[Tolo News] Taliban bandidos hard boys killed 10 civilians on Wednesday night in Paktia province, local officials said Thursday.
Provincial Police Chief Zalmai Oriakhail, while confirming the incident, said that the people were killed in Zurmat district of the province.
Oriakhail not providing more details, said that the police have started investigations.
The provincial front man Rohullah Samon said the bodies were found Thursday morning.
"The incident took place on Wednesday night in Mamozai area of Zurmat district," Samon said. "The dead bodies were found Thursday morning."
According to Samon, five of the men killed were from the province of Khost ...which coincidentally borders North Wazoo and Kurram Agency... , four from Paktia and one other from Pashtun-infested Logar province.
He added that the bodies have been taken to a nearby hospital, but no one has come forth to identify the bodies.
The Taliban, in a statement, grabbed credit for the killings stating that the men were local coppers.
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[Libya Herald] The Supreme Court has issued an unexpected judgement in the dispute over the constitutionality of the House of Representatives. It has decided that proceedings of the General National Congress' so-called February Committee, which created the GNC's replacement, the House of Representatives, were unconstitutional. Therefore this summer's election and the representatives chosen to form the new parliament, were invalid.
It had been expected that the court would be ruling on the technical issue of the hand-over of power. Libya Dawn ...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar... opponents of the HoR have argued that because the newly-elected politicians did not come to 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... for a formal ceremony marking the official transfer of authority from the old parliament to the new, they had never formally assumed power.
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[Libya Herald] Production at the Akakus Oil operated Sharara oilfield has ceased following attacks yesterday by a Tuareg militia aligned with Libya Dawn ...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar... "The production has fallen to zero," a bigwig at Sharara said. He explained that the chaos of the Tuareg attacks had blocked roads making the field inaccessible to some workers. "Some employees are unable to reach the field and some others are locked in, afraid to leave," he said.
Yesterday the marauding gunnies stormed Sharara stealing some 20 vehicles belonging to Akakus Oil and making off with computers and documents belonging to the company.
The attackers surprised Zintani Petroleum Facilities Guards at the oil field and left no chance for armed confrontation. The Taureg bully boyz are believed to be linked with other Taureg fighters involved in festivities in Obari some 60 kilometres away. While the gunnies appear to have left the immediate area, Sharara remains vulnerable to another attack.
The closing of the oil field, a joint venture between Spain's Repsol and the National Oil Corporation (NOC), is a massive blow to the country's oil production. Sharara's 350,000 barrels per day accounted for more than a third of national production which has recently stood at less than 800,000 b/d.
Oil started flowing from Sharara in July after on and off closures of more than a year and a half.
The development will cast doubts on whether national production can withstand current instability in the country. Output has actually increased since August in spite of a surge in violence. The boosted production came about because of the reopening of eastern oil terminals. After the revolution, to general surprise Libyan output approached 1.7 million b/d and was confidently expected to pass the two million barrel mark early this year.
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[IsraelTimes] A kaboom just 100 meters from a Cairo presidential palace maimed a female passerby early Thursday, just hours after a train bomb killed three people, security officials said.
The new bombing followed an attack on a train north of the Egyptian capital late on Wednesday which killed two coppers and a civilian, the latest in a spate of attacks since the army ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in July last year.
The blast struck near a palace in the northeast of Cairo which is rarely used by President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, the architect of Morsi's overthrow, whose main office is in another palace in the capital.
The bystander suffered only minor injuries from the crude bomb, which was planted under a bridge, interior ministry front man Hani Abdel Latif told AFP.
Wednesday evening's train bomb in Menufiya province was also rudimentary but it detonated as police were inspecting it, killing two officers and one passenger.
Authorities have for years battled Islamic bully boyz in the Sinai Peninsula, but the unrest there has escalated into a full-fledged insurgency since Morsi's ouster in July last year. The attacks, mainly targeting security forces, have spread to the Nile Delta and Cairo itself.
