Space_Chief
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He got elected. Unless he gets impeached he gets to serve out his term. Easy.
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He got elected. Unless he gets impeached he gets to serve out his term. Easy.
marine1
Honorary Master
And funding them too. I bet many, many are funding them
The choice of the voting public if you believe the stats and the outcomes of elections. I am a cheerleader of the US way of life, not Obama.
I lived there for 2 years so I have a pretty good idea about the US.
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
AUSTRALIAN TEENAGER FEATURES IN SECOND IS VIDEO
An Australian teenage runaway, dubbed the Ginger Jihadist by the media, has been featured in a second Islamic State propaganda video.
Australian media reported the latest YouTube video of 17-year-old Abdullah Elmir dressed in Arabic garb and clutching an assault rifle on Tuesday as the Senate prepared to debate legislation that would simplify prosecuting Australian extremists who fight in the Middle East.
Abdullah vanished from his Sydney home in June, telling his family he was going fishing.
He appeared in his first Islamic State video last week warning that the movement won't stop fighting until the extremists' notorious black flag is flying above every nation.
News Corp. Australia newspapers reported In the latest video was shot on a bank of the Tigris River in Mosul in Iraq.
Source : Sapa-AP /gm
Date : 28 Oct 2014 00:55
An Australian teenage runaway, dubbed the Ginger Jihadist by the media, has been featured in a second Islamic State propaganda video.
Australian media reported the latest YouTube video of 17-year-old Abdullah Elmir dressed in Arabic garb and clutching an assault rifle on Tuesday as the Senate prepared to debate legislation that would simplify prosecuting Australian extremists who fight in the Middle East.
Abdullah vanished from his Sydney home in June, telling his family he was going fishing.
He appeared in his first Islamic State video last week warning that the movement won't stop fighting until the extremists' notorious black flag is flying above every nation.
News Corp. Australia newspapers reported In the latest video was shot on a bank of the Tigris River in Mosul in Iraq.
Source : Sapa-AP /gm
Date : 28 Oct 2014 00:55
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How the hell are minors allowed to fly internationally without a guardian ?
konfab
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Probably said he was on some religious mission, no one ever wants to offend a Muslim...
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
IS ATTACK ON SYRIA OIL FIELD KILLS 30: MONITOR
Islamic State group jihadists have attacked an oil and gas field in Syria, killing at least 30 pro-regime forces and security guards, a monitoring group said Wednesday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attack was launched on Tuesday night and fighting continued through the night.
"IS managed to control parts of the field," the Britain-based group said after the assault at Shaer, in Homs province.
An unknown number of jihadists were also killed, Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.
He said fighting resumed in the area on Wednesday morning after several hours of relative calm, with the army bombing the region.
The Syrian Al-Watan daily, which is close to the government, acknowledged the IS advance, saying the group had taken control of "two wells and a hill" after fierce clashes.
The newspaper reported dead and injured on both sides without giving a specific toll.
"Army forces, backed by the National Defence Forces (pro-regime militia) are trying to retake control of the field," the newspaper added.
An earlier attack by IS fighters on Shaer in July left 270 people dead, including soldiers and pro-regime fighters.
Most were reportedly executed at gunpoint after being taken prisoner.
The site is near the famed archeological site of Palmyra.
IS has targeted oil and gas facilities in Iraq and Syria as it seeks funds for its fight to seize territory for a self-proclaimed Islamic "caliphate".
Source : Sapa-AFP /kd
Date : 29 Oct 2014 13:03
Islamic State group jihadists have attacked an oil and gas field in Syria, killing at least 30 pro-regime forces and security guards, a monitoring group said Wednesday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attack was launched on Tuesday night and fighting continued through the night.
"IS managed to control parts of the field," the Britain-based group said after the assault at Shaer, in Homs province.
An unknown number of jihadists were also killed, Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.
He said fighting resumed in the area on Wednesday morning after several hours of relative calm, with the army bombing the region.
The Syrian Al-Watan daily, which is close to the government, acknowledged the IS advance, saying the group had taken control of "two wells and a hill" after fierce clashes.
