[ToloNews] The US Forces said the Farah and Nimroz air strikes were the first in western Afghanistan as part of their counter-revenue campaign regarding the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
The US Forces in Afghanistan on Sunday released video footage that shows Taliban drug factories being bombed in Farah and Nimroz provinces last week.
According to a US Forces statement, the Arclight airstrikes were carried out last week in cooperation with the Afghan Air Force (AAF).
The US Forces said in the statement 11 Taliban narcotics production facilities in Farah and Nimroz provinces were targeted, as US Forces and the Afghan National Defense and Security forces expand counter-revenue efforts against the Taliban beyond Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... and southern Afghanistan.
The precision airstrikes, conducted by US F-16s, A-10s and MQ-9s, were the first in western Afghanistan in support of the counter-revenue campaign designed to degrade the Taliban’s primary means of funding its operations ‐ narcotic production, read the statement.
"The Taliban will have no safe havens. We will continue to exploit their networks and decimate their ability to develop narcotics," said Maj. Gen. James Hecker, commander, 9th Air and Space Expeditionary Task Force-Afghanistan.
"They have become a criminal organization that profits from selling drugs and using those funds to conduct operations that maim and kill Afghans. By cutting off the Taliban’s economic lifelines, we also reduce their ability to continue these terrorist activities," he added.
Afghan interior ministry meanwhile said these airstrikes are aimed at eradicating income sources for holy warriors.
"In recent months all income sources of the Afghan people’s enemies have been under Afghan forces attacks from air and land," interior ministry’s deputy front man Nusrat Rahimi said.
A number of senators meanwhile said efforts should be increased to destroy these drug factories and address the drug addiction problem in the country.
"Bombing bully boyz sources of income are the biggest and most significant ones. Because such bombings will make them weak in terms of finances and that will decrease their fighting ability," senator Haji Abdul Rahim said.
According to the US Forces, the Taliban counter-revenue campaign, which began in November 2017, has continued without pause through the winter, impacting narcotics processing facilities that generate an estimated $200 million USD in revenue annually for the Taliban.
Overall, since November 2017, the campaign has conducted 75 strikes against narcotics production facilities in Afghanistan and continues to remove revenue from the Taliban criminal network. The counter-revenue campaign continues to demonstrate the US and ANDSF’s collective resolve to fight terrorism and bring stability and peace to Afghanistan, the US Forces’ statement read.
"We will continue to help the Afghan cops to send a clear message to the Taliban: they will not win on the battlefield," Hecker said.
"The only way they can have a peaceful solution is to sit down and reconcile with the National Unity Government."
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"Bombing bully boyz sources of income are the biggest and most significant ones. Because such bombings will make them weak in terms of finances and that will decrease their fighting ability,"
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So they bomb the opium processing operation.
Raw opium gets blown all over.
Next day the guys are back; sweep the opium up, along with dust, dirt and whatever, and put it in a bag.
"The quality of this crop is a little off; take ten dollars off a hundred pound brick."
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[KhaamaPress] The Talibs and Afghan armed forces suffered casualties during an operation in southern Uruzgan province of Afghanistan, the local officials said Sunday.
According to Uruzgan security chief Gen. Rahmatullah Sediqi, at least 18 Taliban ...Arabic for students... faceless myrmidons were killed and 17 others were maimed during the operation.
Gen. Sediqi further added that the operation was conducted in the vicinity of Khas Uruzgan district on Saturday to suppress the armed murderous Moslems.
He said at least three security personnel including two army soldiers and a policeman also bit the dust during the operation and three others were maimed.
Provincial administrative chief Aminullah Khaleqi had confirmed that nine Taliban faceless myrmidons were killed and at least eleven others were maimed during the festivities.
He said an Afghan army soldier also lost his life during the festivities and seven others were maimed.
[KhaamaPress] At least two bandidossnuffies were killed after a cycle of violence packed with explosives went off prematurely in eastern Laghman ...It has a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men. province of Afghanistan.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East said a group of snuffies were looking to detonate a Motorcycle-borne Improvised Explosive Device in Alingar district on Saturday.
