US Department of Defence reveals today's air strike targets in the Levant

(US) The US DoD revealed today the details behind their air strikes against ISIS for the past 24 hours. They are:

Airstrikes in Syria

Bomber, fighter and remotely piloted aircraft conducted 14 airstrikes in Syria:

-- Near Raqqah, an airstrike struck an ISIL excavator.

-- Near Dayr Az Zawr, an airstrike destroyed two ISIL fighting positions.

-- Near Kobani, 10 airstrikes struck two large and six small ISIL tactical units, destroying six ISIL vehicles, three ISIL fighting positions, two ISIL mortar firing positions and two ISIL staging areas.

-- Near Tal Abyad, two airstrikes struck an ISIL tactical unit, destroying two ISIL fighting positions.

Airstrikes in Iraq

Attack, bomber and fighter aircraft conducted 14 airstrikes in Iraq, approved by the Iraqi Ministry of Defense:

-- Near Baghdadi, two airstrikes struck an ISIL tactical unit and two ISIL vehicles, destroying an ISIL fighting position and an ISIL heavy machine gun.

-- Near Huwayjah, an airstrike struck an ISIL mortar firing position.

-- Near Qaim, an airstrike had inconclusive results.

-- Near Beiji, an airstrike struck land features, denying ISIL a tactical advantage.

-- Near Fallujah, an airstrike struck an ISIL large tactical unit, destroying two ISIL heavy machine guns, an ISIL structure, an ISIL staging area and an ISIL vehicle.

-- Near Kirkuk, an airstrike destroyed three ISIL fighting positions.

-- Near Makhmur, an airstrike struck an ISIL mortar firing position.

-- Near Mosul, three airstrikes struck an ISIL checkpoint, an ISIL staging area and an ISIL mortar firing position.

-- Near Sinjar, an airstrike struck an ISIL tactical unit and an ISIL mortar firing position.

-- Near Tal Afar, two airstrikes struck an ISIL fighting position and an ISIL mortar firing position.

Suicide bomb plot in London foiled

(London) Saturday the 27th of July is Armed Forces Day in the UK. It is celebrated in late June to commemorate the service of men and women in the British Armed Forces. So today, you will find displays the length and breadth of the country where the public can meet the military, the equipment they use and get to see what they do.

Well, it appears that Islamic idiots don’t want the public to appreciate the British Armed Forces, and so they hatched a plot to set off an IED at a military parade in London in which to utter ‘Allah Ackba’ and spill some more blood for their moon god.

Unfortunately for Allah’s finest, they recruited an undercover reporter and when he heard what was planed, he tipped off the police:

It is alleged that a figure in Isis, whom is named as Junaid Hussain from Birmingham, told the investigator: “It will be big. We will hit the kuffar (unbelievers) hard InshAllah. Hit their soldiers in their own land. InshAllah. Soldiers that served in Iraq and Afganistan will be present. Jump in the crowd and detonate the bomb. “They think they can kill Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan then come back to the UK and be safe. We’ll hit them hard InshAllah.” The newspaper said the plot to bomb the parade in Merton, south west London, was thwarted when it informed police and security services.

The parade was targeted because it was closest to the barracks in Woolwich, south east London, where Fusilier Rigby, 25, was murdered by Islamist extremists in 2013.

Northern Syrian Situation 25th June 2015

(Syria) Those nice people at the Institute for the Study of War have knock out a wee synopsis of what is happening in the Northern reaches of Syria. Besides the map, what they say is most informative.

ISIS launched a series of spectacular counterattacks on June 24-25 in a two-pronged line of effort targeting Kurdish and regime forces in northern Syria. ISIS conducted a wave of suicide attacks in Hasaka City in northeastern Syria on June 24, detonating two SVBIEDs as well as three or four SVESTs targeting Kurdish internal security and regime-held checkpoints in a move likely intended to soften the city’s defenses. ISIS later launched an offensive against Hasaka City on June 25, detonating at least one VBIED and seizing the regime-held southwestern neighborhoods of the city. ISIS’s advance allegedly received support from tribal fighters previously aligned with the Assad regime. Simultaneously, approximately thirty to forty ISIS fighters disguised in Kurdish YPG and Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebel uniforms infiltrated the Kurdish border town of Ayn al-Arab (Kobani) on June 25, detonating two SVBIEDs at the border crossing to Turkey and clashing with YPG forces.

