[Daily Caller] International law experts are blasting Doctors Without Borders for forcibly removing civilian patients from the aid group's Kunduz, Afghanistan, hospital and replacing them with wounded Taliban fighters when the city fell to the rebel control in late September.
Alan Dershowitz, an acclaimed Harvard constitutional lawyer and authority in international law, said that he was not surprised that the group, known as Medecins Sans Frontieres, favored Taliban fighters over civilian patients, telling The Daily Caller News Foundation in an interview that he regards Doctors Without Borders as "Doctors Without Morals."
Dershowitz charged the group with having a long history of anti-Western political stances and of not being neutral. He says MSF "is a heavily ideological organization that often favors radical groups over Western democracies and is highly politicized."
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Apparently this looks like a Lefty example of Cannibalism. When they have a moment Lefties will have a Purge on other Lefties.
Its just the Nature of the Lefty. Stalin and Trotsky are a TYPE of the same animal. And Zinoviev and about another thirty were staring at Sheep.
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Depends on the region. I've know a couple doctors that have done a year or two with this group in Africa. The work they did there was solid and humanitarian and offered advanced medical care to people that have never seen anything more advanced than a band-aid and a shaman.
That said, I have seen reports of this same organization working with drug lords and warlords to operate in heavy war areas. Granted sometimes that is the only way they can work there, but often times they make a deal with the devil and are constantly harassed and threatened. Put doctors from say, Pakistan that are friendly to our enemy and you have what we got here. Basically a medical and trauma center for the enemy fighters.
Sayed Zafar Hashemi, President Ashraf Ghani's deputy spokesman, on Wednesday night confirmed that 10 civilians were wounded in Kabul earlier in the day when security forces opened fire on demonstrators outside the Presidential Palace.
The incident occurred when protestors tried to breach the gates of the Presidential Palace mid-afternoon after having marched through the streets of the capital carrying the bodies of the seven Zabul victims beheaded a few days ago by alleged Daesh members.
Tens of thousands of protestors walked the estimated eight kilometers in what was largely a well-controlled and peaceful demonstration.
However, tempers flared late afternoon, as demonstrators called on government to ensure those responsible for the Zabul Seven killings are brought to justice.
By Wednesday night, the majority of demonstrators had dispersed but about 700 were still gathered outside the Presidential Palace.
According to them, they will not leave the area until they get answers to demands they submitted to Ghani earlier in the day.
Braving the cold and rain, the demonstrators – both men and women – were undeterred and continued to chant slogans, calling for government action.
However, representatives from the organizers of the demonstration were still holed up in a meeting with government officials three hours after entering the Presidential Palace.
Hashemi confirmed this and said discussions were centered around the list of demands issued earlier in the day by the protestors.
He went on to say that government had left no stone unturned in its efforts to secure the release of the Zabul Seven while they were being held hostage.
Meanwhile, a very strong security force presence was noticeable around the Presidential Palace with large numbers of Afghan National Army, Police and National Directorate of Security (NDS) members present.
Roads in the immediate vicinity were also still closed off on Wednesday night.
[Libya Herald] A car bomb exploded last night at a checkpoint on the coastal road just outside Khoms yesterday evening. One guard was immediately killed but two others who were among the seven wounded are said to have since died from their injuries.
All are reported to be from Khoms.
The checkpoint, next to a military base, also houses the control centre for all the checkpoints from Dafniya, west of Misrata, to the east Tripoli suburb of Tajoura
It was initially reported that there were three cars bombs, but it is thought that two others blew up when the first exploded.
The attack has all the hallmarks of an Islamic State operation. It has launched a series of similar attacks at checkpoints in and around Misrata, 60 kilometres further east. However, there are also suggestions that it may be linked to last week’s clashes between a Misratan brigade and Khoms forces which resulted in the coastal road being closed for 36 hours.
That situation was resolved when the Misratan militia headed by Safwan Goneidi agreed to pull out of Khoms port where it had installed itself. It is reported that Khoms municipal council had since been warned that the militia might try to attack the control centre in revenge.
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[LibyaHerald] A civil society activist and journalist as well as the manager of the Waddan hotel were among the latest people to be kidnapped in Tripoli yesterday.
Moutaz Khraif, the head of the organisation “For the good we gathered” was seized in Dahra district just behind the Supreme Court while hotel manager Walid Tantush was seized when men stormed the iconic hotel.
In both cases the kidnappers were reported to have been masked. At least another two people area also said to have been abducted in during the day.
It is also reported that some five journalists were detained over the past couple of weeks.
It is not known who was responsible for the latest abductions although Rada (“deterrence”) forces, under the control of Abdul Raouf Kara, are being accused.
It is not the first time there have been allegations of them detaining individuals either opposed to Libya Dawn or not quite fitting in. One central Tripoli resident told the Libya Herald today that he had not left his home in a week, fearing arrest by Rada because he had been denounced by a third party as being opposed to the force’s activities. More at the link
[LibyaHerald] Violent clashes between Libya army forces and militants continued overnight and throughout the day in Benghazi’s Leithi, Garyunis and city centre districts with, once again, randomly fired missiles smashing into residential areas.
In Leithi one house was hit, bringing down the roof and killing a man and wounding two others. It is not known which side of the fight was responsible. In nearby Hay Dolar, which is this evening was under curfew with no one allowed in or out, three other civilians – two men and a women – were also injured when a shell landed on their home. According to Jalaa Hospital, one of the two men is in a critical condition.
In another development, an official at the hospital has told the Libya Herald that ten soldiers were killed in yesterday’s fighting which resulted in the Saiqa brigade recapturing three former air force bases, two in Sidi Faraj and one in Buatni.
There has been no confirmation of the figure from military sources.
They are suggesting, however, that the army has made significant gains in in Benghazi this week – a claim been heard many times before.
It is also noticeable that there has been a significant increase in checkpoints in streets, stopping and searching vehicles, although they are being manned by the police not the military.
Meanwhile, photos have emerged purporting to show food being packaged in Misrata for delivery to Islamist militants fighting in places such as Sabri and Sidi Khrebish. It is not known if the pictures are genuine or when they were taken, although there are suggestions that they were made in the summer.
