John Sundahl, former love interest to Britney Spears, and the man who assisted her with her public battle with alcohol addiction, has been killed in Afghanistan.
Sundahl, 44, was reportedly working as a private contractor to shuttle officials across the war-plagued country by helicopter, when Taliban fighters targeted his flight after it had departed the capital city of Kabul.
Spears first met Sundahl, a former real estate agent, in 2007 at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in Los Angeles, CA. The two quickly became close, and the artist has even credited him with helping her overcome her drinking problems.
The couple was reportedly engaged at one point in their relationship, however a representative for Spears denied the rumors at the time.
The Daily Mirror reports that Sundahl once spoke openly about Spears very public battle with addiction:
I told her, If you fall off the wagon I dont think youll live. I told her, If you dont want to get sober for yourself, do it for your kids.
She truly wants to stop what shes doing, and she has changed her life in another direction. She doesnt get drunk every night and pass out.
Sundahls brother, Karl, spoke about the events from his Los Angeles home, revealing officials informed the family the Taliban was responsible for the mans death. Its heartbreaking, he said. John went there to try to repair the country. He was trying to help people, he would often say that the country was in chaos.
The pilots body was returned to the U.S. last week, and a small family service was held at a Buddhist temple in L.A.
A source close to Spears also told the publication that the singer is devastated. Britney thought he was a lovely man.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A vehicle of Afghan National Army struck a landmine in eastern Laghman province leaving two soldiers dead and another injured. Sarhadi Zwak, front man for Laghman province says the tragic incident took place in Alishang district this morning. No arrests have been made in connection to the kaboom but officials say they have initiated an investigation. Taliban bully boyz have grabbed credit of the attack in a message to the media.
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[AnNahar] Egyptian jihadists claimed Monday to have bombed a pipeline in the Sinai that carries gas to Jordan, saying it was targeted over Amman's role in the U.S.-led war on the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group.
Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, Egypt's deadliest Lion of Islam group which has pledged allegiance to IS, tweeted unverified pictures of the claimed attack, without saying when it was carried out.
Since the 2011 uprising that toppled president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... , there have been 27 confirmed attacks on energy pipelines in the Sinai Peninsula, the most recent of which was on December 23.
Jordan is among a number of Arab states that have joined the U.S.-led campaign of air strikes against IS, which captured swathes of Syria and Iraq where it has declared a caliphate.
IS says it has captured one of the kingdom's pilots after his plane crashed in Syria in December.
Energy-poor Jordan was heavily reliant on gas supplies from Egypt, until the flow was interrupted in the spate of bombings since 2011.
The Amman government has made plans to buy gas from Israel, despite growing opposition at home from critics of Tel Aviv's policies towards the Paleostinians.
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Jihadist attacking pipelines as a form of political retaliation? Been going on for over six years here in the States, and the pipeline isn't even complete yet.
[AnNahar] Forty-five churches were torched over the weekend in Niger's capital during deadly protests over the publication of a Prophet Mohammed cartoon by the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... , police said on Monday.
The protests, which left five people dead and 128 people injured in Niamey, also saw a Christian school and orphanage set alight, Adily Toro, a front man for the national police, told a presser.
Similar unrest sparked by the French satirical weekly, which was targeted by a bloody Islamist raid on January 7, saw five people killed in the southern city of Zinder, where 45 were maimed.
In the attack on Charlie Hebdo, gunnies slew 12 people, saying they were avenging previous publications of cartoons depicting the prophet. A week later staff defiantly produced a "survivors' issue" with a new cartoon, winning backing from vocal supporters of freedom of expression, but further provoking Moslems in a number of countries.
"The French flag was burned," Toro said, adding that 189 people, including two minors, were locked away Book 'im, Mahmoud! by police. Demonstrators also pillaged and burned numerous premises, including five hotels and 36 bars.
On Sunday, some 300 protestors in Niamey defied a ban on further demonstrations, throwing stones at police who tear-gassed them. The governor of the capital, Hamidou Garba, said 90 people were arrested, while local media said those detained included opposition leaders.
Moslem elder Yaou Sonna on Saturday urged people to stop attacking Christians. "Don't forget that Islam is against violence," he said on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
. "I urge men and women, boys and girls to calm down."
Many Moslems, who form an overwhelming majority of Niger's population, see any depiction of Islam's prophet as offensive.
[Ynet] About 30 hostages kidnapped in 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... over the weekend by members of the Nigerian bad boy 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... have been released, Cameroon's military said Monday.
