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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 06/28/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I always liked a healthy looking gurl, can't tell much about her teefs from this photo, but she has a healthy jowl-line.
Posted by: Shipman || 06/28/2015 11:32 Comments || Top||

#2  She was black belt pretty.
Posted by: Fred || 06/28/2015 15:19 Comments || Top||

#3  I fell in mad love with girls that vaguely had that look 3 times, when I wuz 11, 12, and 14. One sided sadly, although I did get the rare fond gaze. Then things went down hill quickly with ambitious horsy blondes, angry office girls and undependable cars. I came back from the edge with an older version of Doris. She has good teeth and a Prius.
Posted by: Shipman || 06/28/2015 20:03 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
19 Taliban Insurgents Killed in Kunduz Airstrike
[Tolo News] At least 19 Taliban forces of Evil were killed in an Afghan air forces strike in northern Kunduz province on Friday night, local officials said.

In addition, eight other forces of Evil were maimed.

The air strike took place in Chahar Dara district of the province to clear the forces of Evil in which 19 Taliban forces of Evil were killed, provincial police chief Abdul Saboor Nasrati said.

"Five foreigners and a woman were among the dead," he said.

The operation comes after forces of Evil increased their activities in northern Afghanistan in recent months.

On Thursday, officials at the Ministry of Interior front man said thon the lam-scale battles are underway in Chahar Dara and Dasht-e-Archi districts of this province in order to re-take control of seized districts from the Taliban.

More troops have been sent in to help, they said.

Security institutions have also sent further troops to Kunduz and Baghlan provinces in order to re-take districts there that have been seized by the Taliban.

The Ministry of Defense has said that major battles in these provinces are being conducted by foreigners. They said that fresh ANSF troops have been deployed to eliminate them.
Posted by: Fred || 06/28/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


37 Insurgents Killed in ANSF Military Operations
[Tolo News] At least 37 snuffies have been killed in a series of coordinated operations over the past 24 hours by the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said in a statement on Saturday.

In addition, 21 other snuffies were maimed and two nabbed
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
.

The operations were conducted in Takhar, Kunduz, Faryab, Badakhshan, Sar-e-Pul, Uruzgan, Ghazni and Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
provinces; the statement said adding that the operation was aimed at clearing myrmidons.

"Also, during these operations, Afghan National Police discovered and confiscated light and heavy rounds of ammunition," it said.

The MoI, however, did not comment on whether any security force members were maimed during the operations.
Posted by: Fred || 06/28/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa Horn
Dozens Killed as Somali Shebab 'Overrun' African Union Base
[AnNahar] Dozens of soldiers were killed Friday when Somalia's Shabaab turbans overran an African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
base, witnesses said, describing intense fighting which left corpses strewn around.

"The fighting was the heaviest ever around this area, the Shabaab fighters took full control of the base and killed many soldiers," said Alinur Mohammed, a local elder in Lego village, 100 kilometers (62 miles) northwest of the capital Mogadishu.

Witnesses said they had seen as many as 50 bodies but the reports were impossible to independently confirm. Some bodies were reportedly beheaded.

The military outpost was manned by around 100 Burundian soldiers who are part of the 22,000 strong African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM).

Residents said the dawn raid started when a jacket wallah drove a car loaded with explosives into the entrance of the base, before dozens of snuffies armed with machine guns and rocket propelled grenades began their assault.

Ahmed Bulle, another elder, said the toll could be higher still as many bodies were strewn around the base.

He said the snuffies had also looted the base, carting away weapons, ammunition and vehicles.

"The Shabaab snuffies took control of the area completely -- the corpse count could be more than 50. There are many dead bodies most of them in military uniforms," Bulle said.

- Islamist flag hoisted over base -
A Shabaab front man said the snuffies had taken control of the base killing "dozens" and had raised their flag and seized weapons.

"The Black Islamic flag is flying over the main base of AMISOM in Lego this morning and the dead bodies of the enemy are scattered around the area, the mujahedeen fighters have taken all their military supplies," Mohammed Abu-Yahya, a Shabaab commander said.

A front man AMISOM confirmed that an attack and shootout had taken place but could not provide any casualty figures.

"This morning there was an attack on our camp at Lego," said Lieutenant Colonel Paul Njuguna, adding that fighting continued for hours with reinforcements sent to the base, located on the main road between Mogadishu and the western regional capital of Baidoa.

Shabaab front man Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage praised the attack.

"Today is a happy day for the Moslem nation, the mujahedeen fighters have managed to storm a base stationed by apostates and the African Christians who invaded our country, especially those from Burundi," he said.

If the corpse count is confirmed Friday's attack would be one of the deadliest single incidents since AMISOM soldiers arrived in Somalia eight years ago.

In 2011, as many as 70 Burundian soldiers died in battle in Mogadishu.

AU envoy to Somalia Maman Sidikou condemned the attack and said he "regrets the losses recorded and registers his solidarity with the government and people of Burundi", without giving details of numbers killed.

The al-Qaeda affiliate is fighting to overthrow Somalia's Western-backed government which is propped up and protected by AMISOM.

Under military pressure at home, Shabaab is increasingly turning its attention to Kenya where it has launched a string of recent deadly assaults, as well as focusing on guerrilla style warfare in Somalia.

