MOGADISHU -- A string of blasts rocked Mogadishu on Wednesday evening, Garowe Online reports.
The first explosion was reported from an area near Aden Adde International Airport after armoured troop carriers transporting Somali police forces waded into a minefield. Witnesses said, volleys of gunfire followed the blast as nearby Somali government forces cordoned off the vicinity.
Residents also reported the occurrence of five blasts in several districts. According to witnesses unidentified militiamen hurdled grenade into the residency of Somali Police Chief Gen. Sacid whose home is situated at a distance of few KMs from Sayidka junction.
Bulo Hubey neighborhood, Bakara Market, KPP and Hawlwadag jucntions also witnesses similar explosions.
Nobody claimed the responsibility for the apparently coordinated explosions but Al Qaeda linked Al Shabaab group previously carried out numerous terror attacks including coordinated assassinations, military-style ambushes and car bomb explosions.
Immediate casualties were not reported.
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BAIDOA, Somalia -- Malaq Yusuf Ali Sheikh, a well known traditional elder has been shot dead in Bay regional capital of Baidoa on Tuesday evening, Garowe Online reports.
Local reports say that terrorists gunmen attacked Ali as he left a mosque in Baidoa's Sigale neighborhood where he offered evening prayers. Unidentified terrorists gunmen shot him in chest and fledran away escaped from the scene of crime after shooting, according to witnesses.
Late Ali who is aged 70 took part many mediation processes of resolving inter-clan conflicts in Bay and Bakool regions, sources said.
AMISOM and Somali government forces are co-located in Bay region after Ethiopian troops vacated military bases in Baidoa in July.
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[BBC.CO.UK] Egypt's Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim has survived a kaboom that targeted his convoy in Cairo.
Hours later, he appeared unharmed on state TV to denounce the attack as a "cowardly liquidation bid".
Security guards and a child were among the injured in the attack, which took place near his home in Nasr City.
No-one has yet grabbed credit for the attack. Moslem Brüderbund leader Amr Darrag said the group "strongly condemned" what happened.
Mr Ibrahim heads the police force, which has carried out a crackdown on Moslem Brüderbund protests in recent weeks.
Nasr City is a stronghold of the Islamist Moslem Brüderbund group.
'Foiled murder bid'
The kaboom took place at about 10:30 local time (08:30 GMT) as Mr Ibrahim was being driven from his home to work.
The minister told state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
that his convoy was targeted by a "large" bomb that might have been detonated by remote control.
Two coppers in the convoy were in a serious condition, he added, and a child had suffered a serious leg wound.
There were conflicting reports over the source of the kaboom, with state-run Mena news agency saying a booby-trapped car had detonated as the minister's convoy passed by.
State TV, however, said an bomb was thrown at the convoy from the top of a nearby building just after it left his place of residence.
Pictures uploaded to the internet by witnesses showed substantial damage to a building next to the blast.
One passer-by said the kaboom could be "heard from afar".
"As you can see, cars from the minister's convoy were destroyed and his security people took him to an armoured vehicle that transported him back to his house," he said.
The Egyptian interior ministry said an attempt to assassinate the interior minister by "terrorist groups" had been foiled, adding that his guards had confronted and killed two of the attackers.
"We are back to the terrorism of the 1980s," a ministry statement read. An investigation team has moved to the scene of the incident, it added.
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"We strongly condemn the FAILURE of this attempt."
They'd be much happier if it had succeeded.
All members of the Muzzie bruderbund should be hanged from bridges over the Suez Canal, and everyone transiting the canal given large sticks to beat the bodies with.
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Fred's stuff usually makes me set down the coffee, unplug the keyboard, and take a slow walk. Above was likely the residue of being ironic and listening to 60's hippy music channel.
[An Nahar] A jihadist group on Wednesday poured scorn on the Egyptian military's claims of victories in the restive Sinai peninsula where the army said it launched deadly air strikes on myrmidons.
