[Tolo News] Unknown gunmen killed Saifullah, the mayor of Mohamad Agha district of central Logar province on Thursday night after an hour clash at his home, said local officials.
The incident took place after a number of unknown gunmen attacked Saifullah's house in Mohammad Agha and he was killed in the shooting, said Din Mohammad Darwish, provincial governor spokesman.
"Saifullah was hit by a bullet in the shooting and died later," Darwish said. No other family members and his bodyguards were hurt in the attack."
The gunmen escaped after the shooting, he said.
He was the mayor for four years in Mohammad Agha and was also a key member of the Jamiyat-e Islami party, he added.
The police have started investigations on the attack.
No group including the Taliban has claimed reasonability for the attack.
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The number of victims from clashes in Tripoli and Benghazi over the past few weeks has risen to 214 while 981 others have been injured, the Libyan health ministry was quoted as saying by local reports on Friday.
[An Nahar] Libyan border guards fired warning shots Friday to keep back a crowd of people trying to enter Tunisia as they fled the conflict in Libya, a Tunisian army officer said.
A Tunisian official was maimed by a stray bullet at the Ras Jdir crossing, where the incident took place and which was shut after the festivities.
The Tunisian foreign ministry urged its estimated 50,000 to 60,000 nationals in neighboring Libya to leave "as soon as possible" because of violence that has raged there since mid-July.
"The ministry of foreign affairs urges Tunisians who find themselves in Libyan territory to return home as soon as possible," a ministry statement said.
Underlining "the deteriorating security situation in several Libyan cities", the ministry urged its citizens to contact Tunisian consular offices in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... and Benghazi to facilitate their repatriation.
The Tunisian army officer said Libyan guards opened fire to push back hundreds of people attempting to force their way across the frontier.
The interior ministry said the head of national security at Ben Guerdane was hit in the leg by a stray bullet from the Libyan side of the border.
An Agence La Belle France-Presse correspondent on the Tunisian side said gunfire was heard from the Libyan side late in the morning, leading to the crossing's closure.
"The Egyptians wanted to force their way through, and the Libyans fired," the Tunisian officer said. "If they cross, we will fire too."
Tunisian forces fired tear gas at the crowd, he added.
Tunisian interior ministry front man Mohammed Ali Arui said: "Closure of the crossing is temporary."
He said reinforcements have been sent to deal with any further incidents and to stop weapons or fighters getting through from Libya.
Arui could not say if anyone in the crowd had been hurt.
The ministry estimates 6,000 people are stranded on the Libyan side of Ras Jdir crossing.
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[Iran Press TV] Al-Qaeda-linked snuffies in Libya have taken the control of the country's second largest city, Benghazi, after taking over the main military compounds there.
After defeating military units loyal to renegade general Khalifa Haftar, al-Qaeda-linked groups overran an army base in Benghazi on Thursday, seizing dozens of weapons and boxes of ammunition. They also seized military barracks and everything inside the compounds, including tanks, rockets and other munitions.
For months, Haftar was leading a self-declared campaign in the city to root out "terrorists" and "extremists." However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... he was dealt a heavy blow as his loyalists now appeared to be holding only the airport on the city's edges.
A coalition of multiple armed factions established an umbrella group called Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries to fight off forces loyal to Haftar. Among the factions, there is an al-Qaeda offshoot known as Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... , which has declared Benghazi an "Islamic Emirate."
The so-called Ansar al-Sharia, comprising armed Salafis, had been set up during the Libyan Revolution of 2011, which ousted long-time dictator Muammar Gadaffi.
At least 200 people have so far been killed amid violent festivities between rival militias, which erupted two weeks ago in the capital, Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , and the city of Benghazi.
Libya's new parliament, which was elected last month, is going to hold an emergency meeting on Saturday to discuss the deteriorating security situation in the country.
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[Libya Herald] The Tunisian government has carried out Wednesday's threat to close the border with Libya. A partial closure followed this morning's shooting and wounding in the leg of a local security chief and what the Tunisian government has called an attempt to storm the border by "a massive number of people of different nationalities".
The Tunisian news agency TAP has reported that there were "suspicious elements", including a large number of Egyptians without visas, among those trying to force their way past immigration police at Ras Jedir.
According to other reports, in an attempt to restore order at the crossing, Tunisian border guards had gun sex. Libyan guards on the other side of the border, thinking the Tunisians were firing at them shot back, wounding the head of security for the border district of Ben Gardane.
