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What's going on with the politician-created immigration problem on our southern border? The one where the poor children have been dumped on our doorstep. Damn Harry Reid, Obama, and Valerie Jarrett for their activist, scum-sucking, behind the scenes, unlawful, Machiavellian shenanigans. We should dump all these kids on the Whitehouse lawn or in front of the homes of these slimy politicians. Hopefully, the politicians will contract TB or MERS.
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On Sunset one day, grinning goofy,
Arness thought that Colman looked foofy:
"Ya poof with a limp!"
"You chaps-wearing gimp!"
For actors, those two cats were toothy.
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You have to wonder how many AlQ soldiers came across with all those illegal immigrants and what are they doing now. Not to mention what they might have brought with them. Things are going to get ugly.
[Tolo News] At least six non-combatants were killed and four others were maimed on Wednesday in separate incidents in Faryab province, according to local officials on Thursday.
According to Abdulsalam Nazhat Dawolatabad district governor, following an armed government opposition attack on a security checkpoint in Dawolatabad district a missile hit a residential home wounding a teenage boy and girl.
"While the victims were being transferred to a hospital their riksha hit a roadside mine," Nazhat said. "And as a result four people were killed and three others maimed."
In a separate incident on the same day, gunnies attacked a police checkpoint in Almar district of Faryab province claiming the lives of two civilians and wounding three others when the krazed killer's mortar shell hit a residential home.
According to the local officials, during the attacks eight gunnies were killed and seven others were maimed.
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Dozens of Djibouti—AMISOM forces have been killed and others injured in huge roadside bomb that detonated in Bulo-burde town of central Somalia, witnesses said.
An eyewitness who spoke to Shabelle Media via phone from the town on condition of anonymity said that the explosion was targeted a convoy belonging to Djibouti—AMISOM forces. The exact casualties could be remaining unknown.
He added hundreds of AU forces have reached on the blast site and launched massive security operation but arrests were made so far.
However, No group has immediately claimed responsibility for the blast. With Bulo-burde officials for Somali Gov’t did not comment on the attack.
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[OMANTRIBUNE] An Egyptian court on Wednesday locked away Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! for 15 years prominent activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, a symbol of the 2011 revolt against Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... , for allegedly assaulting a policeman during an illegal protest.
Abdel Fattah, who has been out on bail since March, was placed in durance vile ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... along with two co-defendants immediately after the ruling was issued as they were waiting to be allowed to enter the makeshift court at a Cairo police academy.
The court handed down similar sentences to 24 co-defendants, none of whom were in court, after finding them guilty on charges ranging from taking part in an illegal protest to rioting, blocking roads and assaulting coppers, judicial sources said.
Because the verdict was pronounced in absentia, Abdel Fattah will be granted a retrial while he is in jug, said his father Ahmed Seif, who is also his lawyer.
"According to Egyptian law, the ruling is in absentia because the defence lawyers had not presented their case," Seif said.
The sentencing comes just days after the swearing in of President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, who has vowed to return Egypt to stability rather than to pursue democratic freedoms.
Since Sisi ousted Islamist president Mohammed Mursi in July last year, the military-installed authorities have waged a harsh crackdown on Mursi's supporters as well as the secular opposition.
Abdel Fattah and the other defendants were accused of stealing a walkie-talkie from a policeman during a November protest organised to denounce increased powers given to the military in a new draft constitution.
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"According to Egyptian law, the ruling is in absentia because the defence lawyers had not presented their case," Seif said
Hoover: I'd like to address these charges one at a time, if l may.
Dean Wormer: You'll get your chance, smart guy. [to Neidermeyer] Get on with it
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[AnNahar] The trial of more than two dozen anti-government protesters began in Turkey on Thursday with one defendant blasting the charges against them as "ridiculous" and Amnesia Amnesty International denouncing the process as a "show trial".
Twenty-six members of the Taksim Solidarity umbrella group, including doctors, architects and engineers, face lengthy prison terms for their part in leading the protests a year ago, with the prosecutor calling for 13-year jail terms for the five main suspects.
The charges include founding a criminal syndicate, violating public order and organizing illegal protests through social media.
"You cannot found a criminal organization by saying 'I don't want a shopping mall'. It is a very ridiculous charge," one of the key accused, Mucella Yapici, head of the Istanbul chamber of architects, told the court.
