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Afghanistan
Gunmen open fire on Gen. Dostum's security guards in Shebarghan
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A brief shootout was reported in Shebarghan city of northern Jawzjan province on Wednesday after a group of gunnies attacked the security guards of the First Vice President Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum
...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier...
.

One of the Lions of Islam was reportedly killed and another was jugged
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
by the security forces following the shootout.

The First Vice President was not present when when festivities broke out.

This comes as Gen. Dostum visited northern Jawzjan province of Afghanistan to assess the security situation in northern Afghanistan, specifically the northern Faryab province where the security situation has considerably deteriorated recently.

At least 19 people were killed and 32 others were maimed in a suicide kaboom that targeted the Afghan cops in a busy market in Almar district today.

During a meeting with the Afghan army and Afghan coppers along with Afghan intelligence operatives in Shebarghan city on Monday evening, Gen. Dostum said he is visiting northern Afghanistan based on President Ghani's instructions.

Gen. Dostum promised to resolve the security issues of northern Afghanistan, specifically the northern Faryab province.
Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1 
"...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban."

Dostum did not fight the Soviets - he fought with them against the mujaheddin. He was very effective in protecting the area around Maza-i-Sharif.

After the Soviets pulled out of Afghanistan, Dostum continued fighting against the mujaheddin, supporting the Afghan government.

It was after the Soviet Union dissolved and Soviet aid to the Afghan government ceased that Dostum switched sides, allying with Ahmad Shah Masoud (Lion of Panjshir), the leader of the Northern Alliance. (Masoud was assassinated by al-Qaeda a few days before the attack on 9/11.)
Posted by: Chuck || 07/23/2015 19:37 Comments || Top||


4,100 Afghan soldiers martyred in first 6 months of 2015
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 4,100 service members of the Afghan National Army (ANA) and the Afghan National Police (ANP) forces have lost their lives during the first six months of the year 2015.

The latest statistic regarding the Afghan National Security Forces casualties was disclosed in a report by the New York Times which shows a 50% increase as compared to the first six months of the year 2014.

According to the Times, the data regarding the Afghan forces casualties was provided by an official with the American-led coalition.

The data also revealed at least 7,800 service members of the Afghan National Security Forces were wounded during the same period.

In the meantime, the Afghan officers identified desertion as a serious problem saying that many soldiers were simply being barred from going home and required to fight on the frontlines for months straight.

The considerable growth in Afghan forces casualties comes as the Taliban-led insurgency has also been rampant with Afghan commanders and officials in key battleground areas saying that while Afghan forces nominally hold key areas, they are often penned in by Taliban forces.

Abdul Hadi Khalid a retired Afghan Lieutenant General told the Times “We are in a passive defense mode — we are not chasing the enemy,” and called the mounting casualties “grave.”

Mirdad Khan Nejrabi a member of Afghanistan’s parliament said that while the casualties were “very concerning” there would be no large-scale collapse of Afghan forces.

Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Taliban publicly execute tribal elder in Urozgan
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A tribal elder has been publicly executed by Talibs after being kidnapped in southern Urozgan province.

Abdul Karim Karimi, the governor of Khas Urozgan province says that Taliban kidnapped the tribal elder and Malik of Shaheedan area earlier in the morning and later hanged him to death in public.

Taliban front man had not commented on the execution of Haji Abas by the time this report was filed. Haji Abas was also member of the council of Khas Urozgan District.

This is second incident of Taliban execution this month.

The group's fighters executed Imam of a local mosque after he spoke out against insurgency during his Friday sermon in Faryab province on July 16.
Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Suicide bomber on cycle of violence kills 15 near Afghan market
[REUTERS] A jacket wallah on a cycle of violence killed at least 15 people and maimed 38 near a busy marketplace in northwest Afghanistan on Wednesday, officials said.

No one grabbed credit, but Talibs have regularly use suicide bombers to attack Afghan government and foreign troops in the area.

The main target was believed to be a nearby police checkpoint in Almar, a district of Faryab province which borders Turkmenistan, local officials added.

Five of the dead were Afghan security force personnel and the rest civilians, Faryab's acting governor, Satar Barez, said.

"Security forces were at their checkpoint in Almar's main market when the suicide bomber detonated his explosives," Barez said.
Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa North
Tunisians nab fuel smugglers after a Libyan border gunfight
[Libya Herald] In what appears to be a demonstration of a new toughness after the Sousse and Bardo terrorist attacks, Tunisian troops yesterday tossed in the calaboose
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
16 fuel smugglers after a brief shootout in the military buffer zone, near the border town of Ben Guerdane.

The men, from both Libya and Tunisia, were seized along with nine vehicles, which the Tunisian news agency TAP said were carrying heavily-subsidised Libyan petrol for sale on the Tunisian black market.

