[TRTworld] The explosions happened during a ceremony marking the 24th anniversary of the death of Shia Hazara leader Abdul Ali Mazari that was attended by many of the country’s elite.
An explosion rattled a large Shia ceremony in western Kabul Thursday, with the event abruptly cancelled and sending attendees fleeing, including chief executive Abdullah Abdullah and other leading government officials.
"Stay calm, the area of the blast is far from us," said former lower house speaker Mohammad Younus Qanooni during a live broadcast of the event.
But moments after the announcement, another explosion could be heard that sent people running for the exit.
The explosions happened during a ceremony marking the 24th anniversary of the death of Shia Hazara leader Abdul Ali Mazari that was attended by many of the country’s elite, including Abdullah and former President Hamid Karzai.
No group has claimed responsibility for the blast and no casualties have been reported.
A twitter guy says: Daesh/ISIS/IS affiliates in #Afghanistan.
At least three people were killed and 19 others were maimed in back-to-back mortar attack at a gathering of hundreds of people who were marking the 24th death anniversary of Abdul Ali Mazari, leader of the Hezb-e Wahdat party.
The attack took place at aroune 12pn Kabul time and it was started when Chief Executive of the National Unity Government Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... was giving speech at the ceremony in Musala-e-Mazar compound in the west of Kabul.
The mortars landed in a different part and around the gathering.
Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah, former president Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...A product, and probably the sole product, of the Southern Alliance... , former National Security Advisor Haneef Atmar, former Vice president Yunus Qanuni, Acting Foreign Minister, Salahuddin Rabbani, Second Deputy Chief Executive Mohammad Mohaqiq, and other officials were at the ceremony.
No high-ranking official was hurt in the attack. But sources said that Abdul Latif Pedram, a presidential candidate and head of the National Congress Party of Afghanistan sustained injuries in the attack.
TOLOnews news hound Gulabuddin Ghubar who was covering the gathering said that at least 15 were kabooms heard at the area.
Sharif Amiry, another TOLOnews news hound, said the victims of the attack were taken to hospital by police vehicles and ambulances.
"The mortars also hit civilians houses and there are also casualties," he said.
In the meantime, officials from the Ministry of Public Health said that "two people were killed in a house after it was hit by a mortar shell and three others were maimed."
"From the gethering, one person was killed and 16 others were maimed," the ministry said.
Atmar in a statement said that eight of his bodyguards were wounded in the attack.
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It may be sore solace but the Islamist do seem to prefer to kill each other in that never ending squabble over the succession to Mohammed.
[KhaamaPress] Scores of Talibs have been killed during the operations of the Afghan Special Forces and Arclight airstrikes in 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.. , Laghman ...It has a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men. , Ghazni, and Uruzgan province.
The informed military sources said Afghan Special Forces conducted a raid in Gandomak area of Nangarhar province killing 11 Taliban ...Arabic for students... fighters and destroying 400 pounds of hashish.
The sources further added that the Afghan Special Forces conducted a similar raid in Achin district of Nangarhar killing 35 Taliban fighters and destroying 7 IEDs.
However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... the 201st Silab Corps in a statement said 35 ISIS Khurasan Death Eaters have been killed in Achin operations.
At least 11 Taliban fighters including one of their commanders were killed during the airstrikes in Mehtar Lam district of Laghman province, the sources said adding that Afghan Special Forces conducted a raid in Bashi village of Ghani province killing 1 Taliban fighter.
The sources also added that 14 Talibs were killed during the airstrikes which were conducted in Tarin Kot city, the scenic provincial capital of Uruzgan province.
The anti-government armed Death Eater groups including Taliban have not commented regarding the operations so far.
[KhaamaPress] The Talibs suffered heavy casualties during the operation of Afghan Special Forces in northern Kunduz province of Afghanistan.
According to the informed military sources, the operations were launched in Imam Sahiib district of Kunduz to recapture the fallen outposts belonging to Border Police Forces.
The sources further added that 27 Talibs were killed and 16 others were maimed during the same operations.
"Afghan Special Forces conducted an operation in Imam Sahib district of Kunduz to recapture Afghan Border Force checkpoints that had fallen to the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... days earlier. The Afghan Special Forces killed 27 Taliban fighters, maimed 16 and destroyed 2 IEDs," the military sources said.
The anti-government armed murderous Moslem groups including Taliban have not commented regarding the operation so far.
[KhaamaPress] Up to fifty holy warriors were killed during the operations of the Afghan Special Forces and Arclight airstrikes in five provinces of the country.