The source further added that the explosives went off before the bandidossnuffies manage to use for an attack, leaving at least two of them dead and two others maimed.
Accordingto the local officials, the two bandidossnuffies were looking to plan an Improvised Explosive Device on a roadside frequented by the Afghan forces in Alisheng district.
The officials further added that the explosives went off prematurely as they were busy planting it, leaving two people dead, including a local leader of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... identified as Sayeda Gul.
According to the officials, the bandidossnuffies killed in the kaboom were involved in major terrorist related activities in this province.
[RADIOSHABELLE] The United States military said Friday its special forces conducted an Arclight airstrike against al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... murderous Moslems in southern Somalia, killing three terrorists.
The U.S. Africa Command (Africom) said the Thursday afternoon airstrike which was conducted in cooperation with Somali government near Jilib in southern Somalia also destroyed a vehicle with a mounted heavy machine gun.
"We assess no non-combatants were killed in this airstrike," Africom said in a statement released following the latest strike in the Horn of Africa nation.
The latest U.S. strike comes amid heightened vigilance by Somalia’s stabilization security unit forces who have launched operation targeting several parts of the Horn of Africa nation, in response to the increasing terror attacks in the country.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] Kenya Police on Thursday placed $8000 bounty on eight al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... terrorists.
The eight, who are all believed to be of Somali-origin are suspected to be planning to execute terror attacks inside Kenya.
In a statement, Kenya’s Director of Communication, Charles Wahongo said the individuals were training in al-Shabaab camps inside Somalia.
The eight are; Issack Alio Mohammed, Rahim Mohammed Sheikh, Bishar Hared Hussein and Bashir Adan Osman Kulo, Abdirashid Ibrahim Osman Noor, Siyat Ibrahim Abdullahi, Abdi Ahmed Ibrahim and Mohammed Muhumed Ahmed.
" Terrorists are wanted for attacks carried out in Kenya and currently have plans to attack Kenya.They are believed to have entered Kenya from neighboring Somalia," said Wahonga.
He noted that the police have thwarted several terror attempts by these individuals in the past.
The group which is divided into two section is headed by two other Kenyans, according to Wahongo.
"Some of them are led by Isak Okola who is suspected to be in Borubirdeso in Somalia, which is close to Elwak town. Another group is led by Ali Dere who occasionally lives in Khadija Haji town in Somalia situated near Mandera town," Wahongo.
In another statement, Police Spokesman Charles Owino said that police have already incarcerated Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! a female terror suspect, Habiba Omar Ali, who was found in possession of five AK- 47 rifles and a large cache of ammunition.
Ali is a wife of the wanted terrorist, Mahad Isaack Abdille.
Mahad is a key al-Shabaab link to persons in Madera County.
The man is suspected to be crossed into Mandera twice in the last three months.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] A security bigshot was killed in an armed confrontation between troops within Jubbaland state forces in the outskirts of the southern port city of Kismayo ...a port city in the southern Lower Juba province of Somalia, at the extreme southern end of the country (assuming Somalia can be called a country). It is the commercial capital of the autonomous Jubaland region... , the regional capital of Lower Jubba region.
The official whose name has not been identified lost his life in the internal fighting, which took place at Bulo-Gadud area, a former Al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... bastion.
It’s not yet clear what motivated the skirmish, but, Jubbaland said an investigation is underway.
Local residents say tension was brewing following the killing of the deputy commissioner of Bula-Gadud army commander under the Jubbaland state of Somalia.
The latest reports from Kismayo indicate that there are efforts ongoing to defuse the escalating tension, and bring back the normality to the remote village, which hosts hundreds of regional and KDF forces.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] The myrmidon group al-Shabaab ... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia... has claimed has claimed it killed a senior Somali Intelligence officer in the outskirts of Mogadishu on Saturday night.