The Islamic snuffies commonly step up their attacks during Islam's holy fasting month of Ramadan. On Wednesday six people were killed in a suicide kaboom in Mogadishu on a diplomatic convoy from the United Arab Emirates.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/28/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab


Africa North
Mali: Gunmen attack military camp near Mauritania border
[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Gunmen attacked a military camp in western Mali on Saturday, killing three soldiers as residents of a nearby village hid in their homes, officials and witnesses said.

The attack began at around 5 a.m. (0500 GMT) at the camp near the village of Nara, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) from the border with Mauritania, army spokesman Col. Souleymane Maiga said.

"The army repelled the attackers who had entrenched themselves in the village," Maiga said. "Until around 9 a.m. there were exchanges of fire between the army and the assailants in the streets of the village."

In addition to the three soldiers killed, the bodies of nine attackers were recovered, according to a defense ministry statement issued Saturday night. Maiga said seven soldiers were injured

Soldiers were patrolling the village Saturday afternoon looking for assailants hiding out there, said Nara resident Boughambi Traore.

Civilians took shelter as soon as they heard the fighting, said Foussein Keita, another resident.

Maiga said the assailants were unknown, and the defense ministry statement referred only to "armed individuals" and "enemy forces." But a source in Mali's intelligence service, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said the gunmen were Islamic militants from the Peul ethnic group and were linked to Ansar Dine, one of the groups that took control of northern Mali following a military coup in 2012.
Posted by: Fred || 06/28/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


IS Releases Picture of Tunisian Terrorist
[al-Alam] ISIS social media accounts were sharing a photograph of a man they named as Abu Yahya Qayrawani - which could be the terrorists name for Seifeddine Yacoubi, the gunman killed by security .

A statement accompanying the picture said: 'Our brother, the soldier of the Caliphate, Abu Yahya al Qayrawani, reached his target the Imperial hotel despite the security measures.'

Eyewitness accounts say Yacoubi was seen laughing and joking among the midday bathers and sun seekers, looking like any other tourist, Mail Online reports.

But this astonishing footage shows the moment terrified holidaymakers fled a beach as a murderous gunman patrolled the tourist spot picking out victims.

In the shaky mobile phone footage, the recorder first runs away from the deadly shoot-out on the beach along with others fearing for their lives.

After fleeing the beach, the person filming the dramatic scene hides behind a rubbish bin on the streets of Sousse.
Posted by: Fred || 06/28/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Arabia
Kuwait arrests suspects in mosque attack
[Dhaka Tribune] Kuwait's interior ministry said yesterday it had detained amongst others the owner of a vehicle which a jacket wallah used to get to a Shi'ite Moslem mosque where he went kaboom!, killing 27 and wounding 200 people mid-prayer.

Militant group 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....
grabbed credit for the country's worst hard boy attack on Friday, one of three attacks on three continents that day apparently linked to hardline Islamists.

In Tunisia, a gunman killed 37 people including Western tourists on a beach, and in La Belle France a decapitated body was found after an attacker rammed his car into a gas container, triggering an kaboom.

The interior ministry said it was now looking for the driver who vanished shortly after Friday's blast in Kuwait, which has been spared the rampant violence in neighbouring Iraq and recent spate of Islamic State bombings of Shi'ite mosques in 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...
, another neighbour.

A security source told Rooters "numerous arrests" had been made in connection with Friday's bombing, which government officials said was intended to stir enmity between Kuwait's Sunni majority and Shi'ite minority.

Two Iranian nationals were among those killed, foreign ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham was quoted as saying by Iranian state media yesterday.

Relatives of seven of those killed wept and prayed over their shrouded corpses at a mosque yesterday, who will be buried in the Shi'ite holy cities of Najaf and Karbala in Iraq.

A mass funeral for most of those killed will be held at Kuwait City's Grand Mosque later yesterday, KUNA reported. A day of national mourning has been declared.

Oil security stepped up

Shi'ites are between 15 and 30 percent of the population of Kuwait, a mostly Sunni country where members of both communities live side by side with little apparent friction.

"We will cut the evil hand that interferes with our homeland's security," Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammed al Khaled al Sabah was quoted as saying by KUNA.
Posted by: Fred || 06/28/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Aden Oil Refinery Ablaze as Yemen Rebels Shell Port
[AnNahar] Fire erupted at Aden's oil refinery Saturday when rebels shelled the nearby port to prevent a 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...
i ship carrying aid for Yemen's devastated second city from docking, officials told Agence La Belle France Presse.

"The rebels fired artillery rounds at the area and one hit an oil tank at the refinery, sparking a fire," said an official at the Aden Refinery Company.

An AFP news hound saw flames raging as pillars of smoke billowed into the skies over the southern city.

A government official told AFP the rebels had targeted a Qatari vessel carrying food supplies from Djibouti, a hub for Yemen-bound humanitarian aid, and that the attack forced it to turn back.

Both the port and the refinery in Aden's Buraiqa district are controlled by pro-government fighters, and the area has seen fierce festivities between rival forces.

The refinery has not been receiving any oil via the port, but it still has 1.2 million tonnes of crude in storage and also gas tanks.


Coalition warplanes carried out "at least 15 air raids" across several parts of Aden on Saturday, a pro-Hadi military official said.