ISIS’s synchronized attacks in northern Syria likely represent part of an overarching campaign to contain its opponents in the area and set conditions for further advances in Syria. The attacks in Ayn al-Arab (Kobani) and Hasaka City appear designed to disrupt ongoing YPG-led anti-ISIS operations in northern ar-Raqqa Province in order to divert pressure away from core ISIS terrain in ar-Raqqa City. The scale of the ISIS offensive against Hasaka City also suggests that ISIS may intend to seize the city to offset recent losses to Kurdish and rebel forces along the Syrian-Turkish border at the border crossing of Tel Abyad as well as the town of Ayn Issa and its associated Brigade 93 base further south. At minimum, ISIS’s attacks in Ayn al-Arab and Hasaka City demonstrate that ISIS possesses sufficient resiliency to absorb losses in northern Syria without losing the capability to conduct military operations. Alternately, reports indicating that ISIS did not mount fierce resistance in either Tel Abyad or Ayn Issa suggest that ISIS may have accepted a degree of calculated risk north of ar-Raqqa City in order to conserve resources for new lines of effort targeting Hasaka City, central Syria, or other regions of the country.

UN charges Israel with war crimes — is the US next?

(NYP) Washington must stop the United Nations’ attempt to criminalize Israel’s war on terror not only because it’s the right thing to do — but because America’s military may well be next in its crosshairs.

I'm sure Obama is OK with Americans being charged with war crimes for defending their country. He'd only be upset if Bowe Bergdahl was one of them.

On Monday, the UN’s Human Rights Council issued a lengthy report on last summer’s war in Gaza. Written by a team led by retired New York Supreme Court judge Mary McGowan Davis, it’s bedtime reading in the Hague, the seat of the International Criminal Court.

The reality of the report is that it is, unlike past such reports, a road map for the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor to indict Jerusalem officials and the brass of the Israel Defense Forces, now that the Palestinian Authority has joined the ICC.

And sure enough, a Palestinian official filed an official ICC complaint against Israel Thursday, based on some of the rights council’s findings.

Hamas is euphemized as “armed Palestinian groups.” But the report’s authors specifically accuse “decision-makers at the highest levels of the Government of Israel” of possible responsibility for war crimes. And not just Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; midlevel IDF officers are also mentioned by name.

The report all too conveniently concludes that Israel’s judicial system isn’t adequate, so off to the Hague we go.

And here’s the view from The Hague. In 2009, the ICC indicted a true war criminal, Sudanese tyrant Omar al-Bashir, but is yet to bring him to justice.

In the latest twist, South Africa, an early enthusiastic supporter of the ICC, hosted Bashir last week. Pretoria then allowed him to quietly fly back home, defying a local court order — not to mention the ICC’s request that all its members do their utmost to arrest Bashir and transfer him to The Hague.

Why? Pretoria listens to African leaders who complain that since the ICC’s establishment in 1998, it’s only prosecuted Africans. Bring us a case against some non-African they say, or we’re outta here.

That’s a political conundrum for the ICC, which can quickly lose its image as a world judiciary body: It’s membership is already thin, as Russia, China, India and (most importantly) America decline membership.

If Africans quit now too, who’d take the ICC seriously? To the rescue, here comes the UNHRC.

Until two years ago, the ICC couldn’t touch the IDF, because Israel isn’t a member. But now “Palestine” was admitted as a member so, voila, any crime committed in the territory of that “state” — including Gaza — is fair game.

But wait, did the IDF actually commit war crimes by neglecting to protect innocents, as the McGowan Davis report argues? Military professionals beg to differ.

In Gaza “Israel went to extraordinary lengths to limit collateral damage and civilian casualties,” the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, said last November.

This month, a group of European, American and other former military commanders investigated the war and insisted they’d never heard of “any army that takes such extensive measures as did the IDF last summer to protect the lives of the civilian population.”

Such testimony indicates that Israel’s asymmetric war against terrorism differs little from NATO’s or other armies’. And guess what: there’s already a small pile on ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s desk filled with complaints of alleged US crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq. What if she or her successor decide to go after those cases?