Last year's protests began as a small environmental movement to stop the re-development of the city's Gezi Park and quickly blew up into wider nationwide demonstrations against the perceived authoritarianism of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi only they haven't dumped him yet...
"They have submitted as evidence a picture of me shouting for help while police fired tear gas in my face," Yapici said in a speech that drew cheers from those in court.
The protests left at least eight people dead and some 8,000 injured after a brutal police crackdown.
"We started a resistance which was exemplary to the world, which was very peaceful," Yapici told the court. "But we faced increasing violence each time we took the streets. I was gassed from a very short distance and my friends who were defending me were badly injured after the police attacked."
Another defendant, Beyza Metin, the head of Istanbul chamber of electrical engineers, also questioned the charges.
"It is not possible for five people to lead demonstrations which took place across the country and were attended by millions of people", she said.
Outside the court, a crowd waved banners in support of the defendants.
Amnesia Amnesty International urged the Turkish authorities to abandon what it called "a vindictive, politically motivated show trial without a shred of evidence of actual crimes".
"The prosecution has concocted a case simply to send a strong message to the rest of Turkey that the authorities will ruthlessly pursue anyone who dissents and organizes protests against government policies."
The Taksim Solidarity group was formed in 2012 after the government announced plans to redevelop Gezi Park, one of the last remaining green spaces in central Istanbul, and neighboring Taksim Square, the country's symbolic rallying point.
The group met Erdogan at the height of the unrest to discuss the protesters' demands, only to be accused by the premier of being "traitors" aiming to destabilize the government.
Also among the defendants on Thursday was Ali Cerkezoglu, the secretary general of the Istanbul Medical Chamber, who treated several maimed protesters.
In January, Turkey passed a new law making it a crime for doctors to provide emergency first aid without a permit, which critics said was an attempt to block doctors from treating protesters.
"The only aim of this trial is to discredit the protest movement by making people believe that there was a crime organization. But it has no legal basis," he said.
"Those being tried here are the ones who dealt a big blow to Erdogan's charisma and leadership."
Several trials related to the protests are already taking place across the country, but Thursday's trial has the highest profile.
"The only goal of this case is to scare people," said Baki Boga, of the Human Rights Association Turkey. "They want to show that anyone, regardless of their age, profession or background, can be prosecuted for being a protester."
"This is a politically motivated case aimed at completely wiping out the dissenting voices in Turkey."
The government did not go ahead with the plans to demolish the park, but it has become a site of frequent festivities between police and protesters. Dozens were maimed on the anniversary of last year's protest on May 31.
[DAWN] US drone attacks in tribal areas, which resumed on Wednesday after a gap of more than five months, continued on Thursday, leaving another 10 suspected faceless myrmidons dead in two pre-dawn strikes and taking the corpse count since Wednesday evening to 16.
According to sources, foreign faceless myrmidons and Punjabi Taliban were among the dead. The sources said the drones targeted two bully boy hideouts, in Tabbi Toolkhel and Darga Mandi areas of North Wazoo.
In the Tabbi Toolkhel attack, drones fired four missiles at a house and a vehicle, killing six people. In Darga Mandi, two missiles hit a compound, leaving four people dead.
Drones continued to hover over the region throughout the day, the sources added.
Rooters news agency quoted two government officials as saying that Pakistain had given the Americans "express approval" for the latest strikes.
But in Islamabad, says our staff news hound, the Foreign Office condemned the attacks and in a brief statement reiterated the official stance that the strikes were "a violation of Pakistain's illusory sovereignty and territorial integrity".
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[DAWN] Widespread violence and targeted attacks by suspected Talibs across Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... and Fata on Wednesday left at least 10 people, including security personnel and members of peace committees, dead.
The faceless myrmidons attacked committee members in Swat, killing a local ANP leader, a policeman and a private guard. A pro-government Malak, who is also chief of a peace committee, and his son died in a targeted attack in Bajaur.
One FC soldier was killed in firing on the gate of FC Fort Shabqadar in Charsadda district while two Levies personnel bit the dust in an attack on a checkpost in Malakand. Two faceless myrmidons also were killed in retaliatory firing during an attack on the residence of the chief of Tank peace committee.
About the attack on the FC port, DPO Shafiullah Khan confirmed that two gunnies on a cycle of violence opened fire on Nasrullah Mehsud deployed on the main gate of the fort on Matta Road.
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[DAWN] A key Haqqani network commander Haji Gul was killed in the early morning US drone strike in Dand-i Darpakhel area of North Wazoo Agency, Dawn News quotes sources as saying on Thursday.
