Movie Actress Lily Rabe played Sister Mary Eunice in the thriller drama American Horror Story: Asylum alongside Jessica Lange. She played Portia in a production of The Merchant of Venice alongside Al Pacino in Central Park in New York City. Her mother is the actress Jill Clayburgh and her father is the playwright David Rabe.
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Happy Birthday to Katherine Jenkins, 34 Today !
Katherine Jenkins is a Mezzo-soprano classical crossover singer from Wales who competed on Dancing with the Stars as well as having a successful music career. Before fame, she worked as a singing teacher and a tour guide before first immersing herself into the industry through modeling.
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Well done Alexander!
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[AnNahar] Afghan cops on Saturday claimed victory against a Taliban offensive in the country's volatile Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province after days of fighting seen as a test for the country's security forces as NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... -led troops pull out.
The Taliban's onslaught in Helmand began on June 19 when at least 800 fighters launched the offensive centered in Sangin district, a hotbed of opium production and intense fighting during the 13-year insurgency.
"The Taliban offensive has been beaten back, their plan to gain territory and capture districts have totally been foiled. Some 260 of the snuffies have been killed", Afghanistan's interior ministry front man Sediq Sediqqi told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Sediqqi also said that 28 Afghan forces were killed in the fighting.
The Taliban's drive into Helmand province is seen as the biggest test of Afghan cops so far in the current summer "fighting season" and comes as the government is locked in a stalemate over the presidential election.
Government forces had started a push to retake the areas they had lost in the early days of the offensive, Seddiqi said, but their progress had been "slow" as the areas that the Taliban had been pushed out of were "heavily mined".
A high-ranking Afghan army corps officer in Helmand said earlier in the day that the faceless myrmidons had also been beaten back in three other districts -- Kajaki, Nawzad and Musa Qala -- which they had attacked at the beginning of their offensive.
A Taliban front man, Yousuf Ahmadi, rejected the claim made by the government, saying that fighting was still ongoing in Sangin.
"Our mujahideen have attacked several security checkpoints in Sangin district," Ahmadi told AFP.
The battle in Helmand comes as NATO's combat mission winds down by the end of this year, and Afghanistan's army and police are fighting against the Taliban with decreasing support from the U.S.-led military coalition.
The festivities in Helmand have also raised fears of instability How could you tell? as Afghan politics is stuck in a stalemate over the ongoing election vote count, with presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... alleging massive fraud by his rival Ashraf Ghani.
On Wednesday U.N. special envoy for Afghanistan Jan Kubis warned of "rising tensions following the second round (of elections), including increasing ethnic overtones".
A contested election result "might lead to protracted confrontation with a danger of a slide into violence", he added.
[Ynet] Alleged spy was accused of providing information to that aided Israel in its alleged attacks against Sudan.
A man accused in Sudan of spying for the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad did away with himself by strangling himself in his prison cell, Sudanese media reported this week.
According the prisoner's relatives, the medical report confirmed he took his own life, but several media outlets in the country suggested that the man may have been eliminated by the government.
A relative of the accused man said that it was his precarious mental state that led him to take his own life and added that police and authorities will investigate the circumstances surrounding his death.
Last March, the Sudanese newspaper Al-Intibaha reported that the man was captured by security forces who claimed that his capture uncovered an Israeli espionage network operating in the Red Sea.
According to Sudanese authorities, the man was the main defendant accused of providing information that aided Israel in its attacks against Sudan in recent years.
In October 2012 it was claimed that Israel attacked an arms manufacturing factory in Khartoum and several years earlier media reports said Israel also attacked convoys that were smuggling weapon from Iran to the Gazoo Strip.
In addition, Egyptian Newspaper Al Shorouk reported Friday that the Egyptian prosecution has concluded the interrogation of a Sinai Peninsula resident suspected of spying for Israel, before submitting the case to the attorney general to decide whether to prosecute the man.
According to the report, the suspect traveled to Israel four times and showed an officer from Israeli intelligence a map depicting the presence of Israeli citizens in Sinai and the level of security provided for them. The suspect is also accused of providing information on terror groups in the peninsula.
Egypt also believes the Israeli intelligence has asked the suspect to gather information about Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, intentions to smuggle eight Katyusha rockets from Sudan to Egypt.
That's a little trickier than hanging oneself in prison, but I imagine it could be done. You just have to will yourself to keep squeezing after you pass out.
Just keep squeezing, while you are unconscious, until you die. I imagine his hands were still clenched in their death grip when the jailers found him.
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[AnNahar] Gunmen killed four Egyptian coppers in the restive northern Sinai on Saturday, a security source said, with police blaming the attack on "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... " jihadist bully boys.
Militants in the Sinai Peninsula have stepped up attacks on troops and police since the military 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... last July.
A security source said the men were killed "on the road between the towns of Rafah and El-Arish in north Sinai when takfiri elements forced the pick-up they were driving to stop, made the four coppers get out and opened fire on them".
The coppers had been returning to their posts after the weekend, the source said, adding that the attackers fled into the desert.
Most bully boy attacks have hit the north of the mostly desert Sinai Peninsula, but they have also extended their reach to Cairo and the Nile Delta.
Saturday's shooting came just hours after bombings killed two people in a Cairo suburb.
The makeshift devices in a telecommunications building under construction in the October 6 suburb were detonated by a mobile phone signal, police told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Medics said the watchman's wife and 18-year-old daughter were killed.
[AnNahar] Egypt's prosecution service on Saturday referred nearly 100 supporters of ousted 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... to trial for alleged murders, a bombing and torching a university building, in two separate cases.
Morsi's Islamist supporters have faced a brutal police crackdown since his ouster by the army last July that has left more than 1,400 people dead and over 15,000 in jail.
Seventy-six students from Egypt's prestigious Al-Azhar university were referred to trial for torching the building of the university's faculty of commerce, the prosecutor general's office said, adding the group included 14 women and a Turkish national.
Morsi's student backers have staged regular demonstrations on university campuses as the police crackdown has weakened their ability to hold large street protests.
Five of the students are also charged with the bombing of a Cairo traffic checkpoint in April that killed a police officer.
Another 17 members of Morsi's Moslem Brüderbund movement were referred to trial in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria for allegedly murdering seven people and attempting to kill another 26, the prosecutor general's office said.
The murders took place on August 15 in Alexandria's Sidi Bishr district, a day after police broke up two camps of Morsi supporters in Cairo, killing hundreds.
