[Tolo News] At least 15 bully boyz were killed and seven others injured in an Afghan cops operation in southern Zabul province, local officials said on Friday.
The operation was launched on Thursday in Naw Bahar, Shahjoye and Shamlizy districts of the province to clear the areas of murderous Moslems, said the Zabul Police Chief Ghulam Sakhi Rogh Lewanai.
"The operation ended early Friday, with no civilian and Afghan forces casualties during the raids," he said.
The Taliban have not yet commented about the operation.
Recently, bully boyz have become very active throughout the country targeting Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF).
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[BUSINESSWEEK] For the second time in six years, there's a vacancy at the top of the radical Islamist al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... group in Somalia after a U.S. Arclight airstrike killed its leader.
The Pentagon yesterday confirmed the death of Ahmed Abdi Godane, 37, who led the group since U.S. Tomahawk cruise missiles killed his predecessor, Aden Hashi Ayro, in May 2008.
Just as Godane replaced Ayro, there may be another al-Shabaab leader ready to step up, limiting the operational setback for the al-Qaeda affiliate that was declared a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department in 2008. The U.S. had offered a $7 million reward for help locating Godane, who grabbed credit for the attack last year on the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya's capital of Nairobi, in which at least 67 people died.
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I know this Kenyan dude....
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[Libya Herald] The Libyan government has condemned the takeover of government ministries 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... by armed militias and has said that it is working to re-establish its authority in the capital.
In a statement issued yesterday by the Prime Minister's office, the government called the takeover of the ministries a "criminal act" and promised to pursue and sanction the parties involved.
The acts were in violation of the resolution issued by the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... Security Council on 27 August condemning the violent attacks of foreign missions and government institutions by gangs, the statement said.
The government aded that it was determined to ensure that its authority over all ministries in the capital city wa restored.
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Heck, even the US government came into power under force of arms. If you ain't got the guns you ain't got the power.
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[Libya Herald] Striking workers shut down 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... 's Mitiga Airport for some hours today after check-in staff were reportedly beaten up for refusing to board a passenger.
A source at the airport told the Libya Herald that the fracas broke out when someone seeking to join a flight to Istanbul was refused a boarding pass. Armed militiamen, who were seemingly friends of the frustrated traveller, then attacked at least one of the airport staff. As a result other employees at Mitiga went on strike and stopped all outbound flights.
This evening, Mohammed Gnewa, a front man for the Libyan Civil Aviation Authority told this newspaper that the strike had been settled and airport staff had returned to their posts. Flights were now running in and out of Mitiga.
The incident will however have undermined attempts to have Mitiga accepted, particularly by European aviation authorities, as a safe and viable alternative to the wrecked and burnt-out Tripoli International on the other side of the capital. There are so far unconfirmed reports that a deal with a Turkish company is in the offing for the construction of a new terminal at Mitiga in only 60 days.
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[OMOJUWA] Only a few members of the 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... are left in Madagali town of Adamawa State which has been under their control for weeks as most of the fighters are believed to have moved to Bama for reinforcement,
Residents said the number of hard boyz in Madagali area drastically reduced within the past one week as they are rarely seen on patrols as before, even as the 24 hour curfew imposed on the area is not effective in Boko Haram-controlled towns and villages.
The area has been under curfew since the capture of Madagali,
The second largest town after the headquarters, Gulak. Patrols by hard boyz have now become occasional--once in two days with armed hard boyz coming in much fewer number than before.
Economic activities thrive partially in Madagali despite the Boko Haram presence because there are no security forces to enforce the curfew as in Gulak and Shuwa where it is fully enforced.
Residents of Gulak have decried the difficulties in without economic and social activities as soldiers continue to ensure strict compliance with the order.
A resident, Mamman Madoba, urged government to relax the restriction of movement to enable people work to feed their families and the sick to get medical treatment.
"We understand the situation was brought about by the threat of hard boyz but we have to get something to eat and sick persons need to go to hospital. Some of us have no food to eat, there are children and the elderly among us", he said.
He noted that the restriction has cut off the town from the rest of the state, saying some people who had fled when Boko Haram came close to the town could not come back or evacuate their family members.
A resident of Shuwa said they feel more secure with the improved number of soldiers in Gulak but called for relaxation of the 24 hour curfew in the area.
"We are living in hunger because people have no money to buy food, and even with money, markets and corner shops are closed. Sometimes shop owners who live close to their shops do bring foodstuff to their houses for neighbours to buy but most of the shops are now empty", a resident said.
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And they went to Dothan, where they dwelt with their wives and families in a trailer park. Even to this day the dawgs abhor the upazilla.
/So it is written. Push the buttons Sulu and make it happen.
