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Afghanistan
French fighters appear with Islamic State in Afghanistan
[TheLocal.fr] French and Algerian fighters, some arriving from Syria, have joined the ranks of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group in northern Afghanistan where the Lions of Islam have established new bases, multiple international and Afghan sources have told AFP.

It is the first time that the presence of French Isis fighters has been recorded in Afghanistan, and comes as analysts suggested foreigners may be heading for the war-torn country after being driven from Syria and Iraq.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  I wonder if the French fighters know what ISIS has in store for the ones who drop their weapon and run away.
Posted by: jpal || 12/11/2017 12:56 Comments || Top||

#2  French: Athos, Porthos, and Aramis?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/11/2017 13:02 Comments || Top||


Zadrans deprived of power only because of Haqqani network leader: Hekmatyar
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The leader of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin has said the Zadran tribe has been deprived of power only because the leader of the notorious Haqqani terrorist network hails from the same tribe.

Speaking during a gathering in southeastern Khost province
... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name...
among his supporters, Hekmatyar said the people of Zadran tribe are paying the ultimate price because the leader of Haqqani network Jalaluddin Haqqani
...founder and still titular head of the Haqqani Network. Jalaluddin is old and tough and very crafty, one of the few Pashtun warlords who was worth spit...
has fought against the US forces.

However,
a hangover is the wrath of grapes...
he harshly criticized the monopolist approach by certain individuals and circles, saying different islands of power exist across the country which must be eliminated immediately.

According to Hekmatyar, the only legitimate way to reach to power is through elections as he called on other political parties to ascertain their role in the governance through elections.

In the meantime, Hekmatyar said he is doubtful regarding the willingness of the other political parties to participate in the elections, claiming that they fear from process.

He also went on to claim that certain circles are attempting to prevent the elections but did not elaborate further in this regard.

The leader of Hezb-e-Islami also demanded no further changes should into the electoral bodies and the government must ensure a fair and transparent election.
Posted by: Fred || 12/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Haqqani Network


Africa Horn
UN report says 2,078 civilians killed in Somalia 2016-2017
[RADIOSHABELLE] Armed conflict in Somalia continues to exact a heavy toll on civilians, damaging infrastructure and livelihoods, displacing millions of people, and impeding access to humanitarian relief for communities in need, a UN report published on Sunday said.

Entitled "Protection of Civilians: Building the Foundation for Peace, Security and Human Rights in Somalia," the report by the UN Human Rights Office and the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) covers the period from 1 January 2016 to 14 October 2017.

During this period, UNSOM documented a total of 2,078 civilian deaths and 2,507 injuries. More than half the casualties (60 per cent) were attributed to Al-Shabaab
... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
turbans, 13 per cent to clan militias, 11 per cent to State actors, including the army and the police, four per cent to the African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
Mission to Somalia (AMISOM), and 12 per cent to unidentified or undetermined attackers.

"Ultimately, civilians are paying the price for failure to resolve Somalia’s conflicts through political means," said the head of UNSOM, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Somalia Michael Keating. "And parties to the conflict are simply not doing enough to shield civilians from the violence. This is shameful."
Posted by: Fred || 12/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Arabia
Kuwait names ruler's son as defense minister in shakeup
[Al Ahram] Kuwait has announced new picks for Cabinet, with five out of 16 members hailing from the royal family, including the ruler's son who has been chosen to head the Defense Ministry.

Nasser Sabah Al Sabah, in his 60s, will serve as defense minister and as deputy prime minister. He takes over the ministry from Mohammad Khaled Al Sabah.

Bakheet al-Rasheedi, the CEO of Kuwait Petroleum International, a subsidiary of the national Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, was chosen as oil minister, replacing Essam al-Marzouq.

Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al Sabah announced his selections Sunday with Kuwait's ruler, Sheikh Sabah, expected to approve the nominations.

The cabinet was dissolved in October after politicians were set to consider a no-confidence against one of the ministers from the ruling family over budget issues.
Posted by: Fred || 12/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


UN: Missiles fired at Saudi Arabia have ‘common origin’
[ARABNEWS] UN officials have found that missiles fired at 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...
by Yemen’s Houthi
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ...
militias appear to have a "common origin," but they are still investigating US and Saudi claims that Iran supplied them, according to a confidential report.

