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Happy Birthday to Jennette McCurdy, 22 Today !
Actress and Singer who became admired by many iCarly and Sam & Cat fans for her roles as Sam Puckett and Melanie Puckett. Her 2011 single "Generation Love," peaked at 44 on the U.S. Country chart. She starred in Malcolm in the Middle with Jane Kaczmarek in 2003 and 2005.
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Happy Birthday to Rebecca Budig, 41 Today !
She portrayed Greenlee Smythe on the soap opera All My Children appeared with Susan Lucci. A highlight of her career was in 2003, when she won a Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Younger Lead Actress for her role.
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[Ynet] Morocco's Interior Ministry has dismantled a cell recruiting Moroccans to fight for myrmidon groups in Iraq and Syria, the ministry said on Wednesday.
Six men were placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! in the central city of Fez, including one who had previously been detained under the terrorism law.
The statement warned that many of the fighters hope to return after being trained, to carry out attacks in Morocco.
Police say 900 Moroccans are fighting in Syria and 100 have been arrested upon their return.
[AnNahar] Four makeshift bombs went kaboom! within minutes of each other at three Cairo metro stations during morning rush hour on Wednesday, wounding at least two people, Egyptian police said.
One bomb went off at the station of Ghamra, in central Cairo, while the others occurred at Shubra el-Kheima and Hadayek al-Kobba on the outskirts of the capital, a police official told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The bombs were "very primary" and of "low intensity," the official said.
Militants have stepped up attacks in Egypt, mostly against security forces, since the army ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... in July 2013 and the authorities launched a deadly crackdown on his supporters.
The attacks come nearly a month after ex-army chief Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, who led Morsi's ouster, was elected president.
Since Morsi's ouster, a crackdown on his supporters has left more than 1,400 people dead and seen at least 15,000 enjugged Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! , while hundreds have been sentenced to death in speedy mass trials that have sparked an international outcry.
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] A deadly attack on troops and low turnout Wednesday marred Libya's general election on which hopes were pinned of ending three years of turmoil since dictator Moamer Qadaffy's ouster.
At least three soldiers deployed to provide polling day security in second city Benghazi were killed in what security officials said was an attack on their convoy by Islamist militia.
The eastern city, which was the scene of a deadly 2012 attack on the US consulate, has been tense since a rogue former rebel commander launched an offensive against powerful Islamist groups late last month, drawing many regular army units to his side.
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[Libya Herald] Two staff members of the Tunisian embassy who were kidnapped in two separate incidents in and around 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... in spring, Mohammed Ben Cheikh and Aroussi Gontassi, have been freed, a Tunisian Foreign Ministry official in Tunis has told the Libya Herald. Speaking on condition of anonymity, he said the two had been released over a week ago. He gave no further details on the day or the circumstances of their release.
The Tunisian Embassy in Tripoli would not comment.
On 21 March 2014, Mohammed Ben Cheikh, secretary to the Tunisian ambassador was kidnapped in Ain Zara, east of Tripoli. Aroussi Gontassi, a second Tunisian diplomat was kidnapped on 17 April in Tripoli.
This was the first time ever that a Tunisian diplomat had been kidnapped anywhere. The two are believed to have been taken by the same group.
A YouTube video, dated 19 April 2014, of a distressed Ben Cheikh pleading to Tunisian authorities to negotiate with the kidnappers was released by the Tunisian turban Islamic group "Shabaab Al-Tawhid". The group's demands have never been made public but it has been suggested that it wanted and Libyan colleagues wanted the release of two Libyans from Derna nabbed Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! by the Tunisian authorities in 2011.
Ansar Al-Sharia in Tunisia (AST) rebranded itself in early 2014 as Shabaab Al-Tawhid ...the latest incarnation of Tunisia's branch of Ansar al-Sharia... (ST) in response to Tunisian counter terrorism operations to secure established networks and maintain its presence in Tunisia.
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[Libya Herald] The deaths of three security security forces members and 17 maimed have been reported in Benghazi after 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 Libya and 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 domain name hasn't expired yet... forces opened fire on a Benghazi Joint Security Room (BJSR) convoy as it moved to protect polling stations
The spokesperson for Benghazi Medical Centre (BMC) told the Libya Herald that of the 17 maimed two were at death's door following the attack and that staff at the hospital were struggling to cope with the wave of casualties.
Head of 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 said festivities had now spread across city's Hawari district where the first shots were fired and appear to be concentrated around the headquarters of Benghazi Security Directorate.
Hassi said the security directorate had been hit by a number of anti-aircraft shells and stressed that no polling centres had been attacked during the fighting.
