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Britain
Red on red: Gays Against Sharia UK rally planned, Antifa counter-protesting to oppose "Islamophobia"
[JihadWatch] Gays Against Sharia UK announced that they are holding a joint rally with Standing For Britain. The group states on Facebook that the march will be protesting "against Muslim grooming gangs operating in Stockton."

As with anyone who stands against Islamic abuses of women, infidels, gays, Jews, etc., "anti-fascists are gearing up to counter protest" against the march in Stockton. In an absurd statement, Antifa is urging "all who oppose racism and Islamophobia" to support the "anti-fascist protest." Again, the words "Islamophobia" and "racism" are manipulated in service of a socialist-jihadi alliance. Antifa ignores real hate, intolerance and abuse, which Gays Against Sharia UK is standing against, and some of which is targeted at their own community. Here are a handful of examples:

  • An influential Iranian cleric, Ayatollah Abdollah Javiadi-Amoli, who is entitled to issue juristic rulings according to the Sharia, said that politicians who pass laws in favour of homosexuals are lower than animals. "Even animals ... dogs and pigs don’t engage in this disgusting act [homosexuality] but yet they [western politicians] pass laws in favour of them in their parliaments."

  • An American Muslim cleric, Sheikh Khalid Yasin, stated: "God is very straightforward about this ‐ not we Muslims, not subjective, the Sharia is very clear about it, the punishment for homosexuality, bestiality or anything like that is death. We don’t make any excuses about that, it’s not our law ‐ it’s the Koran."

  • Tunisian Sheikh Sheikh Fathi Rebaï, who has rejected and rebuked calls for the rights of homosexuals, stated that "cattle are more honorable" than homosexuals. Citing a hadith, he said that "the only disagreement among Sunni scholars was over the method of execution, with the Hanafi school advocating throwing them down from a high place and then stoning them to death."

  • According to the American Center for Democracy: “Canada, which prides itself of draconian ‘hate speech’ laws, allows major Muslim organizations, imams preaching in mosques, open lectures, books, videos and on social media, the notion that ‘The Hadd [fixed punishment] of homosexuality is stoning to death. The methods of killing them (the two who committed the homosexual act) that have been related from the Companions have differed. From among them, there were those who burned them with fire. Others among them killed them by stoning them with stones. Ibn ’Abbas said about them. "The highest building in the village should be sought, then they should be thrown from it upside down (i.e. on their heads). Then they should be stoned after that."’ Excerpts from the book Minhaj-Al-Muslim by Abu Bakr Al-Jazairy (purchased at the Islamic Circle of North America’s bookstore in Toronto).”

Gays Against Sharia UK is also featuring a speech from Anne Marie Waters, the leader of the For Britain party and former UKIP member, who recently wrote a telling article for Jihad Watch entitled "Our Democracy is Dead and Left-Wing Fascism Has Replaced It."
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 07/26/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Antifa

#1  Antifa has come out in favor of killing gays. This will be interesting to see how it plays out in the left..
Posted by: ruprecht || 07/26/2018 0:37 Comments || Top||

#2  They'll just ignore it like usual.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/26/2018 4:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Issue them all pistols and stand back.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/26/2018 7:01 Comments || Top||

#4  purple used to be the 'gay color' but now its a rainbow flag

in any case the 'red on red' doesn't really work
Posted by: lord garth || 07/26/2018 8:29 Comments || Top||

#5  My head started spinning after the second paragraph with all the groups protesting something.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/26/2018 10:49 Comments || Top||

#6  Make them fight it out at the top of the high cliffs in Dover.
Posted by: AlanC || 07/26/2018 14:57 Comments || Top||

#7  My head started spinning after the second paragraph with all the groups protesting something.

Can't wait for the protests to subsidize Facebook.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/26/2018 19:06 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
US Threatens Turkey With Economic Sanctions Over Imprisoned American Clergyman
h/t Red State
In the aftermath of the abortive 2016 coup in Turkey, American citizen and Evangelical pastor to the Izmir Resurrection Church, Andrew Brunson was swept up and jailed. He was initially accused of working with the PKK, working with American intelligence, and trying to overthrow the Islamist dictatorship of Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

...The strategy of the Erdogan regime seems to be to hold Brunson as hostage until the US extradites a Turkish preacher, Fethullah Gulen, whom Erdogan blames for everything from crop failure to boils on the ass. In particular, he blames him for the 2016 coup attempt.

