[Ynet] At least 15 government soldiers were killed in an ambush by fighters from the Somali Islamic turban rebel group al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... , one day after the same group of hard boyz killed a dozen people in an attack in the capital, a military official said Monday.
[Ynet] The ambush happened late Monday near Walaweyn, a town in the Lower Shabelle region, about 93 kilometers (57.79 miles)south of Mogadishu, said Col. Ahmed Muse of the Somali military.
The rebels seized three military vehicles during the attack, he told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named by phone from Walaeyn.
Al-Shabaab grabbed credit for the attack, according to the group's online radio known as Andalus, saying 30 soldiers had been killed. It wasn't possible to independently verify the group's claims.
Witnesses in Sirte confirmed on Sunday, that ISIS members arrested Colonel Idris Ferjani, taking him from his downtown home to an unknown location.
The sources told Alwasat during a phone call, yesterday, Ferjani was affiliated with the army and is a former officer.
Local sources also confirmed to Alwasat that more than 16 families escaped from the al-Wafa residential area and district number 3 to Ras Lanuf and Brega, where they were welcomed by other families, who also escaped from the terrible conditions in Sirte.
In other Sirte news, reliable sources from the Local Government Ministry in the "National Salvation Government", said that members affiliated with the army arrested a member of Sirte's Municipal Council Khalid Bin Hussein at Labraq Airport on Sunday when he arrived from Tripoli. He was taken into custody and interrogated.
The sources added that Bin Hussein was arrested for his support of Fajr Libya and the "National Salvation Government" in Tripoli.
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[Ynet] Nigerian troops have driven 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... bandidoshard boyz out of an abandoned northeastern primary school in a shootout that killed four murderous Moslems, the army said Monday.
Insurgents were using the school as a transit camp until Sunday's attack, an army statement said.
Boko Haram -- a nickname which means "Western education is forbidden" -- has attacked many schools that have closed, been burned down or been abandoned in much of northeastern Borno state. The UN Children's Fund says more than 300 schools have been destroyed in an area where fewer than 30 percent of children are ever educated.
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So that's why I have fewer money offering emails.
[AnNahar] More than 100 homes were torched and several people slaughtered as sectarian violence flared in the Central African Republic capital this weekend ahead of a visit by Pope Francis late this month.
Military sources told AFP on Monday that "several people whose bodies were abandoned" had been rubbed out or had their throats slit in a fresh outbreak of violence Sunday between Muslim and Christian militias.
Fighting broke out days ago and though it appeared to have subsided Monday, shots could be heard in the PK5 district housing Muslims under siege from Christian militias.
"More than 100 homes (in other areas) ... were torched by Muslims from PK5, and houses systematically looted," said the source.
"Thousands of residents have fled these areas to seek shelter with other displaced people or are on the road," he added.
One of the poorest and most unstable countries in Africa, the landlocked former French colony plunged into chaos after president Francois Bozize was ousted in a coup in March 2013.
The mainly Muslim Seleka ...a 'mainly' Moslem rebel force in the Central African Republic that overthrew the govt, imposed a regime of rapine and looting on the country's non-Moslem population, and was then tossed by France. They still exist, getting funding and weapons from somewhere or other, licking their wounds, complaining about the oppression of Moslems, and occasionally raping and looting someone... rebels behind the coup went on a bloody rampage that triggered the emergence of equally dangerous anti-balaka (anti-machete) militias in mostly Christian communities.
On Monday, city residents, rights groups and politicians urged the 10,000-strong MINUSCA force of French and U.N. peacekeepers to intervene.
"We ask them, as well as the transition authorities, to stop these Dire Revenge attacks against people, " said Joseph Bendounga of the Democratic Movement for Central Africa's Renaissance (MDREC).
"The international forces are responsible for protecting the people. We ask them to take on their responsibility to avoid a bloodbath," said Mathias Bathelemy Morouba of the Human Rights Observatory.
In the Vatican City on Monday, officials said the pope's visit to the violence-hit nation remains "on the program," but the trip would have to be canceled if fighting in the capital intensifies.
The pope is expected there from November 28 to 29 during a much-anticipated visit to Africa which will also see him travel to Kenya and Uganda.
But Francis hinted this weekend that part of the journey may have to be scrapped, saying he "hoped" to visit CAR despite violence in the capital. The trip had previously been definite.
The 78-year-old Argentine is scheduled to visit a mosque in one of the most dangerous areas of the city, where vigilantes mainly drawn from the Christian majority emerged to avenge atrocities by Muslim ex-rebels who had seized power for 10 months in 2013.
One in 10 Central Africans -- 460,000 people -- have sought refuge outside the country, mainly in Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... , Chad, DR Congo and Congo, since 2013.
Zanzibar’s opposition chief called for calm on Monday, having previously threatened to lead protests if results of annulled elections were not released on the semi-autonomous Tanzanian islands.
