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Kurds repel attack near Mosul, 60 ISIS Bad Guys die
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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Qods forces cmdr spotted with US designated terrorist in Aleppo.
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#1  and no dronezap OK'd by our CiC and JAGS
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Afghanistan
6 Uzbek militants die in Khost
[KHAAMA PRESS] Six Uzbek militants have been killed in a raid of security forces in Spera District of Khost province, an official said on Monday.

Governor of Spera District said the raid was conducted by Special Forces in Kariza area last night.

Mohammad Azim added that Special Forces took two Uzbek militants with them to Kabul after killing four men and two women in the area.

The district governor did not elaborate more about the foreign militants in his area but they might have spilled over to Afghan territory through the province’s border with Pakistan’s tribal built where reportedly different terrorist groups including Uzbek, Chechen, al-Qaeda, Haqqani and Taliban operate.

Most of the Uzbek militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan fight under the name of Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) which has declared allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

An undated video was released by the group in August purportedly showing its leader Usmon Ghazi and his fighters taking oath of allegiance to ISIS terror group and its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
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Pak, Afghan forces exchange fire in Paktia
An exchange of fire has taken place on Afghanistan-Pakistan border in Paktika province after Pakistani forces opened the gate they had built inside Afghanistan territory.

Reports suggest that Pakistani forces have fired indiscriminate shells on border police in Shkin and Barmal district of Paktika province.

Nabiullah Peerkhil, spokesperson for the governor of Paktika province said that Afghan forces have been in defense position and waiting for the orders from the headquarters.

This comes after Pakistan opened the gate built in Angor Ada area of Barmal District inside Afghan territory on Saturday.

According to reports, high ranking Pakistani officials attended the opening ceremony of the gate.

Meanwhile, Pakistani Army says rockets were received from Afghan side which were responded.

“Pakistanis also fired in the direction from which rockets were fired. No loss reported,” states a statement released by the Army’s media wing ISPR.
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Africa North
Morocco arrests four suspected of having links to Islamic State
[Ynet] Moroccan police have tossed in the clink
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
four people suspected of belonging to a murderous Moslem cell linked to 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....
, the interior ministry said on Monday.

The cell, the latest of a series of Islamist murderous Moslem groups the authorities say they have uncovered, had been active in the central city of Beni Mellal, the ministry said in a statement.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/17/2015 00:00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Egypt kills 24 militants in Sinai near Russian plane crash site
[Ynet] Egyptian security forces rubbed out 24 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....
forces of Evil in central Sinai, 70 km from the crash site of the Russian passenger plane the group claimed it brought down, security sources said on Monday.

Security sources said they killed the forces of Evil as they hid inside a cave in a mountainous area and that they tossed in the calaboose
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
eight of them. Sinai Province, Islamic State's Egypt branch, is active in North Sinai where two years ago it launched an insurgency and has since killed hundreds of soldiers and coppers. It is rarely active outside that area.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/17/2015 00:00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis (IS)


Egypt arrests 16 members of banned Muslim Brotherhood, seizes MB properties
[AlAhram] The interior ministry released a statement on Monday saying that a number of the arrests made were part of a "preemptive security campaign"
Seems like old times...
Egypt's interior ministry placed in durance vile
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
16 members of the outlawed Moslem Brüderbund on Monday, a statement by the ministry read.

"In a preemptive security campaign, the interior ministry has arrested nine middle ranking members of the terrorist Moslem Brüderbund group," the statement read.

Seven more members who have been targeting security forces and personnel from the now-banned group have also been arrested, the statement added.

None of those arrested were named in the statement.

Since the July 2013 overthrow of Islamist president and Brotherhood member Mohammed Morsi, hundreds of the group's supporters have been killed and thousands put in jail.

The Brotherhood was designated a terrorist organization by the Egyptian government in November 2013.

Egypt seizes several Freedom and Justice Party offices

[AlAhram] A hospital, a school and two foreign exchange companies affiliated with the Moslem Brüderbund have also been seized

A number of Cairo offices affiliated with the Freedom and Justice Party, the political arm of the Moslem Brüderbund, have been seized by the Egyptian government, a committee tasked with appraising and freezing the funds of the Brotherhood said in an official statement on Tuesday. The committee also announced that it seized a hospital, a school and two foreign exchange companies linked to the group.

The committee has thus far frozen the funds and taken control of over 1,000 NGOs and nearly 100 schools allegedly affiliated with the Brotherhood. The assets of over 700 of the group's leaders have also been seized.

The Freedom and Justice Party was disbanded by a court ruling in 2014, while the Brotherhood itself was designated a terrorist group in 2013.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/17/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood


Tunisia arrests 7 women over ISIS propaganda
[AlAhram] Seven women have been tossed in the calaboose
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
in Tunisia for posting propaganda on the Internet on behalf of the country's branch 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....
holy warrior group, the interior ministry announced Monday.

It said the women had confessed to "activities within the media wing" of Jund al-Khilafa, which claimed two attacks this year in Tunis and the seaside resort of Sousse that killed 60 people, all but one of them foreign tourists.

They had confessed to having "incited terrorism through their posts (on the Internet) and of having expressed joy at the terrorist attacks in our country", the ministry said in a statement.

The ministry, contacted by AFP, gave no details about the suspects.

Apart from attacks at home, thousands of young Tunisians have travelled to Iraq, Syria and Libya to fight alongside Islamic murderous Moslems, according to the authorities in the North African country.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/17/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Mali army says arrests Islamist militant figure
[AlAhram] Mali's army has jugged
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
Alaye Bocari, a leading financial supporter of an Islamist Lion of Islam group responsible for an expansion of deadly attacks in the West African nation, military and defence sources said on Monday.

The attacks carried out by the Massina Liberation Front (MLF), led by radical preacher and jihadist Amadou Koufa, have helped shift Mali's three-year-old Islamist conflict from the remote desert north ever closer to its populous south.