Military front man Col. Didier Badjeck said some of the more than 60 hostages taken had escaped, while others were freed after a gun fight between Boko Haram and the military. The bully boyz used some of the hostages as human shields, he said, adding that he did not know how many people were killed in the battles.
[EURONEWS] A French charity worker was kidnapped in Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic, on Monday, the French Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The 67-year-old woman was working for a charity providing health and education support to Central African villages, the ministry said.
The French ambassador in Bangui is in contact with the archbishop's office in the city, which has started negotiations with the captors, it said.
U.N. peacekeepers in Central African Republic have nabbed Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! a big shot of the anti-balaka militia, wanted for crimes including murder, rebellion, rape and looting, the country's senior prosecutor said on Sunday.
It was not clear whether the kidnapping was connected to the arrest.
A front man for the Caritas charity in Gay Paree told Rooters a pickup truck carrying the Frenchwoman, who does not work directly for Caritas but for the Catholic church's local health desk, and two churchmen from the Holy Ghost congregation, was intercepted in Bangui earlier this morning.
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Either extraordinarily dedicated or extraordinarily naïve and stupid. Same end result, unfortunately.
[WSJ] Deadly violence erupted here on Monday as government forces clashed with Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to Americaâ¢, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... bully boyz who are ramping up demands for a greater say in the crafting of a new constitution.
The fighting left nine people killed and 67 injured, the country's health ministry said. Unknown gunnies fired on a vehicle carrying Yemeni Prime Minister Khaled Bahah, who escaped unhurt, according to Minister of Information Nadia al Sakkaf.
Fighting also broke out around the presidential palace, but President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi 's whereabouts were unknown and he made no statement Monday. A cease-fire was arranged by late afternoon.
The Houthis represent Yemen's Zaidi sect--an offshoot of Shiite Islam. They forced the government's resignation in September after occupying San'a. They complained about the slow pace of reforms undertaken by Mr. Hadi, including the drafting of a new constitution.
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* See also TOPIX > [Hot Air] YEMEN COUP THREATENS US WAR AGZ AL-QAEDA.
At last check, its NOT clear yet whom is in charge of the Capital andor itself Yemen after this alleegd "attempted coup".
Again, the scenario exists that in order to stop local Shia/Houthi Rebels, Yemen [+ other smaller GCC Govts?] may ask AQIY/AQAP, AL-NUSRA, andor even ISIS/ISIL to intervene agz the Rebs.
Other than a major attack or ground campaign agz Israel or other US Ally, the above could put both the KSA + Rising Iran on a direct mil confrontational path + blow the ME wide open. IFF THE US-WEST/ALLIES THINK WHAT HAS HAPPENED THUS FAR IN LIBYA, EGYPT, SYRIA, UKRAINE + NOW IRAQ IS BAD, THEY HAVEN'T SEEN ANYTHING YET!
[DAWN] Bangladeshi police tossed in the clink Please don't kill me! four suspected members of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in the capital, Dhaka, on Monday, including a regional coordinator for the holy warrior group who told police they had been trained in Pakistain.
Reports of the growing influence of Islamic State, which controls territory in Syria and Iraq, have raised alarm bells across South Asia, though it remains unclear whether holy warriors organising under the Islamic State name in the region are acting on their own or as part of a centralised initiative coming out of the Middle East.
"We arrested them in the city early on Monday, carrying a huge number of leaflets related to militancy for training, a laptop and other materials," Sheikh Nazmul Alam, deputy police commissioner with Dhaka's detective and criminal intelligence division, told news hounds.
The suspected coordinator, whom police identified as Mohammad Sakhawatul Kabir, told police that he and the other three men had received training in Pakistain, Alam said.
The Pak authorities were not immediately available for comment.
Alam said Kabir told police while under interrogation that the cell he ran from Dhaka was planning to collect funds and weapons for attacks on Bangladesh government targets.
"The aim of the attacks was to establish a caliphate state in Bangladesh," Alam said.
Police in Bangladesh, which has been in the throes of a political crisis since controversial elections last January, have arrested eight people for suspected involvement with Islamic State in the past year.
"Of course this is a growing concern, particularly at a time when the country has been experiencing a politically unstable situation," said Sakhawat Hussain, a retired army brigadier and a security analyst in Dhaka.
Bangladesh's leading daily newspaper The Daily Star released a photo of the arrested holy warriors, stating that the group leaders have been put on a five-day remand after being arrested last night.
