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Ulysses Everett McGill
Fat lot of good it did him. Guess ISIS prayed harder.
MickeyD
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SHIITE MILITIAMEN KILL 70 AT IRAQ SUNNI MOSQUE: OFFICIALS
Shiite militiamen gunned down 70 people at a Sunni mosque in the Hamreen area northeast of Baghdad on Friday, Iraqi officers and doctors said.
The attack on the mosque in Diyala province, which also wounded 20 people, was apparently carried out in revenge for the killing of militiamen in either clashes or a roadside bombing in the area.
Source : Sapa-AFP /ar
Date : 22 Aug 2014 16:56
Shiite militiamen gunned down 70 people at a Sunni mosque in the Hamreen area northeast of Baghdad on Friday, Iraqi officers and doctors said.
The attack on the mosque in Diyala province, which also wounded 20 people, was apparently carried out in revenge for the killing of militiamen in either clashes or a roadside bombing in the area.
Source : Sapa-AFP /ar
Date : 22 Aug 2014 16:56
Seriously
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What the idiot never knew is that the promised virgins may even be of the animal kind? Poor sod, screwing dogs in his after[-]life[/-]death!
Dave
Honorary Master
Or even better, a BJ from a "virgin" crocodile...
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
US BRANDS FOLEY BEHEADING A 'TERRORIST ATTACK'
Washington has declared the beheading of an American journalist a "terrorist attack", upping the stakes in its confrontation with the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group, as Shiite militiamen gunned down 70 people at an Iraqi Sunni mosque.
The apparent revenge attack at the mosque in Diyala province Friday will increase already significant anger among Iraq's Sunni Arab minority with the Shiite-led government, undermining an anti-militant drive that requires Sunni cooperation to succeed.
It came as the US, which is carrying out airstrikes against IS, ramped up its rhetoric over the grisly killing of journalist James Foley, which was carried out by the jihadist group and shown in a video posted online.
In Washington, Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes said the beheading of Foley "represents a terrorist attack against our country".
Rhodes also said that paying ransoms to free hostages is "not the right policy", confirming Washington's long-standing position amid claims from IS that other countries had paid to have their nationals freed.
In an unanimous statement Friday, the UN Security Council strongly condemned Foley's murder as "heinous and cowardly".
Army and police officers said the attack on the Musab bin Omair Mosque in Diyala Friday came after Shiite militiamen were killed in clashes, while other sources said it followed a roadside bomb near one of their patrols.
Doctors and the officers put the toll from the attack, in which worshippers were sprayed with machine gun fire, at 70 dead and 20 wounded.
Two officers had earlier blamed IS for the attack, but the preponderance of accounts point to Shiite militiamen.
The government turned to militiamen to bolster its flagging forces during the IS offensive, sparking a resurgence of groups involved in brutal sectarian killings in past years that will be difficult to dislodge.
Ibrahim Aziz Ali, whose 25-year-old nephew was among those killed, told AFP he and other residents heard gunfire and rushed to the mosque, where they were fired on by snipers.
"We found a massacre" at the mosque, he said.
Five vehicles with images of revered Shiite Imam Hussein were parked at the mosque, Ali said, adding that residents clashed with the militiamen who withdrew when the Iraqi army arrived.
Iraqi premier designate Haidar al-Abadi issued a statement calling for unity and condemning the killings, which may complicate the already-contentious process of forming the country's next government.
US Vice President Joe Biden said Friday that Washington would back a federal system in Iraq.
Writing in a Washington Post opinion piece, Biden pointed to "functioning federalism" as an approach to breach the divisions in the country.
Biden is a longtime supporter of the plan under which Iraq would be divided into three semi-autonomous regions for Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds, respectively.
Biden also said the US was prepared to "further enhance" its support of Iraq's fight against IS.
The United States began an air campaign against IS in Iraq on April 8, and has since conducted 93 air strikes, including three against militants in the area of the Mosul dam, the country's largest, on Friday.
Pentagon chiefs warned of the dangers of IS and said operations against it in Syria may be needed.
"They marry ideology and a sophistication of strategic and tactical military prowess," US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel.
"This is beyond anything we have seen."
General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke of a "very long contest" that could be won only with regional support and that of "the 20 million disenfranchised Sunnis that happen to reside between Damascus and Baghdad".
He was referring to the alienation of many Sunni Arab Muslims from Iraq's government and the Alawite-dominated regime in Syria.
