[CNN] Hailey Dawson, 5, has quite an arm -- and attached at the end -- is a "special hand."
She was born with Poland Syndrome, a rare birth defect, causing her right hand to not fully develop. But through some research, professors and a team of whizzes at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, Hailey doesn't have to miss a beat. In fact, her hand is functional enough for the big leagues.
Hailey stepped up to the plate at a Baltimore Orioles baseball game Monday sporting her "Flexy Hand 2," an orange uniform and pig tails. She tossed the ball to her favorite player, "Manny" Machado. The crowd cheered.
The Dawsons are big Orioles fans. Hailey's 10-year-old brother even plays for a little league team in Las Vegas also called the Orioles. With baseball on the brain and a determination in her spirit -- one day Hailey asked her mom, "Wouldn't it be cool if I could throw the ball for the big Orioles?"
The Dawsons thought "why not?" A few calls and emails later, and Hailey was scheduled to throw the first pitch with her biggest fans -- her family -- in the crowd. I work on the Burg every evening, have done so for the past fourteen years. So do Doc Steve, badanov, trailing wife, besoeker, Pappy, BP, and Ryuge. Many others have done the same and then dropped from the scene for one reason or another and we miss them. Page One on the Burg documents fourteen years of unmitigated Evil (capital E), starting with 9-11-01.
Then I see a story like this and my heart melts.
I think of all the other 5-year-olds who have to live with the cruelty and viciousness on Page One, and the ones who have to live with its fallout. I think of all the innocent little babies who've entered this world, only to lose their lives and all the possibilities for goodness and greatness that could have been theirs.
I do hope to God that little Hailey grows up to lead a secure and productive life, full of love and affection. I won't say she "deserves" it; you "deserve" what you work for, work toward. I will say that I hope that Evil (capital E) avoids her for all her days.
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[Tolo News] A military operation launched by the joint security forces in northern Baghlan province has resulted in the death of at least 31 Taliban murderous Moslems in the past five days, local officials said on Tuesday.
In addition, 47 other murderous Moslems were maimed.
The military operation is being conducted in Dand-e-Ghori area in Pul-e-Khumri, the capital of the province, to clear bully boys. Among those killed were three Paks, Provincial Police Chief Abdul Jabar Purdely said.
"Nine civilians were also injured during the festivities and the operation still continues to clear all bully boys. So far ten villages of have also been cleared of bully boys," Purdely said.
He said: "The security forces need air support but more troops have arrived from Samangan and Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... provinces to support the local forces."
However, you can observe a lot just by watching... he did not provide details about the casualties of the security forces during the festivities.
Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban front man has also confirmed the festivities and said that a number of security forces were killed in the festivities.
He however, rejected the claim by Provincial Police Chief that security forces have re-taken ten districts. He said "their fighters technical retreated."
The operation comes after murderous Moslems recently increased their activity in the province and frequently attack local security forces.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Pak ambassador in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... was summoned in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan (MoFA) following indiscriminate shelling by the Pak forces which left eight members of the Afghan Border Police Forces martyred.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said a strong protest was lodged with the Pak ambassador Syed Abrar Hussain after he was summoned this evening.
Deputy Foreign Minister in Administrative Affairs Atiqullah Atifmal told Mr. Hussain that eight members of the Afghan Border Police forces were martyred in heavy shelling on check posts in eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... on Monday morning and afternoon.
Atifmal further added that the market of Do Kalam was also torched and enormous financial loss was incurred to the local residents in Nari district as a result of the indiscriminate shelling by the Pak forces.
He told the Pak envoy "This is not the first time you have been summoned regarding the heavy artillery shelling by the Pak military on areas along the Durand Line. But unfortunately we have not seen any long term change in Pak military's offensive acts."
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DHUSAMAREB, Somalia -- Attack helicopters continue to pound fewer areas acquiesced to Al Shabaab’s waning rule, destroying military vehicles in fresh barrages in central Somalia, Garowe Online reports.
On Sunday, residents reported that Ethiopian copters hit four technicals carrying militants in Gadon village, 4km off Masagaway area in Galgadud region. Three of the four white Toyota Land Cruisers pick-up trucks were reportedly leveled to the ground, leaving militants on board ‘dead and wounded’.
Witnesses tell the media that Al Shabaab fighters closed areas where the airstrikes targeted to the public.
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At least five people, four Al Shabaab fighters have been killed and dozen others wounded in deadly fighting that erupted in parts of Elbuur town in central Somalia.
Somalia’s Elbuur DC Nuur Hassan Gutaale told Shabelle Media based in Mogadishu that the clash broke out when number of insurgent group assaulted on military checkpoints in the town.
Mr. Guutaale said that at least four Al Qaeda associated with Al Shabab rebels had been killed and several others were seriously wounded in the battle.