The attacks in Cairo have mainly involved small, homemade bombs that cause few casualties. But they have still revealed meticulous planning and execution by the bully boyz and exposed the inefficiency of the police.
One such attack involved three homemade bombs that went off less than 20 meters (yards) away from the walls of Cairo's presidential Ittihadiya palace, where Sissi conducts business on daily basis. Two senior coppers were killed, one of whom was trying to defuse a bomb while in civilian clothes and without wearing protective gear.
In the deadliest ever Death Eater attack on the military, at least 30 soldiers were killed late last month in Sinai, prompting Sissi to declare a state of emergency in northern Sinai and order the eviction of some 10,000 people from the town of Rafah on the border with the Gazoo Strip.
Sissi's government has taken drastic measures to restore law and order and jumpstart the economy after three years of turmoil following the uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... 's nearly three-decade rule in 2011.
But a recent series of deadly road accidents has underscored the persistently poor state of government services and infrastructure.
On Wednesday, at least 18 people, mostly school children, were killed in a horrific road accident north of Cairo. News of the accident dominated the front page of every Cairo newspaper on Thursday. The accident prompted Sissi to order an overhaul of traffic regulations to stiffen penalties against offenders.
Last week, the burning death of a newborn baby in a private clinic caused a similar uproar. The baby was placed on a heating device soon after its birth, but a technical fault caused the machine to overheat. Graphic images of the baby's blackened body were published in newspapers, reviving longstanding complaints about a culture of negligence and mismanagement.
[IsraelTimes] Israel has given the Egyptian army authorization to move two more battalions into the Sinai Peninsula Thursday.
In addition to the infantry battalions, the Egyptians will also move attack helicopters into positions in the Sinai, according to Army Radio, which reported that the decision was made in order to enable Egypt to fight radical elements in the peninsula.
Egypt has ramped up its operations in the Sinai since an attack last month on a military installation by local jihadist organization Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis ...Supporters of Jerusalem, the current pen name of al-Qaeda in the Sinai Peninsula... left 31 soldiers dead. Following the attack, Egypt closed its border with the Gazoo Strip and began construction on a buffer zone in the area.
The Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty limits the number of troops Cairo can deploy in the Sinai, but Israel has given its blessing to move in more forces as Egypt began making a concerted effort last year to rein in Islamist groups.
Israel's southern neighbor has been battling to quell violence in the peninsula since President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi led a coup to topple then-president Mohammed Morsi, who was Egypt's first democratically elected president.
In July 2013, Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon authorized Egypt to deploy two infantry battalions in the Sinai region, in the el-Arish and Rafah areas, bringing the total Egyptian army presence to 11 infantry battalions, as well as a tank battalion and assault helicopters.
Despite an extensive campaign, attacks on Egyptian security forces have persisted and even spread to the capital in the form of suicide kabooms and liquidation attempts against Egyptian officials.
[Jpost] Gunmen seized Libya's major El Sharara oilfield, looting equipment and shooting as frightened workers sought shelter, oil sources said on Wednesday, in another blow to the country's oil industry which has been subjected to protests and militia blockades.
It was unclear exactly what happened at the field, which at maximum capacity produces about 340,000 barrels per day. It is Libya's biggest operational field, located in the remote south where rival tribes have clashed since Muammar Qadaffy ...a reminder that a single man with an idea can change an entire nation, usually for the worse... was ousted three years ago.
The closure is a blow to government efforts to keep oil production isolated from the spreading chaos in the North African country, where two prime ministers, parliaments and army chiefs of staff compete for control.
The closure will lower the OPEC member's oil production, last reported at around 800,000 barrels per day, by at least 200,000 bpd.
The field produced at least 200,000 bpd before the shutdown, the sources said. It had been running below capacity as some wells had been lost due to previous closures by local people in the past 12 months.
The closure will have an impact on the 120,000 bpd-Zawiya refinery, which is fed by El Sharara and supplies the capital with fuel products.