Troops patrolled the streets of the capital of the Indian Ocean archipelago, after homemade bombs exploded in Zanzibar town over the weekend, a reporter said.
Zanzibar’s electoral commission ruled last week that the October 25 vote on the islands -- where the 500,000 registered voters also cast ballots for Tanzania’s national president -- must be carried out again, citing “violations of electoral law”.
The annulment came after a key candidate, Seif Sharif Hamad of the opposition Civic United Front (CUF), declared himself the winner before the results were officially announced.
Hamad threatened to call for protests if the situation was not resolved by Monday, saying he would not concede victory to his main rival, incumbent president Ali Mohamed Shien of the long-running Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM).
But on Monday Hamad urged supporters to allow a political deal to be struck.
“I ask CUF fans and Zanzibaris to remain calm and observe peace -- diplomatic efforts have been going on well,” Hamad said. “Let us be patient, as the international community is also helping to have Zanzibar’s political crisis resolved.”
Outgoing Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete said in a statement on Sunday he had been “working tirelessly and consulting widely over the last few days to find an amicable and peaceful resolution to the situation in Zanzibar.”
In a statement late on Sunday, Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete’s office said the president had ordered talks between CUF leaders and the Chief of Defence Forces, General Davis Mwamunyange, following a request from the opposition party. It is unclear what opposition leaders plan to discuss with the army chief in the meeting scheduled for this week. Kikwete has also instructed the country’s police chief to investigate opposition complaints against the conduct of policemen during the elections.
The presidency dismissed opposition claims that Kikwete had refused to meet with CUF’s presidential candidate in Zanzibar, Seif Sharrif Hamad, to discuss the situation on the islands.
“President Kikwete would like to express his readiness to do whatever is in his powers to regularise the situation in Zanzibar,” the presidency added in a statement.
African and other international observers in Tanzania have said they are deeply concerned at Zanzibar’s annulment, urging leaders to “cast aside their differences” to ensure peace.
Zanzibar has experienced sectarian and political tensions in recent years, including several grenade explosions.
A government statement said that Shein would remain in charge until fresh elections.
“Some people including politicians are misleading Zanzibaris by saying the islands would have no legitimate president after November 2, 2015,” the statement read. “The president is here to stay until next elections.”
The twin blasts on Saturday caused no casualties but the explosions sparked concern on the islands.
[AnNahar] lower court in Kuwait on Monday sentenced five men to 10 years in jail each for raising funds for 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.
Three of those convicted were Kuwaiti citizens, according to the court ruling.
The court ordered that the remaining two, who were foreigners, be deported after serving the jail term. Their nationalities were not immediately clear.
It also acquitted two others.
The men were charged with raising about 400,000 Kuwaiti dinars ($1.3 million) and transferring the funds to IS, which has seized control of large parts of Syria and Iraq and carried out attacks throughout the Middle East.
Over the past year, Kuwaiti courts have issued several rulings against IS supporters.
In September, a lower court sentenced seven people, including five in absentia, to death for helping a Saudi jacket wallah carry out an attack on a Shiite mosque in Kuwait that killed 26 worshipers and maimed hundreds.
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Five powerful blasts rocked the northern capital Sanaa on Sunday, which were believed to have been a result of military exercises by the Houthis amidst a residential area.
A wide military operation will be launched within hours to liberate the city of Taiz, officials have said.
Spokesman of the Yemeni government said the Arab coalition's military reinforcements, which arrived on Sunday, is just the beginning, and there will be a big support that will be dispatched to recapture the city.
There are big differences between the leaders of the Houthi rebels and their ally, the ousted former president Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Five powerful blasts rocked the northern capital Sanaa on Sunday, which were believed to have been a result of military exercises by the Houthis amidst a residential area.
Yemeni resistance fighters had on Sunday advanced in the confrontations in different parts of Taiz. Tribal sources in Dhamar governorate told Al Ittihad Arabic daily that prominent leaders of the Houthi group were wounded on Sunday night in an offensive launched by popular resistance, which also resulted in the killing of three rebels.
Airstrikes launched by the warplanes of the Arab coalition destroyed positions and gatherings of the rebels in Taiz.
The bombardments had concentrated in the Brigade 22 camp-republican guards at Al Jind area. As many as 40 rebels were killed and tens were wounded in gun battles and air blitz of the coalition forces in the city.
The jet fighters of the coalition, on Monday, launched three raids on Houthi positions and gatherings in Al Radhma town, resulting in the destruction of a number of military machinery.
The Yemeni resistance announced a number of armed men of the Lebanese Hezbollah party during the battles in Taiz.
Dubai: The Arab coalition supporting the internationally-recognised Yemeni government could intensify its battle against the Iranian-backed militias in Yemen ahead of the expected peace talks in mid-November to further boost their position when the two sides sit at the table, military analyst said.
The coalition, which has sent 30 military vehicles, including tanks, to forces loyal to President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi in Taiz, dispatched the military aid to quell the battle in the city ahead of the talks, they added.