There are suggestions that they are now being circulated to discredit Misrata when the international community is pushing for the proposed Government of National Accord (GNA) to be accepted – a government which the east of the country largely opposes, claiming it is Misrata-dominated.
In fact there has been plenty of anecdotal evidence that, despite the efforts by mainstream leaders in Misrata to reach out to the east of the country and find a solution to the current crisis, elements in the city have over the past year continued to send men, ammunition and supplies to Islamists in the Benghazi and received from it those wounded there, sending them on to Turkey for treatment.
[Jpost] Libya's self-declared government in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... has tossed in the slammer Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! a United Arab Emirates soldier and placed him under investigation for spying after finding evidence among his documents and on his computer, authorities said on Wednesday.
The soldier, identified as Yusef Saqer Ahmad Mubarak, was arrested in Tripoli after intelligence was uncovered about his activities, the head of the attorney general's investigation department, Sadiq Al-Sour, told Rooters.
"He is still under investigation by the public prosecution after all information from his laptop and documents has shown that Mubarak was spying for a foreign country," he said.
Libya is caught in a conflict between two rival governments and their armed factions, an internationally recognized one in the east and an unofficial one in Tripoli. Each accuses neighboring countries of backing the other.
Tripoli's government has accused the United Arab Emirates and Egypt of supporting its rivals. The United States said last year the UAE and Egypt staged air strikes against Libyan Islamists, but the UAE dismissed those allegations.
The arrest comes after Tripoli officials complained of UN bias in peace negotiations with their rivals, following reports the UN envoy for Libya would be leaving for a job with a United Arab Emirates diplomatic academy.
Dubai police chief Khamis al-Muzainah said in a late Wednesday statement on his force's official Twitter account that the allegations were "false and far away from truth."
"The arrested suspect's relation with the police had ended five years ago (in 2010) when he was dismissed from military service for his involvement in a moral case," said Muzainah.
[AnNahar] At least 13 members of Libya's army were killed by "terrorist" violence on Tuesday in the east of the war-torn country, an army front man said.
"Most of the soldiers were killed by landmines planted by terrorist organizations," front man Miloud al-Zawi told LANA, the official news agency of the internationally recognized government.
Zawi said that 16 security personnel died in all, but only named 13 that were killed on Tuesday. It was unclear when or how the other three died.
According to LANA, the soldiers were killed in different conflict areas around the eastern city of Benghazi, where their forces were trying to advance.
Zawi insisted, however, that the security forces had "made advances and secured a major victory".
He said troops had managed to wrest control of a military base, adding that "battles will continue and will not stop until the areas controlled by the terrorist groups are liberated".
Zawi did not elaborate on which areas or bases were being targeted, or which groups the army was fighting.
Libya has had two administrations since August 2014, when a militia alliance overran the capital and set up its own parliament in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... while forcing the internationally recognized government to take refuge in Tobruk, in the east.
The oil-rich north African country descended into chaos after the fall of Muammar Qadaffy ...The late megalomaniac dictator of Libya, admired everywhere for his garish costumes, funny hats, harem of cutie bodyguards, and incoherent ravings. As far as is known, he is the only person who's ever declared jihad on Switzerland... in 2011.
The U.N. has been brokering talks to create a new unity government to end fighting between the army and the militias that seized Tripoli, with the U.N. envoy to Libya voicing hope that an agreement is imminent.
Under the power-sharing deal, Libya will be governed by a nine-member presidential council made up of a prime minister, five deputy prime ministers and three senior ministers.
[AnNahar] A U.N. peacekeeper was killed in the Central African Republic Tuesday following a clash with Muslim Seleka ...a 'mainly' Moslem rebel force in the Central African Republic that overthrew the govt, imposed a regime of rapine and looting on the country's non-Moslem population, and was then tossed by France. They still exist, getting funding and weapons from somewhere or other, licking their wounds, complaining about the oppression of Moslems, and occasionally raping and looting someone... rebels that comes just weeks before elections in the troubled country.
The soldier from the MINUSCA force was found dead in Batangafo, north of Bangui, a United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... front man said.
"Following an outbreak of violence between armed anti-Balaka and ex-Seleka elements at an internally displaced persons camp in Batangafo, ex-Seleka elements confronted MINUSCA troops at a nearby MINUSCA checkpoint," said a statement from front man Stephane Dujarric.
"During the incident, one peacekeeper went missing and was subsequently found dead."
A U.N. official said the peacekeeper was from 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... U.N. Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon condemned the killing and called for swift action to bring the perpetrators to justice.
The attack came as the U.N. mission is trying to bolster security in the country ahead of elections on December 27 that are shaping up as a test of the country's progress in its political transition.
The Central African Republic descended into bloodshed after the 2013 coup against longtime leader Francois Bozize, with Christian anti-balaka militias battling Muslim Seleka rebels.
The country is also hoping to welcome Pope Francis for a visit on November 29-30, although security concerns may prompt the Vatican to scrap the trip.
The U.N. has deployed some 12,000 troops and police in its MINUSCA force, and is planning to add about 1,140 more, as well as drones, to beef up security ahead of the vote.
The head of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) air force on Wednesday dismissed charges that Arab coalition air power caused regular civilian casualties in Yemen's war, saying warplanes used precision weapons and raids needed multiple approvals.
Amnesty International has asked the United Nations to investigate allegations that humanitarian law has been broken during the seven-month-old war, in which U.N. figures show more than 5,600 people have been killed.
The human rights group has said the vast majority of civilian casualties in Yemen have been caused by the Saudi-led coalition. It has said that violations of international humanitarian law have also been committed by the Iranian-allied Houthis, the coalition's adversary in the conflict.
In an interview with Reuters at the Dubai Airshow, Major-General Ibrahim Nasser Al Alawi said coalition planes had complete command of the skies and so could focus their efforts on supporting ground forces fighting the Houthis.
"As an air power player in the allied forces we are running almost 98 percent precision (weapons) and with small calibres, especially when it comes to civilian areas like cities," he said, in a rare public comment by a senior coalition officer.
"I can say there are three to four different layers for approving these targets, just to make sure that civilians (are unharmed) - and going with a small calibre you are really controlling collateral damage."
"We are a professional air force, the Saudis the same, the allied forces they are all the same."
Saudi Arabia has since March led the campaign to restore state authority after Houthi fighters took control of much of Yemen a year ago. The UAE is a leading member of the coalition, which won control of the skies in the first few days of the war.
