Benghazi –- Al Qaeda-linked militants in eastern Libya declared war on a local Daesh affiliate on Wednesday after one of their senior leaders was shot dead by masked gunmen, setting off clashes between the rival militant groups that left 11 people dead on both sides.
Yummy green-on-green...
The clashes erupted after gunmen opened fire on Nasr Akr, an Al Qaeda-inspired militant once jailed in the UK on terrorism charges. The 55-year-old veteran militant, who fought in Afghanistan, was killed along with his aide.
Life in a British prison doesn't look so bad now does it Nasr...
Akr’s group, known as the Shura Council of Darna’s militants, announced his killing in a statement on Wednesday, blaming it on Daesh militants. It accused the group of “tyranny and criminality,” and vowed to wage “holy war against them until none of them are left.” It also called on residents to rise up against the extremist group.
Sure, they'll get right on that...
The ensuing clashes killed at least nine Daesh militants and two from the Shura Council, including Salem Derbi, the commander of the so-called Abu Salem Brigade, which has history of enmity with Daesh.
A Daesh affiliate seized control of Darna last year after veteran militants returning from Iraq and Syria united the city’s fractured extremist factions and killed off rivals.
Derbi belongs to a generation of militants who turned Darna into a militant stronghold in the 1980s and 1990s during an insurgency against longtime dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Darna was the main source of Libyan militants and suicide bombers who joined the insurgency in Iraq after the US-led invasion in 2003. Entire brigades of Darna natives fight in Syria’s civil war.
Despite his militant past, Derbi and his followers once secured a visit to the city by Libya’s elected leaders, signifying support for a democratic government, albeit one that would enforce Islamic law.
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[IsraelTimes] Forsane Alizza cell, caught in the wake of the 2012 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... shootings, allegedly planned attacks similar to those in Gay Paree in January
Members of a radical Islamic group went on trial Monday in Gay Paree after French prosecutors alleged they planned terror attacks similar to those on a kosher grocery and a satirical newspaper that left 17 victims dead in January.
Mohammed Achamlane, the leader of Forsane Alizza (Knights of Pride), was among the 15 group members on trial. Two of the 15 were absent Monday, including a minor to be tried in juvenile court.
The group was dismantled amid a crackdown on snuffies shortly after a 2012 killing spree in southern La Belle France by Mohammed Merah, who attacked a Jewish school and soldiers, killing seven people before being bumped off by police.
Achamlane was nabbed You have the right to remain silent... in the western city of Nantes. He and others are charged with criminal association with the aim of preparing terrorist acts.
A computer file marked "targets" of Forsane Alizza listed multiple kosher groceries and the magazine Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... , scenes of the January attacks that left 20 dead, including the three gunnies.
Achamlane denounced the attacks from his jail cell in a letter to Sherlocks and said he had nothing to do with them, according to court documents. There are no known links between the group and the January attackers.
At the time of their arrests, Gay Paree Prosecutor Francois Molins said Forsane Alizza members received physical training in the parks and forests around Gay Paree and religious indoctrination "in order to take part in a jihad." The group preached hate and violence on their Internet site which "called for an Islamic caliphate in La Belle France, the application of Sharia (law) and incited Moslems to unite to prepare for civil war," Molins said.
A lawyer for the group, Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, said on the iTele TV station the trial "risks hurting freedom of expression" because issues concerning Moslems can be associated with terrorism.
Led by 37-year-old "emir" Mohammed Achamlane, the 15 members of Forsane Alizza, who called themselves the "knights of pride", have denied involvement in a terrorist organization.
Achamlane told the court he had no "terrorist inspiration" and only wanted to defend Moslems against mounting Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... in La Belle France.
The group was formed in 2010, gaining attention for organizing protests against the government's decision to ban veils in public.
It was disbanded two years later by the government, which described it as a "private militia."
After it was disbanded, the group put a message on its website demanding that French forces leave all Moslem-majority countries.
"If our demands are ignored, we will consider the government to be at war against Moslems," the message said.
