Sure is a lot of beheading going on lately, all done by radical adherents of one particular faith. But we're not allowed to mention that, and NBC News certainly won't say that, because it would make us/them look 'racist' instead of truthful...
KABUL -- Militants aligned with ISIS launched a brutal offensive in Afghanistan alongside Taliban fighters that has left more than 100 people dead, local officials said Friday. Insurgents carrying the black flag of ISIS captured several villages in Ghazni province, according to Deputy Governor Ali Ahmad Ahmadi and Deputy Police Chief Gen. Asadullah Ensafi. Fifteen family members of local police officers were beheaded and at least 60 homes were set ablaze, Ahmadi said.
Ensafi later told NBC News that five Afghan helicopters had managed to drop Afghan special forces personnel to reinforce units already defending the area. He said the immediate threat to district's center had been nullified.
But not before the families were whacked...
Members of the Taliban from different regions of the country were involved in the offensive, officials said. According to Ahmadi, the drive was being led by masked men wearing camouflage who carried the black flag of the ISIS and openly called themselves soldiers of "Daesh" another name for ISIS. The officials said those militants did not speak any local languages.
Uzbeks? Syrians? Ruritanians?
Reinforcements from the Afghan national army and provincial police had been stopped from reaching the area by Taliban ambushes.
So the ANA hasn't learned how to beat ambushes...
Dr. Gareth Price, an Afghanistan expert at London's Chatham House think tank, said it was possible that one section of the Taliban has decided to re-brand and copy the tactics of ISIS. "Given the factionalizing that seems to be happening in the Pakistani Taliban, it's not surprising that a group has decided to show allegiance to the Islamic State," he added.
Or it's just a ruse to confuse the think tanks...
If they're speaking a non-Afghan language, that suggests pretty strongly that they're outsiders come to "help".
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[AnNahar] Yemeni rebels who have overrun the capital clashed with presidential guards Saturday as they ignored a demand to leave the city following a U.N.-brokered peace accord.
Fighting erupted overnight after the Huthi Iranian catspaws tried to occupy the home of the national security chief, according to witnesses.
Two fighters were killed in the shootout which lasted around three hours, while 15 others were maimed and a number of snuffies were captured by presidential guards, rebel sources said.
Hours earlier President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi had urged the rebels to leave the capital Sanaa, much of which they seized last week.
"Settling accounts by force and acts of vengeance will not build a state," Hadi said.
The rebels have swept from their stronghold in the rugged northwestern mountains to the capital demanding economic and political reforms.
They seized key state installations nearly a week ago, mostly in northern Sanaa, without any resistance after festivities on the city's outskirts with Islamists killed more than 270 people.
The presidential complex in southern Sanaa is said to be protected by four brigades deployed around the palace and in nearby hills.
The violence has added to instability in Yemen since an uprising that led to the ouster of autocratic president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... two years ago.
Washington last week ordered a cut in the number of American government staff in Yemen due to the "unpredictable" security situation.
The peace deal, signed last Sunday, was aimed at putting the post-Saleh transition back on track in impoverished Yemen, which borders oil-rich 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 is a key U.S. ally in the fight against al-Qaeda.
The Huthi-linked al-Masirah TV station said Saturday the rebels had also now signed a protocol stipulating they must hand over seized institutions and dismantle armed protest camps in and around Sanaa.
Also known as Ansarullah, they have battled the government for years from their heartland of Saada, complaining of marginalization.
Analysts say that the rebels, who have also seized large areas north of Sanaa, want to establish themselves as the dominant political force in the north, in preparation for a planned federation.
The situation on the ground remained confused following the lightning takeover of Sanaa by the rebels.
Interior Minister Abdo al-Tarib earlier urged government forces not to confront the snuffies as they swept across the capital.
Sources close to the presidency have accused Saleh of collaborating with the rebels by using his clout among army chiefs.
Military sources said the rebels aimed to smoothly bring under their control army bases in Sanaa and other regions, by securing the cooperation of top officers.
On Friday Hadi appeared to refer to Saleh backers, saying: "We were let down by those who put their interests above those of the homeland."
Hadi has so far failed to name a new prime minister as stipulated by the agreement to end the fighting.
Yemeni authorities have repeatedly accused Iran of backing the rebels, who also appear influenced by Leb's powerful Shiite militia Hezbollah, which is supported by Tehran.
An unidentified attacker fired a rocket at Yemeni special police guarding the U.S. embassy in Sanaa on Saturday, police sources said, a day after the State Department told U.S. citizens to leave Yemen because of growing political unrest.
The rocket was fired from a car and landed 200 meters from the heavily fortified embassy, which lies in a compound surrounded by high walls in the capital.
Did the hard boyz aim at the embassy, the guards, the wall or "somewhere that way"?
At least two of the guardsmen were injured in the assault, after which the car carrying the attacker sped away, police said.
As usual, the local coppe shoppe was completed confused, befuddled, unprepared and unorganized...
