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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 03/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Birthday Gam Shot

Aracely Arámbula [Mexico][Filmography](age 39)



Shelved Design

Motorboat about to lose it's Cowling

Women Who Bathe South of the Border

Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 03/06/2014 2:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Photo #2 look to be bad PhotoShop job. Shadows and all.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 03/06/2014 6:38 Comments || Top||

#3  MOOOOO.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 03/06/2014 8:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Classy as always, James.
Posted by: Pappy || 03/06/2014 9:44 Comments || Top||

#5  Barbara Parkins was Teh Hawt
Posted by: Frank G || 03/06/2014 10:09 Comments || Top||

#6  Buenos Dias!
Posted by: Caesar Gray1629 || 03/06/2014 10:18 Comments || Top||

#7  Parkins and her friends, part of a series on dangerous women? She has studied fencing.
wiki entry: Parkins was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. At the age of sixteen, she and her mother moved to Los Angeles, where she enrolled at Hollywood High School and began to study acting, tap, ballet, and fencing at the Falcon School, where her mother played the piano. Her earliest employment was as a backup singer and dancer in the nightclub acts of major stars, including comedian George Burns. She made her film debut in a low-budget crime caper, 20,000 Eyes.
In the late 1960s Parkins was linked to several men, but she insisted most of the stories were made up by gossip magazines. Some of the men included Omar Sharif, Adam West, David Hedison and Marcel Marceau. In a 1965 interview Parkins said:
"I get calls now, from young actors I used to have crushes on. They'll ask me out now, when they wouldn't a year ago. And I love to say 'No' to them. I'd have liked it once, but now I don't need them." Hard heart-breaking woman...
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/06/2014 10:22 Comments || Top||

#8  "...but now I don't need them."

..yeah, I think I have the picture..
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 03/06/2014 13:26 Comments || Top||

#9  I think your right Billy about 'shelved design' - look at her left foot in that - it's not all there. (come on guys - if you concentrate real hard you can focus on her foot...)

Not that I'm complaining mind you...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/06/2014 16:23 Comments || Top||

#10  Classy as always, James.

I gotta second that. Jim, next time say it in French: Meuh.

See? Much classier. ;-)
Posted by: gorb || 03/06/2014 23:41 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Belmokhtar deputy killed by Algeria troops
[MAGHAREBIA] A high-ranking al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) official was among the seven gunnies killed in the recent Algerian military operation in the Sidi Ali Bouneb region, Liberté reported on Wednesday (March 5th). Sahara emir Bourahla Moussa (aka Abou Daoud) was a deputy of Mokhtar Belmokhtar. The 55-year-old was considered the likely successor to AQIM chief Abdelmalik Droukdel
... aka Abdel Wadoud, was a regional leader of the GSPC for several years before becoming the group's supremo in 2004 following the death of then-leader Nabil Sahraoui. Under Abdel Wadoud's leadership the GSPC has sought to develop itself from a largely domestic entity into a larger player on the international terror stage. In September 2006 it was announced that the GSPC had joined forces with al-Qaeda and in January 2007 the group officially changed its name to the Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb....
.
Posted by: Fred || 03/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa


Africa Subsaharan
Boko Haram Burns 11 Villagers To Death In Attack On Jakana
[Osun Defender] Senator Ahmed Khalifa Zannah, who represents Borno Central Senatorial District in the Nigeria National Assembly, has confirmed that 11 villagers in Jakana were burnt to death by 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...
sect fighters on Monday, as previously reported

The Senator told some journalists in Abuja that the hard boyz earlier warned the villagers of the attack before they stormed the community and burnt down one third of it.

Senator Zannah said youths and other strong adults fled the area, leaving only the aged and those who had no means of escaping.

It was gathered that it was a reinforcement of soldiers finally forced the sect to retreat.
Posted by: Fred || 03/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram


Northern Region of Cameroon: 7 Killed in Boko Haram Attack
[CAMEROONLATEST.BLOGSPOT] Fotokol, a locality in the Logon and Chari Division in the Northern Region was transformed last Sunday into a battle field between members of the boko haram sect and elements of the 34th motorized infantry battalion. Eyewitness accounts that some thirty heavily armed assailants belonging to boko haram infiltrated into their village. Sensing danger, the villagers informed the 34th motorized infantry battalion at Fotokol as well as elements of the Rapid Intervention Battalion-BIR who surrounded the hiding commandos of the boko haram sect. Boko haram hard boyz opened fire and the BIR responded fearlessly killing some six bad boys.