The closure affects those trying to enter Tunisia, not those wanting to cross into Libya, and is expected to be temporary.
The Tunisian government's crisis group monitoring the situation in Libya met yesterday under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa and agreed to help foreigners fleeing Libya to return to their home countries as quickly as possible. Tunisia would be a country of transit, not of refuge, the group said. It also agreed to increase security on the border.
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[Libya Herald] Indian nurses are now part of the latest wave of evacuations from Libya, with 58 leaving the country today by way of the Ras Jedir border crossing. The nurses, mainly from the Indian state of Kerala, are being bused from the border to Tunis and from there fly home to India.
This comes as the Indian government renews its appeals for all Indians to leave Libya. India's Ministry of External Affairs said that more nurses would leave daily for the next three days, although today's group was the largest. So far, only 118 total have signed up to leave.
The Indian government said it is also preparing to evacuate those wanting to leave Benghazi. Plans are being made to send a ferry or ship to Benghazi to transport the Indians to Malta. From there they would be flown to India.
There are approximately 1,000 Indians working in hospitals and clinics in Libya, making up about 20 percent of the medical staff in the country. Filipinos, who are being ordered by their government to leave, make up around 60 percent of medical staff.
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[Libya Herald] Operation Dignity forces last night launched air strikes against what they claim to be an Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... base in Ajdabiya. Air Force Brigadier-General Saqr Geroushi, the commander of Operation Dignity's air forces, told the Libya Herald that his aircraft had hit the compound of a Chinese construction company camp in the town which had been taken over by Ansar and was being used as an arms depot and base for its operations in Benghazi.
According to a source in the town, a number of people had been killed in the raids as weapons went kaboom!. For his part, Geroushi said he did not know if anyone had died or been injured in the assault but that it was not finished. "It will continue," he declared. It was a sign to people in Ajdabiya that Operation Dignity was determined to root out and destroy Ansar in their town, he said.
He also claimed that Ansar had been taking their maimed from the fighting in Benghazi to the hospital in Ajdabiya which, he said, the Islamists had taken over. The severely maimed were then being taken from there to Misrata and flown to Turkey, he alleged.
Genroushi's claim about the hospital and transfer of Ansar's maimed cannot be confirmed at present.
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[Libya Herald] Some 1,300 Korean engineers are to leave Libya and their work on the Gulf power station at Sirte because of security concerns.
The decision was made today at a meeting that included Sirte local councillors and the two contractors, Hyundai and Doosan. Both firms formally asked clearance to remove their staff.
Sirte local council front man, Mohammed Al-Amyel told the Libya Herald that the meeting, included representatives of American companies involved in the project and was joined via a video link by Abdulhakeem Layass, the boss of state power company GECOL. The meeting was also included senior officers from the 136th Infantry Brigade.
It was agreed that the Korean companies could withdraw their workforce. They have been involved in constructing four 350 MW generators, the first of which began to be commissioned earlier this month. Ironically Turkish engineers from Gama Construction, who had been pulled in June out after threats against Turks and Qataris by Operation Dignity commander retired General Khalifa Hafter, returned to the project at the start of this month.
It was agreed that GECOL would take over the final stages of bringing the first turbine on stream. It was unclear this evening if the Turkish employees would continue to work on the project.
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These are obviously South Koreans, as North Koreans will prefer a raging firefight in a waterless desert to going home.
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[Libya Herald] Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... were quick to recover from their humiliating ejection from Jalaa hospital last night by an angry crowd of apparently unarmed protestors. In the early hours of this morning Ansar militia returned to the hospital and retook it after a firefight with some of the new occupiers.
In the engagement an Egyptian woman was hit by stray bullets. Huaida Ahmed Abelsalam was taken to the Benghazi Medical Centre where she was confirmed dead.
Earlier in the day, the brother of the head of Saiqa Special Forces ...Libya's elite army unit, insofar as they have one, formed from a mixture of paratroopers and commandos. The group emerged from a militia with the same name in 2010. It now numbers a few thousand and reports to the Ministry of Defence. It deployed in Benghazi in an attempt to control the carnage. As a result, it has been attacked and several of its officers murdered. The force is popular in Benghazi for its stance against Ansar al-Sharia group... Investigations Unit, Fadel Al-Hassi, was found dead near the 36 Special Forces camp. Faraj Al-Hassi had been shot in the head and body.
