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Afghanistan
Afghan forces kill 27 ISIS militants in Nangarhar province
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least twenty holy warriors 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 of the Afghan armed forces 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.

The 201st silab Corps officials are saying that the holy warriors were killed during the operations of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces in three different districts of Nangarhar.

The officials further added that the operations were conducted in Haska Mina, Rodat, and Bati Kot districts.

According to the Silab Corps, the Afghan Air Force also carried out several Arclight airstrikes in support of the ground forces during the operations.

Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Taliban rejects involvement in today’s deadly attack in Kabul
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
group in Afghanistan has rejected the involvement of the group in today’s deadly kaboom in Kabul city.

Taliban front man Zabiullah Mujahid in a statement said the Taliban group has no link with today’s kaboom in capital Kabul.

No individual or group has so far grabbed credit behind the attack so far but the ISIS bandidos holy warriors have also grabbed credit behind some attacks in the capital in the past.

At least six people were killed after an kaboom destroyed a compound established for the issuance of the national identity cards in Kabul city earlier today.

The Ministry of Public Health officials are saying that the dead bodies of at least six people have been brought to the hospitals so far.

The officials further added that the blast has also left at least 23 people maimed.

In the meantime, the Kabul police officials are saying that the attack has left at least 10 people dead and more than 50 others maimed.

Eyewitnesses are saying that the blast has taken place close to a school where a center was opened to issue national identity cards.

Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Deadly blast targets voter registration center in Puli Khumri city
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] An kaboom destroyed a voter registration center in Puli Khumri city the scenic provincial capital of Baghlan province hours after a deadly blast in Kabul left several dead or maimed.

According to the local officials in Baghlan, at least six people including women were killed and five others were maimed in the kaboom.

However another security official says at least seven people were killed and ten others were maimed after the blast targeted the registration center.

The official further added that the incident took place after an improvised bomb exploded near the registration center.

The incident in Puli Khumri city took place hours after an kaboom destroyed a center established for the national identity cards in Kabul city.

According to Kabul police officials, at least twelve people have been killed and more than fifty other were maimed in the kaboom.

No individual or group has so far grabbed credit behind the incident but the ISIS hard boyz have in the past grabbed credit for such attacks.

Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Kabul police arrest Najibullah Kabuli on kidnapping charges
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The police forces in Kabul have tossed in the calaboose
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
a former Afghan MP Najibullah Kabuli on charges of kidnapping an individual, the security officials said Sunday.

According to the security sources in Kabul police commandment, Kabuli was arrested from the vicinity of the 4th police district of the city.

The sources speaking on the condition of anonymity further added that Kabuli was held late on Saturday night during an operation.

The sources did not provide further in this regard but added that Kabuli has been accused of kidnapping a businessman.

In the meantime, reports indicate that the police forces arrested the former MP based on an order issued by a court in Kabul.

Kabuli is currently the leader of Musharikat-e-Millie Party. He was maimed during a shoot out and kaboom in Kabul city nearly a year ago.

The officials of Musharikat-e-Millie party have not commented regarding the arrest and allegations against Mr. Kabuli so far.
Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Horn
Mutinous Forces Clash With Al-Shabab Militants In Central Somalia
[RADIOSHABELLE] Mutinous forces from HirShabelle state presidential palace have engaged in a heavy shootout with al-Shabaab
... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
hard boyz in central Somalia on Saturday.

The fighting broke out after armed fighters belonging to Al-Shabaab ambushed the regional forces while traveling between Jowhar and Beledweyne towns.

The mutinous troops left Jowhar, the current seat of HirShabelle administration early on Saturday morning and were en route to Jalalaqsi district at the time of the attack.

A senior HirShabelle state official told Radio Shabelle that the ambush has left several soldiers and hard boyz dead, thought the number of the casualty figures have not been confirmed so far.

Al-Shabaab often carries out ambush attacks against Somalia and AMISOM troops in the southern regions.

Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Africa North
Libyan coastguards rescue 283 migrants, recover 11 bodies in 2 separate operations
[Libya Observer] The Libyan Coast Guard recovered Sunday the bodies of 11 illegal immigrants colonists and rescued 283 others in two separate operations off the Libyan coast.

Media office of the Libyan Coast Guard said on Facebook that the 11 bodies along with 83 migrants colonists were recovered and rescued off al-Zawiya shores, adding that they were taken to al-Zawiya refinery for aids before being sent to the illegal immigration authority in the city.

