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Afghanistan
Three Taliban Spokesmen Arrested in Maidan Wardak
[Tolo News] According to Afghan security officials, following the arrest of an self-identified Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
front man in Afghanistan, three Taliban leaders were apprehended in Maidan Wardak province this week.

The Ministry of Interior (MoI) reported laptops and other intelligence materials were confiscated when the Taliban representatives, who officials said were recruiting holy warriors, were enjugged
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
The news comes after rumors have spread that the Acting Governor of Ghazni has engaged representatives of the Islamic State terrorist group. Military commentators and politicians in the House of Representatives have expressed grave concern about the matter.

"I know that our governor is not so stupid as to become a member of IS, but when someone comes right under his nose and becomes the front man for IS, it shows that the governor has been slacking in his work and must be relieved of duty and the issue must be addressed," Ghazni MP Muhammad Aref Rahmani said on Saturday.

Meanwhile,
...back at the pound, the little lost dog had finished eating the rat terrier...
independent analysts have been more damning, suggesting the Acting Governor of Ghazni, Musa Khan Akbar Zada, has allowed Taliban rockets to pass through Ghazni city. "Mr. Musa Khan Akbar Zada, the Acting Governor of Ghazni, has done and said things that show connections, that clearly indicate he has relations with anti-government gangs in his province," military analyst Jawid Kohistan
...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns....
i told TOLOnews. "His adviser has also used government resources against the government."

Experts believe that Abdul Qader Wahedi, known as Ibrahim Khurasani, acted as a front man for the Islamic State in Afghanistan. He is not thought to be in the custody of the National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
(NDS). Although many have alleged that the Acting Governor was cooperating with him, Mr. Zada has categorically denied the claims.

"In regard to the corruption, many committees have visited Ghazni, and we have provided them with detailed six to seven pages of our work," he said.

MoI officials said the Taliban spokesmen apprehended this week were found in the Nerkh district of Maidan Wardak province. The three men were active in the province for a long time and served as recruiters for the Taliban.

"One of these men named Abdul Wahab, a resident of Nerkh district of Maidan Wardak province, is the brother of Mullah Abdul Salam, the commander of a group of 10 people in Maidan Wardak," MoI front man Sediq Sediqqi said. "His brother was also in charge of press related issues for the Taliban."

The media and publicity arm of the Taliban, though non-violent, is considered one of the most threatening strategic aspects of the murderous Moslem group. While the Internet and spread of telecommunications technology in Afghanistan has done much good, the use of it by krazed killer groups has allowed them to reach and recruit individuals more effectively.
Posted by: Fred || 02/15/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Would-be suicide bombers arrested in Nangarhar
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
(NDS) has placed in durance vile
I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece!
two would-be jacket wallahs in eastern Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
Province who planned to carry out attacks on police.

A statement issued by the NDS on Saturday states that both of the would-be suicide kaboomers are from eastern region of the country who had received assignment from a Taliban capo Haroun to target police in Jalalabad city.

NDS statement further states that one would-be suicide bomber Abadullah alias Umar is from Kamdesh District of eastern Nuristan Province and Shah Mahmood alias Hamza is from Bati Kot District of the same eastern Province of Nangarhar where the attack was planned.

According to NDS statement the attack was planned to be carried out with the assistance of a Mazda vehicle, laden with explosives.

NDS statement further states that the attackers had planned a coordinated attack at the police of 1st District of Jalalabad city also using weapons.

NDS statements usually do not contain the exact date of the event but their statements are issued about recent activities.

Nangarhar was among the comparatively safe provinces of Afghanistan but most recently it is experiencing an increase in terrorist attacks.

Last week a provincial council member was attacked and then a soldier of Afghan National Army was hanged in public in this Province.
Posted by: Fred || 02/15/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Horn
Puntland Govt speaks on anti-terror raid in Galgala
[Garowe Online] -Puntland
...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion...
Government in northern Somalia for the first time spoke on raid on Al-Shabaab
... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
bases in Madashoor vicinity, 23km west of restive Galgala on Saturday, Garowe Online reports.

Puntland Security Minister Hassam Osman Mohamud (Allore) told a news conference in the state capital of Garowe that Puntland Defence Forces killed 16 Al-Shabaab murderous Moslems and maimed 26 others in Friday assault.

