In the end, as at the beginning and in the middle, it's nothing more than a Red Queen's Race.
[Libya Herald] Gunmen 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... seized 172 Tunisians working in the city after a militia commander was incarcerated ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... and detained by the police in Tunis.
Walid Al-Ghleib, one of the leaders of the Medfaiyah Wal-Sewarigh ("Artillery and Missiles") Brigade, is now reported to have been released by the Tunisians and his current whereabouts unknown. For their part, the gunnies are said to have then freed the Tunisians, kidnapped on Saturday and Sunday, although Tunisian officials say they are still being held. They say that the Tunisian Consul in Tripoli is involved in negotiations to secure their release.
Walid Al-Ghleib and his brigade are believed to be from Misrata, although currently based in Tripoli. He, apparently, crossed the border into Tunisia on Friday or Saturday. A senior Libya Dawn ...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar... official in Tripoli accused Zintanis of informing the Tunisians who he was.
Initially it was reported that the Tunisians had been grabbed because Misrata's hardline political figure Saleh Badi had been arrested at Tunis Airport as he was leaving on a plane for Europe, but that turned out to be a false assumption.
Meanwhile in a separate incident in the Libya capital, a Tunisian, said to be a fighter with 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.... (IS), is reported to have blown himself up yesterday in the east Tripoli suburb of Tajoura when cornered following a police chase. One of two other Tunisians with him surrendered and the third escaped.
According to pro-Libya Dawn media, all three had been tracked down as a result of intelligence reports following their crossing of the border from Tunisia.
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[Libya Herald] Misrata’s Zawiat Al-Mahjoub brigade and fighters from Harawa are reported to have launched an operation against Nufaliya, 127 kilometres east of Sirte, currently held by Islamic State (IS) supporters . . .
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[AlAhram] Two of the bombings took place in Damanhour and the third followed in Abou Homs
Power restored to Egypt media city after attacks on pylons
Unknown assailants have bombed three high voltage electricity pylons in Beheira governorate, causing them to collapse, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.
The attackers on Monday used at least eight bombs to bomb each pylon, said Brigadier-General Mohammed Fathy Ismail of the Civil Protection Administration.
Two of the bombings took place in Damanhour and the third followed in Abou Homs.
Bombs attacks targeting state infrastructure and security forces have been common since July 2013 when Islamist president Mohammed Morsi was ousted from power.
In April, assaults on electricity pylons supplying the Egyptian Media Production City (EMPC) led to a power cut that forced several TV channels off air.
Later the same month, two pylons, which transmit electricity from the High Dam to the southern city of Nagaa Hamady, were targeted, causing damage worth LE200,000.
[AnNahar] Gunmen on a cycle of violencerubbed out an Egyptian policeman while two suspects in a failed kaboom targeting a judge were killed in a shoot-out with police, officials said Monday.
Militants have carried out regular attacks on coppers and soldiers since the army overthrew Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in July 2013.
The gunnies on a motorbike opened fire on a policeman during the night near a court in Belbeis, a town around 60 kilometers (about 38 miles) northeast of Cairo, a police official said. The policeman died in hospital.
In a separate incident, police potted two men suspected of involvement in a failed kaboom that targeted judge Mutaz Khafagi in Cairo last week, the interior ministry said in a statement. The two suspects, who lived in a Cairo suburb, were rubbed out in a firefight when police went to arrest them, the ministry said without specifying when they were killed.
Khafagi sentenced 12 men to death in August 2014 after convicting them of murdering a police general in the town of Kerdasa near Cairo during a police crackdown targeting Morsi's supporters. He also sentenced Moslem Brüderbund chief Mohammed Badie to life in prison in February.
On May 10, three small bombs went kaboom! outside Khafagi's home in Cairo, wounding four people and damaging the building. Khafagi was in his first-floor apartment at the time of the attack but was not maimed.
According to the statement, the suspects fired at the police "who exchanged fire in return" and killed them.
"An automatic rifle and a pistol was found beside them," the statement read.
