[Tolo News] Mullah Abdul Rahman Maldar, a high-ranking Taliban capo, was killed on Wednesday night 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... province, local officials said on Thursday.
According to a provincial official, the commander was killed alongside 14 other Taliban in Loka Sang area of Oba district of Herat province in a foreign drone attack.
Mullah Abdul Rahman was reportedly the commander who issued most threats to the head of the Salma Dam construction project in Chisht-e-Sharif district of Heart. Moreover, based on the statements of Heart security officials, the commander was also accused of killing nearly 80 Afghan police and army troops.
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[DAWN] Afghan cops said Thursday they have captured two big shots of the feared Haqqani network, a hardline group behind sophisticated attacks on Afghan and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... forces.
Anas Haqqani, the son of the network's founder Jalaluddin Haqqani, was jugged
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MOGADISHU -- National Intelligence and Security Agency official has been killed in Car bomb attack in Mogadishu’s Yaqshid district according to witnesses on Wednesday, Garowe Online reports.
Local reports say, the suicide bombing also left at least four civilian bystanders dead and seven others including his bodyguards wounded. Thunderous explosion could be heard after a suicide bomber in car packed full of explosive hit the official’s luxury car at Afarta-Jardino junction, sources said.
Security forces cordoned off the roads leading to the blast site by pushing ahead with search operations.
Nobody claimed credit for the car bomb attack but as has been the case beleaguered Al Shabaab group targets government officials and foreigners in suicide bombings, planned assassinations and military-style ambushes.
[An Nahar] Three Æthiopian peacekeepers were killed Thursday in an attack in Sudan's troubled Darfur region, the joint U.N.-African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... mission said, the latest deaths in increasingly dangerous peace operations in Africa.
They were guarding a well in Karma, North Darfur state, when they were attacked by gunnies, who fled afterwards, the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... -African Union Mission in Darfur said.
Two of them were killed in the attack and the third, gravely maimed, died later.
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[An Nahar] Two bombs went kaboom! near a mosque Thursday in Egypt's Nile delta city of Tanta, wounding at least eight people, security and medical officials said.
"Eight people were maimed... when shrapnel hit them in the arms, legs and faces," said Magdy Awad, chief of ambulance services for Al-Gharbiya province, of which Tanta is the capital.
A security official said the bombs were placed at the rear end of the mosque at a time when residents in the area were participating in a ceremony.
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[Ynet] Morocco's government says a father has been detained as he tried to take his two small daughters to join 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 group has been recruiting women and families as it seeks to create a state in Syria and Iraq. Morocco has been a large source of recruits for murderous Moslem groups.
The Moroccan state news agency MAP, quoting an Interior Ministry statement, reported Thursday that the Moroccan man was detained at the Casablanca airport on Wednesday with a 2-year-old and 4-year-old, both French citizens. Their French mother was not with them, it said.
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[Libya Herald] Interim Prime Minister Abdullah Al-Thinni lauded the efforts of Operation Dignity following the largest gains by pro-government forces in months.
Speaking on Sky News Arabia yesterday, Thinni said the campaign by Dignity forces in Benghazi and its support from the people were a reaction to terrorism and the desire of young people to protect their neighbourhoods.
The Prime Minister said the routing of Benghazi Revolutionaries' Shura Council (BRSC) positions and operations in the aftermath of yesterday's fighting were all part of a plan, devised by the state and executed by the Chief of Staff Abdul Razzaq Nazhuri.
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[ARABNEWS] Suspected Al-Qaeda holy warriors have captured a town in southwest Yemen in a deadly attack seen as a counter move to advances by Iranian catspaws sweeping across the strife-hit country.
Rival groups are seeking to exploit a power vacuum in impoverished Yemen, which has been in a political deadlock since 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 Americaâ¢, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... Iranian catspaws took control of the capital Sanaa last month.
Al-Qaeda's Yemen-based franchise, considered by the United States to be the deadliest branch of the bad boy network, has vowed to fight the rebels in defense of Sunnis.