The drone strike also killed other prominent Afghan Taliban capos identified as Mufti Sofian and Commander Abu Bakar.
Intelligence and local Taliban sources also confirmed that the drone strikes in Dand-e-Darpakhel targeted some explosive laden vehicles which were meant for some mission across the border.
The sources also believe that the hard boy group was preparing a squad and about to leave when it was attacked.
Some other commanders killed in the strike have been identified as Commander Yasin Gardezi, Abdullah Khan, Commander Jamil, Commander Asadullah. Their driver Noor Khan was also killed.
The local Taliban and rustics have also confirmed that the compound targeted belonged to members of the Afghan Taliban network.
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[IBTimes] In a stunning development that threatens to further destabilize the Middle East, Iran has deployed an elite unit of its Revolutionary Guard to help the Iraqi government take on ISIS, the Sunni militant group that has seized several areas in the northern part of the country.
Two battalions of the Quds Forces are already making progress in their fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, the Wall Street Journal reported. The militant group took control of Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit on Wednesday, but Revolutionary Guard and Iraqi troops overtook 85 percent of the city on Thursday, Iraqi and Iranian security forces told the paper.
The military tradition of the Medes and the Persians extends a couple of millennia earlier than that of the Arabs...
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Yes my brother, we are Quds just passing through on our way to help Baby Assad and the Russians. We're staying over at FOB Speicher. Thanks for the MRE's. Glad to be of assistance.
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Looks like Iraq is unraveling into three parts: Kurd, Sunni, and Shiite. Just trying to figure out where the lines are going to be drawn or going for an Arab-dominated caliphate across the region?
Iran is Shia and supporting Assad who is a Ba'athist which is Sunni. Iran is Persian. The rebels are made up of a hodge-podge of groups and alliances such as AQ, ISIS, etc., some more moderate. SA supports the rebels. There is a Byzantine witches brew. What could possibly go wrong?
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So now with Saddam, Bush, Clinton, the UN and NATO out of the way these people can finally have the nasty big frickin' war they've all been longing for all these years.
IIRC, one of the big concerns during the 1980s war between Iran and Iraq was that Iranians would conquer Soddy Arabia and for our role in helping the Soddies we got 9/11. So this time I find myself unconcerned. Maybe it will degenerate into the Iranian Mad Mullahs trying to figure out how to handle a bleeding guerrilla war against lunatic Sunnis on the Arabian Peninsula. That way they won't have time to worry about Jews and Christians. It's time to walk away from these murderous, barbaric morons and let them figure it out for themselves. Yeah, and Obama is just the guy to do the walking...from one hole to another on the golf course.
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I still remember the prediction by a nuclear proliferation expert that the first nuclear exchange would be between Middle Eastern Islamic countries.
First the French shame him into helping in Libya, then the Russians scare him into helping(?) in Syria and NOW we have the three ring circus/insane asylum known as Iran helping to salvage a mess he created.
To bring Nancy Pelosi up to speed, WMD WERE found in Iraq, the Wilson mission to Nigeria, which he went on every talk show in the world to say he found no proof of Iraq trying to buy yellow cake, when his report to the CIA stated he had found proof of inquiries by Iraq. Then we have all of those barrels of stuff labeled insecticide that made troops deadly sick (note to Nan, most insecticides ARE nerve agents and in concentrations over 2% can be lethal to humans).
Just another example of how ghastly and wrong the treaty of Versailles was. We have been fighting wars and genocide ever since...Yugoslavia was a cockup created by the Treaty, Czechoslakia was created as was Iraq and Kuwait.
We will wind up with three nations. Of course the most deadly development would be the creation of Kurdistan and the implications of THAT to Turkey and Iran.
Are there any adults in the white house (I won't capitalize that until we get someone who CARES in office)?
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It's time to walk away from these murderous, barbaric morons and let them figure it out for themselves.
I don't like totally agreeing with this, but I do. Keep the juices armed to the teeth and just walk away, there is not a damn thing we can do to change the trajectory of this CF. Plant a few cameras and send a ground crew to investigate once every 50 years.
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Are we on a 100 year time loop? Looks like the 21st century is gonna be exciting. If they try to outlaw my booze in a few years there's gonna be a problem.
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I am starting to agree with Ship's thought, mostly because watching 8 years of blood, sweat, toil, treasure be swept aside by the very forces this administration tried to go to war with vs. Syria is pukeable.
