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Yemen’s army imposes full control over Saada’s Al-Zaher directorate
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Good morning
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#1  Cosmetics by Sharpie™
Posted by: Frank G || 09/02/2018 1:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Watched a young lady start plucking eyebrows so she could look beautiful. After watching her pluck only two folicles I couldn't watch any more. Too painful to watch!

I suggested she enlist in the military as an ISIS interrogator.
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 || 09/02/2018 8:44 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Nangarhar: Big shot and buddy kaboomed, 11 turbans permanently unwound


District governor and police chief wounded in an explosion in Nangarhar

[KhaamaPress] An kaboom destroyed the vehicle of Durbaba district administrative governor and police chief in eastern Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province of Afghanistan.

The provincial government media office in a statement said the incident took place at around 9:30am local time, targeting the vehicle of Durbaba district governor Hamisha Gul Moslem and police chief Nawab Khan.

The statement further added that the kaboom was triggered by an improvised explosive planted on a roadside, leaving the two bigwigs slightly maimed.

According to the provincial government, the incident took place as the two officials were patrolling the area.

Both the district governor and police chief have been shifted to hospital and are undergoing treatment, the statement by the provincial government added.

No individual or group has so far grabbed credit behind the incident.

11 Killed In Govt Forces Operation In Nangarhar

[ToloNews] Local officials in Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
said at least 11 people were killed and 12 others were tossed in the clink
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
in a military operation in Khogyani district in the eastern province.

The operation was conducted in Kooz Bahar area on Thursday night, local officials said.

One member of Nangarhar Provincial Council said a Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
commander'>Taliban Überstürmbannführer
was among those killed in the operation and that those arrested were Taliban aides.

Government officials in Kabul have not commented on the operation. However,
there's more than one way to skin a cat...
a number of local residents said some of those killed in the operation were civilians.

Taliban has said in a statement that non-combatants were killed and maimed in a military operation by Afghan Special Forces in Kooz Bahar area in Khogyani district.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/02/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336066 views] Top|| File under:


More than 50 militants killed, wounded in U.S. airstrike in Paktia
[KhaamaPress] More than fifty turbans were killed or maimed during the Arclight airstrike conducted by the U.S. forces in southeastern Paktia province of Afghanistan.

The 203rd Thunder Corps of the Afghan Military in the Southeast said the latest airstrike was carried out in the vicinity of Syedabad district.

A statement by 203rd Thunder Corps stated that the turbans were targeted in Zargul area of the district, leaving at least 30 turbans dead.

The statement further added that 22 turbans also sustained injuries during the same airstrike.

The anti-government armed myrmidon groups including Talibs have not commented regarding the report so far.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/02/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336074 views] Top|| File under:


4 Al-Qaeda network members killed in U.S. drone strikes in Kunar
[AlQaeda] At least four members of the al-Qaeda terrorist network were killed during the Arclight airstrikes conducted by the U.S. forces in eastern Kunar province
... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country.....
of Afghanistan.

The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East said the al-Qaeda network members were killed in the vicinity of Watapur district.

According to a statement released by 201st Silab Corps, the coalition forces based in Afghanistan carried out airstrikes using unmanned aerial vehicles, leaving at least 4 al-Qaeda network members dead.

The statement further added that the airstrikes were carried out on Friday in Khaki Bandi area of the district.

The 201st Silab Corps also added in its statement that the al-Qaeda network members killed during the airstrikes have been identified as Habib Ur Rehman also famous as Malik, Syeda Jan, Nematullah, and Mullah Jan.

The security situation in eastern Kunar province has started to deteriorate sharply during the recent months amid growing insurgency activities by the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
and ISIS bad boys.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/02/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336074 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda


Four Insurgents Killed In Foreign Forces Airstrike
[ToloNews] At least four Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
holy warriors were killed on Friday night during a foreign forces Arclight airstrike in Parwan province, local officials said Saturday.

According to local officials, the Taliban had planned to target Bagram airbase on Friday night but before the group could launch its attack the foreign forces carried out an airstrike.

Wahida Shahkar Parwan, the governor’s spokeswoman, confirmed and said that four Taliban holy warriors were killed in the incident.

