[ARABNEWS] US officials prepared Wednesday to fly the body of a two-star general slain in an Afghan "insider attack" back home, as a similar attack saw an Afghan police officer drug and shoot dead seven of his colleagues, authorities said.
The investigation into the killing of Maj. Gen. Harold J. Greene, the highest-ranked US officer to be slain in combat since 1970 in the Vietnam War, continued Wednesday without any clear answers into why a man dressed in an Afghan army uniform opened fire. The shooting maimed about 15 people, including a German general and two Afghan generals.
In a statement, NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... said Greene's body was being prepared to be flown to the US via Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with Maj. Gen. Greene's family, and the families of our soldiers who were maimed yesterday in the tragic events that took place in Kabul," NATO said. "These soldiers were professionals, committed to the mission."
Greene, a 34-year US Army veteran, was the highest-ranked American officer killed in combat in the wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq. About half of the maimed in Tuesday's attack at Marshal Fahim National Defense University were Americans, several of them reported to be at death's door.
Early indications suggested the Afghan gunman who killed the American general was inside a building and fired indiscriminately from a window at the people gathered outside, a US official said. There was no indication that Greene was specifically targeted, the US official said. The official was not authorized to speak publicly by name about the incident and provided the information only on condition of anonymity.
The site of the attack is part of a military compound known as Camp Qargha, sometimes called "Sandhurst in the Sand"— referring to the famed British military academy — because British forces oversaw building the officer school and its training program.
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I find it odd that to this day the shooter has not been identified, and no mention of what has happened to him. Perhaps the "workplace violence" meme is still being discussed before release.
[Tolo News] On Tuesday night armed Taliban attacked Musa Qala district of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province in efforts to seize the district.
According to local officials, since Tuesday night the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) and the Taliban have exchanged gun fires; the clash is still continuing.
Spokesman to Helmand's governor calls the attack on Musa Qala "similar to the Sangin attack."
"Anti-government armed forces attacked parts of Musa Qala district last night as an attempt to take control of the area, but the ANSF's operation is underway," said Omer Zwak, front man for the Helmand governor.
Zwak said that since the start of the clash, a number of Taliban gunnies were killed along with four coppers. He adds that another battle is ongoing between anti-government armed forces and security forces in Nahr-e-Saraj district of Helmand.
"We have started operations to clear the areas of anti-government armed forces in some districts and, if needed, we will ask for support from the capital."
Just a month earlier, hundreds of Taliban fighters, including Pak Taliban, attacked the district of Sangin in Helmand province in an attempt to take control of the district.
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[Tolo News] At least six Afghan coppers were killed and one other maimed by their colleague with the assistance of the Taliban in an outpost in Trinkot City of Urozgan province on Tuesday night, local officials said.
Provincial Head of Security Gulab Khan says that the incident happened when a policeman poisoned six of his colleagues and maimed one other policeman with the help of Taliban bully boyz at an outpost in Trinkot.
According to Khan, the policeman fled the area with the Taliban after the incident taking with them the weapons of the coppers.
Investigations are underway.
The Taliban have not yet commented about the attack.
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[Tolo News] A group of Taliban murderous Moslems attacked an Afghan force outpost in eastern Paktia province early Wednesday and started festivities with the forces, local officials said.
According to local officials, three coppers have been maimed and 10 Taliban murderous Moslems have been killed.
The attack took place at around 4:30 a.m. in Zurmat district of the province when more than 16 Taliban murderous Moslems attacked the military outpost and began fighting with the forces, said provincial Police Chief Zalmai Oriakhail.
"The clash began around 4:30 a.m. and continued for three hours," Oriakhail explained. "Ten Talibs were killed and nine others maimed and three security personnel were maimed in the fight."
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[MAGHAREBIA] Five members of a Libyan television channel crew were kidnapped Tuesday (August 5th) at a fake checkpoint near Ajdabiya, Libya Herald reported.
They were returning from Tobruk after covering the inauguration of the new House of Representatives.
No group has grabbed credit for the kidnapping. The night before the abduction, however, tribal elders reportedly warned 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... against carrying weapons or setting up road checkpoints.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Bizerte security services jugged Please don't kill me! three religious holy warriors in connection with letters written to Tunisian army officers in Zarzouna, TAP reported on Tuesday (August 5th).
The letters contained death threats and refereed to the security services as "taghout".
In other security news, Tunisian National Guard members arrested three turbans in the Sidi Bouzid suburb of Regueb.
The suspects are linked with 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... figure Afif Amouri, who was arrested on July 31th.
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[AnNahar] An Egyptian court on Wednesday confirmed the death sentences of 12 men for killing a police major general during a firefight southwest of Cairo last year, judicial sources said.
Ah, I see. A very specific killing of a specific general.
Major General Nabil Faraj was killed on September 19 2013 when the town of Kerdasa was stormed by security forces to flush out Islamist supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi.
Islamists had taken control of the town soon after police launched a brutal crackdown on Morsi's supporters in two Cairo squares on August 14, in which hundreds were killed.
The court in Cairo on Wednesday confirmed an earlier June verdict of capital punishment for 12 of the accused.
Seven of those convicted are in jug, and five are on the run.
Ten other accused were sentenced to life imprisonment in the same case, and another defendant was acquitted, the sources said.
All 22 of those convicted were also found guilty of "terrorist activities and the attempted murder of other coppers" between August 14 and October 5 last year.
The town of Kerdasa made headlines on August 14, 2013, when a mob attacked a cop shoppe there and killed 13 officers, mutilating their corpses.
The attack was savage Dire Revenge™ for the deaths of pro-Morsi supporters in Cairo sit-ins earlier that day.
Since Morsi's ouster, police have cracked down hard on his Moslem Brüderbund movement and its members and supporters.
More than 1,400 people have been killed in the crackdown, and more than 15,000 locked away I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! . Hundreds have been sentenced to death in often speedy trials.
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[AnNahar] Eighteen Sudanese have been killed by a rocket strike in the Libyan capital, but Khartoum says the situation does not yet warrant an evacuation of its nationals, official media reported.
