Court documents unsealed on Thursday shed light on explosion last month
Benjamin D. Morrow, 28, died in explosion in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin on March 5
No one else was injured or killed when he accidentally blew up his apartment
Search found 13 jars full of TATP, a homemade explosive used by terrorists
Cops also found unspecified 'literature' about white supremacy in bedroom
Morrow minored in chemistry and worked for a frozen pizza manufacturer
Investigators say his motive is not yet clear and haven't named ties to groups
FDL Reporter has more about the lab technician, whose chemicals so permeated the apartment building where he lived that the authorities decided to burn it down rather than try to clean it up.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least four senior local leaders of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group were killed during an operation of the Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS), operatives in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan.
The provincial government media office in a statement said the Death Eaters were killed during an operation in Bati Kot district and as a result five Death Eaters were also tossed in the clink Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! The statement further added that the NDS operatives conducted a Special Operation in Chahar Dehi area of the district, leaving four dead and three others maimed.
According to the governor’s office, the local Taliban leaders killed in the operation have been identified as Tur Dil alias Mullah Tur, Pacha, Mohammad Shafiq alias Sanga, and Muskin.
Another local Taliban leader was also arrested along with three Death Eaters during the operation, the statement added.
The Death Eaters arrested by the NDS operatives have been identified as Shakirullah alis Qari Shakir, Sangar Kochi, Rahmanullah, Ewaz Khan and Bilal.
According to the provincial government, at least two other suspects were also arrested during another operation in connection to having links with the Death Eaters in the same area.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The leader 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 Syria Khurasan Qari Hekmat
...who is in our archives as Qari Hekmatullah, commander of 145 ISIS gunnies before he made the acquaintance of a missile...
has been killed in an Arclight airstrike in northern Jawzjan province of Afghanistan.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North said Qari Hekmat was killed in an airstrike of the US forces in Darzab district.
A statement by Shaheen Corps said the airstrike was carried out at least 11:58 am local time in Sar Dara area of Darzab on Thursday.
The statement further added that another member of the terror group was also killed in the airstrike but there are no words regarding his identity.
In the meantime, Shaheen Corps said the terror group has appointed Mawlavi Habibur Rehman as the new leader of the group to replace Qari Hekmatyar.
According to Shaheen Corps, Mawlavi Rahman is orignally a resident of the Sholgar district of northern Balkh province.
The anti-government armed bully boy and terrorist groups including ISIS group has not commented regarding the report so far.
Afghanistan forces killed an important Islamic State (IS) commander in an air strike, one year after he defected from the Taliban and established a new IS foothold in the country, security officials said.
Qari Hekmat was killed in a drone strike on Thursday afternoon in the Darz Aab district of Afghanistan's northern Jawzjan province, said Hanif Rezaee, spokesman for the Afghan National Army Air Corps.
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The leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria Khurasan Qari Hekmat has been killed in an Arclight airstrike in northern Jawzjan province of Afghanistan.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Afghan National Defense and Security Forces have thwarted a plot by the anti-government armed Death Eaters to carry out a rocket attack on Kabul.
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) officials said Friday that the Death Eaters were looking to target the city with a BM-1 rocket from Chahar Asiab district.
The officials further added that the rocket along with a mobile phone device was discovered from the vicinity of Char Asiab district before the Death Eaters manage to carry out an attack.
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) officials said Wednesday that the Afghan cops have confiscated a cache containing ammunition for heavy weapons during an operation in Kabul city.
According to the officials, the cache was discovered during an operation in the vicinity of the 13th police district of the city.
The officials further added that the Afghan forces confiscated three rounds of 822mm mortar, two artillery rounds, six rounds of heavy anti-aircraft gun munitions, and seven other type of mortar rounds from the cache.
The CID officials also added that the Death Eaters were looking to use the munitions to carry out terrorist related activities in the city.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan military and government officials are saying that six soldiers of the Afghan National Army (ANA) and Afghan National Police (ANP) forces were martyred in the latest attacks of the Death Eaters in the Sar-e-Pul ...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone... and Zabul provinces.
The officials are saying that four ANP soldiers bit the dust in an attack in Zabul province while two ANA soldiers were martyred in Sar-e-Pul province.
The district administrative chief of Arghandab in Zabul Amir Jan Alokozay said four ANP soldiers bit the dust in an attack late on Friday night.
He said a number of the Afghan National Police forces have also gone missing after the attack which sparked a shootout between the police forces and the bully boys.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) stormed one of the largest jacket wallahs base of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province.
The Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS), said Saturday that the raid was conductd in coordination with the Afghan army and other security institutions in Greshk district.