The dead men were identified as Ahmed Hassan Abd El-Latif, 32, an engineer at Helwan's health department, and Saeed Ahmed El-Sayed, 33. The statement claimed they were members of the banned-Moslem Brüderbund group.
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Gunmen on Motorbike Shoot Dead Egypt Policeman
seems like overkill, literally.
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Mebbe da poleece outta do what Fish and Game does sometimes with decoy deer.
[LATIMES] Fierce new fighting across 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 a wave of Saudi-led Arclight airstrikes on Monday appeared to bode ill for calls to restart a humanitarian truce ..The purposes of a truce are twofold: 1.) bring up more arms, ammunition, and reinforcements; and 2.) get the enemy to relax his vigilance. A truce is not the same thing as a ceasefire, and a ceasefire doesn't mean you have to stop shooting... that expired a day earlier.
Aid agencies warned that the five-day hiatus had not allowed in nearly enough food, fuel and other supplies to meet the needs of the battered country's 25 million people.
Reflecting the fear and frustration brought on by nearly two months of bombardment, protesters flooded the streets of the capital, Sana, shouting denunciations of 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... and the United States, which has provided logistical support to the Saudi-led coalition confronting Yemen's Shiite MoslemHouthi ...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 ... rebels.
The cease-fire expired at 11 p.m. local time Sunday, and officials and witnesses said Arclight airstrikes resumed shortly thereafter in the port city of Aden, continuing into the early-morning hours. Riyadh Yassin, foreign minister with the Yemeni government in exile, was quoted in news reports as blaming Houthis for violating the truce and prompting the resumption of the offensive.
Residents and officials said apparent targets in Aden were Houthi positions, including the presidential palace. Other strikes hit northern Saada province, heavily damaging the bustling provincial capital's old city. Antiaircraft fire rattled Sana but no new bombardment was reported in the city.
Pleas from the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... and humanitarian groups for an extension of the cease-fire have so far gone unheeded, but Yassin told the Rooters news agency that the renewed strikes would avoid the airport in Sana and the country's main seaports so that aid shipments could arrive by air and sea.
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[AlAhram] Saudi-led coalition warplanes resumed strikes on rebel positions in southern 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... on Monday after a five-day ceasefire expired, jeopardising efforts to deliver desperately needed aid.
[Dhaka Tribune] Some person or persons unknown killed Sylhet city unit ameer of Tablighi Jamaat A group of itinerant Deobandi preachers who form one of al-Qaeda's recruiting arms... in Sowdagortula area.
Police recovered body of Ibrahim Abu Khalil, 55, which was slitted by throat yesterday morning.
Police have detained his first wife and their son for interrogation.
Assistant Deputy Commissioner (media) of Sylhet Metropolitan Police Rohmot Ullah said: "He might have been murdered over family dispute. Injury marks have been noticed on his neck and stomach.
"Assailants tied up his hands and legs and murdered him sometime on Sunday night," he said.
He said: "Ibrahim had three wives and owned a lot of land properties."
Family members said Ibrahim had returned to the country from a Tabligh Jamaat in India two days back. He went to sleep in his room after having dinner on Sunday night.
Later, the family members found his body after entering the room on Monday morning.
He said the body was recovered and sent to Osmani Medical College morgue for an appointment with Dr. Quincy.
Ibrahim's son Sajid said the assailants have taken way a laptop and gold ornaments.
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Ibrahim Abu Khalil
Was pious but always genteel:
"I hope you won't think me a prig,
But I'd rather not die like a pig."
[Dhaka Tribune] A NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... re court has sent eight Jamaat activists to jail on Sunday.
Senior Judicial Magistrate Nadira Sultana passed the order after rejecting their bail pleas.
Earlier in the day, they surrendered before the NATOre chief judicial magistrate court-3 and pleaded for bail.
The Jamaat activists were accused in a case following a clash between Awami League and Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... activists at the Malonchi bazar area on April 7, 2013.