A briefing to cabinet on Tuesday said "18 Sudanese nationals were killed in one incident due to fall of a random rocket on the area of their residence on the outskirts of 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... ", the state SUNA news agency said late Tuesday, quoting cabinet front man Omer Mohammed Salih.
SUNA did not say when the deaths occurred.
Since mid-July, Libya has seen festivities between rival militias in Tripoli, where fighting broke out again on Monday, and in the eastern city of Benghazi.
Violence in those cities has killed more than 220 people, maimed around 1,000, and prompted an exodus of foreign nationals from the oil-rich North African nation.
Tripoli airport has been closed since gunnies, mostly Islamists, attacked it on July 13 in a bid to wrest control from the Zintan brigade of former rebels who have held it since 2011.
The foreigners' exodus gathered pace at the weekend when Britannia and Greece sent ships to evacuate nationals.
On Tuesday, the Philippines said it would send a ship to pick up at least 700 of its citizens trapped in Libya.
Sudan's Foreign Minister Ali Karti said that although Sudanese have been killed, "the situation in Libya did not yet reach the critical stage that necessitates evacuation of the Sudanese there", SUNA reported on Monday.
"Unfortunately, by then it'll be too late."
Khartoum's embassy in Tripoli "did not receive any call from a Sudanese national demanding his evacuation from Libya to Sudan", but the government is ready to intervene and get them out if asked, cabinet front man Salih said.
"The problem is, we haven't been able to pay our phone bill in years. So unless they message by runner or passenger pigeon, we'll never know."
Libya has been a popular destination for Sudanese migrant workers seeking better opportunities outside their impoverished nation.
[REUTERS] Suspected members of Nigerian Islamist 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... killed 10 people and kidnapped one in a raid on the village of Zigague in remote northern Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... on Wednesday, state radio reported.
The heavily armed gunnies arrived in a pick-up truck and on cycle of violences at around 2 p.m. local time (1300 GMT) and stormed the house of a local chief, kidnapping one of his children and stealing a car, an army commander told state radio.
"On their way back, they came face-to-face with Cameroonian soldiers but succeeded in shooting to death nine villagers and a soldier of the Rapid Intervention Brigade (BIR)," Albert Mekondane Obounou, senior divisional officer for the Logone and Chari region, told state radio.
Cameroon has introduced measures to increase security on its long jungle border with Nigeria, deploying more than 1,000 soldiers, but has failed to stop Boko Haram raids.
President Paul Biya dismissed two senior army officers last month following Boko Haram attacks in which at least seven people were killed and the wife of the vice prime minister was kidnapped. (Reporting by Tansa Musa; Writing by Daniel Flynn; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)
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[ALLAFRICA] Gunmen suspected to be members of the 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... sect Monday crossed over to a village in Chad and killed six Nigerians who were taking refuge there.
Sources said the Death Eaters stormed Dubuwa village in Chad from Kirenowa, a border town in Marte Local Government Area of Borno State.
About two weeks ago, the Boko Haram assailants attacked Kirenowa, killed some residents and burnt public and private houses, a development which forced the locals to seek refuge in Chad.
Mohammed Yusuf, a farmer from Kirenowa told our correspondent in Maiduguri yesterday that the Death Eaters pursued the fleeing residents to Dubuwa and killed six.
"After the attack on our village two weeks ago, many crossed over to Chad, some to Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... and many others to other places in northern Borno. Sadly, the attackers pursued those in Kirenowa and succeeded in killing six people," Yusuf said.
Some security sources that spoke off record confirmed that like in southern part of the state, the Boko Haram fighters are attacking villages in the northern part.
"Our troops are intensifying efforts to contain the situation but the truth is that the locals must always volunteer information on the movements of the terrorists. This is key to achieving positive results," one of the security officials said.
Kirenowa was the first place that Nigerian forces dislodged a Boko Haram camp in 2013, shortly after the declaration of a state of emergency.
"From all indications, the Death Eaters are fully back in Marte and other local government areas along the shores of the Lake Chad. We pray something urgent would be done so that we would not have a repeat of what happened last year when the Boko Haram fighters hoisted their flags in our villages and indoctrinated our children," Abba Kolomi, a fisherman said.
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[Iran Press TV] At least ten Yemeni soldiers have been killed in separate festivities with suspected al-Qaeda Lions of Islam in three provinces, security officials say.
"Gunmen probably belonging to al-Qaeda opened fire on an army vehicle in Habban in Shabwa province, killing five soldiers and wounding another," a security official said on Wednesday.
The official who was speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... said that the assailants escaped the scene of the attack.
Another security official said gunnies clashed with Yemeni soldiers and killed two of them in the city of Sayun in Hadramawt province.
The official added the clash broke out on Wednesday when "Qaeda gunnies" confronted forces from the 135th Armored Brigade on their way towards the city, which is a stronghold of al-Qaeda.
The Defense Ministry also said in a statement that Yemeni troops killed 18 al-Qaeda members in this confrontation, adding that several others, including a Saudi national, were detained.
In the province of Baida, suspected al-Qaeda Lions of Islam also rubbed out three members of the Interior Ministry's special forces in an ambush in Rada. Six other personnel were also injured.
On August 4, four soldiers were killed in ambushes in Hadramawt, two days after Lions of Islam rubbed out four coppers in an attack on a checkpoint in Shabwa.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has been blamed for both attacks.
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[AnNahar] Ten Yemeni soldiers and 18 suspected al-Qaeda Lions of Islam were killed Wednesday in confrontations in three provinces, security officials and the defense ministry said.
Five soldiers were killed in an ambush in the southern province of Shabwa in the third attack of its kind this month blamed by security officials on the jihadists.
"Gunmen probably belonging to al-Qaeda opened fire on an army vehicle in Habban in Shabwa province, killing five soldiers and wounding another," a security official said. He added that the attackers then escaped.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio wondered: Where the hell was Chumbaloni? And where was his $600?... two soldiers were killed and two maimed in a clash with gunnies in Sayun, in the southeastern Hadramawt province, another security official said.
