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MISSING SYDNEY TEEN RESURFACES IN IS GROUP VIDEO: REPORTS

A teenager who ran away from Australia to join jihadists in Iraq and Syria has reappeared months later in a video of the Islamic State group, vowing to "not stop fighting", reports said Tuesday.

The 17-year-old, named in local media as Abdullah Elmir but who calls himself "Abu Khaled", carried a rifle and directly addressed Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott in the video reportedly posted online, the Sydney Morning Herald said.

"To Tony Abbott, I say this. These weapons that we have, these soldiers, we will not stop fighting," said Elmir, whose family is from the southwestern Sydney suburb of Bankstown.

"We will not put down our weapons until we reach your lands and until we take the head of every tyrant and until the black flag (of the Islamic State group) is flying high in every single land."

A spokesman for the prime minister said in a statement the video showed the threat posed by the Islamic State group, also known as ISIL.

"As the Prime Minister has said on many occasions, ISIL is a threat that reaches out to Australia and our allies and partners," the spokesman said.

"That is why Australia has joined the coalition to disrupt and degrade ISIL in Iraq and is giving our law enforcement and security agencies the powers and resources they need to keep Australia and Australians as safe as possible."

Australia raised its terror threat level in September to "high" after years on "medium" on growing concern about returning jihadists, while Abbott has warned that those fighting with extremists could face lengthy jail terms if they come home.

Several men were arrested in counter-terrorism raids in September and charged with recruiting, funding and sending jihadist fighters to Syria. One of them was last week facing fresh charges of preparing a terrorist attack on home soil.

Australia has also joined the US-led international coalition against the Islamic State group, with its combat aircraft conducting their first air strikes in Iraq in early October.

Elmir was reported to have left his family home in June, telling his family he was going fishing before later calling his mother to tell her he was in Turkey about to "cross the border".

The lawyer representing the family said at the time that his mother believed her son was going to Iraq.

The teenager reportedly left the country with a 16-year-old boy called "Feiz" who was found by his father and brought back to Australia.


Source : Sapa-AFP /mjs
Date : 21 Oct 2014 09:36
 
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SYRIA KURDS WEATHER IS ASSAULT AS THEY AWAIT IRAQ HELP
by Fulya Ozerkan with Mohamad Ali Harissi in Beirut

Kurdish fighters in the battleground Syrian town of Kobane weathered an onslaught by Islamic State group militants on Tuesday as they awaited promised reinforcements from Iraq.

The Kurdish militia faced a fierce attack by IS fighters, including suicide bombers, late on Monday, that appeared aimed at cutting off the border with Turkey before any reinforcements could arrive, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Ankara's announcement on Monday that it would help Kurdish forces from Iraq to relieve Kobane's beleaguered defenders marked a major shift of policy and was swiftly welcomed by Washington.

Kobane has become a crucial symbolic battleground in the war against IS, which is fighting to extend areas under its control in Iraq and Syria where it has declared an Islamic "caliphate".

An influx of well-trained peshmerga fighters into Kobane could be a major boost for the Syrian Kurds.

Iraqi Kurdish officials said they would provide training, although any forces sent would be Syrian Kurds.

The US administration has stepped up its commitment to the town's defence in recent days, with Secretary of State John Kerry saying it would be "irresponsible" and "morally very difficult" not to help.

Three C-130 cargo aircraft carried out what the US military called "multiple" successful drops of supplies early on Monday, including arms provided by Kurdish authorities in Iraq.

The supplies were "intended to enable continued resistance against ISIL's attempts to overtake Kobane," said US Central Command.

One of the 27 bundles dropped went astray and US warplanes bombed it to prevent it falling into IS hands.

The US-led coalition has carried out more than 135 air strikes against IS targets around Kobane, but it was the first time it had delivered arms to the town's defenders.

Coalition aircraft carried out further strikes during the night, said the Britain-based Observatory, which has a wide network of sources inside Syria.

IS lost at least five of its militants to air strikes on Monday and a further 12 in ground fighting, including two suicide bombers, the monitoring group said.

Five Kurdish fighters were also killed.

A senior administration official said Monday's airdrop was in recognition of the "impressive" resistance put up by the Kurds and the losses they were inflicting on IS.

But US commanders said the top priority remains Iraq, where IS swept through much of the Sunni Arab heartland north and west of Baghdad in June and both government and Kurdish forces are under pressure.