Achamlane told the court on Monday that he was only calling for the "legitimate defense" of his community, adding "I am not racist, I am not an anti-Semite."
Achamlane also tried to explain why he had released videos of himself giving inflammatory speeches with Kalashnikov rifles in the background, and using phrases such as "By all-powerful Allah, we will put scars on La Belle France."
"We wanted to make a provocative video with a wall of Kalashnikovs and my bearded head to redress the balance," he said, specifying that he felt Moslems were "excluded" from French society.
"There is no radical or moderate Islam," he added. "There is only authentic Islam."
Others have said the same, oddly enough.
A police raid in 2012 led Sherlocks to fear the group was armed, although it remains unclear if the weapons found were real or usable.
Each member of the group faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted. The trial is due to run until June 22 or 23.
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A lawyer for the group, Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, said on the iTele TV station the trial "risks hurting freedom of expression" because issues concerning Moslems can be associated with terrorism.
We know.
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"Your honor, my client just likes kosher pickles."
[DAWN] KARACHI: Another deputy superintendent of police was bumped off in a Landhi locality on Tuesday, officials said.
DSP Majeed Abbas, 53, was the third DSP targeted in a short span of four weeks in the city.
The officials said that DSP Abbas was driving a police mobile van and heading to his office when four gunnies riding two cycle of violences intercepted his vehicle in Zafar Town within the jurisdiction of the Shah Latif cop shoppe and fired multiple shots at him.
"He was hit by five bullets all fired from a very close range," said DIG-East Munir Sheikh. "The attackers most probably used 9mm pistols and rode away after the attack. Initial findings suggest that the assailants were four in number but we are not yet sure."
He said that some eyewitnesses saw four men on two motorbikes after they heard firing.
The maimed DSP died while being taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre.
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[DAWN] Four men, including a local leader from the banned ASWJ, accused of being involved in a bank heist were placed in durance vile ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... Wednesday during an operation conducted by personnel of the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) team of the police in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... 's Nursery area, according to a blurb.
The suspects include Zafarullah s/o Naseerullah, Farhan s/o Numan, Raees s/o Haji Rehmat and Inayatullah s/o Haji Kher Mohammad.
The men were held for breaking into Summit Bank situated in Baloch Colony last month, and walking off with cash and 12 repeater shotguns and pistols belonging to the bank's security guard.
A First Information Report (FIR) 122/2015 was registered over the offence at Baloch Colony cop shoppe under Section 395 of Pakistain Penal Code (PPC).
Repeaters and pistols were seized from the suspects' custody during the operation today. The men were identified with the help of CCTV footage.
The suspects are said to be associated with the proscribed Ahle Sunnat wal Jamaat (ASWJ), whereas one of the men, Zafarullah, is said to be the chief of ASWJ in Karachi's Akhtar Colony. SP Farooq Awan of the Special Investigation Unit of police told media representatives that suspect, Farhan, was an under-training police recruit.
The suspects are said to be associated with the proscribed Ahle Sunnat wal Jamaat (ASWJ), whereas one of the men, Zafarullah, is said to be the chief of ASWJ in Karachi's Akhtar Colony. SP Farooq Awan of the Special Investigation Unit of police told media representatives that suspect, Farhan, was an under-training police recruit.
Meanwhile, ...back at the buffalo wallow, Standing Buffalo drew a bead on his old enemy and squeezed the trigger... raids are underway to arrest companions of the suspects.
Karachi has been a cauldron of ethnic and political tension for decades, where political parties have murderous Moslem wings, gangs make money through drug-trafficking, land grabbing and other forms of crime, and sectarian violence.
Targeted operations led by Rangers' forces with the support of police are ongoing in the city under a directive issued by the federal government against criminals already identified by federal, military and civilian agencies.
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New York -- Teenage girls abducted by Daesh fighters in Iraq and Syria are being sold in slave markets “for as little as a pack of cigarettes”, the UN envoy on sexual violence said on Monday.
Strangely, the National Organization for Wimmin hasn't commented...
Zainab Bangura visited Iraq and Syria in April, and has since been working on an action plan to address the horrific sexual violence being waged by Daesh fighters.