Later, Upazila Awami League secretary Sekendar Rahman lodged a case against 81 Jamaat-Shibir activists.
Detective Branch (DB) Sub-Inspector Bidyut submitted the final charge sheet.
The accused Jamaat activists kept hiding after the incident.
- See more at: http://www.dhakatribune.com/politics/2015/may/17/8-jamaat-men-sent-jail-natore#sthash.8eS6U2X1.dpuf
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[Ynet] A Belgian court on Monday handed out prison sentences to seven women for supporting 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.... and radicalising young women to go to Syria to join its ranks and marry fighters of the bad boy organization.
Four of the seven women - five Belgians, one Dutch and one Moroccan - were not in court to hear their convictions and were believed to be in Syria with female battalions of Islamic State, the Antwerp-based court said. In their absence, they were given five-year prison sentences for their activities with those battalions, including patrolling and guarding entrances to towns and cities in Syria.
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[Ynet] A French court on Monday acquitted two coppers over the death of two youths in a Gay Paree suburb in 2005, in a case that had triggered the country's worst riots in decades.
The coppers were sent to trial over whether they had failed to provide help to 15-year old Bouna Traore and 17-year old Zyed Benna when they hid from police in an electric transformer. The officers said they did nothing wrong. Some 10,000 cars and 300 buildings were set on fire after the two teenagers died in three weeks of riots that had attracted world-wide attention and prompted the government to declare a state of emergency. "I'm disgusted (by the court ruling). I'm really disappointed. Policemen are untouchable. It's not just in this case, they are never convicted," said Adel Benna, the brother of one of the two victims.
Thank goodness that's finally over, and decided in the right direction, too.
[AnNahar] the regional headquarters of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's main pro-Kurdish party in two cities, adding to escalating tensions in the run up to June 7 legislative elections.
Six people were maimed in the blast at the office of the People's Democratic Party (HDP) in the southern city of Adana caused by a suspect parcel, three of them seriously, a party official told AFP.
A bouquet of flowers sent to the party's office in the nearby city of Mersin also went kaboom!, the official said. Video footage showed several people with bloodied faces.
"That looks like the work of miscreants with malicious intent rather than neglected kitchen propane tanks, Jimmy."
"Inspector Aydanlu, however do you know such things!"
The HDP's co-chairman Selahattin Demirtas was due to address a rally in Mersin later in the day but the party said there was no suggestion of him canceling the event.
The government immediately condemned the attack, with Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu pledging to bring the perpetrators to justice.
"I strongly condemn this attack," Davutoglu told a rally in the city of Karaman in central Turkey.
Davutoglu said he gave a "clear instruction" for a full-scale investigation. But he warned against any smear campaign to discredit his ruling party after some HDP figures blamed the government for the attacks.
"We have stood against violence since the very beginning. God willing, we will march into June 7 in peace," he said.
Culture and Tourism Minister Omer Celik announced on Twitter that a special unit involving the police, gendarmerie and the intelligence agency was established to find out culprits of the attacks which he said took an aim at "the HDP, all political parties and Turkey's election process."
In April, person or persons unknown opened fire on the HDP headquarters in the capital Ankara, with no casualties. The government condemned that attack as a blow to Turkey's democracy and stability.
Tensions are mounting ahead of Turkey's key elections next month in which the HDP is seeking to clear the 10 percent quota to take seats in the parliament.
The HDP's success could dent the ruling AKP party's plans to reach a thumping majority in the 550-seat parliament in order to change the constitution and create a presidential system.
Deputy Prime Minister Yalcin Akdogan has said this month it would be "super" if the pro-Kurdish HDP failed to clear the 10 percent threshold.
Dengir Mir Mehmet Firat, a former AKP politician and currently the HDP's candidate for Mersin, put the blame on the government for the latest blasts.
"The prospect of the HDP clearing the threshold on the horizon scares some (people). The government which rules the state must be behind all this," he said in comments published in Turkish media.
"We will not succumb to provocation," he added.