The official said the "Qaeda gunnies" confronted forces from the 135th Armoured Brigade on their way towards the city, which is a stronghold of al-Qaeda.
The army is reinforcing its presence on the outskirts of Sayun in preparation for an imminent operation against hard boys, the official said.
The defense ministry said "18 members of al-Qaeda" were killed in this confrontation, adding that several others were captured, including a Saudi.
Assailants suspected of belonging to al-Qaeda also rubbed out three members of the interior ministry's Special Forces in an ambush in Rada, in the central Baida province, a security official said. Six other personnel were maimed, he said.
On Monday, four soldiers died in a ambushes in Hadramawt, and four coppers were killed on Saturday in an attack on a checkpoint in Shabwa.
Security services also blamed the two earlier attacks on al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which has been branded by Washington as the Death Eater network's deadliest franchise.
In late April, the army launched a ground offensive against AQAP in Shabwa and nearby Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... provinces.
The group is active across several parts of Yemen, taking advantage of a collapse of central authority during a 2011 uprising that ousted veteran president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it....
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[ARABNEWS] A city in China's restive western region of Xinjiang has banned people with head scarves, veils and long beards from boarding buses, as the government battles unrest with a policy that critics said discriminates against Mohammedans.
Xinjiang, home to the Mohammedan Uighur people who speak a Turkic language, has been beset for years by violence that the government blames on Mohammedan separatists.
Authorities will prohibit five types of passengers — those who wear veils, head scarves, a loose-fitting garment called a jilbab, clothing with the crescent moon and star, and those with long beards — from boarding buses in the northwestern city of Karamay, state media said.
The crescent moon and star symbol features on many national flags, besides being used by groups China says want to set up an independent state called East Turkestan.
The rules were intended to help strengthen security through August 20 during an athletics event and would be enforced by security teams, the ruling Communist Party-run Karamay Daily said on Monday.
"Those who do not comply, especially those five types of passengers, will be reported to the police," the paper said.
In July, authorities in Xinjiang's capital Urumqi banned bus passengers from carrying items ranging from cigarette lighters to yogurt and water, in a bid to prevent violent attacks.
Exiled Uighur groups and human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... activists say the government's repressive policies in Xinjiang, including controls on Mohammedans, have provoked unrest, a claim Beijing denies.
"Officials in Karamay city are endorsing an openly racist and discriminatory policy aimed at ordinary Uighur people," Alim Seytoff, the president of the Washington-based Uyghur American Association, said in an e-mailed statement.
While many Uighur women dress in much the same casual style as those elsewhere in China, some have begun to wear the full veil, a garment more common in Pakistain or Afghanistan than in Xinjiang. Police have offered money for tips on everything from "violent terrorism training" to individuals who grow long beards.
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"Officials in Karamay city are endorsing an openly racist and discriminatory policy"
This will come as a shock, Islamo-dude, but that only works in the West. The heathen Chinee have their own interpretation of "politically correct".
(Reuters) - China will force real-name registrations on public accounts of instant messaging tools and require those wishing to publish or reprint political news to seek prior approval, state media and Tencent Holdings Ltd said on Thursday...Public account users must also sign an agreement with the service provider when they register, promising "to comply with the law, the socialist system, the national interest, citizens' legal rights, public order, social moral customs, and authenticity of information," Xinhua said.
[DAWN] PESHAWAR: Members of the Sikh community in 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. came under attack on Wednesday, with one killed and two injured in a firing incident. Following the attack, protestors erupted into the streets and burnt tyres blocking roads including the grand Trunk (GT) road in Peshawar.
The demonstrators rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud against what they said was the government's failure to protect members of minority communities and demanded the immediate arrest of those involved in the attack.
The protestors tried to approach the Chief Minister's House but were stopped by security. Later the demonstrators headed towards the Governor's House.
Police officials said unidentified gunniesshot up members of the Sikh community when they were at Shabaab market in the Hashtnagri area.
DawnNews reported that Jasmot Singh, Bahram Singh and Manmit Singh were attacked when they were at their respective shops in the market. The victims were rushed to the Lady Reading Hospital immediately after the attack, where one died.
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[DAWN] Five krazed killers, most of them foreigners, were killed in a drone strike in North Wazoo's Dattakhel area ... which is owned and operated by Hafiz Gul Behadur... , intelligence sources said.
The sources said the identity of the hard boyz could not be ascertained, adding that most of those killed were foreigners.
Two hard boyz were also injured when the drone fired two missiles on a compound in Dattakhel.
This is the fourth such drone strike since the Pak military launched Operation Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... in the militancy-infested lawless region to wipe out longstanding bases of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) and other krazed killer groups.
The semi-autonomous tribal area on the Afghan border has for years been a hideout for several krazed killer groups — including Al Qaeda and the TTP as well as imported muscle such as Uzbeks and Uighurs.
Pakistain routinely protests against US drone strikes, saying they violate the country's illusory sovereignty and are counterproductive in the fight against terror.
The US had suspended drone strikes for around six months when Pakistain was pursuing peace talks with the TTP but resumed the attacks in June after the talks failed.
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Sunni militants from the Islamic State group on Thursday seized Iraq's largest dam, placing them in control of enormous power and water resources and access to the river that runs through the heart of Baghdad.
After a week of attempts, the radical Islamist gunmen successfully stormed the Mosul Dam and forced Kurdish forces to withdraw from the area, residents living near the dam told The Associated Press. They spoke anonymously for safety concerns.
The group's advances came as the capital has been shaken by a string of car bombs that has claimed more than 80 lives in the last two days.
The Islamic State group posted a statement online Thursday, confirming that they had taken control of the dam and vowed to continue "the march in all directions," adding that it will not "give up the great Caliphate project." The group added that it has seized a total of 17 cities, towns and targets including the dam over the past five days. The statement could not be verified but it was posted on a site frequently used by the group.