Spokesman for Operation Dignity Mohammed Hejazi told this paper that the military forces had been attacked by the Ansar Al-Sharia Radallah Sahati battalion, calling the assault a terrorist act. He explained that the BJSR convoy had been moving to protect polling stations in the Hawari and Gwarsha districts when it was attacked.
Hejazi said Operation Dignity had agreed to suspend all of its activities over the course of today's voting, allowing residents the opportunity to vote in safety. He added that Dignity forces would respond to the attacks with great force.
All roads to Hawari have now been shut by security forces in an effort to contain the fighting and Operation Dignity aircraft have flown over the area a number of times..
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[DAWN] At least 21 people were killed and 17 injured when an kaboom tore through a crowded shopping district in the Nigerian capital Abuja during rush hour on Wednesday, a police front man said.
It was not immediately clear what caused the blast. Two witnesses at the scene said it shattered the glass of nearby stores and sent plumes of smoke billowing into the air.
The kaboom rocked an area near the popular Banex Plaza shopping centre in the upscale Wuse 2 district, they said.
"After a preliminary investigation, we can confirm that 21 people were killed and 17 injured," police front man Frank Mba told news hounds at the scene of the kaboom.
"I heard a loud blast, it shattered the windows of the shop. We ran out. A lot of people ran too, some with blood stains," said Gimbya Jafaru, who was shopping nearby.
The blast came as the area was packed with shoppers and rush-hour commuters, an emergency services source said.
"This thing happened at a peak period," the source said, estimating that around 40 cars had been badly damaged.
Soon after the blast, emergency services were on the scene and the police and army had blocked off the surrounding area, a Rootersnews hound on the scene said. A haze of smoke lingered over the area as the bomb squad combed the area for explosives.
Separately, a roadside kaboom blew up in the northeastern Adamawa state, although no one was injured in that kaboom, local police front man Othman Abubakar said Nigeria has been hit by almost daily bomb and gun attacks, which are widely suspected to be the work of turban group 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... .
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[Ynet] German prosecutors have filed terrorism charges against a man accused of joining and fighting in Syria for a hard-line Islamic group that has since overrun parts of Iraq.
Federal prosecutors said Tuesday that the 20-year-old, identified only as Kreshnik B. in line with German privacy rules, was charged with membership in 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... , which they say he joined in July. He's also charged with conspiring to commit an attack because he is accused of undergoing weapons training, acquiring a firearm and participating in fighting in Syria.
The suspect was placed in durance vile Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! in December after he returned to Germany.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: Three more coppers were killed in a gun attack on Tuesday in the city where more than 100 coppers have already been killed since September 2013 when the government launched the Rangers-led 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... operation that has yet to establish an abiding peace here.
The killings of the coppers took place in the Manghopir area not far from the place where only a few days ago the police and Rangers had killed seven suspected bully boyz in a joint operation, putting a question mark over the effectiveness of the operation of the law-enforcement agencies.
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[DAWN] Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat ...which is the false nose and plastic mustache of the murderous banned extremist group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain, whatcha might call the political wing of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi... (ASWJ) local leader was killed by unidentified gunnies at Khayaban-e-Sir Syed on Tuesday night, in what the ASWJ claims was an act of murder.
Earlier on Sunday, another local leader of ASWJ, Mufti Munir Ahmed Moavia, was shot and injured after being ambushed by unidentified gunnies in the same locality. However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... he is stated to be in a stable condition.
Maulana Izhar-ul-Haq Farooqui, 28, an office bearer of the organization's local chapter was on his way to home after visiting Mufti Movia at the Holy Family Hospital (HFH) when he was shot and killed by unidentified gunnies, who later disappeared from the scene.
The victim was removed to the HFH where the doctors pronounced him already dead.
When contacted, Inspector Ishtiaq Masood of Pirwadhai said no further details were available nor was the number of the attackers known yet. A front man for the ASWJ told Dawn that the killing of their local leader was an act of murder, which was continuing unchecked since a year.
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[DAWN] A member of the tribal Khasadar force was killed and four security personnel injured early Thursday when hard boyz attacked a security check-post in Jamrud tehsil of Khyber agency.
Official sources said the attack took place at the Hawaldari Chowki on the Pakistain-Afghanistan highway near Sor Kamar area.
A reinforcement party of the Frontier Corps (FC) sent to support security forces also came under attack, they said.
The injured included two soldiers of the Frontier Corps (FC) force.
Intelligence officials confirmed the attack and claimed that a number of hard boyz were also killed but the exact number could not be independently verified.
Officials said the number of casualties is likely to rise as the gun-battle continues between hard boyz and security forces.
