[KhaamaPress] At least four forces of Evil affiliated 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed during the operations in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province.
According to the local officials, the forces of Evil were killed during an Arclight airstrike conducted in support of the Afghan forces during the ground operations.
The provincial government media office in a statement said the operations were conducted in the vicinity of Haska Mina district.
The statement further added that four ISIS forces of Evil were killed after they came under airstrike in Payin area of the district at around 11 am local time on Tuesday.
According to the provincial government, the forces of Evil killed during the operation belonged to a ISIS group led by Abu Ali.
Several weapons and some ammunition belonging to the terror group were also destroyed during the airstrike, the provincial government added.
The anti-government armed myrmidon and terrorist groups including ISIS group have not commented regarding the report so far.
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[KhaamaPress] The Afghan cops have confiscated a cache containing ammunition for heavy weapons during an operation in Kabul city.
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) officials said the cache was discovered during an operation in the vicinity of the 13th police district of the city.
The officials further added that the Afghan forces confiscated three rounds of 822mm mortar, two artillery rounds, six rounds of heavy anti-aircraft gun munitions, and seven other type of mortar rounds from the cache.
According to CID officials, the holy warriors were looking to use the munitions to carry out terrorist related activities in the city.
This comes as the anti-government gangs are attempting to carry out attacks in the key provinces and cities of the country during the recent months.
At least six Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers were maimed in an kaboom in Kabul city today, the defense authorities confirmed.
According to a statement by the Ministry of Defense (MoD), the incident took place at around 7:30 am local time in Millie Bus Road located in the 16th police district of the city.
The statement further added that two magnetic bombs planted in a electricity pylon went off as the Afghan armed forces were crossing the area.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan government reacted to the Pakistani military’s airstrike in Kunar province and warned Islamabad that the continuation of such provocative acts would seriously harm the relations of the countries.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan in a statement said the Pakistani fighter planes dropped four bombs in Shahidan Saro area of Dangam district late on Wednesday.
The statement further added that the airstrike has caused massive property damages to the residents of the area.
The Foreign Ministry of Afghanistan called the attack a serious violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Afghanistan.
The statement by the Foreign Ministry further added that the Islamic Republic Afghanistan warns that the continuation of such steps, which are against the international principles and principles of good neighbors, will have dire consequences on bilateral relations of the two countries.
The local officials in eastern Kunar province confirmed earlier today that the Pakistani planes have conducted an airstrike along the Durand Line in Dangam district of Kunar.
Deputy provincial governor Gul Mohammad Bidar confirmed the airstrike and said a high peak was targeted in the airstrike but no one was hurt in the raid.
Bidar further added that the latest violation by the Pakistani air forces has taken place amid ongoing artillery shelling.
He also added that the provincial government has prepared a report regarding the artillery shelling and airstrike and has been sent to the central government.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] At least three people were confirmed dead and 9 others maimed in an kaboom in Somalia capital, Mogadishu on Wednesday night, a security official said.
Confirming the incident, Abdulaziz Ali Ibrahim, the front man of Somalia’s ministry of security said the blast has resulted from a remote-controlled landmine at San’a junction.
"The kaboom was caused by an bomb planted in a business area along the roadside which killed 3 civilians and injured 9 others," said Ibrahim.
He has accused Al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... of being behind the attack, adding that Somali security forces are investigating the incident, which was the latest in such bombings in the capital.
Al-Shabaab, a bully boy group allied with Al Qaeda has been pushed out of Mogadishu 2011, but, the snuffies are still capable of carrying out attacks and killings in the seaside city.
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[AlAhram] French and Malian troops killed about 30 Islamist murderous Moslems during a gunbattle in a region near the border with Niger, where Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) gunnies are known to be active, the French army said on Thursday.
West Africa's arid Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... has seen a rise in violence by murderous Moslem groups, some with links to al Qaeda and IS, that is drawing an increasingly aggressive response from countries including La Belle France and the United States.
It was a Mali-based al Qaeda affiliate, Jama'a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Moslemin (JNIM), that grabbed credit for a March 2 assault on the French Embassy and army headquarters in Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... 's capital that killed eight people.
Colonel Patrik Steiger said soldiers from La Belle France's Barkhane force and Malian troops were on a reconnaissance mission 90 km (56 miles) south of Menaka on Sunday when they encountered several dozen Islamist fighters, some on cycle of violences.
A number of Malian soldiers died in the ensuing gunbattle, Steiger said, without giving more details. No French troops were hurt.
