ninjapundit: Daily Misfortune Friday, November 20, 2015

Daily Misfortune Friday, November 20, 2015 ---
Month Misfortune November 2015 ---

Headlines:

Islamic State Tactics Shift, Borrowing From al Qaeda, likely directed other large attacks
West's Dilemma: How to Fight Islamic State If Obama says it is not war against a state
US-led coalition hits ISIS with 20 airstrikes in Iraq, no strikes in Syria
Lebanon makes arrests, seizes explosives after ISIS attacks in Beirut
At least 6 killed by bombings near Iraq Shiite mosque after Friday prayers
Israeli spy Pollard released from US prison
15 soldiers, 19 Al-Qaeda militants killed: ISIS claims Al Qaeda Yemen attacks on army
Chinese security forces kill 28 Uyghur Islamist militants linked to deadly coal mine attack
November 2015 Mali hotel attack Islamist militants in cooperation with Al Qaeda took 170 hostages and killed 19 of them in a mass shooting at the Radisson Blu hotel
November 2015 Paris attacks three people died in the Saint-Denis raid
ISIS video threatens attacks on the White House in the U.S., monuments in France, U.S. President Obama, and French Francois Hollande
Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia shut their borders to so called economic migrants
North Korea–South Korea relations North Korea and South Korea agree to hold talks next week.
Sweden questions Iraqi terrorist suspect Moder Mothama Magid accused of planning to launch a terror attack on the Swedish capital Stockholm.
Titusville Florida Airport Shooting contractor and police dog stabbed
Some Paris attackers, including the mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud, exploited the Syrian refugee crisis to slip into the country unnoticed.
Utah school asks students to draw up ISIS recruiting posters and flags

