[Tolo News] Three gunnies stormed the provincial justice department in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. on Monday morning, killing at least four people, officials said.
"The gunnies shot two guards at the entrance of the justice department at 9:30 a.m. (local time) and walked into the building," said a front man for the provincial police chief, Hazrat Hussain Mashriqiwal.
Nangarhar Police Chief Fazel Ahmad Sherzad said the shootout continued for three hours, killing the three attackers.
Sherzad confirmed that the two guards killed were coppers assigned to guard the justice department and two other coppers were maimed.
Health officials in the province have confirmed the death of four people and injuries of 12 others.
"We had just reached the office when firing started," eyewitness Ahmadullah said. "We hid ourselves in a corner and saw gunnies enter the gate and deliberately fire. We came out of hiding when the fight ended after a few hours."
Afghan forces rushed to the area and clashed with the faceless myrmidons for over two hours. TOLOnews Jalalabad news hound Mirwais Sahil said the gunnies were resisting from the inside while the Afghan forces were trying to enter the building.
"There were dozens of government employees inside the building and there are no reports whether the gunnies have opened random shooting," said Sahil.
No group, including the Taliban, who last week vowed to intensify their attacks ahead of the runoff polls in mid-June, has claimed responsibilities for the attack so far.
The department of justice is located in the heart of the picturesque provincial capital, Jalalabad. Several other government offices are located in the same vicinity.
Earlier in the day, a police vehicle struck a roadside kaboom in Jalalabad city wounding two coppers and four civilians.
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[AnNahar] The Taliban launched their annual "spring offensive" on Monday by firing rockets at Kabul airport, but the attack missed its target and caused no casualties, Afghan officials said.
At least two rockets went kaboom! at 5:00 am (0030 GMT), the exact time that the bully boyz had vowed to start a new nationwide operation against U.S.-led foreign forces and Afghan government facilities.
Taliban leaders said last week that the offensive, which will be the last before NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... combat troops withdraw from Afghanistan, would cleanse "the filth of the infidels" from the country.
"Two rockets landed north of Kabul international airport," Sediq Sediqqi, the interior ministry front man, told Agence La Belle France Presse. "There were no casualties."
NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) confirmed it was investigating the attack on the airport, where it has a military base.
It also said that mortars been fired at Bagram airport, the biggest ISAF base in Afghanistan, which lies north of Kabul.
The Taliban grabbed credit for the attacks via a recognized Twitter account, and said other strikes had been carried out across the country.
The "Khaibar" offensive, named after an ancient battle between Moslems and Jews, will coincide with a second round of elections next month to choose a successor to President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... , who has ruled since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.
About 51,000 U.S.-led NATO troops still deployed in Afghanistan are set to withdraw by December, ending a long and costly battle to defeat the rebels, who launched a fierce insurgency after being ousted from power.
A small number of U.S. troops may stay on from next year on a training and counter-terrorism mission, but the Taliban warned that the insurgency would continue against even a few thousand U.S. troops.
The Taliban "insists on the unconditional withdrawal of all invading forces," the group said in an English-language statement on its website last week.
The statement said that attacks during the coming "fighting season" would target U.S. military bases, foreign embassies and vehicle convoys, as well as Afghan officials, politicians and translators.
Afghanistan's fighting season traditionally begins in April or May as snow recedes from the mountains, and the Taliban mark the occasion with an annual declaration to attack foreign forces and unseat the Kabul government.
[An Nahar] Egypt said Monday it has dismantled three "terrorist cells" targeting security forces, including one run by jihadists and another operated by student supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator...
Militants have stepped up attacks on security forces since the army overthrew Morsi in July last year.
Such attacks, which officials say have killed some 500 people, are in retaliation for a deadly police crackdown on Morsi supporters.
"Police efforts resulted in the arrests of terrorist elements of these cells which targeted security forces," interim interior minister Mohammed Ibrahim said at a news conference.
He said one group was operated by Ajnad Misr (Soldiers of Egypt), a jihadist movement which has claimed several attacks targeting coppers in Cairo.
"Police jugged Please don't kill me! three leaders and four members of this group run by Ajnad Misr in Giza province" near Cairo, Ibrahim said.
"They confessed to killing members of the army and police in a series of bombings, including one that killed a police brigadier general near Cairo University" on April 2, he said.
That day Ajnad Misr said it was behind three bombings outside the university.
