[KFOR] Officials with the Moore Police Department say the FBI is now involved in the investigation related to a brutal attack of workers at a food distribution plant.
Sgt. Jeremy Lewis says the alleged suspect, 30-year-old Alton Nolen had just been fired when he drove to the front of the business, hit a vehicle and walked inside.
He walked into the front office area where he met 54-year-old Colleen Hufford and began attacking her with a knife.
Sgt. Lewis confirms the type of knife used in the attack is the same kind used at the plant.
Lewis confirms that Hufford was stabbed several times and that Nolen "severed her head."
At that point, Lewis claims Nolen met 43-year-old Traci Johnson and began attacking her with the same knife.
Officials say at that point, Mark Vaughan, an Oklahoma County reserve deputy and a former CEO of the business, shot him as he was actively stabbing Johnson.
"He's, obviously, a hero in this situation," Sgt. Lewis said, referring to Vaughan. "It could have gotten a lot worse."
Authorities say it appears Nolen was attacking employees at random.
Johnson is in stable, pH balanced condition at a local hospital, recovering from her injuries.
The FBI is now looking into Nolen's background after his former co-workers said he tried to convert them to Islam after converting to the religion himself.
Lewis says the FBI is working in conjunction with the Moore Police Department, especially when it comes to the religious aspect of the case.
At this time, it is not known if the suspect's beliefs played a role in the attack.
Adam Soltani, the executive director of the Council on American Islamic Relations in Oklahoma, says Nolen's actions are condemned by the Moslem community and his faith should not be connected to this horrific crime.
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Adam Soltani, the executive director of the Council on American Islamic Relations in Oklahoma, says Nolen's actions are condemned by the Moslem community and his faith should not be connected to this horrific crime.
Because beheading ex-coworkers is what your average recently-fired employee does....
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I am certain the justice department will soon dispatch three or four dozen FBI agents and begin an intensive house-to-house federal investigation as they did in Ferguson, Mo. Jesse and Al are probably en-route to Oklahoma City as we speak.....to investigate Alton Nolen's employment termination. We'll soon have our very best men on the case.
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"The FBI is now looking into Nolen's background after his former co-workers said he tried to convert them to Islam after converting to the religion himself." And when they find he once thought about becoming a Mormon, and also once attended a 'Tea Party" rally, we'll hear about that.
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Stories on Drudge today:
BEHEADING IN OKLAHOMA...
REPORT: Suspect tried to convert others to Islam...
Fired After Argument Over Stoning Women...
Celebrated Terrorists on FACEBOOK...
'SHARIA LAW IS COMING!!!!'
'America and Israel Wicked'...
Police classify as workplace violence...
Muslims Shout 'Praise Allah!' Following Press Conference...
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Obama Praised Muslim Cleric who Endorsed Fatwa Against American Troops...
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So far the MSM are presenting neutered, toned down, PC versions of the story. It is "Workplace violence--not jihadi-inspired terrorism. Not much said about the guy's prison record, black Muslim conversion, drug abuse or previous assault charges or his attempts to convert fellow workers.
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If he had been screaming "Allah Snackbar!!!" at the moment he was shot by the FBI would fail to find a connection to his religion. Someone tell me I'm wrong.
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Suhaib Webb, an Imam with ties to former Al Qaeda mastermind Anwar al-Awlaki, had also previously been the leader of the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City, which had been attended by Alton Nolen -- the man who on Thursday beheaded a former coworker after recently converting to Islam, Breitbart News has learned. Webb now serves as Imam of the sister organization of the mosque attended by Boston Marathon bombers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
Imam Suhaib Webb has a history of ties to radicalism. FBI surveillance documents found that he was a known confidant of Al Qaeda mastermind Anwar al-Awlaki. Just two days before the September 11, 2001 attacks on America, Webb spoke at a fundraiser with Awlaki with hopes to raise funds for Atlanta-based H. Rap Brown, a man that shot and killed two police officers. The FBI documents also found that “Webb and Awlaki may be associated with the Muslim American Society,” which is a group described by the Investigative Project on Terrorism as being “founded as the United States Chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood.”