A source in the state oil security force said the management had shut down production after gunnies with heavy weapons stormed the field late on Tuesday, wounding 13 workers.
An oil worker at the field said staff there had also been shooting on Wednesday and some workers had sought shelter inside company buildings. The facility is operated by Libya's state oil company and Spain's Repsol.
The oil security force said the attackers belonged to an Islamist group, while the online magazine Libya Herald said they were supporters of an gang that had seized the 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... in August.
[Iran Press TV] A Nigerian politician says at least 21 civilians have bit the dust following an attack by 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... 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... bully boyz on a city in the flashpoint northeastern part of Nigeria.
Maina Maaji Lawan said on Thursday that the festivities broke out at about 5:00 p.m. local time (1600 GMT) on Wednesday in the city of Malam Fatori, situated in the restive northeastern state of Borno and near the border with Niger.
"Boko Haram tried to attack Malam Fatori... but they met stiff resistance from the Multi-National Joint Task Force, who initially repelled the attack after prolonged fighting," Lawan said.
"They pushed back the bully boyz and people in the town and the soldiers thought it was over but the bully boyz mobilized more men and weapons including an APC (armored personnel carrier) and launched a renewed attack," he said.
"They overpowered the soldiers who were forced to flee. The bully boyz went into the town shooting indiscriminately. They killed 21 people," Lawan said.
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[ARABNEWS] Security agencies have placed in durance vile Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! a further eight people, including two coppers, in nationwide raids to track down those involved in the terror attack in Al-Ahsa on Monday.
Masked gunnies had mowed down seven people in Dalwah village in Al-Ahsa late Monday night. In follow-up operations, two security officers and three bad boyz were potted. The faceless myrmidons had earlier shot and killed a citizen for his car to use in their operations. The total number of dead now stands at 13.
Security teams had launched raids simultaneously in Riyadh, Qassim and the Eastern Province. Officers arrested a man, who did not offer any resistance, in the east of the capital city. There was a heavy police presence on several main intersections in Riyadh on Thursday.
Maj. Gen. Mansour Al-Turki, front man for the Interior Ministry, said police operations were carried out in six governorates including Riyadh, Shaqra, Alkhobar, Al-Ahsa, Bade' and Bareeda. He said officers arrested the eight people, which included the two coppers, based on circumstantial evidence. There are 15 other people in jug in connection with the crime.
Al-Turki said among those being held include four people who were arrested in Al-Ahsa, one in Alkhobar, three in Shaqra, four in Bareeda, two in Al-Bade' and two in Riyadh.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Cynthia backed into the galley, the barbecue fork held in front of her. Jack! she called. Where the hell are you?... the father of the slain security officer, Cpl. Turki Al-Rasheed, said he received the news of his son's death at sunset on Wednesday. The father said his brother brought him the news. He said Turki had left his house in Hail to join his unit in Qassim at 2 a.m. on Tuesday.
He said his son died for a noble cause because he was defending his country. Turki served in military units at Qassim and Hafr Al-Baten over the past 15 years. He married last year and has a daughter Norah, who is just five months old. He thanked Hail's governor for attending the funeral.
Capt. Muhammad Al-Enezi, the other officer who died in the attack, had survived a previous terror attack in Al-Ras shortly after he joined the military 10 years ago, his relatives said.
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[Iran Press TV] Fighters from the Shia 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 ... Ansarullah movement in Yemen have flushed out al-Qaeda-linked bully boyz from a town in the Arab country's strategic western province of al-Hudaydah.
On Thursday, the Houthi fighters established control and security over the entire al-Khokha, a strategic town because of its direct access to the Red Sea and proximity to Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, while the Yemeni government troops surrendered some military bases to the Ansarullah forces.
The development came a day after Ansarullah fighters swept the town of Adeen, situated about 200 kilometers (125 miles) south of the capital, Sana'a, in their battle against al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists.