The results of this exchange of gunfire that lasted a few hours was heavy and according reports the damages are enormous. Reports say six attackers of the sect were killed by the brilliant elements of Rapid Intervention Battalion and on the Cameroonian side, a soldier of the 34th motorized infantry battalion was also killed.

It is said that many soldiers as well as boko haram members were also injured. It has been observed that members of the sect boko haram easily cross the border in cycle of violences to Fotokol, kill and return back to Nigeria. Located just meters from Nigeria , Fotokol provides refuge not only to members of boko haram chased by the Nigerian army , but also Nigerians who fled the attacks of boko haram in their country.
Posted by: Fred || 03/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram


Arabia
Drone Strike Kills 4 Qaida Suspects in Yemen
[An Nahar] A U.S. drone strike in northern Yemen on Wednesday killed four suspected al-Qaeda members, including an Iraq veteran, a military official said.

The unmanned aircraft fired two rockets at a vehicle in the Khalka area of Jawf province, the official said, adding that among those killed was Ali Juraym, a local bully boy chief who had fought in Iraq.

The American military operates all drones flying over Yemen in support of Sanaa's campaign against al-Qaeda and has killed dozens of bully boyz in a sharply intensified campaign in the past year.
Posted by: Fred || 03/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia


UAE jails three 'Islamists' for up to 7 years
[Al Ahram] A UAE court Monday handed a Qatari and two Emiratis jail terms of between five and seven years for raising funds for a Moslem Brüderbund-linked group, state news agency WAM said.

Dozens of Islamists have been jugged
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
in recent months in the United Arab Emirates as concern grows over the Moslem Brüderbund following the group's role in the Arab Spring uprisings.

The Federal Supreme Court in Abu Dhabi sentenced Mahmud al-Jidah, a Qatari, to seven years in prison followed by deportation, WAM said.

Abdul Wahid al-Badi and Saeed al-Buraimi, both Emiratis, were jugged
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
for five years each. A third Emirati, Taher al-Tamimi, was acquitted.

Amnesia Amnesty International has called the trial a "farce" that "makes a mockery of the UAE's claim to be a progressive country that respects human rights
...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state...
."

The Gulf News daily said the three were accused of "aiding and abetting Al-Islah (reform)," identified by authorities as the local branch of the Moslem Brüderbund, and "collecting funds to support it".

On 21 January, the same court, whose rulings are final, jugged
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
10 Emiratis and 20 Egyptians for periods ranging from three months to five years for forming a Moslem Brüderbund cell.

UN expert Gabriela Knaul this month criticised "violations" and a "lack of transparency" in court proceedings in the UAE and urged an independent probe into allegations of torture in prisons.

London-based rights watchdog Amnesty urged UAE authorities to "immediately quash the conviction" against Jidah, saying the trial had been "grossly unfair".

Jidah "was placed in durance vile
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
without a warrant, blindfolded and flung into solitary confinement before being repeatedly tortured, ill-treated and forced to sign papers he wasn't allowed to read," said Amnesty's Said Boumedouha.

The UAE has not seen the widespread protests that have swept other Arab states since 2011.

But authorities have cracked down hard on dissent and calls for democratic reform, drawing criticism from human rights groups.
Posted by: Fred || 03/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Bangladesh
Alleged extremist killed in 'gunfight'
[Dhaka Tribune] An alleged bully boy was killed in what police called a 'shootout' in Damurhuda upazila, Chuadanga early yesterday.

The dear departed was identified as Abul Kashem, 35, son of late Juron Ali of Damurhuda upazila. Police said Kashem was an bully boy and had several cases against him.

A patrol team of police was attacked in Kanaibabur Aam Bagan area of Boalmari around 3:00am, officer-in-charge of Damurhuda Police Station Ahsan Habib told The Dhaka Tribune.

"The miscreants hurled three crude bombs and also fired gunshots," he said, adding that the law enforcers had been compelled to fire back in order to protect themselves. The body of Kashem was recovered from the spot later and police also recovered a locally-made gun, five rounds of bullets and four crude bombs from there, Habib said.

"Kashem was a terrorist. He has been named an accused in several cases, including murder and abduction, that were filed with a number of cop shoppes including Damurhuda Police Station," Habib added.