Britain said on Tuesday it would halt arms exports to Saudi Arabia if investigations found Riyadh had breached international humanitarian law in the Yemen war.
Alawi, commander of the UAE Air Force and Air Defence, said coalition warplanes were helping ground forces to try to take the capital Sanaa and other major cities from the Houthis.
"The whole airspace belongs to the allied forces ... so militarily I don't think you can ask much more than that," he said. "Now it is up to the Yemenis to recapture their cities like the capital Sanaa or Saada and practise their government."
Ahmed Al Hammadi, Advocate General and Chief of the Bahraini Terror Crime Prosecution, said the High Criminal Court today sentenced eight suspects after convicting them of terror-related offences including setting tyres alight, planting a hoax bomb in a public place, rioting and possessing Molotov cocktails.
According to Bahrain News Agency, BNA, the third and fourth defendants were handed three years in jail while the remaining ones each received ten years in prison.
The court also ordered the confiscation of the seized items.
Details of the case date to April 3, 2014 when the convicts set tyres on fire in Sar, in the Northern Governorate, planted a hoax bomb and attacked police officers with Molotov cocktails.
"The lads like to keep busy. Idle hands are the Devil's playground, donchaknow."
After questioning three of them, the Public Prosecution charged them with arson, planting a hoax bomb in a public place for terror purposes, rioting and disrupting public order by using violence and Molotov cocktails.
The Public Prosecution relied in substantiating the charges on evidences including testimonies of the prosecution witnesses and technical evidences. The defendants, including three in custody, were referred to the High Criminal Court for trial and an arrest warrant was issued to arrest those at large.
The case was heard by the court which issued its ruling after affording the defendants with full legal rights throughout the trial process.
Intensified raids by Arab coalition warplanes and ground attacks by the national Yemeni army and resistance killed 28 coup insurgents from the Houthis and their allies on Wednesday, Yemen’s press reported on Thursday.
The air raids targeted positions for the Houthis and forces loyal to deposed president Ali Abdullah Saleh in Bihan city in the central Albayda governorate.
Quoting resistance sources, Masdar Online aid 15 insurgents were killed and several others were injured in the raids on Wednesday morning.
In the Southwest, national resistance fighters attacked a Houthi convoy in Damat city, killing 13 rebels and injuring several others, Marib Press reported.
It quoted a military source as saying rocket propelled grenades and machine guns were used in the attacks, resulting in the destruction of two armored vehicles.
“Clashes have been raging for days between the national resistance and the coup rebels on the fringes of Damat…the Houthis are trying to advance towards Al Dale governorate, which is under the control of the national army and the coalition but are facing fierce resistance from the national forces,” a military source said.
Yemen’s coup rebels have started moving missiles and heavy weapons in the Southwestern town of Taiz to the capital Sanaa as they fear a major offensive by the coalition and their allies to seize the town.
Reports from Yemen quoted eye witnesses as saying they saw large trucks laden with rockets and other weapons leaving the Taiz area on Tuesday and heading for Sanaa, the main stronghold of the Iranian-backed Houthis and their allies.
“Witnesses said the Houthis are emptying all their weapons depots in and around Taiz as they fear the battle of liberation declared by the coalition could begin within the next few days,” Yemen Press news network said.
It quoted witnesses as saying the missiles were being moved from the Houthi military camp in Houban, east of Taiz city.
Yemeni vice president and Prime Minister Khalid Bahah said this week a final offensive to seize Taiz would be launched within days by the Saudi-led Arab coalition and the national Yemeni army and resistance. He said the liberation of the besieged city has become a matter of time.
A Qatari soldier serving with the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen has been killed, Qatar's first fatality of the conflict, the foreign minister said on Wednesday.
"We congratulate ourselves and our nation for the martyrdom of a son of our homeland in Yemen," Khalid bin Mohammad Al-Attiyah announced on Twitter.
"May God accept him in the highest heavens and bestow patience and solace on his family."
The death was later confirmed by state media, who named the soldier as Mohammed Hamid Suleiman.
"Qatar armed forces announced the death of Mohammed Hamid Suleiman... on duty with the Arab coalition forces participating in the operation of restoring hope in the Republic of Yemen," reported the Qatar News Agency
[AlAhram] Pro-government forces on Wednesday killed 13 rebel fighters in an ambush in Yemen's south after the gunnies took back several positions in the area, a military source said.
The 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 America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... rebels were travelling in two military vehicles south of Damt, the Daleh province's second-largest city, which they and their allies recaptured on Saturday.
Forces loyal to President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi attacked them with rocket-propelled grenades and machineguns, the source said.
The loyalists, backed by Saudi-led coalition strikes, supplies and troops, pushed the rebels out of Daleh and four other southern provinces in July.
But the rebels this weekend recaptured several positions in the south.
Battles continued in the area Wednesday as the rebels were trying to advance on Daleh's bustling provincial capital, which carries the same name, the military source told AFP.
Other fighting flared in Al-Madaribah on the border between the neighbouring restive Lahj ... a Yemeni governate located in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It is the stomping grounds on the southern secessionist al-Harak movement and Taez provinces, leaving five rebels and three loyalist fighters dead over the past 24 hours, military sources said.
The coalition, formed in March to halt the rebels' advance across Yemen, has dispatched military reinforcements to Al-Madaribah to prevent it falling to rebel hands, the sources said.
Late Tuesday rebels fired Katyusha rockets at regional military headquarters held by loyalist troops in the oil-rich Marib province east of the capital Sanaa without causing casualties, a military source there said.
Around 5,000 people have been killed in the conflict since March, more than half of them civilians, according to UN estimates.
A new round of UN-brokered 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... talks to end the conflict is expected to kick off in Geneva or Muscat around mid-November.
[RFE/RL] A court in the northwestern Russian city of Arkhangelsk has sentenced a Tajik man to three years in prison on terrorist propaganda charges. The regional prosecutor's office said on November 11 that Shahboz Azimov was found guilty of inciting hatred, calling publicly for terrorism, and justifying terrorism via the Internet.
Investigators say that Azimov had posted on the Internet calls for Russian Muslims to wage jihad against infidels and to join Daesh militants. Police say they found booklets and electronic materials with text propagating religious extremism in Azimov's residence in Arkhangelsk.