“A number terror group of Al Shabaab attacked military bases with rocket propelled grenades and machine guns but our soldiers repulsed their dreadful ambush assault” he added.
Hassan Gutaale highlighted that military offensive against Al Shabaab militants which launched by government troops is underway in the town and its suburbs. In the past days, anti Al Shabaab militants operations were ongoing in Elbuur town in Galgadud region of central Somalia.
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At least 30 people have been killed and scores of others wounded in the latest clashes between government troops and Al Shabaab militants in central Somalia. The combat is said to have started when Al Shabaab militants launched surprise attack on government forces in west of Baladweyne town, capital of Hiiraan region.
Somalia’s military commander, Mohamed Abdullle told Shabelle Media Network that at least 25 Al Shabaab fighters were killed in the skirmishes in Beledweyne.
“Nearly 30 Al Shabaab members were killed our military forces in heavy fighting that lasted for three days in Aqoboow area in west of Beledweyne town” Col. Mohamed said.
The Al Qaeda linked Al Shabab insurgents were fleeing unavailable to reach on the phone for comment on the military’s claims.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Egypt detained a senior Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, official at Cairo International Airport, security sources said on Tuesday, a day after it reopened the Rafah border crossing to allow Paleostinians to travel in and out of the Gazoo Strip.
Hassan Asseify, the deputy religious affairs minister in Hamas-ruled Gazoo, was stopped on his way back from Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... to the Paleostinian enclave after Cairo airport security found "issues in the security approval for his entrance to the country," an airport security source said.
Asseify will remain in detention until issues with his paperwork are resolved, he said.
A second security source said Asseify was detained at dawn on Monday. The Islamist Hamas could not be reached for comment.
Egypt opened the Rafah border crossing on Monday until Aug. 20 to allow Paleostinians to travel in and out of Gazoo, a small impoverished coastal enclave that is under blockade by neighboring Israel.
Cairo has kept the Rafah crossing largely shut since Egypt's Islamist president was toppled by the army in 2013, but has occasionally opened it for short periods at a time.
Hamas has long had ties to the Egyptian Moslem Brüderbund that was ousted from power when former president Mohammed Mursi was tossed in 2013 after mass protests against his rule.
The Egyptian government has accused Hamas of helping Islamist snuffies in Egypt's Sinai desert, which borders on Gazoo, attack its security forces. Hamas denies this.
However a decision by an Egyptian court in June to cancel a previous ruling labeling Hamas a terrorist group raised speculation that relations between Egypt and Hamas may improve.
According to the Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram, the detained gentleman is on an Egyptian watch list. One wonders, therefore, how it is that he was able to leave for Saudi Arabia without having been detained.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Up to 150 people drowned in a river or were rubbed out fleeing 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... gunnies who raided a remote village in Nigeria's northeastern Yobe state, locals said on Tuesday.
Dozens of gunnies arrived on cycle of violences and a car on Thursday last week and opened fire, scattering terrified residents of Kukuwa-Gari.
"They opened fire instantly, which forced residents to flee. They shot a number of people. Unfortunately many residents who tried to flee plunged into the river which is full from the rain. Many drowned," Modu Balumi, a resident of the village told AFP.
"By our latest toll we have 150 people either (rubbed out) or drowned in the attack. The gunnies deliberately killed a fisherman who tried to save drowning residents of the village."
Balumi said the bodies of many of the drowned were picked out by locals several kilometers away.
News of the attack was slow to emerge because the gunnies have destroyed telecom masts around the village, around 50 kilometers from Yobe State capital Damaturu, since the insurgency began in 2009.
"Boko Haram gunnies attacked our village on Thursday which led to the deaths of around 150 people. Most of the victims died in the river while trying to escape. The gunnies opened fire on the village forcing people to run to safety," Bukar Tijjani, another villager, told AFP.
"Most residents, particularly women and kiddies, ran towards the river in confusion. They were pursued by the gunnies, who kept firing at them. In the frantic effort to escape they jumped into the river, which was full to the brim."
A local government official confirmed the attack but put the corpse count much lower, at around 50.
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[ALMANAR.LB] The Yemeni army and the Popular Committees foiled an attempt by the Saudi-US aggression to advance towards the Al-Bayda' province in central Yemen.
Sources told Al-Manar TV that attacking forces - joined by al-Qaeda bandidosbandidos murderous Moslems and armed mercenaries - tried on Monday to advance towards Al-Bayda' city before falling into the ambush of Yemeni forces in the point located between 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... and Bayda' provinces.
The Yemeni national units thwarted the operation, leaving scores of the enemy elements killed and maimed, after they destroyed two Saudi armored vehicles and seized 6 other Emirati vehicles that were used during the attack on Aden city.