The incident comes amidst protests in the country over extrajudicial killings.
Posted by: Fred || 03/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Caribbean-Latin America
3 more die in southern Chihuahua


A total of three individuals were killed on ongoing drug and gang related violence in southern Chihuahua state municipalities since last Sunday, according to Mexican news reports.

The deputy commander of the Chihuahua state police was found shot to dead on a road between Parral and Los Charco on Sunday, according to a news report which appeared in the online edition of El Diario de Chihuahua news daily.

Javier Enrique Nuñez, 42 had been shot multiple times by armed suspects who used 9mm and 12 gauge weapons. He was described as a sub commander of the State ministerial police in Villa Colorado.

Also near Parral a man in his 20s was shot to death in an apparent hit in Matamoros municipality Tuesday.

According to a news account in El Diario de Chihuahua, armed suspects aboard several truck were firing on the victim, identified as Juan Antonio Barragan Noriega, 22, before he was struck with gunfire and died.

Mexican press are calling the incident a shootout, which means the victim at least tried to shoot back at his attackers. The shootout took place near the Chihuahua state and Durango state borders.

Meanwhile in Parral Tuesday a man in his 20s being treated in a hospital was shot to death by an armed suspect.

Alejandro Julian Almanza, 24, was shot by an unidentified man who demanded to see his victim, shot him and then took the victim's cell phone. The shooter used a 9mm semiautomatic pistol in the attack.

According to the El Sol de Parral news daily account, several dozen witnessed the shooting.

Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and Borderlandbeat.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
Posted by: badanov || 03/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
Frenchman convicted for running Al Qaeda website
[DAWN] A Gay Paree court has sentenced a Frenchie to a year in prison for operating what prosecutors described as an al Qaeda propaganda website, the first conviction under a 2012 law outlawing "cyberjihad."

The Gay Paree prosecutor's office said Wednesday that Romain Letellier was convicted Tuesday night of defending and promoting terrorism. He was given a one-year prison term plus a two-year suspended sentence.

The 2012 law was aimed at toughening anti-terrorism measures after a young radical Islamic gunman attacked a Jewish school as part of a rampage that killed seven people.

The 27-year-old Letellier has been locked away
I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece!
since his arrest in September in the Calvados region of Normandy. Letellier said he never intended to incite anyone to violence. No attacks are linked to the site he managed.
So he was just attitudinizing without an audience? What a pathetic, unmighty Lion of Islam.
Posted by: Fred || 03/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Europe


India-Pakistan
Attempt to target convoy foiled in N Waziristan
[DAWN] MIRAMSHAH: A sabotage attempt to target a convoy was foiled when security forces defused an improvised bomb planted on Esha-Razmak road near Kam Sarobi in North Wazoo Agency on Wednesday.

Sources said that security forces convoy was on way to Bannu when they spotted an IED planted along the road on Esha-Razmak road.

The device was later defused. Meanwhile,
...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio had his hands full of angry bleached blonde...
curfew was imposed for indefinite period due to security reasons in the tribal region.

The curfew has multiplied miseries of local people as all government offices, schools, hospitals and markets remained closed.

Meanwhile,
...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck and Manuel's rivalry was entering a new and more dangerous phase...
fear gripped people due to low flights of US drones in different areas of North Waziristan Agency.

Tribal people said that they had spotted drones flying at low altitude in Ghulam Khan, Dattakhel, Hamzoni, Shawal, Mir Ali sub-division and Miranshah
... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas...
. They said that four to six drones had been spotted flying at low altitude in these areas.
Posted by: Fred || 03/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan


Six FC personnel killed in Hangu explosion
[DAWN] A roadside kaboom targeted a security forces' convoy in Hangu district
... Hangu is famous for its greenery, hills, beauty and water. Most of the people of this area are Bangash & Orakzai Pashtuns. Part of the Bangash are Shia. The Orakzai and the Sunni Bangash are determined to kill them...
on Wednesday, killing six Frontier Corps (FC) personnel whereas a policeman and another person were killed in separate incidents of violence in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
province.

Military sources confirmed that a security forces' convoy was travelling from Hangu to Kurram Agency
...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora...
when it was targeted near Warmagal area on the Hangu-Kurram Agency border. Six soldiers were killed whereas eight others sustained injuries.

The sources said the vehicle was also damaged in the attack.

The sources added that the blast was carried out using an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) and might have been detonated through a remote control.

In another incident 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.
's Yakatoot area a policeman was killed as a result of firing.

