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Afghanistan
Up to 8 tons of explosives seized in Logar province
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan national defense and security forces have confiscated up to eight tons of explosives during an operation in central Pashtun-infested Logar province.

The National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
(NDS) in a statement said the explosives were confiscated during an operation of the Afghan Intelligence and Police Special Forces in Azra district.

The statement further added that the operation was conducted on a hideout of the Haqqani terrorist network in the vicinity of Ragha Village.

The national defense and security forces have also incarcerated
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
a suspected Death Eater during the operation, the National Directorate of Security added in its statement.

The anti-government armed Death Eater groups including Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
have not commented regarding the operation so far.

Pashtun-infested Logar is among the relatively volatile provinces in central parts of Afghanistan where Taliban and hard boyz affiliated with the other groups are actively operating in some of its districts and often attempt to carry out attacks against the government and security institutions.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/26/2019 02:56 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Haqqani Network

#1  Nothing good ever happens up in Logar. The sooner it transitions to an un-populated national park, the better.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/26/2019 7:48 Comments || Top||


Afghan Special Forces rescue 10 people from a Taliban prison in Balkh province
[KhaamaPress] The Special Forces of the Afghan Military rescued ten people from a Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
-run prison in northern Balkh province, the Afghan Military said Monday.

The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North in a statement said Monday that the operation was conducted in the vicinity of Chemtal district.

The statement further added that six bandidos turbans were killed during the operation and ten people who were kept as prisoners were also released.

According to 209th Shaheen Corps, the operation was conducted in Koh Alburz area of Chamtal district.

In the meantime, the 209th Shaheen Corps said the Afghan armed forces conducted an operation in Joi Sher area of Chamtal district at around 12:30am local time which resulted into the killing of 3 Talibs.

At least 3 more bandidos turbans were also wouinded and 3 cycle of violence were destroyed during the same operations, the 209th Shaheen Corps added in its statement.

The anti-government armed bandidos turbans including Taliban have not commented regarding the operations so far.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/26/2019 02:55 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Afghan Special Forces discover and destroy explosives-laden Humvee in Nangarhar
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces have confiscated and destroyed a Humvee armored personnel carrier packed with explosives 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.

According to the informed military sources, the Afghan Special Forces conducted a raid in the vicinity of Nangarhar province killing 2 Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
fighters. The soldiers discovered a military humvee that was likely to be used as a vehicle-borne IED and it was destroyed.

The sources further added that Arclight airstrikes in Qarah Bagh district of Ghazni province also left 4 Taliban fighters dead.

The security forces carried out similar airstrikes in Tarinkot city of Uruzgan province leaving 19 Taliban fighters dead, the sources said, adding that the Afghan Special Forces also conducted an operation in Chimtal district of Balkh province killing 3 Taliban fighters.

The anti-government armed faceless myrmidons including Taliban have not commented regarding the operations so far.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/26/2019 02:55 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Taliban militants and commanders suffer heavy casualties in a premature IED explosion
[KhaamaPress] At least 15 Taliban
...Arabic for students...
group members and their commanders were killed or maimed in a premature kaboom triggered by an Improvised Explosive Device in northern Kunduz province.

The Ministry of Interior in a statement said Monday that nine Taliban group memebrs including their four commanders were killed in the kaboom.

The statement further added that six other Taliban group members also sustained injuries in the kaboom.

According to the Ministry of Interior, the incident took place in Jaga Aaraq Qazaq area of Qala-e-Zal district on Sunday as the murderous Moslems were busy planting an Improvised Explosive device.

The anti-government armed bully boy groups including Taliban have not commented regarding the incident so far.

Talibs often use improvised bombs as the weapon of their choice to target the security forces and government officials but in majority of such attacks ordinary civilians are killed.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/26/2019 02:55 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Another 'Oh sh.......' moment.
Posted by: Chanter Omineck1440 || 02/26/2019 15:43 Comments || Top||


Top Taliban commanders among 9 killed, wounded in Sar-e-Pul operations
[KhaamaPress] At least nine Taliban
...Arabic for students...
group members including two of their senior commanders were killed or maimed during the operations in northern Sar-e-Pul
...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara
...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets...
communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone...

province of Afghanistan.

The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North in a statement said the Afghan forces have cleared Gozar, Landji, and Bazar-e-Taghai villages during Pamir-38 operations in Sancharak district of Sar-e-Pul province.