Seventy-three attacks have targeted the HDP offices throughout Turkey since April, according to a party report sent to AFP.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... , who steered Turkey as prime minister for 11 years, has appealed to his supporters to help elect 400 AKP politicians in June's vote, giving him the backing to rewrite the constitution -- and assume full executive powers himself.
The HDP lodged an unsuccessful complaint to Turkey's higher electoral body accusing Erdogan of violating the constitutional neutrality with public speeches in favor of the AKP party he co-founded.
[DAWN] Six suspected gunnies were reportedly killed while two others sustained injuries in a United States drone strike in Shawal Tehsil of North Wazoo on Monday, DawnNews reported.
Two missiles were fired on a 'militant hideout' in Zoye Narye Area of restive North Waziristan's Shawal Tehsil, the report added.
The latest drone strike comes just two days after a strike on Saturday killed five suspected gunnies and injured two others in North Waziristan.
Pakistain had strongly condemned the May 16 US drone strike, and had called for cessation of such strikes.
"Such strikes are a clear violation of Pakistain's illusory sovereignty and territorial integrity," Foreign Office front man Qazi Khalilullah had said on Monday.
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[NYT] 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.... fighters used a sandstorm to help seize a critical military advantage in the early hours of the terrorist group's attack on the provincial Iraqi capital of Ramadi last week, helping to set in motion an assault that forced Iraqi security forces to flee, current and former American officials said Monday.
The sandstorm delayed American warplanes and kept them from launching Arclight airstrikes to help the Iraqi forces, as the Islamic State fighters evidently anticipated. The fighters used the time to carry out a series of boom-mobileings followed by a wave of ground attacks in and around the city that eventually overwhelmed the American-backed Iraqi forces.
Once the storm subsided, Islamic State and Iraqi forces were intermingled in heavy combat in many areas, making it difficult for allied pilots to distinguish friend or foe, the officials said. By that point, the murderous Moslems had gained an operational momentum that could not be reversed.
"The dust storm at the very least neutralized capabilities that could have been decisive," said one former senior military official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss confidential battle assessments.
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I'm not saying there's a great deal of similarity between ISIS psychopaths and the Continental Army led by Washington; just saying that surprise is often your friend and turns the tide of battle. The Continental Army knew something about surprise. An excerpt from Eyewitness to History describes Washington's crossing: During the night of December 25, Washington led his troops across the ice-swollen Delaware about 9 miles north of Trenton. The weather was horrendous and the river treacherous. Raging winds combined with snow, sleet and rain to produce almost impossible conditions. To add to the difficulties, a significant number of Washington's force marched through the snow without shoes.
The next morning they attacked to the south, taking the Hessian garrison by surprise and over-running the town. After fierce fighting, and the loss of their commander, the Hessians surrendered.
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What we are seeing is a classic case of a small and motivated fighters vs the old school military that this is a job and they would rather be in their base wacking off to camel pr0n than go out and do security in the nasty nasty weather.
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Well, iff true as so-called "elite" unit(s) widin the Iraqi Army they should had at least considered the potential for ISIS attack despite or under adverse conditions.
ISIS militants have held a twisted victory parade after taking the key city of Ramadi in an orgy of violence and beheadings - and the extremists could march on the Iraqi capital Baghdad within the next month.
Mutilated bodies scatter the streets of the 'Gateway of Baghdad', where Islamic State slaughtered around 500 and forced nearly 25,000 to flee their homes over the last few days.
Now ISIS has released images of militants celebrating, children wielding automatic weapons and a fleet of pick-up trucks carrying its jubilant fighters through the blood-stained streets of Ramadi.
Shi'ite fighters have already launched a counter-offensive to recapture the city, but these kinds of tactics play straight into Islamic State's grand plan to spark all-out war in the region, according to the Middle East director of counter-terrorism think-tank RUSI.
Islamic State militants are already marching east towards the Habbaniya army base - around 20 miles east of Ramadi - where a column of 3,000 Shi'ite paramilitaries are amassing, witnesses and a military officer has said.