[Iran Press TV] Hundreds of people in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri have been forced to escape as Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... turbans get closer, residents say.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the residents said on Friday that the city, which is the capital of Borno state, has witnessed a chaotic situation in recent days, with some refugees coming from other cities and the residents fleeing it.
In recent weeks, Boko Haram has seized more towns and villages, and has brought large parts of Nigeria's northeast under its control.
Earlier this week, the turbans attacked and captured Bama, the second-largest city in Borno, warning that their next target is Maiduguri.
The Nigerian Emergency Management Agency has announced that almost 26,500 people fled Bama to Maiduguri this week, joining some 12,000 who beat feet from the town of Gwoza that was seized by Boko Haram two weeks ago.
Nearly 650,000 Nigerians have fled their homes due to Boko Haram attacks and are displaced inside the country, while thousands more have taken refuge in neighboring countries, the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says.
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[BREITBART] The man believed to have 'decapitated' 82-year-old Palmira Silva in a suburban garden in North London has been informally identified by locals as a 25-year old recent 'Moslem convert', with one neighbour saying: "He was a black man young about 25 to 30 wearing all black, black t-shirt and jeans, about 5'10" and looked like he went to the gym".
Police disabled and locked away ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... the man on Nightingale Road in Edmonton, London after he rampaged through back gardens with a large, curved blade that has been described as a 'machette'. A taser weapon was discharged, and a number of coppers received injuries including a broken wrist and cuts during the operation to safeguard locals and arrest the suspect.
The Daily Mail reports that locals claim the killer is known as "Fat Nicholas", a heavily tattooed Nigerian with "a big belly and tattoos and he walks the streets sticking his fingers up at people like Somalis".
As Homicide and Serious Crime officers are in the process collecting evidence, speaking to the family of the dear departed and waiting to speak to the suspect who is under guard in a North London hospital, official details have been sparse and the police have not been willing to speculate on the motive.
A police commander speaking at a presser yesterday said: "based on what we know, we do not believe this was a terror related incident", however new details have emerged from locals who lived by, and knew, the victim and attacker.
A neighbour who went to her window when she heard a commotion outside recounted her experience and was quoted by the Daily Record as saying: "Someone was shouting and the door was banging. I could hear the screaming but I could not hear what he was saying. I could see that he had a big curved knife, about the size of an arms.
"He was a black man young about 25 to 30 wearing all black, black t-shirt and jeans, about 5'10" and looked like he went to the gym. I have seen him around here all the time, I think he lives on the road, He has a grey car and I think he lives with his family."
Palmira Silva, the 82-year-old great-grandmother and semi-retired Italian Café owner who was well regarded locally appears to have been in the wrong place at the wrong time, as the killer roamed from garden to garden after apparently having first decapitating a cat in a fit of rage.
The Police believe the man was acting alone and they are "confident that we are not looking for anyone else at this stage".
Only twelve hours later, another knife attacker was rubbed out by police in North London. The Daily Mail reports the would-be killer 'appeared to be high on drink or drugs' and shouted "get the f*ck out of here" at Police officers before four shots were fired.
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aw jeez I read this last night and it was all "nothing related to terrorism, no, no, no "asians" involved, just a very unique, unclassifiable incident. Aye, well. He shoots the bird at Somalis, but hacks the heads off old grannies. Wll done Islam - you got this guy on waivers.
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Nothing to see here n00b, move along, be about your business and don't think so hard.
#3
Ever notice the sheer Courage of Moslems? an 82 year old WOMAN...and he cuts her head off.
Yeah, Islam is for the heroes. No wonder Pakistanis and Somalis and such redoubtable soldiers. They are so Islamic.
The Indian Army defeated the entire Pakistani Army in 13 days. The Pakistanis fought for half a day and then ran until they were cornered around Dacca for the other 12 and a half days. 93,000 prisoners...about HALF the entire Pak Army.
They fought like ...well...like...you tell me.
Islam.
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MAKHMUR, Iraq -- It's an Islamic State fighter's worst fear: to be killed by a woman.
In northern Iraq, where Kurdish forces are rapidly regaining territory held by the Islamic State, that’s becoming real risk for the extremists. There are plenty of female Kurdish soldiers on the front lines. They're smaller than their male comrades, but they talk just as tough as they prowl the battlefield clutching automatic rifles and vowing vengeance for those victimized by the Islamic State.
"We are equal with the men," said Zekia Karhan, 26, a female guerrilla from Turkey who is with the Kurdistan Workers' Party, known as the PKK. "Every responsibility for a man is the same for a woman. We are treated equally, and that is why we are fighting."
The female PKK troops accessorize their olive drab uniforms with colorful scarfs, but they’re as thirsty for battle as anyone.