[AnNahar] Rebels in Sudan's war-torn South Kordofan region shelled the state capital Saturday during what they called a counter-attack on an area the government said it had seized in early June.
A resident of the town confirmed the shelling, saying rounds had passed over his house.
"Two rockets or mortars from SPLM-North" were fired into Kadugli town, the resident told Agence La Belle France Presse, asking for anonymity.
Reports of casualties could not be immediately confirmed.
A statement from the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North said "our artillery unit shelled military positions inside Kadugli city" as well as in the Daldako and Al-Hamra areas outside it.
The strike on Kadugli occurred as rebels launched an offensive against government forces in the Al-Atmur area east of Kadugli, SPLM-N said, adding the rebels had destroyed a tank.
Fighting in the area has intensified over the past couple of months, and Sudan's Armed Forces announced on June 6 they had "liberated" Al-Atmur.
The Kadugli resident said he could hear the fighting which began about 6:00 am (0300 GMT) and continued for about four hours.
"There was mutual heavy artillery from the two parties," he said.
Sudan's military front man could not immediately be reached for comment.
SPLM-N has periodically shelled Kadugli since late 2012 in attacks the government says have killed civilians.
On Wednesday, rights group Amnesia Amnesty International said the government's intensified aerial bombing of South Kordofan in recent weeks may be part of an attempt to starve the population.
A senior ruling party official, Rabbie Abdelatti Ebaid, countered it is the government's responsibility to protect civilians, while aiming to establish peace and security in the area.
Like the 11-year conflict in Darfur, the three-year-old South Kordofan war has been fueled by complaints among non-Arab groups of neglect and discrimination by the Arab-dominated regime in Khartoum.
[Libya Herald] An Egyptian gardener who was reported as having been shot in the leg in the moments leading up to Salwa Bugaighis' murder has died in unexplained circumstances after he was being questioned by Benghazi police.
The front man for Benghazi Medical Centre (BMC) told the Libya Herald that the man, who has been identified as Salem Ahmed Abdul Qader, arrived at the hospital by ambulance earlier today. He was pronounced dead on arrival and his body showed signs of torture.
The events prior to Abdul Qader's death remain unclear. He was taken for questioning by police in Benghazi's Fweihat district after Bugaighis' murder but it is not known exactly when or where he died.
Benghazi Joint Security Room (BJSR) has said it would be launching an investigation into his death. The front man for BJSR, Ibrahim Al-Sharaa, told this paper that officials were waiting for a postmortem report from the BMC to ascertain whether Abdul Qader died in police custody or en route to the hospital.
Operation Dignity has said it could not comment on Qader's death other than that it could not explain it.
Spokesman for Dignity forces Mohammed Hejazi has claimed, however, that the perpetrators of Bugaighis' murder were now known. He said pictures from the slain lawyer's Facebook account posted shortly before the attack showed vehicles from Libya Shield, identified by their licence plate numbers, surveilling Bugaighis' home. He alleged that on the basis of this evidence her killers must have been members of the group.
Hejazi's statements have not been corroborated by any other source.
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[Libya Herald] Between 400 and 500 mourners gathered at Benghazi's Hawari cemetery today to bury human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... activist Salwa Bugaighis whose brutal murder on Wednesday has reverberated across the country.
Bugaighis' body travelled from her family home where it had rested since yesterday to the graveyard in Hawari where a brief ceremony was held before the burial. Bugaighis would have been buried, by Islamic rite, yesterday but time was given to her sons to return from Jordan. Bugaighis and her husband, Essam Al-Ghariani, who is missing had been staying in Jordan but had returned to Benghazi to vote in Wednesday's elections and for him to take up his duties as a newly elected Benghazi municipal councillor.
The graveyard, which has been extended to house the influx of dead from recent violence in Benghazi, was awash with mourners paying their respects, each in their own way, amongst the scores of freshly dug graves and in scorching heat.
One mourner told the Libya Herald that Bugaighis had been worth more than a thousand men. He said Benghazi's sorrow over the killing was deep and genuine and what had occurred was a complete disaster. He added that the facts of her killing had to be established and the government bring Bugaighis' killers to justice.
Across the city tributes have been made to the slain lawyer and activist. One lawyer who had worked with Bugaighis, but who did not want his identity known, said her murder had been perpetrated by "hateful cowards". He said that they had wished to obstruct progress and now Bugaighis who had "spoken out against the forces of evil and darkness" was joining the "constellation of deaders".
Another mourner said Wednesday's killing in Benghazi was not representative of the Libyan people and that such liquidations had to stop. She said what had happened was ugly and sinful, a brutal violation of the sanctity of the home. She said the city had not witnessed such shameless attacks in the past and hopefully would not see such violence again.
NGO worker Marwan Gargoum said Bugaighis had fought for the 17 February Revolution from the very beginning. She had played a huge role before the revolution as well, helping victims of sexual violence and the underprivileged.
Bugaighis had paid in blood for the future of Libya, the building of state institutions and the rule of law, he said.
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[Libya Herald] Two rocket propelled grenades were fired at the Sudanese Embassy in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... early on Friday morning. There was some minor damage to the premises but no casualties.
The Sudanese Ambassador to Libya told the Libya Herald that he had been surprised to learn of the attack on the mission in Hay Al-Andulus. Sudan had no enemies in Libya, he said, adding that Sudan had always extended friendship and its warmest feelings towards the Libyan people. He explained that at the time of the attack, at around 6 am, only a few security staff had been present at the embassy.
Earlier this month, however, the leader of Operation Dignity, General Khalifa Hafter, criticised Sudan saying its position on fighting terrorism in Libya was ambiguous.
Hafter's remarks were seen as a reaction to allegations that co-founder of the former Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) Abdul-Hakim Belhaj had been organising military supplies during a recent visit to Sudan. Belhaj, who has said he is opposed to Operation Dignity, has denied the claims.
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[Libya Herald] Saiqa Special forces say they have freed a man who had been kidnapped from an appartment in Benghazi's Salmani district, apprehending those holding him during the rescue.
Head of Saiqa Special Forces ...Libya's elite army unit, insofar as they have one, formed from a mixture of paratroopers and commandos. The group emerged from a militia with the same name in 2010. It now numbers a few thousand and reports to the Ministry of Defence. It deployed in Benghazi in an attempt to control the carnage. As a result, it has been attacked and several of its officers murdered. The force is popular in Benghazi for its stance against Ansar al-Sharia group... Investigations Unit Fadel Al-Hassi told the Libya Herald that Saiqa had freed the man, whom he identified as Hamza Khfaifi, yesterday. He said Khfaifi was now at death's door at a Benghazi hospital following his ordeal but would not disclose how he came to be maimed or who had been holding him.
