[ARABNEWS] An attacker with a knife killed two soldiers guarding a gate at Sudan's presidential palace before other troops shot him dead on Saturday, the president's press secretary said.
President Omar Bashir was not in Khartoum's Republican Palace at the time, press secretary Emad Ahmed told Rooters.
"A little while ago someone attacked soldiers who guarded one of the gates of the palace," Ahmed said.
"(He) did not respond to calls to stop and was rubbed out. Two soldiers were killed during the attack by someone who seemed to be suffering from a mental illness," he added.
Army front man Col. Al-Sawarmi Khalid later said the assailant, a man named Salah Haroun, stabbed one of the soldiers, took his gun, then shot a second soldier with that weapon.
"We emphasize that the situation has been completely contained ... The situation at the presidential palace has returned to normal," Khalid added. Bashir, 70, was at his official residence in another part of Khartoum at the time of the attack, the press secretary said.
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[An Nahar] Egypt on Saturday announced the arrest of a U.S.-Egyptian citizen accused of having posted on jihadist websites a threat to attack American and other international schools in the region.
At the end of October, U.S. embassies in the Gulf states of Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , Kuwait, Oman and the United Arab Emirates, as well as the mission in Egypt, called for vigilance over a threat to American schools there.
Egypt's interior ministry, in a statement on its official Facebook page, said Alsayyed Abu Saree, 60, was behind the threats and had been locked away Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! , although it did not say when.
The suspect "posted a call through jihadist websites for attacks targeting government and foreign interests... including against foreign teachers at American and international schools in the country", it said.
Interior ministry front man Hani Abdel Latif told Agence La Belle France-Presse the suspect was arrested in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, and that he holds both U.S. and Egyptian citizenship.
He also holds a certificate to teach at American schools around the world and has lived in the United States for 27 years.
In October, the American embassy in Riyadh posted a warning saying that an anonymous jihadist post specifically mentioned schools in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and Maadi, an upmarket Cairo suburb.
A similar message issued by the embassy in Cairo said the mission was "working with local schools identified with the United States or that have high concentrations of American teachers or students to review and enhance their security posture."
It also said "Americans residing in or visiting Egypt should remain vigilant regarding their personal security and alert to local security developments."
However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... the warnings issued at the end of October also stressed that no specific threat had been identified.
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[An Nahar] Al-Qaeda said Saturday it had tried to assassinate the U.S. ambassador to Yemen with two bombs that were discovered minutes before they were due to explode.
The explosives were planted Thursday outside the house of President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi, the media arm of al-Qaeda's Yemen branch said in a statement posted on Twitter.
They were intended to be detonated when Ambassador Matthew Tueller left following a roughly hour-long visit to the house in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, it said.
There was no official confirmation of the failed plot.
Yemen is a key U.S. ally in the fight against al-Qaeda, allowing Washington to conduct a longstanding drone war against the group on its territory.
The United States considers Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000... (AQAP) to be the most dangerous arm of the jihadist organization.
AQAP was born out of a 2009 merger of its franchises in al-Qaeda founder the late Osama bin Laden ... who used to be alive but now he's not... 's native Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and his ancestral homeland in Yemen.
The group has exploited instability in impoverished Yemen since a 2011 uprising overthrew president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... .
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[ARABNEWS] Yemeni President Abdu Rabbo Mansour Hadi was ousted as leader of his own political party, the group said on Saturday, weakening his authority at a time of turmoil in the impoverished Arab nation.
The General People's Congress (GPC) has accused Hadi of backing UN sanctions against its influential former chief, President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... , who ruled Yemen for 33 years before resigning in 2012 following mass street protests.
Hadi's dismissal as party chief came the day after he moved to end Yemen's latest political crisis by naming a new power-sharing government in the country, which is racked by religious and tribal violence.
"Losing this position leaves him without a power base outside the presidency. Previously he was speaking as both president and leader of one of the largest parties. Now he has lost this," said Mustafa Alani, a Gulf-based security analyst.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000... said on Saturday it had attempted to kill the US ambassador, Matthew Tueller, planting two bombs on Thursday outside his residence.
The devices were discovered minutes before they were due to explode, AQAP's said on its Twitter account. The claim could not be immediately verified.