The fiercely anti-Israeli group al-Salafiya al-Jihadiya, in a statement posted on Islamist forums, condemned "the state media and the army as liars" who "celebrate ... fake victories in the Sinai."
On Tuesday, the military launched what security sources said was its "biggest" air assault on Sinai where the army has been battling a semi-insurgency since Islamist president Mohammed Morsi's ouster on July 3.
The strikes near the Rafah crossing into Gazoo targeted snuffies using the area bordering the Paleostinian territory as a hideout, the sources said.
They said eight snuffies were killed and 15 maimed in the bombing of several villages.
The jihadist group denied the claims.
"The operation has seen innocents being tossed in the slammer Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! and presented as fighters," the group said.
"They film the bombing of homes and present them as dens of fighters and openly lie about the deaths of large numbers of" myrmidons, it added.
The security sources said the air assault also targeted weapons depots and explosives, apart from snuffies hiding in villages.
In the northern Sinai on Wednesday, a policeman was killed and eight others were maimed when gunnies fired rockets at a police bus in El-Arish, near the Gazoo border, a security source said.
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Next time, use napalm. Fewer complaints, and it does a very thorough job. No need for a funeral afterwards, either.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika ... 10th president of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and is currently on his third or fourth term, who will probably die in office of old age... on Tuesday (September 3rd) asked the army to step up efforts to secure the border, four days after authorities thwarted an attempt by a terror cell to infiltrate a district in Batna.
Army Chief of Staff Ahmed Gaid Salah briefed the president Tuesday on prevailing conditions in the country and along the border.
That came after Algerian security forces on Friday killed one terrorist and tossed in the clink Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! two more during an operation in Batna. Another terrorist turned himself in after the intervention forces besieged him at a building where he took a family hostage. A fourth terrorist reportedly escaped.
When the myrmidon took the family hostage, armed services cordoned off the area, deployed snipers on rooftops and avoided a direct confrontation with him for fear of the family members' lives. The terrorist tried to escape before he was surrounded by security forces, prompting him to turn himself in without resistance amid applause by curious citizens who gathered at the scene and expressed their relief over the operation.
The Aurès Mountains in the province are a stronghold for terrorist groups. The province has witnessed several terrorist operations, including an liquidation attempt against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika six years ago. A terrorist group active in the region also carried out an operation in 2003 in which more than 45 soldiers were killed.
The new attack was part of al-Qaeda's attempts to disrupt the security cordon imposed on the border and its main strongholds. Since Ramadan, the province has seen an escalation of movements by terrorist groups who set up fake security checkpoints on some paths and intimidated citizens.
Interior Minister Dahou Ould Kablia said that the Batna operation was "an isolated act" carried out by a terrorist group. On the side-lines of the inauguration of the autumn session of the parliament, Ould Kablia said that the security agencies managed to thwart a terrorist group's plan to attack the province. He noted that the operation took place based on information provided by citizens from Batna.
Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Slats Chumbaloni was staring into a hole that was just .45 inch in diameter and was less than three feet from his face ... Ould Kablia denied any relation between the terrorists' attempt to infiltrate Batna province, located in eastern Algeria, and the security events along the Tunisian-Algerian border.
"The Batna operation carries a lot of indications," military expert Taher Ben Thamer commented. "The first indication is about al-Qaeda's attempt to move its operations from the mountains to urban areas and cities for several factors, including ease of finding accessible targets, especially security personnel, and also the possibility of hiding among citizens."
He added, "Some snuffies rented and bought real estate in major cities taking advantage of ransom money and money obtained by extorting citizens. They can use these houses to hide and plan terrorist operations inside cities."
The military expert said the terrorists' move from the mountains to the cities was in part due to the success of security forces in the groups' traditional strongholds.
"Many of the areas where the snuffies are based, whether in desert or Kabylie, are under siege by security forces and it's impossible for the snuffies to move freely," Ben Thamer said.
