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Head of Taliban's Qatar-based political office Tayeb Agha quits as leadership rift deepens
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Afghanistan
New Taliban Leader Mansour Rejects Peace Talks
[Tolo News] The Taliban's newly appointed leader, Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, has denied that any peace talks have taken place between his group and the Afghan government, despite reports last month that he was involved in the widely covered negotiations outside Islamabad.

The denial of peace talks comes after reports circulated last week that the new Taliban leader, who was promoted after news of the death of the group's former leader Mullah Omar
... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality...
broke, is unpopular among many of the insurgency's leaders. As a whole, the grinding of the peace processor launched with the help of Pakistain and China last month, as well as the death of Mullah Omar, have exposed immense division within the Taliban's ranks.

"The movement will continue until the Islamic system rules," Mansour said at an allegiance ceremony this week. "This rumor among the enemies that a grinding of the peace processor is going on, it is the enemies' propaganda."

Mansour's move to deny the peace talks, which were in fact well-documented by Afghan and Pak officials, could potentially be an attempt to shore up his support among members of the group who have been reticent about the negotiations.

Recently, Syed Tayyab Agha, the head of the Taliban's political office in Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates...
, resigned from his post. Although it is unclear exactly why he resigned, it is rumored that it was because of his opposition to Mansour's leadership.

"The division that is taking place among the Taliban and its aftermath will be clarified later," political analyst Nazar Mohammad Mutmain told TOLOnews on Tuesday.

Some former Taliban leaders say that a number of key commanders have refused to pledge allegiance to Mansour, who was Mullah Omar's deputy for the past decade.

"Akhtar Mansour does not have the dignity [that Omar had] and he does have his popularity," said Mawlawi Qalamuddin, the former Taliban minister of vice and virtue.

Qalamuddin says the infighting and mysterious deaths of Taliban leaders suggest the movement is losing steam and sight of its objectives. "The mysterious killings of Mullah Mohammad Omar and Mullah Obaidullah and other Taliban high ranking members show that the war has no more justification," he said.

News of Omar's was confirmed last Wednesday. Although the Taliban has maintained he passed recently, the Afghan government and other independent sources have maintained he died in 2013 at a hospital in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
.

Insider sources have said that most Taliban capos were unaware of Omar's death, and that it was kept from them in an attempt to avoid deflating morale.
Posted by: Fred || 08/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  If, as the article claims, the announcement of Omar's death would have damaged Taleban morale, why didn't the CIA, which ostensibly knew about the death three years ago, announce it?
Posted by: Clomp Omagum5939 || 08/05/2015 8:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Because continuity and "stability" are valued over everything else?
Posted by: Pappy || 08/05/2015 10:24 Comments || Top||

#3  This is "unexpectedly", right?
Posted by: Bobby || 08/05/2015 12:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Couldn't risk such valuable Intel.
Posted by: Shipman || 08/05/2015 16:38 Comments || Top||

#5  The Afghan Taliban is disputing or dismissing reports of the death = alleged murder of Mullah Omar's son Yaqub in Pakistan.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 08/05/2015 19:23 Comments || Top||


Eight Insurgents Killed in Ongoing Nangarhar Operation
[Tolo News] At least eight Taliban Death Eaters have been killed in an ongoing operation by Afghan cops in eastern Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province, security officials said on Tuesday.

In addition, five other Death Eaters were maimed.

The operation launched four days ago in Hesarak, Sherzad and Khoghyani districts - which borders Pakistain -- said Noman Atifi, a front man for the Selab 201 Military Corps in eastern Afghanistan.

"So far 14 villages have also been cleared of Death Eaters in Khoghyani and Serzad districts of the province," he said.

"The operation is for a month and was launched under the name of Musalas-e-Ahaneen to clear the Death Eaters," said Atifi.

