(SomaliNet) The mayor of Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia Mohamed Omar Habeb Mohamed Dhere has escaped from bomb attack onSunday afternoon, witnesses said it is the second time that the citys mayor survived an attempt on his life. A remote controlled roadside bomb exploded as the convoy of the mayor was passing on the road between Afgoyie and Mogadishu.
The mayors convoy came from Baidoa city where Mohamed Dhere met with the president Abdulahi Yusuf over the consultation on who will be the new premier from Mudulod sub-clan of Hawiye clan. There is no immediate casualty on the soldiers that were keeping guard the mayor.
In May, the mayor escaped unhurt from bomb attack which occurred near his car in north of Mogadishu where the security forces killed a suspected man. The attack took place as the mayor's convoy was passing around Sisi Street in north of Mogadishu when a man on the top of a tree near the street threw a hand grenade which exploded far away from Mohamed Dheere's convoy.
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(SomaliNet) Hundreds of Ethiopian troops with tanks and battle wagons have occupied the residence of former warlord Mohamed Qanyare but now in the federal parliament in Daynile neighborhood, south of the Somalia capital Mogadishu mid last night, sources say on Sunday.
Witnesses told Somalinet that they found tanks and truck full of troops rolled into the compound last night. They have made military base in Qanyares residence. The soldiers are moving every where and forced the people to move from there. I dont know why they have settled here, said Ahmed Mumin, a local resident.
The government did not comment so far the Ethiopian occupation on the house of the Mohamed Qanyare. Some reports say the military move by the Ethiopian aimed to prevent the growing insurgents. The Ethiopian army supporting the transitional federal government doubled its military movements against the Islamic militants.
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I dont know why they have settled here, said Ahmed Mumin
I am sure YOU don't know why Ahmed, but i'll bet that Qanyare knows exactly what he did to get his house ursurped...
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(SomaliNet) The traditional council of Hawiye clan in Somalia on Saturday issued a press release stating that the detained spokesman for the council Ahmed Dirie had been handed over to the Ethiopian military officials who then took him to Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.
The council condemned the action of extraditing the spokesman to the Ethiopian government as fuelling the problem in the war-torn country of Somalia.
In the statement, the council also said the arrest of the Hawiye spokesperson was not to tell the facts on ground. The Hawiye traditional council called for the transitional federal government to release Ahmed Dirie who recently had been captured from his house in Mogadishu by the government troops.
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Two more members of the outlawed Harkat-ul-Jihad (Huji) outfit yesterday confessed to having taken part in the grisly grenade attacks on an Awami League rally that killed 24 people on August 21, 2004. Meantime, another Huji activist, Abu Taher, was placed on a two-day fresh remand for interrogation in the case.
Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Shahin Uddin recorded the confessional statements of Abul Kalam Azad and Jahangir Alam Bulbul, the Huji bigots, after investigation officer Fazlul Kabir, also an assistant superintendent of police at Criminal Investigation Department, produced them before the court following a 10-day remand. Details of their confessions, however, could not be known.
The same police official produced Abu Taher before another court on completion of a three-day remand and appealed for another 10-day extension of it, securing a two-day remand.
Earlier Huji chief Mufti Abdul Hannan, his brother Mohibullah alias Mojibur Rahman and their accomplices stated to the court that they orchestrated the attacks to kill Awami League President Sheikh Hasina only. The ghastly attacks also injured at least 300 people. Mufti Hannan was arrested at his rented house in the city's Madhya Badda neighbourhood on October 1, 2005.
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Abul Kalam Azad and Jahangir Alam Bulbul, the Huji bigots
They not only confessed to nefarious deeds, but they are also bigots!
This occurred a couple of days ago on the 13th Nov.2007. I can't recall seeing it mentioned anywhere in the media. Hat Tip to LGF for catching and reporting this important story.
This TSA Suspicious Incident #177, Unclassified but For Official Use Only (U//FOUO), "has many of the elements of pre-operational terrorist planning" according to TSA Office of Intelligence. It was leaked to me earlier today in my ongoing efforts to compile terrorist dry runs and probes on airplanes.