...
Vice President Mike Pence

@VP
If Turkey does not take immediate action to free Pastor Andrew Brunson and send him home to America, the United States will impose significant sanctions on Turkey until this innocent man of faith is free.

6:06 PM - Jul 26, 2018
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/26/2018 14:04 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


#2  He was initially accused of working with the PKK, working with American intelligence, and trying to overthrow the Islamist dictatorship of Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

And all in his free time! A very busy boy.

Either way, a bonehead move on the part of Pastor Brunson.
Posted by: gorb || 07/26/2018 23:10 Comments || Top||


Turkey approves new ‘anti-terror' law to replace state of emergency
[IsraelTimes] Critics say new legislation allowing authorities to detain suspects without charge, limit protests, is formalized version of current limits.

Officials repeatedly stress that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
is facing multiple terror threats from 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....
krazed killer group, outlawed Kurdish murderous Moslems and the movement run by US-based Moslem 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...
which Ankara blames for the July 2016 failed coup.

Turkey introduced the state of emergency five days after the attempted putsch, and renewed it seven times despite calls from Western allies to end the measure.

Over 77,000 people were tossed in the slammer
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
under the emergency over alleged links to the Gulen movement, which Turkey officially calls the "Fethullah Terrorist Organisation."

Critics including human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty...
activists accused Ankara of using the emergency to crack down on Erdogan’s opponents.

But the government said that the emergency was needed to handle the multiple threats while officials said over 150,000 suspensions and sackings from the public sector were necessary to handle the "virus" of Gulen inside the state.

Erdogan promised to end the emergency in the campaign ahead of his victory in the June 24 presidential and parliamentary elections.

Earlier, the interior ministry said it had reinstated the passports of 155,350 people whose travel document had been cancelled because their partner was being investigated under the emergency.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/26/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Turkey: American pastor on trial for terror let out of jail
[IsraelTimes] After year and a half, Andrew Craig Brunson released due to 'health problems' but sent to his room

An American pastor who had been tossed in the slammer
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
for more than one and a half years on terror and espionage charges was released Wednesday and will be put under house arrest as his trial continues.

Andrew Craig Brunson, 50, an evangelical pastor originally from Black Mountain, North Carolina, was let out of jail to serve home detention because of "health problems," Turkey’s official Anadolu news agency said.

Anadolu’s report did not specify the nature of Brunson’s health problems. He was placed in durance vile
Please don't kill me!
in December 2016 and had been in jug since then.

A court in western Izmir province said Brunson would be electronically monitored and barred from leaving his house. He also is prohibited from leaving Turkey, where he has lived for 23 years and served as pastor of Izmir Resurrection Church.

If convicted, he faces up to 15 years in prison for "committing crimes on behalf of terror groups without being a member," references to outlawed Kurdish Lions of Islam and the network of a US-based Moslem holy man blamed for a failed coup attempt. He could receive another 20 years if he is found guilty of espionage.

Brunson strongly denies the charges.

The case has strained ties between NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
allies Turkey and the United States. President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
has repeatedly demanded Brunson’s release and said on Twitter last week that the pastor’s detention was "a total disgrace."

Ottoman Turkish 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...
has previously linked Brunson’s return to the US to the extradition of holy man 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...
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/26/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Great White North
ISIS claims responsibility for deadly shooting in Toronto
[NYPOST] The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a shooting in Toronto on Sunday that killed two people and wounded 13, the group’s AMAQ news agency said Wednesday.

The attacker “was a soldier of the Islamic State and carried out the attack in response to calls to target the citizens of the coalition countries,” a statement by the group said.

‘No evidence' to back IS claim for deadly Toronto attack

[IsraelTimes] Cops say they've found no links between Faisal Hussain and terror group that took credit for Sunday attack that killed two.
Posted by: Fred || 07/26/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Does this liberal-guided country have looney immigration policies?
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/26/2018 10:47 Comments || Top||

#2  This one, certainly. Canada, maybe.

Mexican Immigrants Flee U.S. for Canada
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/26/2018 19:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Does this liberal-guided country have looney immigration policies?

Maybe if they put their immigrants into hotels it will make them integrate better?

BTW, aren't the hotels there more for tourism?
Posted by: gorb || 07/26/2018 23:03 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
ICE Captures 132 Illegal Immigrants, Including A High-Ranking MS-13 Member, In DC Area Roundup
[DAILYCALLER] The Immigration Customs Enforcement Agency apprehended 132 illegal immigrants colonists in a Washington, D.C., metropolitan area operation that took place over the last two weeks, according to an ICE statement released on Tuesday.