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[MAGHAREBIA] A big shot in the Movement for Tawhid and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), known as the "Butcher of Gao" for his harsh application of Sharia law, was tossed in the calaboose ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... Monday (July 28th).
Yoro Ould Daha was apprehended by French forces in Gao, northern Mali. He stands accused of participating in an attack on a French military convoy on July 14th, which left one soldier dead.
Ould Daha is around forty and of Arab decent, RFI reported. A direct ally to the Signed in Blood group of terrorist Mokhtar Belmokhtar (aka "Laaouar"), he headed up the Islamist police in Gao in 2012.
He soon made a reputation for himself in northern Mali for cutting off the hands of many citizens under the pretext of implementing Sharia. His actions caused panic among the population.
But before his involvement with MUJAO, Ould Daha was a simple food merchant, MaliJet reported. He joined the armed movement at its inception.
"Yoro Ould Daha was the most feared one during the rule of MUJAO," said Anara Ag Ali, a young Gao activist. "He had no pity, mercy, or compassion in his heart, especially when he flogged people or cut off their hands."
"I've seen him several times walking around in the streets and people in Gao avoided confronting him," Ag Ali told Magharebia.
"He disappeared when French troops entered the city, and now we feel great joy for his arrest and seek to take Dire Revenge™ on him through the justice system," he added.
Ould Daha was one of the three main characters in Gao during the rule of the terrorist groups, Maliweb reported.
"The arrest of high-level turbans could lead to important information on other dangerous elements, including Laaouar, who is the main partner for MUJAO," analyst Sid Ahmed Ould Ibrahim told Magharebia.
Laaouar has had extensive ties with the Arabs of northern Mali for a number of years, recruiting many local youths into the ranks of his fighters, Ould Ibrahim added. The Algerian even married a woman from the Arabs of northern Mali.
The alliance that the runaway terrorist wove with the MUJAO and its many Arabs from the region was based on trust, the security analyst said.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... in Tunisia for the first time grabbed credit for the deadly terror attacks in Jebel Chaambi and surrounding areas.
The statement released Monday (July 28th) to mark Eid al-Fitr followed the week-end killing of two Tunisian troops. That attack came on the heels of a mid-July assault that left 15 soldiers dead in the same remote mountains near the Algeria border.
The Ansar al-Sharia claim published on a jihadist website was the first for the Tunisian terrorist organization since its founding in 2011.
Addressing the army and security forces, the statement said: "The events that have taken place in the land of Kairouan since May at the hands of mujahedeen positioned in the mountains are the best proof that you only understand the logic of force and only hear the sound of bullets."
Ansar al-Sharia also threatened further terrorist operations in Tunisia.
"If you choose war, you'll have what you choose," the statement added. "We'll exact Dire Revenge™ for our deaders and captives as long as we live; you've already seen and learnt, and there are different cycles in war."
According to journalist Hassan Ayedi, the important thing about the new statement is "the clear claim of responsibility for terrorist operations".
"Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) had already grabbed credit for the attack on the interior minister's home last May, and now Ansar al-Sharia, which has been banned since August 2013, is claiming responsibility for the same operation in which four coppers were killed," Ayedi said.
Ansar al-Sharia "also grabbed credit for Tal Hechria operation in Kasserine on July 17th, in which 15 soldiers were killed, and for the Sakiet Sidi Youssef operation", he said.
"The group's claim of responsibility for terrorist operations was prompted by a truce request that interior ministry sources rejected because the ministry refuses to negotiate with the terrorists," Ayedi explained. "This means that the war on terror will continue."
Kasserine province on Wednesday (July 30th) was in a state of security alert in areas near Jebel Semama as military operations continued to crack down on bully boyz after one of their members was tossed in the clink Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! .
"Military units arrested a very dangerous wanted terrorist as part of ongoing military operations in Jebel Semama in Kasserine province," Defence Ministry spokesperson Lamjad Hammami told TAP on Tuesday.
"The terrorist was handed over to security units for further interrogations and investigations," he added.
The front man said that the Tunisian army also launched Arclight airstrikes against terrorist positions on Jebel Semama on Tuesday.
"Before that, National Army gunships opened their heavy machine guns in the area, directly hitting the terrorist group," he added, noting that "ground crackdowns and combing operations are still ongoing".
