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Two killed in Pakistan mosque bomb blast
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Russian-born Florida man, 22, is arrested after he threatened to stab 'as many children as possible'
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Andrew Ivan Aman, 22, reportedly planned to ’stab as many children as possible’ at the Bellamy Elementary School in Tampa, Florida

  • Aman, with a kitchen knife hidden in a handbag, was also intending on stabbing any adults who got in his way as well

  • He has a history of several mental disorders, apparently decided to target the school because he despises the US and the school’s ’obnoxious pride’ of it

  • His plan was foiled by a chance encounter with his roommate on the way to the school. He was later found with a large kitchen knife hidden in his bag

  • According to his Facebook page, Aman’s is originally from Abakanets, Russia.
    ...which appears to be somewhere in Siberia...
    It’s unclear how long he’s been living in the United States
Posted by: Fred || 08/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Presuming there were as many as one man in the school, he'd have had a very rough time.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 08/17/2019 0:35 Comments || Top||

#2  He is from Abakansk, Khakassia - a federal state of Russia. Muslims were rare here and accorded second class status (even by russian standards). The Russian muslim community finds itself often stifled in its lifelong quest to make other lives miserable.

Which is probably why this thing's family came to Florida.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/17/2019 2:34 Comments || Top||

#3  because he despises the US and the school’s ’obnoxious pride’ of it

So, we found the author of the DNC agenda for the elections. Is this Lizzie's new speech writer?
Posted by: AlanC || 08/17/2019 7:26 Comments || Top||

#4  Searching for an idea here boss....How about wrapping him in tape, mounting him under a Predator drone , and returning him to Russia ?
Posted by: Snavimble Bucket1794 || 08/17/2019 8:06 Comments || Top||

#5  Leningrad/St. Petersburg argument?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/17/2019 10:37 Comments || Top||

#6  Just return him to Russia. Let Puti show you how to deal with things like this.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/17/2019 11:14 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Doha Bank, Qatari brothers sued for financing al-Nusra Front
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
i state-controlled Doha Bank allowed the transfer of funds to krazed killer al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
Front in Syria, a lawsuit issued at the UK High Court said.

Eight Syrians, who are now Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
residents and have been granted anonymity by the court, raised the case, saying that they were tortured and displaced by the al-Qaeda affiliate.

In the court document, Doha Bank is accused of failing to stop the transfers of money to the bully boyz by two Qatari businessmen who are originally Syrian.

"The Khayyat brothers financed and/or assisted in financing al-Nusra Front, including through accounts held by them and/or entities associated with them at Doha Bank," the lawsuit alleges.

Moataz and Ramez al-Khayyat own a construction company called Urbacon, among other businesses in Qatar.

British newspaper The Times has seen documents which state the claimants were subject to "severe physical and psychiatric injuries" by the krazed killers.

"The details contained in the recently received claim are limited and Doha Bank Limited is taking legal advice. However,
a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package...
it considers the allegations asserted against it are groundless and without merit," said the bank’s chief representative in London, Richard Whiting.

Posted by: Fred || 08/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: al-Nusra


Arab Coalition says it has intercepted and downed a Houthi drone launched from Amran province
[TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 08/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Caribbean-Latin America
Mexico to deport U.S. citizen suspected of supporting 'violent jihad'
[Jpost] Mexican authorities arrested a U.S. citizen suspected of supporting krazed killer Islamists in an example of Mexico's security cooperation with the United States even as the two neighbors grapple with sharp disagreements over trade and migration.

The unidentified American man sought by Interpol was under investigation for supporting terrorist groups and will be deported to the United States later on Friday, the Mexico's attorney general's office said in a statement.

The man was detained at a migrants colonists office near Mexico's border with Guatemala in the town of Huehuetan with the help of officials from Mexico's National Migration Institute.

The statement highlighted information from U.S. security officials stating that "the foreigner has probably expressed support for violent jihad and radical Islam on digital platforms."

Mexican authorities did not disclose when the arrest was made or any other details of the man's activities in the country.

The case comes as tens of thousands of mostly Central American migrants colonists have been crossing through Mexico in an attempt to reach the United States, with President Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
pressuring the Mexican government to do more to reduce the flow.
Ynet adds:
Mexican prosecutors have detained and extradited a U.S. citizen suspected of posting on social media platforms in support of radical Islamic and jihadi movements.

The federal prosecutors' office identified the suspect only as Mohammed, without providing his last name, a usual practice under privacy protection rules.