"The security forces also discovered and dismantled two cells that planned to attack the army, police and public installations," Ibrahim said.
One was run by a student, Abdullah Hesham, who had fought in Syria with the Ahrar al-Sham rebel group battling Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators... 's forces.
Ibrahim said Hesham had received funds from Moslem Brüderbund leaders in Qatar and had also taken part in a pro-Morsi sit-in at Cairo's Nahda Square last August.
Hundreds of Morsi backers were killed on August 14 when police stormed the Nahda and Rabaa al-Adawiya squares to disperse sit-ins demanding Morsi's reinstatement.
Ibrahim said police arrested Hesham and another student who planned to attack security forces and state installations.
He said the other group, financed by a Brotherhood leader, was also dismantled and three of its members arrested, adding that it planned to attack the state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
headquarters and the Media Production City in Cairo, where many satellite television channels are based.
Reporters were also shown video footage of confessions by some detainees.
Since Morsi's ouster, most krazed killer attacks have been in the restive Sinai Peninsula, but jihadists have also staged spectacular assaults farther afield in the Nile Delta and in Cairo.
The deadliest attacks have been claimed by Sinai-based Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, a jihadist organization inspired by al-Qaeda.
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[Al Ahram] Unidentified suspects have set fire to the headquarters of the campaign of presidential hopeful Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in Sharqiya governorate on Monday, MENA reported.
Major General Sameh El-Kilani, security head of the governorate, has received a notice from the campaign coordinator in Minya Al-Qamh city early on Monday.
The public prosecution is currently investigating the incident according to the state news agency.
Unidentified groups have also set fire to El-Sisi's campaigns in Cairo and other governorates.
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[Al Ahram] A dozen Islamists have been killed over the past week by the Algerian army in the southern Tamanrasset province near the border with strife-torn Mali, the defence ministry announced Monday.
Soldiers found the bodies of two Islamist fighters on Monday at Tin Zaouatine in Algeria's far south, after a shootout with the army which has been hunting bully boyz in the area since May 5.
Their deaths bring to 12 the number of Islamists killed in the operation.
The government announced last week that the military had killed 10 Islamist fighters in festivities west of Tin Zaouatine, saying they were originally from Mali, Tunisia and Libya.
The military operation allowed the army to foil "a dangerous attempt to cross the border by a heavily armed terrorist group," the defence ministry said.
A large quantity of weapons was recovered, including 12 Kalashnikov-type assault rifles, an RPG-7 rocket launcher, four anti-tank mines and ammunition.
Earlier this month, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) grabbed credit for an April ambush in the restive Kabylie region in northeastern Algeria that killed 11 soldiers.
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[MAGHAREBIA] A leader of jihadist group "Mourabitounes" died in northern Mali, Le Monde reported on Saturday (May 10th), citing a French government official.
Abu Bakr Al-Nasr, a specialist in "heavy weapons", was a top aide to Mokhtar Belmokhtar.
The "Mourabitounes" were created in August as a merger between Belmokhtar's El Moulethemoune brigade and MUJAO ...Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, another offshoot of Qaeda in North Africa. Currently active in Mali and southern Algeria, the idea is to do as much good in West Africa as AQIM has done in North Africa... .
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[MAGHAREBIA] Four Libyan soldiers were slain Sunday (May 11th) in the latest round of violence against security forces, widely blamed on Islamist militias.
The commanding officer of the 204th Tank Brigade, Salah al-Shaafi, was killed when assailants opened fire on his vehicle in Benghazi's al-Hadek neighbourhood as he drove his son to school.
Two other special operations troops were shot on Sunday in the al-Salam neighbourhood. The body of a fourth, Osama Salah Salama, was taken to al-Jalaa Hospital shortly after, according to Libya Herald.
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Ah yes Benghazi, the diaper pail of U.S. foreign policy. Can't we simply discuss something else ?
[Iran Press TV] Chad has announced that it is shutting down its southern border with the Central African Republic (CAR) to prevent a spillover of violence.
In a statement published on his website on Monday, President Idriss Deby Itno said, "Chad is closing its common borders with the Central African Republic."
"For any Chadian who wishes to return home with his property, we will open the border wide. But apart from this precise case, nobody is authorized to cross the border until the Central African crisis is solved," Deby, who was on a tour of southern regions, told people in the town of Daha.
To secure the safety, he also pledged to "increase substantially the number of defense and security forces" in the regions.
