ISLAMABAD (AP) ‐ Heavily armed men burst into the home in the middle of night, hustling four brothers into separate rooms, their hands bound. Afghan special forces then shot them in the head and heart. The operation, the CIA-trained Afghan unit said, targeted Islamic State militants in a remote region of eastern Nangarhar Province.
In reality, the raid took place in the province’s capital of Jalalabad, within earshot of Justice Ministry offices. In an interview with The Associated Press, the family said the dead brothers included a school teacher and an assistant to a member of Afghanistan’s parliament. The truth of their deaths was eventually revealed by local and international media and the country’s intelligence chief, Masoom Stanikzai, was forced to resign.
But that’s not enough, says Human Rights Watch in a new report released Thursday documenting what it says are mounting atrocities by U.S.-backed Afghan special forces and rising civilian deaths by both American and Afghan forces. It calls for an investigation into whether the U.S. has committed war crimes in Afghanistan.
The report says U.S.-led peace talks to end the 18-year-old war have omitted addressing the fate of the Afghan special forces that work "as part of the covert operations of the Central Intelligence Agency." The report suggests either disbanding them or bringing them under the control of the Defense Ministry.
"These troops include Afghan strike forces who have been responsible for extrajudicial executions and enforced disappearances, indiscriminate airstrikes, attacks on medical facilities, and other violations of international humanitarian law, or the laws of war," it says.
Speaking with The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, several Afghan, Taliban and U.S. officials, including some who are involved in trying to resuscitate peace talks, said the Taliban won’t agree to reduce attacks without a reduction in violence from the U.S. and Afghan side.
President Donald Trump ended negotiations with the Taliban over what he said was the insurgents’ unacceptable level of violence.
According to HRW and several U.N. reports, Afghan special operations units are now partly responsible for rising civilian deaths and rights abuses. They operate with seeming impunity under Afghanistan’s intelligence agency, the National Security Directorate, and hold nondescript names like Unit 01 or Khost Protection Forces.
HRW’s report, the culmination of a nearly two-year investigation, documented instances of families terrorized by night raids, summary executions and disappearances of people, some of whom are never heard from again. In preparing the report, researchers interviewed 39 Afghans directly impacted by offenses and several witnesses in nine different provinces.
The report tells of raids in Zurmat in eastern Paktia Province. Witnesses said Afghan and U.S. strike forces blew open the door of one home and shot dead four men as the family watched. In a second house, three shopkeepers and a guest, all home for a holiday, were shot and killed, said a witness. In a third incident in Zurmat, a religious teacher and two construction workers were killed.
Quoting the Afghanistan Analysts Network, an independent research organization, the report said the three brothers operated a shop in the center of the city of Ghazni.
In southern Kandahar province in March, an Afghan strike force arrived in Panjwai in the night and took away two men. One has not been heard from since. A few weeks later in a nearby village, witnesses said a 60-year-old school principal was shot and killed by the strike force after separating him from the women in his household. The body was left in the courtyard.
The incidents prompted demonstrations by local residents who complained to researchers: "Why are we always being killed by them? What’s our mistake?"
Human Rights Watch shared its findings with both the U.S. and Afghan authorities.
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Extrajudicial executions and enforced disappearances are sometimes necessary. Those complaining are the ones losing to rightful law enforcement.
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Oh dear! Herb will have to crank out his Goatherder Meme™!
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Remember the Iraqi "farmers" who were killed while tending their crops at night?
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The operation, the CIA-trained Afghan unit said, targeted Islamic State militants in a remote region of eastern Nangarhar Province.
Could we have the "Not this s**t again?" graphic for this article?
I heard the same song and dance from the leftists concerning the US training officers that ended up running "death squads" in Central America. Humans are not robots. Once they go out on their own they will make judgements under their own morality, not ours!
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^ The US Army School of the Americas happened to have courses on counter-insurgency as we practiced at the time. Simple idea, right: "This how we do it if you want to work with us..."
This became twisted into a fevered conspiracy theory of how we, the US, became responsible for all sorts of "bad things". As if the militaries trained by the Spanish colonial administrators...
(I am not singling out the Spanish here -- read about how the Germans, French, Dutch acted in their colonies if you want an eyeful!)
...didn't have a rich history of "nasty things" to do to revolutionaries!. Bah! Humbug!
[KhaamaPress] The security forces conducted Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in three provinces in the past 24 hours which killed 11 Taliban ...Arabic for students... and ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... krazed killers, the military officials said.
The officials further added an airstrike in Deh Bala district of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province killed 5 bandidosgunnies of ISIS Khurasan terrorist group.