"Security Minister and Army command confirm that 16 Al-Shabaab murderous Moslems were killed and 26 others were maimed," said Mohamud. "Minor losses of two deaths and 6 injuries were inflicted on army troops".

Security Minister noted that the raid was aimed at rescuing civilians being kidnapped by Al-Shabaab.

He said, Puntland troops will be pressing ahead with major offensive in the coming days to cleanse hideouts of Al-Shabaab remnants. On Friday, security sources told Garowe Online that Puntland carried out pre-emptive attack on Madashor terrorist hotbed.
Posted by: Fred || 02/15/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab


Africa North
Two suicide car bombs wound six in Egypt’s Sinai
Cairo -- Two suicide car bombs wounded six people on Saturday when officers fired on the vehicles as they approached a police station in the restive Sinai Peninsula, officials said. The brazen daytime attack occurred in the town of Sheikh Zuweid in North Sinai where security forces are battling an insurgency.

“The two cars were driven by suicide bombers who wanted to blow up the Sheikh Zuweid police station,” a security official said describing Saturday’s attack. “Security forces fired at the cars as they approached the police station. The vehicles exploded, killing the two suicide bombers.”

Two other cars that were carrying gunmen and were following the suicide bombers fled the scene, however, the official said, adding that security forces were searching for them.

Those wounded in the attack included a police officer, a policeman and four civilians, officials and medics said.

Thirty soldiers died on January 29 in near simultaneous attacks in North Sinai, the deadliest of them was in the provincial capital of El Arish when militants fired rockets and set off a suicide car bomb targeting a military base.

A similar attack launched on October 24 also near El Arish killed 30 soldiers, after which authorities imposed a state of emergency and curfew in parts of North Sinai.

Since the October attack security forces have also built a buffer zone in the town of Rafah bordering Israel and the Palestinian Gaza Strip to prevent militants from entering the peninsula.
Posted by: Steve White || 02/15/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Subsaharan
Boko Haram Invades Nigerian City, Warns against Voting
[AnNahar] 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...
invaded the restive northeastern Nigerian city of Gombe on Saturday and warned residents against voting in next month's elections as the Islamists defied regional force aiming to pursue them.

Residents said the attackers later left the city and stormed another area some 40 kilometers (25 miles) away, where they burned homes.

The violence prompted the state governor to impose an around-the-clock curfew.

Witnesses said the snuffies stormed the city at around 9:00 am (0800 GMT) and advanced without any resistance from the security forces. It was unclear if there were casualties.

A Nigerian fighter jet encircled the city but did not appear to attack the murderous Moslems, said witness Kabiru Na-Gwandu, adding that he had received a call from friends outside of Gombe warning him the gunnies were on their way.

"I evacuated my house along with my family before they arrived in the city and I'm happy that I did because from information I'm receiving they have taken over the military barracks," he said.

The Boko Haram fighters called on residents to boycott elections which had originally been planned to take place on Saturday before they were postponed until March 28.

"Whoever professes Islam should distance himself from polling stations because we are going to attack polling booths," read the Boko Haram leaflets.

Residents said the gunnies in military uniforms who invaded the city in around 30 vans and on several cycle of violences later withdrew from the city unchallenged.

"They moved out of the city on their own free will and are now in Dakin-Kowa town," resident Bello Jatau said, referring to an area around 40 kilometers away.

He said fleeing residents of Dadin-Kowa were taking refuge on hilltops from where they could see Boko Haram gunnies burning their homes.

Soldiers were said to be patrolling the streets of Gombe and firing indiscriminately following the withdrawal of the murderous Moslems.

"It is flying bullets everywhere. Soldiers are just firing anyhow. A bullet pieced the wall into my kitchen but luckily we were sheltering in the bedroom," said a journalist in the city.

Gombe has been repeatedly hit by suicide kabooms and other bombings blamed on the Islamists in the six-year insurgency in Nigeria's northeast.

Locals said prior to Saturday's invasion, the faceless myrmidons had camped at Hani village, 36 kilometers from Gombe, where they preached to locals and informed them they were on their way to take over the governor's office in the city.