Halgurd Hekmat, a spokesman for the Peshmerga, told The Associated Press that clashes around the dam are ongoing and he does not know who is in control at this point in time.
The al-Qaida-breakaway group has established its idea of an Islamic state in the territory it controls in Iraq and Syria, imposing its harsh interpretation of Islamic law. Iraqi government forces, Kurds and allied Sunni tribal militiamen have been struggling to dislodge the Islamic State militants and its Sunni allies with little apparent success.
The Mosul Dam or Saddam Dam as it was once known is located north of Iraq's second-largest city Mosul, which fell to the militants on June 10. Fighting intensified in the region Sunday after the nearby towns of Zumar and Sinjar fell to the militants. It's not the only dam they are targeting.
Iraq's second largest dam, the Haditha Dam in the western Anbar province, has also been at risk of takeover but remains in the hands of the Iraqi military.
The Kurdish fighters, known as the peshmerga, had initially managed to stall the militant advances, but their defense has waned in recent weeks.
The seizing of dams and reservoirs gives the militants control over water and electricity that they could use to help build support in the territory they now rule by providing the scarce resources to residents. Or they could sell the resources as a lucrative source of revenue.
There are also fears the militants could release the waters of the dam and devastate the country all the way down to the capital Baghdad, though maintaining the dam's power and water supplies will be key to their attempts to build a state.
Late Wednesday, militants overran a cluster of predominantly Christian villages alongside the country's semi-autonomous Kurdish region, sending tens of thousands of civilians and Kurdish fighters fleeing from the area, several priests in northern Iraq said Thursday. The capture of Qaraqoush, Iraq's biggest Christian village, and at least four other nearby hamlets, brings the Islamic State to the very edge of the Iraqi Kurdish territory and its regional capital, Irbil.
The U.S. officials said the administration is weighing an urgent response to help the thousands of trapped religious minorities fleeing their homes, possibly with humanitarian aid.
On Monday, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered the Iraqi air force to provide aerial support to the Kurds, in a rare show of cooperation between Baghdad and the Kurdish regional government that underscored the serious nature of this crisis.
The French government on Thursday called for an emergency meeting by the United Nations Security Council to address the advances of the Islamic State militants and "the intolerable abuses committed," and asked that the international community mobilizes itself against the threat.
Even as Sunni militants have been taking control of territory in the north and west of the country, Baghdad has been increasingly targeted by car bombs, with a string of explosions killing at least 83 people in the last two days.
Iraqi officials said in two separate incidents on Thursday, drivers rammed cars packed with explosives into police checkpoints in the northern, predominantly Shiite district of Kazimiyah killing a total of 32 people, most of them civilians, and wounding dozens.
Medical officials confirmed the toll. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to release information.
A roadside bomb also went off west of Baghdad in the suburb of Abu Ghraib, killing two soldiers.
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The US should be throwing in airstrikes all over the northern region to destroy and deny the logistics aid that the ISIS needs -- they are this large, they will start requiring visible logistics. We have the capability to coordinate such things with the Kurds.
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[NationalReview] On Wednesday, Qaraqosh, the largest Christian town in northern Iraq's Nineveh province, came under assault from the Islamic State, and all 50 to 60,000 of its residents have fled to Erbil in Kurdistan.
...Yesterday 45 children died of thirst. Some families throw their children from the top of Sinjar mountain in order not to see them die from hunger or thirst, or not to be taken by the terrorists. 1500 men were killed in front of their wives and families, 50 old men died also from thirst and illness. More than 70 girl and women including Christians were taken, raped and being captured and sold. More than 100 families are captured in Tel afar airport. There is about 50 Christian families in Sinjar. The terrorists were able to control the Syriac church there and cover the Cross with their black banner. Till now we do not know anything about those Christian families.
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This is classical Islam in action, and it never changes. Moslems please their grinning devil god by killing anyone who does not agree with them. They cannot tolerate any disagreement or diversity.
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If there hadn't been an idiotic nation building in non-nations and listening to traitorous turkey then there could've been a viable kurdistan already kicking ISIS ass and taking names.
[Iran Press TV] Soldiers of the Iraqi army have inflicted heavy losses on the ISIL Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... Death Eaters in separate festivities around the bully boy-held city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn....
At least 60 faceless myrmidons were killed in one Arclight airstrike targeting a juvenile prison in Mosul, the scenic provincial capital of Nineveh province, on Wednesday.
The prison was being used by the Death Eaters as a court to regularly issue beheading verdicts for those who dissent them.
Meanwhile, ...back at the cheese factory, there was only one thought in the mouse's mind: I can do this! I can do this! Then the trap sprung... Iraq's al-Sumaria TV station quoted Iraqi officials as saying that 180 ISIL bad boyz were potted in the north of the city where the central government is carrying out Arclight airstrikes to support Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, who are also engaged in festivities with the Death Eaters there.
The figure would put ISIL's fatalities of the day at 240. One senior ISIL commander and four of his deputies were reportedly among the dead.
"We have changed our tactics from being defensive to being offensive," said Jabbar Yawar, secretary-general of the ministry in charge of the Kurdish Peshmerga fighters.
The crisis in Iraq escalated after the ISIL Takfiri faceless myrmidons took control of Mosul, in a lightning advance on June 10, which was followed by the fall of Tikrit, located 140 kilometers (87 miles) northwest of the capital Baghdad.
More than a million people have been displaced in Iraq so far this year, according to the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
The ISIL has vowed to continue its raid towards Baghdad. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014... has said that the country's security forces would confront the terrorists, calling the seizure of Mosul a "conspiracy".
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"conspiracy"? That's Maliki's code for saying "Its all the Sunnis fault and the Kurds didn't rescue us". Not at all the fault of the corruption and nepotism of Shia Army officers and Regional police in the region, noooo, not at all /sarc.
[BBC] At least 50 people have been killed in an air strike on a building under Sunni myrmidon control in the northern Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , officials say.
Medical sources say it hit a prison run by the Islamic State (IS), a jihadist group that seized the city in June.