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Earlier today the French military confirmed its forces took part in a large-scale joint operation on April 1 against Islamic State-loyal militants in northern Mali, close to the border with Niger.
According to RFI, a French military spokesman said that “French commandos and Malian forces began a ‘reconnaissance and control operation’ in the Akabar region” on March 28, “working in liaison with the Nigerien army and a local self-defense group.” The combined forces came into contact with militants from the so-called Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) on April 1. The following gunfight left at least 30 jihadists dead, according to the French spokesman.
The incident was first reported by the Tuareg alliance of the Imghad and Allies Self Defense Movement (GATIA) and the Movement for the Salvation of Azawad (MSA), both encompassing the aforementioned “local self-defense group.” In its statement, the alliance confirmed two separate clashes with ISGS militants and that at least 20 jihadists were killed.
This is not the first time French special forces have conducted a joint operation with the Tuareg groups against ISGS militants. On Feb. 22, the groups first clashed with the jihadists in a renewed offensive. RFI later reported that French troops coordinated with the Tuaregs in the battle.
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The French have quietly taken on the responsibility to fight jihadis in several of their former colonies. How effective they are, I have no idea, because all I see is occasional reports like these.
[DAWN] A Malian holy warrior appeared for the first time before an international war crimes judge on Wednesday, accused of demolishing Timbuktu’s fabled shrines, as well as rape, torture and sex slavery.
Speaking in Arabic, Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohammed Ag Mahmoud confirmed his identity and date of birth at a brief hearing at the International Criminal Court, and said he had been informed of the charges against him and his rights.
Hassan was captured over the weekend by Malian authorities and swiftly transferred to the Netherlands late Saturday.
Prosecutors allege the 40-year-old "committed crimes against humanity and war crimes in Timbuktu, Mali, between April 2012 and January 2013." A member of the Ansar Dine ...a mainly Tuareg group that controlled areas of Mali's northern desert together with Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and MUJAO in early 2012... holy warrior group, Hassan was the "de facto chief of the Islamic police" in Timbuktu, the ICC said.
The gangs which swept across the remote northern Mali region in 2012 seizing control of the UNESCO-protected site "imposed their vision of religion, through terror, on a local population who didn’t adhere to it," alleges Hassan’s arrest warrant, unveiled at the weekend by the court.
Hassan had about 40 Islamic police under his control and "played a leading role in committing crimes, as well as religious and sexist persecution".
"All infractions" of the strict Islamic laws were "punished by whippings, torture during detention and the destruction of sites devoted to religious practises," the warrant says, adding that Hassan himself took part in the lashings.
He also allegedly "participated in the policy of forced marriages which victimised the female inhabitants of Timbuktu and led to repeated rapes and the sexual enslavement of women and girls," the court added.
Dubbed "The City of 333 saints", Timbuktu’s holy shrines were built in the 15th and 16th centuries when it was revered as a centre of Islamic learning and a spiritual hub.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... ’s air defenses destroyed on Wednesday evening a missile fired by the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militia from Yemeni territory towards the southwestern province of Jazan.
Col. Turki al-Maliki, the spokesperson of the Arab coalition fighting to support legitimacy in Yemen, said that the coalition worked to facilitate the entry of aid from all Yemeni ports, and also targeted on Wednesday factories manufacturing booby traps for militias in Hodeidah.
Maliki welcomed the international condemnation of the Houthis who were trying to target navigation, as well as the number of incidents of ballistic missile fire.
He said the Houthi militias had fired 107 rockets and more than 66,000 extruders, but the air defense system had proved effective in countering the militia rockets. "We have the initiative on land, air and sea, and we are working to secure navigation in the Bab al-Mandab Strait and the waters of the Red Sea," he added.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... is beefing up its inspections of ships bringing humanitarian aid 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 ensure that no military items are being smuggled and to speed up delivery of desperately-needed relief supplies, UN and Saudi officials say.
The move comes as the armed Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... movement controlling much of northern Yemen steps up attacks on the kingdom, hitting a Saudi oil tanker on Tuesday.
The Arab coalition said overnight that Riyadh's air defense had intercepted a missile aimed at Jazan city.
Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... accuses Iran of supplying missiles to the Houthis, who have taken over the Yemeni capital Sanaa and other parts of the country. Tehran and the Houthis deny the allegation.
Under an arms embargo imposed by the UN Security Council, monitors from the UN Verification and Inspection Mechanism (UNVIM) are based in ports in Djibouti, Dubai, Jeddah and Salalah to observe screening of cargo destined for Yemen.