This comes after Bagram airbase has come under rocket attacks four times in the past month.

However,
there's more than one way to skin a cat...
the Taliban has claimed it carried out a rocket attack on Bagram airbase on Friday night.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/02/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336073 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa North
Flights suspended from Libyan capital Tripoli’s only working airport
[ARABNEWS] The only operational airport in the unrest-hit Libyan capital 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...
suspended all flights Friday, an airport source said, after fierce fighting near the city that has left at least 39 dead this week.

Hundreds of people have been injured in the festivities between rival militias, which broke out on Monday in suburbs south of Tripoli, according to a new toll by the health ministry released Friday.

Fighting had temporarily ceased on Thursday following a cease-fire deal, but reignited in the evening and continued into Friday, with intermittent bursts of heavy fire.

Witnesses and Libyan rescue services said rockets and shells had hit multiple areas around and within the capital, causing civilian casualties.

Several rockets landed near Tripoli’s Mitiga airport, forcing authorities to suspend flights for at least 48 hours for security reasons, according to the airport official.

The UN in Libya said it "strongly condemns the loss of civilian lives" in the city and called on all parties to prevent further casualties and cease hostilities in a statement on Twitter.

Flights were temporarily rerouted to the airport in Misrata, some 200 kilometers (125 miles) east of Tripoli, the airport source said.
Posted by: Fred || 09/02/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336073 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  Damnit.
Posted by: newc || 09/02/2018 0:42 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Thirty Nigerian soldiers 'killed' in Boko Haram army base raid
[Al Jazeera] At least 30 Nigerian soldiers have been killed in a shootout with 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...
fighters who overran a military base in the country's northeast, according to military sources.

Scores of fighters in trucks stormed the base at Zari village in Borno state late on Thursday and briefly captured it after intense fighting, two sources told AFP news agency on Saturday.

"They came in large numbers in trucks and carrying heavy weapons and engaged soldiers in a battle that lasted for an hour," a military officer said.

"They overwhelmed the troops who were forced to temporarily withdraw before reinforcements arrived," said the officer who asked not to be named because he was not authorised to speak.

Boko Haram took weapons and military equipment before they were pushed out of the base by troops with aerial support, said a second military source who gave a similar corpse count.

"The gunnies also suffered heavy casualty from the bombardment," one of the military officers said.

Boko Haram are thought to have attacked the base from the nearby Garunda village, where 17 troops were killed and 14 maimed in an attack on another military base last month, the sources said.

Posted by: Fred || 09/02/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336072 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)


Arabia
Yemen’s army imposes full control over Saada’s Al-Zaher directorate
[ARABNEWS] Yemen’s army, backed by the Arab Coalition, took full control of al-Zaher directorate, north-west of Saada province, after a large-scale military operation, Saudi state-news agency SPA reported.

A military source told the Yemeni Ministry of Defense’s official website, September 26, that the army fully liberated al-Zaher following festivities with the 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 ...
militia.

According to the source, dozens of Houthis were killed, including high ranking field commanders.

Elsewhere, the army launched artillery raids targeting Houthi reinforcements sent to Sufyan directorate in an effort to retake strategic sites it had lost.



Posted by: Fred || 09/02/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336106 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Houthi forces attack Saudi warship in Red Sea waters
[ALMASDARNEWS] The 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 announced via their official channel that their naval units targeted a Saudi warship along the Jizan coast.

According the Yemeni group, their naval forces fired a missile at the Saudi warship as it was moving south towards Yemeni territorial waters in the Red Sea.

No further details were released by the Houthi forces.

The Saudi Ministry of Defense has yet to issue a statement to corroborate this claim by the Houthi forces.

Posted by: Fred || 09/02/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336070 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Europe
Germany: Kid (10 y/o) raped by Muslim classmates
Here's a link to a German MSM report.
This story is outrageous and in need of stronger verification than a post on an opinion blog could provide.

