[Tolo News] In two separate festivities between armed attackers and the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) in Kandahar province four civilians and five coppers were killed and 12 others were maimed.
Local officials in Kandahar said that on Wednesday at about 11 a.m. two jacket wallahs entered two buildings located in front of the Kandahar police headquarter and governor's office and started firing at the buildings.
Eyewitness said, "These men were in a vehicle transporting pipes when the vehicle stopped and the attackers got out and started attacking."
Kandahar Police Chief says that of the suicide bombers, three detonated their explosives while 19 other gunnies fought for over an hour.
"Our security forces were able to kill 22 gunnies in less than an hour and a half, with lower casualties on our end," said Governor of Kandahar, Toryalai Weesa.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck and Manuel's rivalry was entering a new and more dangerous phase... Kandahar Police Chief, Gen. Abdul Razaq, said that there are chances that some of the snuffies were Pak citizens.
"Among these attackers were people who might be Pak because their faces and language were different and chances are that they were Punjabi," Gen.
Razaq said. "We are investigating their documents."
Taliban have accepted the responsibility of the attack and claim to have harmed security forces during the attack.
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[Tolo News] Taliban shadow governor of Badakhshan province, along with 14 of his counterparts were killed in an Afghan forces operation on Tuesday, the National Directorate of Security (NDS) said in a statement on Wednesday.
According to the NDS statement, the Death Eaters were killed in Aab Raghak area of Jurm district of Badakhshan.
Among the dead were Pak and Tajiki terrorists, the statement read.
NDS special security has taken serious measures in preventing terrorist attacks in all provinces.
The Taliban have rejected the claim and said that the shadow governor is alive.
In a separate operation led by the Afghan army special forces in Northern Kunduz province on late Tuesday night, four holy warriors were killed and five others were detained.
According to the national army first unit press chief, Ahmad Jawed Salim, told TOLOnews, "the operation was conducted last night at about 10 p.m. in Chahar Dara district of Kunduz and ended around 3 a.m."
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"he's not dead, just nappin" my apologies to Monty Python.
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[Iran Press TV] Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has dismissed his police and intelligence chiefs, and named a new security minister following a deadly attack against the presidential palace.
"Both the police and intelligence chiefs were replaced, and the minister for the national security was named," Somali Information Minister Mustafa Duhulow said, speaking on behalf of the president on Wednesday.
The government has named Khalif Ahmed Ereg, a former intelligence chief, as the new national security minister.
Al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... fighters launched a major bomb and armed assault against the presidential palace late on Tuesday and managed to penetrate the heavily-fortified complex. Several people were killed during the raid.
"I say to them, you will not kill us, and nor will you demolish our spirit," Mohamud said, referring to the fighters.
Abdullahi Mohammed Ali, the Somali ambassador to the United Kingdom, was reportedly appointed as the new intelligence chief to replace Bashiir Goobe.
Mohammed Sheikh Hassan Ismail was also named as caretaker police chief in replacement of Abdikarin Dahir.
The Tuesday night attack is not the first assault on the presidential palace. The premises came under attack in February when the al-Shaboobs, who were dressed in Somali army uniforms, entered the complex with the use of a boom-mobile before being killed by guards.
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[Al Ahram] An Egyptian soldier was killed Wednesday when a roadside kaboom targeted an armoured vehicle in the restive Sinai Peninsula, medical and security officials said. Four soldiers were also maimed in the attack near the north Sinai capital of El-Arish, the officials said.
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[MAGHAREBIA] A bomb went kaboom! Tuesday (July 8th) at the Sabri cop shoppe in Benghazi, Libya Herald reported. The station was ravaged by a fire after a powerful blast on Monday. Several citizens were treated for injuries.
In other security news, six people were killed in Benghazi on Monday night. According to a Saiqa Special Forces ...Libya's elite army unit, insofar as they have one, formed from a mixture of paratroopers and commandos. The group emerged from a militia with the same name in 2010. It now numbers a few thousand and reports to the Ministry of Defence. It deployed in Benghazi in an attempt to control the carnage. As a result, it has been attacked and several of its officers murdered. The force is popular in Benghazi for its stance against Ansar al-Sharia group... source, the victims included two young men who died in separate drive-by shootings.
