[News24] Libya has warned of a "total collapse" of its health care system as the chaos plaguing the country threatens to send into flight many of the Filipino and Indian staff on whom its hospitals depend.
Fighting between rival militias in 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... over the past three weeks and bloody festivities between Islamists and army special forces in the eastern city of Benghazi have prompted several countries to evacuate their nationals and diplomatic staff.
Now, 3 000 health workers from the Philippines, making up 60% of Libya's hospital staff, could leave - along with workers from India, who account for another 20%.
Libyan hospitals, meanwhile, are flooded with a wave of admissions, victims of the fighting which has shaken the capital and Benghazi.
Nurse kidnapped, gang raped
In Tripoli, at least 102 people have been killed and 452 maimed in the festivities that began on 13 July, the health ministry said on Wednesday.
It said 77 people have been killed and 289 maimed in Benghazi's violence.
Manila already urged its citizens in Libya to leave on 20 July after a kidnapped Filipino worker was found beheaded.
Of the estimated 13 000 Filipinos in Libya, only around 700 heeded the warning and left. The rest refused to abandon their jobs despite the dangers.
But Manila said on Thursday it would charter ferries to evacuate its nationals, a day after a Filipina nurse was kidnapped and gang raped in Tripoli.
Hundreds of Filipino doctors and nurses in Tripoli's Medical Centre walked out in protest at the savage attack on their colleague, unleashing anarchy in the hospital.
Families were forced to transfer sick relatives to private clinics, a hospital official said.
"Hospitals could be paralysed" in the event of the mass-departure of Philippine nationals, health ministry front man Ammar Mohammed said, while authorities warned of a possible "total collapse" of the health care system.
A medical official said the ministry was trying to persuade the Filipinos to stay.
Complicating the situation further are the difficulties faced by Libyan staff as they struggle to keep work hours.
Mohammed said Libyan doctors and carers have been struggling to reach their workplace from home because of fighting around the capital and fuel shortages.
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"You get indigenous healthcare. Feel proud as you suffer and die. Praise Allan!"
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[MAGHAREBIA] After failing to attract al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the group formerly known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is now trying to gain the support of Libya's Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... An ISIS supporter recently endorsed the terror group on a global jihadist forum.
On July 23rd, the murderous Moslem urged ISIS followers to repost his comments on social networking websites, in order to push Ansar al-Sharia in Libya to swear allegiance to His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... Earlier this month, Abdelmalik Droukdel ... aka Abdel Wadoud, was a regional leader of the GSPC for several years before becoming the group's supremo in 2004 following the death of then-leader Nabil Sahraoui. Under Abdel Wadoud's leadership the GSPC has sought to develop itself from a largely domestic entity into a larger player on the international terror stage. In September 2006 it was announced that the GSPC had joined forces with al-Qaeda and in January 2007 the group officially changed its name to the Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb.... 's al-Qaeda subsidiary refused to recognise the self-proclaimed caliphate and instead renewed allegiance to the parent organization led by Ayman al-Zawahiri ... Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area. That is not a horn growing from the middle of his forehead, but a prayer bump, attesting to how devout he is... Without AQIM, Al-Baghdadi and his group are desperate for friends. To their view Ansar al-Sharia in Libya is key for taking control over the Maghreb and Egypt.
According to Abdellah Rami, an expert on jihadist movements, AQIM's refusal to recognise al-Baghdadi's group kept ISIS from claiming the key position in the parent terror organization.
"The success or failure of the ISIS project hinges on the positions of three key jihadist organizations in the world: al-Qaeda in Yemen, AQIM and Ansar al-Sharia in Libya," Rami said. "Without the allegiance of those groups, the caliphate project will just be ink on paper and will be a local organization confined to Iraq's borders."
"However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... this doesn't mean that the caliphate state doesn't have supporters in those areas," Rami told Magharebia. "There are dozens of small groups and terrorist cells that have already sworn allegiance to ISIS in those countries, and there are hundreds of lone wolves that ISIS has already attracted. Therefore, al-Baghdadi can use those at any moment to carry out terrorist operations and destabilise regional countries."
Moroccan researcher Mouhcine Abdelwahed said: "Just because AQIM, Ansar al-Sharia or other terrorist groups don't swear allegiance to al-Baghdadi, it will not make them any less dangerous or less harmful to societies."
"Maghreb stability and security are now threatened in a way that requires swift, decisive intervention from the international community, before it is too late," he told Magharebia.
The recent violence in Tunisia and Libya demonstrates the threat to the region, he noted.
The Uqba Ibn Nafaa brigade that grabbed credit for the Jebel Chaambi attack that killed 15 Tunisian troops "has extensions under the same name in Syria", while Libya festivities "are becoming fiercer with the return of Libya's al-Battar brigade from Syria to join Ansar al-Sharia", he said.
Tunisia and Libya attacks "are prototypes for future operations in North Africa", he said, "which will undermine the region's stability and security and wreak havoc if the international community doesn't act quickly".
"Terrorism will always be terrorism, regardless of the banner or name it is using to operate," he added.
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ANSAR AL-SHARIA has repor seized Benghazi + declared the city to be an "Emirate".
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I think we are about to see the partition of Libya also.
Just another gift from the foreign policy that keeps on giving.
We are going to have to go back to the draft to have an Army large enough to deal with all of the crap this presidency is leaving behind when he either resigns, is impeached, or leaves office. I don't know if our security can survive another two years of his deliberate sabotage of our national security and foreign policy.
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Patient suffering from a fractured rib told to get treated in Gaza; incident among string of anti-Semitic incidents in Belgium.