The newspaper reported dead and injured on both sides without giving a specific toll.
"Army forces, backed by the National Defence Forces (pro-regime militia) are trying to retake control of the field," the newspaper added.
An earlier attack by IS fighters on Shaer in July left 270 people dead, including soldiers and pro-regime fighters.
Most were reportedly executed at gunpoint after being taken prisoner.
The site is near the famed archeological site of Palmyra.
IS has targeted oil and gas facilities in Iraq and Syria as it seeks funds for its fight to seize territory for a self-proclaimed Islamic "caliphate".
Source : Sapa-AFP /kd
Date : 29 Oct 2014 13:03
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
UN WARNS OF 'UNPRECEDENTED' NUMBER OF FOREIGN JIHADISTS
Jihadists from more than 80 countries have flocked to fight in Iraq and Syria on an "unprecedented scale", according to extracts of a UN report published by Britain's Guardian newspaper on Friday.
Around 15,000 people have travelled to fight alongside Islamic State (IS) and other hardcore militant groups from "countries that have not previously faced challenges relating to al-Qaeda," said the report.
The number of foreign jihadists travelling to fight since 2010 exceeds the cumulative total of the 20 preceding years "many times", added the Security Council study.
"There are instances of foreign terrorist fighters from France, the Russian Federation and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland operating together," it said, according to the Guardian.
Britain's top police officer, Bernard Hogan-Howe, estimated last week that five people a week were leaving the country to fight with IS. Security officials estimate that there are currently around 500 British nationals fighting in Syria and Iraq.
The UN warned that more nations than ever face the problem of dealing with fighters returning from the battle zone.
The report was produced by a committee that monitors al-Qaeda, and concluded that the once mighty and feared group was now "maneuvering for relevance" following the rise of the even more militant IS, which was booted out of al-Qaeda by leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Despite the split, the UN concluded that the legal basis for US President Barack Obama's fight against IS was justified by its ideological congruence with al-Qaeda, and considered the two groups as part of a broader movement.
"Al-Qaeda core and Isil (IS) pursue similar strategic goals, albeit with tactical differences regarding sequencing and substantive differences about personal leadership," the UN wrote.
Obama has vowed he will not order a large force into combat in Iraq or Syria, relying instead on air power and local forces.
But his "no boots on the ground" pledge is coming under pressure amid growing calls for advisers and forward air controllers to deploy with Iraqi or Kurdish soldiers to help direct air raids and plan operations.
The IS group's "cosmopolitan" use of social media, "as when extremists post kitten photographs", was attracting a new breed of foreign fighters who are put off by the more dogmatic communication tactics of al-Qaeda, said the report.
IS leaders recognise "the terror and recruitment value of multichannel, multi-language social and other media messaging," it added.
The UN agreed with the Obama administration that "core al-Qaeda remains weak", but argued that its demise had only paved the way for more bloody groups, for whom "cross-border attacks - or attacks against international targets - remain a minority."
Source : Sapa-AFP /ar
Date : 31 Oct 2014 11:00
Jihadists from more than 80 countries have flocked to fight in Iraq and Syria on an "unprecedented scale", according to extracts of a UN report published by Britain's Guardian newspaper on Friday.
Around 15,000 people have travelled to fight alongside Islamic State (IS) and other hardcore militant groups from "countries that have not previously faced challenges relating to al-Qaeda," said the report.
The number of foreign jihadists travelling to fight since 2010 exceeds the cumulative total of the 20 preceding years "many times", added the Security Council study.
"There are instances of foreign terrorist fighters from France, the Russian Federation and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland operating together," it said, according to the Guardian.
Britain's top police officer, Bernard Hogan-Howe, estimated last week that five people a week were leaving the country to fight with IS. Security officials estimate that there are currently around 500 British nationals fighting in Syria and Iraq.
The UN warned that more nations than ever face the problem of dealing with fighters returning from the battle zone.
The report was produced by a committee that monitors al-Qaeda, and concluded that the once mighty and feared group was now "maneuvering for relevance" following the rise of the even more militant IS, which was booted out of al-Qaeda by leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Despite the split, the UN concluded that the legal basis for US President Barack Obama's fight against IS was justified by its ideological congruence with al-Qaeda, and considered the two groups as part of a broader movement.