And if ISIS manage to reach Baghdad, it would be 'utter carnage', Professor Gareth Stansfield told MailOnline.
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So Baghdad falling is part of the "plan" and this "smart policy" stuff I keep hearing about and that ISIS really isn't winning and our air strikes are working and everything is under control?
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Tell your Men, they are just as good as in a flaming cage if they fail to repel the plague coming their way.
Tell them that BY GOD do not lose this place.
Lest you want to just flee and let them pillage and rape, and what have you then?
Tell them, "we barely just now got our Government to the point where we may represent you better, but that will not work if you throw down your arms. You end up with your throat slit that way. STAND".
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The main Iraqi population better discover some serious testicular fortitude right quick, or they will find themselves at about par with the population of Phnom Penh circa late April 1975.
Hopefully the Iraqis - with their backs against the wall - will stand and fight for a change. If not - well then, they become part of the Caliphate, and subject to everything unleashed against that monstrosity.
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If ISIS reach Baghdad in force, there will be a mass panic, with a couple of million Shiias fleeing south. Effectively the collapse of Iraq as a state.
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Ok, quick geography lesson for the media. Ramadi is west of Baghdad. Fallujah is in between Ramadi and Baghdad. ISIS already controls Fallujah. So why is Ramadi's proximity to Baghdad a concern? IMHO, Ramadi's fall does allow ISIS to consolidate their gains in Al-Anbar and focus on offensive operations instead of consolidation of Al-Anbar. The Shia will never let Baghdad fall. Neither will our new ally, Iran.
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If ISIS reach Baghdad in force, there will be a mass panic, with a couple of million Shiias fleeing south. Effectively the collapse of Iraq as a state.
Neh. Shia militias can defend their turf. It's the Sunni areas they/Iraqi "army" can't hold---amateurs & logistics?
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Why, it's as if someone has preordained that Baghdad must fall. For sure, it would help bolster a particular political narrative
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If Iran is to exercise regional hegemony, then Iran must ultimately be seen as the agent of rescue and salvation of Iraq.
By regime public relations design, no one will remember the bit part the Champ played in Iraq, they'll only remember it was a 'Bush war' that toppled Saddam which eventually led to the Iranian-Iraqi alliance. To this end, we now receive near daily reminders from the usual media talking heads.
Champ's interests are pretty much domestic in nature. If he has any foreign interests, the are found with his people in Africa.
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my sense of the situation is that Iraqis will not fight to protect outsiders. I.e.
Shia will not defend a Sunni town (like Ramadi).
They will only retake a Sunni town if they can ethnically cleanse the place. They WILL defend Shia communities.
The Kurds will also defend their own if they are given weapons and ammo. The difference between them and the Shia is the Kurds been willing to defend Yazidis, Christians and other minorities.
The Sunni will defend themselves but will not take orders from the Shia.
Iraq is splitting into three pieces as Obama golfs.
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@#19: Biden: Split Iraq into 3 different regions
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As per BHARAT RAKSHAK + DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS + VARIOUS TWITTERATI = SO-CALLED "TWITHEADS", looks like the post-Ramadi ISIS/ISIL may strike at Fallujah proper + surrounding areas???
[ALMANAR.LB] The Iraqi Prime Minister ordered on Sunday the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), joined by the Iraqi army and security forces, to liberate the city of Ramadi seized by bully boyz of the so-called 'Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) 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. Kinda causes you to wonder why they weren't ordered to defend it in the first place.
The call of Haidar Abadi was a response to the appeal of the government and tribal sheikhs to take a move to recapture the occupied city which lies only 112km west of the capital, Baghdad, after 500 people are estimated to have died in several days of fighting.
The PMF (Known in Arabic as Hashid Shaabi), were key actor to the recapture of Tikrit city, north of Baghdad from ISIL in April 2015.
Abadi also ordered all military units and counter-terrorism forces, as well as the federal police, not to leave their positions during operations in Anbar, the official Iraqi TV channel reported.
