[AAWSAT] Fighting erupted in the western Afghan city of Farah on Tuesday after the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... attempted to capture the placid provincial capital.
Afghan aircraft bombed Taliban positions as residents sought shelter from the kabooms and gunfire.
The attack marks the first major assault targeting a city since the Taliban launched their annual spring offensive.
The assault began around midnight, with the Lions of Islam capturing one urban district and parts of another, said local provincial council member Jamila Amini.
"Heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual name-calling or slapsy... continues inside the city and aircraft have just started bombarding Taliban positions," she told AFP Tuesday from inside Farah.
Afghan officials said police special forces from Kandahar and commandos from Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... had also been deployed.
"(The Taliban) will fail," vowed interior ministry front man Najib Danish, who said both Afghan and foreign air forces were taking part in the fighting.
Fared Bakhtawer, head of the provincial council, offered a different picture, however, saying that several security checkpoints in Farah were overrun by the Taliban.
Bakhtawer said casualties were high among security forces, but could not provide a precise number.
Mohammad Sarwar Osmani, a politician from Farah province, said strategic security checkpoints around the city were overrun by Taliban and the bully boyz were near police headquarters and the governor's offices.
Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban front man, grabbed credit. He said fighters launched attacks form multiple directions, after which they overran several checkpoints in the city. Farah borders Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province, where the Taliban controls several districts.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] Clashes between Military forces of Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... state and the breakaway Somaliland erupted on Tuesday morning in Sool region.
The fighting which is reported to be ongoing flared up in a disputed town, Tukaraq about 90 km from Garowe which is an administrative capital of Puntland.
Puntland Minister for Information, Abdi Ali Hirsi Qarjab accused Somaliland of "aggression" saying Somaliland forces raided bases manned by Puntland troops.
"Early hours of Tuesday, Somaliland forces invaded our troop near Tukaraq town. Our forces are wording off the attackers," said Qarjab.
He said the fighting is ongoing in and around the town with hundreds of residents in the area started fleeing their homes.
"The fighting is continuing in and around town. The aggressors have already displaced almost the entire population of the town as they using heavy artillery weapons against the civilians in the town," he noted.
Somaliland chief of armed forces, Nuh Ismail Tani has dismissed the blames by Puntland minister, saying Somaliland forces who were in full control of Tukaraq town (in the recent month) came under attack.
"Puntland attacked our forces in Tukaraq town today, the battle is going on," said Tani.
The two warring sides at the border town did not report any casualties and the fighting is reportedly escalating.
Somaliland and Puntland both claim ownership of Sool and Sanaag regions that lie between them.
The fighting comes as the UN envoy to Somalia, Michael Keating is carrying out efforts to ease the tension between the two regional states.
Keating held talks with Garowe and Hargeisa local authorities on the intensifying tensions in Tukaraq town.
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[AlAhram] Egypt's Cassation Court on Tuesday placed 135 defendants on the country's terror list for a three-year term in the trial known in the media as the "Helwan Brigades"
...they first appeared in a video in August 2014, vowing to target all police facilities in Helwan, a southern suburb of Cairo. Their attacks have been linked to both ISIS and the Muslim Brotherhood...
case.
The court rejected the defendants' appeals to an earlier 2016 ruling placing them on the list.
The Helwan Brigades is an Egyptian terror group that first appeared in a video published and circulated on social media networks in 2014, in which self-declared members called for attacks on police facilities in south Cairo.
Egypt's terror list contains over 1,500 names, including top leaders of the 2013 banned and terrorist-designated Moslem Brüderbund organization.
Under the country’s anti-terrorism law, any person placed on the terror list is subject to a travel ban and having their assets frozen.
[VANGUARDNGR] At least five members of a militia force fighting Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... jihadists were killed on Tuesday when a jacket wallah detonated his explosives in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , an emergency official and force member told AFP.
A man carried out the bombing at a checkpoint manned by the militia, known as the Civilian Joint Task Force, on the outskirts of Konduga, 35 kilometres southeast from the Borno state capital of Maiduguri.