Earlier, “hopes were pinned on the Yemeni opposition [pro-government forces] to squash the battle on Taiz, but with time, it became clear that the opposition alone can’t do the job, and there is a need for a direct intervention from the coalition forces,” said Riad Kahwaji, director of the Dubai-based Institute for Near East & Gulf Military Analysis (INEGMA).
After the arrival of the military aid, “we expect to witness change,” on the battles’ direction on the ground, he told Gulf News.
While Taiz has remained in the hands of forces loyal to President Hadi, it was under siege for several months by Al Houthis.
Meanwhile, press reports said the pro-government troops, supported by the Arab coalition forces, succeeded in regaining areas in Mareb region on Sunday.
Press reports said more reinforcements are expected to arrive in Taiz from Lahj province in the south.
UAE’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Bin Mohammad Gargash stressed that UAE will continue to seriously work with its regional partners to preserve Yemen’s unity and safety.
“We have always wanted Yemen to be a politically, economically, and socially viable state,” Gargash said in his speech at the Second Abu Dhabi Strategic Debate on Sunday.
“For four decades, Yemen was one of the biggest recipients of UAE aid. We have always wanted Yemen to be a politically, economically, and socially viable state,” Gargash said.
“Despite this help, Yemen has traditionally been unstable and fractious, for reasons that go back centuries. What changed this year was that external Iranian influence had led Al Houthis to undermine the Yemeni government and degrade its institutions. Effectively they began to build a state within a state.”
“We could not allow this to happen in Yemen. We will not accept that Yemen — right in our back yard — should be home to a Hezbollah-style, Iranian-backed militia. Instead we have intervened to protect the region’s long-term stability,” minister said.
At the same time, Gargash said the UAE supports the efforts to reach a political solution in Yemen.
Earlier Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al Jubeir was quoted as saying the war in Yemen is close to its end.
Commenting on the political statements, Kahwaji said, “Wars are a continuation to politics, but in a violent manner. Wars are dialogue but with mortars, rockets and warplanes. At the end, one party will yield to the other and make concessions, and accept the conditions of the other party.”
Already, Kahwaji added, Al Houthis have lost a considerable part of their power and the territory they had captured.
“They became besieged and isolated. They have become more ready to accept the coalition conditions”.
Twelve pro-government fighters, part of a 500-strong Yemeni force sent from the main southern city of Aden, were killed in a late Sunday ambush by the rebels en route to Taez, military sources and medics said.
A second batch of UAE Armed Forces' soldiers is preparing to participate in the Arab coalition forces led by Saudi Arabia and assume their new tasks in Yemen.
The General Command of the UAE's Armed Forces has said that the first batch of its brave soldiers will return to the homeland after being replaced with the second force to carry out its duties in Yemen.
The replacement of the first batch comes after it achieved several victories, including the liberation of the historical city of Marib and Marib Dam, which was rebuilt by the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.
DHAKA — Angry publishers burned books and closed their businesses in Bangladesh on Monday, in the third day of protests over the latest gruesome attacks on secular writers and publishers by suspected hard-line militants.
Hundreds of people, including book-shop owners, took to the streets of Dhaka to protest perceived government inaction over a string of attacks including the machete murder on Saturday of a publisher of secular books.
“This is not an isolated incident. They first started killing authors, then the bloggers and now they’ve targeted the publishers,” Mustafa Selim, head of the Bangladesh Creative Publishers Society, said.
Rallies were also held in other cities and towns to demand more protection for publishers, bloggers and writers, some of whom have fled the country or gone into hiding, rally organisers said in a statement.
Fears of Islamist violence have been rising in mainly moderate Muslim-majority Bangladesh after four atheist bloggers were murdered this year, also by machete-wielding attackers.
Bangladesh has also been rocked by the recent murders of an Italian aid worker and a Japanese farmer, while Dhaka’s main Shiite shrine was bombed last month, killing two people and wounding dozens.
After staging protests on Saturday night and Sunday, secular activists including hundreds of teachers, writers and students also resumed their rallies at Dhaka University, the nation’s main secular bastion.
“The murderers should be caught as soon as possible. There must be an end to this nightmare,” publisher Farid Ahmed, who received a death threat in a text message on Sunday, said.
On Saturday, a gang of suspected militants armed with machetes and cleavers hacked to death Faisal Arefin Dipan in his publishing office in the capital.
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When swimming with Bangla believers,
Be wary of tropical fevers.
Their red Muslim river
May give you a shiver
(and then there's the bombs and the cleavers).
[AnNahar] A Russian military court on Monday jugged Please don't kill me! a man for 17 years for allegedly fighting with 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 in Syria.
Gadzhi Magomedov was sentenced to 17 years in a strict-regime prison camp by the North Caucasus military court in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don.
The court ruling said that Magomedov illegally went to Syria and "after undergoing training decided to join in fighting against government troops on the side of gangs and Islamic State".