Its holy warriors stormed the town of Udain overnight, setting fire to the police headquarters and attacking the offices of the local government, a security official and local sources said Thursday.
Five coppers were reported dead.
The offensive came just hours after Iranian catspaws overran the lovely provincial capital of Ibb located 20 km to the east.
Already in control of Sanaa and the strategic port city of Hudeida, the Iranian catspaws on Wednesday appeared to have taken control of the Dhamar and Ibb provinces, security officials said.
Just as in Sanaa and Hudeida, the Houthis faced no opposition as they entered the centers of the two provinces and set up checkpoints, the officials said.
They have been taking advantage of the political crisis in Sanaa to seize control of significant areas, threatening the authority of the Sunni-led central government.
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[Ynet] German prosecutors say a German man who spent nearly a year in Syria has been placed in durance vile Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! on suspicion of membership in the al-Nusra ...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant... Front, an al-Qaeda allied organization fighting the Assad regime.
Federal prosecutors said the 27-year-old, identified only as Soufiane K. in line with German privacy rules, was arrested in Frankfurt on Wednesday.
They said Thursday that he traveled from his hometown of Ruesselsheim, near Frankfurt, to Syria in July last year and had joined al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... by September 2013. He's accused of undergoing battle training and carrying out guard duty with the group, as well as acquiring a Kalashnikov rifle and a machine gun.
Prosecutors say the man returned to Germany in June. He faces possible charges of membership in a foreign terrorist organization.
[DAWN] A kaboom took place on the premises of a shrine at Peshtakhara in the suburbs of 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. on Wednesday, but no one was hurt in the kaboom.
The shrine of Syed Abdul Qudoos Shah commonly known as Hazrat Baba is located in the graveyard near Peshtakhara cop shoppe.
A complainant Iftikhar Ali Shah told local police said that the bomb had been packed in a black plastic bag.
"I usually come to the shrine in the afternoon for cleanliness but on Wednesday arrived two hours before routine. I saw a black shopper beside the saint's grave and upon checking found a mobile phone and explosives in it," he said.
The complainant said that he left the packet on the same place and ran out of the premises, but as he came out a huge blast took place. He said that no one was hurt in the blast as the shrine was deserted at that time.
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[DAWN] Gunmen in northwest Attock district have rubbed out a retired air force official who was a member of the country's Ahmadi minority, police said Thursday, bringing to seven the number of people killed in violence against the persecuted community this year.
The incident took place in Kamra, Attock district, around 64 kilometres north of the capital Islamabad on Wednesday, a front man for the community said.
"Latif Aalam Butt, a well-known Ahmadi was killed outside his house in Kamra, district Attock. He was returning home from his stationery store, when unknown assailants repeatedly fired at him," Saleem ud Din said.
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[DAWN] Seven members of a pro-government group were killed and 13 others injured in a suicide kaboom in a remote area of Bara in Khyber Agency on Wednesday, sources said.
They said that a young boy detonated his explosive vest in Pir Mela area where some activists of the Tauheedul Islam group had gathered. The attack was carried out at around 8am and it is pertinent to mention that a large number of shoppers visit the Pir Mela market in the morning.
Officials in Bara said local people were among the injured.
The dead and the injured belonged to the Zakhakhel tribe.
A front man for the Bara-based outlawed group Lashkar-e-Islam ...a group of Islamic bandidos infesting Khyber Agency. It's headed by a former bus driver.... , which has been at loggerheads with Tauheedul Islam for about four years, denied involvement in the attack.
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[DAWN] At least 21 Death Eaters killed and five hideouts were destroyed on Thursday as security forces carried out air strikes in parts of Tirah valley of Khyber Agency, an Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) statement said.
The jets targeted Death Eaters hideouts in Akakhel and Sipah area, however, this information could not be independently verified as the access of journalists is limited in the region.
Moreover, security forces sealed all the roads leading up to Khyber's Bara, where an operation is expected to begin soon. Security forces also launched a search operation in the Shakas area of Khyber.
On the other hand, anticipating a military operation more than 500 families had left their homes in Dars Jumaat, Shaddaly, Darota and Kulla areas of Akakhel in Tirah valley during the last three days, sources said.