...Since then, an Orthodox Jewish woman was refused service at a clothes store in Antwerp, and police removed a sign in French and Turkish from a café near Liege which said dogs were allowed but Zionists and Jews were not.
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It's just so much easier to blame all the world's woes on the Jew than to take a good hard look at your own country/politics/religion/life choices/etc.
[ARABNEWS] Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi only they haven't dumped him yet... on Thursday launched one of his strongest attacks yet on Israel over its offensive in the Gazoo Strip, accusing the Jewish state of showing "Hitler-like fascism ...a political system developed in Italy symbolized by the Roman fasces -- thin reeds, each flimsy in itself but unbreakable when bound into a bundle. The word is nowadays thrown around by all sorts of people who have no idea what they're talking about... " against the Paleostinians.
Speaking at a mass rally in eastern Turkey to promote his candidacy in presidential elections, Erdogan said he was happy to give back an award that was bestowed upon him by an American Jewish Group in 2004.
The American Jewish Congress wants the decoration to be returned after protesting Erdogan's bitter attacks where he has compared Israel to the Third Reich which slaughtered millions of Jews in the Holocaust.
"If you support this cruelty, this genocide, this Hitler-like fascism and child murderer regime, take your award back," Erdogan said at the election rally in the eastern province of Van.
"What is the difference between Israeli actions and those of the Nazis and Hitler?" he asked.
"How can you explain what the Israeli state has been doing in Gazoo, Paleostine, if not genocide?" he said. "This is racism. This is fascism. This is keeping Hitler's spirit alive," he added.
Erdogan, who presents himself as a champion of Paleostinian rights, has heightened his criticism of the Israeli military campaign in Gazoo, firing almost daily tirades at election rallies in the run-up to the August 10 presidential vote.
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General Office (GO) billets are congressionally regulated and closely controlled by the Army General Officer Management Office (GOMO). This frees up a GO billet for elsewhere. Where is the elsewhere ?
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Obama has gutted the senior officer corps of all three services and inserted his drones to do his bidding.
We probably have very few really GOOD generals left that know a GDP from a SITREP...
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FM 100-8 Chapter 2 -
COMMAND AUTHORITY
When participating in a multinational operation, the senior commanders must agree early on the type of C2 authority that will govern the operations of the forces. In any multinational operation, the US commander retains command over all assigned US forces. The US chain of command runs from the NCA to the combatant commander. The chain of command, from the President to the lowest US commander in the field, remains inviolate. The definitions shown in this section demonstrate the complexity of multinational operations. Subtle differences in terms, especially operational control, cause confusion even among allies with a long history of multinational operations.
Although political considerations are critical, a clear point must be established where political structure ends and military structure begins. The MNF commander should report to the combatant commander or a subordinate joint force commander (JFC), who acts as a buffer between political leadership and military structures. This might mean that a US corps commander designated as the commander of the joint task force (CJTF) is the political-military buffer, and the deputy corps commander controls military operations as a joint force land component commander (JFLCC). The combatant commander determines the specific relationship.
Which basically is an implementation of The Goldwater-Nichols Act, cite Section 162(b)- "unless otherwise directed by the President, the chain of command to a unified or specified combatant command runs—(1) from the President to the Secretary of Defense" and "(2) from the Secretary of Defense to the commander of the combatant command"
NB - only someone subject to the UCMJ can prefer charges against someone else subject to the UCMJ.
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I know this is a bit awkward P2k.....but we'll be briefing the boss on some 'high-side' Ukraine issues in this afternoon's update. Would you mind ensuring that the Generalmajor is discreetly reminded he, hmmm hmmm, need not to attend ?
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#5 no more awkward than for the approximately 100 foreign officers attending CGSC that do not attend NOFOR briefings the rest of the class goes to.
Heck, back in the First Gulf War, the intel people were notorious for not releasing info to their CGs in the field because 'they didn't have the clearance'. In a major GO conference after the war (which included discussion on downsizing), there were a number of calls of doing away with MI as a branch and making it just a skill identifier.
Iff the US can survive Globalist Bammer + any post-2017 Globalist POTUS successors, over + besides post-2015 NAFTA, etc. = OWG NAU.
As I keep telling Guam locals, "WELCOME TO OWG = SPACE-GOVT-ORDER, + GLOBALISM"! where America = AMerika cannot go to war or defend itself or its interests because its Econ + National Security, etc. is controlled by other Nations, including but not limited to dangerous rivals or protagonists.
* FYI FREEREPUBLIC this Guam AM > [Washington Times] OBAMA DOWNSIZING LEAVES US TOO WEAK TO COUNTER GLOBAL THGREATS, PANEL FINDS.
* GROONG > [Ria] WESTERN SANCTIONS TO MAKE RUSSIA A [higher] NEW-LEVEL POWER - GOVERNOR, albeit it will not be easy or widout probs/hardship.
Lastly,
* TOPIX > [Examiner] A TOTALITARIAN COUP UNDERWAY IN THE US.
A mighty AL BUNDY-IAN "THE HELL YOU SAY"! rant is heard over Amerika.
And once again, little Virginia, we learn why our ancestors ghosts/spirits warned that the US may sink or destroy Guam + other strategic Pacific islands wid "EarthQuake/Tectonic Bombs" as it retreats or falls back across the Pacific.
Officially I wanna blame Hugo Chavez + "Michelle's Brigade" but truth be told it actually goes much beyond or earlier than them.
A United States Senate bid to deliver aid to Israel during Operation Protective Edge was blocked by Republicans "over concerns that it would increase the debt," Politico reported.
The Democrats proposed a $2.7 billion border aid package that included $255 for the Iron Dome missile defense system. Wonder if Chinese would be interested in Iron Dome tech?
