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"You read it here first, only yesterday. Didn't believe it, didja?"
Of course we believed it, this is the Rantburg DS/TP. Tomorrows news today, IOW. Now, you may be accused by some of a 'big fish/small barrel' exercise, but others need the periodic reminder to pay attention and keep up with the rest of the class.
[Maghrebia] Four terrorists surrendered to Algerian security services on Tuesday (August 25th) in Sidi Ali Bounab, Tout sur l'Algerie reported. The move followed a large-scale security operation in the area between Boumerdes and Tizi Ouzou provinces.
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[Maghrebia] Police in Keur Massar, Senegal, arrested a Mauritanian terror suspect sought in connection with a suicide attack on France's Nouakchott embassy, Le Quotidien reported on Wednesday (August 26th). Cheikh Ould Ahmed Ould Ahmednah is being held in Dakar pending extradition to Mauritania.
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Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, deputy interior minister in charge of security, was meeting well-wishers for the Moslem fasting month of Ramadan when a man blew himself up with explosives he was carrying, the agency said.
The man was a wanted militant who insisted on meeting the prince to announce he was giving himself up to authorities, SPA added.
It said the suicide bomber, whom it did not identify, was the only casualty.
The attack was the first to directly target a member of the royal family since the start of a wave of violence by al-Qaeda sympathisers in 2003 against the US-allied monarchy.
Saudi-owned al Arabiya television showed Prince Mohammed, apparently slightly injured, meeting King Abdullah later.
"This will only increase our determination to eradicate this (militancy)," Prince Mohammed, who is the son of Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz, said.
The prince has been largely credited with the Government's recent success in crushing the violence.
Earlier this month, Saudi authorities announced the arrest of 44 militants close to al-Qaeda and the seizure of explosives, detonators and firearms.
In 2004, militants rammed a vehicle laden with explosives into the entrance of the Interior Ministry headquarters in the capital Riyadh.
I seem to recall attacks on compounds for foreigners as well... including posts at Rantburg as an attack was going on. As ye and your family sow, so shall ye reap, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef.
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AL-JAZEERA > seems ALQAEDA is claiming responsiblity for the attack.
* BHARAT RAKSHAK > YEMEN WAR: THE US AND IRAN COMPETE FOR DOMINANCE. Year 2012 + IRAN-, PAN-ISLAMIST NUCLEARIZATION = keeping US = US-ALLIED milfors "over there" AFAP.
[Maghrebia] Spanish police dismantled an international drug-trafficking ring that used prams with real infants to smuggle hashish from Morocco to Europe, international press reported on Wednesday (August 26th). Five Moroccans are among 21 suspects arrested in Malaga, Cadiz and the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.
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[The News (Pak) Top Stories] An investigation into the geographical locations of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses used for the 26/11 has been identified to places located in Pakistan, Russia, Kuwait and the United States.
Five out of ten Internet Protocol (IP) addresses used for the ghastly act has been identified to be located in Pakistan, Indian media reported. During the hearing of the Mumbai Attack case, Crime Branch Cyber Cell Inspector Mukund Pawar told a local court here that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had handed over a list of 10 IP addresses to Indian authorities.
Pawar said he used a website to find out the actual location from where the IPs were accessed and retrieved the ten locations based in different parts of the world including Pakistan. "I downloaded the information available on the website in respect of the 10 addresses. Five IPs - 58.27.167.153, 118.107.140.138, 203.81.224.201, 203.81.224.202, and 203.81.224.203 - were traced to Pakistan," Pawar said.
He said that some of the addresses located in Pakistan were registered in the names of Colonel R Saadat Ullah, Khurram Shazad in Rawalpindi, Sajid Iftikhar in Lahore and others. The remaining five addresses were proxies, traced to Chicago, Moscow and Safat in Kuwait.
I'm sure our clever computer jockies had fun tracing the Chicago link a bit further.
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Proxy sites make peanuts from advertising. Kick them a few dollars, and they will give up anything.
[Geo News] Seventeen people, most of them policemen, were killed and four others injured in a suicide attack on Thursday in Khyber Agency near the Afghan border, officials said.
The attack took place in the Khyber tribal region while policemen were gathering to break their fast.
According to sources, a suicide bomber blew himself up in the residential barracks of the local policemen at Torkham town near the Afghan border, killing 17 people and hurting 4 others.
The blast destroyed completely the building of Khasadar force while the adjacent buildings were also damaged.
The injured have been shifted to Landikotal Hospital.