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[UK.REUTERS] Two thousand people erupted into the streets of Benghazi on Friday to protest against Islamist forces of Evil and former rebel militias who have been fighting armed forces and taken over an important military base in the eastern Libyan city.
The heavy festivities in Benghazi and the capital Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... over the past two weeks have been the worst since the 2011 fall of Muammar Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years until he was ejected from the gene pool by his indignant citizens... , killing more than 200 people and forcing most Western governments to pull their diplomats out of the North African state.
Fierce fighting among rival factions in the country's two major cities also underscores Libya's fragile control over the heavily armed brigades of former anti-Qadaffy rebel fighters and militias who refuse to disband.
The Benghazi Revolutionaries Shura Council, an alliance formed by former rebels and Islamist forces of Evil from Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... , which Washington classifies as a terrorist organization, have forced the army to pull out of Benghazi.
Chanting slogans praising Libya's army and condemning extremism, protesters marched in Benghazi, the city where in 2012 the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed in an attack on the U.S. mission blamed on Islamist fighters.
"We are here to say Benghazi will not become another djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... ," said Seraj Byouk, a doctor, referring to the Iraqi city which has fallen under the control of an al Qaeda splinter group.
The battle in Benghazi has pitted Islamist forces of Evil and militias against special forces who have joined ranks with a renegade former army officer, Khalifa Haftar, who had vowed to oust forces of Evil from the city.
While Haftar initially gained support from some Libyans weary of bad boy attacks and liquidations, he has failed to make significant gains. Critics dismiss him as a power-hungry, former Qadaffy ally.
There were no sign of the Libyan army, Haftar's forces or Shura Council forces in the city on Friday, and only civilians were controlling checkpoints and organising traffic, a Rootersnews hound said.
The city's main cop shoppe was destroyed by bombs placed inside the building on Friday morning. The special forces base was empty three days after it was overrun, and other parts of the city were quiet.
Mediators including tribal leaders and elders have been trying to negotiate separate ceasefire agreements to stop the militia festivities that have turned the two biggest Libyan cities to battlefields.
Libya's new elected parliament is set to hold its first session, in the town of Tobruk on Saturday. Libya's acting prime minister, Abdullah al-Thinni, other ministers and around 100 members of parliament arrived in the eastern town on Friday.
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[SUNNEWSONLINE] No fewer than five churches have been burnt in some communities south of Borno, in separate attacks by Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... terrorists, an official in the area said yesterday.
The forces of Evil invaded Kwajaffa, Tashan Alade and some communities in Hawul Local Government Area in the southern part of the state on Wednesday night, setting fire to some churches.
A source stated that the forces of Evil had threatened to return to some of the communities and burn down Hawul Local Government Secretariate, an alleged threat which created fears among the people.
The Caretaker Chairman of Hawul Local Government, Dr. Andrew Malgwi, while confirming the incident to journalists in Maiduguri on telephone, said Boko Haram men had been targeting churches in the area, expressing fear that "the council secretariat may be the next target of the terrorists."
He said the forces of Evil had shifted their deadly attacks and destruction to the local government area, which is predominantly a Christian area and one of the three local government areas that had witnessed less attacks by Boko Haram since 2010, when insurgency heightened in the state.
Malgwi appealed to the Federal Government to deploy more troops to the area to forestall possible attacks on other communities in the area and safeguard lives and property.
Hawul is about 220 kilometres from Maiduguri, the state capital, and shares boundary with the neighbouring Adamawa State.
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[ARABNEWS] Nine turbans were rubbed out and one captured in China's restive far western region of Xinjiang on Friday, state media said, the latest bout of violence in a week in which dozens have been killed there.
The official People's Daily said on its microblog that the incident happened in Hotan in Xinjiang's far south, when more than 30,000 civilians involved in a counter-terror operation with police discovered "signs" a terror gang was operating.
"Police and the 30,000 civilians in unison surrounded the terror gang, and nine of them were rubbed out and one detained," the newspaper said.
No police or civilians were maimed in the operation, it added, without providing further details.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: A suspected gangster was rubbed out while his minor son maimed in a gun attack in Kalakot in Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... on Thursday night, the police said.
They added that Rasool Bux, 45, along with his four-year-old son Azan was sitting outside his home in Nawalane-10 when gunnies opened fire on them and fled, leaving them in maimed.
The victims were taken to the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , from where the relatives took away the body of the dear departed without allowing doctors to fulfil medico-legal formalities, said a hospital official.