The officer identified as Colonel Mustaf Beer Dilacshe was assassinated in an attack occurred between Elasha Biyaha and Lafole areas located near the Somali capital.
Al-Shabaab said in a statement posted on its affiliated websites that the colonel and his bodyguard were killed during an ambush on his vehicle by armed myrmidons.
The slain official was the commander of Intelligence forces operating in Elasha Biya, according to the Al-Shabaab statement.
Somali Federal government is yet to comment on the murder of the officer which comes amid routine operations by NISA and Police forces in Mogadishu and its surrounding areas.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] Somali security forces at Mogadishu’s Aden Abdulle International Airport seized large bags containing bundles of cash reportedly sent by the United Arab Emirates [UAE].
Members of the UAE’s Embassy in Mogadishu are said to be carrying the bags of the money.
Airport officials, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... said they captured huge sum of US dollars from the UAE that was meant to dismantle the no-confidence motion against the speaker of the parliament.
However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... the owner of the cash had not yet been identified.
The seizure of the cash came after the UAE embassy staff resisted an order to check their bags upon their arrival at the airport, according to the sources.
Somalia’s relation with UAE has been worsening in recent months since Mogadishu took a neutral position on the diplomatic row between the Gulf countries that began on June 5, 2017.
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I always wondered where the Clinton Foundation was based.
[AlAhram] Egyptian military and police potted a number of "takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... s" in several operations in north and central Sinai over the past few days as part of the ongoing comprehensive counterterrorism Operation Sinai 2018, the armed forces said on Sunday.
Security forces killed a number of takfiris when air units destroyed two terrorist hideouts in north Sinai, and killed another who was found to be in possession of large sums of money and illegal narcotics, a statement by the army front man read.
In central Sinai, police managed to kill three "extremely dangerous" takfiris and arrest two others, the statement added.
Security forces confiscated and destroyed over 100 vehicles and 386 hideouts in the raids.
Found at the hideouts were 16 hand grenades, various communications equipment, improvised bombs (IEDs), 8 mortar rounds, food supplies and stolen military uniforms.
Over the past few days, army engineers have safely detonated 30 discovered IEDs that had been planted by takfiris to target security forces.
The raids also led to the discovery and destruction of 20 marijuana and poppy farms used for drug production in central Sinai, as well as a number of underground border tunnels in North Sinai's Rafah city.
Border security forces organized more than 584 patrols on highways and desert roads in past few days, the statement added.
The Egyptian armed forces continue to distribute food supplies to the people of North and central Sinai.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch shot Ike through the elbow. Take that, Ike! he yelled...... in Egypt's far south, border security forces halted two members of the banned Moslem Brüderbund group as they tried to leave the country via its southern border.
Sunday's statement is the 18th communiqué issued by the Egyptian armed forces since the launch of Operation Sinai 2018 in early February.
Four Jihadists have been killed in recent days in military operations in Sinai, the Egyptian army said Sunday.
The latest operations have resulted in the elimination of four Jihadists including three "very dangerous," said the armed forces in a statement.
Two other suspected Jihadists have been tossed in the slammer ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... as well as 250 "wanted and suspected criminals," the army added.
In total, more than 100 Jihadists and at least 22 soldiers have been killed since the launch of the operation, dubbed "Sinai 2018," according to official figures.
[Al Jazeera] The Nigerian military says it has rescued 149 women and kiddieskidnapped by the gangBoko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... in the country's northeast.
Onyema Nwachuku, army front man, said on Sunday the freed captives included 54 women and 95 children, according to the NAN news agency.
"The rescued hostages are currently receiving medical attention," he said in a statement, adding that they would be "profiled after the medical screening".
The rescues took place during a raid on a Boko Haram hideout in the community of Yerimari Kura on Saturday. Soldiers killed three fighters during the operation and captured five others suspected of belonging to the group, Nwachuku said.
His statement did not specify when the women and kiddies had been kidnapped.