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[INQUISITR] A top Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... operative was bumped off Sunday in northwestern Nigeria just as he was setting up a new base of operation for the terror group that has been wreaking havoc in the northeastern part of Africa's most populous country for the past several years, according to reports out of the region.
The man, whose name was given only as "Usman" and was referred to as a Boko Haram "kingpin," had reportedly relocated from the terror group's base to the Nigerian city of Kaduna, where the top operative and his underlings had recently begun gathering guns and other armaments after integrating themselves into the community there.
The shootout happened a day after 63 women and girls held captive by Boko Haram in the northeast made a daring run to freedom and escaped.
But Nigeria's security forces tracked the man there and on Sunday, surrounded his house in Kaduna and demanded that he surrender. Rather than give up, the top Boko Haram terrorist opened fire, starting a brutal shootout that was reported to have lasted about an hour.
Information on Usman's location came from captured Boko Haram Death Eaters who were interrogated by Nigeria security officers.
"The soldiers kept shouting his name to come out of his house. He resisted arrest and started shooting from the ceiling where he was hiding," said a resident of the Kinkino neighborhood of Kaduna where the suspect was holed up.
"Initially we thought it was armed robbers that had invaded our area and we were making frantic calls to the police. But later discovered that it was a combined team of soldiers and police who came to arrest two people suspected to be Boko Haram members," said another.
The neighborhood residents said that Usman arrived in the area about two months earlier and had appeared to a normal resident, taking part in religious services with the rest of the community.
Usman's brother was reportedly also killed in the shootout.
"You can now see the sacrifice our troops are making for the preservation of Nigeria's illusory sovereignty and territory. The turbans were hiding here for months until our breakthrough," said a security officer, speaking to journalists from the Sahara Reporters news site. "Our soldiers had to dig a hole to enter the house as you can see. The [Boko Haram] men gave our soldiers a tough time, but we triumphed over them."
The security officer told Sahara Reporters that Usman and his brother. "had their hands in several severe attacks carried out by [Boko Haram] in the northeast and other parts of the North. Just imagine what they would have done in Kaduna and surrounding areas if they were able to establish a footing here."
The Boko Haram leader was said to have two wives and three children, who disappeared after coming back to the site of the shootout Monday to retrieve some belongings, according to other residents.
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This will undoubtebly hurt sales of forthcoming albums.
[ENI.NETWORK24.CO] Nigerian military has commenced air and ground bombardment of Boko Haram camps in the West African country's northeastern state of Borno, killing over 44 terrorists, the authorities said.
Chris Olukolade, spokesperson of the Nigerian military headquarters, said in a statement reaching Xinhua Monday that troops have cleared and taken over Balmo forest in a military operation that lasted throughout the weekend.
He said, prior to the operation, the Balmo forest stretching from Bauchi through Jigawa states with links to the fringes of Sambisa forest was used by terrorists as bases and hideouts for launching attacks.
He added that terrorists and armed gangs operating in the forests were completely rooted out while some were captured during the operation.
Olukolade said among those captured were two foreigners who were suspected to be mercenaries.
Also captured are several weapons and equipment including power generating sets, communication equipment, vehicles, motorcycles, foodstuff and kitchen utensils, he added.
The military spokesperson said over 44 terrorists died in Kerenoa and adjoining communities, following an encounter with the troops.
Troops on routine patrol around Banki and Miyanti in Borno State during the weekend fought through an ambush laid by the terrorists resulting in casualties on both sides.
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[Al Ahram] Authorities in the United Arab Emirates have tossed in the clink Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! Qatari "spies," an Emirati daily reported on Wednesday in a new sign of mounting tensions between Doha and its Gulf neighbours.
The report in Al-Khaleej newspaper, which cited Emirati sources, was in response to a report in Qatar's Al-Arab daily that three Qataris had been subjected to "arrest and torture" in UAE capital Abu Dhabi.
They were "Qatari intelligence elements operating on UAE soil," Al-Khaleej wrote on its front page. "They were arrested and are being questioned."
Relations between Qatar and its Gulf neighbours 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... , the UAE and Bahrain sunk to a new low in March when the three governments recalled their ambassadors from Doha.
