Fotos of the miscreants at the link.
The National Directorate of Security (NDS) – Afghanistan’s intelligence agency has arrested the shadow governor of Taliban militant group for eastern Laghman province.
Aminullah Kocha was on his way to Pakistan when arrested with two of his bodyguards in Samarkhil area of Nangarhar’s Behsood District, a statement released by NDS on Tuesday states. “He had come to Laghman province about a month ago for a number of destructive activities.”
NDS press release further states that Aminulllah Kochai had been the shadow governor of Taliban from the past ten years whose previous assignment locations were Khost and Balkh provinces.
“He has martyred a number of innocent civilians in his terrorist activities.”
A footage released by NDS shows a man who identifies himself as Aminullah Kochai saying that he had been Taliban’s governor for Laghman province form the past three years.
A bomb explosion has claimed the life of a civil society activist in southern Zabul province of Afghanistan.
Reports suggest that Abdul Mohammad Haqyar was driving in his vehicle when it was blasted with a magnetic bomb in Shah Joy District Wednesday afternoon.
Governor of Zabul province while condemning the attack said that it was the work of Taliban.
He ordered security organs to arrest the culprits and drag them to judiciary.
Taliban had not commented on the report by the time it was filed.
Zabul is a restive province in the southern part of the country where armed Taliban are operating in a number of its districts. It is neighboring Kandahar province which is the birth place of the group.
29 militants from the IS-Khorasan group which also goes by its Arabic name “Daesh” have been killed in military operations and an internal clash in eastern Nangarhar province. A disagreement on how to get Hillary elected, and internecine gunfights, but mostly internecine gun fights. Apparently the militants aren't.. aware... that "Daesh" is a pejorative by Arabs (and used by Western academics, elites and pundits, who think that 'Islamic State' is too harsh, and that it's cool to use an Arab word.)
A statement released by the police headquarters of Nangarhar province states that 28 insurgents were killed in airstrikes and mortar fire in Achin District, a stronghold of the group in the strategically important eastern province, Wednesday afternoon.
Colonel Hazrat Hussain Mashriqiwal, spokesman for Nangarhar police further writes in the press release that eight other militants wounded in the attacks.
Meanwhile, a clash has erupted among militants in Wawishtama Wyala area of Ghanikhil District leaving one of them killed.
Col. Mashriqal says that the fighter killed belongs to Daesh group.
The press release further states that a Pakistani citizen was arrested during a separate operation in Behsood District who did not have documents to enter Afghanistan. The man identified as Tasbihullah a resident of Pakistan’s Mohmand Agency is under further investigation.
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The National Directorate of Security (NDS) – Afghanistan’s intelligence agency has prevented three suicide bombings in capital Kabul, a statement released by the agency on Tuesday states.
According to the statement, three terrorists, two of them planners of suicide bombers, were arrested from Bagrami District of Kabul who planned to execute the attacks.
Shir Badin S/O Ismail and Amanullah S/O Sur Gul have admitted to NDS that the plan was carry out three attacks in and another in Bagram’s Sarak-i-Naw area using a corolla vehicle.
The third one arrested is a would-be suicide bomber.
In the footage released by NDS a young man identified as the bomber says that he had received terrorist training in Pakistan’s Khayber Agency and vowed to carry out attack through a corolla vehicle-laden with explosives.
The arrested group has also confessed to its involvement in a car bomb attack in eastern Laghman province last year.
The security forces have been able to retake control of a number of areas from the Taliban as the anti-insurgent clearance operation is underway in the southern Helmand province.
Embedded with security force members, TOLOnews correspondent Tamim Hamid said the forces have extended the operation to Marjah and Nad-e-Ali districts.
The security forces retook control of a military base recently seized by the Taliban in Chanjir area in Nad-e-Ali, he added.
According to the security officials, the operation will be extended to all embattled parts of the southern province – which is the largest narcotics producing province.
Taliban are reportedly financing themselves through drug production and trafficking.
The cause of a Russian plane crash in Egypt is looking more like an explosion but it is not clear whether it was linked to a fuel or engine trouble or a bomb, an Egyptian source close to the investigation said on Wednesday.
The Airbus A321 crashed on Saturday shortly after taking off from the resort of Sharm El Sheikh on its way to the Russian city of St Petersburg, killing all 224 people on board.
"It is believed to be an explosion but what kind is not clear. There is an examination of the sand at the crash site to try and determine if it was a bomb," the source, who is close to the team investigating the black boxes, told Reuters. "There are forensic investigations under way at the crash site. That will help determine the cause, to see if traces of explosives are found."
Daesh, which controls swathes of Iraq and Syria and is battling the Egyptian army in the Sinai Peninsula, said again on Wednesday it brought down the airplane and said it would eventually tell the world how it carried out the attack. Egypt dismissed a similar statement by Daesh on Saturday.
Security experts and investigators have said the plane is unlikely to have been struck from the outside and Sinai-based militants are not believed to possess the technology to shoot down a jet from a cruising altitude above 30,000 feet.
Any evidence that a bomb knocked the plane out of the sky would raise questions over Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi's assertions that Egypt had brought under control the insurgency waged by the Daesh affiliate, Sinai Province.
As a precautionary measure, Cameron's government has decided that flights due to leave Sharm for Britain on Wednesday evening would be delayed to allow time for a team of UK aviation experts, currently travelling to Sharm, to make an assessment of the security arrangements in place at the airport.
