[Tolo News] The front man for the Ministry of Interior Affairs (MoI) said on Sunday that eight districts in southern and southeastern parts of Afghanistan are out of central government's control
The ministry declined to disclose names of the districts.
Efforts are on the ground to bring the districts back into central government's control, the front man for MoI, Zemarai Bashari told news hounds at a news conference held in the compound of the ministry.
"There are around eight districts where Afghan cops have no presence. And we don't know who has the control there," said Mr Zemarai.
He said private security guards are not allowed to move around in Kabul.
"The companies can no longer patrol within villages and towns with two or three vehicles packed with gunnies to bother people. This is absolutely banned," he said.
In the past week, 78 snuffy attacks have happened in different parts of the country. He said most of the attacks were carried out in violence-hit provinces including Helmand, Kandahar, Wardak and Kunar.
The ministry said police activity in the fight against narcos has increased 68 percent.
There has been a 50 percent downturn in the snuffys' casualties, while police and civilian casualties have decreased 33 percent.
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Since the government can't do its job, a way around the problem, to prevent the rise of warlords filling the power vacuum, would be for the government to solicit bids for mercenary corporations to keep order in an area.
In exchange, the mercenaries can, under government supervision, levy taxes to pay for their services. And since more prosperity equals more taxes, the mercenaries can also create development operations.
In other words, the government makes a contract with a pseudo government to run the district for a fixed number of years.
Importantly, such a pseudo government would in effect write its own laws, so could create a duty free area that would be very attractive to international business willing to set up a headquarters there.
It would also mean that any serious crime could have a death penalty, with no appeal. Ergo, no prisons.
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Another solution to the eight completely out of control districts is application of Hama Rules. Or the Roman example of Carthage. Or the US example of Nagasaki.
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If you look a the areas that are "out of control" they all are bordering Pakistan. Pakistan and the ISI support of the Talib and fundamentalists in the tribal areas are the problem, along with the Pak's sheltering of terrs.
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Until the Afghanis get a president that is willing to break the tribes and make them heel, they will have these problems. Why doesn't the US still have problems with Apache, Comanche, Kiowa, and Navajo raids on communities in the Southwest? Because the US Cavalry broke the tribes and made them heel.
[Tolo News] Twelve Talibs laid down their arms in northern Kunduz province on Sunday, local officials said
Nearly 12 Taliban fighters Ummm... That's eleven, max...
handed over their weapons to local authorities in Imam Sahib district of Kunduz province on Sunday morning, the provincial officials told TOLOnews news hound.
Talibs have not commented yet.
More than 300 bad turbans, according to local officials have surrendered to government in Kunduz province over the past two months.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... Gen. Dawood Dawood, chief of the 303 Pamir zone, said that in a joint Afghan and Coalition forces operation in Char Dara district of Kuduz, five beturbanned goons were killed, and 7 others were jugged.
During the operation, Afghan and Coalition forces also seized some ammunition from bad turbans, he added.
Afghan and coalition forces have escalated their counter-insurgency operations in the country's volatile regions, in which Talibs have suffered heavy casualties.
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Nobody wants to be on the run in winter. But don't worry, come next spring, they will be on the warpath again, just like "native Americans".
[Tolo News] At least 19 bully boyz were killed in joint Afghan and Coalition forces operations in eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Binny's house in Chitral... on Saturday evening, provincial officials said
In a joint Afghan and Coalition forces operation in Sarkano district of Kunar province at least 11 snuffies were killed, while a group of bully boyz attacked on Afghan, Coalition forces convoy passing by the area, Khalilullah Ziaye the police chief of Kunar told TOLOnews news hound.
Their were no Afghan, Coalition and civilian casualties in the incident, and operation is continuing in some of the villages, he added.
Taliban have not yet commented.
Meanwhile in a Nato Arclight airstrike at least 8 suspected bully boyz were killed and 13 others were maimed in Nari district of Kunar on Saturday night, Haje Mia Hassan Adil, the provincial council chief of Kunar told TOLOnews news hound.