In a similar development, a unit of the Yemeni forces managed to directly hit a Saudi fighter tank deployed in al-Khoba site, where the fighters sneaked into the Saudi military post and targeted a tanks assembly point.
They also managed to destroy a Saudi tank and to set another armored vehicle ablaze.
In Najran border area, Yemeni fighters fired guided missiles on an Abrams tank with 5 Saudi soldiers on board. Their bodies were seen flying through the place.
Moreover, three Saudi tanks were targeted and destroyed on the border area with Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... near al-Makhrooq military post.
The Yemeni missile unit pounded Saudi military posts in Jizan and Dhahran Assir areas with dozens of rockets.
In the meantime, more security achievements were made in Sanaa when security forces raided the house Gen. Ali al-Ahmar and seized a large quantity of weapons and ammunition.
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Jets from a Saudi-led coalition struck Yemen's Red Sea port of Hodeida early on Tuesday, port officials said, destroying cranes and warehouses at a main import hub for aid supplies to the country's north.
Hodeida, which lies almost due west of the capital Sanaa, is held by the Houthi rebels and allied army units loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh. They retain control of the northern highlands and the Red Sea coastal plain as far south as Ibb, which lies around 200 kilometres (120 miles) southeast of the port.
Aid groups have previously complained that the coalition naval blockade has stopped relief supplies entering Yemen, which is suffering a humanitarian crisis. The coalition has accused the Houthis of commandeering aid shipments for war use.
Both sides are, as usual, correct...
Fighting continued overnight in Yemen's third city, Taiz, Arab television stations reported early on Tuesday, as local groups opposed to the Houthis attempted to consolidate recent advances to take the city.
Taiz is around 50 kilometres south of Ibb.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Arju Mia, the Hazaribagh unit president of pro-government Chhatra League ... the student wing of the Bangla Awami League ... , was killed in a so-called crossfire with the Rapid Action Battalion personnel early yesterday, hours after being sued as a prime accused for beating a teenager to death in the area.
That was fast.
RAB Assistant Director (legal and media wing) Maj Maksudul Alam said that they had tossed in the slammer Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! Arju on Monday night following a complaint lodged by the victim's sister. The shootout occurred when the RAB team headed towards Baroikhal area to arrest his associates.
Mahmoud the Weasel's grandniece by marriage has the family business in those parts. She took over when her husband, the grandnephew, died suddenly of being seen in the wrong place at the wrong time. She may be a mere woman, but the local RAB have learnt to move quickly when they hear her voice on the 'phone, for she has sources beyond that of her family's prolific menfolk. Who knows whereof women speak, as they gather at the village well to draw water?
"Some miscreants attacked the RAB patrol team to snatch Arju around 3:30am.
In accordance with the standard script, an appropriately 0 dark thirty kind of time...
Arju was hit by bullets as he tried to flee," Maj Maksud claimed
"It was entirely coincidental that he was hit once behind each ear," he added.
adding that doctors at Dhaka Medical College Hospital declared him dead.
That would be the erudite and irrepressible Dr.Quincy, we presume. He always calls it before anyone else would have realized the patient was no longer among the living.
Two pistols and bullets were recovered from the spot, he said.
Marked X to improve accuracy, one assumes.
Morgue sources said that Arju had sustained seven bullet injuries in his head.
Morgue sources said that Arju had sustained seven bullet injuries in his head.
Hazaribagh police registered the case of Raja's sister Reshma Akhter Shabana early yesterday against 14 people with Arju named the prime accused.
The family alleged that Arju had called the boy to his house around 10:30am Sunday, locked him in a room on the ground floor of his three-storey building and beat him severely along with his accomplices. Arju alleged that Raja had stolen laptop and mobile phones from his Gonoktuli Lane house the previous day.
Later, they took the boy to Kamrangirchar, tortured him in an under-construction building and left him almost-dead at his house in the afternoon. Before losing his consciousness, Raja only wanted to drink water, locals said.
The 17-year-old was taken to the DMCH and declared dead around 5pm on Monday.
Raja had been living with his aunt in Kamrangirchar area for the last two years and worked at a steel furniture shop.
"He was a good boy, he was," recalled the aunt, sobbing. "Always sent money home to his Mum, and paid me rent, too. He was saving up to be married, but I haven't yet found where he hid it."
He came to his Hazaribagh house two days back.
The murder took place at a time when the country has been abuzz over the recent brutal killing of several children in Sylhet, Khulna and Narayanganj.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie sadly admitted that he was a better peeping Tom than he was a comedian... a Dhaka court yesterday granted the police three days to interrogate two people who were arrested from Hazaribagh in the case. Another arrestee gave confessional statement in the court.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shamsul Arefin granted the remand for Moniruzzaman Monir alias Peitya Monir and Sujon Hossain Shamim after Investigation Officer Sub-Inspector Aliv Mahmud produced them before the court.