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[AnNahar] At least 11 civilians have been killed in "indiscriminate bombing" by rebels of Yemen's third city Taez, as festivities with pro-government forces intensified, a military official said Thursday.
The city in central Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... has seen heavy fighting as forces loyal to exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi clash with Shiite Houthis.
The Huthis, and their allies among renegade troops loyal to ousted president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... , control the outskirts of the city, which remains in loyalist hands.
"Indiscriminate bombing by Huthis and Saleh forces targeted residential areas" in the centre of Taez late on Wednesday, a military official said.
As well as the 11 dead, at least 22 people were also maimed, the official said.
Medics confirmed the corpse count, saying that the dead included at least one woman.
Clashes raged overnight Wednesday on the outskirts of Taez, military sources said. Rebels control the main roads leading into the city.
[AlAhram] Five Bahrainis were convicted of conspiring with Iran to carry out attacks inside Bahrain, sentenced to life imprisonment and stripped of their citizenship, Bahrain's Public Prosecutor was cited as saying by state news agency BNA reported.
The Sunni Muslim-ruled kingdom says Shia neighbour Iran is trying to foment unrest among its majority Shia population. Tehran denies this.
On Wednesday, the interior ministry said it had tossed in the calaboose Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! 47 members of a group it said had ties to "terror elements in Iran" and was also plotting attacks.
Public Prosecutor Ahmed al-Hammadi said in a statement on BNA that two defendants were present at the sentencing at Bahrain's Criminal Court, while the rest were tried in absentia.
The statement said the five communicated with members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard with the aim of carrying out attacks on banks and public buildings.
Two of them had trained in Iran with the Revolutionary Guard, while the others provided financial and logistical support, it said.
Last month Bahrain recalled its ambassador to Iran, a day after the Gulf Arab state said its security forces had discovered a large bomb-making factory and had arrested a number of suspects linked to the Revolutionary Guard.
Home to the US Navy's Fifth Fleet, Bahrain faced protests during the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings in which Shias demanded political reforms.
The government denies that it discriminates against Shias.
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KUWAIT CITY, Nov 5: Following the arrest of two Iraqis for attempting to smuggle 60 hunting guns into the country through Jarshiyan Border Center few days ago, another individual has been arrested along with two others for smuggling large number of weapons and ammunition into the country.
According to security sources, the team of officers that was formed to investigate the issue managed to find the third suspect who is a non-Kuwaiti during their investigations.
They arrested him and raided his residence to find a stock of ammunition. During interrogations, he confessed that he, along with two other accomplices, managed to smuggle large number of weapons into the country in October.
They stored them in a Kuwaiti citizen’s livestock pen in Al-Liyah area. Officers raided the livestock pen to find a huge pile of about 1,300 boxes containing a total of 325,000 bullets for hunting rifles, four hunting rifles, five stocks of assault rifles, and a number of sealed boxes containing bullets for assault rifles.
The officers also arrested the other two suspects. All three suspects were referred with the confiscated weapons and ammunition to the concerned authorities for further investigations. Meanwhile, Undersecretary of Ministry of Interior Lieutenant General Sulaiman Al-Fahad appreciated the efforts exerted by the security officials in protecting the country and its people from those with ill-intentions.
UAE troops sent eight armored vehicles and several soldiers to the Yemeni Presidential palace in Aden to end clashes that erupted between the resistance fighters and Presidential guards over delayed salaries for the fighters.
The decision to send forces to Almaasheeq Presidential Palace area followed contacts between the UAE army command in Yemen and the two parties.
Yemen’s Masdar Online news network said the UAE decided to send troops to end the fighting after it went out of control and threatened to spread to other areas.
“The UAE intervened to end the tension that was sparked by demands by the national resistance fighters for the payment of their delayed wages,” it said.
It said that the two sides later reached an agreement to pay their wages on time, adding that the agreement stipulated the withdrawal of the resistance from positions they had seized near the Presidential Palace in Aden.
“The fighters also accepted the mediation by the UAE army to open all roads to the Palace and allow those inside to leave.”
[Ynet] A Bosnian Muslim holy man was sentenced to seven years in jail on Thursday for recruiting fighters to join 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.... in Syria and Iraq, under a new law aimed at stopping people becoming holy warriors in the Middle East.
Husein Bosnic, known as an unofficial leader of the ultra-conservative Salafi movement in Bosnia, was locked away I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! last year and was among 17 others on trial in Bosnia for suspected links with krazed killer groups in Syria and Iraq.
Bosnic, sporting a long beard but not dressed in his trademark Salafi robes, showed no emotion as the verdict was read in court. He was guarded by special forces officers in balaclavas, who also acted as security outside the court house.
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[Hurriyet] One police officer was killed on Nov. 5 during an operation against outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) holy warriors in the Silvan district of the southeastern Diyarbakir province where a curfew was declared.
PKK holy warriors shot up anti-riot coppers with a sniper among them firing the shot during operations.
Police officer Necmi Cakir was injured and taken to the nearby Dicle University Medical School Hospital for treatment but doctors were unable to save him.
Cakir will be laid to rest in his hometown in the Black Sea province of Trabzon after a funeral ceremony in Diyarbakir.
The body of Caner Celik, the gendarmerie special sergeant killed during an anti-terror operation in the Yuksekova district of the southeastern Hakkari province, meanwhile, was taken out of a hospital in the northeastern province of Kars to be sent to his hometown of Ardahan, a province in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's northeast.