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[Geo News] Immediately after their release from the Central Jail on Thursday police re-arrested the three sons of Sufi Muhammad, the founder of banned Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM). Police had taken Rizwanullah, Hayatullah and Ziaullah, the three sons of Sufi Muhammad into custody on July 27 under MPO-3 from Sethi Town area of Peshawar. Peshawar High Court ordered the other day to release them, however the police re-arrested them just after their release form the Central Jail, Peshawar.
According to DPO Swat, Swat police wanted the three sons of Sufi Muhammad in various cases and that's why they have been arrested again.
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[Dawn] At least nine militants and four Pakistani soldiers died in a gun battle in the South Waziristan tribal region, officials said.
The clash took place Wednesday in the stronghold of a senior Taliban commander in the tribal area, an intelligence official and an army officer said.
Troops backed by helicopter gunships targeted militant hideouts in the region.
The officials spoke Thursday on condition of anonymity.
The fighting came two days after two Taliban commanders acknowledged that their chief, Baitullah Mehsud, had died following an August 5 US missile strike in the South Waziristan tribal region.
Taliban members say they have selected Hakimullah Mehsud as the group's new leader.
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[Dawn] At least eight people were killed while six others sustained serious injuries in a suspected US drone strike in Kanigoram area of South Waziristan.
According to reports, a US drone fired two guided missiles at a house in Kanigoram area of the agency. Located in South Waziristan Agency of the North West Frontier Province, Kanigoram is the most scenic and remote valley of the agency.
Pakistani and US officials believe the leader of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, Baithullah Mehsud, was killed in a similar strike in neighboring South Waziristan on August 5. It was the first drone strike after Hakimullah Mehsud took charge as Ameer banned TTP.
The residents of Kanigoram migrated to Dera Ismail Khan after the Pakistan army launched operation Rah-e-Nijat against militants. The house was completely destroyed in the attack.
The drones were heard flying over the area after the blast. Pakistan officially objects to the US drone strikes on its soil saying they violate its sovereignty and complicate its efforts to win over the people and isolate the militants in border regions.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] At least four people have lost their lives and fourteen others have sustained injuries in the latest string of attacks to hit conflict-plagued Iraq.
The irony that Iran Press is reporting this must be noted. What odds it was Iranian weapons, Iranian training, and possibly even Iranian personnel that were involved in these incidents, not to mention the conflicts that plague Iraq overall? Or if not Iran directly, Iran's client state, Syria?
In the first development, a roadside bomb went off on Thursday near Sahet Beirut in the Palestine street in eastern Baghdad, as a police patrol car was passing. Four people, two civilians and two police officers, were wounded in the blast.
Security forces reportedly sealed off the area and rushed the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment.
The bombing incident followed another attack on Thursday morning in which one civilian was killed and five others wounded in a car bomb explosion north of the volatile Iraqi capital.
An unnamed police source told Voices of Iraq news agency that the explosives-rigged car was detonated on the main road in al-Taji district north of Baghdad.
At least five persons were injured on Wednesday when a booby-trapped car exploded close to a police checkpoint at Wahran intersection in eastern Baghdad
Elsewhere, a civilian on a bus in Mosul was shot down Wednesday by unidentified assailants at al-Yarmook district west of the disrupted northern Iraqi city. The gunman fled the scene after the attack.
Two civilians were also killed Wednesday in Mosul when an improvised explosive device placed in a car went off in al-Faisaliya distrct of eastern Mosul.
A volatile ethnic mix of Sunni Arabs, Kurds and Christians, Mosul remains the scene of frequent shootings and bombings, and US commanders regard the once cosmopolitan city as the last urban bastion of Al-Qaeda in Iraq. The capital city of Iraq's Nineveh Province is situated some 396 km (250 miles) northwest of Baghdad.
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Ma'an -- The Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights said unknown assailants damaged its offices and stole laptops belonging to two of its researchers on Thursday.
In a statement, the organization said the stolen computers contained statements and complaints filed by residents of Gaza City. It did not elaborate on the statements' content.
The commission said it had filed a complaint to the Hamas-run de facto police department regarding the incident, and that officers were swift to cooperate, rushing to the scene and starting an investigation.
But the group also called on all involved parties to implement the law and bring the perpetrators to justice.
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Ma'an -- Two Palestinian militias said that they clashed with Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip on Thursday morning.
The Jihad Jibril Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command (PFLP-GC), claimed that they launched mortar shells at an Israeli military installation at Nahal Oz, near Gaza City.