The strikes are part of the ongoing military operation named Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... , initiated on June 15 first against anti-state Death Eaters hiding in the North Wazoo Agency.
The operation was launched after the Taliban and their ethnic Uzbek allies both grabbed credit for the attack on 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... airport and peace talks failed between the government and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) negotiators.
Nearly a million people have fled the offensive in North Waziristan, which is aimed at wiping out longstanding bully boy strongholds in the area.
Khyber, where the recent strikes targeted suspected bully boy hideouts, is one of Pakistain's seven semi-autonomous regions governed by tribal laws and lies near the Afghan border. The Taliban and other Al Qaeda-linked groups, who stage attacks in both countries, are known to have strongholds in the zone.
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A lonely hill fort up the Khyber:
"Allah, please connect us with fiber!
This radio's okay --
It beats semaphore-play --
But we can't see our goats when we cyber."
[Ynet] Four car kabooms and a mortar strike around Shi'ite parts of northern Baghdad killed 36 people and maimed 98 within a span of two hours Thursday afternoon, police and medical officials said.
A suicide boom-mobile hit an army checkpoint near a restaurant in the northern district of Talibiya at 2:30 p.m., killing nine people; 45 minutes later, a pair of boom-mobiles went kaboom! in the district of al-Dawlai in western Baghdad, claiming the lives of 16 people and wounding 35 others.
On Aug. 21, Kurdish social media activists published pictures that appear to depict elements of the Iranian 81st Armored Division entering Kurdistan via Khaneghein, north of Jalawla. The 81st is a battle-hardened division that fought hard during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s. And before that, it had fought Kurdish insurgents in Iran’s restive northern provinces. Today the 81st Division is fighting alongside the Kurds.
After the Iran-Iraq War, the division reorganized and re-armed. As other units gained Russian T-72 tanks, the 81st gathered up all the leftover, American-made M-60s, M-48s and M-47s. More recently, the 81st broke into three largely independent brigades—the 181st and 281st Armored Brigades plus a mechanized brigade. The units the activists spotted in Kurdistan most likely are elements of the 181st, as it’s responsible for defending the Sar-e-Pole Zahab border town near Khaneghein. Previously, there had been a build-up of armored units on the Iranian side of the border.
Iranian army aviation stations Cobra attack helicopters in the vicinity of the 81st Armored Division. Iranian AH-1J Cobras are old by world standards, with outdated electronics and limited missile compatibility. But their crews possess a wealth of experience battling Kurdish separatists. They know how to fight fleet-footed insurgent troops.
Even during the war with Iraq, Iranian armored divisions were too outdated to risk a direct confrontation with more modern Iraqi forces. Iranian tanks instead functioned as mobile artillery, following behind the infantry. This likely would be their role in the war against Islamic State. The Kurds are a light infantry force with few vehicles of their own and almost no artillery. Even aged M-60s fill a gap in the Kurdish order of battle.
The Iranian M-60A1s that activists spotted in Khaneghein are vulnerable to the Islamists’ RPG-7 rockets, but if the tanks coordinate closely with Kurdish infantry, they could survive … and prove deadly against the terror group’s pickup trucks.
To be clear, we don’t know whether Tehran intends to directly support the Kurds. It just seems unlikely the tanks would risk combat on their own. And in any event, the armor deployment marks a major escalation of the fighting—and a big boost for Iran’s role in the campaign.
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* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > ISIS SEIZE THIRD LARGEST MILITARY BASE [Hit] IN WESTERN IRAQ + TAKE ITS TANKS, HEAVY WEAPONS, + SUPPLIES - IRAQI NEWS.
* SAME > VIDEO: ISIS: "THE ENTIRE WORLD WILL BE AN ISLAMIC STATE".
Move along, people, clearly there is no Global Jihad, Global Nuclear Jihad, Neo-Ottoman Nuclear Turkey + US Convert to Islam aka Islamic Mahdi/Hidden Imam 2030-2050 here!