The Washington Field Office recently concluded Operation Eagle’s Shield, which went from July 9‐20, which targeted "various violent offenders, gang members, sex offenders, runaways from justice and those who otherwise pose a significant public safety threat," according to their statement.

"We set out to locate and detain known, dangerous criminal aliens who are hiding and operating in the neighborhoods we call home," Washington field office director Russell Hott said. "Today’s announcement is the result of the absolutely essential work our ICE officers perform to identify the worst of the worst and ensure they have no refuge here."

One of the people jugged
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
is allegedly an El Salvadorian national who is a high-ranking member of MS-13 ‐ the most ruthless, violent gang in the world. President Trump has continued to express his desire to remove the vicious gang from the country.

A Bolivian national who has four prior convictions for rape and intercourse with a victim under thirteen was also arrested during this operation, among many others convicted of or accused of heinous crimes, including felony sexual abuse, felony sodomy, and felony strangulation, among other crimes.

Those arrested come from the following countries: Bolivia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Fiji, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Mongolia, Peru, Philippines, South Africa and Sudan.
Posted by: Fred || 07/26/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  More of their best and brightess will hopefully be returning home.
Posted by: Flilet Omeremble3846 || 07/26/2018 7:32 Comments || Top||

#2  More. Faster. Please!
Posted by: Eltoroverde || 07/26/2018 7:33 Comments || Top||

#3  There have been reports/rumors in the alt-media that it was MS-13 who were hired to ice Seth Rich. It's an interesting story and might be true. If so, You've got to wonder who might have hired them.

Bolivia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Fiji, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Mongolia, Peru, Philippines, South Africa and Sudan. That's a diverse bunch. How did they get here from Jamaica, Mongolia, Philippines, South Africa and Sudan? Swim or overstay their visas?
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/26/2018 10:45 Comments || Top||

#4  ALRIGHT...now lash them with feathers!
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/26/2018 12:20 Comments || Top||

#5  ALRIGHT...now lash them with feathers!

As long as hot tar is involved....
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/26/2018 15:07 Comments || Top||

#6  How about the Hester Prynne solution? A scarlet "A", for alien. Branded in the forehead.

Ohhh. Sounds positively ...colonial.

The Scarlet Letter
Posted by: Bobby || 07/26/2018 18:36 Comments || Top||

#7  Maybe Congress should be forced to vote on whether or not we deport the poor, disadvantaged MS-13 member. "Present" or abstentions count as "No" in order to protect his American human rights.
Posted by: gorb || 07/26/2018 23:05 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Pakistan Elections: Imran Khan’s PTI takes early lead as counting gets underway
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Pakistain was locked in a close and tense election race on Wednesday, pitting cricket hero Imran Khan
... aka Taliban Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five...
against the party of tossed in the slammer
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
ex-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts...
in a process marred by a suicide bomb that killed 31 people near a polling station.

Electoral authorities said official results declaring an outright winner were not expected before late Thursday morning. However,
a hangover is the wrath of grapes...
early unofficial results gave cricket star Imran Khan and his Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf
...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations....
Party a commanding lead over his main rival, Shahbaz Sharif
...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab...
’'s Pakistain Moslem League.

Jubilant Khan supporters danced to the beat of drums at his party headquarters in Islamabad, sensing a victory. The sound of fire crackers echoed in the night sky.

Sharif, the younger brother of disgraced Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who has been tossed in the slammer
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
on corruption charges, disputed the election results even before they were announced. He charged fraud and vowed not to accept the results, generating fears that disgruntled losers could delay the formation of the next government.

The parliamentary balloting marked only the second time in Pakistain's 71-year history that one civilian government has handed power to another in the country of 200 million people. There also have been widespread concerns during the election campaign about manipulation by the military, which has directly or indirectly ruled the country for most of its existence.

"We will sweep the elections," said Abdul Basit, a supporter of Khan’s, who watched the results on a large TV screen.

Neither Khan nor Sharif’s party appeared likely to win a clear majority in the too-close-to-call election, with results likely to be known by around 2 a.m. local time on Thursday (2100 GMT Wednesday).

Posted by: Fred || 07/26/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Pakistan election: Imran Khan claims victory amid rigging claims
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/26/2018 12:16 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
In first, ‘Palestine' to head bloc of 134 nations at UN
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinians to preside over the Group of 77, largest's coalition of developing nations; Israeli envoy laments it will become 'a platform for spreading lies and incitement'.