This is Bacha Bazi, a recognized cultural practice being imposed on Europeans for the purpose of humiliation and intimidation. Which makes this a WOT topic, IMO

[Searchlight-Germany] According to media reports, a ten-year-old boy was raped by three fourth-graders, all from Syria and Afghanistan.

Shortly before the summer holidays 38 girls and boys went to the castle of Kröchlendorff. The operators of the facility there are particularly popular for their adventure pedagogy. Pupils should be able to escape from their everyday life and the house is situated in the middle of nature. For a ten-year-old boy, however, the stay should not be at all pleasant.

"We'll f*ck you today," his tormentors threatened him during the day. But because he was silent, it actually became bitterly serious. Two
allegedly
11-year-olds held the boy. A
allegdly
10-year-old boy in his class raped him. Two uninvolved classmates simply watched.

The three teachers and an educator allegedly didn't notice anything.

Several weeks later, a victim of the boy entrusted himself to a social worker at his school. After the rape became known to the school, the parents and the police were immediately informed.

The perpetrators were excluded from class until the beginning of the holiday. It was also agreed that none of the perpetrators should return to the old school. The two
allegdly
eleven-year-old accomplices from Syria and Afghanistan have already been placed in other schools.
...where the colonists will no doubt go on to do the same to other native children, having learnt there is no real punishment for taking their pleasure.
The main perpetrator, an Afghan, who is said to be even younger than his victim, was not medically diagnosed. The reason: he is supposedly recognizable as a child and can therefore not be punished. The
allegedly
10-year-old Afghan, who also lived in Iran,
... for eleven years...
had already attracted negative attention at his school several times before the sexual assault on the 10-year-old. He is said to have regularly hit other classmates and stood in their way.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 09/02/2018 08:37 || Comments || Link || [336095 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Germans have become multi-cultural pu**ies, who knew ? German fathers bend over for Moslems.?

Where is the father of this child? What is "socially acceptable" if a Moslem rapes your child?

Protest? Depend on the school to transfer the offender to another school? A child can't be charged with rape, no, no, no. But a Moslem child CAN rape another child. That's perfectly understandable. We must be tolerant of other cultural values.

What would YOU do if someone raped your child and you knew where to find them.....?
Posted by: Thor Snaiger7729 || 09/02/2018 13:01 Comments || Top||

#2  At the very least, they and their entire families should be deported back to their desert hell holes.

It does make me think that public executions for these "children" (actually demons) should be carried out.
Posted by: Ho Chi Wittlesbach9933 || 09/02/2018 13:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Personally I wonder if the ages of these "children" are accurate.

It's well known (by Teachers but ignored by MSM) that child age is the biggest fraud by gimmigrants.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/02/2018 13:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Thanks, Angela. Thanks a bunch.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/02/2018 14:33 Comments || Top||

#5  At the very least, they and their entire families should be deported back to their desert hell holes.

The worst that could happen to them under German law is involuntary commitment to a closed psychiatric facility. This wouldn't be a punitive measure but a measure to prevent them from being a danger to themselves or others.

This isn't going to happen.

The victim's family would be well advised to lie very low.

Should they go public and demand political consequences they'd be a prime target for retribution, political and otherwise.

Right now the establishment would react very harshly to anyone who would dare interfere with the post Chemnitz anti rightist rectification campaign.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 09/02/2018 15:25 Comments || Top||

#6  10 year old r*pist? Is that even physiologically possible?
Posted by: Glenmore || 09/02/2018 16:18 Comments || Top||

#7  Exactly what I was thinking. How is that possible unless the 10 year are is about 3-6 years older than claimed.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/02/2018 16:40 Comments || Top||

#8  The important thing here, IMO, is not how old they are - it's making sure they grow no older.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/02/2018 16:50 Comments || Top||

#9  An age full of glandular wonders
With one little problem: it sunders
Society's bonds
When the body responds
To its endocrinologists' blunders.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 09/02/2018 17:19 Comments || Top||

#10  Now, class, please examine this stratum:
The commissar, midwife and madam,
Has tinted it pink,
And, here, red, at the brink
Of America's splitting the Adam.

Fortunately, we robots arrived just in time to save the important parts of their civilisation! I see I've run a bit over. Get a move on, kits, you don't want to be late for the Three Nanosecond Rave and Kardashian History!