The condition of the minor boy was said to be out of danger.
The dear departed was said to be an alleged member of the Taj Mohammed, alias Taju, gang, claimed Kalakot SHO Haji Sanaullah.
He said that the incident appeared to be an outcome of infighting between gang members over extortion.
Suspect rubbed out in Hyderi
A suspect was rubbed out and another maimed in mysterious circumstances in the Hyderi Market area on Thursday night, police said.
They added that two suspects were looting people at the Five Star Chowrangi when they were attacked by someone who escaped, leaving behind the two maimed suspects. They were taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where doctors pronounced Umair Hanif, 40, dead while Kashif Amirzada, 24, was admitted for treatment.
Hyderi Market SHO Nadeem Tanoli claimed that a cycle of violence, snatched in the Rizvia Society area on March 23, and two mobile phones, snatched from passers-by, were also found in their custody.
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A young man was found rubbed out in Korangi.
The police said the body had been recovered near a technical college. His hands and legs were also tied. Two spent cartridges fired from 9mm pistol were also found at the scene of the crime, which suggested that he was kidnapped, brought there and killed.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: With their colourful clothes still on, children inside Constable Abdul Razzaq's home were curiously looking at their elders scurrying in and out of their home in Bilal Colony, adjoining the Korangi Industrial Area. On the morning of the third day of Eid, Thursday, Abdul Razzaq, 49, was targeted on his way to the KIA cop shoppe.
More than 100 police personnel have been killed this year. Razzaq leaves a wife and seven children.
Around afternoon, the family were busy packing their belongings and were in a hurry to leave for Faisalabad ...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... , where Razzaq will be buried. His son, who was reluctant to give out his name, was overcome with grief as he said he was sleeping when "my uncle informed me that my father had been rubbed out near the refinery". Before getting into a bus, parked adjacent to the crammed street, his son said he did not know why his father was targeted.
Razzaq's cousin Zahid, living a block away from Razzaq's home, said their family had many coppers and this was a second death in their family within a year. "He was part of an eight-member crime control force constituted by KIA SHO Saadat Butt to clamp down on the sprawling drug trade in the area. This is what they did to him as a result," he surmised quietly.
The duty officer, Amjad, who was the first one to know about the incident, said Razzaq received 11 bullet wounds on his body before he was left to die. "Two men riding a Honda 125 shot him at a bend near the National Refinery at 9:20am with .9mm pistols. By 9:30am we got the information that one of our officials had been seriously maimed," said Amjad, refusing to name the people involved in the shooting.
According to an eyewitness, who requested anonymity, Razzaq fell from his cycle of violence after being shot by the men on another motorbike.
CCTV footage captures shocking murder of Karachi policeman
"The gunnies shot him six to seven times again to ensure he was dead. They made no attempt to hide their faces even," said the eyewitness. Visibly shaken by the incident, the man later refused to testify in court when a police officer asked him to do so.
An intelligence officer said there was a wide network of the drug mafia in and around Bilal Colony, which falls under the Korangi Industrial Area police jurisdiction. For the past five years, three groups have spread across the town, under the patronage of Lal Badshah, allegedly backed by a political party. "The entire strip at the back of the KIA cop shoppe is under their control. Whoever stands in their way is demoted, removed or killed. These groups are run by three men," the officer said.
When asked about the much-dreaded presence of the Taliban in the area, the officer said: "We would have known if they had been here. These people [drug peddlers] operate differently."
KIA SHO Saadat Butt, however, gave a non-committal response on the issue. "We are looking at it from a variety of angles at the moment. We are mostly faced with retaliatory attacks by criminal gangs and Razzaq's case seems like one of them. But we're still investigating." Speaking further, he said: "As seniors we do complain against the rise in killing of coppers. But having said that, I must add, this is the least we can do now."
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[DAWN] QUETTA: Two people including a child were killed in a firing incident in Pashtunabad area of Quetta, the capital of Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... province on Friday evening, police said.
Imran Qureshi, the Superintendent of Police (SP) told Dawn.com that unidentified gunniesshot up a rickshaw and killed its driver. He said a child playing in the street was also killed when a stray bullet him.
The unknown attackers fled away from the scene of the crime after the incident.
Police and rescue workers reached the spot and shifted the dead bodies to Civil Hospital for medico-legal formalities.
"Motive behind the killing could not be ascertained," Qureshi said.