IMHO, the US's best chance of affecting this was to catch initial convoys and resupply out on the road, and that time is gone.
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Hummmmm - Muqtada al-Sadr - 2014: The powerful Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has withdrawn from politics,on February 18, 2014, dismantling his influential political movement in a move that has stunned his followers and handed a pre-election boost to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
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That is interesting. Makes me think of Assad and his post-election pardons. Taunts from ISIL/S weeks ago about capturing Iraqi equipment. Perhaps the reason so many troops fled is the olde rumor mill has been turning for some time.
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What I find ironic is the left railed on the right for Iraq and fighting for big oil. As this progresses and they talk about the oil field being lost Obama will eventually get in the fight, not to liberate Kuwait but for control of the oil fields.
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From the land of the morning mustachio
We sons of the Prophet are good to go.
No beards for the barber;
We launch for Pearl Harbor --
It's not our first time at this rodeo.
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Rising Iran has been the Bammer's = USA's BFF + future OWG Co-Superpower since the Assad-Syria Crisis, + its good Globalism.
AS OWG CO-SUPERPOWERS RISE, THE SUPERPOWER USA = [Post-WW2, Cold War] GREAT POWERS MUST REDUCE OR SHRINK.
Once firmly entrenched in IRAQ + ME, count on IRAN NOT withdrawing or pulling out its forces willingly widout a fight.
* FYI REUTERS, YAHOO NEWS > ALARMED BY IRAQ, IRAN OPS FOR SHARED ROLE WID US - IRAN OFFICIAL.
IIUC, IOW the Bammer Admin = USA may find itself in the position of using US = US-Allied Airpower to help support Iran's IRGC Quds Force, etal. on the ground presum of course that POTUS-Obama-the-Anti-US-US-Globalist does decide to SSSSHHHHH
... PCCCCCC minimally support the main Iraqi Govt-Army???
SUB-IOW, THE US WILL COVERTLY DENIABLY HELP OWG GLOBALIST CO-SUPERPOWER IRAN EXPAND ITS SPHERE OF INFLUENCE AT THE EXPENCE OF ITS OWN TRADITIONAL ME ALLIES???
* BHARAT RAKSHAK > IRAQ CRISIS: ISIL [aka ISIS] CLAIMS TO HAVE EXECUTED 1,700 SHIA SOLDIERS, GROUP CLAIMS MASS KILLINGS OF IRAQI TROOPS AS MILITATNTS BATTLE 50 MILES FROM BAGHDAD.
* FREEREPUBLIC > ISIS LEADER [Al-Baghdadi] TO US: "SOON WE WILL BE IN DIRECT CONFRONTATION".
D *** NG IT, BAGHDADI, YOU CALL THAT GLOBALIST "FAIR/MULTI-POLAR SHARING"???
* SAME > [BreitBart] A SHIA-SUNNI HOLY WAR ABOUT TO COMMENCE IN BAGHDAD?
Unfortunately, Americans buy into the hope that a war of this nature could be kept local to their neighborhoods (maybe its the complacency of almost 10 generations of relative protection by our surrounding waters?), but such shall not be the case.
Make way, partner. There's gonna' be renewed interest in "nowhere-villes" once the feces really impact the oscillating atmospheric motion-impartment device.
[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Three planeloads of Americans have been evacuated from a major Iraqi air base north of Storied Baghdad as Al Qaeda-aligned bully boyz have toppled cities in the country's north and threaten to advance toward Storied Baghdad.
The planes, loaded with diplomats and contractors stationed at an Iraqi airbase in Balad, flew out amid fears that the base could be surrounded by the bully boys.
The passengers included 12 U.S. government officials and military personnel who have been training Iraqi forces to use fighter jets and surveillance drones.
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Evidently the diplomats will not be "supporing Iraq" from behind. I hope they had to spend a night or two at Balad enjoying the 'burn pit' and incoming mortar rounds from the surrounding Sunni neighborhoods.
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But, we CAN'T let ay of our politicians fall into enemy hands. Then they'd have Weapons of Mass Destruction, and all that.
(I mean, they've destroyed everything ELSE they've touched...)
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In other news and pending tributes:
Largest and most expensive embassy complex in the entire world falls to Jihadists.
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In news articles this morning, both the President and the GOP leaders proclaim that they "are not ruling out any options."