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[DAWN] The Emirates airline has officially suspended its flight operations to and from Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. in the wake of yesterday's attack on the city's Bacha Khan International Airport.
In an email to Dawn.com, the airline's spokesperson said the decision was made keeping in mind the safety of passengers and Emirates staff.
"Emirates has suspended flights to and from Peshawar effective 25 June 2014 until further notice, due to the security situation at the destination. Affected passengers will be rebooked on alternative Emirates' flights and are asked to check on emirates.com for further updates. We apologise for the inconvenience caused — however, the safety of our passengers and crew is a top priority and will not be compromised," the statement said.
On its website, Emirates said, "As this situation is beyond the control of Emirates, liability towards our passengers is limited in accordance with Emirates' Conditions of Carriage for Passengers and Baggage. Additionally passengers are advised to contact their travel insurers.
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[DAWN] At least 13 suspected gunnies were killed and five hideouts were destroyed in fresh strikes carried out by Pakistain's military jet fighters on Wednesday, according to a statement issued by the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR).
The statement added that 12 suspected gunnies surrendered to security forces in North Wazoo tribal region.
Army chief visits Aviation Base
Chief of Army Staff, General Raheel Sharif visited the newly set up premier helicopter overhauling facility at Aviation Base Workshop today and witnessed the first batch of overhauled helicopters.
Addressing on the occasion, Chief of Army staff, congratulated engineers and technicians of Aviation Base Workshop for having developed the first ever inland helicopter overhauling capability in collaboration with Saint Petersburg Aviation Repair Company (SPARC).
He specially appreciated the team for cost effectiveness and time reduction achieved due to our own overhauling facility.
Chief of Army Staff emphasised on enhanced self reliance and continuous skill development to meet the growing challenges of maintaining high operational readiness of Army Aviation.
The ceremony was attended by a large number of serving and retired military officers.
The army launched its long-awaited major operation 'Zarb-e-Azb' in the tribal region a week after an attack on the airport in 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... , deploying troops, tanks and jets to the area in the crackdown on the Taliban and other murderous Moslems.
The operation resulted in an exodus of residents belonging to North Waziristan tribal region and according to official figures the number of internally displaced persons had crossed 450,000 persons.
The number of IDPS is expected to cross 600,000.
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[DAWN] Two pilots were killed Wednesday when a Pakistain army helicopter crashed in Multan while carrying out a training exercise, military officials said.
"Two army aviation pilots embraced martyrdom when their helicopter crashed during a night flying training mission due to a technical fault at Multan tonight," the military said in a statement.
The ISPR identified the dear departed pilots as Major Yasir and Captain Murtaza.
A senior military official told news agency AFP that a dust storm that hit the aviation base as the helicopter was taking off could have been a factor in the crash.
The official and the statement did not give the type of helicopter, but army has Russian and American helicopters in its fleet.
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[THEAUSTRALIAN.AU] PAKISTANI police have jugged I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! hundreds of people after gunnies opened fire on a passenger plane during its landing approach, as fighter jets hit turban targets in the latest round of an anti-Taliban offensive.
THE attack at Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. airport in the country's northwest killed a woman passenger and maimed two crew and will raise further questions about aircraft safety in Pakistain.
The Pakistain International Airlines (PIA) flight, landing in Peshawar from Riyadh in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , came under fire on Tuesday as it descended with more than 170 passengers on board.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but attention turned to the Pak Taliban, who have promised a bloody response to the army's assault on their strongholds in North Wazoo.
Authorities said the Airbus A310 landed safely but a catastrophe was only narrowly avoided when it was hit by eight AK-47 bullets from the unidentified attackers.
PIA front man Mashud Tajwar said the plane was between 200 and 300 feet (60 to 100 metres) feet off the ground when it was hit.
"The shots were fired from outside the airport, one lady passenger and two stewards were maimed, the woman later died in the hospital," Tajwar said on Wednesday.
Tajwar said the reason for the firing was not yet clear but the airline had not received any threats.
In response to the incident, Emirates cancelled a flight to Peshawar on Wednesday, while Air Arabia and Etihad Airways diverted planes to Islamabad.
Police conducted search operations through Peshawar and arrested "more than 200 suspects" in connection with the incident, according to senior police official Najeeb Ur Rehman.
"Police commandos and sniffer dogs are taking part in the operation that is still going on," he added.
Mass arrests are commonplace in the aftermath of major terror incidents in Pakistain but most suspects are often let go quickly.
Police hailed the pilot for remaining calm and landing safely.
The attack came two weeks after a bloody raid on the international airport in the southern port city of 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... that left dozens dead and sank a largely fruitless grinding of the peace processor with the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP).