"Five members of the Civilian Joint Task Force were killed in a suicide kaboom in Mandarari outskirts of Konduga town... at a checkpoint," said Abdukadir Ibrahim, front man for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in Borno state.
"Five people were also injured in the incident which occurred when the suicide bomber detonated the concealed IED (improvised bomb) as he was being searched at the checkpoint," said Ibrahim.
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[VANGUARDNGR] The Nigerian Army says on Tuesday it has lunched a new operation to totally flush out remnants of Boko Haram insurhents in the Lake Chad region.
Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai Lt. Gen. Tukur Burutai, disclosed at a press conference in Maiduguri that Operation Last Hold began on May 1, and has a target of August 31, to accomplish it’s mission. Represented by Maj. - Gen. Abba Dikko, the Commander of Operation LAST HOLD explained that it was intended to facilitate the clearance of the Lake Chad waterways of sea weeds and other obstacles obstructing the movement of boats and people across the water channels.
“It will also ensure the destruction of Boko Haram Terrorist camps and strong points in the Lake Chad Basin general area. The operation will also facilitate the rescue of hostages,”he said.
Buratai said that the Army was determined to consolidate on its recent gains in the ongoing push especially in the Northern most part of Borno.
“Operation LAST HOLD is expected to last for 4 months and it will entail deployment of additional manoeuvre brigades and other critical assets in Borno State.
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[AAWSAT] Saudi air defenses intercepted on Tuesday a ballistic missile fired by the Iranian-backed Houthi ...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 Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. 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 ... militias in 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. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... towards the southern city of Jizan.
Arab coalition front man Colonel Turki al-Maliki said that the missile was fired from the region of Saada towards populated areas in Jizan.
The Saudi air defenses intercepted the rocket and its shrapnel landed in residential areas without leading to any injuries.
Maliki condemned the hostile Houthi attack, which demonstrates Tehran’s ongoing involvement of supporting the militia with weapons.
This is a clear and blatant violation of International Humanitarian Law and United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Security Council resolutions 2216 and 2231, he added.
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[SABANEWS.NET] Three women were maimed in Saudi-led coalition warplanes waged seven strikes on Saada province, an official told Saba on Wednesday.
The strikes hit a citizen's house in Sharawi and al-Zamah areas in Baqim district, wounding three women.
Meanwhile, ...back at the abandoned silver mine, the water was up to Jack's neck and still rising. And then he smelled the smoke... the Saudi artillery and rockets fired at various areas in the same district.
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[AAWSAT] Police in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... nabbed Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! dozens of suspected ISIS members in a raid in the city of Istanbul, the private Dogan news agency reported on Tuesday.
Counter-terror police raided 19 addresses in over a dozen districts late on Monday, detaining 54 suspects who were taken for interrogation at the city's police headquarters, it said.
All the detainees are foreign nationals, revealed the police without offering more details.
Police suspect that they were planning to travel to neighboring Syria.
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[DAWN] A man lost his life in Azad Jammu and Kashmire's (AJK) Poonch district on Tuesday as Indian snipers resumed assassinations from across the Line of Control (LoC), police officials told Dawn.
The casualty occurred in Dara Sher Khan village of Battal sector in Hajira subdivision at 12:15pm, when the victim was trimming a tree in the courtyard of his house, local police official Muhammad Aziz told Dawn.
"It was a single shot that hit the 55-year-old victim in the head, and he fell off the tree and went titzup," Aziz added.
The victim’s family rushed him to a health facility in Tatta Pani ‐ located 7 kilometres ahead of Dara Sher Khan ‐ where the doctors pronounced him dead He's dead, Jim! on arrival.
The dear departed was identified as Muzaffar Chaudhry alias Mangu.
Relatives and other residents staged a demonstration in Tatta Pani to condemn unprovoked ceasefire violations across the LoC and express support for anti-India struggle.
The heavily militarised LoC has been frequently witnessing ceasefire violations particularly after September 2016, in a serious breach of a truce agreement signed by two armies in November 2003.
Apart from heavy mortar shelling, Indian troops have resorted to deliberate targeting of civilians with small arms while they are doing daily chores in vulnerable areas along the LoC in AJK.