Nolen took a picture of himself (above) September 5th, just three weeks before he brutally murdered an innocent woman, standing in front of the gates of the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City.
The caption read: “At The Masjid (Mosque)Today For Jumar 9/5/2014 & Peforming Wudu!!!”
Imam Webb’s bio from his new place of employment, the Islamic Society of Boston, states:
While pursuing his bachelors degree Imam Webb studied privately with a renowned Muslim Scholar of Senegalese descent. After intense private training in various Islamic sciences, Imam Webb was hired as the Imam at the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City, where he not only provided Khutbas (Sermons) and religious classes but also counseled families and young people.
The Islamic Society of Boston, which was attended by the Tsarnaev brothers during his tenure as Imam, has several within their ranks who have been charged with committing acts of Islamic Radicalism. The founder of the Mosque, Abdulrahman Alamoudi, was sentenced to 23 years in prison for his role for financing terror.
After the Boston Marathon bombings, Webb had initially been invited to an interfaith memorial at the Holy Cross Cathedral, where president Obama was scheduled to speak. Imam Webb's invitation was then rescinded under mysterious circumstances at the last minute, according to reports.
Writing in the Jewish Advocate last year, columnist Charles Jacobs described Imam Webb as someone who “teaches vicious hatred and calls for young Muslims to engage in Jihad against non-Muslims in order to establish a global Islamic state.”
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If he had been screaming "Allah Snackbar!!!" at the moment he was shot by the FBI would fail to find a connection to his religion. Someone tell me I'm wrong.
You are wrong. They would convict the samaritan for failing to allow nolen to exercise and finish his call to islam. Then they would tell you this has nothing to do with islam.
Which is the problem. A hothead would have blown his load after wrecking the vehicle. A serious hothead would have been done after murder. This fucking guy continued with a decap then attacked somebody else, I at least move that from 2nd to 1st, as in he had a plan for when he decided to lose it. His choice.
And keep in context that Oklahoma has been attempting to put into law any parallel court system, including shariah, and from what I can understand it has been a bit tense. This guy has been taking exlusive holiday selfies with big names, is a convert, has something to prove, with his butterfly tattoo on his chest.
Perhaps CAIR OK would like to explain away the gathering of bruise groupies chanting scripture at the police report?
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This is Oklahoma. I hope they add unsafe disposal of hazardous material to the list, noise pollution, incitement to violence, illegal parking, fleeing an accident scene, and known attempted transmission of head lice and crabs.
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In fact, were I Lewis, I'd sue for the cost of the cartridge, cleaning and upkeep, four weeks of range time, the wake, and a bottle of personal best Scotch. And a personalized dart board with pig F3rs face on an electric chair with the text "time for smoked pork!".
Big ol 30 year old male islamy muslim went and killed grandma with a butcher's knife. Spreading the word? Word spread.
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Defense lawyers' dream. It's legit to challenge the credibility of the witness. Anytime an FBI 'expert' is on the witness stand, introduce their inability to connect these acts to the perps background.
[ARABNEWS] GHAZNI, Afghanistan: Hundreds of Taliban fighters have stormed a strategic district in an Afghan province not far from the capital, killing dozens of people in five days of fighting and the holy warriors could capture the area, officials said on Friday.
The Ghazni provincial government has lost contact with police in the province's western district of Ajrestan, said Asadullah Safi, deputy police chief of the area.
Ghazni, is southwest of the capital, Kabul, and a key link to the south and southeast, where the Taliban have been making advances in recent months.
"If there is no urgent help from the central government, the district will collapse," Safi said.
The battle for Ajrestan illustrates the grave challenges facing Afghanistan's new president and the security forces in holding territory as foreign combat troops prepare to leave at the end of the year.
Control of Ajrestan, about 200 km (125 miles) from Kabul, would provide the Taliban with a launching point for attacks into adjacent Uruzgan and Daikundi provinces.
Heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual name-calling or slapsy... was going on in Ajrestan on Friday. Safi said a suicide boom-mobileer attacked a police checkpoint early in the day before provincial authorities completely lost contact with the district.