The report further mentioned that the suspects were identified before the media as Sakhawatul Kabir, regional commander of IS Bangladesh chapter, Nazrul Alam, a financier, Anwar Hossain, a convict of an kabooms case, and Rabiul Islam.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Police have placed in durance vile ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... 13 BNP-Jamaat leaders, activists from different upazilas of the district during the ongoing blockade enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance.
Comilla district police Special Branch officer Mahbubur Rahman told this to the Dhaka Tribune.
Police made the arrests during drives conducted from Sunday night to Monday morning in different upazilas of Comilla.
All of the arrestees are accused in different violence cases filed with different cop shoppes in the district.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Alleged Jamaat leader Imrul Kayes, killed in a "shootout" with detectives in Dhaka yesterday, came to the capital recently because he was wanted in his home district Narail in connection with blockade-related violence.
Police said he had been living in a mess near the Dakkhin Musuddi Government Primary School in the capital's Wari area and was planning to carry out subversive activities in the city.
He was wanted by Narail police because he was allegedly involved with several incidents of violence after the BNP-Jamaat-led 20-party alliance's non-stop blockade began on January 6.
Imrul's wife Jannatul Ferdous lives at their village home in Narail with their only daughter.
His cousin Jahidur Rahman, a lawyer by profession, yesterday received the dead body from the Dhaka Medical College Morgue where an autopsy was done.
Jahidur claimed that his cousin was a student of the capital's Tejgaon College. "He was a concillor of ward number one of Narail Municipality and a local leader of Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... ."
Deputy Commissioner Jahangir Hossain Matubbar from the Detective Branch (DB) of Police said Imrul had several arson and vandalism cases against his name in Narail; DB is now trying to find out more about those cases.
When contacted over phone, Narail sadar cop shoppe OC Sheikh Motiar Rahman told the Dhaka Tribune that Imrul is wanted in a total of eight cases, all filed at different times after December 2013.
The OC also said three of those cases were filed very recently in connection with arson and vandalism after the blockade began; he was sued in a number of cases in 2012 as well.
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[Dhaka Tribune] A Dhaka court has granted five-day remand to each of four members of bad boy group Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... including its Bangladesh coordinator.
The court also denied the bail petition filed by the defence lawyer.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Mustafizur Rahman passed the order on Monday.
Earlier, Detective Branch (DB) Inspector Md Zafar Ali Biswas produced them before the court seeking 10-day remand plea.
Police on Monday locked away Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! four members of bad boy group Islamic State including its Bangladesh coordinator from Jatrabari and Khilkhet areas in Dhaka.
The arrestees are Shakhawatul Kabir, the regional commander in Bangladesh, Md Anwar Hossain, Md Rabiul Islam, and Md Nazrul Alam.
Masudur Rahman, deputy commissioner of DMP, said the arrestees have confessed that they are members of Islamic State.
A case was filed under Anti Terrorism Act against the four, he added.
Police also seized laptops and jihadi leaflets from their possessions.
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[NY Times] A federal prosecutor who has accused brass hats including the president of protecting Iranian suspects in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center, one of Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... s worst terrorist attacks, has been found dead at his home, the authorities said on Monday.
The prosecutor, Alberto Nisman, had been scheduled to testify on Monday at a congressional inquiry about his accusations.
News of his mysterious death immediately provoked shock and outrage from the political opposition and leaders of Argentinas Jewish community, one of Latin Americas largest, and appeared to put a skulduggerous shadow over his accusations.
Mr. Nisman, who has been investigating the bombing for 10 years, had been expected at the hearing to explain the criminal complaint he filed last week against President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner; her foreign minister, Héctor Timerman; and others.
Mr. Nisman was found on the floor of his bathroom, on Sunday night, according to the Security Ministry. There was also a .22-caliber pistol and one bullet cartridge at the scene.
Mr. Nisman, who was protected by 10 federal coppers, lived in an apartment on the 13th floor of a building in Puerto Madero, an exclusive neighborhood close to downtown Buenos Aires.
On Sunday afternoon, the officers were concerned because they had been unable to contact Mr. Nisman by telephone and his Sunday newspaper still lay outside his apartment. They called his family, but his mother was unable to open the apartment door with a spare key because there was a key in the lock on the other side. A locksmith was called, and Mr. Nismans mother entered the apartment with the officers.