US Secretary of State John Kerry, in a telephone call to Iraqi counterpart Hoshyar Zebari, offered his condolences for the "countless" Iraqis who have fallen victim to IS.
Both leaders "recognized that Iraq is on the front line in the war against ISIL and that Iraq, the United States, the region, and the international community must stand together to face this threat", according to the US State Department.
Foley's killing has stoked Western fears that territory seized by the militants in Syria and Iraq could become a launchpad for a new round of global terror attacks.
The US State Department estimates that about 12,000 foreign fighters from at least 50 countries are in Syria.
Foley, a 40-year-old freelance journalist, was kidnapped in northern Syria in November 2012. His employer GlobalPost said his captors had demanded a 100-million-euro ($132-million) ransom.
GlobalPost CEO Philip Balboni said his team had never taken the demand seriously, and US State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf insisted: "We do not pay ransoms."
His captors had also sent Foley's family a taunting and rambling email threatening to kill him.
In the execution video, released online, a black-clad militant said Foley was killed to avenge US air strikes against IS.
The man, speaking with a clear south London accent, paraded a second US reporter, Steven Sotloff, in front of the camera and said he too would die unless President Barack Obama changes course.
Source : Sapa-AFP /dm
Date : 23 Aug 2014 05:08
Washington has declared the beheading of an American journalist a "terrorist attack", upping the stakes in its confrontation with the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group, as Shiite militiamen gunned down 70 people at an Iraqi Sunni mosque.
The apparent revenge attack at the mosque in Diyala province Friday will increase already significant anger among Iraq's Sunni Arab minority with the Shiite-led government, undermining an anti-militant drive that requires Sunni cooperation to succeed.
It came as the US, which is carrying out airstrikes against IS, ramped up its rhetoric over the grisly killing of journalist James Foley, which was carried out by the jihadist group and shown in a video posted online.
In Washington, Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes said the beheading of Foley "represents a terrorist attack against our country".
Rhodes also said that paying ransoms to free hostages is "not the right policy", confirming Washington's long-standing position amid claims from IS that other countries had paid to have their nationals freed.
In an unanimous statement Friday, the UN Security Council strongly condemned Foley's murder as "heinous and cowardly".
Army and police officers said the attack on the Musab bin Omair Mosque in Diyala Friday came after Shiite militiamen were killed in clashes, while other sources said it followed a roadside bomb near one of their patrols.
Doctors and the officers put the toll from the attack, in which worshippers were sprayed with machine gun fire, at 70 dead and 20 wounded.
Two officers had earlier blamed IS for the attack, but the preponderance of accounts point to Shiite militiamen.
The government turned to militiamen to bolster its flagging forces during the IS offensive, sparking a resurgence of groups involved in brutal sectarian killings in past years that will be difficult to dislodge.
Ibrahim Aziz Ali, whose 25-year-old nephew was among those killed, told AFP he and other residents heard gunfire and rushed to the mosque, where they were fired on by snipers.
"We found a massacre" at the mosque, he said.
Five vehicles with images of revered Shiite Imam Hussein were parked at the mosque, Ali said, adding that residents clashed with the militiamen who withdrew when the Iraqi army arrived.
Iraqi premier designate Haidar al-Abadi issued a statement calling for unity and condemning the killings, which may complicate the already-contentious process of forming the country's next government.
US Vice President Joe Biden said Friday that Washington would back a federal system in Iraq.
Writing in a Washington Post opinion piece, Biden pointed to "functioning federalism" as an approach to breach the divisions in the country.
Biden is a longtime supporter of the plan under which Iraq would be divided into three semi-autonomous regions for Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds, respectively.
Biden also said the US was prepared to "further enhance" its support of Iraq's fight against IS.
The United States began an air campaign against IS in Iraq on April 8, and has since conducted 93 air strikes, including three against militants in the area of the Mosul dam, the country's largest, on Friday.
Pentagon chiefs warned of the dangers of IS and said operations against it in Syria may be needed.
"They marry ideology and a sophistication of strategic and tactical military prowess," US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel.
"This is beyond anything we have seen."
General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke of a "very long contest" that could be won only with regional support and that of "the 20 million disenfranchised Sunnis that happen to reside between Damascus and Baghdad".
He was referring to the alienation of many Sunni Arab Muslims from Iraq's government and the Alawite-dominated regime in Syria.
US Secretary of State John Kerry, in a telephone call to Iraqi counterpart Hoshyar Zebari, offered his condolences for the "countless" Iraqis who have fallen victim to IS.