The attack by an estimated 700 Taliban fighters began about five days ago and early reports were that more than 100 people had been killed, including 15 who had their heads chopped off by the bully boys, said provincial deputy governor Ahmadullah Ahmadi.
Provincial authorities have appealed for help from the central government in Kabul, where President-elect Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. is in the process of taking over from Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
"We have asked repeatedly for helicopters to evacuate the maimed, but so far nothing has been done," Ahmadi said.
However, some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... a regional front man for the Afghan army, Nazif Sultani, said on Friday reinforcements had been sent to the district the previous day. He said he had no further information.
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It has been reported that some of the Ghazni locals have taken things into their own hands and begun decorating the trees-- with the Taliban captives handed over to them by the Afghan Army.
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[WASHINGTONTIMES] Members of the Taliban torched an estimated 60 homes and beheaded 12 civilians -- all of whom are believed to have been relatives of police -- in an assault in the eastern portion of Afghanistan, in the Ghazni province.
The deputy police chief for the province, Asadullah Ensafi, said Taliban forces have been staging assaults on various villages for weeks, The News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported. Late Thursday night, they took into custody 12 family members of local and national coppers, ultimately beheading them, and also burned down dozens of homes. As of Friday, the violence was still raging, he said, AP reported.
Mr. Ensafi also pointed fingers at Talibs for detonating a boom-mobile in front of an encampment of about 40 police. He's not sure how many there were killed or injured, AP said.
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[ARABNEWS] Three Somali pirates were killed in a fight over the ransom paid to free the German-American journalist who was released this week after two years and eight months of captivity, a police official said Friday.
The shootout broke out in the central town of Galkayo late Thursday when some of the pirates who held Michael Scott Moore attacked their comrades, accusing them of conducting a secret deal with negotiators, said Mohammed Hassan. A top pirate commander was among three people killed after Moore was freed on Tuesday, he said, adding that one camp of pirates accused the other of betrayal.
The clash started after one group of pirates appeared unwilling to share the cash with others, said Bile Hussein, a pirate commander in the coastal town of Hobyo, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on Friday. He said earlier that a ransom of $1.6 million was paid by Somali intermediaries acting on behalf of Germany.
Germany's Foreign Ministry hasn't confirmed money was paid and US policy forbids the payment of ransoms.
The 45-year-old Moore, who holds both German and US citizenship, was flown to the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, where he was said to be getting medical care after being freed in Somalia, according to Germany's Foreign Ministry. A statement issued Thursday through the German magazine Der Spiegel, for which Moore had freelanced in the past, said he was safe but not healthy.
Moore was seized by pirates in January 2012 in Galkayo as he drove from the airport. Just four days later, US Navy SEALs rescued an American and a Dane in a nighttime raid while killing all nine of their guards. Those two had also been kidnapped in Galkayo in October 2011.
Hussein, the pirate commander, said the pirates who held Moore grew tired of keeping him and were increasingly concerned the US would attempt to use force to secure the journalist's freedom. The pirates had been holding out for a ransom of $5 million, he said, but decided to settle for $1.6 million offered by negotiators after a long period of silence.
The towns of Hobyo and Galkayo are well-known pirate dens in Somalia and Moore was kidnapped around the time pirates turned to kidnappings for income after their income from hijacking ships declined as a result of armed internationals vessels conducting anti-piracy patrols off the coast of Somalia.
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I'm not hearing a downside here, except that some of them are still alive.
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[AnNahar] Spain and Morocco on Friday tossed in the calaboose Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! nine suspected members of a group in north Africa linked to the violent 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.... jihadists, the Spanish government said.
Spanish police and Moroccan security forces "today detained nine members of a terrorist cell... linked to the terrorist organization Islamic State", Spain's interior ministry said.
The nine suspects were seized in Melilla, a Spanish territory on the northern tip of Morocco, and the nearby Moroccan city of Nador, the ministry said in a brief statement.
It said investigations were continuing and the ministry would give further details later.
Moroccan authorities estimate there are between 1,500 and 2,000 Moroccan jihadists fighting in Syria and Iraq. Spain has arrested dozens of suspected bully boyz in raids this year.