"Al-Qaeda core and Isil (IS) pursue similar strategic goals, albeit with tactical differences regarding sequencing and substantive differences about personal leadership," the UN wrote.
Obama has vowed he will not order a large force into combat in Iraq or Syria, relying instead on air power and local forces.
But his "no boots on the ground" pledge is coming under pressure amid growing calls for advisers and forward air controllers to deploy with Iraqi or Kurdish soldiers to help direct air raids and plan operations.
The IS group's "cosmopolitan" use of social media, "as when extremists post kitten photographs", was attracting a new breed of foreign fighters who are put off by the more dogmatic communication tactics of al-Qaeda, said the report.
IS leaders recognise "the terror and recruitment value of multichannel, multi-language social and other media messaging," it added.
The UN agreed with the Obama administration that "core al-Qaeda remains weak", but argued that its demise had only paved the way for more bloody groups, for whom "cross-border attacks - or attacks against international targets - remain a minority."
Source : Sapa-AFP /ar
Date : 31 Oct 2014 11:00
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Just a reminder that he remains a slapgat with no backbone. Easily the worst USA president in history! Even Carter was a shining light compared with this idiot!
Pitbull
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Good more targets to bomb 
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
BOMBS AT MARKETPLACES NEAR BAGHDAD KILL 15 PEOPLE
By SAMEER N. YACOUB
Associated Press
A series of bomb attacks struck marketplaces near Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 15 people, Iraqi officials said as security forces recaptured parts of a strategic Sunni oil town north of the capital from Islamic State militants.
Iraq is embroiled in its worst crisis since the 2011 withdrawal of U.S. troops in the wake of a blitz this year by the Sunni militant Islamic State group, which has seized a third of the country's territory.
After heavy fighting overnight, Iraqi security forces backed by Shiite volunteers managed to push into the strategic oil town of Beiji on Friday, taking control of some of the town's southern districts, according to officials.
The town had fallen into the hands of the Islamic State group in early June but Iraqi forces managed to keep the IS group from taking over the Beiji refinery, Iraq's largest.
A media official in the Salahuddin provincial government said Iraqi troops seized the mayor's office and the police station in Beiji and that clashes were continuing in the town, which is about 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad.
Meanwhile, a bomb went off around noon at a sheep market in Baghdad's western suburb of Suweib, killing five people and wounding 13, police officials said. Another bomb struck a commercial street in the nearby Radhawniyah, another western Baghdad suburb, killing two people and wounding nine.
Earlier in the day, a bomb blast near an outdoor market in the town of Madain, just south of Baghdad, killed four people and wounded 11.
And in Youssifiyan, 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of Baghdad, police said an explosion at an outdoor market killed four people and wounded 10. Iraqis usually shop at marketplaces on Fridays, the first day of the weekend in most of the Muslim world, when traffic is less heavy.
Medical officials confirmed the casualties from all the attacks. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
Source : Sapa-AP /ar
Date : 31 Oct 2014 13:51
By SAMEER N. YACOUB
Associated Press
A series of bomb attacks struck marketplaces near Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 15 people, Iraqi officials said as security forces recaptured parts of a strategic Sunni oil town north of the capital from Islamic State militants.
Iraq is embroiled in its worst crisis since the 2011 withdrawal of U.S. troops in the wake of a blitz this year by the Sunni militant Islamic State group, which has seized a third of the country's territory.
After heavy fighting overnight, Iraqi security forces backed by Shiite volunteers managed to push into the strategic oil town of Beiji on Friday, taking control of some of the town's southern districts, according to officials.
The town had fallen into the hands of the Islamic State group in early June but Iraqi forces managed to keep the IS group from taking over the Beiji refinery, Iraq's largest.
A media official in the Salahuddin provincial government said Iraqi troops seized the mayor's office and the police station in Beiji and that clashes were continuing in the town, which is about 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad.