Hassi said his department had been contacted in relation to 43 kidnappings in greater Benghazi since May. He said abductees included members of the security forces and military, civilians, Libyans and foreign nationals.
He said security officials were doing all within their power to ascertain the whereabouts of those who had been kidnapped but that Saiqa and its partners faced an uphill struggle given the city's security situation.
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[Libya Herald] The body of retired airforce Colonel Saleh Khalfallah Werfali and another unidentified individual were received at Benghazi Medical Centre (BMC) today.
The front man for BMC told the Libya Herald that Werfali had been shot in the head seven times in the city's Majuri district by a high calibre round. The second body has not been identified because it was too badly burned. The spokesperson said staff at the hospital were awaiting the results of a postmortem to ascertain its identity.
Both bodes were transferred to BMC from Jalaa hospital.
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[AnNahar] Two bombings on Saturday in a Cairo suburb killed a teenager and her mother, officials said, the latest in a wave of blasts to hit the Egyptian capital this week.
Militants have stepped up attacks after the army 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... in July 2013 and amid a deadly crackdown by authorities on his supporters.
The makeshift bombs planted in a telecommunications being built in the October 6 suburb were detonated by a mobile phone signal at around 9:00 am (0700 GMT), a police investigator told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Medics said the watchman's wife and 18-year-old daughter were killed.
Residents said the powerful blast rattled windows in nearby buildings.
Saturday's kaboom comes after five makeshift bombs at four Cairo metro stations on Wednesday and a sixth at a courthouse maimed six people.
The authorities have blamed Morsi's Moslem Brüderbund for attacks rocking the country, most of which have targeted security forces, and have blacklisted the Islamist movement as a terrorist organization.
Since Morsi's ouster, a crackdown on his supporters has left more than 1,400 people dead and seen at least 15,000 placed in durance vile I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece!
Hundreds have also been sentenced to death.
An al-Qaeda-inspired jihadist group based in the Sinai Peninsula, Ansar Beit al-Maqdis (Partisans of Jerusalem), has claimed some of the deadliest attacks on security forces, as well as a failed attempt Curses! Foiled again! to assassinate the interior minister in September.
A little-known jihadist group, Ajnad Misr (Soldiers of Egypt), has also said it was behind a string of attacks on police in Cairo.
The government says the snuffies have killed about 500 people, most of them security personnel.
The governor of Giza, which includes 6 October, told the private CBC channel that the kaboom damaged a mobile communication tower, cutting off access for 800 clients.
[NAIRALAND] IN a boost against terror, the State Security Service(SSS) has placed in durance vile Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! and is interrogating a prominent man in Bauchi, who is suspected to be the sponsor of 486 alleged terror elements apprehended in Aba, Abia State.
Besides, the Plateau State Police Command said yesterday that it has uncovered an illegal training camps for gunnies in Riyom local government of the State.
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[LEADERSHIP.NG] The Defence Headquarters on Friday stated that no fewer than 50 suspected turbans died during a raid on a makeshift camp used by turbans in Miyanti and Bulungu, Borno.
According to a statement posted on its website, the Defence Headquarters said 53 turbans died in the encounter, while the troops lost two of their men and five others received injuries.
The statement said that a fuel dump used for storing fuel, vehicles, including Toyota Hilux trucks, and seven cycle of violences were destroyed in the raid.
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[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Islamist faceless myrmidons are thought to have been behind a massive kaboom at a Nigerian brothel that has killed 11 people and maimed 28 more.
The kaboom happened overnight in the northeastern Nigerian city of Bauchi with suspicion already falling on 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... The group has targeted several cities across the north and central areas of the country in recent months, claiming hundreds of lives.
One suspect has already been locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! following the most recent blast in the People's Hotel brothel, according to Bauchi state police.
A military operation in the northeast to counter the rebellion has triggered a string of reprisal attacks on officials and civilians.
Boko Haram's targets often include places it considers sinful according to its austere brand of Sunni Islam, such as bars, schools or churches.
The turbans say they are fighting to carve an Islamic state out of religiously-mixed Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, biggest economy and leading energy producer.
Bauchi state, like neighbouring Jos, lies on Nigeria's volatile 'Middle Belt', where its largely Christian south and Moslem north meet.
The region has been less frequently attacked by Boko Haram than its heartland in the remote northeast.
But the faceless myrmidons seem keen to extend their reach beyond Borno state, where military operations against them have been focused.
Nigeria has estimated that more than 10,000 people have been killed since the conflict began in 2009. The violence has escalated in recent months, with more than 2,000 deaths recorded since the start of the year.
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Blowing brothels? Now they have gone too far.
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[AnNahar] Fierce festivities broke out Saturday between pro-government rustics and Shiite Houthis near the Yemeni capital, as the president vowed that authorities will not tolerate any violence.
The Huthis -- also known as Ansarullah -- have advanced from their northern mountain strongholds towards the capital in a suspected attempt to expand their sphere of influence as Yemen is reorganized into six regions.
Fighters from the two sides clashed, using machine guns and medium weapons, in the villages of Darwan, Bani Maymun, Al-Jaef and Al-Maamar, in the northern town of Hamdan, around 10 kilometers (six miles) from Sanaa International Airport, tribal and army sources said.
Further north in Amran province, tribal and military sources said "fierce festivities" pitting troops against Huthi Death Eaters raged late on Friday.
The sources spoke of "dozens" of casualties but Agence La Belle France Presse could not immediately verify the toll.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Jack stuck the cigar in his mouth, stepped onto the gantry, and asked Got a light, Mac?
Von Schtinken stopped short, lowering the dagger and trying to control his features. If you light that thing, Herr Armschtröng, he pointed out, his voice tense, we all die!... in a speech marking the start of Ramadan, the Mohammedan holy Mohammedan month of fasting, President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi denounced the violence.
"We will not allow any acts of violence here and there by any party trying to undermine security," Hadi said in a statement carried by state news agency Saba.
"All parties must comply with agreements reached to resolve latest tensions and fighting in Amran, Hamdan, Arhab, and Bani Matar" in the north, he said.
Huthis have been battling the central government for years from their Saada heartland, complaining of marginalization under former president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... , who stepped down in 2012 after a year-long uprising.
