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Afghan forces have reportedly suffered heavy casualties in Kunduz attack
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Afghanistan
24 militants killed as Taliban leaders’ gathering targeted in Ghazni airstrike
[Khaama Press] An Arclight airstrike targeted a meeting of high level Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
leaders in southeastern Ghazni province of Afghanistan, leaving at least 24 turbans dead.

The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the airstrike was carried out in the vicinity of Nawa district based on intelligence tip off.

A statement by the Ministry of Defense said the Taliban leaders had gathered for a meeting in Langa village in Nawa district when they came under the airstrike.

The statement further added that the airstrike also left at least seventeen Talibs maimed.

According to Defense Ministry, some of the senior Taliban leaders who had attended the meeting, included the former Taliban defense minister Mullah Amir Khan Mutaqi, Mullah Khalifa, Taliban’s Quetta Council member Mullah Shah Mohammad, Taliban’s shadow governor for Ghazni Mullah Yousuf, and Taliban’s shadow governor for Paktia province Mullah Sayed Almas.

The Ministry of Defense also added that preliminary information received from the area indicates that Mullah Amir Khan, Mullah Khalifa, Mullah Shah Moammad, and Mullah Yousuf have sustained injuries in the airstrike.

The anti-government armed myrmidon groups including Talibs have not commented regarding the report so far.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/13/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  So, what do the Talib think about how the good guys knew?
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 07/13/2018 0:14 Comments || Top||

#2  The Long War Journal used to have very good reporting about these kind of attacks.
Posted by: jvalentour || 07/13/2018 0:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Usually, Long Wars Journal already covered it and they did a week before on the political seas.
Posted by: newc || 07/13/2018 2:10 Comments || Top||

#4  Long War Journal covered the attack on Kunduz instead of this one. See their article here; ours from Khaama Press is just below this one.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/13/2018 19:04 Comments || Top||


Afghan forces have reportedly suffered heavy casualties in Kunduz attack
[Khaama Press] The Afghan armed forces have reportedly suffered heavy casualties in a coordinated attack by the Talibs in northern Kunduz province of Afghanistan.

Provincial governor’s front man Nematullah Temori confirmed that the Talibs have launched a coordinated attack in Dashti Archi district.

Temori further added that heavy festivities are still underway between the faceless myrmidons and armed forces but did not disclose further information regarding the casualties.

Unconfirmed reports indicate at least thirty soldiers bit the dust in the attack and at least 17 others sustained injuries.

However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by...
another official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said at least sixty soldiers have been killed or maimed in the attack.

The source further added that the attack was carried out by the faceless myrmidons belonging to the red unit of the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
group.

According to the official, the attack was carried out on security posts between Dashti Archi of Kunduz and Khwajah Ghar of Takhar province.

The security and defense authorities have not commented regarding the casualties of the armed forces so far.

Kunduz is among the relatively volatile provinces in North of Afghanistan but the security of the province has sharply deteriorated during the recent years amid ongoing efforts by the faceless myrmidons to expand their insurgency in key northern provinces.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/13/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Over 60 killed, wounded as clashes erupt among Taliban, ISIS in Jawzjan province
[Khaama Press] Over sixty holy warriors were killed during the infighting the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
and ISIS holy warriors in northern Jawzjan province of Afghanistan.

The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North said the festivities erupted in Darzab district of Jawzjan after a coordinated attack by the Talibs.

According to a statement released by Shaheen Corps, at least 16 ISIS holy warriors and 10 Talibs have been killed during the festivities.

The statement further added that 14 ISIS holy warriors also sustained injuries and at least 9 others were detained by the Talibs.

A commander of the Taliban group was among those killed and at least 11 Talibs have sustained injuries while 2 others were detained by ISIS Lion of Islams, Shaheen Corps added.

According to Shaheen Corps, festivities between the two sides still continue as the Talibs are attempting to clear Darzab district from the presence of ISIS Lion of Islams.

The anti-government armed Lion of Islam groups including Taliban and ISIS holy warriors have not commented in this regard so far.