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[RFE/RL] Russian officials say the ringleader of a group of Islamist militants in Kabardino-Balkaria was killed on November 10 in a special operation.
Russia's National Antiterrorism Committee (NAK) said the man killed by security forces in Nalchik was identified as Robert Zankishiyev, aka Abdullah, who "had vowed loyalty to the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq" earlier this year.
Russian Prosecutor-General Yury Chaika on November 10 said that citizens from some 100 countries -- including Russia and former Soviet republics -- are fighting along Daesh militants in Syria and Iraq.
[AnNahar] Clashes broke out between police and migrants living in temporary camps near the northern French port of Calais on Tuesday for a third night running.
Riot police used teargas and watercannon to end an hour-long standoff with the migrants, who started by throwing objects and insults at officers before lighting a wooden pallet on fire.
"Two-hundred-and-fifty coppers, of which the majority were CRS (riot police), were mobilized Tuesday" to end the disturbances around the migrant camp, dubbed the "jungle" in La Belle France, said interior ministry front man Pierre-Henry Brandet.
Long a source of tension between Gay Paree and London, the migrant population in Calais doubled between June and August as Europe struggles with its worst migrant crisis since World War II.
Most migrants enter the bloc seeking refuge in Germany or Sweden, but others have continued their journey to La Belle France in the hope of somehow crossing the Channel.
An estimated 4,500 people now live in makeshift camps outside Calais, from where they try to make their way to Britannia by sneaking into trucks or storming the Eurotunnel rail link to London.
La Belle France has stepped up security after violence broke out this week, prompting migrants to resort to disrupting traffic on the Calais ring-road.
They have "often entered the property of local residents to obtain objects that can be used to block the trucks on the ring road" leading to the port, head of the Pas-de-Calais region Fabienne Buccio told a presser.
Sandy, a resident who lives close to the migrant camps, told AFP: "We no longer feel at home -- we live with our windows and shutters closed. We cannot even go into the garden with our children."
[AnNahar] Authorities in La Belle France have tossed in the clink I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! a man with links to an 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 in Syria over a plot to attack military personnel at a major naval base, police and judicial sources said Tuesday.
The 25-year-old, whom sources said had been monitored by intelligence agencies after trying unsuccessfully twice last year to travel to Syria, was held late last month and charged on November 2.
The interior ministry said in a statement that the man had been under surveillance "because of his radicalization and public support for jihadist ideology" and had "attempted to acquire material to carry out a violent attack on Navy personnel in Toulon".
While he was being monitored, he had a parcel delivered by the post office which was found to contain a combat knife and a mask.
During questioning he admitted he had been in contact with a Frenchie currently in Syria with the Islamic State (IS) group who had encouraged him to act, a source close to the case said.
He eventually admitted plotting to attack sailors at the Mediterranean base of Toulon, home to 70 percent of the French fleet and 20,000 military and civilian personnel, though a police source said he had not formed a detailed plan.
One source said the French IS fighter had himself been held for several months in La Belle France for making violent threats against satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... in 2012.
In January Islamist gunnies carried out a string of attacks in Gay Paree that left 17 dead, including much of the editorial team of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
The country has been on high alert since then and several other attacks have reportedly been foiled.
Attacks by Lions of Islam returning from Syria or in online contact with jihadists there figure high among the French intelligence services' worries,
More than 500 French fighters are thought to be with IS in Syria and Iraq, according to official figures, while 250 have returned and some 750 expressed a desire to go there.
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[AnNahar] Three Turkish coppers, a civilian and a soldier have been killed in new attacks in the restive southeast blamed on fighters from the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), security sources said Wednesday.
The coppers were killed and another was maimed late Tuesday when they came under fire from rockets and automatic rifles while patrolling the largely Kurdish town of Silopi near the Syrian border, the sources told Agence La Belle France Presse.
In the flashpoint town of Silvan, which has been under a strict curfew for nine days, one soldier was killed and another maimed in fierce street fighting with the youth wing of the outlawed PKK on Wednesday.
Also on Wednesday, rebels detonated a boom-mobile on a road in Dargecit in Mardin province as a police convoy was passing, killing a municipal employee and wounding a police officer, Dogan news agency said.
[Rudaw] At least three Turkish soldiers were killed and one injured when the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) attacked a Turkish military convoy in the town of Silopi in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's southeastern Sirank province, Turkish media reported Tuesday.
A Turkish army vehicle was carrying soldiers in a military operation in Silopi when the PKK fighters detonated a remote-controlled bomb at the side of the road.
Authorities have declared a curfew in the town as security forces battle the PKK.
[Hurriyet] A bully boy of 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.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) of French citizenship has been apprehended in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's Aegean province of Izmir after getting a hair transplant but before realizing his dreams of getting plastic surgery, allegedly in order to "look better."
Izmir police received intelligence that Mehdibend Said, a French ISIL bully boy of African origin, had arrived in Izmir from Syria in order to stage an attack.
Listed by French authorities as a French national to have joined the ranks of ISIL, Said was located by Izmir Police Department's Intelligence Unit upon entering town.
Unaware that he was being followed, Said went to a beauty salon in Izmir's Karsiyaka district to get a hair transplant. Reports allege the bully boy was also preparing to get plastic surgery in order to "look better."
The Izmir's intelligence unit in cooperation with anti-terror police staged a joint operation to apprehend Said on the morning of Nov.11.
Reports indicate investigations are ongoing to find Said's contacts in Izmir.
Meanwhile, ...back at the saw mill, Scarface Al had tied Little Nell to the log and was about to turn on the buzz saw... three ISIL snuffies of foreign nationalities were apprehended in Turkey's southeastern province of Kilis on Nov. 11 before crossing into Syria.
In a written statement, the Kilis governorate stated that "legal and administrative investigations" were started on the snuffies apprehended in the Yavuzlu village, close to Turkey's border with Syria.
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CHAGHI: Frontier Constabulary (FC) have arrested 22 migrants at the Pak-Afghan border for entering illegally into Pakistan. According to paramilitary force spokesperson, 22 Uzbeks and Tajiks have been arrested.
Meanwhile, Iranian border security forces have handed over 69 Pakistanis to Levis at the Taftan border. The Pakistanis had illegally crossed into Iran before they were arrested.
