[ToloNews] The BBC reported the liquidation of two senior members of the "Pak Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... " in Kabul last week.
The killing of the two men, named by the BBC as Sheikh Khalid Haqqani and Qari Saifullah, has raised concerns among Afghan analysts who say that the infiltration of key Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) leaders in Kabul raises a lot of questions.
The Afghan security agencies so far have not commented officially.
However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... a security source speaking to TOLOnews on condition of anonymity said that last week "two men" were "mysteriously" killed in an area near the Intercontinental Hotel in PD5 of the Afghan capital Kabul, which is the location also identified by the BBC report.
According to the source, the Afghan security agencies arrested the assailants.
Sami Yousufzai, a co-author of the BBC report, told TOLOnews that the two men "wanted to go to Kunar from Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... , they were supposed to meet or attend an invitation in Kabul near the Intercontinental hotel, but they were killed there."
Afghan commentators speculated about the alleged meeting and death of the two men:
"Khalid Haqqani and Younus (Qari Saifullah) perhaps came to Kabul to shine a signal and reach sort of harmony with the officials (Afghan officials), I think those people who do not want the Taliban to surrender or end the war plotted this attack on them," said political analyst Ahmad Saeedi.
Haqqani was one of the close aides to former TTP leader Hakimullah Mehsud who was killed in a dronezap in 2013. Haqqani was formerly a deputy head of the TTP, and had currently held a "key position" in the group’s leadership council, said the BBC report.
"This is a major blow to the Pak Taliban, it is a great loss for them, the Pak Taliban are currently under massive pressure, some of their leaders have sought refuge in Afghanistan," said Pak journalist Tahir Khan.
Details of the incident will be shared with the public once the investigations are completed, the security source said.
Khaama Press adds:
Sheikh Khalid Haqqani, the former deputy chief of TTP and member of the group’s central committee, along with another commander Qari Saif Peshawari were killed during a fight with forces in Afghanistan on Jan. 31, Mohammad Khurasani, the outlawed militant group spokesman said in a statement.
Khurasani did not disclose details about the incident but said he was on his way for carrying out an attack when Afghan forces stopped his way and killed him.
Afghan government kept it secret and did not share information with the public in this regard.
The questions are why the TTP leaders were in Kabul, how and who killed them.
Another source from TTP said they believe the murder was done by Pakistan’s intelligence service, ISI.
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The activists should carry toothbrushes.
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Seems like a little freedom goes a long ways in some parts of the Middle East
The Iraqis are tired of their government playing palsy walsy with Iran and the Brøderbund
[Jpost] Friday prayers at al-Aqsa Mosque have recently been used to protest against Israeli actions at the site and the release of the Trump administration's peace plan.
Israel police sent home buses of Moslem worshipers coming from the north of the country ahead of the Friday morning prayers in the al-Aqsa Mosque, Ynet reported on Friday.
According to the report, officers waited at the entrance of Jerusalem for the buses coming from the area of the Triangle and other cities and told the drivers to go back.
Police said that it did so to prevent disorder at the site.
"Police have no right not to allow us to come to the mosque. They punish people for no reason and this is not the first time," some worshipers commented according to Ynet.
Police officers also entered the Temple Mount before the beginning of the prayers. No disorders were registered.
Last week, dozens of worshipers held a procession chanting nationalistic slogans at the end of the service. Following the disorders, coppers entered the area and dispersed the crowd, restoring calm.
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Here he tethered his steed to a stone.
Here he stopped for a wank, all alone.
Here he raved in a cave.
Here he ravished a slave.
Here we kneel at the foot of his throne
With our god. How ----- has grown!
[Jpost] Elsewhere in the West Bank, two female Border Police soldiers were lightly injured after rocks and Molotov cocktails were thrown towards them on Friday while attempting to disperse protests.
Paleostinian Bader Nidal Ahmad Nafleh, 19, has been reported to have been killed in the town of Qaffin, near Tulkarm, after being shot in the carotid artery during festivities with IDF forces, according to Paleostinian sources. A spokesperson for the IDF claimed that the Paleostinian was shot by IDF forces in self defense, as he was throwing Molotov cocktails at soldiers.
Elsewhere in the West bank, two female Border Police soldiers were lightly injured after rocks and Molotov cocktails were thrown towards them on Friday while attempting to disperse protests. The two were taken to a hospital and are being treated for their injuries.
Additionally, a Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede, soldier was shot by IDF forces and was severely injured from IDF fire near Jabalia on Friday afternoon, according to local reports. Hamas later denied the reports, saying that "after a careful examination it was confirmed that no live bullets were launched against any of the demonstrators along the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip front."
IDF spokesperson said that a few hundred Paleostinians took part in these protests.
[Jpost] Thirty One Paleostinians were maimed by rubber bullets and tear gas fired by Israeli forces in festivities near Qalqilya on Friday, the Paleostinian Safa Press Agency reported on Twitter.
According to the report, only three of the Paleostinian protesters were shot by rubber bullets, while the rest of the injuries were the result of tear gas. Red Islamic Thingy reported that all injured parties received field medical treatment.
[IsraelTimes] Footage shows suspect, reportedly a florist, opening fire on security checkpoint near Temple Mount Thursday; brothers said detained.
The Israel Police said Thursday that the terrorist who shot up a group of coppers outside the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City was an Israeli citizen from northern Israel.
The shooting lightly injured one Border Police officer, while the fleeing assailant was rubbed out by pursuing officers. Hebrew-language media named the shooter as Shadi Bana, 45, from Haifa. He reportedly converted from Christianity to Islam recently.
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"He was the last person I would think could become a terrorist. I had a hard time believing he could even quarrel with someone. I’m shocked by this,"
[Daily Star] A soldier has gone on a mass shooting rampage in a city in Thailand and left at least 20 people dead in a bloody massacre.
The crazed military officer opened fire in Nakhon Ratchasima ‐ also known as Korat ‐ in north-eastern Thailand this afternoon.
He first killed his commander and two others at a military base before storming the Terminal 21 shopping mall in the city.
The gunman then randomly shot at multiple civilians at the mall, reportedly including a police officer, child, taxi driver and a student.
The suspect is now said to be holed up on the fourth floor of the mall where he has taken 16 hostages.
Special forces are storming the building in a bid to take out the maniac.
The soldier has been identified as Sergeant Major Jakrapanth Thomma, and had live-streamed his sickening massacre on Facebook.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