Meanwhile,
...back at the mall, Clarissa suddenly spied Mr. Bartlett at the checkout counter. He was buying Grecian Formula!...
five pro-government fighters and two non-combatants were killed in festivities rocking Aden on Saturday, medics and militia sources loyal to Hadi said.

More than 2,600 people have been killed in the impoverished Arabian Peninsula country since March, according to U.N. figures. Almost 80 percent of the population -- 20 million people -- need urgent humanitarian aid.

The situation is particularly serious in Aden, where residents complain of food and water shortages and health officials warn of disease spreading.

Earlier this month, a U.N.-chartered ship carrying humanitarian supplies bound for 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...
was targeted by shelling as it approached Aden.

In another southern province, Shabwa, rustics killed nine rebels in an attack on a troop carrier on Saturday, a military source close to the Huthis told AFP.

Rebel forces comprise both Huthis and renegade troops loyal to former president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...
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Posted by: trailing wife || 06/28/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Britain
UK PM Tells Brits 'Keep Calm And Carry On' in The Face Of IS Terror
[Breitbart UK] Prime Minister David Cameron today confirmed that Britons would form the largest single group among the 38 fatalities from Friday's Islamist terror attack in Tunisia.

Mr Cameron attended this year's national Armed Forces Day event in Guildford, Surrey. After the official reception he urged Britons to remain "vigilant" in the threat of terror and "carry on". He said:

"There's no doubt we are under severe threat of terrorism. Today is about paying tribute to our Armed Forces. There will be heightened security at those events. The most important thing is to carry on and thanking our Armed Forces for the work they do, knowing in our our country we face a severe terrorist threat.

"But if we work together, are vigilant and back our police and anti-terrorism forces.

"If we combat this poisonous narrative of Islamic extremism that is radicalising too many young minds in our country. If we do all of those things and show the persistence and determination I have talked about we will overcome."

As Mr Cameron spoke, travel agents Thomson and First Choice cancelled all flights to Tunisia for the next week in the wake of the Sousse massacre. The companies are implementing contingency plans to fly their customers back immediately.

Travel agents will today evacuate as many as 2,500 Britons from Tunisia and are braced for a wave of cancellations to the North African state. Ten Thomson flights are scheduled to arrive back at airports across the UK including Gatwick.

A spokesperson for Gatwick Airport has told MailOnline that passengers arriving in from Tunisia will be shielded from the press.

'There will be no filming or interviews taking place in the airport today,' said the spokesperson.

One thousand holidaymakers have already returned to the UK from Tunisia on special flights with 5,400 still in the country. Thomson and First Choice confirmed that 'a number of fatalities' and those injured are their customers and said around 2,500 people will be brought back today.

However, Tui Group, which runs the companies, was unable to confirm how many of the 38 people killed or injured in the shooting were its customers.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/28/2015 04:15 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  You know, at least Winnie made the promise that the perps were going to pay for their actions when the original 'Keep Calm and Carry On' appeared. He and Bomber Harris kept that promise.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/28/2015 8:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Sow the wind, reap the strongly worded letter.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/28/2015 9:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Something along the lines of "Speak softly and don't carry a big stick"?
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 06/28/2015 10:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Dave start with the Pakistani and Somalian community at home who secretly admire these jihadis trying to bring about a caliphate and restore the strength of the muslim world destroyed by the ending of the Ottoman Empire.

In muslim eyes they are kept down by pro western leaders in the muslim world and look to Iran as an inspiration standing up to the West.

Current Iranian regime and the West will never be friends Mr Obama.

I read Tunisia closed down 80 mosques which advocated violence. Name me another religion that encourages/teaches violence/hatred!
Posted by: paul || 06/28/2015 10:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Sounds like GWB's directive to go shopping.

Unfortunately the only real way to combat this plague is along the lines of Charles Martel and El Cid, Ghengis Kahn and Vlad Kepich.

The philosophy of Islam must be destroyed wherever it raises its ugly face. Of course our effete intellectuals and worthless "elite" don't believe in such things are all in favor of the tribalist ethos and against its antidote, individualism.
Posted by: AlanC || 06/28/2015 10:58 Comments || Top||

#6  Keep
Calm
And
Remember
The
Go
Code





/br549 for the innocents
Posted by: Shipman || 06/28/2015 13:20 Comments || Top||

#7  Do not not fear Lt. Zogg, the go codes are good t go.
Posted by: Shipman || 06/28/2015 13:27 Comments || Top||

#8  'There will be no filming or interviews taking place in the airport today,' said the spokesperson. Nuthin to see here folks, just keep moving.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 06/28/2015 14:02 Comments || Top||

#9  Because bumper stickers are better than taking action?
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 06/28/2015 18:06 Comments || Top||

#10  Why risk a bumper sticker, when a hashtag will do?
Posted by: KBK || 06/28/2015 18:58 Comments || Top||

#11  #BringBackOurHolidayMakers
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/28/2015 19:31 Comments || Top||

#12  #PowderRiverLetErRip
Posted by: Shipman || 06/28/2015 20:05 Comments || Top||

#13  Lest we fergit, how are the Brits going to do as the Artic TItle suggests iff ...

* IIRC RUSSIA TODAY, VARIOUS NET > CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN CRISIS AS UK SEES MORE ATHEISTS, MUSLIMS.