Any American commander in chief must consider such a possibility. Yes, the Geneva Conventions and other half-century-old treaties governing war must be updated to fit the current battlefield, where terrorists revel in killing enemy and allied civilians alike.

But more importantly, President Obama must consider disavowing and defunding biased, purely political bodies like the Human Rights Council, and warn UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that other UN bodies are next. America shouldn’t get anywhere near the ICC either, at least not until it conclusively proves that law, rather than global politics, guides its decisions.

It won’t happen, of course, so the next president must weigh those options. Otherwise, he or she risks being indicted by one global kangaroo court or another.

ISIS threatens to kill Christians in Jerusalem if they don't leave East Jerusalem by the end of Ramadan

ISIS in Jerusalem released flyers threatening to kill the Christians if they don’t leave East Jerusalem by the end of Ramadan.

— Breaking News Feed (@PzFeed) June 26, 2015

Video from Kuwait shows what could be the suicide bomber entering the mosque

(Kuwait City) Video coverage from the front of the Imam Sadiq mosque shows what appears to be the suicide bomber entering the mosque followed by the explosion. What strikes me is how complacent the security staff are (watch their reflections). Instead of checking up a late comer to the mosque (notice the straight lines under his clothing) they chat about a car in the background. This disgusting attack could have been prevented if those 5 idiots had carried out their duties correctly.

Here's some good news for a change

You know what, this past few days have been somewhat depressing so here's a few trailers of upcoming films which hopefully will put a smile on your face for a few minutes:

ISIS Calls for Ramadan 'Month of Disaster'

TWO DAYS OF TERROR: • 156 killed in Kobane • 24 killed in Kuwait • 1 killed in France • 27 killed in Tunisia • 30 killed in Somalia

— Breaking News Feed (@PzFeed) June 26, 2015

(NBC) Terrorists launched horrific attacks across three continents Friday, killing dozens of people just days after ISIS urged supporters to unleash "a month of disaster" during the Muslim holy period of Ramadan.

A man was decapitated in an apparent Islamist attack on a U.S.-owned gas factory in southeastern France, while 25 worshipers were killed and 200 wounded during Friday prayers at a Shi'ite mosque in Kuwait.

In Tunisia, gunmen sparked panic at a beach resort, opening fire and killing at least 28 people — mostly foreigners.

While ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack in Kuwait, there were no immediate claims of responsibility for the other assaults.

Governments around the world condemned the attacks and went into high alert. Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron called an emergency security meeting of officials in London, while France stepped up security at key sites and held a similar summit of defense chiefs at the Elysee in Paris.

While there was little to suggest any co-ordination between the atrocities, experts noted how they came shortly after ISIS spokesman Abu Mohammad al-Adnani called on supporters to step up their activities.

"O mujahidin everywhere, rush and move to make Ramadan a month of disaster," he said Tuesday, encouraging Islamists to "embark and hasten towards jihad."

Charlie Winter, of London's Quilliam Foundation, said: "Whether or not there is any link at all between these attacks, they are likely to be inspired by the same ideals."

Olivier Giutta, security analyst with GlobalStrat, said the Tunisia attack was "a major PR coup for ISIS," even if the group was not directly responsible.

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Islamic State sells 42 Yazidi women to jihadists in Syria

#RealIslam

Beirut (AFP) - The Islamic State group on Thursday sold 42 Iraqi women it had abducted from the Yazidi religious minority to its fighters in eastern Syria, a monitor said.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the women were being treated as "slaves" by the jihadists and were sold "for between $500 (447 euros) and $2,000 dollars (1,785 euros)".

The women were kidnapped last year in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq where IS had launched a wide offensive, the Britain-based monitor said.

Earlier this month they were brought to the IS-held town of Mayadeen in Syria's eastern Deir Ezzor province.

"Some were abducted with their children but we do not know their fate," said Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman.

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Racist America

According to the liberal, black and Islamic world, the US is nothing more than a Nazi, racist state where whitey (and I am brown skinned) oppresses the rest. If a thug is taken down, he is taken down, it doesn't matter if he is black, white, brown or yellow. Yet to the non-white community (looking at blacks here), it can only be a hate crime. Which is why I want to know why the media isn't reporting this story as much as others regards black thugs who are shot whilst up to no good.