The prosecutor who has been assigned to investigate Mr. Nismans death, Viviana Fein, told news hounds on Monday morning that there were no witnesses and that Mr. Nisman had not left a suicide note. She said she was waiting for evidence like CCTV footage and a list of phone calls from the police, and that Mr. Nisman had not eaten dinner on Sunday night.
Mr. Nisman had been appointed a decade ago by Mrs. Kirchners husband, Néstor Kirchner, who was the president at the time, to investigate the bombing of the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association in Buenos Aires. The bombing killed 85 people and maimed more than 200.
Accusations of Irans complicity, which the Iranian government has persistently denied, put a deep chill on relations between the two countries until 2013, when they reached an agreement to investigate the attack. It remains unsolved.
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shot himself three times in the back of the head, hung himself, then dissolved his own body in acid. Clearly a determined suicide
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The forensic analysis on AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman’s body confirmed that there were no traces of gunpowder on his hands. However, experts explained that it does not contradict suicide hypothesis.
Prosecutor Viviana Fein, who leads the investigation of Nisman’s death, said this was not an “unexpected result” and that it “does not rule out the possibility that Nisman had fired the gun himself.”
Fein had already confirmed yesterday that there was no sign of a third-party being involved in the death, but she had refused to rule out the possibility that the deceased was forced to take his own life by some as yet unknown factor.
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Good one, #1, I'm LMAO.
On a serious note, ...
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Bloomberg = Goldman-Sachs Analyst] BRICS WILL BE "ICS" IFF BRAZIL AND RUSSIA DON'T SHAPE UP, PHRASEMAKER WARNS.
By Year 2019 = End of the Decade???
Mexico = OWG Central American Union, Cuba = OWG Caribbean Union, + Venezuela-Bolivia I'm a'lookin at youse.
[Ynet] The US National Security Agency began tapping into North Korean computer networks in 2010, an effort that ultimately helped provide evidence to persuade the B.O. regime that Pyongyang was behind the cyber attack on Sony Pictures, the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported on Sunday.
There's that frisson down their collective spine as they reveal another secret that threatens America's safety and security.
Citing former US and foreign officials and a National Security Agency document, the Times said the spy agency was able to penetrate North Korean systems with the help of South Korea and other US allies after first tapping into Chinese networks that connect North Korea to the rest of the world.
The newspaper quoted officials as saying the program grew into an effort to place malware that could track many networks and computers used by hackers in North Korea. Such activity ultimately proved crucial in persuading President Barack Obama I inhaled. That was the point... to implicate the North Koreans in the Sony attack, the officials told the paper.
[AnNahar] The number of anti-Moslem incidents in La Belle France has soared since the Islamist attacks in Gay Paree two weeks ago, an organization that tracks Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... said Monday.
The National Observatory Against Islamophobia said 116 anti-Moslem incidents had been reported to authorities since the January 7-9 shooting spree by three French jihadists that killed 17.
The two-week tally was more than double the number of incidents recorded for the full month of January 2014, the observatory said, reporting 28 attacks on places of worship and 88 threats.
The observatory's president, Abdallah Zekri condemned the "acts of hatred towards French people of the Moslem faith, the immense majority of whom respect the values of the Republic and secularism."
"This situation is unacceptable and we're asking the authorities to go beyond the reassuring speeches and act to put an end to this scourge," he said.
Islam is La Belle France's second-biggest religion with an estimated 3,5-5 million followers.
Several mosques have been attacked since the Gay Paree killings, which began with a massacre at Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... satirical weekly and ended with a bloody hostage taking in a Jewish supermarket.
In several towns shots have been fired at mosques and racist slogans daubed on their walls. In Corsica, a pig's head was hung on the door of a prayer hall.
President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... and his government have repeatedly warned against tarring all Moslems with the bad boy brush.
In a speech last week Hollande reiterated that "Moslems are the main victims of terrorism."
A portion of the 10,000 troops mobilized last week to boost security have been assigned to protecting mosques.
Some prominent political figures have, however, defied calls for unity, with remarks seen as fanning anti-Moslem sentiment.
A senior member of the far-right National Front (FN) representing the party in the European Parliament, Aymeric Chauprade, declared in a video last week that La Belle France was "at war with some Moslems".
"We're told a majority of Moslems are peaceful. But a majority of Germans were also (peaceful) before 1933 and national socialism," he said.
FN leader Marine Le Pen, who has joined mainstream political parties in warning against confusing Islam and fundamentalism, distanced herself from Chauprade's remarks.