The statement further added that two Talibs were killed during the operatins and two of their senior commanders, including the shadow district chief of the group for Sancharak Mawlavi Noor Ul Haq and the group’s military commission chief Mullah Noor Ahmad alias Khalid were critically maimed along with five other Taliban group members.

The 209th Shaheen Corps also added that the armed forces also discovered and detonated 5 improvised bombs during the same operations.

The anti-government armed murderous Moslems including Taliban have not commented regarding the operations so far.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/26/2019 02:55 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa Horn
US strike kills 35 Shaboobs
[TWITTER]
US strike in Somalia kills 35 ‘terrorists’ — Pentagon

[IsraelTimes] US forces have conducted an Arclight airstrike in Somalia that killed 35 al-Shabaab
... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
holy warriors, officials say, in the latest in a string of attacks against the al-Qaeda affiliate.

Yesterday’s strike took place in the Hiran region of central Somalia and targeted armed Shabaab fighters "as they were transitioning between locations in a rural area" and trying to "mass their forces," the US military’s Africa Command says in a statement.

"At this time, it is assessed this airstrike killed 35 terrorists," the statement says.

Although the military did not specify, such airstrikes in Somalia are typically carried out by armed drones.

The Pentagon has increased the rate of strikes in Somalia in recent years, partly because US 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...
loosened constraints on when the US military can take action against alleged terrorists.
Posted by: Fred || 02/26/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


The Grand Turk
Turkey seeks 110 more arrests over Gulen ties
[AlAhram] Ottoman Turkish police on Monday launched operations to detain 110 more individuals, mostly soldiers, suspected of ties to the group blamed for the 2016 coup attempt, the Ankara public prosecutor's office said.

Tens of thousands of people have been held over alleged ties to 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...
since the failed coup while over 140,000 public sector employees have been sacked or suspended.

Although Ankara has come under heavy criticism from its Western allies and human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
defenders over the scale of the crackdown, Ottoman Turkish officials stress that the raids are necessary to remove Gulen's influence in state institutions.

The prosecutor's office said Monday that among the latest suspects sought were 43 lieutenants and 50 sergeants from the Ottoman Turkish land forces.

The prosecutor's office said 67 of the suspects were active duty soldiers.

The prosecutor also issued warrants for nine civilians -- of whom it said eight had already been taken into custody on Monday -- who had worked or were working in the health ministry or hospitals.

The suspects are accused of having links to Gulen who Ankara says ordered the attempted overthrow of 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...
in July 2016. Gulen strongly denies The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire....
's claims.

The arrests of alleged Gulen supporters show no sign of slowing down, coming after several nationwide police raids in recent months to detain thousands of people including military personnel.

Last week, prosecutors in Istanbul, Ankara and the Aegean province of Izmir issued arrest warrants for over 600 people as part of multiple probes into the Gulen movement.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/26/2019 00:23 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  Where's Turkish Beria, I ask?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/26/2019 1:27 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
India got mad and acted.
[Twitter]



Update at 12:40 a.m. ET with the perspective from Pakistan:
Indian aircraft violate LoC, scramble back after PAF's timely response: ISPR

[Dawn] Maj-Gen Ghafoor in his tweet said "Indian Air Force violated Line of Control", following which "Pakistan Air Force immediately scrambled" and Indian aircraft went back.

He later added that the aircraft faced "timely and effective response from Pakistan Air Force" and ended up releasing "payload in haste while escaping which fell near Balakot". Payload is the carrying capacity of an aircraft, which is usually measured in terms of weight. This could include cargo, passengers, an explosive warhead or any instruments.

No casualties or damage occurred, the military spokesperson said.

In another tweet, he said that "Indian aircrafts’ intrusion across LoC in Muzaffarabad Sector within AJ&K was 3-4 miles".

Technical details and other important information to follow, he added.

PTI, via Twitter, linked the violation to India's upcoming elections, saying: "We realise it’s election year and [there is] a desperation across the border. Fact of the matter is, Indian jets were forced to retreat in haste by Pakistan army patrols and dumped fuel, which in their scramble they thought was a bomb."

PULWAMA AFTERMATH
Ties between Pakistan and India have been tense since a suicide bombing in occupied Kashmir killed over 40 Indian soldiers, with New Delhi blaming Pakistan of being complicit in the attack — a charge Islamabad has denied vehemently and from the get-go.