(IraqiNews.com) Diyali – Member of Diyali Provincial Council Ahmed al-Rubaie announced on Wednesday the killing of a military commander in the Iraqi army and the injury of two of his aides in a bomb blast during a raid operation northeast of Baqubah.
Rubaie stated for IraqiNews.com, “A military commander of the army rank of captain has been killed, while two of his aides were critically injured, in a bomb blast during raid operations in fields in the village of Budja, located in the district of al-Abbara (17 km northeast of Baqubah).”
He also added, “The attack shows the growing threat of the extremist groups that are trying to spread their crimes in the fields through planting explosive devices to kill civilians and members of the security forces.”
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(IraqiNews.com) al-Anbar – The commander of al-Jazeerah and al-Badiyah Operations Command, Ali Ibrahim Daboun, announced the killing of 25 elements belonging to the ISIS in an aerial strike by the international coalition west of Ramadi.
Daboun stated for IraqiNews.com, “Warplanes of the international coalition, in coordination with the army intelligence, bombed one of the sites belonging to the ISIS east of Albu Hayat area in Haditha District (160 km west of Ramadi),” adding that, “The bombing resulted in killing 25 ISIS elements, in addition to inflecting material losses upon their ranks.”
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A Kurdish security source announced on Wednesday that 20 elements of the ISIS were either killed or wounded in an air raid that was launched by the international coalition west of Mosul.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com “the international coalition aircraft carried out an air raid that targeted ISIS strongholds in the village of Ashiq near al-Kazak area (45 km west of Mosul),” noting that, “The operation resulted in killing and wounding 20 elements of the organization.”
The source, who declined to be named, added that “the air strike also resulted in the destruction of the ISIS strongholds.”
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Interior Ministry announced on Wednesday, that six people had been either killed or wounded in a bomb blast north of Baghdad.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “A bomb exploded this afternoon near a market in Tarmiyah area north of Baghdad, killing two people and wounding four others.”
The source, who to remain anonymous, added: “A security force rushed to the area and transported the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment and the bodies of the dead to the forensic medicine department.”
Oddly enough, none of our usual Israeli sources thought this worth reporting.
[AnNahar] Dozens of Paleostinians were maimed during festivities with Israeli forces in the West Bank Wednesday, the anniversary of the death of their leader, Yasser Arafat, the Paleostinian health ministry said.
At least four people were maimed by live ammunition in al-Bireh, near Ramallah, the ministry said, adding that doctors were operating to try to save the life of one person shot in the heart.
Another six Paleostinians were hit with live ammunition in festivities in the city of Tulkarem, north of Tel Aviv.
In total, "62 citizens were maimed by live ammunition and rubber-coated bullets during festivities with the (Israeli) occupation in Tulkarem, Ramallah, Al-Bireh and Bethlehem."
The Israeli army said its forces had responded to attacks.
"Rioters attacked forces and hurled Molotov cocktails and rocks at them. The forces then responded," including with live fire, the statement said.
Between 200 and 300 Paleostinians, flanked by a yellow truck playing nationalist songs, marched towards Israeli forces in al-Bireh, with youths throwing stones and rolling burning tires towards security forces.
Those forces fired tear gas and live ammunition at the crowds in a bid to disperse them, an AFP correspondent reported.
In Gazoo City, around 2,000 Paleostinian protested outside the offices of the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... , with many holding signs venerating Arafat. There were no reports of violence .
Wednesday's protests came amid a weeks-long wave of violence, including gun, knife and car-ramming attacks by Paleostinians.
The violence has claimed the lives of at least 77 people on the Paleostinian side -- one of them an Israeli Arab -- along with 10 Israelis. Many of the Paleostinians killed were alleged attackers.
- 'The whole truth' -
The long-time Paleostinian leader, aged 75, died in 2004 at a military hospital near Gay Paree after developing stomach pains while at his headquarters in Ramallah.
Paleostinian officials have repeatedly pointed the finger at Israel for his death, with accusations of polonium poisoning. Israel has always denied the claims.
Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... said a commission of inquiry investigating Arafat's death has "come a long way" but was not yet ready to release a final report.
Speaking on official television, he said many of the circumstances were still a mystery but we "assure our people the committee will continue its work until it discovers the whole truth."
In a wide-ranging speech, he again stressed his commitment to a unity government between his Fatah party and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, the Islamist movement that controls the Gazoo Strip.
They formed one last year but it never really got off the ground before it fell apart.
On Tuesday, Hamas handed over Arafat's Gazoo residence to the Paleostine Liberation Organization in what they described as a conciliatory gesture.
Abbas said both movements were determined "to work together to form a national unity government based on the program of the Paleostine Liberation Organization, to organize elections and to convene a national Paleostinian council."
...which no doubt will work precisely as well as it has in all previous attempts, which is to say not at all.
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I remember it like it was yesterday.
Stable
Miss Piggy
Oxygen hose
Red Binder
Midnight ride to Jerusalem France
Moar Miss Piggy
Terminal Stability
Cash money
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Between 200 and 300 Paleostinians, flanked by a yellow truck playing nationalist songs and the screams of buggered boyz, marched towards Israeli forces in al-Bireh
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[Gulf Today] Abu Sayyaf militants have released a 50-year-old Malaysian woman they held hostage for six months while police reported they prevented an attempt to abduct an Australian and his family in Agusan del Sur province.
The woman was identified as Thien Nyuk Fun, a restaurant manager, who was abducted nearly six months ago with a Malaysian man from Sandakan on the Malaysian state of Sabah. Sources said the militants released Thien in a remote village in the town of Indanan, Sulu late on Sunday night after her family reportedly paid the remaining $70,000 "balance" of the ransom demand.
The Sulu provincial police said Thien's release was facilitated by a security escort for Sulu Vice Governor Abdusakur Tan who is the son of Abu Sayyaf leader Amah Maas. Reportedly, on instructions of Tan, Maas' son accompanied two Malaysians including a captain who handed over the ransom in cash to the kidnappers.
Sabah officials confirmed that Thien, the mother of two children, had reunited with her family after she arrived in Sandakan after an eight-hour speedboat ride from Sulu. A relative said, "She's tired but healthy and is now looking forward to a quiet life to recover from her worst nightmare under the hands of the Abu Sayyaf who kept her on the run in the jungle terrains of Sulu."