A symbolic funeral ceremony was held for Celik outside the hospital on Nov. 5.
Turkey has beefed up military strikes against the outlawed organization with ground operations and aerial campaigns.
A total 16 PKK holy warriors were killed on Nov. 5 in Yuksekova during ongoing aerial operations, Turkey's General Staff said in a written statement.
"In addition to 15 holy warriors killed on Nov. 4 in the ongoing aerial operation targeting the separatist terrorist organization [PKK] in Yuksekova, 16 more bad boyz were potted," read the statement issued on the General Staff's website.
The number of people killed during the operation against PKK holy warriors in Diyarbakir's Silvan district, where a curfew has been in effect in three neighborhoods since 5 a.m. on Nov. 3, has risen to four.
[AnNahar] Four men face terrorism charges for raising $22,000 and taking it from the United States to Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... to give to late U.S.-born al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki ... Born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, zapped in Yemen, al-Awlaki was a dual citizen of the U.S. and Yemen. He was an Islamic holy man who was a trainer for al-Qaeda and its franchises. His sermons were attended by three of the 9/11 hijackers, by Fort Hood murderer Nidal Malik Hussein, and Undieboomer Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. He was the first U.S. citizen ever placed on a CIA target list... in 2009, prosecutors said Thursday.
The bulk of the funds were obtained by making cash withdrawals on credit cards, according to a 72-page indictment which detailed how they plotted for years to get money to the now-deceased leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000... (AQAP).
The men did not succeed in meeting with al-Awlaki -- who had asked for $80,000 -- and instead delivered the money to a "relative," according to e-mails cited in the indictment.
Two sets of brothers were charged.
Farooq and Ibrahim Mohammad, aged 37 and 36, were born in India. They studied engineering in Ohio and Illinois and married American women. Farooq became a U.S. citizen, while Ibrahim is a legal resident.
Asif and Sultane Salim, aged 35 and 40, are U.S. citizens. Asif studied at the University of Ohio at the same time as Farooq Mohammad.
The indictment details seven years of discussions about deadly attacks carried out by al-Qaeda, along with more mundane discussions about how to best raise the money without getting caught and jokes about how engineers are over-represented among jihadists.
"I really need to go fatwa (edict handed down by a Muslim scholar) shopping for that rip-off thing," Farooq Mohammad wrote in a 2007 e-mail.
"If you want something knocked down or blown up, ask an engineer," he wrote in 2008.
They were first questioned by the FBI in 2011 and said the funds transferred amongst themselves via the Paypal Internet-based payment system. The said the money was to repay a loan Ibrahim Mohammad made to Sultane Salim to buy a house.
Asif Salim moved to the United Arab Emirates months before his brother was first questioned by the FBI.
Three other unnamed co-conspirators were also mentioned in the indictment.
"This indictment is a testament to the perseverance of those who stand watch over our nation and is a clear message to those who support terrorism -- we will not forget and you will face justice," said U.S. Attorney Steven Dettelbach of the Northern District of Ohio.
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The 18-year-old freshman who stabbed four people on the University of California Merced Wednesday intended to shoot people, attack a police officer, and target a specific person who kicked him out of a study group, the Merced County Sheriff’s Office announced late Thursday.
The findings come after a coroner performing an autopsy on Faisal Mohammad found the suspect's manifesto on his body, according to Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke.
Mohammad listed the intended targets by name in the manifesto, and planned to tie students to desks while drawing out police to steal a gun and shoot people, Warnke said. He also planned on using the petroleum jelly found in his backpack to squirt on the floor as a slip-and-slide for anyone entering his classroom, which according to Warnke, he thought would allow him to be in a position to steal a gun from a responding police officer.
“His plan went haywire because people fought back,” Warnke said Thursday night. “He got so befuddled at the activities that happened; it took the script away from him.”
Warnke stressed Wednesday’s stabbings were not terrorism, just a grudge by an angry teenager,
...that of course is nonsense...
but Mohammad did praise Allah in his writings.
See...
He added though that the writings about Allah would be like him, a Christian, referencing Jesus, since that is the religion he practices.
I'm confused.
Mohammad, who was killed by campus police, was described by at least one witness as smiling as he slashed at victims, called a loner by a fellow dorm resident
Setting up the "crazy loner" argument...
and drew praise Thursday from a Twitter account associated with ISIS, which just last week released a series of videos calling for lone wolf stabbing attacks.
“May Allah accept him,” read a tweet in Arabic from a Twitter account that terrorism experts say has carried previous ISIS propaganda, just minutes after Mohammad’s name was divulged by campus authorities.
A suitemate said Mohammad "didn't talk much." Speaking to KFSN, Andrew Velasquez said he never saw the stabber walking to class with anyone, adding, "Every time I would try and say something he would just ignore it."
No doubt he was disturbed. So are a lot of ISIS guys...
The four victims are expected to survive. Authorities say Mohammad was armed with a hunting knife, and that its blade was 8 to 10 inches long. Two of the injured had to be airlifted to nearby hospitals, and the other two were treated on campus.
The incident began when the assailant used the knife to stab two people in a second-floor room around the start of an 8 a.m. class. Warnke said the suspect fled the room after attacking the construction worker and ran down two flights of stairs to the outside where he stabbed a school employee sitting on a bench. The suspect fled the building. He was shot and killed by pursuing campus police on a nearby foot bridge.
