[Tolo News] The National Directorate of Security (NDS) tossed in the clink Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! five Death Eaters who had planned to launch a series of suicide kabooms in Kabul on the nation's 95th independence anniversary.
According to the NDS statement, the Death Eaters wanted to detonate a vehicle loaded with improvised bombs (IED) as well as boom jackets and 10 magnetic bombs throughout several parts of Kabul.
In the past years, Afghans across the country would celebrate Independence Day majestically by taking to the streets with family and friends, but in recent years due to insecurity celebrations will be what they once were.
Deputy front man for the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said that the ministry will be hosting a celebration at the ministry.
"The ministry has taken necessary arrangements for Tuesday's celebration," Gen. Dawlat Waziri said. "Guests have been invited and the celebration will be wonderful."
U.S. President Barak Obama in his message to recognize the anniversary of Afghanistan's Independence Day emphasized on Washington's aid to the people of Afghanistan. The Indian prime minister also wished Afghanistan a happy Independence Day and added that New Delhi is committed in expanding relations with Afghanistan.
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[Tolo News] At least ten Taliban holy warriors were killed and two others were maimed in an Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) operation in northern Kunduz province, local officials said on Monday.
Kunduz Police Chief Gen. Mustafa Mohseni said the operations have been launched in Gultapa and Gambiz areas in the city of Kunduz and Imam Sahib District of the province to rid the area of myrmidons.
Gen. Mohseni adds that the operations are still ongoing and that there were no civilian and Afghan forces casualties during the operations.
The Taliban holy warriors have not yet commented about the operation.
The operation comes after Kunduz residents voiced their concerns over the increase of myrmidon activities, resulting in the displacement of dozens of families.
The holy warriors have incused their commotion in Chahar Dara, Imam Sahib, Khan Abad and Ali Abad districts of the province and frequently target the ANSF.
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[Tolo News] At least five Taliban turbans were killed in an attack on Azra district of central Pashtun-infested Logar province on Sunday night, local officials said Monday.
One Afghan police was injured in the attack.
Abdul Hakim Ishaqzai, Pashtun-infested Logar police chief, said hundreds of Taliban turbans including foreigners attacked Azra district and clashed with Afghan forces for hours.
"Our intelligence reports stated that Pak, Chechen and Uzbik turbans supported the Taliban turbans and they wanted to take control of Azra district, but fled after clashing for five hours with Afghan forces," he said.
Azra borders Pakistain where turbans targets are the Afghan forces outposts.
According to officials, the turbans have taken control of the district several times, adding that the turbans have used the location as a means to earn money by smuggling drugs.
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[Ynet] One Egyptian policeman was killed and another maimed in an armed attack at a checkpoint in the northern province of Gharbiya on Monday, state news agency MENA said.
Authorities closed of the area and started searching for the perpetrators, an Interior Ministry source told MENA.
Security forces have come under attack in Egypt by Islamist forces of Evil since former army chief Abdel Fattah al Sisi, now the country's president, ousted Islamist President Mohammed Mursi last year.
[MAGHAREBIA] A suicide kaboom in Mali killed two Burkinabe peacekeepers on Saturday (August 16th), AFP reported. Harumph. Harumph. I hope that doesn't give Islam a bad name!
A bomber drove a vehicle packed with explosives crashed into the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... camp in Ber, east of Timbuktu.
Mali peace talks mediated by Algeria are due to resume in September.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Two Tunisian soldiers were maimed in a mine blast in the Jebel Chaambi region on Saturday (August 16th), TAP reported. Security forces have been pursuing murderous Moslems in the mountainous region since April.
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[Libya Herald] The Islamist Revolutionary Council of Benghazi and the Moslem Brotherhood and their allies in the city have found themselves locked in a bitter feud over a new local organization.
While considered to be at least sympathetic to one another's causes, yesterday the Revolutionary Shura Council of Benghazi, an umbrella organization including Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... and Libya Shield ...a conglomerate of pro-Islamist militias deployed across Libya. It reports to the Libyan defense ministry and is organized like a real army unit. Its commander used to head a Benghazi brigade called Free Libya Martyrs... , denounced the new local body headed by local Moslem Brotherhood leaders.
The Revolutionary Shura Council of Benghazi accused the newly formed Shura Council of Benghazi of attempting to capitalise on the blood of the city's deaders and trying to grab power out of instability. The similarity between the names of the two organizations, the revolutionary council said, was also an attempt to steal further credibility.