"I fired on this position from the mountain," said Felice Budak, 24, another PKK fighter from Turkey, as she stood next to a window pierced by several bullet holes in Makhmur, a town that the PKK helped recapture from the Islamic State this month.
Budak said she wasn’t scared during the battle.
Islamic State fighters “are very scared of death because they are only here to kill people,” she said. “I don't mind doing it over and over again. I've already fought in Turkey, Iran and Syria.”
The leftist PKK has been fighting the Turkish government for decades and is classed as a terrorist organization by the U.S. But its fighters have been going into battle alongside Kurdish peshmerga in recent weeks and are credited by some locals with turning the tide of battle in Iraq.
The female PKK troops get fired up when they talk about the mass rapes and sex slavery that has been a hallmark of the Islamic State.
"Everywhere they go they kill and do bad things in the name of Islam," Karhan said. "They captured a lot of women and they are selling them in Syria for $100. They rape women and behead them in the name of Islam."
Karhan said she'd heard stories about the extremists' fear of being killed by the opposite sex. In northern Iraq, it is said that the Islamic State fighters, who are exclusively male, believe that they won’t be admitted to heaven if they are killed by a woman. At Makhmur, that may have been the fate of several Sunni extremists gunned down by the PKK.
"Nobody knows if there is heaven or hell," Karhan said. "How can they know they will get 27 virgins? To me Kurdistan is heaven and Kurdish women are angels. Heaven is no place for terrorists."
Budak said that she would could go shopping, wear makeup and buy nice clothes if she stayed in Turkey, but then she wouldn’t have her freedom.
"I am happy here with my freedom in my own country," she said.
The PKK commander in Makhmur, Tekosher Zagros, praised his female troops but got upset when a linguist confused his group with the peshmerga — Kurdish government forces.
"Not peshmerga," Zagros grumbled in broken English. "Guerrillas… partisans."
Zagros was also upset that the PKK hadn’t received support from the Iraqi government. He noted the terrorist designation by the U.S. and NATO.
"We understand it is because of Turkey," he said. "Turkey is your friend. But you can see now that we are fighting the terrorists. It is clear now who are the terrorists."
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When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Kipling, The Young British Soldier
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They know what's awaiting for them they chose to surrender. There will be no surrender. It'll be to the death unlike the men they've butchered in captivity so far. A drawback to the head cult of the other side.
The female PKK troops get fired up when they talk about the mass rapes and sex slavery that has been a hallmark of the Islamic State.
Not to be confused with the fantasy mass rapes and slavery the unhinged Feminazis in the States talk about.
[IsraelTimes] Jerusalem Police on Friday discovered two bullets which had been fired at the capital's Pisgat Ze'ev neighborhood earlier in the day, apparently by gunnies in the East Jerusalem Paleostinian refugee camp of Shuafat.
Boys will be boys...
No injuries were reported in the shooting.
One of the bullets was found in the back seat of a car after it destroyed the vehicle's windshield, while the other was located in the yard of an apartment building, Israel Radio reported.
Police launched an investigation into the incident, one of several such shootings to take place in recent weeks.
Last month, a 20-year-old resident of the Shuafat refugee camp who was suspected of firing at homes in Pisgat Ze'ev was shot and seriously maimed by Border Police forces that had been dispatched nearby. The suspected gunman was evacuated by a Red Islamic Thingy ambulance to Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem, where he underwent emergency surgery.
Police said they were still searching for other suspects involved in the shootings at Pisgat Ze'ev residences.
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Was in Jerusalem some years back. Gunfire was going on then in the East part of Jerusalem. Could have been a wedding, could have been a call to worship (sarc), or some Muslims hoping to get lucky.
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When I was in Jerusalem 3 years ago, there was some kind of demonstration going on nearby. There were a few shots fired. One of our group commented "Guess the IDF has decided to get serious."
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In an attempt at better security measures against violence in the deep South, the public is taking a greater part in looking out for danger through the Village Protection Unit (VPU) project. Local unit members work with civil defense volunteers recruited from elsewhere under the Interior Ministry's supervision.
Village Protection units offer a tactical advantage - they can instantly identify strangers and keep an eye on them. The volunteers, on the other hand, need time to verify someone's identity - which in some cases could be too late.
The units' active role with villagers and schools means security officials can be relieved of this routine, which lessens the risk of terrorist insurgent attacks.
According to Haseng Pakasae, the leader of a VPU team in Narathiwat, says the involvement of locals in this security operation had prompted separatist sympathizers to provide authorities with inside information about terrorists insurgents and planned attacks. This cooperation had resulted in the number of attacks being reduced over the past few years, he said.
