[ARABNEWS] Police were called to the compound of Fethullah Gülen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... , the US-based Moslemholy man accused by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... of instigating a failed 2016 coup, in rural Pennsylvania on Wednesday after a guard saw a suspected armed intruder, a Gulen front man said.
The security guard fired a warning shot and the suspected intruder fled, the front man said. There are no known injuries, or arrests and the incident is over, Alp Aslandogan, Gulen’s media adviser, told Rooters.
Several Pennsylvania State Police cars were seen around the gated compound and retreat in Saylorsburg in the Pocono Mountains, according to photographs shared online by local news news hounds.
Police, who left the scene an hour or two later, did not respond to requests for comment, but told local news media they were there to investigate an unspecified incident.
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Ah, the killers of OJ's wife strike again!
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A series of Arclight airstrikes were carried out on ISIS Khurasan (ISIS-K) hideouts 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, leaving at least six members of the group dead.
The 201s Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East in a statement said in the airstrikes were carried out Wazir Tangi area of Khogyani district by coalition forces.
The statement further added that the airstrikes left at least six ISIS turbans dead, including a commander of the group identified as Sher Alam.
The security forces and local residents did not suffer casualties during the airstrikes, the 201st Silab Corps added.
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[AlAhram] Egypt's interior ministry said in a statement on Wednesday that police have killed 15 forces of Evil in a shootout in North Sinai's El-Arish City.
The ministry said that the farm hideout was located by the national security department at the ministry.
The ministry added that the forces of Evil were planning on carrying out hostile operations during the anniversary of Egypt’s 6 October victory.
Police found five automatic rifles, four birdshot guns, three improvised bombs and a large quantity of ammunition.
[PRESSTV] Scores of Saudi soldiers and Saudi-sponsored Death Eaters loyal to Yemen's former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi have bit the dust when Yemeni army soldiers and fighters from allied Popular Committees launched separate offensives against their positions in the kingdom’s border regions.
Yemeni troops and their allies fired three domestically-developed missiles at the gatherings of Saudi troopers and their mercenaries in al-Khobe district of the kingdom’s Jizan region, located 966 kilometers (600 miles) south of the Saudi capital, Riyadh, on Wednesday evening, leaving several of them dead or injured.
Several Saudi soldiers and Saudi-backed Death Eaters were also killed and injured, when Yemeni troops and fighters from Popular Committees targeted their camps west of al-Majazah area and near al-Alab border crossing in Asir region with a barrage of Katyusha rockets and artillery rounds.
Later in the day, Saudi missiles and mortar shells rained down on residential areas in the Baqim district of Yemen’s northwestern province of Sa’ada.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) special agent Leatrice Malika De Bruhl-Daniels was incarcerated Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! on Friday over accusations she shared classified information with a terror suspect ‒ Nadal Diya ‒ with whom she was romantically involved.
According to multiple media reports, Bruhl-Daniels met Diya in Dubai in 2016 while working at the US consulate there. She had been a special agent for nine years and had top-security clearance with access to sensitive information on some subjects.
Diya was trying to get a tourist visa to visit the United States. Court documents say that Bruhl-Daniels contacted officials at the State Department and Department of Homeland Security (DHS), who informed her that both the DHS and FBI had their eyes on Diya in a counterterrorism probe.
Bruhl-Daniels, despite being told to "Stay away from Diya," went on to form a romantic relationship with him and told him that if he came to the US he would be arrested.
The criminal complaint against her says that Diya furnished her with lavish gifts, including a big birthday party in Dubai that State Department and active duty Navy members came to, loans to vacation in Greece, a job at his company for her son, a gold bracelet and a massage.
Bruhl-Daniels said she paid him back for the $1,400 loan with booze.
In various messages to Diya, Bruhl-Daniels wrote that she was "deeply attracted" to him and assured him she was trying to sway federal officials to find him innocent. Diya had "some associates that are well known" to Sherlocks, she said, telling him that she offered no more information to authorities besides what she believed would be exonerating. "I gave them no more than what I could to emphasize your innocence," she said, court documents allege.
NCIS agents confronted her about those messages in May. She said she didn’t remember sending them but they were "pretty damn bad,"
Diya was charged in Texas in September after he was caught in the US with fake identification papers that said he came from South America.
Bruhl-Daniels was represented by a public defender when she appeared in court in Alexandria, Virginia, which borders Washington, DC, on Wednesday for a detention hearing.
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[DAWN] A traffic police official was bumped off at Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... 's Matka Chowk by person or persons unknown on Wednesday.
The assailants expeditiously departed at a goodly pace towards Surjani Town after opening fire at Gulzar-e-Hijri Traffic Police Officer Muhammad Rafiq, son of Ahmed Khan.