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Now that would be one big Kickstarter if they appealed directly to the American public. It's a self tax that a lot of people would pay.
BTW g(r)om, it was part of the 'Border Aid Package'. Stuff tacked on to legislation, a very bad habit of Congress. That was going to die anyway in the House (along with the political career of any pol not in a gerrymandered safe district). It's dead, Jim*.
* colloquialism reference to a repeated line in the old Star Trek series.
Wonder if Chinese would be interested in Iron Dome tech?
They already hacked a lot of data on Iron Dome. Sure - sell them the rest. What's another 'Lavi' right now?
In all seriousness, the funding being tacked onto a domestic spending bill (and a somewhat controversial one) was semi-lame and a political move. If one wants it passed, put it in its own bill, or tack it onto a bill related to foreign aid.
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Typical political gambit, put out a horrible piece of legislation and put a big crap sandwich in it to dare the opposition to vote against.
It is a campaign ploy...ask the Jewish voter, do you want a buzzillion illegals in your neighborhood or do you want more money for Iron Dome...
It is no accident, this is a set up to try and either get the Border legislation through or make the Republicans look bad to the Jewish vote...
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Typical political gambit, put out a horrible piece of legislation and put a big crap sandwich in it to dare the opposition to vote against.
"Never let a crisis go to waste", eh? Even the headline gives it away. A $2.7 billion bill is characterized by a $0.225 billion subsection. Well played, you bastiges.
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I saw two television ads yesterday from Israeli support groups. They are taking the message to the American people. I've never in my life seen our government as anti-Israel and pro- terrorist. Not until 2009.
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But do let the Indians who also codevelop missile defense stuff with Israel that you plan to share all the details of the stuff they helped pay for with their primary national ecurity threat... to get back at Zero, who doesn't care about US or Indian security anyway....
So many people around the world are concerned about the terrorist attacks on Israel, especially through rockets fired by Hamas terrorists based in Gaza.
We are shocked at Hamas's Nazi-like hatred for Jews; we feel sorrow for the victims of this violence, including innocent civilians in Gaza that Hamas uses as human shields. But most of all, we feel helpless -- what can we personally do about this?
Is there something positive that people of goodwill around the world can do, both as a symbolic gesture, and that might actually save a life? We think there is.
One of the bright spots in the news has been the deployment of a defensive technology called Iron Dome. It's a high-tech system developed jointly by Israel and the United States, and it shoots down incoming terrorist rockets -- and it has had a 90% success rate.
Air raid sirens still go off every day in Israel, and civilians still run to the bomb shelters. But Iron Dome has really lived up to its name, protecting innocent Israelis from those who would murder them. You can see some videos of Iron Dome in action by clicking on the YouTube links on this page.
According to one CNN report, each Iron Dome anti-missile costs about US$62,000. What would happen if hundreds -- maybe even thousands -- of people around the world chipped in a few dollars here and there, and then we sent a cheque to the Government of Israel to buy more Iron Dome anti-missiles? Of course, we couldn't actually buy an Iron Dome anti-missile. But we could donate the exact amount of money to the Israeli government, and ask them to put it towards that defensive system, or any other civilian defence project in affected parts of Israel.
It wouldn't be for an offensive weapon. You can't use the Iron Dome to attack anyone. It's 100% defensive -- like a bulletproof vest. It only saves lives. And it doesn't discriminate -- it protects Jewish, Muslim and Christian Israelis all the same.
Let's do it -- let's crowd fund this project, to save lives!
If together Israel's friends around the world bought just one Iron Dome anti-missile, and it stopped just one rocket from hitting just one school or apartment, that could be the best thing we ever do in our lives.
Will you help? It's not just a tangible way to support Israel in its hour of need. It's an important symbol, a statement to the world that Israel will live -- the Jewish people will live -- and that its light will never go out!
Spread the word: tell your friends to visit StopARocket.com,
At this point they are 12% toward their CAN$62,000 goal. If someone could check to make sure it's legitimate, I'd happily donate to such a worthy cause. Otherwise it 's the Jewish National Fund's mobile bomb shelters for southern Israel and the Bedouin villages for me. (see here)
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It is a campaign ploy...ask the Jewish voter, do you want a buzzillion illegals in your neighborhood or do you want more money for Iron Dome...
It is no accident, this is a set up to try and either get the Border legislation through or make the Republicans look bad to the Jewish vote...
And Christian vote/Jacksonian vote*. As I said an end run around the tea party. However, it appears that these guys and girls are not "made with a finger", as we say in Hebrew.
*I wouldn't bet on US Jews objecting to illegals---I know Israelis who still believe in Peace with Paleos
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As g(r)om alluded, the Senate passed a separate bill authorizing the money.
From the JPost article (not included in this post:)
GOP leaders who had promised to pass an Israel aid bill in recent days were disappointed, as they had been pushing Reid to separate Israel funding from the border bill, which also included $615 million to fight Western wildfires.
IMNSHO and to be charitable, there appears to be a severe lack of understanding of US domestic politics in this instance.
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.....then-Secretary of State Colin Powell and some ambassadors in whose countries the detention facilities were held were not initially briefed on the program.
Ambo Chris Stevens might have been shocked to learn this.
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"This report tells a story of which no American is proud," says the four-page White House document, which contains the State Department's preliminary proposed talking points in response to the classified Senate report, a summary of which is expected to be released in the coming weeks.
I want to know what I'm supposed to be "not proud" of? This author might be assuming too much.
[Pak Daily Times] Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... on Thursday reiterated his demand for the mid-term elections, vowed to move ahead with his planned 'million march towards the capital if his party's demand for the early polls is not accepted by the government.