Jawzjan has been among the relatively calm provinces in the North but the security of the province has tanked during the recent months amid growing ISIS and Taliban activities.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/13/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa North
Counter-terrorist operation in Sinai paying off
In which it is revealed that sequential Ansar Bayt al Maqdis Numbers One, Two, and Three have recently been briefly enjoying rapid promotion...
[AlAhram] As COS 2018 continues security forces have all but ended the mobility of terrorists.

Comprehensive Operation Sinai (COS) 2018 is still in progress, with regular updates furnished by the Armed Forces.

The counter-terrorist operation was launched in February and 25 military communiqués have so far been issued reporting on the inroads made not just against terrorist groups but against other criminal activities, especially smuggling.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/13/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis (IS)


Saiqa Force of ICC fugitive Al-Werfalli takes over Benghazi Port
[Libya Observer] Saiqa Force has taken control of Benghazi's port and stationed in several points in its vicinity, according to sources from the city.

The sources revealed that the forces securing the port withdrew from their posts after receiving information of an impending attack on the port, which made it easy for Saiqa Force to take over the harbour.

The city of Benghazi has witnessed in the past few days intensive movements of the Saiqa Force in protest against the issuance of an arrest warrant by 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...
for the frontlines commander of Saiqa Force Mahmoud al-Werfalli.

Khalifa Haftar gave orders to arrest Mahmoud al-Werfalli, who is sought by the International Criminal Court, after escaping from a military prison and storming the headquarters of the Military Investment Authority of Haftar.

Al-Werfalli stormed the headquarters of the Military Investment Authority of the so-called General Command of the Dignity Operation in Hadayiq area in Benghazi and seized documents and property from the building after disagreements arose between him and head of the of the authority al-Madani al-Fakhri.

On a leaked walkie-talkie call posted on social media earlier, al-Werfalli accused al-Fakhri of theft and embezzlement, describing him as an embezzler of public money.

He talked about the disappearance of large sums of money, demanding the money to be returned and distributed to the "families of the deaders," as he put it.

Al-Werfalli insisted that he will go after Fakhri until "the end of the days" or until he knows who's behind him, asking him to reach out to the "supreme authorities" to reveal the fate of the hidden funds.

Al-Werfalli made a cinematic escape from prison and arrived in Benghazi last week.
Posted by: Fred || 07/13/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Arabia
Riyadh detains Islamic scholar as crackdown on dissent intensifies
[PRESSTV] 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...
has taken into custody a prominent Moslem scholar as part of an ongoing campaign to silence dissidents in the kingdom.

Human rights campaigners and online activists said on Thursday that Sheikh Safar al-Hawali were tossed into the calaboose, without providing further details.

Hawali is a leading figure in Saudi Arabia's Sahwa (Awakening) movement, which opposes the presence of US troops in the Arabian Peninsula.

In the 1990s, Hawali was tossed in the calaboose
Please don't kill me!
for opposing the Saudi ties with US troops leading a military operation in Kuwait. In 1993, he was banned from public speaking and dismissed from his academic posts on suspicion of attempting to incite civil disobedience. In 1994, the Islamic scholar was once again placed in durance vile
You have the right to remain silent...
, but was soon released.

Last month, Saudi authorities detained a number of prominent women’s rights advocates, just days before lifting the decades-long ban on women's driving.

Posted by: Fred || 07/13/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia


Yemeni forces shoot down Saudi jet in Asir
[PRESSTV] Yemen's Defense Ministry says the country's air defense forces shot down a fighter jet in southwest 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...
in retaliation for fresh Arclight airstrikes by the kingdom against its impoverished neighbor.

In a statement, the ministry said on its website Thursday that the fighter jet belonging to the Royal Saudi Air Force had been hit in the Asir region as it was returning from Yemen's northern province of Sa'ada.

According to Yemeni military officials, the invading aircraft had taken part in deadly airstrikes against residential neighborhoods in the Arab country.

In January, Yemen’s 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 ...
Ansarullah movement released footage of the moment its forces shot down an F-15 fighter jet belonging to the Saudi air force.

In June last year, Yemeni air defense forces also intercepted and shot down a Saudi F-15 fighter jet in the skies over Sana’a.

Yemeni forces regularly fire ballistic missiles at positions inside Saudi Arabia in retaliation for the Saudi-led war on Yemen.