Informed military sources announced Tuesday that the operations were conducted in Jowzjan, Uruzgan, Kapisa, Khost, and Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... provinces.
The sources further added at least 31 of the holy warriors were killed in Faizabad district of Jowzjan province during the operations of the Afghan Special Forces which were launched few days earlier.
A strike in Tarin Kot district of Uruzgan resulted in two Taliban ...Arabic for students... fighters killed, the sources said, adding that a total of 18 Taliban have been killed in the same area in the past week.
A similar strike in Tagab district of Kapisa province left two Taliban fighters dead while Afghan Special Forces killed 8 holy warriors during an operation in Shah Wali Kot district of Kandahar.
In Helmand, a strike which was conducted in the vicinity of Nahr-e-Saraj district resulted into the killing of three Talibs, the sources added.
[ToloNews] A private company close to Nanagharar airport was attacked by a group of armed button men on Wednesday morning, local officials said.
Attaullah Khoghyani, front man for 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.. governor, said five button men attacked the "EBE" company, a construction company in Nangarhar, at around 5am local time in Behsod district of the province and that clash ended after all five button men were killed.
Two attackers detonated their explosives and three others were killed in clash with security forces, Khogyani said.
He said 16 employees of the construction company were killed and nine others were maimed in the attack.
The maimed employees were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment, Khogyani added.
Two of the maimed are at death's door, he said.
The clash ended after at least seven hours.
According to Khogyani, during the clearance operation security forces defused a vehicle full of explosives and two boom jackets from the attackers.
The company is doing construction activities at Nangarhar Airport, Khogyani added.
At least three workers of the company have also been killed and six others have sustained injuries, the media office of the provincial government statement added.
[Libya Observer] Violent festivities broke out on Wednesday morning in Murzuq town in southern Libya causing several deaths and injuries, sources reported.
According to the sources, festivities started as 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... 's self-styled army forces started withdrawing late on Tuesday heading to Sabha.
According to Murzuq municipal member Mohammed Omar, four Tubu rustics were killed and three others were maimed in Deesa area after being shot at by an unknown group on Tuesday.
He told news hounds that discontent was on the rise in Murzuq after that incident and elders were trying to calm things down, especially after the vacuum left by the surprising withdrawal of Haftar's forces.
In addition to Murzuq, Haftar's forces withdrew from al-Gatroon area, according to sources, adding that they went also to Sabha but it's unknown where they will be positioned eventually.
Military media office of Haftar's command said on Tuesday they had sent military backup to "the place the military command has specified earlier," without naming the place.
A source close to Sirte Protection Force said they had depicted huge military convoys for Haftar's forces in southern Sirte heading to al-Jufra and Bani Walid, adding that the force personnel and military might is on alert and that Sirte is fully under control.
The source added that military backup arrived also in Sirte - 100 vehicles and 30 tanks - in addition to other 100 vehicles from different brigades that had been sent to Sirte.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie ducked another tomato... a military source from Misrata airbase said warplanes have been doing surveillance above Sirte since Wednesday morning to depict any dubious movements around Misrata.
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[Jpost] A Moslem convert who had pledged allegiance to Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) was locked away Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! for life on Wednesday for plotting to drive a truck into pedestrians on central London's busy Oxford Street.
Lewis Ludlow, 26, had planned to rent the vehicle and plough it into shoppers, hoping to kill over 100 people in an area that attracts large numbers of tourists, prosecutors said.
He had also considered attacking London's Madame Tussauds wax museum and St Paul's Cathedral.
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Life: 7 years give or take...
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#Breaking A suspicious package sent to the University of Glasgow on Wednesday is believed to be linked to the three explosive devices sent to transport hubs in London on Tuesday, Police Scotland said
[Jpost] Police said specialist officers were dealing with a suspicious package which was found near an entrance to Britannia's parliament on Wednesday.
"There are no reported injuries. Enquiries continue," police said on Twitter.
[Ynet] Police blew up a parcel sent to a Scottish university on another day of bomb scares in Britannia after three devices were sent to major transport hubs in London on Tuesday.
Scottish police said they had carried out a controlled kaboom on a package sent to the University of Glasgow and were now working with police in London as they try to find out who sent small parcel bombs to two airports and London's busiest train station on Tuesday.
White postal bags containing small improvised bombs were sent to London's Heathrow and City Airport, and Waterloo station. One device caught fire when opened but they did not injure anyone and services continued at all three hubs.