A FFDO (Federal Flight Deck Officer i.e. armed pilot) flying in non-mission status on October 24, 2007, on a flight from Washington D.C. to Milwaukee, identified himself to flight crew in advance of take-off. When flight crew witnessed suspicious behavior by four passengers, they reported the information to the FFDO. The following unfolded:
(U//FOUO) Suspicious Activity Onboard Flight to Milwaukee
(U//FOUO) On 24 October 2007, crewmembers aboard a Reagan-Washington National to Milwaukee General Mitchell International Airport flight reported to a Federal Flight Deck Officer (FFDO) flying in non-mission status that they noticed suspicious behavior by four passengers.
One of the subjects entered and exited the rear aircraft lavatory three times and failed to comply with crewmembers' verbal instructions. The FFDO seated himself near this subject to observe his behavior. Shortly afterward, two more of the subjects moved into the aisles and entered both lavatories. After one of the subjects vacated the rear left lavatory, the FFDO searched it, noting that the mirror above the sink was not properly latched.
He exited the lavatory and a fourth subject was waiting second in line with a passenger in front of him. The FFDO offered the fourth subject access to the right lavatory, but the subject declined, claiming the right lavatory was dirty.The FFDO noted the right lavatory was clean, and the subject reluctantly entered the right lavatory and remained there for an extended period of time. (TSA/SD-10-3849-07)
(U//FOUO) TSA Office of Intelligence Comment: Although there is no information that the aircraft was being specifically targeted for a future terrorist attack, the actions of the four passengers are highly suspicious. FFDO confirmation of possible tampering of the lavatory mirror in one of the lavatories could be indicative of an attempt to locate concealment areas for smuggling criminal contraband or terrorist materials. In this case, it appears the left lavatory was the sole area of interest for the passengers. One subject's excuse that the right lavatory was dirty when it was confirmed to be clean shows the four passengers had a specific, operational objective. Although unconfirmed at this time, this incident has many of the elements of pre-operational terrorist planning.
Source: TSA Suspicious Incidents Report #177
Before August 2006, the TSA refused to admit publicly that terrorists took dry runs and probes on U.S. aircraft (after the London Planes Plot, the White House stated, "we know they do dry runs" and TSA quietly agreed). Unless there have been 177 such incidents in the past fifteen months, one wonders when TSA Suspicious Incident Reports #1-#176 occurred and what information they contain?
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These four "passengers" had better be under 24/7/365 surveillance or ARREST. Sounds like an attempt to conceal and later couple up the ingredients for a "binary" type of ordnance or toxin. Damn all of these terrorist shits straight to HELL.
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I'd like to think that the old "box cutter" ruse isn't of much use anymore. Anyone who tries that route shouldbe able toat bestinflict some sort of substantial wound upon one single hostage before getting their terrorist ass tromped into a fine creamy DEAD lather.
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I goofed on the date as to when this took place. The story was reported on Nov. 11th 2007. , but actually took place on Oct 24th. 2007. I was tired when I posted this story and did not catch my mistake until afterwards. It's too bad it took a month to make it more public.
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There have been several cases like this. I suspect they are trying to discredit security legislation. Actually, doing so would be criminal "mischief." I would arrest them, and try to make a case. I don't like being nervous at 25,000 feet.
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There are all sorts of things that can be done in such cases. It is part of counterintelligence operations. After a discreet report is made by the agent, by the time the plane lands, there should be intelligence personnel ready to do all sorts of things, from planting listening devices and GPS trackers on their luggage, persons and vehicles, etc.
Then for at least a week, they can't do anything without being under intense surveillance. If they meet anywhere, the meeting is recorded, and if it looks like they are about to go operational, they are all scooped up and disappear.
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...and if it looks like they are about to go operational, they are all scooped up and disappear.
I'd prefer they were scooped up and disappeared when the plane lands. They can be reappeared later if it turns out they were just stupid, and not actually doing a dry run.
Fighting between two rival sects - Sunnis and Shias - continued despite a curfew in Parachinar as army helicopters targeted buildings early on Sunday morning, putting the death toll at 86 with 150 injured, according to security officials and state media.
Three security personnel were killed and at least nine wounded as a military convoy was attacked near Balezkhel, local journalist Sarfaraz Ahmad told Daily Times by phone. Ahmad said one person was killed and another two suffered injuries as gunship helicopters pounded Noor Market in Parachinar Bazaar. Two shops, one owned by a PTV reporter, were also burnt in the shelling, he added. According to residents, security personnel have taken positions in Parachinar Bazaar and are targeting buildings and hideouts from where firing emanates.