The office said Friday the FBI had issued an alert for the man, who was detained by immigration agents in the southern state of Chiapas near the Guatemala border.

The man was deported Friday on a flight to Washington D.C.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Exchange: 1 of ours held by youse for 20 million of yours held by us. Deal?
Posted by: Lex || 08/17/2019 4:34 Comments || Top||


Europe
Germany charges man with spying for Iran
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Prosecutors in Germany say they have indicted an army employee with spying for an Iranian intelligence service.

The federal prosecutor’s office said in a statement that the German-Afghan dual citizen is charged with "a particularly serious case" of treason and of breaching official secrecy laws in 18 cases.

The suspect, identified only as Abdul Hamid S. in line with German privacy rules, had worked as a translator and adviser to the German army for several years. He was arrested Jan. 15 and has been detained since.
Deutsche Welle adds:
German media outlet Spiegel Online reported at the time of the arrest that the man had access to "sensitive information on troops in Afghanistan."

The German government lodged an official complaint with Iran when the 50-year-old was arrested in January. Iran denied the allegations.

The man is expected to go on trial soon.

The Bundeswehr has about 1,300 soldiers deployed in Afghanistan as part of the NATO-led noncombat mission Resolute Support.

According to German intelligence, Iran, Russia, China and Turkey are the main countries engaged in espionage in Germany.
Posted by: Fred || 08/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  "Spying is verboten! Purchasing dual-use equipment, not so much. Bring cash"
Posted by: Frank g || 08/17/2019 8:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Trying to steal Ziklon B formula?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/17/2019 11:15 Comments || Top||

#3  What idiots. You can buy that info straight from the Afghans working at camp Marmal.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/17/2019 13:43 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Leader of Kenyan drug organization sentenced to 25 years in U.S.
[Jpost] A leading Kenyan narco, Baktash Akasha, was sentenced to 25 years in prison by a U.S. judge on Friday after he pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy to import heroin and methamphetamine and other crimes.

U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero in Manhattan sentenced Akasha, 42, who U.S. prosecutors have described as the leader of the Akasha organization, a major smuggling operation connecting the poppy fields of Afghanistan to Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
an and U.S. cities.

His brother, Ibrahim Akasha, has also pleaded guilty in the case and is scheduled to be sentenced by the same judge in November.

George Goltzer, Akasha's lawyer, said after the sentence that the judge had been "very thoughtful" but declined to comment further.

The case stemmed from a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration probe into the Akasha organization, leading to the extradition of the brothers to the United States from Kenya in January 2017 along with Gulam Hussein, a Pak national charged with heading a drug transportation network, and Vijaygiri Goswami, an Indian businessman accused of managing the organization's drug business.

The four defendants were arrested in Mombasa, Kenya, in November 2014 in a U.S.-led sting operation, in which authorities said the Akasha organization provided 99 kilograms (218 lb) of heroin and two kilograms of methamphetamine to DEA informants posing as narcos.

A fifth defendant accused of working with the Akasha organization, Muhammad Asif Hafeez, was arrested in London in August 2017. The United States has requested his extradition.

The Akasha family has been involved in the drug trade for years, according to U.S. diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks. The Satao Project, a private company focused on fighting poaching, has said the Akasha network was also linked to around 30 tons of ivory seizures.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Narcos


India-Pakistan
Hundreds of protestors clash with police in occupied Kashmir
[DAWN] Hundreds of protesters in Indian-Indian Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
e clashed with police on Friday, even as New Delhi said it would begin restoring phone lines after a 12-day communications blackout.

With the central government fearing protests and unrest, the Moslem-majority region has been under lockdown since the first week of August, when the Indian government stripped the region of its autonomy.

Police fired tear gas and pellet-firing shotguns to disperse residents who tried to march down the main road in the main city of Srinagar after Friday prayers.

Protesters hurled stones and used shop hoardings and tin sheets as improvised shields, as police shot dozens of rounds into the crowd. No injuries were reported.

"We are trying to breach the siege and march to the city centre but police is using force to stop us," one protester told AFP, adding that three people were maimed in Thursday's festivities with coppers and reservists.

Posted by: Fred || 08/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies


Two killed in Pakistan mosque bomb blast
(mosque+blast) ~ (cheese+crackers)
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] At least two people were killed and more than two dozen injured after a blast at a mosque in southwestern Pakistain during Friday prayers, officials said.

Provincial police chief Mohsin Hassan Butt said the earth-shattering kaboom - the latest violence in a string of attacks in restive 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...
province - was caused by a remotely detonated bomb in the town of Kuchlak.