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[Daily Excelsior] National Investigation Agency today tossed in the clink Please don't kill me! a youth from Awantipora in South Kashmire’s Pulwama district for his alleged involvement in a grenade blast at Jalandhar area of Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... in September last year.
The NIA claimed involvement of Ansar Ghazawat-ul-Hind (AGH) headed by Zakir Musa in the four grenade blasts in which one policeman was injured on September 14 last year.
NIA said they arrested accused Amir Nazir Mir son of Nazir Ahmed Mir of Dadsara, Awantipora of Pulwama district in South Kashmire in case RC- 39/2018/NIA/DLI registered in connection with grenade attack on Police Station Maksudan in district Jalandhar, Punjab from Awantipora, Pulwama.
The NIA said that after the attack, FIR no. (163/2018) on 14 September 2018 was registered at PS Division Number 1, Jalandhar. The case was taken up for investigation by NIA and re-registered as RC-39/2018/NIA/DLI.
NIA investigation has revealed that the attack was the handiwork of Kashmire based outfit Ansar Ghazawat-ul-Hind (AGH).
Two accused Fazil Bashir Pinchoo son of Bashir Ahmed Pinchoo of Ghatmohalla, Awantipora and Shahid Qayoom son of Abdul Qayoom of Vill Kanjinag, Awantipora were earlier arrested in this case.
They were pursuing their B Tech (Civil) from St. Soldier Group of Colleges, Jalandhar. "Two more accused who were involved in the attack including Rauf Ahmed Mir and Umar Ramzan, broth from Dadsara, Pulwama, were killed in an encounter with security forces in South Kashmire on December 22, 2018", they said.
"Amir Nazir, is a key accused as he procured and facilitated delivery of 4 grenades used in the attack on the directions of AGH chief Zakir Musa. He was the active link between arrested accused and AGH chief Zakir Musa," the NIA said.
Amir has been taken on transit remand to be produced before the Special NIA Court Mohali for obtaining his police custody for interrogation.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Livia grabbed for Jane's hair to make her point. Jane elbowed her in the face in rebuttal... one person has been killed in a brief exchange of fire at Baderpayee village in Handwara area of Kupwara this evening. Troops on tip off about presence of holy warriors in the area launched an operation against them. Security forces killed one person in a brief exchange of fire and his identity is yet to be ascertained.
Police and security forces today busted a bully boy hideout in Kungnoo village of South Kashmire’s Shopian district.
A joint team of Police and 44 RR of Army recovered huge quantity of incriminating materials and other items from the hideout.
Police has started the paperwork but haven't done much else in the matter. "Officers on the spot have seized all the incriminating materials and further investigation in the matter is going on", police said.
They said a 12-bore rifle of a security guard posted at Jammu and Kashmire Bank branch in Kumdalan village Shopian district has been missing from intervening night of Tuesday-Wednesday.
The incident took place on intervening night at JK Bank branch Kumdalan, Shopian. Police are investigating the matter how 12-bore rifle from the security guard went missing.
"No cash is missing from the bank. The snatchers expeditiously departed at a goodly pace after snatching the rifle", police said. Police was also analyzing CCTV footage of the bank after the guard reported about the missing of a rifle.
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[DAWN] The Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... government has taken over the administrative control of al-Noor Masjid and sealed a religious seminary adjacent to the mosque.
A team of local officials along with a large contingent of police, led by Assistant Commissioner Waqar Akbar Cheema, on Tuesday sealed Madressah Abdullah Bin Mubarak and took over administrative control of Masjid al-Noor in Mundeyki Goraya village near Daska.
Both establishments were said to be the local headquarters of Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM).
The local administration of Daska also fixed banners on the gates of the mosque and seminary mentioning taking over of their official control by the Punjab government.
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[DAWN] On the directives of the federal government, the Sindh, Punjab, and Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... governments on Wednesday sealed or took over administrative control of several establishments run by the proscribed Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... (JuD) and Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FIF), a day after the two organizations were listed as proscribed by the interior ministry.
The Ministry of Interior had also announced yesterday that 44 under-observation members of proscribed organizations, including Mufti Abdul Raoof and Hamad Azhar ‐ the brother and son of Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... (JeM) leader Masood Azhar, respectively ‐ were taken in "preventive detention" for investigation.
According to sources within the capital administration, several mosques and madressahs within the control of the JuD and FIF were taken over by authorities in Islamabad.
Law enforcement agencies also took several people into custody, according to the sources.