The court was told he traveled to Egypt ostensibly to study Islam and then crossed into Syria from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , spending at least two months defending IS positions before returning to Egypt, the Kommersant daily reported.
Magomedov, who comes from the volatile mainly Muslim North Caucasus, underwent training "on the methods and skills of terrorist activity", court spokeswoman Emilia Khmara told news hounds outside the court.
Prosecutors had asked for Magomedov to serve 25 years.
Magomedov's sentence took into account a separate offense of taking part in mass disturbances in 2012 in his native Dagestan ...a formerly inoffensive Caucasus republic currently bedevilled by low-level Islamic insurgency, occasional outbreaks of separatism, ethnic tensions and terrorism, primarily due to its proximity to Chechnya. There are several dozen ethnic groups, most of which speak either Caucasian, Turkic, or Iranian languages. Largest among these ethnic groups are the Avar, Dargin, Kumyk, Lezgin, and Laks. While Russers form less than five percent of the population, Russian remains the primary official language and the lingua franca... , when stone-throwing protestors called for police to release suspected murderous Moslems, the court spokeswoman told TASS news agency.
Magomedov was detained in Egypt in October 2014 and deported to Russia.
Russia last week said it would detain a 19-year-old female philosophy student from Moscow until December 23 on suspicion of joining a terrorist organization after she traveled to Turkey without telling her family and was picked up in a town bordering Syria.
President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... has cited as a reason for Moscow's bombing campaign in Syria the thousands of fighters on the side of IS rebels who come from the ex-Soviet Union.
Putin has said that up to 7,000 people from Russia and its former Soviet neighbors may be fighting for IS and that he does not want to see them returning to their native countries en masse.
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PESHAWAR: Three mortar shells fired from Afghanistan landed in Pakistan's Kurram agency early Monday morning.
According to security sources, the shells were fired from Afghanistan's Paktika province and landed in Kurram agency, the tribal agency bordering Afghanistan.
However no loss of life or property was reported in today's incident.
This is the second such incident this year with the previous shelling being reported in May when unidentified miscreants hit Kurram Agency headquarters hospital and power transmission lines creating panic among the residents.
Kurram is one of the most sensitive tribal areas as it borders three Afghan provinces and at one point was one of the key routes for militant movement across the border.
The region was claimed by the military to have been cleared of insurgents during an operation a couple of years ago, however, militants still carry out sectarian attacks and also target security forces occasionally.
The tribal agency is adjacent to North Waziristan region where the operation Zarb-i-Azb is in progress against the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and other insurgent groups.
(IraqiNews.com) The commander of the first regiment of the 30th brigade of al-Hashed al-Sha’bi, col. Juma Fazah al-Jumaili, announced on Sunday, that the forces of al-Hashed al-Sha’bi had managed to foil a suicide attack by a booby-trapped tank on a gathering for the security forces east of Ramadi.
Jumaili stated in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “The suicide bomber, who was driving a booby-trapped tank attempted to target the security forces and al-Hashed forces in al-Subihat area in al-Karma City (53 km east of Ramadi), pushing al-Hashed forces in one of the ambushes to blow him up by a missile.”
Jumaili added, “The explosion of the tank was within 100 meters from the security forces.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Iraqi Interior Ministry announced on Monday, that five people had been either killed or wounded in the explosion of an explosive device east of Baghdad.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “A bomb exploded, before noon today, near the shops in al-Obeidi District east of Baghdad, resulting in the death of one person and wounding four others .”
The source, who asked anonymity, added: “the security forces rushed to the scene and transported the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment and the body of the dead man to the forensic medicine department, while a raid and search operation was carried out to find the perpetrators of the bombing.”
(IraqiNews.com) Salah AL-Dien – A local source in Salahuddin announced on Monday that the ISIS has deployed its elements and surrounded three residential areas in Shirqat District north of the province, after raising the Iraqi flag by unknown assailants in the district.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “ISIS elements got surprised this morning when they found three Iraqi flags raised over the houses within three residential areas in Sharqat District in northern Salahuddin, sparking panic in the ranks of ISIS as a sign of the existence of an internal rebellion.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added: “ISIS elements surrounded the three areas and started inspection operations, while also detained some of the people on suspicion of raising the Iraqi flag.”
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(IraqiNews.com) Diyali – A local source in Diyali province said on Monday, that an element of al-Hashed al-Sha’bi militia had been killed by unknown militants northeast of Baqubah.
The source, who requested to remain anonymous, informed IraqiNews.com, “Unidentified gunmen shot fire against an element of al-Hashed al-Sha’bi near his house in the district of Abi Saida (30 km northeast of Baqubah), resulting in his immediate death,” pointing out that, “A security forces had cordoned off the area and opened an investigation into the incident.”
(IraqiNews.com) Diyali – A local source in Diyali province said on Monday, that four soldiers had been killed in an armed attack northeast of Baqubah.