Algeria's el-Bilad daily reported that security agencies found a message with one of the snuffies purportedly sent by al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) chief Abdalmalek Droukdel, (alias Abou Moussaab Abdelouadoud) to emirs. The message reportedly ordered brigade chiefs to step up terrorist operations within urban areas and to focus on recruiting new young members for the gangs.
Directly after the operation, the security agencies beefed up security measures in some provinces by increasing checkpoints and security barriers, imposing strict controls and launching large-scale combing operations in the mountains.
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[Libya Herald] The desecration of graves and shrines in Mizdah on Monday night has been condemned by local council members and the Dar Al Iftaa.
Graves and shrines in the Jabal Nafusa town of Mizdah were desecrated and vandalised on Monday night by unknown persons, the chairman of Mizdah Local Council, Abdulhakim Badran, told the Libya Herald.
"One of the graves belonged a Libyan Sufi, Sheikh Badawi, whom Mizdah locals revere," he said, adding that Mizdah locals were extremely upset by the incident.
"The vandalised graves were exhumed and the remains have been moved to a neighbouring cemetery," said Badran. He added that a search for the culprits was now underway.
Office director for the Grand Mufti's office (Dar Al Iftaa), Issam Najjar, told the Libya Herald that it considered "the attack on graves in Mizdah carried out by some groups" to be unlawful in Islamic law. He added that the Dar Al Iftaa expressed deep concern about these acts.
There was spate of attacks on Sufi shrines in number of Libyan towns and cities by gangs in 2012. These included the attempted destruction of the Abdussalam Lasmar shrine in Zliten and graves beside the Sahaba Mosque in Derna. Last month, the ancient Shuwarif shrine in the Souk Al-Juma cemetery of the same name, was utterly destroyed by vandals using heavy equipment.
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[Libya Herald] A retired colonel escaped with minor injuries when a car-bomb went kaboom! beneath his vehicle today in the eastern town of Ajdabiya.
Farag Abu-Halfaya, a former member of the Intelligence Department in Kufra, was driving home after paying his respects at a funeral in the north of the town. The explosives, which had been planted under his car, detonated when he reached the bridge in the east of the town.
Abu-Halfaya suffered minor injuries in the kaboom and was taken to a nearby hospital. An investigation into the attack has been launched.
Today's car-bomb was the latest in a string of attempted liquidations and murders targeting military personnel in the east of the country. Two days ago, a retired Special Forces sergeant escaped when his unoccupied vehicle went kaboom! outside his home in Benghazi. The previous day, Special Forces Colonel Alaa Al-Fitouri died from injuries caused by a car-bomb, also in Benghazi.
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[Libya Herald] It is reported that Anoud Senussi has been released by her kidnappers in the last few hours.
The daughter of former Qadaffy spy chief Abdullah Senussi was kidnapped on Monday after being released from the jail where she had served a ten-month prison term for entering Libya on a false passport.
Contrary to rumours that a large ransom demand had been issued, the Libya Herald has been told by sources close to the Ministry of Justice that no money was involved in her release, which was apparently managed peacefully with the assistance of former revolutionaries.
The kidnapping was the result of a breakdown in communication between the Ministry of Justice and other security forces, the source said. Senussi's release had been carefully planned but, when the day came, a degree of mismanagement meant that things went awry.
She is now understood to be with her family in the south of Libya.
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[Al Ahram] Five Saudis accused of belonging to Al-Qaeda and of plotting attacks went on trial Wednesday in a Yemeni court set up for terrorism cases, the official Saba news agency reported.
The five men face charges of plotting "in association with an gang belonging to Al-Qaeda to carry out criminal acts against members of the armed and security forces in Yemen," Saba said.
They are also on trial for "forging identity documents to obtain passports that enable them to visit Sudan and then Syria," where foreign Islamists have joined rebel forces, a judicial source said.
All five defendants have pleaded innocent. No, no! Certainly not! the source told AFP.