The attacker used a M72 light anti-tank weapon, a police source told Reuters.
On Friday, the United States told its citizens in Yemen to leave and said it was reducing the number of U.S. government staff there due to political unrest and fears of a possible military escalation.
There's been a "possible military escalation" in Yemen for about 1500 years...
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The more we learn about him the less we're surprised. The less we're surprised the more we're resolved to do something about it. That's why the MSM has already clamped down to make sure we don't learn more about him. Enter Breitbart and other non-traditional media to make sure we do.
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yes, his islamic comments had nothing to do with Islam
his appearances at the OK city mosque had nothing to do with the mosque
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Islam is a false religion, based on a false book, written by a false prophet who was a murderer of anyone who disagreed with him, thief, pedophile, an oppressor of women, but who successfully legitimized evil by claiming all of his behaviors were sanctioned by god. Apparently that is all a lot of people need in order to identify with the big lie.
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 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!!!”
Another pic (not the one above) at the link. As usual Breibart goes where the MSM won't.
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Time for the FBI to do a public lay-down of the entire al-Awlaki and Tsarnaev social network, or are we simply going to have to piece them together, one beheading at a time? A rhetorical question I suppose.
[AnNahar] The Iraqi army and an alliance of Shiite militia groups on Saturday retook a dam northeast of Baghdad after days of fighting believed to have killed dozens, security sources said.
Fighting has been raging for days around Muqdadiyah, in Diyala province, around 90 kilometers (55 miles) from Baghdad, between jihadists from the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group and pro-government forces.
"We are now in full control of the dam," said an army lieutenant colonel, adding that the final stages of the operation on Saturday had left seven IS gunnies dead.
A police captain confirmed the toll.
The officers said the final push to retake Muqdadiyah dam involved Iraqi troops and fighters from the Asaib Ahl al-Haq, Badr and Saraya al-Salam Shiite militias.
Government sources in the area have reported high casualties among jihadist ranks over the past few days.
The fighting has also left many dead in pro-government ranks. At least 12 members of the Saraya al-Salam militia killed in the area were buried in the holy Shiite city of Najaf on Thursday alone.
IS fighters have repeatedly attempted to control dams across the country, and in some cases weaponized them by either reducing the flow of water to areas under government control or flooding swathes of land to impede army operations.
The jihadists briefly controlled the dam in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , the country's largest, before Iraqi special forces and Kurdish peshmerga troops backed by U.S. fighters jets retook it in early August.
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Iran will attack ISIS group militants inside Iraq if they advance near the border, ground forces commander General Ahmad Reza Pourdestana said in comments published on Saturday.
If it wasn't for the fact that innocent Iraqis would suffer I'd let the ISIS and the Iranian bully boyz go at it. One could cull two herds at once...
“If the terrorist group (ISIS) come near our borders, we will attack deep into Iraqi territory and we will not allow it to approach our border,” the official IRNA news agency quoted Pourdestana as saying.
The extremists of ISIS control a swathe of territory north of Baghdad, including in Diyala province, which borders Iran.
Iran is a close ally of the Shia-led government in Iraq and has been unusually accepting of US military action in Iraq against the militants. It has provided support to both the Iraqi government and Iraqi Kurdish forces fighting the militants and has dispatched weapons and military advisers.
But Tehran, a close ally of the Damascus government, has criticised air strikes on Syria, saying they would not help restore stability in the region.
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said he rejected a US offer to join the international coalition it has been building against the militants.
Can't ally with the Great Satan after all...
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LONDON -- Three European nations, including Britain, joined the widening U.S.-led air campaign against Islamic State militants in Iraq on Friday, even as the group's fighters renewed their attempt to overrun a strategic border city in Syria.
Britain's entry seven weeks after the United States began carrying out strikes followed an overwhelming parliamentary vote to authorize attacks. Denmark and Belgium also opted to join the fight. All three countries that authorized military action Friday are limiting their roles to Iraq. But no European ally has been willing to join the Syria campaign -- raising the prospect that the Islamic State could try to use the country as a refuge.
“Simply allowing [the Islamic State] to retreat across an invisible border is no answer,” said Peter Hain, a member of Parliament and former cabinet minister, during Britain's day-long debate.
British Prime Minister David Cameron, scarred by a humiliating defeat last year when he sought permission to launch strikes against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, did not try to win approval for attacks in Syria this time around. Instead, he limited his proposal to Iraq, where he had a clear consensus, thanks to the Iraqi government's request for Western help. No such invitation from Syria exists, and British opposition leader Ed Miliband has suggested he will not support widening the campaign without a U.N. resolution, which is unlikely to come.
Friday's House of Commons vote endorsing Cameron's plan to deploy six Tornado fighter jets to Iraq was lopsided, at 524 to 43. Still, there was opposition from the backbenches, both from hawks who wanted to go further and from doves who insisted that Britain had not learned the right lessons from more than a decade of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But Cameron argued that ignoring the Islamic State was impossible, given the threat he said it poses to Britain.