"We met with the UNVIM director and his team in Riyadh and we agreed on improved and enhanced capability," Saudi Ambassador to Yemen Mohammed S. al-Jabir told news hounds in Geneva on Wednesday.
He said UNVIM would increase its inspectors to 10 from four and its monitors to 16 from six and would also improve its technology to inspect ships.
The team supporting Lise Grande, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen, confirmed to Rooters on Thursday the steps taken to increase the number of monitors and inspectors and the use of scanning equipment.
A major UN conference on Yemen was held this week, drawing pledges of more than $2 billion toward a $3 billion UN humanitarian appeal.
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have contributed $930 million.
"We are cooperating with the UNVIM and other UN organizations to facilitate and to increase the number of ships that arrive at Hodeidah port," Jabir said, referring to Yemen's main port for humanitarian and commercial goods, under Houthi control.
UNVIM only checks commercial and aid ships going to northern ports under Houthi control - Hodeidah, Salif and Ras Isa - and not to Aden, which is under government control.
Yemen, the Arabian peninsula's poorest country, is reeling from the world's worst humanitarian crisis where 22 million people need vital assistance.
When the Houthis fired missiles at Riyadh last November, the Western-backed coalition shut Yemen's airports and ports.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Yemeni army retrieved on Thursday new strategic locations in the Redman district north of al-Bayda province.
According to a military source, the army forces were able to liberate a number of strategic locations in the area of Qanya north of the al-Bayda, including al-Faliq mountain, Ramdah plateau and Al Wae’el and Kharfan mountains overlooking the area of Qanya, as well as Al Yasbel area and a number of sites and hills.
He added that "the liberation of these sites coincided with intensive air raids by the coalition forces, targeting the locations and tracing the movements of the militias, resulting in significant human and material losses in their ranks, including the destruction of a weapons’ depot in She’ab Al Ma’ez in Bani Wahab, Sawadiyah Directorate.
An air strike by coalition fighters targeted positions of the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militia in Jabal Mas'udah, in al-Bayda, resulting in the death of the Houthi leader Abu al-Hassan al-Saadawi and a number of militia members, according to field sources.
At the same time, the army artillery intensively bombarded the positions of the militias in Jabal Mas'udah and Jabal al-Aar causing deaths and injuries within the militias and the destruction of their machinery.
The Yemeni army confirmed that the confrontations continue on the Qanya front in Radman Directorate, amid steady and continuous progress of the army forces, with direct support from the coalition aircraft.
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A fully laden supertanker came under attack Tuesday in the Southern Red Sea while underway in one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes, the European Union’s Naval Force Somalia (EU NAVFOR) and other maritime officials in the region have confirmed.
Details of the attack are still unclear, but the incident is likely to be related to the on-going conflict in Yemen, the EU NAVFOR said.
In an advisory, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations said that a merchant vessel reported an explosion on April 3 at approximately 0915UTC in position 1429.3N 04211.2E in the Southern Red Sea. The cause of the explosion is unknown, the UKMTO advisory said.
Yellow pin shows the approximate location of the attack in the Southern Red Sea. Source: UKMTO
The oil tanker has been identified as the Saudi Arabian-flagged MT Abqaiq, a 300,000 dwt Very Large Crude Carrier, which capable of carrying 2 million barrels of crude. The tanker is owned by Saudi shipping group Bahri.
Saudi media reported yesterday that the Saudi-led coalition said the oil tanker was in international waters when it came under “Houthi-Iranian attack” at around 1330 local time. A coalition warship conducted a “swift intervention” that repelled the attack.
The type of weapon used is not clear.
“As a result of that attack, the tanker was subjected to a slight but ineffective hit and it resumed its naval course northwards, escorted by a coalition warship,” Reuters reported the statement as saying.
EU NAVFOR confirmed Wednesday that the vessel continued underway and that the crew are safe and unharmed.
“In this case, [Combined Maritime Forces] and EU NAVFOR assess that the incident is likely to be related to the ongoing conflict in Yemen; however, no further activity with relation to the incident has been reported. EU NAVFOR confirms that the vessel continued underway and that the crew are safe and unharmed,” EU NAVFOR said.
Ships in the area have been warned to remain extremely vigilant and report any suspicious activity to MSCHOA and / or UKMTO.
The website TankerTrackers.com has been tracking the Abqaiq and is posting updates to Twitter.
The Abqaiq is now believed to be continuing to Ain El-Sukhna, Egypt, where it is likely to discharge cargo at the SUMED transit pipeline, TankerTrackers reported.