The officials traveled to Saudi Arabia to examine the debris of missiles fired on July 22 and Nov. 4, wrote UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in the fourth biannual report on the implementation of UN sanctions and restrictions on Iran.

They found "that the missiles had similar structural and manufacturing features which suggest a common origin," said Guterres in the Friday report to the UN Security Council, seen by Rooters.

The report comes amid calls by the US for Iran to be held accountable for violating UN Security Council resolutions by supplying weapons to the Houthis.

The report said the UN officials saw three components, which Saudi authorities said came from the missile fired on Nov. 4. The components "bore the castings of a logo similar to that of the Shahid Bagheri Industrial Group" ‐ a UN-blacklisted company.

However,
ars longa, vita brevis...
the panel said it "as yet has no evidence as to the identity of the broker or supplier" of the missiles, which were likely shipped to the Houthis in violation of a targeted UN arms embargo imposed on Houthi leaders in April 2015.
Posted by: Fred || 12/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Houthis

#1  Yeah 9out of 10 of them there experts say they all come from the sky!
Posted by: Gleatch Ulese7439 || 12/11/2017 18:22 Comments || Top||


Qatar made $200m in ransom payments to terror groups, report claims
[ARABNEWS] A new report from the Henry Jackson Society claims krazed killer groups 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 .. ...
and Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham
have received as much as $200 million in ransoms paid or facilitated by 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...
The report coincides with a visit by British Prime Minister Theresa May to the region this week where she highlighted the importance of combating the threat of groups from Hezbollah to ISIS.

"The report raises some troubling questions about Qatar’s regional policies," said Kyle Orton, author and research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society.

"Despite finding that in a number of areas Qatar has made significant improvements over time, it shows that the effects of prior policies‐ notably in Syria and Libya‐ will be lasting and deleterious.

"There is still progress to be made in terms of cracking down on terror finance from Qatar and the use of its state-run media as a platform for incitement and the dissemination of extremism."

Though Qatar has for some time positioned itself as a mediator and safe-haven for dissidents, it also hosts a number of terrorist organizations such as Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", and the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
, the report found.

It recommends that while Britannia should avoid publicly taking sides in the broader dispute between the Gulf states, Downing Street should use its influence in the region to press for changes in Qatar’s ransom payments policy, the appearance of Lions of Islam on state-run media and make major improvements in human rights
...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you...
The Anti-Terror Quartet ‐ comprising 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...
, UAE, Egypt and Bahrain ‐ cut links with Qatar in early June over allegations it supports krazed killers. Qatar denies the claim.
Posted by: Fred || 12/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Qatar (MB)


Europe
Number of Salafists in Germany reaches record high
[DW] The fundamentalist Salafist ideology continues to draw adherents in Germany, the country's intelligence chief says. The movement is seen by authorities as a potential breeding ground for Islamic terrorism.

More Salafists
...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them...
are living in Germany than ever before, domestic intelligence chief Hans-Georg Maassen said on Sunday.

Maasen said the number of people adhering to the fundamentalist Islamic ideology had "risen to an all-time high," with the German intelligence agency BfV giving a figure of 10,800 Salafists in Germany as compared with 9,700 in December last year.

A growing "fragmentation" and drift to the private sphere of Salafism in Germany was making the scene harder to observe for authorities, Maassen said.

The BfV said the movement's recruitment drives have now more or less left the streets and mosques, and added that Salafists were instead being radicalized in small conspirative groups on the internet. The agency also pointed to the growing number of women's networks as posing a challenge for authorities, who have problems accessing them.

Security authorities see the Salafist movement as a potential springboard into Islamist terrorism, particularly for young Moslems.

German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere last year banned as unconstitutional a prominent recruitment campaign by the group in which passers-by were exhorted to read the Koran by banners bearing the word "Read!" ("Lies!" in German).

'Experienced fighters'
Maassen also said Islamists from the North Caucasus region represented a major threat to security in Germany, with some 500 murderous Moslems from republics such as Chechnya, Dagestan
...a formerly inoffensive Caucasus republic currently bedevilled by low-level Islamic insurgency, occasional outbreaks of separatism, ethnic tensions and terrorism, primarily due to its proximity to Chechnya. There are several dozen ethnic groups, most of which speak either Caucasian, Turkic, or Iranian languages. Largest among these ethnic groups are the Avar, Dargin, Kumyk, Lezgin, and Laks. While Russers form less than five percent of the population, Russian remains the primary official language and the lingua franca...
and Ingushetia now thought to be living in the country.
Goody.
"The affinity for violence, martial arts and weaponry held by many Islamists from the North Caucasus calls for attention from German security authorities," Maassen said.