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Around 120 rebels have been killed in the last few days as artillery and gunship helicopters continued pounding the bases of militants loyal to rebel Swat cleric Maulana Fazlullah, the military said. Military spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad told AFP on Sunday that militant casualties were heavy, adding that five soldiers have been killed in the clashes.
Meanwhile, security officials said five militants were killed and 13 wounded in shelling of a rebel position in the Alipuri area. Troops have also picked up five suspected militants who are being interrogated, they added. Shelling also killed four civilians, while injuring dozens more and destroying several houses. Meanwhile, a peace jirga began talks on resolving the Swat crisis peacefully.
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the way it has been going for the paki army i figured they just shot theirslef in the foot before i read the article
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It doesn't look to me like they are actually going toe to toe with the islamists. The pattern has been to drop some arty or plaster the place with fire from a helicopter but they aren't, as far as I can tell, following that up with sending troops in there to actually clear out any remaining enemy. So they seem to be doing the "kicking ass" part but not the "taking names" part.
Some unidentified armed men on Sunday kidnapped three Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department officials and seized their vehicle in Mohmand Agency, Daily Times has learnt. Sources said the three PHE officials Waqar (driver), Rukhsar (electrician) and Muhammad Iqbal were kidnapped from their car (DIK- 4018) by the armed men wearing masks in the agencys Ambar tehsil. No one has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping.
Also on Sunday, the body of an unidentified man was found in a drain from the Sur Dag area, some 15 kilometres west of the agencys headquarters Ghalanai. It was sent to Ghalanai for identification.
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A railway employee died on Sunday in a bomb blast at a railway track near the Ajab Khan area, in the Azakhel police precincts of Nowshera district, police said.
Azakhel Police Station duty officer Lajbar Khan told Daily Times that the bomb went off at around 8.40am as Khushal Express was heading towards Peshawar from Karachi. The explosion damaged a car of the train and a section of the track. He said railways employee Rasheed, who was riding in the car, was killed. A remote controlled device carrying around four kilogrammes of explosives was used in the incident, AFP quoted police officer Naeem Khan as saying.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq Coalition forces captured a suspected senior Special Groups leader and detained another suspected criminal during operations late Sunday near Baghdad, in the Adhamiyah area.
The targeted individual was reportedly responsible for smuggling and storing weapons used in attacks against Coalition forces, and supported Special Groups criminal elements through funding and training. The suspected criminal was also reportedly an associate of several other senior-level Special Groups members from Diyala to Baghdad who were involved in attacks on Coalition forces.
We will continue to pursue criminal elements who fail to honor Muqtada al-Sadrs pledge for peace and we commend those who honor it, said Maj. Winfield Danielson, MNF-I spokesman. The groundswell of citizens who have courageously decided to oppose these terrorist elements are vital for improved security in Iraq.
BAGHDAD, Iraq Coalition Forces killed eight terrorists, detained 13 suspects and found an alleged execution site, torture room and 16 weapons caches between Nov. 6 and 10 during a multi-day operation in the Diyala River Valley.
Nov. 7, Coalition forces observed several armed men maneuvering away from their location. Perceiving hostile intent, the ground force called for supporting aircraft to engage the armed men, killing five terrorists. The ground force discovered a small cache of AK-47s, a pistol, grenade and ammunition at the suspects location. Later that day in two separate areas, Coalition forces were engaged by armed men. Responding in self-defense, the ground force engaged the armed men, killing three terrorists. Coalition forces also detained 13 suspects during the four-day operation.
During operations Nov. 9, Coalition forces discovered what appeared to be an execution site. As they cleared the area they found the remains of approximately five individuals, as well as several 9mm casings believed to be used in the executions.
Over the course of the multi-day operation, Coalition forces located and destroyed 16 weapons caches to include: 13 complete anti-aircraft weapons, mounts, rounds and equipment; a World War II-era Russian T34 Cannon; 24 TOW missiles; 14 Saggar missiles; anti-personnel mines; 40 NBC masks; several machine guns and mounts; three jugs of homemade explosives; 10 anti-personnel mines; 35,200 feet of detention cord; one 25-pound bag of ammonium nitrate; several dozen mortars, tubs, fins, fuses and rounds; rifles; grenades and rocket propelled-grenades; ammunition; improvised explosive device-making materials; and two military-style vests. Two of the anti-aircraft weapons systems were found welded to the bed of a truck.