Clashes erupted anew earlier this month in the north, ending an 11-day truce agreed after mediation backed by United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... envoy Jamal Benomar.
The rebels say a federalization plan agreed in February after national talks as part of a political transition would divide Yemen into rich and poor regions.
They seized areas of Amran province in fighting with tribes in February that killed more than 150 people.
In addition to the Shiite rebellion, a southern separatist movement and an al-Qaeda insurgency, Yemen is also facing water, food, and fuel shortages.
On June 11, thousands protested in the streets of Sanaa against the shortages as gunnies sabotaged power lines that left the country without electricity for days.
The protests prompted Hadi to replace five ministers as authorities shut down a newspaper and television channel owned by Saleh, accused by his critics of impeding the country's political transition.
Electricity gradually returned to the country's provinces but fuel shortages continued with long queues outside gas stations amid a total lack of diesel fuel, according to residents.
Referring in his speech to the June 11 protests, Hadi said "we are still facing plots and significant attempts to impede" the political transition in Yemen.
He said Sanaa was on that specific day "deliberately emptied of oil derivatives as dozens of trucks carrying these derivatives from the provinces of Hodeidah and Marib were besieged days earlier."
Hadi however did not give further details or blame any parties for the incident.
But days later Yemeni troops surrounded a mosque controlled by former president Saleh and Hadi removed heavy artillery from hills surrounding Sanaa over fears his predecessor, to whom some elements remain loyal, is plotting a coup.
Saleh ruled Yemen for 33 years before being forced out in February 2012 and replaced by his long-time deputy Hadi under a U.N.- and Gulf-sponsored deal.
[DAWN] Two people, including an internally displaced person from Orakzai Agency ... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers... , were killed, while a woman and her son were maimed in a clash in Naway Kalay area here on Friday.
Police said that three gunniesrubbed out member of an IDP family, identified as Ibraheem, in Naway Kalay area on Hangu road.
Police quoted Mohammad Usman, brother of the victim, as saying that they had migrated from Orakzai Agency and had hired a house in Naway Kalay area. Usman told police that his family heard footsteps on the rooftop and when they went upstairs, three gunnies opened fire on them, killing Ibraheem on the spot and injuring him and his mother.
"I also shot up the intruders, killing one of them, who was later identified as Umer Jan, and injuring his accomplices, Arsalan and Osama," Usman told the police.
The cantonment police registered case and began investigation.
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[DAWN] Some parts of the grenade hurled on a police check post in Sadiqabad on Wednesday revealed that the device was Russian made, a bomb disposal expert said He said though the footages from the Close Circuit Television (CCTV) camera installed at a nearby snooker club were blur, three persons could be seen on a on a cycle of violence throwing a hand grenade on the police post and speeding away.
Four people, including a police quami razakar (PQR), were maimed in the attack. The police post was established a week ago in the area.
Two of the injured, including Nabeel Ahmed, whose left leg has been amputated, were still being treated at Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... Hospital.
A senior police official said vendors and Afghan nationals in the area were not comfortable with the police post but added it was too early to say that they were behind the attack.
The police officer said some suspects had been picked up for questioning.
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couldn't have been Hek's boyz. It was a nice throw
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[DAWN] The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Saturday said that the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) commander of 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... , Umer was killed by security forces on the outskirts of Miranshah the previous night.
In a statement issued today, the ISPR stated that the civilian population has been evacuated from North Wazoo where the Zarb-e-Azb operation is targeting local and foreign turbans.
"To make sure that there are no innocent civilians still left in the area, announcements are being made for any stranded tribals who may have stayed back for any reasons, to leave also," read the statement.
It also said that after the surrender of 19 terrorists, more snuffies may lay down arms.
Pakistain Air Force Jet aircraft destroyed six terrorist hideouts on the outskirts of Mirali, killing 11 turbans, read the blurb.
Attacks were also carried out on Saturday morning by artillery fire, tanks and heavy weapons outside Miranshah, killing seven terrorists.
One prominent Al Qaeda commander has been enjugged Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! while trying to flee the area, the ISPR said.
Initial interrogation reveal that the turban is an expert at Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and suicide belt manufacturing.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Don Smilzo looked for an avenue of escape. The only window opened a hundred feet above the moat. The nearest of the hired assassins hold a bloody axe.
The window was looking better all the time.... three snuffies were also arrested by security forces while they were trying to cross the Indus River near Mianwali and all spots along the river were subsequently sealed to prevent escape, it added.
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[AnNahar] Pak jets killed 17 Death Eaters in the latest raid on rebel hideouts in the country's restive northwest, officials said on Saturday.
The planes bombarded hideouts in the Dargamandi and Chashma Gaon areas of North Wazoo late Friday, as aid agencies geared up relief efforts for refugees fleeing the military operation.
Nearly half a million people have fled the offensive in North Waziristan which is aimed at wiping out longstanding krazed killer strongholds in the area, which borders Afghanistan.
Tens of thousands of families have fled to the town of Bannu, close to North Waziristan, while hundreds more have moved further afield to the towns of Lakki Marwat, Karak and Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... since the offensive began in mid-June.
"Jet fighters bombarded krazed killer hideouts, killing 17 rebels and destroying their six compounds," a security bigshot told AFP.
A local intelligence official confirmed the krazed killer casualties in the aerial attack.
A full assault by ground troops has been expected for some days and the intensive shelling in several areas could indicate that it is now imminent.
Nearly 370 Death Eaters and 12 security personnel have been killed in the offensive, dubbed "Zarb-e-Azb" after a sword used in battle by the Prophet Mohammad, although the number and identity of the victims are impossible to verify.
Pakistain's armed forces have used jet fighters, tanks and artillery in the operation that began almost two weeks ago.
The assault on the krazed killer bastion of North Waziristan, long urged by Washington, was finally launched after a dramatic attack 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... airport which killed dozens of people and marked the end of a faltering grinding of the peace processor with the Pak Taliban.
[Xinhua] Pak security forces who are engaged in a major offensive in the North Wazoo tribal region have tossed in the clink You have the right to remain silent... a senior Al-Qaeda leader and killed 19 Death Eaters including a Taliban capo, the army said Saturday.
The ground forces used artillery and tanks to pound the hideouts of the Death Eaters and killed 19 over the past 24 hours, the army's front man said.
Giving details of the latest operation, he said the terrorists' concentrations were targeted early morning by integrated fire of artillery, tanks and heavy weapons outside 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... , the headquarters of North Waziristan Agency, with seven gunnies being killed.