All the victims were conscious when paramedics reached them, Assistant Vice Chancellor Patti Waid said.
Lensy Maravilla, 19, a first-year student, said she was in a biology class on the second floor of the same building, when a female student ran in. Maravilla said the student "was crying hysterically and came in and said that she had seen somebody get stabbed, or slashed, in the throat and she ran."
The main road to enter the campus remained closed to outside traffic Wednesday night and classes were canceled until Friday at the university, which is about 120 miles south of Sacramento in the farm-rich San Joaquin Valley. Police were allowing students who live on campus to come and go, but anxious parents waited in their vehicles at the end of the dark roadway about a half mile from the campus entrance.
The Twitter account on which the attack was praised appears to be one of thousands that regularly reference ISIS, according to Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium (TRAC), which translated the message. Veryan Khan, of TRAC, which monitors ISIS and other groups on social media, said ISIS mounted a call for stabbings on Oct. 18, with the release 19 videos, but could not say what motivated Wednesday's attack.
"Over the past three days, the Islamic State has released nineteen videos encouraging Palestinians stabbing attacks on Israel," Khan said. "The media campaign coincides with a wave of renewed violence between Israel and Palestine, after a wave of seemingly lone wolf attacks by Palestinians targeting Israelis."
It's all part of a plan, loosely coordinated, by various groups to wreck havoc around the world. Mass "immigration" by military aged men, stabbings, conflicts in various parts of the world; all designed to overwhelm the senses of the western world and perhaps, just maybe, crash that world. That the nomenklatura of the western world continue to deny, obfuscate and hand-wave just plays into this.
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The article doesn't say where this young man came from. Was he a native Californian or was he imported from the Middle East? Inquiring minds want to know. IMHO if a reporter leaves simple, obvious questions like that unanswered he or she has done a half ass job.
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When it comes to Muslims, reporters are hesitant to dig too deeply. They might find something that doesn't follow the narrative. They might also get their heads cut off.
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[Dawn] RAWALPINDI: The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) claimed to have arrested a suspected terrorist with links to a militant group and recovered explosive material and three detonators from his possession.
The arrest of Sabir, a resident of the Kunar province of Afghanistan, was made during a raid in Morgah, said a spokesman for the CTD.
He said the suspect had links with Jamaatul Ahrar and carried a bogus national identity card with the address of Dhoke Syedan, Rawalpindi.
He said the suspect was monitoring army personnel and renowned politicians to target them.
A senior official of the CTD added that though the suspect was not on the wanted list, he had got commando training.
Jamaatul Ahrar, a breakaway group of Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), had claimed responsibility for the suicide attack on former Punjab home minister Shuja Khanzada. However, law enforcement agencies later arrested the suicide attacker’s facilitators who belonged to the TTP.
[Dawn] LANDI KOTAL: Frontier Corps (FC) personnel have found a huge cache of arms and ammunition from hideouts of suspected militants during search operations in different areas of Bara in Khyber Agency.
FC sources told Dawn that raids were conducted on the basis of information about different types of weapons stored in Ghaibee Neeka area of Sipah.
The weapons and ammunition stocked in caves and tunnels included anti-aircraft guns, rockets, mortars, light combat weapons and thousands of kilogrammes of explosives.
The area was a stronghold of Lashkar-i-Islam (LI) before the launch of Khyber One military operation in October last year.
The FC personnel also busted the training centres and private jails set up by the banned outfit in the area about 25km south of Bara market.
LI activists were living in mountainous border areas when the operation began and they moved to Maziyan district of Nangrahar province of Afghanistan after the operation was extended to parts of Tirah valley.
Caves and tunnels in the areas, security officials said, were infested with landmines and stocks of arms and ammunition.
[Rudaw] US-led coalition Arclight airstrikes have targeted 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.... (ISIS) Lions of Islam in Shingal for two days, reportedly killing many, a Kurdish commander said on Thursday.
Brig. Gen. Ezadeen Saddo said that, "since Wednesday morning the US coalition continuously targeted ISIS military bases at different times, which resulted in heavy casualties to the terrorist organization."
What does heavy mean in this context?
Saddo added that the series of air raids began at 7 am Wednesday, destroying several ISIS military camps in different locations inside Shingal.
ISIS forces overran the Shingal district in August last year, forcing thousands of Yezidi Kurds to flee to the mountains. Hundreds of Yezidis were killed and thousands more taken into captivity, mostly women and maidens of tender years.
ISIS bases in disputed Shingal have been frequently bombarded by coalition Arclight airstrikes over the past several months.
Shingal is a town in the Shingal district of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... province, near Mount Shingal. Its population in 2013 was estimated at more than 88,000. The town is mainly inhabited by Yezidis and other minorities.
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What does heavy mean in this context?
Means the "one, two, three, many" accounting system was used.
(IraqiNews.com) A security source in Salahuddin province announced on Thursday, that the security forces were able to repel an attack by the ISIS organization on the area of al-Siniyah Airport north of Tikrit (170 km north of Baghdad), pointing out to the killing of seven members of the organization and the destruction of three booby-trapped vehicles.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “A force from the commandos of the federal police, stationed in the area of al-Siniyah Airport north of Tikrit, was able to repel an ISIS attack,” adding that, “The federal police forces had managed to kill seven ISIS elements and destroy three booby-trapped vehicles.”