ARTIC = over 1/2 of the UK's tote population deems themselves as either de facto ATHEIST, OR UNCARING ABOUT ANY SPECIFIC/PARTICULAR RELIGION VEE ANY OTHER.

IMO this kind of Lefty-beloved/desired SECULAR ATHIEISM will NOT last very long as Humans Beings are naturally very Spiritual - IOW, OVER TIME THEY WILL MUCHO MORESO THAN NOT RETURN TO SEEKING OR REDISCOVERING FAITH = GOD.

* SNAFU/FUBAR = INCREASINGLY PRO-SECULAR CHURCH OF ENGLAND = INCREASINGLY PRO-SECULAR US JUDEOCHRISTIANITY = WHEN THE ABOVE OCCURS, THE UK-EURO, US, OR WESTERN MAINSTREAM WILL TURN TO SECULARISM-RESISTING, STILL CONSERVATIVE GOD/ALLAN-CENTRIC ISLAM INCLUD RADICAL ISLAM, NOT JUDEOCHRISTIANITY WHICH HAS ALL BUT COMMITTED IDEO, CULTURAL "SELF-SUICIDE" IN THE NAME OF SECULARISM + SOCIALISM.

US-WORLD JUDEOCHRISTIANITY = ANTI-US US OWG GLOBALIST POTUS OBAMA + ALIGNED = US-N-ONLY-US, JUDEOCHRISTIANITY-N-ONLY-JUDEOCHRISTIANITY UNILATERAL "RETREAT/FALLBACK IS OWG + WORLD PEACE".

Where somehow this above can safely occur widout the US = US-World JudeChristianity BEING EXISTENTIALLY THREATENED BY ANYONE(S) FOR ANY REASON(S)!
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 06/28/2015 20:15 Comments || Top||

#14  FYI FREEREPUBLIC ARTIC = looks like LEGAL PEDOPHILIA ACTIVISTS this AM are now demanding their rights + agenda be heard in the wake of the very recent SCOTUS Ruling on [Universal = Nationwide] "Same-Sex" Marriage.

COURT(S)-APPROVED, EXPANDED ALTERNATIST MARRIAGE LAWS = LEGAL POLYGAMY/POLYANDRY/POLYAMORY, ETC. RELATIONS OF ALL KINDS + TYPES = LEGAL SHARIA IN AMERIKA.

Becuz how can US DemoLefty Secular Atheist-Intellectualist-Scientifists succeed in legalizing UNIVERSAL POLYGAMY, ...@ETC. BUT N-O-T THE ISLAMIC/MUSLIM SHARIA LAW + SIMILAR WHICH PREACH ANDOR ACCEPTS IT.

E.G. [Anti/Non-Muslim] HINDU LAW INCLUD HINDU CASTE SYSTEM.

ULTIMATELY, IT WILL DEVOL UNTIL IT IS ACTUALLY US FED-LOCAL GOVTS WHOM END UP DE FACTO VIOLATING THE CONSTITUTIONAL, NATURAL, + CIVIL RIGHTS OF MUSLIM-AMERIKANS, ETAL. BY N-O-T LEGALIZING SHARIA LAW OR SIMILAR IN AMERIKA.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 06/28/2015 20:30 Comments || Top||

#15  More UK terror news ...

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Sun.UK] ISIS PLANNED [Boston-style?] "SUICIDE ATTACK" ON UK ARMED FORCES DAY IN LONDON TODAY.

Former Military Unit of slain = beheaded UK Soldier LEWIS RIGBY believed to be intended target.

VERSUS

* BIGNEWSNETWORK > ISIL [Bahrain branch] WARNS TO ACCOMPLISH TERROR ATTACK IN SUAUDI ARABIA NEXT FRIDAY.

Daring KSA + ultimately Iran confrontation + mil intervention???

* TOPIX > AMERICANS WARNED OF POSSIBLE INDEPENDENCE DAY [July 4th] TERROR ATTACKS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 06/28/2015 23:07 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Iraqi jets destroy ISIS convoys in Fallujah
[Rudaw] Iraqi fighter jets destroyed two 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) convoys led by two of the group's notorious leaders in Fallujah Saturday evening, said the Defense Ministry.

A statement by the Iraqi Defense Ministry said that the convoys belonged to Shakir Wahib and Gaaid Kuwaiti, two ISIS commanders in the western province of Anbar.

The statement didn't say if Wahib and Gaaid were traveling in the convoys but indicated that all the bully boyz were killed in the attack.

On the same day coalition jets attacked a group of ISIS bully boyz near Habbaniya.

ISIS bully boyz captured the bustling provincial capital Ramadi in March and fighting has been going on ever since between the radical group and Iraqi troops over the city of Fallujah.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/28/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq

#1  What's a "convoy"? How many trucks? Armored vehicles? Secondary explosions? Dead terrs?
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 06/28/2015 17:07 Comments || Top||

#2  You mean how many camels on donkeys been killed, RA?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/28/2015 18:11 Comments || Top||

#3  I keep hoping to wake up one morning and read that Obumble has just sacked a bunch of military generals for "using poor judgment" after they "misinterpreted" their instructions, and unleashed about 36 hours of "shock and awe" upon every friggin' grid square in the Levant that has any ass-clown ISIS anywhere near it. Call it "Operation Desert Carnage - Obliteration". Make our B52 drivers drop bombs until their fingers are cramped. Make the investors happy, at whatever firms produce cruise missiles and cluster bombs. Give the MOAB bombs a few field tests. Hell - I'd like to see the navy bring a couple of battleships out of mothballs - and start heaving VW-sized munitions into ISIS-land.