“This is not a threat on the far side of the world. Left unchecked, we will face a terrorist caliphate on the shores of the Mediterranean and bordering a NATO member, with a declared and proven intention to attack our country and our people,” Cameron said as he opened the debate.
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[AnNahar] A jihadist who once fought in the Khorasan group offered messages of condolences on Twitter over the death of the Al-Qaeda offshoot group's alleged leader, the SITE monitoring group said Saturday.
The messages appeared to provide confirmation that U.S. Arclight airstrikes in Syria might have killed Khorasan leader Muhsin al-Fadhli, a long-standing Qaeda operative.
SITE said a series of tweets from the jihadist, identified as a member of Al-Qaeda, expressed condolences for the deaths of Fadhli and another Khorasan leader, Abu Yusuf al-Turki.
The U.S. based monitoring group said the jihadist in Twitter postings dated September 27, 2014, also lamented the situation on the ground in Syria with U.S.-led coalition forces striking 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) forces, SITE said.
The strikes by U.S. warplanes and cruise missiles targeted the Islamic State movement as well as the until recently little-known Khorasan group, which Washington has said is plotting attacks against U.S. targets.
Washington last week expanded its air strikes, which for weeks had focused on IS targets in Iraq, to include Syria as well.
The United States and its coalition partners aim to destroy the Islamic State group, which controls a swath of territory in Iraq and Syria, has murdered two U.S. journalists and a British aid worker and is locked in a brutal war with Iraqi and Kurdish authorities.
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This may be part of Obama's super sneaky plan:
Lie so much people don't take him seriously - then do something for real.
Al
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By some miracle did we achieve a good level of tactical surprise?
Probably something more like a pilot went off the reservation, so to speak and took liberties with his assigned coordinates. Probably already transferred to a cargo plane flying rubber dog sh!t from Hong Kong.....
[Ynet] First time strikes in Kobani come amid fighting between Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... fighters and members of the Kurdish People's Protection Units.
US coalition-led warplanes struck jihadis attacking a town near the Turkish border for the first time Saturday, as well as positions including wheat silos in the country's east, activists and a Kurdish official said.
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It as not immediately clear why the silos were targeted.
Never underestimate the Ag lobby. Looking for JDAMs on the peanut press' next.
[Ynet] After US warplanes hit Nusra Front positions as well, the al-Qaeda-linked group vows attack against Western and Arab countries that took part in airstrikes, saying 'It's not a war against Nusra Front, it's a war against Islam.'
The al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front on Saturday denounced US-led air strikes on Syria, saying they amounted to a war against Islam and vowing to retaliate against Western and Arab countries that took part.
"We are in a long war.
Assuming y'all survive the short war, of course.
This war will not end in months nor years, this war could last for decades," the group's spokesman Abu Firas al-Suri said.
"It's not a war against Nusra Front, it's a war against Islam," he added in an audio message published on the group's social media network, its first reaction since the launch of the US-led strikes on Tuesday.
[AnNahar] The U.S.-led coalition widened its air strikes against the Islamic State group in Syria Saturday as British warplanes took off on anti-jihadist missions over neighboring Iraq.
Seven targets were hit in Syria, the Pentagon said, including an IS building and two armed vehicles at the border crossing in the besieged Kurdish town of Ain al-Arab, also known as Kobane.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said IS rockets also hit the town, for the first time since the jihadist assault began on September 16, wounding 12 people.
The jihadist advance on the town has sent 160,000 refugees streaming into Turkey.
Other targets in Syria included IS vehicles and buildings near al-Hasakeh, as well as an IS command and control facility near Minbej, U.S. Central Command said.
Meanwhile, Royal Air Force Tornado GR4 combat jets armed with laser-guided bombs took off from Britain's RAF Akrotiri base on Cyprus for missions over Iraq but returned after seven hours without having used their weapons.
"On this occasion no targets were identified as requiring immediate air attack by our aircraft," a defense ministry spokesman in London said.
Belgium and Denmark have also approved plans to join France and the Netherlands in launching air raids against the militants in Iraq, allowing Washington to focus on the more complex operation in Syria, where IS is based.
Saturday was the second time U.S.-led air strikes had been reported around Ain al-Arab since the IS advance began.
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At least 24 militants of the al- Qaida-linked Nusra Front were killed in an ambush by the Syrian troops on Friday, the pan-Arab al-Mayadeen TV reported.
The Syrian troops had thwarted a wide-scale offensive by the al- Nusra militants in the towns of Jubbeh and Esal al-Wared in the al- Qalamoun region in the northern countryside of the capital Damascus, said the TV, adding that one of the killed militants was a militant commander.
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[AnNahar] A jihadist who once fought in the Khorasan group offered messages of condolences on Twitter over the death of the Al-Qaeda offshoot group's alleged leader, the SITE monitoring group said Saturday.