Al Jazeera's Ahmed Idris, reporting from Abuja, capital of Nigeria, said the number of people Boko Haram had kidnapped in Yerimari Kura "demonstrated the group's resilience", despite losing significant swaths of territory to the Nigerian army in recent years.
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[SABANEWS.NET] Saudi-led coalition fighter jets waged 44 raids on four Yemeni provinces over the past 24 hours, a military official told Saba on Sunday.
In Hajjah province, four children and a woman were killed and another was injured in an Arclight airstrikes targeted a home in Ram area of Mostaba district. Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Slats Chumbaloni was staring into a hole that was just .45 inch in diameter and was less than three feet from his face ... 23 raids targeted Haradh and Medi districts.
In Sadaa province, artillery and missile shelling targeted several areas in Razeh, Munabeh, al-Thaher and Shada districts, killing numbers of sheep.
Ten air strikes waged on several areas of Baqem district, while two airstrikes hit al-Senarah mountain in Saada province and Bani-Moath area in Sehar district.
In Hodaida province, two airstrikes launched on the east of al-Qutabah area in al-Khokhah district. And an airstrike targeted Zabid valley.
In Amran province, the coalition warplanes waged four raids on Harf Sufian district.
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[SABANEWS.NET] The missile force of the army and popular forces launched on Sunday a ballistic missile of Badr-1 type on Radars Brigade of Saudi enemy in Khamis Mushait area of Asir region, a military official told Saba. The missile hit its target directly, the official added.
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[DW] Police have detained six men in Berlin who reportedly have links to the 2016 Berlin Christmas market attack. The lead suspect was planning to attack spectators at the race with knives, according to a newspaper report.
Police have incarcerated Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! six people suspected of planning a "crime" during the Berlin Half Marathon on Sunday.
"There were separate indications that those arrested, aged between 18 and 21 years, were participating in the preparation of a crime in connection with this event," prosecutors and police wrote in a joint statement. Berlin police wrote separately on Twitter that six people had been arrested.
German daily newspaper Die Welt had reported earlier that one of the men was planning a knife attack on spectators at the half-marathon. Officers had reportedly found two sharpened knives during a raid on the man's apartment in the west of the city.
Link to 2016 Christmas market attack
According to Die Welt, the lead suspect who had planned the knife attack reportedly knew Anis Amri, a Tunisian who killed 12 people and injured several dozen more when he drove a truck into a Berlin Christmas market in December 2016.
The suspect reportedly wanted to take Dire Revenge for Amri's death. Italian police shot and killed the 24-year-old Amri ‐ who had pledged allegiance to 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.... " terrorist group ‐ while he was on the run in Milan.
The lead suspect arrested on Sunday was not however a "concrete threat" as security services had been observing him for some time.
The other three suspects also had links to Amri, according to Die Welt.
Heightened security
This year's half-marathon attracted more than 30,000 participants, according to organizer SCC Events. An SCC spokesperson told dpa news agency that "everything had gone smoothly" during the race.
Berlin authorities had stepped up security for the event following a van attack in the western German city of Munster on Saturday that left two bystanders dead.
Police said one of the five was believed to have procured the fake Italian identity papers that allowed Amri, a failed asylum-seeker, to move around Europe.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A suicide kaboom targeting a political party headquarters in western Iraq has killed four people and injured seven others, including a candidate in polls set for May, officials said on Sunday.
The ISIS group issued a statement claiming the attack, which took place late Saturday in the tribal desert province of al-Anbar.
A local security official told AFP on condition of anonymity that "two jacket wallahs disguised as soldiers entered the al-Hal Party headquarters", a prominent party in the region.
One of the attackers "detonated his boom belt while politicians held a meeting" at the campaign headquarters in the city of Hit, about 200 kilometers west of Baghdad, General Qassam al-Mohammadi, head of army operations in the area, told AFP.
Candidate maimed
"Three members of the security forces were killed and seven people, including candidate Zineb Abdel Hamid al-Hiti, were maimed," he said.