There are other reports that when their convoy was challenged, the smugglers called up armed support from the Libyan side of the frontier. No one appears to have been injured in the exchanges of fire. It is unclear if any of the gunnies managed to escape back into Libya.

Tunisia is currently constructing a fence and ditch along a 220 kilometre stretch of its border with Libya. The idea is to interdict the movement of murderous Moslems between the two countries. However inevitably the new barrier will have an impact on the extensive and lucrative cross-border smuggling trade.
Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Indian nurse injured in BMC mortar attack
[Libya Herald] A mortar round, thought to have been fired from Daesh lines, has hit the Benghazi Medical Centre, injuring a foreign nurse working in the kidney unit . . .
Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


40 Dead in Ethnic Clashes in Southern Libya
[ALMANAR.LB] At least 40 people have been killed in a week of ethnic festivities in southern Libya between rival gunnies from the Toubou and Tuareg minorities, a local official said.

The latest fighting centred on the oasis city of Sabha, the largest in the Libyan Sahara, the official said.
Hundreds of families have been displaced, he added.

There have been repeated deadly festivities between the two ethnic groups since February.

The Toubou, who mainly live in the southeast straddling the border with neighboring Chad, were heavily discriminated against under dictator Muammar Qadaffy
...a proud Arab institution for 42 years, now among the dear departed, though not the dearest...
and fought in the 2011 uprising that overthrew him.

The Tuareg, who mainly live in the southwest straddling the borders with Algeria and Niger, largely backed the Qadaffy regime.

The chaos that has followed the uprising has seen mounting competition for scant resources in the desert south, with Tuareg, Toubou and Arabs all setting up rival militia.

Deadly fighting with Arabs in Sabha in 2012 prompted Toubou claims of ethnic cleansing.

Tensions have worsened since the establishment of rival governments in the capital Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
and the eastern town of Tobruk last year.

The Tripoli authorities have armed the Tuareg while the Toubou have backed the internationally recognized government in the east.

The Tobruk government issued a statement on Tuesday appealing to the warring sides to "stop fighting and resolve their differences through dialogue".
Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Mali Troops Destroy Jihadist Camps near I.Coast Border
[AnNahar] Malian troops destroyed two jihadist camps and tossed in the calaboose
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
15 suspected Lions of Islam in the latest operation combating radical Islamist groups near the southern border with Ivory Coast, military sources said on Tuesday.

"During new military operations in the area, we arrested 15 new jihadists and destroyed a new sanctuary of theirs in the region of Sikasso, on the border with Ivory Coast," a military officer told AFP.

Among the jihadists was a radical preacher who "came from Ivory Coast in order to build a mosque in a Malian village where he could impose his law", said the same source on condition of anonymity.

A different Malian military source said troops seized arms, explosives and cycle of violences in a raid on another camp near the frontier town of Fakola, which was pillaged on June 28 in an attack claimed by Islamist group Ansar Dine.

The latest raid came after Malian troops last week killed several jihadists in the Sikasso region, near the border with Ivory Coast, and destroyed the holy warriors' camp in a forest straddling the frontier.

Jihadist attacks are normally confined to Mali's restive northern desert region but areas bordering Mauritania have been targeted since the start of the year, and southern settlements more recently.

The north came under the control of Ansar Dine -- which is Arabic for Defenders of Faith -- and two other jihadist groups, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, in April 2012.

A move south towards the capital by the turbans, who imposed a brutal version of sharia on inhabitants, prompted Mali's former colonial master La Belle France to intervene in January 2013, pounding their positions in the north.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/23/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa


Africa Subsaharan
Two Killed in Boko Haram Raid on Army Chief's Village
[AnNahar] Suspected 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...
gunnies have raided the village of Nigeria's army chief in northeast Borno state, killing two residents and setting fire to several homes, residents said Tuesday.

Dozens of Boko Haram fighters stormed Buratai, the native village of chief of army staff Major General ‎Tukur Yusuf Buratai, ‎around 7:00 pm (1800 GMT) on Monday night, shooting indiscriminately and forcing residents to flee into the bush.

The assault was followed by a failed suicide kaboom at a military checkpoint in the town of Biu, 25 kilometers (15 miles) away, residents and vigilantes assisting the military in fighting Boko Haram said.

The raid in Buratai follows a similar Boko Haram attack in April where 20 people were killed and more than half of the village was razed to the ground, including the army chief's own home.

In Monday's attack, witnesses said the Lions of Islam seized two male residents and slit their throats before setting fire to homes.

"They slaughtered two people they apprehended while trying to flee the village and burnt more than 30 homes," Buratai resident Tanimu Mudi told AFP.