Sherzad and Hesarak are the most insecure districts in the province. Taliban Death Eaters often target local security forces and threaten babus government employees, said officials.
Posted by: Fred || 08/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Head of Taliban's Qatar-based political office Tayeb Agha quits as leadership rift deepens
[ABC.NET.AU] The head of the Taliban's Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates...
-based political office has stepped down in a move highlighting growing discord over the group's recent power transition.

Mullah Akhtar Mansour was announced as the new Taliban chief on Friday after the turbans confirmed the death of Mullah Omar
... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality...
, who led the bad boy movement for some 20 years.

But splits immediately emerged between Mansour and rivals challenging his appointment, exposing the Taliban's biggest leadership crisis in recent years and one that raises the risk of a factional split.

Underscoring the deepening internal divisions, Tayeb Agha stepped down on Monday as head of the Taliban's political office, set up in Qatar in 2013 to facilitate peace talks.

"In order to live with a clear conscience and abide by the principles of Mullah Omar, I decided that my work as head of the political office has ended," Mr Agha said in the statement published on a website regularly used by the Doha office and confirmed by a Taliban source.

"I will not be involved in any kind of [Taliban] statements... and will not support any side in the current internal disputes within the Taliban."

Mr Agha added that consensus should have been sought from holy warrior strongholds inside Afghanistan over the new leader's appointment.

The Taliban source said Mansour's aides were trying to convince Mr Agha to withdraw his resignation but his statement adds to a growing chorus of dissent in the movement over the increasingly bitter political transition.

"The death of Mullah Omar was kept secret for two years," Mr Agha said.

"I consider this a historical mistake."

The Taliban have not given details of when and where Omar died but the Afghan government said it happened in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
in April 2013.

The Taliban continued to release official statements in the name of Omar, who had not been seen in public since the Taliban were toppled from power in 2001, as recently as last month.

Many turbans oppose what they see as Pakistain's attempt to force the Taliban into direct peace talks with the Afghan government.

Mansour and his two newly named deputies -- influential religious leader Haibatullah Akhundzada and Sirajuddin Haqqani -- are all seen as close to the Pak military establishment, which has historically nurtured and supported the Taliban.
Posted by: Fred || 08/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa North
Egyptian policeman killed by unknown assailants in Nile Delta's Sharqiya
[AlAhram] A policeman was killed on Tuesday after being shot in Sharqiya governorate by three unknown assailants who escaped on a cycle of violence, Al-Ahram's Arabic news website reported.

This marks the 21st time in the last two years that security or military personnel have been killed by unknown attackers in the Nile Delta's Sharqiya governorate.

The policeman was on his way to work at Abo Hammad cop shoppe when he was shot in the chest and neck.

Twenty police and army personnel have been killed on their way to or from work in Sharqiya since the July 2013 ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi, according to Al-Ahram.

In October 2014, the 20th such incident occurred in Abu-Kabeer city in Sharqiya when a low ranking police officer was rubbed out by unknown assailants on his way home.

Sharqiya is located in the Nile Delta and is the third most populous governorate in Egypt. It is also the birthplace of former president Mohammed Morsi.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
14 Islamists killed in north Caucasus
[UPI] Russia's National Antiterrorism Committee (NAK) said security forces killed eight Daesh militants Sunday, and six other Islamist militants on Monday. Both incidents occurred in the Northern Caucasus region.

In a statement, NAK said,"According to information available to the security services, the militants killed in [Sunday's] operation had recently pledged allegiance and became members of the Islamic State (IS), an international terrorist organization. All of them were complicit in a number of crimes of a terrorist nature, including the killings of law enforcement officers and the extortion of money from entrepreneurs."

Sunday's violence took place in the republic of Ingushetia, while Monday's incident took place in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria.

Reports say Adam Tagilov, accused by of organizing an assault last year in Grozny which claimed more than 20 militants and policemen, was among those killed in the special operations.
Posted by: ryuge || 08/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


The Grand Turk
Two Turkish Soldiers Killed in 'New PKK Attack
[AnNahar] Two soldiers were killed in southeastern The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
on Tuesday when a mine went kaboom! in the latest attack on security forces blamed on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the army said.