Bocari is among Koufa's close collaborators according to intelligence gathered by the military, said army front man Colonel Souleymane Maiga.

"He was arrested on November 13 in the region of Mopti by an army patrol acting on information given by the population," he said.

The arrest, one of around 30 carried out so far during an army operation launched late last month, was confirmed by a defence ministry front man who declined to give further details.

However,
a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all...
some analysts warned that there were still signs of worsening insecurity in the central region and further east near the border with Burkina Faso
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other...
and south towards Ivory Coast.

"Either the Malian government is overstating the importance of the figures they arrest, or these networks are more durable than the government has indicated," said Andrew Lebovich, Visiting Fellow with the European Council on Foreign Relations.

La Belle France intervened militarily in its former colony in 2013 to drive back Islamist gunnies who seized the north a year earlier, creating what Gay Paree feared could become a base for attacks on Europe. The French military operation drove the fighters from major population centres.

Attacks targeting mainly Malian soldiers and U.N. peacekeepers persist, however, and the military action made French interests the declared targets of groups including al Qaeda's regional franchise.
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Libya: report disclaims killing of IS leader
Libyan reports based on sources from Derna Sunday rejected the US claims that an American F-15 fighter jet killed the IS leader in Libya, Abu Nabil Al-Anbari. Sources from the Libyan Eastern city pointed out that Abu Nabil Al-Anbari, aka Wissam Najm Abd Zayd al-Zubaydi, was not killed in the strike and that the Iraqi-born IS terrorist militant was not in the town at the time of the strike. He has apparently left Libya.
We can always try again...
Sources also indicated that 10 terrorists militants had been killed in the air-strikes which hit the terrorists militants at Fataieh and at Wadi al Khabtah and Wadi Bint, two areas used by the IS fighters to store ammunitions and weapons.

Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook announced Saturday that al-Anbari has been killed and that the operation occurred prior to the attacks on the French capital, Paris.

“Nabil’s death will degrade ISIL’s ability to meet the group’s objectives in Libya, including recruiting new ISIL members, establishing bases in Libya, and planning external attacks on the United States,” Cook said.

This is the first major US air operation against an IS terrorist leader in Libya but heralds US determination to take the Libyan crisis seriously.

“While not the first US strike against terrorists in Libya, this is the first US strike against an ISIL leader in Libya and it demonstrates we will go after ISIL leaders wherever they operate,” the Pentagon spokesman said.
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#1  He has apparently left Libya

"Curly-toed slippers, don't fail my maimed feets now!"
Posted by: Frank G || 11/17/2015 8:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Well when he left Libya was he self propelled or was he in a body bag???
Posted by: Sock Puppet || 11/17/2015 8:59 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm sorta hoping he was ballistic.
Posted by: gorb || 11/17/2015 20:28 Comments || Top||


IS celebrates Paris attacks in Sirte
Photos have emerged of the Islamic State (IS) in Sirte allegedly celebrating Friday’s attacks in Paris which left 129 people dead. IS officials have been happily handing out sweets to local children, applauding the killings.

Rumours in Libya that the French airforce had attacked Sirte were just that – rumours – but there are fears that an attack will come. French planes carried out strikes against IS targets in Syria on Sunday and French President François Hollande has promised that France’s response will be “pitiless”.

A number of top IS figures are reported to have moved to Sirte recently from Syria and Iraq.

For their part, the Libyan government in Beida and the GNC-appointed administration in Tripoli have both strongly condemned the Paris attacks.
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IS attacks Brega in response to attack
Islamic State (IS) fighters launched a surprise attack on a Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG) position at Brega early this morning, reportedly killing three members. According to a PFG official, the attack on its Brigade No. 152 took place south of Brega. He could give no further details other than that a large number of IS fighters had come from Sirte and Nufaliya.

In a statement, IS said that it had attacked a unit of the Libyan National Army (LNA) rather than the PFG – at the moment both regard each other with suspicion. The attack, the statement added, was in revenge for the air strikes by the LNA against it at Fataieh, south east of Derna.

It also claimed that it had captured a number of vehicles and weapons in the operation.

The most recent air strike against IS at Fataieh, however, was that carried out by the US on Friday night. Ten IS fighters were reported killed.

Sunday’s ground assault against Fataieh was carried out by Derna mujahideen. Like the PFG, they take no orders from the LNA and are regarded by it as renegades, although there have been previous LNA air strikes against Fataieh which appear to have been coordinated with mujahideen attacks.
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Tunisian militants behead 16-year-old shepherd
Tunisian militants have beheaded a 16-year-old boy after accosting him and his cousin, both shepherds, on a mountainside in the central province of Sidi Bouzid, authorities said on Friday.

Walid al-Waqini of the interior ministry said the mayor of Sawar Soultaniya in the province reported the murder.

“A terrorist group intercepted two shepherds on Mount Meghila and cut off the head of one and handed it to the other to return to his family,” Waqini quoted the mayor as saying.

A security source told AFP the pair had been working when “three terrorists headed them off, one raised his gun and fired in the air, the second slaughtered the shepherd with a knife and the third filmed the attack.”

There was no known motive for the killing,
"We are Lions of Islam, granted by Allah to take what we will -- gimme that now!"
which was confirmed to AFP by a senior provincial official in Sidi Bouzid.
More at the link
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Arabia
Coalition, army launch offensive to seize Taiz
Arab coalition forces backed by the national Yemeni army and resistance fighters on Monday launched the long-awaited offensive to seize Taiz and end the siege by the Iranian-backed coup insurgents, a Yemeni general said.

Heavy fighting erupted on all fronts in the southwestern Taiz governorate on Monday as the army and resistance attacked Houthi positions while coalition warplanes intensified strikes against rebel positions in the area.

“A military operation was launched today in cooperation with the Arab coalition to take full control of Taiz and end the siege by the Houthis and their allies,” said Major General Ahmed Al Yafei, commander of the 4th Military Region in Yemen.

“This operation is intended mainly to break the siege on Taiz and liberate the entire governorate to pave the way to advance towards Sanaa.”