Yuram Bura, a vigilante working with the Nigerian military, confirmed the raid, saying: "There was a an attack on Buratai yesterday (Monday) night by Boko Haram gunnies where they cut the throats of two people and burnt several homes."

On Tuesday, a failed jacket wallah injured a a female member of a local vigilante group that has been fighting Boko Haram alongside the military when he attempted to set off his vest at a security checkpoint outside Biu.

"The bomber's gait gave him away as he walked towards the security post because it was evident he was carrying something under his dress which raised our suspicion‎," local vigilante Babagana Maina told AFP.

"When he realized he had been exposed he detonated the explosives before reaching the security post, slightly injuring a female vigilante on her shoulder."

Biu, the largest town in southern Borno, 180 kilometers from Borno state capital Maiduguri, has been hit by several deadly suicide and kabooms ‎targeting markets and bus stations blamed on Boko Haram.

The Boko Haram insurgency has killed more than 15,000 people in Nigeria since 2009.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/23/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram


Britain
Blackburn teen pleads guilty in Anzac terror plot
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Europe
Austrian court jails Chechen for joining jihadis in Syria
[Ynet] An Austrian court sentenced a Chechen to five years in jail on terror charges after he travelled to Syria in 2013, the latest and one of the toughest verdicts in a string 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....
-related cases in Austria.

The 30-year-old Chechen, identified as Magomed Z., was convicted of participating in terrorism and possessing child pornography but acquitted of receiving combat training in Syria. He had faced up to 10 years in prison on the terrorism charge alone.
Do we suspect Mr. Z. of quietly assisting the authorities in other inquiries?
The Chechen had pleaded not guilty
"Wudn't me."
to all charges, saying he had gone to Syria only to help refugees and to search for the son of a relative.
Or perhaps not.
Both the prosecutors and Magomed Z. will appeal the sentence, a front man for the court in the Austrian town of Krems said.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/23/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Salafists

#1  This sort of thing is what happens when you have effectively unchecked immigration. What business does a Chechen named Magomed have in Austria? Is he learning to waltz?
Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2015 12:12 Comments || Top||


Spain Arrests Man Accused of Recruiting Women for IS
[AnNahar] Police in Spain's north African territory of Melilla locked away
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
a man suspected of recruiting women for the armed jihadist group 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....
, the government said Wednesday.

Spanish police working with Moroccan security services seized the man overnight as part of a major investigation into gangs suspected of recruiting women and minors to send them to Syria and Iraq.

They arrested a 29-year-old man from Melilla, a small fenced-off city on the tip of northern Morocco, the interior ministry said in a statement.

It said he possessed "multimedia files of a jihadist nature".

"Some of his propaganda and indoctrination material was aimed specially at radicalizing women."

It said officers also seized recordings of "radical sermons" in favor of the IS group.

The suspect is accused of sharing the material with his son, a minor, "to familiarize him with jihadist tactics".
They've got to be carefully taught...
Melilla is one of two Spanish territories bordering Morocco, along with Ceuta to the west.

They have Europe's only land borders with Africa, posing a security concern to Spanish authorities.

Spain has been cracking down on suspected jihadists over the past year, arresting scores of people, mostly in Melilla, Ceuta and the northeastern mainland region of Catalonia.

The government says at least 116 Spaniards have left to join jihadist groups in Syria and Iraq, according to a figure dating to July 6.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/23/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Italy Arrests Two Suspected of Planning IS-Style Attacks
[AnNahar] Italian police locked away
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
two men Wednesday suspected of supporting 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 and plotting to carrying out attacks in the country.

The Tunisian and Pak had opened a Twitter account on which they posted threatening messages written by hand and held up in front of historic Italian monuments, from the Colosseum in Rome to the Duomo in Milan.

"We are in your streets, we are everywhere. We identify our targets while we wait for zero hour", said one message, written in Italian, French and Arabic.

Milan prosecutor Maurizio Romanelli said, however, that the sites in question "were never in danger" because the pair, based in Brescia in northern Italia, had not set their plans in motion.

"The two men were referring to several targets, particularly the Ghedi military base" near Brescia, "but also other possible targets including law enforcement forces," he said at a presser.

The two men had also downloaded from the Internet a manual on bomb-making and how to disguise their identities online, he said.
That clearly worked really well.
"This morning's arrests show our system to prevent terrorist attacks works. It confirms that Internet controls allow us to take preventative action with great efficiency," Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said.
Ynet points out that the Tunisian has achieved the great age of 35, much too old for this to count as a childish prank.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/23/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


The Grand Turk
PKK Claims Killing of 'ISIL-linked' Turkish Police
[ALMANAR.LB] The military wing of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) said on Wednesday it killed two ISIL-linked Turkish coppers in a town on the Syrian border as a reprisal for a suicide kaboom blamed on snuffies that killed 32.