The source told IraqiNews.com, “Unidentified gunmen attacked, this evening, a security patrol near a road in the village of Kabba (24 km northeast of Baqubah), resulting in the death of four soldiers immediately.”
The source, who requested anonymity, added, “Security forces blockaded the area and transferred the dead to the forensic medicine authority.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source within the police force announced, that a civilian was killed in an armed attack by unknown militants in central Baghdad.
The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, informed IraqiNews.com, “At noon, Unidentified gunmen driving a modern vehicle shot fire from their machine guns, targeting a civilian in front of his house in the area of Bab al-Sheikh in central Baghdad, resulting in his immediate death.”
“A security force transferred the dead to the forensic medicine department, while opened an investigation into the incident,” the source added.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – On Monday, Chairman of the parliamentary committee on security and defense Hakim Zamili announced the seizure of two planes loaded with weapons at Baghdad International Airport, one of them was Canadian and the other one was Swedish, pointing out that they were on their way to the Kurdistan region.
Zamili said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “The inspection committee in Baghdad International Airport seized, during a search operation of two planes belonging to the international coalition,weapons with silencers, as well as light and medium weapons,” noting that “one of these planes is Canadian and the other is Swedish.”
Zamili added: “the planes were on their way to the Kurdistan region and they were prevented from going there,” adding that “one of them came from a Kuwaiti base and the other from Andrgelk base in Turkey.”
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That seems unfriendly.
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The required payments were not received:
Wiki....al-Zamili was deputy minister during the height of the sectarian conflict in Iraq.[1] Whilst he was at the ministry, he was accused of running death squads that used ambulances and hospitals to kidnap and murder Sunni Arabs.[2] He was arrested in February 2007, accusing of funneling money to private militias.[3] He was also accused of kidnapping in November 2006 another deputy Health Minister, Ammar al-Saffar, from the Shiite Dawa Party, who had allegedly compiled a dossier of his crimes that he was going to hand over to the Prime Minister.[4][5] He was cleared of all charges when key witnesses failed to show up after facing alleged intimidation.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – A source in the leadership of the 7th division in the Army announced on Monday, that the security forces have liberated the western part of Albu Hayat area east of Haditha district.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “The army, supported by tribal fighters and Army Aviation, was able, during an extensive military operation, to liberate the western part of Albu Hayat area east of Haditha district (160 km west of Ramadi),” noting that “the organization (ISIS) had suffered huge material and human losses “.
The source, who asked anonymity, added: “The operation is still continuing until the liberalization of the eastern part of Albu Hayat region from ISIS control.”
It is noteworthy that the commander of al-Jzeera and al-Badiya Operations, Major General Ali Ibrahim Dbon announced on Monday the beginning of an extensive military operation to liberate Albu Hayat area east of Haditha district.
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IsraelTimes] Israeli tossed in the clink Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! as he tries to attack maimed terrorist; mob sees him under arrest, assumes he's the terrorist and tries to attack him
Police prevented two attempted lynchings following a terror attack in Netanya on Monday evening that left a 71-year-old Israeli man seriously maimed, Channel 2 television reported.
A 23-year-old Paleostinian man from the West Bank city of Tulkarem stabbed and seriously maimed the elderly man early Monday evening, then expeditiously departed at a goodly pace.
Police who were nearby rushed to the scene and began to pursue the attacker. The Paleostinian turned to face the cops, knife drawn, when one officer shot him four times in the legs. He was seriously maimed, according to police.
According to reports from the scene, a local shopkeeper saw the maimed terrorist and attempted to rush the officers and stab him.
Police stopped the attacker and arrested him for attempted assault.
In the meantime, a crowd gathered around the scene. Some in the crowd concluded that the detained man was the terrorist and attempted to attack him. Police forces rushing to the scene held off the mob.
Several terror attacks in recent weeks were followed by attempts to attack the forces of Evil -- and, at times, innocents mistaken for the attackers.
Earlier Monday, a Paleostinian terrorist stabbed three people, including an 80-year-old woman, in the city of Rishon Lezion. Police took the terrorist into custody before he could be attacked by the bystanders who had gathered near him.
Earlier in the day, a terrorist was shot and killed after he attempted to stab a group of soldiers near Jalame crossing in the Gilboa.
A force from the Bedouin Desert Reconnaissance Battalion arrived at the gas station and noticed two suspicious men. One of the men attempted to stab one of the soldiers and was shot. IDF medics were treating the man on scene.
The attempted attack follows a week of unrelenting violence in the West Bank, mostly centered on the city of Hebron, which has a notable presence of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, supporters.
The Paleostinian terrorst killed in the incident was later identified as Ahmed Abu Al-Rub (17) from Qabatiya, near Jenin.
[IsraelTimes] Hebron's Al-Huriya radio urged stabbing attacks, violent riots in city that has been an epicenter of violence, army says
IDF soldiers and Civil Administration officials raided a Paleostinian radio station overnight Monday after it aired what the army called "incitement" to deadly attacks against Israelis.!