The Abu Sayyaf have also demanded a $60 million ransom ($20 million each) for three foreigners — two Canadians and a Norwegian — and their Filipina companion kidnapped from a posh island resort on September 21.
Meanwhile, Police chief Joebert Agpaoa reported the arrest of seven suspected Abu Sayyaf militants who had planned to kidnap an Australian national and his family in the town of San Luis, Agusan del Sur on Monday. Agpaoa said a combined team of policemen and soldiers nabbed the suspects after recieving reliable information about the abduction plan.
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The woman was identified as Thien Nyuk Fun
that was her "performing name"
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[AnNahar] Twin suicide kabooms rocked a busy shopping street Thursday in the Beirut southern suburb of Bourj al-Barajneh, killing 43 people and wounding 239 others, in the worst such attack in years.
NNA said the attack was carried out by two jacket wallahs who blew up their explosive vests in the Ain al-Sikkeh street.
The Internal Security Forces said two men on foot set off boom jackets in front of a shopping center.
Health Minister Wael Abou Faour, speaking from the scene on a street of shops where vendors also sell from stalls, said many of the injured were at death's door.
The army said the body of a "third terrorist" was found at the scene of one of the blasts after he apparently failed to blow himself up.
The myrmidonIslamic 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 claimed the attack in a statement posted online.
"Soldiers of the Caliphate detonated explosives planted on a cycle of violence in an area frequented by Rafida (Shiites)," the statement said.
"After the apostates gathered in the area, one of the knights of martyrdom detonated his boom belt in the midst of them," the statement added.
The claim could not be independently verified but the statement followed the usual format of IS claims of responsibility and was circulated on jihadist online accounts.
An AFP photographer saw extensive damage to buildings around the site of the blast and bodies inside some of the nearby shops.
There was blood on the streets, and security forces were trying to cordon off the scene and keep people from gathering.
Local television stations showed footage of maimed people being carried away by emergency services and civilians.
"I'd just arrived at the shops when the blast went off. I carried four bodies with my own hands, three women and a man, a friend of mine," a man who gave his name as Zein al-Abideen Khaddam told local television.
- 'Thought world ended' -
Another described the sound of the blasts.
"When the second blast went off, I thought the world had ended," he said.
The maimed were evacuated to several hospitals in the area, including the Bahman hospital in neighboring Haret Hreik.
"We've received dozens of maimed people and they're continuing to arrive," a doctor there told AFP.
The blast is the first to target Beirut's southern suburbs since June 2014, when a suicide boom-mobile killed a General Security officer who had tried to stop the bomber.
But prior to that, a string of attacks targeted Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... strongholds throughout the country.
Between July 2013 and February 2014, there were nine attacks on Hizbullah bastions, most claimed by jihadist myrmidons.
The groups claimed the attacks were in Dire Revenge for Hizbullah's decision to send thousands of fighters into neighboring Syria to support Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... 's forces against an Islamist-dominated uprising.
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[PJ Media] Gen. David Petraeus said the United States has to have a ground force in Syria if its goal is to defeat the Islamic State.
The loyal regime champion listens and responds.
"I think that the limiting factor all along in Syria has been the absence of a Sunni Arab moderate force that we could support. The fact is, I don't care what your objective is in Syria, if your objective is that Bashar must go, you have to have a Sunni Arab force that's going to get him to go," the former CIA director said at the Brookings Institution during a discussion about Michael O'Hanlon's book The Future of Land Warfare.
"If your objective is to get to the diplomatic table, and we're there now, to a degree, you have to have a military context. There is no military solution, as everyone is fond of saying. There is a military context that has to be established without which no one is going to go to the negotiating table, or at least they won't negotiate seriously. And by the way, if you want to degrade and defeat the Islamic State and the al-Qaeda affiliate, Jabhat al-Nusra and the Khorasan Group, the al-Qaeda element sent there for establishment of a cell in Northern Syria, you're going to have to have a ground force."
Despite his emphasis on the need for ground forces, Petraeus said the U.S. military is able to do a lot with air capabilities.
"It's very, very important to note that our capabilities now are just so vastly greater than when we did the fight to Baghdad. The armada of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft that we have over the skies in Iraq and Syria is just breathtaking," he said.
No General, actually what is 'breathtaking' is your sycophantic adoration and loyalty to Obama and his puppeteers. But of course you have been well compensated and your shameless reemergence bodes quite well for current violators of national security. Your recognition of JSOC must have been a difficult pill to swallow, but I suppose highlighting their obvious limitations will be viewed by other gov't agencies as an enabler.
Many of the people Stalin executed professed to love him and confessed their sins at their show trials...
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The general doesn't say where he's going to find these moderate Sunni Arabs who are willing to fight Baraq's war. Most likely because they prefer to invade Europe. At least the general is not suggesting that we need American boots on the ground. Even Baraq knows better than that. So is all that money we're spending on all those "breathtaking" aerial capabilities gonna be nothing but target practice for our pilots?
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"if your objective is that Bashar must go" and nothing else, start over again. That objective will prove counterproductive, as has been proven several times in recent history.
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First they said Saddam must go and Iraq became a mess. Then they said Hosni had to go and it was damn lucky that al Sisi was there to pick up the pieces. Then it was Qdaffy and now Libya is in a state of civil war. Then Bashar......If I didn't know better I'd begin to believe that Baraq's objective is to achieve chaos throughout the Middle East.
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The Obamagenda is this fundamental transformation of the USA. Middle East chaos is merely collateral damage, an unforeseen side effect, mere piffle.
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With respect, Besoeker, and most commenters: you are being unfair to Petraeus and de-contextual with regard to his audience, as pure an anti-national sovereignty group of Globalists as one could find in the USA. Bookings is the sanctimonious face of modern Communist/Globalist/Islam/Democrat-Republican/Progressive post-modern, deconstructed, post-nationalsm. They want USA gone, damn it, GONE, and replaced with just them as all-worthy, unquestioned "practitioners."