An Israeli military spokesperson said that one mortar shell was observed landing inside Palestinian territory in roughly the same area. No casualties were reported by either side.
PFLP-GC armed wing FAIL.
Meanwhile the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the military wing of the PFLP, reported clashing with Israeli forces near the Martyrs Cemetery, announcing it had fired a rocket-propelled grenade at an Israeli tank in the area.
Responding to this report, the military spokesperson said that there were no Israeli forces operating on the ground in the interior of Gaza, and that the army was aware of no such clashes.
*snicker* PFLP armed wing FAIL. We seem to be starting a collection.
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Hmmmm... once is an aberration, but twice is a pattern. My hunch is that the Paleos are sorting out the results and directions of the recent party 'congress,' and that PFLP has concluded that they came out down. Ergo- stir stuff up and remind their 'countrymen' not to underrate their capacity as a spoiler.
At the risk of sounding more prejudiced than I am, this is 'politics by temper-tantrum'- a depressingly familiar concept in the over-emotional middle east.
Ma'an -- Palestinians reportedly set off an explosive device near the Israeli separation wall near the village of Beit Ijza, south of the city of Ramallah on Wednesday night. No one was injured but the wall was damaged.
Separately, Israeli forces discovered a pipe bomb near Nablus. No one was injured there either.
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Did they intend to set it off 'near' the separation wall, or did it accidentally go off on the way TO the wall? Perhaps the Israelis have developed technology that remotely triggers detonators - directed micro EMPs or focussed RF sweeps?
Two Muslim civilians riding motorcycles were shot and killed and another died in a bombing in restive southern Thailand on Thursday, the latest violence in the jihad-infested insurgency-plagued region.
Assailants gunned down a man riding a motorcycle after morning prayers at a mosque in Yala province, said army spokesman Col. Parinya Chaidilok. The victim's 7-year-old son, who was also on the motorcycle, was hospitalized after being shot in the back.
In a separate attack in the same province Thursday, a Muslim civil servant was killed in a drive-by shooting as he rode a motorcycle, Parinya said. A woman also died when a small bomb exploded near a rubber plantation where she worked, he said.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Indonesian police Thursday were pursuing an al-Qaeda connection to the twin suicide attacks on Jakarta hotels, after confirming that a suspect in custody had been a follower of Osama bin Laden.
National Police Chief Bambang Hendarso Danuri said the suspect, Indonesian publisher and Islamist blogger Mohammed Jibril Abdurahman -- known on the Internet as the "Prince of Jihad" -- was once a member of al-Qaeda.
Mohammed Jibril was arrested outside Jakarta late Tuesday on suspicion of channeling money from abroad to finance the July 17 attacks on the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels, which killed nine people including the two bombers.
" Let the process proceed, there will be more developments "
Indonesian National Police Chief Bambang Danuri
The blasts marked the bloody end of a four-year hiatus in such attacks in the world's most populous Muslim country, and have been blamed on a terror network led by Malaysian extremist Noor Eddin Mohammed Top.
Asked by reporters whether Mohammed Jibril had been a member of al-Qaeda, Danuri said "yes." "Let the process proceed, there will be more developments," he said, without elaborating.
Most wanted extremist
Noor Eddin, 41, is the most wanted extremist in Indonesia and calls his group "al-Qaeda in the Malay Archipelago."
He allegedly received al-Qaeda backing for an attack on the Marriott in 2003 which killed 12 people, and is also accused of masterminding attacks on the Australian embassy in 2004 and tourist restaurants in Bali in 2005.
Police say they have killed three cell members and arrested five since July 17 who allegedly smuggled money from abroad to pay for the operation.
The source of the funds is not known, but police said they are investigating whether the money came from al-Qaeda brokers in the Middle East or South Asia, among other possible donors.
Mohammed Jibril studied Islam in Karachi, southern Pakistan, where he joined an al-Qaeda-affiliated group known as al-Ghuraba.
Mohammed Jibril studied Islam in Karachi, southern Pakistan, where he joined an al-Qaeda-affiliated group known as al-Ghuraba, or The Foreigners, according to analysts such as the Brussels-based International Crisis Group (ICG).
Al-Ghuraba was set up in 1999 by Hambali, the Indonesian alleged point-man for al-Qaeda in Southeast Asia who is in U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay, analysts said.
It trained Southeast Asian members of the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) regional terror network blamed for the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, and served as a conduit between JI and al-Qaeda.