Meanwhile, a bomb went off around noon at a sheep market in Baghdad's western suburb of Suweib, killing five people and wounding 13, police officials said. Another bomb struck a commercial street in the nearby Radhawniyah, another western Baghdad suburb, killing two people and wounding nine.
Earlier in the day, a bomb blast near an outdoor market in the town of Madain, just south of Baghdad, killed four people and wounded 11.
And in Youssifiyan, 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of Baghdad, police said an explosion at an outdoor market killed four people and wounded 10. Iraqis usually shop at marketplaces on Fridays, the first day of the weekend in most of the Muslim world, when traffic is less heavy.
Medical officials confirmed the casualties from all the attacks. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
Source : Sapa-AP /ar
Date : 31 Oct 2014 13:51
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
SWITZERLAND SAYS IT FOILED ISLAMIC STATE TERRORIST PLOT
Swiss prosecutors said on Friday they had thwarted a plan by supporters of the Islamic State to carry out a terrorist attack in Europe.
The federal Swiss prosecution office said three Iraqis linked to the plot were detained in March under a penal clause titled "criminal endangerment by means of explosives or poison gases."
The men are believed to be backers of Islamic State, the Sunni extremist group which controls large parts of Syria and Iraq.
Their arrests were not made public in order not to jeopardize Swiss and foreign investigations into other suspects.
The prosecutors said they were working closely with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on the case.
Source : Sapa-dpa /kd
Date : 31 Oct 2014 15:41
Swiss prosecutors said on Friday they had thwarted a plan by supporters of the Islamic State to carry out a terrorist attack in Europe.
The federal Swiss prosecution office said three Iraqis linked to the plot were detained in March under a penal clause titled "criminal endangerment by means of explosives or poison gases."
The men are believed to be backers of Islamic State, the Sunni extremist group which controls large parts of Syria and Iraq.
Their arrests were not made public in order not to jeopardize Swiss and foreign investigations into other suspects.
The prosecutors said they were working closely with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on the case.
Source : Sapa-dpa /kd
Date : 31 Oct 2014 15:41
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
CANADIAN WARPLANES LAUNCH FIRST AIRSTRIKE IN IRAQ
Associated Press
Canadian warplanes involved in the U.S.-led bombing campaign against militants in Iraq have launched their first airstrikes since deploying to the region.
A statement from Defense Minister Rob Nicholson's office on Sunday said two fighter jets attacked targets in the vicinity of Fallujah with laser-guided bombs.
The statement says the aircraft safely returned to their base in Kuwait. Few other details have been immediately released.
Canada has deployed six CF-18s along with a C-150 Polaris and two CP-140 Aurora surveillance aircraft as its contribution to the bombing campaign against the Islamic State group, which has seized large parts of Iraq and Syria.
Source : Sapa-AP /gm
Date : 03 Nov 2014 01:58
Associated Press
Canadian warplanes involved in the U.S.-led bombing campaign against militants in Iraq have launched their first airstrikes since deploying to the region.
A statement from Defense Minister Rob Nicholson's office on Sunday said two fighter jets attacked targets in the vicinity of Fallujah with laser-guided bombs.
The statement says the aircraft safely returned to their base in Kuwait. Few other details have been immediately released.
Canada has deployed six CF-18s along with a C-150 Polaris and two CP-140 Aurora surveillance aircraft as its contribution to the bombing campaign against the Islamic State group, which has seized large parts of Iraq and Syria.
Source : Sapa-AP /gm
Date : 03 Nov 2014 01:58
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
IS JIHADISTS CARRY OUT MASS KILLINGS OF IRAQI TRIBE
by Salam Faraj and Ammar Karim
The Islamic State group has carried out a fresh wave of mass killings, officials said Sunday, executing more than 200 members of an Iraqi tribe which took up arms against the jihadists.
Women and children were said to be among scores of Albu Nimr tribespeople executed over the past 10 days in western Iraq's Anbar province.
Reports of the killings came with the country on edge as hundreds of thousands of Shiites prepare to travel to shrine city Karbala this week for a major annual pilgrimage.