According to the police, unknown motorcyclists shot up the checkpost of Yakatoot cop shoppe killing a policeman on duty.

The body was shifted to Lady Reading Hospital.

Peshawar, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, lies on the edge of Pakistain's tribal areas.

The city has seen frequent attacks by turbans in the past few years, with targets ranging from civilians to coppers and other law enforcement personnel.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves...
another person was killed in a grenade attack in Charsadda's Prang area.

Police said the victim was collecting sand when a grenade concealed in a pile of sand went off and killed him.

Two bodies found in Khyber

Meanwhile,
...back at the barn, Bossy's udder had begun to ache...
two bodies in gunny sacks were recovered from Khyber Agency's Jamrud tehsil today.

According to political sources, the bodies were found from the Shah Kas area in Jamrud Tehsil. The victims had been bumped off.

Their bodies were shifted to the tehsil office.

Meanwhile,
...back at the cheese factory, all the pieces finally fell together in Fluffy's mind...
political administration of the area launched a probe into the incident.

Khyber is part of Pakistain's semi-autonomous tribal belt on 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.
Posted by: Fred || 03/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Iraq
Checkpoint Attacks Kill Seven Iraq Security Personnel
[An Nahar] Apparently-coordinated attacks on army and police checkpoints in the Storied Baghdad area killed at least seven members of Iraq's security forces on Wednesday, officials said.

Gunmen attacked three checkpoints in Storied Baghdad, while a roadside kaboom went kaboom! near a fourth in Tarmiyah, north of the capital.

The Storied Baghdad shootings killed at least two soldiers and four police, while at least one soldier died in the Tarmiyah blast.

The checkpoint attacks followed a series of nine bombings that hit six different areas of the capital earlier on Wednesday, killing a least 14 people and wounding more than 70.

Iraq has been hit by a year-long surge in bloodshed that has reached levels not seen since 2008, driven by widespread discontent among the country's Sunni Arab minority and by the bloody civil war in neighboring Syria.

Violence in Iraq has killed more than 1,800 people since January 1, according to Agence La Belle France Presse figures based on security and medical sources.
Posted by: Fred || 03/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State of Iraq & the Levant


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel says seized Gaza-bound rocket shipment from Iran
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] The Israeli navy seized a ship in the Red Sea on Wednesday that was carrying dozens of advanced Iranian-supplied rockets made in Syria that were intended for Paleostinian snuffies in the Gazoo Strip, the military said.

It said the Panamanian-flagged cargo vessel Klos-C was boarded in international waters without resistance from its 17-strong crew, and would be escorted to the Israeli port of Eilat within days.

"It was a complex, covert operation," military front man Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Lerner said of the seizure some 1,000 miles (1,800 km) from Israel.

Dozens of M302 rockets were found aboard the Klos-C, a weapon which could have struck deep into Israel from Gazoo and would have significantly enhanced the firepower of Paleostinian Death Eater groups such as Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,.

"The M302 in its most advanced model can strike over 100 miles, and if they would have reached Gazoo, ultimately that would have meant millions of Israelis under threat," said Lerner.

Israeli television footage showed what appeared to be marines inspecting a rocket on the floor of a ship hold, with cement bags labeled "Made in Israel" in English next to it.

Lerner said the rockets were flown from Syria to Iran, from which they were shipped first to Iraq and then toward Sudan. Had they reached the African coast, they would have probably been smuggled overland through Egypt to Gazoo, he said.

Iran had orchestrated the shipment, Lerner said, describing the process as months in the making.

The maritime tracking site marinetraffic.com showed the last position of the Klos C as the Oman Gulf on Feb. 22.

Lerner said the crew came from a number of different countries and there was no immediate indication that they knew the nature of their cargo.
Posted by: Fred || 03/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  sink the ship. Use the M302s in retaliation for future Gazan fire. Win-win-win-....
Posted by: Frank G || 03/06/2014 8:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Send the missiles back by airmail
Posted by: BernardZ || 03/06/2014 9:48 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Abu Sayyaf seized teacher in Mindanao
A Muslim teacher was seized Wednesday by Abu Sayyaf militants in the southern Philippine town of Patikul.

Officials said Alrashid Jahang was traveling on a motorcycle when intercepted by Abu Sayyaf gunmen led by Aljini Mundoc alias Ninok Sapari. Jahang, who teaches at a local elementary school, was heading to Jolo town when taken by the militants.