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Islamic State Tactics Shift, Borrowing From al Qaeda, likely directed other large attacks Wall Street Journal While the goal of Islamic State hasn't changed—build a caliphate , now borrowing from al Qaeda’s playbook, deploying trusted lieutenants to engineer larger, more coordinated plots against the West. The attacks in Paris were the latest and most visible manifestation of this new approach, U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials suspect. Intercepted communications and other intelligence analyzed after two other earlier large-scale attacks in Beirut and Ankara, Turkey, similarly suggest those plots were directed by Islamic State leaders in Syria and Iraq and carried out by local leaders empowered to take action in the group’s name Paris Attacks Suggest Shift in Islamic State's Strategy To Attacks On West - WSJ The Wall Street Journal Nov 15 Paris Attacks Suggest Shift in Islamic State's Strategy ... than people acting on direct orders from the militant group, also known as ISIS and ISIL. ... it represents a major change from an earlier focus on state-building:
West's Dilemma: How to Fight Islamic State Wall Street Journal Obama: "simply a network of killers.. we play into the ISIL narrative when we act as if they are a state using routine military tactics.. not what's going on here" But if Islamic State is treated as an enemy state, then the primary goal is the same as in conventional wars—first, destroy its ability to operate, including its infrastructure and economic base, and then eventually conquer its real estate Is Islamic State a State? - Wall Street Journal Press Conference by President Obama -- Antalya, Turkey White House Nov 16, 2015 ... recognize this is not conventional warfare. We play into the ISIL narrative when we act as if they’re a state, and we use routine military tactics that are designed to fight a state that is attacking another state. That’s not what’s going on here. ...when I said that we are containing their spread in Iraq and Syria, in fact, they control less territory than they did last year.
US-led coalition hits ISIS with 20 airstrikes in Iraq, no strikes in Syria (RT)
Lebanon makes arrests, seizes explosives after ISIS attacks in Beirut (RT) Lebanese security forces carried out a series of arrests overnight, sources said on Friday. The raids were part of a crackdown launched after twin suicide bomb attacks killed 44 people in Beirut on November 12.
At least 6 killed by bombings near Iraq Shiite mosque after Friday prayers (RT) A roadside bomb and a suicide bombing near a Shiite mosque south of Baghdad killed at least six people and wounded 19, worshipers were leaving Friday prayers, and the suicide bomber detonated explosives after security forces arrived,
Israeli spy Pollard released from US prison (RT) WKP: "The United States releases convicted spy Jonathan Pollard from prison at the request of the government of Israel. (The Globe and Mail)"
15 soldiers, 19 Al-Qaeda militants killed: ISIS claims Al Qaeda Yemen attacks on army – military (RT) Al-Qaeda launched simultaneous attacks on two army positions in southeastern Yemen early on Friday, and 12 soldiers and 19 extremists were killed, AFP reported, citing an army officer. Army positions near the town of Shibam and in Wadi Sir in the Hadramawt province were targeted. The area is a stronghold for Al-Qaeda, whose militants control the provincial capital, Mukalla. Shibam, known as the “Manhattan of the Desert” for its high-rise mud-brick buildings, is a UNESCO world heritage site.Islamic State claims deadly Yemen attacks on army: SITE Middle East Eye‎ Al-Qaeda militants targeted army positions with a suicide bomber and ... Group, that 50 Yemeni troops were killed in a suicide attack and clashes in ... and 19 militants were killed while medics said the army lost 15 men. Yemen: 15 soldiers, 19 militants killed in al Qaeda attacks Hindustan Times‎ Islamic State claims Yemen attack blamed on Al Qaeda Reuters Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack on the army in the eastern region of Hadramawt on Friday that a security source said killed at least 19 Yemeni soldiers and 35 militants. Earlier on Friday a different security source said Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) was responsible for the attack. Islamic State's Yemen branch has attacked both main sides in the country's civil war in recent months
Chinese security forces kill 28 militants linked to deadly coal mine attack (RT) Chinese police have killed 28 suspected terrorists, as security forces busted a gang after a 56-day hunt in the far western region of Xinjiang, Xinhua news agency reports. One more terrorist surrendered to police, according to a statement from the publicity department of Xinjiang. On Wednesday, Chinese forces reported killing 17 people allegedly linked to an attack on a coal mine in September. The hunt-down has been underway since a group of armed militants targeted the mine, killing 16 people, including 11 civilians, on September 16. China says 28 foreign-led 'terrorists' killed after attack on mine Reuters oChinese security forces in the far western region of Xinjiang killed 28 "terrorists" from a ...28 foreign-led 'terrorists' killed after attack on mine: China Asia Times China says 28 foreign-led 'terrorists' killed after attack on mine ooyuz Chinese forces have killed 17 people allegedly connected with a deadly assault on a coal mine in China says 28 'terrorists' killed after coal mine attack | SBS Wikip "Xinjiang conflict Chinese security forces have killed 28 members of a "terrorist group" in the mainly ethnic Uyghur Xinjiang region. (BBC)"
November 2015 Mali hotel attack At least three people were killed when 10 gunmen stormed the five-star Radisson Blu Hotel in Malian capital Bamako and took 170 hostages. Thegrenade-toting assailants freed captives who were able to recite the Quran. The hotel is "often used" by Air France staff. (France 24), (NBC News)(New York Daily News) Mali state news channel ORTM reports 80 of the 170 hostages taken during the attack are released after security forces launched an assault on the gunmen. CNN reports the people killed were two Malian nationals and one French national. (UPI) On 20 November 2015, Islamist militants took 170 hostages and killed 19 of them in a mass shootingat the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, the capital and largest city in Mali.[4][5][6] Malian commandosraided the hotel and freed the surviving hostages.[7][8] Al-Mourabitoun claimed that it carried out the attack "in cooperation with" Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb; an Al Qaeda member, who refused to be named, confirmed that the two groups cooperated in the attack.[9]
November 2015 Paris attacks Officials report three people died in the Saint-Denis raid. The body of a second woman is found at the apartment where a woman and Paris attacks ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud were killed. (Sky News)
A newly released ISIS video threatens attacks on the White House in the U.S., monuments in France, U.S. President Obama, and French Francois Hollande.(Reuters)
Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia shut their borders to so called economic migrants, those not coming from war-torn countries such as Syria,Afghanistan, or Iraq, leaving thousands stranded at Balkan border crossings. Around 500 migrants from Iran, Morocco, and Algeria gather on the border between Greece and Macedonia to protest the closure. (The Irish Independent)
North Korea–South Korea relations North Korea and South Korea agree to hold talks next week. (Yonhap)
Sweden's national security service Säpo are questioning terrorist suspect Moder Mothama Magid, a 22-year-old Iraqi, who is accused of planning to launch a terror attack on the Swedish capital Stockholm. (Local)
Titusville Airport Shooting person and police dog stabbed One person has been stabbed and another shot at Titusville Airport in central Florida. suspect fled the scene into nearby woods, reports WESH Was on Permitter Road part of the airport facility. Space Coast Regional Airport is the closest commercial airport to the Kennedy Space Center... airspace in the surrounding area is also closed. A police dog was also wounded in a stabbing in the attack.
France’s Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Friday some of the Paris attackers, including the mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud, exploited the Syrian refugee crisis to slip into the country unnoticed. fox news
Utah school asks students to draw up ISIS recruiting posters and flags TheBlaze The assignment asked the ninth grade class at Salem Junior High School in Salem, Utah, to draw Islamic State propaganda posters. Students were also asked to type the words “how to recruit for ISIS” into Google as part of the assignment The teacher called Langston to apologize.