The next hearing is to take place on 11 September.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Activists of Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... and its student wing, Islami Chhatra Shibir ... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh... , blasted at least seven cocktails during a chase and counter-chase with police on Elephant Road in the capital Wednesday morning.
The activists also vandalised several vehicles during the incident, Bangla daily Prothom Alo reports.
Police picked up seven people from the spot.
Around 50 Jamaat-Shibir men brought out a procession from an alley near Bata Signal intersection around 9:25am protesting the government decision to bar war crimes convicts from being registered as voters, said Ripon Kumar Saha, a sub-inspector of New Market Police Station.
A chase and counter-chase ensued when the on-duty police personnel resisted the procession, the SI said.
The marauding activists hurled brick chips targeting the law enforcers and also blasted several bombs.
Police had to fire gunshots and teargas canisters to disperse the activists, said Yasin Araft, officer-in-charge of New Market Police Station.
No injury was reported in the chase and counter-chase.
A staff of Bata Showroom is among the detainees, Murad, a salesman of the showroom, claimed.
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[Bangla Daily Star] A Dhaka court on Wednesday placed Mufti Muhammad Jasimuddin Rahmani, a leader of Ansarullah Bangla Team, on a two-day remand in a case filed over an attempt to kill blogger Asif Muhiuddin in January this year.
Metropolitan Magistrate Keshab Roy Chowdhury passed the order after Detective Branch (DB) Inspector Nibaron Chandra Burman, also the investigation officer of the case, produced Rahmani before it with a 10-day remand prayer.
Rahmani's name was not included in the First Information Report (FIR), but he was shown tossed in the clink Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! in the case on August 13.
In the night of January 13, myrmidons attacked Asif with knives in Uttara of the capital, leaving him seriously injured. He underwent treatment at a hospital for a month.
Rahmani, 43, was also shown arrested in blogger Ahmed Rajib Haidar killing case on August 15.
Earlier on August 11, police arrested him with 30 other alleged forces of Evil when the group was holding a "secret meeting" at a house in Barguna town.
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A total of four armed suspects were killed in encounters with Mexican security forces in Tamaulipas state Tuesday night, according to official news releases.
A news release posted on the website of the Tamaulipas state government said one encounter took place in the border municipality of Matamoros at around 1825 hrs near Ejido Morelos, where a Mexican Army unit observed and traded gunfire with occupants of a convoy.
One armed suspect was killed and six others were detained at the scene. An undisclosed number of rifles, ammunition and weapons magazines were seized as well as three vehicles, described in the news release as trucks or SUVs. The news release hinted that more than three vehicles and seven armed suspects were in the convoy when it initially encountered the army patrol.
A second encounter took place in Nuevo Laredo municipality at around 2330 hrs near the intersection of Bulevar Colosio and Calle Gonzalez in Viveros colony.
Armed suspects traveling aboard a Lincoln LS exchanged gunfire with a Mexican Army unit, according to the news release, to avoid arrest. Army return fire killed three suspects. Soldiers at the scene seized four rifles, 28 weapons magazines and a quantity of AK-47 ammunition.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com. His latest work of non-fiction, The Wounded Eagle: Volume 2 went on sale September 1st at Amazon.com and Smashwords.com.
[An Nahar] South Korea's spy agency Wednesday placed in durance vile Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! a leftist politician accused of plotting an armed revolt in support of North Korea after parliament voted to approve his arrest.
The National Intelligence Service (NIS) took United Progressive Party (UPP) politician Lee Seok-Ki away from his office in parliament after a confrontation with his supporters.
Scuffles erupted as UPP members blocked dozens of NIS agents at the office door.
Police eventually stepped in to end the noisy stand-off which lasted for nearly one hour. Television showed Lee surrendering and walking out.
Some exhausted UPP members fell to the ground or screamed as the NIS agents escorted Lee out.