A statement by NDS said at least four key Taliban leaders identified as Abdul Kari, Abdul Ghafar, Qari Asadullah, and Mohibullah were enjugged Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! during the operation.
According to NDS, the base belonged to Taliban leader Ehsanullah who is in charge of training suicide bombers and coordinating attacks for the Taliban.
The Afghan cops also confiscated a motor bomb and several weapons, ammunition, including RPG rounds, and explosives during the operation.
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[AlAhram] Ottoman Turkish authorities will deport close to 600 illegal Afghan migrants colonists in eastern The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... back to Kabul this weekend, the interior ministry said on Saturday.
The Afghan migrants colonists had crossed into Turkey through Iran due to "ongoing terrorist activities and economic troubles" in Afghanistan, the ministry said, and security forces had handed the migrants colonists over to provincial immigration authorities.
It said deportation procedures had been completed for 591 migrants colonists in the eastern province of Erzurum and that charter flights to Kabul would be arranged on Saturday and Sunday to send the migrants colonists back.
"Following the completion of deportation procedures for illegal migrants colonists in our other provinces, deportations will speed up and continue in the coming days," the ministry said in a statement.
Rights groups have criticised Turkey for deporting migrants colonists back to conflict-torn countries, including Afghanistan, saying it was putting their lives at risk.
This week the Hurriyet newspaper reported that several thousand Afghan migrants colonists had crossed into Turkey in recent months and had walked for days from the border to reach Erzurum.
Afghanistan has been ravaged by hard boy attacks this year, and the government has made promises to tighten security in the wake of an attack in central Kabul that killed around 100 people in January.
The attacks have undermined support for President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. , who offered in February to hold peace talks with Taliban ...Arabic for students... snuffies fighting to drive out international forces and reimpose their version of strict Islamic law.
The Taliban have so far shown little sign of accepting the offer of talks with the Western-backed government, which they consider an illegitimate, foreign-imposed regime, although they have offered to talk to the United States.
[Ynet] Some 108 Kurdish bully boyz have been "neutralized" in operations targeting southeast The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and northern Iraq over the past week, Turkey's armed forces said on Saturday.
The military uses the term "neutralized" to refer to operations in which opposition forces have been killed, maimed or captured.
In a weekly roundup, it said it had neutralized 31 bully boyz from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the southeastern provinces of Tunceli, Mardin, Diyarbakir and Sirnak.
It said 77 other bully boyz had been neutralized in cross-border operations.
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[DAWN] An antiterrorism court sentenced on Friday three men to death and two individuals to life in prison in a sectarian killing case.
The court found Syed Furqan, alias Babaji; Faisal Mehmood; Syed Buturab Ali; Azhar Hussain and Riffat Hussain Jafari, said to be affiliated with a banned sectarian bully boy outfit,
Really? Which one? There are so many in Pakistan.
guilty of killing Mohammad Faisal Umer and wounding his friend Mohammad Saad ‐ both members of the Tablighi Jamaat A group of itinerant Deobandi preachers who form one of al-Qaeda's recruiting arms... ‐ in February 2014 near the Gharibabad underpass.
An ATC judge, who conducted trial at the judicial complex inside the central prison, handed down capital punishment to Furqan, Faisal and Buturab and another 10 years’ jail to the trio for wounding the complainant Saad. The other two convicts were sentenced to life in prison.
According to the prosecution, the complainant and the dear departed were the residents of Defence Housing Authority.
They came to the Madni mosque in Azizabad every Thursday. On Feb 27, they were returning home when gunnies on cycle of violences opened fire on them. Police incarcerated Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! the accused a couple of months after the incident, it added.
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[DAWN] Indian troops on Saturday shot a rocket launcher from across the Line of Control (LoC), leaving a young woman dead and her two siblings and a cousin critically maimed in a border village of Azad Jammu and Kashmire (AJK), officials told Dawn.
The attack took place when the victims were outdoors in Baig Wala Lanjot, a hamlet barely 150 metres away from the LoC in Nakyal sector of Kotli district, during the afternoon.
According to Abdul Hameed Kiani, the deputy commissioner of Kotli, 26-year old Rubaida Khayam, daughter of Sardar Khayam, died as a result of the attack. The victim's sisters Sufaida Khayam and Zubaiba, and cousin Sumaida Ismail were critically injured.
Nakyal Assistant Commissioner Waleed Anwar said the victims had no idea that the enemy could stoop so low as to fire a rocket launcher on them while they were busy in domestic chores.
He said the injured persons had been moved to Kotli's District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital.