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A bad thing as the Quds guys were also on the ground during the ethnic cleansing in the past and worked together with the Shia JAM/Special Groups guys---we picked up eight of them but Malaki was adamant that we turn them over which we did because "we felt we could not damage the relationship"---basically we were played by Malaki.
This was being reported out of Baghdad but carried in the Saudi Online news---two things stuck me---the claim that al Duri is the mastermind between the current offensive and the killing of the Iraqi Kurdish judge who sentenced Saddam to death. That will not set well with the Kurds although it appears he was killed in Baghdad not in the north.
Noticed that al Duri has his own Facebook page.
Baghdad: Iraqi militant group ISIL has killed the judge who ordered Saddam Hussain's verdict of death-by-hanging in 2006, several Arab news media reported on Tuesday. Reports claim that Kurdish judge Raouf Abdul Rahman was executed by the militants in retaliation to Saddam's hanging.
The judge was earlier reported to have been kidnapped by the militants last week on June 16.
Although the Iraqi government has not confirmed the news, several media reports cited at least two important Facebook posts, confirming the report.
One of the FB posts cited, is that of Jordanian MP Khalil Attiehq who wrote that Judge Rahman, who had headed the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal during Saddam's trial in 2006, was arrested and sentenced to death in revenge for the tyrant's death.
The Jordanian MP added in his Facebook post that the judge attempted to escape by donning dancers' uniform but was caught and killed by the ISIS fighters.
Another Facebook post confirming the judge's execution by militants is that of Izzat Ibrahim Al-Douri, who was Saddam's former deputy and later emerged as a key figure among the militants. Al-Douri is reportedly one of the masterminds behind the latest ISIS offensive in Iraq.
Judge Raouf Abdul Rahman was born in the Kurdish town of Halabja, and was appointed the head of the five-member bench overseeing Saddam's trial in 2006 after the previous judge Rizgar Amin was criticized for being soft on the dictator.
[AnNahar] In the Iraqi town of Taza Khurmatu, a motley brigade of Shiite Turkmen locals adjust their weapons and headscarves before heading out to defend their homes from encroaching Sunni myrmidons.
The men range from those in their teens, yet to grow a mustache or see combat, to elders approaching retirement and weary of war.
They are armed with assault rifles, machineguns and a few rocket-propelled grenade launchers, and describe themselves as members of a Sahwa or "Awakening" force -- a reference to the collection of largely Sunni Arab forces of Evil who helped U.S. forces turn against al-Qaeda from late 2006.
At the time, the shifting loyalties helped turn the tide of Iraq's insurgency.
"During the time of the Americans, the Sahwa force fought the terrorists, and our men here were part of that," says the local commander of the force, Issam Abbas.
"The force that is fighting today is built on that force."
Abbas, 45, used to work in commerce, but has committed himself fulltime to the Sahwa force in the town of Taza Khurmatu, 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... for the past year.
Locals say the force was initially formed in 2009, after a massive truck bomb in the area killed dozens.
With a drop in violence, its members returned to civilian life, but in the past year the force regrouped as Sunni myrmidon activity in the area grew.
Then, this month, gunnies led by 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... (ISIL) group overran swathes of five provinces north and west of Storied Baghdad.
They attacked the area around Taza Khurmatu, seizing the neighboring Shiite Turkmen town of Basheer, and the Sahwa force swelled with new volunteers.
"We took the decision to form this force to protect ourselves because of the growing terrorism," says 45-year-old Amer Abu Qarar.
"We're fighting for the sake of the country and the honor of our religion," he adds, at a defensive line less than a kilometer (half a mile) from where the Sunni snuffies patrol.
There are no firm figures for Iraq's Turkmen population, which is largely concentrated north of Storied Baghdad and includes Sunni and Shiite Mohammedans.
In Taza Khurmatu, Shiite professions of faith and icons of the sect's most revered figures feature as prominently as the Iraqi Turkmen flag, a light blue banner with a white crescent and star.
Many of the men in the town cite religion as a reason for joining up, and particularly a call from top Iraqi Shiite holy man Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.
Sistani urged Iraqis to "bear arms and fight terrorists," a demand many of the town's residents say they are religiously obligated to fulfill.
"He who fights to protect his money, to protect his honor and to protect his religion is a martyr," says another fighter, who gives his name only as Ahmed.
"I decided to join the Sahwa for the sake of the nation, my principles and my faith -- the religious call from Imam Sistani."
On the front line between Taza Khurmatu and Basheer, the Turkmen patrol with Kurdish peshmerga forces.
Publicly, both sides proclaim "100 percent cooperation" but the alliance is an uneasy one thanks to longstanding tensions between Iraqi Kurds and Turkmen in the region.
