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Afghanistan
Nearly 60 militants killed in Afghan and Coalition Forces operations
[KhaamaPress] Nearly 60 gunnies have been killed during the separate operations of the Afghan Special Forces and Coalition Forces in various provinces of the country.

According to the informed military sources, the Afghan Special Operations Forces conducted a clearance operation in Qal’ah-e Now district of Badghis province killing 39 Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
fighters and destroying 30 IEDs.

The sources further added that Afghan Special Operations Forces conducted a patrol in Maiwand district of Kandahar to destroy Taliban weapons caches.

"In self defense, a coalition air strike killed 10 Taliban fighters," the sources said adding that two coalition air strikes killed 5 Taliban fighters in Tarin Kot district of Uruzgan.

The Afghan Special Operations Forces conducted a raid in Tagab of Kapisa district killing 1 Taliban fighter while another Taliban Death Eater was killed din Nerkh district of Wardak province.

The Afghan Special Operations Forces conducted a clearance operation in Nesh district of Kandahar killing 2 Taliban fighters and destroying a large amount of home-made explosives, the sources said adding that Afghan Special Operations Forces conducted a raid on a suspected Taliban prison in Ghazni to rescue Afghan security force prisoners. The Afghan soldiers had already been moved but the search will continue.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/18/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Large convoy of Afghan troops arrive in Sherin Tagab after heavy clashes with Taliban
[KhaamaPress] A large convoy of Afghan troops arrived in Sherin Tagab district of Faryab province after heavy festivities with the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
en-route to to the district that left at least 20 bandidos forces of Evil dead.

The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North in a statement said a large convoy of Afghan troops carrying supplies left Maimana city early Wednesday morning and arrived in Sherin Tagab district at 6pm after breaking several ambushes of the Death Eaters.

The statement further added at least 20 Talibs were killed during the festivities and Arclight airstrikes and 13 others sustained injuries.

The Afghan forces also discovered and defused at least 15 improvised bombs planted by the bandidos forces of Evil along the highway, the 209th Shaheen Corps added in its statement.

Faryab is among the relatively provinces in North of Afghanistan where Taliban are actively operating in some of its districts and often attempt to attack government and security institutions and forces.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/18/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


4 Taliban, ISIS-K militants surrender to Afghan forces in Nangarhar
[KhaamaPress] Four bully boyz affiliated with the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
and ISIS Khurasan surrendered to the Afghan 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 of Afghanistan.

The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East in a statement said three Talibs and a member of ISIS Khurasan surrendered to the Afghan forces in Bati Kot district on Wednesday.

The statement further added that the bully boyz were previously involved in destructive activities but the surrendered to Afghan forces after renouncing violence.

The antig-government armed krazed killer groups including Taliban have not commented regarding the surrender of their bully boyz so far.

Nangarhar is among the relatively calm provinces in East of Afghanistan but the anti-government armed elements including Taliban and ISIS Khurasan affiliates are active in some of its remote districts and often attempt to attack the government institutions and security forces.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/18/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Africa North
Terrorists kidnap Christian man in Sinai
[IsraelTimes] Police say they pursued the kidnappers after the incident, killing one and wounding two, but could not free the hostage

Egyptian security officials said Islamic holy warriors have kidnapped a Christian man traveling in a communal taxi in the turbulent north of Egypt’s Sinai peninsula.

They did not identify the man, but said police pursued the kidnappers after the incident, killing one of them and wounding two others in a firefight, but could not free the hostage.

Two coppers were also maimed in the firefight, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media.

Terrorists led by 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....
group have been fighting security forces in Sinai for years. Since 2016, they have killed more than 100 Christians in attacks targeting churches and buses carrying pilgrims to remote monasteries.