The jihadists attacked the Kurdish-controlled town of Qara Tapah on Monday, killing at least 10 people and prompting half of its population of 9,000 to flee.

"We are afraid IS will encircle us and turn this town into a second Amerli," said one resident of the town.

He was referring to a mainly Shiite Turkmen town further north which was besieged by IS for two months before government troops backed by militia broke through in late August.

Since last week, the Iraqi capital has seen a rise in the number of bomb attacks, several of which have been claimed by IS.

On Monday a suicide bomber detonated explosives outside a Shiite mosque in the central Baghdad neighbourhood of Sinak, killing at least 11 people.

The violence has raised fears IS will attack large gatherings of Shiite worshippers during the upcoming Ashura commemorations, the target of devastating bombings in past years.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi was in Tehran on Tuesday for talks with his Shiite ally on the fight against IS.

The jihadists hold towns just a few miles (kilometres) from the Iranian border, and Tehran has been a key backer of Baghdad's efforts to hold them back.

According to a senior Iraqi Kurdish official, Iran has deployed troops on the Iraqi side of the border in the Khanaqin area northeast of Baghdad.

Iranian forces also played a role in breaking the siege of Amerli, another senior Kurdish official said.

But Abadi on Monday ruled out any foreign ground intervention to assist government forces in retaking territory lost to jihadists.

"No ground forces from any superpower, international coalition or regional power will fight here," Abadi told reporters.

"This is my decision, it is the decision of the Iraqi government, he said.

He was speaking after a rare meeting with revered Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.


Source : Sapa-AFP /mjs
Date : 21 Oct 2014 11:09
 
BOMBINGS KILL 9 PEOPLE IN IRAQI CAPITAL
By SAMEER N. YACOUB
Associated Press

Iraqi officials say two separate bombings have killed nine people in Baghdad, the latest victims in near-daily attacks that have targeted the country's capital.

Police officials say a bomb at an out-door market in the southern district of Abu Dashir, a mostly Shiite neighborhood, killed four people and wounded nine on Tuesday.

They say a little bit later, a bomb blast near a small restaurant in central Baghdad killed five people and wounded 12.

Medical officials confirmed the casualty figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to talk to media.

Iraq has been plunged into its worst crisis since the U.S. troops left at the end of 2011 in the wake of the blitz by the Islamic State militants this summer.


Source : Sapa-AP /mjs
Date : 21 Oct 2014 11:36
 
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BAGHDAD SHOOTOUT POINTS TO GROWING MILITIA THREAT
by Ammar Karim

Shortly after midnight, when a curfew usually shrouds the Iraqi capital in silence, the thudding sounds of heavy machinegun fire ripped through the air and echoed across Baghdad.

They were not the opening shots of the much-feared attack by the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group, which has been battling government forces a few kilometres (miles) outside Baghdad for months.

Instead, they were a reminder of another kind of threat hanging over Iraq -- a rapidly expanding galaxy of Shiite militias that, while playing a significant part in the fight against IS, challenge government authority and threaten to perpetuate the country's brutal sectarian violence.

The gunfight early on Monday pitted Iraqi police against the Asaib Ahl al-Haq Shiite militia holding a Kurdish woman related to one of the country's deputy prime ministers, police and army officers said.

Officers and an official told AFP that Asaib Ahl al-Haq -- seen as the most aggressive of the Shiite militias -- kidnapped Roz Nuri Shaways's cousin in the port city of Basra last month.

Sara Hamid Niran, a businesswoman who was working in the southern city, had been moved to a building in Baghdad's central Karrada district.

"She escaped when she managed to pry a small window open with a spoon and clambered into the house next door," a police officer said.

She then reached a nearby federal police checkpoint and started screaming: "I have been kidnapped and I am a cousin of deputy prime minister Roz Nuri Shaways," the officer recounted.

Officers said Asaib Ahl al-Haq was demanding a ransom of around two billion Iraqi dinars ($1.66 million/1.3 million euros) to free her.

Niran was spirited away in an armoured police Humvee as forces converged on the building to hunt down her captors.

"We initially thought that the kidnappers were an extortion gang but by the time reinforcements arrived, a large number of militiamen showed up," another police officer told AFP.

"They said that the policemen should hand back the hostage or would all be killed."