The "State of Paleostine" will reportedly preside next year over the largest bloc of developing nations at the United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
Paleostine ‐ which is not a member state of the UN but has observer state status ‐ was chosen to head the so-called Group of 77, a consortium now consisting of 134 nations that often speaks in one voice at the UN General Assembly, starting January 1, 2019, The New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

reported Tuesday.

"We will be negotiating on behalf of 135 countries," Paleostinian Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour told the paper, including his own delegation in the count.

The group was originally founded in 1964 with 77 countries, including Egypt, 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...
, Brazil, Thailand and India. Over the years it has grown to include countries such as South Africa, 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...
, Cuba, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Singapore, and Angola. It represents some 80 percent of the world’s population.

Egypt currently holds the group’s presidency until December 31.

The Foreign Ministry in Israel did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon expressed misgivings about the move.

"The goal of the Group of 77 originally was to facilitate the economic advancement of underdeveloped nations," he told The Times of Israel. "It is unfortunate that it will now become a platform for spreading lies and incitement. This will not promote the G-77’s goals, and encourages the Paleostinians to not engage in negotiations for peace."

The UN General Assembly in 2012 voted overwhelmingly in favor of granting Paleostine "non-state observer status." Three years later, the GA also voted to allow the Paleostinian flag to be raised outside the UN’s iconic building on New York’s East River.

Israel and the US were among the few countries opposing these moves, arguing that unilateral moves ostensibly advancing Paleostinian statehood were counterproductive to efforts to reach a lasting peace agreement.

Mansour, the Paleostinian ambassador, hailed the fact that his delegation will soon preside over one of the largest blocs as a diplomatic success.

"They’re still denying we are a state," Mansour said, referring to Israel and the US. "We walk like a state. We quack like a state. Therefore we are a state."
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/26/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority

#1  Just shows what UN is
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/26/2018 0:20 Comments || Top||

#2  The UN must really not want money and dues from the USA.
Posted by: 3dc || 07/26/2018 6:09 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Iraqi authorities release 273 detained protesters in Basra, Wasit
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi authorities have released 273 detained protesters in Basra and Wasit governorates, who took part in anti-government mass demonstrations.

"In Wasit, all detained protesters, totaling 176, have been freed, including 158 on bail," Mawazin News quoted the Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights (IHCHR) as saying in a statement.

"Most of detainees have been released within 48 hours of their capture," the commission explained.

Meanwhile,
...back at the pond, the radioactive tadpoles grown into frogs. Really big frogs, in fact...
the director of the IHCHR office in Basra, Mahdi al-Tamimi, announced that "a total of 97 protesters have been released in Basra governorate so far, while eight others are still under investigation."

"The demonstrators have been tortured by the security forces during their detention," Tamimi explained, adding that there is high-level coordination between the Iraqi judiciary and the commission to release the remaining protesters.

Oil-rich Basra is one of the southern Iraqi cities that have recently witnessed mass protests over the dire state of the nation’s economy. The demonstrators have rallied against poor public services and corruption. Two weeks ago, at least six people were maimed as they tried to storm the main provincial government building in Basra.

Mass demonstrations against unemployment, corruption and poor services spread further across southern Iraqi provinces, prompting Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to rush from a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
summit in Brussels to Basra to meet with local officials and tribal leaders in a bid to restore calm.

The demonstrations started in Basra province, but they later extended to other cities, including Amara, Nasiriya, Karbala and the Shiite holy city of Najaf. There were also protests in parts of the capital, Baghdad.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/26/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
UN Palestinian refugee agency says it will ax 250 jobs after US funding cuts
[IsraelTimes] 500 more full-time UNRWA staff will be offered part-time positions following Washington's decision to slash 2018 funds to a sixth of previous year.
One would need a heart of stone not to guffaw.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/26/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Once again, Trump has confounded his enemies by doing exactly what he said he would do.
(and yeah, I laffed)
Posted by: SteveS || 07/26/2018 1:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Cutting bureaucrats to fund payments to terrorists__
Posted by: mercutio || 07/26/2018 5:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Mercutio, mid rank terrorists have (phony) jobs with UNRWA etc...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/26/2018 6:20 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Islamic State releases video purporting to show Syrian jet downed by Israel
[IsraelTimes] The Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
terrorist group on Wednesday published pictures it said showed the remains of a Syrian jet shot down by Israel a day earlier.