And then we could all watch Obumbles head explode.
Posted by: Lone Ranger || 06/28/2015 21:22 Comments || Top||


Bomb blasts in Iraqi capital leave 10 dead, others wounded
[Rudaw] Iraqi authorities say bombs targeting public places have killed 10 people in the capital, Baghdad.

Police officials say a boom-mobile went off about noon Saturday near shops selling car parts in southeastern Baghdad, killing five people and wounding 13 others.

Another kaboom at an outdoor market killed three shoppers and maimed eight in the city's eastern suburbs. Also, police said a bomb went kaboom! near a row of shops in the capital's western neighborhood of Baiyaa, killing two and wounding 10.

Medical officials confirmed the casualty figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.

No group immediately grabbed credit for the attacks. Iraq sees near-daily attacks that are 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.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/28/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Targeted Iraqi airstrike kills 35 ISIS militants south of Kirkuk
[Rudaw] Iraqi fighter jets targeted an 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) gathering south of Kirkuk Friday evening, killing 35 bad boys, said the Defense Ministry.

The Defense Ministry said in a statement that acting on intelligence information the fighter jets targeted a gathering of ISIS murderous Moslems in the village of Bashir who were preparing to launch an attack on the nearby town of Taza.

The Defense Ministry said that the Arclight airstrike destroyed the Bashir cop shoppe where the murderous Moslems were based.

ISIS captured the Turkmen village of Bashir last year shortly after the group took control of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
and Tikrit.

Iraqi forces backed by Shiite militia have launched a number of attacks to expel the ISIS murderous Moslems from the village without success.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/28/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Peshmerga fight off ISIS attack in Tal Afar
[Rudaw] TAL AFAR, djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
Province -- Kurdish Peshmerga forces have repelled a series of ISIS attacks on their military bases in Tal Afar, some 63km west of Mosul city, a Kurdish commander told Rudaw.

"It was only a one-hour clash between our forces and the Daesh [ISIS] gunnies," Hashem Sitay told Rudaw on Saturday, adding that the ISIS attack came in the early morning.

"They have been driven out by our forces and now they are in retreat," Sitay added.

No Peshmerga casualties have been reported and the number of ISIS fighters killed remains unknown.

Kurdish forces have been protecting the borders of the Kurdistan region's since last year when ISIS took control of some parts of Iraq and Syria.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/28/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Airstrikes hammer ISIS on Makhmour front
[Rudaw] Early on Saturday Arclight airstrikes by the US-led coalition targeted ISIS positions across the central portion of the Makhmour front, a military source has told Rudaw.

"The US-led coalition warplanes launched the attacks at 1:15 this morning. There were two bombings of ISIS fighters at Kermerdy and Kodileh villages to the west of Makhmour which lead to the two villages being entirely destroyed," Iraqi Army Captain Sherzad Zebari told Rudaw.

Zebari added that the Arclight airstrikes sparked a massive fire that set off other explosives that were in the hands of the murderous Moslems.

He said there was no confirmation about the number of ISIS fighters killed but that there were "certainly human losses."
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Southeast Asia
Philippine military set to rescue hostages
[Manila Times] The Philippine military has launched an operation to rescue three people — two of them members of the Coast Guard — being held hostage by the Abu Sayyaf, officials said on Saturday.

The Abu Sayyaf has threatened to behead the hostages if the government fails to pay their ransom demand. The militants have reportedly demanded P1 million in exchange for the hostages who were abducted last May 4 in Zamboanga del Norte.

Capt. Maria Rowena Muyuela said the military has already coordinated with police authorities on implementing plans to rescue the hostages. He said, "The Western Mindanao Command, through our Task Forces on the ground, is in close coordination with the local police and local government unit to expedite arrest of the perpetrators and facilitate the safe release of the kidnap victims."

A video, which was posted by the insurgent group that went went viral on Wednesday, showed the hostages with their eyes covered, their hands tied behind their back and pleading the government to help them. One of the captors held a bolo to one of the captive's neck.
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Six Maoist militants surrender to Philippine army
[Sun Star] Six New People's Army militants surrendered this week to Philippine troops in two towns in Sarangani province. Public Information Officer Alberto Caber identified the communist surrenderees as Dindin, Lovely, Junex, Arman, Noli, and Michael.

Arman, Noli and Michael surrendered in Alabel, while Dindin, Lovely, and Junex surrendered in Malapatan town. The six turned themselves in to the Army’s 73rd Infantry Battalion. Caber said the battalion is now facilitating the process of finding an appropriate livelihood and other assistance under the Comprehensive Local Integration Program of Sarangani for the six who surrendered.

The Eastern Mindanao Command reports that since January of this year, a total of 134 NPA militants have returned to the folds of the law.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Diplomats: Iran Considers Shipping, Selling Enriched Uranium
[NYT] VIENNA -- Nuclear negotiators for Iran, obligated to dispose tons of enriched uranium under an approaching deal, are focusing on a U.S.-backed plan for Iran to send the material to another country for sale as reactor fuel, diplomats told The Associated Press on Saturday.