He said that many of them had combat experience, having not only fought in the wars in Chechnya but also taken part in current conflicts in Syria and Iraq.
Oboy.
The BfV says the focus of the North Caucasian Islamist scene is in eastern states such as Brandenburg and Berlin, but that there are also so-called hot spots in the western states of North-Rhine Westphalia, Hamburg and Bremen.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Salafists

#1  Just keep the current refugee policy and you'll see it surpassed in a week.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/11/2017 11:41 Comments || Top||


Anti-Semitism in France has deep roots and ‘new masks,’ French PM says
Nice words.
[IsraelTimes] Amid attacks on Jews following US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, Edouard Philippe laments that Europe's oldest hatred is 'well-rooted and alive'

Amid attacks in Europe
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
on Jews following the United States’ recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe condemned anti-Semitism "that always tries to justify itself with new pretext," and which he said has deep roots in La Belle France.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


The Grand Turk
Netanyahu: Erdogan ‘bombs Kurdish villages,’ cannot lecture Israel
[RUDAW.NET] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has slammed The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
’s 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...
, saying he will not be lectured by a man who bombs Kurdish villages after the Ottoman Turkish president called Israel a "terrorist state."

"I’m not used to receiving lectures about morality from a leader who bombs Kurdish villages in his native Turkey," Netanyahu said on Sunday in a joint presser with French President Emmanuel Macron in Gay Paree.

Erdogan "helps terrorists, including in Gazoo, kill innocent people," Netanyahu went on. "That is not the man who will lecture us."

Netanyahu was reacting to comments made earlier in the day by Erdogan.

"Paleostine has been under occupation since 1947," the Ottoman Turkish leader said at a meeting of his party, Anadolu Agency reported. "Israel is an occupying state, a terrorist state."

Erdogan has been fiercely critical of 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...
’s recent controversial decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. He called an emergency session of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation for Wednesday in Istanbul.

A Ottoman Turkish presidential spokesperson brushed off Netanyahu’s remarks, saying "Instead of attacking our country and our leader, the Israeli authorities should end the occupation of Paleostinian territories."
Posted by: Fred || 12/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  At least Bibi will speak up for the Kurds, even though Trump apparently is either ignorant of the situation, or is letting the Foggy Bottom Boys lead him astray on the Kurds.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 12/11/2017 1:20 Comments || Top||


Erdogan calls Israel ‘terrorist state’
[ARABNEWS] Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... The Sick Man of Europe 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...
on Sunday described Israel as a "terrorist state" and vowed to use "all means to fight" against the US recognition of Jerusalem as the country’s capital.

"Paleostine is an innocent victim... As for Israel, it is a terrorist state, yes, terrorist!" Erdogan said in a speech in the central city of Sivas.

"We will not abandon Jerusalem to the mercy of a state that kills children."

His speech came days 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...
recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, angering Paleostinians and sparking protests in Moslem and Arab countries.
Posted by: Fred || 12/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan


India-Pakistan
Indian forces using 'chemical weapons' in held Kashmir: AJK president
[DAWN] Azad Jammu and Kashmire (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan on Sunday claimed that Indian security forces are using "chemical weapons" against civilians in India-held Kashmire (IHK).

The AJK president, delivering a speech in Islamabad to mark International Human Rights Day, said that there have been a number of deaths due to the use of chemical weapons in IHK.

Earlier this year, the Foreign Office also tried to draw attention towards the use of chemical munitions against civilians in IHK. It was the first time that such a serious allegation had been levelled by Pakistain against India.

A series of international treaties, specifically the Chemical Weapons Convention, prohibits the use of chemical weapons not only in international armed conflicts but also non-international armed conflicts rather in all circumstances.