Broadcast equipment was seized in the raid on the offices of the Hebron station al-Huriya over its broadcasts of support for the stabbing of Israelis in the West Bank city, which has produced the largest number of attackers in the latest wave of stabbings.
The Hebron area has seen 29 Paleostinian attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians over the past five weeks, 22 of them stabbing incidents.
Al-Huriya "broadcasts extreme incitement against the State of Israel, encourages stabbing attacks and supports violent demonstrations," the IDF Spokesperson's Unit said Tuesday morning.
"The army will continue to take all legal steps available to it against the attackers and their accomplices in order to ensure security for the residents of the State of Israel," the army said.
"The operation to confiscate equipment and close the station is a necessary step to rein in the incitement whose results we see in the field over the past month," it said.
The station broadcast claims that Israel was executing Paleostinians and kidnapping Paleostinian youths, apparently in reference to the killing of stabbers during their attacks and IDF arrests of Paleostinian stone-throwers and protesters in the West Bank, some of them minors.
Al-Huriya was established by Paleostine Liberation Organization activists in the Gazoo Strip in 2002, moving to Hebron after Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,,'s takeover of the coastal territory in 2007.
It was previously closed by Israel in 2002 and 2008.
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"The operation to confiscate equipment and close the station is a necessary step to rein in the incitement whose results we see in the field over the past month"
Disappointing that the IDF did not apply their 'scorched Earth' policy of razing the building.
[IsraelTimes] Security forces suspect bomb was intended for terror attack on Israelis; 5 Hebron men jugged Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! An improvised bomb was discovered by police in a Paleostinian car Monday morning near a checkpoint at the West Bank village of al-Azariya, police say.
Based on prior intelligence, police were stationed in the area in anticipation of an attempted attack. On searching the car police found the homemade pipe bomb, which was then removed and detonated by a bomb disposal robot.
Police suspect the bomb was intended to be used in a Fatah attack on Israelis in the Hebron area.
Five Hebron residents who were in the car were arrested.
Police released footage of the bomb disposal robot at the site.
In a separate incident Monday, police opened fire on an unidentified vehicle when it refused to stop at a checkpoint near the West Bank settlement of Tapuah. The car expeditiously departed at a goodly pace and police units are searching the area for the vehicle. No injuries were reported.
Earlier in Jerusalem police arrested a 22-year-old resident of Jabel Mukaber suspected of attacking a woman near the Jaffa gate of the Old City.
The man had approached the woman as she led a guided tour group in the Old City. When she turned in his direction he pulled out a bottle and struck her around the head. She sustained light injuries and was evacuated to Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem by the Magen David Adom ambulance service.
The suspect initially expeditiously departed at a goodly pace but was found by police.
KATHMANDU, Nepal — Protesters demonstrating against Nepal’s new constitution clashed with police near the country’s southern border with India on Monday, leaving an Indian man dead, authorities said.
Nepalese police opened fire to disperse the protesters after the clashes broke out, killing an Indian man who was on his way to the town of Birgunj in southern Nepal, said Indian police official Rakesh Kumar.
Nepalese officials said there were clashes in Birgunj and the border area, but would not confirm the man’s death or give any more details.
News stations in Nepal reported that several people were injured in the clashes.
Members of the ethnic Madhesi people have been protesting Nepal’s new constitution, saying it divides the Madhesis among a number of states. The Madhesis, who want the creation of a larger state that they would dominate, have imposed a general strike in southern Nepal and blocked the border crossing, resulting in a severe fuel shortage across Nepal.
At least 45 people have been killed in the protests since August. There is no official count of the injured.
Earlier police used batons to disperse demonstrators angered by Nepal’s new constitution who had blocked a bridge crossing in Birgunj since September 24, cutting off vital supplies and forcing fuel rationing in the Himalayan nation.
“Police beat up demonstrators this morning and burned down our tents, forcibly opening the border to allow trucks to move across,” said Shiva Patel, general secretary of the regional Sadbhawana party which took part in the blockade.
“We were outnumbered then but now hundreds more have descended on the bridge and blocked it again,” Patel told AFP.
Inspector Pawan Kumar Jha said the situation in Birgunj was “tense but under control” and no casualties had been reported.
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[Bangkok Post] A Thai soldier was injured in a bomb blast on Sunday morning in Yala province following following a gun attack on an army base on Saturday night.
Around 7 p.m. on Saturday, a group of militants opened fire at the base of operations for an infantry company, but caused no damage or casualties. On Sunday morning, a patrol was sent from the base to scout around the camp. While at an intersection, a bomb planted at the spot was remotely activated. Private Damrong Wanprom was injured by shrapnel in the blast.