In another development on Thursday, Yemeni army snipers rubbed out five Saudi mercenaries at the strategic Jabal al-Doud military base in the kingdom’s southwestern border region of Jizan.

In addition, at least 44 Saudi-backed gunnies were killed in a series of violent festivities across Yemen.

According to al-Masirah television network, Saudi warplanes carried out new airstrikes across Yemen, hitting different parts of the impoverished country.

At least two people were killed after the jets bombed residential areas in Al Shajan village and other towns across Hudaydah Province.

Posted by: Fred || 07/13/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Arab coalition in Yemen destroys Houthi rocket-launching pad in Sadaa
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Arab coalition backing the Yemeni legitimate government carried out a series of air strikes early Thursday, destroying a 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 ...
ballistic rocket-launching pad in Sahar directorate in Saada.

The coalition surveillance system took pictures of the pad before targeting it.

Recently, the coalition forces said it destroyed an integrated military communication system for the Houthi militias located on Mashtab, Maran, Razeh, al-Maglag and the al-Noua’a mountains, stressing that it won’t let a terrorist organization acquire advanced technology.

The coalition added that the "camouflage and military countermeasures" confirm that the targeted site in the last raid was a military position.

Posted by: Fred || 07/13/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Europe
‘80% were grown-ups': Swedish dentist fired for exposing migrant ‘kids' as adults talks to RT
[RT] A Swedish dentist who was ruined after being fired and fined for revealing that over 80 percent of his refugee ‘children’ patients were actually adults, told RT that people coming to his country should not lie about their age.

The story of Bernt Herlitz, a dental hygienist from the Swedish island of Gotland, came under the spotlight in 2016 when he revealed an unpleasant truth. Herlitz was analyzing the teeth of “unaccompanied” minor migrants who started to arrive in the Scandinavian country as the worst refugee crisis since WWII struck Europe. It turned out that wisdom teeth of the ‘children’ were fully grown in 80 percent of cases, a sign clearly showing that Herlitz’ patients were far from being underage.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/13/2018 04:46 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Should be easy to prove who is right and who is wrong in these medical evaluations.
Posted by: Airandee || 07/13/2018 6:13 Comments || Top||

#2  The other 20% were false negatives.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/13/2018 6:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Destructive white guilt
Posted by: Flilet Omeremble3846 || 07/13/2018 6:46 Comments || Top||

#4  “If you have an X-ray you can easily see that the person is over or under 18 years old. About 80 percent were grown-ups,” he said.
Posted by: Woodrow || 07/13/2018 8:30 Comments || Top||

#5  We can't have truth!

...and they wonder why it doesn't work.
Galileo to the courtesy phone.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/13/2018 8:37 Comments || Top||

#6  Most of the "migrants" were men of military age.

Gee, why is that I wonder?
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/13/2018 9:14 Comments || Top||

#7  Most of the "migrants" were men of military age.

Invasion forces usually are.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/13/2018 10:46 Comments || Top||

#8  The idiots act like they have never been through this before.

And dey don kno wat to do?

So skerred and so permissive at the same times.

Fucking idiots.
Posted by: newc || 07/13/2018 21:12 Comments || Top||


Migrants threaten to KILL the crew of an Italian coast guard ship that saved them
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] The Diciotti carrying the 67 migrant passengers docked in Sicily earlier this week

  • Interior minister Matteo Salvini said he will not let them off until there is clarity

  • He said: 'If someone lied, they'll pay. If there was violence, it will be punished'
Posted by: Fred || 07/13/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking

#1  Should've dumped them all into the water.
Posted by: Raj || 07/13/2018 10:10 Comments || Top||

#2  I've a lot more empathy for the migrants - I'm against accepting them, but I understand their position - than for smugglers.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/13/2018 10:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Dump them all in the water for surely God will know his own.
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 07/13/2018 22:13 Comments || Top||


'No Jew in Germany': German police assault Israeli professor
[Jpost] It is unclear why the police confused the victim with the suspect.

The police in the West German city of Bonn allegedly mistakenly beat an Israeli philosophy professor after a German of Palestinian origin attacked him because he was wearing kippa.

