[WORLD.TIME] Talibs said Thursday that they have kidnapped a military dog from an American-led unit in Afghanistan.
NBC News reports that the dog that was allegedly taken during a raid where six U.S. soldiers were killed, or so the Taliban claim. Militants uploaded a video clip of the frightened-looking dog to a jihadist website.
"This dog was very important to the Americans," Taliban front man Zabiullah Mujahid told NBC News. "Once we got this dog, the Americans tried their best to get it back but they did not succeed."
Despite Taliban claims, the dog's nationality remains unknown. Defense officials in Washington, D.C. believe it belonged to a British unit. Laurie Arellano, spokesperson for the coalition forces in Afghanistan, said that, "We are aware of media reports and we're looking into it."
Not all is lost for the captured dog. In 2010, an Australian bomb-sniffing dog was rescued by U.S. forces after it was missing in Afghanistan for 18 months.
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As per FREEREPUBLIC + WORLD NEWS, the US is denying its one of ours.
[MAGHAREBIA] A Casablanca court on Wednesday (February 5th) will deliberate the case of salafist imam Abdelhamid Abou Naim until February 19th, Aufaitmaroc reported. An investigation into Abou Naïm was opened in January after the imam posted a YouTube video accusing a politician of "apostasy" for calling on Morocco to ban polygamy.
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polygamy (pəˈlɪ¨Àəmɪ) ¡ªn: A crime that is also a punishment.
[An Nahar] A Berber died of his wounds Thursday in Algeria's desert city of Ghardaia, bringing to five the number killed during weeks of violence between two rival communities, local sources said.
The latest death came as the interior minister and police chief visited the city of 90,000 inhabitants, which has been rocked since December by festivities between the Chaamba community of Arab origin and the majority Mozabites, indigenous Berbers belonging to the Ibadi Moslem sect.
"A young Mozabite died on Thursday afternoon. His wounds were so bad that he still hasn't been identified," Nourddine Daddi Nounou, a member of the Mozabite community, said in a statement to Agence La Belle France Presse.
It was the second fatality in two days, after a 20-year-old Mozabite was stabbed to death on Wednesday, community leader Mohammed Tounsi said.
Interior Minister Tayeb Belaiz vowed to boost security in Ghardaia and underlined "the determination of the state to vigorously apply the law" in the face of violence against people and property, the national APS agency quoted him as saying.
Belaiz, who was accompanied by police chief Abdelghani Hamel and the head of the national gendarmerie, Ahmed Bousteila, announced a new security operations center to be jointly run by the two forces.
"The security structures in the region of Ghardaia will be multiplied three- or four-fold, to completely restore peace and order," he said.
The latest violence between youths from the two communities erupted on Tuesday when some of them set fire to a Mozabite teaching center, according to Tounsi.
More than 30 people have since been maimed and dozens of shops and houses torched in the hilltop city in the M'Zab valley, which is classified as a UNESCO world heritage site and lies 600 kilometers (370 miles) south of Algiers.
Analysts have warned that the fragile region could be engulfed by the sectarian violence in Ghardaia, which both sides accused the other of starting, but which was inflamed by the destruction of a historic Berber shrine in late December.
The two communities have coexisted for centuries, but as elsewhere in the region, limited economic opportunities, despite the proximity of Algeria's vast oil and gas wealth, have aggravated social tensions.
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[Egypt Independent] Unidentified assailants opened fire on the police club in Arish, early Thursday, but left no injuries.
Witnesses said that the unknown gUnidentified assailants opened fire on the police club in Arish, early Thursday, but left no injuries.
Witnesses said that the unknown gunnies shot at the club, then forces started firing back, leading to festivities that left no casualties.
Security forces combed the area to search for the attackers, and tightened security measures at checkpoints, entrances and exits of Arish. Gunmen shot at the club, then forces started firing back, leading to festivities that left no casualties.
Security forces combed the area to search for the attackers, and tightened security measures at checkpoints, entrances and exits of Arish.