IS, a Sunni extremist group that has seized large parts of Iraq and Syria, is expected to target Ashura pilgrims, and 19 people died in attacks on Shiites on Sunday.
The executions in Anbar came after Sunni Albu Nimr tribesmen took up arms against IS in the province, large parts of which have been overrun by the jihadists.
Accounts varied as to the number and timings of the executions, but all sources spoke of more than 200 people murdered in recent days.
Police Colonel Shaaban al-Obaidi told AFP that more than 200 people were killed, while Faleh al-Essawi, deputy head of Anbar provincial council, put the toll at 258.
The killings are probably aimed at discouraging resistance from powerful local tribes in Anbar.
IS also detained dozens of members of the Jubur tribe in Salaheddin province, north of Baghdad, officials and a tribal leader said.
Jubur tribesmen and security forces have been holding out for months against IS in the provincial town of Dhuluiyah.
Pro-government forces have suffered a string of setbacks in Anbar in recent weeks, prompting warnings that the province, which stretches from the borders with Jordan and Saudi Arabia to the western approach to Baghdad, could fall entirely.
Security forces who wilted before a lightning IS offensive in June are fighting to retake territory seized by the jihadists in Iraq's Sunni Arab heartland.
IS has declared an Islamic "caliphate" in territory it controls, imposing its harsh interpretation of sharia law and committing widespread atrocities.
Like other Sunni extremist groups, IS considers Shiites to be heretics and frequently attacks them, posing a major threat to the Ashura religious commemorations which peak on Tuesday.
Two car bombs targeting Shiites in Baghdad ahead of Ashura killed at least 19 people on Sunday, officials said, while a city centre car bombing near a police checkpoint killed at least five.
The pilgrimage is a major test for the new government headed by Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi and for the security forces.
On the Syria-Turkey border, meanwhile, some 150 Iraqi peshmerga fighters were preparing to bolster fellow Kurds in battling IS for the town of Kobane, after crossing the frontier late on Friday.
Syrian Kurdish militia have held off an IS offensive there for more than six weeks, and Kobane has become a crucial symbol in the anti-jihadist struggle.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor, reported fierce clashes in the town's centre, north, south and Kurdish fighters shelling IS positions to its east.
The US-led coalition that has launched air raids against IS in Syria and Iraq carried out at least three strikes near Kobane early Sunday, said the Observatory, which relies on a wide network of sources inside the country.
At least 11 jihadists were killed in air strikes and fighting on Saturday, it said.
The Pentagon said five air strikes near Kobane on Saturday and Sunday hit five small IS units and destroyed three vehicles.
In Iraq, coalition warplanes targeted IS positions in Baiji and Fallujah, it said.
Elsewhere in Syria, the Observatory said Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front seized a town and several villages in Idlib province late Saturday, in another blow to Western-backed rebels in the northwest.
It said Al-Nusra captured Khan al-Subul after the withdrawal of the Hazm movement, a moderate opposition group.
Al-Nusra also seized another five villages in Idlib held by Islamist and moderate rebel groups.
The advance comes a day after Al-Nusra seized the Idlib bastion of the Syria Revolutionaries Front, another Western-backed opposition group.
The advance of the Al-Qaeda affiliate is seen as a setback to US efforts to create and train a moderate rebel force as a counterweight to jihadists and the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Source : Sapa-AFP /mm
Date : 02 Nov 2014 22:43
by Salam Faraj and Ammar Karim
The Islamic State group has carried out a fresh wave of mass killings, officials said Sunday, executing more than 200 members of an Iraqi tribe which took up arms against the jihadists.
Women and children were said to be among scores of Albu Nimr tribespeople executed over the past 10 days in western Iraq's Anbar province.
Reports of the killings came with the country on edge as hundreds of thousands of Shiites prepare to travel to shrine city Karbala this week for a major annual pilgrimage.
IS, a Sunni extremist group that has seized large parts of Iraq and Syria, is expected to target Ashura pilgrims, and 19 people died in attacks on Shiites on Sunday.
The executions in Anbar came after Sunni Albu Nimr tribesmen took up arms against IS in the province, large parts of which have been overrun by the jihadists.