"Two people including the prayer leader of the mosque have been killed and 25 others were maimed in an IED blast at a mosque," he said.

A second police official, Abdul Razzaq Cheema, confirmed the incident and casualty figures at the mosque, north of bustling provincial capital Quetta.

There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the attack.

Balochistan, Pakistain’s largest and poorest province bordering Afghanistan and Iran, is rife with holy warrior, separatist and sectarian insurgencies, even as incidents of violence have significantly dropped elsewhere in Pakistain.

Militants still retain the ability to carry out attacks, including on major urban centers and tightly-guarded targets, and analysts have long warned that Pakistain is yet to tackle the root causes of extremism.
Khaama Press adds:
An explosion in Quetta city of Pakistain has killed the brother of Mullah Haibatullah, the supreme leader of Taliban
...Arabic for students...
group.

Informed sources have told Rooters that the Hafizullah Ahmadullah, the brother of Mullah Haibatullah was killed in the earth-shattering kaboom along with three others.

A Taliban source has confirmed to Rooters that Ahmadullah was the younger brother of Mullah Haibatullah.

The Taliban group has not formally commented regarding the incident so far.

The explosion took place this afternoon inside a Madrassa in Kuchlak area located in the outskirts of Quetta city.
Update from the Jerusalem Post at 11:00 a.m. EDT:
Taliban leader Haibatullah Akhundzada
...Former deputy to Taliban supremo Mullah Akhtar Mansour, now The Big Man Himself...
was not in the mosque when the bomb went off. The Taliban leader's son was maimed, one of the sources said.

The mosque was known to be visited by members of the Afghan Taliban, the sources said.

"It was a timed device planted under the wooden chair of the prayer leader," said Abdul Razzaq Cheema, chief of police in Quetta, capital of Balochistan province.

One of the sources, who visited the site after the blast, said security at the mosque was always very tight.

Separatist Lions of Islam and Islamist bully boyz are active in Balochistan but many in Pakistan are likely to suspect the Afghan government, which is battling the Taliban over the border in Afghanistan, of the blast.
Posted by: Fred || 08/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  A thing done well, wouldn't you say ? Too bad Akhundazada didn't come to the barbecue.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/17/2019 11:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Rival militant Muslims or own goal work accident? Either way no virgins for you if no Jews killed.
Posted by: jpal || 08/17/2019 14:41 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Turkish airstrikes burn orchards, farms of villagers in Kurdistan Region
[Rudaw] Farms and orchards went up in flames today as Ottoman Turkish jets struck apparent Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) positions in the Kurdistan Region’s border area.

"Ottoman Turkish warplanes flew over the areas at 9:35 am and bombarded the villages of Qirnata and Pshtashan, as well as Bermta mountain," Nahro Abdullah, administrator of Sangasar sub-district in the Sulaimani province, told Rudaw.

The jets also hit the villages of Sarda, Bermta, Sargali, Qalatukan and Gali Badran about an hour later. There were no casualties in the towns in the northeast Kurdistan Region near the Ottoman Turkish border, according to Abdullah.

The Ottoman Turkish defence ministry confirmed its Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s targeted alleged PKK positions in the Kurdistan Region.

"In coordination with Operation Claw, the PKK terrorists’ weapon caches and shelters were targeted through airstrikes in northern Iraq’s Zap, Gara, Qandil and Asos regions," read a statement from the ministry.

The airstrikes are part of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
’s Operation Claw against PKK fighters in the Kurdistan Region’s border area with Turkey. Turkey launched the second phase of the operation on July 12, and it includes operations in the Khakurk area where the villages hit Friday are.

Thursday marked the 35th anniversary of the first conflict between the PKK and Ottoman Turkish Army. Over 40,000 people from both sides and civilians have died since 1984.

The PKK conducted a number of operations inside Turkey on Thursday in memory of the decades-long festivities, claiming the death of 10 Ottoman Turkish soldiers, according to the PKK-affiliated ANF news outlet. Turkey has not confirmed the casualties.

The PKK also confirmed that Turkey struck targets in the Khakurk and Zap areas.

Turkey claims to have "neutralized" hundreds of PKK fighters in its fresh operations since starting Operation Claw in late May, but the PKK denies this.

Turkey uses the term "neutralized" to denote captured, maimed, or killed.

CALL FOR PEACE
Imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan said Turkey’s operations will not bring about peace.

"The operation means war. This issue is not one that could be resolved through bloodshed," ANF reported Ocalan as saying.