Scores of Christian families have fled Sinai following attacks by bad boys.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/18/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Africa Subsaharan
C.Africa troops recapture uranium mining town from rebels
[PULSE.NG] Government troops supported by UN peacekeepers have recaptured a uranium mining town in southeast Central African Republic, more than two weeks after it was seized by rebels, an official said Thursday.
Posted by: Fred || 01/18/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Seleka


'White man' found shot dead in Burkina's jihadist-hit north
[PULSE.NG] The body of a "white man with gunshot wounds" has been found in a northern region of Burkina Faso
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other...
where jihadists have carried out attacks, a security official told AFP Thursday.

The body was found late on Wednesday in Siega in Soum province, "and is being taken to Dori for identification," the source said.

Last month, 34-year-old Canadian aid worker Edith Blais, was reported missing with an Italian friend, Lucas Tacchetto, 30, as they were travelling between the western town of Bobo-Dioulasso and the capital Ouagadougou.

Separately, Canadian geologist Kirk Woodman was kidnapped from a gold mine in the east of the country late on Tuesday.

His abductors were last seen heading towards neighbouring Niger, a direction that would not have taken them through Soum, officials said.

Burkina Faso lies in the heart of the vast Sahel region
... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas...
, which is struggling with a bloody Islamist insurgency.

The region turned into a hotbed of violent extremism and lawlessness after chaos engulfed Libya in 2011.

An Islamist insurgency began in northern Mali, while 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...
rose in northern Nigeria.

Jihadist raids began in northern Burkina Faso in 2015 before spreading to the east, near the border with Togo and Benin.

Most of the attacks have been attributed to Ansarul Islam and the Group to Support Islam and Moslems (JNIM).
The Times of Israel adds:
A body found with gunshot wounds yesterday night is that of Kirk Woodman, "the Canadian who was kidnapped the day before yesterday," ministerial front man Jean-Paul Badoum says.

The body "is being taken to Dori for identification," the source says. Another security source says the remains will then be flown by helicopter to Ouagadougou.

Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland says her country is "appalled and deeply saddened" by the killing.

"Canada condemns those responsible for this terrible crime. We are working with the government of Burkina Faso and other international partners to pursue those responsible and bring them to justice," she says.

Woodman is one of two Canadians who have gone missing in Burkina Faso, an impoverished country in the front line of a jihadist rebellion in the Sahel.

He was vice president of a Canadian company, Progress Minerals, which owns a gold mine at Tiabangou, located in Yagha, a volatile province near the Niger and Mali border.

He was at the mine when the site came under attack from about 10 gunnies, Security Minister Clement Sawadogo said yesterday.
Posted by: Fred || 01/18/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa


Troops foil Boko Haram's attempted invasion of Borno community, kill several
[PULSE.NG] Troops of anti-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...
operation, Operation Lafiya Dole, foiled an attempt by bully boyz to infiltrate Gajiram community in Borno State, killing several and recovering arms and ammunition.

According to a statement signed by Lafiya Dole's Deputy Director of Public Relations, Colonel Onyema Nwachukwu, the bully boyz attempted to use the cover of darkness to attack the community on Tuesday, January 15, 2019.

"The bully boyz met with the prompt response of the vigilant troops who fiercely engaged them in combat killing several and re-covering weapons," the statement read.

Arms and ammunition recovered from the bully boyz include one AK-47 rifle, two AK-47 magazines, one rocket-propelled grenade tube, three rocket-propelled grenade bombs, four bomb chargers, and light machine gun belt links.

"The gallant troops are currently on the trail of some of the bully boyz survivors who expeditiously departed at a goodly pace of the encounter," the statement concluded.

Since Boko Haram's insurgency escalated in 2009, it has killed over 27,000 people and displaced millions in the northeast region, with its operations also extending to border countries like Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
, Chad and Niger.

Posted by: Fred || 01/18/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)


Arabia
UN says Yemen monitors safe after Hodeida shooting
[PULSE.NG] A United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
team tasked with overseeing a truce in 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...
came under fire but was unharmed in the flashpoint city of Hodeida Thursday, hours after the Security Council approved expanding the mission.

Chief monitor Patrick Cammaert and his team were "safe in Hodeida following reported shooting incident", tweeted the spokesperson of the UN secretary general.

Speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity, a UN official confirmed that "shots were fired" at Cammaert's convoy and that the retired Dutch general was "safe".

The UN monitors arrived in the Red Sea port city of Hodeida -- the entry point for the bulk of Yemen's imports -- on December 23 to oversee a truce agreed by the warring sides last month at talks outside Sweden's capital Stockholm.

The deal has helped ease fighting for the city between Iran-backed Houthis and government forces supported by a Saudi-led alliance.

The UN says the ceasefire has been generally holding despite some festivities, while the rebels and government have accused ease other of repeated violations.

'NO DIALOGUE'
The shooting incident came one day after the UN Security Council unanimously approved an extended mission of up to 75 unarmed monitors to shore up the truce.

The new monitors will be sent to Hodeida city and port as well as to the ports of Saleef and Ras Issa for an initial period of six months.

The rebels have been particularly divided in their support for the UN-brokered agreement on the ceasefire and deployment of monitors, with some singling out Cammaert for criticism.

Rebel representative Mohammed al-Bukhaiti said the Huthis rejected the expanded UN mission.

"We will not accept dialogue around increasing the number of international monitors until the problem of Patrick Cammaert is resolved," Bukhaiti told AFP.

"Since his appointment, he has sought to see the Stockholm agreement fail."

Yemeni Information Minister Moammer al-Eryani on Thursday accused the Huthis of preventing UN monitors headed by Cammaert from going to a meeting with government officials.

Most of Yemen's supplies of imported goods and humanitarian aid comes through the port of Hodeida, providing a lifeline to millions on the brink of starvation.

The Huthis control most of Hodeida, while government forces are deployed on its southern and eastern outskirts.

The Saudi-led alliance also controls Yemen's maritime borders and has imposed a near-total blockade on the Hodeida port.

Posted by: Fred || 01/18/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Bangladesh
Militants stalked Xulhaz through LGBTQ platforms
[Dhaka Tribune] Police investigation into the murder of LGTBQ activist Xulhaz Mannan has revealed that his murderers from Ansar al-Islam, a banned bad boy group, were stalking him on a pro-LGBTQ Facebook group and rallies.

A source within the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit confided to the Dhaka Tribune that Asadullah, one of the prime suspects placed in durance vile
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
for his involvement in Xulhaz's murder, have revealed chilling details about how the murderers blended in with the LGBTQ crowd that the rights activist was campaigning for.

The police arrested Asadullah on Tuesday and took him into remand.

Ansar al Islam's intelligence wing, known as Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) had opened several Facebook IDs to gather information on Xulhaz, who founded Roopban - Bangladesh's first and only LGBTQ magazine - and several other targets.

The ABT outfit assigned to kill Xulhaz made their plans in a house in Gazipur, where they were trained in melee weapons and explosives.

Asadullah and Zubair, another Ansar al-Islam member, had stalked Xulhaz on Facebook, in particular the pro-LGBTQ groups that their target was active in. They became increasingly involved in the pro-LGBTQ activities and even participated in Roopban pride rallies.

Thus, the ABT was able to track Xulhaz and draw up plans for his execution by determining the time and place where he would be most vulnerable.

On April 25, 2016, Xulhaz and his friend Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy, a theatre activist, were hacked to death at the former’s Kalabagan residence in Dhaka.

CTTC Chief Monirul Islam said that Asadullah is directly involved in the murder of Xulhaz and Tonoy.

Mohibul Islam Khan, deputy commissioner with the CTTC, also said that the police are still investigating and trying to get more information out of Asadullah.
Posted by: Fred || 01/18/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Ansarullah Bangla Team (AQIS)


Great White North
Islamic State woman found guilty of terror crimes in Canada
[PULSE.NG] A Canadian jury found a woman guilty Thursday of terror crimes for trying to join 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....
group and in its name attacking staff at a Toronto-area department store two years ago.

Rehab Dughmosh, who was tossed in the slammer
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
in June 2017 when she was 32, was found guilty of four counts of leaving the country for the purpose of joining a terror group, assaults with a golf club and a butcher knife, and carrying an archery bow.