Noteworthy the leadership of the federal police announced previously that its forces had gained control over al-Siniyah airport north of Tikrit (170 km north of Baghdad).
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(IraqiNews.com) Salah AL-Dien – A security source in the leadership of Salah al-Din Operations announced on Sunday, that seven members of al-Hashed al-Shaabi militia had been either killed or wounded in the fall of a mortar shell south of Baiji north of Tikrit (170 km north of Baghdad).
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “A mortar shell landed, this morning, in the village of al-Salam south of Baiji, (40 km north of Tikrit), resulting in the death of three elements of al-Hashed al-Shaabi and wounding four others. ”
The Media War Cell of the Joint Special Operations Command announced on Tuesday (20 October 2015) the liberation of city of Baiji, after inflecting heavy losses in lives and equipment upon ISIS ranks in Salahaddin and Anbar.
(IraqinNews.com) Nineveh – A source in Nineveh Operations Command announced on Thursday, that 35 ISIS militants had been either killed or wounded in airstrikes west and south of the province.
The source said, in an interview for IraqinNews.com “the international coalition aircraft carried out air raids that targeted ISIS gatherings and strongholds in the district of Sinjar (125 km west of Mosul), killing and wounding 15 elements, as well as destroying their positions and their weapons and two vehicles belonging to them. ”
The source, who asked anonymity, added: “The international coalition aircraft carried out another air strike that targeted ISIS strongholds in Qayyarah (60 km south of Mosul), killing about 20 members of the organization.”
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(IraqinNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Interior Ministry announced on Thursday that six police members were killed or wounded in the explosion of an explosive device, north of Baghdad.
The source said in an interview for IraqinNews.com, “A bomb exploded, this afternoon, targeting a police patrol in Taji District north of Baghdad, killing one policeman and wounding five others.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Iraqi Interior Ministry announced on Thursday, that eight people had been either killed or wounded in a bomb blast east of Baghdad.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com,”An explosive device that was emplaced inside a bus exploded, this afternoon, in al-Machtal area east of Baghdad, resulting in the death of two people and wounding six others, as well as causing material damage to the bus.”
The source, who asked not to be named, added: “the security forces rushed to the scene and transported the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment, and the bodies of the dead to the forensic medicine department, while opened an investigation to determine the circumstances of the incident and the party that stands behind it.”
(IraqinNews.com) Anbar – A security source in the district of al-Khalidiya announced on Thursday, that seven civilians were wounded in a mortar shell fall that targeted the district.
The source informed IraqinNews.com, “ISIS bombed Khalidiya District (23 km east of Ramadi), using mortar shells, one of them fell on a popular restaurant, resulting in the injury of seven civilians.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added: “the security forces rushed to the area and transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital.”
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[Ynet] The mother of seven, who is married to a Gazook, crossed into Israel to visit family but allegedly used her time to spy on strategic installations.
A 40-year-old mother of seven from Haifa was indicted on Thursday, after an investigation raised allegations that she had travelled to Gazoo, and agreed to spy on behalf of the al-Aqsa Martyrs brigade in exchange for a undeclared sum of money.
The indictment stated that Nassrin Hassan, who is married to a Gazook, apparently met with members of the terrorist organization at a military training facility in Gazoo last March. The indictment went on to allege that Hassan was trained to build bombs, and agreed to carry out an attack upon completing an additional training session.
She later took photos of strategic facilities in the Haifa area in preparation for the attack, according to the indictment.
Hassan was brought before a Be'er Sheva district court judge, who ordered that she be remanded to custody pending further proceedings. An additional court session was scheduled for November 10. The indictment sought to charge Hassan with four counts of aiding the enemy during wartime, providing the enemy with information in order to harm state security, conspiracy to aid the enemy during wartime, espionage, contact with a foreign agent, membership and activity in an unlawful organization, and more.
According to the indictment, which was submitted by the Southern District prosecutor Moran Gaz, Hassan had sporadically lived in both Israel and Gazoo in the 15 years since her marriage to a Gazook. Hassan had lived in Gazoo during the last year, and said she entered Israel to visit family in Haifa.
According to the charges against Hassan, she first made contact with members of Katibat al-Mujahideen (a faction of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade) two years ago, later joining the group in order to conduct operations inside of Israel. Obstensibly, during the last two years she met with members of the group who provided her with spying objectives. Among other tasks, Hassan supposedly took photos of strategic compounds in Israel, specifically governmental institutions.
According to the indictment, Hassan entered Israel through the Erez crossing, and immediately went to work observing and writing down details regarding the security of the Haifa Port, Haifa trains stations, the interior ministry building in the city, as well as several other institutions. Hassan allegedly recorded the number of security guards on duty at each institution in writing, while secretly taking photos of security camera placements during fake phone conversations.
Upon returning to Gazoo, Hassan allegedly handed over her cell phone's memory card, which included the photos and information she had gathered.
She later attended a bomb-making course at a military training facility in the strip, claimed the indictment, where she learned to build the type of bomb she would use in her attack. She was enjugged Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! at the Erez crossing on October 18 as part of a joint operation between the Shin Bet and Negev police division.
[IsraelTimes] IDF soldier shoots attacker who tries to knife military personnel at crowded bus stop
A Paleostinian man attempted to stab a group of people standing at a bus stop at Gush Etzion Junction in the West Bank on Thursday and was rubbed out by an IDF soldier.
"IDF forces thwarted an attack at a crowded bus stop in the Gush Etzion Junction," an Israel Defense Forces statement said.