Both leaders "recognized that Iraq is on the front line in the war against ISIL and that Iraq, the United States, the region, and the international community must stand together to face this threat", according to the US State Department.
Foley's killing has stoked Western fears that territory seized by the militants in Syria and Iraq could become a launchpad for a new round of global terror attacks.
The US State Department estimates that about 12,000 foreign fighters from at least 50 countries are in Syria.
Foley, a 40-year-old freelance journalist, was kidnapped in northern Syria in November 2012. His employer GlobalPost said his captors had demanded a 100-million-euro ($132-million) ransom.
GlobalPost CEO Philip Balboni said his team had never taken the demand seriously, and US State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf insisted: "We do not pay ransoms."
His captors had also sent Foley's family a taunting and rambling email threatening to kill him.
In the execution video, released online, a black-clad militant said Foley was killed to avenge US air strikes against IS.
The man, speaking with a clear south London accent, paraded a second US reporter, Steven Sotloff, in front of the camera and said he too would die unless President Barack Obama changes course.
Source : Sapa-AFP /dm
Date : 23 Aug 2014 05:08
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
STEVEN SOTLOFF, US JOURNALIST IN SIGHTS OF JIHADISTS
by Chantal Valery
Steven Sotloff, the 31-year-old American freelance journalist facing threat of execution by Islamic State militants, has covered conflict in Muslim countries for years with care and respect, colleagues said.
Well versed in the history and culture of the Middle East, the self-styled "stand-up philosopher from Miami" was seen Tuesday in a video released by IS that showed the beheading his compatriot and colleague James Foley.
The black-clad executioner, speaking with a clear London accent, then paraded Sotloff before the camera and said he would die unless President Barack Obama changes course after ordering US air raids against IS positions in Iraq.
Sotloff's head was shaved and he wore the type of orange jumpsuits seen on terror suspects held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay.
He was kidnapped more than a year ago, on August 4, 2013. His loved ones only revealed the timeline of his captivity this week, due to a previous media blackout.
Sotloff has worked as a freelance journalist for Time, the Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Policy and World Affairs Journal.
"Steve Sotloff lived in Yemen for years, spoke good Arabic, deeply loved Islamic world... for this he is threatened with beheading," tweeted writer Ann Marlowe, who met Sotloff during the conflict in Libya.
Speaking to The Miami Herald, she insisted that Sotloff was "no war junkie."
He was "committed to the Arab Spring and very respectful of Islamic culture," Marlowe added.
On social media like Instagram and Facebook, the journalist posted poignant images of civilians in the grips of conflict beyond their control, including children in a Syrian refugee camp.
On Twitter, he spoke of the conflict in Syria and the Arab Spring popular revolts in countries like Egypt and Libya but also his favorite basketball team, the Miami Heat.
"Is it bad that I want to focus on #syria, but all I can think of is a #HEATFinals repeat?" he wrote in a June 2013 tweet.
"Sotloff is young and funny and irreverent," recalled Newsweek's Middle East editor Janine di Giovanni, who worked with him in Syria.
"He lived in Benghazi, Libya -- he actually lived there -- one of the few freelance reporters who felt he had to stay there to do his job properly. He is a great storyteller, but he is also smart and committed."
His most recent employer, World Affairs, described him as "an honest and thoughtful journalist who strives to understand the story from local perspectives and report his findings straightforwardly."
"He is certainly courageous," it added.
Fellow freelance journalist Ben Taub said Sotloff had actually planned to take a break from reporting, but wanted one last Syria run.
"He said he was chasing a good story, but kept the specifics close to his chest," Taub wrote in The Daily Beast.
"He was experienced. He could speak Arabic. He was careful. And he told me he had had enough."
Taub also suggested that the identity of Sotloff's fixer may have been compromised before crossing the border into Syria from Turkey due to an imprudent Canadian photographer who had never covered war and had wanted to cover the conflict but backed out at the last minute.
After the release of the IS video, Sotloff's family urged President Barack Obama to "take immediate action" to rescue him.
A petition posted on the White House website was signed by nearly 9,000 people by late Friday.
Source : Sapa-AFP /dm
Date : 23 Aug 2014 08:11
by Chantal Valery
Steven Sotloff, the 31-year-old American freelance journalist facing threat of execution by Islamic State militants, has covered conflict in Muslim countries for years with care and respect, colleagues said.
Well versed in the history and culture of the Middle East, the self-styled "stand-up philosopher from Miami" was seen Tuesday in a video released by IS that showed the beheading his compatriot and colleague James Foley.