“This is a war that is being fought on the bodies of women,” Bangura said in an interview.
Strangely, Emily's List hasn't commented...
The UN envoy spoke to women and girls who had escaped from captivity in Daesh-controlled areas, met local religious and political leaders and visited refugees in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan.
The militants continue to run slave markets for girls abducted during fresh offensives, but there are no figures on the numbers enslaved by the fighters.
Strangely, Code Pink hasn't commented...
“They kidnap and abduct women when they take areas so they have — I don’t want to call it a fresh supply — but they have new girls,” she said. Girls are sold for “as little as a pack of cigarettes” or for several hundred or thousand dollars, she said.
Strangely, Hillary Clinton hasn't commented...
Bangura described the ordeal of several teenage girls, many of whom were part of the Yazidi minority targeted by the militants. “Some were taken, locked up in a room — over 100 of them in a small house — stripped naked and washed.”
They were then made to stand in front of a group of men who decided “what you are worth”.
Strangely, Michelle Obama hasn't commented...
Bangura gave the account of a 15-year-old girl who was sold to a Daesh leader, a sheikh aged in his 50s, who showed her a gun and a stick and asked her “tell me what you want”.
“She said ‘the gun’ and he replied: ‘I didn’t buy you so that you could kill yourself’” before raping her, Bangura said.
Strangely, MS-NBC hasn't commented...
Abducting girls has become a key part of the Daesh strategy to recruit foreign fighters who have been travelling to Iraq and Syria in record numbers over the past 18 months. “This is how they attract young men — we have women waiting for you, virgins that you can marry,” Bangura said. “The foreign fighters are the backbone of the fighting.”
Strangely, the New York Times hasn't commented...
A recent UN report said close to 25,000 foreign fighters from over 100 countries were involved in conflicts worldwide, with the largest influx by far into Syria and Iraq.
The envoy likened the militants’ abuse of women and girls to “medieval” practices and said Daesh wants “to build a society that reflects the 13th century”.
Strangely, the Anglican Church hasn't commented...
Despite the monstrous violence, communities like the Yazidis are welcoming the girls back and offering them support to pick up the pieces of their broken lives, said Bangura. She praised Yazidi religious leader Baba Sheikh for publicly declaring that the girls need understanding, but noted that no such pronouncements had come from the Turkmen leaders.
Bangura returned from a tour of European capitals to discuss the plight of women and girls under Daesh and hopes to address the Security Council soon to discuss what can be done.
A UN technical team is due to travel to the region soon to work out details of the plan to help victims of Daesh sexual violence.
Strangely, the UN Security Council hasn't commented...
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No comments because they are all conscientious objectors in an actual war on women. Besides, they are quite busy fighting the epidemic of rape that doesn't seem to be taking place on our university campuses.
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Must be quite an oversupply of abducted teenage girls if they're only selling for the price of a pack of cigarettes. Can we just buy their freedom? It would be lots cheaper than fighting for it.
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Must be quite an oversupply of abducted teenage girls
An oversupply that quickly disappears when the conquests stop. But in the meantime, selling a few back to their communities for exhorbitant ransoms is a lucrative financing source that offsets the cheap prices found in the slave markets.
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they don't comment because none of the listed organization or people give a rats ass about women - or slavery. (except perhaps to be slave owners...)
[ARABNEWS] Israeli forces killed a member of the Paleostinian group Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, witnesses and medics said.
A front man for Israel's paramilitary border police said its troops were in Jenin as part of a predawn operation against suspected myrmidons, when they saw a Paleostinian preparing to throw a pipe bomb at them and shot him.
"He was shot by a unit providing covering fire for the unit that he was about to attack," the front man said.
Jenin residents and hospital officials said the 23-year-old Paleostinian was shot in the back. They said there were no wider confrontations at the time with the Israeli troops.
Hamas, which has a limited presence in the West Bank, claimed the dead Paleostinian as a member.
On a Hamas website, the group said he was killed after coming out of a mosque after prayers there.