A municipal employee on Sunday also succumbed to injuries sustained in the attack, the anonymous official said.
He said the second attacker detonated his belt shortly after the first, but did not cause any casualties.
Medical sources confirmed the corpse count of four and said candidate Hiti had been hospitalized with light injuries.
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Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) – A parliamentary hopeful was injured in a suicide bomb attack that targeted the premises of al-Hal (solution) party in Hit district in Anbar on Saturday, a security source was quoted as saying.
“Parliamentary hopeful Zeinab Abdel Hamid was in a meeting of her party al-Hal when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside the party, leaving her and a number of her bodyguards injured,” the source told Baghdad Today.
“The explosion also left one person killed and four others injured,” according to the source, who pointed out that Abdel Hamid was immediately treated on site.
The source noted that the ambulances immediately rushed to the blast site and carried the dead body to the forensic medicine department and the injured to a nearby hospital for treatment.
According to casualty figures recorded by the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), a total of 104 Iraqi civilians and policemen were killed and another 177 injured in acts of terrorism, violence and armed conflict in Iraq in March.
In its monthly statement released last week, the UN agency said the number of civilians killed, excluding police, was 84, while 164 others were injured.
Baghdad was the worst affected Governorate, with 124 civilian casualties (33 killed, 91 injured), followed by Salahuddin with 12 killed and 26 injured, and Anbar with 11 killed and 22 injured.
Anbar (Iraqinews.com) – Six Iraqi soldiers were wounded Sunday after a suicide bomber wearing an explosive belt blew himself up in Hit district, 70 km west of Ramadi, Anbar.
“The troops were combing a party headquarters that was hit by a bomb explosion Saturday, when the suicide bomber targeted them,” a security source told IKH News.
According to the source, the soldiers were transferred to Hit General Hospital for treatment.
Earlier in the day, a suicide bomber blew himself up at al-Hal (solution) party in Hit.
According to security reports, Saturday’s attack has left five people killed and seven others injured so far, including a parliamentary hopeful.
Anbar (Iraqinews.com) – Seven Islamic State (IS) militants were killed Sunday as Iraqi troops launched a military operation to eliminate the terrorist group in Anbar, a security source was quoted as saying.
“A security force from the Anbar Operations Command, backed by pro-government troops, launched a military operation to track down IS cells in Hit desert, west of Ramadi,” the source told Knooz Media.
“Seven IS militants were killed in the operation, which was launched upon accurate intelligence reports,” he said, adding that there were no casualties among Iraqi troops.
The troops also seized a huge amount of explosive charges and firearms, according to the source.
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djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... (IraqiNews.com) A policeman was killed, while another was injured in a kaboom that occurred, west of Mosul, an Iraqi security source was quoted saying on Sunday.
"A policeman was killed and another was injured as a kaboom targeted a local police patrol in Tal Afar, west of Mosul," the source told the National Iraqi News Agency.
In related news, security services tossed in the slammer ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... nine 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, who were possessing explosives, in Kojli region, east of Mosul, the source added.
Moreover, the Nineveh Operations Command said eight IS members were arrested in a security operation, west of Mosul.
In a statement, Brig. Gen. Hamad Names al-Jabouri said "eight IS members were apprehended in an operation in al-Seddiq district, west of Mosul."
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Diyala (IraqiNews.com) A prominent 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.... member has been killed in an kaboom on the borders between Diyala and Salahuddin provinces, an official announced on Sunday.
"We have information on a mysterious kaboom inside a rest house on the outskirts of Mutaibija, on borders between Diyala and Salahuddin, which left one of the leaders, known as ’the dwarf’, killed" Sadiq al-Husseini, head of the security committee of Diyala provincial council, told AlSumaria News.
"Mutaibija has become one of the shelters for many IS members and leaders recently," Husseini said calling for a military operation to eliminate presence of the holy warrior group there.