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[AnNahar] British police on Friday said they had tossed in the clink Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! two more suspects in an investigation into "Islamist-related terrorism", a day after nine were detained including a top radical preacher.
The two men "were arrested in the early hours of this morning in a vehicle on the M6 motorway," which runs between central and northern England, police said in a statement.
One of them, aged 33, was arrested for "encouraging terrorism" and "being a member of a proscribed organization", while the other, 42, was held for "assisting an offender".
"These arrests and searches are part of an ongoing investigation into Islamist-related terrorism and are not in response to any immediate public safety risk," police said.
The nine arrested on Thursday are also suspected of links to a banned ...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organization, reportedly the turban Islamist group Al-Muhajiroun.
It was co-founded by one of the detained, Anjem Choudary, who is regularly quoted in British tabloids for his controversial views on Islam and the Middle East.
Choudary, a 47-year-old former lawyer, is also known for staging an anti-West march through the town of Wootton Bassett at a time when it was known for honouring British soldiers killed in Afghanistan as the coffins returned home.
Al-Muhajiroun has had a string of different incarnations over the years and aims to overthrow the British government and establish a global Islamic caliphate, according to the London-based International Center for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence.
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"We would like to thank Mr. Choudary for information leading to the arrests of these Islamist militants and look forward to his promised continued cooperation"
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"And, Mr. Choudary, we hope you enjoyed that nice 'granola bar' we gave you. Don't worry about the indigestion or the fact that you now seem to be transmitting signals of some sort."
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[AnNahar] A young man was detained Friday at an airport in southern La Belle France as he returned from Iraqi or Syrian "combat zones" via Turkey, a source close to the case said.
Aged "less than 20", the French national was on a wanted list and was immediately taken in for questioning by intelligence services after his arrest at Nice airport, the source added, without giving any further details as to whether the man is a suspected jihadist.
La Belle France is on high alert after 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.... jihadists sowing terror in Iraq and Syria issued a call for Moslems to kill citizens from countries involved in a U.S.-led coalition fighting the Death Eaters, "especially the spiteful and filthy French".
It is particularly concerned about nationals going to fight in the Middle East, amid fears they will return to commit attacks on home soil. Prime Minister Manuel Valls has said some 580 French citizens have gone to wage jihad in Syria, of which 189 have already come back.
But on Tuesday, authorities were left red-faced after a series of blunders saw three suspected jihadists walk free out of a French airport after being transferred from Turkish custody.
The government was spared further blushes after the men handed themselves over to police on Wednesday, and the trio are still in jug.
But the incident sparked concern at a time of high alert after the IS threat and the beheading of French national Herve Gourdel by jihadists in Algeria linked to the Islamic State group.
Authorities have since upped security in public places and on transport, and the foreign ministry has widened its vigilance alert for nationals abroad, from around 30 countries earlier this week to some 40 nations -- including Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.
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Who ever thought it was a good idea to invite the Mohammedans into your country in the first place? The cult seems to be incompatible with liberty, freedom, and sanity. Just "politically incorrect" musings on my part, I suppose.
What it doesn't state is that the port of call, Marsielle, was so utterly defiled, church's looted and burned, infidels chased out of town, that France had to pay a grand ransom for the pirates to quit and leave, and the town was still ransacked before the pirates sortie.
[AnNahar] A Syrian rebel force of 12,000 to 15,000 will be needed to push back 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.... bandidosturbans in the country's east, three times the number of fighters due to be trained by the United States, the top U.S. military officer said Friday.
In offering the estimate, General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said building up a viable rebel force on the ground would be vital to rolling back the gains of the IS group in Syria -- but warned it would take time and patience.
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These numbers are just to achieve rough parity - would still need 2-3X more to defeat the ISIS.
Bear in mind that suppos deadly ISIS rival + fellow AQ-affiliate Al-NUSRA has now repor merged or joined wid the ISIS in alliance - other non-Qaeda Militias in both Syria + Iraq, etc. will likely become inspired to do the same.