"I came here of my own will to avoid festivities," Lee told news hounds after he was taken to a court at Suwon just south of Seoul.
He will be held at the court, which had issued a warrant for his detention, pending his formal arrest by state prosecutors.
Rival political parties earlier joined forces to approve Lee's arrest on sedition charges. Without such a vote, politicians cannot be detained while the legislature is in session.
Some 258 politicians voted for the arrest while 14 objected.
Hundreds of police, including riot officers carrying shields, had stood guard outside the National Assembly as the vote was under way, with riot vans blocking roads and a water cannon atop an armored vehicle.
About 200 UPP members had staged a sit-down protest outside the assembly building, chanting slogans accusing the spy agency of fabricating the charges.
Justice Minister Hwang Kyo-Ahn told politicians that in May Lee -- believing war with the North to be imminent -- told his secretive leftist group to prepare for attacks on South Korea's communication lines and railways.
Lee replied that he was the victim of a "savage and irrational witch hunt" led by the country's secret police and fanned by the conservative news media.
"They may jail me for a while but steps towards independence, peace and democracy will never falter," Lee told parliament.
The ruling conservative government had sought to arrest Lee, and the left-leaning main opposition Democratic Party supported the move.
"We'll never tolerate anyone who is willing to fight on the side of the enemy in the event of a war," said Democratic Party chief Kim Han-Gil.
The spy agency last week raided the UPP's offices and tossed in the calaboose Book 'im, Mahmoud! three of Lee's supporters on charges of seeking to instigate an armed insurrection in support of North Korea.
Lee had described those charges as "sheer fabrication" and an attempt by the agency to "block progressive and democratic forces".
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[Dawn] A senior Pakistain navy officer was rubbed out and his Swedish wife maimed in Pakistain's port city of 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... on Wednesday, police said.
The couple were shot on a busy thoroughfare near the National Stadium.
Two gunnies riding a cycle of violence intercepted Captain Nadeem's vehicle and opened fire, killing him on the spot, a local police official told AFP.
Nadeem's wife sustained a bullet injury in the attack and has been taken to a naval hospital, he added.
Nadeem taught at the Karachi campus of the National University of Sciences and Technology.
A naval intelligence official also confirmed the killing.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
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[Dawn] Armed persons rubbed out a member of Tablighee Jamaat and injured three others inside a mosque in Bahrain tehsil of Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... district on Monday night.
Police said that four assailants entered a mosque in Gatt Sar area of Bahrain and opened firing on the preachers after Esha prayer. They said that Mian Jan was killed on the spot while three other preachers identified as Abdullah, Bakht Omar and Juma Gul sustained injuries in the attack.
The dead and injured were shifted to civil hospital in Madyan. The assailants managed to escape after the incident.
Police started the paperwork but haven't done much else against Momin, Noor Wahib, Hazrat Hussain and Muqadar and started investigation.
In North Wazoo Agency, a convoy of security forces narrowly escaped a roadside blast, which led to imposition of curfew in the tribal region on Tuesday.
The convoy was targeted with a remote controlled bomb on main Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... -Dattakhel Road. However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... no loss of life or property was reported in the blast. The security forces defused another remote controlled bomb on the same road. The security forces and political administration set a 24-hour deadline to the tribal people to hand over the accused to them or face stern action under territorial responsibility clause of FCR.
The political administration has also imposed curfew for indefinite period soon after the roadside blast in the area. The educational institutions, government offices and bazaars remained closed owing to imposition of curfew.
Hundreds of vehicles remained stranded on Bannu-Miranshah Road, causing hardships to passengers. The traders also suffered losses as their vehicles loaded with fruits and vegetables were stuck in the traffic jam.
Meanwhile, ...back at the desert island, Bert was realizing to his horror that he'd had only one bottle for one message, and he'd forgotten to include a return address... electricity remained suspended to the entire South Waziristan Agency on the fourth consecutive day on Tuesday after Bakakhel rustics of Frontier Region of Bannu put chains on the main transmission line.