According to a Thursday report in the Rheinische Post, the 20 year-old German Palestinian attacked the 50-year-old Israeli academic and yelled insults at him in German and English, including: "No Jew in Germany."

The German-Palestinian knocked the man's kippa from his head a number of times, was arrested and sent to a psychiatric clinc.

Regarding the police attack on the Israeli academic, Ursula Brohl-Sowa, the head of the Bonn police, called it "a horrible and regrettable misunderstanding."

The 50-year-old Israeli academic, who remained like the German-Palestinian unnamed in media reports, called for help and the police jumped and punched him in his face. It is unclear why the police confused the victim with the suspect.

The Israeli academic departed the city of Bonn, the former capital of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Antisemitic acts of violence and anti-Jewish rhetoric are increasing in Germany, according to German government reports.

In a separate development in Bonn,the anti-Israel organization BDS Group Bonn is seeking to stop a lecture from the Israeli academic Amichai Magen who is slated to deliver a talk on" Managing Terrorist Threats: The Growing Democracy Advantage" on July 12 at 6:00PM at the University of Bonn.

BDS is an abbreviation for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign targeting the Jewish state.. Two new German intelligence reports concluded that boycotts of Israel are antisemitic and resemble the Hitler movement's "Don't buy from Jews!" campaign.

According to the annoucmenet for Magen's lecture,"the Center for International Security and Governance will host a lecture by Amichai Magen, Head of the Diplomacy and Conflict Studies Program at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy in Herzliya, Israel, to discuss what he calls a „triple democracy advantage“ when it comes to terrorism"

The lecture notice adds that: "Contrary to popular opinion, Magen argues, data from nearly two decades suggests that liberal democracies are increasingly the safest regime type as they suffer fewer attacks than do other regime types, with a slower increase in numbers, and fewer fatalities. So how can this contrast between public perceptions and the changing empirical reality be explained? And what role does preserving and deepening democratic substance play in enhancing safety and mitigating the risks of terrorism? These and other questions will be explored at the upcoming event."
The Times of Israel adds:
The Israeli professor’s companion called police, but when officers arrived the attacker fled, with the Israeli in pursuit.
And that’s why the police focussed on him.
Police initially thought the Israeli was the aggressor, and when he failed to heed to their calls to stop they tried to detain him, leading to a scuffle in which he was hit in the face and wrestled to the ground. Only after the situation was clarified by the professor’s companion did police arrest the Palestinian, who reportedly was under the influence of drugs.

The attacker, who is known to police for drug and violence offenses,
Muslim known wolf colonist amuses himself attacking unbelievers. Is that F4 or F13? I’ve lost track.
was sent to a psychiatric clinic but later released, as the institute could find no reason to hold him, reports said.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 07/13/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Never heard of that before!
Posted by: Raj || 07/13/2018 0:16 Comments || Top||

#2  The police might have made an honest innocent mistake in this instance.

However the police of North Rhine-Westphalia has a history that makes it difficult to give them the benefit of the doubt without any further information.

There's no obvious reason or explanation for sending the assailant to a clinic rather than starting the process of criminal prosecution.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 07/13/2018 1:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Sure there is! By saying he's mental, then there is no crime.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 07/13/2018 2:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Israeli philosophy professor

I'd probably like to punch him myself.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/13/2018 3:29 Comments || Top||

#5  I'd probably like to punch him myself.

You might have to stand in line.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/13/2018 12:42 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkey Flies 2 Suspected Gulenists Back from Azerbaijan, Ukraine
[AnNahar] The Ottoman Turkish intelligence agency has detained and flown back to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire....
from Azerbaijan and Ukraine two suspected members of the movement blamed for the 2016 failed coup, its latest covert overseas swoop, state media said Thursday.

The Anadolu news agency said the two men were tossed into the calaboose in Azerbaijan and Ukraine on suspicion of being top members of the group of U.S.-based preacher Fethullah 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...
, who Ankara accuses of orchestrating the coup bid aimed at unseating 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...
Suspect Isa Ozdemir was detained in Azerbaijan and Salih Zeki Yigit in Ukraine in the operation by the National Intelligence Organization (MIT), it said.

After their detention, the two suspects were flown on a special flight to Istanbul airport and accused of membership of a terror group.

