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Afghanistan
Noor says will soon decide to resign as Balkh governor
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The provincial governor of the northern Balkh province Ata Mohammad Noor has said he will soon decided regarding his resignation as the governor of the province.

Noor described the motive behind his likely decision as the major political activities he has eyed for the future, including the upcoming elections.

Speaking a ceremony in Mazar-e-Sharif city on the eve of Nowruz, Noor thanked President Mohammad Ashraf Ghan for trusting him to once again assume charge as the governor of Balkh.

However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster...
he said he has intentions to step into major political activities, emphasizing that the decision regarding his resignation will be taken once consulting with the elders, his political allies, and others close to him.

Noor was one of the main supporters of Abdullah Abdullah
... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun...
during the controversial presidential elections in 2014 and played a key role in both the first round of the elections and during the run-off elections.

However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster...
he slammed Abdullah last week and apologized from his supporters for lobbying in his favor and supporting him during the elections.

Meanwhile,
...back at the alley, Slats grabbed for his rosco...
late in December last year, Noor said he is no more counting on decision making capabilities of Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah.

He claimed that his lack of confidence on Abdullah has led to opening of direct talks with President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
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Africa North
Egyptian court jails 6 ex-policemen for torture, murder
[AA.TR] An Egyptian court Wednesday slapped six former coppers with prison terms after finding them guilty of having tortured a citizen to death in 2012, according to a local judicial source.

"Western Cairo’s Giza criminal court sentenced one former police officer to five years in prison; four former coppers to three years each; and a former police director to one year behind bars," the source, preferring anonymity as he was not authorized to speak to media, told Anadolu Agency.

All six convicted coppers had worked at the main cop shoppe in Giza, a main district of capital Cairo, at the time of the incident.

According to the source, the six were convicted of "arresting a citizen without justification at the Giza cop shoppe and torturing him to death" in 2012.

Wednesday’s sentences, however, remain subject to appeal, the source said.

The case was the second of its kind this week.

On Monday, three other Egyptian coppers were formally charged with "involvement in the torture of a young man to death during his detention".

According to a report issued last July by rights watchdog Amnesia Amnesty International, "hundreds" of people have been subject to forcible disappearance and torture at the hands of Egyptian security personnel since the beginning of 2015.

Posted by: Fred || 03/23/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Third Force hands over key northern checkpoint to Sabha security department
[Libya Observer] Sabha security department has been handed over the checkpoint of Guwairat al-Mal by the Third Force that is securing the southern Libyan region in the presence of Sabha security chief, Colonel Yunis Abdelkader, the chief of 32 Brigade's operations room, Mustafa al-Shareef and Third Force's personnel.

Colonel Abdelkader said the handover aims at saving the bloodshed and avoiding any festivities between the Third Force and the forces of 12 Brigade of Khalifa Haftar
... served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
's Dignity Operation, confirming that the road between Brak al-Shatea and Sabha is open and secure.

The commander of the backup 32 Brigade, Abu Bakir Abdullah, added that their personnel took positions across the checkpoint in coordination with the Sabha security department's personnel in a step aimed at activating the role of the army and police.

Guwairat al-Mal checkpoint lies on the northern road of Sabha between Sabha and Brak al-Shatea town that leads all the way to 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...
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Third Force personnel have been positioned in the checkpoint since 2014.

Several festivities have taken place at the checkpoint between pro-Haftar 12 Brigade and the Third Force on many occasions.

Posted by: Fred || 03/23/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Arabia
Number of unwedded girls amounts to 2.5 million in Yemen
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Statistical sources estimated that the number of unwedded Yemeni girls is about 2.5 million, half a million of which are over 30 years old. Due to the situation in Yemen, there were no official reports about any comprehensive survey on Yemeni families, however, the available preliminary indicators confirm the increase of the number of unwedded girls to about 2.5 million.

The 2009 report had shown that the number of unwedded girls amounted to 2 million. According to the 2016 report, Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
ranked nine in the Arab region with a 30 percent ratio of unwedded girls. This social phenomenon is exacerbating in Yemen.

Studies show that the category of educated activist woman and those who are involved in the social life are less likely to get married because men do not like to marry a girl who has higher education level then them. The study also pointed that men tend to delay their marriage due to their economic situation or family traditions and other reasons related to their personal state of mind.