“The United States is very concerned about the Houthis’ latest attempt to escalate the war in Yemen, this time by attacking a commercial vessel while it transited one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes, the Bab al-Mandab, in international waters,” the White House said in a statement obtained by Reuters.
There are a lot of good informative graphics in the article. Check them out. The Saudi tanker has the best paint job I have ever seen on a ship. Glossy aircraft quality.
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[Dhaka Tribune] A female New JMB member suspected of sponsoring the failed attack on VIPs paying homage to Bangabandhu on National Mourning Day in 2017 was enjugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! on Wednesday evening.
Humayra, alias Nabila, was captured from the Siddheshwari area of Dhaka, said Mohibul Islam Khan, deputy commissioner of the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.
"Humayra was in-charge of a sister wing of the myrmidon cabal," he said.
On 15 August 2017, a suspected jacket wallah later identified as Saiful went kaboom! during an anti-militancy operation at Hotel Olio International in Panthapath, right in front of the Dhaka Tribune office.
Saiful was planning to attack National Mourning Day events at the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi 32 in the capital.
DC Mohibul said Humayra’s husband, Tanvir Yasir Karim, was a co-conspirator of the attack.
Tanvir was arrested in this connection on November 19 last year from the Gulshan area of the capital.
After this, according to a CTTC official, Humayra had been keeping tabs with Akram Hossain Khan Niloy, one of the top myrmidon leaders in the banned group.
Humayra completed a bachelor degree in Business Administration from North South University before acquiring a Masters in Business Administration from a university in Malaysia.
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[Breitbart Londonistan] Hospitals in Mayor Sadiq Khan’s London resemble those in a war zone, a senior surgeon working to save victims of the capital’s surging violent crime wave has said.
The shock comments made Thursday morning come after two more men were killed overnight, a couple of days after another night of violence saw a boy, 16, stabbed to death and a 17-year-old girl shot in a "drive by".
Wednesday night’s killings, both in Hackney, East London, brought the death toll from suspected murder in the capital to 50 so far this year, pulling away from New York City, which London overtook at the weekend.
Dr. Mark Griffiths, the lead surgeon at Barts Health NHS Trust in East London, said that knife and gun wounds had moved from a "niche" part of his job to a daily chunk of his workload, and a growing number of victims were "children".
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One can't possibly build an Islamic utopia with all of these white people and elderly pensioners milling about. Social change can be traumatic. Yes necessary, but traumatic. They'll eventually all move off, you'll see.
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Wow. You bring in people from war zones, and your city begins to resemble a war zone. Whodathunkit?
(Some people might see a cause and effect process here, but that's badthink.)
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You bring in people from war zones, and your city begins to resemble a war zone. Whodathunkit?
AFAICT, the world has been at war since 1914. Several generations have now spent their entire lives living with the consequences. It was bad enough before the no-borders advocates starting mixing up the "children of violence."
[ALMASDARNEWS] The French authorities nabbed Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! an infamous holy man on March 27th for allegedly funneling jihadists into Syria, La Figaro reported on April 4th.
The holy man, Bassam Ayachi, a 72 year old French-Syrian citizen, was arrested on charges of aiding a terrorist group during his time in Syria.
Ayachi initially traveled to Syria alongside his son, ’Abdel-Rahman,
...who appears in our archives as Abdelrahman Ayachi...
in 2013; they would later join Liwaa Suqour al-Sham (var. Hawks of the Levant Brigade) in Idlib.
’Abdel-Rahman was later killed while fighting with Liwaa Suqour al-Sham against the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in Idlib.
According to the UAE’s The National publication, "he (Ayachi) has been named ’The Godfather of Belgian Jihad’ for his time founding the Belgium Islamic Centre in the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek ‐ a heartland of extremism in western Europe. It rose to international prominence after it emerged that several of the jihadists involved in the Gay Paree attacks of 2015 had been radicalised there. He served as the centre’s imam for two decades, during which time he is believed to have facilitated the travel of dozens of radicalised Belgian recruits to Syria and Afghanistan."
The National would add that Ayachi was named in some 40 criminal cases in Belgium; however, he was never convicted of any crime.
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Bassam Ayachi
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[DW] Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag says Turkey's National Intelligence Organization has nabbed about 80 citizens in covert operations in 18 countries. He accused the people captured of links to the 2016 coup attempt.
Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag told Haberturk television that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's National Intelligence Organization (MIT) has captured 80 citizens accused of following the US-based Islamic holy manFethullah Gülen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... in operations in 18 countries.