The ground force also discovered several buildings used for terrorist operations to include an alleged torture facility complete with chains, shackles, heavy-duty locks similar to those found in detention cell bunkers, windows cemented closed, terrorist propaganda materials, and kerosene heaters. Coalition forces found another building they believed to be an al-Qaeda in Iraq safe house containing additional terrorist propaganda and an alleged terrorist medical clinic with supplies, weapons and a hidden compartment in the floor.
Nearby, they discovered what appeared to be a building used to create false IDs, complete with numerous ID-making materials and a small media cache. Reports indicate several of the rooms, including the torture room were recently inhabited. Coalition forces also found an improvised explosive device making facility inside one of the buildings, with numerous cylinders, tanks, tubes and car parts believed to be used in the production of IEDs. The ground force called for supporting aircraft to conduct an air strike to safely destroy the building to prevent further use by terrorists.
Al-Qaeda in Iraq members are ruthless terrorists who brutalize, torture, and murder innocent Iraqis in their campaign of senseless terror, said Maj. Winfield Danielson, MNF-I spokesperson. Iraqi and Coalition forces will continue to capture or kill these brutal terrorists who seek to deny Iraqis a future of their choice.
Iraqi soldiers detained two American security guards along with several other foreigners traveling in a private security convoy after they opened fire Monday in Baghdad, wounding one woman, an Iraqi military spokesman said.
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Those arrested included two American guards, along with 21 people from Sri Lanka, nine from Nepal and 10 Iraqis, the Baghdad military spokesman said. Rest at link.
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OK, I'm making an assumption here, but I'm willing to bet these diplomatic and NGO convoys traveling with security look more alike than different. You'd think the word would be out long ago that you (innocent, unarmed Iraqi citizen) don't approach the line of identical SUVs with blacked out windows CUZ IT'S DANGEROUS AND STUPID. Probably an oversimplification on my part, tho...
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Iraqi Security Forces and Multi-National Division - North Soldiers have made significant progress against al-Qaeda in four provinces in northern Iraq after two weeks of Operation Iron Hammer.
The operation to disrupt al-Qaeda involves three U.S. brigade combat teams and four Iraqi Army divisions. During the operation, Coalition Forces and ISF have undermined al-Qaeda operations and discovered more than 50 caches across the Multi-National Division-North area of operations. The caches have contained more than 500 mortar and artillery rounds, three tons of homemade explosives, countless IED-making materials, hundreds of anti-tank and personnel mines and more than 100 machine guns. Beyond the weapons found, CF and ISF discovered various documents and related information material.
CF and ISF have also detained hundreds of suspected al-Qaeda members. ISF are reporting Iraqi citizens feel more confident and secure. "Every day the streets of Mosul are becoming more vibrant with shop keepers, as we provide increased security for the Iraqi people," said Brig. Gen. Moutaa Habeeb Jassim Jewab, commander of 2nd Iraqi Army Division, whose division was among those involved in the operation.
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It is important to remember that right now, the Iraqi army is the second most combat experienced ground military on the planet. And if the government of Iraq diverted its oil revenues to buying advanced weaponry for even a few months, if they got into a fight, Iraq would probably clean Iran's clock.
I think this is one of the reasons we are very hesitant in equipping them with a combat air force.
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It takes more than planes and pilots to make a [modern] combat air force. It takes modern infrastructure, logistics, CCCI, training, maintenance, weapons and ordinance technology, security, safety, fuel management, etc. Then you need defensive systems that are married up to your combat and air defense posture. I am not sure we can invest in that at the same time we are trying to bring their ground forces up to par. That will come but with smaller support systems (helicopters, tactical ground support, transport and air defense) and I doubt we will ever give them long-range bomb and missle launch platforms.
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It takes a willingness to bomb other shiites, and when push comes to shove I don't think they're going to do that.
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The Iraqis should have been able to mop the floor with Iran back in the Iran-Iraq war days. Their equipment was far better, their forces were better trained, their logistics weren't as totally screwed up as Iran's.