However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... for more than two weeks, the LoC was silent as the last casualties in the region were reported on April 26, when two non-combatants were killed and as many maimed in heavy mortar shelling by Indian troops in Chamb sector of Bhimber district.
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Muzaffar Chaudhry alias Mangu.
WTF?
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Too kind, TW, as always. "Happen to you," indeed!
Crazy place to ask, but what the hell... Rastaburg has been useless and Rantburg knows pretty much everything. I've been plagued for decades by the vivid memory of a few seconds of dub heard on radio or cassette, that I've never been able to identify. No idea why it originally made an impression, but its present potential tantalises, as does the "eternal mystery" aspect. Words: "I'm a victim... a victim..." Anyone? Ben Stein?
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) A security source from Anbar province has revealed presence of Islamic State members gathering at some regions, west of the province.
Speaking to Almaalomah website, the source from the pro-government al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) said, “intelligence sources indicated infiltration of some IS militants into west of Ramadi city to launch attacks against security troops.”
Security troops, according to the source, “took strict measures and started wide-scale campaigns targeting regions that are near from where the militants are hiding.”
Anbar provincial council had previously indicated infiltration by militants from Syria toward western Anbar regions without being targeted by U.S. jets.
Last week, the Joint Operations Command said the group’s supreme leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is at Eastern Euphrates region, where U.S. troops are deployed.
Anbar (Iraqinews.com) – Iraqi security forces seized on Tuesday an arms depot hidden inside an uninhibited house in Anbar governorate, a security council was quoted as saying.
“Seven locally-made bombs and 12 mortar shells were found inside the house, located in Al-Qa’im district in Anbar,” Alghad Press quoted Spokesman for the Iraqi Security Media Council Brig. Gen. Yehia Rasool as saying.
“All explosive materials were remotely detonated at the site,” Rasool pointed out.
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troops find turban bombs cache
Are these actual turban bombs like in the cartoon? I thought that was just a joke
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Two terrorists, one of whom was the financial official 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.... ’s so-called Diyala State, have been enjugged Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! , the Iraqi Interior Ministry said on Tuesday.
In a statement, the ministry said, "the ministry’s intelligence as well as the counter-terrorism troops managed to arrest two murderous Moslems in al-Katoun region. One of them was the financial chief of the so-called Diyala State."
The two members, according to the statement, "committed many terrorist crimes in the province."
Last week, Col. Ghaleb al-Attiyah, spokesperson for Diyala police, was quoted saying that security troops managed to arrest two terrorists, one of whom was the main funder of IS cells.
He used to provide them with logistics and money at the northeastern region in Diyala. Earlier this month, Brig. Gen. Yahia Rasool, spokesperson of the Security Media Center, said the intelligence troops, in collaboration with the army, arrested the administrative official of one of the regions within Islamic State’s so-called Diyala State.
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Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) The Criminal Court in Nineveh has sentenced an Islamic State member to death in Mosul over joining the militant group after it controlled the city in 2014.
According to the court, the convict joined the group, once it controlled Mosul. He fought along with other members in Shirqat.
Many IS members were detained during liberation battles that freed cities, which were recaptured by the militant group in 2014.
In April, the Central Criminal Court in Baghdad has sentenced five female militants, two of whom are Azeri and three others are from Kyrgyzstan, to death over involvement with Islamic State. Life sentences were issued against five female convicts, two of whom are Russian, an Azeri one and a French one.
Moreover, the Iraqi Justice Ministry has announced carrying out death sentences against 13 convicts, most of whom are involved in terrorism. Six Turkish females were sentenced to death over affiliation to Islamic State.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Iraqi military has denied news on an attack by Islamic State members against a checkpoint in Nineveh.
A statement by the Security Media Center said on Tuesday “What was tackled by media channels on an attack against a security checkpoint in al-Tayaran and al-Okaidat regions in Nineveh by Islamic State is untrue.”
The center, according to the statement, reiterated calls on media channels to “rely on official sources when publishing news on security issues.”
Nineveh (Iraqinews.com) – Iraqi security forces announced on Thursday the capture of three militants of Islamic State in the group’s last bastion of Mosul, a police chief was quoted as saying.