However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... the military front man for the prime minister said an Islamic court formed by the jihadists was the target.
Elsewhere, a series of boom-mobiles struck crowded markets in Shia districts of Baghdad, killing at least 47 people.
Twin blasts struck Sadr City on Wednesday evening killing at least 30 people, with another attack in Ur killing at least eight people. Attacks were also reported in eastern and southern districts of Baghdad.
The capital has become even more tense in recent weeks since Sunni jihadists threatened to attack it after seizing large areas of northern Iraq, says BBC Middle East analyst Sebastian Usher.
Thousands trapped
Kurdish forces, known as Peshmerga, were also reportedly shelling eastern districts of Mosul and an area to the north-east on Wednesday.
Iraqi state TV reported that the Mosul air strike had freed about 300 people held by the IS at the prison, which the group had reportedly been using as a religious court and detention centre.
Sources told the BBC that some of the detainees held by the group were among the dead, adding that a drone might have been used in the attack.
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[AnNahar] Five kabooms, including four boom-mobileings, killed at least 30 people and maimed around 70 others Wednesday in several Baghdad districts, Iraqi police and medical sources said.
In the deadliest strike, two near simultaneous blasts in the northeastern Shiite area of Sadr City killed at least 16 people and maimed 34, a police colonel told Agence La Belle France Presse. Medical sources confirmed the toll.
Another boom-mobile near a market area in the Ur district, north of Sadr City, killed at least eight and maimed 21, the same sources said.
In the eastern district of Baghdad al-Jadida, at least four were killed and 12 maimed, and further south in Zafaraniya, two people were killed and four maimed in a roadside kaboom blast.
The Islamic State jihadist group seized large parts of Iraq's west and north in June, before stopping its offensive a few dozen kilometers from the Iraqi capital.
But violence has continued to wreak havoc in Baghdad, mostly in Shiite neighborhoods, with suicide kabooms, boom-mobiles and improvised bombs targeting security forces as well as civilians.
[AnNahar] Kurdish fighters from Iraq, Syria and Turkey were coordinating operations in northern Iraq Wednesday to reclaim areas lost to jihadists and rescue thousands of civilians stranded in nearby mountains.
The fate of the civilians from the Yazidi minority, who fled to the Sinjar mountains after an attack by the Islamic State (IS) group at the weekend, has sparked international concern.
In a series of raids west and north of their main Iraqi hub of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... in recent days, IS fighters took over the towns of Sinjar and Zumar, further secured the border with Syria by seizing Rabia and bagged several oilfields in the process.
A bigwig from Iraq's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) party said Kurdish fighting units from the homegrown peshmerga, the Syrian-based PYD and the Turkish PKK had agreed to share responsibility for the ongoing counter-offensive.
"The fighters of West Kurdistan and the PKK are responsible for confronting Daash (IS's former Arabic acronym) in Rabia and the Sinjar area," said Hallo Penjweny, the PUK's top official for the Mosul region.
"On our side, we are taking care of Zumar and the rest of the area north and east of Mosul," he told news hounds.
Sinjar is west of Mosul, Iraq's second city.
West Kurdistan refers to the Syrian democratic Union Party (PYD), which claims it has already retaken Rabia but it remains unclear how much progress they have made in the Sinjar area.
"The PKK fighters have reached the Jabal Sinjar area, where they are protecting the Sinjaris from attacks" by jihadists, Penjweny said.
But another PUK official warned it could be some time before the civilians can be rescued.
"The PKK is working to open a safe passage for the displaced; it is not easy and it will require days," Harem Kamal Agha told AFP.
The peshmerga are considered the most able military force in Iraq, but their government has been cash-strapped of late and they have struggled to hold the territory they grabbed when federal soldiers retreated in the face of an initial IS onslaught two months ago.
Their withdrawal from Sinjar after hours battling IS myrmidons, left civilians running for their lives. Notable among them are Yazidis, who are stigmatized as "devil-worshipers" by the jihadists because of their unique blend of beliefs and practices.
A Yazidi politician broke down in tears during a parliamentary session Tuesday as she urged the government and the international community to save her community from being massacred or starved into extinction.
"Over the past 48 hours, 30,000 families have been besieged in the Sinjar mountains, with no water and no food," said Vian Dakhil.
"We are being slaughtered; our entire religion is being wiped off the face of the earth. I am begging you, in the name of humanity."
On Tuesday, the U.N. Security Council condemned the latest IS attack and said it "may constitute a crime against humanity."
A Kurdish human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... official said Iraqi army helicopters had been dropping food and water to civilians cowering in the mountains.
The peshmerga are grappling with IS attacks hundreds of kilometers further down the front but also east of Mosul, only a few dozen kilometers from the Kurdish capital Arbil.
On Wednesday, a suicide boom-mobilewent kaboom! at a peshmerga checkpoint between Mosul and Arbil, killing one peshmerga and wounding 13, security sources and witnesses said.
"The peshmerga identified a suicide kaboomer and opened fire to stop him but he was close enough when he detonated his bomb," one said.
Harem Kamal Agha said peshmerga forces had repelled several attacks Wednesday in Christian-dominated areas east of Mosul.
The shortcoming of Iraq's army and mounting concern that the Islamic State would seek to consolidate and expand its self-proclaimed "caliphate" straddling Syria and Iraq have led to the unprecedented Kurdish coordination.
The military leader of the PKK, who is hosted in Iraq's Kandil mountains by the autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) called Tuesday for a coordinated effort.
"Let's form a joint command. Let's make preparations and take IS out of the areas it occupied, including Sinjar. This is possible," Murat Karayilan said.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu also spoke on the phone with KRG President Massud Barzani to discuss "the current situation in Iraq."
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Decent people living in a rough neighborhood, much like Israel.
[AnNahar] Jihadists have launched fresh attacks on Christian areas in north Iraq, sparking a new wave of displacement, the country's Chaldean patriarch and witnesses said Wednesday.