Sardar Khan also claimed that attempts are being made to change the population ratio in Kashmire.
Posted by: Fred || 12/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Tear gas?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/11/2017 6:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Soap.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 12/11/2017 6:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Unless they are wiped out rather quickly, we might see a similar effort by the NORKS should things totally deteriorate.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/11/2017 6:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Doubtful

Posted by: DarthVader || 12/11/2017 8:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Maybe smoke rounds which, as we all know, contain depleted uranium phosphorus.
Posted by: SteveS || 12/11/2017 9:55 Comments || Top||

#6  Curry powder - yeah, that's the ticket...
Posted by: Raj || 12/11/2017 12:07 Comments || Top||

#7  I do know their military weaponized Ghost Peppers.

Really sad. My sister was explaining how beautiful Kashmir once was.
Posted by: Woodrow || 12/11/2017 13:15 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Iraqi PM modifies statement, mentions Peshmerga’s role in anti-IS war
Good.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi has modified his speech, offering congratulations to the Kurdish troops over victory against 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....
This came after Abadi was highly slammed by official authorities and figures in Kurdistan for ignoring the role of Peshmerga during anti-IS war at his speech on Saturday, when he named all of the Iraqi troops to offer congratulations without mentioning the Peshmerga.

Criticized, Abadi’s office modified on Sunday evening the speech on behalf of Abadi and greeted Peshmerga as well as other troops.

"I would like to greet all those who achieved victory: our champion troops of army, police, security services, al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces), Counter-Terrorism service, air force, army jets, Peshmerga and all divisions of the armed forces," the modified statement said.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Netanyahu tells EU to stop 'spoiling' the Palestinians
...The prime minister also accused the EU of hypocrisy. The federation constantly nags Netanyahu on the question of settlements, but how often does it raise with the Palestinians the question of their failure to recognize Israel as a Jewish state? Netanyahu asked.
For the last 20 odd years we had an abnormal situation wherein EU leads and USA follows - thank G*d for Trump.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/11/2017 11:42 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What you subsidize . . . .
Posted by: gorb || 12/11/2017 13:02 Comments || Top||

#2  It's not about 'spoiling', its about hiring someone else to finish the job.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/11/2017 15:45 Comments || Top||

#3  He is determined to enjoy the Donald .Trump interlude, however long it lasts.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/11/2017 19:23 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Jerusalem: Malaysia army 'ready' to play role
How adorable. Does he think his army will be able to do against modern Israel’s F-35s, tanks, and other cutting edge toys what the five British-trained Arab armies could not do against a bunch of semi-trained Jews with little more than hand weapons and molotov cocktails in 1948?
[Al Jazeera] Malaysian defence minister has said that the United States' decision to make Jerusalem the capital of Israel was "a slap in the face for the entire Moslem world", pointing out that his country's military is prepared to perform its duty if its services are required.

"We have to be prepared for any possibilities. The ATM [Malaysian Armed Forces] has always been ready, waiting for instructions from the top leadership," the Malaysian state news agency Bernama quoted Hishammuddin Hussein as saying.

"Let us pray that this dispute would not lead to chaos," Hussein added.

The dramatic shift in Washington's Jerusalem policy triggered demonstrations in the occupied Paleostinian territories, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
, Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, Algeria, Iraq and countries around the world.
Posted by: Fred || 12/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian regime delegation joins Geneva negotiations
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Syrian delegation arrived in Geneva on Sunday to participate in the UN-sponsored talks.

The return of the regime's delegation to Geneva came after Russian pressure and warnings from the UN envoy about the consequences of the failure of any party to come to the negotiations.

The second round of the Geneva negotiations in its eighth edition resumed on Tuesday with meetings between the Syrian opposition delegation and UN envoy Stephane de Mistura, who announced that the current round could continue until the middle of this month.

On the other hand, members of the opposition delegation said that Europe
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
and America pushed for the representation of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party in the talks.

The eighth round of negotiations began in Geneva at the end of November, and de Mistura announced that it would include direct negotiations between the opposition and the regime on constitutional and electoral reforms through direct negotiations between the parties, but the regime delegation was one day late and left two days later.

Syria talks will resume the eighth round of negotiations after the end of the three-day break.
Posted by: Fred || 12/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Iran says 'good relations' possible if Saudi Arabia ends 'friendship' with Israel
[DAWN] Iran's President Hassan Rouhani says Iran is ready to restore ties with 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...
if it stops bombing Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
and cuts its alleged ties with Israel.