"A punitive action was carried out... in Dire Revenge for the massacre in Suruc," the military wing of the outlawed PKK, the People's Defence Forces (HPG), said in a statement on its website.

Turkish security forces had earlier discovered the bodies of two coppers in the country's southeastern province of Sanliurfa near the border with conflict-ridden Syria.

Provincial governor Izettin Kucuk said the officers were found dead at their shared home in the small border town of Ceylanpinar, situated 800 kilometers (497 miles) southeast of the capital, Ankara, on Wednesday.

The statement by the HPG said that the attack took place at 6:00 am (0300 GMT) and that the coppers' identity cards and service weapons had been seized.

It described the attackers as an "Apoist team of self-sacrifice", in reference to the PKK's tossed in the slammer
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
leader Abdullah Ocalan whose nickname is "Apo."

The authorities had earlier appeared at a loss to explain the attack on the police in Ceylanpinar, which had been first announced earlier Wednesday.
Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Home Front: WoT
Abdulazeez was anti-American -- and depressed
The Daily Mail does the reporting that American newspapers (again) haven't been doing. Some significant snippage. And as is usual for a Brit national paper, lots of photos at the link.
Federal investigators have discovered writings by the Chattanooga gunman in which he talked about his dissatisfaction with the US war on terror and expressed other anti-American sentiments, it was revealed today.

Two sources familiar with the case, including a law enforcement official, said some of Mohammad Abdulazeez's writings are more than a year old and are consistent with a suicidal mindset, reported CNN.

While Abdulazeez sometimes expressed misgivings about US policy in the Mideast, his feelings didn't seem extreme and there was no indication he was involved with terrorist groups while in Jordan, a family representative said.

There was also no immediate explanation for why he targeted military sites in the attack.
There are two plausible ones: one, he was a radical Islamist, and two, he was suicidal-depressed, perhaps schizoaffective. Those aren't mutually exclusive...
While some have speculated that he may have been inspired by the Islamic State terrorist group, a friend of Abdulazeez said that the shooter thought ISIS was 'doing wrong,' James Petty, who would practice shooting rifles with his friend in the woods, said that the gunman told him ISIS 'was a stupid group and it was completely against Islam', according to CNN.
James, did he say it in English or in Arabic?
Earlier today, the family of the Chattanooga shooter revealed that in his personal diary, the 24-year-old Kuwait-born man, who was gunned down by police after he shot and killed five service members in Tennessee, had laid out his struggles with suicidal thoughts, financial woes and legal troubles related to his drug addiction.

The gunman's journal, according to the Abdulazeez family spokesman speaking exclusively to ABC News, paints a portrait of a troubled youth who wrote about committing suicide and 'becoming a martyr' as far back as 2013, around the time when he was fired from his job because of his addiction to prescription pills and illegal narcotics.

The family representative said the electrical engineering student was addicted to sleeping pills, painkillers, opioids, marijuana, as well as alcohol. In his diary, according to the spokesperson, Abdulazeez wrote about how he struggled to work a 12-hour night shift at a plant and had to take pills so he could fall asleep during the day.

Abdulazeez was also considering filing for bankruptcy because he was heavily in debt.

The family representative said Abdulazeez was first treated by a child psychiatrist for depression when he was 12 or 13 years old. The 24-year-old also fought drug and alcohol abuse, spending several months in Jordan last year to help clean himself up.
It's certainly possible that he was schizoaffective or completely schizophrenic. Those manifest early, are often mis-diagnosed, and frequently come to crisis when the person is in his 20s...
The representative said relatives of Abdulazeez believe those personal struggles are at the heart of last week's killings at a pair of military sites in Chattanooga.

‘They do not know of anything else to explain it,’ said the representative Sunday.

Petty said that his friend was a heavy smoker of marijuana and that his parents would call up to check about where their son was because of his substance abuse.

The claim fits a pattern of behavior by Abdulazeez that includes a drunken driving arrest earlier this year and the loss of a job over a failed drug test. Several years ago, relatives tried to have Abdulazeez admitted to an in-patient program for drug and alcohol abuse but a health insurer refused to approve the expense, said the representative.

Two days before the deadly shootings in Chattanooga, Abdulazeez rented a silver Mustang convertible, arrived at a local mosque and took a friend on a joy ride that lasted until 3am.

‘He bragged about [the car], and was showing it off to friends about how fast it would go,’ the Abdulazeez family spokesperson said Sunday.

'He was medicated like many children are. Through high school and college he did a better job sometimes than others staying with it,' the representative said.

