LVG On Crushing Manchester Defeat: How Is It Possible

The Red Devils twice led by two goals against
Leicester City but conceded four times in the
second-half as Nigel Pearson's men roared back
to claim a famous win
Louis van Gaal believes Manchester United’s
inability to keep possession was their “main
mistake” in Sunday’s 5-3 defeat to Leicester City
United twice led by two at the King Power
Stadium but four second-half strikes from Nigel
Pearson's side saw them roar back to claim a
famous win after an eight-goal thriller.
The result leaves the Red Devils languishing in
13th in the Premier League having taken just five
points from their first five matches and after the
match Van Gaal admitted his team's collapse
was unacceptable.
"We had complete control,” the Dutchman told
reporters.
“How is it possible that you give this game away
Leicester has proved already in former games tha
they have strong character. But when it's 1-3 an
you can play the game with more possession unt
the 90 minutes, then you cannot do these kind of
things.
“It's always possible in football. I have [had] a
long career so I have [had] this experience in
Barcelona once already. You cannot imagine [it],
but it happens.
"I don't want to criticise personal errors because
that happens in a game. We didn't keep the ball
in possession, that was our main mistake I
believe. We created a lot of chances.
“We make fantastic goals. That's a plus, but we
lost the game, that's the most important thing s
you cannot be happy because of the first part."

4 killed in Boko Haram attack in Cameroon

Yaounde - Four civilians were killed in the remote
north of Cameroon in a cross-border attack by
Boko Haram militants, according to state radio.
Boko Haram has made several incursions into the
hilly jungle region of neighbouring Cameroon in
recent months. Cameroon has deployed troops to
the border in an attempt to repel them.
The militants launched their first assault in the
early evening on Thursday in the village of
Assighassia near the city of Mokolo.
Cameroon's army responded, and two of the
militants were killed and a Cameroonian soldier
injured, state-run Cameroon Radio Television
reported late on Friday.
"Two hours later, the terrorist group again
attacked the village of Ganse, also close to
Mokolo, and killed four civilians."
Officials in the defence ministry said on Saturday
they had been informed of the clashes and were
seeking to confirm the details.
More than 40 000 people have fled to Cameroon
to escape Boko Haram attacks in northern
Nigeria, according to the UN refugee agency
UNHCR, leaving behind few but the elderly and
the disabled in their villages across the border.
But once over the border they are still not safe
and UNHCR is seeking to transfer many of them
to a refugee camp further from the frontier at
Minawao.
Foncha Ngeh, a businessman based in
Cameroon's northern hub of Maroua, said that
hundreds of people were fleeing from isolated
border villages in Cameroon to bigger towns and
cities in search of safety.
Boko Haram have killed hundreds of people this
year, mostly in northeastern Nigeria, although
they have launched attacks across the country.

“Costa doesn’t want trouble, he is looking for goals” – Mourinho

Jose Mourinho has leapt to the Diego Costa’s
defence, insisting that the striker is looking for
goals, not trouble.
Costa has settled in quickly in England, scoring
seven times in his first four Premier League
matches. But the £32million summer signing from
Atletico Madrid, has also earned a reputation for
being feisty and combative.
“This is a completely fake point,” Mourinho
insisted.

Boko Haram 'kill several' as they loot market

Kano - Boko Haram gunmen stormed a crowded
market in Borno State, killing several people and
carting away food, witnesses said on Saturday.
Dressed in military and police uniforms, dozens of
insurgents attacked the town of Mainok, 56
kilometres outside Maiduguri, the state capital
late Thursday, firing a rocket-propelled grenade
and spraying the market with bullets.
The attackers also looted food which they loaded
onto trucks abandoned by fleeing traders,
witnesses said.
"They struck around 13:30 during peak hours by
first firing a rocket-propelled grenade at the
market before opening fire on traders", Salman
Lawan, a trader who witnessed the carnage told
AFP.
"They killed several people in the attack but it is
difficult to give a precise figure," said Lawan who
fled to Maiduguri following the attack.
Another trader Modu Kachalla, who gave a similar
account, said the insurgents were looking for
cash and food.
"They robbed traders of cash and loaded food
into trucks they seized at the market before
fleeing into the bush," he said.
"The market was full... when the Boko Haram
gunmen attacked which explained the high
casualties," he said.
"The attackers killed many people at the market
but it is difficult to give a toll because everybody
fled to save their lives," said Ibrahim Kolo,
another witness.
Boko Haram, which has seized swathes of
territory in Borno and in neighbouring Yobe and
Adamawa states, has been running short of food
in the areas they have taken, according to
residents.
On Wednesday the insurgents ambushed a truck
carrying grain to Maiduguri outside the nearby
village of Ngamdu and looted it before setting it
on fire, they said.
The news of the attack on the market was slow
to emerge due to disruption in phone services in
the region on Friday. Telecoms services were only
restored on Saturday.
Mainok has suffered repeated attacks by Boko
Haram, which wants to impose a hardline Islamic
state in the mainly Muslim north.
In February scores were killed there and many
homes destroyed by the extremists.
Their insurgency has claimed more than 10 000
lives since 2009 and left more than 700 000
homeless.
The military has come under increasing pressure
as the Islamists have captured more territory in
the volatile northeast in recent weeks.