The SI also pleaded to the court to record the confessional statement of Sagor Ahmed Sana. He was later sent to jail.
On the other hand, Arju's brother Masud Rana yesterday threatened Raja's family members with dire consequences at the DMC morgue, Ratna Akhter, an aunt of Raja, told the Dhaka Tribune.
Masud claimed that his brother could not be killed "centring such a minor issue. Someone must have misled the elite force to achieve their political gain."
Locals alleged that Arju had killed another person of the same area, Jamir, over a land dispute two years ago, and returned to the area recently.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan told news hounds that it was an incident of shootout. The law enforcement agencies could have obtained more information from the accused if the encounter had not taken place.
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[BLOOMBERG] Assailants tossed a grenade at a guard post at Istanbul's Dolmabahce Palace and then opened fire, setting off a shootout in the center of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's largest city. No one was killed and two members of a leftist krazed killer group were detained.
The two suspected attackers were members of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party--Front, or DHKP-C, a group that's carried out numerous attacks against Turkish and American interests in the country since the 1970s, state-run Anadolu Agency reported. The assailants were the same people who carried out an armed attack on an Istanbul office of Turkey's ruling AK Party on Aug. 8, it said.
The attack is the first on a major tourist site in Istanbul amid an escalation in violence between Turkish forces and Kurdish, Islamic and leftist Death Eaters over the past two months. A Turkish multi-front offensive against terrorist groups and the collapse of a three-year truce with Kurdish Death Eaters followed inconclusive general elections in June.
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[IraqiNews] On Monday the leadership of the Popular Defense Forces (PDF), the armed wing of the PKK, announced the killing of 35 Turkish soldiers southeast The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , indicating to the destruction and the burning of a number of Turkish military vehicles.
The leadership of the PDF said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, "The Popular Defense Forces launched yesterday a massive attack on a camp belonging to the Turkish army in Tatawan area in Bitlis region southeastern Turkey, which resulted in the death of 35 soldiers and wounding others."
The leadership added that, "A number of military vehicles were destroyed and burned," asserting that, "the attack was in retaliation to the blood of the deaders and the revival of the thirty-second anniversary of the launch the armed force of the PKK."
[Hurriyet Daily News] Clashes between the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Turkish security forces have spread to towns in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's southeast, with curfews declared in the Lice and Silvan districts of Diyarbakir province.
As violence continues, news of fatalities on both sides also continues to come. One person was killed and one maimed in the Silvan district of Diyarbakir on Aug. 18, where festivities between the Turkish military and PKK murderous Moslems raged.
One soldier was killed and three others were maimed in festivities with PKK murderous Moslems in the Lice district of Diyarbakir on Aug. 18 after the gendarmerie forces launched an operation to seize PKK members who had closed the road between Diyarbakir and neighboring Bingöl province, the Turkish General Staff announced in a statement.
The maimed soldiers were taken to a university hospital in Diyarbakir as Cobra helicopters were deployed to the conflict zone, the statement added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa spent the day shopping for new underwear. Tonight was going to be a special occasion... in an area between the eastern province of Ardahan's Göle district and Erzurum's Senkaya district, a village guard, identified as 42-year-old Yakup Akturk, departed this vale of tears after being maimed together with two fellow village guards after PKK members opened fire on them on Aug. 17. The village guards were reaching the area where PKK members had killed a bus driver who attempted to avoid an illegal checkpoint set up by the terror organization. Akturk was a father six.
Around 800 security forces launched a major operation against the PKK in the Silvan district of Diyarbakir early Tuesday after the forces of Evil erected barricades, dug trenches and gained control of a health centre, Dogan news agency reported.
More than 40 members of the Turkish security forces have been killed in violence linked to the PKK since the crisis began on July 20 when a suicide kaboom blamed on IS left scores of pro-Kurdish activists dead in the town of Suruc.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] Turkish police have incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! four suspected 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.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) snuffies riding in a car loaded with military weapons and a drone, presumably en route to Syria, in an anti-terror operation in southeastern The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... .
Police intercepted a car in the city center of Turkey's Syrian border town of Gaziantep in an anti-terror operation against individuals aspiring to join or provide logistical support to the ISIL jihadist group.
Four passengers inside the car, three of which were foreigners, were taken into custody by the police.
After obtaining a search warrant from the prosecutor's office, police searched the luggage and packages inside the car and discovered a large amount of military equipment.
Among the equipment discovered were an unmanned aerial vehicle and its apparatus, two night sights for long-barreled weapons, 352 ammunition clips for long-barreled Kalashnikovs, two rifle scopes, 50 45mm bullets, 18 camouflage smocks and three bandoliers.