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"It takes a willingness to bomb other shiites, and when push comes to shove I don't think they're going to do that."
American Lutherans had no problem bombing the living pee out of German Lutherans in 1945. Why do you assume that just because two people are the same religion that they won't shoot each other?
At least 17 people were killed by explosions in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities on Sunday, Iraqi police and officials said, Reuters reported.
Nine people were killed and at least 20 others were also wounded in one of the worst attacks in the Iraqi capital in several weeks, which police said targeted Iraqi Finance Ministry adviser Salman al-Mugotar. A Finance Ministry source said Mugotar was unhurt in the blast in al-Hurriya Square in Baghdads Karrada district, but at least two wounded were reported to be his security guards.
Roadside bombs wounded two people in the Ameen district of southeastern Baghdad, and wounded another two in the Kesra neighbourhood of northern Baghdad.
Rockets or mortar rounds also landed in the Rustumiya neighbourhood of southeastern Baghdad, police said, but there were no details about casualties from that attack.
Three US soldiers were killed on Sunday in a suicide attack in Iraqs restive Diyala province, the US military said in a statement. The attack happened in Baquba, it said. It was not immediately clear if it was the same attack that Iraqi police reported in Baquba on Sunday, in which they said a roadside bomb targeting a US foot patrol killed at least three children, two of them siblings, and wounded seven people.
Explosives hidden in a parked car went off at around 11am near an Iraqi police patrol in Mosul, killing three civilian bystanders and wounding at least 16 people, according to police Brig Muhammad al-Wagga. Five of those wounded were policemen, he said, AP reported. The blast caused damage to retail shops in the Dawasa neighbourhood, and about 15 cars were burned, al-Wagga said.
Farther south in Tikrit, a bomb exploded inside a police station, killing one policeman and wounding two others, according to police and doctors at a nearby hospital.
Meanwhile in the Iraqi capital, a roadside bomb exploded near a gas station as people were lining up for fuel at the start of the workweek. Three civilians were wounded, police said.
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At least yesterday's WaPo gave the good news (violence down) with the bad. I expect now we'll see a flurry of 'analysis' predicting a return to mass violence after a short 'lull' unrelated to the surge.
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Three US soldiers were killed on Sunday in a suicide attack ... happened in Baquba, it said. It was not immediately clear if it was the same attack that Iraqi police reported in Baquba on Sunday, in which they said a roadside bomb targeting a US foot patrol killed at least three children, two of them siblings, and wounded seven people.
Seems the PakiWaki Times left out a crucial detail. I wonder why?
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert agreed in a closed meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to allow 20,000 Palestinian refugees to return back into Israel in exchange for ending Palestinian intifada, a report said yesterday. The Palestinian independent news agency Maan cited Israeli sources as saying that the implementation of this offer will be part of a two-state solution and will remain at abeyance until the Palestinian Authority becomes more powerful. The report did not say what was the criterion used to arrive at the 20,000 figure or whether the remainder of the Palestinians and their descendants displaced by the creation of the state of Israel would be monetarily compensated.
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Error! Error! Error! The paleostinians will demand that the 20k be allowed into Israel before they will end the intifada. Then some other group will start its own intifada, and demand 100k be allowed back before ending it. At which point, some other group will start their intifada and demand 500K be allowed back in. Lather, rinse, repeat until Israel is destroyed.
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I hope such agreements must be ratified by the Knesset -- or can be countermanded by the Knesset. How soon until Prime Minister Olmert is convicted of his various crimes and removed from office?
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Would it be considered self defense to kill Olmert ? I think a good lawyer could make the case. In fact, I think a good dog catcher could make the case.
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this is from a Pakistani (english language version)
take with much salt
also, there are easily 20k (probably more like 40k) E Jerusalem arab residents who would are law abiding, productive, anti Fatah, anti Hamas and would rather be Israelis than Paleos
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"Until Israel is destroyed" > Various Israel Citizen Netter, and Media Pert OP-Eds are likely only too aware of the hidden = PDeniable dangers, e.g. ANNAPOLIS commentaries.
Ma'an Palestinian security forces are locked in a standoff with armed Palestinian resistance fighters in Ein Beit El-Ma refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus on Sunday.