The figure of 80 disclosed by Bozdag on Thursday runs much higher than previously assumed and indicates that the MIT has ordered people taken in the past without publishing the information. He did not divulge the operational details or say which countries.
Ottoman Turkish officials have chased members of the Gulen movement domestically and abroad ever since accusing the holy man of criminal masterminding the 2016 attempt to overthrow President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... . His government has jugged Book 'im, Mahmoud! about 38,000 people accused of links to Gulen and fired 110,000 public servants since the coup attempt, which resulted in more than 250 deaths.
Erdogan's government has also vowed to wipe out Gulen's influence abroad, where it has built up a network of schools. Authorities in Ankara have pressured counterparts to close Gulenist schools and extradite staff members with Ottoman Turkish citizenship, branding them as terrorists.
March's deportations from Kosovo, which drew sharp criticism from human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... groups, were carried out so quietly that even brass hats ‐ including Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj ‐ did not know about them until after the fact. Haradinaj fired the country's interior minister and intelligence chief for their deception but, for the extradited men, five teachers and a doctor who worked in schools and a clinic supported by Gulen's movement, the damage had already been done.
No illegal abductions
Ibrahim Kalin, President Erdogan's press secretary, denies that the government has ordered illegal abductions. He insists, for example, that authorities had worked out an arrangement with their counterparts in Kosovo to extradite the six men secretly and without process.
"We have never engaged in any illegal act in our struggle against (Gulen's movement)," Kalin said. "The event in Kosovo took place ... within the framework of an agreement on the return of criminals."
Without disclosing details, Bozdag trumpeted the events in Kosovo as an example of the MIT's success. He also pledged that "intelligence service operations similar to that in Kosovo will continue." Turkey remains under a state of emergency, which Bozdag expects officials to extend.
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[KABC] A 49-year-old man was taken into custody after a small explosive device was detonated Thursday afternoon inside a Sam's Club in Ontario, the Ontario Police Department said.
According to a police spokesperson, the incident was initially reported at 2:08 p.m. as a structure fire after the caller heard a "popping sound" on aisle 4 of the warehouse store in the 900 block of Milliken Avenue.
Authorities later confirmed that a device was detonated, but there were no injuries or significant damage. Evacuated employees stood in the taped-off parking lot as the investigation got underway.
"It wasn't like an earth-shaking big explosion," said witness Norman Svikss. "It was like a low sound, like 'boom.' And there's no smoke, nothing. Then the employees start running around and then they slowly said, 'Hey, we have to evacuate the building,' because it's fire or something."
About three miles southeast of the scene, the driver of a white compact car was pulled over after a short pursuit and apprehended in connection with the incident, police said, adding that early reports of a barricade situation were unfounded.
The suspect was identified as Hugo Gonzalez, a Fontana resident who authorities believe acted alone.
Police bomb squad personnel searched the vehicle that was stopped in a traffic lane near the intersection of Airport Drive and Etiwanda Avenue. Two plates with different license numbers were seen on the ground near the vehicle.
Police initially said a second explosive device was found inside the vehicle, but later retracted that statement and clarified that bomb-making materials were discovered.
Meanwhile, police were also searching an apartment in the 16500 block of Arrow Boulevard in Fontana that investigators believe is associated with Gonzalez.
[DAWN] A security man lost his life and two holy warriors were killed in an encounter triggered by a search operation in the Pinsin Kaur area of Kech district on Wednesday.
According to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), personnel of the Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations.... were carrying out the search operation in the Pinsin Kaur area when the suspected holy warriors opened fire on them.
The FC personnel returned fire and a heavy exchange of fire continued for over two hours, leaving one member of the security force and two holy warriors dead.
"One FC Balochistan...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... soldier embraced Shahadat in the shootout," the ISPR statement said, adding that a cache of arms and ammunition was found in the hideouts of the bully boys.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Three people were maimed as a kaboom took place, north of Baghdad, a security source was quoted saying on Thursday.
"A bomb went off in Tarmiyah district, north of Baghdad, wounding three people, who were passing when the kaboom occurred," the source told Baghdad Today website.
"Security services rushed to the accident scene, while ambulances transferred the maimed to hospital for treatment," the source added.
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State has attacked a bus carrying civilians in Diyala province and killed people on board, a security source was quoted saying on Thursday.
Speaking to Baghdad Today website, the source said, “Islamic State killed several citizens after targeting their vehicle on Jalawla-Khanqeen road, north of Diyala.”