Anadolu gave no further information on how the two men had been captured or if the operations had taken place with the cooperation of the Azerbaijani or Ukrainian authorities.

But it published a picture of the two men with their hands cuffed in front of their chests.

This not the first time that MIT has conducted operations abroad aimed at bringing suspected Gulenists
... the Turkish version of the Boogie Man, who set fire to the Turkish Reichsstag...
back to Turkey.

In April, it flew three suspected Gulen group members back to Turkey from the African state of Gabon in a covert operation.

And in March, six Ottoman Turkish nationals alleged to be Gulenists were flown back to Turkey from Kosovo in a hugely contentious operation carried out by the Pristina interior ministry and MIT.

The operation sparked a crisis in Kosovo, with both the prime minister and president protesting that they were not informed of the operation.

Erdogan has vowed to hunt down Gulenists inside and outside Turkey, saying in April: "We will never allow those vile people to walk freely." A Ottoman Turkish official said in April that 80 Gulenists had so far been brought back to Turkey in such operations.

Gulen's group had built up huge influence in Turkey but also abroad -- notably in Africa, the Balkans and Central Asia -- in particular through an education network.

But the preacher, who has lived in the United States since 1999, denies any link to the failed coup bid.

Turkey has nabbed
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
tens of thousands of people since the coup bid on charges of belonging to the group, the biggest crackdown in its history.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/13/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


India-Pakistan
Boy dies after playing with grenade in held Kashmir
[DAWN] A boy was killed and four others maimed in India-held Kashmire on Wednesday in a blast from a grenade they found from the site of a previous day’s shootout, police and residents said.

The grenade went kaboom! as one of the kids started playing with it in a neighbourhood in southern Shopian area, police said.

The dead boy’s two cousins and two neighbours also were maimed and hospitalised.

Officials say counterinsurgency operations have become difficult in the disputed region because of the shift in public behaviour as residents now display anger at Indian rule openly and violently when troops raid villages and towns to hunt bad boys.

Earlier, government forces used to sweep areas where fighting would occur, said police chief S.P. Vaid. "Now as an operation finishes, forces leave the area as soon as possible to avoid confrontation" with locals, sometimes leaving behind unwent kaboom! explosives, he said.
Posted by: Fred || 07/13/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies


Suspect granted bail in Benazir case held in another case
[DAWN] The Counter Terrorism Department, Rawalpindi, has placed in durance vile
I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece!
a prime suspect in the murder case of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto
... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in...
after he was released from Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore.

The Kot Lakhpat jail authority has released suspect Rafaqat Hussain after he managed to secure bail in the Benazir Bhutto murder case.

Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP) chairperson and two-time former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a gun and kaboom at an election campaign rally in Rawalpindi’s Liaquat Bagh on Dec 27, 2007.

An official seeking anonymity told Dawn that Rafaqat was shifted to Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Jail from Rawalpindi prison following some administrative arrangements.

He said the Kot Lakhpat jail officials got his release orders on June 23, 2018, and following written orders, they released Rafaqat Hussain.

His elder brother received him outside the jail, he said adding that as soon as he reached his destination, a CTD team from Rawalpindi raided and arrested him in a terror attack case lodged with a local cop shoppe.

"The CTD arrested him in another suicide kaboom carried out on Feb 6, 2007 at Rawalpindi International Airport," the official said.

According to this case, he said, the terrorist had detonated a bomb in a parking area of the airport wounding some law-enforcement agencies personnel and killing himself after a brief exchange of fire.

Meanwhile,
...back at the wine tasting, Vince was about to start on his third quart...
the official said, the suspect’s father also filed a plea to the Rawalpindi bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) claiming that Rafaqat Hussain had gone missing from the prison.

He claimed that his son was acquitted in the murder case of Benazir Bhutto in August 2017 but was detained in Punjab’s various jails.

Lately, Rafaqat was shifted to the Kot Lakhpat Jail from where he went missing under mysterious circumstances, he claimed.

Earlier, an anti-terrorism court acquitted five suspects for lack of evidence and declared former military ruler Pervez Perv Musharraf
... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ...
a runaway.