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[IsraelTimes] IDF targets Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, military base after bombs found, says it 'will not allow the border area to become a combat zone.
Israeli planes carried out Arclight airstrikes in the northern Gazoo Strip early Monday morning, the army said, hours after a group of Paleostinians entered Israeli territory from the enclave and planted two improvised bombs along the Gazoo security fence.
The strikes targeted a military base belonging to the Hamas terrorist group, which controls the Gazoo Strip, the army said.
"The Israel Defense Forces sees with severity any attempt to harm or destroy the security and defense infrastructure and will not allow the border area to become a combat zone," the army said in a statement, echoing a similar statement released on Monday night announcing that soldiers found two bombs, which appeared to be rigged out of plastic drinking bottles full of an explosive liquid with a detonator.
[Ynet] Man tries to stab Israeli with screwdriver at gas stop on road to the settlement of Mishor Adumim; passerby opens fire and neutralizes suspect, seriously wounding him; three treated for shock.
A suspected attack arrived at the gas station near Mishor Adumim early Sunday afternoon and attempted to stab an Israeli man with a screwdriver, police said.
A civilian passing by with his car noticed the altercation, shot up the suspect and neutralized him.
The suspected attacker, who is around 21 years old, was rushed to the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem's Mount Scopus at death's door. Three people were treated from shock.
[IsraelTimes] Army denies media reports that said suspects opened fire on Israeli troops and equipment along enclave's border
The Israeli army revealed that three Paleostinians who entered Israeli territory on Sunday had planted two improvised bombs along the Gazoo security fence.
Earlier, soldiers monitoring closed circuit cameras spotted the three men as they broke through the border and then later crossed back into Gazoo, the army said.
An IDF tank shot up them, according to Paleostinian media.
No injuries were reported.
On Sunday night, the army said soldiers found the two bombs, which appeared to be rigged out of plastic drinking bottles full of an explosive liquid with a detonator.
"The Israel Defense Forces sees with severity any attempt to harm or destroy the security and defense infrastructure and will not allow the border area to become a combat zone," the army said in a statement.
The military blamed the Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, terrorist group for the attempted IED attack.
Also on Sunday, Israeli troops jugged Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! an unarmed Paleostinian man who crossed into Israeli territory from the Gazoo Strip. He was handed over to the Shin Bet security service for questioning.
[Ynet] Dozens of Paleostinians protested on the northern Gazoo border on Sunday and hurled stones at the security fence. IDF forces on the scene responded with crowd dispersal measures
Update from T4 airbase just attacked by missiles/strikes in East #Homs
1. Over 20 missiles landed in and around the Airbase
2. 8 were reportedly intercepted by Syrian air defenses
3. Sirens were sounded 5 minutes before the attack, which the base was expecting and on full alert
4. Maintenance section of the airbase was hit and damaged
5. A Number of Drones in the base were targeted and destroyed
6. Most of the fallen/casualties have been either from the #SAA or Iranian backed auxiliary groups also present at the base
7. Whist initially thinking the Strikes were U.S led, it seems more likely that the IDF was the main perpetrator, attacked the area before & U.S immediately denied it.
8. If its a Israeli attack, which seems more convincing now, then its a clear retaliation for the downing of an Israeli F-16 months ago.
9. And more importantly, this airbase was the source of the suspected Iranian drone which came near #Israel- #Syria border & started process of maneuvering which led to Israeli Jet being downed.
10. What better time for #Israel to attack #Syria than when the whole world is waiting for #Trump response to suspected CW'S attack and on the same day that JAI leaves #Douma
11. Clarification that U.S is not conducting strikes on #SAA in #Syria at the moment, they wouldn't have cause to deny it at all, they said they would take action, so case for #Israel strikes on T4 seems far more convincing
12. Unconfirmed Video purportedly shows the moment #SAA air-defense launched rocket at the missiles targeting T4 airbase
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We appear to be entering fimbulvetr where I live so I assume Midgard and the Æsir will soon make their appearance also, so fine, sit back with some mead and enjoy the play.
if the US really wants to make an impression, it will hit the Al-Nasiriya base - it is close enough to Damascus that Assad would see the smoke
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So Syria has (and can operate) missile defense capable of shooting down 30% or so of these presumed-Israeli air-to-ground missiles? Is this the S-400 system? What would the success rate be against actual aircraft - - especially non-stealth ones like the F15?