"A Paleostinian, armed with a knife, attempted to stab the soldiers. Forces at the scene responded to the immediate threat and shot the assailant."
According to Paleostinian media reports, the attacker was identified as Malek Talal Sharif, 25, from Hebron.
[AnNahar] An Egyptian naval patrol shot and killed a Paleostinian fisherman and maimed another Thursday off the coast near the border between Gazoo and Egypt, a Gazoo health ministry front man said.
The victim was identified as Faris Meqdad, 18, ministry front man Ashraf al-Qudra said.
Egyptian forces have previously opened fire on Gazooks they accused of crossing the maritime border between Egypt and the Paleostinian enclave.
Jihadist fighters have been battling Egyptian forces in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, which borders Gazoo. Egypt rarely opens its border with Gazoo, and the strip also faces an Israeli blockade.
Since the ouster of its Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in 2013, Egypt says it has destroyed hundreds of tunnels used to transport turbans, merchandise and arms between the Gazoo Strip and the Sinai Peninsula.
Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, the Islamist movement that runs the Gazoo Strip, lost a major ally in Morsi and has had strained relations with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who overthrew him while army chief.
In September, Hamas accused Egypt of further besieging the Gazoo Strip by flooding the border area to the south.
Nezar Ayyash of Gazoo's fishermen union says the man was "working normally" when a nearby Egyptian navy gunboat shot him Thursday. Paleostinian Health Ministry front man Ashraf al-Kidra says the 18-year-old fisherman was shot in the abdomen and died after being brought to a hospital.
Syrian media outlets reported on Saturday that Israel Air Force (IAF) fighter jets struck two targets in the country on Friday night, around 11 p.m.
The strikes targeted military targets of President Bashar al-Assad's regime and the Iranian terror proxy Hezbollah, and both took place in the mountainous Qalamoun region on the border with Lebanon, according to the sources cited by Walla.
Sources in the region, which is a key transfer point for arms moving between Syria and Lebanon, said that the strikes targeted a unit positioned in the area of the village Ras al-Ein, as well as an army base at the edges of the village Al-Qutayfah. According to the sources, the Israeli jets arrived in the region via Lebanon; it remains unknown if there were any casualties in the alleged strikes.
Assad's regime and its affiliated media outlets have yet to address the reports.
The report is the first such report of an Israeli strike since Russia began its direct military intervention to prop up Assad just several weeks ago.
Israel's security system has not addressed the reports. Russia recently said it is coordinating its actions in Syria with Israel so as to avoid accidental clashes.
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Netanyahu made it clear to Putin that Israel would not tolerate arms transfer to Hezbullies in Lebanon. Looks like the axis of evil was caught with their fingers in the cookie jar.
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BEIRUT: A roadside car bomb killed at least nine people and wounded four others in northeast Lebanon on Thursday, in an area close to the Syrian border where violence has spilled over from the war next door, security sources said.
The blast ripped through a commercial area of the Sabil neighborhood of the town of Arsal. Emergency services were working to rescue people from the rubble, local media said.
Militants linked to the conflict across the border in Syria have carried out attacks in and around Arsal in the past.
Security sources said the blast was likely to have targeted an independent religious society made up of Syrian scholars. The head of the society, Sheikh Othman Mansour, was among the dead, the sources said.
Lebanon’s National News Agency said the society had been involved in negotiations for the release of Lebanese soldiers still being held by militants after being captured when fighters overran Arsal last year.
Militants from Al-Qaeda’s Syria branch, the Nusra Front, were involved in the clashes that led to the soldiers’ capture.
There have been clashes between gunmen loyal to opposing sides in the Syrian conflict, as well as strikes on the army and cross-border attacks by Syrian rebels.
The last significant security incident in the area took place on Saturday, when Lebanon’s army fired at a vehicle carrying militants, killing three of them.
A separate attack by the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah in October killed five Daesh fighters elsewhere in the north of the country, security sources said.
Meanwhile, fighters seized a key town along a vital road in Syria’s central Hama province, where regime forces are struggling to gain ground despite a month of Russian airstrikes.
The setback for Damascus came as France announced it would deploy an aircraft carrier to boost its fight against the Islamic State group, which has seized control of large parts of Iraq and Syria.
Jund al-Aqsa, was reported to have seized the last government-held town on the main highway between second city Aleppo to the north and the city of Hama to the south.
[ARA News] HASAKAH – As the battle for Raqqa approaches, the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) continues transferring families of top commanders and evacuating its headquarters in the city to more stable areas under the group’s control, local sources reported on Thursday.
This comes as dozens of families escaped Raqqa heading to Hasakah province in northeastern Syria.
Last week, the Kurdish-Arab alliance of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced its readiness to storm the ISIS de facto capital of Raqqa, warning civilians to stay away from the group’s military and administrative headquarters.
The SDF includes the key Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG), the Syriac Military Council, the Arab tribal group of al-Sanadeed, al-Jazeera brigades, Jaish al-Thuwar group and Burkan al-Furat battalion.
Speaking to ARA News in Hasakah, Abu Abdullah, a displaced man from the city of Raqqa, said that the situation inside Raqqa is deteriorating, amid ongoing airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition and Russia.
“Senior militants of ISIS are transferring their families from Raqqa after receiving threats from the SDF to carry out an extensive military campaign against the group’s positions in the city,” he said.