The black-clad executioner, speaking with a clear London accent, then paraded Sotloff before the camera and said he would die unless President Barack Obama changes course after ordering US air raids against IS positions in Iraq.
Sotloff's head was shaved and he wore the type of orange jumpsuits seen on terror suspects held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay.
He was kidnapped more than a year ago, on August 4, 2013. His loved ones only revealed the timeline of his captivity this week, due to a previous media blackout.
Sotloff has worked as a freelance journalist for Time, the Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Policy and World Affairs Journal.
"Steve Sotloff lived in Yemen for years, spoke good Arabic, deeply loved Islamic world... for this he is threatened with beheading," tweeted writer Ann Marlowe, who met Sotloff during the conflict in Libya.
Speaking to The Miami Herald, she insisted that Sotloff was "no war junkie."
He was "committed to the Arab Spring and very respectful of Islamic culture," Marlowe added.
On social media like Instagram and Facebook, the journalist posted poignant images of civilians in the grips of conflict beyond their control, including children in a Syrian refugee camp.
On Twitter, he spoke of the conflict in Syria and the Arab Spring popular revolts in countries like Egypt and Libya but also his favorite basketball team, the Miami Heat.
"Is it bad that I want to focus on #syria, but all I can think of is a #HEATFinals repeat?" he wrote in a June 2013 tweet.
"Sotloff is young and funny and irreverent," recalled Newsweek's Middle East editor Janine di Giovanni, who worked with him in Syria.
"He lived in Benghazi, Libya -- he actually lived there -- one of the few freelance reporters who felt he had to stay there to do his job properly. He is a great storyteller, but he is also smart and committed."
His most recent employer, World Affairs, described him as "an honest and thoughtful journalist who strives to understand the story from local perspectives and report his findings straightforwardly."
"He is certainly courageous," it added.
Fellow freelance journalist Ben Taub said Sotloff had actually planned to take a break from reporting, but wanted one last Syria run.
"He said he was chasing a good story, but kept the specifics close to his chest," Taub wrote in The Daily Beast.
"He was experienced. He could speak Arabic. He was careful. And he told me he had had enough."
Taub also suggested that the identity of Sotloff's fixer may have been compromised before crossing the border into Syria from Turkey due to an imprudent Canadian photographer who had never covered war and had wanted to cover the conflict but backed out at the last minute.
After the release of the IS video, Sotloff's family urged President Barack Obama to "take immediate action" to rescue him.
A petition posted on the White House website was signed by nearly 9,000 people by late Friday.
Source : Sapa-AFP /dm
Date : 23 Aug 2014 08:11
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
A LOOK INTO HEART OF JIHADIST 'CALIPHATE' IN SYRIA, IRAQ
by Brigitte Dusseau
"What do you want to be? A jihadist, or to execute a martyrdom operation?"
In the "caliphate" recently proclaimed by jihadists in Syria and Iraq, even young children are indoctrinated, and Sharia law is backed by the gun, according to a gripping documentary offering one of the first glimpses of life in Raqqa, power base of the so-called Islamic State (IS).
Part 1 of a five-episode series, The Islamic State, filmed by Anglo-Palestinian journalist Medyan Dairieh was released Thursday by New York-based Vice News.
The tone is set early: "Sharia can only be established with weapons," an IS fighter explains to Dairieh, who spent three weeks embedded with the radical Sunni group.
Dairieh, toting a video camera, gained "unprecedented access" to the organization, Vice News said.
In Raqqa, heavily-armed jihadists are seen celebrating on US armored vehicles seized during their advances in Iraq, while Sharia police patrol streets and markets with rifles over their shoulders.
Patrol chief Abu Obida orders traders to remove a poster showing "infidels," then blithely tells a man to change the fabric on his wife's veil.
"Those who don't obey will be forced," Obida explains.
In one gruesome scene, a crucified murder convict is displayed in the public square. In another, the bodies of Syrian 17th Division soldiers, killed by the jihadists during a recent offensive, are dumped on the sidewalk, their severed heads impaled on gate spikes.
"The Islamic caliphate has been established, and we will not stop," said IS press officer Abu Mosa.
A bearded man with a penchant for Ray-Ban sunglasses, Mosa accompanied Dairieh on his reporting and was shown shooting at Syrian soldiers during a skirmish.
He portrayed the group's fight as a battle against infidels like those in the West.
"Don't be cowards and attack us with drones. Instead send your soldiers, the ones we humiliated in Iraq," Mosa said of the Americans.
