[Tolo News] At two employees of the presidential palace were killed and five others were maimed in a roadside mine blast east of Kabul City early Tuesday, security officials said.
The blast took place around 7 a.m. in district 12 â""after a controlled roadside mine detonated while the Presidential Palace employees were passing the area, said Gen. Zahir Zahir, Kabul Police Chief.
The District 12 Police Chief, Sayed Gul Agha Hashimi, also confirmed the blast and said one of the employees injured is at death's door.
He added that the police have started investigations.
Taliban grabbed credit for the attack.
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[TRIBUNE.PK] A car packed with explosives went kaboom! on Tuesday as it sped through a crowded market in Afghanistan's eastern province of Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... , killing at least 89 people, officials said, one of the most violent attacks in the country in a year.
The huge kaboom took place not far from the mostly non-existent border with Pakistain's North Wazoo region, where the military has been attacking hideouts of the Taliban in the past few weeks, prompting turbans to retreat towards Afghanistan.
"The number of victims may increase," said General Zahir Azimi, a defence ministry front man.
The attack comes at an uneasy time in Afghanistan as the country recounts votes from a disputed presidential election which the Taliban have vowed to disrupt.
But the Taliban distanced themselves from Tuesday's attack.
The movement's leader have ordered turbans not to target civilians. "The truth behind this attack will become clear after an investigation, but we clearly announce that it was not done by the Mujahedeen of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan," Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban front man, said in a statement. "The Mujahedeen do not conduct such attacks and such attacks do not bring any benefit to them."
A local deputy police chief, Nissar Ahmad Abdulrahimzai, told Rooters that police had been tipped about the car and were chasing it when it went kaboom!. "The kaboom was so big it destroyed many shops.
Dozens of people are trapped under the roofs," Mohammad Raza Kharoti, the district governor, told Rooters. "The number of maimed will rise to more than 100 and the number of those martyred will also increase."
In Kabul, a remote control bomb concealed by a roadside killed two employees of President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... 's media office and maimed five, police said. The Taliban grabbed credit.
The attacks took place as foreign troops are gradually withdrawing from the country. The United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... said last week civilian casualties jumped by almost a quarter in the first half of this year as hostilities escalate.
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[Al Ahram] Zagazig's criminal court has given seven year prison sentences to former member of parliament and Muslim Brotherhood leader Farid Ismail along with 10 other supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi . Ismail and the other 10 defendants faced charges of inciting violence after the ouster of Morsi last July.
The Zagazig court also sentenced Morsi's nephew, Mohamed Said, to five years in jail in a separate case on charges of inciting violence against police and military forces.
Ismail was an MP in the former People's Assembly (lower house of parliament) and was later appointed a member of the Shura Council. He was also member of the Constituent Assembly that drafted the 2012 constitution — which was amended and then passed through a referendum in January of this year.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Tunisia is aggressively prosecuting jihadists returning from the Levant, soliciting help from citizens to get the job done.
The interior ministry is currently looking for several dangerous turbans.
Tunisian national Hichem Ben Mohammed Ben Abderrazzek Berrebeh, and Algerian citizens Khaled Hamadi Chaied (aka Lokman Abou Sakhr) and Mohammed Amine Mahkouka (aka Abou Aymen Ouahrani) are being sought on terrorism-related charges, the interior ministry said Sunday (July 13th).
Public prosecutors issued another six arrest warrants for jihadists on Friday. The accused are part of a group of a group of some 20 jihadists who fought with ISIS in Syria.
The interior ministry has called on citizens "to report all available information" about terrorists, including any suspicious activity.
*ring, ring* "Mahmoud the Weasel here. I unnerstand yer desirous of information. Well, I got information, lotsa information. But it's gonna cost ya, see?"
"Many citizens are not sharing information and are reluctant to inform security units about the movement of terrorist elements," the ministry said Friday.
"Silence is considered complicity with terrorist elements and support for them. Those who are not sharing information are subject to prosecution. Information shared is highly confidential and protected according to law," the statement continued.
Tunisian judicial authorities have already begun prosecuting fighters returning from Syria, both as individuals and as groups.
One young salafist ...also known as Wahhabis, salafists are against innovation in religion or in anything else. They eat the same things every meal of every day and all their children are named Abdullah or Mohammed. Not all salafists are takfiris, but all takfiris are salafists. They are fond of praying five times a day and killing infidels... appeared Friday before a Tunis court to stand trial for joining a terrorist organization. He was also charged with receiving combat training outside Tunisia.
