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It's autumn and love is abloom:
The Antonovs mate in Khartoum,
Right there in the aisle
As, by violence or guile,
They decide who's the bride, who's the groom.
A suspicious envelope that was addressed to President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... was intercepted by the Secret Service on Monday, US authorities say.
The envelope did not enter the White House, according to the authorities.
Two other packages suspected of containing the deadly poison ricin were found at a Pentagon mail screening facility and sent for FBI analysis.
Those envelopes - one of which was addressed to Defence Secretary James Mattis - were also found on Monday.
Mr Mattis was away in Gay Paree at the time.
The screening area is not inside the main building, which contains offices of high-ranking military officials.
The facility is now under quarantine, defence officials said on Tuesday.
The Secret Service said in a statement that the envelope addressed to the president "was not received at the White House, nor did it ever enter the White House".
It said it was "working jointly with our law enforcement partners to fully investigate this matter".
The two packages sent to the Department of Defence were detected by the Pentagon Force Protection Agency, according to the Pentagon.
All mail delivered on Monday is currently under quarantine, and "poses no threat to Pentagon personnel", a front man said.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The coalition forces based in Afghanistan have carried out Arclight airstrikes in eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... of Afghanistan, targeting a vehicle that was carrying commanders of the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... ’s Red Unit.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East in a statement said the airstrike was carried out on Monday in the vicinity of Asmar district.
The statement further added that the unmanned aerial vehicles of the coalition forces targeted the vehicle of Taliban’s Red Unit commanders in Kandar area, leaving two commanders of the group dead.
The two Taliban Überstürmbannführers killed in the airstrike have been identified as Mohammad Yousuf adn Mullah Ayoub, the 201st Silab Corps said, adding that the vehicle was also destroyed along with several light and heavy weapons.
According to 201st Silab Corps, the security forces and local residents have not suffered any casualty during the airstrike.
In the meantime, the 201st Silab Corps said a new military operation, Qahr Silab (2//9), has kicked off in Ghaziabad and Asmar districts of Kunar to suppress the faceless myrmidons and pave the way for the upcoming elections.
The statement by 201st Silab Corps added that the operations are jointly being conducted by the Afghan army, Afghan police, border forces, and the Afghan intelligence forces.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Several snuffies were killed in a series of Arclight airstrikes conducted by the Afghan and coalition forces during the military operations in southeastern Paktia province of Afghanistan.
The 203rd Thunder Corps of the Afghan Military in the Southeast in a statement said the airstrikes were carried out in Bakawa, Koti Khel, and Hastogan areas of Zurmat district.
The statement further added that 26 snuffies have been killed, 3 others have sustained injuries, and two vehicles of the snuffies were destroyed during the operations.
Taliban ...Arabic for students... ’s military commission chief Mulalh Daud and shadow judge of the group Mullah Ghani were among those killed, the 203rd Thunder Corps added.
In the meantime, the 203rd Thunder Corps said at least 3 snuffies were killed during the separate operations conducted in Andar, Moqor, and Geru districts of Ghazni and at least 3 others were maimed while an improvised bomb was discovered and defeused.
In a clash in Mohammad Agha district of Pashtun-infested Logar province, one Death Eater was killed and two other sustained injuries, the 203rd Thunder Corps added.
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[ARABNEWS] At least 13 people were killed and 30 others injured after an election rally was targeted by a jacket wallah in Afghanistan’s 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 on Tuesday.
The attack in Kama district was the first of its kind, targeting an election activity for the country’s parliamentary elections slated for Oct. 20.
More than 2,500 candidates formally launched their election campaign on Sept. 28, defying fear and intimidation.
Six candidates have already died in a wave of attacks by button men in recent months, while election centers have also come under attacks ‐ mostly claimed by ISIS ‐ resulting in the death of scores of people.
No group has yet grabbed credit for the recent attack that took place around midday in Sangar Saray area of Kama disctrict, east of the lovely provincial capital Jalalabad.
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 grabbed credit for the attack in a statement carried by its Amaq news agency. The group has claimed a series of attacks this year that have killed scores of people in Nangarhar, on the border with Pakistain.
Another kaboom took place at a cricket ground in Nangarhar's Bati Kot district on Tuesday afternoon.
"Seven children aged between 12 and 15 years were maimed in the blast at the playground," Khogyani said.