Get ye to France, O Christians! They've promised to take you in.
Towns shelled in the past few days by Islamic State (IS) bully boyz include Tal Kayf, Bartella and Qaraqosh, according to Christian sources.
The towns are among many in the area where thousands of Christians who were forced to abandon their homes in the main northern city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... last month had found refuge.
Some of them are less than 50 kilometers (30 miles) away from Arbil, the capital of the autonomous region of Kurdistan.
Chaldean patriarch Louis Sako said at least one man had been killed by mortar fire, naming him as Lajin Hekmat, an employee of the main church in Tal Kayf, just north of Mosul.
A resident of Tal Kayf, Hanna Aziz Paulus, confirmed that the town had been targeted by shelling.
The town of Bartella had also been attacked by the jihadists, sparking an exodus, according to Sako.
"Bartella has seen the flight of many families in recent days," he told Agence La Belle France Presse, adding the population had feared a major eruption of fighting following a jihadist offensive in the nearby Sinjar region.
Thousands of civilians, including from the Yazidi and other minorities, were forced to flee their homes at the weekend when IS bully boyz ousted Kurdish peshmerga forces there.
Sako said he had this week sent a new message to Pope Francis demanding urgent mobilization to protect one of the world's oldest Christian communities.
"Christians are isolated, afraid and aware that in the face of such a sudden development, anything can happen," the patriarch said in his message.
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The Sunni muslims seem to me to be more intolerant than shia muslims of christians/any religion.
Shouldnt we concentrate on the TRUE enemies the Gulf countries and Pakistan.
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Four members of Hamas's armed wing Izz ad-Din al-Kassam were killed when an explosive device detonated near northern Gaza's Jabaliya region late Thursday, Palestinian news agency Ma'an reported. not wasting the cease-fire/span>
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] A Paleostinian tossed in the slammer Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! by an Israeli anti-terrorism unit has confessed that the abduction and murder of three Israeli teenagers in June was funded by Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, from Gazoo, according to court documents made public on Wednesday.
Hussam Qawasmeh, from Hebron in the West Bank, is said to have admitted helping to plan the kidnappings, obtaining funding for the operation from the Islamist group and burying the teenagers' bodies in a plot of land he had bought several months previously.
The kidnapping and the subsequent discovery of the young men's bodies beneath a pile of rocks in a field near Hebron was a key event in the lead-up to Israel's decision to begin its month-long attack on Gazoo,
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, insisted from the outset that Hamas, whose political wing rules Gazoo, had been behind the murders, but the apparent confession is the first time direct testimony has been made public confirming the group's link to the crime.
Mr Qawasmeh, 40, was arrested on July 11 in the Shuafat neighbourhood of East Jerusalem by an anti-terrorism unit acting on a tip-off from the Shabbak security services, a police front man said. Details of the arrest were revealed in documents submitted to an Israeli court in defence of a demolition order placed on his family home in Hebron.
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[ISRAELNATIONALNEWS] Israel has conditionally agreed to extend a ceasefire that ended the month-long self-defense operation in Gazoo, an Israeli official stated on condition of anonymity.
Rooters reports Wednesday night that the official did not give details about the extension, only that it had been agreed upon.
"Israel has expressed its readiness to extend the truce under its current terms," the official merely stated, referring to the 72-hour "humanitarian ceasefire" brokered by Egypt overnight Monday/Tuesday. The ceasefire took effect at 8:00 am Tuesday and was accepted by both Israel and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,; it is due to expire Friday.
Israel has yet to officially confirm its extension of the ceasefire agreement.
In the meantime, Hamas has rejected the idea of an extension entirely.
"Israel and Hamas will resume fighting immediately at the end of the 72-hour ceasefire, at 8:00 am Friday," a Hamas spokesperson stated Wednesday night.
Earlier Wednesday, the IDF announced a limited pullout of the Gazoo border area, leaving 55,000 soldiers near the fence and discharging some 30,000 reservists. IDF forces already officially left Gazoo itself earlier this week.
On Wednesday night, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu stressed in an international presser that the IDF stands at the ready in the event the current ceasefire is violated, however.
"We closely monitor the implementation of the ceasefire on the ground, and we are holding position in the event it is violated," he stated. "The army is in the field, with reinforcements, to meet any scenario."
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I hope Hamas keeps on doing what they do best.
I worry about Israeli collateral damage, but am I a bad person not to worry about Gazookian collateral damage? Should I be more conflicted? 'Cuz I think I might feel a twinge of sympathy for the average Gazookian citizen. Maybe.
I do hope Israel has enough firepower to finish the job.
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Damage in Gaza? Unfortunate but necessary part of war.
Think about Sherman in Georgia (then north). that took the will to fight out of the South in the US Civil War. That and to a lesser extent, Sheridan in the Shenandoah (Which destroyed a lot of Virginia's will to fight as well as its capability)
[IsraelTimes] An Israeli delegation is in Cairo to discuss the terms of a long-term ceasefire with Hamas, but Hamas has not accepted a ceasefire extension beyond Friday morning. PM Netanyahu said late Wednesday it would be "a moral mistake" not to hit back at terrorist strongholds in mosques and schools.
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Oh my heavenly days! A photo caption from the site:
A defaced portrait of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is held by a man in a classroom after Israeli soldiers withdrew from the Beit Hanoun High School for Girls, which was reportedly used as an advanced base during Israel’s military offensive against Hamas, on August 5, 2014 (Photo credit: Marco Longari/AFP)
Would the ham-heads dare to pull such a stunt just to make the Joooos look bad worse?
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[Ynet] A 21-year-old resident of Baqa al-Gharbiyye was jugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! on suspicion of attacking a soldier and attempting to steal his weapon. According to the suspicion, the man had approached military forces at a checkpoint in the town and began arguing with one of the soldiers, and then attacked him and attempted to steal his weapon. The soldiers managed to stop the suspect and he was taken to the police for questioning.
