[NYTIMES] Morocco has announced the arrest of three men suspected of seeking to join the krazed killerIslamic 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.... group's Libyan branch.
The statement Thursday by the Interior Ministry said the men were enjugged Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! in the coastal city of Casablanca and Oujda, which is on the Algerian border. All three came from the town of Sidi Bennour.
The statement described Libya as a "magnet" for snuffies in the region. A number of krazed killer groups in Libya have recently pledged allegiance to the Syria-based Islamic State group and are battling local militias.
More than a thousand Moroccans have left to join krazed killer groups, usually fighting in Syria.
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[Libya Herald] Libya Dawn has launched two air strikes against Zintan today.
The first, at around noon, hit the edge of the town's runway. The second, some four hours, later struck at the town centre. The first raid reportedly damaged the edge of the runway. Zintan officials said that it could easily be repaired.
In the second attack, at least one bomb hit the centre of the town. The authorities there claimed that there had been no casualties.
A Zintani official, Omar Abdel-Salam told the Libya Herald said that the strike came when a flight from Zintan was about to take off for Labraq and Tobruk. He said that the damage had been minor but that the attack has caused panic among travellers in the terminal. The flight, on which there had been Egyptian nationals seeking to quit Libya, had been cancelled.
The second strike targeted the centre of Zintan. However officials insisted there had been no casualties. First reports were that the warplane involved in the attacks was a Mig 23. However sources later told this newspaper that the aircraft had been a SIAI Marchetti.
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[Libya Herald] While Egypt plans an evacuation of its citizens in Libya after the killing of 21 Egyptian Christians by IS, confusingly different reports are circulating on social media and in Egyptian news outlets regarding other Egyptians who have been gone missing in Libya.
Reports yesterday of 35 Egyptians who went missing near Sirte have been difficult to verify. Egyptian media reported that a resident of the Egyptian village of Beni Suef received a phone call from a contact in Libya saying that 35 Egyptian construction workers were kidnapped Tuesday morning. There is, however, no official confirmation of this.
Meanwhile, reports have circulated over the weekend that a number of Egyptian fishermen were detained in Libya. While some officials from Libya Dawn have denied that any fishermen were detained, a Misrata Council member was quoted today by Egyptian media announcing the release of 114 Egyptians held in Libya. That number, he said, included 14 fishermen picked up for fishing in Libyan waters without permission.
The Shura Council of Derna Mujahideen promised that Egyptian labourers in Derna will be safe and treated fairly, while the media office for the General National Congress released a statement telling all Egyptians currently in Libya to leave in the next 48 hours "for their own safety".
Egyptian Aviation authorities are putting together a plan to evacuate Egyptians via bus to Tunisia and from there via plane to Egypt, using four Tunisian airports, citing deteriorating conditions at Libya airports as a reason for routing through Tunisia.
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[Libya Herald] Egypt closed its airspace yesterday to Libyan flights, preventing Libyan planes from flying to two of their busiest destinations, Istanbul and Amman, Jordan.
The decision to prevent Libyan planes entering Egyptian airspace was taken unilaterally and was not previously announced.
The first that the Libyan authorities knew of the decision was when yesterday morning a Libyan Airlines flight from Tripoli's Mitiga airport headed to Istanbul was forced to return about an hour into its flight.
The Egyptians airspace closure was connected to their military air raids on alleged IS targets within Libya.
However, today, a flight did take off from Mitiga to Alexandria transiting through Al-Beida's Labrak airport. It has also returned taking the same route.
Today, Afriquiyah has announced that its flights will resume tomorrow to Istanbul, but they will be transiting via Al- Beida's Labrak airport
Flights to Casablanca, however, are still suspended by a decision taken by the Moroccan authorities.
It will be recalled that Libyan registered flights are banned from entering EU airspace and are unable to fly over Cyprus or Greece en route to Istanbul, and therefore need to pass through Egyptian airspace.
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[AnNahar] Nigeria on Wednesday claimed to have killed more than 300 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... bully boyz in a counter-offensive, as Chad pushed into rebel-held areas but an air strike left at least 20 civilians dead.
Boko Haram meanwhile vowed to make voting impossible in Nigeria's upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections after a brace of deadly suicide kabooms in the country's violence-wracked northeast.
Operations to end the deadly insurgency were cited as the reason to delay polling by six weeks to March 28 but the elections chief ruled out further postponement as "unconstitutional".