While Iran says it does not want nuclear arms, it has more than 8 tons that could be turned into the fissile core of a dozen or more atomic bombs if the material was further enriched to weapons-grade levels.

The export-and-sell option has been floated before, and the diplomats emphasized that the sides have not agreed on that solution in the search for what to do with the low-enriched uranium stockpile.

But negotiators have little time left to make a decision on the issue with a Tuesday target date looming for a deal.

Senior Iranian officials publicly rejected shipping out the material in preliminary negotiations, so Tehran's renewed interest is significant.

The goal of the talks involving the U.S., Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia is a comprehensive deal that would crimp Tehran's capacity to make nuclear weapons in exchange for sanctions relief.

Other options discussed would mean changing the enriched uranium into a form that cannot be used for weapons or shipping it abroad for storage, probably in Russia.

One of the diplomats said Russia was a key candidate in the idea being floated that Moscow would convert the low-enriched material and Iran would get a large share of the profits from any sale.

Iran says it is enriching only to make reactor fuel and for other nonmilitary purposes.

Under the preliminary deal that led to the current negotiations, Iran has eliminated almost all uranium enriched to levels only a technical step from weapons grade. That leaves it with a stockpile enriched to levels much lower than what would be needed to make the core of an atomic bomb.

Still, the fact that the stockpile could be enriched further to the level needed for bombs makes rendering it harmless a chief priority for the U.S. and the other countries.

The two diplomats are familiar with the talks but spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the confidential talks.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif began meeting Saturday in the Austrian capital in an attempt to advance the negotiations.

Zarif said earlier that a deal was in reach unless the other side presented "excessive demands."
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#1  Suddenly the souk is silent. A deal which one side had no clue had been offered. Money was to be made by several parties. The party making no money would gain 10 feathers and an autographed cast.
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#2  I have said andor inferred it times before that post-9-11, GWOT = "War for OWG-NWO", etc. Arab-Muslim Nations will no longer accept the "status quo" of Israel-n-Only-Israel being the only ME Nation wid Nukes.

Regardless of the merits, IMO in the end this schema will only serve to promote + facilitate NucWeapon proliferation to the Arab-Muslim World including Radical Islam, NOT minimize or eliminate it.
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Uncle Rifat of border, Karker Heval of Kobane falls martyr
[BESTANEWS] 60 years old YPG fighter Karker Kobanê was massacred during the ISIS attacks on June 25-26.

60-years-old YPG fighter Karker Kobanê from Kocaeli was massacred during the ISIS attack on June 25-26. Karker Kobanê had recently spoken to journalist Rojin Akin and called on the world to join building the revolution in Rojava.

Kobanê had responded to PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan's call on everyone to mobilize for Kobanê in 2014, and joined the civilians' efforts to monitor the Turkish-Rojava border and prevent gang members from infiltrating into Kobanê.

Soon after, Karker Kobanê joined the YPG forces in Kobanê and volunteered to clear the town of unwent kaboom! bombs and landmines scattered all around.

Until his martyrdom, Karker Kobanê and his comrades successfully cleared more than 800 bombs, 200 grenades, and 4 tonnes of landmines in and around Kobanê city center.
Impressive.
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Activists: ISIS fighters kill 200 civilians in Kobani
[Rudaw] 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....
fighters who launched a surprise attack on a Syrian border town massacred more than 200 civilians, including women and kiddies, before they were killed and driven out by Kurdish forces, activists said on Saturday.

Kurdish activist Mustafa Bali, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Kurdish official Idris Naasan put at 40-50 the number of elite IS fighters killed in the two days of fighting since the holy warriors sneaked into the town of Kobani before dawn on Thursday.
Continued on Page 49
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'It is impossible to attack the border gate from anywhere but Turkey'
[BESTANEWS] All findings on the ISIS attack on Kobanê in which tens of civilians were brutally massacred point at The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's central role in the attack. Kobanê Canton Defense Minister Sex Hesen stated that it was impossible to attack the border gate with vehicles full of explosives from anywhere but Turkey.

TENS OF CIVILIANS, PREDOMINANTLY WOMEN AND CHILDREN, WERE MASSACRED

ISIS gangs infiltrated into Kobanê from Turkey yesterday and carried out several attacks in and around the city center that claimed the lives of tens of civilians. ISIS gangs blasted a vehicle near Mursitpinar border gate and attacked the villages of Kaniya Kurda and Berxbatan as well as the Hellince road and the government building with bombs, rifles and snipers. 107 civilians were massacred during the attacks and many others were maimed.

'YPG/YPJ RESPONDED STRONGLY'

YPG/YPJ forces responded strongly to ISIS attacks and encircled gang groups in Sehid Moro neighborhood, Qada Azadi, Kaniya Kurda and Kobanê high school. YPG/YPJ fighters killed tens of gangs, expulsed all gang members except for the ones in Kobanê high school, and caught 3 gang members alive.