The men from Asaib Ahl al-Haq, which has ties to Iran and has been fighting alongside police and army forces against IS jihadists, then blocked off the street with their sport utility vehicles.

Police had to send in an armoured personnel carrier to smash through the militia's roadblock and were met with a deluge of gunfire.

The battle raged, but almost miraculously given the intensity and scope of the shootout, only four policemen were wounded, police said.

It remained unclear whether any members of Asaib Ahl al-Haq -- which loosely translates as "League of the Righteous" -- were killed or wounded, though police said two were detained.

Asaib Ahl al-Haq could not immediately be reached for comment on the issue.

"When I heard that gunfire, I said to myself: 'It's happening, this is (IS) entering Baghdad,'" said local resident Mohammed al-Karradi, a father of three.

"I told my wife: 'Pack your things, gather your jewels and your gold, and be ready to flee,'" he said.

"We still have not been told what happened, the authorities haven't felt the need to tell the public anything about this," he said.

A police captain said the militia have been acting with increasing impunity.

"Those militiamen never respect our checkpoints and we have been having increasing trouble with them lately," said the officer at a nearby post who gave his name as Ali.

"We don't have the necessary support from above to deal with them. We get official orders to stop them from moving freely and carrying weapons but there is no way we can implement such decisions," the officer said.

"When Maliki was in power, there was more control over these people," he said, referring to former prime minister Nuri al-Maliki, a Shiite whose bid for a third term failed earlier this year after IS spearheaded a militant offensive that overran large parts of Iraq.

Maliki presided over the resurgence of Shiite militias in a bid to bolster security forces failing to hold the onslaught back.

"Now it feels there is nothing stopping them. We are afraid of them and want to be as far from them as possible," Ali the police captain said.

Rights groups have repeatedly urged the government to rein in the militias, accusing them of a litany of crimes including summary executions and torture.

But militia impunity may increase even further, with Iraq's newly appointed interior minister, Mohammed al-Ghabban, hailing from the Badr bloc, which is affiliated with another major Shiite militia.


Source : Sapa-AFP /mjs
Date : 21 Oct 2014 11:48
 
IRAN PRESIDENT PLEDGES TO BACK IRAQ AMID ATTACKS

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani promised on Tuesday that Iran will stand by Iraq in the neighboring country's fight against the Sunni extremists of the Islamic State group.

Rouhani told visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Heidar al-Abadi that Iran "will remain on the path until the last day," according to a report by the official IRNA news agency.

Rouhani says Iran will continue to provide Baghdad with military advisers and weapons. He also criticized the U.S. for allegedly failing to sufficiently support Iraq against an escalating Sunni insurgency.

That insurgency continued its wave of attacks on Tuesday as a string of bombings in and near Baghdad killed 26 people. Police officials said the deadliest attack took place Tuesday afternoon when a double car bomb attack hit Habaybina restaurant in the Shiite-majority district of Talibiya in eastern Baghdad, killing 15 people and wounding 32 others.

Earlier, a bomb struck at an outdoor market in the southern district of Abu Dashir, a mostly Shiite neighborhood, killing four people and wounding nine, police officials said.

A little bit later, a bomb that went off near a small restaurant in central Baghdad killed five people and wounded 12, the officials said. Another bomb exploded at a commercial street in the town of Madian, just south of Baghdad, killing two people and wounding four.

Medical officials confirmed the casualty figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to media.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the latest attacks but they bore the hallmarks of the al-Qaida-breakaway Islamic State group which has captured large chunks of territory in western and northern Iraq, plunging the country into its worst crisis since U.S. troops left at the end of 2011.

On Monday, militants unleashed a wave of deadly attacks on Iraq's majority Shiite community, killing at least 43 people. In the Shiite holy city of Karbala - home to the tombs of two revered Shiite imams and the site of year-round pilgrimages - four separate car bombs went off simultaneously, killing at least 26 people.

The attacks on the Shiites are likely calculated by the Sunni extremists to sow fear among Iraqis on both sides of the sectarian divide.


Source : Sapa-AP /kd
Date : 21 Oct 2014 14:16
 
SYRIA MAN STONES DAUGHTER TO DEATH IN IS VIDEO

An elderly Syrian took part in stoning his daughter to death for alleged adultery, in a video posted on YouTube by the Islamic State group on Tuesday.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the execution took place in August or September in an IS-controlled rural area in the east of the central province of Hama.