Ansarullah fighters have already flushed al-Qaeda-linked bully boyz out of Rada' and Sa'ada, two key towns in central and northern Yemen.
On October 29, Ansarullah members took control of the strategic town of Radmaa in Yemen's central province of Ibb following festivities with al-Qaeda-linked turbans.
The leader of Yemen's Shia Ansarullah movement has recently accused the Yemeni government of failing to meet its responsibilities to provide security as threats from 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... bandidosforces of Evil grow. Abdul-Malik al-Houthi said on November 4 that the bully boyz are spreading across the country while the security apparatus and the government fail to confront them.
Al-Qaeda bully boyz frequently carry out attacks on Yemen's security forces and have been locked in deadly battles with Shia Ansarullah fighters.
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[DAWN] LANDI KOTAL: At least 25 suspected snuffies were killed and over 50 injured when their hideouts were pounded by military planes and artillery shelling in Bazaar Zakhakhel and Akkakhel areas of Tirah valley on Wednesday.
Officials said four hideouts used by the banned Lashkar-e-Islam ...a group of Islamic bandidos infesting Khyber Agency. It's headed by a former bus driver.... (LI) organization in Dray Wandi, Areena, Zorh Kali and Wanaro areas were destroyed in air strikes and five snuffies killed.
Later, 20 suspected snuffies were killed when security forces fired artillery shells on LI positions in Bazaar Zakhakhel area.
But the official claim could not be verified through independent sources as journalists have no access to the areas in Tirah and Bara.
The artillery shelling was carried out from the Jarrhobi army camp in retaliation for mortar attacks by snuffies on security forces and a pro-government gang, Tauheed-ul-Islam. At least one peace volunteer was killed and another critically injured.
On Tuesday, two soldiers and two peace volunteers were killed and two soldiers injured in kabooms on the convoys of security forces and volunteers in a remote area of Landi Kotal.
The soldiers killed were identified as Zameen Khan of Charsadda and Hameed of Lakki Marwat and the volunteers as Rahmatullah and Abdul Baqi, of Shan Khel area of Bazaar Zakhakhel.
The injured soldiers were airlifted to the Combined Military Hospital in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. .
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[DAWN] LANDI KOTAL: The Khasadar personnel on Wednesday recovered a good quantity of contraband from two vehicles and tossed in the slammer ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... seven persons in separate actions here.
Assistant political agent Tayyab Abdullah said that 21 kilogram heroin was recovered from hidden cavities of a car during checking at Machni checkpost. He said that the khasadar ...a rural policeman in Pakistain or India... force had received a tip-off about smuggling of contraband from Torkhum to 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. He said the khasadars also arrested five drug smugglers and impounded the vehicle.
In Jamrud, the khasadars recovered 25 kilograms of charas from a pickup and arrested two men. Officials said that the seizure was made after the security personnel intercepted the vehicle after it hit two pedestrians near TD bazaar.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, Bart was wondering if fisticuffs would be appropriate at this point... security forces on Wednesday demolished at least three houses of suspected holy warriors in Dro Adda locality of Akkakhel during the ongoing operation in Bara, said officials, adding that unidentified gunnies had ambushed a security convoy in the same locality two days back.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, Bart was wondering if fisticuffs would be appropriate at this point... an empty house and a poultry farm were destroyed when stray mortar shells fell on the buildings on Wednesday.
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[DAWN] A police officer on Wednesday night murdered a detained man with an axe, later alleging that the man had committed blasphemy.
45-year-old Jhang resident Syed Tufail Haider was tossed in the clink Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! a day earlier for wounding two people from a locality in Gujrat. According to police authorities, Tufail came to Madina Syedan in Gujrat three days ago to attend a majlis.
During interrogation, Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Faraz Naveed got into a heated argument with Tufail and struck him on the neck with an axe lying in the room, a blow which resulted in immediate death.
He later accused Tufail of making derogatory remarks against companions of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), with other police officials saying the arrested man was mentally unsound.
