[Libya Herald] A Benghazi police officer was the target of an liquidation attempt yesterday and his brother, who was driving, was maimed, when an bomb planted in his vehicle exploded.
A spokesperson for the Benghazi Medical Centre, where the colonel's brother is being treated, told the Libyan news agency LANA that he was maimed in the blast. He would now face surgery to both his legs and one of his hands, the spokesperson said.
The device went kaboom! when the vehicle was driven across a bridge near the Benghazi Medical Centre. The colonel, who has not been named for safety reasons, works at Benghazi's Sabri cop shoppe.
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[Libya Herald] Five militia bases have been formally handed over to the national army in a series of ceremonies today. They were vacated by brigades that already fell under Interior or Defense ministries but had kept their internal command structure intact. Prime Minister Ali Zeidan attended two of the handovers and commended the brigades for taking the right step.
The five ceremonies featured the handover of the headquarters of Nawasi, Qaaqaa, Al-Madani and Al-Sawaq brigades and the anti-drug unity, Quwat Al-Rada.
The ceremonies took place during the day with many bigwigs from government and military attending the events. Members of the General National Congress and 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... Local Council were also present.
The two attended by Prime Minister Ali Zeidan were at the headquarters of Al-Sawaq Brigade at the Islamic Call Society centre and of Quwat Al-Rada in Mitiga airbase. Zeidan thanked the revolutionaries for doing a "very big job for the 17 February revolution".
"It is time to take the big step of making Libya a state with the complete rule of law. The only people carrying weapons should be army and police. It is a call for everyone anywhere in the country to take note of today and handover their weapons and bases to the national army. There will be no exceptions," announced Zeidan.
Earlier today, the Qaaqaa Brigade handed over their base in the capital's Fallah district to the Border and Facilities Guard, which comes under the Chief of Staff's office. The brigade evacuated the base with all their weapons to some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location in compliance with GNC Law Nos. 27 and 53.
Jemal Al-Bakai, one of the unit commanders told the Libya Herald that the pull-out would be total, but also said he did not how many fighters were being evacuated. In the event, news hounds saw no more than 30 technicals withdrawing through the main gate. "We aren't leaving any weapons," Bakai said, "We earned them during the war." He added that 60 percent of the brigade were from from Tripoli.
"We are disbanding, " said Bakai,"and some of us are going to join the army. Former army officers in the brigade have negotiated with the Ministry of Defence and will be allowed to rejoin the army with their former ranks. Those who were civilians and became rebels will join the army as training cadets".
The Al-Medani Brigade, already under Ministry of Defense, was the second brigade to withdraw its forces todayand hand over the Yarmouk base in Salahadeen district to the Chief of Staff's forces.
Brigade commander Ibrahim Al-Medani told the Libya Herald that there had been between "four and five thousand" fighters at the base, one of the largest in Libya, but that a lot of them had gone back to their jobs. He said that others might now be joining the army on an individual basis.
Asked why the brigade had only chosen to hand over the facility now, Medani said: "Gharghour was the biggest reason for our decision. We don't want to be involved in the same sort of violence. We have been trying for over a year with the Ministry of Defence , the Chief of Staff and the government to organise the handover without jeopardising the base, by having it taken over by another militia...There was no pressure to move before -- no one could have forced us out". He added that he very much hoped that all other militias would now get out of Tripoli as well.
The headquarters of Quwat Al-Rada (the anti-drugs SWAT unit) inside the Mitiga base was also handed over to the Chief of Staff's forces. The members of the unit have been told to individually join the Interior or Defense Ministries' forces. The commander of the 3rd Infantry Regiment (Liwa Al-Thalat), Colonel Wanis Sahili, confirmed that the army was taking over the unit's weapons and equipment. He also thanked the unit for its extraordinary work in the past few months.