Accounts varied as to the number and timings of the executions, but all sources spoke of more than 200 people murdered in recent days.
Police Colonel Shaaban al-Obaidi told AFP that more than 200 people were killed, while Faleh al-Essawi, deputy head of Anbar provincial council, put the toll at 258.
The killings are probably aimed at discouraging resistance from powerful local tribes in Anbar.
IS also detained dozens of members of the Jubur tribe in Salaheddin province, north of Baghdad, officials and a tribal leader said.
Jubur tribesmen and security forces have been holding out for months against IS in the provincial town of Dhuluiyah.
Pro-government forces have suffered a string of setbacks in Anbar in recent weeks, prompting warnings that the province, which stretches from the borders with Jordan and Saudi Arabia to the western approach to Baghdad, could fall entirely.
Security forces who wilted before a lightning IS offensive in June are fighting to retake territory seized by the jihadists in Iraq's Sunni Arab heartland.
IS has declared an Islamic "caliphate" in territory it controls, imposing its harsh interpretation of sharia law and committing widespread atrocities.
Like other Sunni extremist groups, IS considers Shiites to be heretics and frequently attacks them, posing a major threat to the Ashura religious commemorations which peak on Tuesday.
Two car bombs targeting Shiites in Baghdad ahead of Ashura killed at least 19 people on Sunday, officials said, while a city centre car bombing near a police checkpoint killed at least five.
The pilgrimage is a major test for the new government headed by Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi and for the security forces.
On the Syria-Turkey border, meanwhile, some 150 Iraqi peshmerga fighters were preparing to bolster fellow Kurds in battling IS for the town of Kobane, after crossing the frontier late on Friday.
Syrian Kurdish militia have held off an IS offensive there for more than six weeks, and Kobane has become a crucial symbol in the anti-jihadist struggle.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor, reported fierce clashes in the town's centre, north, south and Kurdish fighters shelling IS positions to its east.
The US-led coalition that has launched air raids against IS in Syria and Iraq carried out at least three strikes near Kobane early Sunday, said the Observatory, which relies on a wide network of sources inside the country.
At least 11 jihadists were killed in air strikes and fighting on Saturday, it said.
The Pentagon said five air strikes near Kobane on Saturday and Sunday hit five small IS units and destroyed three vehicles.
In Iraq, coalition warplanes targeted IS positions in Baiji and Fallujah, it said.
Elsewhere in Syria, the Observatory said Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front seized a town and several villages in Idlib province late Saturday, in another blow to Western-backed rebels in the northwest.
It said Al-Nusra captured Khan al-Subul after the withdrawal of the Hazm movement, a moderate opposition group.
Al-Nusra also seized another five villages in Idlib held by Islamist and moderate rebel groups.
The advance comes a day after Al-Nusra seized the Idlib bastion of the Syria Revolutionaries Front, another Western-backed opposition group.
The advance of the Al-Qaeda affiliate is seen as a setback to US efforts to create and train a moderate rebel force as a counterweight to jihadists and the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Source : Sapa-AFP /mm
Date : 02 Nov 2014 22:43
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
ISLAMIC STATE EXECUTES FOUR JOURNALISTS IN MOSUL, LOCALS SAY
The Islamic State group has executed four journalists in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, local residents tell dpa.
The militant group handed over the bodies of the four people, who were among 12 journalists abducted last month, to medical authorities in the city, the residents say.
Source : Sapa-dpa /kd
Date : 04 Nov 2014 16:1
The Islamic State group has executed four journalists in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, local residents tell dpa.
The militant group handed over the bodies of the four people, who were among 12 journalists abducted last month, to medical authorities in the city, the residents say.
Source : Sapa-dpa /kd
Date : 04 Nov 2014 16:1
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Nice. Live practise grounds!
someone will have to seriously send in troops to rid the world of this Islamic ISIS vermin!
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LazyLion
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GERMAN ISLAMIST RAPPER CUSPERT SEEN IN BEHEADING VIDEO
The German rapper Denis Cuspert, also known as Deso Dogg, has been identified in an Islamic State video purportedly showing a beheading that was released Tuesday by an activist group.