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It is suggested they were Israeli F15s, Peter.
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LBJ bombed bridges in Vietnam, Clinton launched cruise missiles at tents, "Someone" bombed Assad... Did any of these actions amount to more than Kabuki theater?
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I talked with the aliens as a matter of fact we had lunch so it was not them!
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if the US really wants to make an impression, it will hit the Al-Nasiriya base - it is close enough to Damascus that Assad would see the smoke
I was thinking... exterminate a Russian Chef's little private army in the east of Syria? That would be a multi-dimensional message on so many levels. He just maneuvered to get a black sea port owned by a competitor to him and a Caspian Sea one given to the Iranians. He's an ally of Putin and Pencil Neck. Karma on lots of levels...
[Al Jazeera] Jaish al-Islam ...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful... , the last remaining rebel group in Eastern Ghouta, has agreed to leave its holdout in Douma for an opposition-held area in northern Syria, according to opposition negotiators and the Russian foreign ministry.
The deal came a day after a chemical attack killed scores of people and affected hundreds of other Douma residents. The attack prompted global outrage but was dismissed as "fabrication" by the Syrian government, whose forces on Friday launched an offensive against the rebels under the cover of air raids.
The agreement, which was reached between Jaish al-Islam and Russia on Sunday, includes a ceasefire and the evacuation of fighters and civilians from the area.
"According to people who helped negotiate this agreement, Jaish al-Islam has agreed with the Russian forces to begin evacuating with their families, as well as anyone else who wants to leave," Al Jazeera's Natasha Ghoneim, reporting from Amman, said.
Under the agreement, Russian military police will move into Douma to keep Syrian forces out, added Ghoneim.
The Russian army also said on Sunday it had struck a deal with Jaish al-Islam to withdraw about 8,000 of its fighters and some 40,000 of their relatives.
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[AnNahar] Israeli spy drones overflew the Akkar and Baalbek-Hermel provinces for a third consecutive day on Sunday, sparking concerns among residents, the National News Agency said.
"For three days now, Israeli reconnaissance drones have been flying round-the-clock at medium altitude over the overlapping mountainous regions between the Akkar and Baalbek-Hermel provinces," NNA said.
"The ceaseless hovering sounds are irritating the residents of the mountainous villages and towns," the agency added.
Defense Minister Yaacoub Sarraf, who hails from Akkar, meanwhile strongly condemned what he called "Israel's blatant insolence represented in its continuous violation of all international conventions."
[FOX] The Iranian government on Saturday said hackers attacked networks in multiple countries-- including data centers in Iran-- where they left the image of an American flag along with a warning "Don’t mess with our elections."
IRNA, Iran’s official news agency, said the attack apparently affected 200,000 router switches across the world, including 3,500 in Iran, Reuters reported.
Iran’s IT Minister Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi shared a photograph on Twitter showing an infected computer’s screen with the U.S. flag and the hackers’ warning.
He said on social media that the state’s computer emergency response unit had shown "weaknesses in providing information to (affected) companies" following the hack that was first noticed on Friday in Iran.
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.
...It has a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for 
the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
the personification of Somali state failure...
...a port city in the southern Lower Juba province of Somalia, at the extreme southern end of the country (assuming Somalia can be called a country). It is the commercial capital of the autonomous Jubaland region...
an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia...
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
[DW] Police have detained six men in Berlin who reportedly have links to the 2016 Berlin Christmas market attack. The lead suspect was planning to attack spectators at the race with knives, according to a newspaper report.
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) A prominent 
...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful...