All captured equipment was seized by the police while the suspected snuffies were arrested after being questioned.
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[DAWN] PESHAWAR: Police on Monday defused three improvised bombs in the limits of Mattani and Regi cop shoppes, sources said.
They said one of the IEDs weighed around 10 kilograms and could have caused extensive damage in case it were blown up.
A senior police official told Dawn that police recovered a 10 kilogram remote controlled device in the Regi area of the city in the limits of Nasir Bagh cop shoppe. He said the explosives were packed in the IED planted by the roadside.
The official said Bomb Disposal Unit safely defused the device, adding a convoy of the Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and anti-smuggling operations.... passing through the area was the possible target of the IED. However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... an official at the Nasir Bagh cop shoppe expressed his ignorance about defusing of the IED.
The senior police official said two IEDs were recovered from the limits of Mattani cop shoppe. "Mortar shells were improvised in both IEDs," the official said, adding that both devices were safely defused.
Meanwhile, ...back at the game, the Babe headed for second base. He almost made it. Then Sheila slapped him.... the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Monday claimed to have tossed in the slammer Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! a terrorist belonging to a banned outfit from the limits of Badbher cop shoppe.
A statement issued here said that the suspected terrorist identified as Amal Gul, resident of Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency, was involved in attacks on members of local peace committee in the area.
In one of the attacks back in 2007 criminal masterminded by the terrorist, two members of a local peace committee, Samar Gul and Malik Jan, were killed, while two others were maimed.
The statement said that the accused was shifted to some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location for interrogation.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: Dilshad Moavia, 40, deputy secretary of the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat ...which is the false nose and plastic mustache of the murderous banned extremist group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain, whatcha might call the political wing of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi... (ASWJ), was rubbed out in Orangi Town on Monday in a suspected sectarian attack, according to police and party officials.
Dilshad was riding a cycle of violence when gunnies on another cycle of violence attacked him near Noorani restaurant in Orangi Town 11 ½, said an official at the Iqbal Market cop shoppe. He sustained multiple bullet wounds, including some in the head, and was struck down in his prime.
The victim was returning home after dropping his child at a school in the area, said the ASWJ 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... spokesperson.
The murder triggered a protest by party workers.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: Five suspected holy warriors were killed in an alleged encounter with law enforcement agencies in the Manghopir area in the early hours of Monday.
Officials said that a joint team of police and Rangers conducted a targeted raid on a hideout of suspected holy warriors in Khairabad.
On seeing the law-enforcers, the suspects opened fire, wounding a policeman and a Rangers man.
The law-enforcers returned fire, killing five suspects, they added.
Two of the dead were later identified as Kamal and Hazrat, said the Manghopir SHO.
They both were residents of Sultanabad near the PIDC. They belonged to the banned TTP, added the officer.
Manghopir SHO Ghulam Hussain Korai said that the joint operation was carried out on a tip-off provided by an intelligence agency.
He added that they had reports about the presence of members of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain there.
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[DAWN] A policeman and a civilian were killed Tuesday when suspected rebels opened fire outside a Moslem shrine in India-held Kashmire, police said.
The bandidossnuffies targeted the police officer guarding the shrine of Tujjar Sharif, 55 kilometres northwest of the main city of Srinagar.
"The policeman unfortunately lost his life, and a civilian who was shot during the attack departed this vale of tears later," deputy inspector general of police for the area, Gharib Das, told AFP.
"It appeared that the policeman on guard was the target, not the shrine." It was not clear if the 70-year-old disabled civilian was shot by the bandidossnuffies or he was hit by a bullet when police returned fire.
The bandidossnuffies fled the area after the attack and the dead police officer's automatic rifle was missing, Das said, adding security forces had launched a hunt for the attackers.
Rebels in recent years have often attacked lone coppers on duty and snatched their service weapons.
Last week a bomb hidden in a steel pot went kaboom! inside the compound of a mosque in the southern Kashmire valley, injuring ten people. No rebel group grabbed credit for the rare kaboom.
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[DAWN] "Unrelenting and indiscriminate" shelling by Indian troops from across the Line of Control killed an elderly man and maimed six others, including three siblings, in Nakyal sector of Azad Jammu and Kashmire on Tuesday.
Munshi Khan, 70, was killed late in the evening after a mortar shell landed in his house in Bani Lanjot village in the southern Kotli district, a police official told Dawn from the area.
Residents said a shrapnel pierced through the victim's neck, killing him on the spot. Two other members of his family were maimed.
Earlier in the day, the official said, a shell landed in the courtyard of a house in Datot village, injuring three siblings identified as Ambrina, 20, Rozina, 17, and Sheraz, 16.
Separately, another person was also injured in the same village.
According to officials, all vulnerable educational institutions in Nakyal sector had been closed due to "unrelenting and indiscriminate shelling."