“Nineveh police arrested the three militants upon accurate intelligence data in Mosul city,” Baghdad Today website quoted Nineveh Police Chief Brig. Gen. Hamad Nems al-Jabouri as saying in a statement.
“The arrest was made pursuant to article 4/1 of the anti-terrorism law,” the statement read.
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[PRESSTV] Members of the Iraqi federal police have carried out a counter-terrorism operation in the oil-rich northern province of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... killing four high-profile commanders of the ISISTakfiri ...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... terrorist group in the process.
The security forces, following a tip-off from pro-government fighters from Popular Mobilization Units ‐ better known by the Arabic word Hashd al-Sha’abi, staged an ambush on a Death Eater hideout in the village of Karhakazan late on Monday, and killed the terrorists.
The slain Takfiris were later identified as Adnan Ahmed Hassan al-Sour, better known by the nom de guerre Abu Rizwan, who was a senior Death Eater commander in the Riyadh district, southwest of Kirkuk, Shaker Shallal Ousebi, commonly known as Abu Haifa, who was responsible for ISIS medical affairs, Abu Talha, Abu Haitham and Hassan Ali Thalaj, better known by the alias Abu Dhar.
Abu Rizwan was apparently one of the main organizers of ISIS surprise attack on Hashd al-Sha’abi forces in Saadounia village, western Hawija, on February 18, when 21 voluntary fighters were killed.
Separately, security forces have uncovered a huge cache of munitions belonging to ISISLions of Islam in the oil-rich city of Baiji, located some 130 miles north of Baghdad.
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[IsraelTimes] Some 1,300 Paleostinians are taking part in violent demonstrations across the West Bank, the army says, as part of "Nakba Day," which commemorates what they call the "catastrophe" of Paleostinians’ displacement from their homes during the war that followed the creation of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948.
According to the IDF, the protests are taking place at 18 locations in the West Bank.
Rioters are setting tires on fire and throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails at Israeli troops, the army says. The soldiers are responding with riot dispersal methods such as tear gas and rubber bullets.
[IsraelTimes] Some 4,000 Paleostinians are taking part in rioting along the Gazoo border, the Israeli army says, up from 400 who were demonstrating there earlier in the day, but far less than the 40,000 who clashed with Israeli troops a day earlier.
The Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,-run Gazoo health ministry says that two Paleostinians have been killed and over 160 are injured to varying degrees.
The rioters are throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails at soldiers on the other side of the fence and rolling burning tires at the border "with the intention of starting fires in Israel and harming Israeli forces," the army says.
IDF soldiers are responding with riot dispersal means and, in some cases, live fire. "They are operating in accordance with the rules of engagement," the army says.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli soldiers arrest "a number" of Paleostinians who tried to cross into Israeli territory during a violent protest along the security fence in the northern Gazoo Strip this evening, the army says.
"The suspects were tracked by troops the entire time they moved [toward the border] and they were tossed in the clink Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! next to the security fence," the army says.
An army spokesperson says she is not yet sure exactly how many people were arrested.
The suspects have been handed over to the Shin Bet security service for questioning.
Due to the overcrowding in Gazoo's hospitals, Egypt has allowed the transfer of some of the maimed from the strip to its territory for treatment. The Paleostinians began the bureaucratic process of listing the maimed that need medical treatment outside the Gazoo Strip. It is yet unclear how many will be allowed through the Rafah crossing.
On the Israeli side of the Gazoo border, several incendiary kites caused fires in open areas.
[IsraelTimes] The Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and 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 groups acknowledged Tuesday that 13 operatives from the organizations were among the 60 reported killed by IDF fire at the Gazoo fence protests a day prior. Israel said at least 24 of the dead were members of terror groups.
Hamas said ten of those killed were members of its interior ministry, which is responsible for the security agencies in Gazoo.
Islamic Jihad said that three members of its Saraya al-Quds military wing were bumped off by Israeli forces in Khan Younis.
The IDF said Tuesday that a total of 24 members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad were killed in the day-long festivities Monday.
It said the number was based on a joint investigation with the Shin Bet security service.