Al Arabiya interviewed two college students. The first wanted to be mentioned as "Zekra"; she said that she is 30 years and no suitable man has yet proposed to her, explaining that they usually prefer younger girls who are inexperienced in life, so that they obey them without objecting on anything. As for Lamia Ali who is a 40-year-old teacher, she says that she is convinced that it is too late for her to get married.

Social researcher Suleiman Abdullah confirmed that this phenomenon has increased after the Houthi
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ...
revolution that led to the deterioration of the economic and living conditions. He added that tribal traditions are also hindering the marriage of girls because their parents prefer to marry her to relatives and same tribe members. He added that the exaggeration in expensive ceremonies and celebrations will surely negatively affect this crisis. It is worth mentioning that 38 organization and charity associations are trying to work on this issue.
Posted by: Fred || 03/23/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not surprising.
Have you been to Yemen?
Posted by: al aSha-med || 03/23/2017 0:42 Comments || Top||

#2  the situation is similar in many other countries, including the USA where, I think, the number of unmarried women over 16 now exceeds the number married over 16
Posted by: lord garth || 03/23/2017 1:32 Comments || Top||

#3  And there are millions of unwed young men in China - I see a commercial opportunity.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/23/2017 4:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Adopting the culture of their American cousins.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 03/23/2017 8:02 Comments || Top||

#5  Only need 300k - 400k men to marry 2.5 million women in Yemen
Posted by: Airandee || 03/23/2017 17:50 Comments || Top||

#6  or 50K Martyrs
Posted by: Frank G || 03/23/2017 18:44 Comments || Top||


Bangladesh
Mufti Hannan to seek clemency
[Dhaka Tribune] Harkat-ul Jihad al-Islami Bangladesh (HuJI
Founded in 1984 by Fazlur Rehman Khalil and Qari Saifullah Aktar. The Bangla branch was established in 1992 with assistance from Osama bin Laden. Recruits come mostly from Deobandi madrassahs. HuJI and Fazlur Rehman Khalil are signators of bin Laden's declaration of war on the west.
B) leader Mufti Hannan will seek presidential pardon.

Hannan informed it to the Kashimpur Jail authorities when the full verdict was read out to him around 10:30am on Wednesday.

"Hannan has told us that he will file the petition seeking presidential clemency with due process through his lawyer," Mizanur Rahman, jail superintendent, told the Dhaka Tribune.

Another death-row convict Sharif Shahedul Alam, Hannan’s aide, would also seek clemency, he added.

The other convict is Md Delwar Hossain.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court’s Appellate Division released the full text of its verdict reconfirming death penalties handed to Mufti Hannan and two accomplices for a failed liquidation attempt on the then British high commissioner to Bangladesh Anwar Choudhury.

The full verdict reached to Kashimpur Jail on Tuesday night.

Three people were killed and Anwar sustained injuries in the grenade attack carried out during his visit to Shahjalal Shrine in Sylhet city on May 21, 2004.

The commissioner reported being hit in the stomach by a bomb, which then fell on the ground near the foot of the district chief and went kaboom! "with a big bang." Sixty-nine others were also injured.

The UK foreign secretary at the time, Jack Straw, said he was "deeply shocked" by the attack.

The HuJIB murderous Moslem group was formed in 1992 and claims to have carried out at least 14 attacks, killing more than 100 people in the pursuit of establishing Shariah Law in Bangladesh.

A Sylhet court in December 2008 sentenced the trio to death and two others to life-time imprisonment for their roles in the attack. The High Court upheld the sentences in February 2016.

The same month, the death-row convicts appealed to the Appellate Division but to no avail. Their review petitions filed challenging the Appellate Division verdict were also rejected.

Hannan was also sentenced to death for the 2001 Ramna Batamul bombing, in which ten people were killed.
Posted by: Fred || 03/23/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: HuJI

#1  I'm sure the mufti's a fine fellow and all, but I can't get past that name. Then again, he steered clear of the Kennedys, so there's that.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 03/23/2017 7:04 Comments || Top||


YouTube training videos key tool for Bangladeshi militants
[Dhaka Tribune] Law enforcement agencies say homegrown bully boy krazed killer outfits are using readily available videos from the Internet to train their recruits in combat, ideology and organising skills.

The videos are widespread even in the world’s largest video sharing website, YouTube.

The Chittagong-based krazed killer outfit Shaheed Hamza Brigade was found to be fully dependent on online videos for the training of its members. The Hamza Brigade members took battle training with the help of these videos in remote hill areas of Banshkhali in Chittagong, said Rapid Action Battalion (RAB 7).