Anbar tribes had demanded earlier the PM to send urgent security reinforcements and to drive the PMF into the city of Ramadi. However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... the government called for the closure of the open border between Syrian and Iraq.
PMF Security front man, Youssef al-Kalabi, said that the group forces are ready to enter the Anbar province and to liberate it from the control of ISIL, pointing out that the entry to the city is up to PM Abadi.
Moreover, Hezbollah Brigades of Iraq declared the "general alert" among fighters, and called on the authorized "mujahideen" to join their posts immediately.
The PMF commanders were quoted as saying they had orders and plans to deploy to Ramadi but did not say when.
ISIL occupied swathes of northern Iraq in June 2014, and declared the 'caliphate' over the seized territries, displacing residents and attacking security forces and civilians.
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the government called for the closure of the open border between Syrian and Iraq.
[REUTERS] Thousands of Shi'ite Lions of Islam on Monday prepared to fight 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.... turbans who seized the Iraqi bustling provincial capital Ramadi at the weekend in the biggest defeat for government forces in nearly a year.
A column of 3,000 Shi'ite militia fighters assembled at a military base near Ramadi, preparing to take on Islamic State Lions of Islam advancing in armored vehicles from the captured city northwest of Baghdad, witnesses and a military officer said.
The decision by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who is a Shi'ite, to send in the militias to try to retake the predominantly Sunni city could add to sectarian hostility in one of the most violent parts of Iraq.
Washington, which is leading a campaign of air strikes to roll back Islamic State advances and struggling to rebuild Baghdad's shattered army, played down the significance of the loss of Ramadi, the capital of the vast western Anbar province.
U.S. 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... said it was a "target of opportunity," that could be retaken in a matter of days, and U.S. officials insisted there would be no change in strategy despite a failure to make major advances against Islamic State.
Warplanes in the U.S.-led coalition had conducted 19 strikes near Ramadi over the past 72 hours at the request of the Iraqi security forces, a coalition front man said.
The Shi'ite militia, known as Hashid Shaabi or Popular Mobilization, "reached the Habbaniya base and are now on standby," said the head of the Anbar provincial council, Sabah Karhout.
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Again, as IRAN is Anti-US US OWG Globalist Obama's' = USA's BFF or BFRNF + a future "US-style" OWG Co-Superpower Sibling, WILL IRAN GIVE BACK RAMADI + ANBAR, E-T-C. TO THE IRAQI GOVT-STATE WHEN ALL IS SAID-N-DONE???
[Rudaw] A front man for the governor of Iraq's Anbar province said Monday that about 500 people -- both civilians and Iraqi soldiers -- are estimated to have been killed over the past few days as the city of Ramadi fell to 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.
The estimates follow a shocking defeat as Islamic State seized control of the Anbar lovely provincial capital on Sunday, sending Iraqi forces fleeing in a major loss despite the support of U.S.-led Arclight airstrikes targeting the hard boys.
Bodies, some burned, littered the streets as local officials reported the snuffies carried out mass killings of Iraqi security forces and civilians. Online video showed Humvees, trucks and other equipment speeding out of Ramadi, with soldiers gripping onto their sides.
"We do not have an accurate count yet," said the front man, Muhannad Haimour. "We estimate that 500 people have been killed, both civilians and military, and approximately 8,000 have fled the city."
The estimates are for the past three days, since Friday, when the battle for the city reached its final stages. The 8,000 figure is in addition to the enormous exodus in April, Haimour said, when the U.N. said as many as 114,000 residents fled from Ramadi and surrounding villages at the height of the violence.
Local officials have said that IS carried out mass killings of Iraqi security forces and civilians.
With defeat looming, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi had ordered security forces not to abandon their posts across Anbar province, apparently fearing the gunnies could capture the entire desert region that saw intense fighting after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion to topple dictator Saddam Hussein.