The residents of South Wazristan complained that political administration of FR Bannu and police authorities were not taking action against Bakakhel rustics.
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[Dawn] Eight people, including a policeman, were bumped off in targeted attacks in the city on Tuesday, police said.
They said that Assistant Sub-Inspector Shamshad Malik, 37, was going somewhere on his cycle of violence to collect 'some information' when armed riders targeted him in Orangi-5 near the National Bank of Pakistain. He sustained two bullet wounds in the head and was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where doctors declared him dead. He's dead, Jim! He was posted at the Pakistain Bazaar cop shoppe in the intelligence wing. The victim, father of five, was living in the Pakistain Bazaar police quarters.
Orangi Town SHO Ghulam Nabi Afridi said that it appeared that it was part of ongoing assassinations of coppers.
Two killed in 'sectarian' attacks
A young man was rubbed out in the Gurumandir area on Tuesday evening in what police described as an attack possibly on sectarian grounds, police said.
They said that Qari Siraj Jamrud, 31, was going somewhere on a bicycle when two armed motorcyclists targeted him on Bahadur Yar Jang Road and fled. He sustained three bullet wounds and died.
Soldier Bazaar SHO Raheem Shah said that the victim was a Moazzin in Mehtab Shah mosque. He said that the victim might have been killed due to sectarian reasons. However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... the police were investigating the case, he added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie ducked another tomato... another man was bumped off near the 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... central prison within the jurisdiction of the Jamshed Quarters cop shoppe on Tuesday evening.
They said that Rehan Yusuf, 40, was travelling in his car when gunnies riding a cycle of violence attacked him in Usmania Colony.
He sustained multiple bullet wounds and died.
The victim, a resident of Gulshan-e-Iqbal Block-10, was a religious figure and his murder might be an outcome of sectarianism or some personal enmity, said Jamshed Quarters SHO Humayun Khan. He said the assailants were chasing the victim.
Scrap dealer rubbed out
A junk dealer was rubbed out in a Gulshan-e-Iqbal locality within the jurisdiction of the Mobina Town cop shoppe on Tuesday.
Police said that Syed Ejaz Shah was sitting at his shop in New Dhoraji Colony when four men riding two cycle of violences targeted him and rode away.
Nadra employee killed
A man was rubbed out in the Sachal area. Police said that Zaheer Hussain, 45, was bumped off on University Road near Jauhar Complex.
The victim was a driver in the National Database Registration Authority (Nadra). The motive for the killing could not be ascertained immediately.
Killing in Pak Colony
A young man was rubbed out in Pak Colony, police said on Tuesday.
They said gunnies entered a house in Sindhi Mohalla of Jehanabad and killed, Zahid Brohi, 25. The victim was a donkey cart rider.
Pak Colony SHO Bilal Raza suspected some personal enmity behind the murder.
Septuagenarian rubbed out in SITE
An elderly man was bumped off in SITE on Tuesday.
Police said that Mohammed Tahir, 72, was rubbed out by three men riding a cycle of violence near Zia Morr in SITE.
Area SHO Tufail Ahmed said that the victim's son told the police that someone had invited him for a meeting. He said personal enmity appeared the likely motive for the killing.
Man killed in Garden
A young man was killed in the Garden area. Police said gunnies brought the young man near Kashti Chowk and killed him there. His identity could not be ascertained immediately.
'Militants' killed in encounter
Two suspected gunnies were killed in a police encounter near Kunwari Colony on Tuesday.
Pirabad SHO Abdul Moid said two suspects, aged between 25 and 30, were killed in a shootout between police and gunnies in the area.
Their identity could not be ascertained till late in the night. The police claimed to have seized two TT pistols and as many hand grenades from them. The area SHO believed that the gunnies were involved in the killing of Sub-Inspector Piyaro Khan, who was targeted near Banaras on Monday night.