The revolutionary council said that both the Justice and Construction Party, the Moslem Brotherhood's political wing, and the National Forces Alliance, their political rivals, were equally responsible for the country's problems. It said the groups had sought to "control the political landscape of the country while ignoring the revolutionaries".
The Revolutionary Shura Council reiterated its condemnation of democracy saying its goals did not align with those of the Benghazi Shura Council.
Benghazi Shura Council, which was inaugurated last week, was set up to deal with instability and, in particular, look to lay the ground work for the arrival of the House of Representatives. While the council is formed from a number of local tribal elders and experts including former electoral commission head Nuri Elabbar it has also included Moslem Brotherhood members of Benghazi Municipal Council. The Municipal Council's leader Tariq Awad Al-Urfi was among them.
The Revolutionary Shura Council said it was not fighting for the House of Representatives or any other national council but for faith alone. It concluded its statement saying it wished to fight to protect the people of Benghazi and restore stability under the rule of Sharia law.
Splits between jihadists and less extreme Islamists are appearing in Benghazi, cradle of the Libyan uprising, as jihadists achieve success on the ground and the Islamists try to organize, analysts say.
Islamists of good standing, seen as close to the Moslem Brotherhood, set the ball rolling on Saturday by announcing the formation of a shura or consultative council to "find solutions to the problems of the city" of Benghazi in eastern Libya.
As we've seen in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood is all about finding solutions...
A ripost came immediately from the "Shura of Benghazi Revolutionaries", comprising jihadist groups among others, asserting that it "does not recognize" the new body.
"They took advantage while we were busy on the war front, ignoring the true mujahedeen," the Shura of Benghazi Revolutionaries said in a statement.
Of course. The Ikhwan prefer to establish the caliphate by peaceful means, the soft jihad of the law. No icky beheadings until it can be done via judge and jury enforcing Sharia.
The jihadists, including Ansar al-Sharia, a group rated by Washington as a "terrorist organization", say they were marginalized by the General National Congress (GNC) which ran the country after the fall of long-time dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years until he was ejected from the gene pool by his indignant citizens... in 2011.
They see the new Benghazi council as an attempt by the Islamists, who had been well represented on the GNC, to regain the initiative after winning fewer seats in the new Libyan parliament.
Indeed.
"Plots like those at the start of the revolution won't succeed," the jihadists warned the members of the new Benghazi council.
The members said in a document establishing the council, a copy of which AFP has seen, that they want to "help Benghazi municipality" get the city running properly again.
The Ikhwan is also all about helping. Such generous souls they are, to be sure.
They urged "support for the security and justice services... a ban on violence and extremism, and the adoption of democracy, the principle of civilian government and of peaceful changeover at the head of institutions".
And they love democracy, willingly riding that train until it gets to their station.
The members of the new shura also proclaimed their belief in "freedom of expression (and) the right to demonstrate peacefully on condition of not disrupting public services or affecting the safety of the town and its inhabitants".
Ah. There it is. They were keen on demonstrations in Egypt, too. Very keen. Just like the Nazis on whom they were originally based.
"It is the start of a dispute between advocates of political Islam and jihadists," said political analyst Saad Najm, who believes the key rift line concerns the principle of democracy.
"The jihadists control 80 percent of Benghazi city" after driving out forces loyal to dissident general Khalifa Haftar, who launched an offensive against them on May 16, said Mohammad al-Assani, a military analyst and former officer.
They formed their "Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries" on June 20, more than a month after the start of Haftar's campaign, which only served to highlight their hold on the city where they control the main army bases and the security forces.
No regular troops or police have been seen in Benghazi for weeks, and the justice system there has broken down.
Jihadists engage in near-daily skirmishes with Haftar's forces, who have fallen back to the south of the city.
"It is the end of the honeymoon between Islamists of the Moslem Brotherhood tendency and the jihadists, who are against democracy and the civil state," said political analyst Ezzedine al-Borussi.
"The Islamists who failed to win the parliamentary elections on June 25 will pay the price for their previous support of the jihadists who do not believe in democracy," said another analyst, Nasser Assamin.
"We won't fight for democracy or for the return of parliament to Benghazi but for the triumph of God's word and to defend our land and our honor," the jihadists said in their statement.