AN ATTACK SIMILAR TO THE ONE THAT HAPPENED ON NOVEMBER 29

ISIS gangs' attack on Kobanê yesterday resembles the one that happened on November 29 in many aspects. Gang members had also crossed into Kobanê from Turkey back then and attacked in 3 different locations. Yesterday's attack began with the kaboom on the border gate and continued in different locations.

THE ONLY ROUTE TO USE IN THE BORDER GATE ATTACK: TURKISH SOIL

It is certain that the gangs who infiltrated from Turkey carried out the attacks on the border gate and Kaniya Kurda because transportation to these places from another location is geographically impossible. There are dozens of YPG/YPJ checkpoints on the way to the border gate and Kaniya Kurda from within Syria and Rojava, and YPG/YPJ forces prevented previous suicide kaboom attempts before the gangs reached the city center.

Cerablus road to the west, Halep road to the south, and the Hellince road to the east of Kobanê are the only roads ISIS gangs could have used for transportation, which are under heavy YPG/YPJ control. Even during the ISIS occupation of Kobanê last December, explosive vehicles were blasted and prevented from reaching Kobanê by YPG/YPJ fighters. ISIS gangs have been aware of these YPG/YPJ preventions and had not tried similar suicide missions since Kobanê resistance.

ATTACKS CAME FROM TURKEY

The attacks at the border gate came from Turkey and anyone could see this when they watch the video footage of the explosive vehicle entering Kobanê. Gangs who infiltrated in the town from the border gate and Kaniya Kurda had uniforms identical to Turkish military clothes and had shaved their beards in order to pass as Turkish soldiers and avoid detection.

In light of all these events, YPG/YPJ's main success has been capturing 3 gang members alive and the information they will give during interrogation will be crucial. Turkey's gun and personnel support to ISIS, witness statements, seized documents, and the details of the last ISIS attack point at Turkey as the center in which this ISIS massacre was planned.

ISIS gangs coming from Hellince road wore FSA uniforms, the gangs who attacked the villages nearby had YPG uniforms on them and the gangs coming from Kaniya Kurda wore Turkish military outfits. This method has also been widely used by the Turkish military in counter guerilla activities in Northern Kurdistan.

ANADOLU AGENCY'S (AA) JOURNALISM SUCCESS!

Another important detail of the attacks is Anadolu Agency's live coverage of the kaboom in the Mursitpinar border gate. This suggests that either AA was informed about the attacks before they took place, or ISIS gangs shared the video footage of the attack with AA. Either possibility points at the complex relations and cooperation between ISIS and the Turkish state, since there is no way for AA to provide live coverage for the attacks that were carried out in great secrecy.
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YPG/YPJ operations in Kobane continue
[BESTANEWS] YPG/YPJ operations against ISIS gangs who attacked civilians in Kobanê continue. YPG Media Center stated that ISIS gangs attempted another attack from the west near the village of Sexler a Jorin this morning. YPG/YPJ quickly encircled the gangs who crossed Euphrates River by boats and the festivities here continue.

YPG Media Center stated that YPG/YPJ forces also encircled ISIS gangs in four different locations within the city center and the festivities have been continuing since yesterday. YPG/YPJ forces destroyed 2 vehicles and seized another 2 as well as large amounts of guns and ammunition. 3 YPG/YPJ fighters bit the dust during the festivities in Kobanê city center.

ATTACK ATTEMPT FROM WESTERN KOBANÊ

YPG said that ISIS gangs attempted another attack from the west near the village of Sexler a Jorin this morning. YPG/YPJ quickly encircled the gangs who crossed Euphrates River by boats and the festivities here continue.

YPG Media Center stated ISIS gangs attacked Sehîd Xabur hill from two different directions and targeted Mecmela Gazê region from 3 different locations, and the festivities to the south of Kobanê continue. Although the number of people who died and got injured during these festivities is not determined yet, YPG/YPJ forces killed at least 6 gang members and seized large amounts of guns and ammunitions. One YPG/YPJ fighter and one Semsî Sîmal warrior were martyred during these festivities, and 3 YPG/YPJ forces died during the festivities in the village of Berxbatan yesterday.
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Hezbollah Kills 9 Terrorists in Counterattack in Qalamoun
[al-Alam] Nine bad boyz were potted after fighters of the Lebanese Resistance Movement Hezbollah repelled an offensive by the al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-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 in the region of Qalamoun, Al-Alam News Network reports.

The Hezbollah fighters targeted the Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
murderous Moslems near the Syria-Leb border on Friday with mortar attacks after the holy warriors went through the landmine planted by the resistance group.

According to Lebanese sources, the murderous Moslems were seeking to launch an offensive against Hezbollah positions in the Eastern Lebanese city of Maaraboun, but they were stopped by minefields.

On May 20, the Syrian army and the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance fighters started their last round of military operations to purge Al-Qalamoun region in Damascus countryside of Takfiri terrorists.
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VIDEO: ISIS-held hospital blown up in Kobani
The video is of the destroyed hospital, not the explosion.
[Rudaw] The hospital in Kobani where ISIS attackers and snipers had been holed up since Thursday was blown up with the source of the kaboom still unknown, Rudaw's Omar Kalo reported from the scene.

This footage taken by Rudaw shows the destruction of Mishta Nur Hospital on Saturday in the southern part of the city. It was reported that eight ISIS fighters were inside the hospital. It remains unclear which side in the battle detonated the blast, according to Kalo.