On Tuesday, RAB caught five members of the New Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (New JMB) including engineers who graduated from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) in Dhaka. The group had been taking combat training from online videos of foreign krazed killers, said RAB 10.

A cursory search on YouTube using the terms "jihad training" results in many videos that show bandidos Lions of Islam from groups like the international terrorist organization Harkat-ul Jihad or the Iranian group Jaish ul-Adl exercising, doing weapons training, battle formations and hand-to-hand combats.

There are also thousands of videos from the Syrian war, filmed by al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
Front using GoPro.

The terrorist groups Ansarullah Bangla Team and Harkatul Jihad Bangladesh also use online videos to brainwash lower income and illiterate people into militancy and extremism, law enforcement members said.

Last year the bully boy organization Hizb-ut Tahrir, banned in Bangladesh, conducted an online video conference across the world for its members. Bangladeshi members of the group also viewed the conference, intelligence reports said.

Intelligence agencies and detectives said the bully boy groups had been using the Internet to recruit and groom its members due to the absence of government monitoring on the web.

As the government cannot impose any bar over viewing such videos on the web, the bandidos Lions of Islam can easily roam around the virtual world and enrich themselves in the ill-motivated sector receiving massive collection of krazed killer related videos and some others, said sources in BTRC.

Experts say the government should introduce techniques to stop such instigating videos in the same manner that pornographic websites and videos were controlled in the country recently.

Law enforcement sources said the leaders and the top people in these terrorist groups took krazed killer training from abroad by joining international groups in Afganistan, Iraq, Pakistain and other parts of the world. On the other hand, new recruits use the shortcut way of taking training through videos.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit Deputy Commissioner (Cyber Crime) Md Alimuzzaman said: "We often request the YouTube authorities to take down militancy related videos. They sometimes respond to our requests according to their policies.

"We have to introduce a combined system to stop the viewing of such videos." Most of the videos that the bandidos Lions of Islam or potential recruits were watching were made somewhere else, he added.

"It is rare for these videos to be made in Bangladesh," he said.

Respective cyber crime units in various law enforcement agencies have done good work on this issue, sources said. But the government should impose strong vigilance on the web by taking different measures, they said.

Bangladesh Police Headquarters’ Assistant Inspector General (Media) Sahely Ferdous told the Dhaka Tribune: "We have plans to ban such videos. It is an ongoing process with the government. Already we talked to Facebook and got a positive response. In the future, we will hopefully contact YouTube and other popular online sites."

The head of Police Bureau of Investigation, Deputy Inspector General Banaz Kumar Majumder, said: "The practice of using the web is not new for krazed killers. The krazed killer organizations use social media and other websites for their communication and training.

"Although there are no direct restrictions over such media, we are keeping watch on the viewers and arresting those who are involved with krazed killer activities in the country."

Prof Dr Md Ziaur Rahman, chairman of Department of Criminology at Dhaka University, said such practices are a threat to the country’s security. Although the problem cannot be fully solved, it can be controlled, he said.

Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (BTRC) Secretary Md Sarwar Alam declined to make any comment about the issue.
Posted by: Fred || 03/23/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Salafists


Britain
Is the attacker Abu Izzadeen the Jamaican national?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] According to the police chief of counterterrorism Mark Rowley reported by Agencies, the unknown attacker is "Asian" as we can see in the enhanced picture. But English newspaper "The Independent" reported on its website that it may be the Jamaican national Abu Izzadeen known as Trevor Brooks
... also Omar Brooks and Abu Baraa for reasons that no doubt made sense at the time. He was born in Britain of Jamaican parentage, worked as an electrician before discovering the joys of Mohammedanism, followed on short order by the additional pleasures of Al Muhajiroun and preaching fiery nothings for offshoot Al-Ghurabaa...
in Britannia, where he was born 42 years ago.

However,
a clean conscience makes a soft pillow...
a correspondent for ABC News reported that he had spoken to Abu Izzadeen’s lawyer, saying that Abu Izzadeen is still serving his sentence in a prison in London. "So it couldn’t have been him," as stated by the official front man for the Gurabaa organization established by the Lebanese - Syrian Omar Bakri Mohammed, currently living in Leb after being expelled from Britannia. Al Arabiya reported the news published by the independent based on "reports that it didn’t hear about."
This article starring:
Abu Izzadeen
Posted by: Fred || 03/23/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  they have fingerprint and retina scans by now.

assuming they take these routinely, the terrorist would be known by now if he was previously arrested
Posted by: lord garth || 03/23/2017 1:24 Comments || Top||

#2  DNA, too...
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/23/2017 5:59 Comments || Top||

#3  To the Tower with the lot. Time is of the essence. Please permit Gawd do the sorting.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/23/2017 6:03 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
NSA official suggests North Korea was behind US$951 million heist from Bangladesh’s central bank
[SCMP] A senior National Security Agency (NSA) official appeared to confirm that North Korean computer hackers were behind a multimillion-dollar heist targeting Bangladesh’s central bank last year.