The Spokesman for the Libyan Navy, Ayoub Qassim, told Xinhua that the rescued migrants colonists were from African countries aboard a broken-down-engine boat.

The second operation saw the rescue of 200 migrants colonists including 38 women and one child, off Zlitin shores onboard two dinghies, the media office added, saying they were sent to Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
naval base then later for the illegal immigration detention center at Treeq Siqqa.

Meanwhile,
...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea, one that didn't involve kerosene...
Italia's Interior Ministry said Friday that immigrants colonists' flow dropped by 79.4% in the first months of 2018 compared to the same period last year.

Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


Two killed in abrupt armed clashes in Libya's Benghazi
[Libya Observer] Clashes broke out Sunday afternoon in Venicia street in Benghazi, eastern Libya, between a Criminal Investigation Department force of the interior ministry at the Interim Government and al-Zawiya Martyrs Brigade of Khalifa Haftar
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
-led self-styled army.

Sources reported that a Criminal Investigation Department officer was killed along with an Egyptian national, while another person was injured.

Eyewitnesses reported to the media that the armed forces from both sides blocked the roads leading to the festivities' zone.

The reason behind the festivities, according to residents, was a land ownership dispute, while a security source from the Criminal Investigation Department said the fighting was caused by the chase the brigade conducted after one of their officers.

Footage of the festivities was circulated on social media.

Benghazi has seen an unrest over the last days with festivities breaking out at Hadaek area over the arrest of one of the al-Zawiya Martyrs Brigade's fighters.
Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Africa Subsaharan
Nigeria: Four Killed As Suicide Bombers Target Borno Mosque
[All Africa] At least four persons were killed and eight others injured as two jacket wallahs attacked a mosque in Bama town of Borno State in the early hours of Sunday, officials have said.

The attack comes about three weeks after the Borno State Government sanctioned the return of internally displaced persons (IDPs) to the badly destroyed community which was reclaimed from the Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
The Sunday attack was the first since the return of Bama IDPs. But it has rekindled public concern on the security around the community, the second largest in Borno State after Maiduguri, the state capital.

Just before the IDPs were returned to Bama, the Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima, was in Bama on a two days working visit.

During his stay in Bama, the military command there informed the governor that although the town has been secured, the security around it was "unpredictable."

Notwithstanding the caution, the displaced persons, eager to return to their normal lives, were allowed to return to Bama.

The chairperson of the Borno State emergency management agency (SEMA), Yabawa Kolo, said four persons died and eight others were maimed in the early Sunday morning attack. The dead included the two suicide bombers.

Earlier, sources from Bama who broke the news on social media indicated that the attackers were two young people, who sneaked into a mosque in the community during an early morning prayer.

One resident of Bama said the attack took place "at a mosque around BAMA Dina area of Shehuri /Mairi/ Hausari ward of Bama town."

"The victims evacuated to military hospital for further treatment of serious injuries," Abba Masta said.

"Serious emergency medical attention needed with possible need of transportation to secondary health facility in Maiduguri for the survivors," Mr Masta, an active community leader in Bama, said.

He said medical services and facilities are still limited in the reclaimed town.

"Currently, no any ambulance in Bama to aid the transportation of the survivors. But we are currently making follow up to military 21 brigade for possible assistance," he said.

Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)


Arabia
Saudis down new missile from Yemen rebels: State media
[AlAhram] Saudi air defences on Sunday intercepted a ballistic missile fired by Yemeni rebels at the kingdom's southern border city of Najran
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, a city in southwestern Saudi Arabia near the border with Yemen. It is the capital of Najran Province and a favored target of Houthirocket forces....
, which set a farm ablaze, state media said.

"Saudi forces were able to intercept (the missile)," the Saudi Press Agency said, citing the Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed Houthis.

"But the shrapnel scattered over residential areas and caused a fire at a farm belonging to a citizen, without causing any injuries."

The missile was launched from Saada, the Huthi stronghold in northern Yemen, the coalition was cited as saying.

The coalition said another missile crashed in a Saudi desert on Sunday, without specifying a location, adding it caused no damage.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/23/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Houthis

#1  So, was the ballistic missile intercepted by the ground?
Posted by: Raj || 04/23/2018 10:20 Comments || Top||


Saudi-led Coalition offensive in western Yemen ends in disaster, 30 fighters killed
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Saudi-led Coalition launched a massive offensive in western 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...
on Tuesday that targeted the Houthi-controlled areas near the coast.