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What do they mean by "incidents"? Actual physical assault? Murder? Torching mosques and Muslim run businesses?
Or do they include yelling at Muslims and calling the names?
And how many similar or worse incidents were perpetrated on Jews? Are Muslims afraid to look Muslim on the street? Jews have been warned to avoid wearing a kippeh and other signs that they are Jewish.
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Wait while I cry. No. I Will cry the day a Muslim eight years old girl will be chased by a Non-Mulim seized by the hair, held in frint of sacurity camera and shot in the head while the murderer luaghs. I will cry when there will be wall paintings called the murderer a hero. Then and only then.
Wait while I cry. No. I will cry the day an eight years old Muslim girl will be chased by a Non-Mulim seized by the hair, held in front of a sacurity camera and shot in the head while the murderer laughs. I will cry when there will be wall paintings calling the murderer a hero. I will cry when leaders of the "islmùophobes" will carefully skip blaming the murderer and focus only on shielding islamophobia from blame. Then and only then.
[DAWN] Italian authorities said Monday they were checking the background of a Pak man removed from an easyJet flight to Britannia minutes before take-off after he was found to be travelling on a suspect passport.
"Checks are under way, there is no need to start speculating in a way that could cause alarm," Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said on Canale5 television.
"It is too early to say if it was a case of a violation of immigration and citizenship rules or anything more than that. We will know more in the coming hours."
Flight EZY4917 from Rome's Fiumicino airport to London-Luton was within minutes of its scheduled 12:35 pm take-off on Sunday when Italian border agents boarded the plane and removed the man, easyJet confirmed.
A front man told AFP the man had been removed after the UK border agency alerted the Italians to discrepancies between the passport details the 33-year-old passenger had entered in his online booking and information that they held in their database.
"We don't know if it was definitely a fake passport. That is under police investigation," the front man said.
After all bags were removed from the hold and rechecked, the plane took off later in the afternoon. EasyJet said five passengers unconnected with the suspect opted not to fly in the immediate aftermath of the incident and were switched to later flights.
The scare occurred on the same day that Alfano announced that a Pak was among nine foreigners expelled from Italia since December because of suspicions they could be involved in jihadist attacks.
The other eight expelled were five Tunisians, an Egyptian, a Moroccan and a Turk.
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[DAWN] At least three soldiers and seven Lions of Islam were killed on Monday in a clash in the northwestern tribal belt near the Afghan border, officials said.
Heavy exchange of fire took place during an operation to clear suspected Lions of Islam from the mountainous Banda area of Salarzai town in Bajaur tribal district along the Afghan border, local and security officials said.
"Two soldiers and an army captain have been martyred while seven Lions of Islam were also killed in the clash," a security official told AFP, adding that two soldiers were maimed.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: Two officials of the 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... Metropolitan Corporation were bumped off in a suspected targeted attack on Sunday night.
The officials were in a vehicle when they were attacked by men on cycle of violences near the Federal Urdu University on the main University Road in Gulshan-e-Iqbal.
The dear departed were identified as Sohail Yusuf Bhatti, 47, and Yusuf Talat Khan, 56. Both held senior positions in the KMC's land department which looks after the Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... Development Authority.
KMC spokesperson Bashir Ahmed Sadozai said Sohail Bhatti worked as deputy director, land, and Yusuf Khan as assistant director.
Earlier in the day, two cops, one doctor and a bakery owner were killed in the city.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Pakistain's local media reports that a US drone strike killed four suspected holy warriors North Wazoo on Monday.
As per the information published by Pakistain's local media the drone targeted a compound of suspected holy warriors in Shahikhel area of North Waziristan leaving four suspected holy warriors killed on the spot.
Previous reports published indicate that US drone strikes have killed several high ranking Al-Qaeda leaders and imported muscle beside local holy warriors in North Waziristan in the past.
However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... these strikes are not largely popular in Pakistain.
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[IraqiNews.com] 13 ISIL bad boyz were potted of central Nineveh.
Security source stated to IraqiNews.com "The US-led Coalition bombarded the ISIL shelters in Ba'aj district of western djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... to kill 13 of them."
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[IraqiNews.com] The Kurdistan Democratic Party led by President of the Kurdistan region, Massoud Barzani ... hereditary head of the Kurdish Democratic Party, maybe a little too close to the Medes and the Persians for most people's tastes... , announced Sunday, that 25 Kurdish civilians have been kidnapped by ISIS in central djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... .