Posted by: 3dc || 02/26/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Thank you for being on top of this for us, 3dc. Definitely headline of the day.

Lets keep updates in this thread rather than posting new articles separately, guys — that way key details don’t get scattered, repeated, and confused, ‘k?
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/26/2019 0:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Other reports show Indian C-17's going into Kashmir as fast as they can turn around. About every 2 hours a new report.
Posted by: 3dc || 02/26/2019 0:49 Comments || Top||

#3  I don't understand why India and Pakistan are not censoring all new military news.
Posted by: 3dc || 02/26/2019 0:50 Comments || Top||

#4  test
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/26/2019 0:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Pakistan has been chatting with China.
Trump in the air to Hanoi. (not too far away..)
Wonder what the US DefCon level is?
Posted by: 3dc || 02/26/2019 0:51 Comments || Top||

#6  Indian Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale: Credible Intelligence was received about more attacks by Jaish across India. A preemptive Strike was necessary. In pre-dawn Ops, India struck biggest Jaish terror camp in Balakot. Ustaad Gohri, brother in law of Masood Azhar, led the camp.
Posted by: 3dc || 02/26/2019 1:08 Comments || Top||

#7  Always said, Paki-stain is just larger Pali-stain.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/26/2019 1:26 Comments || Top||

#8  Government of India confirms air strikes across the border in Pakistan by Indian Air Force after credible intelligence about terror camp run by Jaish e Muhammad. Pakistan did nothing to dismantle terror. Hence, India was left with no choice and the struck biggest terror camp.
Posted by: 3dc || 02/26/2019 1:26 Comments || Top||

#9  NDTV says the Indian planes used standoff missiles from Israel.
Posted by: 3dc || 02/26/2019 1:32 Comments || Top||

#10  Israel made Griffin 2000Lb LGB
Posted by: 3dc || 02/26/2019 1:56 Comments || Top||

#11  Targets:

Posted by: 3dc || 02/26/2019 2:00 Comments || Top||

#12  So part of the Trump/Kim treaty discussion will be about moving call centers?
Posted by: al aSha-med || 02/26/2019 4:53 Comments || Top||

#13 
Posted by: Woodrow || 02/26/2019 5:22 Comments || Top||

#14  should have been done after the Mumbai attack
Posted by: chris || 02/26/2019 6:59 Comments || Top||

#15  The Times of India is liveblogging events. Key bits overnight (most recent on top):

At least 325 terrorists and 25 trainers were at the Balakot camp, the biggest operated by the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed, when the Indian forces carried out an air strike early Tuesday

A total of six bombs were dropped on Pakistan-based terrorist camps by the Indian Air Force Mirage 2000s

Key Jaish e Mohammed operatives targeted in today’s air strikes: Maulana Ammar(in pic 1, associated with Afghanistan and Kashmir ops) and Maulana Talha Saif(pic 2), brother of Maulana Masood Azhar and head of preparation wing

Intel Sources: Ammunition dump blown up today in Balakot,Pakistan by IAF Mirages. The dump had more than 200 AK rifles, uncountable rounds hand grenades, explosives and detonators

JeM's [Maulana] Yusuf Azhar [brother-in-law of JeM chief Masood Azhar] alias Mohammad Salim alias Ustaad Gohri who was targeted today by IAF #airstrike in Balakot across LOC was on the Interpol list and among the most wanted in India.

Meanwhile, Indian Army has shot down a Pakistani spy drone in Gujarat

Pakistani F16s were scrambled to retaliate against IAF Mirage 2000s but turned back due to size of Indian formation.

Sources say that joint training camps of terror outfits JeM, LeT and Hizbul Mujahideen were targeted

Posted by: trailing wife || 02/26/2019 7:25 Comments || Top||

#16  Parhaps India can win the conflict in Afghanistan.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/26/2019 7:28 Comments || Top||

#17  That would truly be lovely, Besoeker.