However,
a woman is only as old as she admits...
the five day long assault would prove to be a decisive defeat for the Saudi-led Coalition, as 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 ...
forces were able to fully repel the offensive, while also killing scores of fighters from UAE-backed Southern Resistance forces.

According to the official media of the Houthi forces, their fighters repelled the massive Saudi-led Coalition offensive at the Mowaza axis, killing over 30 fighters and wounding another 50 members of the Southern Resistance.
Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Houthis

#1  this conflict is over 3 years old now

just before the conflict began, Obama claimed Yemen as a model of counter terrorism success

also, the Houti forces have held the western part of Yemen almost continuously since 2015
Posted by: lord garth || 04/23/2018 9:17 Comments || Top||


UAE passenger plane intercepted by Qatari fighter jet
[ALMASDARNEWS] The United Arab Emirates has stated that Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
’s fighter jets had intercepted a civilian plane heading for Bahrain with 86 passengers aboard, according to the media.

The WAM added that the UAE civilian aircraft had to manoeuvre to avoid a collision.

This is not the first case, as similar incidents have occurred earlier. In March, the UAE aviation authority reported about two Qatari jets coming dangerously close to two civilian aircraft from the Emirates. In January, according to the United Arab Emirates, Qatari jets had twice intercepted Emirati civilian aircraft; however, Doha refuted the allegations.

These cases prompted the United Arab Emirates to lodge an official complaint against Qatar with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) over the country’s jets intercepting Emirati civilian aircrafts.

Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Qatar (MB)


Great White North
Van plows into pedestrians in Toronto injuring murdering nine
[FOX] Toronto cops nabbed the suspected driver who plowed into a group of people on a crowded city street Monday afternoon, leaving several injured and the grim sight of what appeared to be bodies covered by sheets.

Police confirmed to Fox News the arrest of the suspect, which came just minutes after news of the incident broke.

Cops initially said eight to 10 people were hit near Yonge Street and Finch Avenue just before 1:30 p.m., but they later clarified it was too early to confirm the number of injuries.

After striking the pedestrians, the van fled the scene, CBC reported.

The extent of the injuries at the scene is unknown, however, photos from the site of the collision showed pedestrians attempting to help people on the ground and multiple bodies covered by sheets.

A witness who identified himself as Nick said he was studying when he saw a truck "flash by" in the area. He said he "witnessed a few people pass away in front" of him as others screamed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2018 14:49 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Suspected driver pulls what looks like a pistol. He was subsequently arrested without gunfire. No names have been released....

Appears to be a Ryder rental van.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2018 14:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Aren't pistols illegal in Toronto?
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/23/2018 15:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Suspect stopped his van and surrendered in front of a building with display of arabic script on a huge yellow banner.
Posted by: Si vis pacem || 04/23/2018 15:11 Comments || Top||

#4  Come on boys, let's grab those vans! Do it for the children!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/23/2018 15:13 Comments || Top||

#5  Aren't pistols illegal in Toronto?

Apparently not or he couldn't have had one.
Posted by: gorb || 04/23/2018 15:14 Comments || Top||

#6  More details from Globe & Mail here. Not much more, though.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 04/23/2018 15:40 Comments || Top||

#7  No. We do not need to ban vans. We need to ban the kind of people who use them as weapons of mass destruction and I think we all have a pretty good idea who those people are. Banish them from our country and they can rent all the vans they want and do whatever they want with them in their countries of origin.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/23/2018 15:45 Comments || Top||

#8  If the morons in the MSM would stop publicizing these actions the death eaters would stop doing it.
Posted by: Ebbang Ebbeanter1040 || 04/23/2018 16:21 Comments || Top||

#9  Ebbang Ebbeanter1040, no they wouldn't.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 04/23/2018 16:34 Comments || Top||

#10  https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/aug/01/media-coverage-terrorism-further-violence
Posted by: Ebbang Ebbeanter1040 || 04/23/2018 17:12 Comments || Top||

#11  But, but. Gun control works! MENSA members Cher, Amy Schumer and David Hogg all agree...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/23/2018 17:26 Comments || Top||

#12  He was celebrating Ramavan.
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 04/23/2018 17:28 Comments || Top||

#13  He was celebrating Ramavan.

We have a winner!
Posted by: SteveS || 04/23/2018 17:49 Comments || Top||

#14  I second.

