[Garowe] At least nine Kenya Defense Forces [KDF] soldiers were on Monday killed at Gherille in the Gedo region, officials said, in the latest onslaught targeting security forces in the federal republic of Somalia.
Gedo region is in Sector II of the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Mission Forces [AMISOM]. The KDF soldiers have often been targeted not only in Gedo but also across the country especially in Middle Jubba.
The Monday morning incident also left five soldiers critically injured, officials added. The lorry carrying troops ran over an Improvised Explosive Device [IED] which was placed along the road by the al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... , functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... Death Eaters.
According to reports, the vehicle was in a convoy that had drawn water from a point inside Kenya and was crossing into Somalia for use when it happened at about 1 pm. Until now, the Department of Defense in Nairobi is yet to confirm the incident.
The vehicle, images showed, was badly dismembered and the injured soldiers have since been rushed to Forces Memorial Hospital in Nairobi. al-Shabaab has been targeting innocent civilians and security forces using IEDs.
Officials said the Death Eaters are exploiting the low-cost strategy and deploying them near operating bases or main supply routes to attack their targets.
This is happening both locally especially in the northern part of the country and in Somalia. KDF troops are among those under Amisom that are operating in Somalia whose main duty is to suppress the Death Eaters.
KDF team has been in Somalia since 2011 and the group managed to flush out al-Shabaab from Kismayo ...a port city in the southern Lower Juba province of Somalia, at the extreme southern end of the country (always assuming Somalia can be called a country). It is the commercial capital of the autonomous Jubaland region.... , the regional administrative capital of Jubaland in an operation dubbed "Operation Sledge Hammer".
There are close to 3,500 KDF soldiers in Somalia who mainly serve in Sectors II and IV of the AMISOM jurisdiction. The soldiers, despite liberating several strategic towns, lost immensely in 2016 and 2017 after attacks at El-Adde and Kulbiyow respectively.
[Garowe] A school headmaster was targeted by al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... murderous Moslems on Tuesday, authorities said, just a few days after the government announced the death of close to 225 murderous Moslems across the federal republic of Somalia.
Eyewitnesses said that the High School administrator was killed in a kaboom believed to be from a device attached to his car in the vicinity of Dayniile district, Mogadishu in Somalia, but the reason behind the liquidation is not yet known.
The victim has been identified as Dahir Hassan Toohow known as Dahir Digdigle. He was the principal of Dayniile School according to reports. The explosion occurred near the district headquarters in Dayniile.
Since then, the al-Shabaab holy warrior group has grabbed credit for the killing of Dahir Digdigle. The group’s media claimed the victim was one of the delegates involved in the election of MPs in Galmudug ...a semiautonomous region in central Somalia, bordering Puntland on the north. Galmudug is not trying to obtain international recognition as a separate nation, but rather considers itself autonomous within the larger Somali federalism, for what that's worth... state. al-Shabaab has been assassinating people involved in Somalia elections.
[AnNahar] At least four people were killed by a boom-mobile Tuesday in war-torn 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... . At least eight people, including a security bigshot, were maimed, officials said.
The explosion took place in the city of Zinjibar and targeted the convoy of Abdel-Latif el-Sayed, commander of the so-called Security Belt force in the southern province of Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... , the officials said. The casualties were taken to hospitals for treatment, they said.
Zinjibar is the Abyan historic provincial capital.
The Security Belt is a militia, trained and funded by the United Arab Emirates and loyal to the secessionist Southern Transitional Council.
The explosion damaged at least four vehicles of el-Sayed's convoy, according to security officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief media. Images from the scene showed at least one white Toyota pick-up truck burnt.
Following the earth-shattering kaboom, el-Sayed spoke to local media and said he was slightly maimed in what he called a "terrorist attack." He did not give further details.
No one immediately grabbed credit.
Such blasts are common in war-torn Yemen, where fighting between government forces and Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels have raged for over seven years. The al-Qaeda and the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... groups are also active in several areas.
In October, at least 14 people were killed in two separate explosions in the southern city of Aden, the seat of the internationally recognized government.
[GREATERKASHMIR] A krazed killer affiliated with Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (LeT) outfit was killed in a shootout with security forces in the Charsoo area of Awantipora in south Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... 's Pulwama district on Tuesday morning, police said.
Quoting a police brass hat, news agency GNS reported that an LeT krazed killer was killed in the counter-insurgency operation in Charsoo.