Whereas the Ikhwan use democracy to facilitate the triumph of God's word.
For security reasons, the new Libyan parliament is meeting in Tobruk, east of Benghazi and 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) east of the capital 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... , although the provisional constitution proposed that it should convene in Benghazi.
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[Libya Herald] An Operation Dignity sergeant responsible for running supplies to and from Benina Airbase has been killed and then decapitated in Benghazi.
Chief of the 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... Investigations Unit, Fadel Al-Hassi, confirmed the grisly killing to the Libya Herald but said he was unable to divulge the victim's name.
There has been an increase in the use of decapitation as a tactic of intimidation in Benghazi and Derna in recent months.
At the end of July a Filipino worker's head was removed, allegedly because of his Christian faith. In May the severed head of a Derna student, who was said to have challenged an Islamist brigade, was found dumped in a mosque in the town.
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[Libya Herald] Fighting erupted in Benghazi's Buatni district last night as 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... pushed out from its only remaining stronghold in the city, Benina Airport.
One Buatni resident told the Libya Herald that she and some other remaining inhabitants in the area had abandoned their homes during the fighting after Operation Dignity forces asked them to leave for their own safety. She said that she did not expect to return, explaining that much of Buatni had been destroyed during festivities in recent months.
The Head of Saiqa Special Forces Investigations Unit, Fadel Al-Hassi who was on the ground during the fighting said ground forces had moved out from Benina through Gwarsha and into Buatni.
He said Saiqa had taken control of the airport road which had been held by Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... following a large offensive by the Islamists at the end of Ramadan. Ansar forces had, in recent weeks, been increasing their presence at a check point between Benina Airport, Hay Salam and their stronghold of Laithi, possibly with the intention of mounting an assault.
Hassi said there had been heavy festivities in Ard Bayera near a local milk bottling factory. He added that Ansar al-Sharia had been firing shells indiscriminately into the area surrounding Buatni in efforts to repulse the attackers.
Air Force Brigadier-General Saqr Adam Geroushi, the commander of Operation Dignity's airforces, said he could not give further information about the attack explaining that he wished to protect the aims of the operation. However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... he did say that Dignity's forces had taken up defensive positions around Benina and wherever possible were intent on sticking to the ceasefire in Benghazi stipulated by the House of Representatives ten days ago.
There has been in recent weeks an increasing rift between Operation Dignity and Saiqa Special Forces. A senior Dignity figure said, following the rout at Saiqa's main Benghazi base last month, that the Special Forces were no longer fit for purpose.
Benghazi Special Forces Commander Wanis Bukhamada is now reported to be in Tobruk with his top lieutenants. Saiqa's ground assault last night was not backed up by airforce attacks as has been usual during previous operations.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Unidentified aircraft flew over 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... before dawn Monday (August 18th), and loud kabooms could be heard, AFP reported.
The development came as festivities continued between rival militias in the capital seeking to control the airport, ignoring a ceasefire demand from Libya's House of Representatives.
The latest round of infighting erupted Friday and left a large number of dead and maimed, as well as displaced residents.
"What hurts me most are the young ones lured by the crazy Salah Badi ...a Misrata militia commander, self-appointed colonel and a member of the Wafa Islamist bloc. He was cashiered from the Libyan army in 1992 because he was nuts... from Misrata who involved them in the war; this battle cannot be settled," commented Noman Benotman, a terror group researcher and president of the Quilliam Institute.
Benotman added that the corpse count from Saturday's battle in the capital was reportedly 18 from the city of Misrata. "That city supported and is responsible for the destruction and killing of Tripoli and its people and the displacement of Tawergha residents," he said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio wondered: Where the hell was Chumbaloni? And where was his $600?... the speaker of Libya's newly elected legislature, Aguila Salah Issa, said, "The House of Representatives formed a parliamentary committee to contact all the warring parties in Libya in order to reach an immediate cease-fire without conditions."
"This committee stands at the same distance from everyone and will urge all sides in the conflict to adhere to the application of the decision of the House of Representatives of an immediate and unconditional ceasefire and an end to violence and all attacks on civilians and civilian neighbourhoods," the speaker added.
Tariq Alhabuni, a seller from Tripoli, said that the situation in the capital was "catastrophic in terms of fuel shortages and a lack of food and shelters" .