The UN Security Council imposed sanctions on Saleh on Friday, accusing him of obstructing the country's political transition. In a document seen by Rooters, the US said he had become a primary supporter of the Houthis.
Saleh has denied seeking to destabilize Yemen and his supporters in the GPC staged a large rally in Sanaa on Friday against the sanctions, which are also being applied to two senior members of 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 ... movement.
Hadi backers now constitute a small minority in the 34-member Cabinet, which contains nine GPC members and six Houthi members, as well as blocs representing the country's other main political factions.
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"Maybe we can convince Obola to do the same" DWS
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[ARABNEWS] Indian police have tossed in the slammer Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! a 36-year-old woman suspected of being involved in a plot to assassinate the prime minister of Bangladesh and carry out a coup, police said on Saturday.
The arrest comes days after Indian security officials said they had uncovered a plot by members of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, accused of carrying out scores of attacks in Bangladesh, targeting Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina
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[Iraq News] On Sunday, the British newspaper Sunday Times revealed the second British citizen and member of ISIS to become a jacket wallah in Iraq went kaboom! in Baiji city in a car loaded with 8 tons of explosives amid gatherings of Shiite Moslems -- which resulted in the killing of dozens, including an Iraqi Police commander.
The Sunday Times stated, "Last Friday, the British Jihadist went kaboom! in the Iraqi city of Baiji to become the first British suicide bomber in the country," adding that the bomber is called 'Kabir Ahmad' aka 'Abu Sumaya'. He is the father of 3 children, and is from the city of Derby.
A UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office front man said: "We are aware of reports of the death of a Brit in Iraq and are looking into them."
Ahmed is reported to have been one of several suicide bombers who carried out an attack on an Iraqi police convoy in the northern town of Baiji.
Eight people were killed, including senior police officer Lt Gen Faisal Malik Zamel, who was in the town to inspect local forces.
On a Twitter account claimed to be written by a jihadist named Abu Hussain al Britani, Ahmed was hailed for the attack.
"My brother Abu Sumayah Britani (kashmiri) done a martyrdom op in iraq killing a top iraqi commander and many regime soldiers! ALLAHU AKBAR," the post said.
"Iv never met a brother that wanted jannah more than Abu Sumayah! May Alah swt accept him and elevate his rank in Jannah!"
According to the UK Independent, in 2012 Ahmed was one of the first men to be convicted under a British anti-homosexual hate crime law after calling for homosexual people to be executed.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The leader 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 Syria (ISIS), His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... , was "critically maimed" when a U.S.-led air strike targeted the western Iraqi border town of al-Qaim, tribal sources told Al Arabiya News Channel on Saturday. Pray for sepsis...
Senior ISIS members were reportedly meeting in the town of al-Qaim near djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... . After the strikes, the fighters evacuated a nearby hospital and used loudspeakers to ask for blood donors, Sky News reported. And bandages for a sucking chest wound...
U.S. Central Command confirmed in a statement that U.S.-led air strikes targeted ISIS leaders near their northern Iraqi hub of Mosul late Friday, without confirming whether Baghdadi was killed, AFP reported.
"This strike demonstrates the pressure we continue to place on the ISIL [ISIS] terrorist network and the group's increasingly limited freedom to maneuver, communicate and command," US Central Command said.
Anbar province MP Mohammad al-Karbuli told Al Arabiya News Channel that coalition aircraft had targeted a gathering of ISIS leaders in al-Qaim that led to the killing of tens of people and maimed.
Karbuli said chaos ensued the air raid with ISIS members scrambling to transport their maimed to al-Qaim hospital which was overwhelmed with the number of patients.
Rooters news agency quoted two witnesses as saying an air strike targeted a house where senior ISIS officers were meeting, near al-Qaim.
The witnesses said ISIS fighters had cleared a hospital so that their maimed could be treated. ISIS fighters used loudspeakers to urge residents to donate blood, the witnesses said.
The agency also quoted residents as saying there were unconfirmed reports that ISIS' local leader in the western Iraqi province of Anbar and his deputy were killed. If we only do eight air strikes a day, but in those we kill eight ISIS leaders every day, I'm fine with that...