"We want Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz (PML-N) government dissolved, a caretaker setup installed, and midterm polls announced. Nothing short of these things would be able to budge us," Khan said in an exclusive talk to a private TV channel. Khan expressed his determination that after reaching the capital, their protest would continue till the acceptance of his demands. Commenting on the deployment of the Pakistain Army in the capital and a possible use of brute force to keep PTI's marchers out of the city, he said that in case of any Model Town like violence, he would like to take a bullet in his chest before anyone else.
He lamented that the rulers are in a state of confusion and have decided to use the armed force as a shield to protect their unlawful rule. The PTI chief also warned the US and Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... against meddling in the affairs of Pakistain. "I am asking both Washington and Riyadh to leave Pakistain's politics alone as it is none of their business," Khan said. To a question, he said that Punjab Chief minister Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... was sending fence-mending messages through a number of channels, but it was too late for a "deal". "We are far beyond the political point-of-no-return, thus an understanding with PML-N was out of question now," Khan stressed.
He alleged that the rulers have changed the democracy into monarchy, and turned their sons into princes. He further alleged that the 33-year old son of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... has accumulated a hefty wealth of Rs 200 billion.
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[Pak Daily Times] Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif, while interacting with troops engaged in 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!)... operation against hard boyz in North Wazoo Agency (NWA), urged them to stay focused on speedy and skilful conduct of the operation against all terrorists.
"Now that their command and communication infrastructure has been disrupted, we will never allow them to return," he added during his visit to NWA to celebrate Eid with troops on the front lines. According to an ISPR blurb issued on Tuesday, the army chief stayed overnight at the Miranshah
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[DAWN] Protesters continued to stage demonstrations for the third day on Thursday in Kurram tribal region's Parachinar area demanding the release of 23 tribal leaders and the imam of a mosque who were detained by law enforcers three days ago, DawnNews reported.
The rustics protested over the arrest of tribal leaders and a holy man of a mosque who they said was also exiled forcefully.
"Political administration must be replaced," the protesters chanted.
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[Beirut Daily Star] hiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014... and his security officials are to blame for the rise of Sunni snuffies who have seized parts of Iraq, the country's Kurdish foreign minister said.
Hoshiyar Zebari's comments are likely to further strain ties between Maliki's Shiite-led government and the Kurds, complicating efforts to form a power-sharing government that can counter Islamic State bad boys.
"Surely the man who is responsible for the general policies bears the responsibility and the general commander of the armed force, the ministers of defence and interrior also bear these responsibilities," Zebari told al-Arabiya television.
"There are other sides who bear responsibility, maybe political partners, but the biggest and greatest responsibility is on the person in charge of public policies," he said.
In July, the Kurdish political bloc ended all participation in the national government in protest over Maliki's saying that Kurds were allowing Death Eaters to stay in their capital Arbil.
Maliki is currently ruling in a caretaker capacity, having won a parliamentary election in April but failing to win enough support from the Kurdish and Arab Sunni minorities as well as fellow Shiites to form a new government.
The United States, the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... and Iraq's own Shiite holy mans have urged politicians to form a new government swiftly to deal with the Sunni insurgency.
Islamic State's campaign has fuelled religious tensions and threatened Iraq's survival as a unified state. The sectarian conflict poses the biggest danger to the OPEC member's stability since the fall of Saddam Hussein following a U.S.-led invasion.
Maliki has appointed Hussain al-Shahristani, the Shiite deputy prime minister, as acting foreign minister.
The Kurds have long dreamed of their own independent state, aspirations that anger Maliki, who has frequently clashed with the non-Arabs over budgets, land and oil.
After the Sunni Lions of Islam arrived almost unopposed by the army, Kurdish forces seized two oilfields in northern Iraq and took over operations from a state-run oil company.
In another move certain to infuriate the government, the semi-autonomous Kurdish region is pressing Washington for sophisticated weapons it says Kurdish fighters need to push back Islamist bad boys, Kurdish and U.S. officials said.
Kurdish peshmerga fighters and Shiite militias now rival the army in its ability to confront the Islamic State, whose fighters had taken control of parts of western Iraq before the advance through the north.
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The Kurds have long dreamed of their own independent state, aspirations that anger Maliki, who has frequently clashed with the non-Arabs and non-Shiite Arabs over budgets, land and oil.
The UN's top human rights official again condemned Israel for its military actions to stop Hamas rocket attacks against Israeli civilians, accusing the Jewish state of deliberately defying International Law... in a way that may constitute war crimes. It may be. But it probably isn't. Especially when the enemy doesn't play by the rules.
Navi Pillay told reporters following yet another "emergency" meeting of the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council that Israel was not doing enough to protect civilians. "There is a strong possibility, said the known Israel critic, that international law has been violated, in a manner that could amount to war crimes.
Among the UNs long bill of particulars against the beleaguered Jewish state comes the almost unbelievable accusation that Israels refusal to share its Iron Dome ballistic missile defense shield with the "governing authority" of Gaza i.e. Hamas, the terror group created to pursue the extermination of the Jewish state and now waging a terrorist war against it constitutes a war crime against the civilians of Gaza.
The UN chairwoman criticized the U.S. for helping fund Israel's Iron Dome system which has saved countless Israeli and Palestinian lives. "No such protection has been provided to Gazans against the shelling," she said.
Just because Hamas fires rockets indiscriminately aimed at Israeli civilian population centers without provocation and fires them from within its own population centers does not absolve Israel from its own legal violations, Pillay told reporters Thursday.