Jesus, what a dinosaur I've turned into.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 09/02/2018 17:30 Comments || Top||

#11  Remove their genitals, that'll help prevent future assaults.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 09/02/2018 19:32 Comments || Top||

#12  Fact is, it's koranic.

BOYS.

Homosexuality was and is widely practised in Islamic countries. To please the homosexuals among his followers he promised them pre-pubescent boys in Paradise. So after committing plunder, loot, rape and murder in this life, the followers of Islam get "rewarded" by untouched virginal youths who are fresh like pearls.

(QURAN 52:24): "And there will go round boy-servants of theirs, to serve them as if they were preserved pearls."

(QURAN 56:17): "They will be served by immortal boys."

(QURAN 76:19): "And round about them will (serve) boys of everlasting youth. If you see them, you would think them scattered pearls."

It is common in Arabic poetry to glorify homosexuality, take their famous poet Abu Nuwas:

O the joy of sodomy!
So now be sodomites, you Arabs.
Turn not away from it--
therein is wondrous pleasure.
Take some coy lad with kiss-curls
twisting on his temple
and ride as he stands like some gazelle
standing to her mate.
A lad whom all can see girt with sword
and belt not like your whore who has
to go veiled.
Make for smooth-faced boys and do your
very best to mount them, for women are
the mounts of the devils
Posted by: Woodrow || 09/02/2018 20:17 Comments || Top||


Victims in Amsterdam stabbing are Americans
[YAHOO] Two people maimed in a knife attack at the Dutch capital's busy main railway station on Friday are both American citizens who were visiting the Netherlands, the U.S. ambassador said Saturday as police investigated possible motives, including the possibility it was an bad boy act.

Police shot and maimed a 19-year-old Afghan man immediately after the attack and are questioning him as a suspect.

A dramatic photo captured by a passerby shows two coppers pointing their pistols at a man wearing jeans and sneakers lying on the ground inside a tunnel in the station.

Ambassador Pete Hoekstra issued a written statement saying embassy officials had been in touch with the victims or their families. Police say they have serious but not life-threatening injuries. Authorities did not disclose the identities of the victims.

"We wish them a speedy recovery and are working closely with the City of Amsterdam to provide assistance to them and their families," Hoekstra said.

Police say they are still trying to establish a reason for the attack, including whether it was motivated by extremism.

A statement issued late Friday by Amsterdam's city council said that the Americans did not appear to have been victims of a assassination.

Initial police inquiries did not indicate that the victims were chosen deliberately or with a clear reason, Amsterdam authorities said. "The investigation is still underway, and all scenarios remain open for the investigation team," the City Hall statement said.

Police said in a statement Saturday that the Afghan man was being questioned in the hospital with the help of an interpreter. His identity has not been released, but police say he has a German residency permit.

The stabbings occurred shortly after noon (1000 GMT; 6 a.m. EDT) on Friday at Central Station in downtown Amsterdam.

"Something happened, we don't know yet what, but during that two people were stabbed and one person with a knife in his hand walked away and he was shot by police," police front man Rob van der Veen said Friday.

Posted by: Fred || 09/02/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336087 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


India-Pakistan
Imran Khan assassination threat: Taliban 'Plot To Assassinate' new Pakistan prime minister
[EXPRESS.CO.UK] A TALIBAN terror group has been contacted about plans to assassinate newly-elected Prime Minster Imran Khan
... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree...
, shock claims have emerged.

The terrifying threat against the former cricket star was announced by Pak journalist and TV anchor Sadia Afzaal on Friday night.

She claimed that Tehrik-e-Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
(TTP) local groups were contacted by a famous religious-political personality of Pakistain to order the execution of Mr Khan.

Speaking on Public News, Ms Afzaal, who assured the news was confirmed by ’very reliable sources’, said: "I cannot reveal the name of that person but it has been stated in a Military-Intelligence (MI) reports."

And News One TV anchor Jasmeen Manzoor made a similar claim alerting to the severe security threats faced by Imran Khan.