"Those who do not die with rockets and shelling die of fear. Many people left their homes in fear and panic of the bombing," he added.
Amal al-tawerghia, a 26-year-old from Tripoli, said: "Misrata militias bombed Tawergha camps in Tripoli, where the displaced families from Tawergha live. There are only women, elderly and children in this camp. They are not safe from the oppression of Misrata, which displaced them and seized their properties."
Nizar Zawi from Tripoli, a 32-year-old doctor, said, "Nearly 100 people from the city of Misrata died in the fighting in Ghot Alshall in Tripoli and most of them were born in the nineties and were tricked by terrorist Salah Badi."
"Violent festivities took place with heavy weapons in the shanty neighbourhood in Tripoli," he added.
"And several areas suffered severe rocket attacks since the dawn of Saturday August 17. Loud kabooms were heard in all parts of Tripoli, especially in the areas of the airport road and the formerly shanty neighbourhood and Ain Zara, Salahuddin, Janzur, Qasr Ben Ghashir and Omar Mukhtar Street," he continued.
Hajja Fatima Ali said, "This is indiscriminate bombing of civilian homes and festivities between armed formations allied to the city of Misrata and other formations allied to the town of Zintan."
University student Salem Saad Nayed said that the bombing was coming from both land and air. "We no longer know who's bombing who," he said.
"The bottom line, Tripoli is no longer livable. No water, no electricity and no fuel. It is lifeless, may the Lord help us and save us," he added.
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[Libya Herald] Air raids carried out last night over 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... on the positions of Misratan-led forces could not have been made by Libyan warplanes the General Chief of Staff has said.
In a statement made this afternoon the leader of the armed forces, Major General Suleiman Obeidi, said no Libyan-based force had the technology nor the capacity to carry out the attacks.
Obeidi said the missiles, one of which had been identified as a US made Mark 83 general purpose bomb, could only have been dropped using in-flight targeting technology, unavailable to the Libyan Airforce. He added that the weapons had been used with extreme precision and had hit only the Grad missiles and howitzers they were intended to destroy.
An airforce source told the Libya Herald that he suspected Egyptian or Algerian involvement in the air strikes prior to this later announcement.
Obeidi explained similarly that there was no Libyan airforce based inside the country with the necessary range to carry out the bombings over Tripoli. He said aircraft travelling from the east to Tripoli would have been forced to refuel in mid-air, a feat which was again beyond the capabilities of Libyan airforce either during the time of the former regime or now.
The military has squashed the rumour that the warplanes could have left from Wattayah airbase near the western border. Obeidi said its runaway had been completely demolished and was still under repair. As if this were not enough of a reason, he also explained that the airbase's refuelling facilities were currently out of action.
Experienced pilots on the ground at the time of this morning's attack said they believed the two planes, airforce jets, to have been between eight to seven kilometres in the air at the time of the bombing.
No one has, as of yet, grabbed credit for the attack. An airforce source told the Libya Herald that he suspected Egyptian or Algerian involvement in the air strikes prior to this later announcement.
Per the New York Times, the Egyptians and Algerians deny it as lies, all lies...
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[Iran Press TV] Forces loyal to Libyan retired General Khalifa Haftar have grabbed credit for recent Arclight airstrikes in the capital 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...
Saqer al-Jouroushi, one of Haftar's senior officers, officially confirmed on Monday that they "have conducted Arclight airstrikes" on some locations "belonging to Misrata militias."
The militias have been battling with their rivals from the town of Zintan for control of the capital, particularly its main international airport, since July 13.
Early on Monday, Tripoli residents reported jets flying over the city followed by kabooms. Authorities say at least six people were killed in the attacks.
"The kabooms were clearly heard in eastern districts of Tripoli," a resident said.
The battles in the capital are part of the chaotic situation posing security concerns all over the country.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, Gloria slowly backed away from the eight-foot bull frog. If the creature croaked she would surely be deafened... the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) said in a statement on Sunday that it "deeply regrets that there was no response to the repeated international appeals and its own efforts for an immediate ceasefire."
On August 14, Libya's newly elected parliament asked the UN for a military intervention to protect civilians amid relentless festivities.
The legislative body also voted to dissolve rival militias, giving them an ultimatum to join the military and police by the end of 2014.
However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... following the parliament's vote, thousands of Libyans staged nationwide demonstrations to express their dissatisfaction with the plea for foreign military intervention in the North African state.