Yes they are: they're ruling out MOVING QUICKLY to help the Iraqi government. They're "mulling", "considering", and "weighing options." That's Washington-speak for "we don't know what to do and we're hoping that the problem goes away before we have to make a decision."
If the current government in Iraq is worth saving, it's worth saving TODAY, because next week it may not be there.
Instead, we're running. Figures.
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"Well, let's just let the coffee cool a bit."
/Coke Stevenson
"We can be more flexible after the election"
/Cokehead Obama
In nothin doin till after the election. Such are the problems of a campaign instead of a government.
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The U.S. contractors were at Balad to help the Pentagon prepare the facilities for the delivery of the F-16 aircraft the Obama administration has agreed to provide the Iraqi government.
WND learned from sources that the jihadists closed down escape routes, and the U.S. Air Force was in a stand-down position. U.S. forces were not assisting even with air cover so a private extradition flight could land for a rescue, the sources said.
This is just criminal negligence from this administration.
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This is just criminal negligence from this administration.
What do expect? Why do you believe it is negligence? I think it is deliberate, expect to see a lot more of this over the next two years. He's in the home stretch. If he doesn't have an accident.
Just sayin'.
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Well deliberately ignoring something that proves fatal is still considered criminal negligence in court and that is what I am referring to.
Yes I believe it is deliberate.
Yes I believe he is purposely selling out not only them but the people of Iraq.
Yes I believe he won't leave peacefully in 2016.
The FBI "most wanted" mugshot shows a tough, swarthy figure, his hair in a jailbird crew-cut. The $10 million price on his head, meanwhile, suggests that whoever released him from US custody four years ago may now be regretting it. And Obama just let five just like him go free.
Taken during his years as a detainee at the US-run Camp Bucca in southern Iraq, this is the only known photograph of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the new leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq and Syria. But while he may lack the photogenic qualities of his hero, Osama bin Laden, he is fast becoming the new poster-boy for the global jihadist movement.
Well-organised and utterly ruthless, the ex-preacher is the driving force behind al-Qaeda's resurgence throughout Syria and Iraq, putting it at the forefront of the war to topple President Bashar al-Assad and starting a fresh campaign of mayhem against the Western-backed government in Baghdad.
On Tuesday, his forces achieved their biggest coup in Iraq to date, seizing control of government buildings in Mosul, the country's third biggest city. Coming on top of similar operations in January that planted the black jihadi flag in the towns of Fallujah and Ramadi, it gives al-Qaeda control of large swathes of the north and west of the country, and poses the biggest security crisis since the US pull-out two years ago.
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Now that you've met Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, please meet Mohammad Fazi just one of those great terrorists that the regime traded for Sgt Bergdahl who knows what. He seems like a really proud terrorist in this photo I sure hope everyone feels safer knowing this guy is now free. Duty, honor, country, physical courage, and loyalty to your brothers and sisters in arms have no place in Champ's World. Sleep well with this man running free. Thanks Champ once again for 'Catch & Rrelease' and making our world and nation safer.
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OOOOOOOOOOO, once again so close but yet so far.
Baghdadi is one of the youngest of Osama's inner circle.
Not to argue that it can't happen over time, but I personally don't believe he's in serious cahoots or disagreement wid post-OBL, new AQ El Supremo Ayman-the-Z-Man [Zawahiri].
[Iran Press TV] Iraqi forces have continued their offensive against turbans from the so-called 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) by pounding their gathering sites in Salahuddin and Nineveh provinces.
Witnesses said on Thursday that the Iraqi Air Force launched four air strikes on the turbans occupying the palaces of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in Tikrit, the scenic provincial capital of Salahuddin Province.
The Iraqi forces also engaged in fierce festivities with ISIL turbans in the northern villages of the city, killing a number of them.
The army also hit the al-Ghazlani military camp that had been turned into a hideout for the turbans in the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , the Nineveh scenic provincial capital.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella grabbed the cocoanut cream... the ISIL confirmed the death of its second man in command, Adnan Ismail al-Bailawi, who was reportedly killed along other bully boyz during a battle east of Mosul last week.
Also, the Kurdish Peshmerga forces said they are now in control of the northern city of Kirkuk.
"The whole of Kirkuk has fallen into the hands of Peshmerga," said Peshmerga front man, Jabbar Yawar.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said on Thursday that the situation in the country's northern cities of Mosul and Tikrit had "stared to be reversed," stressing that the al-Qaeda-linked turbans are now "on the run."