“Security services managed to transfer the victims to forensic medicine department in Khanqeen town,” the source added.
No further details about number of the victims were provided.
Diyala (Iraqinews.com) – As part of ongoing security efforts to completely eliminate terrorism across Iraq, Iraqi troops destroyed on Thursday three hotbeds of the Islamic State (IS) group in Diyala governorate.
In a statement, a copy of which was obtained by Alghad Press, Diyala police said, “A joint police force carried out a security campaign in three villages in northeastern Diyala to hunt for Islamic State militants and destroy their shelters.”
“The troops managed to destroy three terrorist hideouts during the operation,” the statement read.
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Personally, I was hoping for "Dumbasses".... but thanx, TW
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Four 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.... members were killed as security troops were combing the region on borders between Syria and west of Anbar, a security source from Anbar Operations Command said on Thursday.
Speaking to BasNews, the source said, "security services carried out a wide-scale military operation in al-Jazeera region in Qaim town, on borders between Iraq and Syria. Islamic State remnants were chased. Four turbans were killed, while two rest houses were destroyed."
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source said, "troops launched a campaign to inspect and secure the desert regions within Qaim on the borders."
The Iraqi-Syrian borders extend between Rutba town from al-Waleed exit border reaching to Qaim town then to djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , the source clarified.
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djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... (IraqiNews.com) Human remains of tens of security personnel victims were found in a mass grave, south of Mosul, a security source from Nineveh police said on Thursday.
"Security forces confiscated remains of 56 security personnel, who were executed by 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.... members, during their control on Mosul," Cap. Moataz Azhar told BasNews.
"Troops found the mass grave in al-Bou Seif village, south of Mosul," Azhar added. "The victims were transferred to forensic medicine department to identify them and notify their relatives."
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Live video feed from the border and some photos can be seen at the link. Report as of 14:22 Israel time, which I think is 8:22 a.m. EDT. The Jerusalem Post is liveblogging events with more photos and videos here.
[Ynet] Despite relatively paltry turnout compared to last Friday's inaugural protest, Paleostinian protesters near Gazoo border begin burning tires in earnest after conclusion of Friday prayers; Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,bigwig Mahmoud a-Zahar visits protesters, declares, 'If Israel struck deep within the strip, Hamas will retaliate by striking deep at the heart of settlements'; IS accuses Hamas of sending activists to border but failing to intervene when Israel fired on them.
Precisely a week after last Friday's Land Day protests and mass riots, Hamas's Great March of Return campaign reaches its second apex Friday with tires beginning to be burned in what has been dubbed the "Friday of the Tires" with Paleostinians burning tires in five points of conflagration along the Gazoo Strip border since morning. At the conclusion of Friday's prayers, the number of tires protesters burned increased and thick smoke covered most of the protest's centers.
The number of protesters, however, was initially small. Watch the live feed from the Gazoo border below.
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[IsraelTimes] No injuries in incident; 1,000 pray overnight at Joseph's Tomb in Paleostinian West Bank city
A Paleostinian hurled explosives at Israeli soldiers protecting a crowd of Jewish worshipers in the West Bank city of Nablus overnight Wednesday-Thursday, causing no injuries or damage, the army said.
A thousand Jewish worshipers flocked in the early hours of Thursday to Joseph’s Tomb, believed to be the burial site of the biblical figure, for Passover prayers under military escort.
In a statement, the military said that before the worshipers entered the site, observations indicated "suspicious activity" in addition to the explosives that were hurled. Soldiers incarcerated Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! three suspects and found weapons, including rifle magazines, bullets and a knife on a nearby roof.
After the festive prayer was over, Paleostinian residents began a "violent riot" at the exit from the city, the army said, adding that troops employed riot control methods to disperse the crowd. Two Paleostinians were said to have been injured.
Pilgrimages by Israeli or foreign civilians to the Joseph’s Tomb holy site are frequent catalysts for violence. In the past, Nablus residents have attacked the groups visiting the site with rocks, Molotov cocktails and rifle fire.
As a result, those interested in visiting the site require a military escort.
[Ynet] A Paleostinian arriving to one of the entrances of the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron
...Hamas Central in the West Bank...
was tossed in the slammer ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... by security forces when a knife was found on his person. The suspect was taken in for questioning.
[Jpost] Israel warned protesters not to approach frontier fence; nineteen Paleostinians have been killed in violence over past week.
Israeli fire killed a Paleostinian at the Gazoo border on Thursday and another died of wounds suffered several days ago, Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-run Health Ministry officials said, bringing the number of Paleostinian dead in a week of frontier protests and violence to 19.