The Nawasi Brigade of Suq Al-Juma also quit its base this evening at an event attended by officials. Here Colonel Sahili asserted that the Nawasi was non-functional from today. He also said that his men had received the weapons from Nawasi and the members willing to continue a security career "would now join the forces individually in a professional way".
The Al-Sawaq Brigade based in Islamic Call Society buildings also announced it was quitting the capital today. Speaking at the handover ceremony there, Zeidan said that he wished a speedy recovery to the maimed.
"After so many people died we had to intervene," he said.
Referring to the general strike protesting the militias that has gripped the city for a week, Zeidan said that since the evacuation of all the brigades from the capital was becoming a reality, everyone should return to work. Addressing his comments to public servants, he said that if they did not end their strike, there would be consequences -- but did not spell them out.
He stressed that no local authorities could make any "sovereign decisions for the country" -- a clear reference to Tripoli Local Council's continuing strike in the capital in a bid to force out all the militias there.
The evacuations meant that the state could assert its illusory sovereignty and start to take control of weapons, the Prime Minister claimed. He revealed that he was going to ask Congress to pass new legislation which would dissolve every militia in the country and forbid anyone without a military ID number from holding a weapon, unless they had obtained a licence.
"Weapons have been at the heart of our problems," Zeidan said. " I assure you that if we stop the widespread holding of weapons, security will improve substantially." He warned, however, that there were "powers" that did not want Libyans to enjoy freedom and security and that people needed to beware of them. He urged Libyans to support and cooperate with the police and army.
The enforcement of the GNC law Nos. 27 and 53 has surprised many in the city. The pressure generated by the calls for protest and civil disobedience by Tripoli Local Council (TLC) leader, Sadat Elbadri, gave a much-needed boost to the government, enabling it to pressure the brigades into disbanding or at least moving out of the capital. The tough stance of the TLC against brigades found much public support and Zeidan seized the chance by calling in the national army.
The departures by the brigades have pleased many in the capital but it remains to be seen if there will any real change on the ground. There are reports already circulating that brigades have simply moved out to farms outside the capital.
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[Al Ahram] An Egyptian police officer was killed in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia after two assailants fired at him from a moving cycle of violence on Thursday.
Captain Ahmed Abu Doma died from a bullet wound near his heart after being transferred to the hospital.
Police forces were able to arrest one of the perpetrators, Saad Gaber, who is now under investigation.
Since the popularly-backed military ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... in July, attacks against army and police personnel have skyrocketed.
The Egyptian government passed a number of "anti-terrorism" decrees on Thursday, among them a request to create special prosecution units concerned specifically with crimes of "terrorism."
Eleven soldiers were killed when a boom-mobile detonated near their bus in the Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday. On Monday, a police officer responsible for investigating charges against Morsi was rubbed out near his home in Cairo.
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[Al Ahram] Militias from a string of Libyan cities have left 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... , nearly a week after more than 40 people protesting their presence in the city were killed by militiamen.
Thursday's withdrawal is a triumph for the residents of Tripoli, who on Nov. 15 held a mass protest against the militias, which have fueled lawlessness nationwide since the 2011 fall of longtime leader Muammar Qadaffy ... who had more funny outfits than Louis XIV... .
The heavily gangs, some of them led by Islamic Death Eaters, have defied control by the weak central government, carving out fiefdoms and acting as a law unto themselves.
Witnesses said the Death Eaters gave their bases to army troops in handover ceremonies before they headed out of the city with their weapons, mostly assault rifles, anti-aircraft guns mounted on pickup trucks and rocket-propelled grenades.
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[Al Ahram] Cairo Misdemeanor Court sentenced Thursday 38 Al-Azhar University students to one year and a half in jail for stirring riots. The students were jugged Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! during festivities with security forces in October, in Cairo's eastern neighbourhood of Nasr City.
The sentence came as dozens of Al-Azhar engineering students demonstrated to denounce the death of a colleague, killed Wednesday in festivities with security forces.
The students gathered in front of the Faculty of Engineering building, chanting against the military, as security was strengthened outside the university campus.