"Last evening Pakistain Air Force jet aircraft destroyed six confirmed terrorists' hideouts on the outskirts of Mir Ali, a main town in the area, killing 11 terrorists," he said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Esquimeau village the snowball down Jack's back had finally melted...... the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain commander of Miranshah, Commander Umer, was killed by security forces Friday night on the outskirts of Miranshah.
One prominent Al-Qaeda commander was also arrested while trying to flee from the surrounded area in North Waziristan. "Initial interrogation shows him as an explosive, IED, suicide belt expert, " the front man said. The military did not disclose his name and nationality.
Additionally, three gunnies were arrested by security forces while they were trying to cross a river near Mianwali, a main city in Punjab province. Currently, security personnel are placed at all crossing places along the River Indus to prevent the escape of the terrorists.
The military said effective cordon around terrorists' hideouts is in place across the North Waziristan Agency.
The military also said civilians have been evacuated from the tribal region, and in order to make sure that there are no innocent civilians still left in the area, announcements have been made to urge any stranded tribal who may have stayed back for any reasons, to leave also.
There are reports that after the surrender of 19 gunnies so far, more gunnies may lay down their arms.
The military launched the long-awaited major operation in North Waziristan this month after the rare peace talks collapsed due to the Taliban's continued attacks.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... told the parliament last week that the offensive will continue until all Death Eaters are eliminated.
The army front man said supply and distribution of rations to internally displaced persons (IDPs) are gradually improving and six relief delivery points were established by the army in collaboration with civil administration in nearby cities of Bannu, Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... and Tank.
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The army front man said supply and distribution of rations to internally displaced persons (IDPs) are gradually improving
Must mean that they have went through all the canned MCI's.
[Ynet] CNN reports security forces, aided by Special Forces and local rustics, launch operation to regain control of northern Iraq from Islamist bad boys.
Iraqi security forces have managed to wrestle back control of Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit from the hands of Islamist gunnies on Saturday, CNN reported, citing Iraqi state media.
Iraqi troops backed by helicopter gunships launched an operation early Saturday aimed at dislodging Sunni turbans from Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, one of two major urban centers they seized in recent weeks in a dramatic blitz across the country.
After watching much of Iraq slip out of government hands, military officials sought to portray the push that began before dawn as a significant step that puts the army back on the offensive. They said the operation includes commandos, tanks and helicopters, as well as pro-government Sunni fighters and Shiite volunteers.
State-run Iraqiya TV quoted a Counter Terrorism Unit front man as saying 120 turbans had been killed in the large-scale operation to regain control of the vast areas seized by the hard boys.
A key tribal leader in the area, Sheikh Khamis al-Joubouri, told CNN the Iraqi army retook the city with the help from Special Forces and fighters from the local tribes.
Al-Joubouri went on to say fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have retreated towards the Kirkuk and Nineveh provinces.
Ynetnews could not confirm the veracity of the report.
Tikrit residents reported festivities on the outskirts of the city and to the south, but the extent of the fighting was unclear.
Jawad al-Bolani, a security official in the Salahuddin Operation Command, said the immediate objective is Tikrit, the hometown of former dictator Saddam Hussein and one of two major cities to fall to the al-Qaeda breakaway ISIS and allied Sunni turbans. He said there was no concrete timeline for the operation to conclude.
Helicopter gunships conducted Arclight airstrikes before dawn on gunnies who were attacking troops at a university campus on Tikrit's northern outskirts, Iraqi military front man Lt. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi said. There was no immediate word on casualties.
Government troops established a bridgehead on the sprawling campus early Friday after being ferried in by helicopter.
A security bigshot said there were sporadic festivities around the University of Tikrit, as well as south of the city. Iraqi forces, which are moving north toward Tikrit from the shrine city of Samarra, are making slow progress, he said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the media.
Tikrit residents reached by telephone confirmed that air raids took place at the university around dawn Saturday. They reported fighting between the Islamic State and Iraqi forces to the southeast as well, but said turbans are still in control of the city and patrolling the streets. Some residents described black smoke rising from a presidential palace complex located along the edge of the Tigris River after army helicopters opened fire on the compound.
They spoke on condition of anonymity out of concern for their safety.
Another Tikrit resident, Muhanad Saif al-Din, said the city has emptied out in recent days as locals flee ahead of anticipated festivities.
"Tikrit has become a ghost town because a lot of people left over the past 72 hours, fearing random aerial bombardment and possible festivities as the army advances toward the city," Saif al-Din said. "The few people who remain are afraid of possible Dire Revenge™ acts by Shiite gunnies who are accompanying the army. We are peaceful civilians and we do not want to be victims of this struggle."
He said the city has been without power or water since Friday night.
The military also carried out three Arclight airstrikes on the bad boy held city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... early Saturday. One of the air raids hit a commercial area that did not have any obvious military target, residents said.
The Islamic State and its allies have overrun much of Iraq's Sunni heartland, a vast territory stretching west and north from Storied Baghdad to the Jordanian and Syrian borders. After a dramatic initial push, the onslaught appears to have slowed as the turbans bump up against predominantly Shiite areas stretching south from Storied Baghdad.
Iraq's large, US-trained and equipped military melted away in the face of the offensive, sapping morale and public confidence in its ability to stem the turban surge - let alone claw back lost ground. If successful, the Tikrit operation could help restore a degree of faith in the security forces.
It also would provide a boost to embattled Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014... , who is fighting for his job as many former allies drop their support and Iraqis increasingly express doubts about his ability to unify the country. Al-Maliki, however, has shown little inclination publicly to step aside, and instead appears set on a third consecutive term as prime minister after his bloc won the most seats in April elections.
. Already, Washington has already deployed 180 of 300 troops promised by President Barack Obama If you like your coverage you can keep it... to assist and advise Iraqi troops.
The US also has started flying armed Predator drones over Storied Baghdad to protect American interests, a Pentagon official said Friday. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the new flights on the record.
More than 1,200 Chinese workers who were trapped in the embattled northern Iraqi city of Samarra have been evacuated to Storied Baghdad, China's Xinhua state news agency said Saturday. It said the Chinese arrived safely at a Storied Baghdad hotel, with the Iraqi military providing security.
The report said that China Machinery Engineering Corporation employed the workers at a power plant construction site in Samarra, near where security forces are battling fighters from the Islamic State.