The Turkmen consider much of the territory now incorporated into the autonomous three-province Kurdish region of north Iraq to be their land, and reject Kurdish attempts to extend control over ethnically-mixed Kirkuk.
Out of earshot of the peshmerga, one Turkmen fighter who declines to give his name accuses the Kurds of taking advantage of the Sunni advance.
"The peshmerga come and say they are protecting us, but we know they want to hold this area and make it theirs," he says.
And the contempt is mutual, with a Kurdish fighter taking a news hound aside at the frontline to complain about the Turkmen forces.
"These fighters don't do anything. They lie 100 percent of the time," he says, glancing sideways to ensure the Turkmen forces cannot hear.
"When there is shelling or fighting, they run away. They have to say they are fighting because they don't want Kurds to be the ones in control."
For all their suspicion, the Turkmen are committed to the alliance for now, aware of the consequences if Sunni snuffies who consider Shiites heretics enter Taza Khurmatu.
Near the frontline lies a bloodsoaked door that was used to transfer the bodies of 15 Basheer residents killed when the Sunni snuffies moved in.
Peshmerga and Turkmen forces say they included a child and three women who were shot in the head.
Abbas has even committed his eldest son, 16-year-old Mohammed, to the fight.
"He has been on the frontline and he was face-to-face with the gunnies in Basheer," Abbas says proudly.
"It's his first war, but I'm not sure it will be his last."
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Is ISIS Saddam's old Baath party regrouped? Seems like it must be - hard to explain the degree of efficiency unless there was a large group of experienced military people involved.
[AnNahar] A suicide kaboom and shelling killed 12 people and maimed at least 23 south of Storied Baghdad Wednesday, officials said, as Iraq struggles to stem a major hard boy offensive.
The bomber detonated explosives in a market in Mahmudiyah, while shellfire struck various areas of the town.
A major Sunni jihadist offensive, led by 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... , has overrun chunks of five provinces north and west of Storied Baghdad since June 9.
Meanwhile, ...back at the secret hideout, Scarface Al sneeringly put his proposition to little Nell... a boom-mobile in a Kurdish-majority neighborhood of the ethnically mixed northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk killed five people on Wednesday evening, security and medical officials said.
Twenty more people were maimed by the blast in the northern part of the tinderbox oil hub, which lies at the heart of territory Iraq's Kurds want to incorporate into their autonomous region over the objections of Storied Baghdad.
Two of the dead were Kurdish security force members.
While the federal government has not abandoned its opposition to Kurdish claims, Kurdish peshmerga forces are now responsible for its external security after the army abandoned its positions in the face of a Sunni Arab hard boy offensive led by the ISIL.
The krazed killer onslaught, which began on June 9, has overrun swathes of five provinces north and west of Storied Baghdad, including mainly Sunni Arab towns in the west of Kirkuk province.
After initially wilting when confronted with the hard boy advance, security forces have improved their performance. However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... that has been limited to maintaining territory, rather than launching any major counter-offensive.
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"This is a glaring example of the erosion of our street craft and our tradecraft and our capability to operate in a hard place," said Maguire, who helped run CIA operations in Iraq in 2004. "The U.S. taxpayer is not getting their money's worth."
Easy to stay in the HUMINT loop when you're running 'kill or capture' operations and US SOF or Brit SAS are doing the hard work in the bush. [sometimes we ride along, if it's not an over-niter]. Loco and Daisy running around the FOB in their Toyota 4x4, returning to their comfi compound to read traffic, write contact reports and sip gin from the embassy. No FOB Chapman shit here, nobody gets inside the wire. Hot shower and pipe cleaning to follow. Tomorrow, it starts all over again with the 'Tuesday morning weekly update' and seeing what big Army intel is up to....the poor clueless buggers. Punching our deployment tickets.
And by the way, this isn't just Klington SOP in Iraq and Afghanistan, it goes back to the 1960's. Good work if you can get it, and the pay is ridiculous. In all fairness, there are... or were exceptions, Mike Spann being one such exception. Loco and Daisy are not entirely to blame. The attitude at 'main' is low risk/no risk, just keep the reports coming.
[Loco and Daisy are pseudonyms of my own creation].
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Did you ever get the impression that when they spun NSA out from CIA, all the competence went with NSA?
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A few heads poled on Potomac Bridges after 9/11 would have 'encouraged others' to be more attentive to their mission. Instead they would expended their efforts to undermine the elected president of the United States with leaks and counter position papers that just so happened to get into the press.
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Where's Gen. Stan McCrystal and the network he set up in Iraq to roll up these guys. Oh never mind, I forgot, we left there in 2011 and McCrystal is gone.