The maimed were taken to a hospital and most of them were Pak bully boys, he added.
Sarkano and Nari districts of Kunar are the most insecurie districts where bully boyz are active.
The Nato and Afghan forces have previously conducted air attacks to target bully boyz in the volatile provinces and have killed a number of bully boys.
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Armed men have seized three soldiers a day after four other troops were also captured in the region in an apparent bid to pressure Sanaa into a prisoner exchange involving Southern Movement fighters.
Local officials said three soldiers had been snatched in Dalea on Sunday, while the other four had been kidnapped in al-Habilayn, and again Dalea, on Saturday.
The incidents took place after thousands of people had taken to the streets of Daleh to protest against a court ruling in nearby Aden on Saturday over the sentencing of Fares Abdullah Saleh to death.
Saleh was found guilty of the twin October 11 bombings of an Aden sports centre that left four people dead.
State media reported that Saleh carried out the bombing for a leader of the secessionist Southern Movement.
In Sunday's incident, the three soldiers, including an officer, were taken hostage at a checkpoint at the entrance to Daleh, said a local official. He said the captors were Southern Movement fighters.
The officer, Ahmed al-Ghithi, was travelling by taxi toward Aden when he was captured, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity. ... for fear of being murdered...
On Saturday, Taher Tammah, a Southern Movement official, said the abductions were to pressure the authorities to free prisoners who had been nabbed ahead of the Gulf Cup football tournament.
The November 22 to December 5 football contest was staged in the south of the country under tight security after the Southern Movement vowed to try to disrupt the tournament.
Tammah said the group seized the soldiers in Daleh and Lahij and "in exchange for their freedom demand the release of their colleagues jugged before the regional football tournament".
Speaking to Rooters on Sunday, Nasser al-Khubaggi, a leading member of the Southern Movement, said: "Those behind these kidnappings are armed citizens who are angry at the detention of their children and relatives in state prisons, among them the man sentenced to death on Saturday for the bombing of the sports club in Aden."
However, The infamous However... Khubaggi denied the movement itself was behind the kidnappings.
Soldiers maimed
In a separate incident on Sunday, a security official said two soldiers were among four people maimed as gunnies fired on a bus at the entrance to Daleh.
Local officials and witnesses also said that Ahmed al-Hashimi, a motorist, had been shot in a residential area of the town.
Residents said dozens of fighters from the Southern Movement were forcing businesses in Daleh to close and motorists to keep off the roads.
Following the sentencing of Saleh on Saturday, hundreds of people protested in Daleh, a centre of frequent anti-government demonstrations, blocking off the main road and burning tyres in the town centre, witnesses said.
Gunmen also fired into the air and vowed Dire Revenge™ against authorities.
Widespread protests have also paralysed al-Habilayn, another southern secessionist stronghold.
Southern Yemen has witnessed mounting violence this year, ranging from separatist ambushes to battles with security forces.
The region, where many residents complain of discrimination in the Sanaa regime's allocation of resources, was independent following the 1967 British withdrawal from the port city of Aden until it united with the north in 1990.
The region seceded briefly in 1994, sparking a short-lived civil war that ended with it being overrun by northern troops.
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[Yemen Post] At least 12 Houthi followers were killed, and 15 others maimed in an exchange of gunfire that erupted between Houthi followers and rustics in Sa'ada Province.
Tribal sources told Yemen Post that the gunfire exchange occurred in Ctaf district between gunnies from Maqash who were guarding Sheikh Mohamed Naser Qamasha from Al-Qamshah tribe, while Houthis wanted to search their belongings, which led finally to the opening of fire between the two sides. Eighteen people were killed in all, while seven were maimed.
Houthi information bureau, Dhaif Allah Al-Shami, said that the U.S. and Israeli intelligence services were behind the festivities.
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[Al Jazeera] Swedish police have announced that they are treating kabooms in Stockholm, the capital, as a "terrorist crime".
Two people received minor injuries in the kabooms on Saturday, the first of which came from a car that blew up near Drottninggatan, a busy shopping street in the centre of the city, Ulf Goransson, a front man for the Swedish police, told Al Jizz.