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[Ynet] A Somali police officer says a suicide boom-mobileer has targeted a European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... military convoy carrying Italian military trainers in the Somali capital Monday.
Capt. Mohammed Hussein said the boom-mobileer detonated his explosives-laden vehicle next to a military convoy near Somalia's defense ministry compound, injuring several soldiers.
[ARABNEWS] ISIS announced on Tuesday the death of a senior member of the group in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, according to a social media posting, dealing a blow to snuffies behind a wave of attacks on Egyptian military and civilian targets.
The notice, published under the heading "caravan of the Shuhada" or deaders, showed a picture of a smiling young bearded man it identified as Abu Hamza al-Maqdisi.
...“from Jerusalem”?
Maqdisi, a Paleostinian, was in charge of the group’s planning and training operations in Sinai, it said without giving any detains on how he was killed, when or where.
There was no immediate comment from the Egyptian military on the report, but security sources said Maqdisi died along with two other people early on Monday in an air strike on their vehicle near Sheikh Zweid in northern Sinai.
The Egyptian military and police have been conducting an operation in Sinai since February to crush snuffies affiliated with ISIS. The operation came after an attack on a mosque last November that killed hundreds of worshippers.
The military has said hundreds of suspected snuffies have been killed as well as dozens of soldiers in the operation, which involves thousands of troops backed by heavy weapons and the air force.
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[Libya Observer] Former Benghazi mayor and deputy spy chief of the east-based Interim Government Ahmed Araibi has been kidnapped in Arid Lamloum, Benghazi, identical sources reported.
Eyewitnesses said they heard gunshots during the abduction by "military men" in "five military vehicles."
They added that the vehicles had left after the shotguns ended and afterwards a military ambulance arrived in the residential area from where Araibi was kidnapped.
"Brigadier General Araibi was kidnapped with his son from his house and the CCTV cameras were broken by the kidnappers." Araibi's sister said on her Facebook page.
Sources said that the kidnappers are from Salafist brigade Tariq Bin Ziyad that is loyal to Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... , who has lately placed under his son-led Brigade 106.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his other shoulder...... reacting to the kidnap, the member of the House of Representatives Essam al-Jihani said he was waiting for the response of the official authorities regarding the abduction of Araibi.
He added on his Facebook that he wants Aqilah Saleh, Khalifa Haftar, Abdelrazik al-Nathori, and all authorities of the Interim Government to say something about the incident.
"This is a very bad indication, whether it was an abduction or an arrest." al-Jihani added.
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[Libya Observer] Flights have been resumed at Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... 's Mitiga airport after hours-long suspension over the falling of a shell inside the airport Tuesday, the airport's administration confirmed.
The administration said that a meeting for transports deputy minister, civil aviation authority chief, Mitiga airport's director and other officials resulted in the resumption decision.
The airport suspended air traffic Tuesday morning, citing the safety of the travelers as rockets keep falling on the airport and in its vicinity.
"Hirak Shabaab Tarabulus" (Tripoli's Youths Movement) claimed the firing of the rocket on the airport, saying it was prompted by the fact that Special Deterrence Force (SDF) is still inside it.
The movement said on Facebook that the rocket fell near the reception lounge 10 minutes before the landing of a plane, vowing to target the airport again.
"We blame Abdelraouf Kara (SDF's Chief) for the ramification as he cares not for the travelers or for the airport but only cares for his position. We will get him out of there and the airport will be for all Libyans without ideological foreign-agenda-driven militias being in control." It explained.
After closure for several days during Tripoli festivities, Mitiga airport reopened last Thursday.
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[News24] Mozambique will on Wednesday put on trial 180 national and foreign citizens accused of involvement in deadly Islamist attacks in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, sources told AFP.
Over the last year, more than 50 people have been killed in gun, grenade and knife assaults in the growing jihadist insurgency, with the militants reportedly seeking to impose Sharia law in the Muslim-majority province.
The trial - the first since the attacks began - will be held in an improvised court in the jail where hundreds of suspected militants are being detained in Pemba, the provincial capital of Cabo Delgado, a court source said on Tuesday.
Among the defendants are 5O citizens from neighbouring Tanzania.
"This is only the first group to be tried among hundreds of detainees," a police source said.
The attackers are believed to have staged their first attack on a police station and military outpost in the town of Mocimboa da Praia in October 2017. Two officers died and 14 attackers were killed.
