[All Africa] AN estimated 400 civilians and 160 state security personnel have been killed in the protests in English-speaking regions of Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... over the past two years.
The latest indication of worsening brutality is a video of separatists showing a security man's decapitated head.
The activists in the North West region are demanding independence from Cameroon alleging marginalisation by the government of Paul Biya, which is largely French-speaking.
English speakers constitute 20 percent of the 24 million-population.
"The situation in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon is becoming increasingly desperate with no one spared from the violence which is spiralling out of control," said Samira Daoud, Amnesia Amnesty International's Deputy Director for West and Central Africa.
Daoud said perpetrators from both sides had attacked and killed people or destroyed their properties but continue walking free.
Early this month, armed separatists kidnapped seven students and the head of the Presbyterian Comprehensive Secondary School in the town of Bafut. They were released days later.
Last week, the murderous Moslems attacked positions of soldiers stationed near the town of Buea, causing an intense exchange of fire between them and the security forces.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Sources that are well-informed about the murder of former Yemeni President former President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... and Aref al-Zouka in Sanaa in December 2017 said they were killed by a mediator named Abu al-Karar al-Washli, the website al-Mashhad al-Yemeni reported.
"The Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... official who shot Saleh and Zouka with a Russian gun is named Abu al-Karar al-Washli and he was one of the mediators between Saleh and the Houthis at the time," the sources said.
"They were murdered using a Russian gun from a distance of 100 meters away from Saleh’s residence in al-Kumaim while (Saleh’s) car was leaving along with car which the mediator, the Houthi official, was in, and the latter opened fire after receiving a phone call from Houthi spokesperson Mohammed Abdel Salam," the sources also said.
According to the sources, showing photos of a dead Saleh in Sanhan was in compliance with the commands of Houthi leader Abdulmalik al-Houthi to intimidate the people of Sanhan and his tribe.
General People's Congress official Yasser al-Yamaneen had told the Russian Sputnik news agency that the Houthis killed Saleh and Zouka near (Saleh’s) house in al-Kumaim after General People's Congress officials betrayed him and denied the Houthis’ story that Saleh was killed in Sanhan.
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[DAWN] The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday suspended the death sentences awarded by military courts to three convicts.
A three-judge SC bench headed by Justice Azmat Saeed, issued a notice to the Interior Ministry in this regard.
The three convicts ‐ Tahir Ali, Habibul Rehman and Saifullah ‐ were accused of killing two army officials in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in 2009.
The Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. High Court (PHC) had earlier rejected the convicts' appeals.
The hearing of the case was postponed for an indefinite period of time.
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[DAWN] The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled against the inclusion of Arabic as a mandatory component of the national educational curriculum.
The Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... government had filed a petition with the apex court against the decision taken by the Federal Shariat Court (FSC) to include Arabic as a compulsory subject in all school curriculums.
A hearing in the matter was held on Wednesday by a three-member bench of the SC, presided over by Justice Musheer Alam.
During the course of hearing, the court was informed that on October 22, 2010, the FSC had taken the decision to make Arabic a compulsory component of school curriculums across Pakistain and directed federal and provincial governments to take all necessary measures for progress in this regard.
A letter penned by the principal of Oriental College, Lahore, Zahoor Ahmed Azhar, was converted into an application and a decision was taken thereafter by the sharia court.
The letter had termed Arabic as one of the world's top languages and had also referenced General Zia ul Haq ...the creepy-looking former dictator of Pakistain. Zia was an Islamic nutball who imposed his nutballery on the rest of the country with the enthusiastic assistance of the nation's religious parties, which are populated by other nutballs. He was appointed Chief of Army Staff in 1976 by Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, whom he hanged when he seized power. His time in office was a period of repression, with hundreds of thousands of political rivals, minorities, and journalists executed or tortured, including senior general officers convicted in coup-d'état plots, who would normally be above the law. As part of his alliance with the religious parties, his government helped run the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, providing safe havens, American equipiment, Saudi money, and Pak handlers to selected mujaheddin. Zia died along with several of his top generals and admirals and the then United States Ambassador to Pakistain Arnold Lewis Raphel when he was assassinated in a suspicious air crash near Bahawalpur in 1988... 's decision to declare Arabic a mandatory course from the sixth to the 12th grade.
It had also proposed the use of the Arabic language across various other fields besides education.
The Punjab government's counsellor Qasim Chohan argued that the sharia court did not have the right to make such a decision and that there was a distinction between such matters and those pertaining to religion.
After listening to arguments from both side, the court ruled the sharia court's decision as null and void, saying that such a decision fell outside the sharia court's scope of authority.
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Watch the hands, not the press release.
[DAWN] Reaffirming their intention to stand by each other at all times, Pakistain and Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... have pledged to continue their decades-old partnership to defeat the scourge of extremism and terrorism.