YOOHOO, FBI-CIA, INTEL-PYWAR, I'M A'LOOKIN AT YOU!
* TOPIX > ISIS, SHIA MILITIAS CONTROL OPPOSITE SIDES OF EUPHRATES.
As I've said before, the ISIS/ISIL threat to Baghdad + Shia-led Iraqi Govt is also IMO a threat to IRAN.
Will the ISIS/ISIL "Cross the Rubicon" + attack both Baghdad proper + ultimately SHIA IRAN???
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* FYI DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > IRAN REPEATS IT MAY SEND MILITARY FORCES INTO PAKISTAN | PRESSTV - IRAN TO TAKE [unilateral = direct] ACTION IFF ISLAMABAD REFUSES TO SECURE BORDER - IRAN GENERAL.
IRGC Deputy Commander BGEN. Hossein Salami.
* TOPIX > [NewsKerala] AL-QAEDA, ISIS MAY JOIN INDIA MUJAHIDEEN, LeT [+ Other(s)] + ATTACK INDIA: NSG GENERAL.
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Me thinks the Iranians, who have their own Kurdish population, have woken up to the strife the Kurds are capable of causing (as per Turkey and Syria). Their real enemy is The Iraqi Sunni's, and so angling to keep the Kurds on side with military support gestures. The Kurds, of course, have no real affiliation with anyone, since they've been clobbered historically from all angles, and been kept without a state. Now finally is the chance for the Kurds to form their own state with the break pending break-up of Iraq. This is exactly where the Iranians want the Kurdish State to be, as opposed to Iran.
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You have to bear in mind that sunni-backed ISIS was created (formed, it's semantics at this point) as a counterweight to Hezbollah, which is an Iran-sponsored Shiite formation.
The problem here, as always, is collateral bystanders. (What we need here is a middle east cage match.)
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Not unexpected.
Bad news for Turkey. 95% of their borders will be with Shiia states and their allies, after western bombing etc knock out ISIS.
And we all know how Sunni and Shiia love to sing Kumbaya.
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... derided Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, claims of victory in the conflict it waged against Israel this summer.
In an interview with Egyptian television on Wednesday, Abbas also castigated the Islamist group for orchestrating the kidnapping and killing of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank on June 12 -- the act that sparked the escalation of hostilities that led to the war.
According to Israel's Channel 2, which screened clips of the interview on Thursday, Abbas also said he would not compete for another term as PA president if elections were held in the near future, since he needed a rest from political life. The Fatah-Hamas reconciliation process provides for parliamentary and presidential elections, but no date has been fixed, and while the "unity" government backed by the rival factions held a first cabinet meeting in Gazoo last week, the partnership is highly strained.
"What did we get out of it?" Abbas asked rhetorically, speaking about the Israel-Hamas conflict in July-August, in a section of the interview shown on Channel 2.
"For what did we suffer through those 50 days? We had 2,200 fatalities, 10,000 injured, 40,000 homes and facilities and factories destroyed. Tell me, what did we achieve?" (Hamas and the UN say most of the Gazoo fatalities were civilians; Abbas used his speech to the UN General Assembly last month to accuse Israel of perpetrating genocide; Israel says some 1,000 of the dead were Hamas and other gunnies, and blames Hamas for all civilian casualties since it emplaced its war machine in Gazoo residential areas.)
While Hamas has boasted that it was victorious in the summer conflict -- it fired over 4,600 rockets at Israel, and staged several attacks through its cross-border tunnels, killing 72 Israelis, 66 of them soldiers -- Abbas took a different view.
"I don't want to delude my self by saying: It was a victory," he said. "What victory?"
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Abbas is one duplicitous snake. If this account can be taken as correct he seems to be steering the blame of the recent Gaza conflict onto Hamas for kidnapping the 3 Israeli youths. He recognizes the subsequent destruction of Gaza as directly related to these actions. Not long ago he was fingering Israel as the perpetrator and agreed to form a coalition with Hamas. Nothing that comes out of this man's mouth can be believed.