Robbers kill man
Robbers rubbed out a man and maimed another one upon resistance in an Orangi Town locality on Tuesday, according to the Pirabad police.
They said that four gunnies intercepted a Shahzore truck near Metro Cinema and fired at driver Ayaz and Naeem when they offered resistance. The police said maimed Ayaz drove the vehicle to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where he died during treatment.
Driver killed while resisting robbery bid
Armed robbers killed a young man in Clifton on Tuesday.
The Boat Basin police said that Abdul Hameed, 30, a driver by profession, was intercepted by the robbers near Dr Ziauddin Hospital and when he offered resistance they fired at him and fled. The police said that the victim had gone there to pick up a son of his employer.ts from 'a woman of an institution'. However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... he did not name the woman or her organization.
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[Dawn] The alleged criminal mastermind of a plot to carry out a suicide kaboom in the capital beat feet from his Rawalpindi hideout, sources told Dawn on Tuesday. Outsmarted them, did he? Well, I guess that's why they call 'em masterminds.
Islamabad police on Saturday had claimed to have seized a car laden with 170kg of explosives brought from the tribal areas to hit key installations in the city.
According to sources, the police were tipped off that the criminal mastermind of the terror plot was hiding in Gulshan Dadan locality of Rawalpindi. In response, the Crime Investigation Department raided the locality.
However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... when the police team arrived at the place, the accused had already slipped away.
He was said to be affiliated with Punjabi Taliban.
The police picked a man from the place on suspicion of his link with the criminal mastermind and brought him to Islamabad.
Besides, the police also rounded up four other suspects from the twin cities.
During interrogation of the suspects, it transpired that the accused had planned to hit high-profile targets in the red zone.
The jacket wallah, who was to drive the car bomb, was about to reach Islamabad from Wazoo when the vehicle was tracked down in the city, the sources said.
They also said it was yet to be established which outfit - Punjabi Taliban or Mullah Nazir group of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TPP) - was behind the plot.
Scores of messages were retrieved from a laptop recovered from the vehicle.
"The messages were in code words but majority of them have been decoded," they added.
The messages contained details of meetings held between the accused persons. There were also mentions of the meeting points, including worship places.
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A suspected bomber was killed after an improvised bomb he was transporting exploded in Zamboanga del Sur province in the southern Philippines.
Policemen inspecting the site recovered an improvised bomb assembled from a 60mm mortar and rigged to a detonator and a cell phone, not far from the dead mans decapitated body in Labangan town. The bomb was found at a rice paddy near the highway late Tuesday and safely disrupted.
Chief Inspector Ariel Huesca, a regional police spokesman, said, The identity of the man is still unknown and police are investigating this case."
It was not immediately known whether the man, whose head and arms were blown off, was a member of a rebel or terrorist group. His body was clad in black shirt and a pair of black and green tactical shooter pants.
[Washington Post] Al-Qaeda-linked rebels launched an assault Wednesday on a regime-held Christian village in the densely populated west of Syria and new festivities erupted near the capital, Damascus -- part of a brutal battle of attrition each side believes it can win despite more than two years of deadlock.
As the world focused on possible U.S. military action against Syria, rebels commandeered a mountaintop hotel in the village of Maaloula and shelled the community below, said a nun, speaking by phone from a convent in the village. She spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.
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The Assad Govt will stand up for the Christians more than the Sunni Jihadis will Mr Obama
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The Assad Govt will stand up for the Christians more than the Sunni Jihadis will Mr Obama
[An Nahar] After his release from detention on Wednesday, Sheikh Hashem Minkara announced that Sheikh Ahmed al-Gharib, the first suspect tossed in the slammer I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! over the 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... blasts, has retracted all his confessions, calling for a dialogue conference with Salafist holy man Sheikh Salem al-Rafehi.
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[An Nahar] State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr on Wednesday charged 15 suspects, seven of whom are in jug, for firing rockets at Baabda and Beirut's southern suburbs.