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OK, so they miss little things like the war in Syria flooding into Iraq and the recent title transfer in the Crimea. But they are on top of the big stuff, like the collapse of the fUSSR. Well, OK, not that. But other stuff, I'm sure.
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Loco and Daisy have you figured out where they went to school? Princeton maybe? Turned down a job at Dad's partnership to do wild and crazy things? (With Daisy).
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I'll wager they both have professional candid shots of themselves in Balaclavas and maybe even Paleo dinner cloths amongst safe locals, along with photographs of mystery people on their walls.
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Just wait until they get the shocking news that night follows day
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Ship - I used to cringe when I saw one of our people wearing a shemagh [man scarf]. Posing for happy snaps with the locals, bad juju. Bad for you, potentially very bad for them. People who need memorabilia on the walls or a "hurrah for me room" suffer from Low-T. I don't even care for bumper stickers. Probably a bit radical or narrow minded on my part.
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One quibble. The ISIS didn't seize the cities, the Shia-led military abandoned them in a cowardly run, and some of the local Sunni quisling tribal leaders delivered the towns to them.
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Baby Assad's job is to keep Russia + Iran happy by hitting the Qaeda Boyz hard, anywhere + everywhere he can, in order to justify staying in power, + not be unilater removed by same.
Ditto as per SSSSHHHHH ... CCCCCCC the Bammer = USA, + NATO-EU.
[AnNahar] A senior army officer said on Wednesday that Jordan can defend itself against "any aggression" after Sunni Arab turbans seized large swathes of neighboring Iraq.
"The Jordanian-Iraqi borders are safe. The Jordanian armed forces are capable of defending the kingdom from any aggression," border guard commander Brigadier Saber Mahayrah told news hounds as they toured the border area.
"We will not allow anyone to cross illegally," he said as armored personnel carriers, Humvees and tanks deployed to the area.
Four military helicopters hovered over the border.
Mahayrah made his remarks two days after Jordan reinforced its border.
"The Jordanian army has dispatched more troops, tanks, rocket launchers and armored personnel carriers to the border with Iraq," a security official told AFP on Monday.
"The army will not tolerate any kind of infiltration."
Sunni snuffies led by 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... (ISIL) overran swathes of land north and west of Storied Baghdad this month.
There is only one official crossing between Iraq and Jordan, at Trebil, some 370 kilometers (230 miles) east of Amman.
There was confusion over who controls the Iraqi side of the crossing, with some reports saying ISIL fighters have overrun it and others saying it is under the control of Sunni tribes.
"The crossing post on the Iraqi side is run by Iraqi government officials. It is working normally," said an Iraqi driver as several trucks crossed into Jordan.
The Sunni murderous Moslem offensive in Iraq has sparked fears in Amman that the jihadists will take their fight to Jordan.
Already struggling to cope with hosting more than 600,000 Syrian refugees, Jordan has long faced a challenge in dealing with its own jihadists, many of whom have joined ISIL or Al-Qaeda-linked groups in neighboring Iraq and Syria.
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[AnNahar] Troops searching for three teenagers Israeli says were kidnapped a fortnight ago by Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, hard boys, tossed in the clink ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... 17 Paleostinians in the West Bank overnight, an army spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
The arrests took place across the West Bank and included two Hamas members of the Paleostinian parliament, Paleostinian sources said.
The search operation sparked festivities south of the city of Hebron in which an 18-year-old Paleostinian was seriously maimed by a live round to the stomach, Paleostinian security sources.
Another Paleostinian, Mustafa Aslan, 22, who was maimed Friday in similar festivities in Qalandia refugee camp outside Jerusalem, died of his injuries, his family said.
Israeli security decided to continue its "massive operations," the army's biggest deployment to the West Bank in a decade, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said.
The latest detentions raised to 371 the number of Paleostinians arrested in the two weeks since the teens disappeared from a hitchhiking post in the southern West Bank.
Of that number, 282 are allied to the Islamist Hamas movement, an army front man told Agence La Belle France Presse.
He said soldiers had searched 1,955 locations and raided 64 Hamas institutions.
So far there has been no claim of responsibility and no sign of the missing students, with the search focusing on the southern West Bank.
[AnNagar] Jordanian police fired tear gas to disperse angry protesters in the Islamist stronghold of Maan on Wednesday after police potted a suspect in a shootout in the southern city.
"More than 100 people demonstrated to protest the killing of a man wanted by police," a witness told AFP on condition of anonymity.
"Police fired tear gas to disperse the demonstration after the protesters blocked roads with burning tires."
A security official confirmed the incident.