U.S. officials would not confirm or deny whether Baghdadi, the group's overall leader, had been targeted, the agency said.
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Karbuli said chaos ensued the air raid with ISIS members scrambling to transport their maimed to al-Qaim hospital which was overwhelmed with the number of patients.
Er huh, and al-Qaim hospital wasn't a follow-up target, or objective ?
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Besoeker, deliberately attacking a hospital is a violation of the Geneva Conventions, no matter who is being treated there.
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Very true Ram. When ISIS captures and beheads it's first American GI we should remind them of their obligation as non-signatories of the meaningless convention. I'm afraid Marquess of Queensberry desperately needs to be set aside.
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Around Kobane, Syria, Kurdish fighters are entering villages to find them abandoned by ISIS.
Kurdish front lines in Kobane are moving forward with very little resistance. They are making gruesome discoveries, finding only the bones and the black clothing of ISIS fighters in the streets and rubble as dogs and cats in the city who were abandoned have consumed the bodies of ISIS fighters.
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My original point was that the US, despite what the MSM and other detractors say, generally tries to follow the Geneva Convention, even if the other side is not a signatory and does not follow them.
Besides, the kinetic action against ISIS is being run by Susan Rice. Every target has to be reviewed and approved. I can't see her approving a strike on a hospital (or mosque), even if it was the al-Baghdadi Hospital, Command Center and Ammunition Storage building.The optics would be bad.
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I agree with you there Rambler. We do hold ourselves to a higher code, and yes, the MSM would ensure that the optics were bad.
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Two months ago ISIS was on a rampage committing horrendous and terrifying atrocities. But in Kobane, Syria the YPG and YPJ showed the rest of the region and the world the task of stopping ISIS is merely a Kurdish woman's job.
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#19 Source is a YouTube video loaded today by Kurds defending Kobane. 1) Inappropriate for this forum to embed a video showing animals feeding on carcases. 2) Will be removed at any moment when Youtube moderators see that on their forum.
A series of U.S.-led airstrikes launched Friday targeted what was thought to be a gathering of Islamic State leaders in Iraq, a defense official told Fox News.
The airstrikes, that took place near the Iraqi town of Mosul near the Syrian border, destroyed a vehicle convoy of 10 armed trucks. The official offered no further information and said they could not confirm if Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was among those present.
“This strike demonstrates the pressure we continue to place on the ISIL terrorist network and the group’s increasingly limited freedom to maneuver, communicate and command,” a defense official told Fox News.
The U.S. has been launching airstrikes on Islamic State group militants and facilities in Iraq and Syria for weeks as part of an effort to give Iraqi forces the time and space to mount a more effective offensive. Early on, the Islamic State group gained ground across Iraq, as local Iraqi units threw down their weapons and fled or joined the insurgents.
The Islamic State group has proclaimed al-Baghdadi as caliph, or supreme leader, of the vast areas of territory in Iraq and Syria under its control and demanded that all Muslims pledge allegiance to him.
Al-Baghdadi, an ambitious Iraqi militant believed to be in his early 40s, has a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head. Since taking the reins of the group in 2010, he has transformed it from a local branch of Al Qaeda into an independent transnational military force, positioning himself as perhaps the pre-eminent figure in the global jihadi community.
[Iraq News] About (11) civilians were killed or wounded when a car bomb exploded in Zafaraniya area of southeastern Baghdad.Security source told Iraqi News âThe explosion of the car bomb resulted in killing two civilians and wounding nine others in Sinaah Street in Zafaraniya area of southeastern Baghdad.â
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[Iraq News] The fourth car bomb exploded in Sadr city of eastern Baghdad. Security source stated to IraqiNews.com âA car bomb exploded in Orphali area in Sadr City of eastern Baghdad to kill a civilian and injure seven others.â
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[Iraq News] The casualties of the bombing that took place in Sinaâa Street of southeastern Baghdad reached 37 deaths and injuries. Security source stated to IraqiNews.com âThe number of the casualties of the bombing that took place in Sinaâa Street of southeastern Baghdad reached 10 deaths and 27 injuries.â
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[Iraq News] An airstrike by the US-led Coalition resulted in killing 50 ISIL terrorists including Abu Alaa al-Asri, the assistant of the head of the ISIL terrorist Organization Abu Bakir al-Baghdadi, in Rumana area in Anbar next to Syria.