Cross-LoC shelling was not reported from any other area or sector of Kotli district, "but you never know when and where the cowardice enemy may resort to ceasefire violations," Kiani said.
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[Rudaw] ERBIL, Kurdistan Region ‐ Ottoman Turkish jets have bombarded the Bradost area of the Kurdistan Region.
Rudaw’s correspondent in the local area reported that at least three villages were targeted in the action. There are no immediate reports of casualties.
The Bradost area is in northern Erbil province, near the borders with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Iran.
Earlier on Saturday, Turkey’s military claimed to have "neutralized" six PKK fighters during air operations against alleged PKK positions in the Khakurk area in Bradost.
The military reported "neutralizing" 108 "terrorists" in the past week across Kurdish areas of southeastern Turkey and across the border into the Kurdistan Region, Anadolu Agency reported.
Turkey’s military uses the term "neutralized" to refer to those killed, injured, or otherwise removed from the battlefield.
The People’s Defence Force (HPG), the armed wing of the PKK, reported killing 12 Ottoman Turkish soldiers over Friday and Saturday, attacking Ottoman Turkish units on the move in the Bradost area.
The HPG’s press office said that "heavy fighting continues," in a statement carried by ANF news. They accuse Turkey of bombing "indiscriminately" and "targeting the civilian areas in the region, seeking to make the people migrate and depopulate the region."
Ottoman Turkish forces have pushed at least 20 kilometers into the Kurdistan Region in a military operation against alleged PKK positions since March 10.
The PKK has its headquarters in the Kurdistan Region’s Qandil Mountains.
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Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Security services have tossed in the slammer You have the right to remain silent... more than twenty 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.... members in several operations in Nineveh province, while weapons and explosives were seized in their possession, security sources said on Saturday.
Speaking to BasNews website, Cap. Amir Watheq, from Nineveh police, said, "security troops arrested eight Islamic State members, possessing hand grenades in Makhmur, southeast of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... "Troops cordoned off the area, where the holy warriors were hiding and invaded their houses, then took them to Nineveh Operations Command headquarters for investigations."
All hand grenades, in their possession, were confiscated.
In related news, Col. Khodier Saleh, of the Federal Police, said, "security services arrested an IS cell, composed of 15 members, which was planning to to attack troops deployed in western Mosul."
"The cell members, were possessing weapons. All were arrested inside a tunnel," he added.
Thousands of Islamic State holy warriors as well as Iraqi non-combatants were killed since the government campaign, backed by paramilitary troops and the coalition was launched in October 2016 to fight the bad boy group, which declared a self-styled "caliphate" from Mosul in June 2014.
Islamic State continues to launch sporadic attacks across Iraq against security troops. Security reports indicate that the bad boy group still poses threat against stability in the country.
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[Ynet] An IDF force found on Saturday morning a grenade thrown by forces of Evil from Gazoo towards Israel near the Karni crossing the previous day in an effort to harm Israeli troops.
"The grenade is another proof that the riots yesterday were a cover for terror activities, with forces of Evil trying to carry out attacks against IDF soldiers and Israeli citizens," the IDF Spokesman's Office said in a statement.
[Ynet] Two Paleostinians maimed in festivities with Israel's security forces Friday near the Gazoo Strip border shuffled off the mortal coil overnight. One of the casualties is a journalist hit by IDF fire. The pair's passing increased the corpse count in Friday's events to nine.
An unarmed Paleostinian man was apprehended by security forces on Saturday after he crossed the security fence separating Israel from the Gazoo Strip. The man was delivered to the Shin Bet security service for interrogation.
Recent weeks have seen a spate of infiltration attempts from the Strip, most of them by unarmed Paleostinians.
[Al Jazeera] A Paleostinian journalist shot by Israeli forces during a mass demonstration along the Gazoo border has died of his wounds.
Yaser Murtaja, a photographer with the Gazoo-based Ain Media agency, was shot in the stomach in Khuza'a in the south of the Gazoo Strip on Friday, according to the Paleostinian health ministry.
Murtaja, 30, was hit despite wearing a blue flak jacket marked with the word "press", indicating he was a journalist.
Hosam Salem, a photographer at the scene of the incident, told Al Jazeera on Friday that he witnessed Murtaja drop to the ground after being shot by Israeli forces.
"Yaser was filming with his camera next to me when we heard the sound of gunfire," Salem said. "He just fell on the ground and said, 'I've been shot, I've been shot.'"
The Paleostinian Journalists Syndicate said seven other news hounds were maimed in Friday's protest, in what they described as "deliberate crimes committed by the Israeli army".
Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Saturday addressed the death of a Paleostinian journalist who was maimed during festivities on the Gazoo border the previous day, arguing that "Anyone who operates multirotor drones over IDF soldiers needs to understand he is endangering himself."
"What we saw over the past two weeks is a parade of terrorism," Lieberman said during Mimouna celebrations in Ashkelon. "Members of Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",'s military wing, dressed as civilians, tried to hurt Israel's citizens and its illusory sovereignty, and we won't allow it."
"We saw dozens of cases in which Hamas gunnies used ambulances, dressed up as Red Islamic Thingy workers, and dressed up as journalists," he continued. "We won't take any risks."
Journalist Yaser Murtaja, 30, worked for several Paleostinian media bodies, including Ain Media, a local production company providing materials for foreign press services, including drone footage of the strip. He was a supporter of Hamas
Oh? That puts a different complexion on things.
and never left Gazoo.
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[Express] After ISIS lost Raqqa to Kurdish and Sunni Arab forces in October last year, there have been many indications that ISIS, or ISIS-inspired entities, are looking to renew their insurgency in the Philippines. As ISIS is driven out of its caliphate in Iraq and Syria, foreign fighters have been arriving in the Philippines with the aim of attacking Filipino towns and recruiting fighters.
Philippines military officials warned that ISIS had put together a small force of around 200 fighters in Mindanao, with the intent of establishing a new caliphate in February. The island could then be used as a launch pad for further attacks in the country.
The U.S. has reportedly spent over $1 billion in assistance to the Philippines over the past eight years, with $85 million being spent on counterterrorism related equipment, training and support.
There are now reportedly 23 armed groups in the Philippines operating under the banner of “ISIS Philippines”. The U.S. State Department has also recently added ISIS Philippines and six other Islamist terror groups to their list of designated terrorists.
It is understood that former US president Barack Obama’s drone-bombing campaign in the Philippines was widely regarded as one of the most effective recruitment tools for groups like ISIS.
On March 10, the US gifted the Philippine military new drones, the Boeing Insitu ScanEagle UAVs, transferred through a US grant of over $13 million, signalling the continuation of a defence cooperation underway in the US-Philippine alliance. This occurred around the same time President Duterte announced that he would not allow Filipino troops to be dragged into more U.S.-led wars unless the country were to face a direct threat.
Around the same time, Duterte stated that the Philippines had not received anything from the U.S. other than “brutality and agony” after “all these years of sacrifice”.
When you put it that way...
But according to Pentagon spokesman Christopher Logan, the U.S.-Philippines relationship is growing stronger as time goes on. He said, “To support these efforts, and at the request of the government of the Philippines, we have enhanced our comprehensive counterterrorism cooperation that supports the Philippine security forces."
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A car kaboom has taken place at the town of al-Bab in Aleppo province’s northern countryside which has left dozens of Ottoman Turkish-backed rebels and civilians dead and maimed.
According to sources, the boom-mobile went off in the town center, resulting in the death of eight and the injuring of at least 20 others ‐ specifics defining on how many of the casualties were rebels and how many were civilians have not yet been mentioned.
Ottoman Turkish-backed rebels who control al-Bab are blaming US-led Syrian Kurdish forces for the attack, saying that they did it in retaliation for the offensive on Afrin.
Sources on the ground report that the boom-mobile was parked well in advance at the scene where it went kaboom! and that it was remotely detonated.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Confirmed reports state that a considerable number of US military forces and US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) reinforcements have arrived in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor province.
The reinforcement package includes dozens of heavy vehicles, hundreds of SDF fighters and an unspecified number of US-led coalition troops ‐ all have arrived in the area of the Omar oil field southeast of the Khabur river.
The sudden influx of such offensive forces is being done in preparation for a major operation against Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... murderous Moslems either along the eastern Euphrates shore or eastern Hasakah province or both.
To this end sources are saying that Iraqi forces will also be involved in the offensive, attacking ISIS from Iraq’s western border at the same time and advancing into eastern Syria ‐ these reports, however, remain unconfirmed.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] After an entire day of festivities in the southeastern countryside of Homs province, 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 have managed to capture the strategic Sabaa Biyar area (near the town of al-Qarayatyn) from the Syrian Army.
After conceding Sabaa Biyar, the Syrian Army has since regrouped and launched a counter-offensive to reclaim the area and drive ISIS forces of Evil all the way back out east towards Deir Ezzor province.
According to al-Masdar News journalist Ibrahim Joudeh, heavy festivities are ongoing between Syrian government forces and ISIS in the Sabaa Biyar area and it is unclear if the former has retaken any lost lost territory yet.
