Interpol searches for Austrian girls
Interpol is searching for two teenage girls from Austria who are believed to have run away from their homes in Vienna to join ISIS. Samra Kesinovic, 16, and Sabina Selimovic, 15, have been missing since April 10. Photos on their Facebook pages apparently show them brandishing Kalashnikov rifles – in some cases surrounded by armed men. Some of the pictures have been circulating online for years, and their families believe that those pictures, and social media posts apparently by the girls, are fake. However, Austrian officials believe that the girls are located in a training camp, are already married, and are living in the homes of their new husbands. Facebook postings apparently from the two girls say that they planned to marry so that they could become ‘holy warriors’ and indicate that they are seeking martyrdom:
Death is our goal.
Secret military base
Sources in the Persian Gulf tell Reuters that Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar have set up a secret ‘nerve centre’ near the Turkish border with Syria to direct military aid and communications to Syrian rebels fighting the government. Doha source:
It’s the Turks who are militarily controlling it. Turkey is the main co-ordinator/facilitator. Think of a triangle, with Turkey at the top and Saudi Arabia and Qatar at the bottom. The Americans are very hands-off on this. U.S. intel are working through middlemen. Middlemen are controlling access to weapons and routes.
The centre is located in the southern Turkish city of Adana, about 100 km (60 miles) from the border, and was set up after Saudi Deputy Foreign Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Abdullah al-Saud visited Turkey and requested it. The Turks liked the idea of having the base in Adana so that they could supervise its operations.
Discharged from Coast Guard
Bergdahl is discharged from the Coastguard just 26 days after enlisting. Coast Guard records indicate that Bergdahl received an “uncharacterized discharge” due to psychological issues. At the time of the discharge, Bergdahl is in boot camp in Cape May, New Jersey. In a June, 2014 interview with the Washington Post, Bergdahl’s close friend Kim Harrison says she believes that the circumstances of the discharge were psychological issues, which should have disqualified him for acceptance into the Army in 2008. Bergdahl says he “faked” his problems in order to be released.
Joins National Guard
0 0 Mark Devlin Mark Devlin1999-01-01 00:05:452014-05-02 23:52:27Joins National GuardGraduates military college
Bashir graduates from the Sudanese Military College and obtains MA’s in Military Science from Malaysia and Sudan.
Joins Sudanese Army
Omar al-Bashir joins the Sudanese Armed Forces, and studies at the Egyptian military academy in Cairo.
First gas attack
After 10 days waiting for favorable winds, the German Army uses chlorine gas on the battlefield at Flanders, the first use of any chemical weapon. After a still morning and afternoon, 5000 gas cylinders are opened at 5 p.m. Under attack from the yellow-green cloud of gas, French commander Georges Lamour calls headquarters:
All my trenches are choked. I am falling myself!
1,200 French soldiers are killed in the first five-minute gas attack and the fighting that followed. Lamour is never found. Once the gas cleares, German soldiers make more progress than they have in months. Within an hour they have opened a gap of more than 6 kilometers (4 miles) with Ypres nearly in their hands. However, the Germans do not take advantage of the situation and do not break through the line.