Marking the end of her contentious, six-year term as chairman of the notoriously anti-Israel UNHRC, Pillay saved her harshest condemnations for what she termed Israeli "targeting" of UN-run schools and hospitals in Gaza. She did not mention, nor was she reminded by any of the reporters present, that as of this writing, at least three UN-run schools in Gaza have been used as rocket warehouses, a gross violation of international law that clearly falls within the category of war crimes. Neither did she mention, nor was she reminded, that in at least two of the three cases cited above, the terror rockets found on UN property in Gaza were returned to Hamas by the UN.
"What I'm seeing now is a recurrence of the very acts that the Gaza fact-finding mission indicated as constituting war crimes and crimes against humanity," she said.
The UNs Human Rights Council has long been a source of deep embarrassment to some UN supporters all-too-conscious that the council is widely regarded as a cesspool of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hatred, manipulated by the worlds very worst human rights abusers to cover up their own gross abuses of human rights by scapegoating Israel.
Current members of the UN Human Rights Council include China, Russia, Cuba, and Saudi Arabia. Iran and North Korea have been recent active members of the body. So execrable were the actions and abuses of the UNHRC in the past that the body was in fact disbanded in 2006 after the late terrorist leader of Libya Muammar Gaddafi was elected President of the Council. What's the thinking there? By putting these clowns in the UNHRC that they will magically become aware of and advocate for human rights? Magical thinking. Eat more chocolate.
While Israel is the only country in the world that remains a standing agenda item at every session, the human rights body has to date said nothing about the recent Russian-backed shooting down of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine, nor has it condemned the ongoing mass killings in Syria or South Sudan. North Korea, China, Pakistan, Syria, Sudan, or Iran, all recent or current members of the council, have never been condemned by it.
The UNHRC has never formally mentioned Hamas by name, let alone condemned it.
From 2006 through 2012, Israel was formally condemned by the UNHRC at least 47 times.
[IsraelTimes] Though many Israelis underestimate its capabilities, Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, actually has sophisticated computer and networking resources in terror tunnels to detect the presence of IDF troops and to automatically fire rockets and missiles at Israeli targets — and a rich sponsor is helping them.
It's Gulf oil powerhouse Qatar, says Aviad Dadon of Israeli cyber-security firm AdoreGroup. "The Qataris have invested hundreds of millions in both defensive and offensive cyber capabilities," said Dadon. "We have sourced 70% of the cyber-attacks on Israeli government sites in recent weeks to IP addresses associated with Qatar."
Dadon was speaking in an interview on Israel Radio Thursday morning, presenting an aspect of Operation Protective Edge that few Israelis were aware of — the extensive use Hamas has made of computer and networking systems in its war against Israel. Not only is Qatar footing the bill, it also trained Hamas snuffies how to use sophisticated equipment and systems to manage its extensive terror tunnel system, as well, systems to fire rockets at Israel using automatic, timed launching systems.
"Qatar looks at this war between Israel and Hamas as a proving ground," said Dadon, a senior cyber-security adviser at several Israeli government ministries. "They are taking lessons from the performance of their cyber-equipment and will improve them even further for the next war, which will be even more cyber-oriented than this one."
According to Dadon, Hamas has embedded sophisticated network systems inside its terror tunnels, giving operatives in command and control centers the ability to monitor events in any of the tunnels. Using sensors and other networked equipment, snuffies can quickly be notified if an IDF unit is advancing in a tunnel, allowing them to disperse quickly — and allowing the command and control staff to set off explosives when soldiers approach a booby trap.
In addition, he said, Hamas has automated its rocket firing system using networked, cloud-based launching software provided by Qatar. "They can set off a rocket from any distance, and set them to go off at a specific time, using timers," Dadon said. "Anyone who thinks they have dozens of people sitting next to launchers firing rockets each time there is a barrage is mistaken."
Besides the assistance Qatar gives Hamas, hackers hired by the Gulf kingdom have been busy hitting Israeli government and infrastructure sites, trying to disrupt the operations of electricity, water, and other critical systems, said Dadon. "They are at the top of the (target) pyramid in the use of cyber-technology for terrorist purposes," he said, adding that Israel has successfully defended its infrastructure with its own sophisticated cyber-security technology.
While Doha is allowing Hamas to use its technology to fight Israel, it's their own cyber-security the leaders of Qatar are worried about. "For them, the war between Israel and Hamas is a proving ground to see how their investments in cyber systems have paid off," Dadon said. Qatar is very worried that one of its Gulf rivals — specifically Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... — will use technology to attack it, and Qatar spends a great deal of money each year on shoring up its cyber-technology.
Politics is behind Qatar's willingness to pay for Hamas' cyber-system. The Saudis believe that Qatar is behind efforts to unseat the Saudi royal family — using social media and the Al-Jazeera ... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula, as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS... satellite channel — and Riyadh earlier this year recalled its ambassador to Doha, after he refused to pledge that it would "not interfere in others' internal affairs," according to Eli Aviad, who formerly headed Israel's Economic Liaison office in Qatar. Speaking on Israel Radio, Aviad said that "Israel and Hamas are a 'playground' for Qatar. Qatar already spends billions each year on cyber-security, and in recent years that spending has gone up substantially." While they are primarily interested in cyber self-defense, Aviad said, they are also interested in assisting their Moslem Brüderbund allies — and hence their willingness to fund the Hamas terror program. Hamas is an offshoot of the Moslem Brüderbund.
"The US is aware of what is going on, but Qatar has spent a lot of money to ensure it has a good relationship with Washington — witness Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... 's insistence that Qatar be included in negotiations on a cease-fire in Gazoo. What does Qatar have to do with this? Unfortunately, as long as Qatar has billions to spend on Al-Jazeera, terror tunnels, and US weapons systems, there is little Israel is going to be able to stop Doha."