According to court documents cited by Canadian media, she attempted to fly to Syria in April 2016 to join the IS group, and when that failed returned home and plotted the mall attack.

Her plans to go to Syria were thwarted by Ottoman Turkish officials tipped off by her brother. At the time, Dughmosh claimed that she was just trying to visit family, although she admitted after her arrest that she had intended to travel to join IS.

The court heard that Dughmosh admitted to pledging her allegiance to the Islamic State group, and on the day in question packed bags with weapons, including a hammer, barbecue skewers, straws tipped with screws and a child's shovel made into claws.

She also hid the knife and bow in her robe.

But on her way out of her apartment she ran into her estranged husband, who confiscated the bags. He reportedly did not know about the concealed weapons.

At the Canadian Tire store east of Toronto, Dughmosh grabbed a golf club off a rack after trying unsuccessfully to access arrows in a locked display case.

She then draped herself in a homemade IS banner, tied an IS bandana around her head and charged staff with the golf club and butcher knife, shouting: "This is for ISIS."

Staff wrestled her to the ground. Nobody was maimed.

Police later found the weapons cache at her home, along with a cellphone containing IS propaganda videos and a handwritten will in which she asked for martyrdom.

A sentencing hearing is scheduled for Monday. The prosecution is seeking eight years in prison.
Posted by: Fred || 01/18/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Iraq
Two alleged ISIS members, six suspects arrested in Erbil
[Rudaw] Kurdistan Region’s counter-terrorism directorate have jugged
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
eight suspected ISIS members, the unit announced late on Thursday. The arrests were made on Wednesday.

"Based on information and after close monitoring, two members of a ISIS terrorist group ‐ Ahmed Ibrahim Ahmed Jadi' and Qa'ttan Ali Ahmed Jadi' ‐ were arrested on January 16, 2019 in Erbil during a successful operation," the directorate announced on their Facebook page.

The two - their relation to each other was not confirmed - were arrested under a court-issued warrant. They had worked for ISIS in the group’s security unit, the directorate stated.

Six other suspects, not identified, were picked up in the same operation.

ISIS was declared defeated in Iraq in December 2017, but sleeper cells and small units of the snuffies remain a security threat throughout the country.

Sulaimani security forces announced the arrest of a known and "dangerous" ISIS murderous Moslem on Wednesday.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/18/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas military wing says member dies in ‘weapon-related error’
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian terror group fighter killed while ’taking up a position’ in the border area between Israel and Gazoo.
The second in as many days. One more will make a trend.
The Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbung millipede, military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, said one of its members died on Thursday as a result of "a weapon-related error."

The Islamist terror group’s armed wing identified the man who died as 21-year-old Ahmad al-Fayoumi.

"He went up to heaven as a martyr... as a result of a weapon-related error while taking up a position in the cracks," the Qassam Brigades said in a statement, using a term to refer to the border region between Israel and the Gazoo Strip.

The Qassam Brigades did not provide details on the "weapon-related error."

Pictures posted on Twitter showed what appeared to be Fayoumi’s remains at a hospital in Gazoo.

On Wednesday, another Qassam Brigades member died. The terror group’s armed wing said 27-year-old Hamdi Hejazi succumbed to wounds he sustained earlier this month "in an accident while taking up a position in the cracks," without elaborating.

In January 2018, then-senior Hamas official Imad al-Alami shot himself in the head "while examining his personal weapon in his home," Fawzi Barhoum, a front man for the terror group, said at the time.

However,
a lie repeated often enough remains a lie...
some experts speculated that a rival Hamas member may have shot Alami. Weeks after the incident, Alami, who was regarded as a hardliner and a backer of Hamas’s ties with Iran, died at a hospital in Gazoo.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/18/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Over 2,000 Evacuated from Final Syria IS Holdout
[AnNahar] More than 2,000 people including dozens 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....
fighters left the jihadist group's final holdout in eastern Syria in the past 24 hours, a monitor said Wednesday.