AJK minister for food, Javed Iqbal Budhanvi, who represents Nakyal in the legislative assembly, told Dawn that around 60,000 residents had been affected by Indian shelling in his constituency.
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[DAWN] Fresh air strikes in North Wazoo on Tuesday killed at least 18 suspected bully boyz in Shawal Valley, said the military in a statement.
The area is generally off-limits to journalists, making it difficult to independently verify the number and identity of the dead.
According to Radio Pakistain, jet fighters pounded terrorists' hideouts and destroyed several of them.
Today's strikes come a day after the military said it had eliminated at least 65 gunnies on Monday in air raids conducted in North Waziristan and Khyber Agency.
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[DAWN] Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... leader Rashid Godil was critically maimed after unidentified gunniesshot up his vehicle near his residence 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... 's Bahadurabad area on Tuesday following which he underwent emergency surgery and is currently at death's door at the Liaquat National Hospital.
Hospital sources said that the MQM leader suffered five bullet wounds on his chest, head and arm.
After the attack, Godil was shifted to a nearby hospital where his condition was stated as critical owing to excessive loss of blood. He underwent surgery at a private hospital and was later put on ventilator in the Intensive Care Unit of Liaquat National Hospital, according to Anjum Rizvi, the spokesperson of Liaquat National Hospital.
Rizvi added that said that Godil's driver, who was also injured in the incident, was shifted to the Aga Khan University Hospital where departed this vale of tears during treatment.
Godil was travelling with his driver and a family member when the attack took place. Details of the family member's condition are not known.
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[FOXNEWS] ISIS militants have beheaded an 82-year-old archaeologist who had been in charge of overseeing the ancient site at Palmyra in Syria, a government official said Tuesday.
Syrian state antiquities chief Maamoun Abdulkarim told Reuters that the family of Khaled Asaad had informed Abdulkarim that Asaad had been beheaded earlier in the day and his body hanged from a column in the town's main square.
Asaad's death was also reported by the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The Observatory, which has a network of activists on the ground in Syria, said dozens of people gathered to witness the killing.
Abdulkarim said that Asaad had been held and interrogated by members of the terror group for over a month before his death. The official said that Asaad's captors had been looking for information about where the town's treasures had been hidden to save them from ISIS, but they had no success getting the information from the scholar.
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Abdulkarim said that Asaad had been held and interrogated by members of the terror group for over a month before his death.
[World Post] DAMASCUS, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Islamic State (IS) militants beheaded an antiquities scholar in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra and hung his body on a column in a main square of the historic site, Syria's antiquities chief said on Tuesday.
IS, whose insurgents control swathes of Syria and Iraq, captured Palmyra in central Syria from government forces in May, but are not known to have damaged its monumental Roman-era ruins despite their reputation for destroying artifacts they view as idolatrous under their puritanical interpretation of Islam.
Syrian state antiquities chief Maamoun Abdulkarim said the family of Khaled Asaad had informed him that the 82-year-old scholar who worked for over 50 years as head of antiquities in Palmyra was executed by Islamic State on Tuesday.
Depraved militants fighting for the Islamic State in Syria have brutally murdered an 82-year-old retired archaeologist because he refused to tell them where gold and ancient statues were hidden.
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Obama says that IS is not Islam. He yelled at a Pentagon briefing full of Colonels and Generals about their daring to impugn Islam by saying that IS was motivated by Moslem piety and values. He had to be led out of the room by ValJar and taken home. The briefing was canceled and the Press never said a word. But the Pentagon remembered.
ISIS is Moslem. Very Moslem. The American military LOATH Obama. It is a good thing they are honorable people who respect the Constitution too much to even think about what Obama apologises for....the military does not like ILLUSIONS. In Combat Illusions just get you killed. A soldier can't afford Illusions. Plus its a very bad idea to insult Colonels and Generals. I wouldn't recommend it.
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Destroying history only brings ignorance not piety.
But I guess ignorance just works fine for the religion of pieces.
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at least we won't have to watch any more Indiana Jones movies
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Is ISIS Moslem? Your view?
I believe the appropriate term would be 'fundamentalists'.
Islam was spread by the sword. Those who deny the original of its expansion are the same people who try to sell guilt to Americans about their "original sin" aka slavery (ignoring the northern states were already free). If one has to face taint on its origin, then so should the other. However, it all goes down to the Left's hatred of Western Civ and their mantra of "one set of rules for, another set of rules for thee".
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He yelled at a Pentagon briefing full of Colonels and Generals about their daring to impugn Islam by saying that IS was motivated by Moslem piety and values. He had to be led out of the room by ValJar and taken home.
This is the first I've heard of such a thing. When did it happen?