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Nov 19, 2015 Jamar Clark protests: 2 shot nearby and SUV rams 4th Precinct gate, 2 vandals arrested over night, an SUV that attempted to drive through the fence at the precinct overnight, where protesters and outraged community members have been gathered since the shooting of Jamar Clark on Sunday, Nov. 15. The overnight incidents followed a relatively calm day of demonstrations Thursday, with no real violence or clashes with police a 5-year-old boy and 40-year-old man were shot Thursday afternoon in an apartment just a block next to where Jamar Clark died, adding more tension to a community already on edge. the president of the police union is saying Jamar Clark grabbed an officer’s gun, leading to the deadly shooting. “The officers arrived, he was not compliant with the verbal commands,” Lt. Bob Kroll said. “Officers went to restrain him. He chose to struggle and fight. At one point, he got a hold of an officer’s gun belt and gun. It was in the holster and [unarmed black man] he had physical control of the hand grip. [lying disinformation] Witnesses say Clark was handcuffed when he was shot, but police insist that he was not
Nov 19 GA suspect escapes from officer who shoots after hitting him with SUV VILLA RICA, GA (CBS46) - Police are looking for a man accused of using a stolen credit card and escaping from a police officer by hitting the officer with an SUV. Thursday night outside a Walmart 33 from Atlanta. confronted suspect after receiving a call that he was using a stolen credit card. he jumped in the SUV and tried to take off, knocking down the officer and hitting a parked car.

Nov 19 update:

James Morales: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know A 34-year-old former Army reservist already facing child rape charges is accused of stealing 16 guns from a military base in Worcester, Massachusetts.

1 killed suspect arrested November 18, 2015 Charges: Murder Suicide Try St. Paul intentional crash mom poisoned, then suffocated baby KARE November 19,2015 Charges: St. Paul mom poisoned, then suffocated baby ...ST. PAUL, Minn. - A St. Paul mother has been charged with second degree-murder after police found her baby dead in the car she crashed Wednesday morning. Charges state Shwe Htoo, 22, crashed her car into a light pole around 11 a.m. ... According to the complaint, when an officer asked the woman what happened, she she replied, "This morning -- I killed my own child." feeding poison with sleeping pills and bug spray, she also drank some neither died from, then suffocating the child, attempting to cut her own throat, then . When that was unsuccessful, she intentionally crashed her car...determined Michael's death to be homicide due to asphyxia.. remains in jail St. Paul mom smothered baby to death, attempted suicide, charges say Minneapolis Star Tribune‎ St. Paul mom smothered baby to death, attempted suicide, charges say.Shwe Htoo put the boy, already dead, in a car and ran into a pole, ...Suicidal mom: 'This morning I killed my own child,' charges say St. Paul Pioneer Press Nov 19, 2015 Michael Kyaw Htoo was cold to the touch and Shwe Htoo told a police ... I killed my own child," according to a second-degree murder charge ... tags: asian suspect

