzgam in solidarity with the forces of Evil and chanted pro-freedom slogans and demanded that bodies of the slain forces of Evil be handed over to them for their last rites

Volunteers for minefield clearing
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Making a habit of follies
[DAWN] UNDOUBTEDLY the capture of Liaquat Ali aka Ehsanullah Ehsan
...formerly the front man for the Pak Taliban, now the lips and tongue of the Jamaatul Ahrar splinter group in Mohmand Agency...
was good, in fact great, news. So why then are we in the process of making a hash of it?

There is no official word on whether the front man of the Tehrik-e-Taliban
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Hindu temple desecrated in Sindh’s Gharo
[DAWN] Police in Gharo on Friday registered a First Information Report (FIR) against three persons for desecrating the deities inside a Hindu temple in Thatta.

According to community leaders, unknown miscreants entered the temple of Rama Pir and dumped their sacred idols in the sewage lines after desecrating them.

Gharo Town Committee Councillor Lal Mehshwari, while talking to Dawn, said the condemnable act was carried out on the eve of an annual festival at their place of worship, and urged the authorities concerned to take notice of the incident.

The police registered the FIR under sections of 295 A of the Pakistain Penal Code (PPC) and Sections 6 and 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) on behalf of the state.

SSP Thar Fida Hussain Mastoi said an investigation was under way, but no arrest was reported so far.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
6 Palestinians said injured in violent clashes with IDF
[IsraelTimes] Red Islamic Thingy says live fire used against West Bank rioters demonstrating in solid.

Six Paleostinians were maimed Friday by live fire during a number of festivities in the West Bank between Israeli security forces and protesters, a spokesperson for the Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy told The Times of Israel.

The festivities occurred amid a "day of rage" called by the Fatah leadership in solidarity with Paleostinian prisoners on a hunger strike in Israeli jails.

Friday marks the twelfth day of the strike.

Three people were maimed by live fire in the village of Nabi Saleh, near Ramallah. They were in stable, pH balanced condition, the spokesperson said.

Additionally, outside Beit Omar, a village near Hebron, three were maimed by gunfire, and are in stable, pH balanced condition, the spokesperson said.

The Red Islamic Thingy spokesperson added that eight people were treated for suffocation from being exposed to tear gas during festivities in Beta, a village near the city of Nablus.

The IDF said that around 2,000 Paleostinians took part in protests across the West Bank, some of which turned violent. The IDF responded with riot dispersal means, which in some instances included rubber bullets. The IDF could not immediately confirm whether live fire was used.

Some 1,500 Paleostinian security prisoners have been fasting for nearly two weeks over demands ranging from improved medical care to greater access to telephone calls.

The detainees, led by Marwan Barghouti, who is serving five life terms for murder during the Second Intifada, launched the hunger strike on April 17.

A series of demonstrations have been held in the West Bank in support of the prisoners, occasionally resulting in festivities with Israeli forces.

Paleostinian leaders have denounced Israel’s refusal to negotiate with the hunger strikers, warning of a "new intifada" if any of them die.

In a separate incident on Friday, Israeli security forces nabbed
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
a Paleostinian woman in possession of two knives at the Qalandia checkpoint north of Jerusalem. The suspect was taken in for questioning.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian Army operations continue to Daraa
[AlManar] The Syrian army managed on Friday to kill scores of Nusra Front terrorists and Daraa city and countryside, destroying three of their command centers.

The Syrian army also the terrorists’ positions in several towns and villages in Daraa province.

The counterterrorism campaign was also intensified across the country by the Syrian army and allies who inflicted heavy losses upon the militants.
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40 dead in clashes between Islamist militants near Damascus
[Al Ahram] Fierce festivities between Islamist turbans near Damascus left at least 40 dead and 70 maimed on Friday, a monitoring group said.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the festivities pitted the Saudi-backed rebel faction Jaish al-Islam
...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful...
(Army of Islam) against Fateh al-Sham
...formerly al-Nusra, the current false nose and mustache of al-Qaeda in the Levant...
, al-Qaeda's former branch in Syria, and Faylaq al-Rahman, which is backed by Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates...
and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
"There were at least 15 dead among the ranks of Jaish al-Islam and 23 among its adversaries" as well as two civilians, the Britannia-based Observatory said.

Another 70 were maimed.

Jaish al-Islam said its opponents had provoked the festivities by harassing reinforcements headed for Qabun, east of the Syrian capital, a front with regime forces.

Faylaq al-Rahman denied the allegation.

In May 2016, more than 300 people were killed in a battle between the two sides.

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US army visits Syrian border to prevent further Turkish attacks against Kurds
[ARA] A delegation of the U.S.-led coalition on Friday visited the Kurdish town of Derbassiye in Syria’s northeastern Hasakah province, to inspect the areas bombed by the Turkish army and took with them fragments of the explosives that were fired by the Turkish army on Kurdish positions.

"A delegation of international coalition leaders visited the region of Derbassiye. They were briefed on the areas bombed by the Turkish army," Abdulkarim Omer, the Co-Head of Foreign Affairs of the local administration in the Cezire Canton said on Friday.

"Yesterday the Turkish army bombed Haddon village near Amude. There is a YPG centre on the mountain near the village. Also the Kharza village near Amude was bombed yesterday," reported Heybar Othman, a freelance journalist working for international media.