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[AnNahar] Suspected 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... gunnies killed 10 people who had fled their homes to escape repeated attacks by the bad boys, after hunting them down in a nearby village, witnesses said on Monday.
Residents of Krenuwa village fled to nearby communities after a Boko Haram raid last month that left seven dead and saw the turbans raze a military camp, cop shoppe and several homes.
About a dozen Death Eaters stormed the villages of Durwa and Maforo in the Marte district on Sunday, where some of them were seeking refuge.
"They came on cycle of violences and gathered people before singling out their victims who moved in from Krenuwa after it was attacked", said Usman Ari, a Durwa resident.
"They shot six of them dead and slaughtered four," said Ari, who fled to the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, some 100 kilometers (60 miles) away after the attack.
After the attack in Durwa, where six were killed, the suspected Boko Haram gunnies stormed nearby Maforo and killed four, said Hassan Goni, another Durwa resident, who also fled to Maiduguri.
"We are afraid they are going to come back for more attacks which is why we left, he added.
After the attack on Krenuwa village, a counter-offensive by soldiers killed five gunnies and captured five more.
Krenuwa resident Abba Kolomi said Boko Haram had also killed six people from the village who sought refuge across the border in Chad.
The Marte district was one of the areas where Boko Haram chased out the government last year, forcing President Goodluck Jonathan ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau... to declare a state of emergency in the region and a military offensive to crush the uprising.
A scorched-earth military response reclaimed the territory but deadly Boko Haram raids on towns and villages in the area have continued unabated.
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[Al Ahram] Kuwait has detained a prominent Sunni Moslemholy man less than two weeks after the United States included him on a sanctions list for allegedly funnelling money to forces of Evil in Iraq and Syria, his lawyer said on Monday.
That was fast...
Shafi al-Ajmi was detained on the border with 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... Continued on Page 49
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i bet he is a hero in the Gulf states.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: A policeman was rubbed out in Baldia Town on Sunday, officials said.
They added that gunnies targeted 40-year-old police constable Abdul Wakeel a couple of hours before the sunrise when he was returning home after his duty hours.
"The victim was targeted in Baldia Town No 12 near Sector 9-B," said an official at the Ittehad Town cop shoppe. "He was returning from the Pak Colony cop shoppe, where he was posted when two men on a cycle of violence fired multiple shots at him and rode away. He was struck down in his prime."
He said that Sherlocks were looking into the incident from different angles to ascertain the motive but it seemed to be linked with the recent wave of coppers's killings in the city.
Killing in Manghopir
A 55-year-old man was rubbed out in the Manghopir area.
An official at the Manghopir cop shoppe said that the victim was identified as Habib-ur-Rahman. He was attacked by two men riding a motorbike near Northern Bypass close to the Hub river.
"The victim was a resident of Ittehad Town. He was hit by three bullets from a very close range but the motive for the killing remained unknown," he added.
Man found rubbed out
The perforated carcass of an unidentified young man was found in the Saeedabad area.
The police said that the body was spotted by some area people who informed the area cop shoppe.
"The victim seems to be in his late 20s," said an official at the Saeedabad cop shoppe. "The body was found near Madina Majid in the Yousuf Goth area of Saeedabad. The body was moved to the Edhi morgue for want of identification after medico-legal formalities at the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi." ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
Bomb defused in Manghopir
In Manghopir, police found and defused a improvised bomb, weighing around five kilograms, that was hidden in a rickshaw.
A bomb disposal official said that the Manghopir police informed the bomb disposal unit about two suspicious containers in the rickshaw outside an auto-workshop near Bakra Piri.
"The two containers were packed with explosives and attached to a detonator," he said. "We don't know the exact target but it was parked along the road outside the workshop to give an impression that it came for some repair work."
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie sadly admitted that he was a better peeping Tom than he was a comedian... Sindh police chief Ghulam Haider Jamali announced a Rs100,000 cash reward for the Manghopir police, who "timely took action and prevented the area from a disaster".
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[Ynet] Boosted by two days of US Arclight airstrikes, Iraqi and Kurdish forces on Monday wrested back control of the country's largest dam from Islamic Death Eaters, a military front man in Baghdad said, as fighting was reported to be underway for the rest of the strategic complex.