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[] the Russian air campaign has an advantage over that of the Americans in that it has been launched in support of an effective regular army. The US never dared to attack IS when it was fighting the Syrian army because Washington didn't want to be accused of keeping Assad in power. The US approach has left it without real allies on the ground, aside from the Kurds, whose effectiveness is limited outside Kurdish majority areas. The crippling weakness of US strategy in both Iraq and Syria has been to pretend that a 'moderate Sunni opposition' either exists or can be created. For all America's fierce denunciations of Russian intervention, some in Washington can see the advantage of Russia doing what the US can't do itself. Meanwhile, Britain is wrestling with the prospect of joining the US-led air campaign, without noticing that it has already failed in its main purpose.
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BEIRUT: Eight Lebanese including two soldiers were killed Monday in a dawn shootout between security forces and two fugitives outside a nightclub north of Beirut, the army said.
Mehdi Hussein Zeaiter and Ahmad Ali Ammar fired on an army patrol pursuing them outside a nightclub in the Maameltein area near the coastal city of Jounieh, “which led to the deaths of two soldiers,” an army statement said.
“The patrolling officers returned fire and clashes broke out, resulting in the deaths of Zeaiter and Ahmad Ali Ammar, and four civilians who were also with them,” the army said.
Lebanon’s National News Agency said two young women were among the dead, and that the military police would investigate the incident.
Zeaiter and Ammar had a total of 11 search warrants and six arrest warrants in their names, the army statement said, without specifying the alleged offenses.
The army cordoned off the area and set up checkpoints, inspecting vehicles and preventing traffic and passersby from approaching. Traffic was diverted from the inner routes to the highway due to security measures enforced by the army.
While shootouts occasionally break out between security forces and fugitives in Lebanon’s north and the eastern Bekaa valley, such violence is rare in the capital and surrounding area.
[ARA News] URFA – Since the withdrawal of the Syrian regime’s forces from major parts of the Kurdish areas in July 2012, Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) have seized territories in northern Syrian to fill in the security vacuum.
Forces loyal to the Assad regime only hold some security bases and administrative offices in the Syrian Kurdish region.
Kurds have established three autonomous “cantons” in northern Syria since the civil war broke out in 2011. They deny aiming to establish their own “nation state”.
The YPG forces helped establish an auto-administration in the Kurdish areas near the border with Turkey. This has raised Turkey’s ire against these forces ــwhich were able last June to expel radicals of the Islamic State group (ISIS) from the key city of Tel Abyad (Gire Spi), connecting the YPG-held canton of al-Jazeera (Hasakah) with Kobane and might reach the third Kurdish area of Afrin.
In June, the YPG forces ــbacked by U.S.-led airstrikesــ regained control of the key city of Tel Abyad near the Turkish border. Two weeks ago, a local council in the city declared it part of the Auto-Administration established by the Kurds in northern Syria.
On Sunday, the Turkish military targeted locations of the YPG in the western countryside of Tel Abyad, coinciding with the outbreak of clashes between the Kurdish YPG fighters and ISIS jihadists in the southern countryside of Sirrin town near Kobane.
The YPG’s Media Centre released Monday a statement, of which ARA News received a copy, saying: “The Turkish attacks against our units which started on October 24 are still ongoing on the borderline of Kobane canton.”
“The Turkish army renewed Monday afternoon heavy attacks on the YPG-held western countryside of Tel Abyad with A4 weapons,” the YPG’s leadership said.
“On Sunday, the Turkish army targeted a YPG base west of Tel Abyad, using heavy weapons type A4, from 18:30 to 02:00 O’clock,” the YPG’s statement read, without giving further information.
Earlier in October, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the Kurdish forces of trying to grab control of northern Syria, saying “Ankara would not allow this to happen.”
Ankara accuses the Democratic Union Party (PYD) –largest Syrian Kurdish party– of deep links with the outlawed rebel group of the PKK in Turkey.
[ARA News] HASAKAH – Backed by the U.S.-led coalition’s warplanes, the Kurdish-Arab alliance of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) reported gains in the western countryside of Hasakah, northeastern Syria, subsequent to battles with the extremist group of Islamic State (ISIS), local activists reported on Monday.
Speaking to ARA News in Hasakah, media activist Mohammed Khidir said that the SDF advanced Monday towards the strategic town of al-Hawl on the border with Iraq, after storming the nearby village of Bahrat al-Khatooniya.
At least eight ISIS militants were killed in the operation.
This coincided with a number of airstrikes by warplanes of the U.S.-led coalition on ISIS positions in the area.
In the meantime, pro-ISIS media activists reported that one of the group’s militants has conducted a suicide attack on a convoy for the Syrian Democratic Forces.
“A suicide bomber detonated his car bomb near a joint Kurdish-Arab force west of Hasakah. The force consisted of nearly 70 cars loaded with fighters,” a pro-ISIS media source told ARA News in Hasakah.
“They were heading towards Islamic State’s bases west of Hasakah before a jihadi bomber blew up his car that was loaded with more than 20 tons of explosives,” the source said, pointing out “a large number of vehicles were destroyed by the explosion.”
The explosion took place south of Tel Brak town in the western countryside of Hasakah. It was not immediately clear whether the car bomb attack caused direct casualties among the Kurdish-Arab allied forces.