The Israeli border police front man said the Jenin raid was not coordinated in advance with the security forces of US-backed Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... , which operate in parallel in West Bank cities.
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[Daily Caller] A top Iranian general promised developments in Syria "will surprise the world" as thousands of Iran-backed troops have been deployed to uphold the regime.
Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the leader of Iran's elite Quds Force, expressed the evolving nature of Iran's involvement in Syria while visiting the northwest region of Latakia in late May, home to the Alawite sect of President Bashar Assad.
Soleimani was quoted by Iran's official news agency, IRNA. But the agency claimed it "takes no responsibility for the information," reports Agence France Presse.
Between 10,000 and 20,000 Iranian or Iraqi fighters are reportedly moving to defend Damascus and Latakia. A combat brigade team of 1,500 fighters from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) will make up the core of the force.
Observers should take Soleimani's claim seriously, says Matthew McInnis, an expert at the American Enterprise Institute.
Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) fighters typically take an advisory role to local forces where Iran seeks to exert military control. But as war in Syria has intensified, endangering Iranian ally Bashar Assad, Iran has been pushed into a difficult position.
"He has to do it," McInnis told The Daily Caller News Foundation, referencing Soleimani's increasingly limited options for keeping the Assad regime intact. Iranian fighters could become directly involved in combat, specifically around Damascus and in the northwest.
This could lead to a "battle-hardened IRGC," breaking the psychological barrier from an advisory position to combat. "Once they've done that, it's going to be easier for them to think about boots on the ground in other areas of the region," said McInnis.
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At least a hundred IRGC have already been killed in Syria. The escalation implies has, in effect, already taken place.
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...Nothing I'd enjoy more though than seeing ISIS just hand Quds Force their asses....
Mike
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Glenmore, look at the Iran - Iraq war. Some estimates say Iran lost as many as 1 million KIA, while Iraq lost as many as 500K.
We may be looking at a repeat.
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Rambler, so the analogy goes 'as WW I is to WW II, Iran-Iraq war is to ISIS-Quds war?' And this is the Eastern Front equivalent, such that we would like both sides to lose?
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Well how about this quel surprise. Quds forces with US air cover sweep past Damascus & roll over Raqqa. Then we do the nuc deal with Iran & Hezbollah takes over in Syria plus Leb. OB gets another nobel peace prize.
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Islam Army, key rebel group in eastern Ghouta district near Damascus, said in statement posted online it has kidnapped a senior regime official early Wednesday, asserting the abductee is not the Justice minister as media outlets circulated.
Najm al-Ahmed, Syrian regime's Justice minister, hurried to Syrian TV to deny abduction news saying, "Here I am."
Jaysh al-Islam, or Islam Army, said it's fighters had succeeded in kidnapping top regime official early Wednesdays after a successful operation in Damascus.
Islam Army has not yet disclosed who is he.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Syrian regime forces and allied militias have burned hundreds of acres planted with grains and olives in al-Houleh region in Homs province, activists told Zaman al-Wasl Tuesday.
For the third year, Bashir al-Assad's forces have been targeting wheat and olive corps in harvesting season, in step to harden living condition of people who already live under siege.
Activists of Tal Dahab town in al-Houleh countryside said locals and civil defense units were able to put out the fire after hundreds of acres totally had been burned out.
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Grain crops are the outcome of a single year's work, but olive trees can take over a decade to produce their first crop. I have to suspect there is a Koranic prohibition against destroying olive groves, just as there is of despoiling wells... and both equally honoured in the breach by pious Muslims and national socialistic Arabs in times of war.
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] ISIS Death Eaters attacked four Hezbollah posts on the outskirts of the northeastern border town of Ras Baalbek Tuesday in a failed bid to capture two hills, sparking intense festivities that left at least 22 people dead, a security source said. Hezbollah versus Islamic State: The Flower of their Generation Getting Plucked.
A separate security source told The Daily Star that Lebanese Army helicopters carried out two Arclight airstrikes on Death Eater positions around the same area. It was unclear if the Army coordinated the attacks with Hezbollah.