Quoted by Sky News Arab TV channel, he said the operation was launched on three fronts and it involved national army units and resistance fighters backed by coalition jets, which the channel said were launching ‘intensive’ raids on rebel targets.

Yemen’s press quoted army spokesman Brigadier Samir Al Haj as saying the ‘battle for the liberation of Taiz’ started on Monday but added he did not know when it would end.

“The operation may take time…the battle today was generally in favour of the army and the resistance…what is happening on the ground is so far good and we believe that the coalition’s role in this battle is crucial,” he said.

He said the Saudi-dominated coalition is backing the army and resistance with air raids and with scores of armoured vehicles sent to the army over the past weeks.
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Europe
French Police in Nationwide Raids as Global Resolve to Defeat IS Intensifies
[AnNahar] French warplanes pounded Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
targets and Russia vowed to ramp up its bombing campaign in Syria on Tuesday as the devastating attacks on Gay Paree galvanized international resolve to destroy the jihadists and end the Syrian war.

In a grieving Gay Paree, U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
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#1  RESOLVE? You shittin' me?

Not ONCE, Porky/Porcinet Hollande ever mentioned that the "terrorists" were muslim...This is as much taboo in the media and politicians over there as under the American Caliphate of Barry Hussein, the hidden Imam...
Posted by: Chuckles Turkeyneck3558 || 11/17/2015 22:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Since the "Rule of Engagement" specify that only military target are to be hit, unless there is "civilians" around(and all Daesh-Isis gunnies are dressed as civilians), in real life, only empty shacks in wasteland are to be hit...

War on Terror? What a joke!
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Belgium charges two with terrorism over Paris attacks: Prosecutor
[AlAhram] Belgian authorities have charged two people who were tossed in the clink
Please don't kill me!
after the Gay Paree attacks with involvement in terrorism, prosecutors said Monday.

The pair were charged "with a terrorist act and participation in the activities of a terrorist group", while five others detained at the weekend were freed without charge, the prosecutor's office said in a statement.

It did not give the names of the people who were charged.

One of those released was Mohammed Abdeslam -- whose brother Brahim took part in the attacks and whose other brother Salah is being hunted by police.

The prosecutors confirmed that a major police raid in Brussels on Monday aimed at arresting Salah Abdeslam had ended without anyone being detained.
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Bulgaria-Turkey border jammed after new security checks
[AlAhram] Hundreds of trucks were stuck at Bulgaria's main southeastern border checkpoint with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
for a second day Monday due to beefed-up security checks following the attacks in Gay Paree, officials said.

Border officials have detained dozens of foreigners attempting to cross through Kapitan Andreevo, including a friend of the Kouachi brothers who shot dead 12 people in an attack on the Paris offices of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in January.
Sofia ordered all passports and vehicles crossing into its territory to be checked after Friday's tragedy, in which at least 129 people were killed in a series of coordinated attacks in the French capital.

The measures led to huge queues at the busy Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint, with truck drivers waiting for hours to exit Bulgaria while police scanned their cargo.

"The queue this morning is about 10 kilometres (six miles) long despite our efforts to conduct the checks as quickly as possible," a border police official at the checkpoint told AFP by phone.

Bulgaria -- a member of the EU but not of the passport-free Schengen zone -- is a transit point for a growing number of western Europeans seeking to join the jihadist Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group in Syria and Iraq.

Border officials have detained dozens of foreigners attempting to cross through Kapitan Andreevo, including a friend of the Kouachi brothers who rubbed out 12 people in an attack on the Gay Paree offices of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo
...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
in January.
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The Grand Turk
PKK militants hide explosives inside policeman’s belongings
[Hurriyet] Outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Lion of Islams, who had planned a kaboom targeting a ceremony on Nov. 10 in Izmir, hid the explosives inside a truck carrying the belongings of a police officer who was moving his house from Diyarbakir in the southeast to the Aegean city, according to a police report.

Three PKK forces of Evil were detained on Nov. 10, on the 77th anniversary of the death of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founding father of the Republic of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
, for planning a kaboom in Izmir.

Izmir counter-terrorism police detained the Lion of Islams, who had been followed since July, as they were heading to a forested area to collect explosives they had hidden there, including 17.5 kilograms of C-4 plastic explosives and 10 hand grenades, daily Hurriyet had reported.

Fresh police reports said the forces of Evil utilized people working at a transport company, who would carry the household belongings of an unidentified police officer as a way to bypass road controls.

Militants took possession of the explosives, which were hidden inside two wheat sacks, when the truck arrived in Izmir, the reports said.

Later, the explosives, reinforced by additional fertilizers, were hidden in the forest area.

Five people, including two females, were detained for supporting the suspected attackers.
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13 Kurdish rebels killed in new southeast Turkey air strikes: Army
[AlAhram] Turkish warplanes carried out a new wave of air strikes against Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) bully boyz in the southeast, killing 13 rebels overnight, the army said Monday.

"Thirteen forces of Evil have been neutralised," in the remote Hakkari province, on the border with Iraq, the general staff said in a statement on its website.

Meanwhile in Istanbul, police detained at least 13 suspected PKK members on Monday after receiving intelligence that they were planning to attack shops and government buildings in the city with Molotov cocktails, Dogan news agency said.

Ankara has used air power and ground forces in a self-declared "anti-terror" operation to try to cripple the PKK in its strongholds in southeastern The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
and northern Iraq since a two-year ceasefire broke down in July.

The group has hit back, killing more than 150 Turkish police and soldiers in a cycle of violence that shows no sign of ending.
Hurriyet adds:
Thirteen members of the separatist terrorist organization were neutralized in the air operations conducted in Cukurca," the General Staff said in a written statement on Nov. 16, referring to the PKK as the "separatist terrorist organization." Cukurca is a district in the southeastern province of Hakkari.

A number of explosives and documents related to the outlawed organization had been seized in an operation conducted in the Beytussebap district of the southeastern province of Sirnak, added the statement.