The military's claim of "massive" Boko Haram casualties came as it said it had retaken the garrison town of Monguno in Borno state that had been captured on January 25 and 10 other communities.
There was no independent verification of the claims, which follow similar assertions about high numbers of krazed killer deaths by Niger, Chad and 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... involved in the regional fight-back.
Civilian vigilantes in Monguno, from which a krazed killer strike on the state capital Maiduguri was expected to be launched, confirmed the recapture but said only that there were heavy casualties.
The recapture, and the purported destruction of a vast cache of arms, equipment and ammunition, adds to a list of claimed military victories in recent weeks.
The Chadian military, which recently regained control of the Nigerian town of Gamboru on the border with Cameroon, on Tuesday evening said they had pushed further into Borno.
Two Chadian soldiers and several Boko Haram fighters were killed in violent festivities around Dikwa, some 50 kilometers (31 miles) southwest of Gamboru, on Tuesday afternoon.
A krazed killer camp, which is near the group's stronghold in the Sambisa Forest, was overrun, Chadian military sources said.
Chad's presence well inside Nigerian territory is a first and may indicate a strategy to push on further to rebel-controlled areas to assist Nigeria's military, who have failed to end the violence.
There was a set-back for the regional force, however, as local officials and humanitarian sources said between 20 and 30 mourners at a funeral were killed in an air strike by an unidentified plane.
The bombs struck near the mosque in Abadam, half of which is in Niger and the other in Nigeria. Only the Niger side of the village was hit.
Troops from Niger and Chad are currently mobilized on the border against the Boko Haram threat but both countries' militaries denied being responsible.
Nigerian Air Force front man Air Commodore Dele Alonge claimed no knowledge of the bombing, adding: "There has not been any report from our people of such an incident."
A "friendly fire" incident could risk losing the coalition vital support from the local population and creating further tensions in the fragile coalition.
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau vowed in a new video posted on Tuesday evening on Twitter: "This election will not be held even if we are dead."
Shekau also grabbed credit for a large-scale attack on the northeastern city of Gombe last Saturday where leaflets were dropped warning people not to vote.
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[AnNahar] Eleven people were killed in a suicide kaboom on a checkpoint near the town of Biu in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... on Tuesday, a vigilante and a resident said.
Gana Sheriff, the vigilante, said the attack happened at about 1:00 pm (1200 GMT) at Yamarkumi village, four kilometers (2.5 miles) from Biu in Borno state.
"It was a suicide kaboom by three men in a motorized tricycle. They killed 11 people, including Civilian JTF (joint task force) and child vendors at the checkpoint," he said.
"It was later that we realized the attackers came in two rickshaws. The one ahead had three people inside who opened fire and detonated three explosives.
"The second rickshaw immediately turned after the kabooms but was pursued into the bush by soldiers and local hunters."
Tijjani Kanta, a local resident who was at the Biu General Hospital, said there were 14 dead bodies at the hospital, three of them the attackers.
"Three of them belonged to the attackers. The other 11 were of the vigilantes and children selling articles to motorists at the checkpoint," Kanta added.
The attack came five days after at least seven people were killed when a female jacket wallah blew herself up at a crowded market in Biu, which is the biggest town in southern Borno.
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... has made several attempts to seize the town, 180 km from the state capital, Maiduguri, but has been pushed back by troops and local vigilantes.
Last month troops aided by vigilantes repelled an attempted incursion by Boko Haram fighters, killing 40.
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[AnNahar] Hundreds of 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... turbans stormed the town of Askira Uba in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , burning homes and public buildings, as attacks continued despite a regional campaign against the Salafist tough guys, witnesses said Tuesday.
Residents able to flee the town in Borno state left in droves, with only the sick and elderly remaining behind through the bully boys' rampage.
"We don't know their fate in the hands of Boko Haram," said a guard at the palace of the local chief, requesting anonymity.
The attack began at about 7:30 pm (1830 GMT) Monday and the hard boyz "burnt most of the homes in town", he added.
Another resident who fled, Aliyu Abdullahi, gave similar details but said Monday's attack was preceded by a similar raid on Sunday, when the snuffies torched the local emir's palace.
"When they burnt the palace of the emir on Sunday we thought they were done only for them to come back last night and set the town on fire," said Abdullahi who fled to the nearby town of Mubi, which was recently liberated from rebel control.
Abdullahi said residents in Askira Uba tried to call for help from troops based in the town of Chibok 25 kilometres (16 miles) away but that soldiers "refused to deploy".