Police officials told Dawn that traffic officials were performing their duty at intersection between Ahsanabad and Surjani Town when armed pillion riders opened indiscriminate fire at them.
"Another police official, Abdul Hakeem, saved his life by hiding himself in bushes," said SSP Malir Sheeraz Nazeer while adding that Sherlocks collected 18 spent bullet casings fired from 9mm pistols from the scene of the crime.
"Police is investigating the murder from all angles including terrorism," SSP Nazeer, adding that the bullet casings have been sent to the police’s forensic laboratory to find out if the same weapon has been used in past murders in the metropolis.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Kinnison began his slow infiltration of the sewer system... IGP Sindh, Dr Syed Kaleem Imam took notice of the attack and sought a detailed inquiry report from DIGs of East Zone and Traffic respectively.
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[IsraelTimes] Army hands Paleostinian suspects over to Shin Bet for questioning, says one of them was armed with a knife
Israeli troops incarcerated Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! two Paleostinians who crossed into Israeli territory from the northern Gazoo Strip on Wednesday, one of whom was armed with a knife, the army said.
The two men were spotted as they crossed the security fence in the territory’s north.
"The suspects were arrested close to where they crossed [into Israel]," the Israel Defense Forces said.
They were handed over to the Shin Bet security service for questioning.
[IsraelTimes] Cell run by operatives in Gazoo Strip alleged to have recruited engineering students at Birzeit University through Facebook to carry out attacks beyond Green Line
The Shin Bet security service announced Wednesday that it had jugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! three Paleostinians in the West Bank that been recruited by a network of Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, military wing members in the Gazoo Strip to carry out attacks beyond the Green Line.
Their cell is alleged to have been established in 2015 and has been devoting particular efforts to recruit engineering students at Birzeit University outside Ramallah, who could be useful in executing attacks and transferring "terror funds."
The security agency said it has arrested dozens of the network’s other members since its founding, but that recently the network has stepped up its activity in the West Bank.
The Shin Bet arrested three Paleostinians from the West Bank during July and August who were indicted on various terror charges in September.
Two of them ‐ 21-year-old Issa Shalalda and 20-year-old Omar Ma’soud ‐ were active in the Hamas-affiliated Islamic bloc at Birzeit University. According to the Shin Bet, the pair underwent military training during their recruitment.
The third member indicted was Hazem Hamayel, a resident of the northern West Bank. The 24-year-old is alleged to have attempted to carry out a terror attack after being in contact with a Hamas official in Gazoo who used a Facebook account under a fake identity.
"The activity of the terror infrastructure in Gazoo, along with additional Hamas activity from the Gazoo Strip, is an inseparable part of Hamas’s attempts to undermine stability in the West Bank, Israel and the Gazoo Strip," the Shin Bet said in a statement.
In June, the Shin Bet revealed that its agents uncovered a large and highly active Hamas terror cell operating out of the Paleostinian city of Nablus earlier this year that was allegedly planning to conduct a number of bombings and shooting attacks in Israel and the northern West Bank.
The Shin Bet said it arrested more than 20 suspected members of the Hamas cell in late April, including its two leaders: Mutassem Muhammad Salem, 35, and Fares Kamil Zebidi, 33. According to the security service, the cell began operating in October 2017.
[Aljazeera] Gaza health ministry says 24 others were wounded after Israeli forces fired live bullets and tear gas at protesters.
A Palestinian teenager was killed by an Israeli gas canister that was fired at a protest along the enclave's northern border with Israel, Gaza's health authorities said.
Ministry of Health spokesperson, Ashraf al-Qidra, said that Ahmed Abu Habel, 15, died on Wednesday when the tear gas canister hit him in the head near a checkpoint between Israel and the Gaza Strip.
Twenty-four others were injured, al-Qidra added.
Israel's military did not comment on the specific incident but a spokesperson told AFP news agency that soldiers had "fired live rounds in accordance with the rules of engagement" as protesters massed along the border.
[PRESSTV] A Paleostinian teenager has been killed by Israeli soldiers during protests near the fence between the besieged Gazoo Strip and the occupied territories.
Paleostinians sources quoted the Gazoo Health Ministry as saying that Ahmed Abu Habel, 15, was shot in the head by Israeli forces near a checkpoint in the Beit Hanoun area of the northern Gazoo Strip on Wednesday.
Some 24 people were also injured during the festivities, according to the ministry.
Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, Ministry front man Ashraf al-Qudra said Ahmed Abu Habel, 15, succumbed to a head wound after being hit with a tear gas canister fired by soldiers near the Erez checkpoint between Israel and the Gazoo Strip.