Mozambique Islamic Militants Attack Village Killing Several Civilians
At least 20 people have been beheaded in northern Mozambique by Islamic militant, children being among those targeted in Monjane village in Cabo Delgado province, a hotspot for mining and petroleum.
The Islamic militant group has a history of launching attacks in the region the whole of last year. The group that was formed in 2015 has been making millions of dollars from selling timber and rubies.
A statement by one of the victims, who is also the Monjane village elder, indicated that the attackers went for the chief as he was providing police officers with information about the outlawed group. Research has also shown that members of the group were stanch followers of Kenyan radical Islamic scholar, Abud Rogo, who was killed in 2012. After his death, his followers escaped to Kibiti, southern Tanzania close to the border of Mozambique.
Since last year October, police have arrested 200 of the militants.
Earlier this month, Mozambique’s parliament approved a bill that would punish acts of terrorism with jail terms of up to 24 years
Attacks in northern Mozambique kill 39 since May: report
(Reuters) - Attacks by armed groups in northern Mozambique, where huge gas reserves are being developed, have killed at least 39 people and displaced more than 1,000 since May, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.
Violence first broke out in Mozambique's northern province of Cabo Delgado in October last year, with local residents reporting gangs armed with machetes attacking police stations, torching villages and executing religious leaders.
The United States embassy last week advised its citizens to leave the province after attacks increased in a region where Anadarko Petroleum (NYSE:APC) is beginning to develop a $15 billion liquefied natural gas project.
Britain has also advised against traveling to the area.
The group implicated is known locally as Al-Sunna wa Jama’a and Al-Shabab, although there are no known links to the Somali group of the same name or any other Islamist movement.
Residents told Human Rights Watch attackers had burned a mosque and beheaded an Islamic leader in a June 5 attack where hundreds of homes and dozens of cattle were burned.
Mozambique has not been a focal point of Islamist militant activity in the past and police have been reluctant to ascribe the attacks to Islamists. About 30 percent of Mozambique's 30 million people are Roman Catholics; about 18 percent are Muslim.
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A search of the Rantburg archives using the term “Cabo Delgado“ yields the following:
10/29/2017: Locals called these raiders 'al-Shabaab'. Whether they call themselves this too, or whether it's because of their headgear and what they reportedly told locals after occupying Mocímboa da Praia - that they rejected state health and education and refused to pay taxes - is not yet clear.
There was understandably speculation at first that they were linked to the Somali jihadist group of the same name. But Dina cast doubt on this interpretation from the start, as he said they spoke in local languages including Swahili and Portuguese. There now seems to be consensus that they are local Moslems. Eric Morier-Genoud, the Mozambican-born political scientist from Queens University, Belfast, wrote in The Conversation that this was a group of local Moslems formed in 2014 and calling itself al-Shabaab.
3/30/2018: in Mocimboa, the emergence of a radical faction in the Moslem community was widely known. "It started three years ago. Fifty or so young people from the town said that we weren't true Moslems," said Ussene Amisse, a teacher at a Koranic school.
"Some of them learnt these things in Somalia. It was when they returned that they started to cause problems."
Radicalized men told their followers not to send their children to school, not to vote and to disobey the authorities.
"They followed the example of fundamentalists in other countries," sighs Amadi Mboni, one of the town's religious leaders.
"We knew, we informed our authorities of the danger -- but we weren't able to prevent some of our children and grandchildren from joining them."
According to official statistics, 17 percent of Mozambicans are Moslem but Islamic leaders say the real figure could be double. In Mocimboa, more than half of the population is Moslem.
Frelimo, the ruling party since national independence, has long trumpeted the peaceful coexistence of different religions in Mozambique. But the country's north has largely been excluded from the economic growth of the last 20 years.
Many in the north also doubt that they will reap the rewards of the vast gas deposits recently discovered off the shores of Palma near Mocimboa.
In a region which sees itself as a neglected outpost, radical al-Shabaab-style ideology has found a receptive audience.
[IsraelTimes] Police in Spain dismantle a group that allegedly indoctrinated and recruited jihadists at 17 prisons across the country, the interior ministry says.
Police have questioned 25 prisoners in different jails who are "accused of being part of a group close to ISIS which was dedicated to radicalizing other prisoners," the ministry says in a statement, using an Arabic acronym for 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.... (IS) group.