[Ynet] IDF open fire at youth who threw Molotov cocktail during West Bank clash; in separate incident, Molotov cocktails thrown at police car, building in capital.
A 13-year-old Paleostinian boy was killed on Thursday by IDF fire after he threw a Molotov cocktail during festivities in the Paleostinian town of Beit Liqya in the West Bank.
In a separate incident, four Molotov cocktails were hurled at a residential building in Jerusalem. Also on Thursday, vandals threw Molotov cocktails at a police car and at a vehicle belonging to an Arab resident of Silwan in east Jerusalem.
In Beit Liqya, Bahaa Samir Badir (13) was killed during festivities that erupted between IDF troops and locals. The violence broke out when the forces entered the village after rioters threw stones at the security fence. An initial investigation by the IDF's Judea and Samaria Division revealed that local Paleostinians began throwing Molotov cocktails at army jeeps that were leaving the area.
After one of the Molotov cocktails was hurled from a close range, the troops felt their lives were in danger and thus opened fire. No injuries were sustained by IDF soldiers. A Military Police investigation will be carried out into the incident.
Director Ahmed Betawai of the Ramallah Hospital said that 13-year-old Badir was shot three times in the chest and died of his wounds about two hours after the incident.
A senior Paleostinian official said that the festivities between the town locals and IDF troops had erupted following the death of the boy.
Tensions between Israelis and Paleostinians have spiked in recent days amid Paleostinian charges that Israel is unfairly limiting access to Paleostinian worshippers at a sensitive Jerusalem holy site.
In Jerusalem's Nof Zion neighborhood, Molotov cocktails were thrown at a building. Passersby reported that the rioters had attempted to throw one of the Molotov cocktails inside one of the building's rooms through a window.
A local resident said the neighborhood has been suffering from the escalation of violence. "It all started with Operation Protective Edge; people hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails and now it got worse."
He added that "in the past, a number of cars were burned by Molotov cocktails. Now there are security guards here patrolling the area, but they can't do anything against fireworks fired from a distance."
Earlier Thursday, stones were thrown at the light rail station in Shu'fat. No injuries or damages were reported.
In the morning hours, dozens of masked men, including children wearing school uniforms, threw fireworks and stones at Jewish housing projects in Ras al-Amud in East Jerusalem. Border Police officers used crowd dispersal means to clear the area. One officer sustained wounds to the neck from a firework and was evacuated to the Hadassah Har Hatzofim medical center in light to moderate condition.
Viktor Stefan Okonek, a 71-year-old German doctor being held captive by Abu Sayyaf terrorists, on Wednesday said he had been sitting in a "deep hole" with ten other men since Tuesday.
Okonek said, "They told me this is my grave. They pushed me inside this hole and I am sitting here with 10 men since [Tuesday night]. I'm here in a hole. It's a big hole 3 meters [by] 5 meters. I hope I will still get out of here … but I have not seen anyone from the government to get into the situation that tries to get us out."
The terrorists have been demanding $7 million for the release of Okonek and a female companion, Henrite Dieter, and for Germany to withdraw support from action against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. Abu Sayyaf spokesman Abu Rami said his group would execute the doctor at 3 p.m. on Friday if the ransom were been paid by then.
Rami said that Okonek would be buried in the grave if negotiations failed.
Okonek said he was getting very weak because there was not enough food and ten gunmen were watching over him 24 hours a day. In a video provided by the kidnappers, Okonek can be heard crying while being physically abused. Some of the gunmen slapped him.
Rami said local contacts identified with Philippine National Police Director General Alan Purisima had been trying to negotiate for the release of the captives. But he said the Abu Sayyaf only wanted to talk to representatives from the Department of Foreign Affairs.
Gen. Gregorio Catapang, Armed Forces chief of staff, has deployed seven battalions of soldiers and Marines to Sulu and will not pull out the troops from Sulu despite the threat to behead the German hostage by Friday. He said, "We should take them seriously. Our intelligence is on the ground validating information and [trying] to locate them."
Catapang said the military was prepared to conduct rescue operations and was just waiting for the go-signal to launch it as negotiations were being conducted on the local level.