Kalo added that fighting was continuing in Kobani on Saturday between ISIS forces of Evil and the Kurdish YPG, or People's Protection Units.

YPG fighters told Rudaw they didn't destroy the hospital, claiming the ISIS forces of Evil detonated the hospital.

The hospital, which was operated in cooperation with Doctors Without Borders, was taken over by ISIS infiltrators on 4am on Thursday. ISIS snipers took positions in the upper reaches of the facility and had controlled the building throughout the brutal attack on civilians.

Based on the latest figures obtained by Rudaw, at least 201 non-combatants were killed in the attack and more than 200 were maimed. It has been reported that 60 ISIS fighters were killed in the fighting and nine have been captured.
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ISIS militant kills fellow fighters in Kobani, frees hostages
A nice little story amid the horror.
[Rudaw] An 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) murderous Moslem rubbed out two of his fellow gunnies and handed himself over to the Kurdish forces in Kobani on Friday, said Rudaw correspondent in the city.

The ISIS murderous Moslem also freed 16 hostages held by the Lion of Islam group after the Peoples Protection Units (YPG) stormed and controlled the building where the hostages were held.

"On Friday the YPG fighters recaptured a building on the road to Sheran town which was held by ISIS murderous Moslems," said our correspondent. "A number of residents of the area had been held hostage inside that building."

The ISIS gunnies had placed a number of snipers on the building rooftop who were killed by the YPG fighters before storming the building.
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General Security Thwarts Bombing Plot in Beirut
[AnNahar] Security forces thwarted a plot to bomb an area in Beirut at the order 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....
, reported Voice of Leb radio (93.3) on Saturday.

It said that two Lebanese suspects were tasked by the IS in Syria's al-Qalamoun region to carry out the attack.

The suspects were incarcerated
Please don't kill me!
in May by the General Security and they have been transferred to the Military General Prosecution.

No further details were disclosed.

Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
targets in Leb have frequently been the subject of terrorist attacks over the party's involvement in the fighting in Syria alongside the country's ruling regime.

The army and security forces have since been cracking down on various Lebanese and non-Lebanese suspects throughout the country, detaining several on terrorism charges.
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Report: Leb Army Tightening Noose of Gunmen on Arsal's Outskirts
[AnNahar] The Lebanese army succeeded on Friday in thwarting six gunnies from entering Leb through the northeastern border town of Arsal, killing two, while the rest escaped, revealed al-Joumhouria newspaper on Saturday.

A military source told the daily: "The army is tightening the noose around the gunnies on Arsal's outskirts."

"It is taking all measures that would protect the region," it added.

"The army has succeeded in stopping all infiltration attempts" from Syria, it continued.

On Friday, Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
also stopped an gang from infiltrating Lebanese territories from an area between al-Alali and al-Abyad mountains in the eastern mountain range.

The army frequently shells the positions of gunnies situated on the porous Lebanese-Syrian border, halting their advancement towards Lebanese territory.
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Terror Networks
U.S. and allies target Islamic State in Syria with 14 air strikes
[Ynet] U.S. and coalition forces launched 14 air strikes against 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....
targets in Syria and seven in Iraq on Friday, the U.S. military said, amid reports the Lion of Islam group killed 145 civilians in the town of Kobani.

Four air strikes near Kobani, on the border with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
, hit three Islamic State tactical units and destroyed two boats, a fighting position and a vehicle, the Combined Joint Task Force said on Saturday.

Five air strikes near the Lion of Islam stronghold of Raqqa destroyed five excavators, a vehicle and a remotely piloted aircraft. The task force said other strikes in Syria hit near Aleppo, Tal Abyad and Hasaka, where the Lion of Islam group pressed a separate assault on Friday to capture government-held parts of the city.

In Iraq, the air strikes targeted faceless myrmidons near five cities: Baghdadi, Al Huwayjah, Baiji, Habbaniyah and Tal Afar. They destroyed buildings, weapons and vehicles and hit Islamic State tactical units, the task force said in a statement.
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Dozens Killed in Islamic Militant Attacks in Four Countries
[BLOOMBERG] Islamic bully boyz left more than 80 people dead in four countries on Friday after attacks on targets including a French factory, a Tunisian beach and a mosque in Kuwait.

Intelligence services are investigating whether there's any link between the incidents, which follow calls 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....
for a wave of violence during the Moslem holy month of Ramadan.

The jihadist group grabbed credit for two of Friday's attacks: the bombing at a Shiite mosque in Kuwait that killed at least 27 worshipers and injured more than 200 and the shooting on a Tunisian beach that killed at least 38 people. Islamic State is preparing to mark the first anniversary on Monday of its self-declared caliphate in Iraq and Syria.

Islamic State used Twitter to identify the gunman in the Mediterranean resort town of Sousse as Abu Yahya al-Qayrawani. He was rubbed out by security forces, according to the Tunisian state news agency. Most of the victims were British, Al-Jazeera
... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula, as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS...
cited Prime Minister Habibi Essid as saying.

In southeast La Belle France, one person died and two others were maimed in an attack on a gas plant near Lyon. The attackers beheaded a man and posted his severed head at the factory's entrance with an inscription in Arabic pinned to it before driving at high speed into gas cannisters.

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