ATC Judge Muhammad Asghar Khan found two coppers guilty of ’mishandling the scene of the crime’, making them the only people to have been convicted of the liquidation of Benazir in a gun and suicide attack in Rawalpindi on Dec 27, 2007.

Posted by: Fred || 07/13/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: TTP


2 injured in blast near political party's office in Khuzdar
[DAWN] At least two people were maimed in a blast near the election office of 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...
Awami Party (BAP) in Khuzdar on Thursday night, DawnNewsTV reported.

According to police, unidentified miscreants targeted the campaign office of Agha Shakeel Durrani, the leader of BAP contesting elections from Khuzdar.

The injured were rushed to a nearby hospital for medical treatment where a state of emergency was imposed to treat the injured.

Know more: BAP promises good governance, stability

The blast was reportedly followed by intense firing. Police and personnel of other law enforcement agencies reached the spot as an investigation into the incident went underway.

Balochistan Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mohsin Butt said holy warriors are planning to sabotage election activities in the province.

"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), Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
(LJ) and sub-nationalists are trying to sabotage election campaigns in Balochistan, he told DawnNewsTV.

However,
the hip bone's connected to the leg bone...
he provided assurances that security had been tightened in the province to ensure peaceful conduct of the election.

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Iraq
Three militants, planning to abduct civilians, arrested, south of Kirkuk
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Three gunnies were enjugged
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
as the pro-government paramilitary troops thwarted an attempt to kidnap civilians, south of Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
the media service said on Wednesday.

A statement on the website of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) said, "information from the intelligence helped the 50th brigade to arrest three gunnies who were on cycle of violences. They sneaked into Dakuk town."

The operation, according to the source, caused no damages. The information "indicated that the gunnies were planning to abduct civilians from the town."
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Newspaper: Iraqi mobilization forces engaged in arms control campaign
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has engaged the Shia-led force operating under his command in his campaign to limit weapons possession to the government.

London-based The New Arab quoted a high-profile Iraqi official saying that "Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has, eventually, agreed to engage the Popular Mobilization Forces in the government’s plan to limit weapons possession to the state".

According to the official, "the role of mobilization factions will be to assist police and army forces in conducting raids and searches of properties in search for arms and explosives".

According to the official, the participation of the mobilization forces comes as army and police troops used to complain to unreciprocal attitude to their orders by Arab tribes in the country’s southern provinces. He added that, recently, there have been festivities between Iraqi troops seeking to disarm them or end their feuds with opposing tribes.

Abadi has recurrently reiterated his will to exclude weapons to the state in a bid to tighten security and curb violence which exacerbated with the emergence of 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....
bandidos forces of Evil in 2014 and their takeover of a third of the country.
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Four Islamic State members killed in airstrike, northeast of Diyala: Commander
Diyala (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 in an Arclight airstrike, northeast of Diyala, a commander said on Thursday.

Speaking to Alghad Press, Maj. Gen. Mazhar al-Azzawi, commander of Diyala Operations, said, "security troops found four bodies of Islamic State, who were killed in an airstrike that destroyed their vehicle in Wadi al-Thallab region, northeast of Diyala."

The shelling, according to Azzawi, "was carried out based on information from the intelligence."
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF again shoots near Palestinians flying ‘fire balloons’ from Gaza into Israel
[IsraelTimes] An Israeli drone fired two missiles toward a group of Paleostinians flying incendiary balloons into southern Israel from the northern Gazoo Strip on Thursday, according to Paleostinian media.

This was the second such Arclight airstrike in less than 24 hours.

The Israeli military confirmed that one of its aircraft fired at a cell that had launched balloons toward Israel from northern Gazoo.

No injuries were reported in the airstrike, which the official Paleostinian Wafa news outlet said occurred near the northern Gazoo town of Beit Hanoun.

Multiple Paleostinian news outlets, including Wafa, reported that Israel conducted two strikes on Thursday, one near Beit Hanoun and a second east of the city of Jabaliya in the northern Gazoo Strip.

An IDF spokesperson denied the Paleostinian reports, saying he was "only familiar with one airstrike."

The southern Israeli Eshkol region reported that a number of incendiary and booby-trapped balloons had been flown into the area throughout Thursday morning.

"In addition, throughout the morning, a number of suspicious balloons were spotted and neutralized inside the region," an Eshkol spokespereson said.