Earlier Sunday, al-Abadi ordered Shiite militias to prepare to go into the Sunni-dominated province, ignoring U.S. concerns their presence could spark sectarian bloodshed. By late Sunday, a large number of Shiite bully boyz had arrived at a military base near Ramadi, apparently to participate in a possible counter-offensive, said the head of the Anbar provincial council, Sabah Karhout.
U.S. 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... said he remained confident about the fight against the Islamic State group, despite the setbacks like the loss of Ramadi. Kerry, traveling through South Korea, said that he's long said the fight against the Death Eater group would be a long one, and that it would be tough in the Anbar province of western Iraq where Iraqi security forces are not built up.
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[Rudaw] SHINGAL, djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... Province - US-led coalition warplans conducted seven air strikes within two hours against ISIS in Shingal, killing at least 30 jihadis during a operation late Sunday, a Peshmerga source told Rudaw.
"The warplanes attacked Daesh (ISIS) gunnies and their bases seven times from 9 pm to 11 pm on Sunday night," a Peshmerga source told Rudaw on condition of anonymity.
"The positions were carefully and completely targeted," he said, adding that the mission was a success.
At least seven armored ISIS vehicles were destroyed in Sunday's Arclight airstrikes.
ISIS bases in the disputed Shingal area have been frequently bombarded by coalition Arclight airstrikes. But this was the first time that so many raids were carried out in such a short time.
In recent months, Shingal has been struggling to recover from a devastating ISIS attack from last year that unleashed a spree of killings, rapes and kidnappings against the area's predominantly Kurdish Yezidi population.
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[ALMANAR.LB] The Syrian army continued operations against positions of terrorist organizations in different areas across the country, repelling their attack attempts and eliminating many of their groups, state-run SANA news agency reported.
In Daraa, an army unit destroyed vehicles for al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-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 terrorists, leaving all those on board dead in Tal al-Mal near the Zionist-occupied territories, a military source said.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Hezbollah and the Syrian army continued on Monday advancing in Flita barrens, regaining al-Fakhta area, eastern the Lebanese Arsal outskirts.
Security sources told Al-Manar that most of the crossings that link the Lebanese Arsal barrens with those of the Syrian Flita and Jreijeer are under the military control of the Islamic Resistance and the Syrian army.
Al-Manar TV channel broadcast an exclusive footage that shows Hezbollah and the Syrian army bombarding the faceless myrmidons on al-Talaja mountain in Flita barrens.
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[AnNahar] 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.... jihadist group fired a barrage of rockets on residential neighborhoods in Syria's ancient city of Palmyra, killing five civilians including two children, a monitoring group said Monday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported fierce festivities between the jihadists and government troops on the outskirts of the city's 2,000-year-old UNESCO world heritage site.
"At least five civilians, including two children, were killed Sunday night when IS fired rockets on numerous neighborhoods in Tadmur," the Observatory said, using the Arabic name for the city.
"It's the first time that IS has fired so many rockets on the city," said Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman, who gathers information from a network of civilians, medics and fighters in Syria.
According to Syrian antiquities director Mamoun Abdulkarim, two rockets fell Sunday on the garden of Palmyra's museum, which houses statues, sarcophagi, and other well-preserved artifacts, without causing any damage.
IS has surrounded the city after launching a fierce assault on May 13, briefly overrunning parts of the north and east.
Since Saturday, the jihadists have been firmly entrenched one kilometer (less than a mile) from Palmyra's archeological treasures, including colonnaded alleys and elaborate tombs, which lie southwest of the city.
On Saturday, IS seized control of northern Palmyra before being pushed back by pro-government forces less than 24 hours later.
The Revolution Coordination Committee in Palmyra, a collective of activists, said regime military aircraft had conducted six air strikes on the city's northern edges.
Located in central Homs province, Palmyra lies 210 kilometers (130 miles) northeast of Damascus in desert that stretches to the Iraqi frontier to the east.
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[ALMANAR.LB] The Syrian army continued operations against positions of terrorist organizations in different areas across the country, repelling their attack attempts and eliminating many of their groups, state-run SANA news agency reported.