Panic prevailed in the area in the aftermath of firing at the rickshaw. Few days back, four persons of a family were killed during a firing incident in the same area.
There has been no claim of responsibility for the attacks.
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[DAWN] One Frontier Corps (FC) soldier has been killed in a cross border attack at Pakistain-Afghanistan border ...also known as Pashtunistan, home of ignorance, poverty, and automatic weapons... in Mamond Tehsil of Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central ...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth... , military officials said on Friday.
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) has confirmed that the suspected hard boyz from across the border opened fire on the security forces in Kaghi Pass area of Mamond Tehsil, killing one FC soldier.
The forces also returned the fire, but the casualty figure on the krazed killers' side could not be confirmed, said the ISPR statement.
This is the second incident of cross border attacks in the last few days. However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... this information could not be independently verified as the access of media is severely restricted in the region.
Pakistain had summoned a senior Afghan diplomat on Wednesday and registered a protest over the skirmish during which Pak security forces foiled a krazed killer attack on a checkpost on the Pak-Afghan border.
Military sources were quoted as saying that six attackers were killed and nine maimed during a cross-border krazed killer assault in Lower Dir region.
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[Iraq Sun] At least 10 people were killed and 29 injured in kabooms in Iraq's capital Baghdad Friday, police said.
Seven people were killed and 21 maimed when a boom-mobilewent kaboom! near a popular restaurant in Baghdad's eastern Shia district of Sader City, a police source told Xinhua.
Three other people were killed and eight maimed when three bombs went kaboom! in quick succession in Khilani Square in central Baghdad, he added.
No group has so far grabbed credit for the attacks.
Iraq has been witnessing some of the worst violence in years.
The UN Assistance Mission for Iraq said Friday that at least 1,737 Iraqis were killed and 1,978 injured in acts of terrorism and violence in July across Iraq, not including casualties in Anbar province.
Terrorism and violence have killed 5,576 civilians in Iraq in the first half of this year, with 11,666 more maimed, according to a recent UN report.
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[Iran Press TV] Forces of the Iraqi army have launched a counterattack against an assault by ISIL Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... Lions of Islam on a refinery in the northern part of the crisis-hit country.
Iraq's counter-terrorism forces, backed by the army's fighter jets, responded to the attack against the refinery near the city of Baiji, located 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of the capital Baghdad, on Friday.
Dozens of the Takfiri murderous Moslems were reportedly killed and injured in the counter-offensive.
Iraqi officials said the murderous Moslems took their injured to the Baiji hospital where they forced people to donate blood for them.
The refinery has been a scene of fierce fighting between the two sides since late June.
The crisis in Iraq escalated after the ISIL Takfiri murderous Moslems took control of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , in a lightning advance on June 10, which was followed by the fall of Tikrit, located 140 kilometers (87 miles) northwest of Baghdad.
More than a million people have been displaced in Iraq so far this year, according to the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... .
The ISIL has vowed to continue its raid towards Baghdad. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014... has said that the country's security forces would confront the terrorists, calling the seizure of Mosul a "conspiracy".
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[IsraelTimes] The Times of Israel is liveblogging events as they unfold through Saturday, the 26th day of Operation Protective Edge. The US and UN announced a 72-hour truce from Friday morning to be followed by negotiations, but the truce quickly collapsed as Hamas carried out an attack in Rafah in which one soldier, Hadar Goldin, was kidnapped and two others were killed. President Barack Obama led an international chorus demanding that Hamas release Goldin unconditionally.
The deaths in Rafah brought the IDF toll to 63; three civilians have also been killed on the Israeli side. Gazan health officials put the death toll there at some 1,500. Israel says hundreds of those are Hamas fighters. (Friday's liveblog is here.).
Security cabinet decides not to negotiate another ceasefire after suspected abduction of IDF soldier; Palestinian reps still expected in Egypt; Sissi says Egypt truce plan 'real chance' to end Gaza conflict; heavy strikes reported in Rafah as IDF searches for Hadar Goldin
#1
Okay - now that its winding down I have a couple of technical questions regarding the tunnels.
1) was there enough moisture, metal or density difference for the tunnels to act as crude EM-waveguide?
2) If so were tests attempted? One would like to know if a maser or something lower frequency like UHF/VHF/Shortwave could propagate down a tunnel structure first with enough power to sense it's path and second with enough power to damage organic material.