Another airstrike in Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... killed 2 Talibs and destroyed a small cache of weapons, the officials added.
An airstrike in Arghandab district of Zabul killed 2 Talibs, the officials said, adding that a similar air raid killed 2 Talibs in Mohmand Darah district of Nangarhar.
The Taliban and ISIS Khurasan groups have not commented regarding the airstrikes so far.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces killed 22 Talibs during the operations in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. and Kunduz provinces.
The military officials said Tuesday the Special Forces also arrested at least 8 Talibs during the same operations.
The officials further added that the Special Forces killed 11 of the bully boyz in Sherzad district of Nangarhar province where they also arrested 8 holy warriors.
The Special Forces also destroyed a cache of weapons during the same operation, the officials added.
The Special Forces killed 11 Talibs during the operations in Khanabad district of Kunduz, the officials said, adding that they also destroyed a cache of weapons during the operation.
[AlAhram] Hundreds of migrants colonists have fled a detention center in coastal Libya and crowded overnight around a UN facility, saying they were denied food for weeks.
*sigh* The problem with voluntarily entering an active war zone is that the grocery situation tends to be non-existent — especially for impoverished non-participants.
Around 450 people left Abu Salim detention center late Tuesday. One of the migrants colonists, as well as activists, say they were forced to beg for money from families to pay police to buy them food. Those who couldn't pay went hungry.
The migrant spoke Wednesday on condition of anonymity, fearing for his safety. They walked about 90 minutes through the 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... , according to Tarik Lamloum, a Libyan activist.
The UN refugee agency says the facility is already overcrowded, with about half the 800 people inside arriving informally, including many from another detention center that was hit last summer by an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!...
...and more than the grocery situation is uninterested in nobodies that nobody sent.
[AlAhram] General Commander of the UAE Armed Forces Hamad Mohammed Thani Al Rumaithi announced on Wednesday the return of UAE troops after successfully liberating Aden governorate, according to a statement published by the state news agency WAM.
Both the General Command of the UAE Armed Forces and the Minister of State for Defence Affairs received the Aden-based troops after they had completed the process of handing over control to Saudi and 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... i forces, who will now maintain its security and stability as per a strategy to guarantee the preserving of military gains.
The statement said that the forces returning from Aden governorate in southern Yemen had liberated the governorate from both the 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... s and terrorist actors on 17 July 2015.
UAE forces will resume jointly with their allies fighting terrorist organizations in other southern Yemeni governorates, the statement added.
The statement concluded by emphasising the commitment of the UAE Armed Forces to the Arab Coalition’s goal of protecting the interests of the people of Yemen.
[Dhaka Tribune] Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested two suspected members of banned holy warrior outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh The JMB is said to be the youth front of Al Mujahideen, the parent organization that began working toward establishing Bangladesh as an Islamic state in the mid 1990s, which remains obscure and probably defunct today. Other organizations, such as Jama'atul Jihad, JMB, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), Hizbut Tawhid, Tawhidi Janata, Islami Jubo Shangha, Islami Shangha, Al Falah A'am Unnayan Shanstha and Shahadat-e al Hiqma are believed to be part of the Al Mujahideen network. The JMB at its peak was reported to contain at least 100,000 members, and an alleged 2,000-man suicide brigade, few of whom actually exploded. JMB allegedly received financial assistance from individual donors in Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Libya. Reports have claimed that funding of JMB by international NGOs like Kuwait based Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage (RIHS) and Doulatul Kuwait, Saudi Arabia based Al Haramaine Islamic Institute and Rabita Al Alam Al Islami, Qatar Charitable Society and UAE-based Al Fuzaira and Khairul Ansar Al Khairia. The top leadership of JMB was captured in 2005 and hung in 2007, which pretty much shot their bolt. (JMB).
They were arrested from Mirpur's Rupnagar area of Dhaka early Wednesday.
“Stick ‘em up, boys, and come quietly, or we shall be forced to have an encounter.”
“Aieee! Not an encounter! We’ll come quietly, we will. Aieee.”
“Aieee! Quietly, yes. Aieeeeee!”
The arrestees are Shahjalal, 30, and Shamim, 28, from Barisal and Munshiganj.
RAB legal and media wing Senior Assistant Director Mizanur Rahman Bhuiyan said: "They are active members of JMB."
"We are questioning them and will soon take legal action."
“Sergeant Rafiq, send out for tea and biscuits, and a barrel of #4 mustache wax. It’s going to br a long night.”
RAB 4 Senior ASP Sajedul Islam Sajal said: "They were on their way to Cox’s Bazar to recruit Rohingyas for JMB."