Abdulazeez had spent several months in Jordan last year under a mutual agreement with his parents to help him get away from drugs, alcohol and a group of friends who relatives considered a bad influence, the representative said.

Counterterrorism investigators continued to interview Abdulazeez's acquaintances and delve into his visit to Jordan, looking for clues to whom or what might have influenced him and set off the bloodshed. Jordanian government officials told CNN that they were speaking to the shooter's extended family about his time in the country.

FBI spokesman Jason Pack declined comment on whether investigators were pursuing mental health records for Abdulazeez. But FBI Special Agent Ed Reinhold told reporters at a recent news conference about the case that agents were looking into all aspects of his life and had not yet turned up any connections to Islamic terrorist groups.

The representative said Abdulazeez had owned guns for years, going back to when he was a child shooting at squirrels and targets, and called himself an 'Arab redneck' or 'Muslim redneck.'

A year after graduating from college with an engineering degree, Abdulazeez lost a job at a nuclear power plant in Ohio in May 2013 because of what a federal official described as a failed drug test. Recently, Abdulazeez had begun working the night shift at a manufacturing plant and was taking medication to help with problems sleeping in the daytime, the representative said, and he also had a prescription for muscle relaxants because of a back problem.

It's unknown what substances were in the man's system at the time of the killings, but toxicology tests should provide an answer.

After returning from his time overseas, Abdulazeez was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence in the pre-dawn hours on April 20. A police report said he told a Chattanooga officer he also was with friends who had been smoking marijuana. The report said Abdulazeez, who had white powder on his nose when he was stopped, told the officer he also had sniffed powdered caffeine.

The arrest was 'important' because Abdulazeez was deeply embarrassed and seemed to sink further into depression following the episode, the representative said. Some close relatives learned of the charge only days before the shooting, the person said.
Posted by: Steve White || 07/23/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There's a face I could punch, or shoot...
Posted by: Raj || 07/23/2015 0:13 Comments || Top||

#2  So he was anti-American, why didn't he take it out on the golf course like another of his kind?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/23/2015 9:06 Comments || Top||

#3  See, he was depressed, suicidal, and possibly high. SO THIS HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH ISLAM! /MSM narrative

I mean, whenever I get depressed, I go shoot up military recruiting stations, don't you?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 07/23/2015 10:55 Comments || Top||

#4  I suppose his background led him to shoot up a recruiting station, as opposed to a movie theatre or high school.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/23/2015 13:26 Comments || Top||

#5  US probably has 1000's more like him, Muslim &/or infidel.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 07/23/2015 14:11 Comments || Top||

#6  PK2 with the sneaky snark of the day...
Posted by: regular joe || 07/23/2015 15:28 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Kurdish official: ISIS kills Mosul tailors who refused to sew Afghan clothes
[Rudaw] A Kurdish official said on Tuesday ISIS had taken to killing tailors in its stronghold djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
who refused to sew the clothes of its Afghan fighters.

"ISIS jugged
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
15 tailors inside Mosul after they refused to sew the Afghani clothes for the holy warriors of ISIS, and today they executed four of the detainees," Saeed Mamuzini, a Kurdistan Democratic Party official in Mosul, told Rudaw.

Mamuzini also claimed a large mass grave with over 60 bodies had been discovered inside Mosul, but did not elaborate on who found it, or how they would have been allowed to do so under ISIS' watch.

On Monday, 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....
social media accounts announced the group executed 40 holy warriors in the town of Tal Afar in northern Mosul province after they abandoned their weapons in battles against the Iraqi army and the Peshmerga.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/23/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Escalation from the gay lawfare against bakers or florists........
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 07/23/2015 15:40 Comments || Top||


ISIS assault on Bashik front repelled
[Rudaw] At least 200 ISIS turbans launched a large-scale midnight assault on the Peshmerga frontlines on the Bashik front between Erbil and djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, a Peshmerga official at the scene told Rudaw Tuesday morning.

"An estimated 200 turbans attacked the Peshmerga frontlines on the Bashik front. Clashes stretched across different areas on the font and lasted till dawn," Captain Aziz Ahmed, a Peshmerga commander, said. "Three ISIS turbans were killed, and the Peshmerga did not suffer casualties."

"ISIS leaders were putting pressure on the turbans to advance into the Peshmerga stockades, but their turbans were saying on the phone 'we cannot advance, because they [Peshmerga] will not allow us and their frontlines are well fortified," Ahmed claimed. He added this intel came after a wireless device from one of the dead turbans was left behind.
Dead men carry off no phones.
"ISIS prepared a vehicle bomb equipped with bombs and ammunition to target the Peshmerga, but they failed to do so," he continued.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/23/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


ISIS fighter humiliated on TV for killing 60 unarmed Iraqi army cadets
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A bad boy 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....
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group who faces death penalty for murdering 60 unarmed Iraqi army cadets, appeared in front of news cameras where he was forced to chew a sandal.