The PKK founder met with his brother Mehmet Ocalan on Monday. In detention for more than 20 years, Ocalan has rarely been allowed to see lawyers or family members. This is his third meeting with Mehmet since 2016.

Ocalan transmitted his comments on issues in the region through his brother. He called for peace in relation to the Turkey-PKK conflict.

Regarding Ottoman Turkish operation in Kurdistan Region, the PKK leader said that this will not resolve issues, calling for peaceful means.

"We are always there for peace. We will always stand against war," Ocalan reportedly told ANF through his brother. "There must be peace against war."
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  where is the international outcry? If they where paleos the UN would already be condemning this.
Posted by: chris || 08/17/2019 13:04 Comments || Top||


Oil flows to Iraq’s Haritha power station after pipeline repair
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Oil supply to the al-Haritha electric power station in southern Iraq resumed on Thursday after repairs to a pipeline damaged by a kaboom, the oil ministry said on Friday.

Pumping had stopped on Wednesday, after a kaboom on a dry gas pipeline, the ministry said in a statement.

Oil ministry officials said on Wednesday the earth-shattering kaboom was caused by scorching summer heat.

Most oil exports from Iraq, OPEC’s second-largest producer, come from Basra, in southern Iraq.

Posted by: Fred || 08/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
3 fires break near Israeli Gaza border communities due to airborne incendiary devices
[Ynet] Three fires broke out in fields surrounding Israeli Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip border communities on Friday, following airborne incendiary devices launched from the Strip.

All fires were put down.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


IDF strikes Hamas targets in Gaza in response to earlier rocket attack
[IsraelTimes] Two underground terror structures hit by warplanes in central and northern Strip, army says.

The Israel Defense Forces attacked Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, targets in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
overnight Friday-Saturday in response to a rocket that was fired by Paleostinian terror groups into Israel earlier Friday, the army said in a statement.

"A short time ago, IDF warplanes and aircraft attacked two underground terror structures of the Hamas terror group in the north and center of the Gaza Strip," the IDF said.

"The attack was carried out in response to the rocket that was launched from Gaza earlier tonight. The IDF will continue to act against attempts to harm Israeli civilians and sees the Hamas terror group as responsible for all that is done in the Gaza strip," the statement said.

The rocket that was fired into Israel earlier was intercepted by the Iron Dome defense system and caused no injuries or damage.
The Jerusalem Post adds:
The Palestinians report that the Israeli Air Force attacked a Hamas terrorist force east of Jabalia.

According to the report, there were no casualties.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Weekly Friday riot: 5500 Palestinians protest on Gaza border
[IsraelTimes] Several hundred rioters throwing stones and bombs at IDF soldiers who respond with tear gas and occasional live fire.

The Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,-run Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
health ministry said six Paleostinians had been injured.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


2 Israeli teens injured in car-ramming attack in West Bank
More on this story from yesterday.
[IsraelTimes] Driver rubbed out by security forces; maimed treated at the scene next to the Elazar settlement and evacuated to hospitals; doctors fighting to save life of boy, 17

Two Israelis were hit by a car and injured on Friday while standing at a bus stop outside Elazar in the central West Bank, just south of Jerusalem, in what the military said was a terror attack.

A 17-year-old teenager was very seriously maimed and a woman, 19, was moderately hurt, the Magen David Adom ambulance service said.

The two were identified as siblings Nahum and Noam Nevis from Elazar.

They were treated at the scene; then the boy was evacuated to the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital and the woman was taken to Shaare Zedek Medical Center, both in Jerusalem.

The director of Hadassah, prof. Yoram Weiss said Nahum was in surgery fighting for his life, with a skull fracture and a brain injury.

Doctors at Shaare Zedek said Noam was conscious, but suffering from injuries to her limbs.

The car rolled over after the attack, and when the suspected attacker tried to emerge from it, he was rubbed out by police at the scene, reports said.

Etzion Regional Council head Shlomo Ne’eman said the incident "looks like a terror attack" despite the fact that the car bore Israeli license plates.

Israel Radio said the car appeared to have been a stolen vehicle.

Elazar is a settlement adjacent to Migdal Oz in the Etzion Bloc, where yeshiva student Dvir Sorek was stabbed to death last week in a suspected terror attack. Also nearby is the Etzion Junction, which has seen multiple fatal terror attacks in recent years.
Ynet has photos and adds:
The attacker, 26-year-old Ala Harimi from the Bethlehem region, was a known felon and drug addict associated with the Islamic Jihad and the Fatah movements. He was jailed in Israel for terror offences between 2014-2015.