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[DAWN] Major General Zafarullah Khan on Wednesday said that 80 per cent of Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... has been cleared during the North Wazoo operation, adding that outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain commander Hafiz Gul Bahadur ...a member of the Madda Khel clan of the Uthmanzai Waziris. Educated in a Deobandi madrassa located in Multan, he is affiliated with the Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) political party. Upon the formation of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in December 2007, he was announced as the group's overall naib amir under Baitullah Mehsud, who was based in South Wazoo, but has largely distanced himself from the TTP due to rivalries with the Mehsuds and disagreements about the TTP's attacks against the Pak state.. , if spotted, would be eliminated without any delay.
The general further said that evidence of Al Qaeda's presence in the region was found and the army was still facing opposition from some areas.
The army official maintained that the civilian population was not targeted during the operation. This information, however, could not be independently verified.
Major General Zafarullah Khan is the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 7th Infantry Division Miranshah, North Waziristan.
The general acknowledged that foreign and local bully boyz were residing in the area.
Bahadur is known to have links with notorious holy warrior groups in tribal North Waziristan, including the Haqqani network.
Jet fighters carried out Arclight airstrikes on suspected holy warrior hideouts destroying three of them while 11 suspected bully boyz were also killed earlier today during the Zarb-e-Azb operation in the North Waziristan tribal region, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) sources said.
The corpse count, however, could not be independently verified.
First time since the launch of this operation, Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan, was opened for national and international media as media personnel, particularly from the television networks, were allowed to take shots of several destroyed holy warrior hideouts.
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[FIRSTPOST] Iraqi officials discovered 50 bodies, many of them blindfolded and with their hands bound, in an agricultural area outside a city south of Baghdad on Wednesday, authorities said.
Military front man Brig. Gen. Saad Maan Ibrahim said the bodies had gunshot wounds and were found south of the city of Hillah, a predominantly Shiite city about 95 kilometers (60 miles) south of Baghdad. He said an investigation was underway to determine the identities of the dead as well as the circumstances of the killings.
While the motives remain unclear, such grisly killings harken back to the worst days of Iraq's sectarian bloodletting in 2006 and 2007, when bodies were frequently dumped along roadsides, in empty lots, ditches and canals. As the levels of violence dropped from those heights, such discoveries became a rare occurrence.
But since the Sunni myrmidon offensive that has swept across much of northern and western Iraq over the past month, authorities have begun to find bodies dumped on the streets, deepening fears of a possible return to sectarian warfare.
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Islam. The middle eastern demonic death cult religion. ISIS demons in time will attain the next level of savagery that Al Qaeda demons could only hope for in the west.
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Savagery is to be expected. ISIS is not the first and I doubt the last.
I'm not the author.
Tamerlane
Rise up, little Khan
As you claim to be
You're birth a calm before the storm
A twisted child, a broken form
And empires wait, in ignorance
Lands will be yours
Lands will be yours
[Reuters] Insurgents in Iraq have seized nuclear materials used for scientific research at a university in the country's north, Iraq told the United Nations in a letter appealing for help to "stave off the threat of their use by terrorists in Iraq or abroad."
Nearly 40 kilograms (88 pounds) of uranium compounds were kept at Mosul University, Iraq's U.N. Ambassador Mohamed Ali Alhakim told U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in the July 8 letter obtained by Reuters on Wednesday.
"Terrorist groups have seized control of nuclear material at the sites that came out of the control of the state," Alhakim wrote, adding that such materials "can be used in manufacturing weapons of mass destruction."
A U.S. government source familiar with the matter said the materials were not believed to be enriched uranium and therefore would be difficult to use to manufacture into a weapon.
What about a dirty bomb?
Another U.S. official familiar with security matters said he was unaware of this development raising any alarm among U.S. authorities.
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Just remember folks, Iraq doesn't have anything like this, so it's all OK.
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More folks would be killed in the ensuing panic, Ms. Periwinkle, than from dirty-bomb radiation.
Which, I am sure, would be fine with the terrorists.
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..like a lower primate shouting, displaying his arms and genitals desperate to get some sort of hierarchical standing among the other creatures at the edge of the pack.
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I thought Carter did the most damage to the united states as president by shutting down HUMINT. I am now corrected. This Uranium, will find its way into a bomb, be it a dirty bomb or one to just terrorize and cripple a nation like the US or Israel. Not having the political will to come to a SOFA will be a poor excuse when we see a major city in terror. "When politicians fail, chaos wins".
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First, TW, thank you for the yeoman work you've been doing.