Times of India: About the Balakot camp
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/26/2019 7:40 Comments || Top||

#18  If Pakistain were turned into the crater land of the pure radiation, we'd all be better off
Posted by: Frank G || 02/26/2019 7:44 Comments || Top||

#19  Skirmishes all along the "line of control".
Posted by: 3dc || 02/26/2019 8:02 Comments || Top||

#20  Telephone service turned off in Indian Kashmir.
Posted by: 3dc || 02/26/2019 9:54 Comments || Top||

#21  Russia has a snap drill of 20,000 troops. Related?
Posted by: 3dc || 02/26/2019 10:07 Comments || Top||

#22  Jaish-e-Mohammed - that names sounds familiar. Haven't they been around for a long time and been involved in some dastardly deeds before this?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/26/2019 10:18 Comments || Top||

#23  Both these countries are nuke capable. . escalation is not good...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 02/26/2019 10:52 Comments || Top||

#24  Abu Uluque, here is Fred’s auto-translate on the subject:

Jaish-e-Mohammad
...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat...


It only pops up with that particular spelling, though, so we haven’t seen in it recent articles that spell it Jaish-e-Mohammed.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/26/2019 11:11 Comments || Top||

#25  Didn't they have Masood Azhar under house arrest for a while, trying to placate the Indians but not really restraining him at all?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/26/2019 11:49 Comments || Top||

#26  Thanks, tw.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/26/2019 11:49 Comments || Top||

#27  Godspeed my little mustachioed swindler friends.
Posted by: Hellfish || 02/26/2019 12:12 Comments || Top||

#28  @#16 The US should outsource the Afghan war to India? LOL. Love it.
Posted by: Hellfish || 02/26/2019 12:14 Comments || Top||

#29  When both the Indians and Pakistanis talk about "heavy conflict" in a ground and armor context how are eternal viewers supposed to grade that.... curses? bruised knees? one or 2 dead? Thousands dead? more?
context is Sialkot.
Posted by: 3dc || 02/26/2019 16:50 Comments || Top||

#30  Good stuff.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/26/2019 17:00 Comments || Top||

#31  3dc, Wikipedia lists the various India vs. Pakistan conflicts here, with links to pages for each individual one, where casualty claims and destruction of materiel for each side are listed.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/26/2019 18:55 Comments || Top||


Pak aircraft fill skies over Abbottabad
[TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 02/26/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  They saw the size of the Indian air armada and turned tail.
Posted by: 3dc || 02/26/2019 1:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Looking for Osama? He gone
Posted by: Frank G || 02/26/2019 7:38 Comments || Top||

#3  No one paying them to remain on the tarmac this time ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/26/2019 7:40 Comments || Top||


KP hospitals put on alert for ‘national cause’
[DAWN] PESHAWAR: Public and private hospitals have reserved beds and ambulances after government’s directives to stand alert for ’national cause’, a reference to the tension with neighbouring India.

On February 22, health department ordered hospitals to reserve 25 per cent beds on a special directive of government for ’national cause’. "The institutions have been directed to reserve a minimum of 60 beds and the department should be informed immediately the same day," it said.

The directive was issued day after the National Security Council held a meeting with prime minister in the chair on February 21 to examine the country’s overall security situation in view of tension with India.

Health Secretary Dr Syed Farooq Jamil told Dawn that he was not concerned if the order was issued in view of tension with India, but the hospitals were well-equipped and staffed to cope with any health emergency. "Our hospitals in immediate response have reserved beds and other services in line with the directive came from the centre," he added.

Posted by: Fred || 02/26/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Times of India: About the Balakot camp
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/26/2019 7:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Whoops! Wrong thread. That was meant for India Got Mad and Acted, and the 350 dead who won’t need anything more from the hospital than Dr. Quincy in the morgue.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/26/2019 7:44 Comments || Top||


Complaint cells inaugurated in Gilgit, Diamer to monitor extremist, anti-state content
[DAWN] Implementation of a decision to open 10 review and complaints cells in all the districts of Gilgit Baltistan to monitor Death Eater and anti-state content is underway.

Sanaullah Abbasi, the inspector general of police (IGP) for Gilgit-Baltistan, has initially inaugurated centres in Gilgit and Diamer.

The IGP, in a chat with media personnel, said that so far 200 accounts, through which radical content and anti-state material was shared, have been shut down.

Abbasi said that further cells in the eight remaining districts will be inaugurated soon.

It is pertinent to mention here that GB police has submitted a report to the interior ministry regarding the 250 cases registered in 2018 regarding the proliferation of Death Eater and anti-state content.

Meanwhile,
...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings...
an IT centre already exists at the police headquarters for the monitoring of content posted on social media.