Al-Ghuraba
" As a student there, anyone can join any organization such as al-Ghuraba -- it's not forbidden "
Irfan S. Awwas, spokesman of Jibril family
The August 2003 arrest of Hambali, seen as JI's operations chief, led to the breakup of al-Ghuraba but analysts said the Pakistan connection could have been re-established and used to finance the latest attack in Indonesia.
Hambali's younger brother and al-Ghuraba alumni Gun Rusman Gunawan was sentenced to four years' jail in Indonesia in 2004 for helping to finance the 2003 Marriott attack. He served only two years and is now free.
A spokesman for Mohammed Jibril's family, Irfan S. Awwas, rejected accusations the publisher had any role in the hotel attacks. "Do you think al-Ghuraba is a terrorist movement?" he asked reporters as he appeared with the suspect's father, radical cleric Abu Jibril, at the national police headquarters to demand Mohammed Jibril's release. "As a student there (in Pakistan), anyone can join any organization such as al-Ghuraba -- it's not forbidden."
Mohammed Jibril's publishing company, Ar-Rahmah, has sold al-Qaeda propaganda videos in Indonesia and last year launched Jihadmagz magazine, which glorifies global terror attacks.
His father was arrested in Malaysia in 2001 on suspicion of being a JI member. He was deported to Indonesia in 2003 but served only about five months in jail for using a forged passport.
He now runs a website, which also supports radical Islamist groups and spouts jihadist ideology.
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ION INDONESIA, WAFF > MALAYSIA: 100,000 WORKERS BY NEXT YEAR [2010]!? Massive influx of foreign labor into Malaysia from Pakistan + Indonesia + Bangladesh; + NEXT 100 YEARS: THE RISE OF JAPAN AND TURKEY!?.
You just know the PHILIPPINES and its various Militant trubles are in there somewhere.
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Al-Ghuraba was set up in 1999 by Hambali, the Indonesian alleged point-man for al-Qaeda in Southeast Asia who is in U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay, analysts said.
Does this make Hambali one of the people Obama wants to bring to the US (and maybe put on welfare)?
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The United Arab Emirates has seized a ship carrying North Korean weapons bound for Iran, in violation of a United Nations arms embargo, diplomats said.
The UAE two weeks ago notified the UN Security Council of the seizure, according to the diplomats, who spoke on condition they arent named because the communication hasnt been made public.
The council committee that monitors enforcement of UN sanctions against North Korea wrote a letter to Iran asking for an explanation and one to the UAE expressing appreciation for the cooperation, the envoys said. No response has been received or further action taken, they said.
The UAE and Iranian missions to the UN didnt immediately respond to requests for comment. The Financial Times reported the weapons seizure earlier today.
The Security Council voted on June 12 to adopt a resolution that punishes North Korea for its recent nuclear- bomb test and missile launches through cargo inspections and enforcement of restrictions on financial transactions. The measure calls for the interdiction at seaports, airports or in international waters of any cargo suspected of containing nuclear or missile-related materials going to or from North Korea.
Iran is under three sets of UN sanctions for its refusal to halt uranium enrichment, a process to isolate a uranium isotope needed to generate fuel for a nuclear power reactor or, in higher concentrations, to make a weapon.
Iran denies allegations by the U.S. and some of its major allies that it seeks an atomic weapon or the means to build one, insisting the nuclear work is intended to generate electricity.
U.S. President Barack Obama has said the Iranian government must respond by late September to his request for new talks on curbing its nuclear program. Iran last month said work is under way on proposals that may provide the basis for renewed talks.
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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.
Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, deputy interior minister in charge of security, was meeting well-wishers for the Moslem fasting month of Ramadan when a man blew himself up with explosives he was carrying, the agency said.
[Geo News] Immediately after their release from the Central Jail on Thursday police re-arrested the three sons of Sufi Muhammad, the founder of banned Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM). Police had taken Rizwanullah, Hayatullah and Ziaullah, the three sons of Sufi Muhammad into custody on July 27 under MPO-3 from Sethi Town area of Peshawar. Peshawar High Court ordered the other day to release them, however the police re-arrested them just after their release form the Central Jail, Peshawar. 
[Dawn] At least eight people were killed while six others sustained serious injuries in a suspected US drone strike in Kanigoram area of South Waziristan. 
and that officers were swift to cooperate, rushing to the scene and starting an investigation.
Ma'an -- Two Palestinian militias said that they clashed with Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip on Thursday morning.
Ma'an -- Palestinians reportedly set off an explosive device near the Israeli separation wall near the village of Beit Ijza, south of the city of Ramallah on Wednesday night. No one was injured but the wall was damaged.