The majority were Moroccans or Spanish nationals of Moroccan origin, a Spanish anti-terrorism source tells AFP. The rest were Spanish nationals who had converted to Islam and a Danish national.
The ring, which was made up of prisoners with a history of jihadism or who were themselves radicalized while behind bars, also sought to unite prisoners serving time for terrorist crimes in a so-called "Prison Front."
The ministry does not give details of the group’s activities but the anti-terrorism source says the ring did not have a "concrete plan" to carry out an attack. But it created a "belligerent state of mind towards prison staff."
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[IsraelTimes] Authorities seize weapons, detain three, freeze funds of Centre Zahra La Belle France, started by anti-Zionist activist
French police detained three people and seized weapons during raids of a dozen homes and the headquarters of a Moslem association based outside the port city of Dunkirk during an anti-terrorism operation early Tuesday, officials said.
Authorities froze the funds of the Centre Zahra La Belle France, along with those of three other organizations and four men linked to the groups.
The weapons were solely "for the security of the center" and mainly belonged to Zahra France’s security detail.
— Yahia Gouasmi
Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said the prefecture of the region was in the process of closing the prayer room of Zahra La Belle France, headquartered in Grande-Synthe. He said the three detained were taken in for illegal weapons possession. Police didn’t say what types of weapons were found.
About 200 coppers searched homes and the headquarters of the association.
Some French media reports said that Zahra La Belle France was a leading center for Shiite Islam in Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and is suspected of links to Iranian-backed Hezbollah, based in Leb, and to the Paleostinian Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,. The information couldn’t be immediately confirmed.
One Zahra La Belle France official cited in the order to freeze funds, Yahia Gouasmi, 68, told CNews TV channel that the weapons were solely "for the security of the center" and mainly belonged to Zahra La Belle France’s security detail.
"Everything is false," said Jamel Tahiri, 43, also among the four whose funds were being frozen. "We’re transparent. Everything is on [the] Internet."
Zahra La Belle France’s site describes the goal of the association as "to make known the message of Islam through the regard of the Prophet and his family."
The Zahra Centre La Belle France was founded in 2009 by Gouasmi, who has spoken in support of Lebanese Islamist group Hezbollah and the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Gouasmi is also the founder of the Anti-Zionist Party in La Belle France and is an associate of controversial comedian Dieudonne M’bala M’bala, a convicted anti-Semite.
The raids on Tuesday were staged as part of the "prevention of terrorism" procedures, regional authorities said in a statement.
Police have been closely following the activities of the Zahra Centre "because of the strong support by its leaders for several terrorist organizations and in favor of movements backing ideas that are contrary to the values" of La Belle France, a statement from local authorities said.
The small town of Grande-Synthe is known as a magnet for migrants colonists seeking to cross the English Channel to Britannia, and as a draw for smuggling activity that often thrives where migrants colonists congregate. However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... there was no known link between Zahra La Belle France and migrants colonists.
[DAWN] Ottoman Turkish police detained Tuesday over 200 people in a major nationwide crackdown on illicit money transfers to individuals of Iranian-origin living in the United States.
An Istanbul court issued arrest warrants for a total of 417 suspects and have so far rounded up 216 in a nationwide operation carried out in 40 cities, the official Anadolu news agency reported.
The suspects are facing charges including criminal conspiracy and violating measures to prevent terrorism financing, Anadolu said.
There were no further details on who the suspects are.
An investigation found that from the beginning of 2017 some 2.4 billion lira ($400 million) had been transferred from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... to a total of 28,088 accounts abroad from several banks, it added.
Those conducting the money transfers earned "commissions", Anadolu said, citing the investigation, while the large majority of the recipients of the funds were people of Iranian origin living in the United States.
There were no further details on who these individuals were and if the transfers had an overall aim.
The arrests come as the United States is in the process of reimposing sanctions on Iran after Washington pulled out of a 2015 international deal limiting the nation's nuclear programme, including on Iran's ability to use the international financial system and export oil.
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[PJ] Two pieces of mail intended for top Pentagon officials have tested positive for ricin and are being further analyzed by law enforcement.
"On Monday, the Pentagon Force Protection Agency detected a suspicious substance during mail screening at the Pentagon's remote screening facility," Pentagon spokesman Col. Rob Manning said in a statement today. "The envelopes were taken by the FBI this morning for further analysis."