Nov 17 Man in Joker mask threatens to kill '1 Arab a week' in Canada, gets arrested man wearing a mask of Batman's arch enemy the Joker wasarrested in Montreal, Canada, ... Montreal man charged with inciting hatred after anti-Muslim video emerges CBC.ca Montreal man charged with inciting hatred after anti-Muslim ... CBC.ca The masked man in the video vowed to kill one Arab per week in Quebec. Montreal police have arrested a suspect who is now in custody. (Radio-Canada) ... that shows someone in a Joker mask threatening to kill Muslim people in Quebec

november 9, 2015 Mother, 6 kids survive armed home invasion staged bystander attack in St. Paul KARE 11 Staff November 13, 2015 ST. PAUL, Minn. - A mother and her six kids are lucky to be alive after two masked men came into their home and threatened to kill them, according to a complaint. Nov. 9 when the two men kicked the door in and pointed a gun at her face. She said one man was wearing a white Halloween mask and the other was hidden behind a black mask, according to the charges. The woman told authorities one of the men pointed a black handgun in her face while asking, "Where is the weed and money?"

January 31, 2015 Minneapolis police officer run over by suspected Cub Foods shoplifters last night, a Minneapolis police officer was run over by suspected shoplifters at the Cub Foods suspects "drove directly at the officer, striking him." The officer shot at the vehicle, but....

Feb. 23, 2014 shooting Burnsville man admits [or lies] at sentencing he fatally shot the wrong person Burnsville man was sentenced on Friday for a 2014 shooting that left a father of two dead in a case of mistaken identity. Reginald Myers, 35, pleaded guilty to second-degree intentional murder and will spend the next 27 years in prison. Adrian Carr, 35, was shot and killed on Feb. 23, 2014 while he was outside on 34th Street E. and Snelling Avenue in south Minneapolis removing belongings out of his Chevy SUV, when two men drove up and shot at him. (mistaken identify or targeting random bystander for terrorist motive?)

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Charges: Couple made 135 fraudulent returns at American Girl store
2 shot, 1 dead on Thomas Ave. in north Minneapolis

Bomb threat grounds Spirit flight to Minneapolis

Heinrich Wetterling suspect followed paperboys Seven boys were molested in Paynesville in the mid-to-late 1980s. Heinrich was a suspect in those cases and along with being a person of interest in the Wetterling abduction. ... recently released DNA evidence linked him to the sexual assault of Jared Schierel in nearby Cold Spring. In April 1991, a year and a half after Jacob Wetterling was abducted, when Heinrich was 28-years-old, a Stearns County deputy was called in to help with surveillance in Paynesville because a tan colored vehicle was "following or watching paperboys on their morning routes." The deputy soon observed a tan 1984 Buick driven by Danny Heinrich, "at the same time a paper boy was traveling through downtown." WCCO Oct 29, 2015 - MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Danny Heinrich, who was announced Thursday as a suspect in the disappearance of Jacob Wetterling, did get into ... Danny James Heinrich - Heavy.com Oct 29, 2015 - The Wetterling family would like to thank all involved in the investigation of Danny Heinrich and his crimes against children. The search for ... Criminal complaint against Danny James Heinrich - Star ... Star TribuneOct 29, 2015 - Daniel James Heinrich of Annandale, Minn., was charged Thursday with possessing child pornography and has been named by authorities as ... 'Person of interest' in Wetterling disappearance has criminal ...bringmethenews.com

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-downey-police-officer-killed-20151119-story.html
last time a Downey police officer was killed in the line of duty was nearly 35 years ago. Officer Wayne Richard Presley, a nine-year police veteran, was struck and killed by a drunk driver on April 10, 1981.

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