The bad boy identified as Adnan Abdul Ridha was reportedly placed in durance vile
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
by the Iraqi security forces for his role in mass execution of around 770 Iraqi air force cadets.

The mass execution took place last year at the Tikrit Air Academy (formerly called COB Speicher).

At least 24 people were sentenced to death for their role in the massacre by an Iraqi court which used satellite images where the massacre took place as well as ISIS propaganda video of the killings.

According to the local media reports, Ridha has confessed he was involved in the mass execution and massacred 60 students at Speicher Air Base and being a member of ISIS.

The local Al-Mirbad newspaper quoting Ridha during an interview with the Iraqi media outlets reported that the man confessed he took 60 of the captured students, put them on the ground and then shot them in the head.

Ridha also confessed to working for terror group Al-Qaeda in 1996 and that his newest employers ISIS are funded by money from Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates...
and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
, according to the paper.

This comes as the terror group released a new horrific video of the mass execution earlier this month which contained footage from the previously released video along with new scenes.

The 22-minute-video showed hundreds of army cadets falling out of dump trucks and are forced to lay down next to each other in shallow mass graves before being rubbed out one by one.

At one point of the video, the ISIS murderous Moslems allow a condemned Shia to pry one more time following his plea but they then shoot him in the back of the head.

An excavator is also shown in the video to move piles of bodies after they were brutally rubbed out by the ISIS fanatics.

The government forces and allied fighters retook Tikrit from the ISIS murderous Moslems in April and exhumed around 600 bodies from the mass graves.

According to the highest estimates, around 1,700 army cadets were captured by the ISIS murderous Moslems after they captured the military base last year.
Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  He ordered sole as his last meal?
Posted by: Shipman || 07/23/2015 17:09 Comments || Top||


Car bomb kills 20 in Baghdad Shiite district
[DAWN] BAGHDAD: A boom-mobile went kaboom! in a crowded marketplace in a mainly Shiite district of the Iraqi capital on Wednesday, killing at least 20 people, police and medical sources said.

A further 48 people were maimed by the blast in the Shurta neighbourhood of southwestern Baghdad.

The attack, which struck a busy commercial street in the western district of Bayaa, was the latest of a number of particularly deadly incidents in Baghdad in less than a week.

On Tuesday, at least 30 people died in two boom-mobileings and attacks on police.

The worst boom-mobileing left 19 dead and 43 maimed in the eastern district of Baghdad al-Jadida, a predominantly Shiite area that has been one of the most targeted by boom-mobiles in recent years. Another four people were killed and 10 maimed in a similar attack in the southern neighbourhood of Zafaraniya.

The self-styled 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) group grabbed credit for both attacks, saying they had targeted Shiite militiamen, a claim it often makes even when most of the victims are civilians.

On Friday, a huge suicide car kaboom claimed by IS killed dozens of people in Khan Bani Saad, a town just north of Baghdad.
Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


ISIL Commanders Flee Iraq's Fallujah to Turkey: Sources
[ALMANAR.LB] ISIL Commanders in the Iraqi city of Fallujah reportedly fled to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
after Iraqi forces closed in on terrorist groups in the Western restive province of Anbar.

Abdulrahman al-Namrawee, the head of a local council in Fallujah,
... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids...
said on Tuesday night that the ISIL commanders fled to Turkey after Iraqi security forces and the fighters of the Popular Mobilization units surrounded the city.

He said the commanders pushed their way through the Western part of the city of Ramadi -- the capital of Anbar -- to Syria and then entered Turkey.

Namrawee's narrative has not been confirmed by higher-ranking officials in Iraq yet.

The government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
has been accused of being one of the main supporters of the turban groups operating in Syria, with reports saying that Ankara actively trains and arms the hard boyz in Syria and facilitates their safe passage into the country.
Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Border Police shoot, kill Palestinian during clashes near Jenin
[Ynet] Israeli troops encounter rioting during arrest in the village of Burkin, shoot at main instigators and kill 21-year-old Muhammad Ahmad Alawneh.

Paleostinian from Burkin near Jenin was killed overnight Tuesday in festivities that broke out when Israeli troops entered the village to make an arrest.

Muhammad Ahmad Alawneh, 21, was shot in his chest when he picked up a stone to throw on security forces. He was rushed to the hospital in Jenin for treatment and later succumbed to his wounds.

Security officials said that during an arrest of a wanted Paleostinian, violent rioting broke out and a Border Police force fired 0.22 inch caliber bullets (Ruger rifle bullets) at the main instigators.