"Tufail was kept in the lock-up but he continued uttering derogatory remarks and hurled abuse at coppers. He looked like a malang (wandering preacher) and seemed mentally imbalanced," duty officer Ali Raza told AFP.
"Assistant Sub-Inspector Faraz Naveed, 36, became very angry on hearing the derogatory remarks against the companions of the Prophet and he killed the detainee with an axe in the lock up," he added.
Police have arrested ASI Faraz Naveed and taken the axe into custody. The body of the slain man has been sent to a local hospital for a postmortem.
Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... has taken notice of Tufail Haider's murder and has ordered a further investigation of the incident.
The latest incident comes two days after a Christian couple was burnt to death in a brick kiln in Kot Radha Kishan for allegedly desecrating pages of the Holy Koran. The woman, mother of three, was pregnant. The incident provoked condemnation from the government with the prime minister saying the government will bring to book those responsible.
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[DAWN] Despite an all-out operation against bandidossnuffies in Khyber tribal agency, the banned outfit Lashkar-e-Islam ...a group of Islamic bandidos infesting Khyber Agency. It's headed by a former bus driver.... 's pirate radio is still operational and broadcasting fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... sermons of its chief Mangal Bagh
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[Iraq News] ore than 1250 volunteers from the Shabak Community joined the Iraqi Security Forces to fight the ISIL terrorists. MP, Salim Mohammed, of the Shabak Community stated to IraqiNews.com âMore than 1250 volunteers from the Shabak Community joined the ISF to liberate Mosul city from the ISIL terrorists.â
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[Iraq News] ISIL terrorists executed seven family members in Beiji district of northern Tikrit. Source stated to IraqiNews.com âThe ISIL terrorists executed four men, two women and a child in Shiwaish village in Beiji district of northern Tikrit after accusing them in reporting the ISIL activities to the Iraqi security forces.â
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[Iraq News] A car bomb went off in western Anbar on Thursday. Security source stated to IraqiNews.com âThe car bomb driven by a suicide bomber went off in al-Buhairat area, killing 4 civilians and injuring 3 policemen.â
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[Iraq News] On Thursday, the General Hospital of Fallujah announced that a mortar shell attack on the city has left 43 casualties among civilians. The hospitalâs spokesman Ahmed Al-Shami said, âThe hospital has received today 18 dead bodies including a woman and two children, and 25 wounded people that were hit by mortar shell falls in al-Nazzal, al-Andalus, al-Askari, al-Ghefi and al-Dobat neighborhoods in the city of Fallujah.â
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[Iraq News] The security forces killed 12 terrorists and destroyed three of their vehicles northern Salah il-Din. Security source stated to IraqiNews.com âThe artillery of the Iraqi Army bombarded the ISIL terrorists in Beiji to kill 12 of them and destroyed three of their vehicles.â
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[Iraq News] The security forces killed 22 Lions of Islam of 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 Levant in Beji on Thursday.
Security source stated to IraqiNews.com "The security forces killed 22 ISIL Lions of Islam and destroyed 7 vehicles they were using in the district."
"The security forces are getting advanced towards the center of Beji district," the source concluded.
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[Iraq News] The terrorists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant detonated two houses on Thursday. Security source stated to IraqiNews.com âThe houses belong to the Police Commander, Colonel Burhan al-Jawari, and his son in the village of al-Abujwari.â
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[IsraelTimes] An East Jerusalem man attacked a light rail security guard on Thursday morning after being asked to provide his identification papers.
The incident, which took place at a light rail station near Jerusalem's Old City, began when the security guard asked the man, a resident of the Beit Hanina neighborhood, to show his identification papers, a common practice by security personnel on public transport.
Rather than comply, the man punched the guard, who overpowered his assailant and alerted police.
After the attacker was tossed in the slammer Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! , police discovered the man was violating house arrest over a separate matter.
The attack came as Jerusalem remained on high alert after a terror attack on a light rail train stop the day before left a border policeman dead and a dozen other people injured.