Shortly afterwards, a second kaboom was heard further up the same street and the body of a man was found on the ground.
"There was series of minor kabooms, causing a fire in one of the cars in the street. Some minutes later, we found a man seriously injured 300 metres away from the scene of the first kaboom. This man died," Goransson said.
Media in Sweden have named a 28-year-old man of Iraqi origin, who they say died in the attack, as the suspected bomber but Swedish police have refused to confirm the details.
"We are opening an investigation into a terrorist crime under Swedish laws," Anders Thornberg, of the National Security Service, told a news conference on Sunday.
Thornberg told the AFP news agency that his Sherlocks were trying to find out if the blasts were part of a broader threat to Sweden or an isolated attack.
"We are trying to find out if something similar is going on [elsewhere in Sweden]. We don't have any indication about that, but we will try to make sure this was a single action," he said.
But he said it was too early to say if the blasts, about 15 minutes of each other, were linked. "We think so but we are still investigating," he said.
Linda Nyborg, a freelance journalist in Stockholm, said there was information saying that Britain's MI6 security agencies had information on the suspected perpetrator of the attack.
"The family has made comments on his death even though his name hasn't been made public or confirmed by police," she said.
Fredrik Reinfeldt, Sweden's prime minister, said it was too early to reach any conclusions and warned that speculation could lead to tensions. "Sweden is an open society which has expressed a desire that people of different backgrounds, who believe in different gods or or no god at all, should be able to live side by side," he said. "Our democracy is well-functioning. Anyone who feels frustration or anger has the possibility to express this in a non-violent way ... This is a society worth defending."
"There is also information about a second man who was seen next to presumed jacket wallah. This is not official police information. So far police don't want to make any comment on the investigation."
Email warning
Fredrik Reinfeldt, Sweden's prime minister, said it was too early to reach any conclusions and warned that speculation could lead to tensions.
"Sweden is an open society which has expressed a desire that people of different backgrounds, who believe in different gods or or no god at all, should be able to live side by side," he said.
"Our democracy is well-functioning. Anyone who feels frustration or anger has the possibility to express this in a non-violent way ... This is a society worth defending."
About ten minutes before the blasts, the Swedish news agency TT and the country's security services received an email warning with a threat to Sweden and its people ahead of the kabooms.
It said the threat was linked to Sweden's presence in Afghanistan, where it has a force of 500 soldiers, and referred to caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed by Lars Vilks, a Swedish artist.
"Our acts will speak for themselves," TT quoted the message as saying. "Now your children, your daughters and your sisters will die as our brothers, our sisters and our children are dying."
The message concluded by urging "mujahidin" to rise up in Sweden and in Europe, the news agency said.
TT said the email was not sent anonymously but the news agency refused to say who the sender was.
The newspaper Aftonbladet cited sources saying the sender was a 28-year-old who had been expressing "extreme views" on the social networking website Facebook.
Police would not comment on a report in the paper which quoted a source as saying the man was carrying six pipebombs, of which one went kaboom!, and a rucksack full of nails and suspected kaboom.
Vilks, who depicted the Prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog in a cartoon in 2007, has been the target of previous attacks.
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[Emirates 24/7] Two groups of kidnappers seized female relatives of a top Kurdish policeman and an Arab tribal chief within hours in and around the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... police said on Sunday.
Kirkuk's provincial police chief blamed the kidnappings in the ethnically-mixed city on the release from jail nearly two months ago of five women linked to Al-Qaeda that he admitted had been a "mistake."
The kidnappers could be aiming for a new prisoner exchange, he suggested.
Late on Saturday, four gunnies dressed in military uniform stormed into the home of Hamid Taher al-Barazanji, a policeman whose brother heads the Kirkuk police's internal affairs division.
The gang handcuffed Barazanji and covered his mouth with masking tape before kidnapping his 25-year-old wife Haifa Abdul Saheb, a police officer said, on condition of anonymity.
The officer added that Kirkuk police believed an Islamist group, Ansar al-Sunna, was behind the kidnapping.