The military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, announced Sunday that it would react "fiercely" if Palestinian security forces arrest any of its activists ahead of a peace conference in the United States this month. Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party began a siege in the camp in an attempt to detain four PFLP fighters and one Fatah member accused of illegally firing their weapons.
Palestinian officials said that consultations are ongoing among Palestinian, American, and Israeli authorities in order to decide the fate of the PFLP fighters engaged in a standoff with PA forces in Ein Beit El-Ma camp. Abbas, like President Yasser Arafat before him, has come under intense Israeli and American pressure to show that he can establish security in the Palestinian territories and dismantle armed resistance groups in advance of a new round of negotiations aimed at establishing an independent Palestinian state. The Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, along with other armed groups, have rejected calls by the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority to disband before Israel relinquishes control of occupied Palestinian lands.
The US-backed peace conference is scheduled to begin in the city of Annapolis during the last week of November. The PFLP, a marxist, pan-Arabist revolutionary group was, until the rise of Hamas, the second-largest Palestinian faction after Fatah. The group holds three seats in the Palestinian Legislative Council.
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It'd be a shame if a subsonic sniper's bullet took out one of the PFLP guys . . . .
Ma'an Palestinian security forces allied with the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority (PA) have begun a siege to Ein Beit El-Ma refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus on Sunday morning. Nablus Governor Jamal Al-Muhaissen ordered the troops into the camp to arrest Palestinian fighters who are charged with illegally firing their guns into the air two days ago.
Uniformed PA troops were seen closing off the entrance to the camp and taking up positions on the roofs of prominent buildings inside the camp. Eyewitnesses said "dozens" of security officers have been deployed inside the camp. A high-ranking Palestinian security source told Ma'an that the security services are not besieging the whole refugee camp, but they are rather going after a group of "law breakers" and will continue to besiege their houses until they turn themselves over.
Wanted for 'firing into the air'
The military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, accused the security forces of hunting four of their activists, and one member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of the ruling Fatah party. The five men are charged with firing into the air during a ceremony in remembrance of the PFLP's "martyrs," those who have been killed by the occupying Israeli forces.
A PFLP spokesperson said that Palestinian security agencies had not issued an order not to fire into the air during celebrations or funerals. The PFLP furthermore accused the PA security forces of seeking to arrest activists who are wanted by the Israeli intelligence services.
Nablus Governor Al-Muhaissen denied claims that the Palestinian security forces would not arrest Palestinian fighters for firing at Israeli forces in self defense. The Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades spokesperson vowed that the fighters would neither lay down their weapons nor turn themselves over.
'Law and order'
The PFLP fighters say that in fighting against invading Israeli forces, they are not responsible for the ordinary crime and internecine fighting that has plagued Nablus in the past two years. The Nablus governor is currently implementing a US-backed multimilion dollar security plan aimed at restoring order to the city.
Nablus and especially its refugee camps have been a major center of resistance activity during the second Palestinian intifada, beginning in September 2000. The Fatah-contolled PA is under pressure from the US and Israel to supress armed groups like the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades in the West Bank in advance of a major Middle East conference.
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Geez, a Pali without gun sex is like...I don't know what.
Ma'an The Hamas movement said that Fatah-allied Palestinian security forces detained seven more of their members in the West Bank on Sunday. A Hamas press statement said Palestinian officers seized three people, including Sheikh Muhammad Salama, the imam of a mosque in the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia. The other detainees were from the cities of Nablus and Jenin in the north, and Ramallah in the central West Bank.
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Hamas
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ISRAEL NN > HAMAS MAY BE BUILDING AN ARMY. The Commies are coming, the Commies are coming -errrr, oooopppsies, make that CENTRIST SECULARISTS-GOVTISTS???
An terrorist insurgent gunman and a private soldier were wounded in multiple attacks in the southern provinces Monday.
In Pattani, an unknown number of terrrorists insurgents fired on a Ranger base in Kapho district on Monday afternoon. Government forces exchanged fire with the attackers before they retreated, leaving one wounded gunman who was taken into custody and is being treated in hospital.
In Narathiwat, a vile terrorist presumed insurgent opened gunfire at a karaoke bar in Sungai Kolok municipality. Army private Sarong Jewae was wounded in the leg. Police are seeking the gunman.