"They came around 6:00 am (0500 GMT) and took over the military checkpoint that was curiously abandoned by soldiers on Thursday," resident Mustapha Baba told Agence La Belle France-Presse.

- Ongoing offensive -
He said the murderous Moslems had fled from the Galda forest in neighboring Yobe state following an offensive on their camps by Nigerian troops.

The Nigerian military last week launched a ground and aerial offensive on Boko Haram camps in the Galda forest, from where the Islamists are believed to be planning attacks in the area.

In the past few weeks, the group has stepped up its offensive both within Nigeria and against border towns of neighboring countries, forcing the postponement of the general election.

On Friday, Boko Haram fighters attacked Chad for the first time, targeting a village on the shores of Lake Chad.

The attack marked a new escalation in the group's bloody six-year campaign to establish a hardline Islamic caliphate in northeast Nigeria
... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border...
, which borders Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
, Chad and Niger. The conflict has killed some 13,000 people since 2009.

Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger this month launched an unprecedented joint effort to crush the Death Eaters.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/15/2015 00:18 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram


Arabia
Clashes between Shi'ite Houthis and Sunnis in Yemen leave 26 dead
[REUTERS] Tens of thousands of Yemenis demonstrated in several cities on Saturday against the rule of the Shi'ite Muslim Houthi movement as clashes between Houthis and Sunnis in a southern mountainous region left 26 dead.

It was the second day of nationwide demonstrations against the Iranian-backed Houthis in less than a week after their dissolution of parliament this month unraveled security and sent Western and Arab embassies packing.

Houthi gunmen fired on protesters in the central town of Ibb and wounded four, medics said.

Activists said they were enraged by the death on Saturday of Saleh al-Bashiri, who they say was detained by gunmen as they broke up an anti-Houthi protest in Sanaa two weeks ago and was released to a hospital with signs of torture on his body on Thursday. There was no immediate comment from the Houthis.
The Khaleej Times adds:
The rebels, known as Houthis, were supported by army troops when they fought the rustics in Bayda province in festivities that began the night earlier. The Houthis lost 16 fighters and the rustics 10, the officials said.

Tens of thousands marched in protest against the Houthis on Saturday in the cities of Ibb, Taiz, Hodeida, Dhamar and the capital, Sanaa. In Ibb, protesters set a Houthi
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ...
military vehicle ablaze before the rebels dispersed them.
Posted by: Fred || 02/15/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Europe
Brunswick Carnival Parade Cancelled because of 'Specific Threat of Islamist Attack'
The link to is an article in German. Here's the gist based on Google's translation (slightly corrected):
The Brunswick Carnival parade has to be canceled because of a "concrete danger of an attack with Islamist background". The police are asking all the visitors, "not to go near the parade route or not even to make the trip to Brunswick."

This was announced by the Brunswick police. The police's statement said, "From reliable sources state security had become aware of a specific threat of an attack with Islamist background."

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Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 02/15/2015 06:18 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  an attack with Islamist background."

Holy Mother of God!

Cowards have now surrendered Europe to the Muslim hoard. Islamist background!??!?!! WTF is the foreground, Amish pastry chefs?

It is past time, way past, to name and shame the entire RoP and all its practioners.
Posted by: AlanC || 02/15/2015 12:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Google, I'm sorry, but there is no such thing as translating "Braunschweig" into "Brunswick".

That makes no more sense than translating "Bremen" into "Boston".

Posted by: Lone Ranger || 02/15/2015 13:16 Comments || Top||

#3  Lone Ranger, I have to go tos St. Simons this week and have appointments in Brunswick. I was getting worried
Posted by: Beavis || 02/15/2015 13:22 Comments || Top||

#4  But they successfully resisted the Pegida hordes!
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 02/15/2015 14:01 Comments || Top||

#5  Not unlike the Mayor of Seattle Cancelling the Y2K celebration at the Seattle because of fear of a bombing or something.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/15/2015 14:44 Comments || Top||

#6  #2
Brunswick is the correct English term for the city of Braunschweig
Posted by: European Conservative || 02/15/2015 17:17 Comments || Top||


France: Muslim high school student arrested for threatening Israeli consul
[Ynet] A specialized terror unit in Gay Paree tossed in the calaboose
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
a 19-year-old Moslem high school student for allegedly threatening the lives of Israeli consul in Marseilles Barnea Hassid and Jewish parliamentarian Meir Haviv.

