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Russia acknowledges a missile attack on warship Novocherkassk, which Ukraine claims to have destroyed in a cruise missile strike in the early hours of Boxing Day. Ukraine appears to have come out of Christmas Day determined to make an impact, as they claim to have destroyed another Russian warship, this time with an air-launched cruise missile strike. Russia acknowledged the attack on the Ropucha-class Novocherkassk, a 1980s-vintage landing ship similar in size to the U.S.-made Freedom-class warship, saying that one person had been killed in the strike. Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk of the Ukrainian Air Force thanks his pilots for...

Muzzie/islamist/jihadi blown up on camera from some manner of explosive round. You can hear it arriving just before it hits.

The top ISIS leader in Afghanistan and Pakistan was killed in a U.S. drone strike, Afghan intelligence officials told The Washington Post. The air assault is said to have killed Hafiz Saeed Khan, a former Pakistani Taliban commander who became affiliated with the ISIS terror group in January. At least 30 other militants were reportedly killed in the strike. The paper quoted Afghanistan’s intelligence agency as saying the ISIS leader was killed Friday in the Achin district of Nangahar Province.

MIDI - DANCES WITH WOLVES - first version It is hot here...very hot...it's too hot here I'm al-Zarqawi...I guess I'm dead I had been blown up while in my bed These virgins look like, to my surprise Old Helen Thomas...Allah! My eyes! I hate Americans...all Jews and Americans I hate Americans...they got me and all my best men I hate Americans...infidel Americans I hate Americans...I can never kill again Where is my own Heather Locklear or Pam Anderson Judging by the faces I see, this will not be fun This will not be fun...I have got to run What...

United States Special Forces Operations are said to have blown up an Iraqi Oil Pipeline that delivered more than 200,000 barrels of oil per day to Syria. (at a profit of 2 million a day for Saddam Hussein exempt from the United Nations oil for food programme)The Kuwaiti paper reported on Wednesday that United States forces sabotaged the Iraqi oil line to Syria last week in an operation in Northwestern Iraq.The newspaper quoted United States forces as saying that the forces also blew up a railroad link between Iraq and Syria.The United States sources said that the destruction of the...