The student rubbed out by birdshot pellet Wednesday in festivities with security forces at Al-Azhar University was a supporter of deposed president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... . Police stormed the campus and violence flared as students threw petrol bombs, bricks and stones at security forces who replied with teargas and birdshot. Sixteen students were also arrested.
The violence came hours after the university administration banned protests on campus and suspended student union activity in response to the turmoil sweeping the university. It also called on the police to guard its buildings and quell student unrest.
Since the start of the university year, Morsi supporters have been organising near-daily demonstrations on university campuses -- particularly Al-Azhar University -- to protest the ouster of Morsi at the hands of the military 3 July, following mass protests against his rule.
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[Osun Defender] The State Security Service (SSS) today in Abuja paraded five suspected 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... members alleged to have planned deadly attacks on Igala, Kogi State.
Among the suspects were Dr. Mohammad Nazeef Yunus, an Assistant Lecturer in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Kogi State University. He was said to be the Spiritual Leader and Coordinator for Boko Haram in the State, and the leader of the gang.
Nazeef, who was born in Idah, Kogi State, attended the Arabic Central Primary School in that town, and El-Kanemi College, Maiduguri. He also studied at the Islamic School, University of Medina, in 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... and served in the National Youth Service Corp in 1995 at Al-Iman Secondary School, Dogon Dutse, in Jos.
Nazeef earned a Masters Degree in Arabic from the University of Jos. Just last year, he earned a Ph.D in Islamic Studies from Kogi State University.
Also tossed in the calaboose Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! by the SSS were Umar Musa (Instructor), Mustapha Yusuf, Ismaila Yunusa, Mohammed Nasir, and Ibrahim Isa.
SSS spokesperson Marilyn Ogar said the suspects were planning to carry out an attack on Igala Land but were arrested at Zuba white mosque near Abuja on their way to Zambisa in Maiduguri for training. They were also going to install Sharia in Kogi State.
Umar Musa (Head of Operations/Instructor) confessed publicly that he was employed by Boko Haram as Instructor after he lost his job with the state teaching hospital, and was taken to the Sambisa camp of the sect for a week's training on handling weapons. He said he was deployed to the education unit of the camp as Munzi (instructor) and placed on a monthly salary of N50,000. He further stated that he and Yusuf later returned from Sambisa and re-united with Nazeef in Kogi State where they plotted to carry out violent attacks in Igala land. He maintained that Nazeef appointed him the Head of Operations and munzir.
Mustapha Yusuf (Armourer/Chief Courier) and Ismaila Abdulazeez (Foot soldier) confessed that that Nazeef was their teacher who teaches them Jihad and Islamic Sharia.
Ogar told newsmen that the suspects will soon be charged to court.
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[Nigerian Tribune] Terrorists, suspected to be members of the dreaded 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... sect, were said to have launched attacks on farmers, killing nine people and setting ablaze over 20 farms about to be harvested in Konduga Local Government Area of Borno State.
Konduga is about 40 kilometres away from Maiduguri, the state capital. It had witnessed series of attacks and bombings by the myrmidons. The most deadly of the attacks in the last three months was when about 50 worshippers were killed in a mosque during morning prayers.
Speaking with the Nigerian Tribune at the Government House in Maiduguri, Alhaji Umar Baganin Laifinka, who accompanied the Caretaker Chairman of Konduga, Alhaji Ali Abbari, to see the deputy governor on the matter lamented the rate at which Boko Haram bully boyz are wrecking havoc in communities in Konduga, saying it calls for urgent government intervention.
Laifinka stated that: "In the last seven days, Boko Haram bully boyz have killed over nine people and set ablaze over 20 farmlands about to be harvested. As I am talking to you now, our people living in Balge and Umba villages behind Kwatan Yobe, have been displaced as gunnies have not only set their farmlands ablaze, but their residential houses."