The Israel Defense Forces said approximately 1,000 Paleostinians took part in riots along the border, spread out among a few locations.
According to an army spokesperson, the Paleostinians threw makeshift bombs and rocks at soldiers on the other side of the fence, who retaliated with riot dispersal weapons, like tear gas, as well as live fire, "in accordance with the rules of engagement."
The spokesperson said she was aware of the reports of al-Qudra’s death, but could not confirm that the IDF was responsible for it.
Paleostinian media reported that an additional 15 people had been injured by Israeli fire during the protests.
[IsraelTimes] Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbung millipede,-run Gazoo health ministry says 78-year-old man was hit by Israeli fire near al-Maghazi refugee camp; army says it is unaware of troops shooting in the area at the time
The Israel Defense Forces rejected a Paleostinian claim that troops on Tuesday rubbed out an elderly farmer in the Gazoo Strip, saying it was unaware of any shooting incidents in the area at the time.
Earlier the Hamas-run Gazoo health ministry said a 78-year-old Paleostinian, Ibrahim Ahmad Nassar al-Arouqi, was killed at his home by by Israeli fire near the al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gazoo Strip. Some Paleostinian reports claimed the man was killed by bullets, while others said he was hit by fragments of a tank shell.
The ministry said its investigation confirmed that al-Arouqi was killed by "the occupation" ‐ its term for Israel.
An army spokesperson said the IDF did not know of soldiers or tanks opening fire in the area around the time of al-Arouqi’s death.
The 78-year-old was said to have been hit outside his home in the al-Maghazi refugee camp, which is located over a kilometer from the security fence ‐ a long, but not impossible, distance for a bullet or shell to travel.
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[AlAhram] A Ottoman Turkish military convoy entered rebel-held northwestern Syria early on Wednesday, an AFP correspondent reported, as the deadline for establishing a buffer zone between rebel and government forces draws closer.
At least 40 vehicles, including trucks and armoured personnel carriers, were seen moving slowly south along a main highway under the cover of darkness.
The troops they were carrying are expected to be deployed at "observation posts" The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has already set up in rebel-held areas of Idlib and Aleppo provinces.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based war monitor, said the vehicles were heading to Ottoman Turkish monitoring posts, including in the southwestern parts of Idlib.
There was no word from Turkey on any reinforcements to the area. It last sent a similar troop column into northern Syria just over a week ago.
Wednesday's convoy entered as the deadline for implementing a Ottoman Turkish-Russian accord on the future of Syria's last major rebel bastion draws closer.
Last month, Moscow and Ankara agreed to set up a demilitarised zone ringing rebel territory to avert a threatened government offensive.
All factions in the zone must withdraw heavy weapons by October 10, and radical groups must leave by October 15. It will then be monitored by Ottoman Turkish troops and Russian military police.
The region's dominant gang, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), an alliance led by jihadists of Syria's former al-Qaeda affiliate, has still not officially responded to the accord.
Turkey's main rebel allies, the National Liberation Front, gave the deal a cautious welcome before objecting to its provisions for a Russian troop presence inside the zone.
The NLF says it is still hammering out the details of the agreement's implementation with Ankara, and is wary that the current proposals would eat into their territory too much.
In an interview aired Tuesday, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said he hoped the deal would prove to be a "step towards the liberation of Idlib."
Muallem told Leb's al-Mayadeen television he was confident in Turkey's ability to fulfil its side of the deal "because of its knowledge of factions" on the ground.
Fighters from the area would be allowed to stay, he said, while those from other areas would go home and foreigners would leave through Turkey.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) scored a new advance in southern Syria, today, following another intense battle with the so-called Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) inside the al-Safa volcanic region.
Backed by heavy missile and artillery strikes, the Syrian Arab Army began their assault on Wednesday by storming a number of Islamic State hideouts and trenches in the Qasr Sheikh Hussein and al-Habariyah areas of al-Safa.
Not long after launching this attack, the Syrian Arab Army was able to crack the terrorist group’s lines and seize several points in this vast volcanic region in the al-Sweida Governorate.
According to a military report from Sweida city, the Syrian Arab Army managed to kill more than ten Islamic State holy warriors on Wednesday, including one sniper that was positioned atop of a hill in the Qasr Sheikh Hussein area.
The report added that the Syrian Army lost four soldiers during the battle, including one 1st Lieutenant.
The Syrian Arab Army is now working to seize the entire Qasr Sheikh Hussein area, which is believed to be the terrorist group’s last major stronghold in the al-Safa region.
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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.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world...
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) special agent Leatrice Malika De Bruhl-Daniels was 