Kurdish hard boyz detonated a remote-controlled mine as a military convoy passed by in the Arakoy region of Sirnak province bordering Iraq and Syria, it said.

The kaboom triggered festivities between Turkish soldiers and PKK rebels, it added.

Initial reports said the corpse count rose to three after one victim died in hospital but this was later denied by official sources.

The army said two soldiers had died and one soldier and one village guard was maimed in the attack by the "separatist terror organization", its customary phrase for the PKK.

The PKK, blacklisted as a terrorist group by Turkey and its Western allies, took up arms for self-rule in 1984 in an armed struggle which has claimed tens of thousands of lives.
Rudaw adds:
The mine went kaboom! at around 8am during a routine check of the road linking Sirnak and the town of Balveren, the Hurriyet reported.

According to the state-run Anadolu news agency, the vehicle carrying the Turkish troops was then attacked with rocket-propelled grenades and gunfire in the vicinity of Arakoy village.

Anadolu added that Turkish security forces and air support were deployed to the area in order to apprehend the suspected PKK turbans.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  According to Turkish newspaper Sabah, Aleppo in Syria is to become the 82nd province of Turkey under a deal between US terrorist sponsoring tyrant Obama and Turkey's ISIS supporting tyrant Erdogan.
Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 || 08/05/2015 10:09 Comments || Top||


US begins armed drone flights from Turkey
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] The Pentagon says the military for the first time conducted armed drone missions out of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
last weekend, and is planning to conduct manned aircraft flights from Incirlik Air Base.

Capt. Jeff Davis says so far none of the drones launched Arclight airstrikes. He says the U.S. also will likely fly search and rescue missions from the base.

The use of the Incirlik base comes as the U.S. expanded its combat in Syria, launching Arclight airstrikes Friday to defend rebels under attack by the Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda's branch in Syria.

Davis says this is the first time the U.S. conducted defensive strikes against anyone other than ISIS murderous Moslems in Syria. Under current rules, the U.S. can conduct offensive strikes against ISIS, not Assad regime forces or others.
Posted by: Fred || 08/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Jeff(erson) Davis? RAAACIST AMRIKKKANS bombing the Arabs! /liberals-sooner-or-later
Posted by: OldSpook || 08/05/2015 17:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Are there Sour Apple Trees in Turkey?
Posted by: Shipman || 08/05/2015 18:35 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
FBI: Middle Eastern Men Intimidating U.S. Military Families In Colorado & Wyoming
[DENVER CBS4] – An alert has been issued by the FBI to all law enforcement agencies in Colorado and Wyoming involving U.S. military families and concerns about who may be watching them.

The alert says Middle Eastern men are approaching families of U.S. military members at their homes in Colorado and Wyoming. It mentions Greeley and Cheyenne, Wyoming as the specific areas.

In one case last May the wife of a military member was approached in front of her home by two Middle Eastern males. The men stated that she was the wife of a U.S. interrogator. When she denied their claims the men laughed. The two men left the area in a dark-colored, four-door sedan with two other Middle Eastern males in the vehicle.

“The woman had observed the vehicle in the neighborhood on previous occasions,” the alert states. Similar incidents in Wyoming have been reported to the FBI throughout June 2015.
Update to previous reporting.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/05/2015 02:59 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Did she get a tag number? If so, it should be released to the, er, proper authorities.
Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp52169 || 08/05/2015 9:24 Comments || Top||

#2  You will find them at the mosques.
Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 || 08/05/2015 10:04 Comments || Top||

#3  FBI needs to put down the doughnuts, pick up the hammer AND DO THEIR JOB. God do I miss J Edgar.
Posted by: regular joe || 08/05/2015 12:12 Comments || Top||

#4  Wyoming? - They'll live longer if they move to MA or IL.
Posted by: Black Bart Glamp9433 || 08/05/2015 12:30 Comments || Top||

#5  the mokes, not the families.....sigh
Posted by: Black Bart Glamp9433 || 08/05/2015 12:31 Comments || Top||