"All USPS mail received at the Pentagon mail screening facility yesterday is currently under quarantine and poses no threat to Pentagon personnel," he added.
The mail facility is separate from the Pentagon building, ensuring the more than 20,000 employees there were never exposed to the letters.
CNN reported that the letters were addressed to Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson.
Ricin is a poison that is released from castor beans if the beans are crushed; it can also be derived from the waste products left after castor bean processing to make castor oil.
[DAWN] Authorities say a seven-year-old boy has been killed and 9 other people were maimed in a kaboom in suburban Kolkata in India's eastern West Bengal state.
Barrackpore Police Commissioner Rajesh Kumar Singh says an investigation is underway into Tuesday morning's blast outside a shop closed on the Indian national holiday for Mahatma Gandhi's birthday.
The impact of the blast destroyed the shop's iron shutters.
Ten people standing outside the shop were maimed by debris and taken to a hospital, where the boy died.
Local Trinamool Congress party (TMC) leader Panchu Gopal Roy says he was the target of the kaboom.
In late August, nine people were killed in festivities in the state triggered by opposition parties contesting the victory of the ruling TMC party in recent local municipal elections.
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[DAWN] Seven bad boyz were potted and three others injured in an exchange of fire with a Pak border post in North Wazoo, the military's media wing said on Tuesday.
According to the statement issued by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), snuffies from across the Afghan border engaged in a 'fire raid' at the check-post, prompting army officials to quickly retaliate.
Military sources say due to the extensive fencing along the border, snuffies cannot physically attack and now resort to 'fire raids' ‐ concerted targeting of Pak assets from a distance.
Attacks on security forces and assassinations have witnessed a surge in the volatile North Waziristan since the army launched the Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... military operation against snuffies in June 2014, which also resulted in the displacement of over one million civilians.
On September 23, seven personnel of Pakistain Army, including an officer, were martyred when a group of soldiers was ambushed by bandidosforces of Evil in North Waziristan. In return fire, the surviving soldiers in the group killed nine attackers.
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[DAWN] At least three Levies personnel were martyred when a roadside kaboom hit a security convoy in Balochistan...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... 's Awaran district on Tuesday.
Eight members of the paramilitary force were also maimed in the kaboom, according to Ahmed Jan, a senior Levies official.
Jan said the bomb was remotely detonated. No one immediately grabbed credit for the attack.
The Balochistan Levies is a force in charge of maintaining law and order in the tribal areas of the province.
The incident comes weeks after gunniesshot up security officials in Balochistan's Killa Saifullah district, leaving two Levies personnel martyred and another injured.
Earlier on September 14, three Levies personnel were martyred and two others injured in a remote-controlled cycle of violence blast targeting the vehicle of Barshor’s assistant commissioner in Pishin district.
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Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) – As many as 27 Islamic State militants were arrested Monday during a security campaign in Hamam al-Alil district in Mosul, a policeman in the Nineveh Operations Command said.
Speaking to the Iraqi Basnews website, Lieutenant Colonel Roshdy Abbas said that “the Nineveh Operations Command launched a security campaign after receiving intelligence reports about the presence of Islamic State infiltrators in the central island in Hamam al-Alil, 20 km south of Mosul.”
“The troops, backed by the Iraqi Air Force, raided the whole area and arrested 27 IS militants,” he said, adding that the arrestees were later taken into the headquarters of the Nineveh Operation Command for interrogation.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) – Seven Islamic State militants were arrested Tuesday in Mosul city, with one of them facing charges of assassinating security forces, the Iraqi interior ministry’s spokesman said.
“Karama security forces, acting upon intelligence reports, arrested seven wanted terrorists of Islamic State in Aden district in Mosul’s eastern side,” Iraqi website Baghdad Today quoted Maj. Gen. Saad Maan as saying in a statement.
“One of them admitted assassinating security forces and photographing criminal acts carried out by the terrorist group with the aim of terrifying citizens,” Maan said.
He added that another arrestee “admitting joining the Islamic State in 2014 after the group seized control of the city of Mosul in 2014.”
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Five people were killed and injured in two kabooms in north of the capital Baghdad, security sources said on Monday.
Speaking to AlSumaria News, the source said "the kaboom of the two bombs, which went off this evening, in al-Shaab region reached a victim and four maimed people."