Now all we have to do is figure out how to pronounce it.
Posted by: gorb || 04/23/2018 18:07 Comments || Top||

#15  The ", eh?" at the end is silent.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/23/2018 18:24 Comments || Top||

#16  A known wolf. Former NYC Police commissioner Bill Bratton states on @MSNBC his sources in Canada say van driver in #Toronto was known to Police and now consider incident a terrorist attack. Motivation and affiliation unknown.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 04/23/2018 18:47 Comments || Top||

#17  Several U.S. law enforcement officials, from different agencies, say the man arrested and accused of running down pedestrians in #Toronto is Alek Minassian, age 25. Born November 3, 1992.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 04/23/2018 18:47 Comments || Top||

#18  Amish mafia again eh? Clever devils.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 04/23/2018 21:29 Comments || Top||

#19  We need to ban the kind of people who use them as weapons of mass destruction and I think we all have a pretty good idea who those people are.

But they might vote leftist!
Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 || 04/23/2018 22:09 Comments || Top||

#20  Minassian sounds Armenian, not a hotbed of Islamic terrorism.
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/23/2018 22:39 Comments || Top||

#21  But they might vote leftist!

Of course. It's destructive to society.
Posted by: gorb || 04/23/2018 23:37 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
2 Hazara men gunned down in 'targeted attack' in Quetta
[DAWN] Two men belonging to the Hazara
...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets...
community were killed, while a third was injured in an incident of firing in Quetta's Western Bypass area on Sunday.

Police sources said unknown miscreants opened fire and killed two people identified as Muhammad Ali and Muhammad Zaman. One person was maimed as result of firing, the sources said. The injured was rushed to Bolan Medical Complex, Quetta, for treatment.

Police said the victims were members of the Hazara community and that the incident appeared to be a assassination.

The assailants escaped unhurt from the spot after the attack. Police and other law enforcement personnel reached the spot as an investigation into the incident was initiated.

Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Lashkar e-Jhangvi


Iraq
SWAT officer sustains injury in Iraq bomb explosion
Diyala (Iraqinews.com) ‐ A SWAT officer was maimed Sunday as a bomb kaboom targeted a police vehicle in Iraq’s Diyala province, a security source was quoted as saying.

Speaking to Alghad Press, the source said an explosive charge went off while a police vehicle was passing by al-Mokhisa gardens on the outskirts of Abu Saida district in Diyala.

"The kaboom left a SWAT officer maimed," the source said, adding that a probe was launched to identify perpetrators of the attack.

The source noted that the injured policeman was moved to a nearby hospital for treatment.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/23/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Iraqi troops kill four Islamic State militants near borders with Syria
djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
(IraqiNews.com) The pro-government paramilitary troops have announced killing 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....
turbans during an operation on the borders with Syria, the media service reported.

In a statement on Sunday, al-hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) said, "troops of the 29th brigade managed to kill four Islamic State members in an operation near Tal Sufuk on the borders between Iraq and Syria. Their vehicle was burnt."

"Troops were notified with information about presence of the turbans at one of the villages near Tal Sufuk," the statement added.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/23/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Iraq sentences two terrorists to death over killing policemen
Wasit (Iraqinews.com) ‐ An Iraqi court has sentenced on Sunday two gunnies to death over killing a number of coppers and other informers.

"The criminal court in Wasit handed down death sentences against two terrorists, who were found guilty of killing several police personnel and other informants," the media service of the Supreme Judicial Council told Dijlah TV.

"The court issued its ruling pursuant to article no. 4 of the anti-terrorism law," the media office added.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/23/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
2 Bedouin Israelis arrested for allegedly selling IDF guns to Palestinians
[IsraelTimes] Gun-running ring believed to have smuggled weapons into West Bank, where they were resold; Paleostinian and Arab Israeli suspects also nabbed

Two Bedouin Israelis were nabbed
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
last month for allegedly selling guns that were stolen from army bases to a weapons dealer in the southern West Bank, police revealed on Sunday.

The suspected Paleostinian arms merchant, from the town of Yatta, south of Hebron,
...Hamas Central in the West Bank...
was also arrested in March, police said.

Indictments were filed against the two Israeli suspects on April 9, and the Paleostinian suspect was charged on Sunday.

With the final indictment, the gag order that had been put on the case was removed.

The two Bedouin Israelis, from the village of Aroer in the northern Negev desert, were arrested in March. They were suspected of selling guns ‐ some of them stolen from army bases in the Negev ‐ to the Yatta man, the police said.