On June 10, Nineveh Province fell into the hands of the hard boys. The 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... attacks have reportedly forced more than half a million people in and around Mosul to flee their homes.
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They will roast their bellies and bathe them in a sea of fire.
[Iraq Sun] Iraqi security forces withdrew from the Syrian border in the Sunni province of Anbar, an official said Thursday.
The Iraqi army, police and border guards withdrew late Wednesday night from their positions on the border with Syria near the city of Qaim, some 330 km northwest of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, the official told Xinhua.
Also in the province, Sunni militants swept a major military base of the al-Mazraa just west of the militant-seized city of Fallujah, some 50 km west of Baghdad, after the army soldiers withdrew suddenly overnight toward Baghdad, the official said. The gunmen also seized large amounts of vehicles, weapons and ammunition from the base, the official added.
Meanwhile, militants seized the battlefield-town of Saqlawiyah, 10 km south of Fallujah, after overnight fighting with the troops who left their bases around the town and headed toward Baghdad, he said. Iraqi security forces are still fighting in the city of Samarra, some 120 km north of Baghdad, with militant groups, including the Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (ISIL), an Al Qaeda breakaway group in Iraq.
Late Wednesday, the militants gained new cities and towns in Salahudin province, including the provincial capital Tikrit and some other cities and towns.
The security deterioration in Iraq started last week when bloody clashes broke out between the Iraqi security forces and hundreds of gunmen who took control of several neighbourhoods in western part of Mosul and expanded later to others areas after the Iraqi security forces withdrew from the city.
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By 2006, our family's Marine and his buddies had cleared out (take that how you will...) most of the miscreants in the whole Anbar and Nineveh provinces.
Spoke to him yesterday about this and he said "What we did only delayed the inevitable. The whole area was the 'Wild West' with outlaws and smugglers. Without a good police and military presence in the area, it would 'go south' real quick. Saddam Hussein wasn't stupid and had a big security presence there. That's why it was so hard for us to take it over because we were fighting all those guys, too. They just switched who their bosses were."
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[Iraq Sun] Iraq's biggest oil refinery at Beiji remained under government control on Thursday, secured by Iraqi special forces, as Sunni rebels staged an offensive through northern Iraq, Iraqi Oil Minister Abdul Kareem Luaibi said.
Luaibi said Iraq was not importing any additional fuel and that stored supplies of gasoline and diesel were good.
The country's crude oil exports from its southern terminal at Basra were running at an average 2.6-2.7 million barrels per day as of Wednesday, he said.
Militants from an al-Qaida splinter group, who seized Iraq's second biggest city of Mosul this week, advanced into the oil refinery town of Beiji on Wednesday, setting the courthouse and police station on fire.
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[Iraq Sun] Two days after militants took control of the Iraq's second largest city of Mosul, Kurdish security forces Thursday seized the country's northern city of Kirkuk after the Iraqi army withdrew from its military base here.
"The Kurdish Peshmerga has taken full control of the city of Kirkuk, after Iraqi federal soldiers withdrew yesterday," Xinhua quoted the source as saying Thursday.
The Peshmerga are the security forces mandated to protect the autonomous Kurdistan region in Iraq's north. The Kurdish security forces' takeover of Kirkuk, around 264 km from the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, raises concerns that the central government's forces are losing their battle against militants in the region.
The Iraqi army, police and border guards also withdrew late Wednesday night from their positions on the border with Syria near the city of Qaim, some 330 km northwest of Baghdad. Also late Wednesday, the militants gained new cities and towns in Salahudin province, including the deposed dictator Saddam Hussein's hometown and provincial capital Tikrit and some other cities and towns.
The troops withdrew a day after hundreds of militants Tuesday stormed the predominantly Arab towns of Hawijah, Zab, Riyadh, Abbasi and Rashad in south and west of the city of Kikruk, the police said. The militants seized the towns without resistance by the Iraqi security forces, the police said. The soldiers and policemen withdrew before the arrival of the militant groups, a sign reflecting that the Iraq's forces were ill-prepared to fend off the militants.
The ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk is among the disputed areas claimed by three of Iraq's diverse ethnic groups, the Kurds, the Arabs and the Turkomans. The Kurds want to incorporate the areas bordering the Kurdistan region, but their claim to the land is fiercely opposed by the central government in Baghdad.
Maybe the central govt in Baghdad could try fiercely opposing the capture of Mosul and Tikrit?