The report didn't specify who evacuated the workers but said 45 were transported by helicopter on Wednesday, with the rest arriving in two separate groups by bus over the next two days. More than 10,000 Chinese are in Iraq, many of them employees with Chinese firms.
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Is it time to let the Iraqi Army out from under the bus?
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Great news indeed. War will be over by the time the leaves fall.
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So with all these wonderful advances, I can expect to see the gas prices fall as fast as they rose, on the fear of the ISIS invasion?
(I thought not, but had to ask)
[LATIMES] Iraqi troops and Shiite Moslem militias, backed by army attack helicopters, mounted a major push Saturday to retake the strategic city of Tikrit in a sign that the beleaguered army was fighting back after ceding much of the country to Sunni Moslem myrmidons.
Following an early morning operation in Tikrit, 80 miles north of Storied Baghdad, Iraqi state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
said that army troops had regained control of the Salahuddin provincial headquarters building and killed an unknown number of fighters with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, the Al Qaeda splinter group that seized the city June 11.
Iraqi television reported that army tanks and armored vehicles cleared the highway between Tikrit and Samarra, site of a revered Shiite Moslem shrine, 20 miles to the south. The bombing of the shrine in 2006 set off Iraq's sectarian civil war, and army troops and pro-government Shiite militias have rushed to Samarra in recent weeks to protect it from another attack.
Iraqi officials now say that the highway from Storied Baghdad to Tikrit is in government hands, which would deprive ISIS and its allies of one route to the capital. Troops are battling on a second front to keep the bully boyz from pushing into Abu Ghraib, the gateway to Storied Baghdad from the west, and military officials are said to be concerned that recent bombings in Shiite-dominated areas closer to Storied Baghdad could signal that murderous Moslem sleeper cells have infiltrated the capital.
In one such Sunni town, Jurf al Sakhar, 50 miles south of Storied Baghdad, heavy festivities left at least 15 government soldiers and 60 ISIS fighters dead, according to local hospital officials quoted by the Rooters news agency. The agency said that the battle began after bully boyz attacked an army camp with mortar shells and rocket-propelled grenades.
But the news from Tikrit offered some relief for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014... a day before the start of the Moslem holy month of Ramadan, which features fasting and prayer, and three days before the Iraqi parliament is due to convene to begin selecting a prime minister. Maliki is determined to secure a third term despite widespread opposition and accusations that he has created a Shiite-led authoritarian regime.
"We have a great victory at the beginning of Ramadan," Lt. Gen. Sabah Fatlawi, commander of Iraqi troops in Samarra, told the Sumeriya private news channel by phone. "The spirit of ISIS has collapsed because they have no faith and they have lost the battle."
The army also received a boost with the delivery of used fighter jets from Russia, which Maliki said would provide firepower to help dislodge the myrmidons. The Iraqi army purchased 36 F-16 jets from the United States but Maliki complained that they hadn't arrived yet due to a lengthy procurement process.
"Within the coming hours, we will use the planes in this battle" in Tikrit, Lt. Gen. Qassim Atta, the Iraqi military front man, told a news conference.
Elsewhere, in the contested central province of Diyala, Iraqi special forces reportedly killed a commander with an ISIS-allied Sunni myrmidon group called the Naqshbandi Army in a shootout that also left five of his deputies dead. The commander, Ahmed Khalid Ibrahim, was considered a senior figure in the myrmidon group, which includes members of Saddam Hussein's outlawed Baath political organization.
A meeting Saturday of the main alliance of Shiite politicians failed to reach consensus on a prime ministerial candidate as the bloc remained divided over Maliki's push for a third term. U.S. officials have urged Iraqi leaders to speedily form an inclusive government, and on Friday the revered Shiite holy man Ayatollah Ali Sistani demanded that politicians choose a prime ministerial candidate before parliament opens Tuesday, a call that appeared likely to go unheeded.
Ali Fayadh, a politician from of Maliki's State of Law coalition, which won the most parliamentary seats and therefore had the first crack at nominating a prime minister, said the bloc was considering alternate candidates to Maliki but that it was "not in a hurry" to make a decision.
"We don't have one nominee; we have a list of nominees," Fayadh said. "We will negotiate about them in an open session and then we'll see what happens."
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"The spirit of ISIS has collapsed because they have no faith and they have lost the battle."
Yeah, it was their loss of faith wot dun 'em in.
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It appears that the Iraqi army is turning into the Shia army. Their ability to operate in Sunni areas is disappearing.
As a result the only difference between the army and the militias is a little more training.
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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - While the Peshmarga are on the front lines fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), two unsung heroes in the heart of Erbil are also doing their best to protect Iraqi Kurdistan. Eman Abdul-Razzaq Ibrahim and Dastan Othman Hassan, 18-year-old high school students, have taken it upon themselves to invent a new bomb-detection system that could help safeguard people from the threat of terrorism.
The students say a twin bombing at the Interior Ministry in September prompted them to invent a better system.
"We were in the middle of a final exam in school," Eman recalls. "Everyone was so nervous. Phone lines were down. We couldn't focus on studies."
The two were also at school seven years ago when a car bomb detonated outside of the Interior Ministry, killing 19 people. They remember dropping their pens, terrified, as teachers called to check on relatives.
Preparing for a school science fair, Eman and Dastan set to develop a device that could prevent attacks from happening again.
Knowing that Kurdish security forces can't check every vehicle on the road, the girls sought to screen many cars in a short period of time. Encouraged by their teacher, they approached Erbil Governor Nawzad Hadi for advice. Hadi informed them that the most common form of explosive in the region was C4, but the two wanted to invent something capable of detecting a range of threats, including chemical weapons.
Initial efforts to design a new bomb sensor were dashed when the students were told Iraqi Kurdistan didn't have labs capable of developing such sophisticated technology. Instead of giving up, they shifted their focus.
"It takes a long time to check one car at a time, either with a single device or with a sniffing dog, and it can slow down traffic," Dastan tells Rudaw. "We realized we could use existing technology to develop a new system that could test many cars at a time, without stopping traffic and without drivers even knowing."
They set up a model whereby two bomb detector devices are hidden in trashcans on the side of a road, and one is affixed to a street sign above. Cars must slow down over a speed bump, where they are scanned by all three devices. Having studied the physics of light, the girls realized night vision CCTV cameras would pick up any ultraviolet light caused by the detector lasers, and immediately report the image of the car to security officials.