Taking to Twitter, @jasmeenmanzoor wrote: "High placed sources have disclosed that severe security threat to PM Imran Khan. I will also disclose who contacted TTP local groups for planning to assassinate him. May Allah protect him, Ameen."

This is not the first time the Tehrik-e-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman has been a victim of a security threat.

Back in April, intelligence reports revealed that the Taliban may attack Mr Khan, The Times of Islamabad reported, and the Pakistain Prime Minister has been forced to increase his security protocol.

He was recently urged to stop the persecution of Christians in Pakistain, with critics accusing him of being part of the "same old extremism".

Mr Khan previously vowed to transform Pakistain into an Islamic welfare state during his maiden address to the nation, basing the system on the British model.

He was voted in during July’s election and his party, the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf
...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations....
(PTI) party, won the most seats.

Mr Khan’s success ends decades of political dominance by two dynastic powerhouses, the Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz (PML-N) of three-time premier Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts...
, who is now in prison, and the Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP), founded and led by the Bhutto family.
Posted by: Fred || 09/02/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336074 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Pentagon cancels aid to Pakistan over record on militants
[REUTERS] The U.S. military said it has made a final decision to cancel $300 million in aid to Pakistain that had been suspended over Islamabad’s perceived failure to take decisive action against turbans, in a new blow to deteriorating ties.

The so-called Coalition Support Funds were part of a broader suspension in aid to Pakistain announced by President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
at the start of the year, when he accused Pakistain of rewarding past assistance with "nothing but lies & deceit."

The Trump administration says Islamabad is granting safe haven to snuffies who are waging a 17-year-old war in neighboring Afghanistan, a charge Pakistain denies.

But U.S. officials had held out the possibility that Pakistain could win back that support if it changed its behavior.

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, in particular, had an opportunity to authorize $300 million in CSF funds through this summer - if he saw concrete Pak actions to go after myrmidons. Mattis chose not to, a U.S. official told Rooters.

"Due to a lack of Pak decisive actions in support of the South Asia Strategy the remaining $300 (million) was reprogrammed," Pentagon front man Lieutenant Colonel Kone Faulkner said.

Faulkner said the Pentagon aimed to spend the $300 million on "other urgent priorities" if approved by Congress. He said another $500 million in CSF was stripped by Congress from Pakistain earlier this year, to bring the total withheld to $800 million.

The disclosure came ahead of an expected visit by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the top U.S. military officer, General Joseph Dunford, to Islamabad. Mattis told news hounds on Tuesday that combating forces of Evil would be a "primary part of the discussion."

Posted by: Fred || 09/02/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336070 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Iraq
Iraqi security forces kill senior Daesh leader in Salahuddin
[PRESSTV] Iraqi security forces have killed a high-ranking commander of the ISIS 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...
terrorist group in the country’s north-central province of Salahuddin as government troops, backed by allied fighters from the Popular Mobilization Units, are seeking to purge the war-ravaged Arab country of remnants of the bad boy outfit.

Colonel Mohammed al-Bazi, a provincial police source, said members of the Federal Police force and pro-government fighters ‐ more commonly known by the Arabic name Hashd al-Sha’abi ‐ engaged in a fierce exchange of gunfire with ISIS Takfiris in a rural area west of Shirqat town, located some 280 kilometers north of the capital Baghdad, early on Saturday.

Bazi added that Iraqi soldiers and their allies managed to fatally shoot Salih Karkaz, wanted by Iraqi forces as the leader of the so-called Nahavand Battalion.

OVER TWO DOZEN DAESH TERRORISTS CAPTURED NORTHWEST OF MOSUL

Meanwhile,
...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio wondered: Where the hell was Chumbaloni? And where was his $600?...
at least 26 ISIS snuffies have been tossed in the slammer
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
during a counter-terrorism operation near Badush village, situated 24 kilometers west of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
.

Captain Omar Sabah of the Nineveh Operations Command said Iraqi security forces also seized weapons and hand grenades from the captured Takfiris.

Sabah added that the bandidos snuffies have been transferred to prison pending trial.