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[Egypt Independent] Dr. Mohammed Sayed a-Ghazlany, a Moslem Brüderbund member, died in a prison hospital due to high blood pressure and liver disease, according to an official security source.
The defendant was tossed in the clink Please don't kill me! in Alexandria October of last year after his escape from the Kerdasa region. He faces charges of planning and participating in the Kerdasa cop shoppe events, which took place last August and resulted in the death of 11 officers.
The prosecution accused him of the murder of the 11 officers, the attempted murder of the other injured officers, attempting to occupy a government building, possessing heavy weapons and forming a terrorist group to terrorize citizens.
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Obamacare would have saved him.
Non-sequitur and trite, I know. Just in one of those moods...
[VANGUARDNGR] Gunmen suspected to be 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... faceless myrmidons yesterday (Wednesday) invaded Askira, the Headquarters of Askira- Uba Local Government Area of Borno state killing three people.
They also attacked a police post and shot two Policemen, even though, unconfirmed report has it that two of the Policemen who sustained gunshot injuries may not survive due to the nature of the injuries which has affected one of the sensory organs.
Askira- Uba is in Southern part of the state, and about 200 kilometres away from Maiduguri, the state capital. It also shares boarder with Madagali Council Area of Adamawa state which had witnessed a deadly church attack that claimed over 30 lives.
Residents who did not want their name mentioned in the Print told our Correspondent that the gunnies numbering over 50 in Hilux vehicles with some of them disguising in military comouflag uniforms stormed the Council at about 7pm yesterday and opened fire on residents and other security posts, using Ak47 rifles, Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and petrol bombs.
They stated that, the gunnies wrecked harvoc for over three hours by killing several innocent people with the burning of shops, houses and vehicles, before they fled into the bush.
The Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Mr. Gideon Jubrin confirmed the incident in a telephone call to our Correspondent.
He said, yes it is true that suspected members of Boko Haram sects invaded Askira town on Wednesday evening and rubbed out three people. But details are still sketchy as i am trying to get in touch with the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of the Council to furnish me with the details, so as soon as i get in touch with the DPO, i will give you details". Gidoen stated.
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[Egypt Independent] Seven boom-mobiles went kaboom! across Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... on Thursday, killing at least 13 people in apparently coordinated attacks that targeted mainly Shia Mohammedan districts, security sources said.
No group immediately grabbed credit for the bombings. But Sunni Islamist hard boyz have been regaining ground in Iraq, particularly in the western province of Anbar where they overran two cities on January 1.
Since then, more than 1,000 people have been killed across the country, building on a trend of intensifying violence that made last year Iraq's bloodiest since 2008, when sectarian warfare began to abate from its height.
On Thursday, bombs were detonated in the predominantly Shia neighborhoods of Sadr City, Karrada, Hurriya, Ubaidi and Shaab. Civilians from Iraq's Shia majority are often targeted by Sunni myrmidons.
Another kaboom killed three people in the commercial Bab al-Sharqie district, near a bridge across the river Tigris leading to the heavily-fortified "Green Zone", home to the prime minister's office and several Western embassies.
In recent days, hard boyz have staged a series of attacks near the Green Zone and outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, heightening concerns about Iraq's ability to protect strategic sites as security deteriorates.
The city of Falluja is currently surrounded and under shelling from the Iraqi army in preparation for a possible ground assault to end a month-long standoff with Sunni anti-government fighters inside the Anbar city.
"Many casualties" likely
The hard boyz include members of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) - a Sunni group also active in neighboring Syria's civil war.
"We believe that storming Falluja as soon as possible is much better than the current situation," a security bigshot told Rooters on condition of anonymity. "Yes, there will be many casualties, but it's better than this strain on army resources."
The official said a ground assault would not be launched until security forces finished battling hard boyz in two small towns that are important entry points to Falluja. Communications have also been cut.
"The hard boyz have booby-trapped roads, homes, animals and even dead bodies inside Falluja, so we have to keep the communications down as they use mobile signal to blow up these traps," the official said.