The Central African Republic has been the scene of fierce festivities between the Seleka group and anti-Balaka militias since late 2013, when anti-Balaka Death Eaters stormed the capital Bangui in an attempt to overthrow the government.
Thousands of Mohammedans have been killed and nearly a million displaced in the festivities in the landlocked nation of 4.5 million people. Many have fled to neighboring Chad and Cameroon.
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Sounds like someone is putting pressure on Chad.
[Iran Press TV] The United States is flying manned missions over Nigeria to locate over 200 schoolgirls who were recently kidnapped 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... takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... murderous Moslems.
"We have shared commercial satellite imagery with the Nigerians and are flying manned ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) assets over Nigeria with the government's permission," a senior administration official said on Monday, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... .
Nigeria says it is reviewing all options in response to conditions set by the murderous Moslems.
Earlier in the day, US State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki said that footage released by the Boko Haram murderous Moslems, which allegedly shows around 130 of the girls, is being examined.
She added that it is hoped that clues can be found about where the girls are being held. In the video, the murderous Moslem group's leader, Abubakar Shekau, said the girls may be released when Nigeria frees all the group's prisoners.
"Our intelligence experts are combing through every detail of the video for clues that might help ongoing efforts to secure the release of the girls," said Psaki.
"We have no reason to question its authenticity," she added of the video.
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They tweak him here, they tweet him there
In Frenchy speak, it's "C'est la guerre!"
He's had enough virgins; send him to hell!
That dhimmed seclusive Pimpernel
[AnNahar] Police in China's Xinjiang region, home to mainly Mohammedan Uighurs, have tossed in the clink Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! more than 200 people over six weeks for "dissemination of violent or terrorist videos", state media said Monday, amid a wave of train station attacks.
Police in the far western region, which is periodically hit by unrest, detained 232 people who "have circulated videos promoting terrorism through the Internet and on portable devices", the state-run Global Times newspaper said, citing a Legal Daily report.
Xinjiang's regional government announced a ban in late March on downloading, saving or spreading "terror-related" videos online.
The ban includes video and audio materials "advocating violence and terrorism, religious extremism and separation of ethnic groups", according to the Global Times.
News of the arrests follows a series of violent incidents both inside and beyond Xinjiang which Chinese authorities have blamed on separatists from the area.
In April, assailants using knives and bombs struck at a rail station in the Xinjiang capital Urumqi, resulting in three deaths, including two attackers, and 79 maimed.
And, in March, 29 were killed and 143 maimed in a horrific knife assault at a railway station in the southwestern city of Kunming, which some Chinese media have dubbed the country's "9/11".
Beijing says groups including the Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP) and East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), influenced by Al-Qaeda, have inspired and even orchestrated violence in China from Central Asia, which borders Xinjiang.
Some experts, however, question the influence of the TIP, a shadowy organization that has released videos praising attacks in China but has yet to explicitly claim responsibility for them.
Last week, a lone knifeman was shot and caught after a slashing attack that injured six people at a train station in the southern city of Guangzhou.
[DAWN] Unknown gunnies attacked a Pakistain Navy officer near Karasaz area on Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... 's Shahrae Faisal on Monday, DawnNews reported.
Ghulam Akbar belonged to Punjab's Jhang district and was a working as a cook in the Pakistain Navy. "You call that curry? [BANG!]"
Security and rescue teams reached the attack site situated on the port city's main artery.
Akbar was rushed to a hospital for treatment where he succumbed to his wounds during treatment.
Police sources said that the incident appeared to be sectarian motivated, although reports in the media indicated the killing could have been the result of a failed robbery.
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Deeee-luxe bad customer review
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The Pakistani navy used officers as cooks?
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Non-commissioned, most likely. Though one never knows with Pakistan.
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One Akbar, whose pals called him "Ali,"
Head Admiral in Charge of the Thali,
Constructing his fleet,
Employed the wrong meat --
It went straight from the roads to the galley.
[Iran Press TV] At least fourteen people have been killed and dozens of others injured in a series of attacks in Iraq, security and hospital officials say.
Iraqi police officials said on Monday that two Iraqi soldiers bit the dust and five others suffered injuries after unidentified gunnies opened fire on an army checkpoint in Latifyah town, about 30 kilometers south of the Iraqi capital Storied Baghdad.
Elsewhere, in a mortar attack in the town of Yusufiya, about 20 kilometers south of the capital, an Iraqi citizen was killed and seven others were maimed.