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These fokkers (IS) only destroy and kill. They create nothing. They are a bunch of psychopaths. The world would do well to rid the world of them; otherwise this sort of thing will continue.
I'm sorry for the confusion, JohnQC. I meant Unomotle Sniger2065's claim that the president yelled at senior Pentagon officers and had to be led away by Ms Jarrett. It seems more the thing that would happen in a bad novel than real life, but that may just be my ignorance.
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These fokkers (IS) Tranzis only destroy and kill They create nothing. They are a bunch of psychopaths. The world would do well to rid the world of them; otherwise this sort of thing will continue..
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These fokkers (IS) Tranzis only destroy and kill They create nothing. They are a bunch of psychopaths. The world would do well to rid the world of them; otherwise this sort of thing will continue..
Last I heard the Tranzis weren't blowing up prisoners on land mines or burning them in cages.
They used to line them up in front of a ditch and shoot them in the back of the head, but that's been a few decades. I'm not sure about the raping and enslaving, though.
Give the Islamic State 70 years - they might catch up with the Russians, or at least reach the Russian's industrial-scale level of atrocity.
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What happens when a thread goes awry. I used "fokkers" as a euphemism/substitute for "fuckers" (referring to the ISIS cretins) in case the dirty word monitor kicked out the post.
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Syrian rebels on Tuesday have executed and crucified an ISIS fighter in northern town of Marea near Aleppo, saying he was an in-charge for suicide bombs in the radical Sunni group.
Omar Haj Omar was charged by spying on rebels and organizing number of suicide bombs in rebel-held areas.
Marea rebels have also said Omar had planted number of mines and bombs near rebels' bases and their cars.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] A senior commander in the al-Qaeda-linked group Nusra Front was killed on Monday in southern city of Daraa by unidentified gunnies, activists said.
Ahmed Mohammed al-Falouji, Nusra's security official in Daraa, was assassinated by unknown group broke into a field hospital where he was receiving a treatment and shot him dead.
Three days ago, another Nusra Front's senior commander in Maaret al-Nouman was escaped another explosive.
Also in Daraa, Saber Safar, the commander of First Army, FSA unit, was escaped an liquidation attempt on Saturday.
Activists and rebels groups have accused 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.... and Syrian regime by doing such serial killing.
The key rebel group Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... movement has also been under fire amid a mounting number of senior fighters killed by unidentified groups.
Last Saturday, Abu Rateb al-Mazzawi, Ahrar al-Sham's senior commander in Eastern Ghouta suburbs, was killed in an bomb planted in his car, while Abu Mousa al-Kanakri had escaped an liquidation attempt near Damascus, according to activists.
Ahrar commander in Hama countryside was also escaped death before an bombwent kaboom! in his car.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Syrian army recaptured four northwestern villages on Tuesday in a counter-attack on terrorist group operating in the country, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Syrian air force launched dozens of air strikes overnight into the morning on parts of the Sahl al-Ghab plain seized by takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... s in a new advance this month.
In similar development, units of the army and the armed forces on Tuesday continued to tighten the noose around 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... bandidosmurderous Moslems across the country through launching more operations against them in different areas, killing scores of them and repelling their attacks.
In Sweida, state-run news agency ...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?... reported that units of the army and armed forces on Tuesday morning killed scores of bandidosmurderous Moslems of the so-called '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.... of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri group in the eastern countryside of the southern Sweida province.
A military source told SANA that a unit of the army killed all members of a terrorist group in Tal al-Sahin, 40 km to the southeast of Sweida city.
The source added that mortar launchers and vehicles belonging to ISIS bandidosmurderous Moslems were also destroyed in an operation carried out by an army unit against their dens and positions in al-Qasir village in the northeastern countryside.
In Daraa, army units killed a number of bandidosmurderous Moslems most of them from al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front terrorist organization in Eastern Kark and Daraa al-Balad in the southern Daraa province.
Terrorists Mohammed Shehada, the self- claimed leader of "Al-Madina Brigades" and Fayez al-Fallouja Abu Al-Ezz, Al-Nusra's security official, are killed in army operations in Daraa al-Balad in the southern province of Daraa.
The source confirmed that an army unit establishes control over al-Tabe village in Al-Lajatt area in the countryside of the southern province of Daraa.
In Damascus Countryside, and specifically in Eastern Ghouta, the army's air force destroyed terrorists' hideouts in Erbin and Harasta.
In Homs, the army units, supported by the air force, confronted armed terrorist groups, affiliated to ISIL terrorist organization, while attempting to attack military posts in al-Maqalea area, about 10 km northwest Palmyra city in the countryside of the central province of Homs.
The attack was completely thwarted, scores of bad boyz were potted and injured and their vehicles were destroyed with all weapons and ammunition inside them.