According to the allegations, the suspect sent an email to Hassid and Haviv footage of Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
holy warriors showing decapitated heads, writing "messages which point to a similar fate for the Israeli diplomat and the Jewish member of parliament."

If convicted, he will face up to five years imprisonment.
Zero tolerance these days for even keyboard jihadis, no matter how unlikely they are to be able to execute their threats.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/15/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


SECOND Copenhagen shooting at synagogue
Several people have been injured by shots fired near a synagogue in Copenhagen, hours after a deadly shooting at a cafe in the city. In the second shooting one person was hit in the head, and two police officers suffered arm and leg injuries. The attacker is believed to have fled.
He didn't stick around, did he?
Earlier, a gunman killed one person and injured three at a free speech debate attended by a Swedish cartoonist.
The Times of Israel has a fuzzy photo of the shooter here.
It is not clear if the two shootings are connected.
Three guesses, BBC...
The second shooting took place on Krystalgade street, about 5km (three miles) from the scene of the first attack.

Danish police were were quoted by the AFP news agency as saying the perpetrator had fled on foot. They said they could not give details about the injuries.

For now, police have not linked the two attacks, the BBC's Malcolm Brabant reports from Copenhagen. But he says that the Danish capital has been abuzz with sirens and helicopters, amid fears that other attacks could be imminent.

Officials said the gunman made his getaway by car, and a black Volkswagen Polo was later found abandoned a short distance away from the scene, police said. Police released photographs showing the alleged attacker apparently wearing a purple balaclava and thick puffer jacket.

Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt described the first attack as a "politically motivated" act of terrorism.

Cartoonist Lars Vilks, who has faced death threats over his caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, said he believed he was the intended target of the attack. He was unhurt. The French ambassador, Francois Zimeray, was also present during the attack.
Posted by: Steve White || 02/15/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Danish police say kill suspect in Copenhagen attacks
(Reuters) - Danish police shot and killed a man in Copenhagen on Sunday they believe was responsible for two deadly attacks at an event promoting freedom of speech and on a synagogue.

The prime minister described the first shooting, which bore similarities to an assault in Paris in January on the office of weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo, as a terrorist attack.

Two civilians died in Saturday's attacks and five police were wounded.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/15/2015 3:37 Comments || Top||

#2  It is not clear if the two shootings are connected.

Of course not: one was Al Quida's operation, the other ISIS.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/15/2015 4:03 Comments || Top||

#3  random workplace violence, right, Champ?
Posted by: Frank G || 02/15/2015 8:10 Comments || Top||

#4  The synagogue shooting was just a random attack - nothing Islamic or anti-Semitic about it.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 02/15/2015 15:10 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 02/15/2015 15:10 Comments || Top||

#6  My error on #5. I was attempting to delete a dupe. Apologies Rambler.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/15/2015 15:23 Comments || Top||

#7  dead suspect: Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein.

probably an Amish disoute
Posted by: Frank G || 02/15/2015 16:22 Comments || Top||


France prosecutes six Islamist recruiters
[ARA] Six men of Chechen origin are facing terrorism charges in La Belle France over a suspected recruiting ring sending jihadi fighters to Syria, the Gay Paree prosecutor's office said Friday.

The men, aged 32 to 38, were handed preliminary charges Thursday for alleged preparation of terrorist acts and for terror financing, said a spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office, which handles terrorism cases for La Belle France.

The six were tossed in the clink
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
Sunday near the city of Toulouse
...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France...
and the town of Albi in southern La Belle France. Four were political refugees in La Belle France, one had dual French and Russian nationalities, and another received French citizenship in 2009. All six were ordered held without bail.

French police have conducted several anti-terror operations following last month's terrorist attacks in and near Gay Paree but authorities said the arrests of the six men of Chechen origin were not linked to those attacks.