Mundoc was also linked to the kidnapping last year of two Muslim sisters Linda and Nadjoua Bansil, both filmmakers, in Patikul town. The sisters were with members of the Sulu Sultanate when Mundoc seized the pair while doing a documentary about Muslim coffee farmers in the area. He was also implicated in the 2012 kidnapping of a health worker in Patikul town.

Recently, police said suspected Abu Sayyaf gunmen wearing white robes or kandura seized three students of a private school and their family driver in the town of Jolo. Police said the victims -- two children and a teenager -- were in a car on their way to school when a jeep used by the gunmen blocked their path and forcibly took them.
Posted by: ryuge || 03/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Abu Sayyaf

#1  Teachers' unions in the US seem never to have anything to say about this sort of thing. You'd have thought it might change a wee little bit with the eeeeevil Boosh out of office, but I guess complaining about how muzz extremists treat teachers while the beloved hussein is prexy don't cut it either...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/06/2014 10:30 Comments || Top||

#2  The Arafat technique. One group makes nice with peace talks, meanwhile, back at the jihad...
Posted by: Grunter || 03/06/2014 13:33 Comments || Top||


Bombings injure two in southern Thailand
A villager in Narathiwat province was wounded when a bomb buried under garbage exploded on Wednesday while a soldier in Pattani province was injured by an explosion while removing a banner against the Thai Army.

The homemade bomb hidden in garbage went off at 9 a.m. in Yi Ngor district and injured a 47-year-old villager. Police found a Thai-language leaflet saying "Do you deserve to be Siamese soldiers after shooting innocent people?" at the scene. Police think the bomb was meant to target special taskforce soldiers who pass the spot daily.

In Pattani's Ma Yor district, Sergeant Chaisit Yingdamnoon recieved a slight leg injury when a bomb exploded as he was removing a roadside banner signed by "Patoni warriors", which slammed Thai army and called for the army to leave the region. Another two bombs were found nearby but were safely defused.
Posted by: ryuge || 03/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Thai Insurgency


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian Planes Renew Air Raids on Embattled Yabrud
[An Nahar] Syrian warplanes renewed air raids on the embattled rebel stronghold of Yabrud on Wednesday, launching 10 strikes on the town near the border with Leb, an NGO said.

"Warplanes carried out 10 raids on the outskirts of the town of Yabrud and the Rima area," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

It added that regime forces also shelled parts of Yabrud and troops backed by pro-regime militia and 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...
were engaged in fierce festivities with rebels including jihadists.

The Syrian Revolution General Commission and Local Coordination Committee activist groups said the air raids involved the use of explosive-packed barrel bombs.

Syrian forces are trying to capture Yabrud in a final push to secure the entire Qalamun region which lies next to the Lebanese border and on the strategic Damascus-Homs highway.

Last year they secured several key towns on the highway, leaving just Yabrud in rebel hands.

On Monday, regime forces captured the nearby village of Sahel and army officers there told Agence La Belle France Presse on Tuesday they planned to move next on Flita, the last rebel post before Yabrud.

Elsewhere, the Observatory reported barrel bomb raids in the eastern Sheikh Maqsud and Hanano districts of Aleppo city in northern Syria.

And in the northwestern Idlib province, regime planes struck the town of Khan Sheikhun as rebels and troops battled on the ground by a checkpoint at the town's eastern entrance.

Opposition fighters seized the checkpoint and others in the Idlib countryside on Tuesday in festivities that killed at least 18 rebels, the Observatory said.

In northwestern Hasakeh province, Kurdish fighters announced they were withdrawing from the town of Tel Brak between the cities of Qamishli and Hasakeh, the group said.

The fighters, from the armed wing of the main Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), captured the town on February 22 from the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original...
.

The withdrawal was announced in a statement saying local residents had agreed to take responsibility for security there and to prevent ISIL from re-entering.

Syria's Kurds have largely avoided taking sides in the conflict between the regime and opposition, focusing on protecting majority-Kurdish areas and cementing autonomy.
Posted by: Fred || 03/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Al-Nusra Front in Lebanon Claims Firing 3 Rockets on al-Nabi Sheet
[An Nahar] The Qaeda-inspired al-Nusra Front in Leb on Wednesday grabbed credit for firing three rockets on the Bekaa town of al-Nabi Sheet, in the latest such attack this week.

"The heroes of al-Nusra Front in Leb shelled the lairs of the party of Iran (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...
) with three Grad rockets
...Soviet-developed 122-mm rockets, usually launched from trucks. Newer versions are reported to have a range of up to 30 km....
in retaliation to its massacres in Syria," the group said on its Twitter page.