The accused said during his interrogation that he had travelled to Libya, where he became familiar with military drills, before departing for Syria.
The defendant noted that his decision to travel to Syria was at the behest of 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... member Bilel Chaouachi.
Chaouachi was summoned last week by the judicial authorities for questioning regarding his call to pledge 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... , head of the group formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
"The authorities' decision to pursue returnees from Syria, although it came too late, is an important step and a lesson to those who are planning or thinking to bypass laws expressly prohibiting joining gangs," security expert Faisal Oueslati told Magharebia.
Other observers said Tunisia must do more than prosecute the returnees. Tareq Moumni, a sociologist who monitors returnees after their release from prison, asked for psychological and social guidance for repatriated fighters.
"They were brainwashed and absorbed hard boy ideas in addition to receiving training on various types of arms," he noted. Without follow-up, they could pose a threat after their release, Moumni warned.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Morocco is tightening security measures in response to a "serious terrorist threat" from the group formerly known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Interior Minister Mohammed Hassad on Thursday (July 10th) said there was an elevated risk of "a terrorist attack against the kingdom because of the growing number of Moroccans belonging to murderous Moslem organizations in Syria and Iraq".
"The leaders of the Moroccan fighters in Syria and Iraq are making no secret of their intention to carry out a terrorist plot against Morocco, and they also aim to give support to other terrorist movements active in the Sahel," Hassad told a cabinet meeting in Rabat.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Sidi Bouzid police dismantled an arms trafficking network, Tunisie Numerique reported on Monday (July 14th). One of the six men arrested is the main suspect in a March attack on Tunisian security services in Zaafria. The weapons were smuggled from Libya, TAP reported, citing a security source.
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[MAGHAREBIA] A 70-year-old man was kidnapped on Monday (July 14th) in the blood-stained Tizi Ouzou village of Beni Zmenzer, Tout sur l'Algerie reported.
In January, a 38-year-old merchant from the same region was killed by his kidnappers.
Some 80 cases of kidnapping were registered in the Algerian province since 2005. Many hostages were freed unharmed, thanks to citizens' mobilisation.
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[An Nahar] Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has rejected the declaration of an Islamist Caliphate in Iraq and Syria, saying it had "defects" that jihadist leaders should rectify, SITE Intelligence said Tuesday.
The group, in a message dated July 4, also reiterated allegiance to overall al-Qaeda chief 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... , whose leadership appears to have been challenged by the recently declared Islamic State, according to the U.S.-based monitoring group.
It said there was still time "to rectify the defect in this announcement".
The Islamic State (IS) has been fighting in Syria and Iraq and on June 29 proclaimed a "caliphate" straddling both countries and headed by 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... , who now calls himself Caliph Ibrahim.
IS fighters spearheaded a devastating military offensive by a coalition of Sunni Death Eater groups that swept through large swathes of northern and western Iraq.
"Why today... do they make such an announcement without the advice of the leaders of the mujahedeen... (whose) efforts to establish the rightly guided Caliphate were proven?" the statement asked.
AQIM urged consultations among the leaders of various al-Qaeda factions, including Zawahiri and Baghdadi, to "fix the defects inside the one house, away from the media".
"We confirm that we still adhere to our pledge of allegiance to our sheikh and emir, Ayman al-Zawahiri, since it is a sharia- (Islamic law) accorded pledge of allegiance," it said.
Zawahiri in the past ordered Baghdadi to confine the work of his group to Iraq only, and designated its rival Al-Nusra Front as al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria.
But Baghdadi has refused to budge.
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Popcorn, anyone? Some "defects" may only be "rectified" by killing. Tossing out a window is acceptable, if high enough.
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[DAWN] At least 26 people were killed when suspected Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... turbans stormed a village in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... and a government warplane opened fire to repel the attackers, local residents and a security source said on Tuesday.
The warplane strafed Boko Haram fighters fleeing in pick-up trucks after raiding Dille, near Lassa in the south of Borno State, for several hours on Monday. The attackers fired on inhabitants and burned homes and churches.
"I counted 26 corpses yesterday evening," one of the residents, Dauda Illiya told Rooters.
Most of the deaths occurred during the raid but cannon fire from the government jet also killed at least six civilians — four women and two children, residents said.
"The pilot was just spraying bullets anywhere ... People were running here and there. Many people were maimed from the bullets," said a local man, Suleiman Haruna.
Nigeria's defence headquarters in Abuja did not respond to a request for comment on the incident, but a security source in Borno State confirmed the deployment of the military plane.
The residents and the security source said 20 turbans were killed by local vigilantes who fought back, but this could not be confirmed as witnesses said the raiders carried off their dead in their trucks.
Nigeria's armed forces are facing a fierce offensive in the northeast by the Boko Haram, whose marauding bands of fighters have stepped up attacks against towns and villages after kidnapping more than 200 schoolgirls in April.
That abduction triggered an international outcry and increased support from Western governments for President Goodluck Jonathan ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau... 's fight against Boko Haram, which has killed thousands and kidnapped hundreds since launching an uprising in 2009.
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[Iraq Sun] Suspected Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... Death Eaters have kidnapped two teenaged children of one of Cameroon's most influential Moslem spiritual leaders.
The abduction occurred in the town of Limani, on the border with Nigeria's Borno state, which is the home base of the Islamist group.
Cameroon's State Radio announced that 10 heavily gunnies crossed over from neighboring Nigeria's Borno State, and ransacked the home of Bieshair Mohaman, the traditional ruler of Limani.
The Moslem spiritual leader was not home at the time of the attack. But the assailants left with two of the holy man's sons, Bieshair Hashimir and Bieshair Cavaye Yegue, both teenage students at the Government Bilingual High School in Limani.
Eyewitnesses said the assailants expressed displeasure with the holy man because he had refused to cooperate with them, and they accused him of giving information concerning their activities to Cameroon's military.
A schoolmate of the teenagers, who was on holiday in Yaounde, said the attacks prove Cameroonians in the north of the country are not safe from Boko Haram. "What the Boko Haram are doing is not good," Oumarou Ahmadou Mua said. "I feel very bad. I am asking the government to reinforce security, to do something very fast. If not, I think the Boko Haram will kidnap many more children. They [the government] have to do something."
Cameroonians have called on their government to make sure the kidnappers return these latest victims.
A government spokesperson urged all Cameroonians to cooperate with the military in the search for the children.
"I call on you fellow citizens, be it elite, traditional rulers, peasants, cycle of violence drivers, taxi drivers," said Issa Tchiroma Bakari, "to watch out and accompany our administrative authorities and defense forces in bringing them the collaboration they need in terms of information, intelligence or denunciation and help them to successfully conduct the mission assigned them."
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[An Nahar] The United States slapped a terrorist designation on a Norwegian citizen Tuesday for joining al-Qaeda's branch in Yemen, where, according to the State Department, he was taught to make explosives.
Anders Cameroon Ostensvig Dale was designated a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.
"As a result of the designation, all property subject to U.S. jurisdiction in which Dale has any interest is blocked and U.S. persons are generally prohibited from engaging in any transactions with Dale or to his benefit," the State Department said in a statement.
He is accused of traveling multiple times to Yemen between 2008 and 2011, and joining the bully boy network al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
"As part of AQAP, Dale has received terrorist training and was taught to make bomb-belts, improvised bombs, and larger explosives used in boom-mobiles," the department said.
In a note to the Office of the Federal Register affirming the designation, 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... wrote that Dale, also known as Abu Abdurrahman the Norwegian, "committed, or poses a significant risk of committing, acts of terrorism that threaten the security of U.S. nationals or the national security, foreign policy or economy of the United States."
Washington designated AQAP as a terrorist organization in early 2010 and has since branded many of its leaders, including Qasim al-Rimi and Nasir al-Wahishi, as specially designated global terrorists.
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[BUSINESS-STANDARD] At least 20 holy warriors were killed Wednesday in a dronezap in Pakistain's North Wazoo region.
Four missile strikes, coming from an unknown number of US unmanned aircraft, pounded a compound of suspected holy warriors in Datta Khel area located on the Pakistain-Afghanistan border, Xinhua reported.
Ka-bong!
The strikes levelled the targeted compound to the ground with officials initially putting the toll at 15. The toll later surged to 20 when residents pulled five more bodies out of the rubble of the compound.
Acording to officials, the attack took place when a meeting of Talibs, including local and Uzbek bad boys, was going on in the compound.
Wednesday morning's attack is the fifth of its kind in the area this year.
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Should we send Avigdor Liberman to negotiate cease-fire between US and Taliban?
[DAWN] In a major breakthrough during the ongoing Zarb-e-Azb military operation, a key Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) commander, Adnan Rashid has been reportedly tossed in the clink Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! by Pak security forces.
Highly placed intelligence sources told Dawn.com on Tuesday that the firebrand ...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments... Taliban capo was arrested by the forces in Shakai valley of South Wazoo four days ago in injured condition after he tried to escape from North Waziristan's cordoned off area due to the military operation.
He has been shifted to some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location by a helicopter, they added.
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), however, has not confirmed the development as yet.
According to well informed sources, one of the key al Qaeda commanders, Mufti Zubair Marwat and his two guards Anwar and Faheem were also arrested with Rashid early in the morning on Thursday last week.
They said Mufti Zubair is the brother of Mufti Sajjad Marwat — an al Qaeda front man for Afghanistan and Pakistain.
The area in Shakai valley, where the operation was carried out, is on the border of North and South Waziristan.
The sources also disclosed that Adnan Rashid was planning to leave for Wana onwards to Angor Ada to cross into Afghanistan when the raid was conducted.
Local residents in the area where Rashid was captured say that leaflets purporting to be from the Taliban were being circulated, blaming Rashid's capture on two commanders Mullah Nazi Group of Wana Taliban and promising vengeance.
In recent months the Pak Taliban, always an uneasy alliance of competing militias, has been beset by a series of internal power struggles.
Adnan Rashid, who was serving a jail term for attacking former president Gen (retd) Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... , had beat feet from Bannu Jail on Aril 15, 2012 after an attack by bully boyz armed with guns, grenades and rockets. Nearly 400 prisoners including Talibs also escaped in the jail break.
Following his release, he grabbed credit for criminal masterminding another jail break in Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... that freed about 250 prisoners and made a series of YouTube videos.
Rashid also gained attention by writing a letter to teenage education activist Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in an attempt to kill her. Adnan Rashid had said he wished the attack hadn't happened, but told Malala that she was targeted for speaking ill of the Taliban.
He was enjoying the facility of cellular phones inside different jails where he was lodged after being sentenced to death by a field general court martial for his alleged attempt on the life of Gen Musharraf.
The former junior technician of Pakistain Air Force (PAF), Rashid is a resident of Chota Lahore area of Swabi district in Pakistain's northwestern Khyber Pakhtukhwa province. He is fluent in English, Pashto and Urdu. He used to contribute to several social networking sites including Blogs and Facebook from the prison. He had joined PAF in 1997. He was around 24 when he was arrested in early 2004.
The escaped prisoner was in contact with the world outside the prison through his cellular phone, according to sources. He was also in touch with several journalists and used to send them messages through short message service (SMS).
Prior to his escape from Bannu Jail, Rashid continued to plead his innocence and claimed that his only crime was that he had voted "No" in the referendum held by the then military ruler Gen Musharraf.
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[DAWN] An attack on the house of Senior Superintendent of Frontier Reserve Police, Gul Wali Khan, in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. left his guard dead on Tuesday.
DSP Gulbahar Sahibzada Sajjad said three unknown motorcyclists opened fire on the main gate of Gul Wali's residence in Gulbahar No. 4, injuring one of the guards, who was shifted to the Lady Reading Hospital where he succumbed to his wounds during treatment.
He added the assailants fled from the spot when security personnel returned fire.
An investigation officer said the assailants used a 9mm pistol in the attack.
The attackers also managed to flee with the dear departed guard's gun, which is in contradiction with the police's claim of the repulsing of the attack by Wali's other guards.
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[DAWN] The political administration of Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central ...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth... has ordered people living in border areas of Mamond tehsil to evacuate their homes by Tuesday morning because of the possibility of a military operation in the region.
Local people told Dawn on Monday that the administration had asked residents of five border villages of Mamond to leave the area.
The order was announced through mosque loudspeakers by Levies personnel, a resident Dilwar Khan said.
Confirming the decision, an official told media personnel that people in Nakhatar, Ghakhai, Mula Killi, Gohati and Kitkoot of Mamond had been asked to leave their houses in view of the possibility of a military operation.
He said the decision was taken at a meeting of security bigshots and local administration. Security forces believed that elements responsible for the recent cross-border attacks were hiding in the area.
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings... a delegation of an alliance of Bajaur's political parties held a meeting with the political agent and expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... over the decision and urged him to withdraw it.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: Another police official was rubbed out in a Korangi neighbourhood on Monday, police said They added that two assailants riding a cycle of violence targeted Assistant Sub-Inspector Mohammed Yusuf Khan, 45, who was wearing police uniform, as soon as he left his residence in Zia Colony on a motorbike.
He sustained multiple bullet wounds and was taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre where doctors declared him dead. He's dead, Jim! on arrival.
SSP-Korangi Nazeed Ahmed Mirbahar said that it was not yet clear whether he was targeted as a result of an ongoing operation against criminals. It would be ascertained after a thorough probe, he added.
However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... a Korangi police officer, who wished not to be named, said that the ASI's murder may be an outcome of some recent arrests of suspected hit men in the area.
The victim was posted in the investigation wing of the Korangi police.
Only on Saturday, another ASI, Taj Mohammed, 40, was bumped off in Mominabad while returning from his work. So far, 96 coppers have been killed in the metropolis this year — most of them were targeted by in district west of the city.
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[Iran Press TV] At least five Pak soldiers have bit the dust in festivities with bully boyz during an army operation against Death Eater hideouts in the country's volatile northwestern tribal region.
According to the Pak military, two shootouts took place on Tuesday near the town of Mirali in North Wazoo, where the army has launched a major offensive to clear the area of bully boyz and their strongholds.
The military said in a statement that two soldiers were killed "in an intense exchange of fire with murderous Moslems in and around Mirali."
Three troopers also died in a shootout with bully boyz in the nearby Fateh Khel area, while the festivities left 11 bully boyz dead.
Security officials said that the military had kicked off ground operations in Mirali and nearby Dattakhel area ... which is owned and operated by Hafiz Gul Behadur... s on Monday.
The offensive started last month to wipe out Death Eater strongholds in North Waziristan. Jets and artillery began hitting Death Eater targets on June 15.
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[Iraq Sun] Iraq's army and Shi'ite militia forces launched an assault on Tuesday to retake the city of Tikrit from Islamist militants
Let us hope they are successful, as the alternative doesn't bear thinking about.
as parliamentarians in Baghdad prepared to vote for a new speaker, a possible step towards breaking months of political deadlock.
The Defense Ministry said ground troops backed by air support began their offensive at dawn against insurgents, led by the al-Qaida offshoot the Islamic State, who have held Tikrit since mid-June.
If the army and its militia allies retake Tikrit, hometown of Saddam Hussein, it would be the first insurgent-held city to switch back to government control since Iraq's latest crisis erupted last month.
The offensive took place as Iraq's deeply divided parliament met for a third session aimed at forming a new government to tackle the insurgency, three months after the country held a parliamentary election.
Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, whose State of Law group is the largest individual bloc in parliament, is seeking a third term but faces opposition from Sunnis and Kurds who say he has ruled for the Shi'ite majority at the expense of minority communities. Even rival Shi'ite parties want to unseat him.
Acting speaker Mehdi al-Hafidh called on deputies to cast their votes for a new speaker, the first of three leadership posts which need to be decided.
Moderate Sunni Islamist politician Salim Jabouri is front runner for the speaker's role.
The other posts to be decided are the presidency followed by the prime minister, but it was not immediately clear whether the planned vote for a new speaker was part of a wider deal to break the prolonged deadlock.
The political impasse has been given added urgency by the Islamist-led insurgency which swept through Sunni provinces of northern Iraq last month, encouraging Maliki's opponents to try to force his departure.
Sunni grievances against Maliki have helped the insurgency win support in the predominantly Sunni provinces to the north and west of Baghdad where the Islamic State and other militant groups have taken over.
Government forces retreated when Sunni insurgents overran Mosul on June 10 and swept south to seize Tikrit, 100 miles (160 km) north of Baghdad, two days later.
The city is a stronghold of Saddam loyalists and ex-army officers who joined forces with the Islamic State assault.
An officer taking part in Tuesday's attack said uniformed volunteer fighters and militia forces, including the Shi'ite Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq, were fighting alongside the army, but following orders from their own militia and volunteer commanders.
The assault was launched from the village of Awja, some 8 km (5 miles) south of the city.
The army retook Awja, the birthplace of Saddam, on the night of July 3, and has been trying to push north since.
The initial fighting on Tuesday focused around the Shishin district of south Tikrit, the officer and another soldier said, adding that the army was also heading towards Saddam's former presidential palace compounds, where Islamic State fighters had held captives and run their Islamic court trials.
Soldiers were also fighting to take Tikrit hospital which lies on a strategic area of high ground in the city.
Across the Tigris River to the east, the army landed paratroopers in Albu Ajeel where Iraqiya state television said some of the insurgents had fled.
One army officer in the fighting said they were surprised the resistance they experienced was less fierce than expected.
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I understaqnd government forces have already withdrawn, though it was not clear whether they were driven out or the offensive was just planned as an assault & withdrawal.
[Al Ahram] Officials say two boom-mobiles have went kaboom! on a commercial street in eastern Baghdad, killing at least eight people.
Two police officials say the kabooms took place around sundown Tuesday in the Shiite neighborhood known as Sadr City. They say at least 20 people were maimed in the attack.
A medical official confirmed the casualty figures.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media.
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[TELEGRAPH] The first Israeli was killed by a missile fired from Gazoo on Tuesday night setting the week-long conflict on course for an even bloodier new phase with Israel poised to escalate its military offensive.
A 38-year-old man was pronounced death at Askelon's Barzilai medical centre after suffering severe shrapnel wounds from a missile fired on Tuesday afternoon, according to initial Israeli media reports.
The reports suggested he was an ultra-Orthodox rabbi distributing food to Israeli soldiers near the Erez border crossing into Gazoo.
Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,'s military wing, the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, grabbed credit for the death, saying they had killed a soldier in a shell attack.
"The enemy acknowledges the death of a Zionist soldier and the injury of another in the Qassam shelling of the Erez base," the unit said.
Ynet has more about the gentleman who was killed, including a photo. He doesn't look ultra-Orthodox to me, but I'm not up on current Orthodox fashions, ultra or otherwise.
[Ynet] Dror Hanin, who succumbed to his wounds after being injured by Gazoo mortar fire on the Erez Crossing on Tuesday evening, was a 37-year-old father of three from Beit Aryeh. The incident marks the first Israeli death since the beginning of Operation Protective Edge.
Itzik Cohen, a childhood friend and neighbor, said he was "full of humor and always ready to help, there are few people like him, always willing to help and to contribute. Unfortunately, he paid for his kind heart with his life."
Hanin arrived at the border crossing to distribute food and drinks to soldiers awaiting a possible ground invasion into the Strip. He was critically injured and evacuated to the Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon, before succumbing to his wounds.
A 45-year-old male was also injured by the shrapnel from the mortar round, sustaining light injuries.
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Few like war but sometimes it is necessary to stomp and grind your enemy into the dust and rubble.
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I was gonna say yesterday that Gazooks should be happy their missiles are so ineffective because if they manage to kill any Israelis they're gonna end up wishing they hadn't. But now they have and when the Juice get angry enough to stop worrying about World Opinion they just might do what needs to be done.
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Apparently the Hamas guys have nestled their missiles into the surrounding population so well that the Israelis have been hesitant to flatten them, given the risk for serious collateral casualties.
It's another example of how the enemy plays upon our own sense of morality. The MSM, of course, will help out in that.
Since the population doesn't seem to object, I have to say it's about time for the Israelis to go all medieval and crusader on Hamas, and damn the casualties. Hamas has thousands of more missiles buried within their population, and Iron Dome isn't going to get them all.
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Prob will not see it in my lifetime, but cant wait cc too see them flatten the paleos.
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When they do I hope they get plenty of Video - particulary the secondary explosions from under Al-kiddie's school and Al-wackjob's Mosque...
[IsraelTimes] The Times of Israel is liveblogging events as they unfold through Wednesday, the ninth day of Operation Protective Edge. On Tuesday, while Israel accepted an Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire, Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, rejected it and continued its rocket fire into Israel. An Israeli was killed by mortar fire. In mid-afternoon, Israel resumed attacks on Hamas targets, as Foreign Minister Liberman called to retake full control of the Strip, an idea Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejects. A total of 197 Gazooks have been killed, with over 1,400 maimed.
Hamas's al-Qassam Brigades threatened to launch a massive rocket attack targeting Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem on Wednesday morning at 9 a.m. following Israeli strikes targeting Hamas leaders' homes. The house of former Hamas foreign minister Mahmoud al-Zahar was completely destroyed. A senior Israeli health official tells Ynet that the Paleostinian Authority rejected an offer by Magen David Adom to transfer blood donations from Israel to the Gazoo Strip, with no explanation.
[Iran Press TV] Israeli warplanes have targeted three administrative and military centers in the Syrian Golan Heights region, killings at least four people and injuring several others.
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a group based in the UK, says the attack which took place in southern Syria's Quneitra Province left at least four people dead, including two camp followers women.
The attack came after Israel claimed that a rocket fired from Syria hit the Israeli-occupied sector of the Golan Heights. According to Israeli sources, the rocket fell on open ground, leaving no casualties.
This comes as al-Qaeda-linked gunnies are fighting the Syrian government forces and stray mortar rounds have hit the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on several occasions.
Israel has confirmed today's attacks on the Golan Heights but says it responded with artillery fire without mentioning Arclight airstrikes.
Israel should just take more of the Golan Heights. And keep it...
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[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian was killed by Israeli military personnel near the southern West Bank city of Hebron early Monday morning.
Munir Ahmed Badarin, 22, was throwing rocks at an reservist IDF patrol near Al-Samua, and was shot by the patrol in its attempt to arrest him, Channel 2 reported.
Badarin suffered wounds in his abdomen and thigh and succumbed to his wounds at Yatta hospital south of Hebron, the Paleostinian Ma'an news agency reported.
IDF troops in the West Bank enjugged You have the right to remain silent... 25 Paleostinians overnight as part an ongoing campaign to hunt down the killers of Israeli teenagers Eyal Yifrach, 19, Gil-ad Shaar, 16, and Naftali Fraenkel, 16, who were kidnapped and slain last month.
Paleostinian security sources said soldiers had arrested 13 people from the Hebron area overnight, three of them Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, parliamentarians: Nayef Rajub from Dura, Mohammed Jheisha from Idhna and Mohammed Akel from Dhahiriya.
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Munir Ahmed Badarin, 22, was throwing rocks at an reservist IDF patrol.
The bachelor 'e fights for one
As joyful as can be;
But the married man don't call it fun,
Because 'e fights for three --
For 'Im an' 'Er an' It
(An' Two an' One make Three)
'E wants to finish 'is little bit,
An' e' wants to go 'ome to is tea!
13 New People's Army (NPA) militants, four Manobo guards and a Philippine soldier were killed and another was injured in a series of clashes in Prosperidad town in Agusan del Sur on Tuesday. This happened after some 70 heavily armed NPA guerillas in fatigue uniforms attacked the house of miner Datu Calpito Egua, a Manobo and a former NPA member.
Egua, known as Datu Calpit, operates a gold processing plant in the area. He was also known as an anti-insurgency advocate. He was reportedly injured in the attack.
Captain Christian Uy said the militants' casualties were based on body count, adding that those killed were left by their comrades. He said, "There were also reports that the fleeing rebels carried some of their comrades who were killed during the clash while some were wounded."
Uy said the firefight lasted for two hours. The troops recovered nine high-powered firearms and a grenade launcher during its clearing operation.
Uy said more troops arrived in the area for reinforcement and encountered the militants around 6:30 a.m. in Barangay Awas where a soldier was killed and another was injured.
Uy said, "After the firefight, the rebels withdrew, while the troops together with the tribal warriors, recovered 12 cadavers of rebels and seven high powered firearms at the encounter site."
Uy said that troops belonging to the 3rd Infantry Battalion also encountered a militant unit in Barangay Hamogaway in Bayugan, Agusan del Sur. One NPA militant was killed.
Another clash also took place along national highway in Barangay Panaytay, Prosperidad between the NPA militants who had set up a checkpoint and personnel of the PNP's Special Action Force (SAF).
Uy said, "According to information, the encounter stemmed from tribesmen's refusal to allow the rebels to seek recruits in their community. As of now, our security forces with the members of the Philippine National Police (PNP) are still conducting its clearing operation and investigation in the area."
A middle-aged woman was killed in a drive-by shooting by suspected terrorists separatists in Tak Bai district on Sunday afternoon.
Dang Chankong was riding her new motorcycle home after attending her nephew's ordination at a local Buddhist temple when she was followed by two men on another motorcycle. The passenger, armed with a pistol, shot her three times. She fell off her vehicle and the gunman walked towards her and fired two more shots at point blank range. He then fled on her motorcycle, according to a witness.
Pol Col Lt Polkrit said that the broad-daylight killing was believed to be the work of the southern insurgency.
Ranger injured by bomb in southern Thailand
A ranger was injured in a bomb blast in Narathiwat's Cho Ai Rong district on Saturday night. The incident occurred when a ranger patrol from was returning to its base after providing security for a mosque. While the rangers were returning on foot to their base, terrorists militants hiding in the dark detonated a bomb with a communication radio.
[An Nahar] Hundreds of Kurdish fighters have entered northern Syria to help battle jihadists besieging the Kurdish city of Ain al-Arab, a monitor said Tuesday.
"At least 800 Kurdish fighters crossed the Turkish-Syrian border to help their comrades in Ain al-Arab (Kobane in Kurdish), which is under total siege by Islamic State jihadists," Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman told Agence La Belle France Presse.
A Kurdish Syrian activist said the flow of fighters came as the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), blacklisted in Turkey as a terrorist organization, gave orders for Kurdish fighters to move to protect Kobane.
"Fighters started going into Kobane from Turkey some four or five days ago," said Havidar, who goes by only one name.
"But the latest entry, last night, came after orders from the higher leadership of the PKK. Last night, there were celebrations in Kobane -- fighters were firing into the air as they arrived in the town," he told AFP.
The Observatory's Abdel Rahman also said the mobilization had come after a call by the PKK, which has branches in Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria.
"The Kurds are preparing for an assault by the Islamic State," he said.
Syrian Kurds have been fighting the IS for many months.
"But this is the first time that the jihadists appear to be advancing while the Kurds are suffering real setbacks. That is because IS has brought in a lot of weapons from Iraq," said Havidar, referring to weapons seizures from the Iraqi army amid an IS offensive there.
"Kurds going in to fight are from everywhere -- Turkey, Iran, Syria and others. Even some Kurds based in Europe are saying they want to go fight," he added.
Kobane, under siege by advancing IS troops, is important because it is located between Raqa -- the jihadists' main bastion -- and Aleppo, where IS has made recent advances.
"The situation is certainly going to get worse before it gets any better," said Havidar.
The IS proclaimed an Islamic "caliphate" in late June, straddling Syria and Iraq.
Once welcomed in Syria by some rebels seeking Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... 's ouster, the jihadist group's systematic abuses and quest for domination turned the opposition against it.
Rebels launched an offensive against the IS in January this year, but Kurdish Syrians, whose towns are located along Syria's border areas, have been fighting the jihadists for longer.
Havidar said: "IS is fighting the Kurds not for religious or ethnic reasons -- it simply wants their territory because it is strategically located along the borders, and because it is near IS bastions."
Abdel Rahman added: "It's a life-or-death battle for the Kurds. If IS takes Ain al-Arab, it will advance eastwards towards other Kurdish Syrian areas, such as Hasakeh in the northeast."
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Where is a good Lord of War when the Kurds need some good firepower? Lord of War
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Quoting another about a recent "kurdish" area the ISIL recently captured:
"The Peacock King
The Yezidis are a religious minority in the Middle East number in the half a million with the majority of its population concentrated in Iraq. Saddam Hussein perpetuated in contemporary times the persecution that the Yezidi’s have historically suffered. He along with many other have referred to the Yezidis with the moniker of “Devil Worshippers.”
The Yezidi religion has heavy Islamic, Christian, Judaic and even Hindu influences. They have their own caste system and they are forbidden to marry outside of their own caste and non-Yezidis alike. According to Michael Yon the Yezidis have to two holy books; the Book of Revelation and the Black Book which is treated which is kept secret so that it might not be defamed by outsiders.
The Yezidis believe in one God and accept Jesus and Muhammad as men of faith but not as prophets and messiahs in any recognizable form. Their belief and treatment of angelic beings is what sets them apart from Christianity, Islam and Judaism (Yon).
According to Yezidi belief there are seven angels: Izrafael, Jibrael, Michael, Nordael, Dardael, Shamnael, and Azazael; and these angels were commanded to bow before none other than their divine creator. All went well for about forty thousand years until the creation of Adam; and then God commanded the angels to bow before His new creation. Six complied and a seventh, like Iblis, did not out of respect for God’s first commandment (Yon).
The identity of this angel is disputed among the Yezidis, according to Yon’s findings, as some claim it is Jibrael and others that it was Izrafael or Azazel. In any case, this angel who was the most powerful of them all in heaven and earth and the favored of God rose again as Malak T’aus (Kelly 186).
Unlike, Satan and Iblis, Malak T’aus asked for forgiveness and was forgiven by God for his transgressions. He becomes Malak T’aus a demiurge in his right and an agent of God upon the earth. His signature animal is the peacock, “for it is ‘by far the most beautiful bird in the world,’” and his title, Malak Ta’us, literally means “King of Peacocks.” The Yezidis therefore lack a Satan figure in the traditional sense of the word and consider the use of the words, “al shaitan” to be an insult against their patron angel and demi-god (Kelly 186).
The tendency towards dualism that is present in Christianity and Islam is absent among the Yezidis. Malak T’aus has no control over the hearts of men and evil actions are the sole domain of human impetus."
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Very interesting post 3dc. I knew that some of the issues with Kurdish integration into greater Iraq were the individual language and culture, and also Chaldean Christianity, but never new much about the Yezidi faith. Nice find.
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The military advantage that derives from the Kurdish position in central-north Iraq is obvious. If it can hold the area it can provide the protection for the Kurds who occupy the Al Hasaka "thumb" that protrudes into Iraq and which is now held by Kurdish Peshmerga. It will cement a Kurdish presence west of the Tigris. Ironically, if the Peshmerga can block the ISIL then Assad will owe the Kurds and it will strengthen their claim to the Al Hasakah salient.
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