Meanwhile,
...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had escaped from his bonds and overwhelmed his guard using the bludgeon the faithful Filomena had smuggled to him in the loaf of bread...
a RPG-7 rocket-propelled grenade, a shotgun and a Kalashnikov clip were seized in operations conducted in the Ercis district of the eastern province of Van.

Clashes between security forces and Lions of Islam from outlawed organizations were reported to be still ongoing.

In Sirnak's Idil district, a military operation against the outlawed Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement (YDG-H), the youth branch of the PKK, was reported to be ongoing, with intense festivities between security forces and myrmidons.

Military personnel began the anti-terror operation with the escort of additional armored vehicles, weapons and ammunition in Idil's Yeni Mahalle neighborhood at around 5 a.m. on Nov. 16 to fill in trenches dug by hard boys.

In the southeastern province of Mardin, meanwhile, the curfew in the Nusaybin district, which was imposed on Nov. 13 to prevent civilian casualties during the military operation against hard boys, continued for a fourth day.
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India-Pakistan
Frontier Corps detains 2, seizes weapons in Balochistan
QUETTA: Frontier Corps personnel on Monday arrested two suspected militants and recovered a huge cache of arms during two separate raids in Kech district of Balochistan.

FC spokesman Khan Wasay told DawnNews that the paramilitary force recovered at least four rockets, 19 hand grenades, an improvised explosive device (IED) and a number of other weapons from a house in Mand Tehsil of district Kech.

In a separate raid, FC men also arrested two suspected militants from the area possessing anti-state literature and books containing hate material.

"The suspects were detained and are being interrogated by security officials," said the FC spokesman.

In a separate raid, Levies personnel recovered two bodies from Dasht tehsil of Mastung district. Levies sources told DawnNews that both victims had received bullet injuries.

The bodies were shifted to Mastung hospital for identification.

Balochistan is in the throes of the fifth and longest running insurgency since 1947. Triggered in 2005 by the rape of a lady doctor allegedly by an army officer in Sui, it was exacerbated by the death of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti in an Army operation in August 2006.

Security forces have intensified their actions in Quetta and other parts of Balochistan after the announcement of the National Action Plan to combat terrorism in the country.

Back in September, Balochistan Home Secretary Akbar Hussain Durrani stated that provincial law enforcement agencies have arrested more than 8,000 suspected militants and killed at least 204 after the implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP).

Durrani had told media that that out of the 204 terrorists killed, around 100 were high-profile terrorists.
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Iraq
100-plus families residing in Shingal reach Peshmerga
[Rudaw] More than 100 families who had lived under 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....
occupation of Shingal have been received by Peshmerga forces in the newly liberated city, but a Peshmerga official has cautioned that Kurdish forces cannot be sure of the loyalties of these families, and that some may have pro-ISIS sympathies.

A Peshmerga officer who was among those who received the families told Rudaw they had fled the Qabwsi compound in Shingal, but some might be "enemies of Kurds and linked with the terrorist organization."

He added those who are suspected of having links with ISIS will be questioned by Kurdish security elements.

A man who was among the families told Rudaw that life at the hands of ISIS was like being in "prison" and no one was allowed to go outside.

"After the Shingal liberation we managed to escape because we were only 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) away from the borders that are managed by Peshmerga forces in Shingal," he continued. "Kurdish Peshmerga fighters received us and helped us."

On Thursday, Peshmerga forces launched a dawn assault to liberate the town of Shingal from ISIS.

ISIS attacked the predominantly Kurdish Yezidi town of Shingal in August 2014, triggering a grim humanitarian crisis as thousands of locals fled to the safety of nearby Mount Shingal where they were trapped for weeks.

On Friday, vowing that "no other flag will rise in [Shingal]," Kurdistan region President Masoud Barzani declared the town liberated from ISIS, and congratulated Yezidi Kurds on the victory.
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Witnesses say teenager gunned down by Hashd al-Shaabi in Khurmatu
[Rudaw] A 14-year-old boy was reportedly killed Sunday following continued festivities between Kurdish Peshmerga forces and Shiite Hashd al-Shaabi faceless myrmidons in the town of Khurmatu in Diyala province 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Kirkuk.

According to witnesses who spoke to Rudaw inside Khurmatu, "the young boy was killed by a Hashd al-Shaabi sniper."

Negotiations to end the violence in the disputed territory are underway between Kurdish and Shiite factions, but Shiite militias continue arresting civilians, according to the town's Kurdish administration.

Many shops are closed and districts are empty, according to security sources inside Khurmatu. During the last four days at least seven Kurdish non-combatants were killed, some 20 injured and seven others tossed in the slammer
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
by the Shiite militia.

"Sixty-nine Kurdish people were taken captive by the Hashd al-Shaabi, 59 of them are rescued so far and 10 are still left," Khurmatu Mayor Shalal Abdul told Rudaw on Sunday.

A Kurdish official told Rudaw Sunday that the Hashd al-Shaabi had arrived in the town of Saadia with heavy weapons and intended to enter by force the Kurdish-controlled town of Jalawla.

Jalawla and Saadia, together with Khurmatu, are located in Diyala province and have been heavily disputed areas between Kurdish and pro-central government Shiite forces even as both factions are fighting 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....
Fighting broke out on Friday when a militia convoy allegedly refused to stop at a checkpoint manned by Kurdish forces, resulting in a firefight that left three Peshmerga and two Shiite faceless myrmidons dead.

On Friday controversial Shiite holy man Moqtada Tater al-Sadr
... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah...
called on Kurdistan region President Masoud Barzani, Iraqi President Fuad Masum and Shiite militia leader Hadi al-Amiri to work towards ending the conflict between the Peshmerga and Hashd al-Shaabi in Diyala.
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Peshmerga: US coalition conducts 18 airstrikes on ISIS
[Rudaw] The US-led anti-ISIS coalition carried out a wave of air raids on ISIS military bases in Western Dijla, killing at least three members of the Lion of Islam organization, a statement by the Zeravani Peshmerga command announced on Sunday.