#6  Colorado is "Shall Issue" for concealed carry. Stay armed, stay trained.
Posted by: OldSpook || 08/05/2015 15:27 Comments || Top||

#7  You can't win this war when you are always on the defensive. But that is where the CiC has put us
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 08/05/2015 17:19 Comments || Top||

#8  Al Qaeda Arabian Peninsula releases video within the past 24 hours calling for more Chattanooga style "lone wolf" attacks (Link)
Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 || 08/05/2015 17:24 Comments || Top||

#9  What you got TW?
Posted by: Shipman || 08/05/2015 18:36 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Lahore twin Church attacks suspects arrested: Punjab home minister
[DAWN] Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....

Home Minister Shuja Khanzada on Tuesday said police had jugged
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
five men suspected of involvement in the twin Taliban suicide kabooms that targeted two Lahore churches in March.

Seventeen people died as a result of the suicide kabooms in the Youhanabad district of Lahore, with more than 70 maimed.

The bombings occurred during prayers at two churches located around half a kilometre apart in the city's Youhanabad neighbourhood, which is home to more than 100,000 Christians, officials said.

Two men were later lynched by an angry mob who suspected they were bad boys.

Read: 15 killed in Taliban attack on Lahore churches.

The attack also sparked two days of rioting by thousands of Christians who clashed with police, blocked roads and forced a partial shutdown of the city's public bus system.

"Police have arrested five suspects who were involved in Youhanabad attacks, a kaboom in Model Town area and another attack in Qila Gujjar Singh area of Lahore," Shuja Khanzada, home minister of Punjab, told news hounds.

"They belonged to the splinter group of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), Shehryar Mehsud group and had been coordinating attacks inside Pakistain from Afghanistan," Khanzada said.

"They planned these attacks in Afghanistan and then came to Lahore. They were provided boom jackets and other materials here in Lahore for the attack." Khanzada added that the bandidos Lions of Islam had financial and material support from Pakistain's arch rival India.

"They have also confessed planning some more attacks in Lahore and 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...
in future," he said.

Christians, who make up around two percent of Pakistain's mostly Moslem population of 180 million, have been increasingly targeted in recent years, often over allegations of profanity regarding the Koran or the Prophet (PTUI!).

Lahore's attacks were the worst on the community since a devastating double suicide-bombing in the northwestern city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
in September 2013 killed 82 people.
Posted by: Fred || 08/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Iraq
ISIS executes 7 Kirkuk police trying to flee Hawija
[Rudaw] ISIS has executed seven former Kirkuk coppers and a civilian who were recaptured in a failed bid to escape the Lion of Islam-held city of Hawija, a police official told Rudaw on Monday.

"After they attempted to flee Hawija, ISIS captured seven security personnel on Monday, executing all of them," said Brigadier Sarhed Qadir, the Kirkuk province police chief, adding that a civilian was also executed.

Qadir said another five members of the Al-Jabour tribe were assassinated in areas of Abbasiyah, in southern Kirkuk province, but the identities of the gunnies was yet to be determined by Kurdish authorities.

The Al-Jabouri tribe is the largest Arab tribe in Iraq and is scattered throughout central and northern parts of the country. A portion of of the tribe settled in Hawija and Kirkuk in the 18th century.

Hawija city is the capital of the Hawija district of Kirkuk province, 48 km south of the city of Kirkuk.

In early April, according to a Rudaw report, Peshmerga leaders informed the Iraqi government that any offensive on Hawija would need to be led by the Iraqi Army and the Shiite militias knonw collectively as the Hashd al-Shaabi.

A propaganda video released last month by ISIS, showing at least 18 caged Peshmerga on public display in Hawija, sparked outrage from the families of the victims and the Kurdish street.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Southeast Asia
Village official gunned down in southern Thailand
[Bangkok Post] An assistant village leader was killed and a defense volunteer critically injured in a drive-by shooting in Narathiwat province Tuesday evening. The attack occurred at a roadside shelter near a tea shop in Chanae district.