Hundreds of French citizens are among thousands of Europeans who have travelled to Syria to join Lion of Islam groups fighting against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Lord of the Baath...
's forces.
Posted by: Fred || 02/15/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The headline should read France prosecutes executes six Islamist recruiters.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/15/2015 9:17 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkey evacuates border areas near Syria
[ARA] The Turkish authorities called on civilians in the town of Akçakale in Şanlıurfa Province ‐adjacent to the Syrian city of Tel Abyad (Gire Spi)‐ to evacuate their houses along the border about 200 meters, in order to avoid any sudden festivities near the Syrian border, locals reported on Friday.

The Turkish government has reportedly started defensive procedures on its border with Syria in anticipation of the breakout of battles between the Kurdish fighters of the People's Protection Units (YPG) and turban fighters of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(IS/ISIS) ‐who are in control of the city (Tel Abyad).

Speaking to ARA News, a Syrian refugee in the Turkish town of Akçakale (who preferred to remain anonymous) said that imams of mosques in the town informed citizens to get away from the Syrian-Turkish border.

The state of Şanlıurfa in southern Turkey issued a statement on Friday demanding residents to evacuate border areas.

The Turkish authorities designated the areas adjacent to the Syrian border as a military zone, according to the statement.

The statement considered the area extending from Tikca until Ziyaret cop shoppe ‎a closed military zone, to ensure the safety of citizens, and for fear of sudden festivities at the Syrian side.

In the meantime, sources in Tel Abyad told ARA News that the al-Nusra
...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant...
Front and the Islamic Movement of Ahrar al-Sham
...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014...
are recruiting Arab tribal members to fight against IS.

According to observers, Ahrar al-Sham and al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
have been "infiltrated by the Turkish intelligence". and Syrian opposition activists described those groups as no less criminal than the IS group.

Fighters of Nusra and Ahrar al-Sham took over Tel Abyad in early 2013, before losing ground to the Islamic State. The groups have reportedly led forced displacement against Kurdish civilians from Tel Abyad.
Posted by: Fred || 02/15/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Nusra


Home Front: WoT
Border Patrol Agents Catch Middle Eastern Man Sneaking into Texas
[Breitbart] MCALLEN, Texas€“ Border Patrol agents arrested a Middle-Eastern man as he tried to sneak into Texas by illegally crossing the border. The man'€™s country of origin was not readily available.

The arrest took place earlier this week just south of the border city of Pharr, where an agent took into custody a man from a Middle Eastern country, a border patrol spokesman confirmed to Breitbart Texas. The man was then taken to the Weslaco station for processing and turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for expedited removal, a prepared statement from the agency revealed.

While not common, arrests of people from Middle Eastern and eastern countries have taken place along the Texas border.
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#1  And they immediately took him to the DMV so he could get a driver's license and register to vote.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 02/15/2015 7:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Didn't even think they tried to catch em anymore.
Posted by: chris || 02/15/2015 9:00 Comments || Top||

#3  So what I want to know is what gave the Texas Border Patrol agents their first clue he was from the Middle East ?

Posted by: Omolusing Chusoter9907 || 02/15/2015 9:06 Comments || Top||

#4  Got to wonder how many of these a$$holes are already here that came across our southern border? When Germans saboteurs landed on our shores by U-boat during WWII, we executed them. We should act accordingly today.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/15/2015 9:15 Comments || Top||

#5  Germans saboteurs landed on our shores by U-boat

My grandfather was actively involved in hunting these folks down. He said that you couldn't tell them apart from the local folks by just looking at them, except their spoken dialect was 'very wrong' for the places they said they were from when confronted. They were always from 'someplace else' and 'just visiting', an odd thing when most of the young men their age were overseas or working in defense plants.

Some tried to get work at the plants with false credentials, but that work was a lot of 'who do you know' and these folks didn't know anybody.

The locals were none too keen on the 'newcomers', either. Could spot them quite quickly in most cases and could be quite nasty.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 02/15/2015 9:44 Comments || Top||

#6  He was drunk and driving so they let him go, under the new policy.
Posted by: illeagle || 02/15/2015 9:59 Comments || Top||

#7  We really should just put illegals (and pols who support them) in cages hung along the border. Would end the problem quickly and solve all manner of follow-along problems.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 02/15/2015 13:59 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Indian firing kills villager in AJK
[NATION.PK] Indian Border Security Force personnel resorted to unprovoked firing at the Line of Control in Rawalakot sector and killed a villager today.