Computer hackers attempted to steal US$951 million, but only got away with US$81 million, some of which was later recovered. After the theft, security firms quickly pointed the finger at North Korea. Other experts disputed that finding. But on Tuesday, NSA deputy director Rick Ledgett appeared to suggest North Korea was the culprit during a cryptic exchange at a Washington forum.

Speaking at an Aspen Institute roundtable, Ledgett pointed out that private sector researchers had linked the digital break-in in Bangladesh to the 2014 hack on Sony Pictures, which the US government attributed to Pyongyang.

"If that linkage from the Sony actors to the Bangladeshi bank actors is accurate ‐ that means that a nation state is robbing banks," Ledgett said. "That’s a big deal."

The moderator of the event, John Carlin, a former assistant attorney general for national security, quickly followed up: "Do you believe that there are nation states now robbing banks?"

If that linkage from the Sony actors to the Bangladeshi bank actors is accurate ‐ that means that a nation state is robbing banks. That’s a big dealNSA DEPUTY DIRECTOR RICK LEDGETT

Ledgett offered a simple answer: "I do."

While the NSA, America’s premier spy agency, has far greater insight into North Korean cyber operations than private security firms, Ledgett’s remarks studiously avoided any reference to what evidence the agency has collected on the Bangladeshi heist. They stopped short of an official US government statement that North Korea was behind the attack.

But Ledgett, a 30-year veteran of the agency due to retire later this year, would be unlikely to lend his credibility to reports that do not match his agency’s findings.

"I think the public case was well-made," Ledgett said.

The NSA declined to comment beyond Ledgett’s public remarks.
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The Grand Turk
Erdogan warns Europeans 'will not walk safely' if attitude persists
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/23/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Islamic scum whore.
Posted by: newc || 03/23/2017 0:19 Comments || Top||

#2  They don't walk safely - except when attacking Israel or USA, now.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/23/2017 4:41 Comments || Top||

#3  And this Islamist dictator is the leader of a Nato country. How's the diversity working for you?
Posted by: Jack Salami || 03/23/2017 9:59 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Islamic State Mag Praises Ohio State Jihadi, Doubles Down on Knife Attacks
[BREITBART] 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....
(ISIS/ISIS), in the latest edition of its online propaganda magazine Rumiyah, applauds the "martyrdom" of the Ohio State University (OSU) jihadi who used a butcher knife and vehicle to attack people and repeats instructions on carrying out more knife attacks.

In the English version of the magazine’s fourth edition released Wednesday, ISIS provides "a full-page spread on knife attack advice" along with new charts and pictures instructing prospective jihadists on the best knives to use and the most lethal parts of the body to stab, report the Foreign Desk and the SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks jihadi activity online.
Posted by: Fred || 03/23/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Dated article, but still germane.
Why is Rumiyah, or it's writers/editors/publishers allowed to exist? First amendment? I don't think so.
Posted by: al aSha-med || 03/23/2017 1:23 Comments || Top||

#2  8 Dec 2016

Good catch, al aSha-med.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/23/2017 19:47 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Blasphemy charges create climate of fear for Pakistani media
[Dhaka Tribune] Analysts and social media monitors say the blasphemy law is a powerful tool to silence critics. Some say it is being used by gunnies to silence moderates at a time when Paks are increasingly speaking out against violence and extremism, and voicing support for a government crackdown on Islamic krazed killers



Ahmad Waqas Goraya couldn’t see anything through the black hood, but he could hear the screams.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 03/23/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  I just can't wait to live like this again, can you!
Posted by: newc || 03/23/2017 0:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Try to use the N word, or state that homosexuality is unnatural, or question the genders' equality in print, and see what happens.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/23/2017 4:18 Comments || Top||


Mly courts law passed amid allies’ opposition
[DAWN] The government managed to secure the passage of two key bills seeking the reinstatement of military courts from the National Assembly on Monday, but without the support of two of its allies.