"On Monday, security forces raided an area of Maan to arrest two suspects. One of them was killed in a shootout. The second suspect bravely ran away," he told AFP.
"Three coppers as well as a woman were hurt in the shootout," he added, without elaborating.
In April, a 20-year-old man was killed outside his home in festivities with security forces after gunnies opened fire on police guarding a courthouse.
Six men are now facing trial for their alleged involvement in the violence.
Maan has a bloody and rebellious past dating back to the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
In April last year, armed festivities among students at the city's King Hussein bin Talal University killed four people and maimed more than 25.
Suspected Abu Sayyaf rebels have freed a woman they kidnapped in Zamboanga City early this year following a successful negotiation in nearby Basilan province. Former Basilan Vice Governor Alrasheed Sakkalahul, who helped in securing the safe release of Sabrina Voon, said the victim was freed in the coastal village of Baliwasan.
Sakkalahul said the woman’s family sought his assistance. He said, "I hurried back to the Philippines to find a way on how to get in touch with the kidnappers after Voon’s family sought my help in securing the safe release of Sabrina. Through a third party, we were able to make contact with the kidnappers and secured the freedom of Sabrina Voon. We negotiated with the kidnappers and the authorities were well aware the negotiations and we did strictly on humanitarian grounds."
He said he was not aware if ransom was paid to the kidnappers.
Police have filed criminal charges against Abdul Hassan Yusop, who was among those who kidnapped Voon. Police said he had been identified through his photo on a fake driver’s license he used to hire the van in Zamboanga.
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[AvNahar] Security agencies detained a Syrian national accused of monitoring a number of streets while he was on his way to the eastern border town of Arsal, An Nahar newspaper published on Wednesday.
The man who is from Raad family was allegedly heading to Arsal to get paid for monitoring several streets in the capital Beirut.
The suspect confessed that he was paid $300 for each information he presented.
He also told security agencies that he was dealing with a man called Abou Mouhannad from the eastern Bekaa town of Majdel Anjar.
Early Tuesday a suicide kaboom in Beirut's southern suburbs, Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... 's main bastion, killed a security officer and maimed 20 others.
No one has claimed the attack, but an audio recording posted on YouTube by Abdullah Azzam Brigades ... Leb's current al-Qaeda affiliate, named after a guy whose car the current head of al-Qaeda had boomed... said there would be more "strikes" if Hizbullah does not pull out of Syria.
The bombing in Tayyouneh came three days after a suicide kaboom in eastern Leb killed one person and maimed 30.
The Abdullah Azzam brigades is an al-Qaeda-linked group that has previously grabbed credit for other Syria-related violence in Leb.
[AnNahar] The army intelligence locked away Please don't kill me! on Wednesday the cousin of runaway Salafist holy man Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir ...Leb Salafist holy man with the usual grouch against Shiites. Currently on the run, he seems intent on reigniting the Leb civil war... in Abra, a suburb of the southern city of Sidon, reports said.
Abdul Rahim al-Asir was apprehended at the pharmacy where he worked, they said.
Al-Asir went into hiding following deadly gunbattles with the Lebanese army in June 2013. Indictments were issued in February against him and 56 of his followers that called for the death penalty.
The 45-year-old holy man, who supports the overwhelmingly Sunni rebels fighting to topple Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... , is still nowhere to be found along with pop idol Fadel Shaker.
Al-Asir teamed up with Shaker, a onetime prominent singer, when around three years ago he began agitating for Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... to disarm.
Al-Asir's supporters opened fire on an army checkpoint near the holy man's headquarters in Abra in June last year. The attack and the fierce festivities that ensued left around 18 soldiers and more than 20 gunnies dead.
The gunbattles concentrated in the area of the Bilal Bin Rabah Mosque, where Asir was a preacher, and nearby buildings in Abra.
[AnNahar] The army intelligence detained the members of a terrorist network, who are suspected of planning to assassinate a high-ranking security official in the North, the military said in a communique issued on Wednesday.
According to the statement, the army intelligence apprehended a terrorist cell in the Lebanese Qalamoun region.
The network was seeking to assassinate a prominent security official in the North.
The detainees were identified as: Wassim Ahmed al-Qass, Wissam Ahmed al-Qass, Dani Ahmed al-Qass, Amjad Nouhad al-Khatib and Nabil Kamel Bayda.
"The army intelligence will continue to pursue suspects to arrest the remaining members of the cell and reveal their connections and schemes," the statement said.
Security forces began recently enforcing strict measures and carrying out raids in several areas after obtaining information on a plot to target hospitals and high-ranking security officials.
On early Tuesday a suicide kaboom in Beirut's southern suburbs, Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... 's main bastion, killed a security officer and maimed 20 others.