Posted by: Fred || 02/26/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Indian jets over LoC
[TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 02/26/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


India: Breakthrough in Pulwama blast investigation
[TWITTER]
In a major breakthrough, the NIA on Monday said the owner of the vehicle used in the Pulwama terror attack has been identified and he has joined the Jaish-e-Mohammed terror outfit. An official front man said the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has made a significant breakthrough in the investigation by identifying the vehicle and its owner after piecing together remnants of the car recovered from the scene of the blast.

The NIA Sherlocks, with the support of forensic and automobile experts, have been able to identify the vehicle used in the blast as a Maruti Eeco having chassis number MA3ERLF1SOO183735 and engine number G12BN164140. The vehicle was sold to Mohammed Jaleel Ahmed Haqani, a resident of Heaven Colony in Anantnag in 2011, and subsequently it changed hands seven times and finally reached Sajjad Bhat, a resident of Bijbeharain in South Kashmire.

The vehicle was purchased on February 4, the front man said, adding Sajjad was a student of Siraj-ul-Uloom, Shopian. Raids were conducted by a team of NIA and police at his house on Saturday but Sajjad was not present. He has reportedly joined Jaish-e-Mohammed and his photograph also appeared on social media where he is seen holding weapons.

Forty CRPF personnel were killed when a jacket wallah rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into a bus carrying jawans in Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmire on February 14.
Posted by: Fred || 02/26/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies


Iraq
Bomb attack wounds three Iraqi mobilization forces in Anbar
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) – Three members of the paramilitary Popular Mobilization Forces were wounded Monday as a bomb blast targeted their security patrol vehicle in the western Iraqi province of Anbar, a security source was quoted as saying.

Speaking to Almaalomah news website, the source said that an explosive charge left by Islamic State militants went off when a security patrol vehicle of the Popular Mobilization Forces was passing by al-Tharthar area in northern Ramadi.

“The bomb attack left three PMF members wounded,” the source said, adding that the trio were moved to a nearby hospital for treatment.

“The security forces cordoned off the blast site and started a search for any other explosives at the scene,” the source added.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/26/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Iraqi mobilization forces foil plot by Islamic State to infiltrate into Baiji oil refinery
Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) – Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces thwarted on Monday a plot by the Islamic State militant group to infiltrate into the country’s largest oil refinery Baiji in Salahuddin province.

“A group of Islamic State militants launched an armed attacked on the refinery, which is located 130km north of Baghdad, in the wee hours of Monday but the Popular Mobilization Forces were able to repel the attack,” eyewitnesses told the Arabic-language Al-Mawqif Al-Iraqi news website.

The attack left a number of civilians, who works at the oil refinery, wounded, the eyewitnesses added.

Government forces retook the facility and the city of Baiji in October 2015 after fierce clashes with the Islamic State jihadists but the severe damage kept the refinery closed.

Baiji was particularly hard hit by the devastation wreaked by Iraq’s campaign to reclaim its towns and cities from Islamic State.

In 2016, it was declared a disaster zone by the national parliament.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/26/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli checkers foil attempt to smuggle gun, bullets from West Bank
[IsraelTimes] Truck driver and passenger locked away
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
as Defense Ministry officials find firearm, ammunition hidden in side panels of the vehicle.


Checkers at a West Bank crossing arrested a truck driver and his passenger on Sunday evening, after finding a gun and large amounts of ammunition hidden inside the vehicle, the Defense Ministry said.

The two men "aroused the suspicion" of a security officer at the Te’enim checkpoint between Israel and the northern West Bank, the ministry said in a statement.

During an initial search of the truck, checkers found a large number of bullets, packed in plastic bags. A police sapper who was then called to assist in the search also found a locally produced makeshift submachine gun, known as a Carlo, which had been hidden inside the side panels of the truck, the ministry said.

Both the driver and his passenger were placed under arrest and handed over to the Shin Bet security service for questioning. The gun and bullets were also given to the Shin Bet for study.

Sunday’s thwarted smuggling came as Israeli police announced that they had foiled an apparent plot to smuggle handguns into Israel from Jordan earlier this month, details of which were kept under gag order until this week.

On February 7, Border Police officers spotted the primary suspect, a Paleostinian man from the Nablus area, as he attempted to cross the border into northern Israel from Jordan wearing a large backpack.

The border guards, assisted by the Israel Defense Forces, arrested the man shortly after he crossed into the northern Jordan Valley and found inside his bag 37 pistols of various types, police said.

The police arrested three other Paleostinian suspects ‐ all from the Nablus area ‐ whom they believe were planning to pick up the suspect after he crossed the border.