As per the official sources, the slain krazed killer has been identified as Owais Raja from Subhanpora Bijbehera. He had been missing for the last three months, said the report.
Earlier on a specific input generated by J&K Police, a joint team of police and security forces launched a cordon and search operation in the area.
As the joint team intensified the searches at the suspected spot, the hiding krazed killer opened fire, triggering a shootout.
[Rudaw] Two Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) suspects, who were plotting to carry out a suicide kaboom during the month of Ramadan, were arrested by Iraqi and Kurdish security forces in Kirkuk on Tuesday, a top security official announced on Tuesday without disclosing the target of the offense.
In coordination with Sulaimani’s internal security forces (Asayish), the Iraqi forces arrested three ISIS suspects in Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... Iraq's top military spokesperson Yehia Rasool said in a series of tweets.
The two jacket wallahs of non-Iraqi nationality were arrested inside the governorate after they crossed into Iraqi territory.
Another suspect, an Iraqi, alleged of smuggling the two was also arrested, according to Rasool.
In its propaganda magazine on Thursday, ISIS claimed to have conducted 14 attacks in Iraq from March 3 to March 9, killing and injuring 11 people.
[Rudaw] Residents of a Duhok village came under heavy bombardment by suspected Ottoman Turkish warplanes on Sunday, resulting in material damage caused by shrapnel to several houses in the area.
Hiror village in northern Duhok frequently faces suspected Ottoman Turkish bombardment, with the recent shelling on Sunday causing material damage to several houses. No casualties were reported.
A large number of Hiror’s residents have already fled during previous years due to constant fear of possible attacks.
Out of 300 houses in the village, only 20 currently remain occupied, according to a local from the area.
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian officials say man in his 20s killed early Tuesday in Qalandiya refugee camp near Jerusalem
Paleostinian health officials said a Paleostinian was shot and killed by Israeli forces during festivities in the Qalandiya refugee camp north of Jerusalem. Police said Israeli forces raided the camp to arrest two terror suspects wanted by the Shin Bet.
"Alaa Shaham, a twenty-something young man, was shot in the head by live fire," the PA Health Ministry said.
Another six Paleostinians were maimed by live fire, the ministry said.
Clashes erupted at the scene of one of the arrests, during which "hundreds" of Paleostinians hurled heavy objects from rooftops, police said.
"Undercover Border Police troops responded with riots dispersal means and live fire, and completed the mission without casualties to our forces," police said in a statement.
No police or military casualties were reported.
Nine Paleostinians have been killed in violent mostly peaceful confrontations with Israeli troops in recent weeks. Some died in shootouts with Israeli soldiers near Jenin, and others died in attempted stabbing attacks in Jerusalem’s Old City.
In a murkier incident earlier this month, Israeli soldiers shot and killed 19-year-old Paleostinian student Ammar Abu Afifa near Hebron. The army later declined to accuse him of any violent mostly peaceful activity, saying that soldiers saw him approaching a lookout post, chased after him and shot him.
Officials have warned of a possible flare-up of violence during Ramadan next month, and Shin Bet head Ronen Bar reportedly held talks with his FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... counterpart in Washington this week on the matter. Public Security Minister Omer Barlev, who oversees the police, warned in response to the Jerusalem stabbing attacks that "snuffies and Lions of Islam will try to set the area on fire" in the coming weeks.
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A paleo is killed or maimed daily. This is routine and sadly mundane. Questionably belongs on the TOP of the WOT page. Grom used to submit these stories daily. We can do better.
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The story is filed under Israel, as such stories always have been, Xyz. It appears at the top od the Page 1 article list because it was chronologically the last article submitted for the page. This also is how it’s always been.
But yes, Palestinians manage to get themselves killed frequently, though irregularly there’s a quiet period. Right now we’re heading into Ramadan, so they can be expected to get more active.
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Just based on the views, the topic doesn’t have much interest on the burg. Similar to shootings in Chicago or Florida man stories. Just my opinion. Keep up the good work.
[JPost] If so, GOOD Tehran also releases more details of alleged thwarting Mossad hit on Fordow nuclear facility.
The latest explosive exchanges between Israel and Iran may relate to Israel having destroyed hundreds of Iranian drones last month, according to a mix of Israeli and Lebanese reports.
Neither country had even mentioned the reported attack on a critical base in Western Iran until earlier this week, when it was first reported by the Lebanese television station Al Mayadeen, which is linked to both Hezbollah and Iran. Tehran blames Israel, but Jerusalem has not taken responsibility.