Just two hours later in Al-Abu Mohammed, a village 35 kilometres (20 miles) south of Kirkuk city, a separate group of gunnies entered the home of Sayakh Thabid al-Ezzi, who heads the Sunni tribe Ezza.
They kidnapped both Ezzi, 52, and his daughter Rima, 18.
"Criminals are trying to arouse sectarian feelings in the Kirkuk community," provincial police chief Major General Jamal Taher Bakr told AFP as he confirmed the first kidnapping.
He tied the abductions to the October 28 release of five jugged women linked to Al-Qaeda in exchange for two kidnapped Kurdish sisters, part of a bid to curb violence in the oil city.
Both Ezzi and Barazanji were involved in negotiations which led to the exchange.
"The police cannot exchange detainees for people who have been kidnapped, because it encourages terrorism," he said. "The exchange of the five women who were released in October was a mistake."
Kirkuk is an oil-rich province that is home to a tense and fragile mix of Kurds, Sunni Arabs, Turkmen, Shiites and Christians.
Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region wants to incorporate the bordering province into its territory, a claim which the Storied Baghdad central government rejects.
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[Emirates 24/7] Suicide attacks targeting a police checkpoint and a Shiite Mohammedan procession in western and central Iraq on Sunday killed up to 13 people, including six coppers and a journalist.
The violence comes two weeks ahead of a deadline for Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Nuri al-Maliki to form a cabinet in a bid to end months of government impasse, and days before the climax of the Shiite commemoration ceremony of Ashura on Friday.
In the western city of Ramadi, a jacket wallah detonated a car packed with explosives near Anbar provincial government offices, killing 11 people, including six coppers, a doctor said.
The blast occurred at around 10:00 am (0700 GMT) at a police checkpoint in the centre of the city, 100 kilometres (60 miles) west of Storied Baghdad, and left 41 people maimed, according to police Major Rahim Zabin and a doctor at Ramadi hospital.
"A suicide car boom targeted a police checkpoint in the centre of the city, about 200 metres (yards) from the Anbar government offices," Zabin said.
A doctor at Ramadi hospital, who spoke on condition of anonymity, put the toll at 11 dead and 41 maimed.
Among the dead were six police and a cameraman for local satellite television channel al-Anbar TV, 24-year-old Omar Rassim al-Qaisi. A woman was also killed in the blast, while women and kiddies were among the maimed.
Zabin, however, put the corpse count at eight, including the six police.
Ramadi is the capital of predominantly Sunni Arab Anbar province, Iraq's biggest by area.
Both the city and the province were a key Sunni Islamic myrmidon base in the years after the US-led invasion in 2003, but since 2006 local tribes have sided with the US military and day-to-day violence has dropped dramatically.
Major attacks do still take place, however.
On February 18, a jacket wallah killed 10 people, including four coppers and a young girl, and maimed 15 in an attack on a checkpoint near the city's provincial government offices.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... in the ethnically-mixed city of Baquba, capital of Diyala province to Storied Baghdad's north, two people were killed and three others maimed when a jacket wallah detonated his explosives-laden vest near a Shiite Mohammedan procession, according to police Major Furat al-Dulaimi.
It came as Shiites from around the world descend on Iraq for the commemoration of Ashura, which marks the slaying of the revered Imam Hussein by the armies of the Sunni caliph Yazid in 680.
Every day, thousands of pilgrims, many of them from Iran and other countries with large Shiite populations, visit Karbala and Iraq's other major Shiite shrines in Samarra, Najaf and Storied Baghdad.
That number rises dramatically for Ashura as millions of pilgrims travel -- many on foot -- to Karbala, the home of shrines to Imam Hussein and his half-brother Imam Abbas.
According to the calculations of Iraq's top Shiite holy man Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Ashura is to climax this year on December 17.
Though attacks remain common, violence has dropped dramatically since its peak in 2006 and 2007 -- the number of people killed in violence across Iraq last month was the lowest in a year for the second month running.