Inside The Mind Of An ISIS Fighter

To the outside world, they're a force of
ruthless yet mysterious insurgents bent on
terrorizing civilians and expanding Islamist rule.
But as one former ISIS fighter tells CNN, the
mentality goes much deeper.
"The main and principal goal of the Islamic State
that they tell their new members is to establish
an Islamic state that will encompass the Arab
world," the man said in Turkey. "And after that,
we go to other countries."
Just two weeks ago, the man was in Raqqa, the
ISIS stronghold in northern Syria. Like many cities
across Syria and Iraq, Raqqa has been overrun by
ISIS militants who show no mercy for those who
don't follow their hard line.
Crucifixions and public executions take
place virtually every day. Women not
fully covered in niqabs are lashed with
alarming frequency.
Even store owners who leave their
shops open during times of prayer can
get beaten or sent to prison.
The former insurgent, in his 20s, left
ISIS two weeks ago because he said
the group is "spreading injustice in the
name of justice."
But he still agrees with the ideology of
the group that is forcing its beliefs on
everyday life, including in education.
"Philosophy is prohibited; they
canceled it as a kind of blasphemy,"
he said. "Many subjects have been
canceled, like music and even
sometimes sports. All of them have
been canceled from the school
curriculum."
Perhaps the only thing as disturbing as ISIS'
terror rampage is the growing number of
foreigners joining its ranks.
Thousands of foreign fighters are estimated to
have joined ISIS. And the ex-ISIS militant said
these foreigners could carry out attacks when
they go home, but security measures in those
countries could make it difficult -- at least for
now.
"Since Western fighters joined ISIS, they consider
their home country as infidels," he said. "If they
have a chance, they will carry out attacks."
The United Kingdom is already on high alert,
raising its terror threat level from "substantial" to
"severe" on Friday. Prime Minister David Cameron
has proposed a radical new measure to ban
Britons from coming home once they join jihadi
ranks abroad.
And the United States got a harsh reminder of
ISIS' reach when Douglas McAuthur McCain, a
33-year-old from the Midwest, became the first
known American to be killed while fighting for
ISIS.
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has called
ISIS "beyond just a terrorist group."
"They marry ideology, a sophistication of strategic
and tactical military prowess," he said last week.
"This is beyond anything we have seen, and we
must prepare for everything."
ISIS may have wanted to show off its global
reach by having a militant with a British accent
front the videos of the beheadings of American
journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff.
And that kind of tactic could also inspire more
foreigners, the former ISIS fighter told CNN.
"It is possible that the goal was to project the
image that a European, or a Western person,
executed an American so that they can showcase
their Western members and appeal to others
outside Syria and make them feel that they
belong to the same cause."

Gospel Singer Performs In Church half naked

A photo of a half-naked gospel singer circulated various social media sites recently. According to a Malawian news site, the photo of the singer identified as ‘Only 1 Harmony’ (her stage name) was posted on Facebook by an outraged member of the church. The singer was said to be performing at the Riverside Church, New York, wearing a mesh pantyhose and sequin top. “It is shameful & very appalling that the Pastor of Riverside Church in New York, allowed singer ‘Only1Harmony’, to sing in their church half-naked,” said the angry church member. The church member continued: “As a matter of fact, I don’t call this praise & worship; rather I’ll call it perverted praise & whore-ship. They are just rubbishing the Christendom…if the senior pastor did not see anything wrong in this, what about the associate?” What do you think?

Boko Haram Commander Captured