Soon after the news broke, the Islamic State group, which two weeks ago captured the djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... Dam spanning the Tigris River just north of the city of Mosul, denied the claim, insisting it was still in control of the facility.
A US defense official in Washington confirmed the Islamic State group has not entirely lost control of the Mosul Dam. "It's not over," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... to discuss ongoing military operations.
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Praise be to brothers George W Bush and Tony Blair for sacrificing the sons of their countries to bring about the Caliphate!
There can be no better man to act as Middle East Peace Envoy than Tony Blair - few years in the job and the Middle East is more peaceful than its ever been.
Scene of fighting, grandiose Mosul dam always beset with problems
DUBAI, Aug 19 (Reuters) - The Mosul Dam was always meant to be a symbol of Iraq's grandiose ambition to escape poverty and underdevelopment.
But from the start, the $1.5 billion barrier north of the city was beset with significant engineering problems, now made worse after it became the centre of a battle between Islamist insurgents and U.S. and Iraqi forces.
Despite its structural faults, the country's biggest dam at 3.6 km long, built by a German-Italian consortium in the 1980s, is a vital water and power source for Mosul, Iraq's largest northern city of 1.7 million residents...While Iraqi and Kurdish forces recaptured the dam with the help of U.S. air strikes on Monday, "the most dangerous dam in the world" - as a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers report described it - still has the potential for catastrophe.
The bleakest scenario foresees a complete breach that could unleash a tidal wave that would submerge Mosul under 25-30 metres of water and kill up to half a million people. Baghdad could be under 5 metres of water...The dam, about 45-50 km north of Mosul, was built on the wrong kind of geological foundation, which included gypsum - a soft substance which is the main element in plaster and not solid enough to handle the weight of the dam.
A person who worked with German firm Hochtief, the lead firm involved in the construction in the 1980s, said: "Inside Hochtief, it was seen as the group's worst construction site ever."
"Geologically, gypsum does not count as rock. It's sediment, as soft as butter. In physical terms, it's a viscous liquid. The whole soil is like Swiss cheese," the person, who declined to be named, told Reuters in Frankfurt.
To combat this and to ensure the dam doesn't give way, it needs round-the-clock grouting - a process where spaces that form in the foundations are filled with concrete.
Richard Coffman, an assistant professor of civil engineering at the University of Arkansas who has conducted extensive research on the dam, says grouting normally takes place six days a week, 24 hours a day...Salar Ismael, a construction engineer who is part of the grouting team, said that grouting had stopped three days ago.
"The dam definitely requires almost daily grouting to make sure the foundation stays intact and stable," said Ismael who left the dam on Sunday, fearing for his life.
He said security forces had urged engineers to resume grouting, but they refused unless "the situation gets better and our safety is totally guaranteed"..."A second week of no grouting work will jeopardise the dam and force it to buckle under water pressure," said Ismael, who added that the cement they use is of bad quality.
Iraqi engineering geological expert Whael Matti put it starkly: "If no urgent maintenance and overall rehabilitation work is started soon, dam failure will be inevitable."
After the U.S.-led invasion of 2003, U.S. army engineers visited the site to make recommendations on its improvement.
They drilled thousands of holes and then pumped concrete slurry under pressure to fill the fractures...John H Hollis IV, a senior security adviser, accompanied the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Kurdish and Iraqi government officials to the dam more than 10 times between 2004 and 2006 to conduct operations on stabilising the dam.
"It's an extremely large area and it's a very difficult area to secure because of the nature of the geographical layout," he told Reuters in Dubai.
He said Islamic State militants were able to easily overrun the area because there wasn't proper protection. A large, permanent military presence with air surveillance was needed to guarantee its security, otherwise: "You can expect the same thing to happen again ... when they think it's the right time to attack, they'll attack again."
[IsraelTimes] The Times of Israel is liveblogging events as they unfold through Tuesday, August 19, the 43rd day of Operation Protective Edge. After a five-day truce expired on Monday at midnight, it appeared the sides had agreed a 24-hour extension through Tuesday, amid conflicting reports on the progress of talks in Cairo on a long-term Israel-Hamas deal.
Israel and the US have already coordinated and agreed on the details of a future agreement for a long-term ceasefire with Hamas, and a gradual lifting of the blockade on the Gaza Strip, Ynet reports.