More than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped from Chibok in April, prompting global outrage and drawing unprecedented attention to the Boko Haram conflict.
The Islamists took over Chibok in September but troops backed by vigilantes reclaimed it days later.
Since then, a large contingent of soldiers have been based in the now infamous town and it was not immediately clear why they did not deploy to Askira Uba to repel the latest attack.
Defense officials were not available to comment.
Nigeria, Chad, 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... and Niger have launched an unprecedented joint offensive against the Islamists this month and have claimed a series of major gains.
But violence has persisted, with critics saying Nigerian soldiers are still not doing enough to protect civilians against near daily assaults by the bad boys.
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The town's been burned. Most of the inhabitants have fled or been killed. What a perfect target for ARCLIGHT and napalm. Kill the krazed killers in town with ARCLIGHT, napalm those fleeing as they leave. Do that three or four times, and the krazed killers might get the idea, and head elsewhere. Hopefully it will be just as easy to kill them where they go as it would be where they are, if we'd only DO it.
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They'd do it, OP, but Obama wants Nigeria to legalize gay marriage and implement a program for taxpayer funded abortion on demand first.
[Dhaka Tribune] Two men, whose political affiliations were disputed, died in what police said was a shootout with them in Jessore early yesterday.
A Jubo Dal leader was also shot in a similar incident in Lakshmipur.
Abu Sayeed, 48, son-in-law of Hatem Ali Dafadar of Joypur village, and Bazlur Rahman, 45, son of Babar Ali of the same village, died in a shootout at Begaritala in Manirampur upazila of Jessore around 3am.
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[Dhaka Tribune] A war crimes tribunal yesterday handed down death penalty to Abdus Subhan, a big shot of Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... , for the heinous crimes including the killing of 400 people, mostly Hindus, in Pabna during the country's Liberation War in 1971.
Subhan's offences include murder, abduction, confinement, torture and extermination as crimes against humanity. He is the incumbent nayeb-e-ameer (vice-president) of Jamaat, a "criminal organization" that sided with the Pak occupation forces during the war.
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[AnNahar] Bosnian police on Wednesday locked away Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! six people on suspicion of planning to travel to Syria to join 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.... group or organizing the trips, prosecutors said.
Bosnia's prosecutor said in a statement the six were members of "radical religious movements" and that some were on their way to Syria where they intended to join the forces of Islamic State group".
Some suspects were arrested at Sarajevo airport. The others were stopped at border crossings in the northwestern region of Bihac and the northern town of Maglaj.
Bosnia's intelligence services estimate that some 200 Bosnian citizens have joined the jihadist groups in Iraq or Syria, according to local media reports. Almost 30 of them were killed and around 40 are said to have returned to Bosnia.
Last year the Balkan state adopted a new law which anticipates sentences of up to ten-years for jihadists and their recruiters.
The first trial in which someone has been accused of recruiting jihadists to join the Islamic State group opened in January.
A radical Moslemholy man, Husein Bosnic, considered a leader of Islamist movement in Bosnia, is charged with urging followers to leave for Syria and Iraq to fight with Islamic hard boyz when he preached in several Bosnian towns in 2013 and 2014.
Bosnia's Moslems make up 40 percent of the country's 3.8 million inhabitants, and the vast majority practise a moderate form of Islam.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] The Turkish intelligence agency has issued a warning for the police and gendarmerie about 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 (ISIL) members who have retreated from Kobane in northern Syria and crossed into Turkey.
The jihadist snuffies could be working on armed or bombing attacks in Ankara and Istanbul against the diplomatic missions of the countries involved in the U.S.-led anti-ISIL coalition, according to the National Intelligence Organization (MIT).
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[Hurriyet Daily News] The first day of debate on a government-sponsored controversial homeland security package resulted in injuries to five parliamentarians because of a fracas between opposition and ruling party members, with the former accusing the latter of bullying in parliament.
Ertugrul Kurkcu and Sebahat Tuncel from the People's Democracy Party (HDP) and three Republican People's Party (CHP) lawmakers, Musa Cam, Aykut Erdogdu and Mahmut Tanal, were injured late Feb. 17 during a debate on the bill in a closed session of the General Assembly.
Lawmakers of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) were accused of beating two female deputies of the HDP, Pervin Buldan and Tuncel.
Tanal shared the footage of the incident on YouTube
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[ABCNEWS.GO] An appeals court on Wednesday struck down the terrorism conviction of Australian David Hicks, reversing one of the few successful prosecutions of a prisoner before a U.S. military court at the Navy base at Guantanamo Bay.