The two countries reiterated the pledge during Prime Minister Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems... ’s meetings with Saudi leadership in Jeddah on Wednesday.
The PM called on Saudi King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Lord of Most of the Arabians.... bin Abdul Aziz and Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and extended an invitation to the Saudi leadership to visit Pakistain at an early date. "The offer was graciously accepted, in principle, by the Saudi leadership," said a statement issued by the Foreign Office.
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[BBC] Pakistain's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts... has been released from prison, two months after he began a 10-year jail sentence for corruption.
The release came hours after a court suspended the sentences of Sharif and his daughter Maryam, who were tossed in the clink Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! shortly before July's general election.
Sharif's Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz (PML-N) lost to Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... 's Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) later that month.
The decision came during the Sharifs' appeal. They have denied wrongdoing.
The car carrying Sharif, his daughter and son-in-law Safdar Awan was showered with rose petals by supporters as their convoy left Adiala jail.
The three then flew to Lahore, where they were met by more jubilant supporters.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) ‐ The Kuwait Embassy in Baghdad advised on Wednesday nationals wishing to travel to Iraq during the month of Muharram to stay away from unsecured roads during their visit.
In a statement received by the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), the embassy guided Kuwaiti citizens willing to visit religious shrines in Iraq to comply with local laws and regulations and not to use unsecured roads due to the unstable security situation in many Iraqi governorates.
It also advised Kuwaiti citizens not to travel by road from Iraq to Kuwait and vice versa and not to stop at rest houses, except when necessary.
Each visitor, according to the statement, should carry an ID card bearing the phone number of the campaign and the hotel’s name, while also adhering to health standards in handling food and beverages.
The statement urged Kuwaiti visitors willing to move to other provinces to inform the owner of the campaign first and get his approval.
It also demanded that Kuwaitis abide by the time set for residence granted to them, which is one month; otherwise they would pay a fine.
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[IsraelTimes] Official denies Israel TV report that claimed the Jabarin family already received an advance, but says there’s no secret ’about our support for our prisoners’
The Paleostinian Authority Prisoner Affairs’ Commission denied an Israeli TV report that the PA sent a multi-thousand shekel advance to the family of a Paleostinian teen who stabbed an Israeli to death on Sunday. But it made clear that the family of Khalil Jabarin, the 17-year-old terrorist who killed Ari Fuld, would be eligible for a monthly salary from the PA once the correct paperwork has been completed.
On Monday, Israel’s Channel 20 reported that the PA had transferred a NIS 12,000 (some $3,300) advance to the family of Jabarin hours after he carried out a stabbing attack at the Gush Etzion Junction in the West Bank, killing 45-year-old Fuld, a father of four and a resident of the Efrat settlement.
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[IsraelTimes] Islam Yusef Abu Hamid killed Staff Sergeant Ronen Lubarsky with stone slab; IDF says home was erected on plot where a building was demolished following attack by Hamid’s brother
Israeli forces issued a demolition order on Wednesday for the home of the Paleostinian who killed IDF soldier Staff Sergeant Ronen Lubarsky during a raid in a refugee camp close to Ramallah in May.
The family of 32-year-old Islam Yusef Abu Hamid was informed that the IDF intends to destroy all four stories of the building, and not just two floors as had previously been stated.
The IDF noted that the home was erected on a plot where a building was previously demolished in the 1990’s following an attack by Hamid’s brother. At the time, the family was ordered not to rebuild the structure.
A military court filed an indictment in May against Hamid, charging him with murder. The Military Advocate General requested that he be remanded until the end of proceedings against him.
According to the indictment, Hamid’s actions had been in retaliation for the January arrest of one of his brothers.
On the night of the incident, the suspect woke up to the sounds of dogs barking and soldiers shouting as they incarcerated I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! two of his neighbors in an adjacent house.
Hamid climbed to the roof of a neighboring home where he chose the heavier of two marble slabs that were waiting there for him. He lifted the 40-pound slab onto the railing of the roof and hurled it down onto Lubarsky, who was standing below.
The suspect then immediately climbed back onto the roof of his home and crawled inside as soldiers tended to their injured comrade.
Lubarsky, from the central city of Rehovot, was critically injured and died of his wounds two days later.
Hamid was also charged with obstruction of justice for efforts to tamper with the scene of the crime hours after the incident.
According to the indictment, Hamid snuck back to the adjacent rooftop and used cleaning materials to wipe his fingerprints off of the second marble slab that he had grasped earlier, but decided against using.
The IDF said that the soldiers had been on a mission to arrest members of a terror cell who had been carrying out shooting attacks. The raid was based on intelligence information obtained in coordination with the Shin Bet security agency.