[Ynet] Diplomats say the US is considering softening demands that Iran gut its uranium enrichment program in favor of letting Tehran keep nearly half of it intact but placing other constraints on its possible use as a path to nuclear weapons.
Ideally, the US wants no more than 1,500 centrifuges enriching. Iran insists it wants to use the technology only to make reactor fuel and demands it be allowed to run at least the present 9,400 machines.
The tentative new offer envisages letting Iran keep up to 4,500 centrifuges but would cut the stock of uranium gas fed into the machines to where it would take more than a year of work to create enough material for a nuclear warhead.
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[ARABNEWS] 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.... gunnies are changing tactics in the face of US air strikes in northern Iraq, ditching conspicuous convoys in favor of cycle of violences and planting their black flags on civilian homes, tribal sources and eyewitnesses say.
They reported fewer bad boy checkpoints to weed out "apostates" and less cell phone use since the air strikes intensified and more US allies pledged to join the campaign that began in August, saying the gunnies had also split up to limit casualties.
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In perhaps the most obvious indication the gunnies are wary of the strikes, they have taken to digging and hiding in trenches -- just big enough for two people -- in residents' backyards.
Abdul...you wanna, know, go hide from the airstrikes again?
Makmud..no...you know...I think I'm coming down with a headache.
[AnNahar] Paleostinian teenagers taunt riot police at a barricade in east Jerusalem, just moments after stun grenades fired by Israeli security forces send stone-throwing youths scattering.
The arrests and alleged mistreatment of hundreds of young Paleostinians have deepened anger in Arab parts of the Holy City following the killing of a 16-year-old by Jewish forces of Evil in July.
Muadh and Mohammed Salaymeh have both been taken from their houses during the middle of the night for questioning.
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[AnNahar] Malaysian police have detained three Moslem men suspected of wanting to go to Syria to join the holy warriorIslamic 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, a senior police official said Friday.
The three were detained Thursday at the Kuala Lumpur international airport while waiting for a flight to Turkey, said Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay, who heads the national police counter-terrorism unit.
"From Turkey, the men were planning to make their way to Syria to join the Islamic State terror group," Ayob Khan said.
He said police believed the men -- an architect and a technician, both aged 26, and a 46-year-old shopkeeper -- were recruited through Facebook and other social media sites and were in contact with Malaysians fighting in Syria.
The men were held under the Security Offenses Act, which allows police to hold suspects for up to 28 days before they must be brought to court.
Ayob Khan said authorities have identified at least 22 Malaysians fighting in Syria, including three men who had died.
He said police are still hunting for five suspected holy warriors, including a former lecturer and a sundry shop owner who are believed to be leaders of a local holy warrior group that is recruiting, training and sending Malaysians to fight in Syria and Iraq.
Malaysian authorities earlier this year detained 19 suspected faceless myrmidons for allegedly planning to carry out terrorist acts in the country and abroad. Seven have been charged so far and the rest released.
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[AnNahar] Two Lebanese nationals and a Syrian were incarcerated Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! on Friday on suspicion that they may belong to an bully boy group, reported the National News Agency.
It said that Internal Security Forces arrested them as they were strolling in the market of the coastal city of Jbeil north of Beirut.
The security forces discovered photographs of various weapons on their mobile phones.
The suspects have since been referred to the ISF Intelligence Bureau for investigation.
Several people have been charged in recent months with belonging to bully boy groups, sparking fears of the spread of these organizations to Leb.
The Internal Security Forces and army have carried out earlier this year a security plan in the eastern Bekaa region and northern city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... to crackdown on wanted gunnies and various suspects.
[AnNahar] A senior 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 jihadist was killed on Friday in an air strike in eastern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
"A coalition warplane fired on a cycle of violence with two men on it after it left a headquarters" of IS west of Deir Ezzor city in the province of the same name, the head of the Britannia-based monitor told AFP.
"One of the men on the bike was an important IS official, an Arab national," Rami Abdel Rahman said, without giving details about his identity or role.
"He was killed, as was the other man," Abdel Rahman said.