The U.S. Court of Military Commission Review vacated Hicks' March 2007 guilty plea, the first conviction of a prisoner at the base in Cuba and still one of only a handful.
"We had been waiting for this decision for years," Hicks said at a news conference in Sydney. "It's a relief because it's over."
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Wazoo[DAWN] Three people were killed and several injured in an kaboom on Kurri Road, Rawalpindi within the precincts of an imambargah, hospital sources confirmed Wednesday. The injured are reported to be at death's door.
Jundullah, a splinter group of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), grabbed credit for the attack. Speaking from an unknown location, front man of the group Fagad told Dawn that the blast was a reaction to operation Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... in North .
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[AnNahar] Kurdish peshmerga forces have repulsed a major attack by 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.... jihadist group southwest of Iraqi Kurdistan's capital Arbil, officials said Wednesday.
"The attack which was launched at 8:00 pm (1700 GMT on Tuesday) was foiled. It lasted four hours and we killed 34 IS members," Sirwan Barzani, the local peshmerga commander, told AFP.
He said around 300 jihadists had attacked the villages of Sultan Abdallah and Tal al-Rim, between the towns of Gweyr and Makhmur, an area about 40 kilometers (25 miles) southwest of Arbil.
"Daesh (IS) was not able to use heavy military vehicles or boom-mobiles due to trenches dug out by peshmerga on the front lines," said Barzani, also the nephew of Kurdish leader Massud Barzani.
He said the IS offensive achieved no gains and added that his operation received air support from the U.S.-led coalition which has carried out hundreds of strikes against IS since August 2014.
"The festivities are over now. We are collecting their bodies," said Najat Ali, the deputy peshmerga commander on the Makhmur front.
Gweyr and Makhmur were among the very first targets of U.S. air strikes against the jihadists six months ago.
An IS advance had brought the jihadists to within striking distance of Arbil, the capital of the autonomous region of Kurdistan.
The jihadists have continued to attack the area nonetheless, including in a surprise offensive last month when they used boats to cross the Zab river and killed at least 26 members of the Kurdish security forces.
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[IraqiNews.com] On Wednesday, a security source in Diyali province said, that the Iraqi forces have managed to kill a key aide to the ISIS group leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... during a security operation in north of Baqubah.
The source stated to IraqiNews in an interview, "In the late hours of yesterday, Iraqi security forces clashed with elements of the ISIS group hiding at the heights of a valley, located 3 km north of Saddul-Azim in the district of Baqubah," pointing out that, "The army troops have managed to kill the top ISIS leader Abu Mu'mar al-Masri along with one of his aides."
"Al-Masri is a key aide to the ISIS group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Salahuddin province," the source added.
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[IraqiNews.com) On Wednesday, a source within the paramilitary Kurdish Peshmerga forces said, that 22 ISIS elements have been killed in an air strike by the U.S.-led international coalition in western djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... The source informed IraqiNews, "This afternoon, warplanes of the international coalition have carried out an air strike against a gathering site for the ISIS group in the outskirts of Sinjar, located 120 km west of Mosul," pointing out that, "The air strike resulted in killing 22 elements of the ISIS group, including key leaders of different nationalities."
[IraqiNews.com] On Wednesday, a local source in Nineveh province said, that the ISIS group bully boyz kidnapped 25 people from the sheikhs and elders of the clans in south of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... The source told IraqiNews, "Elements of the ISIS group have kidnapped 25 sheikhs from the clans of Albu Hamd, al-Lahib and al-Hadiden in the areas of Hamam al-Alil and al-Shura, located in southern Mosul," pointing out that, "The group has accused the sheikhs of alliance with the Iraqi Volunteer Forces (better known as al-Hashed al-Sha'bi)."
[IraqiNews.com] A source in the Peshmerga forces announced on Tuesday that dozens of ISIS hard boyz had been killed or maimed in aerial strikes by the US-led international coalition southeast of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, "Today evening, the international coalition aircrafts intensely bombed a number of ISIS sites in Makhmour district southeast of Mosul, which resulted in killing and wounding dozens of ISIS bully boys."
The source, who requested to remain anonymous, added, "The bombings also resulted in the destruction of a number of ISIS armored vehicles."
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[IraqiNews.com) On Wednesday, a security source in Salahuddin province said, that the Iraqi security forces have repelled a violent attack by the ISIS group militants in southwest of Samarra.