Cuspert is seen alongside Islamic State jihadists who kill several men during the filming.
Some reports had said the rapper was killed in the Syrian conflict.
It is not clear from the video if Cuspert does any of the killing. But he is briefly seen holding the severed head in his hand.
The authenticity of the film could not be immediately confirmed.
The video was released by activists in the east Syrian province of Dair as-Saur who report on crimes in the Syrian civil war. The activists did not say when the video was made or how they got it.
The video shows the fatal shooting of one man and the beheading of another. In total, three dead people can be seen.
Cuspert says in German that the dead were opponents of the Islamic State.
"That's why they received the death penalty," he says.
Another jihadist says in Arabic that the dead were members of Syria's al-Shaitat tribe.
In recent months, the US State Department has used Cuspert in its internet war against Islamic State recruiters as an example of what happens when young people flock from around the world to the extremist group.
A counter-propaganda video shows Deso Dogg laughing and glorifying jihad as "fun" and inviting Muslims to join the war against the Syrian regime. It ends with a group of jihadists standing around Deso Dogg's purported corpse.
According to the Berlin branch of Germany's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, its main domestic security agency, Cuspert appears to still be alive and working in the inner circle of Islamic State.
He joined the violent jihadists in April, according to a dossier on Cuspert made public in September by Berlin officials.
Cuspert was reported to have personally sworn loyalty to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
The 39-year-old Berliner now calls himself Abu Talha al-Almani. His main mission appears to be to mobilize radical Salafists in Germany to join Islamic State, through German-language videos.
Cuspert's elevated position as a German-language propagandist of the Islamic State gives him a "considerable capacity for reaching radicalized persons in Germany," Berlin intelligence officials said.
Cuspert was born in 1975 to a German-Ghanaian couple, and grew up in various neighbourhoods of West Berlin, but mainly Kreuzberg, home for decades to Germany's alternative culture scene.
He began his career as a rapper in 2002, expressing his personal experiences with discrimination. He has declared himself a committed Muslim since 2007, and had links to Berlin's An-Nur Mosque by 2010. In mid 2012, he moved to Egypt, then to Syria.
Source : Sapa-dpa /dm
Date : 05 Nov 2014 04:42
The German rapper Denis Cuspert, also known as Deso Dogg, has been identified in an Islamic State video purportedly showing a beheading that was released Tuesday by an activist group.
Cuspert is seen alongside Islamic State jihadists who kill several men during the filming.
Some reports had said the rapper was killed in the Syrian conflict.
It is not clear from the video if Cuspert does any of the killing. But he is briefly seen holding the severed head in his hand.
The authenticity of the film could not be immediately confirmed.
The video was released by activists in the east Syrian province of Dair as-Saur who report on crimes in the Syrian civil war. The activists did not say when the video was made or how they got it.
The video shows the fatal shooting of one man and the beheading of another. In total, three dead people can be seen.
Cuspert says in German that the dead were opponents of the Islamic State.
"That's why they received the death penalty," he says.
Another jihadist says in Arabic that the dead were members of Syria's al-Shaitat tribe.
In recent months, the US State Department has used Cuspert in its internet war against Islamic State recruiters as an example of what happens when young people flock from around the world to the extremist group.
A counter-propaganda video shows Deso Dogg laughing and glorifying jihad as "fun" and inviting Muslims to join the war against the Syrian regime. It ends with a group of jihadists standing around Deso Dogg's purported corpse.
According to the Berlin branch of Germany's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, its main domestic security agency, Cuspert appears to still be alive and working in the inner circle of Islamic State.
He joined the violent jihadists in April, according to a dossier on Cuspert made public in September by Berlin officials.
Cuspert was reported to have personally sworn loyalty to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
The 39-year-old Berliner now calls himself Abu Talha al-Almani. His main mission appears to be to mobilize radical Salafists in Germany to join Islamic State, through German-language videos.
Cuspert's elevated position as a German-language propagandist of the Islamic State gives him a "considerable capacity for reaching radicalized persons in Germany," Berlin intelligence officials said.