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[An Nahar] Authorities have jugged Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! four female al-Qaeda suspects in southeastern Yemen as they attempted to flee the scene of deadly festivities between police and jihadists, a security official said Thursday.
The women, three of them Saudis, were arrested Wednesday as they tried to flee a house in Shahr, in the bad boy stronghold of Hadramawt province, the source said.
Al-Qaeda suspects hiding in two houses had shot up police searching the area, and three people from each side were killed, police said Wednesday.
Witnesses confirmed the arrest of four veiled women, who they said were leaving one of the houses with a child through the back door.
The women, who "were cooperating with al-Qaeda," were later flown by helicopter to Sanaa, the official said, without providing further details.
Tension prevailed in Shahr Thursday as government forces set up roadblocks and beefed up security, residents said.
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[Al Ahram] Two Yemeni soldiers were killed on Thursday as they deployed to police a truce between Iranian catspaws and hardline Sunnis in the north, a military official said.
"A mine went kaboom! as a military vehicle passed by, killing one soldier instantly and grievously wounding another who died later," the source told AFP.
The kaboom came as the soldiers were moving in to place themselves between Zaidi Iranian catspaws and Salafist fighters in the town of Dammaj, the official said.
The deployment was taking place under a ceasefire obtained by the presidency and parliament to separate the two groups that have battled sporadically since the end of last month.
Fighting has centred on a Salafist mosque and Koranic school in Dammaj that has been besieged by the rebels, known as Huthis after their leading family.
Huthis have been battling the central government for nearly a decade in remote Saada province, but the latest fighting between the rebels and the Salafists ...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them... has given an added sectarian dimension to the festivities.
Under the ceasefire -- the third since the fighting erupted -- supplies would be sent in to the surrounded Salafists, one mediator, MP Mohammed Ali Mekhlafi, said.
UN special envoy Jamal Benomar has warned that the fighting in Dammaj "threatens the security of Yemen".
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For a map click here. For a map of Michoacan state, click here.
Latest reports are three more bodies were found. And the digging continues.
A total of 12 more dead were found at the mass grave in La Barca in the Mexican state of Jalisco, Thursday, according to Mexican new reports. The additional bodies bring the total dead to 33, so far.
Late last week a Mexican federal search operation aimed at finding two missing Procuraduria General de la Republica (PGR) ministerial police agents, Rene Rojas Marquez and Gabriel Quijadas Santiago, came to La Barca municipality on the extreme southern part of Jalisco state where police found the bodies of 19 unidentified dead.
The dead are said to be members of the Templarios Caballero and Jalisco Nueva Generacion drug cartels which both operate in Michoacan and Jalisco state.
According to the news report which appeared on the online edition of El Diario de Coahuila new daily, officials at the site continue excavation operations, and may find even more dead.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
[Pak Daily Times] Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah on Thursday said an investigation team probing the Raja Bazaar incident had so far identified 28 men involved in the violence on 10th of Muharram.
"The Sherlocks have complete information of the 28 accused, out of which 16 are in their custody," he said, while addressing a news conference at the Punjab House.
He said the accused had been identified through the closed-circuit TV camera footage, forensic and other evidences. He said there was no doubt about their identities and involvement in violence, which took the lives of 11 innocent persons and injured 56 others.
He said the team was continuing its investigations in an independent manner and added that no one would be tossed in the clink Please don't kill me! without evidence.
He said keeping in view the sensitivity of the incident, the Ulema and Mashaikh from all schools of thought should limit their Friday protest to worship places as 'anti-state elements' were out to take advantage of the situation.
Sanaullah said the local administration had been directed to ensure foolproof security at all mosques and imambargahs on Friday.
"The Punjab government requests Ulema to limit their protests within worship places and another opportunity should not be provided to anti-state elements to attack the national unity," he added. Terming the Rawalpindi incident condemnable, the minister said the culprits involved in the heinous crime had nothing to do with Islam and had no association with any school of thought.