"On Sunday around 6 pm the coalition targeted an ISIS vehicle in Tashe village in western Dijla, which led to the destruction of the vehicle and the death of three ISIS members," the statement said. It added the Arclight airstrikes were based on Peshmerga intelligence provided to the coalition.

The western Dijla front is located west of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
in Nineveh province, where Peshmerga and coalition warplanes have been targeting ISIS movements and positions. The attacks are part of plans to weaken the turbans ahead of an anticipated massive assault to free Mosul, which ISIS seized in June last year.

As Peshmerga forces entered the town of Shingal on Friday, Kurdistan region Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani congratulated the Yezidi people as well as the Peshmerga and coalition forces for the town's liberation from ISIS, hailing it as an important achievement for Kurdistan and the civilized world.

Barzani also thanked the United States, adding "I express my utmost appreciation for the government and the people of the United States for their vital support to the Peshmerga during the Shingal liberation operation."
Goodness -- thanking instead of demanding? How refreshing!
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Twin blasts target ISIS in Mosul
[Rudaw] Twin blasts reportedly targeted the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group (ISIS) in djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
on Monday, killing two big shots, a Kurdish official told Rudaw.

He also reported that ISIS had executed 45 people in Mosul on charges of spying for the Iraqi government.

"A blast went off inside the Mosul governorate building in Mosul," said Saeed Mamuzini, an exiled Kurdistan Democratic Party official in Mosul.

He said it was not immediately clear whether it was a suicide kaboom inside the building or a bombing by the US-led coalition. "No casualty figure has been released yet," he added.

According to Mamuzini, another blast targeted an ISIS shelter in the township of Baaj in western Mosul on Monday, killing nine holy warriors, including two emirs, or governors, identified as Abu Aiman and Abu Hadi.

"ISIS executed 45 people on Monday in Mosul on the charge of spying for the Iraqi government through the Internet and mobile phones," Mamuzini claimed.

He said the people of Mosul are happy with Friday's recapture of Shingal by the Peshmerga and that "there are slogans on walls and streets expressing their happiness for the liberation of Shingal."
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‘Strategic’ area of Ramadi recaptured by Iraqi army: reports
[Rudaw] Iraqi forces have reclaimed a strategic northern area in the ISIS-held city of Ramadi, inflicting heavy damage and casualties on the hard boys, an Iraqi official said.

"On Monday, Iraqi counter-terrorism forces managed to reclaim the Qazani complex in northern Ramadi from the Islamic state," said Azal Fahdawi, member of the Anbar provincial council, adding that the facility was of strategic importance to the hard boys.

"The complex is strategic due to its proximity to the Anbar operation command; we can now prevent any possible assault by ISIS in the area," media reports quoted Fahdawi as saying.

In other military developments against ISIS, official sources from the Anbar police told Rudaw Sunday that Iraqi security forces with the support of tribal militias and US coalition Arclight airstrikes have taken over the Ramadi train station and killed several hard boys.

"US coalition warplanes have targeted several ISIS strongholds in the Harrayat district, which resulted in the death of several ISIS hard boys," said sources, who were not identified.

Meanwhile,
...back at the mall, Clarissa suddenly spied Mr. Bartlett at the checkout counter. He was buying Grecian Formula!...
Eid Amash, a spokesperson of the Anbar provincial council, told Rudaw on Saturday: "Iraqi security forces managed to take control of the police emergency shelter after hours of festivities with 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....
organization in northern Ramadi and several districts of southern Ramadi."

Some 10,000 Iraqi soldiers, coppers, Lions of Islam of the Shiite Hashd al-Shaabi and tribal forces have been fighting to clear Anbar province from ISIS since June. They have not managed to make any significant advances into ISIS-held areas, because several operations to take back the province have been repulsed by ISIS.
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Kurds repel attack near Mosul, 60 ISIS Bad Guys die
URFA – Backed by the U.S.-led coalition’s air cover, Kurdistan’s Peshmerga army forces killed dozens of militants from the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS), thwarting an attempt by the group to break into the western countryside of Mosul in northwestern Iraq, military sources reported on Monday.

“Dozens of Daesh (ISIS) terrorists have tried to infiltrate into the center of al-Kasak area (25 km west of Mosul), but the Peshmerga fighters, in coordination with the coalition warplanes, repelled their progress,” Colonel Kamiran Hawrami, an officer in the Peshmerga army of Iraqi Kurdistan, told reporters in Erbil.

Hawrami confirmed the some 60 attackers have been killed during clashes with the Peshmerga forces, pointing out “most of the militants’ corpses were captured by our forces.”

Speaking to ARA News in Erbil, media activist Rezan Hamo said that killing a large number of militants during the past few days is a sign of ISIS’s floundering in the battlefields.

“The terror group has received painful blows that paralyzed its movement in the region,” Hamo said, pointing out “a new phase of anti-ISIS battle will begin soon, especially after ISIS-led Paris attacks last Friday”, during which ate least 129 people have been killed.

Also, morale of the Kurdish forces in both Iraq and Syria is high, especially after recapturing the Yezidi district of Shingal in northern Iraq and the key town of al-Hawl in northeastern Syria from the terror group.

Over the past few days, the extremist group executed dozens of its militants who were accused of high treason and dissidence attempts from the group during fighting in the Yezidi areas in northern Iraq.
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#1  So how does Allah view an ISIS bad boy that gets killed by a woman???
Posted by: Sock Puppet || 11/17/2015 5:03 Comments || Top||

#2  What if Allah is a woman?
Posted by: Shipman || 11/17/2015 18:16 Comments || Top||

#3  There we go. Operation Alanis Morisette. Air drop packages, each containing her music albums and a copy of Dogma.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/17/2015 19:59 Comments || Top||


Dozens of ISIS elements killed in airstrikes by Iraqi Army Aviation near Tikrit
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A security source in Salahuddin province announced on Monday, that the Iraqi army aviation carried out six air strikes on ISIS sites north of the province, resulting in the killing of dozens of ISIS elements.