Israel on Tuesday said the Sukhoi-model jet had traveled two kilometers into Israeli airspace when the Israeli military fired two Patriot missiles at the plane, shooting it down. The plane crashed inside Syria, killing its pilot.

An official based in Syria and allied with government forces said that Islamic State fighters had seized the body of the pilot.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/26/2018 00:12 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Wanna see it happen again?
Posted by: gorb || 07/26/2018 23:06 Comments || Top||


Several militant groups in Syria planning offensive
[ALMASDARNEWS] Militants from several groups, including Jabhat al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
(outlawed in Russia) are planning an offensive on positions of Syrian government troops, concentrating forces simultaneously on several directions, the chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Warring Parties, Major General Alexei Tsygankov, told news hounds on Wednesday.

"According to available information, the leaders of Hayyat Tahrir 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...
, Jabhat Tahrir Suriya (formed as merger of Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement and Ahrar al-Sham), Suqour al-Sham and Falak al-Sham agreed to set up joint operational headquarters to conduct an attack on positions of government forces," the general said.

Large groups have concentrated simultaneously on several directions ‐ mountains of northern Latakia, al-Ghab valley on the border of Hama and Idlib provinces and areas west of Aleppo," he said.

Posted by: Fred || 07/26/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: al-Nusra

#1  Good to announce events before hand so there's better attendance.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/26/2018 12:17 Comments || Top||


Iran's IRGC upgrades Sukhoi fleet
[PRESSTV] A senior commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps says the IRGC has upgraded several of its Sukhoi SU-22 fighter bombers and will soon equip them with cruise missiles.

IRGC's Aerospace Division Commander Brigadier General Amirali Hajizadeh made the announcement in a Wednesday ceremony to unveil 10 overhauled SU-22 fighter jets.

Hajizadeh also said the IRGC will install air-to-ground cruise missiles with pinpoint accuracy and a range of 1,500 kilometers on its fighter jets in the near future.

Despite featuring outstanding flight capabilities like traveling at the speed of Mach 2.1 and flying at 50.000 feet, Hajizadeh said, the Sukhoi SU-22 was not upgraded in certain aspects and thus needed to be overhauled.

Having undergone the upgrade, the bomber will now be capable of carrying and launching smart bombs equipped with pinpoint accuracy, as well as air-to-ground and air-to-air missiles, and will be able to transfer data between drones from distances of several kilometers, the commander added.

Hajizadeh said that the IRGC’s Aerospace Division has developed the capability to manufacture different types of equipment, saying the aircraft that were grounded for some 28 years have now been upgraded and have joined the country’s air transportation system.
From Wikipedia - Manufactured 1976–1978

Posted by: Fred || 07/26/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Did Baghdad Bob end up in Tehran?
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/26/2018 10:52 Comments || Top||

#2  "the IRGC has upgraded several of its Sukhoi SU-22 fighter bombers and will soon equip them with cruise missiles"

So the planes will be able to fire them while sitting on the tarmac waiting for parts?
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/26/2018 15:06 Comments || Top||

#3  planes Saddam had flown across the border?
Posted by: Frank G || 07/26/2018 16:21 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Thu 2018-07-26
  Houthis send missiles at tankers transiting from the Red Sea
Wed 2018-07-25
  Russian Air Force launches more than 40 airstrikes over southwest Syria
Tue 2018-07-24
  2 Syrian missiles with half-ton warheads trigger Israel's anti-missile system
Mon 2018-07-23
  Several dead in Kabul suicide blast as exiled VP Dostum returns
Sun 2018-07-22
  Iraq protests death toll reaches 11 amid ongoing popular unrest
Sat 2018-07-21
  Rebels handover more towns to ISIS in southwest Syria
Fri 2018-07-20
  Senegal convicts 13 suspected Boko Haram fighters
Thu 2018-07-19
  26 persons killed in regime offensive on Daraa and Qunaitra
Wed 2018-07-18
  15 Afghan Taliban killed in attack by suspected IS rivals
Tue 2018-07-17
  Israeli army drills for Gaza incursion, in apparent warning to Hamas
Mon 2018-07-16
  Boko Haram overruns Nigerian military base
Sun 2018-07-15
  Palestinian killed in mysterious Gaza blast identified as head of rocket unit
Sat 2018-07-14
  Nawaz Sharif, daughter arrested upon arrival in Lahore
Fri 2018-07-13
  Afghan forces have reportedly suffered heavy casualties in Kunduz attack
Thu 2018-07-12
  Germany arrests Iran ‘spy’ on bomb plot charges


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