Ask yourself why Petraeus would agree to speak to such a gathering. He does not need to. Ask yourself why he agreed to teach for $1/year at CUNY, and get hounded by Commies: http://theological-geography.net/?p=3971
At Brookings he was addressing THEM and their anti-American pretensions and saying what those pretentious involve practically if they are to amount to anything more than hot air and rampant misery. He said no one is going to negotiate outside a military context, aka bad guys are made an offer they cannot refuse. What is more true?
Dave Petraeus has that rare gift of seeing the large picture with all of its moving parts. He is one or two in a generation. The new CJCS may be another such. Anyhow, the gift is rare. And admiration for Petraeus in the Armed Forces, especially the Army, could not be higher.
I am astonished at the febrile expostulations of so many here and at the PJMedia original. Taking Petraeus as a regime champion, a toady, is bathetic, not worthy of these sanctums.
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Mad respect to Gen. Petraeus, TopRev, but I think there is a feeling among many that he got himself stuck, whether by carelessness or a honey-trap of his own making, and is now spouting the company line. I don't see him doing that here.
IMHO, this is the key 'graph: “If your objective is to get to the diplomatic table, and we’re there now, to a degree, you have to have a military context. There is no military solution, as everyone is fond of saying. There is a military context that has to be established without which no one is going to go to the negotiating table, or at least they won’t negotiate seriously.
I am reminded of Gen. Mattis's "I come in peace. I didn’t bring artillery. But I’m pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you fuck with me, I’ll kill you all.". Without the stick, the carrots just encourage them.
[ARA News] QAMISHLI – Subsequent to fierce clashes with the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS), the Kurdish-Arab alliance of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) recaptured new areas near the town of al-Hawl in the eastern countryside of Hasakah, northeast Syria, military sources reported on Wednesday.
Speaking to ARA News, the official spokesman of the SDF, Colonel Talal Silo, said that their forces regained control of Bahrat al-Khatooniya village in the vicinity of al-Hawl town near the Iraqi border “after fierce clashes with ISIS terrorists”.
“Bahrat al-Khatooniya and the surrounding villages are now under our control after ISIS terrorists were forced to withdraw. The terrorists are now stranded inside al-Hawl town,” Silo said.
The official spokesman of the SDF added that warplanes of the U.S.-led coalition bombed an ISIS tactical unit on Wednesday, killing eight members of the terror group in the vicinity of Bahrat al-Khatooniya.
“Our ground operations, coupled with the coalition’s airstrikes, made this advance possible,” Silo told ARA News, pointing out that ISIS militants are currently trying to fortify their main strongholds in the town of al-Hawl by planting hundreds of mines in its suburbs.
On the other hand, two SDF fighters were killed in Wednesday’s clashes near al-Hawl, while four others were injured in clashes with a group of ISIS militants who attempted to break into the SDF-held Tishreen oilfield south of Hasakah.
The SDF has been fighting ISIS for more than ten days, backed by air cover from the U.S.-led coalition. The SDF includes the Kurdish forces of YPG and YPJ; the Syriac Military Council; the Arab tribal group of al-Sanadeed; al-Jazeera brigades; Jaish al-Thuwar group and Burkan al-Furat battalion.
[ARA News] KOBANE – Militants fighters of the Islamic State (ISIS) targeted headquarters of the Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in the suburbs of Kobane in northern Syria with dozens of mortar shells, military sources reported on Wednesday.
Speaking to ARA News in Kobane, the YPG fighter Noureddin Gaban said that ISIS militants, who are stationed in the villages of Jarabulus Tahtani and al-Jamel west of Kobane, bombed the YPG’s positions in the towns of Shuyookh Foqani, Nasiriyah and Atto.
“At least four YPG fighters were hardly injured in the attack, beside the destruction of a YPG security building in western Kobane,” the source said.
“ISIS has also targeted our positions south of the town of Sirrin in the villages of Malha, Kanaftar and Bujaq, with mortars and local-made rockets, resulting in the injury of at least two YPG fighters,” Gaban added.
The source pointed out that the Kurdish YPG forces responded to the ISIS-led attack with heavy shelling.
The hardline group has been launching surprise attacks on the countryside of Kobane for months. It occasionally carries out attacks from its positions in Jarabulus city against the Kurdish headquarters in Kobane and its countryside.
The YPG leadership has recently deployed hundreds of fighters alongside the Euphrates River near Jarabulus in preparation for storming ISIS strongholds in the area.
[Ynet] Peacekeepers hand over employee of over 20 years to authorities following Lebanese claims that is is a spy for the Jewish state.
"Just a nativefella, not like he's one of us, donchaknow."
The United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... peacekeeping force in south Leb UNIFIL said Wednesday it has turned over a longtime local staffer to Lebanese authorities who accuse him of spying for Israel.
The Lebanese man who had worked in the UNIFIL administration for over 20 years is among three people accused by authorities of spying for the Jewish state.
Why would Israel care about local UNIFIL activities? That makes no sense.
On Sunday, Lebanese authorities said they had nabbed Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! the three suspects, a Syrian man and his Lebanese wife and a Lebanese man. But the Lebanese man "was in the UNIFIL compound when authorities requested him", UNIFIL front man Andrea Tenenti told AFP.
"We asked UN headquarters in New York to determine whether immunity would be applied in his case, and the UN determined that since the allegations were not related to his official functions, immunity from legal proceedings would not apply," he added.
The man was taken into custody on Wednesday.
On Sunday, Leb's General Security service announced it had arrested a "spy network". It accused the three suspects of gathering information on individuals and security and military targets. It said the three also allegedly filmed "sensitive" roads and other areas in south Leb "and sent the footage to their employers to be used in later attacks".
Leb and Israel remain technically in a state of war, with occasional skirmishes on the ceasefire line between the two.
UNIFIL, the United Nations Interim Force in Leb, monitors the line and has a force of some 10,000 international peacekeepers. It also employs numerous local staff members serving in non-peacekeeping roles.
In 2006, Leb's Shi'ite Hezbollah movement fought a month-long war with the Jewish state that devastated parts of Leb.
Last December, Hezbollah detained a senior party official on allegations of spying for Israel and "sabotaging security operations" abroad.
Between April 2009 and 2014, Lebanese authorities detained more than 100 people accused of spying for Israel, most of them army members or telecommunications employees.
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UNIFIL has proved itself a worthless organization. At least recently a large number of remf military from France, India, Indonesia, and Ghana were sucking funds from the UN teat.