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Unfortunately, as long as Qatar has billions to spend on Al-Jazeera, terror tunnels, and US weapons systems, there is little Israel is going to be able to stop Doha."
So when if something bad happens to Qatar, don't blame us.
[IsraelTimes] Since its establishment in 1987 as the Paleostinian offshoot of the Moslem Brüderbund, with the goal of establishing an Islamic state to replace Israel, Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, has significantly grown in political and military power, but especially since wresting control of the Gazoo Strip in June 2007 from the Paleostinian Authority.
In the interim period between Operation Pillar of Defense in late 2012 — the previous military operation in Gazoo, aimed at eliminating the threat of rockets launched into Israel — and the current Operation Protective Edge, Hamas has focused on its capacity building, procuring and manufacturing long-range missiles and investing millions in the construction of tunnels into Israel to enable the kidnapping of soldiers and civilians.
Here are answers to some basic questions regarding Hamas's capabilities, as revealed throughout Operation Protective Edge which began on July 8.
How many fighters does Hamas have?
Hamas entered the operation with an estimated 15,000 active fighters, including men in supportive positions. Although other Israeli sources speak of hundreds of Hamas fighters killed, the IDF believes it has killed over 1,000 (which would underline Israeli claims that there is a far higher proportion of combatants than widely reported among the 1,360 total Gazoo fatalities cited by Gazook health sources). The IDF is destroying or significantly harming Hamas's combat units in Beit Hanoun and Shejaiya in the northern Gazoo Strip and Khan Younis in the south.
What weapons are they using against the IDF?
Very little face-to-face fighting is taking place in Gazoo. Mimicking the tactics used by Hezbollah in Leb, Hamas heavily relies on two types of weaponry: anti-tank missiles and improvised bombs (IEDs). The anti-tank weapon of choice is the Russian shoulder-launched RPG-29, and is used against infantry troops and armored vehicles. This was the weapon used by Hamas fighters who infiltrated Israel and attacked an IDF post near Kibbutz Nahal Oz on Monday, killing five soldiers. It was also used against an army jeep near Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha on July 19, killing two soldiers.
Inside Gazoo, Hamas has booby-trapped hundreds of homes and installations with improvised bombs. One such IED killed three Israeli soldiers on Wednesday in a building labeled as an UNRWA clinic in the southern Gazoo Strip city of Khan Younis, where IDF soldiers were searching for a tunnel shaft. IDF's Gazoo Division commander, Brig. Gen. Micky Edelstein, told journalists that in one Khan Younis street he encountered, 19 of the 28 homes were booby-trapped, ready to explode over IDF soldiers who enter them.
The IDF says it was surprised by the extent of booby-trapping across the Gazoo Strip.
In addition, Hamas has also used jacket wallahs and two booby-trapped donkeys to hit soldiers. It also owns old Russian SA-7 anti aircraft missiles and possibly more advanced anti-aircraft weaponry.
Where did all these weapons come from?
Most of Hamas's weapons were smuggled in from Egypt via tunnels running underground from the Sinai Peninsula. Since Operation Pillar of Defense in 2012, the Israeli Shin Bet security service has reported, Hamas has invested much energy in developing smuggling networks in Sinai and importing weapons from Libya, Sudan and Iran. In March, the IDF intercepted the Klos-C, an arms ship originating in Iran and headed for Sudan, its cargo intended for Gazoo. The ship was carrying several dozen advanced Syrian M-302 missiles with a range of up to 200 kilometers (125 miles) and a payload of up to 170 kilograms (375 pounds).
But when Egypt began to significantly crack down on arms smuggling in Sinai beginning in late 2012, Hamas's arms importing was significantly hampered.
Hamas was forced to rely more significantly on local manufacturing, the Shin Bet notes, importing raw materials from East Asia and inviting foreign experts to assist with development.
Where are Hamas fighters trained?
Hamas's foot soldiers are mostly trained locally in camps within the Gazoo Strip, but specialist fighters have also been trained abroad.
One Hamas murderous Moslemlocked away Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! by the IDF in Khan Younis on July 20 told his interrogators he had undergone paragliding training in Malaysia in 2010 together with 10 other Hamas members, with the goal of infiltrating Israel and carrying out a terror attack. Malaysia denied the claim.
In 2002, the Shin Bet arrested 20-year-old Hamas operative Muntasir Faraj in Gazoo, who had undergone advances explosives training in Sudan and Jordan. Faraj, Israel's military prosecution told the court, was meant to return to Gazoo as an expert and train local operatives.
Additional training camps are known to exist in Syria and Iran.
How did Hamas build the terror tunnels?
For a year and a half, Israel has been closely following the most recent terror industry to emerge in the Gazoo Strip: tunnel digging into Israel. The IDF's decision two weeks ago to launch a ground operation in Gazoo stemmed from the need to destroy 31 known tunnels and prevent the possibility of cross-border kidnapping, like that of corporal Gilad Shalit in June 2006.
The digging of tunnels began four years ago and has demanded 40 percent of Hamas's budget, The Times of Israel has learned.
Tunnel diggers have been using electric or pneumatic jackhammers, advancing 4-5 meters a day. The tunnels found, we are told, are mostly dug 18-25 meters (60-82 feet) underground, though one was discovered at a depth of 35 meters (115 feet). "That's like a 10-story building underground," one expert said.
Digging requires engineering and geological expertise, with tunnels usually dug through sandy soil, their roof supported by a more durable level of clay. As they are dug, the tunnels are reinforced by concrete panels, manufactured locally in workshops adjacent to each tunnel. These workshops have also been targeted by the IDF throughout the operation.