At least one large cluster of dozens of balloons made its way into Israel. One balloon, carrying what appeared to be a small incendiary device, had a message taped to it, written in Hebrew and Arabic, reading: "When life here is like death, we’ll keep living near the fence."

It was not immediately clear if these balloons were launched by the same group that was targeted by the IDF strike.

21 fires break out due to incendiary balloons

[Ynet] 21 fires broke out on Thursday in the Gazoo border region due to incendiary balloons being flown from the strip into Israel.

The fires are now under control.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
IS Seizes Village in South Syria
[AnNahar] An Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group affiliate seized a village in southern Syria overnight from rebels who had agreed to a regime takeover, a Britannia-based monitor said Thursday.

Much of the southern province of Daraa had been quiet since Friday, when a ceasefire deal between rebels and the Russian-backed regime ended a nearly three-week government assault.

But Jaish Khaled bin Walid, a local IS branch that controls a small corner in the southwest of the province, on the border with Jordan and close to the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, is not included in that deal.

Overnight into Thursday, the jihadists took control of the village of Heet near the Jordanian border, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said.

"After violent festivities, Jaish Khaled bin Walid took control of Heet despite Russian and regime air strikes against them," Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.

Fighting since Wednesday has left 16 rebels and 12 jihadists dead including two jacket wallahs, he said.

Since June 19, the regime has been pressing military and negotiation efforts to retake the whole of Daraa and the adjacent Quneitra province from the opposition.

A government victory in the strategic area bordering Jordan and the occupied Golan Heights would be symbolic, as it is seen as the cradle of the seven-year uprising.

The regime now controls more than 80 percent of Daraa province, the Observatory says, though some parts of its western countryside remain under opposition control.

Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Terror of Aleppo ...
's regime has retaken more than 60 percent of the country since 2015, when Russia intervened militarily to bolster it.
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Syrian bases struck by IAF were being used by Iran — report
[IsraelTimes] The Syrian regime bases struck early this morning by the Israeli Air Force were in use by the Iranian military, the Kan public broadcaster reports.

The Arclight airstrikes in the Quneitra region near the border came hours after a Syrian drone was shot down by the military after it entered Israeli airspace.

According to Kan, Israel struck three military observation posts used for intelligence gathering by the Iranian army operating in Syria.

It says that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed the regime bases were being used by Iran
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Syrian troops raise national flag over Daraa, cradle of 2011 revolt
[IsraelTimes] Rebels agree to give up stronghold in return for amnesty; those who refuse exiled to other areas under opposition control

Syria’s army entered rebel-held parts of Daraa city on Thursday, state media said, raising the national flag in the cradle of the uprising that sparked the country’s seven-year war.

"Syrian army units enter Daraa al-Balad and raise the national flag in the main square," the official news agency SANA said of the center of the southern city.

On Wednesday, state media said opposition fighters and the regime had reached a deal for rebels to hand over their heavy weapons in Daraa al-Balad and other opposition-held parts of the city.

That deal come after a ceasefire announced last week stemmed nearly three weeks of regime bombardment on the symbolic wider province of the same name, which borders Jordan.

The Damascus regime is bent on retaking the whole of Daraa province, including its symbolic capital where 2011 protests against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Scourge of Qusayr...
are seen to have started the uprising that spiraled into civil war.

But the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based war monitor, said the regime forces entering Daraa al-Balad on Thursday was merely "symbolic."

Measures to implement the so-called reconciliation deal for rebel-held parts of the city had not yet been implemented, it said.

"The rebels are still inside Daraa city," Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said, but had not yet handed over their heavy weapons and there were no signs of any evacuations.

Under the deal, "those [rebels] who want to settle their status with the regime will hand over their heavy weapons, keep their light arms, and remain in the city," he said.

"Those who refuse the deal will head out towards the north of Syria."

The reconciliation deal for Daraa city is the latest in a string of such agreements that have seen the regime retake large parts of the country since 2015.

They usually follow blistering military campaigns and sometimes stifling sieges that effectively force the rebels into surrendering.

Previous such deals have seen thousands of rebels bused up to areas still under opposition control in the north of the country.
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