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You get enough 2000 lb. bombs and 155mm HE landing in a small enough area there are mysterious Haliburton types who can read the manufacturer of the shovel that dug it.
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3dc, I like Shipman's approach better. I don't want to just damage Hamas.
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Shipman, I think the approach is limited compared to filling the existing tunnels with a propane-oxygen mixture. Or acetylene or MAPP gas.
Doesn't Israel have welders?
BTW, I also have ideas about how to do the seismic detection; drill some vertical boreholes in a straight horizontal line and put the sensors in each one, so that you have a square array of sound sensors underground.
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I love Rantburg U's practical engineering applications course! Next best thing to Prager University. Perhaps Fred should start video courses, and we could all be guest lecturers...
My own suggestion: ANFO is cheap and makes a satisfying kaboom. I like the idea of acetylene just to ensure that the top walls of the tunnel reach the sun-baked surface of Gazoo.
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Seems like such a needless waste not to use those Hamas tunnels for something.
Snark of the day.
Snark of the week.
Candidate for snark of the month, and the month is young.
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OldSpook - Worked with a guy whose first job in our firm was 1 mile underground Seoul's tunnels watching out for rats and watersnakes while improving the dictator's phone system.
They kept an eye out for encroaching NKor tunnels too.
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Do like Gerald Bull, fill a chamber with propane and oxygen and send a ton sized shell to the moon...
Pump 100 tons of liquid oxygen and propane
down Hamas' tunnel network
and propel the whole Gaza to the Iraqi Levant Caliphate!
h/t Gates of vienna
A Hamas homicide (suicide) bomber near Rafah is suspected in this attack upon the Givati Brigade.
Secretary of State John Kerry found the kidnapping and truce-breaking "outrageous" and an "affront." The EU did not condemn Hamas but "regrets the breakdown of the cease-fire." Egypt has postponed the planned "peace" talks. The United Nations claims that it does not know which side is telling the truth.
However, Hamas may have captured a soldier who had orders to blow himself and his kidnappers up.
The IDF is resolved to avoid giving Hamas the "weapon" of an Israeli captive like Gilad Shalit, an IDF soldier kidnapped in 2006. Thus, Goldin may have not been captured-- or, rather, may not have been captured alive. He may have been under orders to blow himself and his kidnappers up with his own grenade; IDF troops may have obeyed an order to fire upon the vehicle in which the kidnappers were fleeing. Goldin and his abductors may be wounded or dead. Or not. The exact scenario is not yet entirely clear.
But one thing is: From now on, the Hannibal Protocol will be strictly enforced.
Earlier today, Israel Radio military correspondent, Carmella Menashe reported that "the moment it was realized that Second Lieutenant Hadar Goldin may have been kidnapped the IDF engaged in massive fire in the area where the terrorists might be with Goldin." Hamas military wing: Missing IDF soldier may have died during ambush
[Iran Press TV] Israeli forces in the West Bank have rubbed out two Paleostinian men during demonstrations against Israel's aerial and ground offensive on the Gazoo Strip.
Paleostinian officials said Tamer Smour, 22, was hit in the chest in the western city of Tulkarem on Friday, adding some 40 others were also injured by live ammunition and rubber bullets fired by Israeli forces.
In another clash near Ramallah, Israeli forces shot Udai Nafez, 19, in the chest. He later died in the hospital.
Similar festivities also erupted outside Israeli-run Ofer prison in the village of Beitunia.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had a cup of coffee. Even instant would do... two Paleostinians were also detained during an anti-Israel demonstration in East al-Quds (Jerusalem).
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[ARABNEWS] Intensive Israeli shelling killed at least 62 people and maimed more than 350 in southern Gazoo on Friday, medics said, as a fragile truce was shattered just hours after beginning.
The deaths brought the total toll from 25 days of conflict to more than 1,500 Paleostinians, emergency services front man Ashraf Al-Qudra said.
Reporters said an artillery barrage of the city of Rafah prevented medics from recovering the dead and maimed, after the army said bully boyz had resumed rocket fire against Israel.
A correspondent reported fierce fighting in the Rafah area, and Israel's army warned residents to stay in their houses as it "pursued terrorist elements."
Sixty-three Israeli soldiers have been killed in the 25-day offensive, and three civilians inside Israel have died from cross-border rocket or mortar fire.
The truce collapsed only hours after it began Friday amid a deadly new wave of violence and the capture by Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, of an Israeli soldier.