The 28th Constitutional Amendment Bill -- which will be numbered as the 23rd Constitutional amendment after its passage from the Senate -- was passed by 255 votes to four against, more than the required two-thirds majority needed to pass an amendment.

The Pakistain Army (Amendment) Bill 2017, which is required to facilitate the setting up of the military courts, was passed by a majority through a voice vote.

Posted by: Fred || 03/23/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


One arrest made in social media blasphemy case, interior ministry tells IHC
[DAWN] As the hearing of a petition seeking removal of blasphemous content from social media resumed on Wednesday, Islamabad High Court (IHC) Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui was told that the interior ministry had made one arrest in the case, while the names of several have been put on the Exit Control List (ECL).

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) submitted its report on the matter and informed the court that they had started the paperwork but haven't done much else two days ago after completing their inquiry.

The court expressed its disappointment at the speed at which the case was progressing and instructed the interior ministry to hand in a detailed report on the matter in the next hearing, which will be held on March 27.

The court reiterated that the country's premier spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence
...the Pak military intelligence agency that controls the military -- heads of ISI typically get promoted into the Chief of Army Staff position. It serves as a general command center for favored turban groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, tries to influence the politix of neighboring countries, and carries out a (usually) low-level war against India in Kashmir...
, should assist the government in the case.

Justice Siddiqui said a decision on banning social media in Pakistain will be made only after the interior ministry submits its report.

The issue has kicked up a political storm on the national level.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
said on March 14 that blasphemy is an unpardonable offence and directed the state machinery to find those responsible for putting blasphemous content on social media and bring them to justice without delay.

Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar has also said that Pakistain will represent the global Moslem community on the issue of blasphemous content posted on social media platforms and take the fight to any extent necessary to get its message across.

On March 16, the National Assembly passed a resolution condemning blasphemous content posted on social media and unanimously agreed to the formation of a committee of parliamentary leaders to monitor such content.

Posted by: Fred || 03/23/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Saying tunnels not existential threat, IDF head admits hitting them from air
[IsraelTimes] Revealing that air force is destroying tunnels during reprisal attacks, Gadi Eisenkot tells politicians the passageways are a serious threat but shouldn’t be exaggerated.

The head of the army sought to downplay concerns over the threat of Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, tunnels infiltrating Israel to Gazoo Wednesday, while admitting for the first time that the military is destroying the subterranean passages with ground-penetrating bombs fired from afar.

Army chief Gadi Eisenkot told politicians that while the tunnel threat was important, the Jewish state was not at risk of being subsumed by Hamas fighters infiltrating from Gazoo.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/23/2017 00:54 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Practice for mapping the NKor tunnels?
Posted by: al aSha-med || 03/23/2017 1:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Practice for Iran.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/23/2017 4:23 Comments || Top||

#3  I suspect they can see the entrances on IR.
Posted by: phil_b || 03/23/2017 15:38 Comments || Top||

#4  After they're bombed, they're probably not an existential threat.
Posted by: gorb || 03/23/2017 16:36 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Thu 2017-03-23
  It's worse: Jewish Israeli-American, 19, arrested in Ashkelon for phoning in dozens of JCC bomb threats
Wed 2017-03-22
  Jihadi car and knife attack: Parliament in lockdown
Tue 2017-03-21
  U.S. Bans Laptops, Tablets from Cabins on Flights from Middle East
Mon 2017-03-20
  Syrian regulars gain control of regions near Palmyra
Sun 2017-03-19
  Four wanted Maute militants nabbed in Lanao
Sat 2017-03-18
  Man shot dead at Paris Orly airport this morning after taking soldier's gun: official
Fri 2017-03-17
  Four Killed as Bangladesh Police Storm Islamist Hideout
Thu 2017-03-16
  Kommander Abdullah, 10 others die in airstrike in Paktika
Wed 2017-03-15
  Dozens killed in suicide bombing at Damascus "Palace of Justice" courthouse
Tue 2017-03-14
  Suspected ISIS gas attack hits Iraqi forces in west Mosul
Mon 2017-03-13
  Kenyan police nab 6 terror suspects in coastal town
Sun 2017-03-12
  Double suicide attack kills 40 in Damascus
Sat 2017-03-11
  Syrian force a ‘few weeks’ from Raqqa, U.S. Marines deployed
Fri 2017-03-10
   Ax attacker at Düsseldorf main train station arrested
Thu 2017-03-09
  Baghdadi abandons Mosul fight to field commanders

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