DAESH TERRORISTS MURDER HASHD SHA’ABI CMDR., FAMILY

Elsewhere in Khuwair village of the northern province of Nineveh, ISIS snuffies executed a senior Hashd al-Sha’abi commander and seven members of his family.

A security source, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
, told Arabic-language Baghdad Today news website that the Takfiri krazed killers, disguised as security forces, stormed the house of Hussein al-Hamad, shooting him, his wife, five children and his father to death.

The source added that Iraqi army troops and police forces have been dispatched to the village, and launched an operation to capture the perpetrators.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who is also the commander-in-chief of Iraqi forces, pledged on June 30 to hunt down ISIS snuffies across Iraq after a series of attacks and abductions carried out by the terrorist group.

"We will chase the remaining cells of terrorism in their hideouts and we will kill them, we will chase them everywhere, in the mountains and the desert," Abadi said.
Posted by: Fred || 09/02/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336070 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Incendiary balloons cause two fires on the Gaza border
[Ynet] The fires broke after incendiary balloons landed around two Sha'ar HaNegev communities. The fire was put down, none were hurt.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/02/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336089 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  ...Let the Israelis start sending incendiary balloons back, on a two-for one basis.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 09/02/2018 7:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Just need the winds to reverse itself and blow the balloons deeper into Gaza.

Perhaps some airplane engines and propellers on test stands to help the process along?
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 09/02/2018 19:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Given that a great many of the flying incendiaries don’t make it out of Gaza...
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/02/2018 22:34 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Series of explosions reported at Syrian military airport
[CNN, so who knows...] A series of explosions was reported late Saturday in al-Mazzeh, the location of a large military airport near Damascus.

The private, pro-regime news outlet al-Mayadeen originally reported that Israeli airstrikes hit the airbase near Damascus with multiple missiles. However, Syrian state media later cited an unnamed military source denying the base was hit by Israel.
And if you can't believe Syrian State Media...
The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) and Syria state television reported a "military source denies the exposure of the Mazzeh Airport to any Israeli aggression and the sounds of explosions that were heard resulted from explosion of an ammunition depot near the airport because of electrical failure."
About four explosions were heard coming from the direction of the military airport Saturday, a Damascus resident told CNN.

"I assume it was from an airstrike because of the explosions afterwards and ambulances with firefighters that went to the scene," the resident said. Some clips of the explosions and the aftermath -- seemingly filmed by phones at a distance -- emerged on various forums including Facebook and WhatsApp. Video showed bright flashes of light in the night sky in some kind of explosion, but didn't reveal precisely what caused the blasts.

Syrian state media in the past have widely reported Israeli and other airstrikes targeting regime bases, outposts or other Syrian targets.

Besides the military airport, the al-Mazzeh area is home to embassies, security buildings and the homes of some members of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's inner circle, according to opposition activists.
Posted by: Frank G || 09/02/2018 07:51 || Comments || Link || [336067 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Must Have Been That Bean I Had For Dinner
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/02/2018 11:53 Comments || Top||


High ranking jihadist commander assassinated in northeast Idlib
[ALMASDARNEWS] A high ranking jihadist commander was reportedly assassinated in the Idlib Governorate on Saturday.

According to opposition activists, the field commander of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham
, Ahmad Fouad Deeb, was killed on Saturday when an IED exploded under his car in the Idlib Governorate town of Saraqib.

The opposition activists reported that Deeb was the Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham military commander of the Badiya sector.

No group has grabbed credit for this latest liquidation in the Idlib Governorate.

Meanwhile,
...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout Montefiore's foot was still stuck and the hound had completely soaked his uniform with slobber...
rebel activists have taken to social media to accuse the Syrian Arab Army’s sleeper cells of carrying out the attack.
Posted by: Fred || 09/02/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336073 views] Top|| File under: al-Nusra

#1  Quincey: "Natural causes"
Posted by: Frank G || 09/02/2018 0:56 Comments || Top||

#2  A cockeyed emir of Cohasset:
"This indecent shadow -- who cast it?
Impure, corrupt pup!
I must blow the man up,
Then I'll rub out the censor that passed it!"