Among the mosques and madressahs taken over in the capital were Masjid-e-Quba, Madni Masjid, Ali Asghar Masjid, Madressah Khalid Bin Waleed, and Madressah Ziaul Koran, the sources added.
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[Rudaw] At least two fighters from the Hashd al-Shaabi militias were killed in an ISIS ambush on Wednesday.
"Hashd al-Shaabi forces were attacked by ISIS fighters Wednesday evening near djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... city," Ali Husseini, spokesperson for the paramilitary’s northern branch, told Rudaw.
Two of their ranks were killed and an unspecified number of others were maimed, he added.
The injured are being treated in hospital.
Between 14,000 and 18,000 ISIS holy warriors are estimated to still be operating in Iraq and Syria, despite military victories on both sides of the border. Iraq declared the group defeated in 2017. In Syria, the holy warriors are corralled into a tent camp near Baghouz.
In Iraq, they frequently carry out attacks against security forces and civilians, especially in security vacuums between Kurdish and Iraq forces.
The ambush on Wednesday happened in a mountainous area between Makhmour and Dubiz. The terrain makes it "even more difficult to reclaim the region from ISIS," said Husseini.
The Hashd have dispatched reinforcements to secure the area, he added.
"We do not know the exact number of the ISIS holy warriors who had ambushed our force," he said.
Sirwan Barzani, commander on the Peshmerga’s Gwer-Makhmour front, told Rudaw they are ready to help rush the maimed to hospitals in Erbil.
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Anbar (IraqiNews.com) – Iraqi security forces arrested on Wednesday two militants of the terrorist Islamic State group in Anbar province, a security source was quoted as saying.
Speaking to the Arabic-language Almaalomah news website, the source said that troops of the Iraqi Special Forces launched a security operation in the desert of Ar-Rutbah, in western Anbar.
“The troops arrested two IS militants and destroyed two armored vehicles during the operation,” the source said, adding that the operation will continue to eliminate the remaining IS cells in the area.
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[Aljazeera] Saif al-din Abu Zeid, 15, was shot in the head by Israeli sniper during Wednesday protest, Gaza health ministry says.
A 15-year-old Palestinian boy was killed by Israeli soldiers on Wednesday during an evening protest near the Israeli fence east of the Gaza Strip.
According to the Gaza ministry of health's spokesperson Ashraf al-Qidra, the teenager was identified as Saif al-din Abu Zeid, who was shot in the head by an Israeli sniper east of the besieged enclave.
Six other protesters were wounded by Israeli forces, and were taken to Shifa Hospital for treatment.
Every night since February, Palestinian young men known as the "night disturbance unit" have been gathering by the border with Israel as part of the "Marches of Return" protests, which began in late March last year.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians have taken part in the demonstrations, demanding Palestinians be allowed to return to the lands their families were ethnically cleansed from in 1948 by Zionist paramilitaries.
For whatever reason, Hamas, et al need this to be their new normal. And so Israel is required to oblige.
[IsraelTimes] IDF confirms attack on Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, target; Gazook teen succumbs to wounds sustained during festivities along border as restive region continues to heat up.
Israeli warplanes bombed a Hamas post in the Gazoo Strip early Thursday, hours after a projectile was fired from the Paleostinian enclave, the army said.
"Fighter jets and aircraft struck several military targets in a Hamas compound in the southern Gazoo Strip," the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement Thursday.
The Hamas-linked Shehab news site said earlier that Israeli aircraft fired missiles at a "resistance" site northwest of Khan Younis in the southern Gazoo Strip, in the latest tit-for-tat reprisal as the region continued to heat up.
There were no immediate reports of casualties in the Arclight airstrike, which came as Gazoo’s Hamas-run health ministry announced that a 15-year-old boy had succumbed to wounds sustained during festivities with Israeli forces at the border fence Wednesday night.
The army said the strike, at about 1:30 a.m. was in response to explosives-laden balloons launched at Israel and a projectile shot from the Paleostinian enclave Wednesday night.
Hours earlier the army said that it had fired an Iron Dome air defense missile in response to incoming fire from the Strip. It was not clear the projectile from Gazoo had been intercepted or where it landed. There were no reports of injuries or damage.
The border region has seen increasingly intense bouts of violence over the last several days, with Israel carrying out airstrikes in response to explosives tied to balloons launched from Gazoo. On Wednesday, three bombs attached to bunches of balloons were launched from the Gazoo Strip and detonated above communities in the Eshkol region. The blasts caused neither injury nor damage, the Eshkol Regional Council said in a statement.