Maliki has appealed for international support and weapons to fight al Qaeda. But critics say his own policies towards Iraq's once-dominant Sunni community are at least partly to blame for reviving an insurgency that had peaked in 2006-07.
Some tribes in Sunni-dominated Anbar support or have aligned themselves with ISIL against Maliki's Shia-led government, which they accuse of abuses against their sect.
Others deplore ISIL's violent tactics and have joined forces with the army to fight the group and its allies in and around Anbar's city of Ramadi, also overrun by hard boyz last month but now largely back under government control.
The United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... said it had delivered aid including tents, medicine, water and food parcels to some of the 45,000 families that have been displaced by the conflict in Anbar.
"The U.N. continues to hold discussions with senior political figures in an attempt to assist in paving the ground for a political solution to the crisis, calling on all to show national unity and address the root causes of violence in Iraq," U.N. envoy Nikolay Mladenov said in a statement.
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[An Nahar] The Israeli military denied media reports it shot down a rocket fired from Gazoo at southern Israel on Thursday, saying the projectile fell on open ground.
"There was no interception," a front man told Agence La Belle France Presse. "A rocket fell."
Public radio, army radio and other Israeli media earlier reported that the Iron Dome missile defense system shot down a rocket fired from the Gazoo Strip towards the southern city of Ashkelon.
A military statement said the rocket had been aimed at Ashkelon but fell to earth without causing injuries or damage.
It was Thursday's second cross-border rocket attack, the military said, but did not elaborate.
Media reports said the earlier rocket also struck in open countryside.
On Tuesday, Gazoo's Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, rulers said they had redeployed a 600-strong special security force tasked with preventing cross-border rocket fire, after reports it had pulled the unit back two days before.
Hamas front man Islam Shahwan said the Paleostinian Islamist movement would "not allow the occupation (Israel) to break off the ceasefire" that ended an eight-day, full-scale conflict with the Jewish state in November 2012.
The Hamas force was deployed on January 21, but withdrawn at the weekend as a protest after four Israeli air strikes on Hamas training camps in the strip.
While Hamas itself does not routinely fire rockets, Israel says it holds the group, which seized power in Gazoo in 2007, responsible for such attacks.
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[Ynet] Two rockets launched from the Gaza Strip exploded in the Eshkol Regional Council and near the city of Ashkelon on Thursday. No injuries or damage were reported in either incident.
At approximately 11 pm, it was reported that a rocket hit in the Eshkol Regional Council.
Earlier Thursday, at approximately 8:30 pm, a red alert siren sounded in the Ashkelon region, followed by a hit in an open area. The rocket was the second one to hit Ashkelon area on Thursday, as a rocket hit near the Gaza Strip border fence at approximately 2:00 pm. Link to reference map
[An Nahar] State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr ordered on Thursday the release of five people detained over the Choueifat bombing.
According to the state-run National News Agency, investigations with the five suspects showed that they have nothing to do with the Monday's blast and have no ties with the jacket wallah.
Earlier on Thursday, Saqr stressed that three suspects out of the five have no links to the suicide bomber.
"The men were referred to the the Army Intelligence Directorate for further questioning over the mystery of selling a Kalashnikov by the taxi driver," al-Joumhouria newspaper, published on Thursday, quoted Saqr as saying.
Security sources told the daily that the three men, including the taxi driver, who transported the suicide bomber from Khaldah to Choueifat denied to the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau their prior knowledge to the suicide bomber.
"A dispute erupted between the suicide bomber and the taxi driver A. Gh., prompting him to get down from the car," the sources said.
The sources pointed out that the suicide bomber forgot his Kalashnikov in the taxi and after the driver found it, he sold it in cooperation with the other two detained men.
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[An Nahar] Syrian rebels on Thursday seized control of most of Aleppo's central prison, freeing hundreds of detainees, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
"Ahrar al-Sham and Al-Nusra Front (brigades) have taken control of 80 percent of Aleppo central prison and freed hundreds of prisoners," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told Agence La Belle France Presse, adding that fighting was ongoing in the prison.