Second... the news article you linked to from CNN reminds me of the following:
From Douglas Adams' Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul:
When a passenger check-in desk at Terminal Two, Heathrow Airport, shot up through the roof engulfed in a ball of orange flame the usual people tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA, then the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statement to the effect that the situation was completely under control, that it was a one in a million chance, that there was hardly any radioactive leakage at all and that the site of the explosion would make a nice location for a day out with the kids and a picnic, before finally having to admit that it wasn't actually anything to do with them at all.
I keep thinking one day Brooklyn or Baytown is going to be vaporized, and as the mushroom cloud is rising there are going to be newscasts saying "Authorities have said they're not sure of the cause, but they've already ruled out terrorism or other acts of war..."
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Could a SCUD be used as a radiological dispersal device?
I don't know how practical/feasible this scenario would be: Load a SCUD up with uranium. Launch it at Tel Aviv. Then watch on as Iron Dome blows it up over the city. Geiger counters go off the charts while panic ensues.
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How much of what isotope are these nuclear materials? Basic refined Uranium metal would be 99.25% U238, of negligible radioactive risk - in fact barely more radioactive than anti-tank projectiles.
[IsraelTimes] Israel vows harsher strikes on defiant Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, as conflict enters 3rd day
Operation Protective Edge entered its third day on Thursday. At least 80 rockets were fired into Israel on Wednesday, hitting as far north as Zichron Ya'akov, bringing the total since Monday night to over 200. In the Israeli Air Force's hundreds of Arclight airstrikes on the Gazoo Strip, at least 53 Paleostinians have been killed and around 500 injured, according to the Gazoo Health Ministry.
[Al Ahram] Israeli warplanes pounded Gazoo Wednesday, killing at least 30 people in a major new confrontation with Paleostinians, as Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, flexed its firepower and sent thousands running for shelters across the country.
As the corpse count from Israel's two-day Operation Protective Edge reached 57, Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... accused Israel of committing "genocide" in Gazoo.
But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared bent on ploughing ahead, warning of even tougher action against Hamas.
There have been no Israeli deaths so far, but Hamas began flaunting its firepower overnight. It launched waves of long-range rockets across central Israel that triggered sirens in cities as far away as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
The alarms even sounded in the northern port city of Haifa, as unconfirmed reports spoke of a rocket hitting near Caesarea and another even further north.
Tanks massed on the Gazoo border, AFP correspondents reported, as Netanyahu came under mounting pressure from hardliners within his governing coalition to send ground forces into the territory from which it pulled all troops and settlers in 2005.
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[Al Ahram] Israel launched its largest offensive in the Gazoo Strip in nearly two years, carrying out a blistering aerial assault Tuesday on scores of targets and killing 27 people in what officials called an open-ended operation aimed at ending weeks of heavy rocket fire. As Gazooforces of Evil unleashed salvos on Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Israel mobilized forces along the border for a possible ground invasion.
The offensive set off the heaviest fighting between Israel and the Islamic group Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, since an eight-day battle in November 2012. Hamas members fired about 160 rockets at Israel, including two intercepted over Tel Aviv, while Israel said it attacked more than 150 sites across Gazoo.
Paleostinian medics reported at least 27 dead, including six killed in an Arclight airstrike that flattened an apartment building in southern Gazoo and set off widespread panic.
In a nationally televised statement, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said continued rocket attacks on Israeli communities would not be tolerated.
"Therefore I have ordered the military to significantly broaden its operation against Hamas Lions of Islam and against the other terrorist groups inside Gazoo," he said. "I call on you to display patience because this operation could take time."
Israel and Hamas are bitter enemies that have engaged in numerous rounds of fighting over the years. But until recently, they had been observing a truce that ended the previous hostilities in 2012.
Tensions have been rising since Paleostinian forces of Evil kidnapped three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank on June 12. Accusing Hamas of being behind the abductions, Israel launched a crackdown on the group's members in the West Bank and tossed in the slammer Book 'im, Mahmoud! hundreds of people. Hamas, which controls Gazoo, responded by stepping up rocket fire.
The situation deteriorated last week after the bodies of the Israeli youths were found, and a Paleostinian teenager in Jerusalem was kidnapped and burned to death in what Paleostinians believe was a Dire Revenge™ attack. Six Jewish Israelis have been arrested in the killing, and the rocket fire from Gazoo has increased in recent days.