The seven suspects include two Lebanese and five Syrians, said the state-run National News Agency.
But NNA did not disclose the nationalities of the rest of the network's members who were charged in absentia.
The charges against the 15 suspects include forming an armed terrorist group to carry out terrorist activities, and buying explosives in addition to launching rockets toward Baabda and Beirut's southern suburbs.
If convicted, the suspects face the death penalty.
In May, a pair of rockets slammed into a car dealership and a residential building in the stronghold of Hizbullah in Beirut's southern suburbs, wounding four people.
Later in June, the so-called Ballouneh cell was involved in a failed rocket attack on Yarze and the Baabda area.
Reports had said that the members of the cell intended to target the Defense Ministry in Yarze and the presidential palace in Baabda. But one rocket hit a high-voltage power line in a nearby town and a second rocket failed to launch.
The launchpads were found in the Kesrouan town of Ballouneh.
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[Washington Post] The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a resolution Wednesday granting President B.O.limited authority to launch a military strike on Syria in response to its reported use of chemical weapons against civilians.
Acting hours after Obama, during a visit to Sweden, said the credibility of Congress and the international community was also at stake, the committee voted 10 to 7, with one member voting "present," to approve using force against the government of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Trampler of Homs... . The resolution now goes to the full Senate. The House is separately considering a similar resolution.
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An easy decision for those who have never picked up the tab, the cost means nothing.
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I keep hearing on the radio that House Members believe their constituents are overwhelmingly against another "war", but maybe not against a ... what was it called? - somekinda 'kinetic' action? You know, the Libya 'not-quite-a-war' deal.
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I believe most Americans are sophisticated enough to recognize acts of war. The legal parsing and addition of qualifying 'terms of reference' are simply methods used to confuse opinion and devalue intent.
If without warning or invitation, a Russian carrier battle group and five destroyers began steaming toward Virginia Beach, I doubt few would question the obvious intent.
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Fast forward 2.5 years to a hypothetical campaign speech:
"If I am elected the first woman president, I will work diligently with our regional partners to end our senseless involvement in the Syrian-Lebanon-Libyan conflict, and bring our people home".
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Please communicate your position clearly to whichever jackass represents you using this link.
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Sorry, did something wrong with my previous post and the hyperlink didn't show up. Here's the link to contact your local jackass.
http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
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My wife and I walked into our Senator's office this morning and laid it out: instruct the President to put together a coalition, then, with that in hand, make a limited, punitive strike. None of the groups fighting in Syria are aligned with US interests.
[FOXNEWS] Former Syrian Defense Minister General Ali Habib has defected the country and is now in Turkey, Free Syrian Army front man Fahd Al-Masri told Fox News.
Ali Habib crossed the border from Syria last night, Rooters reports, but Syrian State TV claims he is still in his home in Syria.
Al-Masri told Fox News that Ali Habib is with Turkish officials and is in the process of making contact with Syrian opposition figures within Turkey.
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... made mention of the defection during a House committee hearing on Wednesday as the U.S. mulls a possible military strike on Syria.
"Just today before coming in here, I read an e-mail to me about a general, the minister of defense, former minister or assistant minister, I forget which, who has just defected and is now in Turkey," Kerry said. "And there are other defections that we are hearing about... because of the potential that we might take action."
Ali Habib left his defense minister post in 2011 after reportedly complaining about civilian attacks coordinated by Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad's Supressor of the Damascenes... regime.
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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
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[Libya Herald] A retired colonel escaped with minor injuries when a car-bomb 
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A suspected bomber was killed after an improvised bomb he was transporting exploded in Zamboanga del Sur province in the southern Philippines. 
[Washington Post] Al-Qaeda-linked rebels launched an assault Wednesday on a regime-held Christian village in the densely populated west of Syria and new 
limited authority to launch a military strike on Syria in response to its reported use of chemical weapons against civilians.
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