In Jurf al-Sakhar, about 60 kilometers south of Storied Baghdad, two coppers were killed while they were trying to defuse a bomb.
In the town of Madain, south of the Iraqi capital, unidentified gunnies opened fire on people in the street, killing two people.
Iraqi police also said that three soldiers were killed and five others were maimed after a roadside kaboomkaboom hit a military convoy near Tarmiyah town, 50 kilometers north of Storied Baghdad.
Four more people were also killed and 17 others were maimed in a boom-mobile blast in a commercial street in Storied Baghdad's district of Shaab, Iraqi police said.
Iraqi medical officials also confirmed the casualties.
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Thailand's army will heighten security measures in the aftermath of several bomb explosions which targeted business areas in Narathiwatâs Sungai Kolok municipality on Sunday.
Fourth Army Commander Lt Gen Walit Rojanaphakdi called a meeting with internal security officials yesterday at the district office to improve security plans after a total of eight bombs exploded in the business district.
Narathiwat provincial police commander Pol Maj Gen Pattanawut Ungkanavin said evidence indicated that the attacks were carried out by the same group and had been well prepared. Police had several suspects and expect to obtain arrest warrants soon.
The latest two explosions took place early yesterday morning, causing fires at two grocery stores in the town. Narathiwat and Yala provinces had earlier been rocked by a series of bombings and militant attacks on Sunday night, which killed at least one person and wounded ten others.
[An Nahar] Syria's most extreme jihadist faction issued a ban Monday on mannequins in shop displays and the sale of women's underwear to male customers, a monitoring group said.
The decision by the 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... (ISIL) in their northern stronghold of Raqa also bans men and women shopping together unless he is her husband, father or brother, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The Observatory also said ISIL has decided that traditional garments on sale must be neither "tight, transparent or ornate".
Raqa is the only quiet provincial capital in Syria to have fallen from the hands of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... 's regime, and it is now completely under ISIL control.
ISIL is believed to be holding some 1,000 hostages in Raqa, rights groups say, many of them peaceful activists, rival rebels or civilians caught committing "crimes" such as heresy or smoking.
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"...ban the sale of women's underwear to male customers." This is a problem in Syria I take it?
[An Nahar] Clashes erupted on Monday in the Paleostinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hellhole between gangs after news of the death of Fatah al-Islam A Syrian-incubated al-Qaeda work-alike that they think can be turned off if no longer needed to keep the Lebanon pot stirred. official Alaeddine Ali Hujair broke out, reported the National News Agency.
It said that four people were maimed in the fighting between supporters of Bilal Badr and Talal al-Urdoni in the camp's al-Fawqani area.
Al-Mayadeen television said that seven people were maimed in the unrest.
Calm has since been restored after the Paleostinian security committee made the necessary contacts.
Hujair was maimed three days ago in al-Fawqani area, but no details were given over how he was injured.
Upon the announcement of his death on Monday, his supporters erupted into the streets and began firing gunshots into the air.
This soon escalated into the armed festivities.
Located near the southern city of Sidon, Ein el-Hellhole is the largest Paleostinian camp in the country and is home to about 50,000 refugees.
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It's a decent-enough aircraft if you don't have any opposition, and you never have to bail out. Heck, a Piper Cub is an effective warplane against sitting ducks. The Vulcan ADA was designed to specifically take out the Mig-21. Of course, talking about "Mig-21" as a monolith is also nonsense -- there were more than 30 different variants, including those built in China (both under license and just plain copied).
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Hey, he's learned how to 'toss' ordinance.
Probably has plenty of practice, at this point.
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[Al Ahram] A dozen Islamists have been killed over the past week by the Algerian army in the southern Tamanrasset province near the border with strife-torn Mali, the defence ministry announced Monday.
[MAGHAREBIA] A leader of jihadist group "Mourabitounes" died in northern Mali, Le Monde reported on Saturday (May 10th), citing a French government official.
[Iran Press TV] Chad has announced that it is shutting down its southern border with the Central African Republic (CAR) to prevent a spillover of violence.
[Ynet] Yemeni military and security officials say a suspected US drone strike in a southern province has killed six al-Qaeda
[An Nahar] Syria's most extreme jihadist faction issued a ban Monday on mannequins in shop displays and the sale of women's underwear to male customers, a monitoring group said.
[An Nahar] Clashes erupted on Monday in the Paleostinian refugee camp of 