"We will humiliate them everywhere, God willing, and we will raise the flag of Allah in the White House."
Young boys look into the camera and pledge to take up the cause to "kill infidels."
A nine-year-old preparing for Kalashnikov rifle training said he was learning "to fight Russians -- umm, America."
"What do you want to be? A jihadist, or to execute a martyrdom operation?" a man identified as Abdullah the Belgian asked his six-year-old son.
"Jihadist," the boy replies, saying under prompting that infidels "kill Muslims."
Boys under 15 attend Sharia camp, while older ones learn military operations.
"We believe that this generation of children is the generation of the caliphate," said one man while children splashed in the Euphrates river.
"The right doctrine has been implanted in those children," he added. "All of them love to fight for the sake of building the Islamic State and for the sake of God."
Few women can be seen in the documentary; those who are shown wear the hijab.
Dairieh leads viewers through a courthouse where residents file complaints or wait on rulings from a Sharia judge on matters related to finance, alcohol use, adultery and other personal matters.
Asked if the process meets international standards, a clerk declares: "We aim to satisfy God, that's why we don't care about international standards."
Following a lightning offensive across Iraq in which IS was accused of numerous atrocities, the group on June 1 declared its caliphate from northern Syria to parts of eastern Iraq. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled.
Within days, jihadists advanced on autonomous Kurdistan, driving tens of thousands of minority Christians and non-Muslim Yazidis from their villages.
IS media coverage has been exceptionally rare due to security reasons. A New York Times report on the group last month did not identify its author or persons interviewed.
The brutal violence -- which has reportedly claimed the life of Mosa and another IS official since they were featured in the documentary -- makes Dairieh's time behind the IS veil extraordinary.
Kevin Sutcliffe, Vice News head of news programming for Europe, said Dairieh is likely "the only person they've let in for this amount of time."
The news outlet, part of Vice multimedia group, launched last December. Vice notably claimed a role in the 2013 "basketball diplomacy" which saw ex-NBA star Dennis Rodman travel to North Korea to meet leader Kim Jong-Un.
Source : Sapa-AFP /dm
Date : 23 Aug 2014 07:45
by Brigitte Dusseau
"What do you want to be? A jihadist, or to execute a martyrdom operation?"
In the "caliphate" recently proclaimed by jihadists in Syria and Iraq, even young children are indoctrinated, and Sharia law is backed by the gun, according to a gripping documentary offering one of the first glimpses of life in Raqqa, power base of the so-called Islamic State (IS).
Part 1 of a five-episode series, The Islamic State, filmed by Anglo-Palestinian journalist Medyan Dairieh was released Thursday by New York-based Vice News.
The tone is set early: "Sharia can only be established with weapons," an IS fighter explains to Dairieh, who spent three weeks embedded with the radical Sunni group.
Dairieh, toting a video camera, gained "unprecedented access" to the organization, Vice News said.
In Raqqa, heavily-armed jihadists are seen celebrating on US armored vehicles seized during their advances in Iraq, while Sharia police patrol streets and markets with rifles over their shoulders.
Patrol chief Abu Obida orders traders to remove a poster showing "infidels," then blithely tells a man to change the fabric on his wife's veil.
"Those who don't obey will be forced," Obida explains.
In one gruesome scene, a crucified murder convict is displayed in the public square. In another, the bodies of Syrian 17th Division soldiers, killed by the jihadists during a recent offensive, are dumped on the sidewalk, their severed heads impaled on gate spikes.
"The Islamic caliphate has been established, and we will not stop," said IS press officer Abu Mosa.
A bearded man with a penchant for Ray-Ban sunglasses, Mosa accompanied Dairieh on his reporting and was shown shooting at Syrian soldiers during a skirmish.
He portrayed the group's fight as a battle against infidels like those in the West.
"Don't be cowards and attack us with drones. Instead send your soldiers, the ones we humiliated in Iraq," Mosa said of the Americans.
"We will humiliate them everywhere, God willing, and we will raise the flag of Allah in the White House."
Young boys look into the camera and pledge to take up the cause to "kill infidels."
A nine-year-old preparing for Kalashnikov rifle training said he was learning "to fight Russians -- umm, America."
"What do you want to be? A jihadist, or to execute a martyrdom operation?" a man identified as Abdullah the Belgian asked his six-year-old son.
"Jihadist," the boy replies, saying under prompting that infidels "kill Muslims."
Boys under 15 attend Sharia camp, while older ones learn military operations.