[Ynet] Eighteen imported muscle from the Islamic State, including an American jihadist, were killed in a Syrian air raid on a town near the hard boy group's main stronghold city of Raqqa in eastern Syria, a human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... monitoring group said on Thursday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has tracked violence on all sides of the three-year-old conflict, said reliable sources reported that top Islamic State leaders who happened to be in the municipal building of Gharbiya at the time of the raid were among the imported muscle killed.
The building had been used as a headquarters of the hardline group, according to the monitoring body.
Another air raid on Thursday that hit a former intelligence headquarters in the city of Abu Kamal near the border with Iraq that was used by the Islamic State also killed an undisclosed number of their members, the monitoring group said.
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[Ynet] A Dutch-Iranian human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... campaigner who had been sentenced to death in Iran has been sprung and allowed to return home to the Netherlands, his son told a Dutch press agency on Friday.
Abdullah al-Mansouri, 69, arrived home on August 20, his son Adnan told the ANP press agency.
A defender of Arab minority rights in Iran, Mansouri was sentenced to death in 2007 for "terrorism", but this was later commuted to 15 years in prison. Mansouri was convicted for his work in the Khuzestan province of western Iran, where the majority Sunni-Arab population has pushed for greater autonomy.
He does not know why he was released so early, ANP reported. His son said Iranian prisoners can be released early for good behaviour.
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[Iran Press TV] The Israeli regime has detonated a spying device which has killed a member of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah in southern Leb.
Hassan Ali Haidar, who was dismantling the "strange device", was killed after a jet detonated it remotely while flying above the coastal town of Adloun, 17 kilometers (11 miles) south of Sidon, on Friday.
Or possibly it was an old land mine -- so hard to be certain about such things when an excitable Hizb'allah "member" somehow gets himself exploded in the process of digging it up.
The Lebanese army confirmed the incident, saying Israel detonated the device "from a distance" through the aircraft. "We seen it!"
The device had reportedly been planted on some telecommunications network.
Similar surveillance devices had previously been planted by Tel Aviv in southern Leb, a move condemned by Lebanese and officials of the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... The Tel Aviv regime has declined to comment on the incident.
The Israeli regime launched a war of aggression on Hezbollah in 2006. The conflict killed about 1,200 Lebanese people and 160 Israelis.
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Juice or djinns, who can say, what with Allan being so ineffable and all.
[ISRAELNATIONALNEWS] The 45 UN peacekeepers from Fiji who were kidnapped by Al Qaeda-linked Al-Nusra Front rebel forces on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights last Wednesday are to "stand trial" under sharia (Islamic law), according to a Britannia-based monitoring group.
Rami Abdul Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said that the commander of Al-Nusra Front has declared that the 45 peacekeepers will be tried under "divine law," according to Asharq Al-Aswat as cited by Yedioth Aharonoth.
It was revealed on Monday that the rebels issued three demands for the release of the peacekeepers: to be taken off the UN terrorist list, delivery of humanitarian aid to parts of the Syrian capital Damascus, and compensation for three of its fighters it says were killed in a shootout with UN officers.
In response, the 15 members of the UN Security Council on Wednesday demanded the "immediate and unconditional release" of the Fijians, denouncing their abduction "in the strongest terms."
The statement added that "there can never be any justification for attacks on or the detention of UN peacekeepers." Fiji has issued a similar statement calling for the release of its soldiers.
In addition to the 45 Fijian troops, 72 Filipino troops were surrounded by the rebel forces; however, the two units of soldiers from the Philippines managed to escaped over the weekend into Israel.
The Fijians and Filipinos are part of the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) established in 1974 to maintain the ceasefire between Syria and Israel forces in the Golan, and oversee the implementation of a disengagement agreement.
The Israeli-Syrian border has been growing increasingly tense, as fighting between Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... 's forces and rebel forces has occasionally spilled over.
Just on Thursday afternoon the IDF returned fire on a Syrian army position after a mortar shell struck Israeli territory. Several mortar shells have hit Israeli territory in recent weeks, and the IDF shot down a Syrian drone last week after it strayed into Israeli airspace.
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the rebels issued three demands for the release of the peacekeepers:
- to be taken off the UN terrorist list,
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We hurt their feelings by calling them terrorists? No offense, terror dudes, but you sound like whiny-ass little bitchez.
#5
Look on the bright side, they DID get to wear those cool little Blue Helmets. Of course, there wasn't a lot of combat experience and training either in Fiji.
But the UN didn't seem to care about that. Warm bodies and Blue Helmets, Voila. Ever ask yourself how stupid they are in Fiji for wanting to do ANYTHING for the UN, of all people? Makes you want to be ready" to serve" the UN yourself, doesn't it?
Something to die for....but the UN? And you know you are going to do just fine under "DIVINE law." Yeah?
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Iran Press TV] The Israeli regime has detonated a spying device which has killed a member of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah in southern 
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