Apparently they ground down the better part of their army and security forces with too-high a tempo of operations. And the not-so-better part was, well, not so good.
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The Philippine military now has evidence indicating that the terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah has been training members of the local Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, a breakaway group of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
Brig. Gen. Edmund Pangilinan said troops gathered the evidence from the location in Maguindanao where they clashed with BIFF members last Thursday and captured four militants. The four militants were captured as the military also nabbed Khair Mundos, a leader and key financier of the Abu Sayyaf group, who carries a bounty of $500,000. The group was apparently in the company of Abdul Basit Usman, a JI-trained Abu Sayyaf member, for whom the US government has offered a bounty of $1 million.
Pangilinan said two of militants captured last Thursday were women who appeared to be Usaman's wives while the remaining two men were apparently close associates. He said the recovered evidence bolstered claims that Usman had been training BIFF members in bomb-making and the series of bombing incidents in Central Mindanao over the past few months was part of JI-BIFF operations.
* TOPIX > [PHIL Star] LEFTIST REBEL GROUP [CPP-NPA] DENIES MASS SURRENDER OF ITS MEMBERS.
To me, whats happening in the PHIL vee the CPP-NPA is illustrative of why I'm N-O-T convinced the Commie-Socialist Internationale' can control Radical Islam's Soon-to-be-Nuclear Global Jihad.
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The Commie quest,mania for power may had ultimately only resulted in their self-suicide + destruction by collusion wid Theo/Islamo-Socialist Radical Islam.
IRONICALLY, IFF THE MY ABOVE PROVES CORRECT GOD - NOT MARXISM-SECULARISM-ATHEISM - WINS IN THE END, + IRONICALLY AGAIN WID MARXIST-COMMIE-SOCIALIST HELP.
[AnNahar] Al-Qaeda affiliate al-Nusra Front has killed a Syrian and kidnapped two others during an attack on refugees in the eastern Bekaa Valley, the state-run National News Agency reported on Thursday.
Gunmen from the terrorist group opened fire on an encampment of refugees in the Wadi Hmeid area of the northeastern border town of Arsal at around 11:00 pm Wednesday, NNA said.
Ahmed Mohammed al-Badawi, 31, was killed and Majed Badawi was injured in the the armed assault, the agency said.
The terrorist group also kidnapped Atef and Mahmoud Badawi, it added.
The displaced Syrians, who had taken refuge in the encampment, hail from the Syrian town of Qara in the Qalamoun region.
Last week, a Syrian was killed in Arsal by al-Nusra Front fighters in similar circumstances.
Ever since the Syrian revolt erupted in March 2011, Arsal has served as a key conduit for refugees, rebels and maimed people fleeing strife-torn Syria.
[Iran Press TV] At least seven people have been killed and scores of others injured in a car kaboom in the Syrian city of Homs.
On Thursday, seven Syrian people bit the dust and 55 others suffered injuries after a boom-mobile detonated in the Wadi Dahab district of the city, the official SANA news agency reported.
The residents of the district are reportedly the supporters of the Syrian government.
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, however, said that eight people were killed in the attack.
No group has grabbed credit for the attack yet, but similar bombings in Homs were carried out by foreign-backed turbans fighting against the government of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... .
Homs has been cleared of turbans by the Syrian army, but boom-mobilekabooms recurrently take place in the city.
On May 12, a final group of foreign-sponsored 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... s left the city as part of a deal reached between the Damascus government and the turbans on May 4.
The safe exit of turbans from Homs was part of the agreement that was brokered by Iran, Russia and the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... .
The deal also brought almost all major districts of the city under the control of government forces. The agreement came as part of government efforts to facilitate access to the people trapped in conflict zones.
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[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Three planeloads of Americans have been evacuated from a major Iraqi air base north of Storied Baghdad as Al Qaeda-aligned 
The FBI "most wanted" mugshot shows a tough, swarthy figure, his hair in a jailbird crew-cut. The $10 million price on his head, meanwhile, suggests that whoever released him from US custody four years ago may now be regretting it.
[Iraq Sun] Iraqi security forces withdrew from the Syrian border in the Sunni province of Anbar, an official said Thursday. 
[Iraq Sun] Two days after militants took control of the Iraq's second largest city of Mosul, Kurdish security forces Thursday seized the country's northern city of Kirkuk after the Iraqi army withdrew from its military base here. 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