Although they didn't have the budget to buy a bomb detector itself-a single remote scan device costs $240,000 from Israeli company LDS-the company confirmed that their system would work. Eman and Dastan estimate that one system alone could process up to 64,000 cars a day. It would take over a year to check the same number of cars using current techniques.
Eman and Dastan earned the top prize at the science fair, and were awarded medals at the International Environment Sustainability Project Olympiad, an international competition held in June at The Hague.
Eman couldn't get a visa to Europe but Hassan's explanation of what it is like to live in fear of terrorism moved the judges to tears and prompted them to expand the scope of the competition, which usually focuses on environmental issues.
The students say 21 companies and the Dutch police approached them about using their system. Competition organizers were shocked that the girls hadn't already sold the system to the Kurdistan Regional Government.
The two refused all offers from companies, promising that they would bring it to their own government first-free of charge.
"The main point is to save people's lives," Eman says.
They also turned down their prize, a trip to Brazil, because the trip might interfere in their studies, and covered all expenses for the project and travel to Europe. Both are as selfless as they are bright: although they are both ambitious young engineers, they defer to their parents about where they will attend university.
Meanwhile faulty bomb detectors are still used in Iraq. In April 2013, A British court sentenced James McCormick to 10 years in jail for fraud for selling a fake bomb detector, the ADE 651, to the Iraqi government and the Kurdish Interior Ministry for $85 million. The device was designed after a sham golf ball detector, and its sale to the government drew accusations of corruption by Aqil Al-Turehi, Inspector General of Iraq's Interior Ministry, who found the device inoperative as early as 2008.
Thousands have died as a result of bogus detectors, which are inexplicably still at many checkpoints.
[AnNahar] Iraqi troops advanced towards Tikrit on Saturday pounding Death Eater positions in the city with air strikes in their biggest counter-offensive so far against jihadist-led Sunni murderous Moslems.
A senior officer said the army was coordinating its efforts with the United States, which has deployed military advisers to help the government push back the turbans who have overrun large areas of northern and north-central Iraq.
Armed U.S. drones were flying over Storied Baghdad to provide protection for the advisers and U.S. diplomats against the murderous Moslems, led by 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... (ISIL).
Top Shiite holy man Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, who is revered among Iraq's majority community, has urged politicians to unite and form a new government within days to tackle the crisis.
International agencies have raised alarm bells over the humanitarian consequences of the fighting, with up to 10,000 people having fled a northern Christian town in recent days and 1.2 million displaced by unrest in Iraq this year.
Thousands of soldiers, backed by air cover, tanks and bomb disposal units, were advancing on Tikrit -- now-executed dictator Saddam Hussein's hometown -- which fell to bully boyz on June 11.
"A large military operation started today to clear Tikrit of ISIL," Staff Lieutenant General Sabah Fatlawi told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"ISIL fighters now have two choices -- flee or be killed," he boasted.
On Thursday, troops swooped into a strategically located university campus in the city by helicopter, with sporadic festivities reported throughout Friday.
Taking the university is seen as an important step towards regaining control of Tikrit, one of the biggest cities controlled by the murderous Moslems.
Iraqi forces were carrying out air strikes against bully boyz inside the city, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's security front man said.
They were also now in full control of a key road from Storied Baghdad to Samarra, between the capital and Tikrit, Lieutenant General Qassem Atta added.
There is coordination with the U.S. "in the field of studying important targets," Atta said, without providing further details.
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[Ynet] Nitzan Battalion's observation units provide non-stop mobile reconnaissance for ground forces combing West Bank hills and wadis.
The Hawk Eye aerostat tactical observation unit was the first technological tool in the IDF's impressive kit to transmit visuals from the air back to forces on the ground in Hebron in the hours after Gil-Ad Shaer, Naftali Frenkel, and Eyal Yifrach were kidnapped.
Since the teens were kidnapped two weeks ago, GOC Central Command was reinforced with three additional observation balloons from other sectors — mainly the Gazoo Strip and the Leb border.
Every ground operation conducted during day light by Kfir Brigade soldiers, or during the night raids of the special units, is accompanied and observed by the soldiers of the Combat Intelligence Collection Corps' 636th Nitzan Battalion, special ambush teams on the ground, or balloons from above.
"Every area of operation, whether residential or in the wadis, is searched from above beforehand. We analyze the field, identify suspicious movements, and direct the soldiers. It's how we prevent an armed terrorist from coming down from a hilltop and firing at soldiers operating in a wadi, a well, or a spring," said Captain Guy, commander of an observation unit in the Judea territorial brigade.
"North of Hebron, we have already scanned 30 caves," he added.
The floating eyes in the sky are connected directly to a jeep on the ground, allowing them unlimited uptime — the Hawk Eye is most threatened by weather conditions, which have so far been favorable for the IDF searchers.
The unit enables the soldiers on the ground to identify a target from up to 5 km away while safe in their jeep. The camera sends a high-resolution feed that clearly identifies license plates, clothes, and even faces.
The soldiers searching the West Bank hills for the kidnapped boys over the past day were aided by information from the Combat Intelligence Collection Corps when they raided chop shops. The units also received assistance from local civilian experts more familiar with the area of operations in the wadis north of Hebron.
The wells and watering holes that have been searched and cleared have been marked "scanned" with the date by the soldiers combing the hills and wadis of the West bank.
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Whoa now, everything but the price. That almost looks affordable and yes, I'd like to have the first one in the neighborhood. Wonder if they would sell the camera/fibre subsystem separate? It would work nice with a French war kite.
[AnNahar] Interrogation with the detained would-be jacket wallah Abdul Rahman al-Shenifi revealed that 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... is selling oil to finance its terrorist operations, LBCI television reported on Saturday.
"Al-Shenifi revealed that ISIL is selling oil in Syria and Iraq and through this activity has managed to have cash money," LBCI said.
The would-be bomber also told his interrogators that a Syrian man informed him and his partners in the Turkish city of Istanbul that their mission was to attack security forces and army troops in Leb, according to the same source.
But later, al-Monzer al-Hasan, the man who provided the Duroy Hotel bombers with explosives, asked the suicide bombers to change their target and instead attack al-Saha restaurant in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
"Three people went to the restaurant to inspect it and to explore the entrances leading to it," LBCI added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout Montefiore's foot was still stuck and the hound had completely soaked his uniform with slobber... the television channel also revealed that the brother of Duroy suicide bomber Ahmed Abdul Rahman al-Thwaini was recently locked away Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! by the General Security for suspecting that he is a terrorist. He was later released, however.