[Ynet] Russia's air force flew 85 sorties and hit 277 terrorist targets in Syria in the last two days, Interfax news agency quoted the Defence Ministry as saying on Wednesday.
The agency also cited the ministry as saying that the Russian air force helped the Syrian army to break the siege of the Kweires military airport in Aleppo province.
[Rudaw] Iranian security forces have jugged Book 'im, Mahmoud! dozens of people with links to terrorist groups, said the country's intelligence minister on Tuesday, adding that Tehran has faced serious security challenges since joining the Syrian war.
Mahmoud Alavi, Iran's intelligence minister told news hounds at a presser in Tehran that more than 14 people were arrested in the country's southern Dezful city who had attacked a Shiite religious ceremony.
He added that "10 other members of a terrorist group" who were active in Iran's eastern Sistan and Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... as well as Tehran were also picked up by the security forces.
According to Alavi the security forces had stopped around 20 persons at Iran's borders en route to Iraq and Syria.
The intelligence minister said that a raid on a terrorist cell in the city of Sousangard had led to serious confrontations against the security forces with casualties on both sides.
He accused "some backward countries in the region" of supporting the "terrorists".
Alavi told news hounds that due to Iran and Russia's participation in the war in Syria its security forces were facing serious pressure from what he called terrorist groups.
Alavi praised Iran's vigilant security forces for stopping all terrorist attacks.
"While in countries like Tunisia, 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... , Kuwait, La Belle France and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... bombings have taken place and people bit the dust, the vigilance of Imam's unknown soldiers have foiled all terrorist targets in Iran," he was quoted by IRNA news agency as saying.
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[Ynet] Syrian opposition media outlets claim Israel bombed targets about two weeks after prior report of Israeli Arclight airstrikes; both reports remain unconfirmed.
Israel's air force conducted strikes in the vicinity of the Damascus airport, claimed a number of media outlets linked to Syrian opposition groups on Wednesday.
The source of the reports was unknown and they were not confirmed by any official bodies in Syria or Israel.
The reports described pre-dawn loud kabooms at the airport and rising pillars of smoke, while electricity went out completely. It was further reported that flights were temporarily halted for no known reason.
The major Arab-language media outlets had not reported the purported incident as of publication. Neither had any official media outlets belonging to the Assad regime.
But a Facebook page linked to the regime did say that a military post near the airport had been attacked before dawn and that it was believed to be the work of Israel's air force.
Photos were later posted that allegedly depicted damage from this attack, and the account also claimed there had been no loss of life.
About two weeks ago, social media accounts linked with Syrian opposition groups reported that Israeli military aircraft had conducted two Arclight airstrikes on Hezbollah and Syrian army positions in the Damascus suburb of al-Qalamoun.
[Ynet] WASHINGTON - The United States and its allies conducted 11 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.... in Syria and 17 in Iraq on Tuesday, the coalition leading the operations said.
In Syria, strikes near Al Hawl, Dayr Az Zawr, Al Hasaka, Mara and Palmyra, destroyed vehicles, fighting positions and two vehicle-borne improvised bombs, the Combined Joint Task Force said in a statement on Wednesday.
In Iraq, the strikes were concentrated around Sinjar, al Huwaijah and Ramadi, and also hit near Kisik, djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Albu Hayat, destroying vehicles and weapons systems, the statement said.
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11 is also a prime number and is 8 less than 19. Turn 8 on its side and you have infinity or the track plans for a demolition derby. Connect the dots and see the obvious Mason1ck plot.
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[Libya Herald] A car bomb exploded last night at a checkpoint on the coastal road just outside Khoms yesterday evening. One guard was immediately killed but two others who were among the seven wounded are said to have since died from their injuries.
[LibyaHerald] A civil society activist and journalist as well as the manager of the Waddan hotel were among the latest people to be kidnapped in Tripoli yesterday.
[LibyaHerald] Violent clashes between Libya army forces and militants continued overnight and throughout the day in Benghazi’s Leithi, Garyunis and city centre districts with, once again, randomly fired missiles smashing into residential areas.
[AnNahar] A U.N. peacekeeper was killed in the Central African Republic Tuesday following a clash with Muslim 
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Ahmed Al Hammadi, Advocate General and Chief of the Bahraini Terror Crime Prosecution, said the High Criminal Court today sentenced eight suspects after convicting them of terror-related offences including setting tyres alight, planting a hoax bomb in a public place, rioting and possessing Molotov cocktails.
Intensified raids by Arab coalition warplanes and ground attacks by the national Yemeni army and resistance killed 28 coup insurgents from the Houthis and their allies on Wednesday, Yemen’s press reported on Thursday.
[AlAhram] Pro-government forces on Wednesday killed 13 rebel fighters in an ambush in Yemen's south after the 
[RFE/RL] A court in the northwestern Russian city of Arkhangelsk has sentenced a Tajik man to three years in prison on terrorist propaganda charges. The regional prosecutor's office said on November 11 that Shahboz Azimov was found guilty of inciting hatred, calling publicly for terrorism, and justifying terrorism via the Internet.
[RFE/RL] Russian officials say the ringleader of a group of Islamist militants in Kabardino-Balkaria was killed on November 10 in a special operation.
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QUETTA: Four commanders along with 24 other militants laid down their arms and surrendered to authorities on Wednesday.
(IraqiNews.com) al-Anbar – The commander of al-Jazeerah and al-Badiyah Operations Command, Ali Ibrahim Daboun, announced the killing of 25 elements belonging to the ISIS in an aerial strike by the international coalition west of Ramadi.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[PJ Media] Gen. David Petraeus said the United States has to have a ground force in Syria if its goal is to defeat the Islamic State.
[ARA News] QAMISHLI – Subsequent to fierce clashes with the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS), the Kurdish-Arab alliance of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) recaptured new areas near the town of al-Hawl in the eastern countryside of Hasakah, northeast Syria, military sources reported on Wednesday. 
[ARA News] KOBANE – Militants fighters of the Islamic State (ISIS) targeted headquarters of the Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in the suburbs of Kobane in northern Syria with dozens of mortar shells, military sources reported on Wednesday. 
[Ynet] Syrian opposition media outlets claim Israel bombed targets about two weeks after prior report of Israeli 