But state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
carried a breaking news alert, saying soldiers and security forces had "thwarted an attack against the prison by terrorist groups."
Abdel Rahman said the rebel assault started with a suicide kaboom carried out by an Al-Nusra fighter at the prison's main entrance.
"Large numbers of rebels then followed by attacking the prison," he added.
Ahrar al-Sham said opposition fighters had taken full control of the prison, as did the Aleppo Media Center, a citizen-journalist outlet.
But Abdel Rahman said fighting was still ongoing at the complex, which reportedly holds some 3,000 detainees, including Islamists, activists and minors.
Rebels have launched attacks on the prisons for months, trying without success on several occasions to seize full control.
Conditions inside are said to be dire, with the Observatory reporting outbreaks of tuberculosis and other diseases.
The conditions prompted the government to announce in December the release of 366 prisoners for "humanitarian reasons".
Earlier on Thursday, a coalition of Syrian rebels had announced a new military operation in Aleppo on Thursday, where more than 250 people have been killed in regime barrel kabooms since Saturday.
The Islamic Front -- a huge alliance grouping tens of thousands of rebels -- and the jihadist Al-Nusra Front announced an operation dubbed "Truthful Promise Approaches," the name a reference to a passage in the Koran.
"All military fighters in bases must go to the frontlines or they will be questioned and held accountable," the groups said in a statement.
It asked residents of "occupied areas" to stay away from government checkpoints and bases, saying they would be targeted.
The announcement comes as the Syrian army seeks to take territory in the rebel-held eastern part of Aleppo city.
Troops are moving from areas around Aleppo international airport after recapturing territory nearby and reopening it to air traffic.
The ground campaign has been accompanied by six consecutive days of aerial attacks involving explosive-packed barrel bombs dropped from army helicopters.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Thursday that at least 257 people have been killed in barrel kabooms on eastern Aleppo since Saturday, including 11 on Thursday.
The dead include at least 76 children, according to the Britannia-based group.
Hundreds more have been maimed in the raids using the controversial unguided munitions, which have been condemned by rights groups as indiscriminate.
The heavy casualty toll has sparked a mass exodus from the worst-hit neighborhoods in the east of the city.
Once the country's economic hub, Aleppo has been divided between government control in the west and rebel control in the east since a rebel offensive in mid-2012.
The bombing in the east has prompted thousands of civilians to flee across the nearby border to Turkey, or seek refuge in the government-held part of Aleppo, with much of the surrounding province engulfed in fighting between rebels and the jihadist 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... .
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Where do the Syrians buy their aircraft and their spare parts ( lot of money in spare parts ) and where do they buy their bombs and who gives those pilots the training? Can't have a war without spare parts, bomb supplies and training.
Sure as hell, the goons don't MAKE their own and the training manuals have to be translated into goombah so the monkeys can read the things.
All first class Russian manufacture? See, the Russians have a market and we don't. We are just sending the monkeys on the OTHER side "non-lethal" supplies like tampons, cheese doodles, and mickey mouse watches...where is the big money in THAT?
We need to offer the Syrians on BOTH sides an American ingenuity inspired **DEAL**. The guy in Libya, that dead ambassador who was a gun runner essentially...who else do we have like him ? You know WHY he is dead..the Russians didn't like the competition. WE lost a market in Syria! We could have shipped all the Libyan armory to Syria and made a bundle. Hillary is a girl and Obama is too. Putin wears a fur coat, smokes a cigar, and carries a gold headed cane.
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To really crack the top market like Faulkner, you gotta lay off the periods and paragraphs. Let it flow, be within yourself. You can build your very own Yoknapatawpha County and stir the crazy. You might get rich or win a Prize! think of the past as not the past or not even the future think of the past as nao with multiple KILL MOSLEMS view points arriving at one point in so called space time think montgomery ward snopes, think Flem Snopes. You got the crazy, use the crayon wisely.
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[An Nahar] Syrian rebels on Thursday seized control of most of Aleppo's central prison, freeing hundreds of detainees, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