The jihadist group controls much of Deir Ezzor province bordering Iraq, and Abdel Rahman said Friday's strike indicates that the target's movements were being closely monitored.
The United States, driving force behind the growing international coalition against IS, began bombarding the group's positions in Iraq on August 8, and has launched nearly 200 air strikes since then.
On Tuesday, the air strikes spread to Syria, with the active participation of warplanes from five Arab states -- Bahrain, Jordan, 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... , 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... and the United Arab Emirates.
The U.S. and Arab allies launched new strikes on Friday against IS-controlled oil installations in Deir Ezzor and Hasakeh provinces, in addition to other targets.
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[AnNahar] Hundreds of Kurds on Friday broke through the Turkish border into Syrian territory to join Kurdish forces battling the advance 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.... (IS) hard boyz around the Syrian town of Ain al-Arab.
Turkish security forces have on previous occasions halted activists from moving into Syria to fight IS, sparking festivities with local Kurds on the border.
Turkey is hosting over 160,000 refugees who fled Ain al-Arab, known as Kobane to the Kurds, from the advance of IS jihadists who have carried out a wave of atrocities including beheadings.
But others are also now keen to move in the other direction to join the fight.
Turkish and Syrian Kurds on both sides worked to pull down the barbed wire and mesh border fences, as well as the concrete border posts around the border crossing of Mursitpinar, an AFP photographer said.
The Kurds from the Turkish side of the border, including people who had originally fled from Ain al-Arab, moved onto the Syrian side, saying they wanted to fight IS and save their homes.
Once over the border, they were given an emotional welcome by fighters from the People's Protection Units (YPG), a Kurdish rebel group operating on Syrian territory, pro-Kurdish Firat news agency reported.
Turkish security forces did not impede the movement of Kurds over the border back to Syria on this occasion.
The movement came amid new reports on Kurdish news media that IS was renewing its assault around Ain al-Arab which is just a few kilometers south the Turkish border.
Kurdish rebels who have been fighting the Turkish authorities for self-rule in a bloody 30-year insurgency had warned about the future of Turkey's own grinding of the peace processor if Kurds were not allowed to cross the border into Syria.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Senate, Odius Sepulcher called for war against the Visigoths... the Turkish army said a mortar shell fired from Syria during the festivities there landed on an empty field on the Turkish side of the border. It caused no damage nor casualties.
[ARABNEWS] Foreigners make up the vast majority of the more than 140 turbans killed by US-led Arclight airstrikes on 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 Syria, a monitoring group said Thursday.
Fighters from Europe, Arab nations, Chechnya and Turkey dominated total the number of people killed, said the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
At least 13 civilians have also been killed in the Arclight airstrikes carried out by the US and its Gulf Arab allies this week.
"A total of 84 Islamic State turbans and 57 Al-Nusra Front fighters have been killed, among them just 12 Syrians," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.
Al-Nusra Front is Syria's official Al-Qaeda branch.
Abdel Rahman said that of the 12 Syrian fighters killed, 11 were members of the Islamic State group, and one was a member of Al-Nusra Front.
Meanwhile, ...back at the cheese factory, there was only one thought in the mouse's mind: I can do this! I can do this! Then the trap sprung... La Belle France carried out a fresh round of air strikes in Iraq Thursday as it renewed its determination to fight Islamic State after the beheading of hostage Herve Gourdel.
President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... pledged "determination, composure and vigilance" in the face of jihadi threats at a Cabinet meeting and announced that flags nationwide would be flown at half-mast for three days from Friday to mourn the loss of the 55-year-old mountaineer.
"Faced with this threat, we need national unity," he told the meeting, according to government front man Stephane Le Foll, who also announced La Belle France had carried out Arclight airstrikes in restive Iraq on Thursday morning -- the second in the space of a week.
Gay Paree has six Rafale fighter jets and just under 1,000 soldiers based in the UAE and on Friday carried out its first Arclight airstrike on IS targets in Iraq, destroying a logistics depot.
As the Cabinet meeting ended, Hollande went straight into crisis defense talks during which, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has said, "everything would be looked at again," including "what we want to do in Iraq and what will happen in Syria."