According to Inter Services Public Relations, sixty-year-old Muhammad Aslam, resident of Polas village, was cutting grass in AJK before the Indian firing. Also, Pak troops responded to Indian firing. Pakistain and India had pledged to uphold the 2003 LoC ceasefire accord.
Posted by: Fred || 02/15/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Iraq
U.S. moving to resupply Jordan's military with munitions
[Rooters UK] - The United States is readying plans to resupply Jordan with munitions in the coming weeks, possibly including precision-guided arms, expediting support for the kingdom as it expands its role in airstrikes against the Islamic State (IS), officials say.

The State Department and Pentagon declined comment on any future moves to assist Jordan with requests for weapons. But several U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that planning was well underway to help replenish Jordan's supplies of ordnance.

U.S. efforts to expedite delivery of munitions and other weapons follow a vocal appeal from Jordan's King Abdullah to American lawmakers last week for greater U.S. support.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/15/2015 08:34 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  That's until certain 'interest groups' start squealing...
Posted by: Pappy || 02/15/2015 13:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Prolly safe to say in response to the threat of poten protractive or lingering West Coast ports shutdown.

Hopefully things will be resolved quickly lest my childhood dreams or visions come true, wid Jordan's King Abdullah + Country indeed fighting the ISIS to his Country's "Last Bean-n-Bullet" because the US or US-Allies/West can no longer resupply Jordan or Other [Israel?] in a timely or mil effective manner.

ADVANTAGE = ISIS + GLOBAL, NUCLEAR JIHAD.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/15/2015 19:49 Comments || Top||


About that ISIS attack on Asad air base Friday: Pentagon
[IraqiNews.com] A group of Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(IS) fighters on Friday got to the perimeter of an air base in Iraq where U.S. and coalition forces were training Iraqi forces before being killed by Iraqi armies, the Pentagon said.

About 25 IS fighters, some wearing Iraqi uniforms, launched an attack on al-Asad air base in Iraq's Anbar Province, Pentagon front man Rear Admiral John Kirby said at a regular briefing. No coalition casualties had been reported so far, said Kirby, cautioning that reports were still preliminary.

Kirby said that initial reports indicated that about 15 IS fighters tried to breach the perimeter of the air base after several jacket wallahs detonated their vests.

Iraqi security forces patrolling the base killed all the fighters and U.S. Marines training Iraqi troops at the sprawling base were about 3.5 km away and were not involved in the fighting, he said.

The front man, however, declined to offer details on the degree to which the perimeter was breached.

Kirby also said IS fighters had taken control of al-Baghdadi, a town near the al-Asad air base.

"This is arguably the first in at least a couple of months, if not more, where they have had any success at all at taking any new ground," he said.

There are about 2,600 U.S. forces in Iraq, among whom about 450 are training Iraqi troops at three bases across the Arab country. Kirby said that American military trainees in Iraq were also well equipped to defend themselves when IS attacks were launched.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/15/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


#2  Again, the US-Allies/West must defeat + destroy the ISIS now lest they be willing to face an Osama-, AQ, + ISIS-inspired Islamic Mahdi/
Messiah/Hidden Imam 2030-2050, along wid a potent Nuke-capable Nuclear Islam.

IFF THE MEDIEVAL CRUSADERS OR THE WEST EVER FEARED SALADIN OR SULEIMAN, ETC. THEY W-I-L-L FEAR THE ABOVE.

Lest we fergit, for the sake of the OWG-NWO, Anti-US Globalist agenda, the Anti-US US + West = JudeoChristian or Non-Muslim World is helping Islam to NUCLEARIZE, I.E. INTENTIONALLY MAKING MORE POWERFUL THAT FORCE(S) WHICH CAN EASILY TURN ON THE US-WEST + DESTROY IT.

THE US-WEST MAY TRULY COME TO FEAR THE MONSTERS THEY HELPED OR DID EVERYTHING TO CREATE, BUT OVERTLY DENY DOING DO.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/15/2015 20:17 Comments || Top||


Anbar Activities
Dozens of ISIL terrorists injured in Anbar

[IraqiNews.com] Dozens of the ISIL snuffies were maimed in Anbar.