The Israeli military said one of its aircraft targeted an armed holy warrior near the security fence along the Gazoo Strip.
A 33-year-old man, hit by Israeli fire a few days ago near one of the tent cities, died on Thursday, the health officials said.
Many of the demonstrators who turned out for the start of the protest campaign returned to their homes and jobs over the week. But organizers expect large crowds again on Friday, the Moslem sabbath.
Hamas announced on Thursday it would pay $3,000 to the family of anyone killed in the protests, $500 to Paleostinians critically maimed and $200 to those who sustain more minor injuries.
Israeli leaders have said payments by Paleostinian authorities to the families of Lions of Islam killed or imprisoned by Israel encourages attacks on Israelis.
The Israeli army on Thursday released video footage showing the moments before its aircraft bombed an armed Paleostinian man approaching the Gazoo security fence.
The grainy footage shows the man, identified by Paleostinians as 23-year-old Mujahid al-Khudari, creeping toward the fence holding what appears to be an assault rifle.
The Israel Defense Forces said al-Khudari was also armed with hand grenades and a boom jacket, though these were not visible in the night-vision footage.
According to the army, he was hit with a pinpoint Arclight airstrike shortly after the footage was taken, as he got close to the border.
The airstrike occurred in the pre-dawn hours of Thursday, in the northern Gazoo Strip.
The Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,-run health ministry in Gazoo later pronounced the al-Khudari dead in Gazoo’s Shifa hospital.
According to the army, al-Khudari was sent by the armed wing of the Hamas terror group, which ruled the Gazoo Strip.
[Ynet] Recordings unveiled by COGAT shows Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", strong-arm tactics against bus company owners forced to ferry protesters to fence riots; measures include threats, arrests and sending Hamas drivers to commandeer buses; 'Hamas using terrorism against its own people,' COGAT Mordechai says.
[Arab News]The leader of a Muslim insurgent group said it welcomes the continued presence of US forces in Mindanao to help the Philippine government in its campaign against violent extremist groups.
Moro Islamic Liberation Front Chairman Al-Hajj Murad Ebrahim acknowledged the help being extended by the Americans to communities in the region. He said, "As long as they don’t do anything that creates a problem for our people, we don’t mind them."
Asked if he is aware of the activities of US forces in Mindanao, he said they are monitoring ISIS and engaged in humanitarian and civic assistance projects. US forces are “quite visible” in the island provinces of Mindanao and “we don’t oppose” their presence, but they cannot intervene in government policy, Ebrahim said.
On Sept. 1, 2017, US Defense Secretary James Mattis designated Operation Pacific Eagle-Philippines (OPE-P) an Overseas Contingency Operation (OCO) “to support the Philippine government and military in their efforts to isolate, degrade and defeat” affiliates of ISIS and other terrorist groups in the country.
Philippine defense spokesman Arsenio Andolong said US military activities in the country under OPE-P involve advising and providing technical assistance to the Philippine miliatary. He said, "There are no boots on the ground."
Ebrahim said while there is no accurate number of foreign terrorists or ISIS-inspired militants coming to Mindanao, Indonesian, Malaysian “and even Middle Eastern-looking” militants joined the five-month siege of Marawi. There are confirmed reports of the continued entry of Malaysians and Indonesians, and an Arab-looking militant who was found to be using a Canadian passport, he added.
“Usually these elements mix with the Abu Sayyaf in island provinces, and some are blending in with the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters,” Ebrahim said. “We’re closely motoring them because we really don’t agree with their activities.”
Those being recruited by ISIS-inspired groups are not part of the MILF, whose leadership remains in control of its members, he added. Those recruits are easily convinced “by certain elements who capitalize on their frustration with the peace process with the government,” he said.
The MILF is the only armed Islamic organization in the region whose objective is political, Ebrahim said. He said, "That’s why I think we vary from other Islamic organizations. We were never declared a terrorist organization. Islam is only a way of trying to unite our people and to practice our own faith in the proper manner. That’s what makes the MILF different from other Islamic or revolutionary groups."
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A cougar response (sorry Ship, but it's the best I can do).
[Bangkok Post] A police deputy chief investigator was gunned down while tending to his fighting cocks in Narathiwat province on Wednesday morning. Police called to the scene found Wutthisak Poolsawat lying dead under a tree behind his mother-in-law's house in Sungai Padi.