Warplanes of the Russian Aerospace Forces are reportedly supporting the Syrian Army counter-offensive.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Amid ongoing heavy festivities between the Syrian Army and 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 in southeast Homs, Russian warplanes have entered the fray to assist the former in recovering recently lost ground.
Earlier on it was reported that a deep infiltration operation by ISIS had seen raiding forces of the terrorist group penetrate almost 200 kilometers behind government lines from south of As-Sukhnah to the Sabaa Biyar area (near the Zaza checkpoint).
The Syrian Army has since launched a swift counter-offensive to drive back the Islamic State onslaught around Sabaa Biyar ‐ an operation which Russian airpower is participating in.
For their part, Russian jets are targeting highly-mobile, technical-borne ISIS raiding units lurking around in the Sabaa Biyar area. The Russian Arclight airstrikes come at night ‐ a time when Syrian warplanes are far less effective due to their general lack of night-vision sighting equipment and precision weaponry.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) made a significant advance in southern Douma, Saturday, seizing several sites from the holy warriors of Jaish al-Islam ...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful... Led by the Tiger Forces, the Syrian Arab Army managed to infiltrate Jaish al-Islam’s primary line of defense near the Misraba axis, paving the way for their troops to capture a large number of farms in southern Douma.
According to military source in Damascus, the Syrian Arab Army has managed to reach the southern outskirts of Douma and should be able to reach the first buildings inside the town by Sunday evening.
In addition to their advance in southern Douma, the Syrian Arab Army was also able to capture several points at the western axis of the town.
[Al Jazeera] A suspected chemical attack in Douma, the last rebel-held stronghold near Syria's capital, Damascus, has killed at least 70 people and affected hundreds, rescue workers have told Al Jazeera.
The White Helmets, a group of rescuers operating in opposition-held areas in Syria, said on Saturday that most of the fatalities were women and kiddies.
"Seventy people suffocated to death and hundreds still suffocating," Raed al-Saleh, head of the White Helmets, told Al Jazeera, adding that the corpse count was expected to rise as many people were at death's door.
Al-Saleh said that chlorine gas, as well as an unidentified but stronger gas, were dropped on Douma.
"White Helmet volunteers are trying to help the people but all what we can do is evacuate them to another areas by foot because most of the vehicles and centres went out of service."
One member of White Helmets told Al Jazeera that an entire family had suffocated to death as they hid in their cellar, trying to seek shelter from air raids and barrel bombs.
Syrian state media denied government forces had used chemical weapons.
“Wudn’t us!”
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If chem is confirmed, it will be Mr. Trumps move. This will have to be carefully managed.
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I think he's already made his move by saying we must exit Syria. Getting involved in chemical warfare is not a level of conflict POTUS wishes to engage in, nor does anyone else. Vlad may have sent the message at Salisbury with the novichok targeting. Of course if you believe in conincidences.
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Aren't the Syrian White Helmets associated with the ICC/Soros? State/CIA proxies? They are the common denominators in every atrocity...there ought to be an investigation and get to the bottom of this!
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Is Assad 'evil' enough to use chemicals? Yes. Are there enemies of Assad that are ruthless enough to stage Black Flag incidents to frame him? Alas, regrettably, Yes. Are the NGOs an impartial witness? Hell, No!
As grom as noted, lately it seems that whenever an insurgent gets an "Owie!" anywhere in the world there is some sort of Government Atrocity That Must Be Investigated™!
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None of the chem attack targets in Syria were of any strategic importance. And, can you point to the report of such an attack followed by a conventional advance? Finally, I just loved the videos from the previous incident where guys with a handkerchiefs across their face play with the purported chemical weapon shells - didn't you?
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If you consider the Scenario: (Semi-trained Militia) + (Urban Warfare/Fortified structures) + (Tunnel Warfare). Solution = (Heavier Than Air War Gas) makes a rational response. The same sort of rationality as Kreigsraison where local villagers would be held as a hostages against partisan attacks...
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The leader of the 
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...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Security services have 
[Ynet] Eight Paleostinians were 
[Express] After ISIS lost Raqqa to Kurdish and Sunni Arab forces in October last year, there have been many indications that ISIS, or ISIS-inspired entities, are looking to renew their insurgency in the Philippines. As ISIS is driven out of its caliphate in Iraq and Syria, foreign fighters have been arriving in the Philippines with the aim of attacking Filipino towns and recruiting fighters.
It is understood that former US president Barack Obama’s drone-bombing campaign in the Philippines was widely regarded as one of the most effective recruitment tools for groups like ISIS.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Confirmed reports state that a considerable number of US military forces and US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) reinforcements have arrived in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor province.
...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful...