Successive battlefield losses have put the New People's Army (NPA) on the defensive as three more communist militants were slain in Maasim, Sarangani Wednesday. The latest NPA casualties came a day after another militant was killed in Barangay Lumasal as government forces launched pursuit operations against the retreating insurgent band.
Military sources said the slain rebels belonged to the same NPA unit which they encountered Tuesday. This came as police officials in Maasim identified the NPA militant slain in the Tuesday encounter in Lumasal as Freddie Ayog.
Military operations are ongoing to flush out the remaining militants from Front 73 of the NPA's Far South Mindanao Regional Command.
Only last month three NPA militants were also killed in Malita, Davao del Sur including Mark Bryle Garduque, said to be the platoon leader in a series of running gun battles with Philippine troops.
The gunman who gunned down a 20-year-old university student in southern Thailand on Sunday might have come from the same group that killed her father in 2006.
Suthida Tangjai and three friends were traveling on two motorcycles when two men on a motorcycle approached and the pillion rider opened fire at them on Sunday in Narathiwat's Muang district. Suthida had been in a coma since she was shot in the back of the head. She was pronounced dead yesterday morning.
A national security source said an examination found that the spent 9mm bullets did not match any from persons of interest in the area and that it was suspected the group that shot Suthida was from the same group that gunned down her father in 2006. Believing that she might have been targeted by insurgents, officers investigated a lead that some youngsters on a motorcycle had been seen circulating suspiciously near the victim's house area ever since her father was killed.
Meanwhile, a bomb squad yesterday morning defused a 25kg home-made bomb, planted at the entrance to an administrative office in Narathiwat's Sungai Padi district. The bomb targeted security officers who regularly set up a mobile checkpoint in the area.
[Ynet] Coalition planes target office, vehicle used by al-Qaeda-linked group in Idlib, as well as Islamic court belonging to hardline rebel group Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafist ...also known as Wahhabis, salafists are against innovation in religion or in anything else. They eat the same things every meal of every day and all their children are named Abdullah or Mohammed. Not all salafists are takfiris, but all takfiris are salafists. They are fond of praying five times a day and killing infidels... s, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... Air strikes by a US-led coalition set up to fight 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.... targeted the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front in northwest Syria overnight, an organization that tracks violence in the Syrian civil war reported on Thursday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the air strikes targeted an office and a vehicle used by Nusra Front in Idlib province in northwestern Syria, in the border towns of Sarmada and Harem, where last week the al-Qaeda-affiliated group routed Western-backed Syrian rebels.
The Observatory also reported the first air strikes hit an Islamic court belonging to Ahrar al-Sham, a rebel group that follows an extremely conservative interpretation of Islam. Activists said the strike was among several that occurred early Thursday in towns along the Syrian border with Turkey.
Rami Abdulrahman, head of the Observatory, said it marked the second time the Nusra Front has been hit in the US-led campaign. The first was on September 23 - the first day of the US air strikes in Syria that are part of Washington's strategy to "degrade and destroy" Islamic State.
The United States said that attack had targeted al-Qaeda veterans which it referred to as the Khorasan group.
Nusra Front last week seized control of areas of Idlib province from Western-backed rebel leader Jamal Maarouf, head of the Syria Revolutionaries' Front in northern Syria, confiscating its weapons. It also took positions from the Hazzm movement, another recipient of Arab and Western support.
It marked a big blow to the non-Islamist opponents of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... who have generally struggled against better armed and equipped Islamist groups including Nusra Front and Islamic State.
The United States is planning to expand military support to what it describes as the moderate opposition to Assad as part of its strategy against Islamic State in Syria.
Nusra Front was once seen as the strongest bad boy group in Syria but has been eclipsed this year by Islamic State, which has seized wide areas of northern and eastern Syria.
[Ynet] French murderous Moslem working as Khorasan Group's head bomb-maker was target of US strikes on Syria, which also hit Nusra fighters.