The village official and the village security volunteer were drinking tea when two men on a motorcycle slowed and the pillion rider fired two shots at each man from a pistol and fled. The bullets hit the official in the chest and neck, killing him instantly. The volunteer was hit in the chest and stomach.

Pol Lt Col Wisoot said police believe the attack was the work of insurgents targeting civil servants and security personnel.
Posted by: ryuge || 08/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Thai Insurgency


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian rebel uses iPad to fire homemade mortar
Via America's new newspaper of record, the UK Daily Mail
A group of Syrian rebels battling President Bashar al-Assad's forces have been pictured using an Apple iPad device to ensure the firing angle of a rocket launcher is correct.

Militants loyal to the hardline Jaish al-Islam group were photographed using the tablet to test the firing position of crude howitzer artillery pieces during street battles in the capital Damascus.

It is believed that the rebels use maps and intelligence reports to locate the regime troops' positions, before employing the high-tech device to give a precision reading of the weapon's firing angle in the hope it will boost the accuracy of the missiles.
Posted by: badanov || 08/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Jaish al-Islam

#1  Using the theolite app (purdy cool actually)
Posted by: Shipman || 08/05/2015 7:46 Comments || Top||

#2  This aint the VC with shoestrings and c-rat tins.
Posted by: OldSpook || 08/05/2015 16:41 Comments || Top||

#3  True OS , but I'll wager Charles would kick their ass.
Posted by: Shipman || 08/05/2015 18:37 Comments || Top||

#4  And I know the NVA would.
Posted by: Shipman || 08/05/2015 18:38 Comments || Top||


Saudi jihadist, Al Muhaysini, vows more missile attacks on Assad's Qardaha
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] A prominent Saudi Jihadist,
"Goddamned carpetbagger furriners coming here to cause trouble!"
who leads the offensive on Bashir al-Assad's ancestral homeland in the coastal province of Latakia, says the rocket campaign on Qardaha town to be continued as regime army extends its brutal attack on border city with Leb.

Abdullah al-Muhaysini, one of the most active foreign jihadists in Syria, assured to Zaman al-Wasl that Assad's hometown of al-Qardaha and nearby villages to be rocked by Fatah Army's missiles and mortar shells as (Hizbul Shaitan or Devil party), in reference to Lebanese militia Hezbollah, continues its offensive on Zabadani town west of Damscus.

Al- Muhaysini said, "the next days will be more bitter and tougher since your brothers (rebels) are preparing to destroy the Alawite villages.

Local source told Zaman al-Wasl that 8 soldiers were maimed in missile attacks on al-Elliya neighborhood in Qardaha on Sunday.

Qardaha is the traditional home of the Assad family, which has ruled Syria since 1970, was a main supplier for Shabiha militia.

The village in the mountains overlooking the coastal town of Latakia, believed to be the last bulwark for Assad's family.
Posted by: Fred || 08/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Nusra

#1  RUSSIA = DARTH VLAD is threatening to send in Paratroopers to protect Baby Assad from defeat or collapse.

AM still waiting on post-Nuke Deal IRAN'S response.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 08/05/2015 22:19 Comments || Top||


First U.S.-trained Syria rebel believed killed in fighting: sources
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] A member of a new Syrian force trained by the U.S. military was believed to have been killed in festivities last week with al Qaeda's Syria wing, in what would be the fledgling force's first battlefield casualty, U.S. officials said on Monday.

The U.S. officials, who spoke to Rooters on condition of anonymity to discuss the incident, said the Syrian rebel was believed to have been killed during fighting on Friday with suspected members of Nusra Front. One of the officials described the information as preliminary.

The Pentagon declined to comment, citing "operational security reasons."

Friday's attack triggered the first U.S. air strikes to support the Syrian force. At the time, the U.S. military said the fighters repelled the attack, without citing casualties among the U.S.-trained force.