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[Iraq News] Arab tribal sources confirmed to Al Arabiya news that ISIS leader, His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... , was maimed and that a number of senior ISIS leaders were killed by coalition air strikes carried out today at the border city of Qaim, Iraq.
MP for Iraq's Anbar province, Mohammed al-Karbouli, said that "on Saturday evening, international coalition aircraft targeted a meeting of ISIS leaders in Qaim city located west of Anbar which resulted in dozens of deaths and injuries and caused severe confusion among ISIS members who then cut off all roads in Qaim in order to transport their maimed to the hospital that was packed with the maimed and body parts."
Security sources in Anbar expected al-Baghdadi to be among those who were targeted by coalition aircraft, however, his exact fate remains unknown.
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Don't get too excited. It will take them all of 2 days to pick a new Caliph. OTOH, if they did get a bunch of the bejewled turbans at one go, that _may_ slow down their decision making a little while they sort out the pecking order.
[Iraq News] An Iraqi military official, who holds the rank of Brigadier General in the Presidency of the Army Staff, explained that the number of team members is 16 American officers, 7 elements arrived to Baghdad. They began to collect information and the establishment of an extensive database as well as recruiting local Iraqis from tribal members and citizens in the areas where ISIS exists. It is expected the arrival of the others, according to leaks obtained by the army troops.
According to the officer, who asked not to be named, this team works " within an isolated circle away from the American and Iraqi army. They have visited 3 locations outside Baghdad since their arrival last week."
The arrival of the team coincided with detection of the officer, who refused to disclose his name, that "the Iraqi intelligence service allocated an amount of 25 million in exchange for the head of al-Baghdadi."
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I thought they retired to write tell-all books.
[REUTERS] U.S. air strikes destroyed an 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.... convoy near the Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... but U.S. officials said on Saturday it was unclear whether the group's top commander His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... had been in any of the 10 targeted vehicles.
Colonel Patrick Ryder, a Central Command front man, said the U.S. military had reason to believe that the convoy was carrying leaders of Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot which controls large chunks of Iraq and Syria.
The convoy consisted of 10 Islamic State armed trucks.
"I can confirm that coalition aircraft did conduct a series of air strikes yesterday evening in Iraq against what was assessed to be a gathering of ISIL leaders near Mosul," said Ryder, using another name for Islamic State.
"We cannot confirm if ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was among those present."
Islamic State had been changing its strategy since the air strikes began, switching to lower profile vehicles to avoid being targeted, according to residents of towns the group holds.
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[YNETNEWS] 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.... leader, His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... , was said to be critically maimed in a US-led Arclight airstrike in the city of Al-Qaim, on the Iraq-Syria border, tribal sources in Iraq told Al Arabiya on Saturday.
The sources added that a number of other Islamic State leaders were killed in the strike that targeted a gathering of Islamic State leaders in Iraq's western province of Anbar. Two witnesses also told Rooters of the strike that targeted the gathering.
MP for Iraq's Anbar province, Mohammed al-Karbouli, told the Saudi network that coalition planes fired two missiles at a central area in the city of al-Qa'im, causing dozens of deaths and injuries.
The maimed were taken to the local hospital, and the attack led to the blocking of all roads in the area. Witnesses told Rooters Islamic State fighters had cleared a hospital so that their maimed could be treated. Islamic State fighters used loudspeakers to urge residents to donate blood, the witnesses said.
Residents said there were unconfirmed reports that Islamic State's local leader in the western Iraqi province of Anbar and his deputy were killed.
Iraqi security officials were not immediately available for comment on the report, and US officials would not confirm or deny whether Baghdadi, the group's overall leader, had been targeted.
One US official said that air strikes were carried out against a convoy near the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , about 280 km (170 miles) from al-Qa'im, and against small Islamic State units elsewhere, but the US-led air strikes had not targeted an Islamic State gathering.