There have also been nightly festivities between Paleostinian rioters and troops along the border fence, including Wednesday night.
The Gazook health ministry said early Thursday that Saif al-Din Abu Zaid, 15, "succumbed to wounds he sustained a few hours ago on the border region east of Gazoo City."
The army said rocket sirens were accidentally activated in the Shaar Hanegev region as a result of rioters attempting to throw an bomb at troops across the border. In the nightly demonstrations, led by so-called "confusion units," participants generally set off loud explosives, burn tires and throw rocks at Israeli troops on the other side of the security fence. The Israeli soldiers typically respond with tear gas and, in some cases, live fire.
Israel has accused Hamas, a terror group that is the de facto ruler in the Strip, or encouraging the riots and using them as cover for more sophisticated attacks. Analysts also believe Hamas may be using the demonstrations to increase pressure on Israel to agree to a new ceasefire deal that includes allowing the transfer of millions of dollars in aid money.
An Egyptian delegation traveled to Gazoo this week in a bid to convince Hamas leaders to tamp down the violence. They warned that "creating tensions on the border by launching incendiary balloons will bring the IDF to launch a broad military confrontation in the Strip," according to a report from the Lebanese al-Akhbar newspaper, which cited a senior Hamas source.
On Monday, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... accused Israel of breaking a previous ceasefire, which has given way to the renewal of fighting.
[IsraelTimes] Several hundred Paleostinians are reportedly participating in protests along the Gazoo border. The Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,-run health ministry in Gazoo says four people have been injured by Israeli gunfire.
[Jpost] A Gazook crossed into Israel from the northern Gazoo Strip shortly brfore midnight Wednesday, according to an IDF spokesperson He was caught almost immediately by IDF forces. The suspect was unarmed and has been brought in for further questioning.
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The IAF needs to smoke the balloon launchers every time they attempt one. Zero tolerance
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Sitting around waiting for the Paleos to misbehave sounds boring. (might not be a long wait,tho)
But it would make for a cool machine learning project:
Image recognition
Anomaly detection
Autonomous killbots
Yeah, that pushes all my buttons!
[IsraelTimes] Men given 10 years of hard labor each for plan to fire on soldiers in retaliation for US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Given that Jordan would be embarrassingly defeated by Israel whould they dqre to try going to war against them again, emforcing the peace on their citizens is the only option.
A Jordanian court on Wednesday sentenced two men to 10 years in prison with hard labor for planning an attack against Israeli forces on the kingdom’s border with the West Bank. The state security court in Amman ruled that the men, Jordanians both in their 20s, had planned to target Israeli soldiers with a Kalashnikov assault rifle and a pistol.
They had hatched the plan last year after US 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... announced his controversial decision to recognize Jerusalem as capital of Israel, sparking outrage among Paleostinians, a court document said.
One of those convicted planned "to carry out an armed terrorist operation... after (Trump’s) decision to move the American embassy to Jerusalem and over the abuses against Paleostinians by the Israeli army," it said.
The two men from the city of Madaba, 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of Amman, admitted they had also planned to open fire on Jordanian forces if they were intercepted, the charge sheet said. They were intercepted by Jordanian border guards in May last year, before they could cross the border and reach Israeli forces.
But didn’t open fire as planned? Such brave, brave Lions of Islam!
Jordan is the only Arab country apart from Egypt to have a peace deal with Israel. But the treaty is overwhelmingly opposed by Jordanians, more than half of whom are of Paleostinian origin.
...the other half being prince-of-the-desert Bedouins who despise the Palestinian peasants and deeply resent having to share the country with them.
[AnNahar] Neighbours The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... and Iran will carry out a joint operation against Kurdish rebels, state-run Anadolu news agency quoted the interior minister as saying on Wednesday.
"God willing, we will carry out a joint operation against the PKK together with Iran," Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said, referring to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party listed as a terror group by Ankara and Western allies.
Soylu did not specify which PKK bases the planned operation would target but President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... has previously said it would be against bully boy hideouts in Iraq.
Turkey has battled the PKK for decades, while the Iranian security forces have also fought its affiliate, the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK). Both groups have rear bases in neighbouring Iraq.
In 2017, Erdogan said a joint Ottoman Turkish-Iranian operation against Kurdish hard boyz was "always on the agenda".
He added that the two countries', military chiefs had discussed how to work against Kurdish bully boys, but Iran's Revolutionary Guards denied that at the time.