Ramadan Death Count Round Up (June 26, 2015)

Well, it's Friday, the Islamic holy day, and instead of taking part in peaceful contemplation during the holiest part of the year, radical Islamic idiots have gone out and shed the blood of many innocents, simply because they feel they have to, in which to spread the word of their god.

(Afghanistan) A group of terrorists attacked security checkpoints in the Tashkotal area of Khawjaghar district this morning, triggering gun battle which is still continuing, and so currently, 10 people, including seven insurgents and three police, have been killed.

12 Policemen were killed Thursday when Taliban terrorists stormed their checkpoint in Zanbeli, South Helmand.

The Taliban have taken control of a district in eastern Afghanistan's Nuristan province after the Afghan police decided on a tactical retreat. 50 people from both sides have been reported killed in the area over the past 2 days.

(Pakistan) Terrorists killed one police official and injured two others after they opened fire outside a court room in Peshawar Thursday.

(Somalia) Islamic terrorists have attacked an African Union base in Leego, situated in the south of the country. Apparently, a suicide bomber drove a vehicle IED into the camp before uttering the name of his moon god. 30 people have been reported killed.

(Yemen) Gunmen have shot dead a Houthi rebel commander in the Yemeni capital. Men on a motorbike attacked a low-ranking officer Ibrahim Hassan al-Sharfi near his Sanaa home late Thursday before they fled.

Saudi Arabia resumed airstrikes across Yemen, with 10 people reported killed in the northern province of Jawf which borders Saudi Arabia.

(Lebanon) Hezb-allah has claimed the credit for the killing of nine Nusra Front terrorists outside an east Lebanon border village Friday. Apparently, a raiding party walked into a mine field and caught out in the open. Hezb-allah finished off the job by shelling the area.

(Syria) An Islamic State group suicide bomber killed at least 20 regime troops in Hasakeh city in northeast Syria on Friday

The death toll in Kobani has increased from yesterday with the deaths of an additional 18 civilians , 10 kurdish fighters and another 2 ISIS thugs.

(Iraq)  An ISIS assault on the Nadhim al-Taqseem area north of the IS-held city of Fallujah, was repelled by the iraqi army. However on seeing the enemy fall back, the local troops gave chase and were caught out in the open by 5 roadside bombs and 1 suicide bomber.  All in all 30 people were killed. Elsewhere Iraqi aircraft pounded the central part of the town of Heet, some 160 km west of Baghdad, leaving eight people dead and 13 others wounded, In addition, army artillery shelled Albu Shejil area, just north of Fallujah, killing three and wounding four others.

Ramadan death toll is now at 1,668.

Kuwait Shia mosque explosion: 27 reported killed, 227 injured

(Kuwait) At least 27 people have been killed and 227 injured following an explosion at the al-Imam al-Sadiq mosque in al-Sawaber, Kuwait city with images posted to social media networks showing the devastation caused and what appeared to be a number of bodies lying among the rubble.

In a statement posted via its affiliated social media accounts, Isis said it had carried out the attack which occurred at the height of Ramadan prayers when the mosque would have been at its busiest, but personally I would take that revelation with a pinch of salt as ISIS like to try and claim credit for every current terrorist attack going in which to bolster its perverted image.

Ramadan death toll is now at 1,454.

Jihadist Attack On Tourist Hotels In Tunisia: 37 killed with 35 wounded.

(Tunisia) Gunmen have attacked a couple of tourist hotels in the Tunisian town of Sousse located 140 kilometres south of the capital Tunis on the Mediterranean coast. At least 37 people have been reported killed along with 1 gunman, according to the Interior Ministry.

British Prime Minster David Cameron has spoken out regards this latest senseless Islamic attack.

"The people who do these things, they sometimes claim that they do it in the name of Islam. They don’t. Islam is a religion of peace. They do it in the name of a twisted and perverted ideology that we have to confront with everything that we have. And we must stop the poisoning of these young minds in our country, in other European countries, and around the world."

 Ramadan death toll is now at 1,427.

9 people to be flogged for selling food during Ramadan

(Jakarta) Ramadan is an Islamic invention. Muslims fast for a month in which to express their religious devotion. Muslims will always tell you that they don't force their faith on others, but that actually when people see for themselves the wonders of Islam, they revert back to Islam. (Muslims believe that everybody was born a Muslim, hence they refer to converts as reverts.)