The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com “One of the formations of the Iraqi army aviation carried out six sorties against ISIS sites in Makhoul Mountains (70 km north of Tikrit),” adding that, “The raids resulted in the destruction a hideout and the killing of dozens of ISIS elements.”

Noteworthy, a security source in Salahuddin province reported on Thursday (15 October 2015), that the joint forces gained control of the presidential palaces in Makhoul Mountains north of Tikrit (170 km north of Baghdad).
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Kurds ambush ISIS probe, 15+ dead Bad Guys
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – A Kurdish security source said on Monday, that 45 ISIS elements had been either killed or wounded in western Mosul.

The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com: “A group of ISIS elements carrying light and medium weapons and explosives tried to sneak into the front lines of Peshmerga forces near al-Kazak region (45 km west of Mosul).”

The source, who declined to be named, added: “Peshmerga fighters were able to detect an attempt of infiltration and opened fire against them, supported by the international coalition, resulting in the killing of 15 ISIS members.”

The source indicated that “A group of ISIS elements driving Hummer vehicles tried to get close to the Peshmerga lines in another axis near in al-Kask region, but Peshmerga forces, supported by the international coalition, were able to stop them, in addition to killing and wounding some 30 of them.”
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1 soldier dies in bombing in Taji
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Iraqi Interior Ministry said Monday, that five elements of the army were either killed or wounded in a bomb blast that targeted their patrol north of Baghdad.

The source said in interview for IraqiNews.com, “A bomb exploded, this morning, targeting an Iraqi army patrol as it passed in Taji north of Baghdad, killing one solider and wounding four other, in addition to causing material damage to the vehicle of the patrol.”

The source, who asked anonymity, added: “Ambulances rushed to the scene and transported the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment and the body of the dead to the forensic medicine department.”
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31 ISIS Bad Guys die in Iraqi Anbar airstrikes
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – On Monday, a source in the Joint Special Operations Command announced the killing of 31 ISIS elements, including senior leaders, in Iraqi air raids in Anbar, pointing out to the destruction of the so-called Hesba House in Ramadi (110 km west of Baghdad).

The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com: “The Iraqi Aviation, based on national intelligence, launched an air strike that targeted ISIS Hesba House in the center of Ramadi, killing 21 elements of the organization, including many leaders.”

The source, who asked anonymity, added: “The air force launched another raid on a camp belonging to ISIS in Heet west of Ramadi, resulting in the destruction of the camp and the killing of ten elements of the organization, including a number of leaders.”
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2 die in bomb attack in al-Talibiya
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Iraqi Interior Ministry announced on Monday, that ten people had been either killed or wounded in a bomb blast east of Baghdad.

The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “A bomb exploded this morning near shops for the sale of spare parts of cars in al-Talibiya area east of Baghdad, killing two people and wounding eight others.”

The source, who asked anonymity, added: “The security forces rushed to the scene and transported the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment and the bodies of the dead to the forensic medicine department.”
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
450 liters of chemicals used in rocket production uncovered on way to Gaza
[Jpost] Dual-use material, found in sufficient quantity for a "large quantity of rocket fuel" confiscated at West Bank crossing

A Paleostinian truck was discovered smuggling hundreds of liters of the banned substance TDI, with the intention of transporting the goods to the Gazoo Strip, the Defense Ministry revealed on Monday.

The truck, which was crossing from Judea into Green Line Israel through the Tarkumiya crossing, was registered as carrying a delivery of "soybean oil." The vehicle aroused the suspicion of inspectors from the Defense Ministry's Crossings Authority, and a preliminary chemical test on the oil containers discovered an unidentified substance.

The material was confiscated and sent to a lab for detailed testing, where it became clear that the liquid inside the containers was the dual-use material TDI, prohibited from entering the Gazoo Strip.
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Local Islamic leaders arrested for inciting violence in Jaffa
[Jpost] Police said that the suspects incited the atmosphere at recent protests in the city

A leader of the council of the Islamic Movement in Jaffa and the imam of a Jaffa mosque are among four suspects tossed in the clink
Please don't kill me!
by police Monday on suspicion of inciting violence during protests held in the city in recent months in solidarity with the Paleostinians.

One of the protests in early October descended into violence as rioters shut down the main thoroughfare in Jaffa and masked men threw rocks at police and torched dumpsters.

In a statement on Monday, police said the suspects "incited the atmosphere at recent protests in Jaffa, leading to the throwing of rocks at motorists while endangering bystanders and damaging the public order."

Police also arrested two minors, aged 16, who they say took part in the demonstrations.

All four suspects will be brought for remand extensions in Tel Aviv on Tuesday.

The October 6 violence in Jaffa, in which a handful of coppers were lightly hurt and six protesters arrested for allegedly clashing with police, was some of the worst rioting seen in the city in years. Also in October, violent rioting took place intermittently in cities in the Shfela region, including Ramle and Lod.

Shfela subdistrict police said on Monday they had arrested two minors suspected of throwing rocks at motorists on Route 431 on a number of occasions last month.

Israel outlaws northern branch of Islamic Movement

[Jpost] Israel has resolved to outlaw a domestic Islamist movement with ties to Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and the Egyptian Moslem Brüderbund, according to a blurb distributed early Tuesday morning by the Prime Minister's Office.

The government says that it has declared the northern branch of the Islamic Movement "an illegal organization."

"The practical significance of this decision is that any entity or individual belonging to the group from hereon out and any individual who grants this organization services or operates under its auspices will have violated a criminal statute and is subject to imprisonment," the government statement read.

The northern branch of the Islamic Movement is led by Sheikh Raed Salah, who has been convicted in court of numerous subversive activities, including funding Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, contacting an Iranian agent, assaulting a police officer, and leading a violent protest.

In recent months, Salah has been at the forefront of agitating against Israeli rule over Temple Mount. His rallies frequently invoke the mantra of "Al-Aksa is in danger." read.