US-backed forces are waging a final assault on the area east of the Euphrates river and have provided buses to evacuate civilians and fighters trapped inside.

"In total, 2,200 people have left in the last 24 hours, including 180 IS fighters," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

It said around 1,100 people, "mostly women and kiddies as well as 80 IS members" had left in a convoy around noon on Wednesday.

Travelling in private cars and buses provided by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), they were headed for camps run by the US-supported group, Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said.

The SDF, backed by air strikes from a US-led coalition, in September launched an offensive to oust IS from the rump of the once-sprawling "caliphate" it proclaimed in 2014.

Abdel Rahman said over 20,000 people have fled the area since the start of December, including Syria, Iraqi, Russian and Somali fighters.

The United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
said Friday that overall some 25,000 people have fled the violence over the last six months as the die-hard jihadists have battled to defend their dwindling bastions.

Abdel Rahman said the outflow of evacuees had accelerated in recent days, with some 5,300 people including 500 IS fighters leaving since Friday, when the SDF-run evacuations started.

Thousands of people had already fled on foot before that.

The SDF has captured multiple districts in recent weeks, but IS still controls the village of Sousa, where the Kurdish-dominated force has been preparing for a final assault.

US-led strikes against the jihadist group's final positions intensified on Wednesday.

That came after a suicide kaboom killed four US personnel in the northern town of Manbij, costing Washington its worst combat losses in the war-torn country since 2014 as it prepares to withdraw.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/18/2019 01:33 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


US-led coalition airstrikes pound IS areas in eastern Syria
[IsraelTimes] Syrian activists are reporting intense Arclight airstrikes on the last area held by 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....
group in the country’s east where the jihadists’ control has been shrinking over the past weeks.

The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the airstrikes hit the 15 square kilometers (5.8 square miles) controlled by IS in the eastern province of Deir el-Zour after US-backed Kurdish-led fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces scored gains in recent weeks.

Europe-based activist Omar Abu Layla of the DeirEzzor 24 monitoring group confirms intense airstrikes are ongoing, adding that they were triggered by a counter-offensive carried out by IS during a strong fog.

The airstrikes come a day after a suicide kaboom carried by IS Lions of Islam killed 19 people, including four Americans, in the northern town of Manbij.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/18/2019 00:19 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Should we be doing this in Mexico?
Posted by: Punky Gonque4964 || 01/18/2019 12:06 Comments || Top||


Lebanon says it captured American man suspected of infiltrating from Israel
Idiocy has consequences. One wonders what the gentleman was playing at.
[IsraelTimes] Suspect identified as Colin Emery Doyle was spotted Tuesday in a Lebanese village, having apparently crossed the border through a hole in the fence.

The Lebanese military on Thursday said it captured an American man suspected of entering Leb from Israel through a hole in the security fence earlier in the week.

The man, identified by Leb as Colin Emery Doyle, was being questioned by intelligence officers of the Lebanese Armed Forces, under the supervision of a judge. Lebanese media published conflicting reports about his mental health.

The United States Embassy in Beirut said it was aware of the reports and would provide Doyle with "all consular services possible."

The Hezbollah terrorist group’s media department distributed a photograph of the suspect, showing a red-haired man who appears to be in his 30s standing in a clothing shop, where he was tossed in the clink
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
"After continuous search operations a LAF intelligence patrol was able to find the American citizen ’Colin Emery’ hiding in one of the alleys in the city of Tyre," the Lebanese Armed Forces said in a statement.

A photograph of Doyle’s passport was also published in Lebanese media.

The coastal city of Tyre is located some 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the border town of Aita al-Shaab, where he is believed to have entered Leb from Israel.

He was arrested while trying to purchase clothes, Lebanese media reported.

"He was arrested over suspicions of entering on 15/01/2019 from the Occupied Paleostinian Territories (Israel) to Lebanese territories. Investigation is underway with the competent justice department," the LAF said.

The Israel Defense Forces said it was aware of the reports in Lebanese media and was looking into them.