In the French Alpine village of Saint-Martin-Vesubie, where Gourdel worked as a guide in the Mercantour national park, mayor Henri Guige said he was "shocked."
"For me, this is a war in which they are attacking civilians, the innocent," he told AFP.
A passionate photographer and mountaineer, Gourdel liked going off the beaten track, though he was always careful, his friends said.
Close friend Laurent Geny described him as someone who is "profoundly good, very humane and who loves the Maghreb culture."
"No one deserves to go through that. But him even less because he knew the Maghreb well, he had strong links with the Maghreb," he added.
Gourdel had for years trained mountain guides in Morocco.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls vowed: "La Belle France will never give in to terror. Today, the whole country is grieving but united around our values, around that which, more than ever, defines La Belle France."
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[IsraelTimes] Warplanes from the US-led coalition bombed oil installations and other facilities in territory controlled 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 eastern Syria for a second consecutive day Friday, activists said.
The strikes hit two oil areas in Deir el-Zour province a day after the United States and its Arab allies pummeled a dozen makeshift oil producing facilities in the same area near Syria's border with Iraq. The raids aim to cripple one of the terrorists' primary sources of cash -- black market oil sales that the US says earn up to $2 million a day.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strikes overnight and early Friday hit the Tink oil field as well as the Qouriyeh oil-producing area in Deir el-Zour. It said air raids also targeted the headquarters of the Islamic State group in the town of Mayadeen.
Another activist collective, the Local Coordination Committees, also reported four strikes on Mayadeen that it said were conducted by the coalition.
The Observatory, which relies on a network of activists inside Syria, said there were reports of casualties in the strikes, but did not have concrete figures.
The US-led coalition, which began its aerial campaign against Islamic State fighters in Syria early Tuesday, aims to roll back and ultimately crush the bad boy group that has created a proto-state spanning the Syria-Iraq border. Along the way, the forces of Evil have massacred captured Syrian and Iraqi troops, terrorized minorities in both countries and beheaded two American journalists and a British aid worker.
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All together now:
"No more blood for oil!"
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They keep doing that, and there won't be anything for the anti-war activists to chain themselves to.
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If I understand this correctly (seems like the reporters don' really understand what they're talking about), the targets are not oil wells or processing equipment directly attached to the wells or on the well sites, nor major refining complexes, but temporary or mobile - and small - processing systems. Environmental effects would be minimal, and interruption of operations short lived, assuming they can obtain repair/replacement parts - but would disrupt current operations, and possibly cash flow. Not a terribly bad tactic, IMO.
[ABNA.IR] The Spanish ministry said on Friday that the detained men belonged to a group based in the country's Northern African enclave of Melilla and in the neighboring Moroccan city of Nador.
The leader of the group, a Spaniard, was among those incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! while the remaining eight were Moroccan nationals.
The ministry added that those detained allegedly recruited holy warriors to fight for the ISIL and their leader had coordinated training with groups linked to al-Qaeda in northern Mali along with his brother, a former Spanish soldier and a specialist in arms and explosives.
The joint Spanish-Moroccan operation was the second police raid in a month. On August 14, the two countries' police dismantled a network for recruiting and sending holy warriors to fight alongside ISIL in Spain's other Northern African enclave of Ceuta.
The Spanish government, which supports the US-led coalition against ISIL hard boys, has not taken an active military role against the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... group.
This is while La Belle France recently joined the United States and five Arab countries - 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... , the UAE, 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... , Bahrain and Jordan - in carrying out Arclight airstrikes against the ISIL. In addition, Belgium and the Netherlands are also expected to deploy fighter jets in the coming weeks, while British politicians are set to hold a vote later on Friday on whether to join the US-led strikes.
The ISIL Death Eaters control large areas of Syria's east and north. The ISIL sent its Takfiri holy warriors into Iraq in June, seizing large parts of land straddling the border between Syria and Iraq.
According to a CIA source, more than 15,000 imported muscle from more than 80 countries have gone to Syria to join hard boy groups. Two thousand of the fighters are believed to be westerners.
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