It remains to be seen, but I think after the three week hunt for the kidnapped schoolboys in the West Bank, followed by the devastation of Operation Protective Edge, the Palestinians of the West Bank won't be having themselves a major uprising any time soon.
[Ynet] Egyptian news report claims that Paleostinians attacked Sami Abu Zuhri ...a senior spokesman for Hamas. Zuhri gained notoriety in 2006 when he dropped his money belt containing somewhere between 640,000 and 900,000 euros, which was confiscated by Paleostinian security and customs officials at a routine border crossing from Egypt to Gaza. The news brought competing Hamas and Fatah forces to the crossing checkpoint for an epic face-making and hollering contest... out of anger at Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, for causing the latest round of violence with Israel.
Paleostinian civilians attacked Hamas spokesperson Sami Abu Zuhri and beat him near Shifa Hospital in the Gazoo Strip recently, according to a report on the Egyptian website Veto Gate.
According to the site, Abu Zuhri's attackers were expressing anger at Hamas, placing blame on the terrorist organization for inciting the IDF's Operation Protective Edge in which nearly 2,000 Paleostinians were killed and some 10,000 homes destroyed.
The Egyptian report cited politician and spokesperson for the Sisi Supporters Front, Mohammed Abu Hamed, as saying that the Gazoo Strip is ripe for a revolution to overthrow Hamas' rule over desperately impoverished Paleostinians in the battered enclave.
Many blame Hamas for the destruction in Gazoo seen here after the IDF's Operation Protective Edge.
Abu Hamed added that public anger with Hamas had been growing previous to Israel's latest military action in the Strip and said that Gazooks live in fear of the hard boy regime.
However Nabil Zaki, a spokesperson for the Tagamoa Party, a left-wing political group in Egypt, took a slightly opposing position in the Veto Gate report, saying that Paleostinians are partly responsible for their plight as they voted Hamas into power, and that anger from civilians would bring few results without expanding into a revolution.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea, one that didn't involve kerosene... Abu Hamed took the opportunity to attack the Egyptian regime's political opponents in the Veto Gate report saying that Paleostinians and the international community were coming to the realization that Hamas is no different than the "Moslem Brüderbund terrorists."
The Moslem Brüderbund was in power for a brief in Egypt before the latest in a string of revolutions and the eventual election victory of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who now heads a regime fiercely opposed to the Brotherhood which funded and politically aided Hamas in Gazoo during its time in power.
Israel has continuously laid blame on Hamas for several rounds of conflict in the Gazoo Strip, and was dismayed when Paleostinians voted the terrorist group into a position of power before violently overthrowing the more moderate Paleostinian Authority in Gazoo.
It has been hoped on the Israeli side that Paleostinian civilians will also see Hamas as responsible for the violence, but broad propaganda campaigns and suspected oppression of free speech in Gazoo has made experts skeptical that a regime change could come from within the Strip.
The Philippine military said that one of Southeast Asia’s top Islamic terrorists militants was alive, more than two years after a jubilant declaration he had been killed in a US-backed airstrike.
Zulkifli Abdul Hir, alias Marwan, a Malaysian bomb maker with a $5 million US government bounty on his head, was in the southern Philippines, senior military officials said. Lieutenant Colonel Ramon Zagala said, "He is alive and we continue to monitor him."
Philippine military leaders said in February 2012 that Zulkifli was among 15 members of the Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah groups killed in an airstrike on the island of Jolo. Another top Jemaah Islamiyah member, Singaporean Mohammad Ali, alias Muawiyah, was also declared killed in the airstrike, along with a Filipino leader of the Abu Sayyaf.
At the time then regional military commander Major General Noel Coballes said, "This is a big victory. There were three senior leaders (killed). This will have a very big impact on the capability of the terrorists."
Shortly afterwards, Malaysia expressed doubts about the purported killings, but the Philippines’ then military spokesman insisted that all three were killed. Arnulfo Burgos, Zagala’s predecessor, said at the time, "Yes, its an A-1 (information). We have something but we cannot divulge all the other information because its an operational (secret)."
However Zagala insisted today that the Philippine military had never said Zulkifli had definitely been killed. He said, "There were reports that said he was dead, but it was never validated… we never confirmed he was dead."
Zagala declined to answer any further questions about the case, such as whether the other two top terrorists militants were also alive.
Military intelligence chief Major General Eduardo Ano said there were "consistent reports" Zulkifli was in the Cotabato area of the main southern island of Mindanao.
He said Zulkifli was believed to be in contact there with the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF). He added that there were 10 to 12 foreign Jemaah Islamiyah members in the southern Philippines, and that Zulkifli was "the most prominent" of them.
[AnNahar] An Indonesian bomb-maker convicted of helping to orchestrate terror attacks on the resort island of Bali in 2005 which killed 20 people was released on parole Wednesday, an official said.
Muhammad Cholili, 36, was sentenced to 18 years in prison in September 2006 for assisting slain ringleaders Noordin Mohammad Top and Azahari Husin to assemble the explosives used in the blasts.
The attacks on restaurants on October 1, 2005 left 20 people dead and over 100 injured.
Noordin and Azahari were key members of the Al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah krazed killer network blamed for a string of deadly attacks in Indonesia, including the 2002 Bali bombing which killed 202 people, mostly Western holidaymakers.
"Muhammad Cholili has been released on parole today after several remissions which he received for good behavior. He has never broken any prison regulations," the justice ministry's prisons spokeswoman Ika Yusanti told AFP.
Sentences are routinely cut in Indonesia to mark major religious celebrations such as Eid al-Fitr Mohammedan holiday and the country's independence day on August 17.
This meant that Cholili served only around half of his term, but Yusanti said that his release has "received the recommendation from the Detachment 88 and the National Anti-Terror Agency", which are responsible for tracking terror activities in the country.
Yusanti also added that the authorities would continue to monitor Cholili's activities and he will not be able to leave Indonesia without the justice minister's approval.
"If he commits any crime or creates any problems in the community, he will be sent back to prison," she added.