The injured were taken to hospital for treatment, the source, who preferred anonymity, added.
Earlier today, a source said two people were maimed as two bombs went off at al-Shaab region. Two vehicles were destroyed.
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) – Islamic State militants blew up on Monday an electricity pylon in Hawija district in Kirkuk, causing power outage in the former IS bastion.
“A group of IS militants placed explosives under an electricity pylon in al-Siha village in Hawija, causing it to collapse,” a security source told Ayn Al Iraq News website.
“The explosion left Hawija district in complete darkness,” the source said, adding that technical teams rushed to the site in order to fix and maintain the destroyed pylons.
IS has blown up several electricity pylons in many of Kirkuk cities in a bid to cut electricity at cities controlled by Iraqi troops and tribes.
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) – An Iraqi policeman was killed and two others were wounded Monday in a bomb attack in oil-rich Kirkuk province, a security source said.
Speaking to Ayn Al Iraq News website, the source said that an explosive charge left by Islamic State went off while a police patrol was passing by the Riyadh district, east of Hawija.
“The explosion left a policeman dead and two others wounded,” the source said, adding that the dead body was moved to the forensic medicine department, while the injured were transferred to a nearby hospital for treatment.
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Three people were killed and injured as a motorbike exploded, west of Kirkuk province, a security source from the province said on Monday.
“A motorbike exploded this morning in a village in al-Dibs town, west of Kirkuk,” the source told Shafaq News website.
The blast, according to the source, “took place as a bomb was placed on the motorbike, causing the death of two persons, while the third was injured.”
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) – Iraqi police forces purged on Tuesday 14 villages in Kirkuk’s Hawija district from Islamic State militants.
Iraqi website Baghdad News quoted federal police chief Raed Shawkat as announcing that 14 villages in Hawija have been completely liberated from Islamic State remnants.
“The troops also seized a terrorist hotbed of Islamic State in northern Hawija, in addition to a tunnel filled with explosive charges,” Shawkat added.
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Diyala (IraqiNews.com) ‐ An Iraqi soldier was maimed Monday in a boom-mobile blast near a military camp in the eastern province of Diyala, a security source was quoted as saying.
In statements to Iraq’s Independent Press Agency, the source said that "a roadside kaboomwent kaboom! early Monday near the Cobra camp in al-Sadiyah district in northeastern Diyala, leaving a solider maimed."
"A security force sealed off the blast site and carried the injured into a nearby hospital for treatment," the source added.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) The Syrian Democratic Forces have revealed a new military base being built by U.S. troops on Iraqi-Syrian borders, west of Anbar.
In remarks to the Russian Sputnik agency, Khalil Serfan, from SDF, said “a new U.S. base is being built near Qaim town on the borders between Iraq and Syria.”
The U.S., according to Serfan, “established the base in such strategically-important region on the borders as it’s trying to establish its military presence there, this the Iraqi troops dispatched more forces to enhance the protection at the borders.”
The base, according to Serfan, was used by the U.S.-backed SDF in operations that were carried out last month in east of Syria.
In August, the U.S.-led coalition said U.S. forces will remain in Iraq, so long as there is a need for that, which is contrary to the U.S. promises to withdraw from Iraq after Islamic State was defeated.
Security expert Safaa al-Aasam had been quoted saying that Washington is working on increasing the total number of U.S. bases in Iraq reaching up to 12 bases over the coming period of time.
An official security source qas quoted by BasNews website in July as saying that U.S. is planning to inaugurate its third base in western Anbar, near the borders with Syria, to join its already operating bases, Ain al-Assad and Habbaniya.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Three Islamic State members were killed, while a secret tunnel was destroyed, west of Anbar near borders with Syria, a security source from the province said on Sunday.
Speaking to BasNews, the source said “information from the intelligence department enabled security troops to carry out a military operation that targeted a rest house of Islamic State in Qaim town, west of Anbar on the borders with Syria, leaving three militants killed and a secret tunnel, they use, destroyed.”
Troops, according to the source, who preferred anonymity, “carried out the operation in search for hideouts and tunnels used by the militants as shelter.”
The source also highlighted necessity of deploying more military troops to eradicate the infiltration of militants.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) A senior source from Anbar provincial council has revealed about release of Islamic State members and smuggling them into Turkey in return for brbes.