The Paleostinian suspect is believed to "sell weapons on a very large scale" in the West Bank, according to the police statement.

A third Arab Israeli citizen was also arrested for allegedly helping facilitate the arms sales between the Negev and the West Bank.

The arrests were part of a joint operation by the Israel Police and Shin Bet security service.

During their investigation, police did not uncover any of the army weapons, but found two makeshift Carlo-style submachine guns and some magazines.

Army bases in the Negev desert are routinely robbed, often by Bedouin Israelis who live nearby. Though the problem is well known, it has gone mostly unaddressed. Due to their locations ‐ far from cities and towns ‐ there is generally limited police presence in the area, and the military is limited in its ability to arrest would-be thieves.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/23/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Army bases in the Negev desert are routinely robbed, often by Bedouin Israelis who live nearby. Though the problem is well known, it has gone mostly unaddressed. Due to their locations ‐ far from cities and towns ‐ there is generally limited police presence in the area, and the military is limited in its ability to arrest would-be thieves.

I've got an idea,,,,
Posted by: Frank G || 04/23/2018 7:12 Comments || Top||

#2  guns that were stolen from army bases

With a little help from some inside friends, no doubt.
Posted by: gorb || 04/23/2018 12:14 Comments || Top||


15 Hamas members arrested in Ramallah area
[Ynet] Israeli security forces nab 19 wanted suspects in the West Bank, 15 of them members of Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, who received funding to carry out different terror-related missions in the area on behalf of the Gazoo terror group.

Israeli security forces tossed in the calaboose
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
19 wanted Paleostinians early Sunday, 15 of them Hamas members who were arrested in the Ramallah area.

Among them was Khaled al-Din Hamed, a Hamas member from the Gazoo Strip, and other senior members who received funding to carry out different assignments on behalf of the Hamas terror organization in their area of residence.

The troops also confiscated "a vehicle worth thousands of shekels being transferred to members for terror purposes" and closed down a printing shop used by Hamas to print materials to incite to terrorism.

The IDF carries out widespread arrest raids in the West Bank during times of high tensions in order to pressure Hamas into lowering the flames on the Gazoo border, where weekly rioting continue every Friday and are set to culminate on May 15, Nakba Day.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/23/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Hamas fighter reported killed in Gaza tunnel collapse
[IsraelTimes] A member of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,’s military wing was reportedly killed Sunday in a tunnel collapse near Deir al-Balah in the central Gazoo Strip.

Reports in Paleostinian media identified the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades member as Thaer Nayef al-Zaraie.

It was not immediately clear if the tunnel was an attack tunnel crossing the border into Israel or part of the warren of defensive fortifications Hamas has built across the Strip.

Several members of the Hamas terrorist group have been killed or injured in accidental blasts and tunnel collapses in recent years. In 2017, Hamas said 22 members of its armed wing were killed in tunnel-related accidents.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/23/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Gaza death toll reaches 40
[ALMASDARNEWS] The death toll since the beginning of the ‘Great Return March’, in the Gaza Strip, has reached 40 after another man dies in hospital of previously sustained bullet wounds.
Virtually all men of military age.
20 year old, Abdullah Mohammed Shamly, was pronounced dead tonight in hospital. Abdullah has become the 40th Martyr of the Great return March, in which more than 5000 Palestinians have been injured.

Abdullah Mohammed Shamly, from Rafah (Southern Gaza Strip), joins the following Palestinians who have been slaughtered by the Israeli regimes sniper and artillery fire:

1) Wahid Nasrallah Abu Sammour, (27)
2) Mohammed Kamal Al-Najjar, (25)
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5) Ibrahim Salah Abu Shaar, (22)
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20) Ahmed Arafa, (25)
21) Mujahid Nabil al – Khudari, (24)
22) Majdi Ramadan Shabat,
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Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  interestingly, the Almasdar uses the words 'Israel' and 'Israeli'

there was a time when they would use the words 'zionist entity' or 'zionist project'

so in a sense we have progress as the Almasdar recognizes Israel's existence
Posted by: lord garth || 04/23/2018 8:52 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
36 Islamic State militants killed in Iraqi airstrikes against Syrian territories
Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) ‐ As many as 36 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) bully boyz were killed on Sunday after Iraqi warplanes targeted their terrorist hotbed located in Syria, a front man for the Iraqi Security Media Council was quoted as saying.