Indonesia's English daily The Jakarta Globe reported that Cholili was surprised to learn of his release from the Lowokwaru Prison in Malang, East Java, but was happy to leave prison.
"The most important thing is to go home and meet my family," he was quoted as saying by the newspaper.
Indonesia, the world's biggest Mohammedan-majority nation, has long struggled with terrorism but a successful clampdown in recent years has prevented major deadly attacks.
However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... recent reports of Indonesians joining the procession of jihadists to Syria and Iraq have sparked fears that they will revive sophisticated krazed killer networks.
[Iran Press TV] Five days of festivities with the ISIL Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... Death Eaters have left at least 100 Syrian refugees dead or injured in the Lebanese border town of Arsal, opposition sources say.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights announced the figure amid fighting between Lebanese security forces and the terrorists.
"The toll is high and there are children among the casualties," said Rami Abdel Rahman, the head of the observatory, on Wednesday.
The foreign-backed opposition group also called on the Lebanese army to stop shelling Syrian refugee camps in Arsal, urging the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... humanitarian agencies to help the refugees there.
According to Lebanese security officials, most of the murderous Moslems have been pushed out of the region.
Three Lebanese soldiers held captive have also been released.
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[AnNahar] Army troops on Wednesday raided the houses of Syrian refugees in several regions around the country, and managed to detain a number of people during the operation.
"Several people were enjugged Please don't kill me! during raids of houses and rented warehouses in the town of Benin in Akkar (in northern Leb)," the state-run National News Agency reported.
And in the southern towns of Shebaa and Hasbaya, army forces raided and inspected several houses used by Syrian refugees, NNA said.
A refugee with no legal documents was apprehended during the southern raids, and the same source noted that he was subjected to interrogation.
Meanwhile in Beirut, army troops carried out raids in the Jnah neighborhood, said al-Jadeed television.
"Four Syrians were arrested in these raids," al-Jadeed remarked.
And OTV reported that three members of 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... were held near the airborne regiment's station in the Kesserouan town of Ghousta.
The Internal Security Forces' Intelligence Bureau had detained on Tuesday three people carrying ISIL documents during raids in the Tannourine plains.
The arrested men were identified as M.S., J.S., and S.S.
These raids and arrests come as army troops have been battling foreign armed jihadists in the northeastern border town of Arsal since Saturday.
The festivities, which erupted following the apprehension of a member of the al-Qaeda-linked Al-Nusra Front, have led to the martyrdom of 17 troops while over 85 others have been maimed.
More than 20 army and ISF troops are still held captive by the turbans and negotiations are ongoing between the gunnies and a Mohammedan Scholars Committee delegation to release them.
Army chief General Jean Qahwaji remarked on Sunday that the bully boy fighters are foreigners of different nationalities who came from neighboring countries via the border in coordination with people residing in refugee camps.
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[AnNahar] A bomb detonated on Wednesday evening in the northern city of 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... , killing at least one person and wounding several others amid reports that the blast targeted an army patrol.
"A bomb was placed next to a Renault Rapid car in Mouharram region in southern Tripoli, 30 meters away from a military post in the city," the state-run National News Agency reported.
The NNA said A.Sh. was killed in the evening blast while four others were maimed.
Military sources assured that no soldiers were harmed in the blast.
"Only civilians were maimed in the kaboom," the sources told LBCI television.
LBCI, however, quoted sources as saying that three people were killed and more than 10 others maimed in the Tripoli bomb.
Earlier, OTV said a bomb went kaboom! in Bab al-Ramel neighborhood in Tripoli, injuring many people in the area.
Al-Jadeed television also confirmed the news, noting that the blast took place at the al-Khnaq Bridge area in the city."
"The maimed were transferred to the Islamic Hospital and al-Shifa' Hospital for treatment," it added.
The bomb that detonated is probably locally-made, the same source said.
MTV said the kaboom targeted an army patrol, adding that one person was killed while four others were maimed in the incident.
Tripoli's news network revealed that the kaboom caused huge material damage in cars parked in the area, confirming also that many people were maimed in the blast.
[AnNahar] Clashes erupted overnight between the fighters of a Paleostinian group in Leb and unknown gunnies in the central Bekaa, the state-run National News Agency reported on Wednesday.
Boys will be boys...
According to NNA, gunbattles broke out at 1:30 am between Tell al-Baida post in the Bekaa, which is controlled by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine ... Paleostinian Marxist movement, founded in 1967. It is considered a terrorist organization by more than 30 countries including the U.S., European Union, Australia, Canada, and Antarctica. The PFLP's stated goal is the establishment of a socialist State in Paleostine. They pioneered armed aircraft hijackings in the late 60s and early 70s... - General Command (PFLP-GC), and the adjacent Kfar Zabad area.
Light and medium weapons and rockets were used in the fighting.
The news agency said that the gunnies remain unidentified, adding that battles lasted until 4:30 am.
The Lebanese army heavily deployed in the area to contain the festivities.
The group later confirmed the incident, saying in a statement that gunnies targeted its post in addition to an army position in Ain al-Baida near Kfar Zabad.
The PFLP-GC, the most radical Paleostinian faction whose command is based in Damascus with unlimited support from Syria, has maintained military bases in the eastern Bekaa Valley as well as in the hills of Naameh south of Beirut for the last 23 years.
The PFLP-GC is the only Paleostinian faction that maintains significant military positions outside the 12 Paleostinian camps in Leb.
PFLP-GC bases in Naameh and the Bekaa have long been the target of Israeli air attacks.
Lebanese complaints about which are no doubt very pro forma, indeed.
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[ARABNEWS] US officials prepared Wednesday to fly the body of a two-star general slain in an Afghan "insider attack" back home, as a similar attack saw an Afghan police officer drug and shoot dead seven of his colleagues, authorities said.
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Sunni militants from the Islamic State group on Thursday seized Iraq's largest dam, placing them in control of enormous power and water resources and access to the river that runs through the heart of Baghdad.
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Jabaliya region late Thursday, Palestinian news agency Ma'an reported.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine
