[Jihad Watch] CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (Reuters) -- Hours before the Tennessee shooting that killed five U.S. servicemen, the suspected gunman texted his close friend a link to a long Islamic verse that included the line: "Whosoever shows enmity to a friend of Mine, then I have declared war against him."
The friend, who requested anonymity, showed the text message to Reuters on Saturday. He said he thought nothing of the message at the time, but now wonders if it was a hint at Thursday's attack in Chattanooga.
The suspect, Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, a 24-year-old Kuwaiti-born naturalized U.S. citizen, was killed in a gunfight with police. The FBI is investigating the shooting as an act of terrorism, but said it was premature to speculate on the gunman's motive.
The rampage has re-ignited concerns about the radicalization of young Muslim men. Abdulazeez's friends said he returned from a trip to Jordan in 2014 concerned about conflicts in the Middle East and the reluctance of the United States and other countries to intervene.
After the trip, he purchased three assault rifles on an online marketplace and used them for target practice, the friends said.
"He expressed that he was upset about (the Middle East). But I can't imagine it drove him to this," said the friend who received the text message....
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FBI, "Yeah.. we got nuttin'. Don't know why he attacked the recruiting stations."
All of you are worthless. WORTHLESS. PC pansy fucks. You haven't seen war yet. But you are about too and will run crying that they are sooooo mean and hurt your wittle feewings.
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...there are a lot of college grads without jobs these days. Seems to be a lot of unqualified government personnel who can't even do basic analysis. Long past the time for that Executive Order to suspend the Civil Service Act. If you can rule by fiat, so can the next guy.
[DAWN] A roadside kaboom killed six coppers in western Afghanistan on Saturday, as they were patrolling on the first day of the Moslem holiday of Eidul Fitr, officials said.
The bomb tore through a police vehicle in Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... , a relatively peaceful province, provincial police front man Abdul Rauf Ahmadi told AFP.
"A mine planted by the turbans hit a police vehicle in Guzara district yesterday morning, leaving six coppers dead and three more maimed," Ahmadi said.
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[AnNahar] Eleven soldiers were killed in an overnight ambush carried out by suspected Islamists in a wooded region southwest of the Algerian capital, El Khaber newspaper reported Saturday on its website.
There was no immediate confirmation of the incident from the defense ministry, but it was widely circulated on websites and social media.
The ambush took place on Friday night at the start of the Eid al-Fitr holidays marking the end of the Moslem fasting month of Ramadan.
El Khaber, which cited security sources, said it took place on the road to Tifran, a wooded area south of Ain Defla, 140 kilometers (85 miles) from the capital.
It said the assailants targeted an army unit headed for an advance post in the bush and managed to flee before reinforcements arrived.
Ain Defla was a bastion of gangs in the 1990s when Islamist-linked violence rocked Algeria. The unrest has since waned.
But the defense ministry said last week that more than 100 armed Islamists have been killed, captured or have repented in the first half of 2015.
More than 100 Islamists were killed last year, according to the army.
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) claimed the attack in an unverified statement posted online late on Saturday night.
"The knights of Islam have, on the first night of Eid killed 14 soldiers in an ambush on an army platoon in the area of Djebel Louh," it said, adding that the attackers managed to escape unharmed after seizing the dead troops' weapons.
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[AlAhram] Three Egyptian army soldiers were killed and four injured in a krazed killer attack by bully boyz on Saturday evening against a security checkpoint south of the town of Sheikh Zueid in North Sinai, a military front man said.
Spokesman Mohammed Samir said on his official Facebook page that the army had been engaging the murderous Moslems in battle in three different areas south of the town. He said that the army destroyed two vehicles and killed a number of murderous Moslems in the Al-Hamadein area near Al-Zawarae, south of Sheikh Zuweid.
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.... 's Egypt affiliate, Sinai Province, has grabbed credit for the attack in a statement carried on a social media website.
Earlier in the evening, state news agency MENA had reported that five soldiers were killed and seven injured in a krazed killer attack against Abu Refae security checkpoint south of Sheikh Zuweid.
Security sources had told MENA that "terrorists" attacked the checkpoint with live ammunition and bombs.
On 1 July, Islamic State group murderous Moslems launched multiple attacks against army and security forces in and around Sheikh Zuweid, leaving 21 soldiers dead.
In the past two weeks, the Egyptian army, which regained control over the town on the same day after fierce battles, has been carrying out intense strikes against krazed killer hideouts which reportedly left more than 200 murderous Moslems dead.
[AlAhram] The Egyptian military said it had killed a total of 39 militants in raids in two cities in the Sinai Peninsula on Saturday.
Official spokesman Brigadier General Mohamed Samir said in an official statement that the Egyptian army had raided Sheikh Zuwaid’s southern district of Lafetat and Rafah's southern district of Masaid, killing 14 militants.
Another 25 militants were killed in Om Shaihan village and in the district of East Al-Batour in central Sinai, Samir said in a separate statement.
The spokesman released two videos showing two "bomb-laden vehicles" as they were blown up by the military.
He also announced the arrest of four alleged militants who he said were responsible for planting improvised explosive devices in locations in North Sinai.
Raids by the Egyptian military against Islamist militants have increased after coordinated attacks on 1 and 2 July by Islamic State affiliated group Sinai Province (formerly known as Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis) left at least 21 soldiers dead in Sheikh Zuweid and Rafah.
[Libya Herald] Eid El-Fitr holiday celebrations went disastrously wrong for Zliten diners, when scores were rushed to hospitals suffering from severe food poisoning.
More than 100 people presented with abdominal pains, fever and diarrhoea. A senior municipal guard was quoted by Press Solidarity as saying that interviews with the victims quickly established that they had all eaten at the Al-Amedi restaurant in the town.
When officials visited the eatery they discovered it was closed and they were unable to find the owner. Though no one has died from the poisoning, a number of those stricken have been kept in hospital for treatment. It is likely that other customers were less seriously affected and decided not to go to Accident and Emergency.
The municipality has now vowed to crack down on hygiene in restaurants.
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[Libya Herald] Daesh gunmen this morning seized a Sirte social media activist and executed him in public, leaving his body tied to the bottom of an advertising hoarding .
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The power of social media will transform the World!
[AnNahar] 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... jihadists killed 16 civilians in an attack this week on a southeast Niger village, near the Nigerian border, a local official said Saturday.
"On July 15, Boko Haram elements fired on locals who were praying in a village near the town of Bosso," said Bako Mamadou, mayor of Bosso, a town in southeast Niger on the border with Nigeria, where the armed Islamist group originated.
"They killed 15 people on the spot and another person succumbed later to their wounds," Mamadou said on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
According to the Bosso mayor, four others were maimed in the attack.
Meanwhile the Niger army said Saturday it had killed 32 Boko Haram fighters from July 15-17 during "sweeping up" operations following the July 15 attack by "Boko Haram elements".
The defense ministry added that three Islamist fighters were taken into custody, adding that Chadian soldiers also took part in the operation.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Three girls staged suicide kabooms in the Nigerian city of Damaturu on Friday, killing at least 13 people as residents prepared for the Eid festival at the end of holy month of Ramadan, police said.
The attacks, in a northeastern area hard hit by the 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... terrorist group, came just days before Nigeria's new President Muhammadu Buhari travels to Washington for talks with US counterpart Barack Obama Jedi mind meld... The bombings came on the day the country's new army chief was due to visit the city to meet soldiers battling Boko Haram.
Buhari is expected to use Monday's meeting with Obama to push for US help to tackle the terrorist violence, which has surged since he took office in May, claiming more than 700 lives.
In the Nigerian attacks, residents said twin kabooms near a prayer ground in Damaturu killed two people, before a third blast moments later near a mosque that left another 11 dead.
Markus Danladi, Yobe state police commissioner, confirmed 13 people were killed.
"The attacks were carried out by three underage girls. Fifteen people were also injured in the attacks."
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[ALMANAR.LB] Yemeni sources have refuted rumors that the holy warriors of al-Qaeda and runaway president Abd Rabbu Mnasour Hadi had controlled the southern city of Aden.
The sources told al-Manar that fierce festivities are taking place between the holy warriors and the army backed by the popular committees.
Aden mapThe holy warriors were backed by intensified Saudi-led air strikes, the sources said, noting that the raids aim at achieving what the battlefield could not do.
"Al-Qaeda and Hadi holy warriors did not advance but in the international airport. Elsewhere, the holy warriors advanced towards the bridge in Khormakser, but they did not manage to enter the town as circulated by pro-Saudi media," the sources said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa suddenly spied Mr. Bartlett at the checkout counter. He was buying Grecian Formula!... dozens of al-Qaeda bad boyz were potted near Aden International Airport, according to the sources.
The killed turbans are from different nationalities, the sources added.
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[ALMANAR.LB] The Yemeni army launched missile attacks on strategic military bases in Southern 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... on Friday in retaliation for Riyadh's continued Arclight airstrikes on Yemen.
The Yemeni forces hit al-Moazab military base with 10 missiles and al-Khoube military base with 6 missiles today.
The Yemeni army -- backed by the Popular Committees -- also destroyed the watch tower of Al-Hasira military base in Jizan.
Yemeni Army Spokesman Brigadier General Sharaf Luqman said in a statement that the missiles hit and destroyed the target in precision attacks.
Earlier in the day, civilian targets were pummeled by Saudi air raids in the Northwestern province of Sa'ada in which large groups of people bit the dust.
Riyadh launched Arclight airstrikes against 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 March 26 without a UN mandate. Saudi Arabia aims to undermine the Ansarullah popular fighters and restore power to runaway President Mansour Hadi.
Despite Riyadh's claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters, Saudi warplanes are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures.
The Saudi-US aggression has so far claimed the lives of at least 5,122 people, mostly women and kiddies.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Local fighters and army forces in 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... have wrested two military bases from 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 ... forces overnight, residents and officials said, building on a week of gains against the country's dominant faction.
The advances come a day after Yemen's government in exile declared the key southern city of Aden "liberated," in their biggest victory yet in a Saudi-led air campaign and civil war that has raged almost four months and killed more than 3,500 people.
Saudi-backed Yemeni forces backed up by air strikes seized the Labuza army base in restive Lahj ... a Yemeni governate located in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It is the stomping grounds on the southern secessionist al-Harak movement province north of the port city and the headquarters of the 117th armored division in eastern Shabwa province some 230km (145 miles) away.
Officials in the anti-Houthi forces say the offensive was planned for weeks and benefited from training and arms deliveries from 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 Arab Emirates.
The war in Yemen has pitted the Sunni Moslem Gulf states, which support the exiled government, against the Shi'ite Houthis allied to Iran, in a conflict that has further raised the stakes as the Middles East grapples with regional rivalries and sectarian strife.
But power struggles have simmered for years in the impoverished and conflict-wracked country, and fighters in Yemen's south -- the setting for most of the recent battles -- have long sought independence from the North, the Houthis' home.
Residents said Houthi forces and their allies in Yemen's army made an attempt to regroup and take back northern fringes of Aden on Friday, firing rockets at the Khor Maksar district.
Their push was repelled, anti-Houthi fighters said, and an offensive backed by air strikes is underway to take Anad air base, one of Yemen's largest, 60 km (40 miles) north of Aden.
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Traditionally, Guard and Reserve recruiters are located at Guard and Reserve installations - they don't share facilities. Army Guard recruiters are usually at armories, which have weapons and ammo and lots of combat experienced Guardsmen while Air Guard recruiters tend to be on ANG bases, so you have to get past armed guards to get to them. AF Reserve are also usually on secured bases, while Army/USN/USMC Reserve tend to be more at individual facilities much like NG armories - but still with a bunch more people in much harder buildings to crack than a strip mall recruiting office.
All of the above should pretty much point out that when Recruiting offices get hit, its because somebody has made a conscious effort to hit a relatively soft target. I know that the orders for Guard to be able to carry on post helps, but for the most part they're doing it someplace that isn't likely to be hit by a Lone Wolf(TM).
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The military isn't dealing with the problem alone, at least for the moment:
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By virtue of this order the headlines should read. "The war has officially moved from the middle East to America, Citizens guard Armories as Governor declares war and arms National guard."
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OK - this is RANT-burg, right? For RANTING. I want to "rant".
It is time for the US to reactivate WWII style resettlement centers - then for Japanese - now for Muslims.
The war between the US and Islam is more dangerous to the US mainland now, than was the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces to the 48-state mainland in 1942.
Put the NSA to useful work, for a change, and have them screen every e-mail and Social Media correspondence involving a Muslim resident of the USA - and if anything other than "God Bless America" is being transmitted - then start shipping them off - to:
Indiantown Gap, PA
Camp Blanding, FL
Ft. Chafee, AR
Ft. Devens, MA
Ft. Dix, NJ
Ft. A.P Hill, VA
Ft. Polk, LA
Ft. Orde, CA
and 100 more. I don't know the locations of the FEMA camps - but we've paid for them - let's start using them.
Feed the barbarians, and slowly let selected ones out - preferably after they apostate themselves.
Muslims in any sort of concentration above ten individuals are a mortal threat to the American way of life - and are incompatible with normal civilized Americans.
There are benign Muslims - but it is difficult to separate them from their death-eater brethren. It's not our problem - lock them up for the duration of the global conflict between Islam and normal human civilization.
If we do not do as I request above, then - 100 years hence - small surviving banks of non-Muslims with be gathering in secret, on the run from the Sharia barbarians, and lamenting among themselves: "WTF were our ancestors thinking, to have let this unholy pestilence fester and propagate itself from a tiny, unproductive population of malcontents, into a global existential menace."
Let's stop pretending: these are our mortal enemies. Mere adherence to that cult marks a civil defect that needs to be quarantined away from other Americans.
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Executive 9066 etc. was upheld by the US Supreme Court in Korematsu. Justice Scalia has already gone on record (years ago) as saying internment of US citizens extra-judicially could happen again in times of emergency.
Seeing what has happened in the USA these last 25 years, any US citizen (except for Muslims, especially black ones) will be the first to go into the camps (or up against the wall).
"The war between the US and Islam is more dangerous to the US mainland now" - a minority view. The 47% think their greatest danger is losing their government cheese.
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Seeing what has happened in the USA these last 25 years, any US citizen (except for Muslims, especially black ones) will be the first to go into the camps (or up against the wall).
good luck with that economy, Cambodia, Obama
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Thanks Mike. Seems like I remember some shared spaces. Been so long ago, prolly got some wires crossed in the brain housing group.
[DAWN] A Superintendent of Police (SP) Elite Force Bannu Hairul Haseeb was killed on Saturday in Saleem Khan area of Swabi district.
According to District Police Officer Swabi Sajjad Khan, Hairul Haseeb was on his way home from a mosque after offering morning prayers when unidentified gunnies on cycle of violence opened fire and killed him.
SP Hairul Haseeb was a retired army officer and posted as Baunu elite police force SP. He had come to his home town to celebrate Eid.
Police reached the site of attack and launched a probe into the incident.
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[DAWN] Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) resorted to firing along with the Line of Control (LoC) at Jammu and Kashmir sector on Saturday morning, the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said. The incident was reported on the first day of Eidul Fitr at Neza Pir sector. However no casualties have been reported so far.
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[DAWN] Rangers raided the Nine Zero headquarters of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... in the small hours of Friday and took into custody two big shots of the party, including the in-charge of its coordination committee, for "facilitating hate speeches against peace in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... A heavy contingent of Rangers cordoned off streets around the Nine Zero and Khurshid Begum Secretariat at about 2am and entered the secretariat, arresting Kaif-ul-Wara and Qamar Mansoor, the in-charge and member of the coordination committee, respectively.
The Rangers personnel also questioned some other MQM members, including MNA Sufyan Yousuf and MPA Azeem Farooqi, but did not arrest them. They left the area after completing their swift operation.
In a Twitter posting at 4.19am, Rangers Director General Maj Gen Bilal Akbar said: "Those apprehended tonight from 90 have been arranging and facilitating hate speeches against peace of Karachi."
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[Rudaw] A police official said warplanes resumed Arclight airstrikes before dawn Saturday against ISIS bases in the occupied Arab town of Hawija, in southern of Kirkuk province, killing several of the Death Eater group's senior members.
"The US-led warplanes pounded several ISIS positions before dawn at 00:30 on Saturday in Hawija, killing several leaders and hard boyz of the Islamic state," Brigadier Sarhad Qadir, police chief of Kirkuk province, told Rudaw.
"We have obtained information that six local leaders of the jihadist group are among the casualties."
Hawija is a district of Kirkuk province, roughly 45 km south of Kurdish-controlled Kirkuk city.
The Arab-majority district was greatly altered by the so-called Arabization process of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussien. The once-Kurdish city has only two Arab families in 1940, according to reports.
The city has been under the control of ISIS for more than a year. Several months ago, 17 Kurdish Peshmerga fighters were paraded through the streets in cages. The fate of the Peshmerga is still unknown.
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[Rudaw] Security forces were out in full force across Diyala on Saturday, with dozens of new checkpoints and security protocols immediately implemented in the wake of Friday's attack.
That'd be the ISIS car bomb that killed 115 pre-Eid shoppers in the Shiite town of Khan Beni Saad Friday night.
"This horrible carnage is truly outside all boundaries of civilized behavior," Jan Kubis, the special representative of the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... mission in Iraq, said Saturday."
The Sunni bad boy group has been behind several similar large-scale attacks on civilians or military checkpoints as it seeks to expand its territory. The group currently controls about a third of Iraq and Syria in a self-declared caliphate.
In August last year, at least 64 people were killed in an attack on a Sunni mosque in Diyala in what locals believed was a retaliatory attack against Diyala tribes that refused to proclaim loyalty 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 United States has spent billions arming and training the Iraqi military, but it performed poorly last year when Islamic State murderous Moslems swept across western and northern Iraq, routing four divisions. The U.S. and a coalition of nations have been conducting Arclight airstrikes on Islamic State positions in Iraq and Syria since last year, but it has not stopped the group from making advances. The murderous Moslems recently captured the city of Ramadi, in Iraq's western Anbar province, and the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria.
Diyala, which borders Iran, is the only province in Iraq where Iranian jets are known to have conducted Arclight airstrikes against the Islamic State group earlier this year.
Elsewhere in Iraq, a roadside kaboom on a commercial street in Baghdad's Dora district Saturday killed four people and maimed seven. North of Baghdad, a roadside kaboom on a commercial street in al-Rashidiya killed three people and maimed 11.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wrecked scow, Agent 49 felt gingerly for his head. It was still there. He had been hoping differently... reports emerged Saturday that the Islamic State group used projectile-delivered poison gas against Kurdish forces in Iraq and Syria on several occasions last month.
Joint, on-site investigations by two U.K.-based organizations -- Conflict Armament Research (CAR) and Sahan Research -- concluded that IS forces used chemical agents to attack Iraqi peshmerga forces and Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) on June 21, 22 and 28.
In the Syria attacks, IS murderous Moslems launched 17 artillery projectiles against YPG forces stationed to the south of the village of Tell Brak in Hassakeh province. The projectiles released a chemical agent which induced in some cases loss of consciousness and temporary, localized paralysis. Twelve YPG personnel were hospitalized. Another seven projectiles were also launched into civilian residential areas in Hassakeh.
In the Iraq attack, IS forces fired a projectile containing a liquid chemical agent at a peshmerga checkpoint near the djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... Dam, triggering symptoms among the Iraqi forces that included headaches, nausea and light burns to the skin.
The findings on the attacks in Syria were confirmed by an YPG statement issued Saturday. The type of chemical used is not known. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported an apparent IS chemical attack on June 28.
There have been several allegations that the Islamic State group has used chlorine previously in both Iraq and Syria.
The Islamic State group, which controls a third of Syria and Iraq in its self-declared caliphate, has not commented on the claims.
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[Rudaw] The US-led coalition forces hammered 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.... bases west of the group's stronghold of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , killing at least 30 radicals, a Peshmerga source told Rudaw.
The source, who spoke to Rudaw on condition of anonymity, said on Saturday the coalition Arclight airstrikes conducted against ISIS in Badosh and Halabiya region, west of Mosul, have killed at least 30 radicals.
According to the Peshmerga source, commanders and military experts were also among ISIS casualties.
"Apart from casualties, a number of military bases have been vanished by the Arclight airstrikes," the source has added.
Months of Arclight airstrikes by the US-led coalition believed to be a preparation to retake ISIS self-claimed capital of Mosul, Iraq's second largest city that fell to the snuffies last June.
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[ALMANAR.LB] The Iraqi army and volunteer forces killed tens of Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... bandidosgunnies in daylong festivities in Anbar province.
"Over 160 ISIL faceless myrmidons were killed in the Iraqi army's operations in the city of Ramadi on Thursday," the Iraqi defense ministry announced in a statement on Friday, in reference to faceless myrmidons 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' 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.
Earlier today, the Iraqi defense ministry announced that its fighter jets launched massive air raids on ISIL positions in the nearby areas of Ramadi which resulted in the killing of tens of Lion of Islams.
"The Iraqi Arclight airstrikes against hideouts of the ISIL faceless myrmidons in the surrounding areas of Hasiba and the outskirts of al-Khalediya City and Ramadi, killed and maimed a large number of the terrorists, and destroyed a large store of their booby-trapped vehicles," the ministry said.
ISIL takfiri bandidosgunnies currently control shrinking swathes of Syria and Iraq. They have threatened all communities as they continue their atrocities across the two countries.