Security source stated to IraqiNews.com "The US-led Coalition bombarded the shelters of the ISIL snuffies in al-Baker area of Heet district to result in injuring dozens of the ISIL terrorists."

Commander of 27th Brigade killed western Anbar

[IraqiNews.com] The Commander of the 27th Brigade was killed during the festivities with the ISIL of western Anbar.

Security source stated to IraqiNews.com "Colonel Mohammed Ftaikhan was killed during the festivities with the ISIL Lions of Islam in Baghdadi district of western Anbar."
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/15/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Mortar attack kills, injures citizens in Baghdad
[IraqiNews.com] One person was killed, while six others have injured, following two mortar shells bombings, in al Maamel Tabuk area, in Nahrwan, east of Baghdad.

Security source said to IraqiNews.com "two mortar shells fell in the vicinity of the Maemel Tabok area, in Nahrwan district, which resulted into killing one person, and injuring six others."

The source assured the security forces cordoned off the incident scene, and transported the injured to the hospital for treatment, while the victim's body was sent to the morgue.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/15/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


U.S. copters support Iraqi troops battling ISIS
[CNN] U.S. helicopter gunships supported Iraqi ground forces battling ISIS holy warriors in al-Baghdadi, military sources said, an action that brings U.S. troops closer to combat.

ISIS took control of the town earlier Friday.

The U.S. military also deployed Apache attack helicopters against an ISIS assault on the strategic Ayn al-Assad Air Base about 15 kilometers (9 miles) south of al-Baghdadi, sources said.

Iraqi ground forces killed those attackers and the Apaches safely returned to base without firing a shot, the source said.

Robert Baer, a former CIA officer, said the battles may indicate a deepening involvement of U.S. troops in the fight against ISIS.

"I think what we're seeing here is mission creep," he said Friday night. "The Iraqi army is not up to the task. And without the United States Air Force and the military on the ground, a lot of these ... bases would be overrun."

Mark Hertling, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, said he thought the Iraqi army was improving.

"I think the Iraqi government is getting it back together and, yes, they do need help from coalition forces, U.S. forces right now," he said. "But they're coming around and they realize what a scourge this organization [ISIS] is."
Posted by: Fred || 02/15/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Obola said "no boots on the ground, I did not say no little tires"
Posted by: Steven || 02/15/2015 2:09 Comments || Top||


90% Al-Baghdadi district of northern Ramadi controlled by ISF
[IraqiNews.com] The Commander of Heet District said that the Iraqi Security Forces fully controlled about 90% of al-Baghdadi sub-district of northern Ramadi on Saturday.

He stated to IraqiNews.com "The ISF defeated the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and Levant gunnies and killed 46 among them last Friday and now they control 90% sub-district is liberated."
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Sunni Tribal Leader Killed In Baghdad Ambush
[Iraq Sun] A Sunni tribal leader and his son have been killed in an attack that could further inflame sectarian tension in Iraq.

Officials said gunnies stopped a convoy carrying Sheikh Qassem Sweidan al-Janabi and his son, Mohammad, in south Baghdad late on February 13.

The two were kidnapped and later rubbed out along with six other people who were traveling in the convoy.

The sheikh's nephew, Member of Parliament Zayed al-Janabi, was also detained but later released.

No group has grabbed credit for the attack.

But Deputy Prime Minister Saleh Mutlaq called for curbs on Shi'ite gangs, which operate freely in many areas and have spearheaded the battle against Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
krazed killers.

The slain tribal leader was a key player in efforts to combat sectarianism.
Posted by: Fred || 02/15/2015 18:16 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Terror Networks
In Battle for Kobane, U.S. Crews Recount Heavy Bombing
[AnNahar] That's when a warplane drops every bomb on board. And air crews for the B-1 bomber told Agence La Belle France Presse it was not uncommon in the battle for the Syrian town of Kobane, recaptured by Kurdish forces last month.