During the raid on the village, security forces tossed in the slammer
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
Muhammad Ali Atiq, 22, from Burkin. In another raid in the nearby Jenin, security forces arrested Yasser Ghaleb Abu Jaafar, also 22.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/23/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Nice catch, Muhammad!"
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Jordan Holding Chattanooga Shooter's Uncle
[AnNahar] The Jordanian intelligence services have been holding an uncle of the man who killed five U.S. troops in Tennessee last week, his lawyer told AFP on Wednesday.

"The intelligence services have been illegally detaining my client, university lecturer Assaad Ibrahim al-Haj Ali, since Friday," the day after the attack, Abdelkader al-Khatib said.

Khatib said his client, who is of Paleostinian origin, has joint Jordanian-U.S. citizenship.

He is the uncle of Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez, 24, who killed four U.S. marines and a sailor at two military centers in Chattanooga on Thursday, before dying himself in a shootout with police.

Khatib said that Abdulazeez had stayed with his uncle and worked in his mobile telephone shop during a visit to Jordan lasting several months last year.

He said the U.S. authorities were interested in knowing more about that visit to better understand the gunman's state of mind.

Washington has described the shooting as an "act of terrorism" but Khatib said the family had been surprised by his actions.

"He was a normal person not a radical," he said.

He said his client had initially been released after a few hours of questioning on Friday.

But later in the day he was placed in durance vile
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
and his home searched and laptop and mobile phone seized.

"My client was arrested illegally... without any accusation," Khatib said.

Amman has said that the gunman, who was born in Kuwait, did not have Jordanian citizenship, only the travel papers it issues to stateless Paleostinians.
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Southeast Asia
Maoist miliatnts kill three Mindanao militiamen
{Gulf Today] Heavily armed New People's Army militants gunned down three unarmed militiamen who belonged to an indigenous group in Misamis Oriental province.

Provincial military spokesman Captain Joe Patrick Martinez said the militiamen, all members of the Higaonon tribe, were heading to their barracks on board a motorcycle on Sunday when they were stopped by the militants in a village in Gingoog City. Martinez said, "They lined them up and shot them at pointblank," adding that attempts to rescue the militiamen were foiled by heavy gunfire from the militants.

The killing occurred five days after the communist rebels sought a 10-day suspension of military operations to prepare for the release of a soldier, identified as Private First Class Adonis Jess Maghanoy, they seized in another village in Gingoog City on July 11.

Maghanoy was taken captive in a raid staged by the NPA that also resulted in the death of another soldier and the wounding of 10 others, including two civilians.
Posted by: ryuge || 07/23/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies


18 year old woman escapes Abu Sayyaf captivity
[Gulf Today] An 18-year-old woman held hostage by the Abu Sayyaf since March 31 escaped during an operation by Philippine security forces on the island province of Sulu. Brigadier General Alan Arrojado identified the victim as Lediegie Tomarong, who was found wandering in the town of Indanan, Sulu, a known Abu Sayyaf stronghold.

Arrojado said Tomarong took advantage of an ongoing military operation to escape from her captors on Monday afternoon. He quoted Tomarong as saying, "They packed up their rifles and ammunition and scampered. I took the chance to run as fast as I could."

Officials said heavily-armed insurgents abducted Tomarong and a three-year-old boy,the son of her employer in the town of Pitogo, Zamboanga del Sur province on March 31.

Police said the boy's two-year-old sister was killed when lawmen tried to prevent the kidnapping. Tomarong recounted that the Abu Sayyaf dumped the girl's body in the sea when they fled to Sulu. She also revealed she could not bring the boy when she escaped but added she was able to feed him before they separated.
Posted by: ryuge || 07/23/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Abu Sayyaf


Two wanted militants gunned down in southern Thailand
[Bangkok Post] Thai security forces killed two wanted militants in Pattani province on Monday and found an assault rifle stolen during a deadly attack at a military unit over a decade ago.

Col Pramote Prom-in, spokesman for the Internal Security Operations Command, on Tuesday spoke the raid on a house to arrest two militants in Pattani's Nong Chik district on Monday. He said raid led to a gun battle at the house where the suspects were staying. When it was over, the two wanted men were found dead.

The slain militants were identified as Muhammad Chitiloh and Muhammadpaosi Samoh. Both were wanted for ambushes and bombings killing government officials and local residents, and damaging property in Pattani. Muhammadpaosi was also a bomb maker.