The fighting raged throughout the day. In its fiercest attack, an Arclight airstrike flattened the home of a Hamas myrmidon in the southern Gazoo town of Khan Younis, reducing the concrete structure into a smoldering pile of rubble.
Panicked residents fled, screaming "God is great." Some had bloody faces, and crying mothers held small children as they bravely ran away. Screaming Paleostinians took away motionless bodies. Paleostinian medical officials said six people, including two children, were killed.
How many of them had deliberately put themselves in the line of fire as human shields?
Late Tuesday, the normally bustling streets of Gazoo City were deserted. Fearing an Israeli ground operation, many residents from areas near the border moved to stay with relatives living deeper inside Gazoo.
In southern Israel, hundreds of thousands of citizens were ordered to stay close to home because of the rockets. Israeli streets were also quieter in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem after attempted rocket strikes set off air-raid sirens in Israel's two largest cities. The Jerusalem municipality said it was opening special bomb shelters.
Hamas members twice fired rockets at Tel Aviv, Israel's commercial capital, sending people scurrying for cover. Both projectiles were intercepted by the "Iron Dome" rocket defense system. The second interception was shown on live TV, as a winding plume of smoke followed the interceptor into the black skies, culminating with a flash.
Late Tuesday, Hamas said it fired a salvo of four rockets toward Jerusalem, and two distant booms could be heard from the city's center. One rocket landed in the Jerusalem area, officials said, and police said there were no injuries.
The army was also checking reports that rockets had flown north of Tel Aviv — which would mark the deepest strikes every carried out by Hamas.
In other violence, the Israeli military said it foiled an attempt by Gazooforces of Evil to infiltrate a military base in southern Israel by sea. Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, a military front man, said four attackers made it to shore and attacked the base with grenades and automatic rifles before they were killed. An Israeli soldier was slightly maimed.
As Israel built up forces along the border, the government authorized the army to activate up to 40,000 reservists. The army said that about 1,000 soldiers were immediately activated, in addition to an earlier group of 1,500 reservists called into action.
"If we need to go inside in a ground operation, then we will do it. These things are on the table. These options exist. We will not stop anything until the rocket firing ends," said Yitzhak Aharonovitch, the minister for internal security and a member of Netanyahu's inner Security Cabinet. Israel's last ground offensive was in 2009.
Asked by Channel 2 TV if there were any efforts underway to reach a cease-fire, he said: "Not now."
The U.S. State Department condemned the rocket fire on Israeli civilians, defended Israel's right to defend itself, and said it hoped Israel's "strong message" would deter further attacks. "But certainly, our preference is to de-escalate the situation on the ground," spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.
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[Iran Press TV] The Israeli military has confirmed that two Paleostinian rockets have struck the city of Dimona where Israel has a nuclear reactor.
Paleostinian resistance groups in the besieged Gazoo Strip fired the rockets in retaliation for Israeli attacks on the coastal enclave on Wednesday.
Tel Aviv said earlier that more than 70 rockets had been fired into Israel's illegal settlements since the early hours of the day.
Meanwhile, ...back at the secret hideout, Scarface Al sneeringly put his proposition to little Nell... Israeli media reports said that Israeli Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Benny Gantz approved plans to deploy the army's ground forces into Gazoo.
He also stressed that pressure would be increased against Paleostinians.
Early on Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for the expansion of military operations against Paleostinians.
More than 50 people have been killed and many others maimed, including women and kiddies, by the new wave of Israeli aggression.
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My understanding is that nothing in the Hamas arsenal, even with a direct hit, would do much more than superficial damage to any of the critical Dimona facilities.
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On 1 July, Indonesian holy warrior Islamist group Mujahidin Indonesia Timur ....the 'Holy Warriors of East Indonesia.' An umbrella group active in the Poso area of Sulawesi. They are headed by Shaykh Abu Wardah, aka Santoso who calls himself the Abu Mus'ab Al Zarqawi of Indonesia. Every once in awhile they chop somebody's head off or blow something up, but other than that they're not much of a threat to civilization as we know it.. (MIT) released a video statement through its media wing, MIT Press, by the group's leader, Santoso (alias Abu Wardah), containing a pledge of allegiance to the Islamic State, formerly known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), and its emir Ibrahim ibn Awwad al-Badri (alias Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi al-Husseini al-Qurashi).