"It was the last straw. Well, that and the strawberries."
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 09/02/2018 1:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Zenobia Floger6220, you are fount of poetry. Keep it coming.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/02/2018 9:18 Comments || Top||

#4  No 72 piglets for you Deeb!
Posted by: Woodrow || 09/02/2018 11:03 Comments || Top||


Syrian Army reinforcements continue to pour into Idlib for upcoming offensive
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has sent another large convoy to northern Syria, as their upcoming Idlib offensive approaches.

According to a military report, the Syrian Arab Army’s 5th Corps were the latest group to make their way to the Idlib Governorate this upcoming offensive.

The 5th Corps, who was trained by the Russian military, has been relatively successful since their formation in 2016.

Prior to their deployment to the Idlib Governorate, the 5th Corps was active in the Badiya al-Sham region of eastern Syria; they were primarily tasked with fighting 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....
(ISIS).
Posted by: Fred || 09/02/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336070 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  Anybody got a program? I need a program.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 09/02/2018 0:26 Comments || Top||

#2  ^Here goes.
The "freedom fighters" will fake a chemical weapons' attack, and USA will strike at "Syrian Regime" - derailing the offensive.
Hopefully, somebody will discretely inform Assad that he should expect things like that as long as Iran remains in Syria.
More realistically, it's USA continuing the failed policy of supporting "their" rebels.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/02/2018 2:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Will The Grand Turk decide that they can annex more of Northern Syria? Will Syria declare war on Turkey -- a decision that they have carefully avoided making even though Turkey has already invaded Syria...
Posted by: magpie || 09/02/2018 10:12 Comments || Top||


Powerful explosion rips through rebel-held town near Turkish border
[ALMASDARNEWS] A powerful explosion ripped through the rebel-held town of ‘Azaz in northern Aleppo, today, after car bomb was detonated outside of a mosque.

According to local activists, the car bomb was detonated outside the Maytham Mosque in ‘Azaz.

At least three people were killed as a result of this bombing, with another dozen or so wounded, the activists added via social media.
Posted by: Fred || 09/02/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336070 views] Top|| File under:


US-trained militants planned to carry out terrorist attacks in Palmyra -- Russian MoD
[RT] US specialists were training Death Eaters in Syria who were set to carry out a terrorist attacks in Palmyra, the Russian Defense Ministry has said. It received the information from fighters captured by the Syrian Army.

The captured Death Eaters said that they were from the Lions of the East Army group, which is affiliated with the Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
, according to the ministry. Some 500 fighters were based at the holy warriors’ camp, which was located near the US-led international coalition’s al-Tanf military base.

The Death Eaters were to carry out "a series of terrorist attacks in Palmyra area" and ensure the passage of around 300 fighters to capture the city within the next week, the ministry said. One of the captured Death Eaters said that they were trained by US instructors, and that the group was receiving weapons and ammunition from the US base.

Al-Tanf base is close to the Rukban refugee camp, which contains over 60,000 women and kiddies from the cities of Raqqa and Der ez-Zor.

In late July, the Russian Defense Ministry also warned about chemical-weapons provocations planned by Death Eaters in Idlib province, northwestern Syria. It said that an attack would be used as a pretext for Arclight airstrikes on Syrian targets by the US, UK and La Belle France.

The Defense Ministry added that USS ’The Sullivans,’ an Arleigh Burke-class Aegis guided missile destroyer, had already been deployed to the Persian Gulf for the operation.

In April, the US, UK and La Belle France unleashed a bombing campaign on Syria. The airstrikes were carried out in response to an alleged gas attack in Douma on April 7, which the West blamed on Bashir al-Assad’s government. The operation started hours before a team from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was due to reach the city.

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....
Death Eaters initially captured Palmyra, often referred to as the Bride of the Syrian Desert, in 2015, deliberately demolishing and damaging some of its world-famous historic sites. In March 2016, it was recaptured by the Syrian Army, supported by Russian airstrikes. IS managed to win Palmyra back the following December and to hold it until March 2017, when it was finally liberated by Damascus.

Posted by: Fred || 09/02/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336070 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria



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