A few days after Lubarsky was killed, the military carried out a raid in al-Am’ari, in an apparent effort to locate the soldier’s killer. Clashes broke out between residents and the Israeli troops, with 13 Paleostinians lightly or moderately injured, the Paleostinian Health Ministry said at the time. Hamid was arrested in the raid.
According to the Shin Bet, Hamid had been incarcerated in Israeli prison from 2004 to 2009 for terrorist activities committed on behalf of the Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, terrorist group.
In a statement, the security service also said Hamid’s brothers were also members of Hamas.
"Islam’s brothers are Hamas operatives who have in the past carried out terror attacks in which Israelis were killed, including Shin Bet agent Noam Cohen," the Shin Bet said.
Cohen was killed in 1994 when Hamas members shot up his car while he was driving with a Hamas informant in the West Bank city of Hebron.
[AlMasdar] Hezbollah’s Secretary-General His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... delivered a televised speech, Wednesday, on the tenth night of Muharram.
In his televised speech, Sayyed Nasrallah touched on a number of topics, including Hezbollah’s presence and future in Syria.
"We will stay there (Syria) even after the settlement in Idlib. Our presence there is linked to the need and the consent of the Syrian leadership," he said to the large crowd on the eve of Ashura.
The Hezbollah leader then turned his attention to the Syrian Kurds, who he encouraged to abandon the U.S. and negotiate with the Syrian government.
"Your best interest is to negotiate with the Syrian leadership. Washington could abandon you at any price," he said.
Sayyed Nasrallah would conclude his speech by touching on the latest Israeli strikes on several Syrian cities earlier this week.
"The Israeli attacks on Syria are part of the Israeli-US-Saudi fiasco," he maintained, underlining Israel’s keenness that Syria doesn’t acquire rocket capabilities that guarantee a balance of terror.
"The Israeli attacks on Syria had become unbearable and must be stopped," he added.
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And IDF will arrange a land plot for each of you.
[AlMasdar] The US-backed Syrian rebels and their families are set to leave Tanf area in southeastern Syria to the country’s north as per an agreement with the Syrian government.
The evacuees belong to al-Qaryateen Martyrs Brigade; a US-backed and trained rebel group which has been engaged in fight against both ISIS and the Syrian Army.
The group is active in Tanf area where the US Army has a military base.
According to the agreement, the surrendered snuffies shall hand over all their heavy weapons and technical vehicles before the Syrian government can transport them to the country’s north.
[AlMasdar] The United States has sanctioned a dual US-Trinidadian national along with another citizen Trinidad and Tobago over their alleged roles in financing the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) terrorist group in Syria, the Treasury Department said in a statement on Wednesday.
"We are sanctioning individuals involved in financial facilitation to obstruct and deter ISIS* financial operations in regions across the world," Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Sigal Mandelker said the statement, which identified the individuals as Emran Ali, a dual US and Trinidadian national, and Eddie Aleong a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago.
Earlier this month, the US Treasury Department announced new sanctions against four people and five entities, saying that they facilitated petroleum shipments and financing to the Syrian government and accusing one of the companies of facilitating fuel trade between the Syrian government and ISIS terrorists.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Although Yusuf al-Qaradawi ...crackpot Egyptian Islamist theologian. He is best known for his program Shariah and Life on Al Jazeera, with an estimated audience of 60 million kindred souls worldwide. He is also well-known for IslamOnline, which occasionally advocates things like slavery and thumping the old lady with a rod no thicker than an inch, and has published more than 120 books, including Islam: The Future Civilization. Joe has long had a prominent role within the intellectual leadership of the Moslem Brüderbund. Some of his views have been controversial in the West, though less so among the rubes of the Mysterious East, and he was refused entry to the United Kingdom in 2008. In 2004, 2,500 Muslim academics from Saudi Arabia, Iraq and from the Palestinian territories condemned him, and accused him of giving Islam a bad name.... has chosen not to be the supreme chief of the Moslem Brüderbund, he is nevertheless its undisputed leader, taking Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... as a starting point for controlling minds and coordinating positions among the branches of the organization in different countries.
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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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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
...the creepy-looking former dictator of Pakistain. Zia was an Islamic nutball who imposed his nutballery on the rest of the country with the enthusiastic assistance of the nation's religious parties, which are populated by other nutballs. He was appointed Chief of Army Staff in 1976 by Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, whom he hanged when he seized power. His time in office was a period of repression, with hundreds of thousands of political rivals, minorities, and journalists executed or tortured, including senior general officers convicted in coup-d'état plots, who would normally be above the law. As part of his alliance with the religious parties, his government helped run the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, providing safe havens, American equipiment, Saudi money, and Pak handlers to selected mujaheddin. Zia died along with several of his top generals and admirals and the then United States Ambassador to Pakistain Arnold Lewis Raphel when he was assassinated in a suspicious air crash near Bahawalpur in 1988...
...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Lord of Most of the Arabians....
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts...
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