The airmen, recently returned from a six-month stint flying combat missions over Syria and Iraq, recounted how American aircraft relentlessly pounded Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
jihadists fighting the Kurds in Kobane.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/15/2015 00:27 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  This story sounds like it was written by White House staff.
Posted by: jvalentour || 02/15/2015 7:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Is any of Kobane still standing? If not, not enough bombing.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/15/2015 9:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Dont need this if the US would just send them the artillery they have repeatedly requested. Many of the targets could have been "serviced" with FA and spotters by the local forces in contact. Give the Kurds some 155 towed artillery and a pile of ammo: they will put them to good use, and we need not fly so many airstrikes other than interdiction strikes.

Conveniently, we are phasing out the M198 in favor of the 777, so it should be no problem to give those old howitzers to the Kurds...

That is if the State Dept and Obama would stop fellating Erdogan and the Turks. We need to say "screw the Turks and Erdogan" and go the other way, treating them as a adversary, not an ally, due to their behavior going back to the initiation of OIF.
Posted by: OldSpook || 02/15/2015 11:30 Comments || Top||

#4  correction "we" = US, Canada, Australia, and its pretty much complete. so there are bunched of M198 available, as shown by the recent shipment to the Lebanese Army.
Posted by: OldSpook || 02/15/2015 11:39 Comments || Top||


ISIL terrorists threaten to launch attacks in France, Belgium
[Iran Press TV] 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...
ISIL bully boyz have threatened to carry out fresh attacks in La Belle France and Belgium in a new video released by the holy warriors.

Published on Saturday, the nine-minute video in Arabic and French named "A Message to La Belle France" claimed that ISIL-linked elements are stationed throughout the two European countries awaiting instructions to launch attacks.

The video, which pictures two French-speaking ISIL holy warriors, came a month after deadly raids in La Belle France, including on the headquarters of Charlie Hebdo
...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
weekly and a supermarket, that killed 17 people, as well as the three gunnies involved in the assaults.

"La Belle France's real nightmare starts now," the video says, adding that the terror group will carry out more attacks in Gay Paree in response to La Belle France's crossing "all the red lines."

The ISIL terrorists, of whom many are foreign holy warriors, currently control parts of Syria and Iraq. They have carried out heinous crimes in the two countries, including mass executions and the beheading of people.

Kurdish fighters in cage

The ISIL recently released another video purportedly showing 17 captured Iraqi Kurdish fighters in humiliating procession in Iraq's northern city of Kirkuk.

The orange-clad Peshmerga fighters were paraded in cages through the streets filled with jeering holy warriors.
Posted by: Fred || 02/15/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Tweet from Dave Burge (Iowahawk):

Modest proposal: print the Charlie Hebdo cartoons on European welfare checks.
Posted by: Matt || 02/15/2015 11:25 Comments || Top||

#2  No more Royal Navy + possibly even the Anti-US Globalist USoAmerika to save France + NATO-EU.

OWG GLOBALISM = setting up Marxist-Commie-Socialist Secular World Order is their Top Priority, or one of them, N-O-T stopping the Global Jihad or National Security.

Clearly France + all NATO-EU must accept LEGAL SHARIA + set up the "BIG[GEST] GOVT" = TOTALITARIAN OR NEAR/LESS-THAN-TOTALITARIAN CENTRAL GOVT. to save the day???

[WAYNE'S WORLD "THUMBS UP" here].
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/15/2015 19:59 Comments || Top||

#3  See also TOPIX > [Examiner.com] MUNICH SECURITY CONFERENCE: "THREAT OF [World/Global]WAR HIGHER THAN DURING COLD WAR".

and

* SAME, FREEREPUBLIC, DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > REPORT: HIZBUT-UT-TAHRIR MAY BECOME MORE DANGEROUS THAN ISIS - THE TIMES OF INDIA.

Al-Nusra = ISIS/ISIL = now the HuT-ties???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/15/2015 21:31 Comments || Top||


20 ISIS militants killed in U.S.-led strikes
[ARA] On Friday, warplanes of the U.S.-led international coalition targeted military units of murderous Moslems fighters of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
radical group (IS/ISIS).

At least 20 IS murderous Moslems were killed when coalition air forces hit locations of the group at the Syrian-Iraqi border.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, several kabooms hit the town of Shaddadi near Hasakah province in northeastern Syria following Arclight airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition.

The air strikes also claimed the life of one civilian in the town.
Posted by: Fred || 02/15/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State



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