Defending the U.S.-trained fighters could become a growing job for United States, which has been waging air strikes against 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....
targets in Syria.

U.S. officials disclosed to Rooters on Sunday that the United States has decided to allow air strikes to help defend against any attack on the U.S.-trained Syrian rebels, even if the attackers come from forces loyal to Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs...
.
Posted by: Fred || 08/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Nusra Front captures five more US-trained rebels
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Al-Qaeda's Syria affiliate captured at least five more U.S.-trained rebel fighters in overnight raids on a village in northwestern Syria, an activist group said Tuesday.

"Between Monday and Tuesday, Al-Nusra Front seized at least five rebels from Division 30 in the village of Qah, near the Turkish border," Syrian Observatory for Human Rights chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.

The jihadis already captured at least eight rebels from the same U.S.-backed unit last week, the Observatory reported.
Posted by: Fred || 08/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: al-Nusra

#1  I'd say "Bay of Pigs," but that's haram - right?
Posted by: Pappy || 08/05/2015 13:22 Comments || Top||

#2  More like Bay of Goats.
Posted by: OldSpook || 08/05/2015 16:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Perhaps the US-trained Rebs performance has to do wid ... ...

* LUCIANNE > US-TRAINED SYRIAN REBELS [Division 30] SAY THEY WON'T FIGHT AL-QAEDA AFFILIATE JABHAT AL-NUSRA.

But DIV 30 says they will fight only agz Baby Assad + ISIS/ISIL.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 08/05/2015 21:43 Comments || Top||


Terror Networks
Report: US-led strikes in Iraq, Syria killed 15,000+ IS Lions of Islam, 459 civilians
Yes, dear Reader, you are expected to be horrified that the error rate is about 3%, an unknown number of which were human shields.
[AlAhram] US-led Arclight airstrikes targeting 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 in Iraq and Syria have likely killed at least 459 civilians over the past year, a report by an independent monitoring group said Monday.

The report by Airwars, a project aimed at tracking the international Arclight airstrikes targeting the holy warriors, said it believed 57 specific strikes killed civilians and caused 48 suspected "friendly fire" deaths. It said the strikes have killed more than 15,000 Islamic State holy warriors.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  And how many innocent civilians would those 15,000 have killed had they been left in place? Or are they getting paid to do nothing?
Posted by: gorb || 08/05/2015 12:21 Comments || Top||


US, allies stage 29 air strikes against Islamic State
[Ynet] The US-led coalition fighting 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....
conducted 29 air strikes against the bully boy group in Iraq and Syria on Sunday, the task force leading the operation said in a statement.

In Iraq, 21 strikes hit areas near djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, Tal Afar, Ramadi, al Huwayja and other cities, hitting units of Islamic State fighters as well as bully boys' vehicles, bunkers, fighting positions and other targets.

Eight strikes targeted the group near al Hasaka and two other Syrian cities, according to the statement released on Monday.
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Daesh claims boy executioner killed in air strike
[RFE/RL] A child militant who appeared in a video appearing to shoot an alleged Iraqi spy in the head has been killed in an air strike, Daesh social media accounts say.
No great loss.
The boy, who appears to be in his early teens, was featured in a video titled "The Harvest Of The Spies" that was released in early May. He is shown loading a handgun and forcing a captive to kneel.

The youth then vows to take revenge on United States, Russia, and Europe before raising his gun and apparently shooting the captive several times in the head. However, the young militant does not appear in the same frame when the shots are fired, so it is unclear whether he actually killed the captive.

Reports that the boy had been killed began to appear on Russian and English pro-Daesh accounts on August 2.

The teen was identified as Abu Umar Caucas in some reports and as Abu Umar Daghestani in others. Another clue could link him with a group of North Caucasian militants fighting alongside Daesh. In the video, the child is wearing a black hat with the Thermoform logo clearly visible. Photographs of a number of North Caucasian Daesj militants, including the notorious Daesh commander Umar al-Shishani, wearing Thermoform hats have circulated on pro-Daesh social media accounts.
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