The Kurdistan Democratic Party front man in Mosul city, Saeed Mumozini, has told IraqiNews, "Yesterday evening, elements of the ISIS group have kidnapped 25 Kurdish civilians from the neighborhood of al-Jaza'er, located in central Mosul," pointing out that, "The detained Kurdish citizens were driven to an unknown location."
"Kurdish people who were unable to escape from Mosul are living in miserable conditions," Mumozini said.
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[IraqiNews.com] On Sunday, a security source in Anbar province said, that the Iraqi forces killed 60 ISIS elements including a key leader within the group during an operation in al-Anbar province.
General-Officer Diaa Kazim stated to IraqiNews, "Iraqi forces backed by the U.S.-led international coalition warplanes conducted a security operation in the areas of northeast of Haditha, located 160 km west of Ramadi."
"The security forces liberated the areas of al-Allus and Albu Hayat," Kazim added.
"The operation resulted in killing 60 elements of the ISIS group including a key leader in the areas of western Anbar.
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[IraqiNews.com] On Monday, Baghdad Operations Command announced that one person was killed and three others were maimed in a boom-mobileing south of the capital.
Spokesman of operations Brigadier Saad Maan said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, "A boom-mobile went kaboom! today in the industrial district in Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad, killing one citizen and wounding three others."
"Security force cordoned off the scene, while the injured were taken to a nearby hospital and the dead body to the Forensic Medicine Department," Maan added.
[IraqiNews.com] On Monday, a security source informed IraqiNews that a force from the Golden Division has managed to repel an ISIS attack on central Ramadi and killed 15 elements of the ISIS group.
Abdul-Amir al-Khazraji, a key aide to the commander of the Golden Division within the Iraqi Armed Forces has told IraqiNews, "A force from the Golden Division has managed to repel an attack by the ISIS group bandidosmurderous Moslems on central Ramadi," adding that, "The festivities between the two sides resulted in killing 15 ISIS elements and injuring 5 others."
Noteworthy, al-Anbar province is constantly witnessing heavy festivities between Iraqi forces backed by volunteer fighters and the ISIS group murderous Moslems, who have seized large expanses of territories in the province.
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[IraqiNews.com] Anbar Police Department confirmed on Monday foiling an attack for the ISIL that targeted a cop shoppe located south-eastern Ramadi city.
Anbar Police Commander, General Kadhim al-Fahdawi stated to IraqiNews.com "A security force from Anbar Police confronted a suicide kaboom by a boom-mobile that targeted a cop shoppe located in Sakkar area near Nikhaib district of south-western Ramadi city."
"The police force killed the jacket wallah before the boom-mobile reaches its target," General Fahdawi added.
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Canadian special forces exchanged gunfire with Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... fighters in Iraq in recent days, in the first confirmed ground battle between Western troops and IS, a senior officer said Monday.
"My troops had completed a planning session with senior Iraqi leaders several kilometers behind the front lines," Canadian special forces commander Brigadier General Michael Rouleau said.
"When they moved forward to confirm the planning at the front lines in order to visualize what they had discussed over a map, they came under immediate and effective mortar and machine gunfire."
The general said the Canadians used sniper fire to "neutralize both threats" and there were no Canadian injuries.
He said the clash had taken place in the previous seven days and was "the first time we've taken fire and returned fire" in Iraq.
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[IraqiNews.com) The Mayor of Khanaqin district Mulla Hasan asserted Sunday, that the paramilitary Kurdish Peshmerga had given roughly 200 deaders and over 300 maimed fighters during the ongoing fight against ISIS in Diyali region.
Mulla Hassan stated in an interview with IraqiNews, "The paramilitary Peshmerga forces had given 200 deaders and more than 300 maimed fighters during the ongoing battle against the ISIS group at the areas of Qura-Taba, al-Saidiyah, Jalawla and Jabara in Diyali province since June 2014."
The Kurdish Peshmerga forces have played a major role in preventing the fall of several cities and districts into the hands of the ISIS group," Hassan added.
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A largely unreported aspect of Iraq that has been a conflict zone for years.
Geographically it is roughly half kurdish and half Sunni, with some shiia thrown in.
According to a report by Iraqi News, American A-10 were shot at with four Rooski Strela missiles during the recent air strikes carried out by the Warthogs (as the Thunderbolts are referred to by the pilot community) on ISIS positions near Mosul, in Iraq.