Cuspert was born in 1975 to a German-Ghanaian couple, and grew up in various neighbourhoods of West Berlin, but mainly Kreuzberg, home for decades to Germany's alternative culture scene.
He began his career as a rapper in 2002, expressing his personal experiences with discrimination. He has declared himself a committed Muslim since 2007, and had links to Berlin's An-Nur Mosque by 2010. In mid 2012, he moved to Egypt, then to Syria.
Source : Sapa-dpa /dm
Date : 05 Nov 2014 04:42
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I wonder what they do to ISIS members when they are caught...
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
GERMAN INTELLIGENCE: ISLAMIC STATE OIL REVENUES «WIDELY EXAGGERATED»
The Islamic State extremist group is not earning as much money from black market oil sales as the media has previously reported, a German newspaper reported Friday.
According to an analysis by Germany's foreign intelligence agency (BND), estimates of oil revenue for the Islamist militants have been "unrealistic" and "widely exaggerated," Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported.
Oil was previously thought to be the militants' main source of income, the paper said, with a US treasury official last month saying that Islamic State militants had been earning 1 million dollars per day by selling oil on the black market since June.
But the BND analysis, using data from the non-governmental organization Iraq Energy Institute, refutes such reports.
More than 50 per cent of Islamic State militants' capacity to produce oil could have been destroyed by US air strikes, the German report says, and the group also lacks the international experts necessary for oil production.
Germany's BND believes that Islamic State oil transactions currently bring in less than 100 million dollars per year, or 270,000 dollars per day - an estimate that they say is probably still too high.
The Islamic State group, which has been called one of the richest and best-organized terrorist groups in history, is largely self-funded, supporting itself mainly through extortion, art theft, kidnapping and smuggling operations, the paper said.
Source : Sapa-dpa /aw
Date : 07 Nov 2014 15:13
The Islamic State extremist group is not earning as much money from black market oil sales as the media has previously reported, a German newspaper reported Friday.
According to an analysis by Germany's foreign intelligence agency (BND), estimates of oil revenue for the Islamist militants have been "unrealistic" and "widely exaggerated," Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported.
Oil was previously thought to be the militants' main source of income, the paper said, with a US treasury official last month saying that Islamic State militants had been earning 1 million dollars per day by selling oil on the black market since June.
But the BND analysis, using data from the non-governmental organization Iraq Energy Institute, refutes such reports.
More than 50 per cent of Islamic State militants' capacity to produce oil could have been destroyed by US air strikes, the German report says, and the group also lacks the international experts necessary for oil production.
Germany's BND believes that Islamic State oil transactions currently bring in less than 100 million dollars per year, or 270,000 dollars per day - an estimate that they say is probably still too high.
The Islamic State group, which has been called one of the richest and best-organized terrorist groups in history, is largely self-funded, supporting itself mainly through extortion, art theft, kidnapping and smuggling operations, the paper said.
Source : Sapa-dpa /aw
Date : 07 Nov 2014 15:13
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
OBAMA APPROVES SENDING UP TO 1,500 MORE TROOPS TO IRAQ
President Barack Obama has approved sending up to 1,500 additional troops to Iraq to train Baghdad government and Kurdish forces fighting the Islamic State group, roughly doubling the number of US troops in the country, the White House said Friday.
"As a part of our strategy for strengthening partners on the ground, President Obama today authorized the deployment of up to 1,500 additional US military personnel in a non-combat role to train, advise, and assist Iraqi Security Forces, including Kurdish forces," it said.
Source : Sapa-AFP /nsm
Date : 07 Nov 2014 22:09
President Barack Obama has approved sending up to 1,500 additional troops to Iraq to train Baghdad government and Kurdish forces fighting the Islamic State group, roughly doubling the number of US troops in the country, the White House said Friday.
"As a part of our strategy for strengthening partners on the ground, President Obama today authorized the deployment of up to 1,500 additional US military personnel in a non-combat role to train, advise, and assist Iraqi Security Forces, including Kurdish forces," it said.
Source : Sapa-AFP /nsm
Date : 07 Nov 2014 22:09