"On Friday, US troops visited the border areas after Turkish attacks on the YPG. This is a message from the United States to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
to stop attacking the YPG, since they fear this could threaten the anti-ISIS Raqqa operation," he added.

Othman further said that three US army units will be deployed on the border area to prevent further attacks. "The first unit will be spread out between Dirbesiyê [Derbassiye] and Serikaniye, the second unit between Serikaniye and Tel Abyad, and the third unit will be deployed between Kobani and Tel Abyad," he said.

This however still leaves the region of Afrin vulnerable to more Turkish attacks, although there is also a Russian army presence there.

The delegation of the US Army included 8 commanders of the coalition accompanied by leaders of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), according to local sources.

The commanders visited the villages of Arade, Bir Knes, Jetele, and Qarmane, which were targeted by the Turkish Army two days ago, beside inspecting the positions that were hit.

"US troops are now in an air base near Derbassiye, after inspecting the sites of Turkish shelling in the nearby villages," local Kurdish journalist Can Mirzo told ARA News. "Kurdish Asayish forces were also deployed at checkpoints near the town and prevented strangers from entering the area," he said.
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#1  Hope Incirlik has been basically emptied
Posted by: Frank G || 04/29/2017 8:28 Comments || Top||


Kurdish troops liberate two more Tabqa city suburbs
[ALMASDARNEWS] ISIS is unlikely to keep control of Tabqa city for long as the US-backed ’Syrian Democratic Forces’ (SDF) resumed their western Raqqa offensive today, spearheaded by hundreds of seasoned Kurdish assault units.

With the SDF sweeping through the city center, their forces were able to imposed full control over the Nebabile and Zahra neighborhoods.

Three days ago, Kurdish forces also captured the al-Wahab district after establishing a foothold in the Alexandria suburb on April 15.

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Kurdish militias claim killing 17 Turkish soldiers as troops mobilized near Syria borders
[Iraq News] Media outlets allied with Syrian Kurdish militias have quoted sources on Friday saying the troops killed 17 Turkish soldiers, as other reports say Ankara was lobbying troops on the borders amid escalating encounters.

Sources within the U.S.-backed People’s Protection Units (YPG) said that a Turkish armored vehicle was also destroyed in the encounters near the northern Syrian town of Afrin.

Also on Friday, Sky News Arabia said Turkish military troops were seen lobbying near the borders with Syria’s Tal Abyad region at the countryside of Raqqa, the Islamic State’s base in Syria. Turkish troops and YPG briefly exchanged fire, while Turkish warplanes flew over the scene of clashes.

The network quoted Syrian sources saying YPG ordered its troops to evacuate from towns near the Turkish borders in anticipation for a possible Turkish incursion.

Ankara said Tuesday its fighter jets killed at least 70 Kurdish fighters in the northern areas of Iraq and Syria as part of an operation targeting locations held by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), its arch enemy.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a U.K.-based Syrian war monitor, said Turkish strikes killed 18 YPG fighters on Tuesday.

The U.S. relies on the YPG in its ground operations in Syria, but Turkey views the YPG as an extension of the PKK, and has pressed Washington to exclude the militia from military efforts against the Islamic State in Syria.
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#1  Kill more, I'm ready to see the turks get their asses kicked.
Posted by: chris || 04/29/2017 20:45 Comments || Top||


Huge rebel convoy heads towards Kurdish border town as Turkey gears up for offensive
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Turkish Armed Forces have reportedly drawn up plans to capture the Kurdish-held town of Tall Abyad and bring it under rebel control in a cross-border offensive comparable to the Euphrates Shield offensive last year.

Amateur footage emerged on Thursday, purportedly showing a large rebel convoy driving towards the Kurdish border town from the Jarabulus pocket through Turkish territory.

The Turkish Army has also amassed thousands of soldiers on its southern border, possibly regrouping to lead the Tall Abyad offensive. In the past 48 hours, Kurdish guided missiles have destroyed 5 tank, angering Ankara and causing concern in Washington.

Turkish troops have not yet been given the green light to launch the incursion upon Kurdish-held territory of northern Syria although the large-scale operation may begin in the days to come. 13 Turkish border posts came under fire from Kurdish bandidos gunnies on Thursday alone, a military statement claimed.
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#1  How about dropping a MOAB on Erdoğan's palace?
Posted by: 3dc || 04/29/2017 10:03 Comments || Top||


ISIS on its last legs as the Syrian Army imposes full control over gas field in east Homs
[ALMASDARNEWS] On Thursday evening, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) seized the last oil wells in the al-Shaer Gas Fields of eastern Homs, thereby completely expelling ISIS from one of the country’s largest gas fields.

The last point to be captured was the 105th gas well which was seized in a joint operation conducted by the 5th Legion alongside elements of the SAA’s 11th and 18th division.

Meanwhile,
...back at the dirigible, the pilot and the copilot had both hit the silk.

Jack! Cynthia exclaimed. Do you know how to drive one of these things?

Jack wiped some of the blood from his knuckles.

No, he said. Do you?...

Russian jets carried out dozens of sorties against nearby ISIS-held positions in a bid to avoid the hardline jihadist group from retaking the imperative facility.
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