A source close to Hezbollah said eight party fighters and 14 jihadis were killed in the initial attack and ensuing festivities.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Syrian air strikes on ISIS-held town in the northeastern province of Hasaka killed at least 14 civilians, activists said Wednesday as battles continue between the radical group and Kurdish militias.
Syrian regime's vacuum missiles targeted the northern neighborhood of al-Shadadi town, killing 14 civilians and leaving 20 others injured, Mahmoud al-Ahmed, local activist told Zaman al-Wasl..
Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, the congregants were being herded into the paddy wagon... Thousands of people crossed from Syria into The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... on Wednesday to flee a battle pitting ISIS against Kurdish and opposition forces for the Syrian border town of Tel Abyad, Rooters reported.
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 in control of the border town in Hasaka province. The hardline group last week launched a counter-offensive in the picturesque provincial capital, Hasaka city, that is divided into zones run separately by the government of Bashir al-Assad and a Kurdish administration.
"There are 2,000 people today that are being processed," a Turkish official said, explaining that they undergo registration and health checks before being allowed to enter.
"They are escaping coalition bombardments as well as YPG advancement," he said, referring to the Kurdish militia and U.S.-led coalition giving aerial support to Kurds.
Local media had reported a buildup of refugees waiting to cross in recent days.
The Turkish official said since last week 6,837 people were admitted in the area, and 686 of them were Iraqi nationals.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Thousands of people crossed from Syria into The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... on Wednesday to flee a battle pitting Islamist gunnies against Kurdish and opposition forces for the Syrian border town of Tel Abyad.
A Rooters photographer at the scene said many of them were women and kiddies and they had entered Turkey through a make-shift border crossing between official gates. Turkish gendarmerie officers oversaw the transfer, he said.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] A day after taking control of a major army base in Daraa province, Southern Front rebels on Wednesday announced a new offensive to capture a military airport near Sweida city, the main stronghold of Syria's Druze minority.
Al-Tha'leh airport is rebels' second target after the takeover of Liwa 52, or the 52nd Brigade, one of the biggest Syrian army bases in the area.
The recent gains is a setback for Bashir al-Assad reflecting the mounting pressure on him after recent losses elsewhere, according to Rooters.
The southern region near the border with Jordan and Israel is one of the areas where Death Eaters have inflicted significant defeats on Assad in the last three months, notably by capturing the Nasib border crossing with Jordan on April 1.
The "Southern Front", an alliance of rebel groups, has been coordinating operations against Assad from a joint command center in Jordan. It includes groups that have received some support from foreign states that want to see Assad gone, including Gulf Arab governments.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] ISIS hard boyz blew up a pipeline feeding natural gas from eastern Syria to the suburbs of the capital Damascus early Wednesday morning, an activist group said.
So ISIS has Bugtis working for them...
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British based activist group, said ISIS blew up the pipeline near the T-4 military airport in the east of central Homs province shortly after midnight.
"This pipeline was used to carry gas into the suburbs of Damascus and Homs to generate electricity and provide heating in individual homes," said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman.
ISIS has seized a number of oil and gas fields in Homs province, most recently during its offensive on the ancient city of Palmyra.
These fields were key to Syria's embattled regime, which relied on them for power generation in its dwindling areas of control.
"Any hit to the regime's gas supply is important, because its resources are very low," Abdel Rahman told AFP.
If we had any kind of CIA at all it would become trickier yet...
While ISIS has made use of oil fields it has captured to generate income, processing natural gas is much trickier, according to Yezid Sayigh, an analyst at the Carnegie Middle East Centre in Beirut.
Blowing up gas pipelines demonstrates that "the name of its game for now is denial of key resources to the regime," Sayigh wrote recently.
Government forces lost Palmyra to ISIS on May 21, and ceded additional territory southwest of the city in the following days.
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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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Benghazi –- Al Qaeda-linked militants in eastern Libya declared war on a local Daesh affiliate on Wednesday after one of their senior leaders was shot dead by masked gunmen, setting off clashes between the rival militant groups that left 11 people dead on both sides.
A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
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