Well, for 9 people in Banda Aceh, reverting back to Islam won't be at the top of their agenda. It seems that while Ramadam laws are only supposed to apply to Muslims (try telling that to liberals in the West who demand we respect Muslims by not eating in front of them), these non-Muslims were arrested by the religious thought police and have now been sentenced to be flogged for selling food between the hours of dawn and 4pm.

Man decapitated in French factory attack by a jihadist with an ISIS flag

(Lyon) 35-year-old Yacinne Sali rammed his car into a factory in Eastern France at around 10am local time, set off a number of explosions which injured several people and decapitated a man.

He then pinned the decapitated head covered with Arabic writing to the gates of the Air Products factory in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier on Friday before being arrested. Police have arrested a second man whilst a third was killed by a French fire-fighter at the scene.

The decapitated victim has been identified as the manager of a transport company based in Chassieu, about 20 miles from the attack. He was attacked at the Air Products factory after arriving for a delivery.

French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve says that  Yessim Salim, arrested on suspicion of carrying out a terror attack, had been under surveillance by the authorities

The Air Products factory in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier

Ramadan death toll is now at 1,389.

ISIS area of control map as of 19 June 2015

Another Map from the Study of War people. This one is the area of control for ISIS in the Middle East as of a week ago.

Iraq Situation report, June 23-24, 2015

(Iraq) Those nice people at the institute of the Study of War knock out a sitrep on what is happening in Iraq.

Nazi dickhead Zack Davies in court for attempted murder

(Wales) Zack Davies, a loner fascinated with far right ideologies and violent video games, screamed “white power” as he launched a racially-motivated machete and hammer attack on a dentist of Indian origin. On 14 January he spotted Bhambra on the street in Mold at lunchtime and followed him to a Tesco supermarket where he attacked him from behind with a claw hammer and 30cm-long machete in front of shoppers and children. Bhambra was saved after an ex-soldier, Peter Fuller, stepped in to help. Davies told Fuller: “We are under attack,” but Fuller said what he was doing was madness and Bhambra had not done anything.

The jury heard how Davies would sit in his flat playing violent video games for six or seven hours a day. Expelled from school at 11 for bringing in a knife to school, Davies became a loner and admitted carrying a weapon with him every day since he was 15 because of his growing paranoia. He was described in court as a racist with a fascination for far right ideologies. In interview he told police that maybe the wrong side had won the second world war. The court heard items associated with white supremacy and Nazism were found at Davies’s home, including swastika badges and Combat 18 material.

So, naturally, when this waste of space saw Dr Sarandev Bhambra, a dentist who was out buying his lunch, all he saw was a Muslim, besides the fact that it is bloody wrong to attack anybody, Dr Bhambra has a middle name, and it's Singh. A name all Sikhs have, and the most loyal soldiers the British ever had were the Sikhs, and yet dick splash whose only loyalty was to his right hand, presumed incorrectly that somebody with brown skin could only be a threat to the country. What a plank. Hopefully, Zack will find that his new cell mate is a big black man with Aids who loves nothing more than a white arse in front of him.

VIDEO: Moment ISIS detonate vehicle suicide bomb in Kobane today (June 25, 2015)

(Syria) Today, ISIS struck in Kobane, the town they were kicked out of by the Kurds a few months back. They kicked off their death fest by setting off a vehicle suicide IED.

Dutch national TV airs cartoons depicting Islamic Prophet Mohammed

From ABNA (an Iranian news agency):

(Holland) Anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders on Wednesday aired blasphemous cartoons depicting Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) on the Dutch national television.

The cartoons broadcast on the state-run television were first shown at an exhibition of the Great Prophet cartoons last month in Texas, U.S., where Wilders was one of the speakers.

Wilders aired the cartoons in programming reserved for political parties, saying that he broadcast the drawings to defend freedom of expression.

Expect a lot of rioting around the world. Yup, hundreds of thousands of Muslims have been murdered by their Fellow Muslims in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Libya, Yemen and Pakistan these past few years and nobody from the Islamic world will protest, but draw a chuffing cartoon and there's hell to pay.