American Arclight airstrikes overnight in Syria targeted a cell of al Qaeda murderous Moslems, hitting and possibly killing a top bomb-maker in the group, two senior US officials said Thursday, amid widespread reports that other rebel factions were also hit.
It wasn't certain whether the bomb-maker, French murderous Moslem David Drugeon, was killed or injured, but the officials said the strikes hit their intended targets near Sarmada, in the country's northwest. The officials were not authorized to discuss the issue publicly so spoke on condition of anonymity.
Gen. Lloyd Austin, the Central Command commander in charge of US military operations throughout the Middle East, said separately at a Washington forum that he would not discuss results of the strikes until they had been more fully studied. He suggested, however, the Drugeon may have been hit, or at least targeted.
"He is clearly one of the leadership elements and one of the most dangerous elements in that organization," Austin said. "And so any time we can take their leadership out, it's a good thing."
One of the US officials said Drugeon's bomb-making skills were nearly as worrisome as those of Ibrahim al-Asiri, a member of al Qaeda's Yemen affiliate who has built three nonmetallic devices that were smuggled onto US-bound jet liners. None detonated.
Drudgeon, a convert to Islam believed to be 24, spent three years fighting in Afghanistan and Pakistain before coming to Syria in late 2012 or early 2014, US officials have said.
In Gay Paree, the French interior minister refused to confirm reports Drudgeon was killed or injured.
At the Pentagon, Army Col. Steve Warren said the strikes hit five targets at two locations.
Noting that reports coming out of the region suggest members of other murderous Moslem groups were hit, Warren that the Khorasan Group was the pre-planned target of the strikes.
The Khorasan Group, he said, "is a group of personnel, some of whom are also 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... affiliated, some of whom are al Qaeda affiliated, some of whom are affiliated with other organizations. But these strikes weren't specifically targeting any of those other organizations. They were targeting the Khorasan group. If a terrorist happens to be a member of both groups, so be it."
Austin said none of the Arclight airstrikes was aimed at 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 .. ... The targets included bomb-making facilities, training areas and meeting locations. US officials say the Khorasan Group is made up of al Qaeda veterans of wars in Afghanistan and Pakistain who traveled to Syria to link up with the Nusra Front fighters. Officials say the group has been actively planning attacks against the West.
When Arclight airstrikes began in Syria in late September, the US launched more than 20 Tomahawk cruise missiles and other bombs on eight Khorasan Group targets near Aleppo in northwestern Syria.
Warren said the US believes the latest strikes had a degrading effect because both facilities and individuals were destroyed.
IT WASN'T THE SLAUGHTER of innocent women and children, the $150-a-month wages or the casual use of torture and execution that prompted Abu Almouthanna to desert the Islamic State army. He told FoxNews.com he could deal with all that — until his Islamic State 'emir' ordered the killing of like-minded jihadists.
Almouthanna, already hardened by stints in prison, fighting the Damascus regime in the three-year civil war and conscription in the Al Qaeda-linked Jabhat al Nusra, said he had no issue with murdering Christians, Kurds and Yazidi when he joined the murderous group.
His new commanders sent him to a remote boot camp for 40 days of training under battle-scarred foreign fighters, including Chechens and Afghans, he said. Sleeping 10 men to a room, they were awakened at all hours for grueling exercises, drilled in tactics and weaponry and given noms de guerre, including the name Almouthanna now goes by. The pay was about $150 a month, he said.
It was during this training that Almouthanna met some of the thousands of radicalized Western fighters who have flocked to Syria and Iraq to join Islamic State, he said. Three Frenchmen and a Briton who he bunked with were given regular Arabic lessons and studied the Koran endlessly. But it was their sheer bloodlust that set them apart, he said.
“From Day One, they joked about cutting heads and making the enemy pay,” Almouthanna said.
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Well Abu, if the last 3-4 people you talked to are a$$holes, you might question what you are doing. If the last several hundred who you talked to are a$$holes, you have a lot of trouble on your hands.
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