It also vowed "major operations (against Hizbullah) that will deprive its 'rabbis' of sleep and inject terror into the hearts of its members," noting that "such a party only understands the language of the sword."

Earlier on Wednesday, state-run National News Agency said "a rocket landed in an agricultural area between the outskirts of the al-Nabi Sheet and al-Nasriyeh towns, causing no damage."

It said the rocket was fired from the Eastern Mountain Range on the Lebanese-Syrian border.

On Tuesday, three rockets fired from Syria struck residential neighborhoods in the Bekaa town of al-Labweh, in an attack that was swiftly claimed by the Qaeda-inspired Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.

And on Monday, four people were maimed when eight rockets fired from Syria hit the Bekaa town of Brital and its surroundings. Al-Nusra Front in Leb grabbed credit for that attack.
Posted by: Fred || 03/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Nusra


Israel Claims to Hit 2 Hizbullah Fighters on Golan Border
[An Nahar] Israel said Wednesday it fired at and hit two members of 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...
as they tried to plant a bomb near the Israeli-Syrian border, but Syrian state media accused the Jewish state of targeting its forces.

"Earlier today, two Hizbullah-affiliated snuffies were identified attempting to plant an bomb near the Israel-Syria border in the northern Golan Heights," the army said in a statement.

"IDF (Israeli army) forces... fired towards the suspects (and) hits were identified," it said.

The army did not specify what weapons were used to fire at the suspected Hizbullah members.

The incident came just over a week after reports that Israeli warplanes bombarded a Hizbullah position in Janta on the Lebanese-Syrian border.

Israel neither confirmed nor denied carrying out the two February 24 strikes, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying the Jewish state would do "everything necessary" for its own security.

Hizbullah threatened to retaliate for what was the first reported Israeli air raid on a position of the Shiite party inside Leb since the 2006 war between them.

Syria's state news agency SANA, citing a military source, said that Israeli forces fired four tank shells toward the Golan village of al-Hamidiya, hitting a school and a mosque early Wednesday. It said Israeli forces also fired another four shells toward another area called al-Houriyah, and then opened fire a third time, again toward al-Hamidiya.

It said the attacks maimed seven members of the security forces and four civilians. It provided no further information.

The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported that Israeli forces fired several tank shells and two missiles toward the Golan Heights. The group said one missile hit a school in the village of al-Hamidiyeh, where Syrian troops were concentrated. The Observatory obtains its news from a network of activists in Syria.
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#1  The other missile struck a meeting of The Fluffy Kitty Club.
Posted by: Steven || 03/06/2014 1:36 Comments || Top||

#2  ... the Baby Duck Fanciers Club having been moved closer to anti-aircraft gun sites for protection.
Posted by: Pappy || 03/06/2014 9:54 Comments || Top||


Syrian warplanes strike Lebanon border region
[Beirut Daily Star] Syria launched a series of Arclight airstrikes targeting a remote area of the Bekaa Valley border town of Arsal Wednesday, a security source told The Daily Star.

There were no immediate reports of casualties from the air raids on Ras al-Sirj and Iqbit al-Mbaida on Arsal's outskirts, the sources added.

Arsal mayor Ali Hujeiri said the warplanes carried out three Arclight airstrikes between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m.

"Syrian jets are bombing the barren terrain of Arsal. They have no specific targets," he told The Daily Star by telephone. "Several bombs fell in a field near a Lebanese Army checkpoint," Hujeiri added.

Hours after the Arclight airstrike, one rocket from Syria hit Janta, a border village in the Bekaa Valley where Hezbollah is known to have several training camps.

Syrian jets have frequently targeted Arsal, a predominantly Sunni area known for its strong support for the Syrian opposition.

In turn, Shiite-majority areas in east Leb have been repeatedly targeted by rocket fire from Syria claimed by radical Islamist groups linked to Al-Qaeda.

The hilly region around Arsal near the Syrian border has long been used as smuggling trails to arm Syrian rebels or move fighters back and forth between Leb and Syria.

Syrian Arclight airstrikes have intensified since Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
The Scourge of Hama...
's forces launched a military campaign to seize the rebel-held town of Yabroud located inside Syria, near Arsal.

Yabroud is a major rebel supply route that leads to border towns in northeastern Leb where the majority of the population supports the rebels.
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