It was the latest in spate of videotaped executions that the jihadists have posted on social media as they impose their extreme version of Islamic sharia law across a swathe of Syria and neighbouring Iraq.

In the video, a bearded gunman in combat fatigues stands behind the father, who is dressed in the white robe and chequered headdress typical of the Syrian countryside.

They both face the young black-clad daughter as the gunman addresses her in the classical Arabic of the Koran.

"The punishment is the result of crimes which you committed under no duress," he says.

"You must accept the punishment of God. Do you accept the punishment of God?"

She nods her head in assent, then turns to her father and asks his forgiveness.

He refuses until the assembled IS fighters persuade him to relent.

But it makes no difference to his daughter's fate.

She is permitted to speak briefly before the stoning commences.

"I say to every woman: preserve your honour ... and I appeal to every father to pay attention to the surroundings your daughter lives in," she says.

Her father then takes a rope, and ties it round his daughter's waist before forcing her to lie down.

The IS gunman then orders punishment to begin and the father joins in stoning her to death.

The video drew condemnation from the mainstream Syrian opposition in exile.

"We condemn this horrible crime committed by IS against this woman in the Hama countryside," the National Coalition said in a statement

"This crime has nothing whatever to do with the Syrian revolution."


Source : Sapa-AFP /kd
Date : 21 Oct 2014 14:13
 
SYRIA MAN STONES DAUGHTER TO DEATH IN IS VIDEO

An elderly Syrian took part in stoning his daughter to death for alleged adultery, in a video posted on YouTube by the Islamic State group on Tuesday.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the execution took place in August or September in an IS-controlled rural area in the east of the central province of Hama.

It was the latest in spate of videotaped executions that the jihadists have posted on social media as they impose their extreme version of Islamic sharia law across a swathe of Syria and neighbouring Iraq.

In the video, a bearded gunman in combat fatigues stands behind the father, who is dressed in the white robe and chequered headdress typical of the Syrian countryside.

They both face the young black-clad daughter as the gunman addresses her in the classical Arabic of the Koran.

"The punishment is the result of crimes which you committed under no duress," he says.

"You must accept the punishment of God. Do you accept the punishment of God?"

She nods her head in assent, then turns to her father and asks his forgiveness.

He refuses until the assembled IS fighters persuade him to relent.

But it makes no difference to his daughter's fate.

She is permitted to speak briefly before the stoning commences.

"I say to every woman: preserve your honour ... and I appeal to every father to pay attention to the surroundings your daughter lives in," she says.

Her father then takes a rope, and ties it round his daughter's waist before forcing her to lie down.

The IS gunman then orders punishment to begin and the father joins in stoning her to death.

The video drew condemnation from the mainstream Syrian opposition in exile.

"We condemn this horrible crime committed by IS against this woman in the Hama countryside," the National Coalition said in a statement

"This crime has nothing whatever to do with the Syrian revolution."


Source : Sapa-AFP /kd
Date : 21 Oct 2014 14:13
 
I'm sorry, but how fscked up do you have to be to stone your own child to death?!?! :wtf:
 
The only thing they understand is brutality.

When the Turkish army under Mehmed II reached the city of Târgoviște to battle Vlad the Impaler - they found a forest of 20 000 impaled Turkish Prisoners. They turned around and returned to Constantinople instead. The man was so brutal that he has become part of our racial memory - but he got results.
 
Compton_effect said:
The only thing they understand is brutality.

When the Turkish army under Mehmed II reached the city of Târgoviște to battle Vlad the Impaler - they found a forest of 20 000 impaled Turkish Prisoners. They turned around and returned to Constantinople instead. The man was so brutal that he has become part of our racial memory - but he got results.
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yup and to scare of an army in those times had to take a whole level of psychological insanity. He probably would have even scared Ghengis Kahn away.
 
how is it that people can be so brainwashed.
where does all this brainwashing occur ?
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grantza said:
how is it that people can be so brainwashed.
where does all this brainwashing occur ?
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At institutions of indoctrinations: schools and sport for national pride cultism and churches/mosques/<insert place of worship> for religious indoctrination. In America Fox news is used for corporate cultism.
 
TBH all I saw there are a bunch of people who will be dead at some point in the not too distant future.
 
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