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Macalanang = PHIL Govt. appears to had been caught off guard that Abu Sayaff had ten additional prisoners besides the two German hostages.
Anyhoo, Abu Sayaff now says its willing to consider extending its Friday deadline, which is today Guam time - not that they will, but they will think about it.
[TIME] The Syrian city of Kobani, just across the border from Turkey, breathed easier Thursday as U.S. coalition Arclight airstrikes helped dislodge jihadist fighters from 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.... of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) from several neighborhoods. They've retreated some in the west but are advancing in the eastern part of the town, according to Ace last night.
Speaking by phone from Kobani on Thursday, Anwar Moslem, the head of the local government, told TIME that the Peoples Protection Units (YPG), the Kurdish forces defending the enclave, were now in control of 65 to 70 percent of the besieged city. In neighborhoods in the south and east, he said, ISIS fighters were in partial retreat. In the west, they remained about three miles away.
But he cautioned against premature optimism. ISIS had lost many men, he said, but they keep sending boom-mobiles, mortar shells, and yet more fighters into the area.
He claimed there were more than a thousand civilians still trapped in the city center. With ISIS snipers and mortars targeting neighborhoods close to the border crossing with Turkey, it's too dangerous for the people to leave, he said. We are asking the U.S. and the U.N. to set up and operate a humanitarian corridor to Kobani.
Turkish officials, however, insisted that only Kurdish and ISIS forces remained inside the city. "There are no civilians left in Kobani," Bulent Arinc, the country's deputy prime minister, told news hounds on Wednesday. "All of them are in Turkey."
The Kurdish forces were bolstered by heavy air assaults from U.S. jets. In a statement posted on its website, the U.S. Central Command said that American fighter jets had conducted 14 Arclight airstrikes around the city since Wednesday. The U.S. forces said they struck 19 ISIS buildings, two ISIS command posts, three ISIS fighting positions, three ISIS sniper positions, one ISIS staging location, and one ISIS heavy machine gun.
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France to supply Kobane with advanced weaponry.
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That's where air power can work: interdiction. Basically set up a zone 2k fwd of the FLOT, extend that out 30k, there's your kill box. If it moves in there, kill it.
[Ynet] US military fighter and bomber planes carried out 14 air strikes against 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.... targets near the Syrian border town of Kobani on Wednesday and Thursday, the US military's Central Command said.
The air strikes appear to have slowed the bully boy group's advances, but "the security situation on the ground in Kobani remains tenuous," it said in a statement on Thursday.
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Meanwhile, not to be outdone by the USAF ...
* GROONG > [FrontPage Magazine = David Greenfield] INSTEAD OF BOMBING ISIS, TURKEY BOMBS KURDS WID US PLANES.
TAF F-16's.
VERSUS
* OTOH SAME > TURKEY WILL NOT ALLOW ITS CITIZENS TO FIGHT IN KOBANE.
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14 air strikes?? WTF, that isn't even one regular cycle launch from a CV.
bambi too busy with ebola-otics to work the day's target approval Ouija board?
I did read that has soon as he appointed the day's ebola czar he went back to the campaign tail, gotta make up that lost time. what a complete POS
[ARABNEWS] Kurdish grocer Cuneyt Hemo remembers the moment he crossed paths with a Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) prisoner inside the besieged Syrian town of Kobani.
"He begged us to kill him so he could go to paradise and be rewarded," Hemo told AFP, in a rare glimpse of life inside the town.
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I think that coating the bullets in bacon fat and wrapping them in pigskin before we shoot them would catch their attention.
So would feeding the bodies to dogs.
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Culturally speaking, haning by strangulation would have been the better way to dishonor him whilst killing him. But the Kurds are a practical people.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[Tolo News] Mullah Abdul Rahman Maldar, a high-ranking 
[ARABNEWS] Suspected Al-Qaeda 
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Viktor Stefan Okonek, a 71-year-old German doctor being held captive by Abu Sayyaf terrorists, on Wednesday said he had been sitting in a "deep hole" with ten other men since Tuesday. 