Five policemen and a Philippine soldier were injured after a clash with New People's Army (NPA) militants on the outskirts of Davao City.
Eastern Mindanao Command information officer Captain Alberto Caber said the clash broke out early afternoon Tuesday at Mount Talomo in Toril District. He did not identify the injured troops except to say the soldier belongs to the Army's 84th Infantry Battalion while the policemen are from the Special Action Force.
Caber said the combined military and police forces were on combat operations when the clash began with more or less 30 NPA militants. He said the militants withdrew following a 30-minute firefight. They were believed to have suffered casualties.
Two female trainees at a hospital in Yala province were gunned down by suspected insurgents while they were shopping at a market at 3 p.m. yesterday. Police found their bodies, each with a gunshot wound in the head, and collected a spent bullet at the scene.
A preliminary investigation found that the two women had walked to the market to buy food. They were allegedly being tailed by two men at the market, one of whom pulled out a gun and shot the women before fleeing the scene. Police suspect this attack was part of ongoing insurgency in the region.
[Al Ahram] Twenty members of the Islamic State (IS) were killed in Syrian air force raids on Wednesday morning against the murderous Moslems' bastion in Raqa, a monitoring group said.
"At least 20 members of IS were killed and others were maimed in air strikes... targeting an IS training base in Raqa," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The strikes also destroyed 14 of IS' military vehicles, the Observatory added.
IS gunnies are firmly in control of Raqa, their stronghold, and have secured large swathes of territory in eastern Syria and in neighbouring Iraq.
While some in the Syrian opposition initially welcomed IS -- formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL) -- among their ranks, viewing it as a potential ally, its abuses and quest for control turned the rebels against them.
Rebels have been fighting IS since January.
The Syrian regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... , for its part, has escalated its attacks against IS positions since the group spearheaded a Sunni murderous Moslem offensive in neighbouring Iraq.
"From 10 June (when djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... fell from Iraqi government control) to date, the Syrian air force really stepped up its raids against IS positions, and there have been strikes every day since then," said Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman.
"There has been a marked escalation. The regime fears IS getting stronger, especially after it brought in vehicles from Iraq" that the gunnies seized from fleeing troops, he added.
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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, one of the world's most wanted jihadists, is aided by a "cabinet" of deputies, who manage both the Islamic State's military operations and its new, self declared, caliphate. Documents seized from the house of a member of the Islamic State in a raid by the Iraqi military have revealed, for the first time and in remarkable detail, the leadership structure of this secretive organization.
...and a more in-depth look, from the same source:
The information, which was found on memory sticks taken from the home of Abu Abdul Rahman al-Bilawi, al-Baghdadi's military chief of staff for Iraqi territory, who was killed in the military raid, identified two key deputies who are charged with managing terrain controlled by the Islamic State in Syria and in Iraq respectively.
Unlike His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... both of these men formerly held senior roles in the Iraqi military and are seasoned in battle.
Abu Ali al-Anbari, who is charged with managing operations in the parts of Syria controlled by the Islamic State, was a major general in the Iraqi military under ousted dictator Saddam Hussein, Mr Hashimi said. He's said to hail from the northern Iraqi province of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn....
Abu Muslim al-Turkmani was a lieutenant colonel in the Iraqi military's intelligence core and also spent time as a special forces officer.
"These men the reasons behind the strength of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. They are the key people who keep him in power," said Mr Hashimi.
The documents reveal the meticulous lengths that the jihadist group has gone to to transform itself into an organization that is capable of ruling its own state.
Al-Anbari and al-Turkmani have a clear hierarchy of men beneath them who make up the "governors" of the "local provinces" of the jihadist's new country.
Earlier this month, during the first days of the holy Moslem month of Ramadan, al-Baghdadi made a shock announcement, declaring the swathe of land controlled by the Islamic State no longer terrain in Iraq and Syria, but part of a new Islamic caliphate.
The territory includes Mosul in northern Iraq, the country's second most populous city.
This article starring:
ABU ABDUL RAHMAN AL BILAWI
Islamic State
ABU ALI AL ANBARI
Islamic State
ABU MUSLIM AL TURKMANI
Islamic State
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So basically they are ex army boys.
Was it wise to dismantle the army in hindsight?.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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