Speaking to Almaalomah website, the source said “Anbar provinces which include hundreds of detainees of Islamic State saw legal violations through releasing some prominent figures in return for money reaching up to US$35,000.”
The released militants, according to the source, “travel to Turkey, which has many prominent Islamic State leaders who fled to there, after arrest warrants were issued against them.”
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[ALMASDARNEWS] At least two Paleostinians were maimed, and dozens reportedly suffered from suffocation, as students clashed with Israeli Defence Forces near Beit El checkpoint, north of Ramallah, Tuesday.
Thick black smoke clouded the streets as protesters set debris on fire, hurling rocks at Israeli soldiers who in turn used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the demonstrators.
Protesters were outraged by the planned demolition of Khan al-Ahmar village in the West Bank that hosts around 180 Paleostinians.
They also condemned the new Jewish nation-state law.
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[MindaNews] A Philippine soldier and an top Maute militant who escaped from Marawi City were killed in an encounter in Tagoloan, Lanao del Norte last Sunday. Military spokesman Gerry Besana said Hadji Rasul Mambuay, a suspected bomb maker, was killed in a clash with troops in Upper Dimayon, Tagoloan.
Besana said the soldiers along with National Bureau of Investigation operatives were about to arrest Mambuay when they exchanged fire with some gunmen led by another Maute leader, Dianalan Dimnatang Imam aka Papayungan. He said the soldiers pursued the group until they killed Mambuay. Mambuay, known as Commander Mercury, had a warrant of arrest for arson.
Besana said Mambuay, a follower of slain Abu Sayyaf leader Isnilon Hapilon, led an armed group which tried to reinforce the Maute gunmen trapped in Marawi. He said the plan was aborted when the group encountered troops who had surrounded the city.
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[DAWN] The Philippines has refused entry to a Pak who is suspected of working as trainer for the myrmidonIslamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) group, the Bureau of Immigration reported on Monday.
Naeem Hussain, 36, was intercepted at Clark International Airport in Pampanga province after arriving on an Emirates Airlines plane from Dubai on Sept 22, according to Deputy Immigration Commissioner Marc Red Mariñas.
"He was turned away because he is on our alert list of suspected international Death Eaters for being an alleged trainer of ISIS," Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente said, using an Arabic reference to IS, the myrmidon group in Iraq and Syria.
Hussain was immediately excluded and booked on a return flight to Dubai, Mariñas said.
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The military has sought help from the immigration bureau in stopping Hussain from entering the Philippines. He is on a watch list of the military.
Morente said the Pak claimed he was a digital designer and that he travelled to the Philippines to visit his Filipino girlfriend in Olongapo City.
Records showed Hussain first tried to enter the Philippines in May, also from Dubai and through Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila.
He was intercepted there and put on a return flight to Dubai.
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A man was killed and his 15-year-old daughter wounded in a gun attack in Pattani province on Saturday evening. Police spokesman Supawat Rinsan said the incident at a house at tambon Talo Duraman in Kapho district.
It is still not clear how many people were involved in the attack in which Masakri Samae was killed and his daughter Nadia Kolo, was wounded. Both of them were admitted to the hospital, where Masakri was later pronounced dead. Carried over for Ryuge
PARIS (Reuters) - France said on Tuesday there was no doubt Iran’s intelligence ministry was behind a June plot to attack an exiled opposition group’s rally outside Paris and it seized assets belonging to Tehran’s intelligence services and two Iranian nationals.
The hardening of relations between Paris and Tehran could have far-reaching consequences for Iran as President Hassan Rouhani’s government looks to European capitals to salvage a 2015 nuclear deal after the United States pulled out and reimposed tough sanctions on Iran.
"Behind all this was a long, meticulous and detailed investigation by our (intelligence) services that enabled us to reach the conclusion, without any doubt, that responsibility fell on the Iranian intelligence ministry," a French diplomatic source said.
The source, speaking after the government announced asset freezes, added that the deputy minister and director general of intelligence, Saeid Hashemi Moghadam, had ordered the attack and Assadollah Asadi, a Vienna-based diplomat held by German authorities, had put it into action.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) ‐ The youngest son of 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.... chief His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart... was killed in a Russian Arclight airstrike on a Syrian village last Friday, an Iraqi commander said Sunday.