In Yala, about 80 police officers in a special task force searched eight target areas in Yala's provincial seat after the police learned that these areas are terrorist insurgent hideouts, where anti-government activists plotting attacks. The police detained four men and confiscated weapons and a cache of ammunition. One of the detainees is the subject of an outstanding arrest warrant.
Meanwhile, in Narathiwat, a 100-strong military group searched the home of a former local politician after his son, Nutsaree Muelee, and his companions, arrested on Sunday, confessed to shooting the deputy director of a school on February 20 this year. No evidence was found in the raid, according to a military spokesman.
(PTI) At least nine LTTE militants and a civilian were killed as Sri Lankan military destroyed three rebel bunkers and clashed with Tamil Tigers in spiralling fighting in the embattled north. "Troops confirmed that five LTTE rebels were killed when they launched an attack on terrorist bunkers in Kallikulam in Northern Vavuniya yesterday," the Defence Ministry said adding three bunkers were completely destroyed in the offensive.
A militant was killed yesterday morning when troops fired at a group of LTTE cadres in the Killali Forward Defence Lines (FDL) area in Northern Jaffna In a pre-emptive strike, troops attacked LTTE positions in Periyathikulam in northern Sri Lanka last evening killing two militants, security sources said.
An LTTE militant attempting to cross into military-held area at Parappakadal in North-Western Mannar was killed yesterday, the ministry said.
Troops at Welioya in north-eastern Vavuniya district handed over the body of a woman LTTE militant killed during a confrontation south of Kambiliwewa, to area officials of International Committee of the Red Thingy Cross (ICRTC).
Meanwhile, members of LTTE's "pistol group" killed a civilian in Navali in Jaffna yesterday, the defence ministry said adding the area police was investigating the incident.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
(SomaliNet) The mayor of Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia Mohamed Omar Habeb Mohamed Dhere has escaped from bomb attack onSunday afternoon, witnesses said it is the second time that the citys mayor survived an attempt on his life. A remote controlled roadside bomb exploded as the convoy of the mayor was passing on the road between Afgoyie and Mogadishu. 
Two more members of the outlawed Harkat-ul-Jihad (Huji) outfit yesterday confessed to having taken part in the grisly grenade attacks on an Awami League rally that killed 24 people on August 21, 2004. Meantime, another Huji activist, Abu Taher, was placed on a two-day fresh remand for interrogation in the case.
Fighting between two rival sects - Sunnis and Shias - continued despite a curfew in Parachinar as army helicopters targeted buildings early on Sunday morning, putting the death toll at 86 with 150 injured, according to security officials and state media.
Around 120 rebels have been killed in the last few days as artillery and gunship helicopters continued pounding the bases of militants loyal to rebel Swat cleric Maulana Fazlullah, the military said. Military spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad told AFP on Sunday that militant casualties were heavy, adding that five soldiers have been killed in the clashes.
Some unidentified armed men on Sunday kidnapped three Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department officials and seized their vehicle in Mohmand Agency, Daily Times has learnt. Sources said the three PHE officials Waqar (driver), Rukhsar (electrician) and Muhammad Iqbal were kidnapped from their car (DIK- 4018) by the armed men wearing masks in the agencys Ambar tehsil. No one has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping.
A railway employee died on Sunday in a bomb blast at a railway track near the Ajab Khan area, in the Azakhel police precincts of Nowshera district, police said.
Iraqi Security Forces and Multi-National Division - North Soldiers have made significant progress against al-Qaeda in four provinces in northern Iraq after two weeks of Operation Iron Hammer.
At least 17 people were killed by explosions in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities on Sunday, Iraqi police and officials said, Reuters reported. 
Ma'an Palestinian security forces are locked in a standoff with armed Palestinian resistance fighters in Ein Beit El-Ma refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus on Sunday.
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(PTI) At least nine LTTE militants and a civilian were killed as Sri Lankan military destroyed three rebel bunkers and clashed with Tamil Tigers in spiralling fighting in the embattled north. "Troops confirmed that five LTTE rebels were killed when they launched an attack on terrorist bunkers in Kallikulam in Northern Vavuniya yesterday," the Defence Ministry said adding three bunkers were completely destroyed in the offensive.