In a speech broadcast on Sunday, Rouhani said the regional rivals could have "good relations" if the Saudis end their "false friendship" with Israel and halt the "inhuman bombardment" of Yemen, where a Saudi-led coalition is battling Houthis.

Saudi Arabia severed diplomatic relations with Iran in January 2016 after Iranian demonstrators attacked Saudi diplomatic missions in response to the Saudi execution of a prominent Shia holy man.

Tensions spiked again last month after the Houthis fired a ballistic missile that was intercepted near Riyadh.

Saudi Arabia does not recognise Israel, but the two countries have a shared interest in countering Iran.
Posted by: Fred || 12/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Are they talking about pillow talk after or before the mating rituals?
Posted by: Gleatch Ulese7439 || 12/11/2017 18:20 Comments || Top||

#2  No pillows are involved in what Iran has in mind for Saudi Arabia.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/11/2017 19:26 Comments || Top||

#3  I remember when Saudia was telling people that 'good relations' possible if they end 'friendship' with Israel
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/11/2017 19:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Reality™ happens
Posted by: Frank G || 12/11/2017 20:56 Comments || Top||


Syrian Army will create new brigades with captured ISIS weapons
To be fair, no doubt a good deal of the plunder came from Syrian army inventory to begin with.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The rapid defeat of Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
forces in eastern Syria over the last several months has seen the Syrian Arab Army capture untold quantities of military equipment from the terrorist group, most of which will likely go into the raising of new pro-government formations.

As Syrian pro-government forces chased ISIS out of its main strongholds along the western shore of Euphrates River, the jihadist faction never had the time to re-locate its weapons stockpiles.

The inevitable result of this was that such stockpiles came into the possession of the Syrian Army.

As video evidence has shown time and time again, the vast loot accumulated thus far comprises not only small arms, but also heavy weapons including mortars, howitzers, field guns, technicals, armored personnel carriers, main battle tanks and guided missiles.

Despite the fact that some Western-made weapon systems (particularly artillery and anti-tank missiles) were found, by far most of the equipment is of Soviet design.

This means that the Syrian Army, itself possessing Soviet/ Russian weapons, has compatible ammunition and spare parts to maintain the captured weapons and thus has the ability to press them into service.

Utilizing this great captured arsenal, it is expected that the Syrian Army will raise new formations, not only within its own service, but also within pro-government militias ‐ namely the National Defence Forces.

In addition to raising new units of local fighters whose job it is to protect recently liberated territories throughout the provinces of Homs, Hama and Deir Ezzor, the army’s 5th Assault Corps formation is also predicted to expand.
Posted by: Fred || 12/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  What western country will they be mail ordering the manuals from for weapons training?
Posted by: Gleatch Ulese7439 || 12/11/2017 18:21 Comments || Top||



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1Haqqani Network
1East Turkestan Islamic Movement
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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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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2017-12-11
  Several injured after device explodes at New York City’s Port Authority, one arrest
Sun 2017-12-10
  Coptic pope cancels Pence meeting over Jerusalem
Sat 2017-12-09
  Ahrar al-Sham commander eliminated in Idlib
Fri 2017-12-08
  Egyptian grand mufti affirms death sentences for 13 Ajnad Misr terrorists
Thu 2017-12-07
  Houthis execute ‘thousands’ in two days: UN’s Yemen envoy
Wed 2017-12-06
  Islamist suicide plot to assassinate Prime Minister Theresa May foiled
Tue 2017-12-05
  Iranian Embassy In Sana’a Has Been Attacked
Mon 2017-12-04
  Rebels kill Yemen's ex-president Saleh
Sun 2017-12-03
  Yemen’s Saleh says ‘citizens have revolted against Houthi aggression’
Sat 2017-12-02
  Deadly Rebel Infighting Rocks Yemen Capital for Second Night
Fri 2017-12-01
  Drone strike kills at least 3 militants near Pak-Afghan border
Thu 2017-11-30
  U.S. raid kills top ISIL commander in Somalia, says Minister
Wed 2017-11-29
  200+ schools in Herat controlled by Taliban
Tue 2017-11-28
  After ISIS mass beheading, Taliban militants execute own leader in Nangarhar
Mon 2017-11-27
  Islamist protesters clash with Pakistan police for second day

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