Sanaullah said the provincial government had allocated Rs 240 million for the reconstruction of shops and the seminary damaged in the Raja Bazaar incident.
"It is an initial allocation and more will be provided after the report of the Damage Assessment Committee," he said. He said a highly professional team of the Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) would carry out the reconstruction work, which would commence after lifting the debris from the site.
The shopkeepers of the Madina Market had requested to stop the debris lifting process, as they wanted to visit their gutted shops first.
However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... he said the site would be cleared within a few days. He said whosoever suffered financial loss in the incident should approach the Damage Assessment Committee for compensation.
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[Pak Daily Times] KARACHI: Law enforcers claimed to have held around 106 suspected criminals during ongoing-targeted raids and operations across the metropolis on Thursday.
As per details, Pakistain Rangers Sindh apprehended around 27 criminals during different targeted raids across the city.
The raids were conducted in various parts of the metropolis,including Lyari, Abul Hassan Ispahani Road area, 100 Quarters, Gulshan-e-Mazdoor, North 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... , Nazimabad, Frontier Colony, Fawara Chowk, Shah Faisal Colony, Morio Khan Goth and Dak Khana Chowrangi; while snap checking was carried out near Karachi University and Kamran Chowrangi areas. The official also recovered a heavy calibre machine gun, SMGs and huge quantity of mixed ammunitions from the custody of suspects.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the entire 614th quadrant searched. The Green Lensman must be found!... Karachi police nabbed around 79 suspected criminals during 71 raids conducted in various parts of the city. The officials also recovered 30 weapons of different calibres and hand grenades from their possession.
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[Pak Daily Times] PESHAWAR: Bodies of two persons were found wrapped in sacks in Regi area on the outskirt of the city on Thursday. According to police, the deceased were identified as Abdur Rahim and Abdul Wahab and both hailed from a suburb area of Daudzai. They were tortured to death.
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I feel very bad for the Paks
Who must read these incompetent hacks
Imagine the wails
Over missing details:
"Could they please tell us what kind of sacks?"
[Pak Daily Times] At least seven people, including a policeman, were killed and over 40 others maimed in kabooms in various towns 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... on Thursday. At least five people were killed and 23 others maimed in a powerful kaboom in Quetta. The injured included three personnel of Frontier Corps (FC), five policeman, women and kiddies. Police said unidentified people had fitted explosives with a cycle of violence and parked it at Sirki Road. The bomb went kaboom! soon after a security vehicle passed by.
"The blast badly damaged over seven vehicles, including that of the security forces, and shattered windowpanes of nearby markets and a bank," a police official said, adding that 7 to 8 kilogrammes of explosive was used in the bomb that exploded remotely.
He said that the vehicle of security forces was the main target of the bomb. Most of the injured were passersby. The rescue workers shifted the dead and injured to Civil Hospital Quetta.
Later, the seriously injured people were shifted to CMH. One policeman and a scavenger were among the dead. The condition of three of the injured was said to be serious.
Balochistan Chief Minister Dr Abdul Malik Baloch strongly condemned the kaboom and said that those who are committing such acts are not well-wishers of anybody. Meanwhikle, three people were maimed in a kaboom in Chaman town which borders Afghanistan.
Chaman Assistant Commissioner Ismail Ibrahim said that the explosives were rigged to a motorbike which was parked at Eidgah Chowk.
"The explosives were detonated remotely," Ibrahim said.
The injured were moved to a local hospital for medical aid and later shifted to Quetta where condition of one of them was said to be serious.
Also, four corpses dead bodies were discovered from Grog area in Nal Tehsil of Khuzdar and Panjgur districts. According to a local levies official, two of the victims were kidnapped by a group of gunnies from Nal and their bodies were found on Thursday.
The spokesperson of Balochistan National Party (BNP) said the victims were their activists and had been targeted because of the party's political views. Similarly, two dead bodies were recovered from Panjgur District.