"We noticed a few suspicious cars driving around the road and after a few hours of activity, using advanced means and special technologies, we spotted the suspect cross the Israeli border into Jordan and, a few hours later, we saw the suspect cross back into Israel with a bag on his back," the commander of the Border Police unit said in a statement.

"At that point, I ordered troops to arrest the suspect and the suspects that were in the cars. In the bag, we found 37 pistols of different types and we thereby succeeded in thwarting the smuggling," he said.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/26/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Israeli forces arrest 2 senior Islamic Jihad members in West Bank
[IsraelTimes] Shin Bet says terrorist leaders detained for activities within the Iran-backed group, following its threats of missile attacks from Gazoo.

Israeli troops tossed in the clink
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
two senior members of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
terror group in a northern West Bank village early on Monday, the Shin Bet security service said.

In overnight raids, Israeli forces detained Khader Adnan and Tariq Qa’adan in Arrabeh, southwest of Jenin.

The Shin Bet said the two men were arrested "for their activities with the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad," without elaborating on the nature of the suspicions against them.

Adnan, 40, has long been accused of being a spokesperson for the Iran-backed terror group. He has been arrested several times in recent years and served several prison sentences in connection with his work with the PIJ.

According to the Shin Bet, Qa’adan serves as a senior officer in the Gazoo-based PIJ’s West Bank wing.

The arrests came the night after the terror group released a video threatening to attack with missiles that can reach "from the Gazoo Strip to Tel Aviv and Netanya." The detention of Adnan and Qa’adan also followed a recent period of increased tension between Israel and Paleostinians over access to the Temple Mount.
A brief video showing the missiles can be seen here.
In raids elsewhere in the West Bank overnight, Israeli troops arrested eight other Paleostinian suspects.

The military said the detainees were believed to be involved in terrorist activities, rock-throwing, and riots against Israeli civilians and security forces.

Israeli soldiers also found and confiscated a locally produced makeshift submachine gun, known as a Carlo, from the village of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, the army said.

The 10 suspects were handed over to the Shin Bet for questioning.

The Paleostinian Islamic Jihad group made its threat about missiles reaching Tel Aviv and Beyond in a documentary film, broadcast on Iranian television on Sunday, that included footage of various projectiles, other weapons and missile launches.

The missile in question was made with help from PIJ’s patron, Iran, the group said. The Islamic Jihad, which is the second-largest terror organization in Gazoo after Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,, said the "first missile" it launches toward Tel Aviv will be Iranian-made.

The documentary also included a claim by PIJ that it had developed precision-guided missiles.

"We managed to develop a missile that can reach from the Gazoo Strip to Tel Aviv and Netanya," a PIJ front man says in the clip, adding that its range could even extend beyond that.

The terror group already fired Iran-made missiles toward Tel Aviv more than six years ago, during Operation Pillar of Defense in 2012. In the new documentary, it said its engineers had succeeded in renewing its missile arsenal, which was largely destroyed in previous military confrontations.

The group warned it would "surprise" Israel "in response to any crime it makes in the future."

"The enemy’s act of stupidity against the Gazoo Strip and its residents will turn the occupied cities and communities into hell, God willing," the front man said. "The occupation has no place on the land of Paleostine. It will either withdraw from it or suffer harmful blows."

It was an apparent reference to the Israeli military’s response to large-scale protests organized weekly near the Israel-Gazoo border, during which many Paleostinians have been killed or maimed over the last 11 months, most recently a 15-year-old boy said by Hamas to have been shot on Friday.

According to the Israel Defense Forces, the protests have seen thousands of Paleostinians rioting along the border, throwing rocks and bombs at Israeli soldiers and trying to breach the fence.
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Gazans set off fireworks, explosives at nightly border protest
Nb: Nightly now, not merely weekly. But weekly clearly did not accomplish their objective.
[IsraelTimes] Palestinians in the Gaza Strip set off fireworks and explosives near the border as part of nightly riots along the security fence.

The blasts could be heard throughout the Israeli communities abutting the coastal enclave.

“A number of riots are being held at several locations along the Gaza side of the border. As a result, explosions will likely be heard throughout the region,” the Eshkol Regional Council says in a statement to residents.

The Eshkol local government also alerts residents to a planned military exercise in the area, from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m., which will likely see large numbers of army vehicles and aircraft traveling through the region.
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