TV channel Al-Hadath said dozens of people were killed and maimed in the strike in al-Qa'im, and that Baghdadi's fate was unclear. Al-Qa'im and the neighboring Syrian town of Albukamal are on a strategic supply route linking territory held by Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
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The Hamas militant group forced the cancellation Sunday of a memorial on the 10th anniversary of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's death, underscoring the lingering tensions with the rival Fatah movement despite the formation of a unity government meant to end years of hostilities. Which brings me to a question: when EU recognizes Palestine, which Palestine they mean: Hamas's Palestine in Gaza, or Fatah's Palestine in West Bank?
[An Nahar] Masked gunniesshot up dawn on Saturday at the guards of Hariri clinic in the northeastern border town of Arsal.
The state-run National News Agency reported that unknown assailants on a cycle of violenceshot up the Hariri clinic in the town, causing material damage.
Acts of sabotage and armed violence have been on the rise in recent weeks in the Bekaa town of Arsal, where gunnies are trying to take the village back to August 2, when Lions of Islam from the Qaeda-linked 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 and the Qaeda breakaway group 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.... crossed the border and engaged in bloody festivities with the Lebanese army.
A ceasefire was reached a few days later, but the retreating snuffies took with them several captive Lebanese troops and coppers. Seven were released while three have since been executed at the hands of the jihadists.
"Since three days, masked gunnies have been shooting at surveillance cameras in the main and side streets and public squares of Arsal," NNA said.
The gunnies are "moving on cycle of violences and using pump-action rifles."
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[An Nahar] A soldier who defected the army in October and joined the al-Qaeda-linked 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 reportedly handed himself over to the Army Intelligence.
The state-run National News Agency reported that Omar Khaled Shamtiyeh turned himself over to the Army Intelligence in North Leb.
The reasons remain vague.
Shamtiyeh was a member of the 2nd Artillery Regiment and used to serve at the al-Madfoun checkpoint on the coastal highway in the North.
He accused the military in his defection video of becoming a "subordinate to Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... " and of "killing the Sunni youths without any valid justification."
Several soldiers had announced their defection in recent months, voicing Shamtiyeh's argument.
In October also Lebanese soldier Abdul Qader Akkoumi, who was killed by the army in an ambush in the town of Assoun in the northern area of Dinniyeh, announced his defection.
Abdullah Shehadeh, who had defected to Nusra on October 10, urged troops to leave the army and "join the jihadists."
Shehadeh, who hails from the town of Mashha, defected hours after Nusra published a video in which the soldier Mohammed Antar announced that he had "joined the jihadists."
The increasing defection of troops from the army is not expected to affect the military, which comprises around 60,000 soldiers, according to military sources.
The first time a Lebanese soldier defected to the Nusra Front in neighboring Syria was in July. Corporal Atef Mohammed Saadeddine claimed in a video that his move came as a result of the injustice against Sunnis in Leb.
Islamists in the country claim that Sunnis are facing harassment by the army, which they accuse of working "under the command" of Hizbullah.
The Shiite party has sent thousands of fighters to Syria to help the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators... against the rebels fighting his troops.
Hizbullah members have engaged in bloody gunbattles with 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 .. ... Front, 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 and other Syrian opposition fighters in Syria and at the border region with Leb.
The jihadist groups took several Lebanese soldiers and coppers hostage in August and executed three of them following deadly festivities in and around the Bekaa border town of Arsal.
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[ARABNEWS] Fahad Al-Hajiri, a Saudi high school student, was involved in a suicide kaboom at the beginning of this month after IS chose him and three others to carry out an operation inside an oilfield in Homs. Terminated his short, pointless existence, did he?
Al-Hajiri, nicknamed Abu Azzam Al-Sharqi, lived in Dammam, where he went to school, but he left his studies to fly to Syria and join IS.
Prior to his departure, Al-Hajiri tried to communicate with members of IS in Syria via Internet, to arrange his stay there. He participated in a number of battles after he finished his intensive training, or what IS calls Shariah training.
Abu Abdulrahman Al-Mutairi, a man who fought with him for IS and has since returned, said they were told that they would "carry out the operation in Al-Shaer oilfield in rural Homs."
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A series of U.S.-led airstrikes launched Friday targeted what was thought to be a gathering of Islamic State leaders in Iraq, a defense official told Fox News.
[Iraq News] Arab tribal sources confirmed to Al Arabiya news that ISIS leader, 
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Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