The victims had been rubbed out. In another incident, armed bikers hurled a hand grenade in Turbat town of Kech District, killing two men who were said to be labourers hailing from Gilgit-Baltistan.
Moreover, three women were maimed in a landmine blast in Dera Bugti.
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[Pak Daily Times] A US drone strike in the tribal areas killed six people including a big shot of the Haqqani network, officials said, in only the second such strike outside the country's lawless tribal districts.
The missile attack hit a religious seminary that Death Eaters and security officials said belonged to the hard boy outfit -- blamed for some of the deadliest attacks in neighbouring Afghanistan -- in the Hangu district ... Hangu is famous for its greenery, hills, beauty and water. Most of the people of this area are Bangash & Orakzai Pashtuns. Part of the Bangash are Shia. The Orakzai and the Sunni Bangash are determined to kill them... of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... . Haqqani sources told AFP that the network's spiritual leader, Maulana Ahmad Jan, was among those killed at the seminary, which they said was a rest base for Death Eaters fighting NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... forces in Afghanistan.
Earlier this month, the network's chief financier, Nasirudddin Haqqani, was bumped off in mysterious circumstances in a village on the edge of Islamabad. As it usually does after drone strikes, the government condemned the attack as a violation of illusory sovereignty and counterproductive to efforts to end militancy. Thursday's strike was the first time a US drone hit a district inside Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. The only previous strike outside the tribal areas came in Bannu district, a so-called "frontier region".
It was also the first in Pakistain since Pak Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud was killed in a similar strike in the North Wazoo tribal district on November 1. That attack prompted a furious response from Pakistain, with the interior minister accusing Washington of sabotaging fledgling peace efforts with the Taliban and opposition parties calling for a blockade of NATO supply lines to Afghanistan. "The drone strike targeting the seminary killed six people," police official Farid Khan told AFP.
Two local security officials identified two of the dead as Jan and Mufti Hameedullah and said they were both members of the Haqqani network. Several senior Haqqani sources confirmed the death of Jan, aged in his 60s. "He was the spiritual leader and head teacher of the Haqqani network," one source told AFP, adding that Jan was a member of the group's ruling council. "He was receiving people who were coming to condole the death of Nasiruddin Haqqani because followers of were not able to meet any other member of Haqqani family."
Pakistain strongly condemned the US drone strike. Foreign Office Spokesman Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry in a statement Thursday said that these strikes are violation of Pakistain's illusory sovereignty and territorial integrity. He said there is an across-the-board consensus in Pakistain that these drone strikes must end. The front man said the government of Pakistain has been raising its concern over the drone strikes with the US administration and at the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... . He said the prime minister, during his recent visit to the US, had raised the issue with President Barack Obama I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money... and other senior US leaders.
Opposition leader in the National Assembly Khurshid Shah came down hard on the government over the drone attack. "The latest drone strike was on Sartaz Aziz, not Hangu," Shah said while referring to the statement of prime minister's national security adviser in the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs on Wednesday that the US has assured Pakistain that drone strikes will not be carried out during talks with the Taliban. Talking to media, Shah said a drone strike after such a tall claim by the foreign affairs adviser was a challenge for the government as it has cast doubt over the foreign policy being adopted by the PML-N-led government. He doubted if the Taliban would trust the government's efforts for peace talks in the current circumstances.
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[Al Ahram] An Iraqi Shiite group claimed Thursday it had fired six mortar rounds that hit a remote area of northeastern 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... a day earlier as a warning to the Sunni-dominated kingdom.
Wathiq al-Battat, head of the pro-Iranian Shiite group Jaish al-Mukhtar, told AFP by telephone from Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... that the attack was "a warning strike" to Saudi Arabia over its stance towards Shiites.
"We did not mean for our missile to reach a residential area because we value people's blood," said Battat. "But next time, if Saudi Arabia continues the same course, we will go farther, little by little."