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Gaza fired rockets at Beersheva hours before the cease fire was to be signed, Israel attacked targets in
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[Iran Press TV] Israel has banned Amnesia Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch ... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge.... (HRW) representatives from entering the besieged Gazoo Strip in order to launch their investigations into the Israeli onslaught on the coastal enclave.
Media reports said on Monday that both human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... organizations have been trying to obtain permission to enter Gazoo since July 7.
The reports said that the grounds for the ban are that the Israeli-controlled Erez crossing is closed, and that neither group is registered with the Israeli Social Affairs Ministry as a humanitarian aid organization.
However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... Erez was open throughout most of Israel's deadly attacks on Gazoo which started on July 8.
Amnesty is said to have held talks with Israeli authorities. Israel has said that only the UN agencies can be registered with the Foreign Ministry, and that the human rights group does not "meet the criterion set" by the Social Affairs Ministry for a humanitarian aid organization.
The group has asked several European foreign ministries to raise the issue with Israeli diplomats and the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
The Amnesty and HRW had hoped to send researchers to the Gazoo Strip during the offensive, accompanied by weapons and munitions experts with military backgrounds.
HRW Sherlocks have been banned from entering Gazoo via the Erez crossing since 2006, while Amnesty's employees have been barred since June 2012.
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[Telegraph] Hundreds of Yazidi volunteers are being trained to handle weapons and fight to drive the Islamic State from their homes.
Refugees who fled to Syria to escape the jihadists' onslaught in neighbouring Iraq are joining military training camps run by Kurdish armed factions and forming a volunteer army against the jihadists.
"Until now the Yazidis have always relied on someone else to protect them," said Rostan, 33, the Kurdish commander at the training camp, who refused to give his full name. "Now they are learning to protect themselves." A Civilian Irregular Defense Group (CIDG), what a novel idea.
Brilliant idea. Goes against the entire history of Muslim expansion, too. Hopefully it will be applied to the rest of the refugees as well, once it's up and running. Onward Christian soldiers, and all that.
You do have to wonder why, after a couple thousand years of persecution, it's only now that the Yazidis are figuring out that they need to be able to fight back. Though there are few better teachers than the Peshmerga...
It is forbidden for Untermenschen to defend against attacks by members of Allah's Fave Religion. The punishment has historically been levied on the entire community.
[AnNahar] The Lebanese army on Sunday placed in durance vile Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! 12 Syrian gunnies in an ambush east of the border town of Arsal, the state-run National News Agency reported.
The 12 men are suspected of belonging to armed terrorist groups that took part in the battles with the army earlier this month.
The Jihadists overran the town on August 2 when the military arrested an al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front member Imad Jomaa.
Scores of soldiers were killed and maimed in the battles that ensued the attack, which ended with a ceasefire on August 7.
A military official denied to Voice of Leb radio (100.5) the arrest of Death Eaters on Sunday.
The official, who was not identified, said that the army apprehended in Arsal five Syrians for not having identification cards.
At least 31 Islamic State militants were killed in Syrian air force raids on Sunday in the northern province of Raqa, a stronghold of the militant fighters, a monitoring group said.
“The regime carried out 13 raids on the city of Raqa and 11 on the town of Tabqa in Raqa province, killing at least 31 militants and wounding dozens of them,” said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The Britain-based group’s head, Rami Abdel Rahman, said the raids were the regime’s “most intensive” against the Islamic State since the insurgents joined the more than three-year-old conflict in Syria in spring 2003. The IS has held most of Raqa province since February, after having ousted other rebel groups battling President Bashar Al Assad’s regime.
The Observatory said the regime has also carried out air strikes on the eastern province of Deir Ezzor as well as Akhtarin and Dabeq in Aleppo province, two northern towns which the IS seized from rebels on Wednesday.
The Syrian military has turned its firepower on the IS since the militants in June declared a “caliphate” straddling Syria and neighbouring Iraq, where the group has been targeted by US air strikes over the past week.
“The regime wants to show the Americans that it is also capable of striking the IS,” said Abdel Rahman, whose group relies on information from opposition activists and medics on the ground.
“The regime strikes the IS where it is strong. In regions where the group is confronted by rebels, it doesn’t intervene so that the two enemies weaken each other,” he said.
“But once one party takes the upper hand, it strikes,” said Abdel Rahman.
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Its about time they attacked IS which to me is a syrian/baathist creation.