According to a police statement, authorities began distributing cease and desist notices to 17 non-government organizations and charities with ties to the northern branch.

These notices were handed out to offices in areas with large Arab populations, including Umm el-Fahm, Jaffa, Nazareth, Kfar Kana, Tora'an, Beersheba, and Rahat.

Investigators also conducted searches and confiscated equipment in 13 of the 17 offices. Security forces left with computers, documents, and other material. The authorities also froze bank accounts which are alleged to have facilitated the activities of the movement, resulting in harm done to national security.
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Israeli troops kill 2 Paleos in raid to raze West Bank home
Israeli troops killed two Palestinian terrorists gunmen during a clash in the occupied West Bank on Monday that was sparked by an army incursion to demolish a jailed terrorist's militant's family home, Palestinian medical sources and residents said.

At least three other terrorists Palestinians in Qalandia refugee camp, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, were wounded in what was the fiercest armed confrontation in a seven-week-old surge of violence.

Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon said the incident would not make Israel rethink the demolitions policy, revived with the permission of Israel's Supreme Court but criticised by civil rights groups that deem it collective punishment.

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyal Al Maliki, speaking on Voice of Palestine radio, described the Qalandia incident as "clear escalation, clear assassination" by Israel.

Israel said its troops had come under attack while razing the home of a terrorist Palestinian who killed an Israeli hiker in the West Bank in June.

"There was, indeed, violent resistance in Qalandia, but the (Israeli military) unit conducted itself in a very professional manner. It also carried out the mission, blowing up the home. It also hit the terrorists gunmen - four of them, according to the unit," Yaalon told Israel Radio.

Asked whether the incident might make Israel think twice about such demolitions, Yaalon said: "Under no circumstances ... There is no doubt fear of a home getting destroyed is a measure that offers great deterrence."

On Sunday, Israel's Shin Bet security service said it detained a terrorist Palestinian for killing two Jewish settlers in the West Bank last week after his relatives, "worried their home might be demolished", turned him in.

Since October 1, Israeli forces have killed at least 78 terrorists Palestinians, 45 of whom Israel says were carrying out or were about to commit attacks. At least 14 Israelis have been killed in stabbings and shootings, or by being run down by cars.

Last month, masked terrorists gunmen in Qalandia, some of them wearing military-style fatigues and identifying with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction, warned Israel against trying to raze the home of jailed resident Muhammad Abu Shaheen.

"This house will be destroyed only over the bodies of 30,000 people living in this refugee camp," one of the armed men, surrounded by cheering supporters, told Israel's Channel 2 TV.
"Hear that Moshe?"
"I heard that, David. Bring up another D9!"
The Jerusalem Post adds:
IDF troops shot and killed three Paleostinian gunnies in the West Bank on Monday morning, after they came under fire while carrying out the demolition of a terrorist's home in Kalandiya, the IDF spokesperson said.

According to the IDF, after the shootout, festivities broke out in the village, with rioters throwing rocks, Molotov cocktails, and using bombs against the soldiers, who escaped without injury.
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#1  "This house will be destroyed only over the bodies of 30,000 people living in this refugee camp,"

"Your proposal is acceptable."
Posted by: SteveS || 11/17/2015 1:31 Comments || Top||

#2  It also carried out the mission, blowing up the home

over the bodies of 30,000 people living in this refugee camp?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/17/2015 2:44 Comments || Top||

#3  I call the four a bonus.

Oh, and use an SDB on Muhammad's house. That ought to get their turbans in a knot.
Posted by: gorb || 11/17/2015 20:32 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
4 Syrians Held, Arms Seized in Wata el-Msaitbeh as Detainee Referred to Judiciary
[AnNahar] The army locked away
You have the right to remain silent...
four Syrians and seized a cache of arms and ammunition overnight in the Beirut area of Wata el-Msaitbeh, amid a security crackdown in the country following the deadly Bourj al-Barajneh blasts.

"An army force raided overnight a building in the Wata el-Msaitbeh area containing a number of suspicious individuals where it arrested the Syrians Omar Hamad al-Hussein, Hussein Saray al-Hussein, Abboud Hamad al-Mohammed al-Abed and Hammoud Hamad al-Mohammed al-Abed," the army said in a statement issued Monday.
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Anti-Tank Missiles Counter ISIS Ground Game
From the American TOW to the French MILAN to the Swedish AT-4, anti-tank weapons are now featuring prominently in the ground war against the Islamic State.

The U.S. is supplying Iraqi Security Forces with the BGM-71 tube-launched optically tracked wire-guided, or TOW, missile made by Raytheon Co. as well as the AT-4 unguided missile made by Saab for use against militants affiliated with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, also known as ISIL, according to an article by my colleague Richard Sisk.

Meanwhile, Kurdish Peshmerga forces wielded the Missile d'Infanterie Leger Antichar, or MILAN, light infantry anti-tank missile to stop ISIS counterattacks using vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices in the successful push to take the northwestern Iraqi town of Sinjar last week, Sisk wrote.

The New York Pussies Times reported last month that the American anti-tank weaponry began arriving in the region in 2013 under a covert CIA program to aid moderate Syria opposition forces, but the supply of TOW missiles picked up in recent months after Russia began military operations in Syria.

Unfortunately, during an Army conference last month in Washington, D.C., officials with the manufacturer weren't able to speak about the TOW or its potential implications on the battlefield in Iraq and Syria. Instead, they touted a new miniature laser-guided missile for Special Forces and infantry troops.
Video at the link.
Posted by: Sven the pelter || 11/17/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  TOWs under a covert CIA operation in 2013?

hey wasn't that about the time Stevens was killed in Benghazi over some CIA activity or other?
Posted by: Sock Puppet || 11/17/2015 5:02 Comments || Top||

#2  You're about a year off.
Posted by: Pappy || 11/17/2015 15:25 Comments || Top||


Booby trap explosion kills Iranian police officer
An explosive booby trap was blown in Qasre Qand County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province in southeastern Iran, killing a police officer.