"Most of the people [from terror groups] killed belonged to the Hamas terror group, and some to the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad," an IDF spokesperson said.
Among the dead, the IDF said, were all eight members of a cell of armed Hamas operatives, who were killed in a shootout as they sought to breach the fence in the northern Gazoo Strip.
Gazoo’s Hamas-run health ministry said 60 people were killed in Monday’s demonstrations, most by gunfire, and more than 2,700 were maimed. The ministry claimed a baby was among those killed, by tear gas, but a Gazoo doctor, who said the baby had a pre-existing medical condition, and her family, cast doubt on this.
[Davao Today] A New People’s Army leader being treated in a hospital at Don Carlos town in Bukidnon was arrested on Saturday, the Philippine military reported. Military spokesman Ezra Balagtey identified the NPA leader as Elizalde Cañete alias Ka Jinggoy.
Cañete was arrested on May 12 while he was recovering after being injured in a clash with soldiers in Kitaotao, Bukidnon on May 10.
Balagtey said military and police forces served an arrest warrant against Cañete, who is facing charges of multiple murder and arson.
Balagtey said Cañete was first arrested in 2010 in a clash in Montevista, Compostela Valley and was later released on bail in 2013.
The military reported that Cañete replaced the late Leoncio Pitao also known as Comannder Parago as leader of the Pulang Bagani Command 1 of the NPA that operates in the region between Bukidnon, Davao del Norte and the mountainous parts of Davao City.
Photo of the militant in his hospital bed from the Philippines Defense Forces Forum Facebook page at the link. Looks like he's seen better days.
He looks dreadfully uncomfortable. Let us pray for sepsis.
{PhilStar] Eleven Abu Sayyaf militants and three soldiers were killed in encounters in Patikul, Sulu in the past two days as the Philippine military continued its operations to rescue hostages. At least 17 soldiers and two rebels were also injured in the clashes.
Four of the ten militants killed in the encounter on Sunday were identified as Amah Talah; Taha Sawdjaan, a brother of Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan, the second in command of the Abu Sayyaf in Sulu; two men known as Red and Long Abraham.
Military spokesman Cirilito Sobejana said the clashes with the group of Abu Sayyaf sub-leaders Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan, Idang Susukan, Injam Yadah and Ben Tottoh occurred in Sitio Kan Alas, Barangay Tanum and Bud Kaha, Maligay.
The remains of three rebels, one of them of foreign appearance, were recovered yesterday.
General Carlito Galvez told a press briefing, "There is an ongoing encounter... We believe one of (the fatalities) is the son of Sawdjaan. There is also a suspicious-looking foreign terrorist."
A Dutch man, a Vietnamese, three Indonesians and seven Filipinos, including two policewomen, remain in the hands of the Abu Sayyaf.
Sobejana said search and rescue operations for the remaining captives would continue. He said, “We will sustain our efforts until the last kidnap victim is rescued and the Abu Sayyaf is neutralized."
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Clashes broke out between two Ottoman Turkish-backed rebel groups in the Syrian northern city of Afrin as corpse count from both warring parties rises.
Militants from Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... and Shamiyah Front engaged in heavy firefight using light and medium weapons. This resulted in scores of forces of Evil killed and maimed, in addition to casualties among civilians.
The reasons behind the infighting is yet to be revealed.
Ottoman Turkish military vehicles were seen heading al-Sarayah area ‐ where the festivities first erupted ‐ in order to contain the situation.
Last March, Ottoman Turkish-backed rebel groups took over Afrin region after months-long battles against the Kurdish militia. The city has been shamefully looted ever since.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
...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. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
...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...
[Davao Today] A New People’s Army leader being treated in a hospital at Don Carlos town in Bukidnon was arrested on Saturday, the Philippine military reported. Military spokesman Ezra Balagtey identified the NPA leader as Elizalde Cañete alias Ka Jinggoy.
{PhilStar] Eleven Abu Sayyaf militants and three soldiers were killed in encounters in Patikul, Sulu in the past two days as the Philippine military continued its operations to rescue hostages. At least 17 soldiers and two rebels were also injured in the clashes.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Clashes broke out between two 