Alghdad Press quoted Brig. Gen. Yehia Rasool as saying in a statement that Iraqi Air Forces launched a series of Arclight airstrikes on Syrian territories using F-16 jets to eliminate Islamic State terrorists, who were planning to carry out terrorist attacks in Iraq.

According to the statement, the air raids left 36 IS bully boyz dead, including six big shots who were gathering at one of their hotbeds inside Syria.
The Times of Israel adds:
A video of Thursday’s operation showed two F-16 fighter jets destroying a house in eastern Syria..

"According to our information, the raids took place while there was a meeting of terrorist leaders and it achieved its goal with the death of 36 of them," General Yahya Rasool, front man for the Joint Operations Command (JOC), which coordinates the fight against IS in Iraq, says.

The US-led coalition battling IS jihadists confirmed the raid, which took place near the town of Hajin in the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor, about 30 miles from the Iraqi border.

"These raids prove Iraq’s commitment to destroy the remnants of IS that continue to threaten citizens," Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s office said on Thursday, adding that the operation was planned and executed by JOC, with support from the coalition.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/23/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Militants show resistance in southern Damascus as regime forces step up attacks
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Pro-regime Paleostinian paramilitary group mourned three officers said they had been killed by former al-Qaeda group as the regime stepped up efforts to wipe out the insurgency's last foothold south of the capital.

The Militia of Fateh al-Intifada has engaged in fierce festivities with Tahrir al-Sham
and ISIS in the Paleostinian refugee camp of Yarmouk and al-Hajar al-Aswad district.

Tahrir al-Sham said it had killed more than 20 Paleostinian fighters loyal to Bashir al-Assad since the festivities erupted four days ago.

On Sunday, the regime warplanes carried out fresh air strikes on the southern neighborhoods of Damascus. Local activists said more than 200 raids were conducted since Thursday.

Thick clouds of smoke rose from the al-Hajar al-Aswad district as the sound of jets could be heard overhead in the live broadcasts from the area.

The area is part of an enclave just south of Damascus that includes Yarmouk camp and is controlled by Lion of Islam holy warriors from ISIS (ISIS) and the Nusra Front.

It is adjoined by a pocket held by other rebel groups fighting under the Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
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Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Nusra


Jihadi infighting rages in northern Syria, scores killed
[ALMASDARNEWS] The war tearing up jihadi factions in northern Syria is far from end with bloody infighting kills more turbans from all warring parties.

In the southern countryside of jihadist-controlled Idlib province, the al-Qaeda-linked Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham
killed Muhammad Abu al-Biishr, the son of Suqour al-Sham military commander Aby Ayssa al-Sheikh during festivities in Mariyan town.

This sparked outrage amid the FSA-affiliated faction which vowed vengeance.

Suqour al-Sham is part of Syrian Liberation Front (Jabhat Tahrir Souriya) alliance which also includes Ahrar al-Sham
...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014...
and the Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement. The newly-formed group is engaged in a war against its main rival; HTS.

Ferocious battles broke out between the two warring parties across south Idlib and west Aleppo countryside , with both sides exchange control over several towns and villages, while sustain heavy losses.

In the same context, HTS security chief Abu al-Baraa was assassinated by person or persons unknown by opening fire at his vehicle near Hader town, south Aleppo countryside.
Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Nusra


Syrian Army strips militants of suicide belts, vast cache of NATO arms
[ALMASDARNEWS] An estimated 6,000 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...
forces of Evil and their families are expected to withdraw from East Qalamoun, northwest of Syrian capital, to Jarablus in northern Aleppo province.

Syrian troops carrying out searches of forces of Evil at the settlement of Ar-Ruheiba in the Eastern Qalamoun Mountains in Rif Dimashq Governate have seized suicide belts and ammunition which jihadists tried to take with them during their withdrawal, the Syran Arab News Agency reports.
Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Jaish al-Islam (MB)


No sleep for ISIS tonight as Syrian military hammers southern Damascus with new weapon
[ALMASDARNEWS] It is going to be another long night for the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) in southern Damascus, as the Syrian and Russian forces continue to pound their positions around Yarmouk Camp, al-Qadam, al-Tadamon, and Hajar al-Aswad.

According to local sources, the Syrian military began using their Goulan-1000 missiles against the Islamic State forces in southern Damascus tonight.

These Syrian-manufactured missiles have been the source of the powerful kabooms and deafening sounds that are coming from the southern Damascus districts
Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State



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