In Hama, many terrorists, mostly from al-Nusra Front and the so-called "Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... Movement" were killed in army air strikes on their positions in several villages in the northwestern countryside of the central Hama province.
The air strikes targeted the terrorists' hideouts in the villages of al-Hamidiyeh, al-Ankawi, Bab al-Taqeh and al-Amiqeh near the border with the northwestern Idleb province.
An army unit destroyed a mortar launcher in al-Sermaniyeh village, in addition to killing 14 bandidosmurderous Moslems and injuring at least 20 others.
More terrorists' hideouts were destroyed by the army's air force in al-Latamneh town, 35 km to the north of Hama city.
In Idleb, in the countryside of Idleb province, army air strikes were launched against gatherings of bandidosmurderous Moslems of the so-called "Jaish al-Fateh" and their vehicles in Hamka Hill and the villages of al-Mouzara, Sfouhen, Joseph, Kinsafra, Inneb, Kafr Oweid and al-Ghassaniyeh in the countryside of Jisr al-Shughour.
A number of al-Nusra bandidosmurderous Moslems were also killed in an army air strike that targeted one of their hideouts in Balshoun village, to the southwest of Ariha city.
Meanwhile, ...back at the hoedown, the fiddler suddenly struck a sour note. The dancing stopped abruptly. Everyone looked at Bob... field sources told SANA that an army unit destroyed two vehicles equipped with heavy machine guns on the outskirts of al-Qarqour town in Jisr al-Shughour.
In the southeastern countryside of the province, the army's air force destroyed terrorists' hideouts in al-Mjas village in Abo al-Duhour.
In Lattakia, an army unit targeted dens of terrorist organizations in Kensabba area in the northern countryside of Lattakia province, killing 8 terrorists.
A military source told SANA that three of the killed bandidosmurderous Moslems were Libyans, noting that a Tunisian terrorist nicknamed "Abo Mosab al-Tunisi", who is responsible for recruiting Tunisian bandidosmurderous Moslems to fight in Syria, was identified among the dead.
In Deir Ezzor, dozens of ISIL bad boyz were potted or injured and three machine guns belonging to them were destroyed in army air strikes in al-Jneineh area in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor.
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[Ynet] The United States and its allies launched 20 air strikes on Monday 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.... murderous Moslems in Syria and Iraq, according to the Combined Joint Task Force leading the air operations.
In Iraq, 17 air strikes targeted the Lion of Islam group and its operations near nine cities and struck 10 units of Islamic State fighters as well as other targets, the task force said in a statement on Tuesday. In Syria, three air strikes hit near Al Hasaka and Kobani, hitting two units of fighters, among other targets, it said.
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Subject: SFC Terry Lee Gilden, USA Is Being Posthumously Honored By The Department of State
I was recently contacted by a Special Agent with the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Diplomatic Security who is assisting their Public Affair office. SFC Terry Lee Gilden, USA, has been approved to be included on the Diplomatic Security Memorial Wall, which honors those that died in service to Diplomatic Security. The Diplomatic Security Memorial Wall will be unveiled at the Department of State building on 18 September 2015. After that date you can access the virtual wall on the internet. Terry's widow Mary and their daughter who was one years old when Terry was killed will be invited to attend the ceremony.
For those of you that don't know the details; SFC Terry Lee Gilden was killed on 18 April 1983, at the U.S. Embassy, Beirut, Lebanon during a terrorist truck bombing attack on the embassy. Terry was assigned to A Squadron at the time of his death. Terry was supporting the American Ambassador's protective detail at the time of his death. The bombing was the work of an Iranian Shiite Hezbollah "Party of God" group. The suicide bomber drove a pickup truck containing gas-enhanced explosive into the embassy. The blast killed 17 Americans, which included a Marine Corps guard, three soldiers, seven Central Intelligence Agency personnel, and 46 foreign nationals. Terry was our unit's first loss to the enemy.
I am working with the Department of State to have one of our Army EOD techs added to the Diplomatic Security Memorial Wall sometime in the future. MSG James Earl "Duke" Austin was killed on 18 February 1971, outside of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, supporting the U.S. embassy on a classified mission.
Respectfully,
Mike R. Vining, SGM USA (Retired) No link, pulled from an email. More info available at Google.
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DHUSAMAREB, Somalia -- Attack helicopters continue to pound fewer areas acquiesced to Al Shabaab’s waning rule, destroying military vehicles in fresh barrages in central Somalia, Garowe Online reports.
At least five people, four Al Shabaab fighters have been killed and dozen others wounded in deadly fighting that erupted in parts of Elbuur town in central Somalia.
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[World Post] DAMASCUS, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Islamic State (IS) militants beheaded an antiquities scholar in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra and hung his body on a column in a main square of the historic site, Syria's antiquities chief said on Tuesday.
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