Subsequently, Haaretz on Tuesday confirmed the report and added a number of details with other Israeli media also filling in some details.
According to Al Mayadeen, this was the reason for Saturday night’s Iranian missile attack on Erbil on an alleged Mossad training base. Iranian media on Tuesday continued to add details about the number of alleged Mossad agents who were hit by their attack on Erbil.
Many sources have contradicted the idea that there was a Mossad base there. The Islamic Republic often manufactures reports of busting Mossad agents to cover for going after local opposition figures.
But the juxtaposition with what most government officials and outside experts said was a massive Iranian cyberattack on Monday night suggests that Tehran genuinely felt it was hit hard somewhere and needed to hit back in a large and public way.
At the same time, Iranian media also continued to release more details about its alleged nabbing of Mossad agents who tried to recruit a member of Iran’s IR-6 centrifuge team at its Fordow nuclear facility.
For some reason The Times of Israel spells it Fordo.
While this report could also be disinformation, the degree of detail was unusual and resembled other earlier plots by the Mossad to infiltrate nuclear facilities via supply-chain penetration. Moreover, some of the reports went into great detail about earlier successful reported Mossad hits on Iranian nuclear scientists, giving the reports at least the unusual appearance of heft since Tehran was not claiming perfection in its conflict with the Israeli spy agency by any means.
In mid-February, Reuters reported that a fire broke out at a military base in western Iran, potentially being the location of the drones though without mentioning the drones, based on a report from media affiliated with the country’s Supreme National Security Council reported.
"On Monday morning, a fire broke out in a stockroom where motor oil and other flammable materials were stored in one of the support bases of the Revolutionary Guards in the Mahidasht region of Kermanshah Province, causing damage to an industrial shed," Nour news reported.
That report merely said that the fire was put out by rescuers, and that teams had been dispatched to the support base to investigate the cause of the incident, without referencing the drones.
[JPost] The IDF is securing Jewish worshippers at the West Bank site after PIJ and Hamas called to avenge deaths of Palestinians killed in Monday's clashes.
Shots were fired towards IDF forces in clashes with Palestinian rioters near Joseph's Tomb in Nablus, the West Bank, on Tuesday night, Walla reported.
Stones and Molotov cocktails were also hurled towards the Israeli forces, according to KAN News.
The IDF is in Nablus providing security for Jewish worshippers praying at the tomb, following a declaration made by Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) to avenge the deaths of two Palestinians in clashes with IDF forces on Monday night.
Alaa Shaham and Nader Haitham Rayan were killed by IDF fire after clashes erupted in Balata and Kalandiya after Israeli forces entered the refugee camps to arrest a wanted suspect. PIJ warned Israel of the "repercussions" of the deaths, saying that they would "not go unnoticed."
Hamas also called on Palestinians to escalate violence against Israeli forces, with official Jasser Barghouti saying the killing of the two was "an indication of the occupation’s horror at the upcoming Palestinian anger and a failed attempt to deter the angry masses."
It was reported earlier on Tuesday that Palestinians in the West Bank called to deny the entry of Jewish worshippers to Joseph's Tomb.
Over the past two decades, Joseph’s Tomb has been attacked several times by Palestinians. On a number of occasions, the site was looted and set on fire.
In December, the Palestinian Authority's security forces foiled two attempts by Palestinians to set fire to Joseph’s Tomb. Security forces used tear gas and batons to disperse more than 50 Palestinians, some armed with Molotov cocktails, as they marched towards the site. Two days later, more than 200 Palestinians from the nearby Balata refugee camp tried to storm the site.
In Nablus’s Balata refugee camp in the northern West Bank, Border Police officers entered to arrest a wanted Paleostinian. According to police, Paleostinians threw stones and objects at them as they sought to leave the camp with the detainee.
Another Paleostinian opened fire with a pistol at the officers, a Border Police spokesperson said.
"During the operation, two turbans arrived on a scooter. One of the turbans shot at the troops. Undercover Border Police officers fired back and neutralized him," police said.
The Paleostinian Authority Health Ministry identified the dear departed as 16-year-old Nader Rayan.
"Many bullets were fired at him, wounding him in the head, the chest, and hand," the ministry said in a statement.
Three Paleostinians were hospitalized in Nablus following the festivities, including one at death's door after having been shot with live fire, the ministry said.
Israeli police said the suspect they arrested was involved in terror activity, without elaborating further. An M-16 rifle he had on his person was seized, and he was taken to the Shin Bet security agency for questioning, police added.
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