This comes only two days after the Syrian Democratic Forces (which consists of the Kurdish YPG fighters and allied Arab rebels) announced the start of a military campaign to liberate Hasakah province from ISIS extremists.
[AlAhram] Iranian authorities placed in durance vile Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! two prominent journalists on Monday as the head of the judiciary dismissed international condemnation of what appears to be a crackdown on writers and artists.
Isa Saharkhiz, a well-known independent journalist, was arrested by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) on charges of "insulting the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and propaganda against the regime", his son Mehdi said in a telephone interview from the United States.
Ehsan Mazandarani, managing director of the Farikhtegan newspaper, was arrested on security charges, the Tasnim news agency, which is linked to the IRGC, said. Staff at the paper confirmed the arrest to Rooters.
The IRGC answers directly to Khamenei and is not accountable to the government. It works with the conservative judiciary to counter perceived internal threats to the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
The arrests came after two Iranian poets and a film-maker were sentenced to long prison terms and lashes last month on charges including "insulting sanctities and propaganda against the state".
Film maker Keywan Karimi was sentenced to six years in prison and 223 lashes, and poets Fatemeh Ekhtesari and Mehdi Mousavi were handed 11.5 years and nine years in prison respectively, and 99 lashes each.
On Sunday, the PEN American Center, an organization advocating on behalf of writers persecuted because of their work, wrote to Khamenei asking him to nullify the sentences against the poets.
"We are deeply concerned by the inhumane sentences ... for the simple act of expressing themselves by creating art. The act of writing poetry is no crime," read the petition, signed by 116 poets and writers, on PEN's website.
Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani, the head of Iran's judiciary, dismissed allegations of human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... abuses in the Islamic Theocratic Republic on Monday, and was quoted by state news agency IRNA as saying that "Tehran will never surrender to the human rights as interpreted by the West".
"NOTHING HAS CHANGED"
IRGC forces arrested Saharkhiz in his home early in the morning and confiscated his electronic equipment, his son said, adding that he had already begun a hunger strike.
The veteran journalist, who served as deputy culture minister under the reformist President Mohammad Khatami, was previously arrested in 2009, shortly after widespread reformist protests gripped Tehran, and locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! for four years.
Karimi, the filmmaker, spoke to Rooters last week from Tehran, where he is on bail pending an appeal in the Supreme Court. He said he believed the appeal would be rejected.
"My conviction is a message to the Iranian art community that nothing has changed after the nuclear deal," Karimi said.
Iran reached a deal with world powers in July to curb its nuclear programme in return for an easing of economic sanctions, and many Iranians are optimistic the agreement will usher in a new era of prosperity and an end to international isolation.
But activists say the human rights situation is no better under President Hassan Rouhani, who championed the deal, than it was under his hardline precedessor Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad, pointing to the high number of executions and political prisoners.
"There are thousands of hopes out there, but none of them are for us," Karimi said.
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[AlAhram] Russia's air force has struck the area around 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.... -held ancient city of Palmyra, the defence ministry said Monday, as Moscow pressed on with its bombing campaign in Syria.
"Su-25 jets hit a fortified IS position in the Tadmur area of Homs province," Moscow's defence ministry said in a statement, using the Arabic name for Palmyra.
"As a result of a direct strike, a fortification, an underground bunker and anti-aircraft artillery were destroyed."
It appeared to be the first time that Russia has confirmed a strike close to the UNESCO World Heritage site, after Moscow denied Syrian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
claims that it hit the ancient city in early October.
Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Brtiain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, also said that Russian planes had targeted Palmyra with strikes on Monday.
Khaled al-Homsi, an activist from Palmyra, said that Russian air strikes on Monday struck the ancient citadel on the western edges of the historical site.
"The extent of the damage could not be verified," he told AFP.
Russia did not specify when the strikes took place but said its jets struck over 237 targets in Syria over the past two days in a statement Monday.
Russian warplanes pounded sites belonging to the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front "terrorist groups" in the Homs, Hama, Latakia, Damascus, Aleppo and Raqa provinces, Moscow said in a statement.
In Aleppo province, Moscow said it hit a training camp for imported muscle and an improvised bomb production plant, and said in the Hama province it destroyed two armoured vehicles.
Russia's military said it also took out a key Al-Nusra Front command post on a strategic hill in the coastal Latakia region.
The latest strikes came after the broadest international talks to end the conflict were held on Friday in Vienna.
For the first time, the meeting brought together all the main outside players in the crisis, including Russia and Iran, key allies of the government of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... .
Participants agreed to ask the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... to broker a peace deal between the regime and opposition -- which were not represented at the talks -- to clear the way for a new constitution and UN-supervised elections.
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A DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS Blogger denotes that the Russia-led Alliance Air Forces have struck or destroyed circa 2,084 Mujahid infrastructure targets in Syria since Day One of Russia's air campaign.
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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