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IS is a Saudi creation. Saudi are our friends, remember? We're tooling them up with the latest kit to keep their nice freedom loving king in power (the same guy Obama bows to).
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Saudi are our friends, remember? We're tooling them up with the latest kit
Which they can only use so long as those nice kafir mechanics provided with it are willing to keep the stuff working. And even then only during the day -- I've read that after millennia of inbreeding, Saudi night sight is extremely poor.
[ARABNEWS] The Lion of Islam Islamic State group shot and beheaded hundreds of rustics from eastern Syria over the past two weeks after crushing an uprising they led amid the country's civil war, activists said Monday.
The killing of members of the Shueitat tribe come as Islamic State group fighters close in on the last government-held army base in the region. Syrian warplanes bombed the Lion of Islams' positions Monday in an attempt to halt their advance.
A Turkey-based activist who is originally from Deir el-Zour and is in contact with people in the province told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that as many as 200 members of the Shueitat tribe have been killed by Islamic State members. On Saturday, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the corpse count among the rustics at 700.
The activist spoke on condition of anonymity for fear that family members in Syria might be harmed. Differences in casualty figures are common in the aftermath of attacks in Syria.
Last week, Islamic State fighters crushed the tribal uprising against their rule in eastern Syria after three days of festivities near the border with Iraq. Tribesmen expelled the jihadi fighters from the villages of Kishkiyeh, Abu Hamam and Granij earlier this month before the Islamic State launched a counteroffensive that killed dozens, activists said.
"They considered all members of the Shueitat tribe apostates because they rose against them," the activist said. "Some men were taken out in the fields and beheaded them while others were shot in the head."
The Islamic State group has declared a self-styled caliphate in territory it controls along the Iraqi-Syrian border, imposing a harsh interpretation of Islamic law. They have executed hundreds of people in Iraq and Syria over the past two months, including some who had their heads chopped off and their heads were later displayed in a public square in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa.
Last month, jihadis overran the sprawling Division 17 military base in Raqqa province, killing at least 85 soldiers. Two weeks later, Islamic State fighters seized the nearby Brigade 93 base after days of heavy fighting.
They now are closing in on the Tabqa air base, the last position held by Syrian government troops in Raqqa province.
The Observatory reported intense festivities Monday between troops and Islamic State fighters on the edge of the villages of Ajil and Khazna near the Tabqa air base. It said there were casualties on both sides.
The Raqqa Media Center, an activist collective, said Islamic State group fighters captured four villages near the air base, including Ajil.
The Observatory and RMC also reported intense air raids for the second day on Raqqa's lovely provincial capital.
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See also DAILY STAR.LB > JIHADIST "ISLAMIC STATE" [ISIS aka ISIL] HAS 50,000 MEMBERS IN SYRIA: NGO.
UK-based SOHR = Syrian Obervatory for Huamn Rights.
As per SOHR, the ISIS/ISIL also repor recruited 1000 new members during last month alone.
VICE reports Australia's spy agencies are rolling the government into passing laws that force them to accept illegally obtained evidence
And allow anyone affiliated with a spy operation to break the laws with immunity from prosecution.
Islamist jihadis are being used to sell the legislation.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Attorney General George Brandis and ASIO director general David Irvine have been keen to link the laws to the threat of Australian jihadis fighting overseas. However the Bill does not mention Islamists or jihadis at all--instead they contain a mountain of radical changes which include:
Forcing courts to accept illegally obtained information
Giving immunity from prosecution to ASIO, its affiliates and anybody involved with a special intelligence operation when they break the law, including if they only "believed" their actions to be part of the operation
Wiping away existing protections such as the need for ASIO to get a warrant to put a tracking device on someone.
Allowing wholesale tampering with information and hacking of computer networks
Increasing the jail terms from 2 to 10 years for leaking information plus removing the Attorney-General's discretion on when to prosecute
There were no members of the public to witness the "public" meeting, held in a room that smelt like rubber stamps.... this is a cultural war. Islamism cannot be negotiated with, it can only be met head on.
The Abbott Government is getting everything wrong here... They are giving up the basic democratic freedoms that separate the West from the rest. Osama Bin Laden and his co-fascists are forcing us to change our way of life, more than we are forcing them to change their ideology.
That is a win for them.
Instead Abbott should name the enemy and target legislation at fascist Islam, naming it specifically - not remove basic rights wholesale from everyone else.
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