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SALAH AL-DIN / Aswat al-Iraq: The Balad district police seized and defused a car bomb after shooting and wounding its driver on Sunday, according to a security source in Salah al-Din province.
A suicide bomber was planning to detonate his car rigged with explosives in the area of al-Mahatta, (5 km) northern Balad, but policemen opened fire and wounded him, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The police arrested the man and seized and dismantled the explosive vehicle, the source added.
He noted that the operation relied on intelligence tip-offs about plans to target the area with a car bomb. A force from Balad district police set an ambush and successfully seized it. Bomb squad personnel later managed to defuse it.
The source added that the wounded bomber is now receiving treatment at the emergency war of Balad Hospital.
Tikrit, the capital city of the province of Salah al-Din, lies 175 km north of Baghdad.
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NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: The federal police in Ninewa captured three wanted men in western Mosul city on Sunday, according to a security source.
The three persons were arrested in Tal al-Rimman area, western Mosul, in accordance with Article 4 of the law on terrorism on charges of planting improvised explosive devices and attacking security forces, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
He did not give further details.
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(KUNA) -- An Israeli soldier was maimed and two Paleostinians were killed last night in an armed clash that occured at the borderline between Israel and Gazoo Strip, Israeli army said Sunday.
The Israeli radio quoted the army front man as saying that the Israeli soldier was maimed and was transported to Soroka Medical Center, south of Israel, to receive medical care.
"Israeli-Paleostinian festivities took place after the latter tried to sneak into Israeli territories through a security fence surrounding Gazoo," he noted.
Paleostinian security and medical sources, in Gazoo, denied the death of any Paleostinians during last night's clash.
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(KUNA) -- Paleostinian Islamic Jihad's military wing, Al-Quds Brigades, announced on Sunday its responsibility for firing several mortar shells at Israeli military post east of Gazoo city.
The fighters have targeted and fired three mortar shells at Nahal Oz, an Israeli military post near Shijaia neighborhood east of Gazoo city, said Al-Quds Brigades in a statement of which KUNA received a copy.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the military wing for the Paleostinian Popular Liberation Front claimed the responsibility on bombarding Israeli Special Forces with mortar shells, according to Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades statement, which KUNA received a copy.
The attack was in honor of marking the 43rd anniversary of the brigade as well as a response to Israeli actions, according to statement.
The unit tank fired four mortar shells at Israeli Special forces trying to infiltrate Shijaia neighborhood, it added.
In a related context, Israeli forces opened fire towards Paleostinian homes in Bureij refugee camp in central Gazoo Strip.
Intense festivities broke between various Paleostinian factions and Israeli forces, local witnesses added.
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A man and his mother-in-law were killed in a drive-by shooting in Narathiwat province.
After Abdullah Mayeng, 47, took his mother-in-law Jehyae Rawning, 62, to a hospital by motorcycle yesterday afternoon and the two were attacked by two gunmen on a motorcycle while returning home. The pillion rider fired shots at them before speeding away. Abdullah was hit three times and Jehyae was shot twice. Both died at the scene.
Police believe the assailants were terrorists separatist insurgents.
Another terrorist suspected militant was gunned down at his home by two men thought by police to be fellow terrorists insurgents. The dead man has been identified as Sakaree Samae, 37.
The attackers, using M16 assault rifles, raided his house on Saturday morning. They called out the victim's name and fired four shots at him when he appeared, said the local police. He died on the way to hospital.
Security officers have identified three terrorists suspected insurgents who ambushed a security patrol, killing a paramilitary ranger, in Yala on Saturday. The suspects are Dawha Samae, Mana Sae-ngae and Daewae Dasaw-taladae. They are thought to be members of the militant group headed by Abdulraumae Mini, a leading member of the Runda Kumpulan Kecil (RKK) separatist movement.
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[Tolo News] Twelve Talibs laid down their arms in northern Kunduz province on Sunday, local officials said
[Tolo News] At least 19 
[Yemen Post] At least 12 Houthi followers were killed, and 15 others 
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NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: The federal police in Ninewa captured three wanted men in western Mosul city on Sunday, according to a security source.