"We believe that this generation of children is the generation of the caliphate," said one man while children splashed in the Euphrates river.
"The right doctrine has been implanted in those children," he added. "All of them love to fight for the sake of building the Islamic State and for the sake of God."
Few women can be seen in the documentary; those who are shown wear the hijab.
Dairieh leads viewers through a courthouse where residents file complaints or wait on rulings from a Sharia judge on matters related to finance, alcohol use, adultery and other personal matters.
Asked if the process meets international standards, a clerk declares: "We aim to satisfy God, that's why we don't care about international standards."
Following a lightning offensive across Iraq in which IS was accused of numerous atrocities, the group on June 1 declared its caliphate from northern Syria to parts of eastern Iraq. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled.
Within days, jihadists advanced on autonomous Kurdistan, driving tens of thousands of minority Christians and non-Muslim Yazidis from their villages.
IS media coverage has been exceptionally rare due to security reasons. A New York Times report on the group last month did not identify its author or persons interviewed.
The brutal violence -- which has reportedly claimed the life of Mosa and another IS official since they were featured in the documentary -- makes Dairieh's time behind the IS veil extraordinary.
Kevin Sutcliffe, Vice News head of news programming for Europe, said Dairieh is likely "the only person they've let in for this amount of time."
The news outlet, part of Vice multimedia group, launched last December. Vice notably claimed a role in the 2013 "basketball diplomacy" which saw ex-NBA star Dennis Rodman travel to North Korea to meet leader Kim Jong-Un.
Source : Sapa-AFP /dm
Date : 23 Aug 2014 07:45
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/...e_n_5702966.html?&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000017
the dingbat uses mxit speak
the dingbat uses mxit speak
Grant
Honorary Master
viva infidel yankee trapping
and then the caliph himself, leading by example, with the ostentatious wristwatch of the kafir:
and so life begins completing a full circle, into the dark ages and on to the stone age - in due course, these savages will have forgotten how to walk upright
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OrbitalDawn
Ulysses Everett McGill
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
MILITANTS MAKE RENEWED PUSH FOR MAIN IRAQ REFINERY
Militants have launched a renewed push to seize Iraq's main oil refinery north of Baghdad, battling security forces backed by air support, a police officer and witnesses said on Sunday.
The fighting, in which militants attacked the Baiji refinery from three sides, broke out on Saturday evening and continued into the next day, the sources said.
Militants have repeatedly sought to overrun the refinery, which once accounted for some 50 percent of Iraq's supplies of refined oil products.
While they have previously managed to enter the refinery compound, security forces were able to push them back.
Jihadist-led militants launched a major offensive in June, overrunning large areas of five provinces and sweeping security forces aside.
The unrest has hit northern oil production and shipments, but Iraq's massive southern fields and export terminals remain unaffected.
Source : Sapa-AFP /ma
Date : 24 Aug 2014 11:18
Militants have launched a renewed push to seize Iraq's main oil refinery north of Baghdad, battling security forces backed by air support, a police officer and witnesses said on Sunday.
The fighting, in which militants attacked the Baiji refinery from three sides, broke out on Saturday evening and continued into the next day, the sources said.
Militants have repeatedly sought to overrun the refinery, which once accounted for some 50 percent of Iraq's supplies of refined oil products.
While they have previously managed to enter the refinery compound, security forces were able to push them back.
Jihadist-led militants launched a major offensive in June, overrunning large areas of five provinces and sweeping security forces aside.
The unrest has hit northern oil production and shipments, but Iraq's massive southern fields and export terminals remain unaffected.
Source : Sapa-AFP /ma
Date : 24 Aug 2014 11:18
Different kind of ISIS... as in the Ancient Egyptian god of health marriage and love. They are a different breed of nutcase... and unlike the Islamic State... not a threat.
But me thinks you knew that already.
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
British rapper identified as ISIL militant who beheaded James Foley
Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=86d_1408860803#JoMEKucbyEtt21Ap.99
Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=86d_1408860803#JoMEKucbyEtt21Ap.99
Dave
Honorary Master
So, he is actually Egyptian, if they ever catch him he should be sent back to Egypt to be dealt with, I'm sure they have better facilities and procedures for radical Muslims in their judicial system...
Nanfeishen
Executive Member
ISIS captures Syrian Airbase
The U.S. hits them in Iraq, so they shift focus and grab more in Syria, where the U.S. cannot target them yet.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28918792
The U.S. hits them in Iraq, so they shift focus and grab more in Syria, where the U.S. cannot target them yet.