On Wednesday, a Saudi suicide bomber detonated his explosives at his room in the Duroy Hotel in the Beirut neighborhood of Raouche during a raid by General Security officers.
LBCI reported on Friday that the suicide bomber and his accomplice, who are both Saudis, arrived to Leb from Istanbul where they had spent five days.
The TV network said investigations have highlighted a "key role" for al-Hasan in several suicide kabooms.
They said al-Hasan receives $50,000 for facilitating the mission of every suicide bomber.
Al-Hasan's picture was circulated by the General Security agency on Thursday.
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As per FREEREPUBLIC Artics + CNN, the ISIS/ISIL group has formally declared an Islamic Caliphate stretching from northern Syria to Iraq, + a "NEW ERA OF INTERNATIONAL JIHAD".
IIUC, IOW the Soon-to-Nukulaar-wid-Western/
Judeochristian- Help Hard Boyz will be getting ready to attack CONUS + non-Muslim World regardless of any Media, Diplom rhetoric to the contrary.
[AnNahar] Syrian rebels and Al-Qaeda launched a counter-offensive Saturday to expel 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) from Albu Kamal town on the Iraq border, a monitor said.
The operation came just days after some fighters from Al-Qaeda's Syria franchise, Al-Nusra Front, pledged loyalty to ISIL in Albu Kamal, after it led an offensive in Iraq and seized chunks of territory
But not all Al-Nusra fighters defected and those who refused to submit to the jihadist group joined forces with other Syrian rebel groups to launch the counter-offensive.
"Fighting has raged since late last night in Albu Kamal between Al-Nusra Front and Salafist tough guys on one side and ISIL on the other," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Al-Nusra fronts and its allies captured on Saturday two ISIL positions in Alby Kamal, a key town in the oil-rich eastern province of Deir Ezzor, said the Britannia-based Observatory.
Al-Nusra and other rebel groups in Syria have been locked in fierce fighting with ISIL since January that has killed thousands of fighters.
ISIL aims at setting an Islamic state that straddles Syria and Iraq and has taken control of a large part of Deir Ezzor in recent weeks.
Rebels blame the West and other opposition backers for failing to provide them with more support to fight ISIL, which has captured swathes of territory north and west of Storied Baghdad and seized weapons from fleeing Iraqi troops.
Syria's conflict began as a peaceful movement demanding political change, but became an all-out war after Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... 's regime unleashed a brutal crackdown against dissent.
A year into the fighting, foreign jihadists began to pour into Syria.
While ISIL was initially welcomed by some rebels seeking Assad's ouster, its systematic abuses and quest for hegemony have turned the opposition, including Islamists, against it.
[AnNahar] Security agencies have intensified their efforts to control Leb's land, air, and maritime borders given the recent bombings in the country and infiltration of terrorists, reported al-Liwaa newspaper on Saturday.
The measures include setting up modern surveillance towers to monitor the illegal land crossings.
The legal crossings will meanwhile be equipped with the necessary technology to connect them to main security databases to determine the identity of travelers to and from Leb.
Canned program by the famously unknown team of Uri, Yossi & Sergei, perchance?
Such a plan was initially proposed by Germany soon after United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... Security Council resolution 1701 was issued in 2006 to resolve the 33-day July war between Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... and Israel that erupted that same year.
The UK and European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... pledged to fund the plan during the Rome conference held earlier this month that was aimed at bolstering the capabilities of the army.
Leb has witnessed three bombings in six days carried out by jacket wallahs amid reports that other turbans and booby-trapped vehicles are present in the country.
Media reports said that the would-be turbans are Arab nationals.
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Gee, maybe the U.S. could buy such a system, to count the incoming democratic voters. You know, to plan for upcoming elections, so they could retire some of the dead voters.
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The measures include setting up modern surveillance towers to monitor the illegal land crossings.
Now how hard was that? Apparently, they don't believe in George Soros' radical left-wing (shared by Obama and other left-wing Donks) cockamamie open borders philosophy.
[AnNahar] The army announced on Saturday that detainees apprehended during raids in the northern Akkar region of Fnaideq over the past week confessed to the existence of a cave in the region where they used to prepare explosives.
The army said in a statement that it carried out a raid of the cave where it discovered bombs that were prepared to be detonated. It also discovered weapons, CDs, several SIM cards, mobile phones, documents, and lessons on how to manufacture explosives.
The confessions were made by Alaa Kanaan and Mahmoud Khaled, members of a terrorist bombing who were recently tossed in the calaboose ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
The National News Agency had reported earlier on Saturday that the army raided the areas of Fnaideq, al-Kafroun, and Jisr Ain al-Banat. It also raided the nearby Aziziyeh encampment for Syrian refugees where soldiers searched for wanted suspects.
LBCI television meanwhile reported on Saturday that the detainees confessed to providing suicide-bombers, including the Duroy Hotel assailants, with explosives. A detainee confessed on Thursday to storing a number of explosives and weapons in property he owns in Fnaideq.
Also Thursday, the army raided another residence in Fnaideq where it seized 42 dynamite sticks, 34 120-millimeter and 80-millimeter mortar shells, 14 propellant charges for the mortar shells, and 36 stun grenades.
On Wednesday, a Saudi suicide-bomber went kaboom! at the Duroy Hotel when he detonated his explosives during a security raid. His accomplice, also a Saudi citizen, survived the blast and is being questioned at hospital.
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Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Fnaideq!
don't wake the old ones
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In a recent in-depth analysis of Inspire magazine, START researchers applied the information, motivation, and behavioral skills model (IMB) of behavior change, an empirically tested and widely applied model, and found that the online English-language jihadist publication created in Yemen used religious arguments, terroristic propaganda and quotes from prominent American figures as tools to radicalize and recruit Western terrorists and promote a do-it-yourself approach to terrorism.
As al-Qaida Central’s media node, as-Sahab Media recently announced that it will release a new English-language jihadist publication called Resurgence, this new study also provides an analytical template against which this new publication can be compared and contrasted to al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula’s Inspire magazine.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NAIRALAND] IN a boost against terror, the State Security Service(SSS) has 
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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - While the Peshmarga are on the front lines fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), two unsung heroes in the heart of Erbil are also doing their best to protect Iraqi Kurdistan. Eman Abdul-Razzaq Ibrahim and Dastan Othman Hassan, 18-year-old high school students, have taken it upon themselves to invent a new bomb-detection system that could help safeguard people from the threat of terrorism. 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