Based on reports by unnamed sources who witnessed the attack, the A-10s killed and wounded several terrorists but were also targeted by the ISIS militants who allegedly attempted to shoot down the U.S. planes fling at low altitude using 9K32 Strela-2 (NATO reporting name SA-7 Grail) man-portable, shoulder-fired, low-altitude, IR (infra-red) guided, surface-to-air missile systems.
Even though the Warthogs were not hit by the surface-to-air missiles, the episode seems to confirm that, flying at medium and low altitude and loitering over the battlefield, the A-10s deployed to Kuwait face the threat of MANPADS known to be in possession of Islamic State forces.
Still, the âHogâ is a tough plane, that has already shown its special ability to bring the pilot back to the homebase in spite of heavy damages by ground fire.
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Hmmm, is this the missing arms and stuff Stevens went to Benghazi to find????
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The engines sit on top of the A-10 fuselage, with the tail wing designed to sit just behind and under the engines to shield the engines exhaust from ground based heat seeking missiles. Plus the A-10 uses flares, and if one engine is out, the other will take the plane back home. If the plane is hit, the turbo fins inside the engines are designed to spit out shrapnel almost as soon as it enters the engine. The list goes on.
The government put no restrictions on the A-10 designers leaving the design open to the engineers to set the specs for a close air support aircraft.
The engineers did an outstanding job of trying to make the wart hog immortal on the battlefield.
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Not the first time a MADPAD fired at one. A-10s have even been hit with them as well, but every one of them made it back to base, was repaired and put back in the air.
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is this the missing arms and stuff Stevens went to Benghazi to find?
Possible. Could also have been taken from Syrian stockpiles, purchased from, or donated by, Bosnia or any of the 'stans, or gotten straight up on the black market a.k.a "Russian 401K".
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Its the GAU8 that makes the difference. Ordinance load poundage the same except accounting for that. And that makes all the difference in a lot of ground attacks on targets like ISIS and other irregulars.
There, fixed that for ya Lionel. You ever seen it live in person? From your comments, I think not - you sound like a REMF, one of the perfumed princes of the pentagon procurement pack. If so, kindly just piss off - you're whats wrong with the Pentagon.
FYI, it has a wonderful effect on enemy personnel and equipment that far exceeds that of an SDB. As a former Cavb Scout, I highly recommend it.
[Ynet] Israeli police placed in durance vile Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! 17 residents of the predominantly Arab city of Tira on Monday, close to Kfar Saba, on suspicion of arms dealing.
The detainees, arrested by the Central unit, allegedly dealt guns and rifles.
[AnNahar] Kurdish fighters battling the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... jihadist group in Syria's Kobane have captured a strategic hilltop, giving them line of fire over the town, a monitor said Monday.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Kurdish People's People Units (YPG) had seized the Mishtenur hilltop after fierce festivities overnight.
"The military operation led to the deaths of at least 11 Islamic State fighters, and the seizure of large quantities of weapons and ammunition," the Observatory said.
Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said the advance was a key strategic victory for the YPG, putting IS resupply lines to Aleppo in the west and Raqa in the east within their line of fire.
IS has been battling to capture Kobane, on the Syrian-Turkish border, since mid-September, and at one point seemed poised to overrun the Kurdish town.
But Kurdish fighters backed by massive air raids by the U.S.-led coalition against IS have gradually pushed back the jihadists, who now hold around 15 percent of the town.
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[EURONEWS] Orchestrated by the government, which obliged all its employees to attend, Chechens have held a huge demonstration in their capital Grozny to protest against the cartoons of the prophet Mohammed carried by French satirical magazine 'Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... '.
Officials said over a million people gathered for the occasion.
"What is happening in La Belle France, these cartoons, is an unbearable pain for each Moslem. We just want to show people that we should live in peace," said one man.
Protests continue throughout the Moslem world, but were much smaller in Tehran, where some 500 people answered a call to protest near the French embassy as news broke that Charlie's print run was being extended to seven million copies internationally.
Several hundred people also gathered in Jalalabad in Afghanistan, which has seen three straight days of protests.
"We want an apology from La Belle France's government to the Moslem community," demanded one man, who also called for the closure of French embassies throughout the Moslem world if no apology was forthcoming.
And in Gazoo Paleostinian Salafists ...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them... burnt the tricolor in front of the French cultural centre, which was later encircled by Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, security forces for its protection.
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