“ISIS imposes conscription on men aged between 14-40 years,” Abdullah said.
Abu Abdullah added that the YPG’s checkpoints on the road between Raqqa and Hasakah have facilitated the movement of the displaced civilians towards Hasakah.
A pro-ISIS media source reported earlier that the Kurdish residents of Raqqa are accused of leaking information about the group to the Kurdish forces of the YPG –which is in conflict with ISIS militants in northern Syria.
The source added that the group has forced dozens of Kurdish families to move to the city of Palmyra.
Local activists reported that pro-ISIS Arab tribal figures in Raqqa justified the displacement of the Kurdish families by saying: “In light of the raging war against us from the crusader coalition (U.S.-led coalition forces) with allied Kurdish militias (in reference to YPG), we have no doubt about the involvement of many Kurdish families in communication with the Kurdish militias, which in turn communicate with the crusaders in their war on Islam and Muslims.”
“Expelling the Kurds from Raqqa is the best solution. This is the only way to protect Muslims of Raqqa from their apostate enemies,” a group of Arab tribal figures in Raqqa said in a statement.
A few months ago, ISIS has transferred 75 families of its top leaders from Mosul into Syria, according to local sources.
Since then, every threat to the group pushes it transfer families of senior militants to more stable ISIS-held areas in both Syria and Iraq.
[ARA News] QAMISHLI – Backed by the U.S.-led coalition forces, the Kurdish-Arab joint alliance of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) liberated Thursday the key village of ad-Dawoodiya south of the city of Hasakah, northeastern Syria, from the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) after fierce clashes, local sources reported.
Speaking to ARA News in Hasakah, media activist Delovan Mohammed confirmed that the SDF was able to control the ad-Dawoodiya village after clashes with ISIS extremists.
“The joint forces then headed towards the remaining ISIS-held villages in the southern countryside of Hasakah, amid preparations to storm ISIS headquarters there,” the source added.
Mohammed pointed out that ad-Dawoodiya village was a strategic point in the southern countryside of Hasakah for “it is the first ISIS’ defense line south Hasakah”.
In the meantime, the U.S.-led coalition bombed several fighting positions for ISIS militants in the vicinity of al-Hawl town in southern Hasakah.
Speaking to ARA News in Hasakah, official spokesman of the SDF Talal Silo said that their forces are coordinating with the U.S.-led coalition “in every step in the anti-ISIS operations in Hasakah”.
“We have a high degree of coordination with the international coalition in every step during our battles against ISIS terrorists,” Silo said. “The air cover provided by the U.S.-led coalition facilitates our advance against the terror group on the ground.”
On Tuesday, the joint forces seized control of al-Hawl gas station near the village of Bahrat al-Khatooniya in the vicinity of al-Hawl town in the eastern countryside of Hasakah, military sources reported.
This comes subsequent to fierce clashes between the SDF and ISIS extremists in the area.
The joint Kurdish-Arab forces have also expelled ISIS militants from some six villages in the eastern countryside of Hasakah, including Hilul, Rabiaa, al-Eli, Beit Hussein, Safiyah and Horrem.
At least 13 ISIS militants were killed in the clashes, according to the SDF.
Speaking to ARA News in Hasakah, Kurdish fighter of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) Heval Seradar said the SDF seized control of the Hasakah-Hawl road and other key points in the area after battles with ISIS militants in the countryside of al-Hawl town, “causing heavy losses in the ranks of the terror group”.
The YPG constitutes a leading force in the SDF along with allied Syrian rebel factions.
“Warplanes of the U.S.-led coalition conducted several airstrikes on ISIS’ targets near the villages of Bahrat al-Khatooniya and al-Hamra, coinciding with intense clashes between our forces and the terror group,” the source added.
In a related development, local activists reported that ISIS insurgents have detonated a car bomb in one of the SDF’s positions in Hasakah province, resulting in the death of three SDF fighters.
Meanwhile, the Kurdish YPG forces announced Tuesday they lost two fighters during clashes with ISIS in the vicinity of al-Hawl.
Last week, the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces announced the start of its military campaign for regaining control of the ISIS-held town of al-Hawl in the province of Hasakah near the Syrian-Iraqi border. The SDF includes the YPG, YPJ, the Syriac Military Council, the Arab tribal group of al-Sanadeed, al-Jazeera brigades, Jaish al-Thuwar group and Burkan al-Furat battalion.
A coalition including Syrian Arab groups regained a swath of territory in northeastern Syria from 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.... Lion of Islams, a U.S. military front man said Wednesday, calling it an encouraging success.
The fighters, who are from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and its Syrian Arab Coalition subgroup, regained 87 square miles (255 square kilometers) near the town of al-Hawl, U.S. military front man Colonel Steve Warren said.
The group "conducted an attack ... driving ISIL back," Warren said by videoconference from Baghdad, using an alternate acronym for IS.
"This is not a large tactical action," he said, but "we are encouraged by what we saw."
The front man said the operation had pitted "well over a thousand friendly forces" against "several hundred enemies" in the vicinity, after heavy U.S. Arclight airstrikes had cleared the way.
Warren said the United States intended to "reinforce" the action, seeming to hint at further ammunition air drops to U.S.-allied groups after those that took place last month.
The Syrian Democratic Forces were formed in mid-October as an alliance between the powerful Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) and other Syrian rebel groups.
The Pentagon's announcement came just a day after The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... published an article calling into question the capabilities of the SDF and the Syrian Arab Coalition.