The incident took place in the noon six kilometers out of Qasre Qand, a town in Sistan and Baluchestan, the province’s chief of police, Hamed Hatami said, ISNA news agency reported Nov. 16. He added that a police officer was killed while on patrol on the road connecting Qasre Qand to nearby town of Jakigor, but there are no other casualties.

Sistan and Baluchestan has been the scene of many terrorist actions in recent years. In a similar incident in the same province on Nov. 4, four Iranian soldiers were injured as they hit an explosive booby trap.

Iran blames neighboring Pakistan for lax security as the main factor enabling terrorists and drug smugglers venturing into the Iranian territory.
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US-led strikes destroy 116 Daesh fuel trucks in east Syria
Now, they'll have to push all them Hiluxes
Strikes by the US-led air coalition fighting the Daesh group destroyed 116 fuel trucks used by the militant organisation in eastern Syria, the Pentagon said on Monday.

In a statement, the Pentagon said the trucks were destroyed in a single strike on Sunday near Albu Kamal, a Daesh-held town in Deir Ezzor province along Syria's border with Iraq.

Daesh controls most of the oil-rich Deir Ezzor province and part of the city, but has tried for months to seize all of the provincial capital.

Coalition forces conducted 10 strikes in northern, central, and eastern Syria on Sunday, in one of the highest number of raids for the campaign in weeks.

The statement said 13 strikes were carried out in various parts of Iraq on Sunday as well.

A spokesman for the coalition said the strikes were not the first against Daesh fuel trucks, but added "it's the first time that we've hit so many at once".

The trucks had been parked at the time of the strikes, and were "getting ready to either be filled or moved to sell whatever they had in them," he said.

Daesh reportedly makes millions of dollars in revenue from oil fields under its control, and the US-led coalition has regularly targeted oil infrastructure held by the group.

"Our spokesperson Colonel (Steve) Warren previously stated that we were going to start going after Daesh's financial abilities," the spokesman said.

"This strike was part of that strategy to start degrading their financial ability."
Posted by: badanov || 11/17/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  huzzah!
Posted by: anon1 || 11/17/2015 4:58 Comments || Top||

#2  We wait until now to hit the trucks that have helped finance the IS operation?!! Once again the stupidity of our policy in Syria is made evident.
Posted by: Beldar Phinese2093 || 11/17/2015 8:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Once again the stupidity of our policy in Syria is made evident. And that's only the stupidity that is made public. I am sure there are even better and more expensive forms of stupidity our esteemed leadership is practicing that we have yet to become aware of.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 11/17/2015 9:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Odd how soon this followed on Putin's remarks. Almost like he shamed Obama into allowing it.

Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/17/2015 10:35 Comments || Top||

#5  Actually, Putin's remarks, according to the article at the 'burg, happened Monday, and these strikes happened Sunday.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 11/17/2015 14:17 Comments || Top||

#6  They dropped leaflets first., because we are even purer than Joooooooooos!
Posted by: Shipman || 11/17/2015 18:17 Comments || Top||

#7  Yep... dropped leaflets. Wouldn't want to take a chance on eliminating potential future democrat voters
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 11/17/2015 18:23 Comments || Top||


Kurds, allies claim liberation of 200 villages
HASAKAH – The Kurdish-Arab alliance of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) regained nearly 200 villages and towns from the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) in the northeastern Syrian province of Hasakah, the SDF spokesman said on Monday.

The official spokesman of the SDF, Talal Ali Silo, said at a press conference in the recently liberated town of al-Hawl that “between October 30 and November 13, an area of 1,362 square kilometers was cleansed of ISIS”.

The liberated area includes some 200 villages and towns, among them the strategic town of al-Hawl on the Syrian-Iraqi border, which was recaptured by the Kurdish-Arab alliance of SDF on Friday.

The SDF spokesman emphasized that their progress has been achieved with the support of the U.S.-led coalition’s fighter jets and the special Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) –which constitute a leading member of the Syrian Democratic Forces.

The recent military operations in Hasakah province resulted in the death of 493 ISIS militants, 33 SDF fighters and four civilians, according to Silo.

The SDF troops have also sized hundreds of weapons and a large deal of ammunition in the two-weeks operations against ISIS in northeastern Syria.

The Syrian Democratic Forces announced two weeks ago the start of its military campaign for regaining control of the ISIS-held areas in the province of Hasakah. The SDF includes Kurdish forces of the 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.
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Government
Klingon chief criticises laws and net privacy in wake of Paris attacks
[The Guardian] John Brennan calls for review of reforms such as USA Freedom Act, saying they may have created 'inadvertent or intentional gaps' in security services.
"Intelligence gaps" have always been among us. That's why we have fusion cells and an 'All Source' intelligence approach.
The director of the CIA has criticised "hand-wringing" over the role of spy agencies in hunting terrorists and called for legal constraints on surveillance to be reviewed in the wake of last week's Paris attacks.

John Brennan's comments on Monday represent the most significant pushback yet against recent reforms of a surveillance programme that swept up millions of Americans' telephone records and was exposed by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. They came as pressure grew on internet companies in Silicon Valley to share users' data and prompted civil liberties campaigners to warn against an overreaction.
Excuse me, but doesn't someone else do that icky Special Intelligence stuff? Isn't your job mostly Human Intelligence (HUMINT)? Enuf of your lame regime excuses and sock puppetry. Please stay in your lane and concentrate on the job at hand.
"I do think this is a time for particularly Europe, as well as here in the United States, for us to take a look and see whether or not there have been some inadvertent or intentional gaps that have been created in the ability of intelligence and security services to protect the people that they are asked to serve," America's top spy told a summit at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank in Washington.
One of your snoopy TAC contractors at the DoS passport office having a peek at presidential candidate Champ's passport, now that's an entirely different matter eh ?
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.

Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.

Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has dominated Mexico for six years.
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