He was shot dead by an off-duty policeman who was on the scene.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good post yesterday, BA. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/17/2019 0:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Confiscate all their cars?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/17/2019 12:00 Comments || Top||

#3  Leave them all in their cars and follow their advice to drive them into the sea.
Posted by: AlanC || 08/17/2019 18:42 Comments || Top||

#4  Israel needs a pig farm. Any terrorist caught alive or dead, gets minced and fed to the pigs. Their family can get back an equivalent weight in pig feces. I suspect these sorts of acts might less popular after that.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 08/17/2019 22:29 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Israeli Drone Causes Blaze, Mine Explosions on Lebanon Border
[AnNahar] An Israeli reconnaissance drone on Friday caused a fire that blew up several landmines on the Lebanese-Israeli border, Leb’s National News Agency said.

The drone "dropped flammable material over several points on the border, triggering a huge blaze along the border opposite the al-Abbad military post that faces the Marjeyoun town of Houla," NNA said, adding that the flames have spread into Israel.

The fire also detonated 15 landmines left over from the Israeli occupation era, the agency added.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [21 views] Top|| File under:


Grace 1 Iranian tanker starts to move
[TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 08/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  um. do modern subs still have torpedos?
Posted by: Shith Slereting3318 || 08/17/2019 8:23 Comments || Top||


Air strikes kill 15 civilians in northwest Syria, says monitor
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Air strikes on Friday by Syria’s regime and its Russian ally killed 15 civilians, most of them in a camp for the displaced in Idlib province, a war monitor said.

Four children where among 13 civilians killed in a Russian air strike on a camp for the displaced near the town of Hass in southern Idlib, said the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Two other children were killed in regime air raids in different parts of the region controlled by Syria’s former al-Qaeda affiliate Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
(HTS), the monitor said.

The strikes came as regime forces battled HTS jihadists and allied rebels in the region, where fierce fighting Friday claimed the lives of 13 loyalists and 18 jihadists and allied rebels, the Observatory said.

Over the past week, pro-regime fighters have advanced on the southern edges of Idlib province, with the aim of capturing the town of Khan Sheikhoun, which lies on a key highway coveted by the regime.

The road in question runs through Idlib, connecting government-held Damascus with the northern city of Aleppo, which was retaken by regime forces from rebels in December 2016.

HTS has since January controlled most of Idlib province as well as parts of neighboring Hama, Aleppo and Latakia provinces.

A buffer zone deal brokered by Russia and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
last year was supposed to protect the Idlib region’s inhabitants from an all-out regime offensive, but it was never fully implemented.

Regime and Russian air strikes and shelling since late April have killed more than 820 civilians, according to the Observatory.

Posted by: Fred || 08/17/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria



Who's in the News
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3Hamas
3Govt of Iran
3Sublime Porte
2Taliban
2Govt of Pakistan
2Moslem Colonists
2Salafists
1Houthis
1Islamic 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 the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.

Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has dominated Mexico for six years.
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Sat 2019-08-17
  Two killed in Pakistan mosque bomb blast
Fri 2019-08-16
  Special Forces arrest Khalifa Daud, Haqqani network’s key member in Kabul
Thu 2019-08-15
  Iraq anti-terrorism troops kill 10 IS militants, capture 5 others in Anbar
Wed 2019-08-14
  On beyond Veritas: Google Insider Turns Over 950 Pages Of Docs And Laptop To DOJ
Tue 2019-08-13
  North Macedonia police find 22 migrants packed into SUV
Mon 2019-08-12
  UAE-backed forces expel Saudi-backed troops from Yemeni Presidential Palace
Sun 2019-08-11
  Southern Transitional Council stages an attempted coup, says Yemeni government
Sat 2019-08-10
  Jeffrey Epstein dead in Arkancide
Fri 2019-08-09
  US slaps Hezbollah financier with 5-year prison sentence, $50m. fine
Thu 2019-08-08
  Clashes erupt between Indian, Pakistani forces in Kashmir
Wed 2019-08-07
  Algeria: court issues arrest warrant on Khaled Nezzar, ex-General accused of alleged mass killings in the 1990s
Tue 2019-08-06
  Benghazi flight to Mitiga Tripoli survives rocket attack while landing
Mon 2019-08-05
  Indian Kashmir Dissolved.
Sun 2019-08-04
  Special Forces arrest Taliban fighter disguised in women’s dress
Sat 2019-08-03
  6000 protest at Gaza border, rioters hurl explosive devices toward IDF troops


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