Battat also said his men had entered entered Hafr al-Batin, "an oil-rich area and vital to the Saudis" that was the target of the mortar fire.
Diplomats and Iraqi security officials routinely say they do not believe Jaish al-Mukhtar to be a capable militia and do not regard Battat as a credible figure.
But the incident comes amid regional turmoil fuelled by the Syrian conflict.
Riyadh backs the mostly Sunni rebels fighting to overthrow Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... , who is strongly supported by predominantly Shiite Iran and Shiite militias in Iraq and Leb.
Earlier Thursday, Saudi state news agency SPA quoted border guard General Mohammed al-Ghamidi as saying six mortar rounds hit Wednesday "in an uninhabited area near Al-Awja border crossing... in Hafr al-Batin in Eastern Province, and no damage was caused."
Residents said Saudi warplanes were flying over the area early on Thursday and Ghamidi said Saudi authorities were in "direct contact" with their neighbours to identify the source of the shelling and to prevent a repetition.
Okaz newspaper's website said the mortar fire came "from the Iraqi side of the border."
Hafr al-Batin, which also borders Kuwait, was a command headquarters for US forces during the 1991 Gulf War, which expelled Iraqi occupation forces from the emirate.
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The Iraq-based Muktar Army is repor threatening to launch terror ops widin the KSA, + also foster routine insurgency agz Riyadh.
[Al Ahram] A boom-mobile in a packed food market north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... killed 30 people on Thursday as a surge in violence nationwide pushed Iraq's corpse count for 2013 above 5,800. The rise in unrest has forced officials to appeal for international help in fighting the country's worst bloodshed since 2008, just months before Iraq's first elections in four years.
Thursday's attack comes a day after a spate of violence across the country, including a wave of bombings in the capital, killed 59 people and left more than 100 maimed, marking Iraq's deadliest day this month.
The latest kaboom went off at around noon (0900 GMT) near a cafe in a food market in the town of Saadiyah, which lies northest of Storied Baghdad in restive ethnically-mixed Diyala province.
At least 30 people were killed and 40 others maimed in the blast, according to a police colonel and a doctor, both of whom spoke on condition of anonymity.
Saadiyah is populated mostly by Faylis, or Shiite Kurds, and lies within a tract of disputed territory that is claimed by both the central government and Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region.
Militants frequently exploit poor communication between the two sides' security forces in order to carry out attacks.
Most recently, a jacket wallah targeting a group of Shiite pilgrims in the town on November 14, the anniversary of the death of a venerated figure in Shiite Islam, killed 32 people.
Thursday's attack came after a series of boom-mobileings in Storied Baghdad, along with several other attacks nationwide, killed 59.
No group has grabbed credit for the violence, but Sunni Death Eaters linked to Al-Qaeda often carry out bloody attacks ostensibly in a bid to undermine confidence in the Shiite-led government and security forces.
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You would have to wear a turban to truly understand.
But then the bright side is that all the dead were wearing turbans too.
Seven alleged members of the Runda Kumpulan Kecil (RKK) terrorist militant organization were arrested when security officers raided a house in Narathiwat province yesterday.
A combined military and police force raided the house at 2 a.m. after receiving a tip-off that the RKK terrorists militants were holed up there. As the officers called for the suspects to surrender, they fled the house and hid in a nearby rubber plantation. All of the men were eventually rounded up.
After searching the house, the authorities found and seized guns and ammunition, military uniforms, 11 mobile phones, and a motorcycle.
[An Nahar] 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... 's embassy in Beirut has called on citizens to leave Leb because of the dangerous situation, its ambassador said Thursday, after some media linked the kingdom to deadly blasts.
"The Saudi embassy sent a text message to (Saudi) citizens in Leb advising them to leave, considering the danger of the situation and out of concern for their safety," the ambassador Ali Awadh Asiri, told AFP.
The warning comes two days after a twin suicide kabooms killed 25 people near the Beirut embassy of Saudi's regional rival Iran, which is located in the stronghold of Tehran ally Hizbullah.