The US Embassy said in a statement: "We’ve seen media reports of the arrest of a US citizen. We take our obligation to assist US citizens abroad seriously and stand ready to provide all appropriate consular services."

The United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
peacekeeping force UNIFIL, which often acts as a mediator between Israel and Leb as the two do not have formal ties, similarly said it was checking the reports, but stressed that it was a matter for the Lebanese authorities.

According to Israel’s Channel 13 news, Emery traveled to Israel from Vietnam.

On Tuesday afternoon, a man wearing military-style clothing was spotted in a Lebanese village, apparently after having crossed the security fence from Israel, Lebanese media reported.

The Israeli military at the time confirmed that soldiers had spotted a tear in the border fence and tracks indicating that someone had traveled from Israel into Leb.

Lebanese media had conflicting reports about what happened once the man was inside the country.

According to the al-Jadeed television station, the suspect was seen entering the village of Aita al-Shaab, near the border with Israel, wearing military attire and holding a box.

When residents approached him, he threw down the box and other papers, which had Hebrew writing on them, and bravely ran away, the report said.

Another Lebanese outlet, Al Mayadeen, reported that a wallet was found with an American passport in it.

And the LBC news site reported that residents found a book in Hebrew and English and medical equipment.

The border with Leb has been especially tense in recent weeks, while the Israeli military was endeavoring to find and destroy attack tunnels it says the Hezbollah terror group had dug into Israel. On Sunday, the IDF declared that it had found all the tunnels leading into Israel from Leb
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/18/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...finally, someone who actually carries out their threat 'I'll leave this country if Trunk is elected'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/18/2019 6:59 Comments || Top||

#2  So Colin Doyle has red hair... whoda thunk?
Posted by: Clase Chereth5775 || 01/18/2019 7:42 Comments || Top||

#3  He may be some sort of SJW or just 'touched'.

Kind of the same, really.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 01/18/2019 8:20 Comments || Top||

#4  The United States Embassy in Beirut said it was aware of the reports and would provide Doyle with "all consular services possible."

As long as they don't have anything better to do.
Posted by: gorb || 01/18/2019 11:23 Comments || Top||

#5  maybe he thought he was sneaking into America from Mexico.
Posted by: airandee || 01/18/2019 12:41 Comments || Top||

#6  #4 - "we're kinda idled by the Shutdown. 'Helping assholes with stoopid problems they created on their own' is not on the list. Check back in February...or March"
Posted by: Frank G || 01/18/2019 19:15 Comments || Top||


Syria arrests Turkish-backed militants planning terror attacks
[PRESSTV] Syrian Kurdish officials have jugged
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
a group of Ottoman Turkish-backed faceless myrmidons from the so-called Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
(FSA), who was apparently plotting new terror attacks in the country’s northern province of Aleppo on orders from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund....
's intelligence agency (MIT).

"Counter-terrorism units of the Manbij Military Council (MMC) have disbanded a cell, comprising of seven faceless myrmidons who ... were supported by the Ankara government and were acting in full coordination with MIT," the MMC said in a statement on Thursday.

It added, "They were planning several kabooms and acts of terror."

The statement went on to say thon the lam amounts of weapons and munitions, including grenades, Kalashnikov assault rifles and Chiappa Firearms M6 M6 rifles was seized from the murderous Moslems.
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US-led coalition bombs Syrian mosque being used by IS
[IsraelTimes] Airstrike comes day after four US soldiers killed in suicide kaboom, underlining jihadist group’s continued presence despite looming troop pullout.

The US-led coalition fighting 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....
group destroyed a command center housed in a Syrian mosque on Thursday, officials said.

Coalition aircraft "destroyed an ISIS command and control facility in a mosque in Safafiyah," a coalition statement read, using an alternate acronym for IS.

"ISIS continues to violate Law of Armed Conflict and misuse protected structures like hospitals and mosques, which cause a facility to lose its protected status," the statement added.

IS holdouts in Syria are mainly in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor.

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#1  No excuses needed for bombing anything ISIS touches.
Posted by: gorb || 01/18/2019 11:25 Comments || Top||



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