The source stated to IraqiNews in an interview, “Security forces backed by al-Hashed al-Sha’bi troops and the Iraqi Air Force fighters have managed to repel an attack by the ISIS group on the headquarters of the security forces in the area of Watban in southwest of Samarra district, located 40 km south of Tikrit.”
“The violent clashes between the two sides resulted in killing and injuring more than 50 ISIS elements, in addition to destroying 6 armored vehicles that belonged to the group,” the source added.
[IraqiNews.com] About 22 volunteers were either killed or injured on Wednesday due to a boom-mobilekaboom in Samarra city of southern Salah-il-Din province.
Security source reported to IraqiNews.com "A boom-mobile driven by a jacket wallahexploded targeted a headquarter for the volunteers in Samarra, killing seven volunteers and injuring 15 others."
"Ambulances rushed to the kaboom site in order to transfer the casualties to the hospital for treatment," the source added.
[IraqiNews.com) Ministry of Defense announced Tuesday that 20 ISIS members, including a retired pilot, had been killed in Salahuddin and Anbar.
The ministry said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, "Salahuddin Operations forces were able to kill five ISIS elements in the area of Awja al-Jadida near the General Hospital of Tikrit, and destroy two ISIS armored vehicles."
The ministry added, "The Army Aviation carried out a successful air strike in Albu Said area in Anbar province, which resulted in killing 15 terrorists, including a retired pilot, Majid Hammadi Shihab who was the new military commander of ISIS in that region. Our aircrafts targeted Diwan Sheikh Hikmat that was a shelter for those terrorist gangs."
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"NO pension for you!"
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[IraqiNews.com] On Tuesday, a security source in Salahuddin province said, that two bandidosturbans have been killed in an kaboom of a bomb that they attempted to plant in eastern Tikrit.
The source informed IraqiNews, "Today, two bandidosturbans attempted to plant an explosive on the main road at al-Askari neighborhood in central Tooz district, located 90 km eastern Tikrit," pointing out that, "The bomb went off resulting in their death immediately."
"A security force has blockaded the area of the kaboom and transferred the dead in order to identify their bodies," the source added.
[IraqiNews.com] On Tuesday, a local source in Salahuddin province said, that dozens of ISIS Lions of Islam have been either killed or injured in an air strike that targeted their headquarters in eastern Tikrit.
The source informed IraqiNews, "This evening, Iraqi warplanes conducted an air strike against headquarters for the ISIS group in the area of al-Alam, located in eastern Tikrit," adding that, "The air strike resulted in killing and wounding dozens of elements of the ISIS group."
The headquarters were used by the group Lions of Islam to hide in, and have contained loads of weapons and explosives," the source added.
Betcha the secondaries were appreciated properly... except by those in the middle of them.
[Gulf Today] Members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front set fire to twenty houses in at least seven villages in North Cotabato province in Mindanao that forced at least 15,000 people to flee their homes.
Officer Norudin Solaiman, the chief police investigator, said the arson stemmed from continuing clashes between the MILF and its secessionist group the BIFF. He said the clashes, which already resulted in the deaths of an MILF commander and six other combatants, also forced hundreds of families to evacuate.
Solaiman stressed the clashes between the MILF and the BIFF were not caused by the killing of 44 elite police commandos on January 25. Instead, he said the clashes stemmed from rido (clan war) between the slain MILF commander and his BIFF rival for control of villages in North Cotabato and Maguindanao.
BIFF spokesman Abu Misry Mama promised they would get revenge as he accused Governor Emmylou Mendoza-Talino of North Cotabato of supporting the MILF in their continuing clashes. Mama warned these would include attacks on civilian populations in North Cotabato's "vulnerable" towns and cities.
[CTVNEWS.CA] Activists say rebels in Syria have captured 32 soldiers and pro-government gunnies near the northern city of Aleppo, where fighting is raging as the two sides try to expand territory under their control.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Aleppo-based activist Ahmad Hamed say the troops were seized in the village of Ratyan after it was retaken by the rebels on Wednesday.
The Observatory says rebels also recaptured the village of Hardatnein Thursday, two days after it was taken by government forces.
The Observatory and Hamed say intense festivities are taking outside a third village, Bashkoy, which was also taken by the government two days ago.
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[ARA] Rebels of the Sham Front (linked to the Free Syrian Army "FSA") announced Wednesday the death of 195 members of pro-regime military forces during clashes in the city of Aleppo and its countryside, in northern Syria.