The PKK has waged a three-and-a-half decade insurgency against the Ottoman Turkish state seeking independence, and more recently autonomy, for Turkey's Kurdish minority, that has left tens of thousands dead.
The Ottoman Turkish military has often bombed PKK bases in Iraq's mountainous regions.
Despite backing opposing sides in the Syrian conflict, both neighbours, which see themselves as historically powerful regional leaders, have recently been working with Syria-regime backer Russia towards a political solution to the crisis.
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this kind of joint action tends to fall apart
different culture, different language, different equipment, different tactical practice
but it probably sounds good to Erdogan
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Turkey and Iran are organizing a joint mission into Iraq? How is that going to end well for anyone?
Thus far the government of Iraq has responded to Turkish murderous incursions on land and in the air by shaking a finger in their general direction from the ceremonial president’s inner office in Baghdad while quietly murmuring,”You know, Erdy, you oughtn’t to do that, really.”
[ALMASDARNEWS] For the second time in the last five days, the Ottoman Turkish military has sent a large convoy to northwestern Syria.
According to local reports, a Ottoman Turkish military convoy consisting of over 100 soldiers and several vehicles was seen making their way to the northwestern countryside of the Hama Governorate this week.
The reports said the Ottoman Turkish military eventually reached their observation post at the small town of Sheikh Maghar, which is not ar from the Syrian Arab Army’s front-lines.
The Ottoman Turkish military currently has 17 observation posts in northwestern Syria; these posts are mostly located along the designated buffer zone, which is supposed to separate the rebels and the Syrian Arab Army.
Despite the Ottoman Turkish military’s insistence that they are simply there to maintain the peace, a source from the Syrian Arab Army said Ankara was deploying troops to northwestern Syria to block the government’s advance into Idlib.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Air Force (SyAAF) and their Russian counterparts carried out a powerful assault over the southern countryside of the Idlib Governorate on Wednesday.
Led by the Sukhoi jets, the Syrian and Russian air forces launched heavy strikes on a Jaish al-Izza base near the key town of Khan Sheikhoun in southern Idlib this afternoon.
As a result of these Arclight airstrikes by the Syrian and Russian air forces, more than 20 Jaish al-Izza fighters were reportedly killed, along with a high ranking commander in the murderous Moslem group.
The report added that many of the Jaish al-Izza fighters are believed to be under rubble as they continue to clear up the area around their destroyed base.
The Syrian Air Force has targeted the area around Khan Sheikhoun on two different occasions in the last 24 hours, prompting the snuffies to fire a number of missiles and artillery shells towards the government-held towns in northern Hama.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] On Friday, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced that it had resumed its offensive on Baghouz following the evacuation of civilians.
400 ISIS* fighters who attempted to flee from their remaining Syrian stronghold were captured on Wednesday; at the same time, hundreds of others surrendered themselves, a US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) senior commander said.
The hundreds of bully boyz who surrendered abandoned Baghouz as part of an evacuation that included civilians.
[Jpost] More than 2,000 people were evacuated on Wednesday from 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.... 's last pocket in eastern Syria at Baghouz, said a military source in the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) which is besieging the area.
More than 6,500 people were evacuated over the previous 24 hours, including hundreds of surrendering jihadist fighters, a front man for the SDF said on Tuesday, after the militia had slowed its assault to let out more civilians.
The Daily Mail has more about various famous jihadis who’ve died more or less horribly in Baghouz, plus photos, of course.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] 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/ISIS/IS/ISIS) emerged within the U.S.-held Tanf Zone this week to lay an ambush against a group of rebels near the Iraqi border.
According to reports, the Islamic State ambushed a vehicle belonging to the commander of the U.S.-backed Jaish Mughawir al-Thoura group as he was traveling through the Tanf Zone.
The Jaish Mughawir al-Thoura commander, Mohannad al-Talaa, and two of his bodyguards, were seriously maimed after the Islamic State fired an anti-tank guided missile at the rebel commanders vehicle.
Al-Talaa is reportedly at death's door as a result of the wounds he sustained during the attack by the Islamic State.
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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
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... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun...
...It has a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for 
...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...
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[Rudaw] At least two fighters from the Hashd al-Shaabi militias were killed in an ISIS ambush on Wednesday. 
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) – Iraqi security forces arrested on Wednesday two militants of the terrorist Islamic State group in Anbar province, a security source was quoted as saying.
...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
[ALMASDARNEWS] On Friday, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced that it had resumed its offensive on Baghouz following the evacuation of civilians.