One of the M16 rifles found at the scene had been stolen from a military center on April 28, 2003. In the early morning on that day, about 15 militants attacked a military development center in Narathiwat province, killing five marines, wounding one and robbing the unit of 15 M16s. At approximately the same time that day, 15 other militants attacked another military development center in Yala province. They injured one soldier and stole 18 M16s and two grenade launchers.
Posted by: ryuge || 07/23/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Thai Insurgency


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Fight against ISIS intensifies in Syria’s Hasaka
[Rudaw] Kurdish forces claim they have seized strategic areas of Hasaka amidst reports of poisonous gas attacks by ISIS in the violently contested city.

The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) claimed they took control of the crossroads at Nashwa in Hasaka this afternoon, according to information obtained by Rudaw.

Intense battles are ongoing in Hasaka between ISIS forces of Evil on one side and Kurdish forces, the Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
(FSA) and Syrian regime army. Much of the fighting has reportedly been centered at Nashwa.

"The ISIS gunnies have been surrounded by the YPG fighters in one neighborhood, and the fight has turned into urban warfare," a source told Rudaw.

"Several YPG fighters were killed with booby traps placed by ISIS. The radical group also used poisonous gas against the Kurdish forces in some areas," added the source. "The coalition Arclight airstrikes continue their support to the Kurdish forces by bombing ISIS positions."
Reported earlier:
ISIS street fighting intensifies in Hasaka

[Rudaw] Dozens 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....
turbans were killed in alley-to-alley festivities Wednesday in the ethnically Kurdish city of Hasaka, in northern Syria, sources say.

A Rudaw correspondent said intense festivities resumed in the Al-Nashwa district of south Hasaka at dawn between ISIS murderous Moslems, the Syrian Army, and the Kurdish forces known as the YPG, or People's Protection Units.

"ISIS has planted bombs and landmines to halt any advance the YPG might make, but they have failed in stopping the YPG and the Syrian government forces," said the correspondent.

Fierce fighting has raged in Hasaka for many days, with the YPG recently mobilizing forces to recapture the southeastern areas of the city. Street battles are currently ongoing in some urban areas.

The Syrian military has launched air raids on ISIS leading to the deaths of several turbans inside Hasaka.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/23/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Scores of Insurgents Killed as Syrian Army, Hezbollah Advance in Zabadani
[ALMANAR.LB] Scores of 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...
bad boyz were potted as the Syrian army and Hezbollah fighters managed to take control of several strategic areas in Zabadani.

Scenes captured by Hezbollah's media military show the allied forces establishing full control of Sahl al-Zabadani which is located around 45 kilometers north of the capital Damascus.Syrian army and Hezbollah in Zabadani

The aerial scenes show an area of about 10 km² under the control of the Syrian army and the Lebanese resistance forces.

Later on Wednesday, Hezbollah and the Syrian army took over the Marawih district in south Zabadani and continued to advance toward neighborhoods in the area, where they seized a driving school and several residential buildings all the way to Barada, Zabadani.

Several bully boyz were also killed when Hezbollah destroyed a Death Eater vehicle on Al-Barja road along the Lebanese border.

The video below also shows corpses of the terrorists. Sources said that at least 56 snuffies were killed in the festivities with the allied forces.

The Syrian army and Hezbollah fighters advanced towards the town of Zabadani, sources said earlier in the day, adding that the allied forces seized control of Darb Kalassah and Darb Hasbah on the outskirts of Zabadani.

Over the past two weeks, the Syrian army and Hezbollah have managed to liberate some strategic locations inside Zabadani and the operation continues to clear the snuffies from the central parts of the city.
Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Government
Gen. Mark A. Milley, tapped to be next Army chief of staff, answers questions during Senate hearing
[Fayetteville Observer] The man who will likely become the Army's next top officer was welcomed by a largely friendly Senate committee during his nomination hearing Tuesday.

Gen. Mark A. Milley, commander of U.S. Army Forces Command at Fort Bragg, was peppered with questions over a nearly two-hour Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.

Milley was tapped earlier this year to be the next Army chief of staff.

The hearing was one of the final steps in that process, which requires Senate confirmation.
"Largely friendly Senate Committee" indeed. So who is Milley and why is this a concern? Milley is the Court Martial Convening Authority for the deserter and probable traitor Bowe Bergdahl who was charged with violations of Article 85 (Desertion) and 99 (Misbehavior Before the Enemy) of the Uniformed Code of Military Justice.

Milley has not announced the status of Bergdahl including referral to Court Martial in an apparent stall despite charges having been filed. Is Milley yet another PC 'Yes Man' for the Obama Administration? Rhetorical question of course.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/23/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Is he a gay Muslim? or a transgendered black?

If not there may be hope.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 07/23/2015 0:07 Comments || Top||

#2  He was a member of the 10th Mountain Division in Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan. On paper, he looks good. He may be screwed because he does not belong to a "special" protected group.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/23/2015 11:58 Comments || Top||



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