Saleh Anadani, spokesman of the Sham Front, said in an official statement that fierce clashes broke out between their fighters and pro-Assad forces, after Sham Front took over Mallah area in the countryside of Aleppo.
The clashes were centered around the villages of Ratyan and Hardantin.
"Our rebels were able to kill 90 pro-regime soldiers in Mallah area, 60 others in Ratyan village, and 45 soldiers in al-Rashideen neighborhood of Aleppo," Anadani added. "We also captured a large number of pro-Assad soldiers."
Speaking to ARA News in Aleppo, civil rights activist Imad Hussein said that the Sham Front fighters backed by militants of al-Nusra Front (Syria's branch of al-Qaeda) retook the village Hardantin following clashes with pro-Assad forces "who were backed by the Lebanese militia of Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards".
"Pro-Assad forces are still in control of the nearby village of Bashkoy," Hussein said.
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There is only one winner in this conflict and even the Redenbocker Tong fear her. I can say no moar!
[IraqiNews.com] On Feb. 17, U.S. and Coalition military forces continued to attack ISIL bandidosbandidos myrmidons in Syria, using fighter and bomber aircraft to conduct two Arclight airstrikes. Separately, U.S. and Coalition military forces conducted 14 Arclight airstrikes in Iraq, using attack, fighter and remotely piloted aircraft against ISIL terrorists. All strikes took place between 8 a.m., Feb. 17, and 8 a.m. Feb. 18, local time.
The strikes in Iraq took place near Al Asad, three Arclight airstrikes struck an ISIL tactical unit, and destroyed an ISIL mortar tube and an ISIL staging area while near Al Qaim, three Arclight airstrikes destroyed an ISIL checkpoint, an ISIL bulldozer and an ISIL vehicle.
Also the strikers conducted strikes near Bayji, an airstike struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed an ISIL building and inKirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... three Arclight airstrikes destroyed an ISIL armored vehicle, an ISIL heavy machine gun, an ISIL vehicle and two ISIL excavators in addition to two strikes near djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and inTal Afar, two Arclight airstrikes struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed two ISIL buildings and an ISIL heavy machine gun.
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[ARA] On Wednesday, the Kurdish joint forces (People's Protection Units "YPG" and the Peshmerga) pounded locations of the Islamic State group (IS/ISIS) in the city of Jarablus, in northern Syria.
The Kurdish forces launched rockets from the village of al-Bayadiya in the countryside of the Jarablus, targeting military units of the IS.
Speaking to ARA News in Jarablus, media activist Ali Mahmoud reported that more than six rockets hit IS strongholds in the city center and Safa neighborhood. No casualties were reported.
Nuha Mustafa, a teacher based in Jarablus, said that the Kurdish rockets caused a state of alert among IS militants, "who started to move weapons from the targeted areas to other neighborhoods in the city.
"Civilians are trying to escape, but all roads are blocked by IS militants who are preparing for confrontations with the Kurdish forces," said Mustafa.
In a related development, Fawaz Mustafa, commander in al-Tawhid Brigade of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), told ARA News: "We demand the civilians to evacuate the city, so that our troops in Manbij prepare to head to Jarablus soon in order to back the Kurdish forces against ISIS."
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#3
The Marines apparently had lots of weapons and ammo that they could have used. But nooooo.
I do hope they had time and sense to destroy -not just shred - any printed information. You would think they learned something from Iran.
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Not the printed info that is worrying. They left a special intel-link up because they weren't sure if they'd return, and it took them 3 freagin days to remote-delete the data successfully.
Special intel-link 'Opendata' to all embassy related information, up for three days, because they weren't sure they would return and may need access to quickly. The Ambassador isn't even to blame, he got permission from Patrick Kennedy at State!
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I agree with the only Spemble that counts Harf's hair is nice, conceals the width of her jowls.
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The OpenNet system is the unclassified network. All embassy employees use it- Cleared Americans and Locally Employed Staff.
The system handles up to SBU material - not classified. The local employees have full access and the systems administrators are local employees. Whatever we had on that system was likely compromised a long time ago. Much of the system can be controlled remotely from WDC. Is it cool that it happened - no. A national security issue - also no.
There is no such thing as a "Special intel-link 'Opendata." You don't know WTF you're talking about.
People are reading waaaaaay too much into this.
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[Libya Herald] Libya Dawn has launched two air strikes against Zintan today.
[Dhaka Tribune] A war crimes tribunal yesterday handed down death penalty to Abdus Subhan, a 
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