...illegals doing the jobs good bad Bangladeshis won’t do...
"Earlier, they managed to include some Rohingyas in their group."
This explains the poor quality of miscreants they’ve been seeing recently. You get what you pay for, I always say.
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... the ASP did not reveal the name of Rohingyas, allegedly involved with JMB.
Yup. They vanished as if they had never been. Shipman could have told you.
RAB also recovered arms,
...the hands were stored elsewhere...
bully boy books and leaflets from their possession.
[IsraelTimes] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... ’s police chief says 100 people have been detained in raids against 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.... throughout the country, adding the group was planning an attack.
Police Chief Mehmet Aktas says the suspects were detained in 26 raids across 21 provinces. They were allegedly preparing for a possible attack to coincide with Tuesday’s celebrations marking the 96th anniversary of the founding of the Ottoman Turkish Republic.
Turkey has stepped up security following IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s death in a US military raid in Syria earlier this week.
A number of other countries have stepped up security in anticipation of ISIS lashing out locally as well.
Police on Monday detained 20 foreign nationals suspected of IS links in a security sweep in Ankara.
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So it's not Gullenists anymore, now they're all ISISists [?].
[Jpost] A female terrorist approached a member of the Border Police with a knife at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron on Wednesday morning and attempted to carry out a stabbing attack.
The Police Spokesperson's Unit reported that the terrorist approached the officer and was questioned. After retrieving a knife from her bag, a stand-off occurred with coppers who rushed to the scene.
Only when she charged toward the police was the terrorist neutralized after a police officer opened fire. She was then evacuated to Jerusalem's Sha'are Tzedek hospital at death's door.
Police reported that the terrorist is in her 30's and a resident of Idhna, a Paleostinian town in the southern West Bank located 13 km. from Hebron.
There were no civilian or police injuries reported. This is the 15th attempted stabbing attack at the Cave of the Patriarchs since the beginning of the year, police stated.
The area around the Cave of the Patriarchs was closed off and security was heightened.
[Rudaw] Just hours after the Russian-brokered ceasefire between The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... and Syria’s Kurds expired on Wednesday morning, sporadic fighting resumed across northern Syria.
With the full withdrawal of Kurdish forces from the border region complete, Turkey is now mooting the further expansion of its planned ’safe zone’ deeper into Syrian territory.
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How's that S-400 deal going?
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So they're supposedly there to prevent ISIS from getting a foothold, right? But they're fighting forces of the sovereign nation that controls the territory.
So, really, it's just Turkish imperialism. I'm surprised Russia is allowing their wannabe client Turkey to to war with their long-standing client Syria.
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Russia is the soulless arms dealer in all of this I guess. The oligarchs collect a profit as long as the war rages on.
[AlAhram] Syrian army troops on Wednesday were engaged in heavy festivities with Ottoman Turkish forces in the countryside around the border town of Ras al Ain in an area where a military offensive by Ankara aims to create a "safe" zone, state media said.
It did not give details but Ottoman Turkish-backed rebels said intermittent festivities have taken place in recent days with Syrian troops south of Ras al Ain, which was seized from Syrian Kurdish-led forces.
Syrian troops have with the agreement of Kurdish forces stepped in to take up positions in the area.
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A statement from the Islamic State (#ISIS): • Confirms deaths of leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and spokesman Abu al-Hassan al-Muhajir • Announces new leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi • Given by new spokesman Abu Hamza al-Quarashi pic.twitter.com/liW5aeDPtV
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Jpal, try to picture this. I was told this story by an officer present there.
While crossing from the Nepal border, a bunch of burqa-ed women were caught by border police. They had to stand straight while the woman guards patted them down. One guard kept coming up against something springy jutting out from the front of a particularly shifty burqa. She tried to pat it a few times, and it only grew more pronounced.
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Set as today’s headline. Thank you again for posting the article that was yesterday’s headline, Dron66046. As a reward, this from Rantburg’s image collection:
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I'd like to direct your attention, ladies and gents to this thread where we talked about the three factions vying for control of ISIS. The Hazimi faction led by Abu Muath Hazimi are called Hazimites or Hasimis. They are Qarayshis and claim direct lineage. If the new caliph has 'Hashimi' in his name, it's a good bet they've won control.
Also, see here to dig further. Most of it is useless politics if the daesh, but insightful nonetheless. I'd go through a proxy or VPN if I were you though.
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.
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
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...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
They were arrested from Mirpur's Rupnagar area of Dhaka early Wednesday.
"We are questioning them and will soon take legal action." 
...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 
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