While Israel knows of 31 tunnels — a third of them with shafts inside Israeli territory — it does not rule out the possibility that a few more exist. One Hamas operative arrested during the operation disclosed information on a previously unknown tunnel.
How does Hamas obtain its rockets?
Hamas has two types of rockets: those smuggled in from abroad (mostly from Iran), and those manufactured locally.
During a public presentation in June, Military Intelligence research chief Itai Brun said that Hamas had managed to double its rocket arsenal since Operation Pillar of Defense in November 2012. The organization, he said, had "a few hundred" missiles with a range of 80 kilometers (50 miles), able to reach Jerusalem and Tel Aviv; "a few thousand" rockets with a range of 40 kilometers (25 miles), able to reach Beersheba and other Negev cities; and thousands of rockets with a range of up to 20 kilometers (12.5 miles), able to reach Ashkelon and Sderot.
As cross-border smuggling diminished thanks to joint Israeli and Egyptian military efforts, Hamas was left with a limited supply of Iranian Fajr-5 missiles with an 80-kilometer range. It began manufacturing medium-range missiles locally based on Iranian know-how in small workshops using smuggled metal. Hamas produced the M-75, a rocket with a 75-kilometer range named after Hamas military commander Ibrahim Maqadmeh, killed by Israel in 2003. Nine such missiles were fired into Israel during Operation Pillar of Defense in 2012.
During Operation Protective Edge, Israelis discovered that Hamas had succeeded in increasing its rocket range with the R-160, a rocket with a 160-kilometer range capable of reaching Haifa, and the J-80, with a 80-kilometer range. Hamas's armed wing Izz ad-Din Al-Qassam reports on its website having fired 9 R-160s and 19 J-80s. Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... reports having fired two missiles with a 100-kilometer (62 mile) range and 38 missiles with a range of 70 kilometers.
Israel claims it has substantially diminished Hamas and Islamic Jihad's manufacturing and launching capabilities in the current operation, conducting 1,500 strikes against missile sites. Having been on the receiving end of over 2,800 rockets since the start of the operation, Israel believes that Gazoo's armed factions have fired over a third of their missiles, but still have a few dozen long range projectiles.
How else has Hamas tried to attack Israel?
In addition to the rockets and tunnels, Hamas has also tried to stage attacks from the sea, including one using a five-member commando force, which landed at Zikim beach, south of Ashkelon, and was killed in an IDF Arclight airstrike.
It has also tried to mimic Israeli military capabilities by launching drones into Israel both for intelligence-gathering purposes and for attack. One such unmanned aircraft was shot down near Ashdod on July 14. While Hamas claimed it was able to gather information on sensitive Israeli sites in previous drone operations, showing footage ostensibly gathered by the aircraft, Israel denies the movement has managed to do that.
How aware was the IDF of Hamas's capabilities?
Here, the picture is complex. The IDF claims intimate knowledge of Hamas's tunnel digging drive, but has admitted that the total number of tunnels leading into Israel is yet unknown. The army has discovered new shafts as it entered homes and investigated captured Hamas operatives in Gazoo.
With regards to the organization's missile capability, the IDF has provided accurate intelligence, but the information obtained was far from exhaustive. The fact that rocket launchers can easily be hidden underground or masked by vegetation in the backyard of a home has made the detection and destruction of medium- and long-range launchers prior to entering Gazoo particularly difficult.
[An Nahar] Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,'s top military commander Mohammed Deif, who has survived liquidation attempts and defied the Middle East's most powerful forces, is proving a redoubtable foe for Israel in its latest incursion in Gazoo.
As Israel presses its deadly offensive aimed at halting murderous Moslem rocket fire and eliminating Hamas's tunnel network, Deif has warned there will be no truce in the Paleostinian enclave until Israel ends its eight-year blockade.
Born in the Khan Yunis refugee camp in southern Gazoo in 1965, Deif has been involved in Hamas's operations for more than 20 years, plotting suicide kabooms inside Israel, kidnapping soldiers, firing rockets and helping plan the tunnels used to launch attacks.
He was appointed head of Hamas's military wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, in 2002 after the death of his predecessor, Salah Shehade, in a raid.
But Deif had had a long yet shadowy career as a murderous Moslem before then.
His involvement with the Islamist movement in Gazoo began in the 1980s when, as a biology student close to the Moslem Brüderbund, he headed the Islamists' union at Gazoo Islamic University.
With the eruption of the second Paleostinian Intifada in 2000, he escaped, or was freed, from a prison run by Yasser Arafat's Paleostinian Authority.
His escape -- or liberation, as it is unclear whether he was freed or not -- angered the Israelis, who had had him in their sights for more than a decade by then.
Shortly after he was named Hamas's military head, Israel launched its fifth bid to assassinate him in Gazoo.
That attack left him severely maimed, and some rumors suggested he had been left paraplegic, although these were never confirmed, largely due to the secrecy surrounding the details of his life.
He delegated the leadership of the brigades to his deputy, Ahmed Jaabari, thus earning the nickname the "cat with nine lives" among his enemies, and cementing his reputation inside Gazoo.
Only a few, poor-quality photographs of Deif are known to exist, the most recent taken some 20 years ago.
His hiding place is unknown, and he is reported to be a master of disguise who is able to blend seamlessly into the population.
The mysterious commander also uses no technology that might allow the Israelis to track him, a Hamas official told Agence La Belle France Presse on condition of anonymity.
He may have learned caution from the death of his mentor, Yahya Ayash, who was killed in 1996 by a mobile telephone booby-trapped with explosives by Israeli secret services.
Deif's real name is Mohammed Diab al-Masri, and he owes his 'nom de guerre', which is Arabic for guest, to his habit of constantly changing his location, the Hamas official said.