Wutthisak was deputy investigator at the police station in tambon Sakor. He left the police residence compound every morning on his motorcycle and went to Mrs Faheeya’s house, where he raised and trained fighting cocks.
On Wednesday morning, he went there as usual. He parked his bike out front and went to the rooster coops behind the house. Three gunmen wearing black clothes had entered the yard through a neighboring garden, shot him and then fled.
Police spokesman Charoon Chaikitporn said the slain officer had no conflict with anyone. He blamed insurgents wanting to cause unrest.
[IsraelTimes] Israel expected to complain to UN over Syrian army deployment in demilitarized area ahead of regime's planned assault on rebels, in violation of decades-old agreement
The Bashir al-Assad regime is preparing an offensive to retake southern Syria and the Syrian Golan Heights from rebel groups and has reportedly placed tanks and heavy artillery inside the demilitarized buffer zone on the country’s border with Israel.
The step violates the Agreement on Disengagement signed in 1974 between Israel and Syria, which concluded the Yom Kippur War. Israel is expected to complain to the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... peacemaking force known as UNDOF, the Haaretz daily reported Thursday.
The United Nations Disengagement Observer Force has patrolled the buffer zone between Syria and Israel since 1974, a year after the war ended. For nearly four decades, UNDOF helped enforce a stable truce between the two countries, but the Syrian civil war has now spilled into the area, according to the report.
Since most UN staff have been moved out of Syria due to the bloody war and are now watching at a safe distance from Israel, it is unclear if the international body can force the Assad regime to halt its military presence in the buffer zone.
The six-year conflict has seen not only some intense fighting in the buffer zone but the abduction of peacekeepers by al-Qaeda-linked anti-Syrian government bully boys, and other attacks that prompted several countries to withdraw their soldiers.
Israel has tried to stay out of the civil war in Syria and refrained from taking sides, but has responded to spillover fire on numerous occasions and warned the Assad regime against attack.
The Haaretz report said there is almost no Iranian presence near the Israel-Syria border. However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... Lebanese terror group Hezbollah has established a Golan regional command center, with a hundred of its operatives located in south Syria and a thousand other local residents being paid regular salaries by the organization, it said.
Israel was said to recognize an interest by Hezbollah in the border and initial attempts to establish military infrastructure there.
Last year, the UN Security Council strongly condemned fighting in the buffer zone and urged the Syrian government and opposition groups to withdraw from the area.
The resolution backed Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ findings that ongoing military activities in the area of separation have the potential to escalate tensions and jeopardize the ceasefire between Israel and Syria, and pose risks to civilians and UN personnel on the ground.
The resolution condemned the use of heavy weapons, including tanks, by both the Syrian armed forces and gangs in the area of separation.
According to the UN peacekeeping department, the UNDOF mission has 959 personnel including 828 military.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The ongoing infighting between al-Qaeda affiliate Ha’yat Tahrir al-Sham (better known by its former name, al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front) and Jabhat Tahrir Souriya (backed by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ) across northwest Syria is about to reach a whole new level of violence.
In the last 24 hours, opposition sources have noted that both forces allied with Jabhat Tahrir Souriya based in Afrin and Ha’yat Tahrir al-Sham reinforcements are rushing towards key contested areas in western Aleppo province ‐ the strategic hilltop town of Dart Izza’ chief among them.
Specifically, reports say that Jabhat Tahrir Souriya has been reinforced at Dart Izza’ by main units of the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... ’s 9th Division. At the same time Ha’yat Tahrir al-Sham, with its reinforcements, may be about to launch major offensive to recapture the town which was once one of its most important strongholds.
This latest developments comes after about seven weeks of infighting during which time both Ha’yat Tahrir al-Sham and Jabhat Tahrir Souriya have already inflicted serious losses on one another ‐ hundreds of fighters have been killed and dozens of armed vehicles (tanks and armored infantry carriers among them) destroyed.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
[DAWN] A Malian
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...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...
[Breitbart Londonistan] Hospitals in Mayor Sadiq Khan’s London resemble those in a war zone, a senior surgeon working to save victims of the capital’s surging violent crime wave has said.
... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world...
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
[IsraelTimes] No injuries in incident; 1,000 pray overnight at Joseph's Tomb in Paleostinian West Bank city
[Arab News]The leader of a Muslim insurgent group said it welcomes the continued presence of US forces in Mindanao to help the Philippine government in its campaign against violent extremist groups.
[IsraelTimes] Israel expected to complain to UN over Syrian army deployment in demilitarized area ahead of regime's planned assault on rebels, in violation of decades-old agreement