No one has claimed the attack, but an audio recording posted on YouTube by Abdullah Azzam Brigades ... Leb's current al-Qaeda affiliate, named after a guy whose car the current head of al-Qaeda had boomed... said there would be more "strikes" if Hizbullah does not pull out of Syria.
The bombing in Tayyouneh came three days after a suicide kaboom in eastern Leb that killed one person and maimed 30.
The Abdullah Azzam brigades is an al-Qaeda-linked group that has previously grabbed credit for other Syria-related violence in Leb.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea, one that didn't involve kerosene... media reports said that the Anti-Terror Bureau apprehended overnight Wednesday Abdullah and Ahmed Salah Eddine, Wiam al-Mustapha, Mohammed Khaled Salah Eddine, Bilal al-Mustapha and Abdul Rahman al-Sayyed in 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... 's al-Zahiriyeh area.
Ahmed al-Mustapha meanwhile managed to escape.
The six men hail from the northern town of Fneideq and are charged with opening fire after the arrest of a man from the Zahraman family.
They are also charged with carrying out other security violations.
[AnNahar] A man went kaboom! at a hotel in the Beirut area of Raouche on Wednesday as General Security members stormed his room.
TV footage showed broken windows and flames shooting from the third and fourth floors of the Duroy Hotel, located in Raouche, close to the sea.
According to Lebanese Red Thingy director George Kettaneh, eleven people were maimed in the blast, including seven civilians and four General Security members.
They were all rushed to the American University of Beirut Medical Center.
"Ambulances have been scrambled to the blast scene where a jacket wallahwent kaboom! inside his room at the Duroy Hotel in Raouche during a General Security raid," al-Jadeed television reported.
MTV said the suicide bomber was a Saudi national and quoted security sources as saying that "there are no other snuffies in the hotel."
Later on Wednesday, state-run National News agency said "it has been confirmed that the suicide bomber is 20-year-old Saudi national Abdul Rahman al-Humaiqi."
"The raid was a continuation of the security operation that started at Hamra's Napoleon Hotel and security forces are still tight-lipped over the information," LBCI TV said, noting that "the security operation is still underway in search for possible bombs and booby-trapped cars in the hotel and its vicinity."
Quoting reports, LBCI said "another suicide bomber might be inside the hotel and negotiations are ongoing to thwart him from blowing himself up."
Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq inspected the blast scene, saying "three General Security members were lightly maimed."
He confirmed that a Saudi would-be suicide bomber was maimed in the blast, describing the security raid as "a preemptive strike by the General Security agency."
Meanwhile, ...back at the wine tasting, Vince was about to start tasting his third quart... the shadowy Free Sunnis of Baalbek Brigade grabbed credit for the bombing on its Twitter account, saying "other jihadists" managed to flee the blast scene.
"Our blessed operations will not be merciful on (Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... ), the Crusader army (Lebanese Army) and anyone targeting the free jihadists," the group threatened.
"The victory that is being achieved by the Islamic State of Iraq (and the Levant) against (Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri) al-Maliki's army is a motivation for every jihadist in the world," the Brigade added.
State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr said a suspect was incarcerated Please don't kill me! at the hotel, revealing that three General Security members were maimed.
"Two Saudi suicide bombers were at the hotel in Raouche and security forces arrested one while the other went kaboom!," al-Jadeed TV said.
It added that two General Security members were "critically maimed."
The TV network said three men of Arab nationalities were arrested at the hotel.
OTV said "two suicide bombers of Gulf nationalities" blew themselves up as their room was raided.
It said the raid at the hotel had to do with "the cell that was arrested in the North."
LBCI said "a suitcase containing seven kilos of explosives was found in the possession of the two suicide bombers at the Duroy Hotel."
For its part, NNA said a booby-trapped suitcase was discovered in the vicinity of the Duroy Hotel.
"The arrested would-be suicide bomber is from the al-Swainy family and he was born in 1995," MTV said.
The General Security raid followed the arrest last Friday in a hotel in the nearby Hamra district of the capital of a Frenchie of Comoran origin on suspicion of plotting to carry out suicide kabooms in Leb on behalf of 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... group.
That is the same group that has spearheaded the offensive by Sunni Arab Death Eaters that has swept up a big swathe of northern and north-central Iraq over the past two weeks and also made gains in neighboring Syria.
On Monday, the al-Akhbar newspaper reported that Sherlocks suspected the detained Frenchie was part of a cell of four would-be suicide bombers who had entered Leb.
The same night, a young, off-duty General Security inspector was killed as he stopped a car driving the wrong way up a street towards a cafe in the Tayyouneh district of south Beirut whose driver then blew it up.
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