Senior Iraqi officials have blamed 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... , 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... , and some Gulf states for the growing terrorism in their country.
ISIL has links with Saudi intelligence and is believed to be indirectly supported by the Zionist regime.
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[Ynet]. The United States and its allies bombarded 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.... in Iraq on Friday with 23 air strikes, hitting the Lion of Islam group near Tal Afar and Ramadi, the US military said on Saturday.
Referring to the Lion of Islam group as Daesh, Col. Wayne Morotto, chief of public affairs for the Combined Joint Task Force, said in a statement: "When coalition assets detect and positively identify Daesh targets, we strike them relentlessly and our strikes exact a heavy toll on this brutal enemy."
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Seven cars belonging to Hamas and Islamic Jihad activists in Gaza exploded on Sunday morning in apparent car bombings that are being blamed on Islamic State militants.
A number of the cars exploded in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, considered a Hamas stronghold, Palestinian media reported.
Abu Hamar, a commander in Hamas' security forces in Gaza, blamed ISIS for the explosions and called for a Hamas reaction.
[IsraelTimes] Israel Radio cites opposition sources, as well as report in pan-Arab paper that heavy Hezbollah losses lead to reluctance to engage rebels
The Leb-based terror group Hezbollah has incarcerated Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! 175 of its own fighters after they refused to take part in battles in the Syrian city of Zabadani, close to the border with Leb, Israel Radio said Saturday, quoting opposition sources in Syria.
The radio also cited a report in pan-Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat, which claimed that Hezbollah fighters dispatched to Syria to shore up the regime there have begun to show reluctance to confront the rebel groups seeking to overthrow Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... . According to the report, the hesitation began after 120 Hezbollah fighters were killed in confrontations with opposition groups and another 200 were maimed.
Like the Syrian regime, Hezbollah is an Iranian proxy in the region, receiving funds and arms from the Islamic Theocratic Republic. The group has dispatched thousands of fighters to support the embattled Assad, although reports have repeatedly emerged that the organization has struggled to defeat the opposition forces.
[Rudaw] The Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPG, have captured a key district of southern Hasaka, as fierce fighting continues against ISIS in the disputed city.
The Kurdish fighter, backed by coalition warplanes, managed on Friday to capture the Al-Filaha district and a neighborhood known as Red Villas, said Ivan Hasib, Rudaw's correspondent in Hasaka.
"Ninety percent of ISIS-controlled areas are now surrounded by the Kurdish fighters," said Hasib.
According to Hasib, the previously slow progress of Kurdish forces on the ground was due to the weakness of the Syrian Army troops fighting in the area.
Syrian soldiers loyal to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... are fighting alongside YPG units in some areas of Hasaka, but Hasib said the troops fail to hold territory from ISIS offensives.
Rudaw's correspondent said ISIS positions in southern areas of Hasaka were heavily shelled by the artillery of the Syrian Army on the first day of Eid on Friday.
The areas that were bombarded include Al-Sakan Al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... y and Al-Zuhur quarters, the outskirts of the College of Arts as well as Al-Nashwa quarter and the Red Villas area.
At least ten ISIS fighters were killed and many others were forced to withdraw, said Hasib.
Intense fighting took place between ISIS and the Syrian Army forces over the past 24 hours in the southern suburbs of Hasaka, said the source.
ISIS attempted to infiltrate those areas Friday night, leading to tough battles in Red Villas, in addition to Al-Sharia and Al-Nashwa Squares to the west.
The Syrian forces advanced towards electricity facilities and have control of key points in that area.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Syrian regime raids on Eastern Ghouta Suburbs near Damascus have killed 12 civilians, including 3 children and 2 women, a brutal aerial campaign marks the second day of Eid al-Fitr, a monitoring group said.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights said Bashir al-Assad's air strikes on Irbeen town in the embattled suburbs of Eastern Ghouta near Damascus have killed 12 people on Saturday.
Despite the Moslem holiday that marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, regime continues its fierce aerial campaign on rebel-held areas, leaving dozens killed and maimed. The corpse count of the first day of Eid al-Fitr reached 58, according to SNHR.
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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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[DAWN] Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) resorted to firing along with the Line of Control (LoC) at Jammu and Kashmir sector on Saturday morning, the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said. The incident was reported on the first day of Eidul Fitr at Neza Pir sector. However no casualties have been reported so far.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