Referring to the SDF, The Times said that "nearly all the group's fighting power comes from ethnic Kurdish militias" -- suggesting it was not quite the coalition of Arabs and Kurds it claimed to be.
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory, Igor and Oleg were discussing what the quickest way might be to deal with the monster... the name "Syrian Arab Coalition," one bigwig said, was "an American invention." The group is supposed to have 4,000 to 5,000 fighters.
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Syrian insurgents captured a town on a major highway in the west of the country on Thursday and fought fierce battles with pro-government militias around it, rebels and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.
The town of Morek is located north of Hama city on a major highway that is crucial to control of western Syria, where the Syrian army backed by allied militia and Russian air strikes has been attempting to wrest back territory from rebels. Its capture marks a significant blow to the Russian-backed campaign that has also been supported on the ground by Iranian forces. The Russian air force began air strikes in support of President Bashar Al Assad on September 30.
Warplanes believed to be Russian were bombing Morek and its surroundings following the capture, the Observatory said.
"This morning, it was completely liberated," Fares Al Bayoush, whose rebel group Fursan Al Haq is taking part in the fighting, said. The group is fighting under the Free Syrian Army banner. A second rebel commander also said the town had been seized.
Bayoush said the town was strategically important. "It was a centre for the gathering of regime forces and a point of departure for its operations," he said.
Government forces fought for months to take control of the town in October 2014 and lost many fighters, the head of the Observatory Rami Abdulrahman said. He said fighting was continuing inside parts of the town.
"They worked hard to retake it last year and now they lost it in a few hours," he said, adding that insurgents entered the town easily, through government checkpoints, and seized large parts in the west.
Syrian state media made no immediate mention of Morek's capture.
Dozens of pro-government fighters were killed and insurgents seized vehicles, heavy machine guns and 10 tanks, said a media activist in the rural region of Hama province where Morek is located.
"The whole countryside of Hama is aflame... The offensive started two days ago, launched by Jund Al Aqsa," the activist, who asked to remain anonymous, said via an internet messaging service.
"They started the offensive with heavy mortar shelling as preparation before storming. This was followed by fighters who broke into the town, then heavy machine gun fire and shelling," he said, adding the capture took around eight hours in total.
The Observatory reported that insurgents from the Jund Al Aqsa group, backed by other fighters, took the town overnight after firing hundreds of shells and rockets.
Overall the Syrian army and allied militia had not made significant progress after a month of Russian strikes, he said. "We cannot say the regime is going forward, no way," said Abdulrahman, who tracks the conflict using sources on the ground.
A Syrian military source had previously told Reuters the government operations were going according to plan.
Russia has recently stepped up efforts to broker a peace deal between Syrian government officials and members of the country's splintered opposition.
Is "Syria" Rooshun for "Vietnam"?
Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said the Kremlin would invite representatives of both sides to meet in Moscow next week, and a Russian news agency reported that an FSA delegation has agreed to meet Russian officials in Abu Dhabi late next week.
But representatives of FSA-affiliated groups that receive backing from foreign states opposed to Assad dismissed the report. Bayoush said the Russians had been meeting Syrians who falsely claimed to be FSA. Bashar Al Zoubi, a prominent rebel figure, said there was no sign that the Russians wanted an 'honest solution' to the war, and therefore there was no contact with them.
That's a correct assessment...
The Syrian opposition National Coalition representative to the Gulf Arab states, Adib Shishakly, denied news of the FSA-Russia meeting, saying it was untrue.
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[The Telegraph] The Egyptian security shutdown was sparked after British spies intercepted messages which showed Isil extremists had plotted a major terror attack in the region, the Telegraph can disclose.
The communications and "chatter" - uncovered by British intelligence only after the Russian passenger jet tragedy - are what led David Cameron to say it was "more likely than not" that a bomb brought the plane down on Saturday killing 224 people.
The intelligence resulted in Britain suspending all flights to and from Sharm el-Sheikh, leaving 20,000 British tourists stranded at the holiday resort.
Flights will resume on Friday with 20 aircraft carrying about 4,000 people back to Britain. But passengers were warned they would not be allowed to take luggage in the hold.
The move suggests officials fear a bomb was smuggled into the hold of flight 7K9268 in the checked luggage. It came as it emerged Britain raised concerns around baggage handling at Sharm el-Sheikh airport ten months ago.
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...People can do what they want with their money...but in what alternate bizarro universe DOES IT MAKE SENSE TO VACATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST THESE DAYS...?
Mike
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Only if you want to die.
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The only reason I would go to the ME right now is to kill ISIS or visit Israel. Other than that, screw that fucked up place.
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Post-Analysis, FRANCE now repor agrees wid the US + UK that it twas a bomb that took out the aircraft.
Also, A UK flight filled wid passengers just barely avoided being hit by a MANPAD/ MPAAM missle near the same airport. BRITAIN IS NOW WEIGHING WHETEHR TO BEGIN BOMBING STRIKES AGZ THE "ISLAMIC STATE IN THE SINAI".
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The 18-year-old freshman who stabbed four people on the University of California Merced Wednesday intended to shoot people, attack a police officer, and target a specific person who kicked him out of a study group, the Merced County Sheriff’s Office announced late Thursday.
Syrian media outlets reported on Saturday that Israel Air Force (IAF) fighter jets struck two targets in the country on Friday night, around 11 p.m.