"We received certain information that the youngest son of IS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in an airstrike conducted by Russia on a terrorist hideout in a Syrian village two days ago," Iraqi website Baghdad Today quoted Jabbar al-Ma’mori, a commander in the paramilitary Popular Mobilization Forces, as saying.
Today’s announcement comes a few months after another son of al-Baghdadi was announced dead following a fight with Syrian and Russian troops at a power station in central Homs province.
According to sources, al-Baghdadi has four sons from one wife and a son from another wife.
Al-Baghdadi has been reported killed or maimed on a number of occasions.
No reports about al-Baghdadi have been heard since September 2017, when he urged supporters to wage attacks against the West and keep fighting in Syria and neighboring Iraq.
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yank that family tree out, roots and all
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I say we keep him alive and put him in a cage in a zoo in Tel Aviv or something with baskets of rotten fruit provided.
I don't suppose anyone knows how to Scarp someone any more...
[AnNahar] 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 has killed a woman from a group of Druze hostages it seized during a deadly attack in Syria's Sweida province, a source and a monitor said Tuesday.
The 25-year-old was among more than 30 people IS jihadists kidnapped as they launched the deadliest attack to hit Sweida's Druze minority since the start of Syria's seven-year civil war.
In the attack on July 25, IS waged a series of suicide kabooms, shootings and stabbings that left more than 250 people dead across the southwestern province, most of them civilians.
It later emerged the jihadists had also kidnapped the group, mostly Druze women and their children, during the attack.
A source familiar with negotiations with the group told AFP that "relatives of Tharwat Abu Ammar were told Tuesday that she had been executed" by IS.
The jihadists also sent a picture of her, covered in blood, to a negotiator, the source said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said she had been shot in the head.
Like the other hostages, Abu Ammar came from the remote village of al-Shabaki in the province's eastern countryside, according to the Sweida 24 news agency.
The agency's head Nour Radwan told AFP that IS had killed her parents during the attack on the village.
IS claimed the Sweida attack via the Telegram messaging app, but it has not mentioned the captives or published pictures or videos of them on its social media channels.
In August, the group executed a 19-year-old male student among the captives, Radwan told AFP.
The following week, a 65-year-old Syrian woman among the captives died, with IS telling negotiators an illness caused her death.
IS has been in talks with Syria's government and its ally Russia to swap the hostages for jihadists held by the regime.
There is little information on what conditions the hostages are being kept in, including whether they are subject to torture or other abuses.
Sweida province is the heartland of the country's Druze minority, which made up around three percent of Syria's pre-war population -- or around 700,000 people.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced on Tuesday that their troops seized a new town from 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.... (ISIS) in the Euphrates River Valley of the Deir Ezzor Governorate.
Backed by more than 60 strikes from the Coalition partners, the Syrian Democratic Forces reportedly advanced eight kilometers into the Islamic State’s last Euphrates pocket.
According to the SDF’s Spokesperson Kino Gabriel, the Syrian Democratic Forces captured the town of Shejla, while also destroying several Islamic State tunnels and HQs.
In addition to the advance, the Syrian Democratic Forces also managed to killed over 75 Islamic State forces of Evil during their latest push into the Islamic State’s last pocket.
The Syrian Democratic Forces are now working to surround the key Islamic State-occupied town of Hajjin, which is believed to be the location of the terrorist group’s command center.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem sat down with Leb’s al-Mayadeen TV this afternoon in order to discuss a number of topics, including the situation in the Idlib Governorate.
Muallem told the presenter at al-Mayadeen TV that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... is more than capable of carrying out the military operation clear the radical groups from Idlib.
The Syrian Foreign Minister then told the presenter that Damascus would more than welcome the operation, despite the absence of diplomatic relations with Ankara.
"According to our information, we believe that Turkey is capable of carrying out its obligations," Muallem said.
Muallem has returned to Damascus after a short visit to the United States, where he spoke in front of the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... on behalf of Syria.
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after months of hype about the imminent major Syrian offensive in Idlib, the Syrians are finding new ways to postpone the offensive
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
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PARIS (Reuters) - France said on Tuesday there was no doubt Iran’s intelligence ministry was behind a June plot to attack an exiled opposition group’s rally outside Paris and it seized assets belonging to Tehran’s intelligence services and two Iranian nationals.
...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart...
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