The text messages sent to Saudis in Leb read: "Considering the security situation at the moment and the media campaign, the embassy advises citizens to return home, and advises caution."
Tuesday's attack outside the Iranian embassy were followed by a stinging campaign in some pro-Hizbullah media outlets against Saudi Arabia, accusing the Gulf monarchy of being behind the blasts.
"Saudi Arabia: losses in Syria and suicide in Leb," read a headline on Wednesday in pro-Hizbullah daily al-Akhbar.
On Thursday, al-Akhbar said Leb had "entered into the era of suicide kabooms," adding that the attackers had "resorted to the takfir ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... i (extremist Sunni) heritage sponsored by the Saudi kingdom with millions of dollars".
Twenty-five people were killed and nearly 150 people maimed in Tuesday's attack on the embassy of Iran, which supports Hizbullah and backs Syria's Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... .
Saudi Arabia supports the rebels fighting to topple Assad.
An al-Qaeda-affiliated group, the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, grabbed credit for the attack, saying it is aimed at pressuring Hizbullah to withdraw its fighters from Syria.
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[An Nahar] Five pro-Assad Jordanian trade unionists were maimed by a roadside kaboom in Syria Thursday as they were returning home after meeting officials in Damascus, one of them said.
Members of the Jordan Writers' Association and other unionists who support the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now... were aboard a bus that "was targeted by a roadside kaboom near the border," Hussein Motawea, head of the delegation, told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"Five people, including myself, were maimed," he added, saying the group had met various Syrian officials during their four-day visit.
"I blame terrorist groups for the attack. The Jordanian government is also responsible because it supports Syrian terrorists," he added, without elaborating.
Officials were not immediately available for comment.
Jordanians generally sympathize with rebels fighting the Syrian government, but some nationalists back the Assad regime.
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Incidents like this will help to measure how well, or NOT, the AFL-CIO + aligned are transforming + reacting, etc. to the extra/post-Nationalism-Sovereignty-Constitutional Age of Globalism + OWG-NWO = SPACE GOVT-ORDER.
[An Nahar] Fighting for a key military base outside Syria's main northern city of Aleppo killed at least 15 pro-government bully boyz on Thursday, a monitoring group said.
"Fifteen members of the National Defense Forces were killed in fighting against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Al-Nusra Front and Islamist groups in the east of Aleppo province and near Base 80," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Both ISIL and Al-Nusra are loyal to al-Qaeda and have played a major role in fighting on the ground, to the concern of the opposition's Western supporters.
The army recaptured Base 80, which had provided the garrison for Aleppo's military and civilian airports, at the weekend after months of fighting.
It was one of a series of setbacks for the rebels in recent weeks around the big cities of Aleppo and Damascus.
North of the capital on Wednesday, fighting raged in the Qalamoun mountains near the Lebanese border, where a flare-up of violence has sparked a new exodus of refugees.
The mixed Christian-Sunni Musselmen area is strategic because it provides a key supply line for rebels around both Damascus and the third city of Homs to its north.
"The humanitarian situation is very bad," an opposition activist in the area told Agence La Belle France Presse by Internet.
"Because of the density of the population here, we fear a real catastrophe."
Thousands of refugees have fled Qalamoun for neighboring Leb in recent days, swamping the small border town of Arsal.
A Syrian military source said there had been fighting in the Qalamoun town of Deir Attiyeh with rebel fighters who had fled the army's recapture this week of nearby Qara.
Troops meanwhile pressed an offensive against the last rebel-held districts of Homs. At least 12 people were killed in the exchange of fire in the central city, the Observatory said.
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[Pak Daily Times] KARACHI: Law enforcers claimed to have held around 106 suspected criminals during ongoing-targeted raids and operations across the metropolis on Thursday.
[Pak Daily Times] A US drone strike in the tribal areas killed six people including a 
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