He described Deif as a man who is "polite, discreet, softly spoken" and fascinated by "military strategy".
The elusive leader's public statements are extremely rare. In 2012, he warned Israel against launching the operation "Pillar of Defense", which was aimed at halting rockets fired by gunnies in the Gazoo Strip.
After the death of his mentor Ayash, who passed on his explosive-making expertise, he took on the role of "engineer for the Ezzedine al-Qassam brigades", the Israeli army says in its blog.
The Israelis see him as "the brains" behind the campaign of suicide kabooms that targeted buses and public places in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem until 2006 and consider him "personally responsible for the deaths of dozens of civilians".
He also played a key role in the strategic development of Hamas, the Israelis say.
They claim that Deif was among the gunnies "who designed the Qassam rockets" -- the Islamist movement's signature weapon that had a range of eight kilometers (five miles) until Iran supplied them with more advanced weapons.
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I can think of no better barometer of IDF combat effectiveness against the terrorists than a hair on fire call from the Champ.
"He was yelling and telling Prime Minister Netanyahu what he should do and what he should not do. And I will tell you frankly, we have very close relationship with the U.S.. It's not just ally of Israel. But this is not a way to treat the leader of an ally country. He's not talking, President Obama, with a leader of the Taliban. He's talking with the leader of the State of Israel, of the Jewish people. And when we are in a time of war, we need to back in with the support of the U.S.. Unfortunately, we do not have it now. I urge Prime Minister Netanyahu and my friends in the cabinet to be strong now and to do whatever is good for Israel. Even if it means to tell President Obama, 'no, we cannot do, we cannot satisfy your wishes or your pressure to sign a ceasefire, which would be bad for Israel now."
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I'm sure Bibi will give BO's request all due consideration. Same as the Saudi's, Iranians, Libyans, et al have been.
At the point Obama's cheering section consists of basically Norwegian academics and the MSM.
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Yankee Dog Imperialist who commands other nations to do his bidding.
(Gee, it feels good to get to return the rhetoric of the 60s back to its originators)
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Judging by the recent polls and ratings, the MSM is becoming a very small constituency.
Bibi must be commended for showing the diplomatic restraint necessary to NOT tell the empty suit to "go perform an unnatural sex act on yourself" or words to that effect. I would have hung up on him myself...
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[An Nahar] The chief of Iran's elite Quds Force has ridiculed calls for Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, to be disarmed and urged the Paleostinian Islamist movement in Gazoo to "turn the land and skies into hell" for Israel.
Major General Qassem Suleimani's message to krazed killer factions resisting Israel's military operations in the Gazoo Strip was published late Wednesday by Iran's official IRNA news agency.
Suleimani "underlined that confronting the Zionist enemy is a necessity and the Paleostinian resistance movement will turn the land and skies into hell for the Zionists."
"Disarmament of resistance is a daydream that will only come true in the graveyard" for Israel, said the rarely-quoted senior figure.
The United States and European countries have called for a ceasefire in the devastating Gazoo conflict and the disarmament of krazed killer groups in the coastal strip, notably Hamas.
The Quds Force, a branch of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, is highly secretive and conducts security functions abroad deemed necessary to protect the Islamic republic.
As its leader, Suleimani is seldom mentioned or pictured in Iranian media but he has cultivated a reputation as one of the most influential security operatives in the Middle East.
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[An Nahar] An armed takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... group has started training to carry out abductions of civilians in villages in northern Leb in exchange for the release of Roumieh Prison inmates, reported al-Akhbar newspaper on Thursday.
Intelligence reports from major European countries told Lebanese security agencies that the takfiris are preparing to attack one of the villages, kidnap a number of civilians, and then carry out negotiations with the Lebanese government to release Islamists held in Roumieh.
Failure to comply with their demands will force the kidnappers to begin killing the captives, added al-Akhbar.
The takfiris are training in the Wadi Jahannam region in the North, it revealed.
Residents living close to the area have reportedly heard gunshots coming from the region.
The army command soon deployed patrols in the area in anticipation of any security incident.
Politicians have also revealed that preparations have been taken on the ground in various regions in order to protect any potential targets of terrorist attacks.
Earlier in July, security agencies were able to avert a "terrorist scheme" by Syrian opposition groups aimed at ensuring the release of Islamist inmates in Roumieh.
The groups were also seeking to commit a massacre in the Bekaa town of Nahle that would lead to secretariat strife in Leb, added As Safir newspaper on July 19.
Also in July, self-proclaimed caliph His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... vowed to release Moslem "hostages" from jails in Arab countries, including Leb, and promised to "liquidate their butchers."
The shadowy jihadist said the "butchers" include judges, security forces and guards.
Al-Baghdadi heads the Islamic State (IS) group, which led a lighting offensive in Iraq that has overrun swathes of five provinces north and west of Baghdad.
The IS accuses the Lebanese state of being a U.S. and Israeli ally.
In June, the emir of the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front in al-Qalamoun promised in an audio message to free Islamist prisoners in Roumieh "within days."
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AQ not "haute couture" among the younger crazies? Not enough head lopping in AQ? Not enough looting of banks? You like bullets to the head of your enemies and dumping them in ditches? Ruling the world is not going along fast enough for you. Then ISIS may be the group for you. Not exactly a winning slogan for recruitment but then again maybe I have misjudged these fun-loving young mooselimbs.
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[MAGHAREBIA] The chief of staff of the Tunisian army resigned for "personal reasons", AFP reported on Wednesday (July 30th).
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The UN's top human rights official again condemned Israel for its military actions to stop Hamas rocket attacks against Israeli civilians, accusing the Jewish state of deliberately defying International Law... in a way that may constitute war crimes.
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