The cease-fire was short-lived, with Hamas accusing Israel of breaking it.
The military also announced that two soldiers had been killed in the same incident near the southern city of Rafah. An army front man said a jacket wallahwent kaboom!.
Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... later said Egypt was postponing the talks after news of the Israeli soldier's capture, but Cairo said the invitation to talk was "still in place."
And Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... said a joint delegation, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, will travel to Cairo Saturday for talks despite the renewed fighting.
Turkey will do what it can to help free the Israeli soldier, but the priority should be the reinstatement of a truce, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said.
US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... , fearing an escalation of violence, earlier called on Turkey and Qatar to use their influence to secure the release of the soldier.
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Kinda funny how they omit the fact that Hamas broke the ceasefire with mortar and rocket fire, and an attempted kidnapping of an Israeli soldier.
Its pretty simple: If the Pelostinians in Gaza don't want the Israelis there, then they need to get rid of the reason they are there: Hamas. Stop supporting Hamas.
[An Nahar] Lebanese security forces have locked away Please don't kill me! a woman in the northern city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... after discovering an boom belt and drugs in her home, a security source told Agence La Belle France-Presse on Friday.
The Lebanese woman, who was not named, is in her thirties and married to a Syrian who is currently in prison in Leb for firing at soldiers, the source said.
She was not wearing the boom belt at the time of her arrest overnight, the source said, adding that the owner of her apartment had also been detained.
Security forces have carried out a number of raids on suspected bully boyz in Tripoli in recent weeks.
Last month, they arrested a Lebanese-Australian Mohammedanholy man with links to al-Qaeda. Hussam al-Sabbagh, wanted for "terrorist activity," was stopped at a checkpoint by soldiers acting on "several arrest warrants," the army said.
Hours after Sabbagh's arrest, police raided the Tripoli home of a suspect wanted in connection with a Beirut hotel bombing in June.
But as they moved in to arrest him, Monzer Khaldoun al-Hassan, a Lebanese-Swedish national, was killed by a grenade he was handling, a security source said.
The source said an boom belt was found in Hassan's apartment.
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[An Nahar] Syrian warplanes raided on Friday several areas on the outskirts of the eastern border town of Arsal, the state-run National News Agency reported.
According to NNA, the jet planes targeted the areas of al-Ajram and al-Zamurani.
Ambulances rushed to the scene to transfer those who were maimed to hospitals, the news agency said.
Arsal, a predominantly Sunni area, backs the uprising against Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... .
The town lies 12 kilometers from the border with Syria and has been used as a conduit for weapons and rebels to enter Syria, while also serving as a refuge for people fleeing the conflict.
The town has seen a massive influx of refugees as a result of the heavy fighting in Qalamoun.
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[An Nahar] The jihadist Islamic State has withdrawn from several villages dominated by a Sunni tribe in eastern Deir Ezzor province after festivities, a monitoring group said Friday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the bad boy group had withdrawn from Abu Hamam, Kashkiyeh and Ghranij, three villages dominated by the Sunni Shaitat tribe in oil-rich Deir Ezzor.
The group said members of the tribe also set fire to a headquarters belonging to the Islamic State in a fourth village and there were reports that the jihadists had withdrawn from a fifth village in the area.
Fighting between members of the Shaitat Sunni tribe and jihadists began on Wednesday, with tribal members tweeting about an "uprising" against IS.
The festivities erupted after IS detained three members of the tribe, "violating an agreement," it said.
The Observatory said the Shaitat had promised IS it would not oppose it, in exchange for the jihadists not harassing or attacking its members.
On Thursday, IS members raided the villages, searching houses and kidnapping or "detaining" an unknown number of people, the Observatory said, adding that fighting was raging.
The Observatory said nine IS fighters had been killed in the festivities, and that the jihadist group was rallying forces from across the border in Iraq to send in as reinforcements.
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it seems to me that isis high command are ex saddam guys and therefore close to syria ie fellow baathists!
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[DAWN] KARACHI: With their colourful clothes still on, children inside Constable Abdul Razzaq's home were curiously looking at their elders scurrying in and out of their home in Bilal Colony, adjoining the Korangi Industrial Area. On the morning of the third day of Eid, Thursday, Abdul Razzaq, 49, was targeted on his way to the KIA 
...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth...
[Iraq Sun] At least 10 people were killed and 29 injured in 
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